Monday 5 December 2016

"Tsvangirai is personally handling coalition talks," says Gutu - and who is implementing reform? By N Garikai

There is no doubt that the GNU offered the people of Zimbabwe the best chance ever to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends had five years in which to implement the democratic reforms designed to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship. They failed to get even one reform implemented.

Zanu PF went on to rig the July 2013 elections contrary to Tsvangirai’s repeated assurance the elections would be free, fair and credible. The people of Zimbabwe should have learned the important lesson that MDC are corrupt and incompetent and never again to trust them. The people should have deserted the party in droves. Sadly there are still some Zimbabweans who still trust MDC leaders and follow them blindly, no questions asked.

“As a social democratic political party enjoying massive grassroots support,” boasted MDC-T spokesman, Obert Gutu, “the MDC has always put people first in all its dealings and policy making deliberations. ….. MDC is acutely mindful of the need to always take into consideration the interests of the majority of the toiling masses of Zimbabwe whenever an electoral coalition pact is to be entered into.”

If MDC was mindful of the people’s needs then why did the party fail to implement even one democratic reform which would have finally delivered free, fair and credible elections. Even now with the benefit of hindsight that MDC sold-out during the GNU, MDC leaders still talk as if they did nothing wrong.

“President Morgan Tsvangirai is personally handling the issue of coalition discussions and deliberations with similar minded opposition political parties,” Gutu tells us.

“Our leader is a tried and tested fighter for democratic governance in Zimbabwe and we have absolutely no doubt in our minds that he is perfectly able and indeed, capable, of making the necessary consultations that will ultimately lead to the creation of an electoral coalition pact that will send Zanu PF to the cleaners in the do - or - die harmonised elections to be held in 2018.

This is typical MDC-T flip-flopping and endless dithering. MDC-T was invited to coalition talks in SA last week which the party did not attend. Tsvangirai’s feeble excuse for not attending was that he did not see the need of forming a coalition with all those who left MDC in the first place.

Douglas Mwonzora, MDC-T Secretary General, has too dismissed coalition talks as a waste of time because the opposition parties were bringing no added value (in terms of supporters) to the coalition.

MDC-T certainly had the mass support in the 2013 elections and would have won those elections convincingly if Zanu PF had not rigged the vote. Tsvangirai was warned not to take part in those elections without implementing the reforms first but he would not listen.

The same warning is still valid today; no opposition party should take part in the next elections without implementing the reforms first.

Whether the winner of the next elections is the true reflection of the democratic wishes of the people of Zimbabwe will depend on whether the elections are free, fair and credible. This is why the opposition should be concentrating on implementing the reforms and not waste time building coalitions.

Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because we, the electorate, did not take the business of electing competent leaders with the seriousness the matter demands. If we had, then we would have never elected the corrupt and murderous tyrant, President Mugabe, and his gang of thugs. We then went on to elect the corrupt and incompetent MDC leaders, on the ticket they would bring democratic change and end the Zanu PF dictatorship. We are still groaning under the yoke of the corrupt and tyrannical dictatorship.


By continuing to support failed leaders like Tsvangirai the people of Zimbabwe are telling the world that we are still not yet ready to take the business of electing competent leaders with the seriousness and urgency the matter demands. Until we finally elect competent leaders instead of these corrupt and incompetent ones; we even recycle failed ones over and over again, some cannot even stay awake for long; the country will never ever get out of this mess!

6 comments:

  1. Throughout the GNU Tsvangirai and his MDC friends were told to implement the reforms but they would not listen. SADC leaders begged them not to take part in the elections without any reforms implemented but again they would not listen.

    It was only after the rigged July 2013 elections that MDC finally admitted the reforms were important. They promised they would not take part in any future elections UNTIL reforms are implemented. They have since failed to get Zanu PF to implement any reforms and they are now using the building of an opposition coalition as an excuse to justify why they should take part in the next elections even without even one reform implemented.

    Democracy and the right to vote are good things but only when they are used properly; MDC is boasting of mass support from people who do not know what is in their own best interest. How can electing a corrupt and incompetent person like Tsvangirai be in anyone's best interest and yet here we are stuck with a corrupt and incompetent opposition leader.

    It is almost certain that Zimbabwe will go through yet another electoral process with no reform implemented. How can that be in the nation's interest!

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  2. Free, fair and credible elections is the key to getting the nation out of this economic mess. Tsvangirai and his MDC friends admitted after the rigged 2013 elections that implementing reforms were important and they even said they would not participate in any future elections without implementing the reforms.

    Today, over three years since the rigged July 2013 elections, less than two years before the next elections and with not even one reform implemented, Zimbabwe's corrupt, incompetent and inapt opposition is now turning their attention on the mundane and inconsequential opposition coalition just to remain relevant. At the same time during the GNU MDC leaders throw their weight behind the new weak and feeble constitution with the same gusto to cover up for their failure to implement even one reform.

    Zanu PF rigged the 2013 elections because no meaningful democratic reforms were implement during the GNU. The same will happen in the 2018 elections and all this talk of building opposition coalitions do nothing to stop the vote rigging and the result!

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  3. @ datbrotherinamerica

    Free, fair and credible elections is the key to getting the nation out of this economic mess. Tsvangirai and his MDC friends admitted after the rigged 2013 elections that implementing reforms were important and they even said they would not participate in any future elections without implementing the reforms.

    Today, over three years since the rigged July 2013 elections, less than two years before the next elections and with not even one reform implemented, Zimbabwe's corrupt, incompetent and inapt opposition is now turning their attention on the mundane and inconsequential opposition coalition just to remain relevant. At the same time during the GNU MDC leaders throw their weight behind the new weak and feeble constitution with the same gusto to cover up for their failure to implement even one reform.

    Zanu PF rigged the 2013 elections because no meaningful democratic reforms were implement during the GNU. The same will happen in the 2018 elections and all this talk of building opposition coalitions do nothing to stop the vote rigging and the result!

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  4. @ datbrother



    The people had many chances to end this Zanu PF dictatorship for example during the GNU, that did not happen because the people elected a corrupt and incompetent opposition. So in that regard the people got the dictatorship by default but still that was what they deserved!

    The historic fact is that Zanu PF rigged the vote, so you cannot say the people voted for the party. As for the full details of how Zanu PF rigged the 2013 elections and past elections the truth will come out in time. Regime change is now in the air, we will not have to wait for much longer!

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  5. @ dat brother

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRWkfkiN2FY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjDzqU-itgA

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  6. First Gutu tells us “The MDC passionately believes in a people – driven as opposed to a leaders – driven political discourse.”

    Then he tells us, “At an appropriate point in time, President Morgan Tsvangirai will, of course, make a formal public announcement regarding the issue of an electoral coalition as we prepare for elections in 2018.Negotiations of such a monumental significance are never conducted in public.”

    He cannot even make up his mind!

    MDC failed to get even one reform implemented during the GNU when Zanu PF was under the cosh from SADC and the GPA. It is naïve to think MDC would do so now and hence three years since the rigged elections MDC has not managed to get Zanu PF to implement even the wishy-washy electoral reforms Tsvangirai was asking for.

    Anyone who believed even for one minute that Tsvangirai and his MDC friends will ever get any reforms implemented is simply naïve; they are too corrupt and incompetent to be ever trusted to accomplish such a task.

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