‘Mnangagwa cannot rewrite war history’
Last week, I received a call from Goodson Nguni, a self-confessed loyalist of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. What was particularly bizarre was the salutation, “Hesi (Hie) Mutoda” that he used to address me.
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Last week, I received a call from Goodson Nguni, a self-confessed loyalist of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. What was particularly bizarre was the salutation, “Hesi (Hie) Mutoda” that he used to address me.
Freddy Mutoda – Statements coming from the Zanu PF military wing, masquerading as a national army, are indicative of this panic and the threat of violence is meant to deal a blow to a simmering Tsunami that is surely going to sweep Zanu PF away in 2018.
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is desperate to succeed President Robert Mugabe to an extent that he is rewriting the liberation struggle history casting himself as an integral party of the liberation war narrative and in the process lying about his heroic roles and, at the same time, denigrating the involvement of others like the late Father Zimbabwe, Joshua Nkomo.
Freddy Mutoda – When a close friend who is a legislator called me on Tuesday, September 15, 2015 to tell me that President Robert Mugabe had just finished re-reading his August 25, 2015 State of the Nation Address (Sona) purporting that it was his speech to open the second session of the 8th Parliament of Zimbabwe, I wondered what kind of a fiction script the honourable member was trying to create.
It is sad that an outstanding poet, freedom fighter, musician, gender activist and farmer, Tichaona Freedom Nyamubaya passed on. May her soul rest in peace.
Recent revelations that vice presidents, Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko, go for briefings with First Lady Grace Mugabe, with empty heads and blank notebooks is a clear indication, not only that we have dysfunctional government and state structures, but that we have a 91-year-old leader who has, expectably, abdicated his role and his wife is now running the show.
The most unfortunate reality in Zimbabwe today is when Jonathan Moyo coughs, the media in Zimbabwe contracts some virus.
The wave of political expulsions in Zanu PF is not subsiding yet Information minister Jonathan Moyo calls its genesis, the accusations of wanting to topple President Robert Mugabe levelled against former Vice President Joice Mujuru and a host of other party leaders by a hysterical First Lady, Grace ‘Dr Gucci’ Mugabe, “political banter”.
The Harare East by-election contest between two Zanu-PF candidates, Mavis Gumbo and Terence Mukupe, has come as a blessing to the country for it is unravelling deep secrets within Zanu PF that might help expose the duplicity characterising our politics and the attendant corruption that drives Zanu PF programmes and activities.
The recent remarks by President Robert Mugabe on Kalangas, their level of education and alleged “thieving” tendencies show us what type of a leader we have — an extremist who uses “unpresidential” language.