PRESIDENT IN MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING IN BINDURA

By Robson Chere, RTUZ Secretary General

President Mugabe addressed a night rally in Bindura in what turned out to be just a dump squib.
What the nation had hoped to be a platform for the beleagured President to address the angry and hungry citizens on the deepening economic and political crisis, turned out to be nothing but a no show.
President Mugabe did all but failed to acknowledge, what is now a public secret, that his regime has failed and is now faced by a only one choice. The choice being to resign and give Zimbabwe a chance.
The following are the 3 issues which are imperative after the Bindura failed rally.
1. ZANU PF is burning
The first imperative is that ZANU PF is at war with itself with the factional spurrings spilling into the church. At the centre of the drama is the church led by a ZANU PF apologist one Wimbo who is a brother to Police Commisioner Chihuri.
The factional wars erapted violently in the church leaving a trail of bloody assaults and deep divisions in the dying party structures in Mashonaland West.
So it is clear that ZANU PF factional fights are burning on with no end in sight. The result being paralysis of government and heightening corruption as elites loot the economy empty.
2. Mugabe’s government has no economic plan
Once again President Mugabe proved beyond any doubt that his government neither has the competence nor commitment to rescue the country from total collapse.
He did not mention how his government will address the deeping economic crisis amid widespread lack of confidence in his government.
Clearly the so called ZimAsset and the 10 Point Plan have been forgotten and proved that they are redherrings.
3. Mugabe is still in denial
One of the shocking explanations by Mugabe on his government’s failure to pay its workers is that the country is under sanctions. That 16 years post the land reform programme, Mugabe is still shamelessly parroting the tired gospel of sanctions is an indictment on him.
He is blind to the failure of his government to be good stewards over the economy. He is blind to the brazen corruption by his family and minions in ZANU PF.
Clearly Mugabe has learnt nothing and forgot everything which he has done to Zimbabweans.
Surely to blame workers who strike because of none payment of their salaries on their “lack of understand of the hardships of colonialism” is an insult in the most vulgar sense.
Mugabe has failed and is afraid of responsibility.
In the final analysis, the Bindura rally shows that Mugabe has misread the national mood. It has not dawned to him that the nation is bitter and angry at how he has ruined their lives. Indeed him having a rally at night is symbolic to the fact that he is ashamed to face the nation in broad day light. What he however must know is that people now know their power and the sooner he steps aside, the better for him. Anger is swelling and the day of the jackal is coming!!