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ZANU-PF-s
constitutional vomit
Rejoice
Ngwenya
August 27, 2012
The diabolic,
if not outright moronically outrageous demands
that President-s Robert Mugabe-s ZANU-PF are making
of our Draft
Constitution point to one thing - this political party is
in a locked-in syndrome, completely paralysed in its own delusive,
totalitarian stupidity. Now that they are about to choke in their
vomit of constitutional arrogance and primitive entitlement, the
only honourable thing which progressive Zimbabweans must do is incinerate
these deranged constitutional
proposals and scatter the ashes over the deep-end of Victoria
Falls.
I have always
insisted in my previous writings - with a chilling degree
of consistency -that this party ZANU-PF is composed of aliens
from outer space. They are completely detached from reality. The
tragedy is that as they sink further into the abyss of political
oblivion, they intend to drag with them citizens with honest intentions.
To imagine that their representatives in COPAC - Paul Mangwana,
Nicholas Goche and Patrick Chinamasa - have been completely
and totally disowned only shows how low their party can sink just
to perpetuate dangerous, people-defying selfish interests. In its
warped rationale, ZANU-PF has reduced Zimbabwe to, as Mail and Guardian
blogger Peter Joffe says: 'a government of the party, for
the party, by the party-.
Having been
comprehensively demolished in March 2008
elections and painstakingly 'reconstructed- by Thabo
Mbeki, you would think that ZANU-PF is overwhelmed by a sense of
humility. But no! Their audacity, lack of respect for others, propensity
to insult and sheer arrogance proves how their strategy engine runs
on contempt for good things. How ZANU-PF conjures these political
brainteasers - Gukurahundi genocide, Murambatsvina
displacements, electoral violence, plundering of diamonds at
Marange and the fallacy of so-called sanctions. This is an ideal
doctoral study for human psychotic behaviour!
By now, most
Zimbabweans are aware how ZANU-PF has mutilated the Draft Constitution
to suit their own egotistically eccentric, low self-esteem. I do
not know why Mangwana, Goche and Chinamasa have allowed loyalty
to be rewarded with public humiliation. The reversal of the very
clauses they signed for can only prove what we have always said.
In ZANU-PF, only one person-s decision counts. Never mind
their childish allegiance, what is sinister is the motive behind
discarding matters critical to a functional democracy - Bill of
rights, private property ownership, devolution, judiciary independence
and a presidency accountable to citizens.
More frightening
is why Gukurahundi 'victims- like Professor Jonathan
Moyo, John Nkomo, Simon Khaya Moyo, Angeline Masuku and Thokozile
Matutu have been so manipulated by President Robert Mugabe as to
ignore the constitutionalising of truth, reconciliation and reparations.
I am curious why ZANU-PF did not tamper with the obnoxious property
rights and land clauses. In seizing control of the Save Valley Conservancy,
ZANU-PF cronies Titus Maluleke, Chiredzi South MP Aaron Baloyi,
Higher and Tertiary Education minister Stan Mudenge, former governor
Josiah Hungwe, former MP Enock Porusingazi, army boss Engelbert
Rugeje, National Parks head Vitalis Chadenga, and former MP Shuvai
Mahofa, offer empirical evidence that ZANU-PF will never allow private
property rights to be constitutionalised.
The General
Assembly of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO)
is set to be jointly hosted by Zimbabwe and Zambia in August 2013.
Unless they are blind, UNWTO delegates are well-advised to stay
out of our borders. If President Mugabe insists on 'relapsing-
to the Lancaster House constitution for 2013 elections, our resistance
to ZANU-PF totalitarian hegemony will make the Arab Spring look
like a children-s television show. For once in their 32 years
of dictatorship, ZANU-PF must come head-to-head with the people-s
constitutional wrath. In the meantime, let-s cover our noses
and ignore ZANU-PF-s constitutional vomit.
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