When Is He Finally Going? Rejoice Ngwenya is Jus Chillin on a Sunday Night, 31 August 2014 I have just returned from a ‘typical’ Seventh Day Adventist church wedding. In most cases, we wed on Sundays, no beer is served, there’s plenty of vegetarian food and our music? - no booty shakes and bump jives. This does not take the ‘joy’ out of these joyous celebrations. It’s just that you have to be accustomed to the unusual. What is usual is I came home to find the electricity gone, again, for the second time since morning. In addition, as with (my) tradition, I raise political discussions in between bites, cheers and Amens, thus the same question kept cropping up at the wedding: So Rejoice, when is Mugabe ACTUALLY going? I wish I knew, but what we all agreed is that at the rate that our economy is accelerating towards the wall, Mr. Mugabe and his crony team are well advised to leap off before the Big Bang! My church is full of professionals, businesspersons and academics. And so when they ask me this question, they expect a sensible response. What I told them today was all this drama about Mugabe succession and provinces throwing mud at each other because of Grace – is all a façade. It is only a year after ZANU.PF stole our votes, and there is absolutely nothing on the ground to show for it, so a diversion will just do. Fortunately, we Zimbabweans are educated enough to keep asking questions about Mugabe’s ‘miracle manifesto’, yet we are slow on acting. I told my wedding friends that Mugabe has spent the past 34 years swearing that no one without liberation history – whatever that means – will be (‘allowed to’) ever lead Zimbabwe, but reminded them that both Jonathan Moyo and Grace Marufu-Mugabe do not have this history but are now anointed national leaders. My wedding friends wondered why ZANU.PF is so inconsistent, but I told them that politics is, by nature, inconsistent, that’s why Mugabe and ZANU.PF ‘win’ elections even if no one votes for them! In fact, my wedding friends wondered how ZANU.PF will ever get our country going again; and where we are actually going. I told them that ZANU.PF has an AK-47 mentality – they can only destroy and we in fact are not going any way at all. At the wedding, you could sense that all the smiles, the cheers and ululations where temporary and superficial. If you looked closer into their eyes, you saw grief, sadness and torment. And so when they asked me whether Morgan Tsvangirai has capacity to galvanise citizens into a massive uprising to persuade Mugabe to go, I told them Tsvangirai, Welshman Ncube, Dumiso Dabengwa, Simba Makoni and Tendai Biti do not have the capacity to do this and they do not have to it. I told them it is our – the people’s responsibility. We are the masters of our destiny. I then had my dessert, and left for home to watch British soccer on satellite television.
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 18:39:32 +0000
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