We all have elderly people in our lives that we love and care for dearly. None of us would make fun of them if they stumble, trip or fall over. So how come the 91-year-old president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, became an exception?
Two days after going to town in the state media trying to convince everyone that the First Lady Grace Mugabe had not attacked Vice President Joice Mujuru, Information Minister Jonathan Moyo now looks like a certified idiot.
“Don’t throw stones when you live in a glass house” might be an overused clique but it will have stung home last week for former Finance Minister and expelled MDC-T Secretary General Tendai Biti and his MDC Renewal Team ally, Lobengula MP Samuel Sipepa Nkomo.
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired of a 90 year old president who thinks somehow we will magically forget that he remains in power through the mass murder of over 20 000 people in the eighties and the more recent murder of over 500 opposition activists in June 2008.
Even though President Robert Mugabe was banging his secretary Grace Marufu while his wife Sally was dying of a kidney ailment that has not stopped his Zanu PF party running campaign ads attacking rival Morgan Tsvangirai for getting a 21 year old woman pregnant during a period when he was single.
The retirement age for civil servants in Zimbabwe is 65 years, but the country’s Registra General Tobaiwa (nicknamed To-Rigger) Mudede is 69. There is a reason why President Robert Mugabe has stuck with him for over 33 years.
Three days after MDC-T youth leader Solomon Madzore was arrested for allegedly likening President Mugabe to a ‘limping donkey’ Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander General Constantine Chiwenga called Prime Minister Tsvangirai a ‘psychiatric patient’.
Minister of State for Presidential Affairs (and Political Violence) Didymus Mutasa is desperately trying to cleanse himself of any blame for the tragic death of Christpowers Maisiri, the 12 year old boy who died after the hut his family was sleeping in was burnt down.
Political prostitute and self-appointed Zanu PF strategist Professor Jonathan Moyo is spitting fire over the decision by legendary radio presenters Ezra ‘Tshisa’ Sibanda and Eric Knight to run for parliament as MDC-T candidates.
Vice President Joice Mujuru provided some overdue comic relief over the weekend when she bizarrely declared that President Mugabe was anointed by God to lead Zimbabwe at the age of 10 years and those fighting to replace him are wasting their time.
