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huckstersandhoaxes · 4 years ago

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The showman and huckster P.T. Barnum left an indelible, undeniably controversial mark on popular culture. Although audiences still clamor for tales of Barnum’s exploits in show business, recent adaptations of his story, such as The Greatest Showman, demonstrate a modern audience’s sensitivities about Barnum’s particular brand of entertainment. The film takes care to present a vision of Barnum who recruits ‘freak’ performers like Tom Thumb and the Bearded Lady carefully and pays them handsomely. In reality, however, we cannot be sure of any such respect given to the performers. Knowing this, modern observers of Barnum’s performers and exhibits might wonder how contemporary 19th century audiences could justify paying to gawk at such people. The answer lies at the intersection of Victorian ideas of morality, science, and disability, interwoven within a brand of performance that Barnum refined and perfected. Barnum was certainly not the only performer playing with the ideas of the possible; 19th century theaters and salons were replete with magicians, seances, and automatons. The thing that would win him enduring fame, however, was his ability to layer truth and fiction, creating intriguing fictions that could never be truly unraveled. This approach required a keen understanding of concepts that scholar W.T.J. Mitchell terms illusionism and realism. Illusionism is a style or art form in Western culture that resides in a “dialectical realm...on the boundary between fact and fiction.” (Mitchell qtd. Cook 17) The spectacles generated by illusionism tend to be impossible to look away from, like a train wreck. Realism, on the other hand, “doesn’t take control over the viewer’s eye so much as...stands in for it...offering a transparent window onto reality, a socially authorized and credible eyewitness perspective.” (Mitchell qtd. Cook 18) While Barnum would play with these ideas throughout his career, they’re vividly and plainly illustrated by the case of Joice Heth, his very first exhibit. Joice Heth was an African American woman whom Barnum exhibited from 1835 to 1836, claiming her to be 161 years old and George Washington’s nursemaid. In newspaper reviews, Heth is said to “...[come] up exactly to one’s idea of an animated mummy...Her feet have shrunk to mere skin and bone, and her long attenuated fingers more closely resemble the claws of a bird of prey than human appendages.” (Barnum 108) In addition to being small, Heth was partially paralyzed. Thus, the act included these physical elements alongside Heth’s pious, psalm-singing persona and patriotic tales of life with George Washington. Lilian Craton argues that the inclusion of such proper, domestic elements in ads for Victorian freak shows was often meant to ameliorate middle-class perceptions of the shocking or immoral elements of such displays of disabled bodies (Craton 27). For Heth, those elements of piety and patriotism also serve to cement her place as a ‘mammy’ figure, a former slave who thought fondly of her owners. Thus, they provided a comforting element of realism for white audiences in contrast with her eerie, potentially unnerving bodily infirmities and her unlikely story. The pious old lady was likely also ripe fodder for what scholar Rachel Adams identifies as another common element of freak shows— appeals to help the performers earn a respectable living (Adams 6). By framing performing as the only career that the disabled or infirm could pursue, the Victorian viewer could assuage any guilt over paying to gawk by justifying it as helping to support performers.

In weaving his web of playful deception, Barnum also helped his audience to justify their scrutiny in the name of science. Inspired by the mechanical turk next door to Heth’s exhibit, Barnum spread rumors that Heth was not a woman but “...a curiously constructed automaton, made up of whalebone, india rubber, and numberless springs...” Thus, another layer of illusionism was added alongside the comforting mammy story. It also allowed viewers to conduct an investigation, not only of overt claims like Heth’s age, but implied, secondary mysteries like her very humanity. As critic Marlene Tromp notes, acts like this “...challenged the authority of discourses like medical science to name and explain the significance of the human body, as well as that of mainstream culture to determine all notions of normalcy.” (Tromp qtd. Craton 30) Citizen viewers could discover evidence, test, and refine hypotheses for themselves, cloaking the performance in a veneer of respectable, ostensibly detached objectivity valued by middle-class audiences immersed in the scientific advancements of the times. Ultimately it was Barnum’s careful interweaving of realism and illusionism, comforting tales of maternal affection and technological marvel, that allowed the Heth exhibit to succeed. It was the perfect ground for invoking cultural norms of charity and scientific curiosity, high-handed aims to supplement or mask simple, low-class morbid curiosity or wonder. Although as a modern audience we’d like to think ourselves above something as grotesque as the Heth exhibit, we tap into those same tendencies every time we watch a documentary about an unusual disease or strange subculture.

Adams, Rachel. Disability and the Circus. 2011, racheladams.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ac_Adams17_1gal_032612.pdf.

Barnum, P. T., and James Wyatt. Cook. The Colossal P.T. Barnum Reader: Nothing Else like It in the Universe. University of Illinois Press, 2006.

Cook, James W. “Introduction: Thinking With Tricks.” The Arts of Deception, Harvard University Press, 2001, pp. 1–29.

Craton, Lillian E. The Victorian Freak Show: the Significance of Disability and Physical Differences in 19th-Century Fiction. Cambria Press, 2010.

Gracey, Michael, director. The Greatest Showman. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2017.

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brehaaorgana · 6 years ago

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The circuses of the 1920’s and 30’s aren’t just places to find a ragtag family in The Crimes of Grindelwald, they’re also the peak of societal racism and ableism of their time.

P.T. Barnum gained fame by purchasing a Black woman named Joice Heth, and claiming she was 160 years old, and the “mammy” of President George Washington. Albino African American brothers Georgie and Willie Muse were kidnapped, told their mother was dead, and displayed as freaks — described as “ambassadors from mars.” It’s worth noting that the Crimes of Grindelwald trailer may be referencing Georgie and Willie Muse, as the latest trailer also displays what appear to be two albino black men in matching gold outfits. Whether this a direct or indirect reference is unclear — and whether or not it’s a sensitive one can probably only be gleaned when the film is released.

