Many Zimbabweans are of the opinion that the
dog-eat-dog fighting going on in Zanu PF is a good thing; it is true some of
the militant war vets who have terrorized the people “got a taste of their own
medicine” when they were teargased by the Riot Police on Wednesday.
“Only God through his way of doing things can do it and we are
seeing it happening these days with the revolutionary party turning into a
counter-revolutionary party, eating its own children. Remember when God caused
confusion in the camp of those who wanted to fight the Israelites?” commented
one, Maita.
People like Maita are pleased with the immediate, Zanu PF thugs tearing
each other to pieces; on its own a great thing for all those who have suffered
under the incompetent, corrupt and murderous regime and cannot see to the back
of the regime. But we must not be naïve and gullible that we should only be
concerned with what we can see and not consider what awaits us just round the
corner!
We should be worried about the dog-eat-dog fighting going on in
Zanu PF for two reasons:
- The infighting has weakened Zanu PF but there is no reason to believe that there will be no faction left standing when the fighting is done. Those hoping that there will be no Zanu PF faction left are day-dreaming; these guys have guns, not nuclear weapons to wipe each other out.The next elections will not be free, fair and credible because no GPA reform were implemented during the GNU and, since the rigged July 2013, still nothing has been done to implement the reforms. Whichever Zanu PF faction that will still have the control of the state institution will have the clear advantage to rig the vote.With no democratic reforms the challenge to the Zanu PF faction still in power will come from Zanu PF factions out of office, be it G40, Mnangagwa or Mujuru with or without help from the opposition. So whichever government emerges out of the elections, it will be wholly a Zanu PF or else dominated by former Zanu PF cadres. These Zanu PF in all but name will be as keen as mustard to re-establish themselves and consolidate their political power base along the same lines as the present Zanu PF dictatorship.So, because we do not have a democratic electoral system in place to stop vote rigging, the best we can expect from the present infighting in Zanu PF is a change of the present dictator for another; the dictatorial system itself will remain untouched.It is naïve for the goats to think that they are safe just because the hyenas are fighting!
- Some people have argued that the ordinary people must stay out of the Zanu PF infighting but that is easier said than done. For a start whilst these Zanu PF thugs have been fighting each other they have completely neglected their government duties. The nation is facing a serious drought, for example, it is the ordinary people who will pay with their very lives for the regime’s failure to source food.If the factional wars heat up the ordinary people will be lampooned and forced to take sides; we all know the Zanu PF thug mentality “Those not with us are against us!” There are reports that the G40 faction has instructed weapons to be removed from Masvingo province, for example, with the worsen drought it will not be surprising to hear that all food relief in the province has been stopped too!If the factional wars were to escalate even further to physical violence and, worse still, gun fights; there will be many, many graves of innocent Zimbabweans!
“Only God through his way of doing things can do it and we are
seeing it happening these days with the revolutionary party turning into a
counter-revolutionary party, eating its own children.” said Maita.
What people like Maita think is the light at the end of a tunnel
is in fact the headlamp of a run-away train or worse, they are look down the
barrel of a gun!
Blind faith is looking down the barrel of a gun to see the flash
and expect to tell the tale!
By the time this El Nino drought blows over (another nine months
still to go) and there is a clear winner in Zanu PF’s factional wars (that
could be another year given G40 is too weak to deliver the knock-out punch and
yet remains untouchable as long as Mugabe is still alive) Zimbabwe will be in
economic ruins, political chaos, hundreds of thousands dead and facing a grim
and hopeless future. It will be entirely our fault because we are so myopic we
refused to see nothing beyond the tip of nose.
God gave us the chance to get out of the tunnel safely during
the GNU, only we had to do then was to implement the GPA reforms; we wasted
that chance.
Zimbabwe’s political and economic mess is
man-made and therefore within our power to solve it. Those evoking the help of
the Almighty are doing so out of sheer laziness; God does not do for mankind
what mankind can do for himself!
