Dear Morgan Tsvangirai
Don’t be used again!
“A ball that is a ball will always be a ball.”
Inanimate objects move only in dreams and fables. In this letter I am going to move an inanimate object, that is, a ball. The soccer ball is round and made so that it will roll on the ground in a fair way, and will travel a bit slower in air than other balls like the rugby, tennis, cricket, and American football balls. The soccer ball’s life is unenviable. It travels more that any other game ball, it is overused as it only stays in the hands of players few times, mostly protected by the goalkeeper, if the goalkeeper is not bouncing it off the ground trying to figure who to kick the ball to. It is kicked for 90 plus extra minutes, it is thrown tens of times, handled several times, it travels the pitch more than all the 22 players plus substitutes combined, it is hit, it hits players, goal posts, the ground, gets bumped. And at the end of the game, it is thrown off, left alone until the next game. It become an object at rest, it stays at rest until acted upon by these players again. The 22 plus players, their coaches, the supporters go out, get more out of the work of the ball; limelight, awards, respect, community etc... As the games continue the ball build the players, the coaches. The supporters are happy. Are you happy? Morgan, I feel you are the ball that the country’s players have used each time they play their games! I am sorry for insulting you but I have to write this narrative. It is a narrative that oscillates between the gentleness of the falling showers of rain and the wears of hope after disaster, bringing haunting truth and beauty pulled through memory. It is a timbre of memory of sound, these memories are layered: a sound, smell, a sight: a kind of remembering, a witnessing!
Look at the beautiful years and work you did over the years at Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions. How you transformed a small government organisation into a formidable foe to Robert Mugabe’s government. How you went toe to toe with Robert Mugabe who had goons behind his back to protect him against you. For years you fought, you were the ball the workers, the politicos and industry played. Yes, it helped you to form the MDC, and this accorded you a lot of respect in Zimbabwe, so are some other balls in life, like a baseball ball that Jack Robinson, and the basketballs that Michael Jordan etc…, populised. The world over became aware of you, but the games never stopped on you.
You entered another game, and the people of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe and his party were now the players. They played you for years on end until you finally had a chance to retire, to wallow in glory like Michael Jordan’s balls. No, not those you are thinking of! You won fair and square the March 2008 elections false ushering in a brand new year at a time when we believed that sort of thing, in scheduled change. Some still say you won enough to form a government, but one of the goons of these players refused you rest. Mugabe’s goons pushed you back into the game and the changed the game on you and other players. They started playing American football, were using the American football ball whilst the people were still using the soccer game ball. I told you the soccer game ball travels slowly in air than the American football ball. And the American football ball is built in way that it bounces off or rolls off unfairly on the ground. Also the American football ball can be thrown and kicked willy-nilly, as long as it is going forward. Also Robert now didn’t care about you, the ball, but the people. American football players rough it more than the ball, and they play rough brutal games on the people who were still playing their soccer ball that you are. Robert cheated you by killing players of the opposition. And then grabbed you into his hands and told the world they had to recognize him as the winner since he had taken you hostage. He told the world he would give the people a few of his substitute players. He gave the people a few ministries to butter their world with a reason why he had to keep you in hostage. The world accepted him as the winner of a no contest game and awarded him the trophy. At the end everyone had to accept these conditions. Morgan, you were so gullible to allow Robert to put you in his personal collections/trophies counters in his Munhumutapa offices. To the outside world, to his opposition, the people; he told them he is taking good care of you as you rested.
But that was all a lie’s white truths, so black, Morgan! He played games with you in his Munhumutapa offices, games he had played and won against Nkomo, whilst he legitimize his wins. He allowed his first team players he kept in the government to play more games on you. And those players he hadn’t kept in the government were set on the people, to turn the people to supporting Robert. You were played left and right until Robert Mugabe felt he could revert back to the soccer game with the people. Until you had cleared the bills and the financial issues that had accumulated whilst Robert slept like a disease and an ill-fitting cure. I mean until you had righted the economy for him in the GNU years, until you had helped him mend his party that was in tartars after the March 2009 elections, until he had won more people to his side.