Human zoos and circus sideshows were a world of racism on display, where sometimes a “freak” was simply the racial drag of yellow face or black face, or being a person of color. [This is visible in the Circus Arcanum poster, seen above, where several people seem to simply be dressed in various ethnic costumes.]

In this sense, the role of Nagini in the latest film’s Circus Arcanum could be considered “period accurate racism.” There were “Snake Ladies,” in circuses of that era, and Asian women were often put on display for white crowds in America and Britain. But like author Ellen Oh pointed out, with a lack of other Asian characters in Fantastic Beasts, this means the only Asian character thus far will be one relegated to a freak show act. Because there is no other representation here, the only narrative is one that is at best, a bleak tragedy, and at worst a villain origin story which doesn’t have room to truly deviate from an ultimately subservient ending.

“How and Why J.K. Rowling’s ‘Nagini’ Character Reveal is Touching on Racist Tropes About Asian Women.”

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#harry potter #the crimes of grindelwald #fantastic beasts

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agentnico · 7 years ago

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The Greatest Showman (2017) Review

Here’s what I’m thinking, if the bearded lady was so unhappy about being referred to as a ‘freak’ at the beginning of the film, why didn’t she just simply shave off her beard? A good old shave every week: problem solved!

Plot: Celebrates the birth of show business, and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.

I would call myself a fan of musicals. I mean, my favourite film in 2016 was ‘La La Land’, and when Disney released ‘Into the Woods’ three or four years ago, a lot of people hated it, whilst I was generally quite positive about it. There’s just something special about watching a film in the cinema, and suddenly everyone on-screen breaks into song and dance. It’s definitely that idea of escapism, since let’s be honest, no one in real life breaks out into song and dance out of nowhere. Although it would be awesome, but it just doesn’t happen. So that staple of musicals emphasises that when you are watching that film, you are entering that different magical music-filled world, and happiness ensues! So I was really looking forward to ‘The Greatest Showman’, and sure thing, it’s a hell of an enjoyable time at the movies! And the songs are easily the best part of the film. The geniuses behind the ‘La La Land’ soundtrack Benj Pasek and Justin Paul have done it again, with now a more pop-like but so-catchy soundtrack, where every song is better than the other. I will definitely be listening to this soundtrack on repeat for a while. And these songs within the film are accompanied by some outstanding dance choreography, and generally the scenes with the songs are the highlight moments of the film. Which is kind of a little complaint towards the film, since as the movie progresses, it just feels like the film is trying to rush to the next ‘music video’, so much of the plot feels rushed when more depth could have been given.

The film is also supposedly based on the true story of PT Barnum and how he assembled his circus and created the idea of show business, however the film misses out a key factor, and that’s the reason for my use of the word ‘supposedly’ - PT Barnum was a massive prick in real life, and he is really glorified in this movie (he is given a few moments where he acts selfish, but overall he’s this giver-of-happiness-to-everyone) which makes me worry that this film might wrongly educate our modern society on who PT Barnum was. My point is, let’s not airbrush history, you know? Unlike the movie makes it out to be, Barnum was more interested in exploiting the people in his freak-show rather than empowering them. For example, one of PT Barnum’s acts in real life was Joice Heth, a partially paralysed, blind slave, who for one, Barnum claimed her to be 161 years of age, when in reality she wasn’t even half that age, and then when Heth died, can you guess what our joy bringer did? He held a public autopsy and then charged spectators to watch. Unsurprisingly, the film doesn’t reference that at all. Although, in all honesty, if ‘The Greatest Showman’ decided to retell the PT Barnum tale 100% truthfully, the movie would have ended up being a horror film. However glorifying a monster is also not option, I think. Doesn’t help that a quote about everyone deserving their happiness from PT Barnum is shown on screen prior to the end credits, once again showing him off as a martyr of some kind.

But alright, let’s ignore that fact that this film ignores certain facts about Barnum. The issue is that the film actually lacks any kind of conflict in general. How movies work, you have yourself a group of characters who are living normally, then suddenly something damages the equilibrium (the norm) and then for the rest of the film the characters set out to solve that said problem. However in ‘The Greatest Showman’ when some kind of conflict pops up, it is solved within a minute, and yes, I get it that this film is meant as a feel-good family friendly picture, but c’mon! There have to be some challenges that characters have to overcome in a story, but no, let’s just brush every issue off our shoulders like its nothing. A girl might be bullied at her ballet class? Oh wait, no, apparently they are all friends now. A husband might have cheated? The wife is angry one scene, and then the next they are all happy again like nothing happened. I mean, really??

Alright, I’m done complaining. Yes, I have problems with this film, but at the same time I had a good time watching it. For example, I already mentioned the songs and choreography, now lets talk about the performances. Hugh Jackman relishes the role of PT Barnum, and its possibly the jolliest Hugh Jackman I’ve ever seen. You know the Hugh Jackman when he performs at the Tony Awards or is generally being a host of a show? That is exactly how he is in this film, and it works. Michelle Williams was good as his wife, though it’s weird to see her smile in a film, as she always plays such depressing roles, which is not a bad thing, but then, as I said, when she does smile, it feels strange. Zac Efron and Zendaya were both highlights, and their chemistry was on point, and it was one of the rarer times where the film actually tried to bring out some conflict, with them two wanting to be together, but because of the difference in their class and colour of skin, it was frowned upon by society, so its them trying to find the courage to go past that. Rebecca Ferguson was also great as the singer known as the Swedish Nightingale (or something like that), so it was only the more upsetting for me to find out that she is one of the only cast members who doesn’t sing her own songs, which is a shame as she gets one of the best musical numbers, yet the real singer Loren Allred won’t get the deserved recognition for it. But in terms of performance and beauty, Ferguson obviously nails the part. And Keala Settle is also worth a mention as the bearded lady, who sort of encompasses and leads the group of ‘outcasts’.

