adminAfter the ouster of the dishonourably discharged Joice Mujuru and cabal, the nation was held spellbound by whispers of a Mujuru-led outfit that was planning to launch a political joke called “Zanu People First”.
Vukani Madoda
We waited for seven months and we are still counting.
We waited for the launching of a vineyard of sour grapes masquerading as a political party and suffixing its stolen name “People First”.
While we waited, our appetite was whetted further by the disgruntled and garrulous rumblings of Rugare Gumbo, Didymus Mutasa and of late a basket case called Kudakwashe Bhasikiti.
Each time we were about to forget about the Gamatox cabal, the Daily News and News Day are quick to remind us not to forget that there is a “huge” Mujuru-led following comprising of the “original” Zanu-PF which will “soon” launch a thunderbolt party called “Zanu People First”.
Sometimes the whispers get louder and you would be almost certain that the next day another headline will scream “Mujuru launches Zanu People First”.
The great disillusionment of Mujuru and her followers was that no such wishful headline saw the light of day but instead the nation was bombarded with agenda-setting and framed headlines such as: “Mujuru to take on Mugabe”, “Mujuru hits back”, “Mujuru turns down Mugabe”.
But never one suggesting that the “People First” doomsday prophecy had come true. It was all a well-orchestrated ploy to keep the name of Joice Mujuru alive and in the presence of Zimbabweans’ political minds.
Hardly a week would go by without reading about Mujuru this or Mujuru that, as opposition mouthpieces threatened that she would stage a fairy-tale comeback which they almost equated to Christ’s second coming.
For her ardent but rather banal followers, it has been a bitter pill to swallow. Mujuru is not coming back to Zimbabwe’s political arena anytime soon; and even if she does, her insignificance will humiliate her to the grave.
Zanu-PF gives TKOs which very few repentant cadres have managed to come back from. The panacea for a Zanu-PF TKO is repentance and humility. But if you are pompous and issue lengthy statements to exonerate yourself (like Mujuru and Bhasikiti), or you are a loud-mouth who rumbles and rambles on and on uttering mind-boggling opposition idiocy (like Gumbo and Mutasa), you will never recover from that TKO.
It is a TKO that causes massive brain damage and weight-loss, such as that which have befallen Didymus Mutasa who has aged a decade in the last seven months.
While we were bombarded with “People First” never-never scenarios; enter Margaret Dongo.
This woman called Dongo gate-crashes the political fray and latches onto all the “People First” mantra that the Mujuru cabal has been concertedly and consistently hyping through the flimsiest of opposition mouthpieces by launching a comical ensemble called Movement for People First.
Indeed, Margaret Dongo must be awarded the political spoilsport award of the 21st century. Surely, how can you abandon your pathetic brainchild called the Zimbabwe Union of Democrats which you formed in the mistaken belief that the 1998 Sunningdale constituency represented the whole of Zimbabwe.
Not only that, then she pilfers the prefix “Movement” from the most obtuse opposition party this nation has ever seen and then go on to have the indignity to suffix your party “People First”?
In one fell swoop, Margaret Dongo sapped all the representations of opposition politics in Zimbabwe.
Tsvangirai and Mujuru should join hands and sue Dongo for theft of opposition ideology. How dare this killjoy called Margaret Dongo spoil the 2018 party for everybody?
Just like that power-hungry Elton Mangoma of the Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe notoriety, Dongo is a small girl of insignificant political consequence bent on causing alarm, despondency and mayhem amongst the electorate.
These fly-by-night outfits of the calibre of Dongo and Mangoma are the real spoilers of the face of democracy in this nation.
A party like Zanu-PF wants to conclusively tear apart the opposition of Tsvangirai and Mujuru come 2018. Unfortunately, now when it will happen, Tsvangirai and Mujuru will be quick to cry that Margaret Dongo split their votes because she took some of their supporters aligned to the “Movement” and others aligned to “People First”.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission should move a motion to desist from registering political spoilsports like Margaret Dongo who are deliberate opportunists who hallucinate that they have a massive following.
The lack of originality initially tastes like a sour political joke, but on closer inspection it is an infringement on the rights of opposition (non) ideology.
As it stands Dongo is an enemy of Zanu-PF, an enemy of Tsvangirai, an enemy of Mujuru, an enemy of war veterans and therefore a political misfit and an enemy of the people and the nation.
Dubulaizitha!
Online Reporter