Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>THE announcement of the death of firebrand war veteran and former Zanu PF central committee member Blessed Runesu \u201cBombshell\u201d Geza yesterday came as deeply sad news.<\/p>\nHe died a bitter and broken man, living in self-imposed exile after daring to put his head on the block when caution \u2014 and fear \u2014 had become the ruling instinct.<\/p>\n
In a political culture where survival depends on silence, Geza chose defiance.<\/p>\n
When many counselled restraint, he went against reason.<\/p>\n
When others calculated risk, he embraced it.<\/p>\n
And when no one was prepared to stake their lives, careers or comfort, Geza stepped forward alone.<\/p>\n
Emerging unexpectedly as a voice of dissent from within the liberation movement itself, Geza rattled the corridors of power through blunt, unfiltered social media broadcasts calling for change of government in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n
He accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of presiding over national decay: corruption, nepotism, treasonous capture of the state, and the betrayal of the ideals of the liberation struggle.<\/p>\n
These were not the words of an opposition activist.<\/p>\n
They were the words of an insider who knew the system intimately \u2014 and that made them dangerous.<\/p>\n
Geza appeared to believe that his comrades in arms, fellow war veterans and party loyalists, would rally behind him.<\/p>\n
Instead, they melted into the shadows.<\/p>\n
Some watched in silence.<\/p>\n
Others quietly distanced themselves.<\/p>\n
A few, it is widely believed, actively worked against him.<\/p>\n
In the end, he stood alone.<\/p>\n
That betrayal was not unique to Geza; it is a recurring feature of Zimbabwean politics.<\/p>\n
Courage is celebrated in hindsight, never in the moment.<\/p>\n
Those who challenge power are abandoned first, mourned later and sanitised after death.<\/p>\n
Geza paid the ultimate price for refusing to fall in line.<\/p>\n
Cast out, isolated and hunted, he joined a long list of liberation fighters chewed up by the very system they helped to build.<\/p>\n
His exile was not just geographical; it was political and emotional \u2014 a punishment reserved for those who refuse to recite the approved script.<\/p>\n
Whether one agreed with his methods or his messaging is beside the point.<\/p>\n
What cannot be disputed is that Geza broke a sacred taboo: he spoke openly, publicly and relentlessly against a leadership that brooks no dissent from within its own ranks.<\/p>\n
In doing so, he exposed a harsh truth about Zimbabwe\u2019s ruling elite: that loyalty is transactional, principles are disposable, and liberation credentials offer no protection once you become inconvenient.<\/p>\n
Geza will not be remembered kindly by those in power.<\/p>\n
But history has a way of reordering villains and heroes.<\/p>\n
Today he is dismissed as reckless, bitter or misguided.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow he may be remembered as a man who dared to say what many knew, but feared to utter.<\/p>\n
He died abandoned, yes.<\/p>\n
But he also died having chosen truth over safety \u2014 and in Zimbabwean politics, that alone makes his story worth remembering.<\/p>\n
Source: NewsDay<\/b><\/p>\n
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