Dr Lovemore Madhuku’s
opposition National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) once again say they will not join
the grand coalition Tendai Biti is proposing. It is right that NCA should
refuse; Tendai Biti has proven that he is breathtakingly incompetent and is
therefore not fit to lead. For anyone to freely join a grouping led by an
incompetent leader is sheer folly!
"Biti has not
hidden his ambitions to form the envisioned United Democratic Party he hopes
would finally break Zanu PF’s lengthy stranglehold on power," wrote New
Zimbabwe Staff reporter.
Well that goes without
say, Two-Boy Edgar Tekere, Morgan Tsvangirai, Lovemore Madhuku, Simba Makoni,
Welshman Ncube, etc., etc.; they all say they are ones who will end
Mugabe and Zanu PF's reign of corruption and brutal repression. They have all
failed so far.
The one who had the best
chances by a long mile to end Mugabe's struggle hold on power was MDC. All
Tsvangirai had to do to secure electoral victory last time was to implement democratic
reforms already agreed in the GPA. The signatories to the GPA had allocated 18
months to complete the tasks, Tsvangirai took five years and, surprise,
surprise, failed to get even one reform implemented.
The only reason why
Tsvangirai failed to implement even one reform and thus fail to unseat Mugabe
is that the whole MDC team was breathtakingly incompetent. They were easily
distracted by the trappings of power and forgot the principle task was to
implement the reforms. They were no different from the monkey in the cave of
wonders in Aladdin and the Magic lamp.
The monkey’s eyes
glassed over at the sight of the spackling diamonds and rubies, it forgot it
was the magic lamp that gave the diamonds and rubies their spackle and value. The
mission was to get the magic lamp first, without it the diamonds and rubies turned
to dust!
SADC and the
international community warned the MDC monkeys of the dangers of taking part in
the elections without the reforms, as MDC MP Samuel Sipepa Nkomo admitted
recently, but a monkey with glassy eyes has no ears to hear! Lovemore Madhuku
and his NCA was the only Zimbabwean outfit who stood firm and advised MDC not
to hold elections without a democratic constitution. All the others, the
independent media and the country’s army of church and civic society cheered
and applauded the glassy eyed monkeys!
Of course without the
democratic reforms, Mugabe was able to rig the elections and the nation’s hopes
and dreams of free and fair elections and a wholesome democratic government promptly
turned dust!
Tendai Biti was a key
member of Tsvangirai’s MDC team in the cave of wonders and his eyes glassed
over like the rest. In July 2012, a year before the rigged elections, Tendai
Biti gave a long interview in which he sang a ballade in praise of Mugabe. He
said the tyrant was “unflappable” and called him “the father of the nation”!
Zimbabwe needs to end
this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship that has brought so much
suffering, despair and death to the nation. The only way to end the
dictatorship is by implementing the democratic reforms, that is the magic lamp!
People like Tsvangirai
and Tendai Biti have not even said why they failed to implement the reforms
when they had all the time to do so. It is nine months since Mugabe booted them
out of power and the glassy shine in their eyes has worn-off. They are missing
the comforts of the gravy train so much they have already hit the campaign
trail although the next elections are chalked for 2018.
Both Tsvangirai and Biti
have been telling the people of Zimbabwe they will end the Mugabe dictatorship
but have so far been very careful not to mention they will bring democratic
change because they do not want to be asked the obvious question – why they
failed to deliver not ever one democratic change when they were in the GNU!
Dr Lovemore Madhuku is
once again smart to refuse to be a party to this United Democratic Party Tendai
Biti and some of his friends in the breakaway MDC team are proposing. Tendai
Biti and the others played a key role MDC’s inexcusable failure to unseat
Mugabe these last 15 years; they have proven to be as breathtakingly
incompetent as Tsvangirai and the other MDC leaders the rebels have dismissed
for failed leadership.
Anyone who will consider
Tsvangirai, Biti, Ncube and many other MDC leaders as leadership material, with
their pathetic track record of the last 5 years, only show what a remarkable poor
judge of character the individual is!
5 comments:
So the church leaders are doing their best to end the fighting in MDC and unit the various factions because they believe that would be for the good of the country.
“MDC-T that lost to Zanu PF and failed to remain united has been fighting in-ternally for a while now and it is time they reconsidered dialogue so that as a party they manage to achieve their major goal of bringing change in the coun-try,” said Raymond Motsi.
“The fights are not giving hope to the public, but instead they are inciting fear and depression in the public,” joined in Bishop Ancelimo Magaya.
There is no question that these church leaders have the interests of the coun-try at heart but that is not to say they have their thinking caps on. Indeed one can even venture to say these individuals have long lost their caps, they are just blundering along.