The people and Robert decided to create a new constitution for their future games on you. But what you never realized more and more of the people distrusted and lost faith in your abilities as a leader. They begin to question the linesman; referee etc, saying the ball they were using had been overused, tempered with by Robert during the GNU years. What Robert did was to deflate you, kill everything that made you strong, and removed air from you, you became floppy and flappy. He allowed you to make stupid flops like those woman escapades, the corruptions of your councilors..., and made capital out of the flops. All these you did because Mugabe had tempered with you. You became a operatic version of a crow, a blue jay figure skating in a blue custom flying only when the wind blows, and the wind was Mugabe. So when the people decided to the reverse fixtures in 2013, Mugabe trusted you more than the people. The people decided to field a weak team, didn’t even prepare for the match, and were busy scrutinizing you and what Robert had done to you. Robert used this combination of a flattened ball and the bored weak opposition to win the 2013 match, and discarded you as he formed his government with a full team and reserves, taking back all those position he had given the people during the GNU years. You simply didn’t mount to diddly!
He continued with his games in his team. This time he decided to push his team, each against the other. He created a new game association. He created new camps, and the leaders of these camps were Emerson Mnangagwa and Joyce Mujuru. Since he was tired and ageing he decided to rest a bit and created a part-player, part-referee, part-boss on the game association, in his wife. She played the games on his behalf, against Mujuru and Mnangagwa. Robert rested. Morgan, you also rested and nursed your wounds. This new game was vicious and was played with one gun(Robert) in the hands of this player, Grace Mugabe. The other players had no weapons. She played the game of elimination. Grace used the AK47 to kill of half the players and Mujuru in 2014 and replaced these with her favored younger players, some says for sex payoffs, and these were set on Mnangagwa. Mnangagwa was knocked out. What it did was to make everyone realize Mugabe was a ruthless bastard. Grace killed everyone, killed the government, killed the party, and killed the country. Yet Grace and Robert underestimated the power of Mnangagwa as he went scuttling, hiding, it was said he went to a land of strength to the east, and in the eastern lands he returned back wielding battalions and battalions of goons that descended on Robert. Morgan, I know whilst all these things were happening you were now fighting a different game in your party and personally. This game is dangerous too as it involves biological invasions deeply inside your body and party. You are fighting an illness, how it is wearing your body down, gnawing second by second at your will, pounding suffocating pain , surfing away a mountainside, eating you down until escape into the pitch becomes the only lover you want to hold now.
I have heard you are back at work, Morgan- hanky panky all over, strutting like a cock. You have been asked to come back to the pitch again. Those players, Robert‘s team and the people have missed kicking you around. They are telling you that you are the best ball ever. I am surprised you have forgotten you were recuperating, you were not even fit enough to lead your own party, have barely tried to connect with the electorate, to win back all those people Robert pushed away from you during the GNU. You have adopted more new balls in your party to strengthen your chances of not getting picked as you were ill, but they have picked you again. Are you fit to be played for another 5 years by these players who now seem to have multiplied since Robert open the can of worms…, I mean his armpits. Morgan, know that they are going to play you rough for the next 5 years. Know that this time they will kill you one way or another; know that by the end of the 5 years no one will bother about you ever and your new balls. Yes, they you want to legitimize the whole charade and their thuggery of a game they have been playing through you. Yes, you will right the economy for them again, the country, the party etc.., and then they will discard you off for the last time. Nobody will touch you again. This is what they did to Ndabaningi Sithole, Edgar Tekere, to Joshua Nkomo, to everyone the people had loved. A big question on my mind is, are you genuinely in opposition to Mugabe or it’s just been a game you played on us. A boy who caught a falling star in his hands, who liked the way it purpled his palms, deepened the shallow tracks of his lifeline. Why do you keep trying to save Robert and ZANUPF from disappearing into oblivion?
