It was USA Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Chris Dell, who said,
back in 2004, the late MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai “was a flawed and
indecisive character”. Events have proven that the Ambassador was right and,
worse still, he could have said the same of all the other MDC leaders. Being
flawed and indecisive is in the DNA of MDC leaders alright.
“MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday reneged on his
earlier pledge to attend all State functions, and chose to stay away from both
the Heroes' Day and Defence Forces Day commemorations in the past two days,
saying he was "mourning" alleged theft of his election victory,”
reported Newsday.
It is not as if MDC was not warned that with no democratic
reforms in place, Zanu PF would rig the elections. If MDC was warned once they
were warned 100 000 times and 100 000 times again and still they paid no heed.
“MDC has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the
elections!” Chamisa said again and again. Now we know he has lying; Zanu PF
stole the elections, as he now readily admits.
Chamisa and his fellow MDC leaders’ decision making is so
flawed it defies logic and common sense. There is simply no logical explanation
why MDC agreed to go into these elections without something as basic as a clean
and verified voters’ roll particularly when they know that Zanu PF took full
advantage of this in 2013 to rig the elections.
We all saw the hooded Zanu PF youths who were bussed from
one polling station to the next that year casting multiple voters, for example.
But with no voters’ roll, it was impossible to prove multiple voting; the
voters’ roll was the missing smoking gun.
“Tsvangirai made the stupid mistake of going into the 2013
elections with no verified voters’ roll!” admitted Chamisa, with the innocence
of one who had no say is making that decision, when in fact he had a say. “I
will not make the same mistake!”
The demand for a verified voters’ roll was one of the MDC “red
line” demands many people expected Chamisa and his MDC friends to honour. Sadly
that was not to be, they crossed this red line with the same indifference they
had shown again and again in the past.
Ever since the 2008 elections, Zanu PF had learned that as
long as the party allowed the opposition to win a few of the gravy train seats,
Zanu PF will never have to fear MDC leaders boycotting the elections regardless
how flawed and illegal the election process got. Senator David Coltart, MDC
minister in the GNU, admits that greed got the better of the MDC leaders.
“The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a
coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious – withdraw from the
elections,” explained Senator Coltart.
“The electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only
logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to
account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither
could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning
seats and giving the process credibility.”
It was to be expected that a cunning and ruthless operator
like Robert Mugabe would take full advantage of the “flawed and indecisive” MDC
leaders. When the tyrant dangled the ministerial limos, generous salaries, $4
million mansion for Tsvangirai and all the other traps of high office MDC
leaders all forgot about the reforms for all five years of the GNU. And ever
since, MDC leaders have paid lip service to reforms with their beady eyes
always fixed on the gravy train bait Zanu PF was dangling.
It is laughable that Chamisa found the courage to boycott
Heroes’ Day celebration the consequences his not attending was nothing more
than a fart in the wind. And yet the same idiot did not have the guts to
boycott elections even when ZEC failed to produce a verified voters’ roll. The
consequences of participating in the flawed elections is that MDC gave the process
credibility and now the nation is stuck with this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF
junta for another five years of hell!
So, Chamisa is “mourning” stolen election victory! Meanwhile
the people of Zimbabwe must mourn yet another wasted opportunity to implement
the reforms and the country holding its first ever free, fair and credible elections.
We must mourn the curse of having a corrupt and tyrannical ruling party being
help to get away with rigging elections by flawed and indecisive opposition!
@ Michael Gutuza
ReplyDeletePlease share your wisdom with us! Zimbabwe is in serious trouble and our top priority is to find the way out of this mess. Nomusa raised many very pertinent points and all you pick up was "fart in the wind". Fancy that!
Well, it explains why the country is such a mess, with shallow minded people like you it could not have done otherwise. Worse still, with people like you stubbornly refusing to open their eyes, it is clear this country is stuck in this hell-hole!
"Your piece is neither here nor there, you have inadvertently described it: "fart in the wind" is all you can say? You are a waste of time and space! It is a great tragedy that people like you have a vote.
MDC leaders are as foolish and reckless as a herd wildebeest. In their migration they often come across a flood river, come to a crossing where the river bank is very steep, a crossing where they have to swim in crocodile infested pools, etc. Instead of the herd waiting for the flood to easy or look for a safer crossing they will raise their tail and plunge in. Their mind is completely focused on the grass across the river they cannot see the immediate danger before them. It will take the death of several hundred individuals before the herd finally realise the folly of ignoring the danger before them.
ReplyDeleteIt is worrying when human beings start behaving like mindless wildebeest. MDC leaders have dragged their supporters and the nation at large to participate in these flawed and illegal elections for the last 38 years. It is absolutely insane that they have just done this yet again.
Chamisa is now mourning over stolen elections, what good will that be to the nation especially when five years from now he and and his MDC friends will be dragging the nation into yet another meaningless election! The wildebeest herd will be here again making the same stupid mistakes!
The most important thing to note about these elections is that they were NOT free, fair and credible. The elections should have never taken place, not without first implementing the democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging them. The elections went ahead because MDC leaders would not listen
ReplyDeleteThe elections went ahead because "MDC has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections!" Chamisa promised on countless occasions. Now it turns that was all the usual hot air from MDC! MDC would not be challenge the result accusing Zanu PF of rigging if the stringent measures had worked.
"President Nelson Chamisa's @nelsonchamisa court application to be heard on the 22nd of August 2018 at 10:00am. The evidence is overwhelming and victory is certain. Numbers don't lie, so the President-Elect @nelsonchamisa looks forward to this day." Twittered Chamisa's spokesperson, Dr Nkululeko Sibanda.
Even if MDC managed to get the Con-Court to reverse ZEC's decision and declare Chamisa the winner the court will not be able to review all the parliamentary and council election result. It is true that:
President Chamisa + Zanu PF controlled parliament, civil service, etc. = most dysfunctional government ever.
Zimbabwe is in a real serious economic and political mess and the country need a competent and functional government a.s.a.p. and can ill afford even a few months of a dysfunctional government.
Worse still, there is no reason to believe there will an light at the end of this Chamisa-Zanu PF political pantomime because we can be certain that the Zanu PF control parliament would ever implement any meaningful democratic reforms. The prospect of yet another rigged elections looms high and that frighten the hell out of me.
We know there elections were not free, fair and credible given there 3 million or so Zimbabweans in the diaspora were denied a vote, there was no free public media, ZEC failed to produce a clean and verified voters' roll, etc., etc. These elections should just be declared null and void and no be down with it. This will clear the deck for the appointment of an interim administration tasked to implement the democratic reforms and then the holding of free, fair and credible elections.