George Charamba, Mugabe’s Spokesperson who hides behind an effigy
called Nathaniel Manheru, did not only attack Dr Joice Mujuru, the
politician and leader of Zimbabwe People First in the instalment, but
all the women in the country when he chose to base his attacks on what
Mujuru was wearing and what he imagined about her anatomy beyond what
was visible.
Charamba chose to ignore the political symbolism that Dr Mujuru’s
gesture to Guy Watson Smith brings to the issue of the land reform and
geopolitics but had presence of mind to fix penetrative eyes beyond Dr
Mujuru’s skirt.
On a day Donald Trump reached a new low in his denigration of women
in the American election campaign, one would certainly have thought
Charamba knew pretty well the bigoted nature of his analysis of Mujuru’s
meeting with Watson Smith was infuriating to decent and right-thinking
Zimbabweans.
Charamba, in his Manheru instalment, comes across; not only as a
misogynist, uncouth and sex-obsessed bloke but as a spoilt brat whose
perchance for ribaldry is alarming.
Rather than dwell on his equally misplaced belief that paying
compensation to former commercial farmers was reversing the land reform
exercise, Manheru hit a new low, choosing to imagine what could have
been beyond the skirt Mai Mujuru was wearing.
When Charamba says “Joice has ungainly revealed her bearded political
innards too much ahead of 2018”, before telling her “to sit like a
woman” you sense you are listening to a pervert with a rapist mentality
and the kind of reckless sexual disposition that might, as well, explain
the calamities that have befallen him lately, which had him cut short a
visit to Japan.
But Charamba is not just a pervert; he is also a modern day Lakunle,
Wole Soyinka’s caricature of an African intellectual fond of showing off
the number of books he has read and the long list of verbose statements
he has mastered which do not go beyond the catalogue of books at his
disposal.
Take him away from the books, from reciting Amilcar Cabral, Basil
Davidson, and others, the man is virtually empty. That is the reason he
can never understand the world we live in today does not allow for the
kind of bigotry and misogyny he so blatantly exhibits at the slightest
provocation.
I have watched Charamba in my short life and the numerous occasions I
have conversed with him, I discovered a deep sense of insecurity, an
inferiority complex that he hides behind contrived public show of
grandeur, fame by proximity to President Mugabe and an exaggerated
intellectualism that makes him believe all those without university
degrees among us are “rural idiots”.
He, rather naively, thinks university degrees, equal wisdom when, in
fact, there are more stupid professors than wise ones. That is the
reason why, in the bible, for those of us who believe in it, there is no
mention of a degree in the same line with wisdom.
There are a lot of extremely wise people who cannot speak one English
word, have never been to a university in just the same way as we have
hordes of professors and Master’s degree holders like Charamba who are
wallowing in sublime idiocy.
We have degreed but certified lunatics like Charamba who do not know
what to say, when and where? People who think since they control state
media, they can write obscenities because their reprobate minds command
them thus. That is George “Manheru” Charamba for you, a man personifying
some real darkness, a clear indication of the absence of light
(knowledge) as suggested by his nome deplume.
In a typically unwise move Charamba chose to engage his mouths (pen)
even when he didn’t have full facts on events at the meeting between Dr
Mujuru and Guy Watson Smith, the former owner of her Ruzambu farm in
Beatrice.
.... contd
Source:
George Charamba needs to learn to respect women – The Zimbabwean 11.10.2016 by Jealousy Mawarire
