Emmerson Mnangagwa: An Angel of Poverty
In
his arguably the most philosophical novel titled Ninety Eight-Four, Eric Arthur Blair (popularly known as George
Orwell) affirms that for those at the top position of power to fall for the
rise of those who are in-between the top and the
middle ground, the support of
the lower class is inevitable. Without doubt such was believed to be the case
in Zimbabwe when the military pushed Robert Mugabe out of presidential office
in November 2017. To the populace, Mugabe who was then 93 years as the world’s
oldest head of state and his wife, Grace Mugabe (as called Grace Gucci because
of her patronage of the brand) were seen as the only fellows at the top of
power. His former vice president, Emmerson
Mnangagwa, and top military officers with whom Mugabe had ran the former
British colony were coloured as parts of the people.
In Harare, Bulawayo, Mutare, Kwekwe and other cities, the celebrations were exceptionally huge and the euphoria lasted for days. It was as if Zimbabwe had been made the Garden of Eden – a place where everyone would eat and has equal share of the nation’s resources without working. In fact, more than half of the entire population in Zimbabwe thought the exit of Mugabe was a movie.
On YouTube,
contents of uploaded videos showed joy and smiles of hope on faces of the
people. But in less than 12 months, the people felt the pang of Emmerson Mnangagwa (also called Crocodile).
At that point, those who had assumed that the military and Mr. Mnangagwa are
representatives of the people became disillusioned. As prices of goods and
services in the country tripled, protests and violence are now the platforms of
expression. The main opposition candidate of the Movement for Democratic Change
(MDC), Nelson Chamisa, who allegedly claimed his mandate was rigged and denied
by the aristocrats, spoke to the people. In fact, he recently declared that “Mnangagwa
is not God.” If the Crocodile in
Zimbabwe is not God, who is God?
To
some political analysts, if Nelson Chamisa were to be declared the winner of
the 2018 presidential election, he would certainly achieve positive economic
growth in Zimbabwe.
Could such speculation become a reality? Probably, his
administration would have turned the presently existing angel of poverty to a
myth. And the people of Zimbabwe would be freed from the reign of another
Robert Mugabe with a different identity.
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Emmerson Mnangagwa,
President of Zimbabwe
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In Harare, Bulawayo, Mutare, Kwekwe and other cities, the celebrations were exceptionally huge and the euphoria lasted for days. It was as if Zimbabwe had been made the Garden of Eden – a place where everyone would eat and has equal share of the nation’s resources without working. In fact, more than half of the entire population in Zimbabwe thought the exit of Mugabe was a movie.
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Zimbabweans celebrate outside the parliament in Harare
after hearing the news that Mugabe has resigned
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| Nelson Chamisa |
Innovationists
do claim that “one thing that is constant in life is change.” In politics,
especially in Africa, such changes do occur but predecessors are always
realized to be better than successors. This brings a quotation from a movie of
Jackie Chan titled The Foreigner into
relevance. Politics and
terrorism are two sides of a snake; whichever side you touch, you would touch a
snake. In Nigeria, what Buhari established since 2015 and remains in
office to fertilize is such a change. A change that kills the masses and
promotes the treasury of his cronies with extremely
publicize propaganda of
fight his self-created ghost called corruption.
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| Inflation Data in Zimbabwe |
Trusting
a politician is coterminous to giving one’s soul to the devil. There is only
one way for such to end. Liberia, with George Weah in power, is now on a slope
like Nigeria and Zimbabwe.
Akinlolú-Prime
Samuelo
writing…
I couldn't agree more, sir!
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