By Ndaba Nhuku| I honestly don’t get President Mnangagwa’s idea. But there is a bit of cleverness there.
Why did he choose to lead two cabinets? A clever move to dodge outright responsibility for his party or govt by playing with hem against each other? The problem is that he, Mnangagwa is the head of both cabinets, the Zanu and govt. The bucks will always stop with him.
What l don’t get is why make his ancient Zanu colleagues be Supreme and supervisors of the govt cabinet? For what reason? Then why appoint the state cabinet at all? Mnangagwa is as cunning as they are in Zanu. He wanted to shut up all the EDiots and folks out there complaining about old and corrupt cabinet members. On the other hand he needs their loyalty and doesn’t want them loose out there criticising him. He has too keep them under his eyes by “promoting” them into a party cabinet. Was this a clever move? For him and the party, Yes. Noone is angry to join Prof Moyo to be seen criticising Mnangagwa’s clueless administration of new faces. He kills two birds with one stroke of a pen! But then do his two cabinets serve the nation? No!!
The state cabinet is made of people who have no power or influence in the party. Whatever they can decide on can be shit down by the party cabinet. We saw this when Prof Mthuli Ncube introduced his very unpopular 2% taxation. SK Moyo said the party was not consulted. Mnangagwa tried to be forceful, and soonnafter sent his guys to China to study for knows what! Maybe the idea was that by the time the old tgeezers return home Ncube would have stabilised the runaway inflation. It’s not happening and noone is happy with the 2%. The inflation is going up daily.
So the two cabinets system is not helping anyone but silencing disgruntled oold timers who lost their cabinet positions. On the other hand the new govt ministers always ha e to look over their shoulders to see if their party bosses are happy with whatever proposals they may have. This is not workable at all. The govt is not confident and can’t perform. The charade is seen by Prof Mthuli Ncube appointing Acie Lumumba and others to a useless and unnecessary Taskforce. That is a gang of people outside govt structures merely representative of the party on the ministry. What for? Can’t the ministry employees do their work without party rivals? Why create cabinet rivals in the party and now within departments? President Mnangagwa is unnecessarily undermining his own govt with useless political appeasement positions.