By Jealousy Mawarire
VP Chiwenga drew the Zanu-PF Conference delegates to the emotional connection between the sacrificies of the liberation war heroes and the realities of the lived Zimbabwean life today. He reminds the people that the wartime sacrifices were meant to build a Zimbabwe for all failure of which, like what was happening pre-November 2017, there would be need to change republics.
He rhetorically asked delegates whether we haven’t gone back to the pre-November 2017 era, where criminals were surrounding the President.
He retorted, “Chii chakaita kuti second republic ivepo? Kwaive kugadzirisa zvakaipa zvanga zvichiitika kumashure. Hatisi takudzokorora here zvatakambotadza? Ndomubvunzo watofanira kuzvibvunza.” Loosely translated, he said ( What brought about the Second Republic? It was a bid to arrest the rot that was happening but the question now is, are we not repeating the same ills? That’s the question we should ask ourselves)
VP Chiwenga further urged Zanu-PF leadership to ask itself what he calls “brutal questions, which entail interrogating conference resolutions to ascertain whether they’re truly coming from the PEOPLE.
Clearly, VP Chiwenga was convinced that we now have criminals running the state, the same accusations that were labeled on President Mugabe which prompted the military intervention in Nov 2017.
The question now is, if we are back to where we were pre-Novomber 2017, what needs to be done?
Has Chiwenga thrown down the gauntlet? Is he about to throw in the kitchen sink?
We might not have answers but what is clear is that there is palpable disharmony in Zanu-PF and very soon, something will give
