Finance Minister told a Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries conference that Zanu PF’s failure to produce a clear successor to Mugabe is a serious threat to the country’s political stability and economic recovery.
Zanu PF's succession is only important because MDC has made Zanu PF relevant, against the expressed wish of Zimbabweans and common sense!
Finance Minister Tendai Biti is right to be concerned about the need to settle Zanu PF's leadership issues but only because the Minister and his party MDC have never believed the anyone else other than Zanu PF can rule Zimbabwe. That was why MDC agreed to join Mugabe to form this GNU.
After six months of this GNU it is clear it is not working even to MDC itself. PM Tsvangirai was in SA last week to complain about Mugabe not honouring the GPA. Finance Minister Biti has just said the same thing.
So if the GNU is not working why has PM Tsvangirai and MDC not walked out of the agreement, people have asked again and again? Before the PM Tsvangirai was sworn into office in February he assured the nation MDC will reserve the right to walk out if Mugabe did not accept the power sharing arrangement. It was not long before he changed his tune to “the GNU was the only game in town” committing himself and his party to staying in the coalition no-matter-what! Naturally Mugabe has taken full advantage of that to fall back to his dictatorial way of doing things.
Now Zimbabwe finds itself in this ridiculous position in which the very people – PM Tsvangirai, Finance Minister Biti and the rest of MDC leadership – are complaining about Mugabe and Zanu PF’s failure to honour the terms of the GPA one minute and are saying the GNU is “working” the next!
If MDC walks out of this GNU, Zimbabwe will have to hold fresh elections. That is the one thing Mugabe can not face right now; he cannot unleash his thugs again and without them he will be lucky to get 5% of the popular vote. Minister Biti; who cares who is leading Zanu PF when the party has no popular support and out of power?
MDC is locked into this GNU. The truth is the nation too is locked into this GNU only because we the people choose to follow our leaders blindly like sheep. We know the GNU is not working, and it is us, the people, who are paying dearly for it, we can and should fight to end it bring it down now not tomorrow or next year!
In the 1980s there was a popular joke of the late Vice Simon Muzenda being told that Mugabe had died. Muzande’s response was “Who am I going to deputise?” PM Tsvangirai has accepted that he and MDC will always play the abused junior partner role to Mugabe and Zanu PF. Only Finance Minister is concerned is who MDC will be grooving up to if Mugabe dies. MDC is free to groove all they want; we do not have to groove with them!
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