Moses
Chamboko, you should not be fooled by MDC-T into believing the party still has
a huge following, they do not.
“True,
MDC-T is the biggest opposition movement today, nobody can contest that. It is
also true that the MDC has a huge following,” you said.
I
contest that on two grounds:
- MDC-T had the biggest following BEFORE the July 2013 elections but the party failed to turn the huge electoral support into electoral victory because the elections were rigged. MDC was warned that it must implement the democratic reforms to stop the vote rigging but the party leaders would not listen.Since the rigged elections many Zimbabweans have deserted MDC; some to follow the break-away factions whilst others simply gave up on politics and life. MDC-T has been very careful to avoid by-elections or holding big rallies for fear a low public turnout would confirm the party’s worst fears that the party’s “huge public support” is a myth.
- MDC-T supporters are renowned for following like sheep to the slaughter and they showed this again and again throughout the GNU by their failure to get the party to implement even one reform, for example. Who can ever forget the sea-of-red of MDC-T supporter in the party colours all screaming “Chinja!” “Change!” at party rallies; they clearly had no clue what change they wanted because, if they did, they would have forced their leaders to implement at least one reform in the five years of the GNU.The hard core of the MDC-T supporters, the mindless wildebeest herd, have remained with Tsvangirai even in the face of the mountain of evidence he is incompetent, corrupt and a sell-out. An electorate that is incapable of one coherent original thought and will not listen to reason are not an asset but a curse to democracy."I can confirm that the party has decided to shelve any coalition plans. We have carefully analysed the situation and realised that other opposition parties do not have much to give to the coalition in terms of following," said MDC-T Secretary, Douglas Mwonzora. This is more like the old granny in the folklore story who insist the lice on her back must be included in the count of family’s animal wealth together with the cattle, sheep, chicken, etc.!
Tsvangirai
and his MDC friends had their golden opportunity to change Zimbabwe for the better
during the GNU; they wasted it because they are corrupt and incompetent,
breathtakingly so too. The people of Zimbabwe must accept the political reality
that incompetent leaders like Morgan Tsvangirai will never get the nation out
of this hell-hole Zanu PF landed the nation into. Never ever!
I do
not believe forming a coalition is the panacea to all our political problems. What
would Tsvangirai, in a coalition, accomplish now which he failed to accomplish
during the GNU, given he had the support of SADC and the world’s support then?
“Grand
coalitions no silver bullet for electoral victory over Zanu-PF,” wrote Geoffrey
Nyarota in an article last month. He was right then and he is right now,
especially when the coalition is to be composed of recycled corrupt and
incompetent leaders!
Zimbabweans
must realize that it is not that the country is incapable of producing
competent quality leaders who can lead us out of this hell; there are hundreds
of thousands of such quality men and women out there. The problem is with the
political system, the Zanu PF dictatorship, which has stifled all meaningful
public debate and democratic competition. The system is so repressive only
corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs would thrive and it is hardly surprising
then that they are the only ones occupying the political stage!
If
Zimbabweans want competent and visionary leaders who can lead them out of this
hell-on-earth then we must dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship by implementing
the democratic reforms and free the nation to think again. We have a corrupt
and tyrannical regime which we have failed to remove from office because it
rigs elections.
Staff Reporter| Matabeleland South Provincial Committee of the Joice Mujuru led People First party did the unthinkable over the weekend when they bundled CIO and police officers out of their executive meeting.
ReplyDeleteThe meeting ended prematurely as the CIO agents turned their anger on the owners of the private place where the meeting was being held.
We all know that intimidation, harassment, beating, rape and even murder are part and parcel of Zanu PF political culture of violence. ZimPF leaders know this, MDC leaders know this and, indeed, the whole nation knows this but are doing nothing to end it. SADC gave us the answer in 2008, implement the democratic reforms; we failed to get even one reform implemented during the GNU and we are still doing now.
We are the victims of Zanu PF's culture of political violence all of us but this is one situation where we are vic-tims because we choose to be victims. "Kurumwa nechokuchera" as one would say in Shona.
If MDC did not believe they could deliver any democratic change then why did they say they could?
ReplyDeleteThe process of implementing the reforms has been explained a thousand times, but clearly not all of us have the mental ability to comprehend things even when they are simple, common sense and have been explained to us a million times. You are just one of those to whom the simple truth is a complete mystery as complex as rocket science to caveman.
As a nation we cannot afford to waste time on forming a coalition, especially when it is a coalition of the same corrupt and incompetent leaders, when there is no plan as to what to do to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. If the individual parties have failed to come up with a workable plan how will increasing the number of equally confused people ten, twenty fold help?
ReplyDeleteMr Nyarota is right; the coalition is not the silver bullet!
I agree with you there that Mugabe/Mnangagwa's continued hold on power will depend on the economy performing the Lazarus miracle - rising from the dead! The Zimbabwe economy died a long time ago from gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and lawlessness the only reason it has not been buried is that nation states cannot be decline bankrupt; “they are too big to fail”, as the American said about the big banks!
ReplyDeleteForcing President Mugabe to scrap some of the really annoying bits of the indigenisation law was a major victory for VP Mnangagwa and Finance Minister Chinamasa given we are dealing with a particularly stubborn tyrant. But in terms of economic gains, nothing short of scrapping this law will do.
The West do not like VP Mnangagwa because they cannot trust him and the fact that the Chinese view him as their man in Harare makes the West trust him even less.
Having broken up links with Zanu PF all these years and thus putting themselves on the right side of history by supporting the people and their demands for meaningful democratic change the West is apprehensive about switching sides and supporting the tyrannical regime even if it got a new face of Mnangagwa in place of Mugabe. Mnangagwa is not going to have his Lazarus miracle on the economy and so he have no choice but to resort to the vote rigging and wanton violence to stay in power. The West will have egg on their faces if they supported him and his hands are red with blood of innocent Zimbabweans!
VP Mnangagwa was set to lose the party elections for the VP to Joyce Mujuru because the majority of the Zanu PF members themselves did not trust him. The ordinary people too do not trust him because they know he is incompetent, corrupt and just as ruthless as Mugabe himself. People want meaningful democratic change and not to swap one tyrant for another!