The Sunday Mail
Rangu Nyamurundira
They are her own words, Joice “Teurai Ropa” Mujuru, that she is now the runt in the opposition litter. She declared, “The MDC and Zimbabwe People First are like puppies in the same litter, but which take different days to start seeing. The MDC was the first to see Mugabe’s problem, so you cannot accuse me of having failed to realise them when the MDC did.”
My grandfather, rest his departed soul, in his tall tales by the fire, told of pup eyes that were capable of seeing witches at night. Joice, with such delusional pup eyes, begins to see apparitions that have long caused her new MDC litter to howl at the clear moon, haunted only by their treasonous intent against their nation’s economic revolution.
Once upon a time an inspiration to women, the youngest Cabinet minister and hand-held to the heights of Vice-President; now a pup, wagging tail to Tsvangirai’s patting hand as she suckles from a political tit whose DNA is far divorced from the revolution that birthed her.
The chickens have come home to roost in Dotito, and the cockerel crows thrice at Runaida Mugari’s confessions that her liberation struggle credentials are found wanting by the economic revolution of post-political independence Zimbabwe.
The patriots of Dotito surely say “shame, very sorry”.
Joice Mujuru is a sad reality of a comrade entrapped by glitter dangled by the very colonising white and foreign capital she once fought gallantly against.
Orphaned by herself from the revolution, she now feeds off white capital’s breast that has nourished opposition hounds set upon the revolution.
Tsvangirai welcomed Joice, boasting that his MDC shares many beliefs with her ZPF, including respect for property rights.
Let us not be fooled here; those shared beliefs did not manifest overnight.
Morgan Tsvangirai went on to declare, “Its not by accident that the MDC and ZPF are here together.”
Those shared beliefs took root while Joice was in Zanu-PF, was VP.
Joice, the VP who benefited from land reform, now opens her pup eyes to “respect” property rights ill-gotten by white capital and guarded by its black anti-revolution pups.
Joice should act upon her new beliefs and return Alamein Farm to appease the new litter she runs with.
And the benefits of the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Programme?
Will Teurai Ropa give back the amassed 10 percent “quotas” to the people she now claims come first, for their broad-based economic empowerment?
We dare you – give up the fruits of a revolution your bedmates vilify.
Meanwhile, we are indeed enlightened on the internal “Bhora Musango” campaign that almost hounded Zanu-PF from Government in 2008, and the subsequent bid to scupper the 2013 elections to deny that resounding endorsement which restored the people’s revolutionary Government.
Makes sense now, that Joice was the lingering shadow cast upon Zanu-PF’s economic revolution, a right hand woman drunk on power-mongering and with no ideological substance to drive the revolution forward.
Instead, she secretly rendezvoused, charmed by the Western capital bitch and her fattened litter of anti-revolutionary pups.
Shame Joice.
Zanu-PF is right in cleansing the revolution of tainted ideologies within.
The likes of Teurai Ropa have lost themselves from the revolutionary path, drawn astray by the trappings of white capital comforts.
Comrades, the revolution is its own persona, a living force that will self-renew to survive.
President Mugabe spoke of such a revolution at the 24th Session of the Junior Parliament when he said he looks behind him wanting to see “bold, courageous” young men and women, “disciplined”.
The revolution is a living enterprise that will recapitalise and invest in new champions for its cause.
They are out there; Zimbabwe Champions and Heroes for the Economic Empowerment Revolution, quietly and diligently serving the revolution, patiently waiting for it to call upon them.
On International Youth Day, Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Minister Patrick Zhuwao launched ZimCHEER, to recognise Zimbabweans who are at the economic revolution front, from where the likes of Mujuru and Mahiya have gone AWOL.
The first ZimCHEER officially celebrated on August 18, 2016 is Dr Simba Makuni, who at 29 years old in 2013, co-founded Belvedere Medical Centre following additional capital from the Government’s empowerment programme facilitated through Stanbic Bank’s youth fund.
Three years later on August 18, 2016, in the month of our heroes, Dr Makuni answered his country’s economic call when his BMC signed an agreement with an Indian hospital to bring in international standard medical care facilities that Zimbabweans have sought in long travels to India and whose cost only contributes to our country’s negative balance of payments.
Thirty-three year old Dr Makuni’s vision, complemented by Zimbabwe’s lovely climate and peaceful environment conducive for a patient seeking healing, is to have Zimbabwe become a regional and continental medical tourism destination.
The economic revolution stubbornly lives on comrades, and will not be put out.
It only requires new coal to kindle and light up post-independence Zimbabwe upon an economic revolution path.
- Rangu Nyamurundira is a lawyer and advocate for Zimbabwe’s indigenisation and economic empowerment programme.
