Tsvangirai and his MDC friends have proven again and again that they are really not fit to govern Zimbabwe and their approval of the agreement with the Chinese to build a College to train CIOs in the art of eaves dropping on the private individuals’ mobile phone and e-mails and to jam private radio station transmissions is the one of the many MDC costly blunders.
Zimbabweans must be amount the most brainwashed people on earth already and MDC, of all people should understand that; unless of course the party’s promise to bring democratic change is just empty rhetoric.
The printing press is credited in being the first technical innovation to bring information, knowledge and ideas to the masses. It is the bedrock of the age of enlightenment. Those nations that embraced freedom of expression and the great opportunity technology provided to educate and enlighten their people progressed in leaps and bounces. New inventions of the telephone, radio, television, computers, internet, etc. have accelerated the flow of information and exchange of ideas and with it development.
Many nations had the great misfortune of having the ruling elite who saw an enlightened populous as a threat to their autocratic rule. These tyrants have used the printing press for their own darker and sinister purpose, to brainwash the populous with propaganda. The Mugabe dictatorship has maintained a strangle hold on the country’s print and electronic media and only undermining the people’s basic right to freedom of association and expression.
Tyrannical regimes have found it a lot more difficult to have the same strangle hold on the internet and mobile phone but where there is a sinister will there is a way. And the Chinese have found all manner of unscrupulous ways to monitor, disrupt and hack into their nationals’ and other nations’ internet and mobile phones traffic. The Zimbabwe government has just signed an agreement worth nearly US$1 billion for the Chinese to build and equip an Intelligence College to train Zimbabwe’s notorious CIO in the art of silencing all democratic voices and brainwashing the public.
Prime Minister Tsvangirai and his MDC party could and should have blocked this trade agreement. How could they agree to something that seeks to undermine further one of the key pillars of democracy – freedom of expression and association? MDC rubber stamped the agreement because “they are part of government and not the opposition”. What a feeble excuse!
MDC is a feeble political party with no political backbone and no solid principles. They will never deliver the democratic changes the nation is dying for!
The sum total of Tsvangirai’s GPA media reform was that the public media was to stop calling him a puppet! That was all he thought and cared about!
Tanonoka Joseph Whande is right in calling on calling on MDC members to replace Tsvangirai and his kitchen cabinet with some competent leaders.
Before independence Zimbabweans had their attention focused on ending colonial rule they did not think of the monster Mugabe who to take over from the white. Today we are concerned about getting rid of Mugabe we are once again ignoring the equally important matter of who will replace him. We can not afford to get rid of a dictator only to replace him with a “flawed and indecisive character” as former USA Ambassador Chris Dell so aptly said of Morgan Tsvangirai. We have to learn to joggle with two balls; we must!
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