Morgan, you must have said no and refused to enter the GNU in 2009, that was used by the army and Robert to stay these thugs and thieves in power. Understand it is the army that has been playing Robert and you all the last 10 years. It is the army that told Robert not to resign when you beat him fair and square in 2009, and cooked a situation whereby a GNU was a process they used to right the party they so died for. What did the army tell you when you won. They told you Zimbabwe is for the gun, not pen. What did they tell Robert just some few days ago? The country is for the gun. Only those who fought in the liberation war have the right to lead the party and government. What makes you think the army will change their tone when you win. Now see how they have deposed Robert, their leader because he refused to follow their rule. You are nobody to the army, Morgan. You are just some sponge going to be used to stay the goons in ZANUPF. You were stupid to enter the GNU when at that moment you had Robert and the army by their balls. It’s a different kind of balls I am talking of here! In the process you defrauded people of their right to see Robert off forever.
Now you think it’s a different game. It’s easy for you and your other balls to be fooled by the situation and think Robert, Mnangagwa and the army are done. No, they want to buy time to sort their messy home. They have realized this game of bullets they were playing in their party has destroyed the party. What you are going to do is to allow them to defraud the other team, the people, of their right to vote these thugs out of the government in 8 months time. Like I said before, 10 years ago, refuse to enter this charade of a game. Let them finish each other off. Let them destroy the party completely. Stay safe and wait for the elections which the constitution guarantees. Tell your other balls to pump air up, and go back to the people and win them over. Focus on your party, believe it is broken, and fix it! Prepare your party for the elections next year. Demand for elections to be done next year as per the constitution of the land. Refuse to enter the GNU. I am afraid you would contract a wretched disease that Nkomo contracted- inflamed patriotism of the cerebral membranes, syphilis of spirit, a patriarch of dead organs. They will absorb you into the ZANUPF party and our blessed dream we fought for multiparty democracy will revert back to one party state of ZANUPF/MDC. Insist on the constitution. Now these thugs have messed what you built during the GNU, now they want you to help them stay. You know what’s in the basement of ZANUPF- only an idiot would go down there, and you know equally well, though you believe you are not in fact an idiot, that you are going to go down those stairs again. Tell the other team to stay stronger, tell the people to stay stronger. It’s only a matter of 8 months, and then they can help you clean up ZANUPF, Robert, Mnangagwa and the goons, off our streets. The truth is they are not going to allow you to win after you have helped them stay in power for another 5 years. Do the skies ever open out to transparency. For goodness sake, you never went to war.
Siya vaurayane nokusunguna (leave them as they kill and jail each other). Leave them to implode. Don’t forget its these who destroyed the country and MDC, and when they had succeeded in destroying it, in last elections, why didn’t they ask you join them in government like they are doing to you now. After all it’s the ZANUPF that is dead. Zimbabwe must be fixed through elections, not through building back ZANUPF. Leave Constantine Chiwenga and Mnangagwa to create their own governments and they will be null and void in 8 months time. Beyond that they won’t be recognized by the constitution and SADC. Leave Mnangagwa to create his power hungry cabinet, and leave Chiwenga to continue with a coup that is not a coup. I didn’t say don’t support any moves that do away with the monster Mugabe, no. Support them but don’t be fooled into joining them in the proposed GNU. The letter might seem to be saying you shouldn’t help them destroy themselves, but know that always in accounts of anything, much is left unsaid in order to make what is retained more capable of being focused: don’t enter the GNU! I have cried out louder so that silence won’t betray all that we have worked so hard to avoid: death of multiparty democracy in Zimbabwe. They have only 8 months of constitutionality, and beyond that fight them, get help from the international community, force them to do elections. You will now win; their games have restored faith in your supporters to vote them out. Those goons are done and dusted. Now recuperate and if you fine, go to your party and lead them to the elections. Engage the people. Tell them you have their backs now. Show us how much you have changed. Because if ever we agree to return to your world again, it would be on the condition that you did pass through panel beating, and you are now wiser and changed. Please, stop this tomfoolery. Don’t be used again. Don’t lose this country again. You are our hero. You are endowed with great destiny, which corresponds with the level of your epicness and with the aid of the gods, your success is inevitable. And a character all the more heroic as you are is more inclined towards mastering the forces which lie outside the scopes of your naked human personality like the strident Jeremiahs of the Old Testament. Rule the day, Morgan. Leave the night to Mugabe and his goons, the ZANUPF. All the pain we were subjected to for the last 4 years will be for nothing as we help you build back the goons. You are the bridge that connects us, that should wait to connect us to consciousness again. The elections are around the corner!
