After all, that is what the verdict of March 2008 was all about. A rejection by the electorate of a parasitic elite that is too busy gorging themselves on whatever remains of this once great nation to know or care about the wailing of hungry children who cannot get food because their fathers cannot get work.
But the unwitting admission by Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa last week that the party of liberation as Zanu (PF) loves to call itself is in fact so liberated from the reality of its misrule and gross incompetence that it virtually thinks it is Gods blessing to Zimbabweans is an incredibly cruel joke.
Fresh from his trip to Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mnangagwa told The Herald newspaper that he had informed the leadership of those two countries of the progress that Zimbabwe is making. Mnangagwa said he told the governments of Presidents Jos Eduardo dos Santos and Joseph Kabila that Zimbabweans were having it nice. That our economy continues to grow .. we are expecting (the economy) to rise above nine percent this year. We cannot wish for anything better.
Really? When 90 percent are unemployed, when civil servants can hardly feed their families with the paltry salaries they earn, when a quarter of the countrys population have chosen the life of refugees in foreign lands because they cannot bear any more the hardships of home Mnangagwa and his Zanu (PF) comrades think we could not have wished for anything better!
And to think Mnangagwa is one of those regularly mentioned as leading contenders to succeed Mugabe in Zanu (PF) and possibly as Zimbabwes president. God forbid!
Any politician or political party worth their salt must from time to time play propaganda. After all propaganda, or spin, is what oils modern-day politics. But there is something seriously wrong when one begins to believe ones own propaganda.
Post published in: Editor: Wilf Mbanga