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WARD 12, PARIRENYATWA HOSPITAL, HARARE – Mujubheki and I were in awe last week at the bravery shown by the WOZA women in the face of the ZRP bully boys. We could not understand how the police has been transformed into such an oppressive machinery after being transformed 26 years ago into the people’s friendly force.
Mujubheki says he can well remember the early days of our independence, when the police force had a charter which talked about things like community relations, human rights for arrested people, service and other wonderful things like that.
They really cared about the people. They used to fetch bodies of people who had died in their homes in the high-density suburbs and take them to the mortuary. Now they refuse, forcing people with no money to go to a commercial undertaker.
My own view is that, as Mugabe gets more desperate, he expects those who are benefiting from his rule to protect him more. If that means smashing the heads of peaceful women and their defenceless babies – so be it.
Do these men not have mothers, and wives and children? What do they think about as they bring down their whips, boots and batons on women whose only weapon is a red rose? What kind of a man feels threatened by women singing love songs and waving flowers? Can that bring down a government?
Mujubheki says if a government is that weak it should collapse anyway. Even the wind could blow it over tomorrow.
I told him it was just like a house of cards. Even Mugabe himself can see it quite clearly. Things are not working. But he won’t take responsibility. In the past he has been accusing the British and American governments of sabotaging our economy and running the opposition in contravention of the people’s wishes.
Now he has turned on his ministers. They are the ones. All this mess is their fault. Magaisa has been telling him all this time that his cabinet is rotten.
But now I have another message for him: fish rots from the head.
As I watched Dead BC last week, a tired-looking Mugabe (actually he looked every one of his 82 years) ranted on about “there has not been that much vigour shown and therefore there hasn’t been the necessary accomplishment of the goals we have set ourselves”.
If you cut through all this waffle and translate it into plain language, what he is saying is that he failed, he had no vision, he had no energy. His government is useless. They have got no plan to save this country.
He posed the question: “Why should we have run short of fertilizer?” Doesn’t he read The Zimbabwean? We have had the answers for months now! He has wrecked the entire agricultural industry. The land is in the hands of people who know, and care, nothing about farming – cabinet ministers, judges, soldiers and policemen who all have a day job.
His cronies and/or the green bombers have eaten or stolen everything that can move. The fertilizer companies haven’t got foreign currency to import the ingredients to make fertilizer. The little fertilizer that there is has been hijacked by his own governors and exported for forex or sold on the black market.
Does that answer your question Mr President? If not, please feel free to visit me in Ward 12 at any time. Don’t forget to bring something to smoke (the stronger the better).
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