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Simon Allison The Guardian
Former
USA Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Chris Dell, 2004 to 2007 said in a WeakLeak cable
that Tsvangirai "was a flawed and indecisive character". Any thinking
Zimbabwean who had known Tsvangirai agreed with the Ambassador. Indeed the Ambassador
was being very diplomatic; the schooled diplomat speaking.
MDC was formed at a time when the nation was sick and tired of seeing the country going to the dogs and being bully by Mugabe and his thugs. The people were desperate for change. Professor Jonathan Moyo said at one point that Zimbabwe would rather vote for a donkey than vote for Mugabe; that is how desperate the nation was.
Tsvangirai was not a donkey and that was more than enough to get the nation behind him. We know now Mugabe has stayed in power because he was able to outwit Tsvangirai again and again. Tsvangirai has proven to be one of the most incompetent (undiplomatic language but the truth nonetheless) leaders in modern history.
So when you say Tsvangirai “personified everything good about Zimbabwe”, you must be talking of someone else.
“He was tenacious, fearless and determined to challenge the authoritarian one-party state that Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF was intent on creating,” you say. Now that is a lie.
Tsvangirai had one golden opportunity after another to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship but he wasted them all. He was very tenacious in chasing women of ill repute but did nothing to get even one democratic reform implemented. Even the repeated warning by SADC leaders for him to focus on the task of the reforms went in one ear and out the other.
Tsvangirai should have never been allowed to lead the nation; he should have stayed in his rural home in Buhera herding goats. MDC has lost so much credibility, the people will be abandoning the party is drove in the coming months; the party will never win the next elections, especially with Tsvangirai still leading.
So whether Tsvangirai finally goes back to herding goats or hangs on is a matter of indifference. We know we messed up big time by electing him and now we are paying dearly for our folly. The clay pot is broken and cannot be put together.
MDC was formed at a time when the nation was sick and tired of seeing the country going to the dogs and being bully by Mugabe and his thugs. The people were desperate for change. Professor Jonathan Moyo said at one point that Zimbabwe would rather vote for a donkey than vote for Mugabe; that is how desperate the nation was.
Tsvangirai was not a donkey and that was more than enough to get the nation behind him. We know now Mugabe has stayed in power because he was able to outwit Tsvangirai again and again. Tsvangirai has proven to be one of the most incompetent (undiplomatic language but the truth nonetheless) leaders in modern history.
So when you say Tsvangirai “personified everything good about Zimbabwe”, you must be talking of someone else.
“He was tenacious, fearless and determined to challenge the authoritarian one-party state that Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF was intent on creating,” you say. Now that is a lie.
Tsvangirai had one golden opportunity after another to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship but he wasted them all. He was very tenacious in chasing women of ill repute but did nothing to get even one democratic reform implemented. Even the repeated warning by SADC leaders for him to focus on the task of the reforms went in one ear and out the other.
Tsvangirai should have never been allowed to lead the nation; he should have stayed in his rural home in Buhera herding goats. MDC has lost so much credibility, the people will be abandoning the party is drove in the coming months; the party will never win the next elections, especially with Tsvangirai still leading.
So whether Tsvangirai finally goes back to herding goats or hangs on is a matter of indifference. We know we messed up big time by electing him and now we are paying dearly for our folly. The clay pot is broken and cannot be put together.
As
for Tsvangirai he will always be known as one of the most incompetent
leaders in human history but that is what he is and no flowery flattery and
lies can ever change that!
8 comments:
@ Batanai
What "western agenda" are you wittering about?
The ordinary people of Zimbabwe wanted regime change because they were sick and tired of the corrupt and oppressive Mugabe dictatorship. They were so desperate for change they ended up electing a blundering idiot like Tsvangirai. He did not deliver the change because he is incompetent and not because the people ever changed their minds about wanting change!
The Zimbabwe economy is heading for a catastrophic crash and will take the Mugabe regime with it. The people will have the regime change regardless of Tsvangirai's betrayal.
@ Zimboi
If Tsvangirai was a puppet of the West then it must have been a frustrating time for the West because as soon as he got the Prime Minister's car and title it was Mugabe who was pulling the strings.
Mugabe had Tsvangirai harassing the West telling them Mugabe had changed and they should lift the sanctions and give the tyrant money. The West knew these were all lies Tsvangirai had been duped - it did not take much to dupe him. The ignored Tsvangirai and send back with an empty begging bowl!
It was the people of Zimbabwe who elected Tsvangirai and not the West. Of course Mugabe did not want to acknowledge that the people did not want him anymore and labeling Tsvangirai a Western puppet suited his narrative and justified his ruthless denial the people the free vote and rigging elections; that was the only way he was going to stay in power.
Tsvangirai's own breath-taking incompetence helped to make the puppet mud stick; he has never said or done anything original but blundered from pillar to post just one would expect from a puppet would.