There is a lot to enjoy in ‘The Greatest Showman’, from the music (my favourite songs from the soundtrack are ‘Never Enough’ and ‘The Other Side’) to the scenery (the CGI is quite bad, though I personally interpret is as the movie trying to build a fairy-tale like world), to the choreography to the cast performances, and if you want a film that will make you feel festive, ‘The Greatest Showman’ is right up that alley! Although, as I said, the lack of conflict, rushed parts of the plot and the historical inaccuracy did bother me personally. I guess the film critic within me cannot take a day off. But I still recommend people to go and check this one out!

Overall score: 7/10

TOP MOVIE QUOTE: “You’re even smaller than I imagined!” “Well you're not exactly reaching the top shelf yourself, sweetheart.”

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neveralarch · 7 years ago

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Continuing to exclusively post really late on weeknights because I like to shout into the void:

A youtube ad has just informed me that there is an inspirational Hallmarky PT Barnum movie coming out around Christmas. Wikipedia further informs me that this is an original musical ‘inspired by PT Barnum’s imagination.’ Also it stars Hugh Jackman.

Listen, what the fuck.

Again, listen: despite my better judgment and my attempt to be a decent judge of character, I have a weird uncomfortable fondness for PT Barnum. I grew up with a lot of people who I would describe as Barnumesque, ie showman entrepreneurs who lie about everything without thinking about it. My university has a very strong connection to Barnum, who was one of their major donors. I literally have a flask shaped like Barnum IN MY ROOM. I’ve read the first publication of his autobiography, before his friends said ‘are you really going to admit to all of that IN PRINT’ and Barnum revised it so he sounded less like a conman.

With all my scant expertise, I can’t imagine a feel-good musical about his life having ANY semblance to the truth. Here are some things that Barnum did and wrote about in his absurdly successful autobiography:

--started his showman career by buying a person, ie Joice Heth, and displaying her as the 161-year-old nurse of George Washington

(Heth was elderly and bed-bound but definitely not 161 years old. also! I am open to a lively debate about the empowerment vs exploitation of ‘freak shows,’ but I’m comfortable drawing my hard line at ‘slavery is wrong.’ because Barnum’s shows were mostly in the north, he also concealed that Heth was a slave and falsely claimed that she was earning money to buy her relatives their freedom.)

--when audiences declined, spread rumors that Heth was actually an automaton and not a person

--made EVEN MORE money off of people coming back to see if Heth was a person or not

--held a public autopsy of Heth when she died (revealing that she was ~80), then spread rumors that the autopsy was a hoax and that Heth was still alive

there’s a pattern of using the press and the public’s curiosity to get as much money out of people as possible:

--secretly bought out a rival’s museum, used it to mock his own museum. people would go to BOTH museums multiple times - first to Barnum’s American Museum to see the ‘real’ mermaid, then to the rival New York Museum to see the obviously fake mermaid, then back to the American Museum to try and tell whether the ‘real’ mermaid was also fake

--organized a free buffalo hunt in New Jersey. hired out every ferry, charged 6 cents for passage. thousands of people went, and all Barnum had was a small herd of sickly buffalo calves. and, of course, people had to pay to get back.

--this is so long, but one more: when Barnum was working for his first circus, he spent his first big paycheck on a nice suit. his boss told some drunk townies that this slick-looking stranger was actually a famous accused murderer. Barnum got attacked by a mob, who only stopped when his boss stopped laughing long enough to rescue him. his new coat was ruined. this isn’t, like, a receipt, but sometimes I remember this and smile. Also it reminds me that Barnum wasn’t the only awful con in the 19th century.

ANYWAY, this movie isn’t out yet. Maybe it is nuanced. But the trailer definitely makes it out to be a story about how PT Barnum invented show business and gave a lot of marginalized people the opportunity to be proud of themselves and make some cash. He did have a big impact on American showmanship, and he probably did have a net positive impact on a select group of people who worked with him. But I think his lasting impact is the exploitation of marginalized people, the press, and the public in order to get as much money as possible into his pocket. Barnum is American capitalism. He’s the viral Denny’s tumblr, playing irony to get millennials to buy pancakes. He’s the fyre festival organizers, but successful. Also, because I feel like I’m sliding into trivialization, he fucking owned an elderly lady, made money off her until she died, and then made more money off her death.

Which song in the musical is about that?

#pt barnum #greatest showman on earth #long post #sorry if this post gives you mood whiplash; Barnum looms weirdly large in my life and i can never figure out how i really feel about him #someone can be both entertaining and influential and awful i guess #tw: slavery #i forgot i wanted to say this #but this movie was clearly ghostwritten by barnum; it's the most barnum retelling of his life i've ever heard of

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newstfionline · 7 years ago

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Behind Mugabe’s Rapid Fall: A Firing, a Feud and a First Lady

By Norimitsu Onishi, NY Times, Nov. 19, 2017

HARARE, Zimbabwe--The rapid fall of Zimbabwe’s president, whose legendary guile and ruthlessness helped him outmaneuver countless adversaries over nearly four decades, probably has surprised no one more than Robert Mugabe himself.

For years, he was so confident of his safety--and his potency--that he took monthlong vacations away from Zimbabwe after Christmas, never facing any threat during his long, predictable absences. Even at 93, his tight grip on the country’s ruling party and his control over the military made his power seem impervious to question.

But in just a matter of days, Mr. Mugabe, who ruled his nation since independence in 1980, was largely stripped of his authority, even as he still clung to the presidency.

In a much-anticipated speech on Sunday night, Mr. Mugabe, instead of announcing his resignation as most of the country had expected, stunned Zimbabwe by refusing to say he was stepping down. While he conceded that his country was “going through a difficult patch,” he gave no sign that he recognized, or accepted, how severely the ground had shifted under him in such a short time.

