“The SECRET to a GREAT NATION is VISION, LOVE and
HUMILITY by its
leadership. Arrogance is always ignorance disguised as invincibility.
leadership. Arrogance is always ignorance disguised as invincibility.
Weak leaders boast and divide. Strong leaders reach
out to unify. Zimbabwe needs dialogue on reforms, economy, legitimacy
and nation building not GNU,” twittered Chamisa
Well, well talk of “arrogance is always ignorance disguised as
invincibility”! Surely you must be remembering how you have arrogantly and contemptuously
dismissed all those who advised you not to take part in the elections with no
reforms in place. “MDC has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the
elections!” you boasted.
With all these stringent measures, MDC was invincible, right!
Why would the country need “dialogue on reforms”? You and your fellow
MDC friends had five years during the 2008 to 2013 GNU to IMPLEMENT the reforms
and not talk about them. You failed to get even one reform implemented. Not
one!
What you really want to talk about with Mnangagwa is for him to
give you, Nelson Chamisa, your reward for playing along in these flawed and
illegal elections and thus giving the process some modicum of credibility as
MDC Alliance Senator David Coltart admitted in his book.
In his Book, The Struggle
Continues 50 years of tyranny in Zimbabwe, former MDC – Ncube Senator
and Minister of Education in the GNU, David Coltart, gave details of how Zanu
PF flouted the electoral rules, it was clear the upcoming 2013 elections would
not be free, fair and credible. MDC-T and MDC-N leaders were aware of this and
yet they all decided to participate in the elections regardless; they were each
after the few seats they knew Zanu PF would be giving away to entice the opposition
to participate.
“The worst aspect for me about the
failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious –
withdraw from the elections,” explained Senator Coltart.
“The electoral process was so flawed,
so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC
to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and
MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the
elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility.”
MDC Alliance won the 88 parliamentary seats and a third of the
senatorial seats in the recent elections a “fair price” for MDC leaders making
complete fools of themselves contesting the 2018 knowing fully well what Zanu PF
did in the 2013 elections. Clearly, you Mr Chamisa believe Mnangagwa owns you a
seat on the gravy train. You will publicly acknowledge Mnangagwa the winner, in
return for the official title of “Leader of the Opposition” complete with the
ministerial limo and all the other usual perks!
Zimbabwe lost the opportunity to end the Zanu PF dictatorship
once and once for all during the 2008 GNU because MDC leaders sold-out. They
were too busy enjoying themselves they forgot why they were in the GNU. Chamisa
is nagging Mnangagwa to give him a seat on the gravy train as his reward for
participating in this year’s flawed elections and thus giving the process some
credibility.
“The SECRET to a GREAT NATION is VISION!” You are right,
Chamisa, Zimbabwe would not still be grappling with the problem of what
constitute free, fair and credible elections in this day and age and 38 years
after our independence is we had had leaders with common sense much less vision!
Yes great leaders have vision, you do not even have common sense. You were warned not to take part in these recent elections without reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections and you refused to listen.
ReplyDeleteThe reforms you are now wittering about should have been implemented during the last GNU. You and your fellow MDC friends failed to get even one reform implemented in five years. You sold out.
You are nagging Mnangagwa for a seat on the gravy train as your reward for participating in these flawed and illegal elections and thus giving them some modicum of credibility!
Chamisa and his MDC friends made complete fools of themselves when they failed to implement even one reform during the five years of the GNU. SADC leaders and the international community could not believe Tsvangirai and company could be that shallow thick and slow.
ReplyDelete"Morgan Tsvangirai (is) a flawed figure, not readily open to advice, indecisive and with questionable judgment,” wrote then USA Ambassador to Zimbabwe 2004 to 2007, Chris Dell in a Wikileaks cable.
But even the forewarned Ambassador Dell must have been left speechless at the sheer incompetence MDC leaders displayed throughout the five years of the GNU. Tsvangirai and company failed to get even one democratic reform implemented in five years. Chamisa is wittering about wanting dialogue with Mnangagwa to talk about reforms, the same reforms MDC leaders failed to implement during the GNU.
The same reforms Chamisa had insisted were not necessary because “MDC had stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections!”