Mugabe rigged the elections to stay in power but unless he can rig the economic recovery too; his days in power are numbered. Three decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption have taken their toll; the economy is now in a dangerous nose-dive! No one, not even his Chinese friends have offered to help; Mugabe is seating there with the $27 billion ZimAsset begging bowl mockingly empty.
Without outside help the economy will crash and the pilot and his corrupt crew will perish; they is no way out for them! Tsvangirai's incompetence save Mugabe but only for a short while; there is no delaying his demise now.
@ Dr Buddvice
It seems you do not know what you are talking about; you are just blundering along like the wildebeest!
"This should not be an emotional case but a factual case," you say.
It is a fact that Tsvangirai failed to get even one single democratic reform implemented. Not one.
It is also a fact that because none of the reforms had been implemented, Mugabe was able to blatantly rig - note not just rig but to do so blatantly - the 2013 elections.
There is a mountain of evidence to show that Tsvangirai is breathtakingly incompetent and in you are failing to see that reality explaining to you is a waste of time. If this has been ex-plained here and in other forum one it has been said a thousand time. You are just one of those people who see and never comprehend.
There are millions of other Zimbabweans out there who, like you, voted for Tsvangirai and still believe in him today but only because the political system has deliberately kept them ig-norant. They had wholehearted believed Tsvangirai when he promised them that the elections would be free and fair but when this did not happen they started scratching their heads and many of them are still scratching their heads.
They did notice that Tsvangirai had lied to them about free and fair elections. All they want is someone to explain to them how Tsvangirai had failed to implement the reforms necessary for free and fair elections, etc. They will understand.
You have been presented with a mountain of evidence of Tsvangirai’s incompetence but failed to comprehend the evidence because you are stupid; your brain is dead and it can no longer respond to the stimulus of reason. The ignorant person, on the other hand, will com-prehend the evidence because their brain is very much alive and will respond to reason.
Politicians like Tsvangirai and Mugabe have deliberately denied the people a free media and freedom of expression and the stimulus of reason. Many of our people are ignorant, yes but that is not to say they are therefore stupid!
The minute the people comprehend that it was because of Tsvangiriai’s breath-taking incom-petence that Mugabe is still in power, especially the added reality that the tyrant will out fox Tsvangirai again and again because he is so, so breathtakingly incompetent; Tsvangirai’s name will be mud!
It is those willing and able to see the light of reason who will get Zimbabwe out of this mess; you want the light put out because it exposes your stupidity. After 34 years of darkness, the light is flooding the land; unless you blot out the sun, you had better find a hole to hide!
@ Wezhira
Rigging the elections was one thing but keeping all the dirty of how the regime rigged the vote under wraps is proving to be impossible. Have you see the full voters roll? Of course not and you blissfully think that is normal!? Simpletons like you are happy with the results and leave Mugabe and his inner circle o worry about the rest. If the cat should get out of the bag you will know.
Even if Mugabe managed to keep the secretes of the rigged vote; he will not be out of the woods. No, not yet! He has the tough challenge of rigging the economic recovery. He has to fill the $27 billion ZimAsset begging bowl or the economy is heading for a catastrophic crash. Nine months after the elections and he has yet to get a penny in that bowl.
The empty bowl is now mocking him and my oh my has he aged these last nine months! If Mugabe was to drop dead we will all know what killed him – that empty begging bowl!
@ Chenhamo
"I have been economically empowered in my OWN country," you say. Well you are not the only one. People like Philip Chiyangwa, Obert Mpofu, Chombo and many others are multi-millionaires.
The Likes of Cashbert Dube, George Charamba and others may not be millionaires but they too have made a fortune. The real big fish like Mai Mujuru and Mugabe all done very well, she has a $3 billion fortune and his fortune is still a secrete but there is the $20 million Blue Roof mansion and few people can throw $5 million weddings.
So I can just imagine what the size of your fortune must be judging from your blind and men-acing support of Mugabe and his regime.
My fierce criticism of Mugabe stem from the very simple fact that he empowered people like you can the cost of millions now living in abject poverty and by riding roughshod over their hopes and dreams denying them their basic rights including the right to a meaningful vote and even the right to life! There can be no if or but on this; the tyrant and you his cronies must go!
What is unacceptable is that anyone should deny others freedom of expression and a free me-dia so they can be informed and are amenable to reason because only then will man behave like a thinking human being and not a blundering wildebeest. The MDC and Mugabe are equally culpable of millions of our people remaining ignorant in a day and age when the rest of mankind so well informed.
I have said above and on many other occasions that MDC failed to implement democratic reforms one of these reforms is media and freedom of expression.
The many MDC supporters who were singing and dancing in support of Tsvangirai have no idea that it was Tsvangirai's failure to implement the reforms that has kept them ignorant and allowed Mugabe to rig the elections. No one has explain this to them.
The supporters were a sea of red shirts, baseball caps and blank faces. Blanks faces because of ignorance. They were behaving like blundering wildebeest out of ignorance. No one has the right to deny these people knowledge so they too can have meaning to what they do and in their lives and not to be condemned to this meaningless existence.
