ZANU PF apparatchiks fell over each other as party leader President Robert Mugabe’s 90th birthday bash in Marondera turned into a bootlicking contest after speakers lined up for congratulatory messages used all sorts of adjectives to bootlick the Zanu PF leader.
Setting the tone was Zanu PF youth affairs secretary Absalom Sikhosana suggesting Mugabe should assume the grand title “Conqueror of the British Empire” from the late ex-Ugandan leader Idi Amin Dada.
Idi Amin Dada had several titles to his name and was often referred to as “His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.”
Mugabe is referred to as “His Excellency, President and First Secretary of Zanu PF, Head of State and Government and Commander in Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces.
