Fighting corruption is out of the question as no minister has ever been fired for being corrupt.
The only change President Robert Mugabe is happy about is that of his subordinates. You can not change his position.
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People in Zanu PF after failing to persuade him to resign, have opted to make him life president.
Since 1980 when he became the leader of a supposedly free Zimbabwe, Mugabe has had innumerable Cabinets made up of different ministers. The only position which he knows is that of executive leader of party, State and government. Why?
Mugabe periodically changes his Cabinet either after an election or an extraordinary reshuffle. There are various reasons and suggestions people peddle of why he does that, among them to fight corruption, weeding out incompetent ministers and nepotism.
Fighting corruption is out of the question as no minister has ever been fired for being corrupt. If anything, Mugabe is known for talking about and against corruption, but has never directly sacked any minister for dipping into State coffers or failing to stop corruption in his or her ministry. So it is like failing to stop corruption is not failure to perform in Cabinet.
As long as one stays loyal to Mugabe, one can remain in office. So Cabinet changes do not have anything to do with corruption in Zimbabwe. Most ministers preside over rotten and corrupt ministries, but that does not worry Mugabe.
Again incompetence is out of question. The best way to deal with incompetence is dismissal, not recycling.
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Incompetence does not exist in Zanu PFs’ political language or vocabulary. A minister is only incompetent when he fails to push for policies which consolidate Zanu PF’s position as the ruling party.
This is shown by the attitude of most ministers both past and present. This explains why one can be incompetent and still die or remain a minister.
If incompetence was a factor considered in making Cabinet changes, how does anyone explain the long stay of some non-performing ministers in Cabinet and Parliament? The likes of Agriculture minister Joseph Made would have been chased from Cabinet way back. He has never been successful in any ministerial portfolio yet he is still hopping from one ministry to another. He is one of the many lame ducks in Cabinet.
Practically it is of no use moving an incompetent person to another position of equal authority and importance and expect them to do better. The best way to deal with incompetence is to drop that person and not recycling dead wood.
Clearly, Mugabe changes his ministers to give them new challenges to campaign for Zanu PF in government. Look at how the ministers try to push for pro-Zanu PF policies as soon as they are moved to new ministries. Everyone remembers what former Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo did.
Also not to be left out is Saviour Kasukuwere’s pro-Zanu PF acts when he was Indigenisation minister employing thousands of loitering pro-Zanu PF youngsters as youth officers most of whom do not even know their job descriptions.
Changing ministers from one ministry to another has helped Mugabe to stay in power beyond their best before date as ministers compete in trying to prop the ailing Zanu PF by carrying out programmes which benefit mainly bona fide Zanu PF card-carrying cadres.
