Contrary to what has been postulated by one of the most presumptuous and foremost braggadocios of our time, anyone in Zimbabwe is qualified to be the President of this country.
From the rich man in his castle to the poor man at his gate, from the motorist in his SUV to the cyclist on the street, from the high school dropout, the vegetable vendor, the factory worker in the sweatshops, that widow and that orphan, to even those who ran away from Mgagao to pursue their education, while others stayed to prosecute the armed struggle, they are all perfectly suited to be President of Zimbabwe, as long as they throw their hats into the ring and muster enough votes.
It’s not a beauty contest or race, it’s a game of numbers!
The braggadocios can squirm, rant and rave, and even cry, if they want but, it’s simply everyone’s right and prerogative to aspire to be President if they so wish and it’s not up to simpletons masquerading as academics.
Simple . . !
It’s time to demystify the Presidency and the running of the country. It’s a job that requires no formal qualification . . . just common sense, which seems to be lacking in some in our midst.
The Federation of Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland was run by Sir Roy Welensky, a boxer and train driver. Rhodesia was run by some farmers.
Haiti is run by a musician and the DRC is run by a soldier while a whole host of African countries have been run by schoolteachers, trade unionists, merchants, etc.
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Thailand was once run by a brother and now his sister. Winston Churchill, a journalist, was twice prime minister in the UK. Thabo Mbeki was a university graduate and Jacob Zuma, a school dropout, and who cares?
It’s not about academia and grooming, or being “suitable”, it’s about numbers, stupid!
Let me tell you who else were school dropouts, and proudly so:Josiah Tongogara, Rex Nhongo, Nikita Mangena, Mayor Urimbo, Joice Mujuru (who later came back to finish her education), the list is endless.
There were more school dropouts in Zimbabwe’s struggle for liberation than doctors and professors. And many of those professors and doctors are less than impressive in their opinions.
It is not everyone who was so lucky as to find missionaries to send them to some American universities. Some opted to deal with the war of liberation first, and worry about education later, like Mai Mujuru, Dzinashe Machingura, Charles Hungwe and many others.
People should not come back here from some ivory tower in America and try and pontificate and lecture us on the struggle and on who is best suited to be President.
And by the way, political science is not a hot degree. It does not require that much intelligence . . . you only have to look at how many points you need to qualify for it at the University of Zimbabwe and that says it all.
The Presidency is bamba-zonke and buyazonke area all over the world, and thank God for that!
There is absolutely nothing wrong with Zimbabwe being run by just about anybody, as long as the people repose sufficient confidence in that individual to run the country. We would much rather have a truck driver with common sense as President, than an idiot with a PhD.
Let’s not complicate and philosophise simple issues. What is this nonsense about being suitable to be President? What does it go by . . ? Looks? Attire? Vital statistics?
Nonsense!
Africa is in crisis today because of these high-and-mighty presumptuous academic elites who conflate academia with common sense and leadership qualities.
People who couldn’t possibly run a soccer team have ended up running countries with disastrous consequences, simply because they intimidate the electorate with their verbosity and academic credentials when, stripped right down, they are simply educated simpletons. It’s time to put a stop to this nonsense, completely devoid of common sense.
No, never again will they get away with that cheap jingle.
If academia was the panacea for good leadership, development and progress, Africa would not be where it is today, in the doldrums!
It is just as possible to have an extremely educated idiot as it is to have an uneducated one.
The difference is that an educated idiot is twice as dangerous.
Some people have the temerity to disparage and malign a tried and tested person, against whom the same character wouldn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell, in any electoral process, even in his own backyard.
There is nothing out of this world about being a President, it’s a function of electoral vagaries.
Of course, it’s good to get as much education as one can get, but people cannot use education to try and discriminate against those who, for one reason or another, did not acquire university education. All people are equal, education notwithstanding!
It’s civilisation that makes the difference!
No one has the right to usurp the right of Zimbabweans to choose whomsoever they wish to elect as President.
Who are they to determine who is suitable and not suitable? Just an opinionated fool in many cases.
