lection will mean just one thing – his political demise. For them to think they can persuade him to write his own epitaph is the height of naivety.
Everything Mugabe does is with the goal of entrenching himself and his corrupt cronies – buying armaments, shunning the west, thrashing dissenting activists, rigging elections, using food to buy hungry people. Anything that does not further this single purpose is not going to happen.
Any forlorn hope that he can be persuaded to be reasonable, when he has demonstrated time and again that he is a wily fox with only his own survival at heart, should be abandoned. It is time these worthy clerics saw the writing on the wall, and disengaged themselves from the monster.
Last Sunday, parishioners in several churches led by these men were asked to pray for reconciliation and to ask for forgiveness. We feel it is the churchmen and Mugabe who need to pray for forgiveness and to reconcile themselves with the suffering masses of Zimbabwe – both in and outside the country.
Colossal cost of Mugabe’s paranoia
On our front page this week we carry a story about government resources being used to fortify Mugabe’s private residence – at who knows what colossal cost to the national fiscus.
This follows the recent bomb-proofing of state house – again at undocumented, and no doubt eye-watering cost. All because one wicked old man can’t sleep at night because of the haunting faces and plaintive voices of all those whose lives and futures he has destroyed.
The future government of our nation must make a note right now to demand re-imbursement of the costs incurred, plus interest.