Chamisa has added reforms to his demands because even he knows that they are important. However, what he is really after is a seat on the gravy train, the leader of the opposition position complete with the ministerial limo, fat salary, etc. As soon as get that he will kick reforms into the prickly pear thicket just as readily as MDC has done before.
Even if one was to be gracious and give Chamisa the full benefit of the doubt and assume MDC leaders have learned their lesson and will focus on implement the reforms this time. It is naive, to say the least, to expert Mnangagwa as president with 2/3 Zanu PF majority in parliament and senate to allow any meaningful democratic reforms to go through! Very naive indeed!
“You can’t expect us to reform ourselves out of power,” said former Zanu PF minister and politburo member, Professor Jonathan Moyo, is his happier days in the party. He is now living in exile scarred stiff of his former Zanu PF thugs.
“Zanu PF ichatonga! Igotonga! (Zanu PF will rule! And rule!) Mnangagwa has reassured his fellow party thugs. The party has already reaffirmed that he will be the party’s presidential candidate for 2023 and, for his party, he has started greasing the palms of those who will help him rig the elections, like Chiefs.
If Zanu PF is still in office in 2023 then we can be 100% certain that Zanu PF will rig those elections and MDC Alliance will participate in those elections regardless how flawed and illegal for the sake of the scraps and the now desirable title of “leader of the opposition”!
There will be no meaningful economic recovery in Zimbabwe, not whilst the country remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs with a knack for blaming everyone else but themselves for the nation ills.
ReplyDelete"We condemn the opportunistic and gluttonous triple pricing regime practices by some business persons, which have resulted in untold suffering to the majority of our people," said Mnangagwa.
So Zimbabwe is open for business to those willing to bring into the country foreign currency but must earn Bond Notes otherwise they will be called "gluttonous opportunists!" Is it an wonder the flood of investors expected since last November's military coup has never materialised!
@ Bajai Marimbo
ReplyDeleteFirst things first, are you saying you agree that Chamisa and his MDC friends did indeed fail to implement the reforms during the GNU? If you are then kudos to Patrick for holding MDC leaders to account particularly in a nation where the usual response will be to sweep MDC's shortcoming under the carpet or worse still attack all those who dare suggest MDC leaders are fallible!
The question “what were you doing when Chamisa was failing to bring even a single reform in the previous GNU”? Is typical of those who want to suppress democratic debate and do not want their infallible leaders held to account. The same nauseating foolishness the nation was bombarded with from those who fought in the liberation war. The right to a meaningful say in the governance of Zimbabwe, the right to hold those in leadership position to account, etc. are not the exclusive preserve of only those who fought in the liberation war. It is equally true that only those who can prove they were doing something that meets your approval can criticise Chamisa.
If Chamisa and his MDC friends failed to implement the democratic reforms during the GNU, there is a mountain of evidence to prove this is indeed the case, then they must be held to account. And idiots like you who want the truth swept under the carpet are the enemies of good governance and the long suffering masses of this country. You are the idiots who are holding the nation back!
@ Max Maphosa
ReplyDelete“Some of you guys don't understand simple things and those simple things make Zanu win. Unity , organisation, their history from the bush, structures across the length and breath of the country and they are not selling out to the West our former masters. MDC and it's alliance is in shambles to say the least. There is no leadership, lots of infighting in the party. They are youthful and want make a career out of politics, a dream which is very hard to achieve and last but not least, they don't have structures across the whole country after 20 years of being in opposition. They fight every government institution leaving them with no support in the civil service. In short that is why some of us know that there is no election rigging in Zimbabwe.”
MDC have their very serious leadership problems but then so does Zanu PF! The only reason Zanu PF has managed to stay in power regardless of the party imploding is the Zanu PF thugs rig elections.
If Zanu PF leaders were competent then the country would not be in the serious economic mess it is in right now. We have some on the best land in the world and yet the nation cannot even grow enough to feed its own people. We are starving in what is for all practical purposes the Garden of Eden all because of the failed leadership!
And now he is running for president.
ReplyDeleteThis is not a simple matter of forgiving and forgetting. This is serious. When I go to the polls in three weeks’ time and make that big decision which will decide the fate of a nation, I will not forgive and I will not forget.
It is all very well to say “I will not forgive and I will not forget” but when the choice on the ballot paper is between Tweedledum and Tweedledee whatever you do you will be shooting yourself in the leg!