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Dynasty out of context

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WHEN ZANU PF women unanimously recommended that the First Lady, Amai Grace Mugabe, lead the party’s Women’s League, some regime change disciples were soon to be heard expressing their ‘abhorrence’ at what they feared could develop into a Mugabe dynasty.
As expected, first to go public was a voice from the fractious MDC.
And it was none other than the leader of the MDC Renewal Team, Tendai Biti, who expressed his fear of a Gushungo dynasty.
But everyone knows that the MDC is one of the key instruments being used by the United States in its agenda to bring about regime change in our country.
This is the same United States which claims to be the fathers of democracy.
It is this democracy whose template the various formations of the MDC claim guide their political philosophy.
Biti and like-minded disciples of American democracy need not go further than the American polity to have a clear understanding of political dynasties.
The transfer of political power through relation becomes quite obvious when we come across names like Bush or Kennedy.
American Presidents George W Bush Senior and his son are very fresh examples.
Members of the Kennedy family are well known for holding key administrative posts in the running of American affairs by virtue of their family background.
What is interesting about this US dynasty system is that the whole process appears to have been so perfected that Americans together with the Bitis of this world have been conditioned to accept it without question.
The so-called American ruling elite organises the smooth functioning of these dynasties be they from the Republicans like the Bushes or the Kennedys from the Democrats.
Shepherding Americans to vote for a leader from whatever dynasty, is an accepted way of doing things in the American democracy whenever there is need to do so.
Ascendancy to power is also through the family line in various European countries like Britain, Spain and the Netherlands where the institution of the monarch is still in existence.
All these are ‘respected’ democracies.
The sheikdoms of the Arab world are all too familiar.
The Americans and their mouthpieces planted across the globe including Zimbabwe are quick to claim to be tutors or students of democracy when they have been groomed by very undemocratic tenets.
They are also very good at misrepresenting facts.
Take the example of countries like Kenya and Malawi.
There were murmurs of ‘rule by dynasty’ when Jomo Kenyatta’s son, Uhuru was elected president against the wish of the Americans.
Ditto when Professor Peter wa Mutharika was recently elected President of Malawi a few years after the death of his brother, Bingu.
However, these two cases are very different from the dynasty system in America where the ruling elite plays a critical role.
In the case of Peter wa Mutharika and Uhuru Kenyatta, it is more a case of their political charisma and less about the connection with their family links.
Even in America itself Hilary Clinton is relying on her political prowess that one day she will occupy the seat once occupied by her husband Bill.
The Americans and Biti see nothing wrong with that.
She was even beaten in her last attempt by Barrack Obama.
In the case of the First Lady, it has only been proposed that she leads a party organ, a normal practice in any political party.
To Americans and Biti there is everything wrong with that.
There is surely no reason whatsoever for Biti on his own behalf or that of other MDC factions to look for Mount Everest, climb on top of it and claim that the Gushungo dynasty is upon us.

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