EDITORIAL COMMENT: The caravan waits for no barking dogs

08 Mar, 2015 - 00:03 0 Views

The Sunday Mail

The agenda is clear as day, and the lunatic fringe — which is often referred to as the private media — is in overdrive to foist it down the throats of Zimbabweans who would rather be focusing on matters of substance.

Over the past few months, the lunatic fringe has gone from claiming that Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa is President Mugabe’s “anointed” successor, to very unconvincingly saying First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe will succeed her husband.

Just recently, the lunatic fringe was saying VP Mnangagwa and the First Lady were allies.

Now they say the two are somehow fighting tooth and nail to take over the country.

The hallucinations do not end there.

At the same time, the private media is battling mightily and futilely to prop up the image of a certain Didymus Mutasa in obvious preparation to packaging him and his fellow disgraced putschists as an alternative to Zanu-PF come 2018.

They know Morgan Tsvangirai is a non-factor in that election following his thorough drubbing in 2013, and they think compounding his weaknesses with those of Mutasa and company will create something strong enough to dislodge Zanu-PF and pave the way for a neo-liberalism that will undo indigenisation and economic empowerment as wished for by their Western puppet masters.

What they do not see is that in politics, unlike in mathematics, the addition of two negatives does not result in a positive: it inevitably leads to greater weaknesses.

No sleepless nights will be spent worrying about such a comical alliance.

So, on the one hand the lunatic fringe wants to drive wedges in Zanu-PF by imagining now non-existent internal succession battles; while on the other hand it is trying to create a grand coalition of weak nobodies to challenge Zanu-PF in the 2018 elections.

While they are indulging in such never-never scenarios, the rest of the country is focusing on the economy.

Everyone knows that the best way to win an election is not to have the support of the lunatic fringe, but rather to work hard in between elections to serve the people and to ensure that their needs are met.

Government has already shown that it is more concerned with livelihoods than it is with the wet dreams of the lunatic fringe by focusing its attention on the economy.

Just the other day in Parliament, Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa was telling the nation that Government has already entered into investment agreements worth US$1,6 billion with its international partners.

These include a deal valued at over US$500 million for expansion of generating capacity at Kariba Hydro Power Station, more than US$100 million for water infrastructure and another US$100 million each for medical and farming equipment.

Energy, water, health and food: these are things close to people’s hearts and these are the things we expect Government to remain seized with.

And more deals within the scope of energy, food security, water, healthcare, education, transport, communications and mining are in the offing even as those who would rather see Zimbabwe fail flounder in search of doomsday scenarios for the popularly-elected Government of President Mugabe.

It is such prioritisation of the needs of the citizenry that have been and will always be the legacy of President Mugabe and his Government, and no amount of bleating about non-issues by the lunatic fringe will sway our heads as a nation.

As the saying goes, the dogs keep barking but the caravan goes on.

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