I know you and your balls are power hungry like Robert and his thugs but know that posterity will simply laugh you off as a fool who stumbled on a good thing and messed it. I know all these prohibitions in this letter will only be mere echoes in a void, they will fill nothing. Your heart is set on joining the charade again. You gullible hands don’t feel my epoxy melting; will sign off to another GNU, unfurling the illusion again. But I really feel sorry for you, and that’s why I had to write you this letter. Posterity will blame you for allowing power hungry monsters to steal their future. You will become a giant that was destroyed by hubris, like Othello, Macbeth, Kane etc…. your response is predetermined. It is trained like B.F Skinner’s rats. This argument in this letter has everything to do with morality, you have a choice. Try to make people you know happy, this time. The conscience of a race is the gift of its individuals. You have no mandate to be party to this. Stay out of it and save yourself and your party.
I am the ball they played more than you, now I refuse to be played again
NB. I want to encourage fellow Zimbabweans to fight this new game in town, to refuse to become party to it, to continue persevering and fighting for the next 8 months to elections, to organize themselves for the vote, to not embrace another shortcut that will be a long way to freedom again. 8 months are not as harsh as 5 stable years followed by another 4 harsh years to another election. Reject this nonsense! Say NO to the monster that the GNU is! The hard work of moving forward must be done as our grief becomes the new homes where we will live until freedom’s breath of winning the elections inspires every house, every song, in every street in Zimbabwe.
Thank you, Ndinotenda, Ngiyabonga
Don’t be used again!
“A ball that is a ball will always be a ball.”
Inanimate objects move only in dreams and fables. In this letter I am going to move an inanimate object, that is, a ball. The soccer ball is round and made so that it will roll on the ground in a fair way, and will travel a bit slower in air than other balls like the rugby, tennis, cricket, and American football balls. The soccer ball’s life is unenviable. It travels more that any other game ball, it is overused as it only stays in the hands of players few times, mostly protected by the goalkeeper, if the goalkeeper is not bouncing it off the ground trying to figure who to kick the ball to. It is kicked for 90 plus extra minutes, it is thrown tens of times, handled several times, it travels the pitch more than all the 22 players plus substitutes combined, it is hit, it hits players, goal posts, the ground, gets bumped. And at the end of the game, it is thrown off, left alone until the next game. It become an object at rest, it stays at rest until acted upon by these players again. The 22 plus players, their coaches, the supporters go out, get more out of the work of the ball; limelight, awards, respect, community etc... As the games continue the ball build the players, the coaches. The supporters are happy. Are you happy? Morgan, I feel you are the ball that the country’s players have used each time they play their games! I am sorry for insulting you but I have to write this narrative. It is a narrative that oscillates between the gentleness of the falling showers of rain and the wears of hope after disaster, bringing haunting truth and beauty pulled through memory. It is a timbre of memory of sound, these memories are layered: a sound, smell, a sight: a kind of remembering, a witnessing!
Look at the beautiful years and work you did over the years at Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions. How you transformed a small government organisation into a formidable foe to Robert Mugabe’s government. How you went toe to toe with Robert Mugabe who had goons behind his back to protect him against you. For years you fought, you were the ball the workers, the politicos and industry played. Yes, it helped you to form the MDC, and this accorded you a lot of respect in Zimbabwe, so are some other balls in life, like a baseball ball that Jack Robinson, and the basketballs that Michael Jordan etc…, populised. The world over became aware of you, but the games never stopped on you.
