Tendai Biti is an enigma; painting done by an
idiot with vast areas of splashing of paint and mad violently mixed reflecting
the confusion and hurricane turbulence in the tormented mind of the creator but
here and there, there are spots with the most delicate and angelic brush work
reflecting the rare eye-of the storm calm moments.
Tendai Biti’s political career, as is the case
with the rest of the MDC leaders, will always be dominated by the criminal
waste of time, money and cruel betrayal of the people when the whole MDC
leadership chose to wine and dine with Mugabe and completely forgot why they
were in the GNU. There is simply no excuse why they failed to implement the
democratic reforms necessary for free and fair elections other that they are
corrupt and are breathtakingly incompetent.
Tendai Biti, the enigma he is, has always
shown the glimpse of genius.
“You cannot expect the same mind-set that
created the problems to solve them,” said Tendai Biti. That is one of those
rare moments of genius; sadly the eye of the storm passed only too quickly!
Tendai Biti, Tsvangirai and the rest of the
MDC leaders are now an integral part of the “mind-set that created” this
political mess – specifically allowing Mugabe back into power with all his
dictatorial powers intact when they should have dismantled the dictatorship
when they had the chance to do so during five years of the GNU. Tendai Biti
should take his own advice and accept that he cannot be part of the solution no
more than Mugabe and Zanu PF can be.
If we allowed the same mind-set who landed the
nation into this mess; Mugabe and Zanu PF, and wasted the many opportunities
for us to get out of the mess, Tendai Biti and Morgan Tsvangirai and their
competing MDC factions; to play a part in defining the way out then we will
never ever get out of this mess because they are only interested in yet another
fudge!
6 comments:
@ family of God Pastor Mutendereki
You cannot ever see how Mugabe is turning Zimbabwe into another Somalia and Syria! Unemployment is 85% plus in Zimbabwe, most people have no clean drinking water, corruption is rampant and is sucking the very life out of everyone, etc. The evidence is there before and yet you still cannot see it.
There is no one more cursed than he who has eyes to see but will not even open his eyes; has ears to hear but has fingers in his ears and whose mind has turned into a useless lump of fat, like the fatty tail of a ram, after years of sloth like mental inactivity.
You are just one of those Pastors who have preyed on the suffering Zimbabweans promising them quick heavenly solutions to all the nation’s problems whilst you rob them of the little they have. You are no different from Makandiwa who promised the people economic recovery and then sold them “blessed” apples for $5.00 each. You are nothing more than the vampire-bat whose saliva anaesthetizes its victim not feel the bit so it can feed and infect its victim in peace!
You are very angry, to the extent of using profane language, with anyone who is seeking to end the Zanu PF dictatorship because you do not want to see the suffering to end and your victims to go away! You are not a man of God; you are a hypocrite cashing in on the suffering and misery of the most helpless!
@ Madlinduna
Mugabe and Zanu PF DO NOT have any answers but they will insist they have and that they are the only ones competent to lead. This is the heart of our problem, this is the very essence of why Mugabe rigged last year's elections and all the others before it! We have allowed Mugabe to rule for 34 years now and all he has ever done is made the bad situation worse.
If we are serious about getting out of this mess then we must finally stand up to Mu-gabe and his thugs and tell them in no uncertain terms that they have failed and they must go.
"Imagine telling Zanu Pf that we don’t have a problem with them but the problem is the sun shining direct into our eyes from that position they made us sit on," you say. "They won’t feel attacked personally nor being cornered, but being engaged for an input respectively on the problem substantively." That is just another form of ap-peasement!
The right of all to a meaningful free vote is the very foundation of democracy and good governance those who have accepted the corrupted visions of tyrants like Mu-gabe where the vote is only granted as long as it does not result in regime change have paid dearly for their folly. If elections are held on condition that they do not re-sult in change of regime then there is real no point in holding the elections.
The way out of this mess is that we must put an end to pointless elections; the 2013 elections were completely pointless because Mugabe and Zanu PF blatantly rig the vote. We need the elections held afresh, period! there is no sun shining in my eyes about the rigged elections and there is no negotiating with people who committed high treason either!
@ Chirandu
We should not be too proud to ask for help; your "internal, homegrown, by Zimba-bweans for Zimbabweans" is totally misplaced. We would not be in this mess if we were as smart as you say we are. We have failed and asking for outside help is a very sensible proposition!
We could do with UN help. As for SADC the prospect of Zuma’s blundering again in Zimbabwe’s affairs is unthinkable.
@ Moyokumusha
Mention any money and the interim administration will be swamped by the corrupt and greed whose misrule landed us in this mess in the first place. They are like bug-beetles close the front door and they will try the back door, close that and they will try the window, chimney, every-which-way.
The interim administration will need to implement the reforms and prepare for fresh elections - they will not $3 billion dollars for that only their thinking caps!
@ Rwendo and Isu Zvedu
I agree that a violent end is a real possibility particularly since the people themselves have a great knack for shooting themselves in the leg first whenever a chance to end the crisis in a peaceful way present itself and Mugabe is not one to give up power without being pressured to do so!
The GNU did present the nation with a chance to end the Mugabe dictatorship but few saw it as such and many still fail to see it. The economic meltdown is presenting the nation with yet another chance but, once again, very few people see this. MDC is too busy fighting over a soiled name and the people are cheering one side or the other as if the two are ever going to make any difference.
Meanwhile Mugabe is dragging the nation over the edge of the abyss where there wailing and gnashing of teeth – those with no teeth, a half set will be provided! This will finally spur Zimbabweans to do something to end their suffering and anguish; desperate people do desperate things and so they are more likely to do something that will make their situation even worse, not better!
@ Rwendo
All the points you have mentions are part of the Zanu PF myth. What you are failing to accept here is that if MDC had implemented the reforms Mugabe and Zanu PF would be history. Of course the very fact that you do not believe that the Mugabe and Zanu PF dictatorship could have been dismantled explains why you fail to see the seriousness of MDC's failure in this. How can you blame MDC for something which deep down you never believed it could be done!
Your understanding of democratic change was and still is to this day so superficial it is just another empty slogan! We can talk and debate this issue until the cows come home but as long as the electorate’s understanding of issues of the day remain superficial, at best, this nation is never going to get out of this hell-hole it now finds itself stuck in! Never ever!
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