The Speaker of National Assembly, Advocate Jacob Mudenda has just announce the recall of nine more MDC legislators at the behest of MDC-T leader, Douglas Mwonzora.
Ever since the Supreme Court judgement confirming the High Court’s ruling that Nelson Chamisa’s succession as leader of the MDC had violated the party’s own constitution, it was clear this was a matter that would divide the MDC. Still, few would have imagined there would be this much chaos, confusion and blood bath!
Tsvangirai’s appointment of Chamisa and Mudziri as VPs of the party was messy and so too was Chamisa’s takeover of the party following Tsvangirai’s death. The failure by the party to sort this mess is what one would expect given the party’s history as corrupt and incompetent. Sadly, this mess is proving to be so divisive the party is subdividing in such way, mutual annihilation, that the emerging factions are so weak and feeble they are utterly useless.
The real tragedy here is MDC is engaged in this self-destruction at the very time the nation is facing its greatest ever existential threat from the corona virus pandemic. It is bad enough the pandemic is happening at a time when the country is facing economic meltdown and political paralysis after 40 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule. It is a nightmare that the nation should still be in the hands of the corrupt and incompetent Zanu PF thugs during this pandemic with no oversight even from the corrupt and incompetent MDC!
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only,” wrote the great novelist Charles Dickens.
The last 40 years have been hell for Zimbabwe but compared to what now lays ahead, it was heaven. The last 40 years has been a time of foolishness with very little wisdom, the years of winter with a few days here and there of spring. There is nothing before us by years foolishness, despair and evil and none of the good and wise! None!
MDC leaders have always shown that they are corrupt and incompetent, they sold-out big time during the 2008 to 2013 GNU when they failed to implement even one meaningful reform in five years. The High Court judgement condemning Chamisa's seizure of power following Tsvangirai's death has given the party the opportunity to hit the self-destruct button.
ReplyDeleteThe recent events have left both Khupe and Chamisa with no political credibility. None! "Yavashaisano!" (Mutual self-destruction!) as one would say in Shona.
To pretend that the Supreme Court judgement was null and void is just burying one's head in the sand - a very favorate or be it foolish tactic by both Zanu PF and MDC leaders and their supporters!
ReplyDeleteThe MDC Alliance was, as the name implies, an alliance and not a political party. To keep on insisting it was a political party only goes to show just how naïve, gullible and desperate you must be.
ReplyDeleteWhenever Zimbabwe's corrupt and incompetent leaders and supporters, across the political divide, come face to face with the facts, they deny the fact and clatch on to straws!
MDC is not a democratic party, all the party’s leaders will insist they are democrats but they are not. When Chamisa saw the chance to short-circuit the party’s constitution to secure his position as the new party leader, he seized it.
ReplyDeleteThe MDC constitution stipulated that Tsvangirai could not serve as party leader for more than two five-year terms. When the time came for him to step down he refused and those around him supported him on the shaky grounds “MDC was a winning team, why change it!” Tsvangirai remained party leader for 14 years and, if death had not intervened, he would probably still be the party’s president today!
The willingness of the leaders to bend the rules to suit their selfish needs have made the party’s structures weak. For example, the MDC National Committee members should have rejected Chamisa’s blatant attempt to short-circuit the party constitution to seize power but they did not for selfish reasons. Having supported Chamisa all along the members were compromised and so changing side even after the High Court ruling on the matter has become impossible for many of them.
The failure by MDC leaders to implement even one democratic reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU showed them for who they are, breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent individuals who sold-out at the drop of a hat. MDC leaders lost political credibility for failing to implement reforms and for participating in flawed elections.
When Madam Khupe and company joined Mnangagwa’s POLAD any residue of political credibility they had evaporated. Chamisa lost everything too by refusing to accept his seizure of the party leadership was unconstitutional. I totally agree MDC as a political party is all but finished, at least as far as any rational person is concerned!
@ Nomazulu
ReplyDeleteAfrican has had the great misfortune of having leaders like the late Robert Mugabe and his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa who fought to end white colonial oppression but only to become the next oppressors. Zimbabwe’s educated elite, who should have resisted Mugabe’s political shenanigans in fervour of good governance, abandoned their position without a fight to join Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies. “Go along to get along!” was their guiding philosophy.
