Monday 8 July 2019

MDC declares "war to overthrow" Zanu PF - how ironic, MDC is one foolishly giving Zanu PF legitimacy P Guramatunhu


The country is in serious trouble with unemployment a nauseating 90%; basic services such sheath and education all but collapse; facing fuel, cash and medicine shortages; 19 hour power cuts; 5.7 million people needed food aid; etc. Instead of those in power coming up with solutions to the many teething problems they are wasting time in their own macabre sabre rattling contest! 

"We are a committed leadership that will give Zanu PF headaches and [Amos] Chibaya was not lying or joking about the war and fight we are going to take to the doorsteps of Emmerson Mnangagwa. We are going to overthrow him before 2023 that is not a joke," said Job Sikhala, MDC Vice Chairperson at a Rally in Bikita.


"When a person says they want to overthrow a constitutionally-elected President, they are committing an offence and they are threatening a coup, this will not be allowed in this
country. We love our peace and it will be protected,” came the reply from the Zanu PF Youth League leader, Lewis Matutu. 

The irony is that Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF regime are NOT constitutionally elected because last year’s elections were NOT free and fair as MDC leaders have readily admitted.


ZEC failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll, for Pete’s sake! It is MDC who have given Zanu PF the modicum of legitimacy by participating in the flawed and illegal elections. Even with all the evidence that Zanu PF had indeed rigged the elections, MDC has nonetheless remain ambivalent in their condemnation of the elections. 

"Legitimacy is an issue - last year's elections were illegal, and not free and fair. All reasonable observers concede that,” commented David Coltart, MDC Treasurer General. 

MDC has been calling for political dialogue to resolve the legitimacy issue. The party is demand a power sharing transition authority (TA) in which Nelson Chamisa and a few other MDC members are to be given cabinet positions complete with the ministerial limo, generous salary, etc. MDC claim the TA will revive the economy and implement the reforms to stop Zanu PF rigged future elections. All nonsense, of course! MDC failed to get even one reform implemented in the 2008 GNU when the party had the majority in cabinet and parliament and the backing of SADC leaders. It is hard to see how the party can achieve anything in this TA when Zanu PF hold all the trump cards. 

MDC leaders are selling-out the cause for free, fair and credible elections as the only basis for political legitimacy for selfish person gain. 

It is laughable that MDC sold-out to give the illegitimate Zanu PF regime legitimacy is now talking of using violence to force the latter to share the spoils of power. Whilst Zanu PF, for its part, blatantly rigged the elections and will now use brute force to retain its corrupt and tyrannical rule. 

Meanwhile, Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown is getting worse and worse and the nation is being pushed deeper and deeper into this hell-on-earth we find ourselves in. The only way out is for this illegitimate Zanu PF regime to step down so we can appoint an interim administration or transition authority, call it what you wish, composed of individuals who can be trusted to implemented the democratic reforms and thus end the curse of rigged elections. 

The opportunity to pressure Zanu PF to step down is there; most of the international community accept that Zanu PF rigged last year’s elections and the regime is therefore is illegal. The fly in the ointment is MDC who want to sell legitimacy and will even drag the nation into violent street protests to push their selfish demands.

19 comments:

Zimbabwe Light said...

MDC is “the people’s party with a national footprint, present and vibrant in every community” said Chamisa.

Then why did Zanu PF win 2/3 majority in last year’s elections?

I will tell you why; Zanu PF rigs elections and MDC has failed to do anything to stop the vote rigging.

The people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb to elect MDC into power on the understanding the party will implement the democratic changes necessary to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. After 20 years on the political stage MDC has failed to implement even one meaningful change. The people of Zimbabwe must wake up to the reality that MDC will never deliver free, fair and credible elections.

MDC leaders wasted their chance to implement the reforms especially during the 2008 GNU and they have since given up and they are happy with the present set up where the party wins the few bait gravy train seats Zanu PF gives away. Zimbabwe needs free, fair and credible elections to get out of the hell-on-earth trap we are in. The people of Zimbabwe must wake up to the reality that MDC will never get the reforms implemented.

MDC is now running with the hare and hunting with the hounds!

Nomusa Garikai said...

@ Professor J Moyo

#TBgate is a mega corruption scam through which billions in USDs were corruptly printed between 2013 and 2019 under a fictious 1:1 exchange rate to effectively line up the pockets of linked individuals for their personal benefit at the expense of the economy and the public good!

