Morgan finally calls them sanctions, Cdes

Dear Cabinet and
Politburo members

COMRADES, it should have come as a surprise to many of you when this week Morgan told the local and international media that sanctions must go. This time around, he called them by their real name — sanctions! He could not hide behind any syntax or superlatives.

Whether this sudden change had anything to do with the ultimatum issued by our all-powerful youth league or not, I cannot tell, but what is important is that he has finally admitted that this country is under illegal sanctions. I am told they are now called illegal Tsvangitions!
In the past it appeared like it was several much more than what his whole life was worth for Morgan to admit that this country was under an illegal regime of sanctions let alone for him to call for their removal.
Well, now that he has conceded that his masters in the West are playing havoc with the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans, we would like to see more from him…I mean more in terms of what he does and less of what he says.
I would want to believe that he did not say what he said this week out of his idiosyncratic sincere insincerity.
For now I would want to believe he said what he said because he sincerely believes it to be the truth about the situation this country finds itself in, not simply because he has been under a lot of pressure to say something.
Like I said, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, in the coming days, let’s see what he is going to do to show in a practical way that he indeed is sincere in his pronouncement.
He should not think we are little babies who can easily be lured into sleep by cheap lullabies. He should not think that by joining the “sanctions-must-go” chorus, he has earned out trust, no. We still don’t trust him.
He will have to do much more. Anyway, this is a good start. At least if all the three principals in the inclusive government are in agreement on the issue of sanctions, then we could soon be moving in some direction rather than treading water like we have been doing for months now.
And the other thing…I was so pleased that the same Morgan is now adamant that I am the only President of this country!

Let’s wait and see!

Kindest Regards

Windfall
This week Zimbos started shopping around for possible foreign and white-owned companies that they could possibly take over. This follows the coming into effect of the latest controversial law that allows the so-called indigenous blacks to bless themselves with a majority shareholding in all serious companies in the country.
Quite reverting for many is the temptation to harvest this windfall, but so far CZ’s conscience has been telling him that this is another project that borders on criminality…and CZ has not decided to be a criminal so he will continue languishing in searing poverty that has not only become part of his life, but rather life itself.
Yours truly is proud that over the past decade or so, he has succeeded in resisting temptations to join the crowds that have been wreaking havoc on the farms in the name of land reform. Hopefully, this time around he will succeed in resisting this latest temptation.
See, the indigenisation law has caused a lot of noise. There are those who genuinely believe that while issues of imbalances are genuinely worrying and criminally unjust, sometimes the methodologies we decide to employ to correct these imbalances make us all more criminal.
We tend to do these not only on knee-jerk approach, but also in a vindictive and sometimes brazenly criminal way. And in the end the otherwise whole noble idea becomes yet another graveyard of good intent.
The problem is that you no longer have a generation of people with the country at heart…everyone is just trying to make the best for himself/herself out of the situation. Our politicians are bickering, but that is all they can do. In fact, that is what all politicians are there to do. But in the private forum of their conscience, most of these politicians, their relatives and other hangers-on, given a chance, would not hesitate to take advantage of the same law they are publicly excoriating to fatten their back pockets.
It is all human. Of all things that any human being hanker for…man at least — there are three that are top most. Wealth, power and sex. The greatest fear any man would have on this earth is that the next person could be getting more of the three than him. So any means to amass jaw-dropping riches is most welcome. No matter how diabolical.
What conscience does the politicians who kill to be a village ward councillor have when there is a chance for him/her to get rich overnight by seizing shares in a white-owned firm? The same businessman/businesswoman who sleeps with own daughters/sons because a witchdoctor tells him/her that is the sure way to get riches?
Well, lets us all wait and see.
Laughable
This world never really run short of stuff to keep people laughing their lungs out. South African President Jacob Zuma, the good facilitator in our never ending talks, has just announced that he is setting up a commission that would come up with a moral guide for South Africa. Yes, Zuma of all people on this earth actually has time off his mischief to lose sleep over issues to do with morality. He worries that the moral fibre that makes South Africans a dignified people is fast wearing off so he is getting this special task force to fix it. Naturally one of the codes that should come out of this presidential effort will have something to do with people minding their own business!
Inclusive ZUJ
The troubled Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) at the weekend held another sham poll in Bulawayo in which the same dubious characters who purportedly won the elections last time emerged winners.
That means the battle for the control of the journo body is far from over. The reason is that the outgoing executive had personalised the union and simply letting go is as hard as handing over one’s manhood. They would rather die and get buried together with the union rather than handing it over. The outgoing ZUJ executive has over the years been using the power of incumbency to manipulate a number of things just to make sure that they retain total control of the union. All these people who are reportedly winning and re-winning elections are merely stooges…all journos know where the real power is reposed.
But the good thing is that there are fellow journos who are more than determined to challenge this scheme of things. As we speak, court papers are already being put in order!
The only solution to this ZUJ tug of war is a GNU…an inclusive arrangement of some sort modelled along our bloated inclusive national government…there would be a president and 10 vice presidents…one for each province, a secretary-general with a dozen or so deputies, a treasurers with half-a-dozen or so assistants. Then there would be lots of committees, so that in the end every journo who would like a post will not get one, but two or three.
They will have to share power, because as long as they are disgruntled members out there, court battles will rage on ad infinitum!
Hot?
A CZ fan says the so-called police hotlines, the emergency numbers on which one can call police in case of emergency are never answered, and in rare cases when they are answered, the police do nothing at all to help. He wonders if the lines are hot — literally — that no one can pick the handset up? This is Zimbabwe!