Zanu PF the ungrateful rodent in government

Statements — By on April 3, 2011 7:28 am

By Sibanengi Dube

When a wife starts bringing boyfriends into the bedroom in full view of the husband and children, such a spouse is only asking to be divorced and chucked out of the house, empty handed.

Sibanengi Dube

No amount of community mediation can serve such a marriage where a husband is subjected to infidelity of this ratio by a wife. In Southern African culture polygamy is understandable when it is practiced by the husband and never by a wife. Zanu PF is astonishingly behaving like a weird married woman with ‘balls’ of steel.

By what power or which authority is Zanu PF using to arrest MDC ministers. What moral high ground does Zanu PF have that empowers them to persecute people who are lenient enough to accommodate them in government after losing elections?

Zanu PF is simply applying for marching orders from government space because MDC is the legitimate recipient of victory in the last elections. There is no debate about the above fact. A suggestion that MDC should leave government simply because of Zanu PF’s hostility is just as stupid as burning down the house to get rid of a rat.

The intruder, the rat which invaded the house, through the drainage or roof should acquiescently hide behind seats and cupboards and never interfere with the lives of the legitimate inhabitants of the house. We all know that somewhere in our spacious houses, rats or ants are crawling under the cover of obscurity, but we don’t give a hoot until these rodents start to physically interfere with our soothes at our homes.

Any ant that tries to whirl in my place of meat while I am feeding is only seeking an instant termination of its existence. A rodent that tries to gnaw bodies of genuine occupiers while they are fast asleep in their houses is only fast-tracking supplies of snares or rat kill to sadistically compress life out of its body.

Zanu PF’s rodent provocation of Zimbabweans by arresting MDC ministers, Members of Parliament and supporters is a clear sign that the ailing former liberation movement is resolute on fast-tracking its exodus from the corridors of power. 

The arrest of Home Affairs minister Theresa Makone and Energy Minister Elton Mangoma has blanked all doubts that Zanu PF is a snake that takes refuge in holes it never dug and gulps the digging termites in the process of usurping their shelter. In this scenario the snake seems to be turning on the very termites that voluntarily provided it with shelter for its winter sleep.

The continued militarization of the rural areas and all arms of government by individuals who have even abandoned all claims of legitimacy is circus by any standard that is equal to the magnitude of the 41 year old Tripoli lunacy of Muammar Gaddaffi.

The arrest of Minister Mangoma on feeble charges instead of Ignatius Chombo who abused his Local Government ministry by grabbing residential and commercial stands in every town in Zimbabwe from Chiredzi to Chirundu is an archetypal example of archaic witch-hunting.  Assigning a Constable to apprehend Makone, minister responsible for Police is as discourteous as inviting a grade 7 pupil to assess competence of an Advanced Level student (Form 6).

One wonders why SADC and AU are failing to simply acknowledge and slam Zanu PF’s explicit bullying semantics. It has become crystal lucid that SADC lacks the way forward gear and is forever on a neutral position, preserving whatever caricature that exists at that moment. If there is democracy, AU and SADC will preserve that.

And where there is suppression AU and SADC will celebrate that. Autocratic monarchies like what is in Swaziland still enjoy the tacit support of AU and SADC.  AU and SADC are behaving like soccer enthusiasts who support any team that wins either fairly or unfairly.

They are neither loyal nor driven by the sense of uprightness. Instead of coming out loud and clear that Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast who lost elections to Quattara must go, the aging ‘idiots’ are forever paying lip service to a simple political equation. In some instances they even task fellow despots to mediate in elections squabbles.

At some point even the unelected King Mswati of Swaziland who runs the Mountain Kingdom by decree was assigned to chair a SADC meeting on Zimbabwe in 2008. In all fairness what type of kindergarten is this that involves grey haired people? Can we imagine that the AU and SADC are still to issue a scathing outright condemnation of Gadaffi’s wanton killing of his people?

We are still to hear AU or SADC publicly acknowledging the truth that Robert Mugabe lost elections to Morgan Tsvangirai in 2008. The two Regional bodies are even worse than the League of Nations that is brutally condemned in history as a toothless bulldog that never bites.

The League of Nations came into life in 1919 after the devastating First World War specifically to maintain peace and fight aggression. Instead of combating German warmonger Adolf Hitler, when he started invading other nations, the League of Nations developed cold feet and adopted a policy of appeasement which buoyed him into committing more acts of aggression.

This precipitated the second war, a development that the League of Nations sought to avoid. SADC’s primary objective is to promote democratic practice in member countries but has been ironically sidelining with losers of elections.

SADC’s ugly foot-prints are visible in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Libya, Swaziland, Madagascar, Ivory Cost, Equatorial Guinea, Egypt and even DRC. SADC allowed shady characters and dictatorship to flourish at the expense of the will of the general populace all in the name of respecting the sovereignty of state members.

Sibanengi Dube is the Spokesman of MDC in South Africa, but this article is expressing his personal views that are not necessarily held by the Party

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