If people like Tendai Biti and Morgan Tsvangirai think anyone particularly in the West will ever take them as serious political leaders they have something else coming. These guys lost all political credibility during the GNU there is nothing left for them. If the choice is between Biti and Mnangagwa one can understand why the West would rather go with the latter!
ReplyDeleteThe trouble is with our electorate it has so much political inertia it will take another ten or twenty years to finally come to the conclusion that MDC leaders are corrupt and incompetent. We are in this fine mess because it took many Zimbabweans 20 years to finally come to the conclusion that President Mugabe is a corrupt and murderous tyrant.
We will never have a healthy and functioning democracy with an electorate that takes 20 years to register that something is wrong!
MDC said they did not implement even one of the GPA reforms because they expected to win re-gardless of Zanu PF "shenanigans". It turned out that they had underestimated the Zanu PF shenanigans!
ReplyDeleteThe voters were fast asleep; they failed to get MDC to implement the reforms because they were confident MDC would deliver free and fair elections. Another big mistake!.
Now the people are agog with joy that Zanu PF are fighting among themselves and at the end of it they will finally have a health and functioning democracy so we will all live happily ever after! How naive can one be!
There is a great potential of the infighting in Zanu PF taking the nation into a new level of suffering instead of the relief some people are talking about! Our problem is that we make mistakes but never learn from the mistakes and so make the same mistake over and over again.
When the country attained her independence we were masters of our our destiny, looking at where we are we were clearly not ready to be masters of our destiny because the people would not have wished to be in this hell. What people have failed to understand, 36 years after independence, is that the gene is now out of the bottle there is no going back now we are now masters of our own destiny and we must act accordingly. To keep asking God or others to end the dictatorship and establish a functional democracy is not going to get us out of this hell!
DeleteWe must bite the bullet and take charge of our own lives!
And yet the fact still remains that the 2013 elections were rigged because not even one democratic GPA reform was implemented. The fact also remains that the 2018 elections will NOT be free, fair and credible because no GPA reforms will be implemented before those elections.
ReplyDeleteBut most important of all, the fact remains that we still have many Zanu PF operative pretending to be ordinary citizen campaigning hard to to maintain the status quo. I understand why you think I must be "Tsvangirai's illegitimate son" because you are incapable of seeing the bigger picture beyond the personal level.
There is more at stake here than protecting the ego of a incompetent and corrupt leader like Tsvangirai or Mugabe; they sold out and that must be stated with no apology. The only way we are going to end the Zanu PF dictatorship is be going back and implementing all the GPA reforms. I do not expect shallow minded people like you to see or understand that; I do see and understand that and if you think I will stop calling for the implementation of the reforms because it annoys nincompoops like you think again!
Your ears are ringing about GNU and GPA reforms! Good because we need to get out of this hell and if making your ears ring will wake you up then it is a good thing.
@ Ncube
ReplyDeleteSo, Mr genius, was the GNU a success or a failure? What is the way forward, if it is not going back to the GPA reforms? You have not thought of that, have you?
You are just an empty drum making a lot of noise; you neither know where you coming from nor where you are going. Freedom of expression and much worse the right to vote are all good things but not so when they are granted to those who are incapable of thinking for themselves; people like you Ncube.
Back in 2007 Chris Dell, then US Ambassador to Zimbabwe, said Tsvangirai was "a weak and indeci-sive character". Tsvangirai's pathetic performance during the GNU proved that Dell was right. What is really disappointing is the people whose lives are hell as a result still fail to see Tsvangirai for the incompetent and corrupt individual he is!
The evidence of Tsvangirai's blundering incompetence is there for all to see but it is not everyone who seeing who is able to comprehend!
It is all very well to blame President Mugabe for being a corrupt and murderous tyrant or Tsvangirai for being incompetent and corrupt but one has to look deeper, at the horde of mindless voters who have put these leaders into power and kept them there.