It was Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of USA’s 32nd President, Franklin
D. Roosevelt, who said ”Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss
events; small minds discuss people."
If I was asked to name five things that have contributed to Zimbabwe’s
economic meltdown and political paralysis in the last 38 years then I will have
to say the nation’s seemingly inability to rise above the level of Eleanor
Roosevelt’s “small minds” played a big party. Indeed, I will even go so far as
to say it is the number one reason Zimbabwe is in a mess and, worst of all, is
well and truly stuck!
There is something about political power that seems to get the
small-mindedness of our politicians to come out like a rash. Just a sniff of
power is more than enough!
Once upon a time, it now feels like a very, very long time ago, I had
admired and praised Linda Masarira for her principle stand and great ideas.
That was before she joined the MDC-T led by Thokozani Khophe, Linda is the
party spokesperson. Ever since, her small-mindedness has come to the fore and
she has started shooting from the hip.
“Don’t pretend, he (Nelson Chamisa) has no clue other than being a
parrot of the western principles that are funding the agenda he is pushing,”
said Masarira, according to Zimeye report.
A whole qualified lawyer misleading his followers and continuing with
his stance on unconstitutionalism -he is not an ideal state leader for a
constitutional democracy like Zimbabwe.”
I am not an MDC supporter and no admire of Nelson Chamisa; indeed I
think is just another corrupt and
incompetent Zimbabwean politicians who has played his part in landing the
nation in this mess and keeping as there. My beef with Linda is if you are
going to criticise Chamisa pick something substantive instead of something
wishy-washy and personal.
Anyone who is anyone who observed Zimbabwe’s last year elections has
dismissed them as a farce. Yes Chamisa is now parroting the election observers
in telling Mnangagwa ti his face that he rigged the elections and is per se
illegitimate.
It is right and proper to dismiss Chamisa as a parrot because he was
very foolish to have taken part in the elections in the first place after he
was warned without implementing the reforms, Zanu PF would rig the elections.
Linda and her MDC-T were just as foolish since they too contested the flawed
and illegal elections. ZEC failed to produce something as basic as a verified
voters’ roll, for Pete’s sake.
MDC-T and many of the other opposition parties and candidates have
accepted the election result legal and endorsed Mnangagwa as democratically
elected president. Linda is wittering about Zimbabwe being “a constitutional
democracy”; how can that be when we cannot even produce a voters’ roll of those
who voted!
Linda Masarira’s dismissal of all those, not just Chamisa, refusing to
accept the elections were free, fair and credible and that Mnangagwa is
legitimate of having “a sinister agenda”. This is typical Zanu PF idiotic
mentality that got us into this mess and must be stamped out wherever and
whenever it rears its ugly head.
In the Zanu PF mind-set of judging everything on the basis of who said
it. Everything someone in the West said critical of the regime it was dismissed
on the grounds the West was saying it to promote its hidden “regime change
agenda”. When Zimbabweans themselves called for an end to political oppression
and democratic change, the regime labelled them puppets of West pushing their
master’s “regime change agenda”. Hence the reason the country has ended up in
this moronic position of holding free, fair and credible elections guaranteed
to produce NO regime change!
After 38 years of the criminal waste of material and human resources
which has dragged Zimbabwe from a middle income nation in 1980 to the poorest
nation in African the nation is desperate to get out of this hell-on-earth it
finds itself in. All we need to do is up our game from the politics of
personality, Zanu PF fostered on the nation, to the politics of ideas. Do that,
and Zimbabwe will finally join the League of Nations now enjoying peace,
justice and economic prosperity.
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