#TBgate is the most far reaching corruption scandal in Zimbabwe involving systematic and corrupt abuse of USD billions under: *Command agriculture *Fuel imports by cartels *Dark imports for unspecified and unauditable "operations", siphoned through Mobutu-style payments!

#TBgate has had a devastating impact on the economy and the livelihoods of ordinary people because of its link with other systemic corruption including but not only systematic theft of diamonds, never mind whether its quantum is USD 15 billion or whatever: the value is huge!

Paranthetically, the corrupt fight against corruption is exposed by the fact that absolutely nothing is being done or said by Matanda-Moyo, Zanu PF youth, ZRP, ZACC,NPA, SACU, the judiciary or state media about Zimbabwe's stolen diamonds and their actual value!

Related to stolen diamonds given #TBgate, is gold theft. Before the coup, machete-murders were rife in the Midlands over the control of the sale of Zim gold. Since then gold smuggling has become rampant. Gold smugglers now run the country, which they are also running down!

There's a link between #Tbgate and the plunder of the country's key resources, diamonds and gold, to corruptly benefit some individuals, their families and cronies. These are the individuals who unconstitutionally seized power by the threat and use of military force in Nov 2017!

Against this backdrop, it's disquieting that the new ZACC chairperson, Loice Matanda-Moyo, has assumed her post full of sound and furry signifying nothing about the fight against corruption. It seems her brief is to cover up the REAL corruption that has destroyed the economy!

Corruption can never be uprooted when those responsible for the corruption are in power and they and they alone decide which cases of corruption are dealt thing, when they know if anyone guilty of corruption are squeezed to hard they would implicate them to save themselves or make sure they do not suffer alone. Professor Moyo is spilling the beans now for these exact reasons!

Nomusa Garikai said...

The MDC is deeply worried about the escalating national crisis and to this end; the party will on Thursday this week launch the Roadmap to Economic Recovery, Legitimacy, Openness and Democracy (RELOAD) which is our blueprint to legitimacy and economic recovery in the country.

RELOAD does not in any way entail illegal and unconstitutional means of solving the national crisis.

Once again, the MDC wishes to state unequivocally that it has always submitted itself to the cardinal values of legality, constitutionalism and democracy. Any attempt to portray the MDC in any other way is disingenuous and unfortunate.

The root cause of Zimbabwe’s economic and political crisis is the nation’s failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. The country had its best opportunity yet to implement the reforms and end the vote rigging during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Sadly, MDC wasted the opportunity and failed to implement even one reform in five years. Ever since, MDC has participated in elections knowing fully well that Zanu PF would rig the elections out of the same greed behind the party’s failure to implement reforms during the GNU.

MDC admit last year’s elections were “illegal, and not free and fair” and yet the party is prepared to sweep this under the carpet and declare Mnangagwa and the Zanu PF regime legitimate if Mnangagwa agreed to sharing the spoils of the rigged elections with MDC. The party is selling out.

If MDC had not sold-out and joined the EU, Americans, Commonwealth and many other outsiders and locals in condemning last year’s rigged elections the pressure on Zanu PF to step down would have produced the desired result by now.

“MDC has always submitted itself to the cardinal values of legality, constitutionalism and democracy!” Was the party is selling-out in failing to implement reforms and granting legitimacy to an illegitimate regime is it still submitting itself to the cardinal values of legality, constitutionalism and democracy!

Nomusa Garikai said...

Mugabe and Zanu PF has never respected the rule of law, one-person one-vote and even the sanctity of human life in their pursuit of absolute power. The biggest mistake we have ever made was to let the regime have it all in the hope the thugs will ever come to their senses and see the madness of their oppression and futility of their greed. The truth is absolute power has corrupted them beyond the point of no-return giving up even an inch of their dictatorial powers and a single dollar of their looted wealth is simply unthinkable.

By the late 1990s, many Zimbabweans have accepted the country was in deep trouble and needed to cut back Zanu PF’s dictatorial powers by implementing democratic changes. The nation risked life and limb to elect Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends into power on the ticket they would bring about the needed democratic changes. Sadly, MDC leaders turned out to be corrupt and incompetent; easily tricked and corrupted. Mugabe bribed MDC leaders and they have failed to implement even one democratic change in 20 years. Not one!

