“Since the dubious 31 March 2020 SC (Supreme Court) judgment on the MDC’s leadership, Mnangagwa has used cronies, recalls, arrests, abductions, torture and defections to destroy the MDC-A,” commented Professor Jonathan Moyo.
“By design or default, Chamisa has said and done nothing. That silence is today his strategic advantage!”
This is just nonsense!
If the Supreme Court judgement was dubious, as Moyo claims, then what is the strategic advantage of saying and doing nothing about it whilst the consequences of the said judgement wreck havoc to Chamisa, those around him and the nation at large, which has had no opposition party to hold the rogue Zanu PF regime to account!
One does not allow a hyaena into one’s home stead so it can feast on one’s domestic animals and even kill and eat humans! What has been happening in Zimbabwe these last 12 months is a great national tragedy with the economy sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss, made worse by the corona virus outbreak; all because Zanu PF has been allowed to do as it pleased. We not only have one hyaena but a clan! We are to believe that having a clan of hyaenas running riot in the village is strategic!
Since when are blatant betrayal, the Supreme Court judgement was Chamisa’s own fault, and failure been classified as wise and strategic.
Professor Moyo’s is a man whose strategic thinking helped Mugabe stay in power. But we also know that he has no morals as he did not care that he was helping a corrupt and murderous tyrant in power. We know Moyo as one who would sell his own mother for a price and boast he had a mother to sell.
Chamisa is saying and doing nothing about the Supreme Court judgement because there is nothing he can say or do. The consequences of the judgement are tragic to the him, MDC A and most important of all the nation.
Professor Jonathan Moyo has spend the last two and half years, ever since the November 2017 military coup, holed up in his fox-hole in Kenya. The forced sabbatical is taking a toll on his brain, it is ossifying. He cannot distinguish betrayal, defeat and blundering despair and confuse it for strategic silence!
There is no denying that Chamisa’s seizure of power following Tsvangirai’s death was unlawful. He fast tracked the succession without giving two of the fellow VPs and anyone else a chance to throw their name in the hat. One does not need to know MDC - T’s constitution to know there was something fundamental wrong here.
ReplyDeleteThere is no denying that the Supreme Court judgement throw the cat among the pigeons. MDC A was a party in confusion before the judgement, the judgement provided the impetus for the leaders to declare all out war.
The SC judgement has torn MDC A and the MDC brand apart. Only a shameless spin doctor like Professor Jonathan Moyo would even try to sell this tragic reality as a “strategic advantage” to Chamisa.
No doubt Chamisa and his naive and gullible supporters have swallowed Moyo’s nonsensical misrepresentation of facts and reality hook, line and sinker.
Chamisa should have acknowledged he made a big mistake in seizing power. This would have lanced the boil and allowed the party to turn over a new leaf. Like former US President Donald Trump refusing to accept he lost the election, Chamisa has denied to this day doing anything wrong and allowed the boil to fester and kill the body with blood poisoning.
Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies are the only ones who have benefited from Chamisa shooting himself in the foot and refusal to accept doing wrong. Mnangagwa knows that MDC leaders are now so focused on fighting each other to win the few gravy train seats Zanu PF gives away and be the main opposition party. Mnangagwa knows the MDC leaders will participate in the 2023 elections even if he does not implement even one token reform.
The greatest losers are the ordinary Zimbabweans who are now stuck with the corrupt, tyrannical and vote rigging Zanu PF dictatorship and a corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless MDC opposition. There is certainly no strategic advantage in that!
@ Hosini
ReplyDelete“We all remember life threatening words uttered by Mugabe presumably directed to Jonathan Moyo when the dictator looked filled with soul agony, declared Moyo as "Devil Incarnate",before that there was "Tsholotsho Declaration" where Jonathan was said to have masterminded the plot possible to overthrow Mugabe. So all these suggested Moyo harboured something against the party that has failed the whole nation or he intended to destroy it from within, therefore we can't take opinions about MDC ALLIANCE from Moyo for just cheap reading junk.”
After the 2004 Tsholotsho debacle few would have guessed that Mugabe would ever want to see Jonathan Moyo much less appoint him Minister! And yet that is exactly what happened, proof the dictator needed the ruthless skimmer by his side. Even after denouncing Moyo as “devil Incarnate” Mugabe still kept Moyo, proof the ruthless skimmer had the dictator by the b***!
