Feeling being left out, Cde Ndabaningi Mangwana, the supposed government spokesperson, this week took to social media to defend ongoing attempts to vandalise the supreme law of the land.
“Frankly speaking, nobody wants elections every five years. Current MPs don’t. Even voters don’t, either,” said Mangwana, whose family is ensconced in the safety of UK, away from the suffocating atmosphere that he is busy fouling in the hereabouts.
“Did you see the percentage of people who voted in 2023 in comparison with the number of those eligible to vote?” Mangwana argued.
You can see how caring Zanu PF has suddenly become, now trying to save hapless Zimbos from the agony of elections — the very one man, one vote that the very same Zanu PF made them to die for — by reducing their frequency … most likely before doing away with them altogether! But being ungrateful as Zimbos always have been, they are rudely saying: “No, thanks Nick!” They want their elections even every month, if that’s what it takes to finally free themselves!
He who lives by the sword …
In 2004, Atefeh Rajabi Sahaaleh, a 16-year-old Iranian girl, was hanged in public for being repeatedly raped by male relatives, police officers and jail guards. That is the type of “justice” that has always been served in Iran where harsh chastity laws are blindly enforced by a regime that uses religion to savagely oppress its own people.
But the good Lord — always being faithful — in the early hours of February 28, He decided that time had come for Him to settle accounts with the regime in Teheran … some madmen ganged up to attack the country’s top leadership and the country’s so-called Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and more than 40 of his top military and political leaders were killed.
This was a cabal that was just winding up the killing of over 3 500 citizens who were protesting against misrule. So, their deaths were celebrated by tens of millions of Iranians, while other tens of millions mourned.
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Muck has an aversion for all forms of dictatorships, wherever they are, so, when such things happen, he is always comforted in his own sorry situation, on the confirmation that dictators don’t live forever just as dictatorships don’t last forever.
Just as the Spaniards say: “To every pig comes his Martinmas!” Everything on this earth eventually comes to an end. Whatever happens to Iran into the future is another different matter. What matters to Muck for now is that he has lived long enough to see the end of another ruthless dictator.
Free advice
In the aftermath of the disaster in Iran (where the so-called Supreme leader and several dozens of the country’s important leaders were killed in US/Israel precision strikes, a reader tagged Muck to this opinion piece that Cde Rutendo Benson Matinyarare, otherwise a career rabid regime defender, posted on his social media walls.
It read in part: “This point brings me to our own situation in Zimbabwe. Our country is mainly polarised due to the economic problems caused by sanctions. This is exacerbated by a small elite that is prospering at the exclusion of most, and this has caused rifts within and outside Zanu PF. Let’s not forget that when Lacoste usurped G40, it was for resources, and now the current infighting is for the same.
“Even more compounding is Zanu PF’s one-centre-of-power approach doesn’t allow for divergence or constructive criticism that may flag risks, because such views are seen as a threat. As a result, frustration, anger, and bitterness fester and polarise the movement and nation. It’s at this point that people cross over to the enemy or even undertake coups — not because they are aiding imperialism, but because they simply want access to resources.
“Many-a-times, leaders of revolutions forget that the main cause of their revolution was to remove an obdurate imperialist who excluded them from access to resources, education, and opportunity. So, now, when revolutionaries ascend to power and begin to emulate the coloniser by hogging resources, this approach raises smart, disgruntled people — like Jonathan Moyo and others — forced by exclusion, to destroy the movement from within in order to survive. Such people become informers who enable the capture of Maduro and Khamenei.
“This is why I for one, am struggling to understand why Zanu PF, after surviving 24 years of sanctions that created rifts that could have resulted in regime change invasion, would insist on extending the election cycle to reduce divisions caused by elections, yet insist on doing it without seeking buy-in and consensus with those who differ with them, to foster national unity.”
How much more free advice would any sensible person ask for? Thankfully, sense is what is in critical short supply to Owner and those hangers-on around him.
If Muck were Owner (what a treasonous thought!), he would make sure that this is the time he behaved his very best. Surely when Donald Trump is shopping around for excuses to attack resource-rich countries around the world, we don’t have to donate several to him. Being the so-called “Persian Gulf of Strategic minerals” as we claim to be due to our wondrous endowment with 60-plus minerals of the future, we have just refused a US medical health aid deal that sought to insinuate critical minerals into it; we have just banned export of these strategic minerals … and at the same time continuing to do what only criminals do, as we always do. This is not the right time to do that. These are not usual times.
These disreputable sillies
The problem with wars, almost all of them, is that most of those who die don’t even know what it is all about that they are dying for. It has always been the case since time immemorial.
Even today, just ask an ordinary US soldier deployed in the Middle East right now, why (s) he is ready to die for there, chances are they may not be having any clue.
They are just there because they have been ordered to be there. But even US politicians are confused about what they are in Iran for: “Regime change, nuclear weapons, missiles, defence. Pre-emptive. Which is it?
When the justification keeps shifting, a strategy is missing. There is no strategy,” fumed US Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer this week.
Just ask even our own soldiers who were in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for years, why they were there in the first place, more than 20 years after their return home with physical and mental scars, they still don’t know … all they know is that they were fighting in the DRC.
This is one of the reasons why Muck has always shunned some jobs, especially those in the security services sector, because one ends up being used just like a tool, a mere piece of equipment, a brainless object. Ask those goons that attacked Cde Lovemore Madhuku at the weekend why they did it, you will never get any cogent explanation.
There is a Chinese proverb that says, “Good iron is not used to make nails.”
It always came handy to dissuade talented (and therefore useful) individuals from joining the army, which was historically viewed as a menial or disreputable profession. Muck agrees. Some professions are just disreputable … especially those in which people get hired to be angry enough to die for others. Very silly!
Good display
Meanwhile, Muck is keenly following the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, less because he would want to see one side victorious over the other (although the temptation to see Trump with an egg on that pink face is too riveting!), but just to see what are really called weapons, not the toys that we always see being displayed … This is really a good display!
