At one time Mugabe’s skin colour made him worse than a pig, or a dog to those who wanted to rob him of his dignity. You can choose to learn from prejudice, or you can perpetuate it.

“If you’re a woman, if you’re a person of color, if you’re gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you’re a person of size, a person of intelligence, a person of integrity, then you’re considered a minority in this world. And it’s going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. It’s all about how you have to look a certain way or else you’re worthless. For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution and our revolution is long overdue.”
- Margaret Cho

Photo: Jamie McLaren

Seeing as we run a groovy little activist information project we’re all at work today. We work in a building not far from central Harare and we haven’t had a regular supply of municipal water from our taps for years now. In the beginning it was kind of stop, start. Now it’s just stopped. Like how we have to stop Mugabe. The owners of the building had to sink a borehole so that people could still work here and poo and wee and drink and wash up and all those things you do during the course of the day. But today seeing as its a Public Holiday the borehole has been switched off and we’re water-less. Which actually is a good thing because it one of the reminders of what’s wrong with Zimbabwe under Mugabe’s dictatorship. Another reason not to keep him and his diamond swallowers in power.

As we approach the home run in the final stretch of the 2013 harmonized elections the talk of a grand coalition among political parties will just lead us to another blame game in the face of defeat. Looking back at how the two MDC parties have worked together in the inclusive government will tell you the that the relation wasn’t rosy at all so efforts to forge an alliance at this ninth hour are just futile. The only time these two parties teamed up was during the election of Speaker of Parliament and after the relationship went sour especially when then Ncube faction was embroiled in its own succession battle with the then leader Arthur Mutambara. Legislators from MDC-N were expelled from the party faction when they crossed floor to join Mr Tsvangirai’s faction. We later heard reports of the leaders of the unity government teaming up together and having closed door meetings singling out Welshman. In Maputo a grandstanding was staged at an SADC meeting when Tsvangirai and Ncube tried to humiliate President Robert Mugabe.

Just when people thought that the relationship had normalized the two leaders started their election campaigns by trading insults at each other, with Tsvangirai boasting of a huge support calling Ncube a village politician bent on peddling tribal politics. This tirade has turned out to be like a “dissing” contest at a rap concert. The lack of tangible policies in this year’s campaign is a clear sign of how politicians are trying to fill gaps in election manifestos with insults. If we are going to elect a leader should we base that on how eloquently the candidate disrespects opponents like a recent campaign advert I heard on radio about Tsvangirai’s sex life which is being peddled by ZANU-PF.

This homeless man can sometimes be seen shouting at the sky near the traffic lights at Addington Lane. This morning he was sleeping on one of the grass islands on Borrowdale Road – Mugabe’s route to work.

I couldn’t help but laugh at what can only be described as unintelligent remarks attributed to Zanu PF chair Simon Khaya Moyo – yes the one with a stuffed face that tells you he only knows hunger from news reports – who actually said: “you don’t provoke the military, let’s not pretend that our own security forces are not sensitive to insults. They have been insulted and when they respond let us not cry foul. They are not only security forces but liberators.”

I would love to hear Paul Themba Nyathi’s response!

You see Paul Themba Nyathi recently reminded one Chris Mutsvangwa that he (Paul) also fought for the liberation of Zimbabwe and he is not Zanu PF!

And Paul Themba Nyathi and Simon Khaya are both supposedly ex-ZAPU! Irony of ironies.

So much for Simon to try and tell Paul that he should be grateful for being liberated by people who are today blocking Paul and other progressives on their march to a liberated Zimbabwe, 33 years after Zanu PF handed back the country to black Zimbabweans! What bollocks.

Yet as polls approach, we can be sure of such wild statements that one day will only expose the futility of trying to reverse a revolution whose time has come.

But then Zanu PF knows a revolt as a violent takeover, yet these polls are an opportunity for a “peaceful revolution” of sorts that will serve as a rather painful reminder to the plutocrats (read kleptocrats) that Zimbabweans have had enough of this nonsense.