Take the money and run? Not so fast!
I found it interesting that the super-rich Virgin guy, Richard Branson, has been mentioned as having been part of plans to “retire” our dear old man, and it perhaps shows how desperate the world has been over the years to literally save Zimbabwe from sure doom because of the continued and unsustainable stewardship of someone stuck in time warp. The Virgin guy has dismissed reports that he offered Mugabe USD10 million as part of a sweetener to guarantee his quiet and exit and obviously bloodless power transfer. The Virgin guy says that’s fiction that he never authored and in any case that would be too little a sum. Obviously he has deep pockets, or else he fells Mugabe is worth more than that. Yet like some of the Zanu PF wiki dicks who wanted to see their life-long benefactor leave office reportedly said, Africa’s last King of Nationalism was not likely to take the money and run. It is rather morbidly refreshing that they see old man in that light: he ain’t for sale! Remembering of course that even the UN did dangle back in 2000 what was noted in news reports as a “lucrative exit package.” He is still around ain’t he? One writer helpfully offered: “An exit strategy for Mugabe is widely believed to be the only answer to Zimbabwe’s political crisis, as it is Mugabe’s presence in the government that is the key stumbling block to progress.”
Now, the same wiki dicks feted by imperialists and lost their heads in the process obviously are for sale, having entered Faustian pacts long ago, and will welcome any largess never mind their indefatigable looting streak since independence came to these shores. We all know their appetite for all things tagged “filthy lucre” resembles that of a sumo wrestler, yet they just can’t seem to get enough, and we just have to point to the find of the century in Mutare. Yet we already know these are the same people named in the looting of the DRC, the national purse, the land what with multiple farm ownership, Willowgate, you name it. Still they are mighty insatiable. If it was libido, these many straws – or strokes – would have broken their backs! It is therefore obvious to me that the same people now falling over each other blaspheming as they use Biblical metaphors and allegories to lionise their supposed benefactor were [are still are in the secrecy of their foolish hearts] in fact cursing the old man saying: dai ndiri ini ndaitora chibhanzi [if it were me, I would have taken the money and ran like the wind]. Wick dicks. Leak, leak.