Earlier in the day, the governing ZANU-PF party, over which he had always exercised total domination, expelled Mr. Mugabe as leader, with cheers and dancing erupting after the vote. He was given a deadline of noon on Monday to resign or face impeachment by Parliament.

Just days earlier, on Wednesday, soldiers put him under house arrest, and his 52-year-old wife, Grace Mugabe, whose ambition to succeed him contributed to his downfall, has not been seen in public since.

But in his speech, Mr. Mugabe even declared that he would preside over his governing party’s congress in a few weeks. After 37 years in control of the nation, he was refusing to let go easily.

The chain of events leading to Mr. Mugabe’s downfall started on Nov. 6, when he fired his vice president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, a close ally of the military, and then tried to arrest the nation’s top military commander a few days later. Mr. Mugabe had finally come down against the military and its political allies in a long-running feud inside the governing party.

“He crossed the red line, and we couldn’t allow that to continue,” said Douglas Mahiya, a leader of the war veterans’ association, a group that has acted as the military’s proxy in the country’s political battles while allowing uniformed generals to remain publicly neutral.

A few hours after he was fired, Mr. Mnangagwa, fearing arrest, fled with a son into neighboring Mozambique, where he has strong military ties. He eventually made his way to South Africa, allies said.

July Moyo, a close ally of Mr. Mnangagwa, said the vice president had prepared himself for the possibility of being fired. “He accepted that things can turn very bad, so he had conditioned himself,” Mr. Moyo said.

Several hours before the vice president escaped to Mozambique, Christopher Mutsvangwa, the head of the war veterans’ association and one of Mr. Mnangagwa’s closest allies, had boarded a plane to South Africa.

Over the following days, Mr. Mutsvangwa met with South African intelligence officers, he said, warning them of a possible military intervention in Zimbabwe. He said he had tried to persuade South African officials not to describe any intervention as a “coup”--an important concession to get from South Africa, the regional power.

Though this account could not be verified with South African officials on Sunday, the South African government did not mention the word “coup” in its official statement after the military intervention occurred on Wednesday.

While Mr. Mutsvangwa worked on South African officials, Zimbabwe’s longtime top military commander, Gen. Constantino Chiwenga, was in China on an official trip. He was tipped off while abroad that Mr. Mugabe had ordered him arrested upon his return home, according to several people close to the military. The police were going to grab the general as soon as his plane touched down, on Nov. 12.

But as General Chiwenga prepared to land, soldiers loyal to him infiltrated the airport. His troops--wearing the uniforms of baggage handlers--surprised and quickly overwhelmed the police. Before departing, the general is said to have told the police officers that he would “deal” with their commander, a Mugabe loyalist.

Within just a couple of days, tanks had rumbled into the capital and soldiers had effectively deposed Mr. Mugabe.

The president’s decision to fire his vice president and arrest the general was the culmination of a long--and increasingly vicious and personal--battle inside ZANU-PF, the party that has controlled Zimbabwe since independence in 1980. The so-called Lacoste faction was led by Mr. Mnangagwa, whose nickname is the Crocodile, and was backed by the military and war veterans.

The rival faction was led by the president’s wife and supported by the police, whose loyalty Mr. Mugabe had ensured by, among other moves, naming a nephew to a top command. This faction included mostly younger politicians with no experience in the war of liberation and was christened Generation 40, or G-40, by Jonathan Moyo, a fearless, extremely ambitious politician widely regarded as the mastermind behind this group.

As Lacoste and G-40 fought each other to eventually succeed Mr. Mugabe, the president did not give either side his declaration of support. To both factions, the biggest factor was Mr. Mugabe’s age and increasingly visible frailty. It was only a matter of time before “nature will take its course” and “the old man goes,” as the political class said.

Time was on Lacoste’s side. Once nature did take its course, power would naturally slip to Mr. Mnangagwa and his military backers, they believed.

Mr. Mnangagwa remained largely quiet, refraining from responding to attacks, and treated Mr. Mugabe with extreme deference. Whenever Mr. Mugabe flew home from a trip, state media invariably showed Mr. Mnangagwa greeting the president on the tarmac, displaying an almost obsequious smile and body language.

To the younger members in G-40, time was against them. Their biggest asset, Mrs. Mugabe, would lose all value once her husband died. So they were in a rush to get a transfer of power while Mr. Mugabe was still alive.

Just a few months ago, Mr. Moyo confided in a friend that he was “less than confident” about G-40’s standing with the president. Despite his efforts to win over the president through Mrs. Mugabe, Mr. Moyo still remained unsure about the “old man’s standing vis-à-vis Mnangagwa and Chiwenga,” said the friend, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the conversation had been private.

Mr. Mugabe’s downfall was rooted in his wife’s decision to become a political force in mid-2014, most politicians and experts believe.

“Mrs. Mugabe’s entry into politics caused elite rupture in Zimbabwe,” said Tendai Biti, a lawyer, opposition politician and former finance minister in a coalition government a few years ago. “This coup was the result of a disagreement between people eating at the same table, whereas most coups in Africa are done by people eating under the table and receiving crumbs.”

Why Mrs. Mugabe, now 52, suddenly dove into politics is not exactly clear. Married for decades to Mr. Mugabe, she had been known as “Gucci Grace,” someone interested in shopping and leading a lavish lifestyle. She was a typist in the presidential pool when she and Mr. Mugabe began an affair while the president’s first wife, Sally, was dying of cancer. Unlike the much-beloved first wife, the second Mrs. Mugabe was widely disliked among Zimbabweans.

Some politicians and experts point to the hand of Mr. Moyo, the originator of the G-40 name, for Mrs. Mugabe’s political intentions.

