Mugabe and ZANU PF: A failed divorce
On the day the world received the news of his death, in our ghetto, business and life didn’t come to a halt. Like always ZESA (the new name for electricity) also chose to go early in the morning as usual. To the people I met and conversed with or heard conversing there were two common questions: ‘Is he really dead this time?’ or ‘Where is he going to be buried?’ People were still not sure after his many deaths which led him to jokingly conclude that he has outclassed Jesus in resurrection. People were also concerned of his final place of rest after rumors that he had finally chose to abandon the place where he officiated over 99,5 percent of the burials made there. The conversation I had at kuEmployment as they call the place left me perplexed on how we sometimes read history and events amiss in a nation that boast of a high literacy rate. None of the people there believed Mugabe was still a full time member of ZANU PF, an institution that he founded. They were not so privy to t...