{"id":36606,"date":"2015-03-05T19:55:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T18:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=36606"},"modified":"2015-03-05T19:55:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T18:55:58","slug":"robert-mugabes-fall-symbolic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/robert-mugabes-fall-symbolic\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Robert Mugabe\u2019s Fall Symbolic?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Not a few across the world are convinced that it has become completely impossible to feel any sympathy for President Robert Mugabe no matter what happens to him. Mugabe\u2019s 35-year old rule which has rewarded Zimbabweans with untold hardship has continued to defy any attempt at rationalization.<\/div>\n
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But when he tripped on a red carpeted staircase last Wednesday (February 4, 2015) and came crashing down to the ground as he descended a podium at the\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Harare \u00a0 International \u00a0 Airport\u00a0after addressing a very enthusiastic crowd of Zimbabweans, I could not help nursing some discomfort over the prompt, massive celebrations that greeted the accident across the world. I almost found myself agreeing with the Zimbabwean Information Minister, Jonathan Moyo, that the global bacchanal over Mugabe\u2019s tumble amounted to \u201cmorbid celebrations.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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Mugabe must have been in a very pleasant mood that Wednesday. He had just returned from the 24th African Union (AU)\u00a0 Summit \u00a0in\u00a0 Addis Ababa \u00a0where, despite stiff oppositions from Civil Society organisations, he was crowned the new Chairman of the 54-nation body, a position that would now afford him a more elevated platform to periodically deliver well-aimed sound bites to the West, his mortal enemies.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Also, as his plane touched down in\u00a0\u00a0Harare\u00a0and he saw such a large crowd of supporters waiting to receive him, he must have reassured himself that his western antagonists would once more get the message he has been trying hard to send across to them, namely, that he is still in power because Zimbabweans want him. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Robert Mugabe tripped and fell at Harare Airport\u00a0<\/span><\/b>
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Again, on February 21, 2015, Mugabe will clock 91. He must have been happily looking forward to that day and hoping that his 49-year old, extremely fashion-conscious wife, Grace, would be discharged from the Asian hospital where she is recuperating from an appendix surgery, to enable her be on his side as he blows out the 91 candles that would be lighted on his usually very large Birthday Cake.\u00a0 And then he would once again announce to those eagerly awaiting news of his death or incapacitation that he is still \u201cfit as fiddle.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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Mugabe had landed heavily on his knees and hands when he fell last Wednesday. For a 91-year old man, the effect would be quite enormous on his joints and ankle bones considering the height from which he fell, assuming there was no fracture. It would, therefore, really take a lot of work by his doctors and physiotherapists to get him up on his feet again very soon, although Mugabe is not lacking in his usual surprises.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Matters are not helped by the fact that he might be quite reluctant fly to\u00a0 Singapore \u00a0to see his favourite doctors for quality medical attention due to the predictable deluge of more scornful coverage and speculations from the western media whose searchlight must be focused on\u00a0 Harare \u00a0by now.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Indeed, these are not the best of times for the once ever calm, unflappable Uncle Bob, and one is left wondering if this historic fall, which caught his usually very alert, sharp and efficient bodyguards unawares, is symbolic. Could it be indicating the commencement of Mugabe\u2019s long-expected demystification or \u00a0the loosening of his grip on the soul of\u00a0 Zimbabwe \u00a0and eventual exit from power? Is it being rudely impressed on Mugabe\u2019s rocky heart that for every beginning there is always an end, and that even the most reliable security structure can sometimes embarrassingly disappoint, and well-cultivated public image suddenly marred.