Many unanswered questions

THE mighty Uncle Rob has fallen and there is a jubilation in Zimbabwe.

Others are calling him a tyrant and an oppressor.

I have mixed feelings about this and many unanswered questions are still ringing in my mind such as:

Why did the Zanu-PF allow him to rule for so long?

Why doesn’t the constitution of Zimbabwe have a stipulated term of office for the president?

Does democracy really prevail in that country? Was he drowned by power? Former president Robert Mugabe is a highly respected freedom fighter in the world, equal to the late Madiba, Che Guevara and Muammar Gaddafi.

All of them later became the commanders in their respective countries.

For Mugabe to bow out in this manner leaves much to be desired.

First it was Hosni Mubarak, followed by Gaddafi and now it’s Mugabe. All of them were darlings in their countries, people would worship them as they passed and now they are nothing.

I don’t blame the people of Zimbabwe, they had enough of him and he had pushed them too far.

Thanks to his wife for provoking the Zanu-PF.

She awakened it up from the dead to make it reason, and at 93 I don’t think you can make a rational decision.

Uncle Bob is very old and frail, he needs to rest.

He has done a great thing by resigning and you cannot stop the will of the people, he knows that very well.

Now Mugabe has been reduced by the people of Zimbabwe from hero to zero.

I just hope his successor will bring stability and growth to the economy so that they can have a peaceful and prosperous Zimbabwe.

Mzwandile aka Pepe Nkomombini, community activist, Zwide, Port Elizabeth

THE resignation of Robert Mugabe as the president of Zimbabwe is a perfect case study of sexism and xenophobia, and definitely not altruism.

Just like the mighty Samson who was brought down by Delilah in the Bible, the agent of Mugabe’s actual political suicide is Grace – obviously being female and a foreigner to boot (born and bred in South Africa).

Otherwise, when would the deputy president and the military have been tired of their Messiah if a foreign woman hadn’t likely taken power right from under their noses?

This is just like in Hillary Clinton’s case, where a buffoon called Donald Trump was preferable to a woman president, albeit she was more likely to be the American version of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma who would have continued with whatever legacy of the previous president.

As spiteful as it sounds, a South African-born woman has shaken Zimbabweans out of their slumber as Zimbabweans have shaken South Africans from theirs with gloating about their superior education and skilfulness.

Luyanda Marlon Kama, KwaDwesi, Port Elizabeth