Even elephants run away from angry bees

By Wilbert Mukori

Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa says Joice Mujuru and her supporters should go and stop barking like dogs at Zanu PF, the elephant, that will just ignore the dogs.

“Zanu PF is a very big party, if you are tired just leave. Don’t try to bring some disunity among its rank and file. We want the party to be united in the same way it was during the July 2013 elections,” the acting president said.

“I told you before and let me remind you that here, Zanu PF is like an elephant. Do you know what an elephant does? Whenever it moves around and passes through a home where there are barking dogs, it will just pass through. It will ignore the barking dogs until the sound disappears.”

Zanu PF is NOT a very big party; it is big at rigging elections, yes, but that is a totally different kettle of fish. It is over the very issue of rigging elections that Mai Mujuru, Didymus Mutasa and others are complaining about.

Even elephants are known to run away from angry bees because the latter tiny as they are compared to the elephant know that if they sting its ears where the skin is thin the big beast will get the message.

The bees only need to sting the elephant once; the next time it hears the bee buzzing it will immediately start flapping the big ears frantically and will be off as quickly as it can.

Mr Mutasa has a strong case here; one does not need to be a constitutional lawyer to see the glaring disregard for fair play in the conduct of last year’s Zanu PF electoral process.

In 2004 Mugabe changed the party’s constitution to introduce a gender balance requirement in the presidium to justify the appointment of Mai Mujuru VP ahead of Mnangagwa who was set to win the elections.

Mugabe once again changed the rules to appoint Mnangagwa VP ahead Mai Mujuru who, this time, had the popular support of the members.

The fact that Mnangagwa did not raise the unconstitutional conduct of the 2004 elections is his business; Mai Mujuru is under no obligation to do the same.

Mugabe with the help of a select few constituting the Joint Operations Command, Mnangagwa is a leading member of this Junta, have turned Zanu PF into a corrupt and tyrannical dictatorship.

It is in the nature of such tyrants to place themselves above the rule of law and above all the others to be demigods amongst mere mortals, elephants amongst helpless dogs who can do nothing other than bark and make some noise.

Of course the country is in this political and economic mess because Mugabe and JOC have been allowed to assume these super-duper powers to ride roughshod over the ordinary people’s freedoms, human rights and human dignity.

The only way for the nation to reclaim the people’s freedoms and rights is by challenging this falsehood that Mugabe and the Junta are a law unto themselves.

Mai Mujuru, Didymus Mutasa and others should stop barking at the elephant and sting it instead; lodge the Court challenge to last year’s Zanu PF rigged electoral process and let us how the Court can ignore the blatant irregularities!

The only thing stopping Mutasa and Mujuru lodging the Court challenge is, having played the role of Mugabe’s poodles for all these years, it is impossible to be anything else other than toothless poodles!