False dawn of the so-called new dispensation

By Doctor Stop It | 20h ago

The arrest of Zimbabwe Independent Faith Zaba was a new low in that regard.

My Dear People

Some of you called me names eight years ago when I went around the country warning Zimbabweans about the impending coup and how it was going to set this country backwards.

I warned people that Ngwena and his Lacoste crew were going to be more brutal than the man they wanted to remove violently and were a big threat to the country’s nascent democracy.

As someone who had proximity to power, I knew what I was talking about. I knew that Gushungo was a saint when compared to Ngwena.

I hate to be telling you that I told you so as the Lacoste cabal keeps showing you its ugliest side.

The arrest of Zimbabwe Independent Faith Zaba was a new low in that regard.

Zaba was arrested last week and spent three cold nights in detention after she was charged with insulting the president following an instalment of the popular Muckracker satirical column last month.

Prosecutors said they authorities were offended by insinuations that Zimbabwe’s chairmanship of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) had helped to prove that the regional body was a mere “trade union for dictators.”

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There was also disquiet that Muckracker had reminded Zimbabweans that the regime was behind the rise of Sengezo Tshabangu, who rose from nowhere to hijack the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) led by Nelson Chamisa.

The hijacking of CCC by Tshabangu would not have succeeded without the role played by the courts and Zanu PF treasurer general Jacob Mudenda, who is also the speaker of Parliament.

After reading the column several times, I was not persuaded that it warranted the arrest of a journalist, who had just been given bed rest by a doctor because of poor health.

Besides, presidents are supposed to have thick skins because of the very offices they do everything to attain. Public officials are subjected to greater levels of public scrutiny because of their roles and satire in as an essential component of a free press.

As he returned from self-imposed exile in South Africa, Ngwena pledged to restore freedoms such as that of the media and the hard won constitutionally guaranteed rights of journalists.

Instead journalists are being arrested for having opinions about how the country is being misguided and giving a voice of Zimbabwe’s liberation war fighters to pronounce themselves on what they feel has gone wrong in a country where they sacrificed their youth to liberate.

Zaba was the second journalist from the Alpha Media Holdings stable to be arrested after Blessed Mhlanga’s 72-day-long ordeal at Harare Remand Prison.

There are many things that this regime is doing, which contradicts the promises that Ngwena made after the coup and I will need a whole week to list them down.

All I can say is those that cast aspersions on character at those interface rallies need to apologise to me because everything has come to pass.

Munopengaaaaaaaaaa

So, Ngwena on Friday admitted that zviganandas are a problem in the country that must be denounced.

He denounced the zviganandas at a meeting of Zanu PF’s national assembly in Harare.

Some bootlickers of note like Huku-winked did not waste time embracing the new slogan.

The problem, however, is that some of the zviganandas had already started embracing the title perhaps as a way of trying to demean Generari.

They were probably trying to tell him that they are untouchable and his crusade against corrupt individuals who are sucking the state of all the blood will not go anywhere.

The slogan was obviously borrowed from Generari’s fiery speeches denouncing businessmen of questionable morals, who amass wealth through illicit means.

Some of them mock us daily when ask about the sources of their wealth.

I saw some chuckling when Ngwena made the slogan, but I must warn them that a big storm is brewing. That slogan did not just come from nowhere.

As Generari said some few days ago, the day of reckoning is drawing closer and closer Kikikiiki

Munopengaaaaaaaaaaa

The events at the central committee meeting where one of the people we are told has presidential ambitions was asked to leave showed us that things are heating up in the ruining party over Ngwena’s succession.

There is clearly coalescing of coalition of the bereaved that includes the old guard who were dumped at Shake Shake building soon after the coup after years of living pampered lives at the benevolence of Gushungo.

There are all indications that Ngwena’s succession would as messy as Gushungo’s last days, if not worse.

One thing that the ruining party seems to be incapable of doing is learning from history.

Very soon those who wrongly believe that proximity to power is a license to steal from poor citizens will learn the truth the hard way. Don’t say I didn’t warn you when things begin to happen.

Munopengaaaaaaaa

Stop It!e

Dr Amai Stop it! PhD (Fake)