NEW Chief Justice, Cde Elizabeth Gwaunza, bolstered her prospects of enjoying extended stay in her new job by ensuring that last week “our courts” delivered a favourable judgment — one that doesn’t rock the boat at this delicate moment in the CAB3 heist.
The nine-member ConCourt bench pretended to be unaware of the ongoing vandalisation of the constitution by deciding to dismiss an application to restrain Owner, on account of a technicality of “insufficiency”. In their own version of “wisdom”, the judges decided that Owner & Co should be allowed to continue with the harm that they are doing until it is sufficiently criminal enough before the ConCourt can intervene. “Our Courts” indeed!
This fantastic ruling from “our courts” is just only confirmation that indeed the voice of “The People” is the voice of God. As has been the case in such sticky cases before, once the courts have decided to strategically exclude themselves during the most crucial time of events, whatever they may say in the future would be thankfully moot.
Once CAB3 has been passed and signed into law, whatever the courts may say — most likely in 2037 — would be moot for it won’t change anything. In this case, “Our Courts” cannot openly agree with the applicants, that indeed criminal mischief is taking place, just as they cannot disagree with the applicants without losing that bare basic that makes them courts.
So, in such a sticky situation, the safest route is to excuse themselves via a technicality.
What matters is whether or not the voice of “The People” is heeded, not how. Not every voice is “voice of The People” and therefore voice of God, as even the agents of Satan masquerade as instruments of righteousness.
In this case, the people referred to by Owner are “The People”, not the people, and it is only the former that matter, not the latter that are piddling nobodies whose voice is that of Satan.
So, whichever way it is done, the most important thing is that “The People” passed Resolution No. 1 in two years running, demanding that Owner goes nowhere? And who are the courts, “Our Courts” to stand in the way of “The People” and the voice of God Himself?
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David and Goliaths
Though not a soccer fan, it was enthralling to see Iran’s men national team arriving in Los Angeles, right in the United States of America, from their base in Mexico, for their World Cup opening match against New Zealand.
Iran is the country of the moment, just crowning itself as it did this week, the newest superpower on the world after soundly defeating two nuclear armed aggressors in the form of the US and its side-kick, Israel. This is remindful to Muckraker of the reply that Ahab, the King of the real Israel in the Bible, sent to Ben Hadad, the King of Aram in 1 Kings 20:11: “One who puts on his armour should not boast like one who takes it off.”
At the start of this aggression on February 28, Donald Trump talked boastfully as if Iran was a little school-boy that he was going to whip into line in no time. Fifteen weeks down the line, he and his Benjamin Netanyahu acolyte are leaving Iran and South Lebanon with tails between the legs.
This is because of Trump’s jumbled original half-dozen or so “strategic objectives” for attacking Iran, not even one of them has even been half achieved.
Yet on Iran’s side, it did not just spectacularly repulse the US-Israeli attacks, but actually emerged from the war more solid, drawing a new global security architecture with its deterrent capabilities to punish the US and creating new alliances and a new approach to regional security in the Middle East and beyond.
As the peace deal was being concluded, US bases in the Middle East are gone; Iran is getting paid billions; Iran will now charge Hormuz tolls and “Israel” was asked to withdraw from Lebanon.
This gives hope to all the oppressed people of this world, hope that some of their situations that appear invincible are not cast in stone.
Like the Spaniards would say: “To every pig comes its own Martinmas!” There would surely come a day when even Zimbos would look back to the dreary days of “The Party” and Owner!
‘Vene-land’
Those who have been Zimbo enough know that three main normative appeals that, together with brute force, caused peasants to “support” the so-called war of liberation. Land. Vote. Dignity. In its own wisdom, the Second Republic has effectively taken away all these.
Only last week, was Local Government minister Daniel “Selous Scout” Garwe gloating at the prospect of carrying out nationwide house destructions. Land hunger has only worsened under the Second Republic as everything that was seized from white former commercial farmers is now being hurriedly privatised under the new opaque deed system, to put it beyond the reach of everyone else!
On its part, CAB3 is taking away one man, one vote, and turning the country into a kingdom whose succession issues (in the unlikely event of Owner’s death) is a private matter for a coterie of few self-appointed individuals calling themselves Vene (The Owners).
Without land and vote, dignity has no legs to stand on, so it follows the other two, leaving Vene to do as they would want.
Misplaced fighting zeal
So, it has since emerged that the thug that was arrested on gun-toting charges when Christian Brothers College lost a rugby match to Eaglesvale last weekend is actually Lotshe Yuri Rodgers Mangena, the 50-year-old son of the late former Zipra commander Rodgers “Nikita” Mangena? Awu bakithi!
It is good to know that there is still some residual fighting spirit left in some communities, families and individuals, if only this spirit could be channelled in the right direction.
Surely, a school rugby match is not the place to be engaging in a gun-toting exercise when right across the city, some individuals are huddled around a criminal Bill to take away the very same basics that his father thought he was dying to give Zimbos.
Just to confirm how unserious Zimbos are about life, when this fact (that Lotshe is Nikita’s son) arrived to the public that he is actually son to Mangena, who was killed in the war in 1978, the internet nearly crashed as some sections of the netizenry could not wrap their heads around the fact someone could be 50 years today even though their father died in 1978.
This taught Muck something that he had neglected to teach himself — that there is no qualification whatsoever that is needed for anyone to be on social media. That explains the quality of debate that dominate those platforms. If wilful illiteracy is one of the reasons CAB3 is trying to take away the one man, one vote right, Muck would seriously be tempted to consider supporting that portion of the amendment.
There are just too many people who are dangerously ignorant to have the affairs of a country entrusted to them — just too many!
