Of Mnangagwa’s sadistic comedy of errors, refuses to bury his colleague

Well, he never ceases to amaze!

When William Shakespeare’s comedy of errors was first performed on 28 December 1594, the play could have been a precept and precursor to the comedy of errors being replayed in Harare by one dictator, coupist and comedian Emmerson Mnangagwa aka president of the banana republic. In the same month of December festivities that the world was introduced to the ‘comedy of errors’, not be outdone, Mnangagwa chose to disrespect his vice presidency colleague, the late Phekhezela Mpoko. He could not hide, in fact true to his sadistic traits, chose to show a middle finger to the dead.

For a president to send a few junior politicians to mourn and bury a whole former vice president, a wartime military commander was nothing short of showing contempt and his disdain to the man who refused (through his family, of course) to be buried at the now defiled and denigrated national shrine. Ironically Mugabe their boss, refused to be buried there as well as a dozen other heroes, both true and false over the years. It looks like many of these heroes who do not believe in cultic Zanu PF anymore are having ‘guts’ to refuse to be buried at the hill. And Mnangagwa, who I doubt will also refuse to be buried there when he dies no far into the future, is having none of it. He sees it as an attempt by these dying heroes to embarrass him. If that is their intention to have the last laugh in their caskets, then he intends to be the one having the last laugh by embarrassing the dead. Perhaps that is what happens when an eland chooses to dine with lions? Apparently the lion himself, the owner of the country was busy with prior commitments, whatever these were, including officially opening a church.

This country surely has legs.

Meanwhile, Mnangagwa’s cabinet, met and came up with a brilliant idea. The only small interchange being constructed along another wartime hero Dr Simon Mazorodze road must be named Trabablas Interchange. Do not waste your time looking for that forgotten encyclopedia under the bed or to ask AI, you might draw blanks. It is supposed to be the owner of the country’s wartime nom de guerre. Do not ask me which war Mugabe’s briefcase carrying assistant fought between 1977 and 1980 apart from sentencing real wartime heroes like Rugare Gumbo to death in the camps in Mozambique to clear his way to taking over from Mugabe, eventually.

Well, the man already is named in Enterprise Road. Maybe his contributions to the liberation of this country cannot be captured in one renamed road. He may actually rename all the roads to himself to show he is the sole liberator of Zimbabwe. Being contemptuous of both the living and the dead, comrade Trabablas might actually start by renaming Robert Mugabe way to His Excellency, The President, Commander in Chief, Head of all Headmen and all villages, river and trees and all the insects and animals, the King Munhumutapa himself, Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Meanwhile the real heroes, comrade Disaster, and comrade Fiasco et al are wallowing in poverty, neglected, forgotten as the political gamesmanships continue, unabated.

Adios!