The emperor is naked

EDITOR – ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ is the title of a story by Hans Christen Anderson. A little boy is perched on his father’s shoulders watching the King showing off his fine new clothes that have been made by two unscrupulous rogues pretending to be tailors. Because the King is so vain, he listens only to those who tell him what he wants to hear.

These rogue tailors are commissioned to design the most expensive suit for the King.
When the King goes for his first fitting, he is too caught up in his own stupidity to tell the rogues that he sees nothing. There is no fabric, except for tailoring paraphernalia. Because the King is so vain and does not want to look stupid in front of his staff, he goes along with the charade.
His advisors are summoned to see the amazing garment and they all tell him it is splendid.

After many months of adjustments, the invisible suit is ready and the King is impatient to show it off. He demands his office organise the most extravagant parade through the town.

The day of the parade comes.

As the King marches through the town in his beautiful “suit”, the people clap and whistle. The King marches proudly, waving, smiling from ear to ear, until a shrill child’s voice pierces the madding crowd – “the King has no clothes on!”

The story of Elizabeth attending court would not be amiss had she not arrived in the Prime Minister’s official state vehicle.

Visiting court was the right thing to do, but why make such a veiled statement, which only highlights Tsvangirai’s poor judgement as Party President and Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.

It is obvious that Elizabeth has caught on to his weakness and by her arrival in his official car, it would appear that she is positioning herself as the power behind the President.

We need the voice of that small child who poured cold water on the King and his followers. We need to condemn our leaders excesses. I hope the second all stakeholder conference and referendum will go ahead without naked leadership parades. – NYASHA GONDWE, by e-mail

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