Zim still needs President Mugabe

waited to hear that “it is Robert Mugabe”.
Other sectors of the community went on to attack the prophecy, accusing the prophet to be working in cahoots with the West’s intelligence agencies to eliminate patriotic African leaders who threaten the West’s strategic interests in targeted nations.
But how? I do not understand prophecies and prophecies of doom. Early at the beginning of the 21st century, Zimbabwe witnessed a prophecy; the real prophet of doom issued a prophecy of the impending suffering of the people of Zimbabwe.
The prophecy, or shall I call it a promise, surely came to pass, for more than a decade Zimbabwe has experienced undeserved hardships as a result of “prophet”  Tsvangirai’s conspiracy with his makers and handlers who sought revenge over the Zanu-PF Government’s land reform exercise.
Everyone will remember a clip in which the MDC leader proposed to have strategic neighbours, like South Africa, cut off electricity and fuel supplies to Zimbabwe as a way to cause mayhem in the country, which would then get Zimbabweans pass a vote of no confidence in Zanu-PF.
What kind of a leader do the people of Zimbabwe deserve? Our country has witnessed the emergence of decoy leaders who simply stand in front of the people and say, “look at my pretty face and vote for me”. What do they have to offer?
Just their decorated names and beautiful faces! Sorry, gentlemen, this is not a pageant to show off the magnificence of your name and face, Zimbabwe needs leaders who deliver tangible things — jobs, food for all on the tables, sound economic policies . . .
The second group is of the kind of leaders who select their tribal village and invoke a 30-year-old Gukurahundi case to fight for their cause and then cry for consideration in the race for the highest office. Welshman Ncube must be ashamed of this.
The third group is of the loud- and wide-mouthed empty snail shells of the Job Sikhala type; they hop into the streets to demonstrate against shortage of beer, clash with the police and then run to the clinics to have their whole bodies bandaged for a mere “mosquito bite”, as Jabulani Sibanda would put it.
“Prophet” Tsvangirai fits rightly in the forth group of leaders who starve the people for their selfish high office desire just to please some external hand which pays for his services. He has for the past 13 or more years waited for opportunities to engineer circumstances that would obliterate President Mugabe and Zanu-PF from the scene in order to favour his easy ascendance to power.
Historical facts will surely tell this “die for me” man and other contenders for the throne that the Zimbabwe House is not for opportunists and sell-outs. They have always banked on such occurrences that would put down Mugabe to their advantage.
MDC authored ZIDERA with their American handlers and economic sanctions were unilaterally imposed on the people of Zimbabwe. The sanctions card thus became the MDC’s trusted weapon in the battle for the Zimbabwean throne.
Prior to the advent of MDC, Zimbabwe had not experienced the sort of suffering which compared to what the people had to endure following Tsvangirai’s promise that more suffering awaited Zimbabwe; he knew that his architects were behind the scenes building a nuclear strategy that would bombard the whole artificialised economic fabric of Zimbabwe — and it happened.
Although the strategy won them considerable ground, their target still stood tall and firm as the desire for the demise of President Mugabe would remain a mere aspiration for a painful waiting time. As the most trusted weapon failed to deliver the ultimate goal, they then resorted to calling for military action to topple the veteran nationalist — another promise by Tsvangirai to remove Mugabe “violently” — a measure of desperation.
Now that the bag of tricks was running empty, what then was left for the desperate kids to rely on? Prophecies! Yeah, they wished if they could influence TB Joshua’s prophecy to point at Mugabe as the “old African leader” who would die in “60 days”.
President Mugabe belongs to a generation of leaders who were favoured by the gods of the land to defend the heritage of Africa, hence his near immortal prolonged existence. Africa and the downtrodden still need him. The message that the President is putting across is that “the people must own the means of production in their own land”, hence the land acquisition and the indigenisation programmes. He is instilling in his people a culture that promotes total independence and self-reliance, so that in future we will not be affected so badly by detractors’ sanctions as has happened from the year 2000.
The simple and effective means of economic sanctions that worked in favour of unrepentant elements of Rhodies community against the people was just locking up gates to the manufacturing industries, pocket the keys and cross the border — simple. It is a time that people must have faith and confidence in themselves, rather than believing that “someone will do it for us”.
Gidi Ngwindingwindi is a political commentator based in Harare.