Jacob Zuma’s Unforgivable Sin

Jacob Zuma’s Unforgivable Sin Tsanga Tutankhamen Shanga It is said you really get to know how a person truly feels about when anger makes that person lose guard and blinding hatred loosens his or her tongue. In the immediate aftermath of the summit of the SACD troika in which Robert Mugabe was reminded that keeping a promise is honourable and honesty shows respect for others, all hell broke loose. It was Robert Mugabe himself who raised Cain from the dead and his ZANU-PF subordinates immediately followed suit. The primary target of that fury was you, President Jacob Zuma. Of course ZANU-PF is very contemptuous of the South African president. The kind of verbal abuse and even threats of violence unleashed since the momentous meeting in Livingstone (Zambia) can hardly have been said in the spur of the moment. Anger made ZANU-PF lose the plot and its guard to betray the disdain with which you, Jacob Zuma, are held with that party. If you, President Zuma, did not know it prior to the full-throttle verbal abuse by ZANU-PF, you must not have any doubt now ZANU-PF harbours a deeply seated animus against you and the ANC. As a matter of fact, ZANU-PF and the ANC have never been the most comfortable of partners even during the struggle for the liberation of Zimbabwe and South Africa, respectively. Now all pretense of kinship has been dropped. That kinship was always a humpty dumpty precariously seated on a wall. Straight from Zambia, Mugabe gave his wrecking crew the signal to push that humpty dumpty. He had to know that within that crowd is a certain chameleon trapped in a human body that will do anything to please him as atonement for previously organizing the failed Tsholotsho putsch. The Tsholotsho reptile is a one-man wrecking crew. As the smartest and most articulate character in ZANU-PF after Mugabe himself, the de facto ZANU-PF spokesman pushed the fragile humpty-dumpty-like brotherhood between ZANU-PF and the ANC. That humpty dumpty is shattered. Robert Mugabe and his official spokesman are frenetically trying to piece it together but there is no putting the humpty dumpty back together. The truth is out. It always has a sinister way of getting out - rine manyanga hari putirwe, as the Shona proverbs states. The game of ZANU-PF deceit is over. The ancients said that that which comes first out of a man’s mouth is the truth, and that which comes out later is only meant to deceive. ZANU-PF is busy telling you that they did not mean to insult you. If they really mean it, how come they have yet to say they are sorry for the indignities and insolence they have publicly heaped on you? Even if they say they are sorry, there are insincere. Watch what they do but listen not to what they say. Do not expect a public apology despite the public humiliation you have suffered at the hands of ZANU-PF. The reason you will not get an apology from ZANU-PF is very simple. You see, Mr Zuma, you committed a cardinal sin against the gods. In their own eyes, the people who run ZANU-PF think of themselves immortal gods. Human beings apologize to gods but not the other way round. Gods are above such acts like observing basic tenets and stricture of Ubuntu. Laws are made to be obeyed by mere mortals. These gods are above these temporal laws, which they flaunt with impunity. Going against them, like you and Rupiah Banda did in Livingstone, is not considered an offense a crime. No, it is worse than that. It is a sin, a sacrilege for which you must pay the heavy penalty of a public flogging like a petty criminal at the hands of a vigilante mob. ZANU-PF is not a political organization as far as the people who run it are concerned. It is a pantheon, a veritable House of Gods. God do not take marching orders from mere mortals. To ZANU-PF gods, you and Rupiah Banda, that other upstart north of the Zambezi River, are mere mortals. Yet there you were issuing directives to gods. How dare you? Now you know what the Zimbabwean people have had to endure for the past 31 years. We know these strange gods. As far as they are concerned, they are never at fault. They can go to Matebeleland and Midlands to slaughter 20000, as what happened to the Amalekites, and simply brush off the pogrom as a divine act carried out in a moment of holy fury. We know these gods. They act like they truly believe they are a consuming fire. They can run a robust economy into the ground but they are always blameless. Someone else has to be responsible for that. Incompetence? Not a problem! They can say the vilest words. Insolence? They can snatch food from the jaws of hungry children. Lack of decency? Not a problem! Gods do not suffer from these human frailties. These gods think they are immortal. They openly declare that the god of gods will rule forever like a Biblical Melchizedek that has neither a beginning nor an end. Douglas Mwonzora stupidly wanted to know if the god of gods was well but now he will be dragged to court in chains for offending the god of gods. That just shows you that these gods are hard to please. Like your predecessor, Thabo Mbeki, your duty is to pay obeisance to these gods as well as quietly do their bidding like defending them when they come under attack from gods that are far superior compared to them. Like Joseph Kabila discovered when he had to wait for a day to meet Robert Mugabe, you were expected to bend over backwards so that the god of gods, Robert Mugabe, could make a political wife out of you like he did with the Thabo