NEW ZIMBABWEAN LEADER

The man/woman who is to be in command of Zimbabwe must be able to reason logically, to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and to understand the emotions-that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited. In the art of problem solving, it is paramount that one understands and accepts there is a problem. It is from this that a solution can be devised. The same can be applied on Zimbabwe, we have a lot of incompetent leaders, who feel, the problems of Zimbabwe are of foreign origin. Mugabe, like other dictators, is surrounded by mediocre opportunists and lackeys; men and women with little competence and integrity, who maintain their positions through patronage, nepotism and boot-licking. These securocrats, who have become as dogmatic and delusional themselves, imitate, as best as they can, his intolerance. The Zimbabwean president must understand that, he who is blinded by ambition raises himself to a position where he cannot mount higher, and must thereafter fall with the greatest loss. Zimbabweans have become accustomed to is a penchant for theorizing, negative criticisms and inaction to the extent that we sometimes become loud spectators of a game that we are supposed to be playing, hoping that events will by themselves unfold for the betterment of our livelihoods.

Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken on every occasion in which their own interests are concerned; but fear is sustained by dread of punishment which will never abandon you. Zimbabwean politicians know that there is a line they cannot cross, for they know Mugabe will descend with great vengeance and furious anger. Any politician with respect for him or herself, must drive fear out of their hearts, fear is a disease that eats a person from inside. Zimbabwe needs a leader with virtues of a leader for he will be engaged in virtuous action and contemplation, and he will bear the chances of life most nobly and altogether decorously, if he is 'truly good' and 'foursquare beyond reproach. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. 

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. This said how then do we expect Mugabe to be a kind, noble, generous individual when we know that it is not his nature. The attitude and behavior he has shown, is his true character, yes he is a murderer, torturer and self serving quack whom history has just thrown into our paths. 

It is time that Mugabe leaves the stage humbly and let history judge his legacy, those who overstay their welcome at one time or another of necessity put their host in a state of perpetual discomfort. Mr Mugabe, to address you as 'commander-in-chief' would necessarily implicate you on the atrocities that your killing machine committed in Matabeleland in the 1980s, in the interest of National healing these atrocities, should be investigated by an independent body. Those who were involved should be brought before Law. There are also those that were responsible for the economic meltdown of the country. These people filled their pockets at the expense of the Nation, this should include those who were directly and indirectly involved. The wife and all the various relatives of Mugabe should return the huge sums of money they stole. They are the reason why the National Bank is bankrupt or at least on the verge of it. We as Zimbabweans, we should learn from this harsh lesson, that something like this should and can never repeat itself again. In true democratic states; legislators make their citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one. Again, it is from the same causes and by the same means that every virtue is both produced and destroyed, and similarly every art; for it is from playing the lyre that both good and bad lyre-players are produce.