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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The frantic image reclamation effort in\u00a0 Harare \u00a0since \u201cthe fall of Mugabe\u201d has been surprisingly shoddy. Immediately Mugabe\u2019s aides picked him up with the speed of lightening, rushed him into his waiting Mercedes Benz and sped off, operatives of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation, rounded up all the journalists covering the event and ordered them to delete all the images of the fall from their cameras. But, despite this prompt preventive measure, the global media soon began to feast on pictures and footages of the great fall. It soon went viral on the internet spiced with memes further mocking him.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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And then, the Zimbabwean government entered stage two of image management. Information minister Moyo told the<\/span>\u00a0Herald<\/i><\/b>, the state-owned newspaper:\u00a0\u00a0“What happened is that the president tripped over a hump on the carpet on one of the steps of the dais as he was stepping down from the platform but he remarkably managed to break the fall on his own\u2026 I repeat that the president managed to break the fall.”<\/i><\/div>\n
For once, Mugabe\u2019s usually very reliable image managers would be wondering what was happening to them!\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Always sharply turned out in well cut designer suits, Mugabe represents a beautiful image of what it means to \u201cage gracefully.\u201d At 91, he is still intellectually and psychologically intact, always at his impressive best during press conferences or interviews. Due to stiff sanctions imposed on his country because of his face-off with the West led by\u00a0 Britain \u00a0after his \u201cland reforms\u201d which saw him \u201crecovering\u201d large expanses of land held by very few white farmers to the gross disadvantage of the black (native) majority, the economy of the country has been in tatters, and public infrastructure virtually collapsed. In\u00a0 2010, a \u00a0Zambian friend showed me a 40 billion Zimbabwean dollar bill which he said could not buy a loaf of bread!<\/span><\/div>\n
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You could be forgiven for admiring Mugabe if you neither lived in\u00a0 Harare \u00a0nor\u00a0 Bulawayo . Many Africans are, however, at a loss as to how to deal with Mugabe. Will the West be hounding and demonizing him today if the vast lands were still in the hands of the few whites, even if he was the most ruthless dictator in\u00a0 Africa ? That is the disturbing question.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Mugabe is driven by immense fear and, therefore, trusts no one except himself and, maybe, his wife. Would he not end up at\u00a0 The Hague \u00a0and get the Charles Taylor treatment if he quits power?<\/span><\/div>\n
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This fear often leads him into hasty suspicions and dealing ruthlessly with his real or imagined enemies. Although he continues to deny it,\u00a0<\/span>a 1980s tribal massacre of over 20, 000 mostly Ndebele people which he was said to have ordered still make people shudder.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Mugabe told CNN\u2019s Christiane Amanpour in 2009 that the US and Britain are hell-bent on successfully executing what he calls their \u201cregime change programme\u201d in Zimbabwe which he says,\u00a0\u201cis aimed at getting not just Robert Mugabe out of power, but Robert Mugabe and his party out of power?\u201d<\/i>\u00a0And that \u201cnaturally means,\u201d he said, that \u201cwe dig in [and] remain in our trenches.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Now \u201cdigging in\u201d and remaining in their trenches have been at very grave costs to\u00a0<\/span>Zimbabweans. The MDC-T leader, Morgan\u00a0<\/span>Tsangirai, widely seen as the western tool for unseating Mugabe has been trashed in every election by Mugabe\u2019s ZANU-PF. \u00a0And just recently, Mugabe sacked his deputy, Mrs. Joice Mujuru, accusing her of planning to assassinate him. His wife is now being touted as his favoured successor.<\/span><\/div>\n
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With Mujuru and her supporters reportedly planning to form their own party, a weakening crack is appearing in the once very formidable ruling ZANU-PF. And that for Mugabe presents a future pregnant with unnerving possibilities. Could it be that it was that future that was presaged in last Wednesday\u2019s fall?<\/span><\/div>\n
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*Mr.<\/b><\/em>\u00a0<\/span>Ugochukwu\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/em>\u00a0<\/i><\/b>Ejinkeonye<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0is a commentator on public issues is columnist with\u00a0Daily Independent<\/span><\/a>\u00a0newspaper,\u00a0 Lagos. (scruples2@hotmail.com)\u00a0<\/b><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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