Jonathan Moyo is a desperate chameleon with nothing to lose. He has an ability to fool people. Emerson Mnangagwa fell for him many times over. But the biggest fool to fall for him is Robert Mugabe himself.
One more time, Robert Mugabe finds himself the centre of attention after “winning” an election. One more time, Mugabe cherishes being on the pedestal, hurling insults at imaginary foes at home and abroad but, at the same time, offering some form of reconciliation as if he means it.
In less than 24 hours, Zimbabweans will flock to the polling stations to cast their vote in an election that Robert Mugabe is particularly concerned about. We are all concerned about Wednesday, July 31. After that day, no matter which way the election goes, things will never be the same.
Right from the start, it was very clear that ZANU-PF thrived on chaos. When things are orderly, ZANU-PF loses its script. It is a party that flourishes only amidst chaos; it has sustained itself this way since independence.
Whatever deals these politicians make amongst themselves must not supersede the people’s vote. Our politicians have now gotten carried away and continue to talk about ‘a grand coalition’ without even looking into the mechanics and fallout of such a pact, let alone telling the people what the pact entails.
At a recent public function, the opening of The Sprout Restaurant in Harare, we saw former First Lady Grace Mugabe moving within the same orbit as senior ZANU PF figures, her presence neither resisted nor theatrically embraced.
In this second and final part of the article, I continue to examine the potential outcomes of ZANU-PF’s succession politics, focusing on whether Kudakwashe Tagwirei (whom I metaphorically refer to as “Mamvura”) will succeed in his presumed bid for the presidency, whether General Constantino Chiwenga will recover his political standing and take over, whether someone else will ascend to the throne, and whether President Mnangagwa will ultimately retire in peace.
Rutendo Benson Matinyarare, long celebrated as the chief acoustics engineer of Zimbabwe’s most delicate economic sculpture, the ZiG—now appears to have discovered an inconvenient truth: even the most beautifully crafted clay cow cannot moo indefinitely without cracking.
