Leaders are from God

By Margaret Kamba

I have been asking myself for some time now how President E.D. Mnangagwa really is and have not even begun to understand him at all.

I have come to the conclusion that leaders do indeed come from God. It is not human to be able to sit where he is and be able to wake up and do the things he does.

When you read the Bible about the Kings who ruled, it sort of opens your eyes to the understanding that this is a tried and tested man who had to undergo the worst treatment in order to be refined for the position he currently occupies.

Many accounts of the coming of the Second Republic have been narrated and some speculated upon along with the events that ran up to him being sworn into office to begin serving the country that at the height of things had nailed him to the cross to die.

Today, years later, after the unspeakable chilling stories of the escape, we see a leader who is working tirelessly to serve the same people who condemned him.

It can only be something beyond him, beyond human, that makes one to forgive unconditionally in order to do this wonderful work.

Some of us have kept grudges over very small things. Some of us go to lengths to tarnish the image we hate of people who have literally done nothing to us. Many of us have fabricated blatant lies about people that even when we are called to repeat as we stand side by side with the same people, we are not able to repeat.

I have never come to understand how President Mnangagwa has opened his arms to embrace people who probably still plot to kill him. I can never understand this philosophy of “being soft as wool.” I can never understand how he can quickly turn the leaf and bring such unity in order to develop his country for his people.

I know you are already saying because I am not a leader. You are right. I am not. I am not sure I could ever let bygones be bygones either. But how this man can say come let us work together is beyond me.

The scripture in the Bible “Come let us reason together. Though your sins may be as red as crimson, they shall be white as snow” just pops in my head.

The Director for the Huyayi Kumusha/Come home/Buyanini Ekhaya KHE programme Cde Blessing Chebundo is one who has tasted the goodness of this man.

Leading a programme that has taken the country by storm in bringing many to the ZANU PF fold, he always looks back to the time that he was in order to show that President Mnangagwa is indeed a leader.

In his speech at the funeral of returnee Cde Siyani Sibanda in Hwange East’s Ward 16, Cde Chebundo sang the song about the core structure of a bicycle.

“I always used to say that President Mnangagwa was like a bicycle. When a bicycle breaks down, everything will break down except its core structure,” Cde Chebundo said.

“Nehemiah in the Bible came back to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem after recalling the beauty of the place.”

It is known that Cde Chebundo in the past won the Kwekwe Constituency, beating President Mnangagwa.

Had not President Mnangagwa gone past all this, he would have simply put a lid on the programme being run by Cde Chebundo just to settle a score.

However, in his tried and tested character, which he possesses, you understand what he meant by “soft as wool.”

Last Saturday, he called out to the lost, who still remain in the opposition hell-bent on selling the country for a few pieces of silver to come and play their part in building Zimbabwe.

The setting up of POLAD was a means to unify the country but even beyond this, President Mnangagwa has still extended his arms to call for the return of many to the agenda of building an upper middle income society.

Even the engagement and re-engagement policy, which has seen the West warming up to Zimbabwe, is bearing fruits.

Like Central Committee member for Hwange Cde Siphiwe Mafuwa says, “Can you not hear the call?”

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