By Never Kadungure | Harare Bureau |
ZVIMBA – President Robert Mugabe used the funeral of former Mashonaland West Governor and Resident Minister Nelson Samkange in Zvimba to launch another attack on opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai describing him as a ‘fool’ who was ‘semi-literate’.
The 89 year old Zanu PF leader who claims to have won elections this year in a much condemned poll continued to show his obsession with attacking Tsvangirai even though he ‘defeated’ his bitter rival.
Speaking in Shona, Mugabe said “We do not just appoint fools to leadership positions. These days we do not do that because we have many educated people.
“We can’t be seen to be persevering with semi-literate people who just sit on their back-sides like (Morgan) Tsvangirai. Why should be we? There are many with degrees.”
In August this year Mugabe used the funeral of retired Air Commodore Mike Karakadza to claim that working with Tsvangirai in the coalition government required huge amounts of patience.
“You see, an illiterate person who is aware that they are ignorant, you can deal with (them) better,” Mugabe said told mourners.
“You are better off with an ignorant person who is aware, conscious, of his ignorance, who accepts that he is ignorant, but if you are ignorant of your ignorance inhamo huruhuru; uchifunga kuti kusaziva hungwaru, ah, unopinza vanhu munhamo.
“Kuti mufambidzane muchinzwanana hurukuro dzacho nema ideas acho zvinobva zvasiyana kure.”
Political commentator Brighton Musonza said “Mugabe must stop defining political opponents by their educational standing because he himself has absolutely nothing to show for it.
“We have so many of his loyalists claiming Doctorate titles to their names who are not up to scratch when it comes to understanding the complexities of the modern world.
“What we have unravelling in Zimbabwe is an elitist group of kleptomaniacs who think the rest of the people are uncouth and they owe them a living. They see Zimbabwe as one giant of a lecture room and the majority of the subjects are deemed to be takers of their hubristic egos. That should stop!”
Six years ago an uneducated woman Rotina Mavhunga a.k.a Nomatter Tagarira managed to hoodwink Mugabe’s cabinet into believing that she could conjure pure diesel from rocks in Chinhoyi. Mugabe’s regime fell for her con and met her demands for 2 head of cattle, 3 buffaloes and Z$5 billion.
President Mugabe personally chaired meetings to discuss claims by the 35-year-old woman that she could produce pure diesel out of rocks. Mugabe even went further to appoint a cabinet committee to look into the claims. After three years on the run Mavhunga was eventually arrested.