Zimbabwe could have easily become the South Korea of Africa, where all enjoyed freedom, justice and economic prosperity. It has become the North Korea of Africa, where corruption, fear and poverty rule supreme! We can still be the South Korea but we must first wrestle absolute power from Zanu PF – a challenge but not an impossible one!

Nomusa Garikai said...

@ Afrobarometer

Even larger majorities object to various forms of authoritarianism: 78 percent oppose presidential dictatorships, 74 percent oppose one-party rule and 72 percent object to military rule.

About four out of 10 Africans, or 42 percent, “demand democracy,” meaning they hold all four of these pro-democratic views at the same time.

These committed democrats are most likely to be found among urban residents, men, and people who have middle-class jobs, a university education, a strong interest in politics, and a habit of reading newspapers and using the Internet.

Many people have doubted the accuracy of Afrobarometer’s finding in the past and I do so still. 3 million Zimbabweans is the diaspora were denied the vote last year I do not believe 4 out of 10 000 Zimbabweans even noticed much less “demand” an explanation or anything!

The trouble with Afrobarometer is that its methodology is so shallow and superficial to finding does not make any sense. I will bet their finding failed to distinguish these “demanding democracy” from the MDC herd type who have been shouting for democratic change for the last 20 years but still have no clue what changes they want.

Nomusa Garikai said...

Zimbabweans are angry as a year-on-year price jump of around 100% has eaten the value of their wages and savings, recalling the horrors of hyperinflation in 2008. Hopes that living standards would soon improve under President Emmerson Mnangagwa have not been realized.

Daily power cuts lasting up to 17 hours and severe shortages of U.S. dollars, fuel, bread, and medicines are bedeviling citizens who had hoped the end of Robert Mugabe’s rule after a 2017 coup would herald a new economic dawn.

Thomas Muzondo, deputy chairman of the Apex Council, a group of public sector unions, told Reuters the government’s offer would see each of the 309,000 civil servants receiving only an additional 97 Zimbabwe dollars ($11.28) a month.

That amount would buy less than 20 litres of petrol at a service station. The lowest paid government worker earns 430 Zimbabwe dollars a month, enough to buy a vehicle tire.

“We totally rejected that offer so they [government Negotiators] will go back to their principals for further consultations,” Muzondo told Reuters.

“It was a total waste of time.”

He said the full Apex Council would meet in the capital Harare on Wednesday to decide its next step.

Awarding a worker paid Z$430 per month an added Z$97 or 23% pay increase when the year on year inflation rate is 100% will mean the work will be earning half what is earning now due to inflation Z$264 assuming inflation does not get worse. One thing that is set to fuel inflation guaranteed in government printing money to finance its expenditure. Where would government get the additional revenue to finance its 23% pay increase given the economic meltdown is getting worse and not better, other than printing money!

There reason why government imposed the Z$ as the only legal tender is now clear, to free the regime to print money to bankroll its expanding expenditure. The bad old days of hyper inflation and empty shop shelves are back!

Nomusa Garikai said...

If MDC had implemented the reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU then Zanu PF would not have rigged last year's elections resulting in the present constitutional crisis of no legitimate government.

The MDC proposal of forming a transition authority (TA) will create a gravy train position for Chamisa, Biti and a few other MDC leaders but will not resolve the economic meltdown. Zimbabwe is a pariah state ruled by corrupt, vote rigging and murderous thugs. No one likes to do business with thugs even if a few MDC members are included in the pariah regime.

On the political from the TA will never implement even one democratic reform. If MDC failed to get even one reform implemented during the 2008 GNU, when they had the trump cards, what hope now when Zanu PF has all the trump cards.

Zanu PF is illegitimate and the only way forward is for the regime to step down. The MDC are the ones giving Zanu PF the excuse to hang on to power by offering to declare the regime legitimate in return for a share of the spoils of power! MDC are selling -out just as they did during the GNU by failing to implement even one reform in five years!

Nomusa Garikai said...

"Zimbabwe is on the way to recovery," said President Ramaphosa.

Well here is one other African leader who finds it difficult to distinguish between reality and fantasy! Zimbabwe is in this mess not because of the drought but four decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. Nothing has been done to end the two cancers and it is naive to therefore blame the mess on the drought!

