Doing a Mujuru on Mnangagwa impracticable | By: Farai Mamina

Albeit my repugnance of pronouncing informed acuity on asinine politics,
I thought of reducing to bare bones one matter that seems to be unprovided in the faculties of some recently enrolled University of Zimbabwe adult law students. On a continuous rating scale of 1 to 10, the supposedly guileful cluster being referred to as Generation 40 within the unkempt Zanu-PF is 9,5 over 10 forlornly peripatetic regarding the fate of Mnangagwa. Even Robert Mugabe himself knows that inexorable factual veracity. Here we are talking of the architectural enterprise engineer of all Mugabe’s grittiest election survival strategies since 2002. This is the calculative man who does not comment even when the homilies hokum gets too loud and none would know what is at the back of his mind. Even the universe has a tendency to harshly sympathise with him when others desperately seeking the limelight begin to question whether he really is a “crocodile” or just but an “ambitious lizard”.
It would be an uninteresting burlesque to ever imagine the practicability of a Mujuru on Mnangagwa, lest somebody needs some rapid experience reminiscent of some historical event realities – both far and near. Unknown to the G40 assemblage of political minors plus one seasoned turncoat, Robert Mugabe understands Mnangagwa far better. Henceforward, trying hard to delude Mugabe into acquiescence against Mnangagwa is just but another foolish subterfuge that will trolley no political flight this time around, especially with the octogenarian having enigmatically realised how he was foxed over Mujuru. Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri admitted that they played out a Tingoringo (now you see me now you don’t) kind of game on Mujuru just so she could not get an opportunity to ascend. That Muchinguri-Kashiri’s admittance did not bode well with the President but instead helped him read into the toxic machinations of the G40 fungi requires no scientific number crunching. When Jabulani Sibanda was given the boot for having articulated that a bedroom coup was imminent, Mugabe refuted the allegation and the President has not forgotten the psychological contract he created with the masses then. Contrary to G40’s reported ambitions, Mugabe will likely utilise this conference to put them in their places.
Moreover, I haven’t known of any politicians who successfully assumed the presidency through foul-mouth anywhere in the world. Such level of tongue twisting is the kind that is costing one of the richest men in the world America’s endorsement as Republican presidential candidate. Donald Trump can tell you the full narrative. Having said this, it becomes untenable for Grace Mugabe to just get it on a silver plate in a party with better qualified politicians and level-headed academics. Even though it is a given that the Zimbabwean political space might now be filled with paranoid belly-politicians, a combination of these people’s last sensory nerves still functioning will make them no want to accept such a scenario. In the event of it trending, I foresee many of these so called young Turks opting out of politics in Zimbabwe rather than celebrating their so far self-propelled imaginary victory. With the party already imploding, Mugabe would be the last person to give in to any manoeuvre that is going to hurt the party further. Even if he wanted to step aside, for this particular reason, he would rather remain in office till the end of his natural life whereof the next leader would have to inadvertently emerge through an election which I wouldn’t see madam Grace winning.
Therefore, to ever think that the Victoria Falls December 2015 conference is going to debase Mnangagwa is equivalent to hallucinating that someone is going to jezebelically arise during the conference and shout “Mugabe must go”. It is an untruthful charismatic visualisation of the actual image of 3rd Heaven never seen before. Mnangagwa is a Zanu PF powerhouse reality that the G40 must just get used to and accept his seniority in not only age and tact but also political intellect. There is just no way Mugabe would forget how Mnangagwa has over the years propped up his permanent residence at the helm, especially when others had repeatedly thrown in the towel. Because of the incalculable respect for Mnangagwa that Mugabe has, any billed proposition for a woman representative in the presidium will either be outrightly rejected by the party’s godfather or conveniently accepted at the demise of Mpoko’s position. In spite of the pain of losing a daughter, and burying her without a heart – on the backdrop of having lampooned the Dzamara family – I am sure even Jonathan Moyo now has a better understanding of the crocodile he dared perceive as an ambitious lizard.
Plausible information has it many insiders are saying they would rather engineer the vote in Tsvangirai and/or Mujuru’s favour if it’s not Mnangagwa or Mugabe himself representing Zanu PF in the next election. It would be anyone’s guess their argument is that at least Mnangagwa is now talking well informed on the subject of economic reconstruction as opposed to the G40 which is still insatiably preoccupied with suspensions of those not sympathetic to their political plight. In all honesty, I think that line of argument is strategically valid. The hankering with which Zhuwawo is so untiring to prove his indigenisation point is a two-bladed knife tantamount to double slicing of any remaining confidence in prospective foreign investors. Such injudicious vehemence makes it even more impracticable for any jerking in the face of a seasoned veteran in the mould of Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa. In any patriotic case, any junior party screwball that chooses not to recognise and respect the chain of seniority command can easily be mused as a traitorous rebel.