In ZANU-PF’s ever-shifting alliances, Mr. Moyo had a checkered past. In 2004, he was expelled from the party after planning a power play with--critically--none other than Mr. Mnangagwa himself, who managed to escape politically unscathed. Feeling betrayed by Mr. Mnangagwa, Mr. Moyo vowed never to work with him again, setting off a decade-long feud that fed into the recent military takeover.

Mr. Moyo, reportedly admired by Mr. Mugabe for his intelligence, was rehabilitated, rejoined the party and was given ministerial positions in the cabinet.

But in June 2014, Mr. Moyo was again on the outs. At a funeral for a party stalwart at National Heroes Acre, a burial ground and national monument in Harare, the capital, Mr. Mugabe criticized Mr. Moyo for causing dissension in the party. The president referred to him as a “weevil”--an insect that eats corn, Zimbabwe’s staple food, from the inside.

“Even in Zanu-PF, we have the weevils,” the president said. “But should we keep them? No.”

To secure his survival, Mr. Moyo urged Mrs. Mugabe to enter politics, according to politicians, friends and analysts.

“He preyed on her fears,” said Dewa Mavhinga, a Zimbabwe researcher for Human Rights Watch, referring to Mr. Moyo. “You’re a young wife with an old husband in his sunset moments. You have to guarantee your future. You need people who are loyal to you. And who better to protect your interests than yourself.”

Very rapidly, Mrs. Mugabe and her allies orchestrated the removal of rivals, including Joice Mujuru, a vice president, as well as Mr. Mutsvangwa, who had been Mr. Mugabe’s minister of war veterans affairs.

But even as the president’s medical trips to Singapore were getting increasingly frequent, he was not making a final decision on his succession.

Time was running out.

And so, Mr. Moyo, shortly after expressing his growing frustrations to his friend, appeared to go for broke. In July, in a meeting of party leaders, he launched a direct attack on Mr. Mnangagwa, presenting a 72-minute video said to show his rival’s duplicity and desire to topple the president.

At the same time, Mrs. Mugabe intensified her faction’s attacks, describing Mr. Mnangagwa as a “coward” and “coup plotter.”

At a rally in the city of Bulawayo early this month, some youths, presumably from the rival Lacoste faction, began heckling Mrs. Mugabe, calling her a “thief.”

The heckling visibly angered Mr. Mugabe, who immediately accused Mr. Mnangagwa of being behind it.

“Did I err in appointing Mr. Mnangagwa as my deputy?” the president said. “If I erred, I will drop him even tomorrow.”

Two days later, he fired Mr. Mnangagwa, opening the path for Mrs. Mugabe to become vice president and, once nature took its course, her husband’s successor.

Mrs. Mugabe and her allies had finally won. But the victory would soon prove Pyrrhic.

As the Lacoste faction solidified the takedown of Mr. Mugabe, party officials on Sunday removed Mrs. Mugabe as head of the ZANU-PF Women’s League and barred her from the party for life. Mr. Moyo, too, was barred forever. Mr. Mugabe’s second vice president, Phelekezela Mphoko, who had served for three years, was fired.

The ending was much sweeter for Mr. Mnangagwa: On Sunday, the party named him as its new leader.

#Zimbabwe #Robert Mugabe #Grace Mugabe #Emmerson Mnangagwa #Zimbabwe coup

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zcnadm · 8 years ago

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Succession scuffle now a mug tempest - New Zimbabwe.com

Emmerson Mnangagwa with President Mugabe

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HARARE: The often nasty battle to succeed Zimbabwe’s aging president has turned into a tempest in a tea cup – literally.

On the face of it, nothing was wrong with Facebook photos of one of the country’s vice presidents holding a mug with friends during the recent holidays.

Problem is, the mug featured the words “I Am the Boss.”

Emmerson Mnangagwa’s opponents within the fractured ruling Zanu PF party pounced on the opportunity to accuse him of harboring ambitions to take over from 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe.

Mnangagwa, who is acting president while Mugabe holidays abroad, has issued a statement denying any such ambitions.

Mugabe does not take kindly to suggestions of anyone taking over from him. He fired his deputy of 10 years, Joice Mujuru, in 2014 on accusations she was using witchcraft to oust him.

In April, four members of the once-loyal war veterans’ leadership were axed from the party for calling on Mugabe to step down.

Mugabe has declared he wants to live until 100 and rule for life.

Meanwhile, two factions, one associated with Mnangagwa and another with first lady Grace Mugabe, are fighting to position themselves for eventual takeover once Mugabe leaves the scene.

The mug photos only heightened the jostling.

“When pictures not only tell more than a thousand words, but also deepen the power grab narrative!” posted higher and tertiary education minister Jonathan Moyo on Twitter.

Moyo, an outspoken minister once critical of Mugabe, is associated with a youth faction linked to the first lady. He often takes to Twitter to attack Mnangagwa.

Mugabe in December warned his officials against using Twitter to fight succession wars.

“Everybody knows that the Boss is Gushungo. One Boss at a time, please,” Moyo tweeted, calling the drama “Mug-saga.” Gushungo is one of Mugabe’s family names.

In defence of the mug, Energy Mutodi, a businessman who appeared with Mnangagwa in one of the photos, responded: “Everybody is a boss in his or her own house.

“Every woman who is happily married calls her husband boss, and it doesn’t follow that by so doing, women are telling their husbands to overthrow Mugabe.”

The state-run Herald newspaper on Thursday said the mug was “part of the numerous gifts the Acting President received for Christmas and took to his rural home unopened.” According to the newspaper, a guest arrived uninvited just as Mnangagwa was opening the presents and took a photo.

For his part, Mnangagwa did not mention the mug in a statement released Wednesday but criticised “some elements” for trying to turn Mugabe against him.

