Its widely believed that Manheru is President Robert Mugabe’s spokesman George Charamba. The following is an abridged version of an article ...
Its widely believed that Manheru is President Robert Mugabe’s spokesman George Charamba.
The following is an abridged version of an article by Nathaniel Manheru in which he scoffs at the Tendai Biti led MDC Renewal Team. Its widely believed that Manheru is President Robert Mugabe’s spokesman George Charamba.
By Nathaniel Manheru
The MDC-Madhuku-Renewal riddle
And here is another illustration of what happens when de-familiarisation sets in suddenly, inexorably. MDC-T is in turmoil. Biti is dangling renewal. The courts are diffidently handling cases they don’t find too meaningful, or promising any jurisprudential vista.
Dead matter, they see and endure in this disputation of no known local value. There is the property issue which is now before the unhappy courts. Professor Madhuku, all along known to us as political NCA, enters a notice to represent Biti and his renewable colleagues. What is happening?
Familiar faces, old players, old game, new roles? And before we can answer, Professor Madhuku re-emerges again, in same courtyard, to make yet another entry: he will represent Biti and Holland in defense of an April 2 resolution to oust Tsvangirai from leading MDC what? MDC-Tsvangirai!
An MDC-T which Biti says he will leave shortly once events are more propitious, once renewal congress is held and a low-hanging orange reached! So why shake down a ripening damba when what you are after is a softer fruit called orange? Never mind. Another puzzle: Holland? Sekai? Yes!
Yet she was part of the Guardian Council seeking reconciliation between the factions! Breaking the mould, it is called and the result is something quite unfamiliar. He told me once.
I mean Madhuku. He said, the NCA has many of its members embedded in the two MDCs. When the time is ripe, he added, they will show their true allegiances and “we shall rise against the petty bourgeoisie in both Zanu-PF and MDCs”. I wrote about it.
All the same I hope Madhuku remembers the law of opposites. We may be about to see a new synthesis, but what will be its new, emerging antithesis as it simmers and settles? I just hope he will matter beyond the litigation moment. The world is never too familiar.
Going back to Federal Rhodesia
Lastly, Jacob Mafume. Recall East 24? Hahahaha! How events hurtle forward, often at breakneck speed. His new boss, Tendai Biti, addressed his supporters (so he thinks) last week in Chinhoyi.
In part, Biti: “It has been a failed 34 years since Zimbabwe got its Independence in 1980. Our lives have gone to the era of 1958. We have no electricity, we have no water. We have got a natural crisis and we cannot stand by and watch. That is why there is a renewal call. If there is good governance in any country then everything else flows. We cannot let past mistakes of Zimbabwe to revisit us. That is why we are proud of renewal as an ideology and as new ways of thinking”.
Of course that was boldly oblivious, something Biti is quite capable of, given his innate impulsive recklessness.
He counts 34, embracing the five years he was Finance Minister in the Inclusive Government, as wasted years. He condemns himself, in the haystack of words and dates. Much worse, his excellent education as a lawyer — all of it after Independence — rebukes him and his claim beyond measure.
Conscripting all of us, he says our lives have gone to the era of 1958, suggesting his “era” is made up of a year. Really? A white era, federal era in which you are appoint-able as black minister of finance? In which you are a lawyer, much earlier than the pioneering Herbert Chitepo?
One very old Rhodesian dawn
He also forgot Kariba is still under construction, making his electricity claims quite fraught. Much worse, he saw good governance then in 1958, under white rule! Heyi! And then hoping he was placing the punchline, he added:
“That is why we are proud of renewal as an ideology….” Ha ha ha ha! Renewal of Rhodesia! To Federal Rhodesia, and then to what? UDI? Ha ha ha! Thanks Roy Bennett! De-familiarisation! Good politicians always remember their hinds as they discharge fiery words, or seek to remake the world through false words.
That is how new and renewed things shall be, in the world that Jack built! To that add young Mafume whose new world is symbolised by an orange. Well, apart from not being an orange, the sun takes on that orange colour twice in its day’s life: as it rises and as it sets.
The science of semantics works by limiting meaning possibilities, trimming those possibilities in preferred directions. Where the semantic field is left open, the reader walks in with referred sense.
And you suffer the unintended, to your detriment, Sir. Kuti haasi Mavambo zvakare? Could the orange be rotting already, the sun setting before the rise of a new day? After all, this is a sun in a day in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty- Eight. A very old Rhodesian sun indeed.
