"We are ready to govern, we are ready to
provide leadership, we are ready to create jobs and arrest inflation. Our
government unlike that of Emmerson Mnangagwa is going to deliver joy and
happiness to every Zimbabwean. ED cannot win this country's election because we
have a superior team compared to his," boasted Nelson Chamisa, President
of MDC Alliance, recently.
The problem with Nelson Chamisa is he is just
a big-headed clown full of himself and so he does not see the obvious or listen
to sound advice. Zanu PF is rigging these elections and MDC is not doing the
nation any favours by ignoring this reality!
MDC leaders had the golden opportunity to
implement the democratic reforms and end the Zanu PF’s dictatorial powers once
and for all during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. They failed to implement even one
meaningful reform in five years. Not even one.
SADC leaders who had helped force Mugabe and
Zanu PF to agree to the implementation of the reforms at the start of the GNU,
begged MDC leaders not to take part in the 2013 elections until reforms were
implemented. Their begging fall on deaf ears. MDC have been participating in these
flawed and illegal elections since 2013 for the sake of the few gravy train
seats Zanu PF has been giving away as bait.
By participating in the flawed elections the
opposition have given legitimacy to the vote rigging Zanu PF.
MDC leaders are asking the people participate
in elections with no verified voters roll, where 3 million in diaspora are
denied the vote or 37% of the electorate, etc., etc. We are to believe they
have devised “Winning In Rigged Elections Strategies (WIRES)” guaranteed to
deliver the democratic changes without implementing and reforms.
Of course, none of these WIRES have worked as
Zanu PF has blatantly rigged the elections. And after 41 years of rigged
election it is insane to keep hoping against reason for a different result.
Indeed, MDC leaders even have the chutzpah to
blame SADC leaders – for GNU’s failure to deliver free elections when it was
MDC leaders who failed to implement even one reform, the ordinary Zimbabweans –
for failing to turnout in numbers to vote although 73% for Tsvangirai in 2008
was not good enough, and of course blame Zanu PF for rigging the elections –
the very thing they insisted WIRES would stop!
Without doubt, the 2008 to 2013 represents
the best chance Zimbabwe has ever had in the last 41 years to implement the
democratic reforms and thus dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship once and once
for all and replace it with a healthy and functioning democratic system of
government. It was our get out of jail card. The tragedy is Robert Mugabe bribed
Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends with the trappings of high office and
they forgot about the reforms.
“Mazivanhu eMDC adzidza kudya anyerere!” (MDC
leaders have learned to enjoy the gravy-train good life, they will not rock the
boat!) Zanu PF cronies boasted during the GNU when asked why MDC were not
implementing the reforms.
Morgan Tsvangirai and company were busy
enjoying the gravy-train good life the forgot to implement even one meaningful
democratic reform; they failed to use the get out of jail card. Worse still,
for a share of the spoils of power, MDC leaders are the ones insisting we do
not need reforms and free and fair elections.
"We are ready to govern, we are ready to
provide leadership!” Yeah right! How cynical! So, MDC is ready to govern if
Zanu PF can be made to step aside; MDC will not use the electoral mandate given
by the people to implement the reforms and will stop anyone else forcing Zanu
PF to implement the reforms by participating in flawed elections to give vote
rigging Zanu PF legitimacy.
Chamisa and his MDC friends’ promise to
provide good leadership in the post Zanu PF era is as meaningless and cynical as
Moses promising good leadership to the Children of Israel once they reach The
Promised Land. The number one problem of the Israelites was how to get out of
Egypt and in Zimbabwe’s case our Moses will not perform any of the wonders to
force Zanu PF to implement the reforms because MDC leaders are enjoying a share
of spoils of power from the Zanu PF dictatorship!
If Zimbabweans are serious about ending the
Zanu PF dictatorship and the curse of bad governance it has brought with it;
then they must accept the political reality that MDC leaders are not going to
implement any democratic reforms now or ever and search for competent men and
women to carry out this key task. MDC leaders’ failure to get even one reform
implemented in 22 years was not a mistake; Chamisa and company are corrupt and
breathtakingly incompetent.
In the long run, the nation will get the government it deserves! We in Zimbabwe certainly deserve this corrupt, tyrannical and vote rigging Zanu PF dictatorship complete with the entourage of equally corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless opposition parties, all 130 of them at the last count.
ReplyDeleteYes, the people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb to elect the MDC leaders on the understanding the party would deliver democratic changes to end the Zanu PF dictatorship that is the root cause of the nation’s decline and misery. God knows the MDC supporters have been repeating change in their slogans for 22 years, just to remind themselves and their leaders what the party is there for. Clearly all the shouting was in vain because these MDC wildebeests have no idea to this day what the democratic changes are much less how they were to be implemented.
Yes, MDC leaders have failed to implement even one democratic reform in 22 years, 5 of which in the GNU. None of their wildebeest herd supporters have ever held them to account for their selling out because the herd has no clue what the reforms are.
Zanu PF has proclaimed it will govern “until the donkeys have horns!” and as long as the party continues to enjoy the carte blanche powers to rig elections the only thing stopping them is another coup or violent street protests. It is laughable that our corrupt and incompetent Chamisa and company should claim they are ready to govern when they have not only failed to stop Zanu PF rigging elections but are the ones giving the vote rigging regime legitimacy and thus help perpetuate the dictatorship!
So, we have, on the one hand, the MDC wildebeest herd giving the corrupt and incompetent MDC leaders legitimacy by supporting and voting for the Vis. On the other the MDC Vis in turn giving vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy by participating in flawed elections for the sake of the few gravy train seats.
Universal suffrage should be a blessing but now it has turned into a curse! Giving the MDC wildebeest herd the vote when they are clearly impermeable to reason and logic is the biggest challenge in our fight to create a healthy and functioning democracy! You cannot make a silk purse from a sow’s ear; a naïve and gullible electorate is a sow’s ear!