"EXPECT NOTHING NEW!" warned Chamisa. For once, he is brutally honest; "takagarira guyo sembwa!" W Mukori

 “EXPECT NOTHING NEW EXCEPT AND UNTIL THE OLD DIES..And it’s a painful process. The old must cease to exist for the new to kick in and subsist. It may look impossible but we will make it because #Godisinit Have a blessed Friday and a great weekend!!” said Nelson Chamisa on his X page.

Many people were left confused and angry in equal measure when they read this and for good reasons the nation has pinned its hope for democratic change on Chamisa for decades. Of course, they are angry to hear that they have been waiting in vain. “Kugarira guyo sembwa!” as one would say in Shona. 

But if the truth be said, Chamisa is, for once, tell the people the truth. Many cannot bear to hear the truth but hear it they must.

Nelson Chamisa and his MDC/CCC friends have failed to implement the necessary democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections, the prerequisite for any meaningful democratic change. After 23 years including the 5 in the 2008 to 2013 GNU when they had the golden opportunity to do so, the opposition have not implemented even one token reform because they have been waiting for the old guard to die!

Whilst they wait, the MDC/CCC leaders have come to an amicable arrangement with the Zanu PF old guard, they are letting Zanu PF keep all its dictatorial powers including the carte blanche powers to rig elections, they will con the public to participate in the flawed elections to give vote rigging Zanu PF political legitimacy. Chamisa and company would get a few gravy train seats as their reward. 

Whilst it is true that in another 50 years, by 2070, the last of the generation that fought in the war of independence will be died and buried. Still that will be no grantee of political change and renewal.

Mnangagwa is feverishly working on him staying in power for a third five-year term as president. His long term plan is for him impose his successor and who better than one of his own flesh and blood. Mnangagwa may well fail to impose his own North Korea style dynasty, just as Mugabe failed but we can be sure the Zanu PF dictatorship will survive and thrived as long as the cosy Zanu PF CCC relationship is allowed to continue. 

It is for the people of Zimbabwe to wake up to the reality that Chamisa and his opposition friends will never implement any democratic reforms, if they failed to do so during the GNU when they had all the tramp cards, it is naive to expect them to do so now when Zanu PF has all the trump cards! For once, Chamisa is being brutally honest - the nation must expect no change and hence the reason why MDC/CCC has delivered none these last 23 years!

If the people of Zimbabwe are still serious about ending the curse of rigged elections and bad governance then they must start that change by replacing Nelson Chamisa and company with competent opposition leaders who WILL  implement the democratic reforms. 

Opposition leaders like David Coltart have confessed of the opposition leaders’ greed but few have bothered to listen.

“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.

“EXPECT NOTHING NEW!” Chamisa is warning and after 23 years with not even a token reform implemented and the nation in deep, deep economic and political trouble; it would be very foolish of us to continue to ignore these warnings.