Girls! Let's get naked for Bob!

Minister's remarkable new campaign to save the President she loves

Anyone in Zanu-PF - or anyone else for that matter - who is planning to oust President Robert Mugabe had better think again. Because Madam Oppah Muchinguri (right), our country's formidable Minister for Women, is planning a demonstration that will bring the country to a halt, quite possible to its knees, and even leave it flat on its face, having passed out cold.

This is what she promised, when speaking to a meeting of female party activitists this week: "Let me assure you ladies, if anyone in Zanu-PF or elsewhere tries to remove Mugabe from power I and the Women's League will march in the streets of Harare naked."

And just in case some of us didn't quite believe our ears, she made herself perfectly clear: "We are prepared to remove our clothes in support of his candidature."

While you all come to terms with that thought, may I interject a personal note? I am an unashamed admirer of Oppah. She is a upstanding example of national womanhood and if she wants to get her kit off in public, that's fine by me. However, the thought of some of her less-blessed colleagues in the Women's League similarly disrobing is not quite so enticing.

So it is fortunate that her suggestion met with considerable opposition. Sarudzai Hove, for instance, said: "We are grown up ladies and she will do it on her own. I would not allow myself to be turned into a groupie."

She called for Oppah to be sacked from her government job, saying she seems to want to turn the Women's League into "a bunch of sex slaves."

But it is another remark of Oppah's that helps explain why she is adopting such a strident profile. Some weeks ago I reported on the rivalry between her and Vice President Joyce Mujuru, and the very real possibility that the two ladies could be fighting it out for the Presidency in the near future.

Now, during her speech, and in a pointed reference to Joyce, Oppah said: "There are some women that we put on top to represent our interests but they have failed. What they have achieved is being continually linked to coup plots and the succession issue."

In other words, the threat of the naked march is just another indication of the jostling going on between the rival camps in the battle of the succession. Stripping off? Oppah probably didn't mean a word of it.

Sorry, guys.

Comments

[maggie]

why naked for bob. We should be naked for ourslves, for naked people. You can show your naked body on nudistconnect.com. The nudist friends will share the experience with you

[pat ngo]

She has been naked for him a lot of times........this will not be a surprise at all
Zanu PF whores............

[Shunter Chombo]

This is typical of the level of desperation within the upper echelons of the deranged Zanu PF leadership.
This is their version of Frankenstein Chamber of Horrors. It is pure intimidation.
At the sight of the wobbling lard spectators will collapse; either from laughter or from revulsion that will cause spontaneous loose bowel movements!
Some desperate butchers who need meat and lard may be there with their knives looking for a slice of the action.

[chris]

mybe Oppah has a point
remember those stories of her being Mugabe's lover during the war
remember those juicy stories of her being earmarkd to marry Mugabe after Sally died
so she could be missing being close to Bob

[Don]

The way the country is going, perhaps most people will be running around naked anyway...maybe Uncle Bob should write a book and call it "The Bulawayo Diet" - great way to lose weight, he could pay the national debt thru book sales...

[BOSHIGO MATLOU]

guys, Behave yourselves. It is the African way that if mothers want to push a political point they undress and demonstrate stark naked or just swinging their breasts around. The great Fela Kuti' s mother led the women of Abeokuta in the western region of Nigeria in the early part of the last century to force the British colonial rule to abandon taxation for women. So she may have a point.

[kABALANGWE]

It was perfectly normal for freedom fighters to parade naked before their oppressors in the colonial days. In Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, for instance, Mama Chikamoneka (Chikamoneka means WE SHALL ACHIEVE SOME DAY) MHSRIP, took off her clothes before "the agents of the Queen of England" or colonisers just before Independence. However, stripping for Mr Bob would be disgusting because he is not a national cause. I appeal to those who want to march naked to consider other ways of showing their support for the hero that once was.

[Tendai]

you people truly have no lifes why do you misinterpret statements like that she said that to show how serious they are about supporting the president.This is a woman who is fighting for equality in zimbabwe and instead of supporting her you are trying to bring her down i have meet this woman i have spent time with her shes not only a great motivater shes a pillar of strength and she will risk everything for the women to be heard even at times neglecting her two children. So say all the nonsense you want WE WILL STAND BY THIS WOMAN FOREVER.keep making us proud Oppah.

[Tendai]

you people truly have no lifes why do you misinterpret statements like that she said that to show how serious they are about supporting the president.This is a woman who is fighting for equality in zimbabwe and instead of supporting her you are trying to bring her down i have meet this woman i have spent time with her shes not only a great motivater shes a pillar of strength and she will risk everything for the women to be heard even at times neglecting her two children. So say all the nonsense you want WE WILL STAND BY THIS WOMAN FOREVER.keep making us proud Oppah.

[Taurayi]

With the suffering Zimbabwean women ,children,and men are going through I think Oppah should strip to highlight the extend of the suffering than to extend it.In 1980 we went to vote putting on our shoes.I 1985 with our suits on.In 1990 with only shirts,trousers and shamedly with patapata.In 1995 with vests, short and patapata.In 2000 with only shorts no tops and again bare footed.In 2005 with only pants.This time around we will be naked and hungy and very angry.VIVA ZANU!!!!

[tendai]

we are sorry about the type of people like oppar. Of course she is eating well so let her go naked in streets but that doesnt doesnt stop people from voting against her stupid bop

[Mudakureva]

Let us give Simba a chance.The majority of his supporters are starving with lack of information.Hatred for Simba by his opponents is so high that his supporters get confused.They want to know what will happen next. Do we really have to keep waiting and guessing for the big guns to come in the open? yet we continue to see them sloganeering at
R.G rallies? I believe we are ok as we are without heavyweights who want to contiue hiding.President Simba please tell us what is happening?.

[Munjanja]

She is crazy, she killed Tongogara and got Bob's flat pipe for reward

[pm]

Oppah missed the point it must be the other way round

[David Matsveru]

What happened to amai vedu vamusangano and others? When is the big day rekufamba vakashama? Zvichaitwa mustreet here kana kumba kwavakuru

[Stan Bricks]

I'm not sure what the hold-up is... maybe they have re-thought their stance on how this is going to actually make the company any money. Or perhaps their lawyers pointed out the liability of providing agents a platform to stick their feet in their mouth. Whatever it is, it's hardly something I'd claim as being "Well done".
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