CCC defying SADC by taking up gravy train seats "to occupy liberated zone"! Yeah, same reason Animal Farm pigs drunk all the milk. W Mukori

 It is bad enough to claim a square is a circle one minute and then the exact opposite, a square is NOT a circle, the next minute. The Zimbabwe elections have Chamisa and company in totally confusion they are now saying a square is a circle and is NOT a circle in the same breath!

Officially CCC has backed SADC, AU, Carter Centre, EU and many other observer missions’ preliminary reports who have condemned Zimbabwe’s 23 August 2023 elections as flawed and illegal, so flawed and illegal the process could not produce legitimate result. The party’s leaders boycotted Mnangagwa’s inauguration ceremony in tune with many other leaders from SADC, Africa and beyond. 

If the election process was condemned as flawed and illegal it could not produce a  legitimate winner and so ZEC’s declaration of Mnangagwa as the winner of the elections did confer legitimacy on him. Boycotting the inauguration therefore saved the important purpose of underlining Mnangagwa was not legitimate. 

The double take rises from CCC leaders attending their own swearing in ceremonies up and down the country so they can take they seats on the gravy train. The same flawed and illegal election process, judged could not produce a legitimate president is producing legitimate CCC MPs and councillors. And here is how CCC tried to square the circle!

“Champions good afternoon.

The position of the party remains as articulated at the press conference on the 29th of August 2023 that:

1) we reject the election results because they did not meet our domestic laws and SADC guidelines and principles.

2. Because of  the above we are calling for FRESH elections underwritten and supervised by SADC and AU.

3. Where ever we won, under very difficult circumstances, it shows our resolve and tenacity as a party and we  will continue to occupy such spaces and regard such as liberated zones.

4. We will embark on a diplomatic offensive as well as taking political action.

The above sums the broad party position. What we should also remember is that we are controlling 33/34 towns and cities and the swearing of them is also pending.

The swearing in is for all who were declared by ZEC as winners and will not retard our fight for FRESH ELECTIONS.

Be guided accordingly.”

The contradiction, confusion and sheer hypocrisy in CCC’s position becomes glaring obvious when the above is applied to the 2008 to 2013 GNU; greed ruled the roost and there was no “liberated zone” to hide.

MDC leaders failed to implement not even one democratic reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU because Mugabe bribed Morgan Tsvangirai and company with the trappings of high office, the ministerial limos, generous salaries and allowances including US$60 000 for a car and US$ 4 million mansion for Tsvangirai. In return MDC leaders throw reforms out of the window. 

“Mazivanhu eMDC adzidza kudya anyerere!” (MDC leaders have learned to enjoy the gravy train good life, they will not rock the boat!) boasted Zanu PF cronies when asked why MDC were not implementing reforms during the GNU. 

If any MDC leaders had tried to rationalise and justify their treasonous failure to implement even one democratic reform in five years of the GNU then the party would have borrowed a page from George Orwell’s Animal Farm. MDC leaders forgot about the reforms during the GNU because they had the snouts in the feeding trough, just like the pigs in Animal Farm gorged themselves on milk and apples.

“When Squealer explains to the animals why the pigs have been getting all the milk and apples, he reveals his rhetorical skill and ability to "skip from side to side" to convince the animals that the pigs' greed is actually a great sacrifice,” explained Cliff in Cliff Notes.

“Appealing to science (which presumably has proven that apples and milk are "absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig") and lying about pigs disliking the very food they are hoarding, Squealer manages a great public-relations stunt by portraying the pigs as near-martyrs who only think of others and never themselves. "It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples," Squealer explains, and his dazzling pseudo-logic persuades the murmuring animals that the pigs are, in fact, selfless.

“Squealer's rhetorical question, "Surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones back?" is the first of many times when Squealer will invoke the name of Jones to convince the animals that — despite any discontentment they may feel — their present lives are greatly preferable to the ones they led under their old master. 

“Orwell's tone when describing the animals' reaction to Squealer ("The importance of keeping the pigs in good health was all too obvious") is markedly ironic and again signals to the reader that the pigs are slowly changing into a new form of their old oppressors.”

Judging from the reaction in social media, many of the CCC supporters see nothing wrong with the duplicity of condemning the flawed elections and calling Mnangagwa illegitimate and yet convenient ignore that the electoral process was flawed to justify celebrating CCC electoral victory. 

The truth is MDC/CCC leaders have been participating in these flawed and illegal elections knowing fully well that they are flawed, that participating will give the process some modicum of credibility and thus give Zanu PF legitimacy. They have soldiered on regardless out of greed. What is more, they have known all these things all along.

“The (2013) 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,” confessed David Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe.

If any one thought that Chamisa et al would have the common sense not to openly contradict and undermine SADC and AU by taking up their gravy train seats the Zanu PF regime some modicum of illegitimate. They were wrong, greed rules the CCC roost, there is no reasoning with that lot!  

Chamisa will insist that he and his MDC/CCC friends have failed to implement even one reform in 23 years, have been participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the dictatorship and they today defying SADC and U to take up their gravy train seats for the benefit of the ordinary Zimbabweans. 

"It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples," Squealer explained.