×
NewsDay

AMH is an independent media house free from political ties or outside influence. We have four newspapers: The Zimbabwe Independent, a business weekly published every Friday, The Standard, a weekly published every Sunday, and Southern and NewsDay, our daily newspapers. Each has an online edition.

If you are Zanu PF, feel no pain

Opinion & Analysis
On Thursday last week, a Zanu PF youth openly clashed with Comrade Ignatius Chombo in Chitungwiza

On Thursday last week, a Zanu PF youth openly clashed with Comrade Ignatius Chombo in Chitungwiza after he attempted to tell the honourable minister about the disgruntlement of the party youths with the way things are being done in Zanu PF.

Kamurai Mudzingwa Déjà vu

The ill-advised young man did not know that if you are Zanu PF, you are not allowed to feel any pain about the (mis)deeds of party officials even if they affect your life.

Because the young man did not understand that the unwritten Zanu PF code does not allow those in the party to be pained by the actions or inactions of those in the upper echelons of power, he committed the cardinal sin of feeling the pain of being marginalised, of being left out of the party’s gravy train.

This prompted the expected righteous rebuke from the honourable minister.

“If you are a Zanu PF youth, sit down,” thundered the honourable man.

“Go to the chairman Amos Midzi and present your case there. Why do you speak as an MDC activist?”

This clash serves as a reminder to all that if you are Zanu PF, you should never feel the pain engendered by the mismanagement of the economy by those in charge — who are Zanu PF.

The message sent to this young man should be heeded by all and sundry — if you are Zanu PF, instead of feeling the pain caused by the ills of those in power from the party, you should vicariously enjoy their corruptly gained wealth.

If you are in the party, and a youth for that matter, you are expected to feel extremely happy if the party bigwigs cause unemployment in the country and you are affected.

It should be heartening to any Zanu PF youth when the bigwigs award scholarships to their undeserving children and relatives, leaving those who deserve to attend local colleges whose facilities’ damage the chefs are presiding over.

That the deserving young men and women cannot further their education due to financial constraints caused by the party’s policies should not be cause for pain among them if they are Zanu PF.

If they are left out, they are expected to celebrate. No hard feelings.

You are not allowed to see evil among the chefs.

If, by chance, you come across the evil they do that has negative effects on the nation and on your personal life, you should open your heart and let love come running out for the chefs.

Actually, it’s the see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil scenario.

Never let the temptation of feeling the pain caused by the evil you see get the better of you.

After all, you should never succumb to the thought that these people are capable of any wrongdoing, let alone evil deeds.

Those in Zanu PF should understand that those in power should not only be regarded as infallible, but as more than saints.

And it is equally evil to think of them as old or ageing — they should be regarded as immortal.

You are supposed to think of them as people who live saintly and blameless lives to infinity.

In Zanu PF, to think otherwise is a cardinal sin, deserving righteous rebuke or severe punishment.

There are many who have sacrificed their lives and integrity for the party by ensuring it remains in power by any means necessary, including violence that has claimed the lives of political rivals.

Such people act on the basis of promises of a utopia when the party is re-elected into power, something that, of course, does not materialise.

The uninitiated in such circumstances feel the pain of being used, a sin that is punishable in the party.

Why should they feel used when others are enjoying the fruits of their sweat?

Isn’t that enough to make them happy?

Such feelings are prohibited; they are expected in the less human forms that populate opposition parties and those outside Zanu PF.

Instead of feeling the pain of neglect, they should be happy, as per the party’s expectations, that they would have allowed the party chefs to feast for an uninterrupted five years.

It does not matter that the party chefs even follow through the crumbs that would have fallen off the gravy table, crumbs that would have raised some hope in them.

People should know their places before they jump the gun.

The youth who raised the honourable minister’s ire should understand that a rug in the home should not aspire to be an ornament in the home.

It (the rug) should be grateful to be part of the home and should enjoy everything, including scrubbing the rough floors. It should actually feel like the floor it is scrubbing clean.

When it is used to scrub the dirt off the ornament, it should not complain of being torn, rather it should vicariously enjoy the feeling of being scrubbed clean.

Let this be clear to all in Zanu PF who feel used by the party of “saints” that they should feel like the rug, vicariously enjoying the fruits of their dirty work, even if they are torn to shreds economically, socially and physically.

Borrowing from the legendary singer Bob Marley’s lyrics, they should always sing: “One good thing about Zanu PF’s (mis)deeds is that when they hit you, you feel no pain.”