Yes we all want to see the back of this Mugabe and Zanu PF dictatorship; we all want to see the country returned to democratic rule. Mr. Motsi, you must agree that the country had its best chance ever of realizing the “major goal of bringing change in the country,” at the end GNU. Surely you must have finally figured out by now that this did not happen because MDC failed to implement the reforms.
Without the reforms there was no way of stopping Mugabe rigging the elections and the tyrant did just that. MDC leaders were warned not to take part in the elections without the reforms, MDC MP Samuel Sipepa Nkomo has admitted, but the party paid no heed.
It was the united MDC party that failed to implement even one reform and the same united party that paid no heed to the warning not to take part in the elec-tions. Tsvangirai and Biti failed to get even one reform implemented and paid no heed to good advice because they are breathtakingly incompetent. It is nonsense to say these failed leaders are the nation’s best hope of ending the Zanu PF dictatorship when they already failed repeatedly to deliver any change.
These church leaders’ thinking is clouded over by their romantic motions of united front. United or not Tsvangirai and Biti will still be breathtakingly in-competent. It is not for these church leaders to fill the nation with false hope a united opposition will deliver change regardless how incompetent the leaders happened to be. That is nonsense!
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. What is going to get Zimbabwe out of the mess is not good intentions but a willingness to accept the truth and some good old fashioned common sense!
@ Faith
I am sure that Tsvangirai, Biti and the rest of the MDC leaders would be ashamed at their own incompetence if they were competent. They are not, if they were then, of course, they would have implemented the reforms.
It is us, the people who should be hanging their heads in shame for having en-trusted the destiny of the country in such incompetent and useless individuals like Tsvangirai and Biti. But of course one is spared the shame if they do not see the real Tsvangirai.
Back in 2004 former US Ambassador to Zimbabwe Chris Dell said Tsvangirai was a "flawed and indecisive character". Even with the benefit of Tsvangirai’s many blunderings since then, many Zimbabweans have failed to him as the blundering and incompetent village idiot he is.
Many donors who had back the project to see democratic change in Zimbabwe have since given up in despair after so many chances to bring real change had been wasted. It was bad enough to have elected a flawed leader but to have kept him year after year, blunder after blunder, showed that Zimbabweans were not serious that they want democracy and good governance.
Zimbabweans are free to vote for failed leaders like Tsvangirai and Biti; their hopes of real change will be raised as before only to be dashed too as before. We have yet to learn that one does not get a silk purse out of a sower’s ear; we do not get competent leaders out of incompetent village idiots!
Donors are sick and tired of Zimbabweans who have fleeced them under the disguise of working for democracy and human rights when all the display is a complete lack of common sense by backing failed leaders like Tsvangirai. The donors have at least decided they will not waste good money funding the MDC or civic societies in their meaningless projects guaranteed to change nothing!
@ Civil disobedience
You have clearly missed the point I have been trying to make here. It is not for me to say X is the good leader vote for him or her. Even if I could say that; what is there to stop someone else saying no, vote for Y. What then?
My point is that the people should take the trouble to understand the issues before them so they can then make a reasoned decision to vote for Y and not X. As things stand the people have been easily conned into voting for people who have failed to deliver because the people themselves had a very superficial understanding of the matters on hand.
You can dismiss me comments as you please but that is not going to get us out of this hell-hole! Dismiss that too, but that is a fact!
@ Civil disobedience
I am very pleased to hear that you do understand what these democratic reforms are about.
Out of the need to ensure you and me, at least are singing off the same hymn book; what are these reforms?
Let us suppose, again for the sake of the discussion, that you and me are indeed singing of the same hymn book. How many other Zimbabweans out there do you think understand what these reforms are?
The fact that so many people still thing the MDC leaders who failed to get even one reform implemented are competent leaders; would lead me to conclude that very few Zimbabweans out there understand what the reforms are much less why they are important.
So you see your understanding the reforms, good as that is, is not enough if the electorate have no clue what you are on about. I could say you should stand for President but what good will that be if only you will have is two votes - mine and yours!
@ Civil Disobedience
Dear Resident of the European Commission
The breath-taking incompetence of the MDC leaders throughout the five years of the GNU has left me disgusted; I still cannot believed that any one could be that incompetent much less so, so many of them.
After the pathetic performance of the whole MDC team and the devastating reality of Mugabe blatantly rigging the elections I thought the people of Zimbabwe would wake up to the pressing need of competent leaders; sadly I was to be disappointed here too. Only a few Zimbabweans even noticed that MDC had failed to implement the reforms and thus proving that the great majority of Zimbabweans were not even paying attention.
I am pleased to hear the EU is still interested in seeing Zimbabwe return to rule of law. Sadly that is not going to happen any time soon. The majority of Zimbabweans are not readily for democratic rule; they still prefer the tyrannical rule or else to be ruled by a village idiot.
Sorry there is nothing the EU or any one can do to help; Zimbabweans have a democratic right to chose a government of their choice and they have.
Yours truly
Wilbert.
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