So, Mugabe has had a free hand to oppress and loot to his insatiable heart’s content. And 40 years of gross mismanagement and wholesale looting have turned Zimbabwe from one of the rich nations to one of the poorest.
Sadly, the story of yesterday’s liberators becoming today’s corrupt and oppressive tyrants has been repeated in many, many countries in Africa. Corruption, chaos and tragic human suffering and death are the four things most Africans have in common.
Yes, Africa has had inspirational and visionary leaders like the late Nelson Mandela but, sadly, they have been very few and separated in time and space to make a lasting impression. Africa is the dark continent, stuck in the dark ages, that is not about to change!
@ Mwembe
ReplyDelete“All 2,6 million people who voted for Chamisa After the party's national council chose him to represent the party in the 2018 pending the congress are not worried about this nonsense. They just wait to finish off from where they left in 2018 elections.”
No one would dispute that Chamisa had a lot of support in the July 2018 election, as for the 2.6 million even he has failed to produce the V11 forms to prove this. Still, what is at issue here is whether or not Chamisa violated the MDC’s constitution when he seized the leadership of the party following Tsvangirai’s death in February 2018. The High Court ruling on this matter is that he did and the remedy was that Khupe would resume the leadership until the party holds an extra-ordinary congress to elect the new president.
Chamisa and his supporters cannot swallow the tough reality that he behaved like a Zanu PF thug in seizing power in 2018 and so their collective response is to pretend he did nothing wrong, the High Court judgement was never made and this whole political fracas is about everything else but the succession.
Chamisa and company are denying historic factual matters and/or defend the indefensible proving they have no common sense. None!
INTERIM MDC-T president Thokozani Khupe’s bid to lure former MDC Alliance principals into her camp faces hurdles after it has emerged the targeted parties were divided on the idea.
ReplyDeleteKhupe, who won a recent court battle for control of the main opposition, is keen to draft in smaller political parties that once coalesced with the Nelson Chamisa formation under MDC Alliance.
But to achieve the feat, she still has a lot of convincing to perform on the political party principals.
Khupe just like Chamisa, Biti and the rest in the MDC camp lost a lot of political credibility when they failed to implement even one reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. All those who participated in the 2013 and then 2018 elections in total disregard of the repeated warning not to without first implementing the reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging elections showed just how corrupt and incompetent they are.
By endorsing the 2018 elections as free, fair and credible and Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF thugs as legitimately elected and joining the regime’s POLAD talk-shop. Khupe and company chose to become Zanu PF in all but name just to remain politically relevant, they placed themselves beyond the pale!
The High Court ruling has given Madam Khupe a new political life but it is really of very little use to her now that she is seen as nothing but a Zanu PF project.
When Mugabe started to run out of loot to dish out to his Zanu PF cronies after giving away most of the seized white owned farms the party started to fall apart as members went into a dog eat dog fight for the scraps. Zanu PF lasted until 2005/6 when the number of farms available was not enough to meet the growing demand; indeed, the heavy weights were known to bully the small chefs off some farms; the party hit the self-destruct button.
ReplyDeleteOther than the five years of the GNU, Tsvangirai has never had any loot to give away. MDC has been held together on the hope of some day the party getting into power and then everyone will live like Zanu PF ruling elite! As the party kept losing elections the competition for positions became fierce and the need for each leader to read the political wind very carefully has become essential. Many MDC leaders supported Nelson Chamisa's February palace coup in the same opportunist spirit Zanu PF leaders lined up behind Mnangagwa after the November 2017 coup.
Chamisa was the winning ticket and the fact that his seizure of power was unconstitutional was academic.
It is fair to say MDC member hit the self-destruct button when the High Court judge ruled in fervor of Khupe. Many MDC leaders had nailed their colours with Chamisa it was too late to switch and so had no choice but to sink with the Chamisa ship! The in fighting had left Khupe so weak it is very hard for her to recover now!