You entered another game, and the people of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe and his party were now the players. They played you for years on end until you finally had a chance to retire, to wallow in glory like Michael Jordan’s balls. No, not those you are thinking of! You won fair and square the March 2008 elections false ushering in a brand new year at a time when we believed that sort of thing, in scheduled change. Some still say you won enough to form a government, but one of the goons of these players refused you rest. Mugabe’s goons pushed you back into the game and the changed the game on you and other players. They started playing American football, were using the American football ball whilst the people were still using the soccer game ball. I told you the soccer game ball travels slowly in air than the American football ball. And the American football ball is built in way that it bounces off or rolls off unfairly on the ground. Also the American football ball can be thrown and kicked willy-nilly, as long as it is going forward. Also Robert now didn’t care about you, the ball, but the people. American football players rough it more than the ball, and they play rough brutal games on the people who were still playing their soccer ball that you are. Robert cheated you by killing players of the opposition. And then grabbed you into his hands and told the world they had to recognize him as the winner since he had taken you hostage. He told the world he would give the people a few of his substitute players. He gave the people a few ministries to butter their world with a reason why he had to keep you in hostage. The world accepted him as the winner of a no contest game and awarded him the trophy. At the end everyone had to accept these conditions. Morgan, you were so gullible to allow Robert to put you in his personal collections/trophies counters in his Munhumutapa offices. To the outside world, to his opposition, the people; he told them he is taking good care of you as you rested.
But that was all a lie’s white truths, so black, Morgan! He played games with you in his Munhumutapa offices, games he had played and won against Nkomo, whilst he legitimize his wins. He allowed his first team players he kept in the government to play more games on you. And those players he hadn’t kept in the government were set on the people, to turn the people to supporting Robert. You were played left and right until Robert Mugabe felt he could revert back to the soccer game with the people. Until you had cleared the bills and the financial issues that had accumulated whilst Robert slept like a disease and an ill-fitting cure. I mean until you had righted the economy for him in the GNU years, until you had helped him mend his party that was in tartars after the March 2009 elections, until he had won more people to his side.
The people and Robert decided to create a new constitution for their future games on you. But what you never realized more and more of the people distrusted and lost faith in your abilities as a leader. They begin to question the linesman; referee etc, saying the ball they were using had been overused, tempered with by Robert during the GNU years. What Robert did was to deflate you, kill everything that made you strong, and removed air from you, you became floppy and flappy. He allowed you to make stupid flops like those woman escapades, the corruptions of your councilors..., and made capital out of the flops. All these you did because Mugabe had tempered with you. You became a operatic version of a crow, a blue jay figure skating in a blue custom flying only when the wind blows, and the wind was Mugabe. So when the people decided to the reverse fixtures in 2013, Mugabe trusted you more than the people. The people decided to field a weak team, didn’t even prepare for the match, and were busy scrutinizing you and what Robert had done to you. Robert used this combination of a flattened ball and the bored weak opposition to win the 2013 match, and discarded you as he formed his government with a full team and reserves, taking back all those position he had given the people during the GNU years. You simply didn’t mount to diddly!
He continued with his games in his team. This time he decided to push his team, each against the other. He created a new game association. He created new camps, and the leaders of these camps were Emerson Mnangagwa and Joyce Mujuru. Since he was tired and ageing he decided to rest a bit and created a part-player, part-referee, part-boss on the game association, in his wife. She played the games on his behalf, against Mujuru and Mnangagwa. Robert rested. Morgan, you also rested and nursed your wounds. This new game was vicious and was played with one gun(Robert) in the hands of this player, Grace Mugabe. The other players had no weapons. She played the game of elimination. Grace used the AK47 to kill of half the players and Mujuru in 2014 and replaced these with her favored younger players, some says for sex payoffs, and these were set on Mnangagwa. Mnangagwa was knocked out. What it did was to make everyone realize Mugabe was a ruthless bastard. Grace killed everyone, killed the government, killed the party, and killed the country. Yet Grace and Robert underestimated the power of Mnangagwa as he went scuttling, hiding, it was said he went to a land of strength to the east, and in the eastern lands he returned back wielding battalions and battalions of goons that descended on Robert. Morgan, I know whilst all these things were happening you were now fighting a different game in your party and personally. This game is dangerous too as it involves biological invasions deeply inside your body and party. You are fighting an illness, how it is wearing your body down, gnawing second by second at your will, pounding suffocating pain , surfing away a mountainside, eating you down until escape into the pitch becomes the only lover you want to hold now.
