The Sunday Mail
The Soothsayer
| Last week I was taken aback, far away to the dark ages of politics when charlatans seemed unashamed of turning coat even as the sun shone brightly at noon, singeing their goatee beards. |
Images of Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas flashed across my eyes as I, indignantly so, watched Zimbabwe’s former Ambassador to Mozambique, Agrippa Mutambara, sell his soul to baphomet.
The good Ambassador was on CNN.
The setting of the interview was just right — a field of what appeared to be wheat, one of Africa’s staples.
It was an idealistic African setting, one that would have us believe the narrative thus prepared was from the heart of the Mother Land.
I have no qualms about where the footage was reeled.
CNN could have taken Mutambara to Mars or Jupiter for all I care.
What I have issue with, though, is Africans offering themselves to be puppets for the pleasure of some ventriloquist perched in an opulent tower somewhere in the West.
It is the same kind of rare “rheumatism” that has caught up with “The Group of Elders” who now exhibit the ailment’s prime symptom of bending their backs at the crack of the master’s whip.
Not too long ago, Ambassador Mutambara was a man of great standing, one imbued with authority to project an entire nation’s foreign policy and image outside our borders.
His mandate was defending and guaranteeing Zimbabwe’s position in the comity of nations.
He has even written a book or two narrating the Rhodesian horrors that visited his fellow countrymen during the liberation struggle.
But here he was on CNN, disparaging the same flag he once hoisted ever so proudly and gustily.
He unwittingly came across as a puny character with a conscience seared by an unrelenting pressure of wanting Mugabe and Zanu-PF out of power.
The news clip had the tag to the effect of “pressure mounting on Mugabe”, and boy oh boy, did our dear brother desperately try to toe the line.
A diplomat by training, he ought to know that we all become ambassadors of our country or kingdom when we are on the global stage.
Yes, families encounter the odd disagreement here and there.
But you don’t go around attempting to destroy your family and even the house you live in whenever you disagree with your siblings.
Soliciting help from or supping with known enemies of the family won’t help matters either.
It will only destroy both you and your family.
The West has long preferred regime change in Zimbabwe following land reforms that it does not want replicated elsewhere in the developing world.
It is no coincidence that they approached “a former diplomat” (as the CNN put it) to pick his mind on the economic situation in Zimbabwe, moreso on the eve of the United Nations General Assembly.
The objective is well beyond Mugabe and his party. It is about ruling Zimbabwe through proxies. It is about accessing Zimbabwe’s grand mineral wealth and beating the East to African commerce.
I should not even be mentioning this.
The Ambassador should be well aware of it given his experiences in the Foreign Service and liberation war.
Why then is he dancing with the wolves?
Does he not know that he, too, will be devoured once the next stage of the Western agenda kicks in.
He should ask the Libyan “rebels”, the darlings of the West for only but a moment, whether Britain, France and the US wanted to empower them or loot their oil.
Discerning Africans, especially those who experienced colonialism, know what imperialists want.
Let’s not evolve backwards, first imbibing knowledge and then embracing naivety.
Evolutionists say the zinjathropus preceded the homo sapien.
I’m sure they are querying why some in our midst seem to be evolving backwards.
