CCC will be "ipso facto enemy of the people" if accept Norway funding, says Professor Moyo - what a hypocrite n Garikai

 "Any political party that is funded or capacitated by any foreign government to contest elections or grab political power is by definition treacherous, and ipso facto an enemy of the people!" twittered Professor Jonathan Moyo.

He was responding to reports that the Norwegians are planning to bankroll Nelson Chamisa and his Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party in the 2023 elections.

One thing certain to be said about Professor Jonathan Moyo – is that he a sell sell-out par excellence. He would sell his own mother for a price and be proud he had a mother to sell! There is plenty of anecdotal evidence in his checked political career to back this up.

Zimbabwe’s late dictator, Robert Mugabe, who knew Jonathan Moyo called the Professor a “devil incarnate”; rest assured, it was not just for Moyo’s good looks alone!

Zanu and Zapu were backed by China and Russia respectively during the struggle for Zimbabwe’s independence, for example. I have never heard Professor Moyo call the two parties “enemies of the people”!

Moyo has publicly supported Nelson Chamisa and his CCC and suddenly party is now “treacherous, and ipso facto an enemy of the people” just because the Norwegians are offering to fund it. What a truck load of bull!

My bone of contention with anyone, foreigner or local, giving moral, military and/or financial support to an individual, political party, NGO or whatever knowing fully well the latter’s work is undermining the wellbeing of the country. And anyone damaging the wellbeing of the public is an enemy of the people. The question is why anyone would knowingly support the enemy of the people?

It was USA ambassador to Zimbabwe 2004 to 2007, Chris Dell, who revealed in a leaked cable back to Washington that the late Morgan Tsvangirai was “flawed and indecisive character who, should he ever got into power, would become an albatross round the nation’s (Zimbabwe) neck!”

More leaked cables showed that the US Ambassador had an equally low opinion of the other MDC leaders. So, MDC was but a flock of flawed and indecisive wondering albatrosses the people of Zimbabwe had to be wary of.

Lo and behold MDC did got into power notably into the 2008 to 2013 Government of National Unity (GNU). The party had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms which would have ended the Zanu PF dictatorship. They wasted the opportunity and failed to implement even one token democratic reform. Worst of all by participating in the flawed elections MDC are now giving Zanu PF legitimacy and thus help perpetuate the dictatorship.

MDC cum the rebranded CCC has become the albatross round the nation’s neck, as Ambassador Dell had predicted.

And yet it was none other than the Americans and their western allies who have generously funded Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends’ political activities throughout the period 1999 to 2013. The West knew MDC leaders are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless, an albatross dragging the nation into the crashing abyss.

None of these western nations would tolerate such mediocre leaders in their own countries and yet rolled out the red carpet to underline the high regard they hold MDC leaders! The moral and financial backing of the West gave leaders like Tsvangirai enormous power and influence especially amongst the ignorant and naïve masses.

It is a historic fact that many thinking Zimbabweans and a few SADC leaders made a concerted effort to get the MDC albatrosses to implement the democratic reforms during the GNU, for example. It is infuriate to note that western nations, who clearly had more influence over the MDC albatrosses, they bankrolled and fed them, never lifted a finger to get MDC to implement reforms.

It was only after the 2013 elections when it was clear MDC had failed to implement even one reform during the GNU that many of their western backers deserted the party in droves. It was too late the damage was done, Zimbabwe had wasted one golden opportunity to implement reforms and end the Zanu PF dictatorship.

Since the 2008 to 2013 GNU debacle a head of steam has been building up to show the MDC/CCC’s continued participation in these flawed elections giving Zanu PF legitimacy as the root cause of the nation is now stuck in this political paralysis. Norway’s decision to bankroll CCC’s political activities will undermine efforts to end the insanity of rigged elections and give Chamisa’s oxymoronic foolishness of “winning in rigged elections” fresh legs! What a nightmare!

Zimbabwe, like most African countries, is caught between the rock and the hard place. We are caught between the corrupt and tyrannical ruling party who are bankrolled by the Chinese for the sole purpose of exploiting and looting the country, on the one hand. On the other, are flawed and utterly useless opposition who are bankrolled by the West in the vain hope some good will come of it.

Tanzania is one of the African countries that has been held back after decades of West, notably the Scandinavian countries, bankrolling the late President Mwalimu Julius Nyerere’s misplace socialism. The socialism experiment was finally abandoned but by then a lot of damage had been done.  

Of course, nothing good will ever come out of Norway funding CCC to participate in flawed elections to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the dictatorship. Nothing! The only ones to benefit from this folly is Zanu PF who are keen to see CCC participate in these flawed elections and get legitimacy!