THE strong suggestion is that it’s ‘mene, mene, tekel, upharsin’ for the amorphous Cult, its sole proprietor, zombie followers and rotting mango strategy as the 2023 polls beckon — if the results of last weekend’s local by-elections are anything to go by.
To those Daily News readers whose knowledge of the Holy Writ is as scant as the teapot country’s ubiquitous Madzibaba, the Aramaic phrase above is found in the Book of Daniel (the story of the handwriting on the wall) — interpreted to mean that God had weighed Belshazzar and his kingdom, found them wanting and would thus destroy them.
In the local context, to decode things further, VAR has used this in relation to the palpable despair and feeling of extreme despondence within the unhelpable and irredeemable Secret Society, where frustrations are fast-reaching ritual mass suicide levels.
This comes after the Red Devils thrashed the Yellow Submarine in five of the six special polls that were contested last weekend, banishing the Canaries’ and their social media delusions that they are on the ascendancy and that the Reds are on the decline.
Free advice here to Mazizi who continue to bury their heads in the sand despite this obvious reality that the Cult is running in place: the Red Devils have millions of genuine, living followers from all walks of life around the country.
You underestimate them at your own peril. In the rich mother tongue of many of the people who live here in kontuthu ziyathunqa, we would say the Cult and its insufferable zealots bahlulwa ngokuphelele (they got a real hiding this past weekend).
Writing On The Wall
Bazalwane, anyone who has not yet woken up to the reality that the situation is going to be very diffi cult for the Secret Society in 2023 needs to visit the shrine of the late Madzibaba Wimbo for urgent spiritual help.
To go deeper into the matter, the story of all the by-elections that have been held in the country since the end of the Covid pandemic, as unpalatable as this truth maybe to some, is that the opposition is sliding backwards from its relatively decent showing of 2018.
This means that — for slow-witted political amateurs like Desperate Ruka (The Cult’s Unwanted And Now Fictional Deputy Champion For Presidential Affairs), as well as for cashvists and dishonest hacks-forhire who abound in our motherland — unless something changes dramatically over the next nine months or so, the Red Devils and their captain will canter to victory by an even wider margin over their opponents in 2023 than they did four years ago.
The current political dynamics and settings in our beloved teapot country, notwithstanding the shrill twaddle by Mazizi on sosho, are that clear.
Canaries’ Downward Spiral
This is more so given the many credible stories that VAR has been receiving from leading lights of the Cult in recent weeks that its ructions and contradictions are getting worse by the day, amid a growing sense of hopelessness within the formless Secret Society.
Which is all not that surprising, given Mazizi’s well-known propensity for politics of hara-kiri, arrogance, vain bravado and personality cults.
This, coupled with their dislike of competent but independent-minded people like the energetic Chucky and Chibaba Chemaveggie, as well as many others of that ilk — who could help move the nascent outfit forward and raise much-needed funds for the skint close corporation as 2023 looms large — has meant that the Little Titanic that the Cult has become is inexorably headed for a massive iceberg.
Phoney Democrats
In the meantime, trawling through the echo chamber that is Zim social media, it is clear to see that the idea of democracy is poorly understood by many people — especially those who claim to be democracy warriors, such as Mazizi.
This is the reason why these disconsolate doomwatchers always insult those fellow citizens who don’t support their preferred political parties and leaders as lesser human beings.
As is also to be expected, this sorry lot always beat their chests whenever their parties and candidates do well in elections, but are quick to blame the Red Devils, the much-abused Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, Jonso, Mai Jukwa, the Third Way, and even the weather and the moon, or some other phantom factors when their favourites lose. Zvinonzwisa tsitsi kani.
Until next Friday, Azishe!