“Those who are bent on drawing a wedge between me and my leader … are sure to fail,” he said.

http://zimbabwe-consolidated-news.com/2017/01/08/succession-scuffle-now-a-mug-tempest-new-zimbabwe-com/

#mugabe #news #zimbabwe

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jadesmorot · 11 years ago

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Old lady Joyce and one of her angels

#angles #night vale #wellcome to night vale #old lady joice #eyes #art

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newstfionline · 8 years ago

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In Zimbabwe, a First Lady Exerts Her Power

By Norimitsu Onishi, NY Times, Jan. 7, 2017

MASVINGO, Zimbabwe--The first lady of Zimbabwe’s display of power was unspoken, though clear, during the governing party’s annual congress, as she focused her speech on new party regalia featuring a teacup-shaped image of her country.

“We all drink from the teacup,” Grace Mugabe, the first lady, said, explaining that she had designed the regalia herself.

Not surprisingly, the next morning in Masvingo, the small town in southern Zimbabwe where the congress of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, President Robert Mugabe’s party, was held recently, nearly all officials wore clothes adorned with Mrs. Mugabe’s teacup design.

Ms. Mugabe--known mostly for her lavish overseas shopping trips until she entered politics just two years ago--has emerged as one of the main actors in the fierce maneuvering to succeed Mr. Mugabe that has engulfed Zimbabwe in the last year, as the president’s visible decline presages the end of an era.

She is, to many people, the real power behind the throne, vowing to keep her husband in office until his death while she consolidates her support. She told supporters recently that she was “already the president,” planning and doing everything with her husband.

The signs of Ms. Mugabe’s growing stature are unmistakable. On stage at the party congress, she sat closest to her husband, who, a couple of months shy of 93 years old, dozed through most speeches. Party leaders invariably praised her also--”Forward with President Mugabe! Forward with Dr. Amai Grace Mugabe!”--before others officially higher in the party hierarchy. A choir that usually sings the president’s praises composed a song for the first lady for the first time.

“Be pleased to follow Mrs. Mugabe, a mother who has love, mother of the nation, the one who takes care of orphans,” the Mbare Chimurenga Choir sings in its new song, “Following Mother Mugabe.”

Though visibly asleep during most of the congress, Mr. Mugabe, the world’s oldest head of state and the only leader Zimbabwe has known since its independence in 1980, was selected as his party’s candidate in the 2018 presidential election. He would be 94 by then and, should he win, 99 by the end of his term.

At the congress, Mr. Mugabe appeared increasingly dependent on his wife, who is 51. When a waiter carrying bags of potato chips on a silver tray startled Mr. Mugabe, the first lady chose a bag, from which the president then slowly picked out one single chip after another. At a tree-planting ceremony, a seemingly confused president kept tapping a mound of dirt with his shovel until the first lady intervened--”honey,” she called him--by grabbing the shovel herself.

Whether the first lady’s power survives her husband’s death is unclear. She is reported to head one of the two competing factions inside ZANU-PF, but is she its leader, or just a useful puppet for veteran survivors of Zimbabwean politics? After her husband dies, will she hop on a plane for Dubai or elsewhere in Asia, where she and her children have established homes? The Mugabes are thought to have more than $1 billion invested outside Zimbabwe, according to an American diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks.

But if she succeeds in grabbing power, it would most likely be a continuation of her husband’s government. Changes critical to reviving Zimbabwe’s crumpled economy, including land reform, are thought politically impossible under Mr. Mugabe and would remain so under Ms. Mugabe, whose legitimacy derives from her husband’s legacy. Her elevation could also intensify existing tensions in Zimbabwe’s small political class by upsetting Mr. Mugabe’s lieutenants, many of whom have been waiting decades to take over.

Confident of their grip on power, the Mugabes flew out of Zimbabwe a few days after the end of the congress in mid-December for their annual extended holiday in Asia, where Mr. Mugabe is thought to have received medical care in Singapore and Malaysia, and where the first family owns real estate in Hong Kong.

Ms. Mugabe left for her latest holiday even though she was embroiled in a dispute with a Lebanese diamond dealer over a $1.35 million ring. According to a court document, Ms. Mugabe ordered the diamond from the dealer; issued the payment from a bank in Harare, the Zimbabwean capital; then canceled her purchase after the diamond had already been prepared. Ms. Mugabe demanded that the dealer refund the money to a bank account in Dubai, according to the court document.

The dealer, Jamal Ahmed, said he had refused to transfer the money to Dubai because it would be considered money laundering, but agreed to reimburse the first lady in installments, according to an affidavit submitted to the High Court of Zimbabwe. Men associated with Ms. Mugabe and her son from a previous marriage subsequently seized and occupied three of the dealer’s properties in Harare.

Ms. Mugabe had picked the diamond as her husband’s 20th wedding anniversary present to her.

The president and Ms. Mugabe became involved when she worked as a typist in the president’s secretarial pool. The president’s first wife--Sally, a much-loved figure in Zimbabwe although she was from Ghana--was terminally ill at the time and approved of the affair, Mr. Mugabe has said in the past.

To some who have long known Mr. Mugabe, the marriage to Grace changed the president’s priorities.

“Mugabe did change automatically--it was so dramatic,” said Margaret Dongo, a former ZANU-PF official now in the opposition, adding that Mr. Mugabe had never shown interest in money before his second marriage. “But Grace knew that it was the time to make money. Whatever she did, she made sure she benefited more out of it.”

Ms. Mugabe has run a large dairy business from a farm she owns and seized former white-owned farms from top ZANU-PF officials for her own family. According to American diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, Ms. Mugabe was engaged in the illegal mining of diamonds in eastern Zimbabwe. She was also involved in many commercial and residential construction projects, choosing to contract South Korean construction firms.

In 2007, in an assessment of Ms. Mugabe, the political officer in the American Embassy in Harare wrote that “Grace’s primary personal interest appears to be shopping.”

