HARARE The vuvuzela was quite a revelation a few months ago at the Confederations Cup in South Africa and it got the world talking. (Pictured Charamba blows his vuvuzela to encourage his losing team)It is a simple instrument that became popular not necessarily because of any other unique attribute, but simply because of its bellowing nerve-wrecking sound.
Frenzied fans bellow out the vuvuzela with more gusto and ferocity when their team is losing, hoping that its ear-drum shattering sonorous sound will motivate their players and irritate opponents.
George Charamba, the Permanent secretary in the Ministry of Media, Information and Publicity is an indefatigable civil servant with a difference; probably the only civil servant who can afford to play overt partisan politics and still keep his job.
He is the tireless fan of a losing team who has clutched his vuvuzela with unprecedented zest. He is the only fan with two vuvuzelas.
The Herald and the ZBC have become George Charambas whistles; his prized twin vuvuzelas that he honks to match the unequivocal deafening din from the rest of the fans in the political stadium called Zimbabwe who overwhelmingly rooted for a winning team during that historic match on 29 March 2008. Charamba is a sulking fan whose team lost dismally, but he is still prancing around the city; bellowing his vuvuzela with shameful enthusiasm 18 months after his team and its aged coach dismally lost a major Cup final!
In clear violation of the Global Political Agreement, Charamba has individually peddled hate speech, entrenched polarization and exhibited overt and unbridled bias. He has overtaken Johannes Tomana as the single largest threat to the inclusive government; with the celebrated political harlot called Jonathan Moyo a close second.
As the Permanent secretary in the Ministry of Media, Information and Publicity, Charamba is a spokesperson of the inclusive government, not any exclusive political party. Charamba is also supposed to speak on behalf of Tendai Biti, Nelson Chamisa, Priscilla Misihairabwi Mushonga, Moses Mzila Ndlovu and Joel Gabbuza.
Stinking conflict of interests
The inclusive government was supposed to give Charamba a choice, whether he wanted to be a Permanent secretary in an inclusive government or the exclusive spokesman of Robert Mugabe, the leader of Zanu (PF).
He cannot be the spokesperson of an inclusive government when he is at the same time the spokesperson of one of the three Principals of the GPA and leader of one of the tripartite political parties forming the same inclusive government. The apparent conflict of interest stinks to high heaven!
When the truth is on your side, you have no need for propaganda. Propaganda is the language of those who have been politically vanquished. Propaganda is the bed where the defeated lie. Propaganda is the political make-up of revolting political parties such as Zanu (PF); the deep mascara of political fornicators desperate to hide the naked truth about themselves!
The truth is that regardless of whatever The Herald and the ZBC churn out every day, history is on the side of Morgan Tsvangirai becoming the next President of Zimbabwe. In fact, the people of Zimbabwe said as much on 29 March 2008. It is Tsvangirai who won the Presidential election and had the legal and moral right to be President of the transitory inclusive government especially after SADC made it clear that the charade of June 27, 2008 was a farce.
Because of our magnanimity, we donated the Presidency to Mugabe because, as President Tsvangirai said on that fateful day of June 22, 2008, he was not prepared to walk to State House stepping on dead bodies and graves.
Zanu (PF)s lingerie
Nakedness is a shame in Africa and what the MDC did by signing the September 15 Agreement was to give the politically naked Zanu (PF) and its leader some lingerie.
There was no government in Zimbabwe since 29 March 2008 and what we in the MDC did was to give the people of Zimbabwe hope and respite by agreeing to a coalition government and giving away our Presidency to Robert Mugabe who had been convincingly defeated in the first round.
The good thing is that Moyo and Charamba have lost all credibility and the plummeting sales figures of The Herald and the frightening depth to which viewership of the ZBC has plunged since 2000 bear testimony to this hard truth.
Moyo and Charamba have been peddling falsehoods that the Prime Minister is running a parallel government. The real parallel government is being run by Charamba who continues to peddle hate speech in the public media and to sow divisions by maligning MDC ministers and officials in the inclusive government. Charamba speaks as if Zanu (PF) is the government.
The last time I spoke to Charamba in September 2008 at the Rainbow Towers, he intimated that he would write a book called The Munhumutapa Years which he said would recount his experience as the dictatorships chief press officer at Munhumutapa Building in Samora Machel Avenue. One hopes he will use the book to tell the true role he played during his time at the Kings Court.
But times change! The time for justice will surely come. Considering the hate speech he has propagated over the years and the genocide he has incited, Charamba has every reason to muse about his legacy when this madness is finally over. Luke Tamborinyoka (MDC director of Information and Publicity)
Post published in: Opinions