Let’s all celebrate ZANU PF’s Downfall: Their culture of corruption and violence stinks
By Elijah Mangwengwende
Zimbabwe is a nation of laws, poorly written and randomly enforced as PROSECUTOR General (PG) Johannes Tomana has finally complied with a Constitutional Court order and issued certificates allowing the private prosecution of three cases he had refused to handle with impunity.
Only God know his reasons but as a custodian of Zimbabwean law, one needs to be impartial. It stinks to the core when a ZANU PF apologist occupies and abuses a strategic position, not only that he is refusing to resign despite the fact he once sided with peodophiliathroism urging twelve year olds to marry.
I believe all what is happening within ZANU PF is God’s plan to free us from bondage. Feel no sympathy for any of them. Let them face their demons and we can all join hands thanking God and his angels for causing so much infighting and confusion among the rank and file of this dying and hopeless party.
The fundamental basis of this world’s laws was given to Moses on Mount Sinai as the Christians believe. If as a country we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State organs and those close to the state apparatus as in the case of those protected by Tomana and his cohorts. What a shame.
A country where a national Bank dishes out personal loans to those in the higher echelons of power and pass on the debt to the populace! A country where solicited loans from Brazil are used to prop up a certain party without shame and the bill passed on to the populace!
A country where loss making parastatal bosses are looting public funds in the form of salaries and benefits with well-connected Ministers and permanent secretaries dipping their hands and receive hundreds of thousands of dollars during board meetings, and the burden passed on to the populace!
A country where a private citizen can disappear and the family mocked in return! With Tomana at the helm we shall as well forget and smile, the looting and violence will continue unabated.
Biblical Comparison
Once upon a time A Great Rabbi stands, teaching in the marketplace. It happens that a husband finds proof that morning of his wife’s adultery, and a mob carries her to the marketplace to stone her to death.
There is a familiar version of this story, but an enemy of the people (name withheld but representing The Rabbi – has told the nation of two other Rabbis that faced the same situation. Those are the ones I’m going to tell you about.
The Rabbi walks forward and stands beside the woman. Out of respect for him the mob forbears and waits with the stones heavy in their hands. ‘Is there any man here,’ he says to them, ‘who has not desired another man’s wife, another woman’s husband?’
They murmur and say, ‘We all know the desire, but Rabbi none of us has acted on it.’
The Rabbi says, ‘Then kneel down and give thanks that God has made you strong.’ He takes the woman by the hand and leads her out of the market. Just before he lets her go, he whispers to her, ‘Tell the Lord Magistrate who saved his mistress, then he’ll know I am his loyal servant.
So the woman lives because the community was too corrupt to protect itself from disorder.
Another Rabbi. Another city, let’s say Bulawayo. He goes to her and stops the mob as in the other story and says, ‘Which of you is without sin? Let him cast the first stone.’
The people are abashed, and they forget their unity of purpose in the memory of their own individual sins. ‘Someday,’ they think, ‘I may be like this woman. And I’ll hope for forgiveness and another chance. I should treat her as I wish to be treated.’
As they opened their hands and let their stones fall to the ground, the Rabbi picks up one of the fallen stones, lifts it high over the woman’s head and throws it straight down with all his might it crushes her skull and dashes her brain among the cobblestones. ‘Nor am I without sins,’ he says to the people, ‘but if we allow only perfect people to enforce the law, the law will soon be dead – and our city with it.’
So the woman died because her community was too rigid to endure her deviance.
Moral of the Story
The famous version of this story is noteworthy because it is so startlingly not rare in our experience as a country. Most communities lurch between decay and rigor mortis and when they veer too far they die or disappear, like in the case of our missing brother Dzamara and all those who suffered seeking justice.
Only one Rabbi dared to expect of us such a perfect balance that we could preserve the law and still forgive the deviation. So of course, they killed the Rabbi.
So my fellow citizens as the revolutionary party burns, lets us join hands with God and his angels and give Glory to him hoping he won’t abandon us. Let’s pray day and night for the total confusion and annihilation of this sunset and dying party.
The struggle to eradicate corruption and violence must continue and defeat is not part of the agenda. Freedom is closer than ever before. Our just God has blinded them and they see no more. Feel free to draw own conclusions.
Elijah Mangwengwende is a God fearing man hoping to see a free and just Zimbabwe.