What Zimbabwe needs is to hold free, fair and credible elections as the pre-requisite for good governance without which the country has no hope of ending the cancers of mismanagement and corruption. We messed up this chance by failing to hold free and fair elections last year.

Nomusa Garikai said...

The party of power has proven one simple thing. ZANU-PF cannot reform itself. President Mnangagwa cannot introduce the sort of radical changes – to the economy and to society – without damaging the entrenched interests of party members.

Instead, his administration will live from day-to-day, with a baton in its hand, ready to strike at its critics.

This is all true, it is sad to say!

Nomusa Garikai said...

@ Chamisa

“We've always urged ZEC to ensure the credibility of constitutional means to choose leaders. Rigging the electoral process nullifies the most vital way to choose leadership. The right to act is a fundamental right. We're the alternative and are entitled to express that alternative,” you said.

“We've seen time without number the manipulation of the electoral process and a resultant crisis of legitimacy in this country. Those in office undermined and subverted the constitutional process of a democratically electing government. That is the root cause of illegitimacy.”

Nonsense, MDC had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections and you lot failed to get even one reform implemented. How many times has MDC leaders dismissed those who have called for the implementation of reforms before elections! “MDC has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections,” you, Nelson Chamisa said before last year’s elections.

“Hon Sikhala and I come a long way. He is a Cde, brother and I know his love for Zimbabwe. He means no harm. He expresses himself in very passionate ways. He does so because he loves Zimbabwe. There are few men whom I know who are as passionate about Zimbabwe and freedom as he is,” you said.

MDC wants to sell “legitimacy” to Mnangagwa for the price of a few cabinet positions for yourself, Chamisa, and a few others; that is what you are all passionate about!

Nomusa Garikai said...

President Ramaphosa has no clue what he is talking about, Zimbabwe is not on its way to great economic recovery. As long as the country remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging thugs, the country will never have any meaningful economic recovery!

Nomusa Garikai said...

@ Don Chigumba

“This piece seeks to demonstrate that ZANU-PF has been provoking citizens to revolt since 1980s. President ED Mnangagwa should change his party's dictatorship system of governance and electoral fraud. It is now clear that election system is failing to work in Zimbabwe because of stage managed rigging by ZANU-PF government/party. The failure of election is most likely to force young people to opt for Chimurenga struggle and violence just like what happened during the time of Smith. Smith did not allow ‘one wo(man) one vote'. The blacks were not allowed to vote, that forced Zimbabweans to go for the Chimurenga liberation struggle. ZANU-PF developed the same habit (of rigging the elections every election season) soon after independence. Quite a number of Zimbabweans see no hope in the Zimbabwe's election processes and another Chimurenga liberation struggle may be ignited. President ED Mnagagwa should be very careful and take heed of Sikhala's words,” you said.

Excellent except for one key point, MDC has had many golden opportunities to implement the democratic reforms design to stop Zanu PF rigging elections but has wasted them all. Right now it is MDC leaders who giving Zanu PF some measure of legitimacy by offering the regime legitimacy in return for cabinet position for Chamisa and one or two other MDC leaders.

Zimbabwe would not be in this mess still, if it was not for MDC leaders selling out at every turn. Get rid of these corrupt and incompetent MDC leaders and you will see there is no need for another armed struggle!

Nomusa Garikai said...

It will be unforgivable if Zimbabwe was to be dragged into Sudan type street protests or worse when all this would have been avoided if MDC had implemented the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections.

We do not need a war to remove an illegitimate regime! It is Chamisa and company who are giving legitimacy to Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF junta, get rid of these MDC sell-out and Zanu PF will fall!

Nomusa Garikai said...

MDC is a party of breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent individuals and for the last 20 years they have been a great liability to the nation's quest to end the Zanu PF dictatorship and not its champion. MDC leaders have blundered again and again even when Zanu PF was on the ropes and change was certain; MDC leaders have still managed to blunder and allow Zanu PF to recover.

Mnangagwa and his junta knew the international community was not fooled by their calling a coup a "military assisted transition". The regime was illegitimate and just because no one made an issue of it did not change that reality. The regime had the chance to redeem itself by holding free, fair and credible elections. It turned out to be a bridge too far for the thugs.

International observers like SADC and AU confined themselves to reporting on how peaceful the campaigning period had been and carefully avoid saying anything about whether the elections were free, fair and credible because they knew they were not. Others like the Americans, EU, Commonwealth and many others condemned the elections and said why.

