Zimbabweans voted for Tsvangirai "a flawed and indecisive figure" and got an indecisive GNU they deserved!

@ Sterling Ferguson

I agree with everything you have said expect two things; a) I do not agree Mugabe is clever. He is devilishly cunning yes but clever; no.

b) “The only way one can deal with Mugabe is to become just like him brutal and ruthless like him,” you say. That is not even the last thing I would consider. Like I said before; to be like Mugabe you have to be a heartless brute. You, or some other heartless brute, will finally get rid of Mugabe; then what? You will no doubt want to enjoy the same absolute power that Mugabe enjoyed. You will not care about the tragic suffering your tyrannical rule will be causing just as Mugabe has done – you are a heartless brute, remember.

Mugabe’s reign of terror is drawing to a close; the last thing we want is to encourage another dictator to step in his shoes.

After the sham June 2008 presidential run-off elections Mugabe had hang himself. The whole international community would not accept him as the legitimate Head of State of Zimbabwe. Not after such an outrageous electoral process! Not even the see-nothing, hear-nothing and say-nothing SADC Election Monitoring Team could ignore the wholesale brutal human violations and blatant disregard of the law by Mugabe and his thugs. It was the idiot, Tsvangirai, who got Mugabe off the hook by agreeing to the stupid GNU.

It was stupid of Mugabe to have destroyed the Zimbabwe economy with all the corruption and looting and to have murdered so many innocent lives. Yes he may have succeeded in his sadistic intention of retaining power at all cost and he and his cronies have certainly lived in unparalleled luxuries. But it is all coming to a tragic end in that they will lose their loot and for many of them there is the hangman’s noose at the end of it all. What is so clever about that!?

As Mugabe’s dictatorship draws to its close the regime has made one blunder after another; the sham June 2008 election was just one such blunder. What Zimbabwe needs is a clever leader smart enough to let the dictator hang himself.

I will admit that I do NOT see any clever leader in Zimbabwe’s political horizon. Ambassador Dell castigated Tsvangirai a “flawed and indecisive figure” back in 2007. And yet even with the benefit of hindsight many Zimbabweans still refuse to see Tsvangirai for the idiot he is. Even intellectuals, notably Professor John Makumbe ever tire of singing Tsvangirai’s praises. It is not just Tsvangirai who is not open to advice and has questionable judgement; his fellow MDC members who elected him and the people of Zimbabwe who voted for him are not any better. If people are content being led by idiots then there is no pressure for change.

People get the government they deserve; that is certainly true. Zimbabwe has had 30 years of a ruthless tyrant and in the last two years the tyrant had an idiot for a side kick. We, Zimbabweans, love rubbish leaders! Or as one would say in Shona, “kana tazvika pasarudzo, tinongo kuvirira zvose mavhu namarara!”

@Zodwa Sibanda

The need to remove millions of black peasants living in overcrowded rural areas where they had been herded to by the white settlers was obvious. The need to end white rule was equally obvious – how else would black address this pressing need to resettle the landless peasants, end black oppression and exploitation etc. All these things were obvious to everyone; even the goat-herder, Tsvangirai, understood that.

Mugabe was cunning enough to make a big song and dance about how he would bring national independence, black majority rule, freedom, liberty, peace, economic prosperity to all, etc., etc. when all he really cared about is entrench himself and his friends into power. He made a big song and dance about redistributing land to the landless and you admit it is only Mugabe and his cronies who have benefited. Worse still Mugabe’s looting of farms has caused such an economic upheaval the economy has shrunk by a record 84% in six year from 2002 to 2008 causing heart breaking suffering to the whole nation.

90% of Zimbabweans saw the need for land reform but only 9% (composed of Mugabe and his cronies who did the looting and yes, MDC, but that is to be expected from a party headed by “flawed and indecisive figure” to quote Ambassador Dell) would approve what Mugabe has done. The need to resettle landless peasants is even more urgent now that the Zimbabwe economy has collapsed and unemployment is a nauseating 90%.

Mugabe is cunning, devilishly so, but not clever and you, Zodwa, has yet to learn to distinguish the two.

“I still believe that Tsvangirai would be a good transitional President for Zimbabwe,” you say. Well why is he a pathetic Prime Minister of Zimbabwe with neither the power nor authority of even a deputy Minister? You answer that and you will see that Ambassador Dell was only saying the truth about Tsvangirai.

Zimbabweans are paying dearly for Tsvangirai blundering and it is about time the truth about this idiot is told. You clearly do not want to hear the truth said about Tsvangirai; we are talking about the truth and the destiny of Zimbabwe is dependent on that, your myopic partisan wishes are of no consequence.