{UAH} Fwd.ed, Africa Update - President Mugabe is a Pastor...ordained by God

...Perhaps the most bizarre of Grace Mugabe's claims is to suggest that her husband President Robert Mugabe is a man of God. "President Mugabe is a pastor; when he speaks, I think when you hear him speak, you can hear that he is ordained by God,"

 

...she made this gratuitous claim while addressing about 300 pastors and their wives who had been conscripted, I suspect, like many other foreign and local visitors to her children's home in Mazowe, shows how she now believes by saying what ever she feels like, that somehow makes her statements unassailable. "I think that he [Mugabe] is the only gift from God that Zimbabwe has. He is the biggest gift that we have," Grace said to applause from the church leaders.

Genuine God-fearing Christians, traditionally humble and modest in their blandishments about faith, should be outraged by this blasphemous self-delusion. But then, these church leaders, especially invited to partake of the hospitality of the famously charitable Mazowe Orphanage, probably felt "empowered", to use contemporary ZimAsset lexicon.

Then came what I thought takes the biscuit in delusional grandstanding. "My time has come to show people what I am made of," Grace warned ominously, adding that she might have a "small fist", but when it comes to fighting, "I will put stones inside it to enlarge it, or even put on gloves to make it bigger. Do not doubt my capabilities". Readers will, no doubt have been reminded of a similar boast by President Mugabe when he claimed to have degrees in violence -- and the numerous times he has waved a gnarled fist at perceived enemies in his well-known angry gestures.

Grace, perhaps anxious to salvage her reputation following widespread doubts that her recently acquired PhD from the University of Zimbabwe was legitimately deserved, has also unreservedly lashed out her husband's detractors: "In the afternoon, you come to the President and tell him that you love him and support him, but before dawn you will be calling people to meet so that you plot for President Mugabe's downfall and you think it is that easy treating an educated man like Mugabe like a child. Are you sure?" she said to cheers.

"We might be quiet, but we know of the people who are busy bribing people so that they get votes. I want to say stop it, stop it before congress because we have the information. My husband and I might be sitting quietly at our home, but we know you and one of these days I will confront you," Grace said on one of her so-called meet-the-people rallies on Monday.

"You see people coming to Baba [Mugabe] saying to him that they want to go and hold victory celebrations over the emphatic electoral victory . . . these are the same people who did not want these elections in the first place. Even if you ask Mnangagwa, people did not want these elections," she said.

Of course, for those who have followed closely Zanu PF's murky succession politics, the mere mention of [Emmerson] Mnangagwa's name came as no surprise and was more than revealing about where her loyalties lie.

The First Lady, who is set to lead the Zanu PF Women's League after the incumbent Oppah Muchinguri, decided to make way for her, has reportedly severely divided Zanu PF. Many Zanu PF stalwarts, whispers below the surface suggest, are dismayed at this unrestrained "loose canon" now unleashed in their midst.

 

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