Another interesting "Question Time" yesterday, Lance (S W Radio Africa). I listened to it twice, it was that good!
I do not know whether you will have Mr Nelson Chamisa as you guest again next week. I would have wanted him to answer the following questions:
1) Does MDC the party of excellence endorse the now universally accepted position that the State President should serve a maximum of two teams?
2) Was it out of fear of leaders clinging to power, for Mugabe 30 years as Head of government and over 40 years as first secretary of Zanu PF, that MDC stipulated the same fixed maximum teams for leaders in its party constitution?
3) It was you, Mr Chamisa, who justified the disregard of the party's constitution, the party's supreme law, to limit the number of terms leaders should serve before the Congress was even held by claiming MDC had "the winning team"! And long behold the same team that has led MDC for the last ten years was retained largely untouched on 1 st May 2011 to lead for a further five, ten, twenty years - who knows! Why should the nation believe MDC not disregard the country's constitution demanding that leaders serve a fixed maximum term too; after all the party will still be led by the same "winning team"?
MDC claim they are a party of excellence. Nothing could be further from the truth. The party has made some unbelievable blunders the worst one of which was getting Mugabe off the hook by entering into this GNU. USA Ambassador Chris Dell was right; Tsvangirai is a "flawed and indecisive character". MDC had a chance to elect some quality leaders during its Congress in Bulawayo but once again the members fluffed it. By re-electing the same mediocre leaders the party is doomed to go down the same path of failure and waste and, as happened with Mugabe and Zanu PF, ruthless repression so many leaders and political parties in Africa have travelled. The challenge before us all now is to ensure that MDC does not take the nation down with it!
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