Zanu is a mono-culture (23-11-06)

u know” with them. This is the most dangerous and reckless statement such a “mother” has ever made.”
The Reverend confirms our fears, long established as a pattern; only that we had been accused in the past of being partisan. I am MDC and everything I say must be said to give political mileage to the party I support. When Joice Mujuru was elevated to the Vice Presidency people heralded the emergency of a woman into the high office.
We all hoped together with the international community that this lady who joined the liberation struggle on principle; by leaving her education midway in Form 2, by transcending the cultural yoke against women we thought the platform had been raised for the reincarnation of an historical woman cherished across the whole African Continent and among the black race. We believed in the blend of heroism; the sacrifice given to the liberation cause and the manifest Christianity of our Vice President.
She was not Robert Mugabe, who left Zimbabwe for South Africa to study for a degree. Teurai Ropa left Zimbabwe to further the cause of black people, abandoned by mankind and relegated to slavery during the Slavery years and further humiliated by the severe mental subjugation that was the core philosophy of colonialism.
Mai Mujuru, would have been the first liberation fighter to be a leader in Zimbabwe and we would slowly have learnt to accept it because she would be humble, listening to the will of the people and as a freedom fighter remembering through and through that she is fish and the people are the sea in which she swims. True freedom fighters will never turn against the people; real war veterans will never beat or encourage the suffering of the same father and mother who cushioned them during the liberation struggle.
What has happened to our freedom fighters; what disease is this that makes them negate the liberation struggle like this? The statement by Joice Mujuru is unbelievable, yet not inconceivable coming from a Zanu (PF) figure. The ruling party has a legacy of violence; it is the same from the father to the last born. The highest office in our country is occupied by a political organization that believes in revolutionary aristocracy, that they and they alone should be the leaders of Zimbabwe.
This party can never reform, it cannot be rehabilitated. They believe people who say something against them are sell-outs. This is not confined to politics alone. They have done so to cricket where people like Tatenda Taibu have been punished for disbelieving the criteria used to select players; they did it to soccer where Charles Mabika, a soccer commentator was expelled for saying that Nigerian footballer Austin JJ Okocha was “skilful and very talented”.
Zanu (PF) is a monoculture; it is so for their Presidium no matter how rejuvenated; it is so for their Politburo and every other structure. It is so for their learned apologists like Tafataona Mahoso who behaves like a toddler in defence of uncivilised behaviour.
JULIUS SAI MUTYAMBIZI-DEWA,UK