Azore Opio
30 November 2008
opinion
Dear Bob, I should have written this letter earlier, but thank God it waited. And when I set out to jot it, it was not to please you or anybody.We made every effort, don't ask who we are, to argue in your favour; to defend your stand.
We believed that you were fighting a genuine battle against imperialism, neo-colonialism, post-apartheid inertia and all the like. We believed that much of what you were confronted with was unique, different, unknown. We believed wrongly.
We argued hotly moreover that you were actually, perhaps, the only African leader who had defied the white man in his face. We concealed and made excuses for your shortcomings; we atoned for your iniquities, attributing them to human frailties, yet we are flabbergasted by your (mis)demeanour.
No apologies form part of this epistle. After arduously fighting for freedom from the vice grip of apartheid and colonialism, you gradually became a foreboding enigma; a mysterious character; a baffling entity full of melancholy contrasts and paradoxes, an empty of sorts.
More amazing is the alacrity with which you transmogrified into a chameleon freedom fighter. A far more insidious insult was your pervasive denigration of the very people you purportedly fought to liberate. Contrary to all expectations, you led your people to more calamitous depths than what they had bargained for.
Yours is an epitome of Afro-madness demonstrated by your unwillingness to attend to the issue of succession. You seem not to be aware of the presidential expiry date and have never cared to groom a successor in your ZANU-PF party; that is what I am trying to say.
Your are such a big fart, Bob. We no longer admire your nonsense because the epicenter of Zimbabwe's woes is precisely in your heart. Now you have no shortage of enemies; real and imagined. We no longer comprehend the mixed motives that drove you to devastate Zimbabwe. Yes, Gabe, you have ruined Zimbabwe. How else can we put it? Reality is beginning to bite, very hard.
Bob, we are not saying that you should kowtow in front of the white man, but if you were half as intelligent as a monkey, you should have known better not to lay your cards face up with men of world economics and high finance and those who control much of the business world.
It is always likely that foreign invaders will destroy the stores, the food havens and exploit the resources of Africa, thrusting its population into economic despair, unemployment, abject poverty and debilitating misery. You have found it out the hard way. In the face of all these, you failed to keep a balanced economy that could weather the uncertainty of geopolitics, the atrocities of imperialists and the voracious appetite of money lenders and donors, topped with racial hatred.
Bitter truth is often unpopular, but your reign or rule has been as fascinating as it continues to be for us; one that ceases not to bring out emotions of laughter, anger, sadness, pity and a great deal of pessimism.
Bob, you, like our own president here, [you and him are like peas in a pod. You are like grey cats being much like others in the dark; an aberration of good, charismatic leadership, rather nihilistic monsters] you have put your wisdom in competition with God's wisdom. That reminds me about this thing called government.
Not only your country has none, or should I say your country's ship is sailing without ballast, without compass? At least you are permanently based in Harare, I presume. In our case, there is no government! The ship's captain is always abroad, not on board; the ship's mast is broken; the sails ripped by wild winds and some of the captain's men thrown overboard.
That reminds me of something else. This morning, I wrote this letter from 5 am, by the way; I was also listening to a very popular radio programme called "Morning Safari" [it is not a leisure trip to the Masai Mara Game Park to watch snoozing lions or the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest to watch gorillas strip-teasing and doing gymnastics] It is a forum to discuss "unprintable" national issues in Cameroon.
Well, some of our MPs on the debate, we still have them here, I wonder with your lackadaisical attitude if you have any, blindly defended the rotten system here.
I say, Bob, we know that you are frantically trying to hold together your ship, but could you spare some time and tell our MPs, that this country is bilingual and that the constitution stipulates unequivocally that official documents and correspondence should appear in the two official languages [French and English, if you don't know] that the presidency and the parliament employ translators and interpreters; that for this matter, there is no good reason why the national budget should appear only in the favourite language - French; that MPs, by the very nature of their calling, are supposed to make noise - both inside the house and outside; that an MP is first the representative of their electorate and never the so-called national parliamentarian; that pretentious MPs should stop mourning more than the bereaved!
I do not know, Bob, you have never been married to two wives by any chance? Don't try, because one wife is already trouble. Two is double trouble!
After all I have said, Bobbie, may be there is really something that you know that all of us seem to have missed - a workable economic policy, a unique socio-political organisation as the Athenians did and put them to good use after the imperialists must have gone to bed.
May God keep on blessing you.Your Disgruntled comrade.
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The letter proves one thing: the world is full of fools, such as the writer of the flowery prose he dares call a "letter."
A fifth columnist waxing in vapid prose, a tail of MT and the reaction from the West.
Dude was right on one point though: Cdr. MUGABE will never kow tow to financial imperialists. Unlike the MT tail, I applaud the Great Leader for standing up to the degenerate Gamblers on Wall Street and other sites of world looting.
Regards.
You talk about looting, but turn a blind eye to Mugabe's henchmen taking $7.3 million USD from the Global Funds donations to help sufferers in Zimbabwe of Aids etc. Why?
jallohlaw - Tinyare blazi you are taking zimbabweans for grant pa mai vako namwari.
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Waoh..!! Mr Mugabe. This is written in clear forthright language. Please, wake up. It is dawn for your EXIT.....!