As a Bible scholar, I understand the role of grace in our
lives. In simple terms, grace is umerited favour or assistance.
Ever since the attainment of Independence in 1980, Zimbabwe
has precariously and perrenially lurched from one crisis to another. However,
in this era, Zimbabwe is grappling with a plethora of multi-pronged challenges.
It is certainly a defining moment.
Zimbabwe’s challenges at a glance
Zimbabwe’s unprecedented economic doldrums are an apt
accentuation of ZANU PF’s leadership failure and profligacy. All economic
indicators point towards a state that is on a life support system.
After introducing a useless pseudo currency in November
last year, Mugabe’s mafia government has virtually failed to contain the
economic catastrophe they created. Cash shortages remain prevalent. The state
spends 97% of its income on wages. Company closures have become the order of
the day and the industrial utilisation capacity is bellow 15%.
Poverty levels in Zimbabwe are alarming. The unemployment
rate is above 95% and 96% of villagers across the country live on less than one
dollar a day. 72% of the population live below the nation’s poverty line.
Zimbabwe imports 80% of its food needs because of a hapharzard land reform
programme which was presided over by Mugabe. About 5 million Zimbabweans are in
need of food aid. It is estimated that over a million of kids go to school
hungry.
Zimbabwe’s life expectancy, 46 for men and 45 for women, is
one of the lowest in the world. Social service delivery has become a thing of
the past. Thousands are dying daily of curable diseases of a bygone era such as
typhoid.
Statistically, Zimbabwe is classified as a little better
than a war zone. In reality, Zimbabwe belongs to the Highly Impoverished Poor
Country(HIPC) status. All key performance indicators of an economy in
regression are flashing red.
On top of all that, Zimbabwe is crippled with a serious
leadership deficiency crisis. In fact, the threshold of Zimbabwe’s problems is
not nature but leadership failure. At the epicenter of this leadership crisis
is the name and frail image of Robert Mugabe. Undoubtedly now in his natural
and political twilight, Mugabe has lost his marbles and efficacy. Therein lies
the formula to the leadership crisis bedeveling Zimbabwe.
Why Zimbabwe needs Grace
Despite the afromentioned stark vicissitudes, Zimbabwe has
surprisingly managed to glide through and weather some stubborn storms. Robert
Mugabe has denied Zimbabwe a chance to rebirth and progress by clinging onto to
power well past his sell by date.
This leads me to safely conclude that indeed Zimbabwe needs
grace. I am not talking about God’s grace but our own special class kind of
grace in the form of first lady, Grace Mugabe.
She is an answered prayer.
Grace Mugabe strikes me as some sort of unmerited favour
and assistance we have been yearning for. I think she is the right person to
help us out of our quagmire and she really seems to be doing just fine in her
quest to help us.
That she is a motor mouth who suffers from severe mental
constipation is incontestable. How she has managed to assume and maintain the
position of first lady in a country of people who pride themselves as being
learned defies even kindergarten logic.
This power-intoxicated woman never misses an opportunity to
assert who she is thereby exposing her mental challenges and political
ineptitude. In her short political career she has become a tsunami, a trouble
maker, a rabble-rouser launching wandering missiles like some sort of North
Korea.
Her pathetically suffocated character becomes apparent the
moment she opens her mouth. If anyone really cared about Grace, they would
never allow her near the microphone. Whenever she gets hold of the microphone,
all hell breaks loose. She becomes a comedian in front of a bunch of clearly
comedy starved minions who clap and ululate at anything, even when she is
taking a dump on them.
Of course, I am never at all surprised by Grace’s foolish
uncensored utterances. It is now a public secret that the twin qualities of
common sense and wisdom are foreign to Grace. Her mind seems to have vegetated
into a moribund state.
However and in spite of that, her utterances must not be
perceived from the standpoint of her challenged mental condition alone but what
they are accomplishing or can acomplish for us.
With her miserable 94 year old husband lost in his own
world of physical incapacitation and senile day dreaming, Grace has enough room
to free flow in the world of stupidity. Mugabe no longer has a firm grip on
anything, age has taken its toll on him. His insatiable love for power has led
him to erode his own legacy and his wife is working overtime to drive the final
nails on the coffin of whatever he had as legacy.
It is clear that to Grace and her husband, Zimbabweans are
mere objects at their disposal. How she scornfully undresses grown men and
women in front of their deliquent minions is a shocking attestation of that.
I have so much respect for women but I honestly detest Grace
Mugabe and everything she represents especially her decayed brain which is
burried in a mortuary of a ridiculously inflammed self concept.
After all is said and done, I can’t fail to locate the
opportunity presented by and in Grace’s madness. We need Grace Mugabe and the
way she behaves like a drunk monkey. Indeed, from within, through her brave
acts of stupidity, she is giving us unmerited favour and assistence in our
quest towards a better Zimbabwe.
It is ostensibly clear that Grace Mugabe is meticulously
positioning herself to take over from her husband or to knight the successor.
In fact, she is already running the show, taking advantage of Mugabe’s old age.
Her utterances reveal how she has positioned herself to take over from Mugabe
or to be a kingmaker who will determine the successor.
For Grace there are no limits. Not only is she a
motormouth, she has a shocking propensity for power despite her impoverished
mental stamina. As it stands, Grace wields more power than Mugabe’s two
deputies. She undresses them publicly. The possibility of her taking over or
determining who takes over from her frail husband is not far-fetched.
Either possibilities work for our good. Anything that has
Grace’s involvement will ultimately work for our good. She is an embodiment of
destruction.
Keep moving Grace and thank you for your assistance.
Munhu wese kuna amai.
Patson Dzamara is a leadership coach, author and political
activist and analyst based in Zimbabwe.
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