Operation Lark

I listened carefully to that sham of an interview between Simba Chikanza and Mary Mubaiwa. It is a story told by a fool, full of loud, dramatic emotion which ultimately have an effect of corroding the character of the teller rather than the target of the diatribe. Anyone who believes the scorned woman has a serious problem with information processing. The smear campaign was not just poorly done, it was too long to manage a clear narrative. From the beginning, it broke the framework of effective propaganda- keeping things short. The basic rule is never to make a propaganda piece that long. You risk contradictions and there are many in Mary and Simba's diatribe. Let me note, for you, the things I found interestingly inconsistent. (1) Mary Mubaiwa tried to blame VP Chiwenga for not allowing her to go to China for treatment, or an equally pathetic Simba Chikanza pushed her to, but Mary inadvertently reveals that the China medical trip was President Mnangagwa's initiative, never VP Chiwenga's. The ploy to blame VP Chiwenga was obviously the narrative that Simba wanted to push yet his interviewee clearly stated that the arrangement for VP Chiwenga to go to China was @edmnangagwa's. ED is the one who initially lied to Mary that she would follow her husband to China after two weeks. ED provided, according to Mary, a plane to carry Mary from SA to Zimbabwe but was evasive when it came to arranging her trip to China for her to see her husband and possibly, get treated herself. We are not told the reasons why, we can only speculate. Mary also, despite her claim that she had money and that VP Chiwenga was sending her money from his sick bed in China, couldn't organize her own travel to China to be with her sick husband but waited on an uncooperative Mnangagwa yet she wants to blame VP Chiwenga for her predicament. VP Chiwenga was very sick at the time to an extent, according to Mary, ED had to organize his airlifting from SA to China. The VP didn't arrange this for himself. I therefore find it very inconsiderate and inconsistent for anyone to try and blame him for not facilitating Mary's treatment in China. If there is anyone who neglected Mary's condition, it is ED. ED saw it fit to organize a plane to transport Mary back to Zimbabwe rather than facilitating her treatment in South Africa, if she was sick then, as she claims. (2) Mary also gives out that VP Chiwenga spent $195k on her treatment. Surely a cruel man wouldn't do that, would he? So Chiwenga could spent such money on a person he wanted dead? Does that make sense? That's some serious inconsistences in the poor propaganda narrative by Simba, Mary and their handlers. (3) The Pethidine narrative. I wouldn't want to assume I know that the VP abused or didn't abuse the painkiller but what I find funny is that Mary wants us to believe she was forced also to take the drug. For starters, Mary herself acknowledges that VP Chiwenga wasn't her boss, but an equal, her husband. She even assumes he doesn't think for himself and she was the smarter one in the relationship, so how come the smarter one was persuaded to abuse the painkiller? Remember she says she wasn't taking the drugs when she was pregnant. She would take a break. Why then didn't she take a break for good considering she was the smarter one in the relationship? 3) Mary admits the VP "is a very good person" and "very prayerful". That is inconsistent with the person she is now accusing of wanting to kill her through arranged car collisions. It is clear the narrative of a cruel Chiwenga has been crafted, by Mary and whoever is behind the smear campaign, to diminish VP Chiwenga's standing as a possible successor to ED. That is very clear. What is foolish is using a scorned woman. Mary makes it apparent she is not just fighting an ex-husband, she is fighting his career, his ambitions and his prospects of being President. It is a proxy political war clothed as a domestic dispute. Her attempt to blackmail the VP is clear. She professes that she is keeping 'dirty secrets' in exchange for properties, what a shame! For me, the key take away from Mary's narrative is that VP Chiwenga, despite his suspicions that his then estranged wife wanted to kill him, had the heart to spent $195k on her treatment. That's a good man for me, all day! The other takeaway is that President Mnangagwa is a dishonest "bamukuru" who shamelessly played Mary in her hour of need. How he played Mary until a compassionate unnamed individual from his office chose to inform Mary of his antics makes sad reading. It betrays some mischief, if not evil, from a person the victim considered family-"bamukuru". The other takeaway is that the diatribe is part of a bitter succession war in Zanu-PF, not just a domestic dispute that spilt into the public sphere. Anyone who cares to listen to Mary's diatribe on Chikanza's poorly done interview can see that the purpose for the interview is to farm public indignation on the VP and thwart his pro-people persona that he has built within Zanu-PF and the country at large by using a bitter ex to spew vitriol, even lies, with the hope that her former proximity would validate whatever claim she is making now. Surely, if the VP was hooked to pethidine, a responsible wife should have helped him off it, not join him on that path to destruction, isn't it? And if VP Chiwenga was as cruel as we are being told, why would he spent $195k footing medical bills for someone he wanted dead? Kuita bhasikiti raTizirai rinoti uku rinorukwa, uku richirudunurwa? What we cannot ignore is the bitterness and desperation exuded by Mary. Her bitterness betrays the motive for the poorly done smear campaign. Her attempt to ridicule VP Chiwenga for his dialect influence and native language phonological interference in his use of the /l/ and /r/ phonemes shows how base the bitterness is. It is the most ridiculous attacks I have seen on the VP for now. It is not only childish, but it shows the desperation and the extent to which Mary is going in attacking the VP. Anyway, we are in the season. The VP declared a war against zvigananda, the monied crooks who are hell-bent on capturing Zanu-PF, the state and government, it is quite predictable the charlatans are using anything at their disposal to fight VP Chiwenga and his anti-corruption crusade, including a bitter ex. They are not short of willing participants in this journey. Mary has joined them. For her, ishaisano, typical of a scorned woman. What I know, though, is that it is difficult to keep a good man down. #IchakwanaNguvaNazvinoYatokwana #Elections2028 #PasiNeZvigananda