Tsvangirai is an indecisive leader, a glass full of milk with a spoo of sewage uniting with Sikhala will make it two glasses of sewage!

“You can tell where the lion has been from those huge paw-prints!” Someone once said after reading Sir Isaac Newton’s paper of the puzzling question of the day.

 

The question of how to end the Zanu PF dictatorship has certainly engaged the minds of the people of Zimbabwe for the last fifteen years. The nation was left in a state of shock after Mugabe blatantly rigged the July 2013 elections. The shock quickly turned into panic when it became clear that to finance the vote rigging exercise the tyrant had literally bankrupted the nation.

 

In the months since the stolen elections there has been one story after another of rampant corruption in government own/controlled institutions like ZBC, PSMAS, ZESA, Air Zimbabwe, City Councils, etc. Apparently high ranking managers in these institution have been paying themselves scandalous salaries and allowances with Cuthbert Dube the CEO of PSMAS for example reportedly earning as much as $ 500 000 a month. The corruption has been so bad that the institution were so cash strapped they could not pay for the day-to-day running of these institutions including paying the wages of the lowly paid staff.

 

The reckless spending to finance the vote rigging exercise placed a huge strain of Zimbabwe’s already weakened financial position the rampant corruption turned a bad situation into an impossible one.

 

Since the elections even more companies have closed down sending unemployment which has been seating at 80% plus for the last five years into stratosphere. Not even the Chinese whom Mugabe had hoped would have offered a penny to fund the regime’s $27 billion ZimAsset recovery plan. So on the economic front the national economy is facing economic collapse and crash as Mugabe has clearly run of ideas on how to stop the corruption which he himself and all his fellow Zanu PF leaders have been the chief beneficiaries.

 

The only way to stop the economic crash is by removing the illegitimate Mugabe regime and to replace it with one that has electoral mandate from the people and commands international respect. The nation has been casting its eyes to look for an alternative political leadership to take over from Mugabe and Zanu PF. Tsvangirai and MDC would have been the national alternative but not this time.

 

After the debacle of the July 2013 elections Tsvangirai and MDC have been toxic! It was Tsvangirai’s failure to get even one democratic reform implemented that made it so easy for Mugabe to blatantly rig the elections. His shameless effort to hang on to the leadership of MDC after such breath-taking incompetence on his part has only served to underline just how clueless he is.

 

Tsvangirai has certainly not left Sir Isaac Newton’s huge paw prints on the Zimbabwe political landscape but more like the urine stained scampering of a rat.

 

Apparently mice and rats have no control of their bladder and leak urine all the time. Shine ultraviolet light and their tracks glow like fluorescent road markings. A hovering harrier, able to see the ultraviolet light, can see the trail of the mouse or rat; the fresh the urine stains the brighter the glow!

 

Tsvangirai is incompetent he, sadly he does not know that and worse still cannot do anything about it; it is the people who should know better that I am very disappointed with.

 

“All this talk of former MDC founding members like Job Sikhala and other coming be to form a united opposition is good for Zimbabwe’s political future,” remarked a friend of mine the other day.

 

One can always tell from the remark people make or question they ask whether they have been following what has been happening. Sadly my friend clearly showed that he did not have the foggiest idea what has been happening.

 

As far back as 2004/5 former USA Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Christopher W Dell, said in a cable back to Washington that Tsvangirai was “a weak and indecisive character”. The cable was not meant for public consumption but only became so after it was leaked and published in WikiLeak.

 

Of course Ambassador Dell was right; if Tsvangirai has proven him right once he has done so a thousand times. Indeed the MDC leader’s failure to get even one democratic reform implemented, for example, proved that he was not just weak and indecisive but breathtakingly incompetent. Ever since Mugabe gave Tsvangirai the $4 million to build his Harare mansion the tyrant had Tsvangirai is his back pocket and thus proving that Tsvangirai is also corrupt.

 

The way Tsvangirai has changed the MDC constitution so he can extend his term as MDC leader and has used violence and other dirty tricks to silence and eliminate his critics and challengers alike is reminiscent of the things Mugabe has been doing all these years!

 

"If you are from the opposition and you are portrayed in a positive way in the Herald or ZBC then you know that person is now a Zanu PF supporter,“ Tsvangirai reportedly told his supporters at a recent rally. He was accusing MDC Secretary General Tendai Biti after the latter had made the gaff about Zanu PF winning the July 2013 because they had a simpler message which the electorate understood.

 

Of course Mugabe rigged the July 2013 elections and of course they denied rigging and were only too pleased to give Biti top-billing coverage because helped their narrative.

 

Tsvangirai’s hostility with Biti, Mangoma and others stem from their demand for him to step down as president of MDC. His respond is the equivalent of Mugabe calling all his challengers to his autocratic rule “counter revolutionaries”. It shows that Tsvangirai is just as egotistic as Mugabe.

 

“Therefore there is overwhelming evidence,” I concluded my argument with my friend, “to prove that Tsvangirai is ‘a weak and indecisive character’ to use Ambassador Dell’s diplomatic language. There is a mountain of evidence proving that the other leaders in the MDC-T are just as incompetent and corrupt as Tsvangirai; the failure to get even one reform implemented, for example.

 

“The leaders in the other MDC factions and other opposition parties have too proved that they too are incompetent and corrupt.” My friend agreed; grudgingly but still agreed.

 

“MDC lacked quality leaders when it was launched in 1999. The breaking of the party into various factions did not change core issue and the now the factions are coming back together will still not change the core issue – the lack of quality leaders

 

“Consider Tsvangirai as a glass full of milk with a tablespoon of sewage, the rest of his MDC leaders as another glass full of milk with varying measure of sewage contaminant and so with the other factions. Putting them all together will give you a gallon full, yes. I would rather have half a glass of wholesale milk than a gallon full of sewage; for a gallon of milk plus a teaspoon of sewage is a gallon of sewage!”