Mutambara has moved from being a voice of reason to echo of Mugabe’s wailing. The robotics professor seems to be sliding quicker than Tsvangirai in his admiration for Mugabe to the point that he has suddenly assumed the position of a George Charamba. His recent maiden parliamentary speech reveals a man struggling with getting over his student union days. It is time for the professor to understand the basics of life. You cant plead forgiveness and cry revenge with same mouth at the same time. As much as he appreciate that Zimbabwe’s problems are self  inflicted wounds, he should realise too that it does not do any good to the country when he attacks the West. The professor must accept the plain truth that  Zimbabwe is a beggar and as such has no power to put conditions to possible donors. A beggar has two choices, either to stretch his arm and take what is offered or fold his arms and refuse. 

Mutambara has off late adopted a Mugabe turbulent, disillusioned attitude towards the West as noted from his maiden speech, “Please, remove any types of sanctions you have imposed because you are undermining Comrade Tsvangirai, you are undermining the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, you are undermining the efforts of Zimbabweans”

“It’s not for America , it’s not for Britain to judge our wisdom or lack of it vis a vis the affairs of our country as long as we take charge of what we control.”

The robotics professor has become a talking caricature of Mugabe more than an animation of him. His goodwill and spirit lacks charisma the natural golden touch that characterises charismatic statesman like Nelson Mandela and nationalist like the late Joshua M Nkomo.

If Zimbabwe has wisdom and ability to take charge of its own affairs, then it (Zimbabwe) has to stop appealing for help from these western donors. What the robotics professor has managed to display is the plain fact that all African leaders think that the problems faced by Africa are European engineered other than the basic fact that the leaders are plain stupid, corrupt and unaccountable. The professor is starting to show symptoms that are endemic, hereditary, embedded and contagious among African leaders. l believe it would be better if the GNU created a marketing ministry  for the robotically and rocket  intelligent professor who draws so much from the term re-branding.

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