A good indicator of the paralysis in Zanu (PF) is the fact that state newspapers had not carried anything official on the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)’s disengagement from cabinet and the council of ministers up to yesterday.

They are all still waiting for Gushungo, chairman and chief proprietor of Gushungo Holdings, to lead the way.

Only talkzimbabwe.com (The Guardian), which seems to be in the running to be the on-line Zanu (PF) media outlet, carried some ignorant remarks by George Charamba – to the effect that today’s Cabinet would go on and make binding decisions without the MDC.

An indication of Charamba’s obtuse thinking was his statement in the same article that the MDC should not talk about elections because they will only be held when President Mugabe – whom Charamba says is the only person empowered by the Constitution to do so – decides that it is time to have elections.

And all along we thought we were in a coalition government guided by the GPA!

And the reasons he advanced why the President had so far (Monday) not commented on the MDC pull-out which happened on Thursday -that he was busy with the selection of students for the Presidential Scholarship and meeting football players – also show how out-of-touch both Charamba and his boss are with reality.

The Guardian followed up its Charamba noise with another one today lamenting the fact that Tsvangirai and some of his Ministers went to their offices – which apparently dampened their celebration as they were now thinking that they had finally succeeded in getting rid of the MDC.

And the Herald today finally wrote its piece, not about why Tsvangirai had pulled out, but purporting to expose how Tsvangirai, President of the MDC, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, chairman of the Council of Ministers, had violated Cabinet rules by not seeking approval for his trip from Cabinet Secretary Mischeck Sibanda! Which part of the word disengaging do they not understand?

Herald media terrorists, Mabasa Sasa and Takunda Maodza, actually expected its readers to believe that the MDC President who is now fed up with Zanu (PF) should have gone to Sibanda to seek authority and justify the money that he needs to go and lobby SADC leaders to now step in and resolve the impasse before it becomes a crisis.

And just like another article anonymously published by Charamba in the Herald yesterday, Sasa and Maodza wrote about imagined MDC insiders questioning why Tsvangirai was prepared to put the national interest at risk over a white farmer.

The facts that Tsvangirai only followed and announced decisions made, firstly by the MDC Standing Committee, then confirmed by its National Executive Committee, as widely reported, somehow escape the pens of these senior state journalists who know so much about the national interest.

How could we then expect them to understand that the MDC has gone beyond race hatred and views Roy Bennett as a comrade in arms whose ill-treatment has come to represent everything abhorrent about Zanu (PF)? When Johannes Tomana has failed to secure the conviction of Roy Bennett, Patrick Chinamamasa should be next on to go and do his own dirty work, then that will be the end of his school-boy fight with Bennett, a patriot who is fighting for a better Zimbabwe.

In the paralysis that is still engulfing all of Zanu (PF), or Robert Mugabe’s wives as it was aptly put by Margaret Dongo, one cannot help but feel pity for George Charamba, trying to rationalise the silence by saying, Mugabe is still waiting to hear formally from Tsvangirai that he has disengaged.

Like an educated parrot, he mouths: “This can be done orally or in writing but in a formal manner. From that point of view nothing has happened. Until the communication is done formally the President has no reason or any grounds to think or know otherwise.” Yeah, keep on dreaming.

It is a disengagement, a falling apart. Tsvangirai has the mandate of the people of Zimbabwe, and so do his MPs, and he has said he is not reneging on that mandate – much as it might please Charamba.

“Regulations require ministers unable to attend a Cabinet meeting to tell the Office of the Chief Secretary in advance…” So what are you going to do, fire them? They are already disengaged, dummy.

With all the fake information from CIO operatives being quoted even in the newspaper artcles, spying on MDC meetings with ambassadors, to justify allegations that MDC is forming a parallel government, Mugabe could have fired all MDC a long time ago. Why does he not just do it?

Read the news: ” In Muchinjike area of Murehwa District, dozens of villagers were duped into attending a ZANU PF meeting after being told there was a local meeting to discuss seed and fertilizer for them.

“Members of the ZANU PF district coordinating committee tried to get the villagers to do anti-Tsvangirai slogans, but they refused. (a similar incident happened in Masvingo)

“Three quarters of those at the meeting stood up to leave, but not before a ZANU PF member known as Kashesha warned them, ‘last time we were only chopping off their hands, this time we will chop off their heads.’

If this is the way you know how to stay in power, you may as well start now, because the whole country is now disengaged. Netsle has refused to by milk from Gushungo Holdings. The head of state and chairman, Gushungo, sent his goons to go and threaten the company, but the tanker full of blood-milk was still turned away. Don’t they get it yet?

Written By: Makusha Mugabe

Additional reporting: Change Zimbabwe