But two years later, Gunnar Foreland, a Norwegian ambassador with experience in Africa, warned his American counterpart about underestimating Ms. Mugabe’s influence over her husband. “She acts as a kind of gatekeeper, often controlling who sees him, and what information gets to him,” the ambassador said.

Ms. Mugabe has treated potential rivals without mercy. She expelled from ZANU-PF a vice president and war hero, Joice Mujuru, by accusing her of engaging in treason, practicing witchcraft and wearing short skirts. She also initiated a fierce attack against another vice president and leader of a rival faction, Emmerson Mnangagwa.

None of the Mugabes’ three children--the oldest is 28--have shown any interest in politics. Mr. Mugabe has spoken of his disappointment in his two sons’ poor academic performance. The older son, Robert Jr., who is studying in Dubai, often posts photos on social media of himself partying with different women.

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News24.com | Zim VP Mnangagwa's 'I Am the Boss' mug 'rocks' Zanu-PF party

2017-01-07 14:45

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Harare – The often nasty battle to succeed Zimbabwe’s aging president has turned into a tempest in a tea cup — literally.

On the face of it, nothing was wrong with Facebook photos of one of the country’s vice presidents holding a mug with friends during the recent holidays.

Problem is, the mug featured the words “I Am the Boss”.

Emmerson Mnangagwa‘s opponents within the fractured ruling Zanu-PF party pounced on the opportunity to accuse him of harbouring ambitions to take over from 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe.

Mnangagwa, who is acting president while Mugabe holidays abroad, has issued a statement denying any such ambitions.

Mugabe does not take kindly to suggestions of anyone taking over from him. He fired his deputy of 10 years, Joice Mujuru, in 2014 on accusations she was using witchcraft to oust him. In April, four members of the once-loyal war veterans’ leadership were axed from the party for calling on Mugabe to step down.

Succession wars

Mugabe has declared he wants to live until 100 and rule for life.

Meanwhile, two factions, one associated with Mnangagwa and another with First Lady Grace Mugabe, are fighting to position themselves for eventual takeover once Mugabe leaves the scene.

The mug photos only heightened the jostling.

“When pictures not only tell more than a thousand words, but also deepen the power grab narrative!” posted higher and tertiary education minister Jonathan Moyo on Twitter.

Moyo, an outspoken minister once critical of Mugabe, is associated with a youth faction linked to the first lady. He often takes to Twitter to attack Mnangagwa.

Mugabe in December warned his officials against using Twitter to fight succession wars.

“Everybody knows that the Boss is Gushungo. One Boss at a time, please,” Moyo tweeted, calling the drama “Mug-saga.” Gushungo is one of Mugabe’s family names.

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In defence of the mug, Energy Mutodi, a businessman who appeared with Mnangagwa in one of the photos, responded: “Everybody is a boss in his or her own house. Every woman who is happily married calls her husband boss, and it doesn’t follow that by so doing, women are telling their husbands to overthrow Mugabe.”

MOYO FUMES OVER MNANGAGWA’S I’M THE BOSS CUP https://t.co/0PfCf3nx6M pic.twitter.com/jpBFjEfmzO

— ZiMetro (@Zimetro) January 3, 2017

For his part, Mnangagwa did not mention the mug in a statement released on Wednesday but criticised “some elements” for trying to turn Mugabe against him.

“Those who are bent on drawing a wedge between me and my leader … are sure to fail,” he said.

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Zimbabwe succession scuffle turns into tempest in a tea cup

Farai Mutsaka, Associated Press

Updated 3:17 am, Saturday, January 7, 2017

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The often nasty battle to succeed Zimbabwe’s aging president has turned into a tempest in a tea cup — literally.

On the face of it, nothing was wrong with Facebook photos of one of the country’s vice presidents holding a mug with friends during the recent holidays.

Problem is, the mug featured the words “I Am the Boss.”

Emmerson Mnangagwa‘s opponents within the fractured ruling ZANU-PF party pounced on the opportunity to accuse him of harboring ambitions to take over from 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe.

Mnangagwa, who is acting president while Mugabe holidays abroad, has issued a statement denying any such ambitions.

Mugabe has declared he wants to live until 100 and rule for life.

Meanwhile, two factions, one associated with Mnangagwa and another with first lady Grace Mugabe, are fighting to position themselves for eventual takeover once Mugabe leaves the scene.

The mug photos only heightened the jostling.

“When pictures not only tell more than a thousand words, but also deepen the power grab narrative!” posted higher and tertiary education minister Jonathan Moyo on Twitter.

Moyo, an outspoken minister once critical of Mugabe, is associated with a youth faction linked to the first lady. He often takes to Twitter to attack Mnangagwa.

Mugabe in December warned his officials against using Twitter to fight succession wars.

“Everybody knows that the Boss is Gushungo. One Boss at a time, please,” Moyo tweeted, calling the drama “Mug-saga.” Gushungo is one of Mugabe’s family names.

In defense of the mug, Energy Mutodi, a businessman who appeared with Mnangagwa in one of the photos, responded: “Everybody is a boss in his or her own house. Every woman who is happily married calls her husband boss, and it doesn’t follow that by so doing, women are telling their husbands to overthrow Mugabe.”

For his part, Mnangagwa did not mention the mug in a statement released Wednesday but criticized “some elements” for trying to turn Mugabe against him.

“Those who are bent on drawing a wedge between me and my leader … are sure to fail,” he said.

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Zimbabwe succession scuffle turns into tempest in a tea cup - Daily Mail

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Published: 05:56 EST, 7 January 2017 | Updated: 05:56 EST, 7 January 2017

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The often nasty battle to succeed Zimbabwe’s aging president has turned into a tempest in a tea cup — literally.

On the face of it, nothing was wrong with Facebook photos of one of the country’s vice presidents holding a mug with friends during the recent holidays.

Problem is, the mug featured the words “I Am the Boss.”

