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Well done Arthur Mutambara
Mutsa Murenje
August 25, 2009

Mine is a vicariously explicit role, viz, to keep a nutcracker of circumstances from destroying and to help the sufferer see that there is, as it were, a stupendous potential for growth and development even in the face of worst hardships. I am simply providing a ray of hope amid a cloudy horizon. To this end, I have come up with my own 'Golden Rule-. The rule that the judge is God because He decides who wins or loses and not my opponent. But who is my opponent? He doesn-t exist because he is merely a dissenting voice to the truth that I speak. I will speak the truth. I totally agree with the Deputy Prime Minister, Professor Arthur Guseni Oliver Mutambara that last year-s elections were fraudulent and are a nullity.

We are all in favour of creating a Zimbabwe of trust, honesty and competence and the description by Patrick Chinamasa that Mutambara-s utterances are "reckless statements" just shows us the extent to which we can say ZANU PF is committed to the success of the Government of National Unity (GNU). I believe Mutambara was sincere in his utterances because like all of us, he has realized that our survival in our chaotic, dishonest and immoral society has been extremely difficult. I believe the GNU isn-t a government designed and run for all people. There is a group of unscrupulous and evil men who have usurped the power of government and they are using it to their own ends. This, however, is detrimental to society because it gives the society a short life span. Our survival in Zimbabwe has been imperiled by this thing called the GNU.

I need not remind Chinamasa that the GNU is a result of the ugly brutality that we experienced when the octogenarian tyrant Robert Mugabe lost the Presidential election to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in the harmonized elections of March 29, 2008. It is a product of an illegitimate process and it-s equally illegitimate. This explains why I argued in my earlier contribution 'GNU-Negative solution to the problem at hand- that the GNU was in no way an existential solution to the problem of governance bedeviling our country. In this regard, I wholly agree with Mo Ibrahim who said that: "Nothing, simply nothing, is more important for Africa than good governance".

Zimbabwe is shadowed with the oppression of tyranny regardless of the existence in our midst of this GNU and I honestly don-t think that it is really necessary to support the GNU given the lack of commitment on the part of ZANU PF. I am of the opinion that it is only a government working hard for its entire people rather than for some special interest group or insane dictator that deserves support. Mutambara-s statements do not at all undermine ZANU PF. He spoke the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. ZANU PF as represented by Chinamasa, himself a political reject (the electorate rejected him) is still in denial that Zimbabweans need to have a government of their own choice.

In his contribution to The Financial Gazette "A year after the controversial presidential poll" written in 2003, the late Professor Masipula Sithole wrote that: "I am inclined to accept the view that, ultimately, the solution to our problems of governance will come from the people of Zimbabwe themselves; that way we can feel ownership of whatever government we establish". The GNU was forced on us and it remains illegitimate no matter how hard we try to conceal this fact. It remains behoven to Thabo Mbeki and SADC and not to the oppressed and suffering people of Zimbabwe.

Why are we where we are today? We are all to blame. Mrs Ellen G. White warned us but we failed to take heed. She had this to say: "We must guard against undue severity toward the wrongdoer, but we must also be careful not to lose sight of the exceeding sinfulness of sin. There is need of showing Christ-like patience and love for the erring one, but there is also a danger of showing so great toleration for his error that he will look upon himself as undeserving of reproof, and will reject it as uncalled for and unjust". The truth is that we have overdone it. We showed great toleration for ZANU PF-s error and they now feel they don-t deserve any reproof for any reproof to them is uncalled for and unjust.

In conclusion, "It is after all, the people and their own opinion leaders who sweat and fight and bleed for their country. A government cannot bleed, it cannot even smile: it is just an idea men have. It is the individual person who is alive-you" (L. Ron Hubbard). I put it to you and I rest my case until next time. Stay well and keep safe.

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