God has, undoubtedly, blessed Robert Mugabe with the gift of a long life.
The irony, however, is that the long life is being used to snuff out the lives of others.
God better show us that He doesn’t like that, because we have had enough.
Once again, Zimbabweans helplessly watch as yet another year passes by without having brought us anywhere closer to what we had wished and hoped for this same time a year ago.
Neither the gods, African leaders nor even ancestors appear to care about the persecution of the Zimbabwean people.
I sit here in a foreign land, wondering why so many millions of us are not home in Zimbabwe with our families.
I sit here pondering what really happened to our country, to our people, to our leaders and to our nation.
I shudder to see the shameless manner in which civil servants like Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo acquired so much property and wealth through a government salary.
Fifteen cars in the garage, 20 houses, residential and business stands scattered in towns around Zimbabwe is more than greed.
It is obscene.
The kid is demented, just like Mugabe who owns numerous farms while the people, who he has always said needed land, are still homeless and are still without land to plant crops just for home consumption.
I scan the horizons for an excuse on behalf of these so-called liberators and all I see is confirmation that one Robert Mugabe owes the people of Zimbabwe a big apology.
Thinking only of himself, Mugabe again showed his confused and warped reasoning a few weeks ago by threatening to punish innocent investors through unilaterally grabbing their properties or companies to punish the British and American governments for imposing sanctions on him and his cronies.
The old goat went on to say that anyone who calls for sanctions against him and his friends ought to be charged with treason.
Well, for Mugabe’s benefit, I say that sanctions must be tightened and widened, particularly on him, his financially insatiable wife, his family, friends and political cronies.
Mugabe is not standing on any moral, legal or political ground to be giving orders on decency, morality or legality. Rather, it is Mugabe himself who ought to be charged with treason; the reasons are many.
Mugabe has extracted too much joy out of the suffering of innocent people.
As it is, the man is serving no purpose in our nation apart from reigning misery, brutality and mindless violence on innocent people while he displays the kind of greed and bloodsucking that we last saw among colonialists, who we threw out precisely for the same horrid behaviour that Mugabe now indulges in.
Sanctions must be tightened on him and the sooner that is done the better.
Mugabe has had his time and cannot be allowed to continue killing, raping and abusing Zimbabweans. He has caused citizens of other countries to look upon the good people of Zimbabwe as idiots.
Mugabe’s behaviour is not Zimbabwean.
We are not violent people and Mugabe should take his philosophies somewhere where he might be welcomed, like in Cuba or North Korea.
Zimbabwe does not deserve Mugabe.
And his wife has the audacity to sue newspapers for talking about her financial shenanigans.
Grace Mugabe also expects to abuse Zimbabweans with impunity, her sole excuse to it all being that he is Mugabe’s wife.
Mugabe has embarrassed Tsvangirai, a man who put his own credibility on the line to try and work with Mugabe for the good of the nation.
We hear talk of elections this year.
In whose interests are such elections? Does South Africa really want change in Zimbabwe?
Jacob Zuma has decided to sit down and write a road map for these elections himself but immediately adds that he will not impose it on Zimbabwe; so what is he doing?
We already know how squeamish his ANC is about a labour-based political party because they fear the Congress of South African Trade Unions, which has become vocal against its partners in the tripartite alliance.
But let it be said that this is Mugabe’s last chance to reform as his deputy, Joyce Mujuru, recently alluded to during their congress.
Zimbabweans have been patient with Mugabe to the extent of doing nothing after he killed thousands of our compatriots.
Zimbabweans have been patient with him as he abuses an elected party and its leader.
But things have gone too far and I smell trouble. I fear for Zimbabwe and the region.
We have given this man enough space.
We have been with Mugabe since 1980 and we have killed all the younger generations since.
Because of Mugabe, we have gone for decades without producing any brilliant free thinking ‘born frees’ of our own but polished up those left in the system by Ian Smith.
But our youngsters know where they belong.
Our youngsters know Zimbabwe is their only hope and are on the verge of dismissing us as being tolerant of an evil dictator and may want to do things their way.
Both Robert and Grace Mugabe must remember that they are mere mortals who are lucky to be alive today as we remember all of our compatriots who fell by the wayside during 2010, including those of our number whose deaths are being blamed on Mugabe.
Grace and Robert must understand that, in spite of their spite, God has been kind to them.
These two, more than anyone else, must respect the Zimbabwean people for letting them be what they are.
They must remember that they sit in a throne we refused to let them occupy.
They have soiled the name of the country.
So if they want to talk about treason, they are very welcome, indeed.
I hope this time the gods will come to our side. We can’t continue being dealt cards from the bottom of the deck; Zimbabwe’s time has to come now.
We have been forced to sacrifice the lives of so many of our compatriots and we deserve something from the gods.
Mugabe and Grace owe everything to Zimbabwe and they still have a chance to right their wrongs before their fate is decided for them.
I read somewhere that the only good thing about living is that one day we shall die, and death is not the end, but there exists a life after death. Either in heaven with the Lord or in hell with torment, the qualifying exams for either destination is the life we live here on earth.
This fact should guide us all through our journey in life…what we do, what we say, where we go.
Robert and Grace Mugabe must pause and ponder; I know they are not capable, but they can try, just like all of us have painfully been doing, and continue to do, on their behalf.
All it takes is a sincere apology and we will take it from there.
We are waiting, Mr President!