Emmerson Mnangagwa’s opponents within the fractured ruling ZANU-PF party pounced on the opportunity to accuse him of harboring ambitions to take over from 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe.

Mnangagwa, who is acting president while Mugabe holidays abroad, has issued a statement denying any such ambitions.

Mugabe has declared he wants to live until 100 and rule for life.

Meanwhile, two factions, one associated with Mnangagwa and another with first lady Grace Mugabe, are fighting to position themselves for eventual takeover once Mugabe leaves the scene.

The mug photos only heightened the jostling.

“When pictures not only tell more than a thousand words, but also deepen the power grab narrative!” posted higher and tertiary education minister Jonathan Moyo on Twitter.

Moyo, an outspoken minister once critical of Mugabe, is associated with a youth faction linked to the first lady. He often takes to Twitter to attack Mnangagwa.

Mugabe in December warned his officials against using Twitter to fight succession wars.

“Everybody knows that the Boss is Gushungo. One Boss at a time, please,” Moyo tweeted, calling the drama “Mug-saga.” Gushungo is one of Mugabe’s family names.

For his part, Mnangagwa did not mention the mug in a statement released Wednesday but criticized “some elements” for trying to turn Mugabe against him.

“Those who are bent on drawing a wedge between me and my leader … are sure to fail,” he said.

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In Zimbabwe, a First Lady Exerts Her Power

By NORIMITSU ONISHI

January 7, 2017

MASVINGO, Zimbabwe — The first lady of Zimbabwe’s display of power was unspoken, though clear, during the governing party’s annual congress, as she focused her speech on new party regalia featuring a teacup-shaped image of her country.

“We all drink from the teacup,” Grace Mugabe, the first lady, said, explaining that she had designed the regalia herself.

Ms. Mugabe — known mostly for her lavish overseas shopping trips until she entered politics just two years ago — has emerged as one of the main actors in the fierce maneuvering to succeed Mr. Mugabe that has engulfed Zimbabwe in the last year, as the president’s visible decline presages the end of an era.

The signs of Ms. Mugabe’s growing stature are unmistakable. On stage at the party congress, she sat closest to her husband, who, a couple of months shy of 93 years old, dozed through most speeches. Party leaders invariably praised her also — “Forward with President Mugabe! Forward with Dr. Amai Grace Mugabe!” — before others officially higher in the party hierarchy. A choir that usually sings the president’s praises composed a song for the first lady for the first time.

At the congress, Mr. Mugabe appeared increasingly dependent on his wife, who is 51. When a waiter carrying bags of potato chips on a silver tray startled Mr. Mugabe, the first lady chose a bag, from which the president then slowly picked out one single chip after another. At a tree-planting ceremony, a seemingly confused president kept tapping a mound of dirt with his shovel until the first lady intervened — “honey,” she called him — by grabbing the shovel herself.

Wilson Manase, Ms. Mugabe’s lawyer, did not return calls and messages to his cellphone.

Ms. Mugabe had picked the diamond as her husband’s 20th wedding anniversary present to her.

The president and Ms. Mugabe became involved when she worked as a typist in the president’s secretarial pool. The president’s first wife — Sally, a much-loved figure in Zimbabwe although she was from Ghana – was terminally ill at the time and approved of the affair, Mr. Mugabe has said in the past.

To some who have long known Mr. Mugabe, the marriage to Grace changed the president’s priorities.

“Mugabe did change automatically — it was so dramatic,” said Margaret Dongo, a former ZANU-PF official now in the opposition, adding that Mr. Mugabe had never shown interest in money before his second marriage. “But Grace knew that it was the time to make money. Whatever she did, she made sure she benefited more out of it.”

In 2007, in an assessment of Ms. Mugabe, the political officer in the American Embassy in Harare wrote that “Grace’s primary personal interest appears to be shopping.”

“We believe Grace has little or no political influence over her husband,” the officer wrote.

Ms. Mugabe formally entered politics in 2014, becoming leader of ZANU-PF’s women’s league. She was awarded a doctorate after only two months at the University of Zimbabwe. Supporters have engaged in the kind of mythmaking that had been reserved for the president, who is often described as walking on water and in other Christlike terms.

Namatirai Chivhanga, a top women’s league official, said the first lady’s loving embrace of the country’s orphans was so moving that one couldn’t help crying.

“Somehow she’s putting on Pampers and all the children are calling her Mama, Mama,” Ms. Chivhanga, a delegate to the congress, said, adding that she had seen Ms. Mugabe personally change the diapers of many orphans. “It’s amazing.”

Ms. Mugabe has also systematically secured support by using her wealth or access to state funds.

“She gave us thousands and thousands of chickens in all the provinces,” said Angeline Muchemeyi, the chairwoman of the women’s league in the Mashonaland West Province. “And the new cars — we got Ford Rangers. She’s good, she’s very good to us, that lady.”

Supporters of Mr. Mnangagwa said Ms. Mugabe was being used by more experienced politicians to undermine their candidate.

“She’s soft and inexperienced,” said Douglas Mahiya, spokesman of the National Liberation War Veterans Association, which supports Mr. Mnangagwa. “Even if she becomes president, it will be easier for these people to push her aside and take over.”

Ms. Dongo, the former ZANU-PF official, said the first lady’s political rise was part of the president’s plan to build a family dynasty. “The kids are too young and don’t have the capacity,” she said.

None of the Mugabes’ three children — the oldest is 28 — have shown any interest in politics. Mr. Mugabe has spoken of his disappointment in his two sons’ poor academic performance. The older son, Robert Jr., who is studying in Dubai, often posts photos on social media of himself partying with different women.

In an interview on his 92nd birthday, Mr. Mugabe said he had given his wife his approval to enter politics.

“It has proved to be rough waters,” he said, “but she can cope with it. She is a rough swimmer.”

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