Prime Minister Tsvangirai is now in Sweden. He has just left Germany Chancellor Merkel did NOT give Tsvangirai anything. He has already been to Netherlands and USA; and none of these countries have given the PM anything to show for all his singing, dancing and smiling from ear to ear he has been doing. Anything these leaders have given they made sure it was not put in his bowl; they did not trust this GNU with a penny of their money.
Tsvangirai set off a week ago with a PM seize begging bowl and an ego to match. He does not even have a penny to rattle the bowl with.
Ordinary Zimbabweans have said again and again that the GPA was unworkable and Tsvangirai in his infinite wisdom said it was "imperfect but workable". Ever since Tsvangirai, Biti and the other MDC leaders became PM, Ministers, etc. they have behaved as if they "know best" and the rest of us are fools. (Much the same way Mugabe has treated us for the last thirty years!)
Tsvangirai went to Europe and America confident he will sell this whitewashed dictatorship as a transitional democracy to be “rewarded and not punished”. We were lectured about it being it a “process and not an event”. Although after four months in government the GNU had absolutely no democratic change to show the process was working.
Tendai Biti and Tsvangirai both tried the “GNU is the only game-in town, support it or Zimbabwe is doomed!” argument. That had the “I am the Supreme Leader, without me the whole world stop spinning!” overtones of a tyrant. It was laughable, coming as it did in from a tyrant who had failed in such a spectacular fashion.
Mugabe may have bullied MDC into accepting the GPA but did Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti and even more so Mutambara have to embrace the arrangement with such passion and enthusiasm? Tsvangirai and his fellow MDC leaders have tried to sell the world the strange idea of a democracy headed by a dictator. No one in there right sense would buy such nonsense.
Tsvangirai set out on this tour to the West confident of his democratic credentials; he expected all Western leaders to bow down to him in reverence. What Tsvangirai did not realise was that when he joined Mugabe’s dictatorship lost all his democratic values and worn the dictator coat-of-arms!
The humiliation of being send back home empty handed and having been “exposed” as nothing more than the tyrant’s errand boy will, hopeful, force Tsvangirai and his fellow MDC leaders to see the GPA for what it is: a pathetic attempt to repackage the dictatorship and pass for a democracy.
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