Minister Biti says MDC have a
massive dossier of events in the past months where a number of party activities
have been killed, intimidated, assaulted and prevented from registering to vote
in general elections expected in July.
So there has been a lot more
violence taking place than MDC has let on! Until the tragic death of Christpower
Maisiri over the weekend, MDC have maintained the position - the party remains
confident there will be no violence and a repeat of 2008. A position the party
has to hold to get Zimbabwe to vote yes in the referendum.
Even when President Khama of
Botswana contradicted the MDC position pointing out that it would impossible to
avoid a repeat of the 2008 violence since all the elements behind that year’s
wanton violence were still in place. Prime Minister responded by saying he would
seeking a special SADC summit to address that very issue! A move designed to
calm povo; those who are more politically savvy knew this was MDC kicking the
issue into the long grass. If such a summit was to be called SADC would only
repeat what they have said a thousand times already – “Implement the agreed
reforms!”
If the people were to realize
that by voting no in the referendum they would force the bloody reforms to be
implemented at long last and since the election will be held AFTER the reforms
are implemented the nation will be spared the agony of another bloody election.
Of course they would all vote NO. MDC does not want people to realize that and hence
all this elaborate scheming and lying about no repeat of 2008 and hiding
dossiers proving the violence was already happening.
MDC have gone to all this
trouble of lying that there will be no repeat of 2008 and hiding the evidence
of it happening already because they want the nation to vote yes and accept
this Copac Constitution. They are desperate to see this happen because this
constitution is the only thing the party can claim to have done in all its time
in this GNU. MP Douglas Mwonzora, MDC rep on the drafting committee, has
carried it around you would think he was Leonardo De Vinci carrying the Mona
Lisa.
Zimbabwean can either vote yes
in the referendum and these are the consequences:
ADVANTAGES:
a)
save MDC and
MP Mwonzora the few blushes by having their Copac constitution child accepted
by the people
DISADVANTAGES:
a)
we stuck
with this Copac rubbish because it was designed to save Mugabe and the
dictatorship.
b)
we will have
forfeited the last real chance to force the implementation of the reforms
c)
we will
immediately move into elections which because the reforms were not implemented
are bound to be a repeat of 2008; many limbs will be broken and many lives
lost.
d)
whatever
election result we get Mugabe and Zanu PF are bound to have more influence than
they electorally deserve because they were able to use all the dirty tricks
including violence because the elections were not free and fair. Because they
are not democratically accountable, they will continue to do as they please and
so the corruption and oppression will continue as before.
e)
SADC and the
world at large will give up on Zimbabwe ever sorting outing out its political
mess and lift the sanctions and just deal with whatever government is in Harare
regardless of how corrupt and oppressive it happen to be.
A no vote will turn all the yes
vote advantages into disadvantages and similarly with the disadvantages.
ADVANTAGES:
a)
a no vote
will throw away this Copac rubbish and a new democratic constitution will be
written.
b)
A no vote
will force the implementation of the reforms
c)
Elections will
be delayed until a) and b) above are complete and then free and fair elections will
then be held – with a free media, free of violence, etc. There will be no
broken limbs and body bags for the first time ever since Zimbabwe became
independent – guaranteed!
d)
Zimbabwe
will have a truly democratic government accountable to be people and the
difficult task of climbing out of the hell-hole Mugabe landed the nation can
finally start in earnest.
e)
SADC and the
international community who really did not want to see the violence of 2008
repeated will be glad to see the Zimbabwe crisis resolved and they will do
their best to help the country get back on its feet.
Disadvantages:
a)
MDC and MP
Mwonzora will blush to see the rubbish Copac constitution rejected
Minister Biti told journalists
MDC will send the dossier to SADC with yet another request for a special SADC
summit to discuss Zimbabwean’s worsening political violence.
“Events in the country are
degenerating into what happened in 2008. SADC must act now to prevent the
escalation of violence,” Minister Biti said. “All the outstanding issues must
be implemented before the elections.”
Yeah it is all tediously familiar.
Of course if the people vote yes which is still what MDC want them to do the
nation will move into election mode and none of these “outstanding issues” will
be serious considered. This is MDC doing what they do best; referring the
problem to SADC knowing fully well the problem is the party’s own making so
they can fool the gullible into believing problem was caused by SADC but they
are now taking over and will have it sorted! Thus MDC is once again stringing
the people along making them believe the violence of 2008 will not be repeated
and so they should vote yes in the referendum confident this will be sorted
soon thereafter.
Mugabe will no doubt be
telling his thugs that they must hold their horses until after the referendum.
Mugabe will be doing a lot more than blush if the no vote was to win the day;
he and Zanu PF will be finished!
It is now boiling down to
whether the people are smart enough to see the violence is not going to stop,
they can see all the evidence of the violence everywhere with their own eyes;
or they chose to accept the lies and empty assurances from MDC and follow the
party blindly and vote yes in the referendum!
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