“The electoral commission lacked full independence and appeared to not always act in an impartial manner,” stated the EU Election Observer Mission final report.

“The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability. Finally, the restrictions on political freedoms, the excessive use of force by security forces and abuses of human rights in the post-election period undermined the corresponding positive aspects during the pre-election campaign. As such, many aspects of the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe failed to meet international standards.”

The only group to give their unreserved endorsement of the elections as having been free, fair and credible is Zimbabwe’s corrupt and incompetent opposition. Chamisa and his MDC friends have endorsed the elections process as having been free, fair and credible but would not accept Mnangagwa’s election victory. Chamisa claimed that he won the presidential race although he too failed to produce the documentary evidence just as ZEC failed to do the same for the rest of the other results. The truth is MDC have been using legitimacy of Mnangagwa as a negotiating tactic to force Zanu PF to share with them the spoils of the rigged elections. Chamisa and one or two other MDC leaders want Mnangagwa to appoint them ministers complete with the ministerial cars, generous salaries, etc.

Job Sikhala’s statement is just another MDC blunder; the idiots are threatening a violent confrontation with a regime that considers violence its speciality and has the means to deliver a knockout blow every time. Talk of a fool who will abandon the high ground to give the enemy the high ground advantage! I have no sympathy for these blundering MDC idiots, it is the ordinary people, the victims of the MDC blundering incompetence and sell-outs, I feel sorry for.

Nomusa Garikai said...

@ Hillary Ncube
“So, what is your suggestion for a solution you can’t just blame everybody without any solution or suggestion on the way forward. What is important is for you to know who is the enemy and who is friend. We don’t want people who stand on the fence and blame others without anything to offer.”

It is foolish to be boasting of waging a war against thugs like Zanu PF who thrive on violence especially when you know you are not in any position to wage such a war. That argument is valid on its own and the solution is obvious – do not make foolish statements.

Patrick did offer a solution: MDC has accepted last year’s elections were rigged and should not try to rescue Zanu PF by selling legitimacy in return for gravy train seats.

The trouble with some people is that they close their eyes and will not see what is before their own eyes. The challenge is even greater when dealing with the intellectual eyes for it not all that one sees with the physical that is registered and perceived by the mind. And when you combine poor physical eye sight with a dull mind there is double trouble!

The worst enemy for us all to fear is ignorance and the best friend ever is the truth. Not everyone has the intellect to comprehend that!

Blessed are you who see and perceive, who hear and understand. Sadly, Zimbabwe has more than its fair share of those who neither see nor hear and hence the reason the country is in such a mess and, worst of all, has very little hope of ever getting out!

Nomusa Garikai said...

@ Francis Maposa
“That's the truth my brother. These guys from zsdemocrats always criticize without offering any solutions. I for one am tired of Wilbert Mukori, Patrick Guramatunhu or whatever his surname and this Nomusa Garikai they are very good at criticizing. Their analysis are very good and to me they seem to having brains. They criticize both Zanu PF and MDC-A so I wonder which side are you? Come on form your POLITICAL PARTY so that we know which side you are.”

Good day to you, Francis, and thank you for the compliment!

Patrick has offered a solution to Zimbabwe’s political and economic mess – Zanu PF rigged last year’s elections, the regime is illegitimate and should be told in no uncertain term that it must step down. The only people giving Zanu PF some modicum of legitimacy is MDC who are ambivalent or the matter but only as a way of forcing Zanu PF to give them a few more gravy train seats.

Zimbabwe has 130 political parties and, as we can see, that has done nothing to stop the country drifting deeper and deeper into the abyss. The solution is not in having even more of the corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless political parties but to change the country’s failed political system to allow quality leaders to emerge.

Zanu PF has stifled all public debate and democratic competition to create a political system is nothing more that a sewage pond. Our political has become a dangerous game attracting thugs and brain-dead who would will never be elected if elections were free, fair and credible because they have nothing to offer. If we want peace, freedom, justice, human rights, economic prosperity, etc. then we must elect competent and quality leaders and to do that we must first create a democratic environment in which debate and democratic competition are encouraged. We must drain the sewage pond and refill it with clean water.