I have heard you are back at work, Morgan- hanky panky all over, strutting like a cock. You have been asked to come back to the pitch again. Those players, Robert‘s team and the people have missed kicking you around. They are telling you that you are the best ball ever. I am surprised you have forgotten you were recuperating, you were not even fit enough to lead your own party, have barely tried to connect with the electorate, to win back all those people Robert pushed away from you during the GNU. You have adopted more new balls in your party to strengthen your chances of not getting picked as you were ill, but they have picked you again. Are you fit to be played for another 5 years by these players who now seem to have multiplied since Robert open the can of worms…, I mean his armpits. Morgan, know that they are going to play you rough for the next 5 years. Know that this time they will kill you one way or another; know that by the end of the 5 years no one will bother about you ever and your new balls. Yes, they you want to legitimize the whole charade and their thuggery of a game they have been playing through you. Yes, you will right the economy for them again, the country, the party etc.., and then they will discard you off for the last time. Nobody will touch you again. This is what they did to Ndabaningi Sithole, Edgar Tekere, to Joshua Nkomo, to everyone the people had loved. A big question on my mind is, are you genuinely in opposition to Mugabe or it’s just been a game you played on us. A boy who caught a falling star in his hands, who liked the way it purpled his palms, deepened the shallow tracks of his lifeline. Why do you keep trying to save Robert and ZANUPF from disappearing into oblivion?
Morgan, you must have said no and refused to enter the GNU in 2009, that was used by the army and Robert to stay these thugs and thieves in power. Understand it is the army that has been playing Robert and you all the last 10 years. It is the army that told Robert not to resign when you beat him fair and square in 2009, and cooked a situation whereby a GNU was a process they used to right the party they so died for. What did the army tell you when you won. They told you Zimbabwe is for the gun, not pen. What did they tell Robert just some few days ago? The country is for the gun. Only those who fought in the liberation war have the right to lead the party and government. What makes you think the army will change their tone when you win. Now see how they have deposed Robert, their leader because he refused to follow their rule. You are nobody to the army, Morgan. You are just some sponge going to be used to stay the goons in ZANUPF. You were stupid to enter the GNU when at that moment you had Robert and the army by their balls. It’s a different kind of balls I am talking of here! In the process you defrauded people of their right to see Robert off forever.
Now you think it’s a different game. It’s easy for you and your other balls to be fooled by the situation and think Robert, Mnangagwa and the army are done. No, they want to buy time to sort their messy home. They have realized this game of bullets they were playing in their party has destroyed the party. What you are going to do is to allow them to defraud the other team, the people, of their right to vote these thugs out of the government in 8 months time. Like I said before, 10 years ago, refuse to enter this charade of a game. Let them finish each other off. Let them destroy the party completely. Stay safe and wait for the elections which the constitution guarantees. Tell your other balls to pump air up, and go back to the people and win them over. Focus on your party, believe it is broken, and fix it! Prepare your party for the elections next year. Demand for elections to be done next year as per the constitution of the land. Refuse to enter the GNU. I am afraid you would contract a wretched disease that Nkomo contracted- inflamed patriotism of the cerebral membranes, syphilis of spirit, a patriarch of dead organs. They will absorb you into the ZANUPF party and our blessed dream we fought for multiparty democracy will revert back to one party state of ZANUPF/MDC. Insist on the constitution. Now these thugs have messed what you built during the GNU, now they want you to help them stay. You know what’s in the basement of ZANUPF- only an idiot would go down there, and you know equally well, though you believe you are not in fact an idiot, that you are going to go down those stairs again. Tell the other team to stay stronger, tell the people to stay stronger. It’s only a matter of 8 months, and then they can help you clean up ZANUPF, Robert, Mnangagwa and the goons, off our streets. The truth is they are not going to allow you to win after you have helped them stay in power for another 5 years. Do the skies ever open out to transparency. For goodness sake, you never went to war.
