MDC/CCC have "fought in the trenches for change" said Mahere. Nonsense. Name one change they have brought in 24 years? W Mukori

 The sheer hypocrisy of Zimbabwe’s opposition stinks!

“On the 1st of November, I spoke on the phone with Duma Boko to congratulate him on an outstanding victory in Botswana’s elections. My voice crackled as we spoke.,” wrote Fadzayi Mahere in a recent article in Breaking News Channel (BNC).

“Anyone who has fought in the trenches for change knows how deep and dark the journey can sometimes feel. You fall down often. You fail more times than you succeed. At times, you give everything and it feels like you yield nothing – until change comes. I thanked him for his inspiration and for reminding us of what is possible.

“For Botswana, the old was dying and the new was being born.”

“Anyone who has fought in the trenches for change knows how deep and dark the journey can sometimes feel!” What the devil is she wittering about? 

Ever since the 2008 to 2013 GNU MDC/CCC and Zanu PF leaders have worked as partners and shred the spoils of power. So when has Mahere ever been in the trenches and fighting who exactly?

The people of Zimbabwe have risked livelihoods, limbs and lives, over 500 died in the 2008 elections alone, to elect the MDC/CCC leaders into power for principle task of implementing the necessary democratic changes to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends had their golden chance to implement the democratic reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. 

Robert Mugabe, who did not want his dictatorial powers including the carte blanche powers to rig elections scrapped, bribed Tsvangirai and company with the trappings of high office; the E-Class Mercedes Benz limos, the very generous salaries and allowances, a US$4 million Highlands mansion for Tsvangirai, etc., etc. In return the MDC leaders kicked the democratic reforms into the thorny-devil Cactus thicket!

Not even the constant nagging by SADC leaders got MDC leaders to implement even one token reform. Credit were credit is due SA’s Minister Lindiwe Zulu did her best to remind MDC leaders on the need to implement the reforms. Mugabe called her “street woman” for her troubles!

“Mazivanhu eMDC adzidza kudya anyerere!” (MDC leaders have learned to enjoy the gravy train good-life, they will never rock the boat!) boasted Zanu PF cronies during the GNU when asked why MDC leaders were not implementing reforms. 

Ever since the GNU debacle, MDC/CCC leaders have participated in flawed elections knowing fully well that Zanu PF was rigging and that participating would give the regime legitimacy. They have soldier on regardless for the same reasons they failed to implement reforms during the GNU - incompetency and greed. 

The opposition party that conned the biggest number of their supporters to participate in the flawed elections got the few gravy train seats Zanu PF was offering as bait. Chamisa has conned his supporters to participate in the flawed elections with one idiotic lie after another. 

Last year he told them CCC would win big because he had “plugged all Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes. #Godisinit!” The nation did not even have verified voters’ roll and yet knew, from Team Pachedu’s reports, that “the voters’ roll was in shambles”. Chamisa did not even deploy elections agents at 1 000 Polling Stations, or 10%, although he had received funding for it.

It is no exaggeration to say MDC/CCC have been Zanu PF team B in all but name, playing for team A to win and to give team A political legitimacy. How else can one explain why MDC/CCC leaders have failed to implement even one token reform in 24 years, including 5 in the GNU and have stubbornly insisted on participating in the flawed elections knowing the process is flawed and that participating will give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy. 

Fadzayi Mahere and company know fully well that both SADC and AU election observers condemned 2023 elections as flawed and illegal and recommended that the country must implement a raft of democratic reforms to end this curse of rigged elections and bad governance. They know that not even one token reform will be implement and still they will participate in the 2028 elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy for the same reasons they participated in the past - incompetency and greed. 

“I hope you know just how lucky you are to live in a democracy where the will of the people is respected and passion for country trumps the love of power!” Mahere told the Botswana citizen siting next to her at President Duma Boko’s inauguration ceremony. 

True enough Zimbabwe is not a democracy and the nation has been held to ransom by Zanu PF leaders’ love of power ever since the country’s independence in 1980. Still, it must be said, the Zanu PF dictatorship has survived and even thrived these last 24 years thanks MDC/CCC leaders’ love of power!  

If there is ever going to be any meaningful democratic changes in Zimbabwe then it is for Zimbabweans themselves to finally wakeup to the political reality that MDC/CCC leaders are corrupt, incompetent and liars. Chamisa and company will never ever deliver any democratic reforms; they failed to do so during the 2008 to 2013 GNU when they had the golden opportunity to do so. It is naive to expect them to do so now when they are very comfortable and cosy, enjoying their share of the spoils of power with their senior partner, Zanu PF!