By Tafadzwa Munjanja- The ZANU PF bootlicking festival that was held this past week in the historic town of Chinhoyi under the guise of a “people’s conference” is over, but as the political dust settles, the biggest question to be answered is, So what?

In the same town that marked the Second Chimurenga in earnest, Constantino Chiwenga fired his first genuine salvo against his boss Emmerson Mnangagwa, warning him not to repeat the events that precipitated the November 2017 coup.

As expected, ZANU PF provincial chairpersons (just as they did in 2017 when Mnangagwa was fired from the party by Robert Mugabe) went into a bootlicking frenzy throwing all the superlatives in support of the dictator.

When elephants fight…

There is an adage that when elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers, and when elephants make love, it is also the grass that suffers.

This is true when it comes to the situation of ordinary citizens each time these ZANU PF thugs fight or connive to loot the public purse.

Amid the social media excitement that as expected grips the oppressed when oppressors quarrel, it must be asked what is in it for the citizens.

It is crystal clear that after blocking the 2028 elections via CAA3, Mnangagwa and crew no longer care about the electorate.

Instead of addressing the biting economic crisis facing the masses of our people, Mnangagwa’s regime is criminalising vending.

Our people must not expect anything meaningful from the corrupt ZANU PF system. Simply put, this is a battle to control the keys to the vault of national resources by ZANUPF leaders. There is nothing in it for the masses.

None but ourselves…

It is no longer a secret that the centre no longer holds. This is an opportunity for all progressive forces to put an end to this rotten regime.

While the looting committee is at each other’s throats, this presents an opportunity for genuine opposition to organise and mobilise the masses towards genuine change.

We must never expect a saviour from somewhere to extricate us from the claws of dictatorship. None but ourselves can bring about the change we so much desire.

Tafadzwa Munjanja is the Chief Ambassador of the National Democratic Working Group (NDWG). Here, he writes in his own capacity