So what is it exactly you find offensive there; that they are ignorant - I too find that unac-ceptable and all those responsible for it must be held to account?
Or is that you accept that millions of our people should be kept in ignorance what you find offensive is that anyone should point out this tragic reality? So just because you have escaped this fate you want to sweep the problem under the carpet and are angry that I am not doing the same. Well I do not do stupid things nor do I follow stupid people.
Could it be that you accept these people are ignorant and are behaving like wildebeest and you take offense in that being pointed out. You want me to say they are very well informed and their actions are very rational.
Let me make this very clear, there are millions of Zimbabweans who are ignorant out there and have been behaving like blundering wildebeest out of ignorance; those are the people I am fighting for.
I am also aware of hundreds of thousands upstarts like you who have access to information and such therefore be very well informed but are still behaving like blundering wildebeest because they have fatty tissue instead of a functioning brain. Their brain is impermeable to reason.
The more common situation is in fact that these people are not stupid at all they are holding the ignorant in servitude the same way slave-masters held slaves. They are jumping to the defence of the honour ignorant in the same patronizing and selfish spirit slave-masters were outraged that anyone should describe slavery as de-humanizing insisting it was a very health and natural relationship.
No person who has ever enjoyed the full benefits of being lifted out of ignorance would ever want to revert back to that condition no more a freeman would want to be a slave. But just as the freeman would be reluctant to give up his slaves there are too today many who are resist-ing the freeing of others from ignorance.
If anyone is serious about having a good and wholesome democratic government in Zimba-bwe, then they must necessarily be serious about freeing the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans still languish in the darkness of ignorance. We will never have a health and functioning democracy with an electorate conditioned to follow blindly the dictates of a tyrant or an in-competent blundering village idiot.
“In brief, I believe in action. You must work up as young people. There is nothing that is going to be solved in this country without action,” Tsvangirai told the gathering celebrating workers’ day without elaborating on the kind of action he had in mind.
That says it all about Tsvangirai as leader of ZCTU and now MDC; a confused leader who would call for action but has himself no idea what action he wants the people to take.
I can just imagine one of those who had attended the celebration telling their friend; "Tsvangirai called us into action."
"Ah, good! What action?"
"He did not say!"
"S****t! So it was the usual hot air!"
@ Tendai Sakupwanya
There is no question that the GPA was a bad deal; nor that Biti and Mangoma, as the MDC-T chief negotiators, must shoulder the blame for it. However Tsvangirai too must should the blame because as party leader he had the casting vote. The can be no question that as leader Tsvangirai should have known what he was signing onto.
Indeed, Tsvangirai must should the greater responsibility for the bad deal because as the MDC leader he wielded the veto. Many key issues in the GPA were taken out of the hands of the negotiators and decided by the three party-leaders, Mugabe, Mutambara and Tsvangirai.
"Biti knows that in life everything has consequences," you have said. "He cannot defect from the MDC and still claim immunity from being recalled."
You are absolutely right in both points; there consequences for everything we do in this life, rewards for doing the right thing and punishment for doing wrong. Yes Biti and the others rebels MPs are not immune to being recalled.
Your analysis is incomplete in that it completely failed to acknowledge Tsvangirai as the one greatest at fault and to say what punishment he too must face.
Tsvangirai's punishment was that he was to resign as leader for his role in leading the MDC into such a blunder. Biti and Mangamo's rebellion was a result of Tsvangirai's refusal to face up to the consequence of his own failed leadership. Was the rebellion justified in the face of Tsvangirai's stubbornness? Yes it was.
Tendai Sakupwanya is on the Tsvangirai camp and this whole articles reeks of bias. This is no more than an adult who denounces the children's fight but goes on to punish one but will not punish the other, the one who started fight. The adult should not gloat about as having condemned bad and dispensed of justice - there was no justice in what they have.
People like Sakupwanya whose blind loyalty to Tsvangirai is not helping the nation’s search for a way out of this political mess. They are mudding the political waters.
Tsvangirai has proven to be breathtakingly incompetent, that is an irrefutable historic fact. And the whole country is going to pay dearly for his incompetence. Of all people he too must suffer the consequences of his incompetence, stepping down from the leadership position is the very least he should do.
To even suggest that Tsvangirai should stay in power regardless of his serious shortcomings should the complete lack of common sense. Indeed it is this foolishness that got the nation into this mess in the first place. And, of course, the nation has no chance of getting out of the mess as long as it continued to continue to do foolish things!
“Thank God MDC is not in power!” concluded Tendai. That takes the biscuit; the nation’s future is grime, millions are living in abject poverty and despair and hundreds of livings are being lost unnecessarily. All this misery and suffering could have been avoided if MDC had implemented the reforms and stopped Mugabe rigging the elections. And this idiot is thanking God for MDC’s incompetence! How stupid is that?
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