"Join street protest and find our collective voice" argue MDC A - rich, since sold-out on democratic vote N Garikai

"What do we do? We take to the streets, we have to find our collective voice, and it's not just about the 31st of July. I think that's what I need to emphasise that's just about one day, so it's not as if once the 31st of July comes and goes, we sort of forget about the need to stand up and speak out against the government. There is no magic around that day. There is need to unite. Speaking out against the government has to be a continuous obligation on each citizen," MDC Alliance spokesperson, Fadzai Mahere said.


"We have to form a broad church, nobody is safe whether it's MDC Alliance MPs, church leaders, teachers, nurses, civic society, business, they are coming for everybody. So it's time for us to all come together and say Zanu-PF must go because the system has declared war on everybody, on all of us, so we have to find our collective voice.

"Regardless of the fact that we are hungry and the cost of living is escalating and we cannot afford public health, people should be allowed to come out on the 31st of July regardless of who is organising it and they should be able to do that on any other day. People have the right to do that peacefully, socially distanced you know, even if it's during the time of COVID-19 people should be allowed to express themselves. There is no law on earth which says during a pandemic people cannot protest."

I will NOT be attending the street protests and am arguing every thinking person out there to do the same. Here are my three reasons for staying away:

1)    Mahere and all the other protest organisers keep talking of the protest being “peaceful and everyone adhering to the socially distancing”. They all know this is all wishful thinking.

We all know that there is a lot of bottled up anger and frustration against the Zanu PF regime and a many of the people who will be joining the protest are itching to vent their anger and frustration. So, if the protests are ever going to be peaceful then there will have to be lots and lots of marshals to keep the peace. I have not heard anything from the organisers to convince me they have done anything to ensure the protests are peaceful.

Zanu PF has its security agents armed to the teeth to stop the street protests under the pretext of keeping law and order and the covid-19 lockdown regulation. No doubt, the regime will have its double agents, agent provocateurs, to initiate the violence.

2)   It is rich for MDC Alliance and the rest of Zimbabwe’s corrupt and incompetent opposition to argue Zimbabweans to “find our collective voice” by joining the street protest when they are the ones who sold our democratic vote and voice by participating in flawed and illegal elections. These opposition politicians know that by participating in the elections they will give the process credibility and, by extension, the vote rigging Zanu PF regime legitimacy.

Whatever happens, we can be 100% certain that Mahere, Chamisa and the rest of opposition politicians will participate in the 2023 elections even if not even one reform is implemented for the same reason they participated in the past elections – greed, to win the few gravy train seats Zanu PF is offering as bait. We, the people, must now be smart to Zimbabwe’s corrupt opposition are running with the hare and hunting with the Zanu PF hounds.

3)   The only one thing that will induce me to join the violent street protest is if that if the only way to get the democratic reforms, the prerequisite for free, fair and credible elections, finally implemented. Of course, it is nonsense to argue that violent street protests is the only way left to end the Zanu PF dictatorship it is the opposition who failed to implement the reforms and are the ones participating in flawed elections.