By Cde Sikhosana Bambazonke

Former Norton’s MP, now demoted to meee village head in Shurugwi Temba Mliswa is being accused of moonlighting as President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s personal bait-man—luring political fugitives into the crocodile pool.

True Patriots, yes, Garwethe Crocodile himself apparently rarely strikes alone. 

Sometimes, he needs a Judas to whisper “Come home, all is forgiven,” while sharpening the knives under the table.

According to Saviour Kasukuwere and social media’s fearless gunman-for-hire Ali Naka, Mliswa has perfected this Judas hustle. 

They allege he was the last person the late general Perence Shiri called before mysteriously clocking out. 

They claim he went fishing in South Africa, not for bream, but for Mzembi and Hopewell Chin’ono. 

Hopewell, ever sharp, bolted. 

Mzembi, perhaps nostalgic for cabinet per diems and Mugabe’s champagne breakfasts, apparently swam back straight into the crocodile’s open jaws.

Now Mzembi sits in remand, gnawing on prison sadza, while Prisca Mupfumira and Ignatius Chombo are somewhere out there sipping cappuccinos, their corruption cases floating like dead logs down the Zambezi.

Mliswa, of course, is breathing fire. “I’m no spy!” he roared, dismissing Kasukuwere as a liar and Naka as a mercenary who tweets for supper. 

He insists Mzembi “came back of his own accord.” 

Perhaps. 

But in Zimbabwe, the road home often feels like a well-dug ambush trench.

True Patriots, let’s not pretend we don’t know this script. 

Mugabe in 2017 promised to deal with “criminals around him.” 

Fast-forward, only Mzembi is rotting in a cell while the real crocodile’s kitchen remains well-stocked with chefs, oil merchants, and church prophets dining comfortably.

But here’s the punchline, True Patriots if Mliswa is really the village Judas, then Judas has gone rural dragging goats in the morning, selling out old allies by afternoon, and tweeting motivational quotes by night. 

Well, as the crocodile lounges, full and satisfied, the rest of us must ask, in this pool of deception, who’s next on the menu?