Siya vaurayane nokusunguna (leave them as they kill and jail each other). Leave them to implode. Don’t forget its these who destroyed the country and MDC, and when they had succeeded in destroying it, in last elections, why didn’t they ask you join them in government like they are doing to you now. After all it’s the ZANUPF that is dead. Zimbabwe must be fixed through elections, not through building back ZANUPF. Leave Constantine Chiwenga and Mnangagwa to create their own governments and they will be null and void in 8 months time. Beyond that they won’t be recognized by the constitution and SADC. Leave Mnangagwa to create his power hungry cabinet, and leave Chiwenga to continue with a coup that is not a coup. I didn’t say don’t support any moves that do away with the monster Mugabe, no. Support them but don’t be fooled into joining them in the proposed GNU. The letter might seem to be saying you shouldn’t help them destroy themselves, but know that always in accounts of anything, much is left unsaid in order to make what is retained more capable of being focused: don’t enter the GNU! I have cried out louder so that silence won’t betray all that we have worked so hard to avoid: death of multiparty democracy in Zimbabwe. They have only 8 months of constitutionality, and beyond that fight them, get help from the international community, force them to do elections. You will now win; their games have restored faith in your supporters to vote them out. Those goons are done and dusted. Now recuperate and if you fine, go to your party and lead them to the elections. Engage the people. Tell them you have their backs now. Show us how much you have changed. Because if ever we agree to return to your world again, it would be on the condition that you did pass through panel beating, and you are now wiser and changed. Please, stop this tomfoolery. Don’t be used again. Don’t lose this country again. You are our hero. You are endowed with great destiny, which corresponds with the level of your epicness and with the aid of the gods, your success is inevitable. And a character all the more heroic as you are is more inclined towards mastering the forces which lie outside the scopes of your naked human personality like the strident Jeremiahs of the Old Testament. Rule the day, Morgan. Leave the night to Mugabe and his goons, the ZANUPF. All the pain we were subjected to for the last 4 years will be for nothing as we help you build back the goons. You are the bridge that connects us, that should wait to connect us to consciousness again. The elections are around the corner!
I know you and your balls are power hungry like Robert and his thugs but know that posterity will simply laugh you off as a fool who stumbled on a good thing and messed it. I know all these prohibitions in this letter will only be mere echoes in a void, they will fill nothing. Your heart is set on joining the charade again. You gullible hands don’t feel my epoxy melting; will sign off to another GNU, unfurling the illusion again. But I really feel sorry for you, and that’s why I had to write you this letter. Posterity will blame you for allowing power hungry monsters to steal their future. You will become a giant that was destroyed by hubris, like Othello, Macbeth, Kane etc…. your response is predetermined. It is trained like B.F Skinner’s rats. This argument in this letter has everything to do with morality, you have a choice. Try to make people you know happy, this time. The conscience of a race is the gift of its individuals. You have no mandate to be party to this. Stay out of it and save yourself and your party.
I am the ball they played more than you, now I refuse to be played again
NB. I want to encourage fellow Zimbabweans to fight this new game in town, to refuse to become party to it, to continue persevering and fighting for the next 8 months to elections, to organize themselves for the vote, to not embrace another shortcut that will be a long way to freedom again. 8 months are not as harsh as 5 stable years followed by another 4 harsh years to another election. Reject this nonsense! Say NO to the monster that the GNU is! The hard work of moving forward must be done as our grief becomes the new homes where we will live until freedom’s breath of winning the elections inspires every house, every song, in every street in Zimbabwe.
Thank you, Ndinotenda, Ngiyabonga
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