Mbeki and, numerous local and regional leaders. Mr Zuma, you may recall an incident in 2008 just after the election and the gods unleashed their consuming fury on the Zimbabwean people. Asked what he was going to do to stop the grisly murders by the agents of the gods, Mr Mbeki said there was no problem in Zimbabwe to warrant concern on his part. The rest of the world was aghast at the apparent insensitivity. Zimbabweans were not. We knew what had happened to the son of Govan Mbeki. The generality of the Zimbabwean people came to view poor Thabo as a hopelessly effeminate political eunuch in Robert Mugabe’s political harem. Thabo Mbeki’s words in defense of the indefensible roguery of Mugabe’s agents rang hollow just as the words spoken by an abused wife in defense of her abusive husband despite an obvious swollen face after a beating. If Zimbabweans are cheerful today that joy comes from a simple fact that. It seems that at long last, in Rupiah Banda and you, Robert Mugabe has run into proud African men who will not permit ZANU-PF to politically vasectomization you so that you can be politically sodomized by Mugabe while his minions cheer him on. They are still trying to neuter you right now. They are sure you will buckle under pressure so they can do with you as they please. After you instructed ZANU-PF to cease and desist, but Mugabe’s thugs have not stopped. Poor parishioners, children and the elderly among them, were mercilessly gassed in a church one week after your ordered ZANU-PF from such dastardly acts. A party activist was abducted during the inhumane gassing of the House of God. A member of the majority party was charged for something as ludicrous as asking a benign question regarding Robert Mugabe’s wellbeing. The police commissioner, a sycophant of Robert Mugabe, initially threatened to arrest your emissaries in retaliation for your refusal to get vasectomized. When they arrive in Harare to monitor the signatories of the agreement brokered by you government, you emissaries were barred from the discussions. They were forced to retreated back with their tails between their legs. That was clearly meant to humiliate you. ZANU-PF is directly challenging you straight in your face. You will never be forgiven by ZANU-PF so you might as well quit trying to pacify them. For refusing to sacrifice your dignity on the altar of the god of the gods of ZANU-PF, you, Jacob Zuma, have been called a man not in control of anything in South Africa. You need to lose sleep over that accusation from ZANU-PF, a party that has presided over the complete destruction of Zimbabwe. If you were not restrained by your African tradition, you would publicly remind ZANU-PF that the proof of Mugabe’s failure to run anything productive is provided by hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans living in South Africa. Zimbabweans know that but we are sorry nobody bothered to warn you ahead of time. It is unfortunate that you were stricken by the snake Thabo Mbeki rescued from drowning. A rescued snake knows no gratitude. Its first act once it is safe is to strike its rescuer. Of course Mugabe and his ZANU-PF team of sycophants and bottom feeders are not gods. They are actually the sorriest excuse for humanity for they have no sense of shame. You do not have to be bullied into a political eunuch by these clowns. Audaciously ZANU-PF made a subtle dig at your lack of university degrees. The Sunday Mail, which is controlled by ZANU-PF, is accusing you of being illiterate. You did not read the report put together before the troika meeting, charges the ZANU-PF propaganda rag. May be someone needs to remind ZANU-PF that Robert Mugabe has a whole raft of degrees but he has very little good to show for this degrees. Simply because a person has a degree does not mean he is educated. Mugabe is ample proof of that. As a result of being daft, little good has come out of his raft of degrees. Someone in South Africa needs to remind Robert Mugabe’s boys that the only degree that Mugabe has put to use is the degree in violence he claims to have. For that reason, hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans have flocked to South Africa. On the contrary, you, Jacob Zuma may not have degrees like Robert Mugabe but you are educated on issues that matter the most to the people you leads. You use common sense. Jacob Zuma is a liability to Africa, charges ZANU-PF. That charge is a joke that could make a goat laugh. Perhaps you need to remind Mugabe’s boys that he has actually done more damage to the image of Africa. The justification for colonialism was always predicated on the basic premise that Africans were not really mentally mature to be responsible for their own wellbeing. Educating an African was as good as training a dog to carry out amusing tricks but, at the end, it would always be a dog, so went the argument used to degrade Africans. Now Africa’s detractors can point out what Mugabe and his numerous degrees have done to Zimbabwe as proof. Lastly, Mr Zuma, if you ever visit Zimbabwe, you must make sure you bring your own bottled water. Also make sure you have sentinels watching that water all the time lest it be tempered with. African tradition says you cannot turn down food when your host offers but you must remember that these ZANU-PF creatures are not Africans at all. Besides, African tradition does not encourage you to knowingly walk into a deathtrap and expect benevolent ancestral spirits to rescue you from malevolent gods.