“The current power tussle in the opposition MDC has become the
talk of town, with screaming headlines of suspensions and expulsions
surrounding the opposition party,” said Jeffrey Muvundusi, Daily News. I agree
we have read of little else for the past few weeks.
“While this has consumed much of the local media space,
observers say it is a fortuitous diversion of attention from the prevailing
harsh economic conditions faced by the public,” continued Jeffrey. I too have
heard many people say that.
Whilst I would agree with the rest of Jeffrey’s piece on the
basis that the media’s focus on the MDC infighting has diverted the nation’s
attention from what really matters, the very serious economic melt-down the
nation is going through. What Jeffrey failed to understand and so did the media
is the weeks of screaming headlines were all barking up the wrong tree.
The Genesis of all this infighting in MDC – T can be traced back
to Mugabe rigging the July 2013 elections. This was an election Tsvangirai and
MDC should have won; they had the numbers on their side but alas not the
quality leaders to turn popular public support into electoral victory.
If the media, now writing all these endless commentary on the
MDC-T split, had been object and alert as they should have been then they would
not have failed to see that MDC had failed to implement the democratic reforms
agreed in the GPA. And, worse still, that there was no way MDC would win the
elections without the reforms.
“We failed to secure critical reforms before participating in
the elections,” admitted Samuel Sipepa Nkomo in a recent interview. “The whole
world advised us not to get into the elections without reforms, and so in
everything that we have been saying we have failed to acknowledge that we also
made a mistake.”
MP Nkomo did not include Zimbabwe’s Independent Media in “the
whole world advised us” on reforms because most if not all Zimbabwe independent
media houses were all solidly behind MDC going into the elections. None of them
even notice that not even one of the pre-requisite reforms had been implemented
or gave it a second thought if they did.
The importance of the reforms was missed by Zimbabwe public and
the media played a role in that in that it failed in its duty to INFORM the
public.
Tsvangirai, Biti, Ncube and the rest of the MDC leaders’ failure
to implement the reforms and then ignore the warning not to go ahead with the
elections without the reforms was a monumental blunder for which there was no
excuse. None! They were distracted by the trappings of power and “forgot why
they were in the GNU” as SADC leaders rightly pointed out.
The MDC leaders’ breath-taking incompetence in failing to
implement the reforms shows that they cannot be trusted to hold public office
ever again.
In a health and functioning democracy the media would be leading
from the front calling for all the MDC leaders who played a part in this
monumental blunder to resign from their party and public office. Sadly Zimbabwe
clearly does not have such a focused media capable of distinguishing the woods
from the trees.
3 comments:
The real tragedy with Tsvangirai is he is so incompetent he does not even see just how incompetent he is.
“We have been victims of Zanu PF for a long time and we are not going to be stopped. We can-not stop our programmes because Zanu PF has thrown a few stones,” said Tsvangirai.
The violence he dismisses so casually as Zanu PF throwing "a few stones" has resulted in 14 people being injured and one of them is in intensive care! What is certain is that with the GPA out of the way and therefore SADC no longer playing the monitoring role Mugabe and Zanu PF can step up the violence to the nightmare levels of the past.
What Tsvangirai has completely failed to grasp is that if he had implemented the democratic re-forms as he should have done, he had five years to do it, then Mugabe would not have rigged the 2013 elections and the nation would have put the corruption, the chaos and all this violence behind us once and for all!
Following their leadership retreat in Inyanga last year MDC - T leaders decide that they would still take part in the elections even if there was violence. Tsvangirai is just reiterating that posi-tion. When he suspected that Zanu PF thugs were after him he disappeared to the Netherlands Embassy to even Usain Bolt would have caught him. It is another matter of course if the violence is directed against the ordinary Zimbabweans. They are cannon fodder!
It is ok for him to carry with his programmes, whatever they are (not that any of them have achieved anything in the past), he will drive back to his $4 million mansion leaving his supporters to face the violence on their own.
MDC's failure to implement the democratic reforms has proven just how breathtakingly incompe-tent leaders like Tsvangirai are; it is sheer folly for the nation to entrust the destiny of the nation to the likes of Tsvangirai. Because as long as tyrants like Mugabe has opponents like him the tyrant has the edge as we have already seen.
Mugabe has remained in power these last 15 years because of Tsvangirai's breath-taking in-competence! It is not enough to want Mugabe out; getting a competent leader to get the tyrant out is more important than ever, especially after the three Tsvangirai bungled attempts.
“Bahar Dar, Ethiopia - The figures are staggering: At least $1.8 trillion illicitly flowed out of Africa between 1970 and 2009.
“This is far more than the external aid the continent received over the same period, and almost five times its current external debt. According to researchers, the continent also loses at least $100bn a year in this financial haemorrhage,” said an Al Jazeera report. That is Africa!
One of Africa’s many tragedies; the continent has the wealth, one of the richest, but is the poorest continent of the planet because it has consistent failed to manage its wealth!
@ Dog Star
Rigging elections is treason, helping a tyrant to rig elections is treason, dealing in stolen property is illegal, etc., etc. The Chinese will have no leg to stand on and they know it.
There two reasons why the Chinese have changed their minds and took the risk to buy Mugabe's junk bonds:
1) Zimbabwe's opposition is breathtakingly incompetent and so they think Mugabe and Zanu PF are likely to remain in power for a lot longer - long enough for them to rack in the huge profits from looting Zimbabwe's resources.
2) When there is regime change - decades down the line - it will be the usual incompetent government one has learnt to expect from Africa. China will only have to give the new regime a few million dollars and all will be forgiven and forgotten.
All I would say to the Chinese is think again.
The Mugabe regime is too rotten to be saved and so regime change is set to happen a lot sooner than you think.
Tsvangirai and his MDC friends have proven to be breathtakingly incompetent we are competent enough to see that and, more significantly, to ensure the nation's destiny will never be entrusted in the hands of tyrants or incompetent village idiots ever again!
Think again China, think again! Chinese resentment in Africa has been growing over the last few years because of the indifference of the Chinese to common justice and fair play in the way the Chinese treat Africans. The barefaced injustice in the deal with Mugabe may well be the last drop that breaks the dam-wall of hostility against the Chinese.
The Chinese can be sure that we will do our best to make sure the details of the deal are broadcast far and wide and are remember for generations to come!
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