In his book David Coltart acknowledged the sheer of participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy. He explained that it was greed that forced him and his follow MDC friends to participate in the elections regardless.
"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 (2013) elections," confessed Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe.
"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."
When the 2013 elections results were announce, a resounding Zanu PF victory, Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC-T colleagues realised the sheer folly of participating in flawed elections. The party passed a resolution not to participate in future elections without first implementing reforms. “No reform, no elections!” the 2014 MDC-T party congress resolved.
Within a year, the then party Secretary General, Douglas Mwonzora, announce that the party would ditch the “No reform, no elections!” resolution and will participate in the 2018 elections with or without reforms implemented.
“Tsvangirai knew he would face a rebellion, if he did not ditch the resolution!” one senior leader admitted. Such was the pull to go after the few gravy train seats even though they all knew they are Zanu PF bait.
Still no one would have ever guessed the greed for the few gravy train seats was so powerful it would turn some one as rational and level headed as Tendai Biti into a ruthless thug on par with any Zanu PF thug out there!
“Tendai Biti has rebuffed efforts by the Citizens Coalition For Change leader Nelson Chamisa to dilute his influence by pushing him to contest for a Senatorial seat instead of a House of Assembly seat to open a slot for Allan Norman "Rusty" Markham,” reported Bulawayo 24.
“Markham is currently a member of the National Assembly of Zimbabwe for Harare North since 2018 a constituency which was merged with Biti's Harare East Constituency.
“In a video circulating on Social Media, Biti calls Markham a snake, whose head must be crushed.
“He also mocks Markham, calling him 'asina mabvi', the one without knees. The term was used during Zimbabwe's liberation struggle.”
Well, well greed has sure turned Tendai Biti, one of the few opposition leaders one would have considered level headed, at least until now, into a thug no different from any other Zanu PF thug out there.
Some people have argued that CCC will boycott these elections if Zanu PF fails to produce a verified voters and compromised in one or two other things just to make these elections a respectable electoral contest. With emotions this high, it is clear CCC is hell bent in participating in these flawed elections and nothing, absolutely nothing, is going to stop them. Nothing!
Of course, Chamisa and company know that the consequences of their participation is to give Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuating the regime’s corrupt and tyrannical rule and the suffering of the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans. They know is and they don’t care! They don’t give a damn!
The transformation of MDC/CCC leaders champions of democratic change into power hungry thugs happened during the 2008 to 2013 GNU when they failed to implement even one token reform. Most people did not realise that the primary purpose of the GNU was to implement the reforms; miss that and you miss everything.
CCC will never implement even one democratic reform and thus deliver free elections, if they failed to do so when they held all the trump cards it is naive to expect them to do so. The sooner people accept this reality the sooner the nation can find other people who would get this important task done.
One only hopes that watching a video of Biti help the penny drop, we need people to open their eyes and minds, if we are ever to get out of this hell-on-earth we are stuck in! The transformation of MDC/CCC leaders into power hungry thugs just like Zanu PF is a reality we must now deal with.
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm.
Some people thought one day MDC/CCC leaders would finally come to their senses and stop participating in flawed elections out of greed. Well this video will settle that once and for all - greed rules the CCC roost!!!
ReplyDeletehttps://bulawayo24.com/index-id-news-sc-local-byo-231858.html
“Renowned American economist and expert in applied economics, Steve Hanke, has issued a grave warning that Zimbabwe teeters on the precipice of yet another episode of hyperinflation.
ReplyDeleteAs of June 7, 2023, Hanke’s recent estimations indicate that Zimbabwe’s monthly inflation rate has skyrocketed to a staggering 102%. Alarming as it is, he further cautions that if this rampant inflationary trend persists, Zimbabwe could plunge into hyperinflation within a mere five days.”
This is a nightmare of our own making! As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by these corrupt ad murderous Zanu PF thugs who have remained in power all these last 43 years because they rigged elections; there will be no meaningful political change. We had many golden opportunities to end the dictatorship and we wasted them.
Since the 2008 t 2013 GNU Zanu PF has managed to retain its iron grip on power by bribing MDC/CCC leaders into participating in flawed elections to give the regime legitimacy.
Zanu PF has managed to get ordinary Zimbabweans into participating in the flawed elections too. The regime has conned the people into giving up the fight for reforms and free elections on the belief the opposition can win rigged elections. Chamisa has offered the nation a whole battery of Winning In Rigged Elections Strategies (WIRES).
It really is insane that a whole nation would be so foolish as to trade their fundamental right to free, fair and credible elections in return for frivolous WIRES, especially after 43 years of the Zanu PF Mafiosi rigging elections! And until the people open their eyes and minds; Zimbabwe will continue to drift deeper and deeper into this hell-on-earth of our own making! We already have the highest inflation rate in the world and it will not take much to return to the 2008 hyper-inflation days!
@ P Papa Japa
ReplyDelete“DON’T VOTE FOR ZANU PF BECAUSE THEY HAVE FAILED TO RUN THE ECONOMY AND PRACTICE POLITICS OF IMPUNITY AND DICTATORSHIP. Ngaapinde hake Mukomana Ngaapinde.!!!!”
Zanu PF has you convinced that the party does not rig elections and so there is no need for democratic reforms BEFORE elections. All the nation needs to do to deliver democratic change is tell the populous to stop voting for Zanu PF. The really tragedy here is that many people are naive enough to believe you Hon P Japa Japa!
Even after 43 years of rigged elections, there are many Zimbabweans out there foolish enough to still believe Zanu PF has been in power all these years because the people have given the regime the democratic mandate to rule.
@ Lindiwe
ReplyDeleteYes Zanu PF will not reform itself out of office and hence the reason you be asking why did MDC failed to implement even one reform during the GNU when they had the chance to do so? Why have you never asked yourself and MDC leaders that question?
@ Lindiwe
ReplyDelete“Some people here have got shallow minds of which their relatives are suffering back home bussy planning to boycott elections instead kuridzira vanhu kuti vaVote nehuwandu kuunza shanduko munyika , Remember hatigari kunyika dzevamwe hupenyu hwese.”
You were right to say Zanu PF will never reform itself out of office. By the same token, you can also say Zanu PF will never risk losing the elections by holding free, fair and credible elections especially when the party is bribing the opposition to participate to give the process credibility.
"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 (2013) elections," confessed Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe.
"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.”
What Coltart said is profound but to you and many others out there it is clearly water off a duck’s back. However the fact still remains that by participating you ARE giving Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuating the dictatorship. The ease with which Zanu PF and CCC are conning the people is proof Zimbabweans are too dumb to have a healthy and functioning democracy.