The presence of Saviour Kasukuwere in the presidential race in Zimbabwe is “one that at first sight appears to be a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” (Winston Churchill).
Kasukuwere was one of the three kingpins who played an important role in the reversal of the people’s election of 2008, reversing Robert Mugabe’s defeat by 73% by Morgan Tsvangirai to driving Morgan into flight into Botswana.
That short period (May 2008 to August 2008) in which 211 Tsvangirai’s supporters were murdered and perhaps thousands more maimed and brutally beaten, singled him out first as a brutal leader and secondly as a Mugabe loyalist and Zanu-PF stalwart.
He is a sinner of the worst kind, and his career and actions in that regard have been documented by such authoritative sources as Crisis Coalition in Zimbabwe, Commonwealth Reports at SOAS (London University) and US Congressional Reports.
There is, therefore, no mystery in his reappearance to challenge President Emerson Mnangagwa in his bid for Zimbabwe’s presidency.
Saviour took it upon himself to punish those who had been misled by brother Morgan. In a Commonwealth Report, you will find these words or similar words. On or about the 5th of May 2008, Saviour “ferried, using his lorry, a group pf 300 stalwart and committed youths to Chaona, Mazowe District.”
Among those killed were Tapiwa Meda, Alex Chriseri, Joseph Mudzuramhende and his brother Patson, David Mapuranga and Joseph Jemedze.
Unlike many ZANU-PF leaders who encourage violence behind the scenes, Saviour’s claim to power is that he was an Erwin Rommel of the Zanu-storm troopers. On March 25, 2000, he took a 200-man posse to Madondo Hotel with a list of natives who had been misled by Morgan and beat up them hard.
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In Mount Darwin, one named Tawanda resisted all reason, his house and car were burned to the ground and was hacked, left for dead. For good measure, his houses were burned. Tawanda reported the matter to the police, but the police told him Saviour was untouchable.
In all this Saviour was never brought before a court of law, seeing that both police and the judiciary were of one mind. Therefore, rightly so, Saviour claims that he has done nothing wrong.
Apart from his leadership qualities (though some of them are derived from Satan, lack of empathy for the suffering of God’s people) his second claim is weightier than the first.
The coup and the loyalist
The coup against Robert Mugabe, November 2017, was made possible by the efficiency and swift organization carried out by the army in a situation where the Central Intelligence Organisation and the police were on Mugabe’s side. General Anselm Sanyatwe commanded Ceasar’s own Xth Legion, the presidential guard.
In our diary of the fateful events of that month, Mugabe died from loss of a desire to live when he was told that the three men, including Anselm and General C. Chiwenga, had been bamboozled to support the wiles of the Karanga group by a man whose nickname was “crocodile) (Source/BBC/Sackur).
Verily, as the Lord liveth, fools are born every day.
Chiwenga and his wife were smoke bombed, Anselm soon died from unknown causes, the other two met their maker from Covid-19, so we are told. Chiwenga, thanks to Chinese medicine, survived, returned a more handsome man than he had been, and my sources say even more virile than expected at his age.
Here is the catch.
Saviour and the G-40 group, aided, and abetted by a scandalous mercenary professor Jonathan Moyo, believed that they were the brains of Zanu-PF. Now that group, generally associated with the Zezuru, were licking their wounds on a daily basis as the crocodile extended his term in power.
With the craftiness of one who lives under-water, only to reveal himself when time to strike is ripe, Ngwena (crocodile) persuaded and gathered the support of three Karanga bishops. Two others in Manicaland and Gokwe area were sympathetic. The bishops saw Ngwena as more effective in providing land and finance in their building of hospitals and universities than had been Mugabe.
These institutions will become centers of power for these religious groups in future.
The decision was purely financial and not theological.
Thirdly, the water development projects in Masvingo and Midlands provinces will, in say ten years, make these provinces the Dubai’s of Africa.
A no win mystery
Saviour’s support, from disgruntled Zezuru and Mugabe loyalists is fueled by other factors. The brainy bankers like Gideon Gono and some university professors who once saw Finance minister Mthuli Ncube as their ally, now see him for a dunderhead.
His crime is to think that by wearing an English pin-striped suit and speaking with a nosy accent will win him friends in the imperialist ward.
The inflation rate at 175% per annum (Source Steve Hanke) has destroyed all savings accounts for the third time in the Zanu-PF 43-year rule.
Though Ngwena has made strides in bringing in new industries and creating black millionaires, his opponents, allied to imperialists, are far ahead of him. Ngwena has failed utterly to create an atmosphere where young Zimbabweans see themselves as carving out long-term careers.
When 4 200 health workers apply to leave in one year, and 34 university staff and faculty at the best run Great Zimbabwe University leave tenured positions for junior and freshman start-up jobs abroad, there is something rotten in the kingdom of Denmark.
Saviour has articulated the people’s grievances brilliantly. His campaign is flush with money. But surely a one-man show cannot win an election.
Yes Siree.
There is no mystery there. All the evidence we have is that Saviour is not only the “baddest and most violent brother in the universe” he says so himself, that he is a Mugabe loyalist.
Inside sources have told me that Saviour’s purpose is to break Ngwena’s hold on power. While the army is cooking the figures, it counts on the cowardice of the Zimbabweans to “keep calm, all disturbances will be dealt with severely.” At which point, Chamisa will be called upon to accept the terms of a “new dispensation” or nothing.
The CCC, smelling power, will accept any “conditionalities” given to them if they are allowed to keep their USD450 000 housing (forgivable loans) and ride in Mercedes Benzes.
- Ken Mufuka spent ten years researching on a book: Life and Times of Robert Mugabe, 1980-1920. He writes from the US. He can be reached at [email protected]
