MUCKRAKER and other patriotic Zimbos are celebrating another historic achievement of the Second Republic - the inclusion of our Owner on the coveted list of 26 elite owners that were exclusively invited by Chinese Owner Xi Jinping to his country’s celebrations to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in the Second World War.
This was no ordinary event and that our very own was almost the only African owner, who made it to this list speaks volumes about how much our own man is really doing his very best to punch way above his size. This is really an elite league of owners and that our very own has so easily made it is cause for celebration.
It was a mouth-watering list of the world’s creme de la creme that we can assure you!
Topping the list of the who’s who of ownership were the obvious candidates — Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un… naturally!
Then there were all other sorts of competent owners that included Cuba’s Miguel Díaz-Canel, Myanmar’s General Min Aung Hlaing, Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian, Pakistan’s Shehbaz Sharif, Mongolia’s Khurelsukh Ukhnaa, Uzbek’s Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko and last but not least, Republic of Congo’s Denis Sassou Nguesso, the only other African owner to make it to the list.
Were it not for the presence of Putin and North Korea’s Kim, there is no doubt that our Owner would have made it to the red carpet.
By the way, who said you become the company that you keep? Having the privilege of rubbing shoulders with this list of the world’s very best can only help our Owner become the very best of the best, no doubt about it!
It is an epic feat that should be celebrated with an all-night musical gala. Thankfully, September 15 is just around the corner so that on Munhumutapa Day, Muck and other patriots can dutifully celebrate our visionary Owner’s birthday and achievements and selfless dedication to the liberation and development of this country.
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Without this blessing that is him, where would we be as an ownerless people?
Say something… anything!
It is almost a week now and Muck is still waiting for that incoherent statement from Zimbabwe Republic Police’s Cde Paul Nyathi on the bombing of Job Sikhala’s house in Chitungwiza. A statement saying just anything to make it appear like the bombing was not politically-motivated, which it obviously is appearing to be given this silence.
He should just say anything to wrong-foot gullible Zimbos into believing that the noisy opposition leader bombed his own home to draw attention to his book in the same way the opposition has always done ahead of our Owner’s important engagements.
This time around the news of the bombing was announced when our Owner was at the Vatican to collect his blessings from Pope Leo XIV.
We know that after arresting Sikhala for more than 60 times, including detaining him for a record 595 days, the police is sick and tired of him, but certainly remaining quiet in the face of reports suggesting that a bombing — on the eve of Sikhala’s book launch in South Africa — took place does not do any good to the force, which is seen to be partisan… and is.
Until now, the goons that disrupted the book’s launch in Masvingo have not been arrested, just as in all others cases involving those who dare question the way they happen to be owned.
At least Cde Nyathi should have said something, anything, to deflect attention from the obvious suspects for the sake of the country’s battered image that its very same Owners, who claim to be busy building it brick-by-brick, are actually busy tarnishing.
Whitewashing bill
Talking about the country’s tattered image, only this week (No)Tourism minister Barbara Rwodzi was complaining that her ministry can’t afford to engage influential people to market the country as a safe tourist destination.
She claimed that those individuals such as Muck and others with good names are giving them exorbitant quotations to carry out the unenviable task of whitewashing realities about the situation obtaining on the ground.
While we understand Cde Rwodzi’s concerns — that she has to save as much as she can for the back-pocket! We, however, don’t believe that quotes like US$3 million per year by a truly international sportsperson can be said to be too much, considering that this person would be doing actual hard work compared to the destruction that she and her fellow owners are actually paying themselves to do.
Cde Rwodzi needs to be schooled about the concept of the relatedness of things. This very soiled image that she is desperate to hide is largely a result of the whole collective that is the ownership of this country.
How does her own violent behaviour at the Pan-African Parliament that saw her being rewarded with a ministerial appointment help the country’s image as a safe tourist destination?
With most, if not all, of our image problems being self-afflicted, sometimes what is just needed is a change of behaviour by the right people at the top and that image starts improving without even hiring anyone to peddle lies around.
Silly Zambians!
While some of us are busy deepening ties with Beijing under its Comprehensive Strategic Partnership of Cooperation, silly Zambians are trying to extort our Chinese masters to the tune of a jaw-dropping US$420 million just because a little acid accidentally spilled into a stream and exposed a few villagers to a bit of danger. How silly?
Who do these Zambians think they are to behave as if they are not a Chinese colony, just as we proudly are here across the Zambezi?
It is un-African for them to behave like this. Zambians need to cross the river for a crash course on how to treat our Chinese masters! They should come and see for themselves the excellent environmental work that our new masters are doing for us all over the country — in Warren Park, in Mutoko, at Christmas Pass in Mutare, at Boterekwa in Shurugwi, in Makonde — everywhere, then they will stop behaving like there is really something special about their own part of the world… and their lives!
It is because of this carelessness that their leader does not get invited for heady celebrations in Beijing!
Silly too!
Also silly is this Jacob Ngarivume chap, who says he is seeking an appointment with the Pope so that he, too, can have private talks with him!
In what capacity is he seeking that meeting? Does he own a country to qualify to make that request?
It is just as silly as the people, who are questioning the decree by the country’s ownership that all private and public transport vehicles should, forthwith, not be tinted!
In what capacity do they question that decree? On its way is a follow-up decree that no more curtains on private homes because a lot of nefarious things are plotted in these homes. Who are they to question their owners?
