Mugabe has lost control of virtually everything I have found some colleagues struggling to comprehend the fact that Robert Mugabe is merely winding the clock and has lost control of virtually everything, about both internal Zanu PF issues and the national challenges. I hereby outline how: Themba Mliswa is a Zanu PF MP and chairman of Mashonaland West Province. He is in the news over a saga that has the hallmarks of corruption, greed, plunder and self aggrandisement. Mliswas cold war with businessman Billy Rautenbach has rubbished all pretences of decency, honour and dignity and extended to include acerbic tongue-lashing aimed at various other players, including Emmerson Mnangagwa and Jonathan Moyo. Most poignantly, the Mliswa multi-million dollar scandal and squabble is a rude reminder of how the 1984 Zanu PF Leadership Code has been trashed by a cabal of avaricious primitive wealth accumulaters. Mugabe is a helpless watcher as small boys like Mliswa stage dramas of shame, hypocrisy and explicit indecency - the old dictator has lost control after progressively harbouring and nurturing the gangs of looters over three decades. The Mliswa scandal is symptomatic of the national economic crisis, spawned largely by the wanton looting of Mugabe and his gangs. Jonathan Moyo is enjoying his second tenure in the depths of the Mugabe dictatorship, with unbridled running of the key information ministry as he chooses - pretty much the same way he did during his first tenure. Without any hint of restraint or caution, Moyo has once again taken captive of state media channels and unleashing them mainly on the rival Mujuru faction in Zanu PF. Moyo has turned state media into mouthpieces and acolytes of the Mnangagwa faction, to which he belongs. It is a dog eat dog scenario as state media are used to lampoon and even insult senior officials like Joice Mujuru, a whole Vice President of the Republic. Mugabes shrill shouts and attempts to put off the fires or stamp his authority are scorned at by the loose and arrogant Moyo. For example, he responded to Mugabes threat over Gideon Gonos blackout in state media by scornfully ordering the latter to get coverage in his newspaper, the Financial Gazzette. That was that, and Mugabe appears to have tucked his tail between his legs. Factor in other public spats involving the likes of Saviour Kasukuwere, Chris Mushowe, Didymus Mutasa and Mujuru, then it becomes apparent that Zanu PF is a house on fire and which Mugabe has lost control over. At the core of the virtually poisoned atmosphere within Zanu PF are two major factors. First, the demons are loose and very vicious as a result of the regimes wretched path to the current state of deep crisis. The arrogant scuttling of the reformation agenda during the Government of National Unity (GNU) and subsequent blatant rigging of last years elections have plunged Mugabe and Zanu PF into the depth of conflict and paralysis. The regime has found itself inexorably stuck in a sea of crisis of expectation, both within the party and nationally. The promises, acts of bravado and arrogant boasting of the period before last years elections have all come down crashing into a pile of despair, despondency and even shame as the ghost of illegitimacy unrelentlessly torments them. Secondly, as everything burst into sparks of uncertainty, anxiety and trepidation, the hitherto suppressed demon of succession goes bersek and uncontrollable. The major factions are sensing blood and clearly making a statement right in Mugabes face, that they anticipate his departure looming. They are no longer pretending but clearly engaging in open warfare for the race to succeed Mugabe. Poor Mugabe has tried to huff and puff about wanting to restrain the fighting camps, albeit in vain, because he has lost control, totally. Almost everything unfolding and transpiring in Zanu PF now has factionalism written all over it, and for the succession war. Mugabe created this scenario through his double standards and hypocrisy in the manner he has been handling the succession issue all along. He has been fooling himself by claiming there wasnt pushing and shoving to succeed him, even at most times denying the existence of factions. Mugabe has also been with the forlorn hope for the aspirants to respect or fear him until he dies. But all that has started backfiring and the scene is littered with clear signs of open defiance and even insults aimed at Mugabe. In the midst of all the hotch-potch and rigmarole dominating Zanu PF, the national economy increasingly becomes the most eloquent symbol of Mugabes total loss of control. Very interestingly and tellingly, the economy has perfectly timed to unequivocally expose and rubbish a cocktail of populist and self-serving policies and programmes. Everything from the so-called land reform, indigenisation, empowerment and ZimAsset, are rendered nonsensical by an economy in a deep state of deflation and comatose mode. It couldnt have gotten any worse for Mugabe, who emerged from rigging elections last year fervently hoping for some way, by hook or crook, to cheat through the economy and be able to spite and taunt his rivals as well as enemies, both real and imagined. The dictator and his agents have been mesmerised and tormented by the wayward economic crisis and have grown weary. Lies and excuses are running out as each day passes. There is lesser show or acting of bravado or counting illusionary birds in the air. The economic disaster has rubbished Mugabes claims of being a champion during the last 14 years, because everything has just crashed into a pile of failure. He is a haunted man. That is because everything around Mugabe is out of control, and epitomised glaringly by chaos and fighting amidst a dead economy.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 04:39:07 +0000
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