In Robert Mugabe and Jonathan Moyo Zimbabwe had two ruthless men who cared about nothing, not even each other; all they cared about is number one - ME!
Well the events of 15 November 2017 prove one thing, even their combined ruthlessness could not stop the coup!
There is certainly no love lost between Mnangagwa and Moyo. If Moyo is destroying MDC A from within then it must by accident because he certainly will get no thanks for it from Mnangagwa. I do not see Moyo ever working for Mnangagwa, the one thing Mnangagwa would dearly want to do with Moyo is to kill him.
@ P Ncube
ReplyDelete“Moyo wants to be seen as an advisor to chamisa so that JUST IN CASE Chamisa landed in power, Jonathan will want "cut yake" It baffles the mind how Chamisa can take advice from Moyo. Politics is indeed a dirty game. Chamisa is never to be anywhere near Moyo. Moyo insulted Tsvangirai with unprintable insults: but today Moyo is a true advisor of the MDC party. It shows that the MDC Alliance party has no direction at all.”
Nelson Chamisa, Tendai Biti, David Coltart, Douglas Mwonzora, Morgan Tsvangirai and all the other MDC leaders who were in the GNU have proven beyond all reasonable doubt that they are corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent when they failed to get even one reform implemented in five years of the GNU. They should have bowed double in apology and walked into the political sunset. The very fact that are still on the political stage goes to show just how naive and gullible the Zimbabwe electorate is.
The fact that Chamisa has blundered and shot himself in the foot when he seized power after Tsvangirai’s death should come as no surprise. The fact that half the MDC leaders have compounded the situation by burying their heads in the sand and pretend he did nothing wrong and thus splitting the party unnecessarily is no surprise either. It is to be expected of those without common sense to blunder from pillar to post.
I think nothing would have pleased Moyo more than to see MDC and G40 back in power. He must be pulling the little hair still left on his head to see how MDC’s dog-eat-dog fighting has benefited Mnangagwa.
@ Prisca Ncube
ReplyDelete“It can also be true that by the end of this year the mdc-alliance will be finished. There is no leadership to talk about in chamisa. We can as well start an opposition party all over again because chamisa destroyed all that democracy represented in 2018 when he usurped the party leadership from Khuphe. But again in Khuphe there is no leadership qualities to talk about. We are in a fix as an opposition.”
Starting another opposition is the way out but only after we have established why MDC was a total failure. We have risked life and limb to elect Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends into power on the understanding, once in power, they would implement the democratic changes necessary to restore the individual freedoms and rights. MDC leaders have been in power 20 years, 5 of which in the GNU, and have failed to implement even one reform. Not even one!
Of course, we were naive and gullible to risk all and trust Tsvangirai and company, who have since turned out to be corrupt and incompetent, to implement the reforms. Unless we do something to address our own weaknesses - being naive and gullible - there is a real danger of the new opposition being full of equally corrupt and incompetent individuals.
Indeed, many of the MDC leaders are like chickens that have been caught in the rain, they are desperate to find a new party to shelter them. If we are not careful, the new party will be MDC in all but name! Surely we deserve better than yet another false start!
MDC leaders have indeed proven beyond doubt that they are corrupt and incompetent but the very fact that there are many Zimbabweans out there who still fail to see this reality puts a big question mark on whether the have the intellect to comprehend anything. Democracy demands that the people should be well informed and diligent; a naive and gullible electorate will never hold the ruling elite to account.
ReplyDeleteDemocracy worked in Greece 2 500 years ago. With all the benefit of time and advances in human civilisation we still fail to reach the intellectual comprehension of the Greeks 2 500 years ago. Why?
@ Bhogwe
ReplyDelete“My friend as much as I do understand where you are coming from the VP has done a very good thing by resigning.. Probably the first of its kind in Zimbabwe.. Well other saChatunga, but it's a known fact that the whole world and Zimbabweans were tired of saChatunga.. This one somehow its good example of good leadership by the VP. That is my thoughts your royal highness..”
Well I agree with you too. This is like a murderer confessing to running over a cat but is indifferent to the cold blooded murder of an innocent person! While we say the murderer has a conscience!
Zanu PF dictatorship has cause the suffering of millions of ordinary Zimbabweans and the death of over 30 000 in cold blooded murders for political gain. If these Zanu PF thugs have a conscience then surely it is the suffering and deaths of the ordinary Zimbabweans that should have forced them to resign decades ago!