The news coming out of the cold, cold United Kingdom is of Mthuli Ncube being named the “Best African Finance Minister of the Year — and the shock is beyond the imaginable for Muckraker.
The country's economy is in such a turmoil that it seems only the Country’s Owner and Number 1 citizen still believes there is a future for Zimbabwe when all indicators point to a nation on the virtue of abyss.
One can only imagine the anger many felt but like always that chagrin is only expressed in silence but the fingers can surely feel the wrath when people turn to X, formerly known as Twitter, to rant their anger.
Zimbabwe's unemployment rate is as high as 85% while up to 80% of transactions are carried out in US dollars as we can only use the local currency for the minibuses to the locations.
Maybe one day the Reputation Poll International — an organisation that says it manages reputations” — gave our Lying Professor in a Checkered Suit the award on Sunday.
But since his appointment to Our Owner’s Cabinet in 2018, Ncube has become public enemy number one, maybe, we can only point to his Boss as his challenge in the “unpopularity” contest.
Shocking!
There are times when Muckraker tries to avoid some tired issues while trying to pick up that juicy issue to share but who can ignore one Senge Tshabangu?
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Well, besides tormenting those from the Yellow Brigade since he started his recalls, his popularity has a corner where it really exists.
Who thought that Tshabangu’s candidates would win?
So, the voters in Lobengula Magwegwe constituency said no to Zanu PF and voted for a “Tshabangu” candidate Tendayi Chitura while Charles Moyo will represent the Mpopoma-Mzilikazi constituency in the House of Assembly.
Wonders never cease to happen, right? But what those shady elections showed is that the ruining party is much despised by those in the City of Kings.
Where to?
So where does it leave Nelson Chamisa and his CCC?
Since the formation of the opposition party in January last year, two expressions — “consultations” and “strategic ambiguity” — are the hallmark that we can associate with the alternative party.
After the latest elections across the eight constituencies, CCC national spokesperson Promise Mkwananzi said the party would go to the people and consult on the way forward.
Well, we have always thought that the opposition party, as vibrant as we thought that they would, should have been leading the people in the next action against the impunity that we have had being accused of ruling Zanu PF.
Zanu PF should be on Cloud 9 after the latest round of elections.
Whatever is happening, we are preparing for yet another round of by elections in February but where to CCC?
Trust issues
Well, the Country Owner held a National Day of Prayer at the State House and he spiced his speech with several quotes from the Bible.
Well, I hope someone was checking the quotes if they are as true as what the Number 1 citizen was dishing out to the nation.
We wouldn’t want to trust someone with the Holy Quotes when we remember ED was quote on camera with one closed eye during a prayer at the National Heroes Acre when he was the country’s deputy owner.
Well, Mnangagwa has a penchant of quoting the Holy Scriptures even when campaigning so we believe he knows a thing or two about the Bible.
But all the same after the prayer we saw some rains and hopefully we did not overdo it and very soon the country will be hit by floods.
Silent bonus
Many things are changing in Zimbabwe. There are two things synonymous with the month of December: two songs — one is Paul Matavire’s song Ma ‘U’ and Patrick Mukwamba’s ‘Bonus’ — but I have not heard any of the two. Well, the ‘Ungraded’ results are too common to think about considering how our leaders have destroyed our education system. But Patrick Mukwamba should be turning in his grave.
The ‘bonus’ has become too elusive for many Zimbabweans after many years of our country’s owner abusing our pockets. Some of us will not want to even think of the bonus but will always wonder why the Herald of Absolute Truth continues to parrot bonuses for civil servants. Muckraker is always miffed when that stories tell us of windfalls that are nothing but wind. Let us just keep quiet and forget about these bonuses which do not even exist.
