The Gone G40: An obituary!

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The Gone G40: An obituary! Saviour Kasukuwere

The Sunday News

Saviour Kasukuwere

Saviour Kasukuwere

Meluleki Moyo

WHEN King Belshazzar of the Chaldeans was overcome with wine, he gave orders for the servants to put before him the sacred gold and silver vessels which had been taken from the temple of the house of God in Jerusalem so that his wives and his other women and children could drink from them.

This act of recklessness and disrespect drew God’s anger and that very hour, a hand wrote on the wall, “MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN”
Concerned and worried, he learnt what it meant:

“God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it. You have been weighed in the balances, and been found wanting and your kingdom has been divided.”

That very night, King Belshazzar was confined to the dungeons of history.

During the reign of former President, Cde Robert Mugabe once grouped a very arrogant gang called G40. Those who were close to the gang claim that, overcome with overzealousness, the show-boating and daring cabal did not even hesitate to obliviously take part in the authorship of its own political obituary when it still walked the political landscape.

Authoring its own demise coupled with the cabal’s very strange ambitions, the ruling Zanu-PF stood at sixes and sevens while the sacred gains of the liberation struggle were regrettably tampered with. Gallant sons and daughters of the soil had been sacrificed and at will as the nefarious gang sought to satisfy it’s egos through very unpleasant if not totally clumsy ways. Nehanda and a host of other ancestors probably turned in their graves.

A hand appeared on the political wall, warning it of its political setting sun, but owing to its arrogance, the wayward gang never bothered to take heed, regardless of wise counsel which only fell on a thorny path and was chocked.

As fate would have it, during the eleventh month of 2017, the ancestral hand wrote even bolder, the writing just became too visible to be ignored:

“You have been weighed in the revolutionary balances and been found to be underweight. You have put the gains of the liberation struggle to ransom and for too long. Patience has been lost; the time has come for the legacy to be restored.”

This heralded in an abrupt and dramatic abandonment of a political Babel on the verge of being built without mortar by power hungry individuals in the persons of Professor Jonathan Moyo, Saviour Kasukuwere, Patrick Zhuwao and Mrs Grace Mugabe, who seemed not to tire in offering lessons on how not to be a mother, for instance, when Prof Jonathan Moyo admitted to dipping his hands in the Zimdef coffers for some honey, Mrs Grace Mugabe said “No! Stop it, stop admitting, you did not do that!”

Jonathan Moyo

Jonathan Moyo

In its quest to restore legacy, the army just said it was targeting “criminals” around former President Mugabe, and without mentioning any names.

Surprisingly, however, several G40 elements vanished into thin air. They are today scattered all over the globe, speaking in different tongues and are politically dead.

The post-mortem of the deceased cabal is replete with details of corruption, political show-boating, recklessness, misguided ambitions and showing disregard for the sacred gains of the liberation struggle.

When it still walked the political landscape, the daring G40 celebrated proximity to the former First Family. Catapulting from this rare privilege, they became “untouchable”. They even strode past ministerial boundaries and showed disregard for senior members within the ruling Zanu-PF party added to getting away with corruption.

Nicknamed “Tyson”, Mr Kasukuwere will from his political resting place, forever curse the day when he labelled as “petty”, issues to do with corruption added to his bullish tendencies as demonstrated when he threatened scribes at The Herald. As a reward for telling it like it is, without fear or favour, the scribes even earned themselves unprintable obscenities.

“They (The Herald) have completely failed to understand the seismic political movement underway. @herald will require a new pair of hands soon. It’s on”, he went on to boast on his Twitter handle.

This was, however, said in gross oblivion regarding the irony that it was actually the post of Zanu-PF Political Commissar which would get a new pair of hands in the not so distant future. The Herald is still intact!

When the country’s 10 provinces called for the expulsion of Mr Kasukuwere, the G40 cabal, including Mrs Mugabe, all came out in full force and saved Kasukuwere’s political career which by then, hung by the thinnest of threads.

And how disrespectful the chaps were!

Or they probably didn’t attend Sunday school where they could have been lucky to have stumbled on Ephesians 6 which advices of the importance of honouring elders as a recipe to a lengthy, productive and fruitful life? They showed disregard and disrespect for their seniors within the ruling party, and thus, the daring cabal’s days on earth were cut short, and in a very sad way.

The two Patricks’, Chinamasa and Zhuwao’s episode over the latter’s controversial indigenisation policies was a highlight of political immaturity on the part of Zhuwao coupled with failure to acknowledge seniors of the liberation category, granting them the respect they deserve.

The clash took the intervention of former President Mugabe who, from an uncle’s perspective, told the lad who at one point said Zanu-PF was full of “idiots”, to calm down.

Knowledge, knowledge, where is thy power?

In her work, 50 Characteristics of an Educated Person, Marelisa Fabrega hastens to postulate that an educated person knows how to learn, knows how to establish rapport with others, added to understanding human nature and with an ability to establish, maintain, and improve lasting relationships.

The supposedly knowledgeable mind that failed to learn!

Having risen and fallen, risen and finally fallen, Prof Moyo’s sad political story is a far cry from Fabrega’s and other social expectations, including those of common sense. Having failed to learn from the failed 2004 Tsholotsho Declaration among a plethora of other lessons, from the look of things, Prof Moyo has gone down the dungeons of history as the supposedly knowledgeable mind that failed to learn.

Foretelling the inevitable demise of the restless professor in 2005, Asher Tarivona Mutsengi, then a student leader at Solusi University had seen it coming, and it has come to pass:

“He (Prof Jonathan Moyo) will go down the annals of history as a minister who lacked foresight and for pouring vitriol against his perceived opponents . . . My final analysis is that he is heading for the precipice and his political prospects even if he wins the Tsholotsho seat that he is vying for as an independent are drab. He might be a spin-doctor and intelligent as some claim, but I don’t subscribe to that myself,” he had said.

The politically deceased professor should have known better regarding the importance of being good to the people on your way up the ladder for you will definitely need them on your way down.

When he was on some political ascension simulacra, the war deserter reportedly deserted his roots in Tsholotsho, a constituency which enabled him to meet his new found friends in the deceased G40. He reportedly was no longer talking to some who had even helped him campaign, including the traditional leadership. In an interview with Mkhululi Sibanda, the Assistant Editor of Sunday News recently, his former close ally Cde Believe Gaule had this to say:

“After Prof Moyo won that by-election in 2015, he started changing as he became evasive to some of us who had worked closely with him and we had gone through political hardships together.”

A whole professor, himself very aware of the truism that perennial wisdom from divine revelation and human experience dictates that all earthly things great or small, beautiful or ugly, good or bad, sad or happy, foolish or wise must finally come to an end, is failing to accept the reality that he is now politically defunct.

Worryingly, Prof Moyo can’t rest in political peace. The political ghost keeps making noise on the public sphere, endangering national security, to the extent that some have called on the authorities to as well freeze the political haunt’s Twitter account.

Like the biblical Legion, he screams night and day in the political tombs. Neither wise counsel nor his so-called educated mind has succeeded in rebuking him. He now needs nothing short of a divine touch so as to be emancipated and delivered from this bitterness laden torment.

With its memorial service having been billed for the Zanu-PF Extra-Ordinary Congress which was held last Friday, the deceased cabal is now divided and in solitude, friendless and with no one to talk to. Their only friend is probably the man on the moon but sadly, sometimes he goes away too.

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