Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s megalomania is advancing with his age. The recent decision by Zanu PF, the country’s ruling party, to allow Mugabe to choose his deputies, instead of electing them at the party’s congress next month, is a strong indicator.
By all accounts, Mugabe, 90, has engineered this strategy because he is looking at establishing his legacy wherein his wife would be propped up for the country’s top post by fighting the elections. The first step was taken by establishing Grace in the public consciousness and she, in turn, accused Vice-President Joice Mujuru of corruption and a plot to kill Mugabe within a scenario where political factions were manoeuvring for greater influence.
Zimbabwe cannot establish international acceptability with Mugabe and his cohorts holding on to power. The narrative that emanates from there is fabricated and based on deceit and treachery. The government is on the back foot, as it woos investors in a bid to clarify the controversial black empowerment laws, but this is a pathetic attempt to hide the truth — that it operates on the whims of one man who believes that the world is demonising him irrationally.