We should not be surprise we have corrupt, murderous thugs and sell-outs on both sides of the political divide, if you fish in a sewage pond you will catch frogs, crocodiles, etc. but not fish!

Zimbabwe Light said...

Even if Mnangagwa did "prioritise electoral reforms" this will be bolting the stable door after the horse has bolted. Zanu PF rigged last year's elections this is a political reality that must be address by the party stepping down!

Zimbabwe Light said...

Part 1 to 2

@ MDC

Nevertheless, the July 2018 elections further entrenched the legitimacy crisis through a fundamentally flawed electoral process that did not guarantee the will of the people. The 2018 plebiscite did not conform to the provisions of the SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections and the African Union (AU) Declaration on the Principles Governing Democratic Elections. As concluded by the various international observer missions including the European Union Observer Mission, the National Democratic Institute (NDI) / International Republic Institute (IRI) Observer Mission, the Commonwealth Observer Mission among others, the elections failed the credibility test.

The electoral process was marred by irregularities including a highly partisan and captured Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, lack of transparency in the electoral process including on the printing and storage of ballot papers and poor stakeholder engagement by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, a party-State-military complex, partisan conduct of traditional leaders, partisan distribution of food aid, widespread Intimidation, abuse of state resources, biased State media, an Electoral Law that is not aligned to the Constitution of Zimbabwe including the disfranchisement of diasporans and post-election violence where seven unarmed protestors were shot dead by the military.

This flawed electoral process perpetuated the legitimacy crisis and is manifesting in the current socio-economic situation and a deteriorating human rights situation.

The knee-jerk outlaw of the multi-currency system though SI142 has further worsened the situation. The policy was prematurely pronounced in the absence of requisite macroeconomic fundamentals to support a sovereign currency including a trade surplus, at least 6 months import cover, a healthy capital account, productivity and high capacity utilization, single digit inflation, building of confidence and a realistic exchange rate. In the absence of these fundamentals, the policy has resulted in continued increases of prices and inflation, shortages and a high possibility that government will resort to the printing of money to cover its obligations, resulting in a debauched currency.

Zimbabwe Light said...

Part 2 of 2

@ MDC

The MDC has also noted the disappointing moves by the regime in simply changing the names of restrictive laws such as the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) and the Public Order and Security Act (POSA), without changing the content, character and objective of these laws. The Constitution guarantees freedom of the media, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and freedom of association.

The gazetted Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill is a replica of POSA as it retains the vast majority of provisions in the latter including the continued ‘sanctioning' of public gatherings by the police and the use of force to disperse crowds. Similarly, the recently gazetted Freedom of Information Bill as part of the four bills that will replace AIPPA fails to give effect to the letter and spirit of the right to information as enshrined in Section 62 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe. The Bill has striking similarities with the repealed AIPPA including a host of limitations to the right to information such as limitation on information pertaining to government borrowing. The Bill is also not in line with international best practice including the African Union Model Law on Access to Information.

Whilst it is a fact that Zanu PF has blundered and is only dragging the nation deeper and deeper into the abyss it is also equally true that MDC has wasted many opportunities to get the country out of the mess.

“The opposition MDC went into the Government of National Unity (GNU) between 2009-2013 without a plan and failed to utilise the opportunity, new party leader Nelson Chamisa has admitted,” reported New Zimbabwe.

“While the MDC has consistently claimed glory for stabilising the economy, after then party leader Morgan Tsvangirai joined arch-foe and ex-President Robert Mugabe following inconclusive elections in 2008, Chamisa said the opposition went into government “sat and ate.”

“Chamisa was speaking at the launch of the opposition’s latest policy blue-print titled Return to Economic Recovery, Legitimacy, Openness and Democracy (RELOAD) in Harare vowing never to repeat the same mistake.

“We got in the inclusive government and just sat there, spent five years in there. We came out without doing anything.

“We will not do that, dialogue must have timelines that are very clear, the international community must tick us, mark us on the boxes,” said Chamisa.

Everyone with half a brain knows that MDC will never get even one reform implemented this time just as happened before, all they want is a chance to get back on the gravy train.

The only viable way forward is for Zanu PF to step down, the regime is illegitimate since it was born of a rigged elections, to create the political space for the appointment of an interim administration that will entrusted to implement the reforms leading to free, fair and credible elections. The one party that is hold this process up is MDC with their posturing and gimmicks!