Of Coffee With The Sceptre, Specter, Spectatcle

If you were having coffee with me, I would be glad you visited my corner of the internet, make yourself at home, put your feet up while I figure out where to even begin….

Good thing you can get here in one piece, at the click of a button otherwise you would be asking me how one navigates through the traffic jungle and we wont even talk about the potholes…

Well the traffic is crazy, some say its because people are buying a lot of cars, others say it’s the roads and others say its because after lockdown got eased well people have travelling to catch up to, places to be, going there slowly stuck in a jam. What do the officials say? They say its because fuel is readily available…. Wait what?

I know its wild… but you know whats even wilder, our former first lady Grace Mugabe once made the sensational claim that Mugabe would rule from the grave; “We want you to lead this country from your grave, while you lie at the National Heroes’ Acre,” She had previously suggested that she would push her then 92-year-old husband to work in a wheelbarrow if she had to… When he eventually died I wrote an article Asante Sana Goodnight Mr President on my disbelief at the death of a man I felt to be almost immortal… Well it seems his specter is not quite done with us, you turn on the internet and still find him trending.

Why is Mugabe Trending?…

…Man's ruling from the grave a he predicted..

— ~B 🇿🇼 (@Beatonm5) May 12, 2021

If you were having coffee with me I would tell you that there was drama in Mugabe’s death which ended up in him not being buried at the National Heroes’ Acre but instead at his homestead, with a grave filled with concrete and a tamper-proof seal… Now it seems there are moves to exhume his body and re-bury properly. The former first lady had summons delivered to her house claiming to be from a traditional chief that she, Grace, committed a crime in burying the late leader without following protocol.

Word on the street is that when Mugabe died he did not pass on the sceptre or walking stick to a successor which allowed one to govern the land. The stick is said to have the blessings of ancestors, spirit mediums and traditional medicine men, giving one the wisdom and strength to rule.

So as no one was bequeathed the stick; this is why the country is facing so many challenges and to properly lead that country one needs, all the help they can get. So apparently some suggest that under the guise of reburying him, there are those who would want to secure for themselves, the walking stick which Mugabe was allegedly buried with…. I guess man be ruling from the grave….

If you were having coffee with me, I would tell you about the commissioning of Kazungula bridge which links Botswana and Zamibia (I once wrote about it… coffee with Kazungula) and curves Zimbabwe…

Turns out according to media reports what happened was when the bridge project was initiated in 2001 it would pass through Zimbabwean territory but years later Mugabe went into a sulk at the opinions and positions of Zambia’s late former President Levy Mwanawasa and Botswana’s Ian Khama on Zimbabwe with the former calling it a sinking ship in 2007 and the later condemning human rights abuses in Zimbabwe during the 2008 elections.

Consequently the bridge plan would eventually be altered to avoid cutting through Zimbabwean territory. At the official opening of the Kazungula Bridge our government had a bit of a diplomatic embarrassment as they tried to convey the impression that they had been on board the project. Behind the scenes I can imagine heated diplomatic talks with others saying your government refused to cooperate and the other saying but it wasn’t me…. I guess Mugabe did it again.

If you were having coffee with me I would tell you about how our, as yet former Chief Justice had a most eventful birthday on the 15^th of May when he turned 70 and was supposed to retire from office. Lawyers were at the High Court fighting the newly instituted constitution amendment which would have allowed judges age limit to move from 70 to 75. The court ruled that the term limit was invalid as it breached the constitution and that the Chief Justice had ceased to be judge as at midnight 15 May.

Meanwhile the government has lodged an appeal as the minister of justice issued out a statement calling it a night court consisting of night judges and night lawyers and accusing the judiciary of being captured by multi-lateral foreign forces to destabilise government…

Its been such a spectacle can someone just get the sceptre and we exorcise this specter…. Anyhow anything spectacular going on in your neck of the woods?

~B