Dear Sirs, I know as you do. You’re now busy crisscrossing Zim chasing votes so that you can either get or keep your yummy orts. Allow me to humbly address you as follows:
@ President Emmerson Mnangagwa, please smell the coffee. Is anything different and new you can do for Zim that you failed to do since: a) you’re in Bob’s government? b) since you became President after toppling your comrade-cum-mentor, have you ever evaluated yourself to see if you’ve delivered or not? c) If there’s, can you mention it? d) Has the situation changed since you forcefully and illegally took the helm? e) What do Zims say about your government, especially on jumbo scandals and nepotism that are obvious even before the ears and eyes of birds, insects, and trees? f) Do you still have doable programs, energy, mojo, and sanity to keep on lord it over Zimbabwe really? g) What’s constructively and positively you’ve done since you and the army took power?
@ Chamisa, I’d like you and all Zims to know. In Bantu’s and African cultures generally, a young person can’t see a senior with a load and let him or her pass without helping him/her. Failure to help a senior isn’t only a curse and lack of respect but a big problem for a junior and the society at large. When I look at your age, at 45 years old, if Mnangagwa got married at 18, his first child would be 62 and if that child got married at 18, his or her child, who in this sense, is a grandchild of Mnangagwa would be 44. What does this say? The man you’re tussling with is but your grandpa that you’re duty-bound to help to carry whatever load he’s carrying. Based on your age, you need to tell Zim voters to help you help your grandpa, who also is for many young people of the age of majority, thus voters shall they know the importance of their votes and the power they retain in this game of number.
Knowing how ever demanding and over demanding presidency’s, especially paperwork and traversing the country to see how things go, at 80 years old, your opponent doesn’t have what it takes to deliver or effectively function as a top admin factotum? If you think this is a farfetched hypothesis, remind yourself of a shrewd Jongwe whose senility turned him into a patsy and thereby making it easy for toppling or creating lures for his memsaab and her grovellers to misuse and attempt to grab power even though the latter backfired and flopped.
If we go by what transpired in what I love to call bedroom politics and privileges, don’t you see that if you or voters refuse to help your grandpa to carry the load can replicate Grace’s disgrace? How many Zimbabweans view this looming danger as such? Why don’t people want to face the reality that aging’s unstoppably a winner? I know you’re still a tot when in the neighbouring Malawi Hastings Kamuzu Banda met the same limbo and was unseated easily like Bob and forced to retirement that brought about positive changes in Malawi. In Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda’s forced to retire through the ballot box at the age of 67. Nevertheless, uBaba Nelson Mandela (South Africa) read the signs of the time and vacated soon he realised his age wouldn’t allow him to carry on presidential duties. In Tanzania, Julius Nyerere voluntarily vacated at the age of 63. In the Gambia, Dawda Jawara's sent packing peacefully in a bloodless coup when he’s just 70. Like in Zimbabwe, Siaka Stevens (Sierra Leone) was retired after he became senile at Mnangagwa’s age of 80. Furthermore, Abdoulaye Wade (Senegal), in his eighties, was shown the door democratically.
Dear esteemed gentlemen, what I hypothesize isn’t new. I insist. Instead of employing illicit means of retiring our seniors in upper echelons of power, let’s opt for civilised means, the ballot box. Doing so, firstly, helps our seniors to retire and go home to play with their grandchildren and reconnect with agemates and neighbours. Secondly, we fulfil the ethos of African civilisation and cultures of helping them to carry such heavy burdens that torture them. Thirdly, we bring about positive changes and set precedents for others to follow or reference. Fourthly, we respect our human nature vis-à-vis aging. Fifthly, we obviate our taxpayers a burden and undue expenses of looking after do-nothing, senile, and vile potentates. Sixthly, we help their families to get an opportunity of caring for and enjoying them.
In a nutshell, Chamisa's a sacred onus to help Mnangagwa by taking the load from his weak shoulders whereas the latter’s the duty to handover the load. More importantly, voters have a sacred duty of helping the two and the country peacefully, which’s obvious the rightest thing to do for all. I thank you both and all.
Source: Indepedent Zimbabwe.
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