Who Actually Overthrew Mugabe?

History is crucial for every nation. To know its future, it must know its past. That’s where the centrality of history radiates. Today, I’ll briefly interrogate the coup that unseated Robert Mugabe. In 2017, Zimbabwe, for the second time of its choppy antiquity, evidenced what, up until now, has never gotten a scientific definition. The first one’s when disgraced Amai employed bedroom tactics to topple the Jongwe who later was finished off by the Ngwena. 

        Therefore, what transpired in Zim for the second time in 2017’s called coup d’état per se. Some call it a soft coup. Others call it a Zimbabwean thing. To others, it remains undefined and undefinable. For me though, what transpired was a coup. Neither’s it soft nor hard. It’s a coup if we agree that coup means an act or omission of pulling down of the government by mounting another on its place regardless of who’s behind or whether the fallen government was elected democratically or installed militarily. At law, Coup is unconstitutional by nature. Thus, whoever carried it out’s breaking the constitution of the land regardless of if the one booted out did or replicated the same. The difference’s that what transpired in Zim at the material time’s a civicmilitary coup that involved politicians and military. No coup can make sense without its executor, which in many cases is the junta. To know what happened in Zim when Jongwe’s booted out, even though his age had already phased him out, we need to know who took over thereafter.
        As we ponder on the coup and its beneficiary, we need to look at who controlled and benefited or benefited whom, or who did what and got what considering the following realities:
        Two dramatis personae feature high in this coup, namely the then fired Vice President Emerson Mnangagwa and the then Commander of Zimbabwe Defence Forces, Constantino Chiwenga. Before booting Mugabe out, Chiwenga used to control Mugabe, his party, and regime. That’s why he easily scythed them out though not all if we consider the fact that the Lacoste fraction outfoxed and powdered the military, Mugabe, and his wife and snatched the power thereof.

         Although Chiwenga and the military controlled Mugabe, another person did too. This was none other than the first lady who exploited the bedroom politics to try to give presidency a shot to no avail. What would she do if the old codger had already become senile over a decade before? One thing that this disgraced and greedy lady didn’t see’s the fact that nobody’s ever executed such a scheme in Africa. Did she want to become a harbinger of a bedroom coup or what? Again, with her measly education, despite being dubiously awarded a fake PhD, how could she skillfully and successfully execute such a complex scheme?
        By controlling Mugabe, his party, and regime, the army controlled everybody Zim underhandedly. If Chiwenga really controlled everything including the army to which he’s its top, how did he end up being controlled after the coup? This brings us to who actually deposed Mugabe between Mnangagwa, current boss, and his shadow aka backup, Chiwenga.  

        Naturally, in autocratic and crooked countries, politicians depend on the army to rule not vice versa. The two are like yin and yang though the latter brandish much more power than the former.  If this is the case, should we think that the duo consists of nothing but a puppet and a puppeteer? Whom depends on the mercy of who, why and for how long? Who gained and who lost in this convoluted coup? Who outsmarted whom and why?
        The questions above are crucial, especially at the moment Zims are preparing themselves for the coming general elections. Such questions must be correctly answered with the aim of freeing Zim from a kit and caboodle of hangers-on that have held it at ransom. 

        Zims need to know who toppled their government so that they can do in him or her. For, if they’d so, chances for the ongoing sanctions against it might be lifted. Zims need to execute a scheme that’ll free them including their sellouts in the upper echelons of power and the beneficiaries of the coup in question. 

        Methinks Zim needs probable, provable, and reliable persons but not coup makers. Their stint in offices hasn’t helped Zims out of the imbroglio, miseries, and manmade stinking penury. Who’d like such barracudas and washouts in the highest office of the land? Again, who benefited from the coup that saw the Jongwe being eaten by Ngwena?

Source: Zimbabwe Independent today.