The Mugabe Dynamic … in summary

As much as our people detested racism in Rhodesia very few were interested in an armed struggle and there was a huge appreciation of what White folk had to offer. That is why our people became by far the most skilled in Africa and for a good chunk of the planet. In addition our people had a nervous scepticism about the Communist/Socialist ideology.
That is why most did not join the armed struggle even though this is now an inconvenient truth.
What Ian Douglas Smith did was to recklessly squander the deep-seated respect their goodwill that our people had for Whites. Time and time again he was warned that his ideological commitment to White supremacy would guarantee an eventual takeover by a Mugabe type leader.
Bishop Abel Muzorerwa was essentially a man of peace desperately trying to reconcile all or people to a road map of peace, goodwill and brotherly love. Our people did respond en masse to his culture and, for a while, the UANC was a vehicle for delivery to freedom.
However our people did an overnight switch in 1980 from Muzorewa’s UANC to Mugabe’s ZANU-PF because psychologically Mugabe presented as the counterpoint to Ian Smith’s racist ideology of White dominance. As said, Smith and his racist supporters had recklessly squandered the incredible good will of our people.

Mugabe made a good start and was genuinely committed to reconciliation as regards the bad past. Eloquent proof of this was the appointment of none other than Ian Smith’s General Peter Walls as our first Army Commander.

However, when his army committed the Gukurahundi genocide in 1983 Mugabe was hopelessly compromised once he found that he could do nothing about the perpetrators.
From that moment Zimbabwe was a de facto military State and its operational mode and culture proved this with increasing intensity.
Things deteriorated for Mugabe until 2008 when he and his Party lost the election.
As Zimbabwe had been a de facto military State from 1983 the military leaders declined allegiance to Morgan Tsvangirai and his winning MDC Party as this would have meant a change to a democratic State.
Tsvangirai's problem was that he was from a labour background. This was a BIG problem for African leaders, as they had not forgotten how another labour nobody, Frederick Jacob Titus Chiluba, came from nowhere to unseat the elder statesman of African leaders, Dr Kenneth David Buchizya Kaunda.

Right there constitutionalism and democracy in Zimbabwe were comprehensively challenged.
Right there SADC and the African Union were also comprehensively challenged.
Right there, led by Thabo Mbeki, the SADC and the AU comprehensively failed our people.

Instead of standing up for our people the SADC and the AU, led by President "no crisis" Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, implemented something called “quiet diplomacy” and forced a diabolical “GNU solution” that guaranteed that Mugabe and ZANU-PF retained power.
That solution was as much a "packaged military coup" as is what is occurring right now. Both apparently place the military above the Constitution.

Today the military have not so much staged a coup as simply exercised its status as our de facto government as endorsed by the SADC and the AU in 2008.

So it was crass hypocrisy for President Jacob Zuma to turn on the military and preach “constitutionalism”.
South Africa, the SADC, and the AU, tore up “constitutionalism” in 2008.

Ironically, we have Grace Mugabe to thank for having triggered this situation with her diabolical machinations to hijack our country into the lap of a Mugabe dynasty.