Jacob Mafume | Vampireland –YOU know it’s a bad day in vampireland when vampires drink their own Blood .
It should have dawned to all in ZANU that Robert Mugabe is guilty of worse crimes than those that Ndabaningi Sithole was accused of committing during the liberation struggle. Mugabe has destroyed the histories of those on whose shoulders he stood to get into power. The birthday of his wife is more celebrated than the deaths of the men that paid the ultimate sacrifice to liberate this country . Who remembers Nikita Mangena , what institution is named after Lookout Masuku? Tongogara ‘s name is now only found in Zim Hip hop artist mouths, Edison Zvobgo is but a distant memory. Hebert Chitepo is but a road in the potholed streets of Harare. Edgar Tekere is just a faint whisper in the wind. Solomon Mujuru’s widow is a tormented soul. Worse still the army cannot celebrate its shining sons for fear of being labeled treasonous , why the military staff college is still the staff college not SOLOMON MUJURU COLLEGE as if the naming Gods have deserted the country . I can bet a lot of dollars that some of the new soldiers do not even know that Zvinavashe once led the army rising from the dusty soils of Gutu .Had he not built a primary school he would long be forgotten.
A historian of some sort George Charamba,who at least is making an attempt to read for his doctorate has been reduced to chronicling some obscure missionary and portuguese figures in our colonial history for fear of stepping on contemporary historical toes. One feels for Charamba an intellectual of sort having to sit and listen to the drivel spewed by a first lady drunk on power steroids;listen to the reckless rantings of the likes of Mahoka , Chimene who have joined the ranks of the street Woman in Chief ,Grace. The lesson in all this my dear sons is that be careful whom you marry ,a story that will be told for ages about one Gabriel with pretences of being an angel but who went and married the devil’s concubine. In no time the mistress of hell had brought her sisters along into the corridors of power and with them a colourful assortment of gentlemen with confused leanings.
A once brutal revolutionary party has been turned into a comedy of sorts whose meetings were once puncuated with soaring pan African and socialist rhetoric.
Has new main speech makers (the skills of speech writing by the likes of Charamba and ilk are no longer needed) . Now you have a Mandi, speaking with the force of the best grade dagga ,presidential mbanje .You have a Mahoka , the mother of all bleachers , shining example of ZANU womanhood complete with brothel lingo insulting the vice-president . It’s a Shakespearean tragi-comic ,we can’t tell whether our tears are of laughter or sorrow bitter sorrow . Mark my words, in a few months time Roman Orgies will be common place in state-house.
For now the vampires drink the blood of their own before turning to other carnal pleasures . The dead heroes it would appear were or are luckier .The living ones are the laughing stock of the nation , who will respect the Croc when well known harlots are given a free reign to insult him .The biggest non surprise is that Mugabe expects him to answer the rumour mongering , the slander , market place gossip which he calls allegations. The judge of which is a rented mob of ragtag individuals , a mortley crew of the worst in Zimbabwean society.
The army which we will celebrate in a few days was mortally insulted by the ungracious one ,we are told they cant even shoot even if they wanted . In other societies such accusation by a first lady or anybody would have had a retired general at the least speaking and correcting the slander , but ours, no! Tails between the legs .They surface now to threaten unarmed citizens ah well we shall laugh soon as they are kicked out by war deserters and intelligence drivers ? Or maybe somewhere beneath their lofty stomachs and fleshy folds they shall find their balls? Now the war vets allow their own Douglas Mahiya to be hauled before the courts with the Croc distancing himself , and the rest of the gang in tour.
WHO IS THE FOOL NOW CHARAMBA having defined preserving Mugabe as the key National Security priority at all costs only for him to view establishment as a threat to his family inheritance . Oh how myopic it was not to allow Morgan to get his victory and negotiate a settlement with him to preserve the gains of the liberation struggle . Now he has been captured and captured by the worst sort . Having defeated the colonial regime by sheer sacrifice and cunning , you read history Nathiel Manheru . How would it read if you were to be defeated by Mahoka , Mandi , Jonathan and Saviour without a bullet fired but a few meetings at ZANU head quarters. Had we known that it was this easy?We wonder .Now Kekereke is in jail , Tomana is following , Mahiya is before the courts the sins are many and we are sure the list is long .Do we have long before Mnangagwa’s sins are paraded in the public eye before Chiwenga’s despite the name are duly brought about ?The fellows are ruthless in method defining the legacy of the war veterans as one long criminal enterprise and the heroic acts simply fraudulent statements .The only correct history is that of Mugabe and that driven and validated by the spirits as Bishop Lazaraus would have us believe and not man .
The solution is very simple ZANU and the WAR VETERANS made him a god , you must remind him he is human . We all can see that he is human except you , did he not get old , did he not fall , did he not marry badly ?Surely you must learn from the Romans of old who would move behind the emperor whispering in his ear “remember you are human” .Its not too late to retrace you steps to the people . We know you know freedom ,you once fought for it . Come to the people and fight for them and not against them , you will realize how few Mugabe is , How small in stature and in deed he is . The time is now for if you delay ,like SHAKA’S mother ,his will not be a lonely grave .These vampires are thirsty having not fought a war they seek blood and whose blood is sweeter that that of those that have drank it before . We see them circling above your heads like demented vultures . Your silence in the face of taunts is useless , profession of innocence will not help , distancing yourself from comrades will be hollow . It simply marks you out as cowards cowering before the mighty force of Jonathan and Saviour . Has Mahoka withdrawn her statements , has jonathan his,