Professor Welshman Ncube, leader of the smaller MDC faction, says Tsvangirai, leader of the bigger MDC faction, should not be allowed to rule Zimbabwe because he is not educated! Partisan loyalties aside; Tsvangirai would make a hopeless national leader!
Mugabe has seven University degrees but look where he got us!
Tsvangirai has made some serious blunders in his political career. He had educated people like Professor Ncube, when he was a senior member of MDC before the 2005 split, the Lawyer Tendai Biti, etc at his side but that did not stop him making the mistakes. No Zimbabwean worth the salt can honestly say, much more now with hindsight, Tsvangirai is a competent leader.
In 2008 we voted for Tsvangirai and MDC because we were desperate for change. Professor Jonathan Moyo has said, in one of his rare moments of honesty, that Mugabe would lose an election to a donkey; underlining the people's desperation.
Of course Tsvangirai has chosen to ignore the people's desperation, down play his blunders and blow his few achievements as sheer genius. He was drumming his chest like a silverback only last week. However, no amount of spin can change the fact that Tsvangirai is a "flawed and indecisive character" as US Ambassador Chris Dell once said of him. Professor Ncube is attributing Tsvangirai's incompetency to his lack of education. Educated or not Tsvangirai could still have made a good leaders if only he was able to comprehend his own limitations and to accept advise.
Of course, voting Tsvangirai into State House (assuming that he will not make yet another blunder and smuggle Mugabe or someone else in his place as happened in 2008) will meet our immediate need for change. Still we must also consider what happens next. We will want the Mugabe and his cronies to give up the farms, mines and all the other national resources they looted over the years. Get the farms back into full production, for example, is a “must” for economic recovery.
On the political front, those responsible for all the violence and murders must account for their crimes if there is ever to be closure in the upheaval Mugabe brought on the nation.
Tsvangirai has neither the intellect nor the political will to make those tough and necessary decisions! We can get rid of Mugabe and also get a competent leader to get us out of the mess Mugabe landed us if we do not let our desperation to achieve the first task blind us.
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On Tuesday the people of Zambia will elect a new president. The two leading candidates are Banda nad Sata.
I really do not like what I have heard about both Sata and Banda; it looks like the people of Zambia are having to chose a king cobra or a baboon viper knowing fully well both are deadly.
I am from Zimbabwe and we too will have an equally grime choice next year; vote for a ruthless dictator Mugabe or an incompetent Tsvangirai.
I do not know about Zambia but we in Zimbabwe have not done much to encourage better quality leaders to come forward. Our fixation with Mugabe for two decades stopped us seeing him for the tyrant he is and now the same fixation with Tsvangirai is stopping us seeing him for the flawed and indecisive leader he is. The people get the government they deserve, that is both true and tragic!
The Shona have a saying "Chinodzi rasa ndochiri muruoko chirimuropa unofa nacho!" Meaning you can advise some one to throw away what they hold in their hands but not what is in their blood. In our desperate effort to rid ourselves of the cobra we kick a viper when with a bit of effort on our part we could elect someone with common sense at the very least!
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai asks the international community to intervene in Zimbabwe to ensure the next elections are free.
Tsvagirai has the majority MPs in parliament; what has he done to ensure there was democratic reforms for the last three years? Nothing. Now he is calling on the "international community to intervene"? What exactly does he want the international community to do?
Tsvangirai's incompetency as a leader is such a glaringly obvious weakness of the MDC-T there is no hiding it. Mugabe used to call Tsvangirai a puppet and for some known for being indecisive it was ease to see why people readily believed Mugabe. MDC had a chance to change the party's leadership but instead decided to retain the same incompetent individual except for Mudzuri. Tsvangirai in his "wisdom" brought back Mudzuri and a few other "deadwood" beside; just as Mugabe has done.
Meanwhile the Prime Minister’s Office tells Professor Ncube off after the later said Tsvangirai was not suitable to lead the nation. The Professor knows Tsvangirai's incompetency is MDC-T's Achilles heel; he clearly has no intention of making the nation and the whole world forget that. Tsvangirai himself is making Ncube's task that much easier because each time he opens his mouth or does anything no one is left in any doubt how intellectually challenged he is.
Hai, it is no sin or crime to be stupid. But when a stupid person tries to pass himself for a genius, particularly when it is other people who end up paying dearly for his stupidity, that is intolerable!
Signing the GPA was but one of the many stupid decisions Tsvangirai has made. It is high time he did the honourable thing and apologise to the nation and step down as leader of MDC.
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