Icho!
The writer Nathaniel Manheru can be reached on nathaniel.manheru@zimpapers.co.zw
The following is an abridged version of an article by Nathaniel Manheru in which he scoffs at the Tendai Biti led MDC Renewal Team. Its widely believed that Manheru is President Robert Mugabe’s spokesman George Charamba.
By Nathaniel Manheru
The MDC-Madhuku-Renewal riddle
And here is another illustration of what happens when de-familiarisation sets in suddenly, inexorably. MDC-T is in turmoil. Biti is dangling renewal. The courts are diffidently handling cases they don’t find too meaningful, or promising any jurisprudential vista.
Dead matter, they see and endure in this disputation of no known local value. There is the property issue which is now before the unhappy courts. Professor Madhuku, all along known to us as political NCA, enters a notice to represent Biti and his renewable colleagues. What is happening?
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| Manheru scoffs at Biti MDC Renewal Team |
An MDC-T which Biti says he will leave shortly once events are more propitious, once renewal congress is held and a low-hanging orange reached! So why shake down a ripening damba when what you are after is a softer fruit called orange? Never mind. Another puzzle: Holland? Sekai? Yes!
Yet she was part of the Guardian Council seeking reconciliation between the factions! Breaking the mould, it is called and the result is something quite unfamiliar. He told me once.
I mean Madhuku. He said, the NCA has many of its members embedded in the two MDCs. When the time is ripe, he added, they will show their true allegiances and “we shall rise against the petty bourgeoisie in both Zanu-PF and MDCs”. I wrote about it.
All the same I hope Madhuku remembers the law of opposites. We may be about to see a new synthesis, but what will be its new, emerging antithesis as it simmers and settles? I just hope he will matter beyond the litigation moment. The world is never too familiar.
Going back to Federal Rhodesia
Lastly, Jacob Mafume. Recall East 24? Hahahaha! How events hurtle forward, often at breakneck speed. His new boss, Tendai Biti, addressed his supporters (so he thinks) last week in Chinhoyi.
In part, Biti: “It has been a failed 34 years since Zimbabwe got its Independence in 1980. Our lives have gone to the era of 1958. We have no electricity, we have no water. We have got a natural crisis and we cannot stand by and watch. That is why there is a renewal call. If there is good governance in any country then everything else flows. We cannot let past mistakes of Zimbabwe to revisit us. That is why we are proud of renewal as an ideology and as new ways of thinking”.
Of course that was boldly oblivious, something Biti is quite capable of, given his innate impulsive recklessness.
He counts 34, embracing the five years he was Finance Minister in the Inclusive Government, as wasted years. He condemns himself, in the haystack of words and dates. Much worse, his excellent education as a lawyer — all of it after Independence — rebukes him and his claim beyond measure.
Conscripting all of us, he says our lives have gone to the era of 1958, suggesting his “era” is made up of a year. Really? A white era, federal era in which you are appoint-able as black minister of finance? In which you are a lawyer, much earlier than the pioneering Herbert Chitepo?
One very old Rhodesian dawn
He also forgot Kariba is still under construction, making his electricity claims quite fraught. Much worse, he saw good governance then in 1958, under white rule! Heyi! And then hoping he was placing the punchline, he added:
“That is why we are proud of renewal as an ideology….” Ha ha ha ha! Renewal of Rhodesia! To Federal Rhodesia, and then to what? UDI? Ha ha ha! Thanks Roy Bennett! De-familiarisation! Good politicians always remember their hinds as they discharge fiery words, or seek to remake the world through false words.
That is how new and renewed things shall be, in the world that Jack built! To that add young Mafume whose new world is symbolised by an orange. Well, apart from not being an orange, the sun takes on that orange colour twice in its day’s life: as it rises and as it sets.
The science of semantics works by limiting meaning possibilities, trimming those possibilities in preferred directions. Where the semantic field is left open, the reader walks in with referred sense.
And you suffer the unintended, to your detriment, Sir. Kuti haasi Mavambo zvakare? Could the orange be rotting already, the sun setting before the rise of a new day? After all, this is a sun in a day in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty- Eight. A very old Rhodesian sun indeed.
Icho!
The writer Nathaniel Manheru can be reached on nathaniel.manheru@zimpapers.co.zw
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