Tendai Biti blasts
Mugabe describing the regime as “clueless and mediocre” and yet two years ago
the same Tendai Biti described the tyrant as “unflappable and father of the
nation”.
Mr Tendai Biti was the
country’s highflier Minister of Finance in the 2009 GNU enjoying the luxuries
of Zimbabwe’s post-independence legendary gravy train. In a July 2012 interview
Minister Biti talking of having afternoon tea with “His Excellence The Right Honourable
President Robert Gabriel Mugabe!” The Minister, like many of his fellow MDC leaders
was very impressed by Mugabe and his leadership qualities were “unflappable”.
“The economic figures
are not looking good. What is worrying is the gross lack of leadership. The
current Zanu PF government is clueless and mediocre. It is arrested by inertia
and they do not care,” Tendai Biti now tells us.
“The Zanu PF government
has become a robber economy and it is not sustainable. The biggest crime that
this government of the day is doing is failing to pay civil servants their
monthly salaries on time.”
So what has changed?
Since Mugabe rigged the July 2013 elections the tyrant has thrown all the MDC
leaders off the gravy train. The few lucky MDC leaders who have been allowed to
keep their MP seats, Tendai Biti is among those lucky few, have been bundled
out of the posh first-class coach into the cattle-coach – mbombera.
Mugabe was smart enough
to know that he needed a sprinkling of opposition MPs if the rigged elections
were to have some semblance of being credible. Besides a clean sweep would have
forced MDC to finally come to their senses and demand the full implementation
of the democratic reforms; allowing them to have a few seats will keep them
interested, fighting like dogs over the chicken bones he throws out for them.
Indeed Mr Biti has expended a lot more time and energy these last ten months
fighting his former MDC colleagues with the murderous intent that he has ever
shown against Mugabe and Zanu PF to position himself as the chief beneficiary
of the chicken bones!
Ten months in the rough
and ready mbombera coach has open MP Tendai Biti’s eyes and the hashish induced
hallucination that made him see Mugabe as unflappable have cleared. Biti can finally
now see the real Mugabe wart and all and the real Mugabe we all know is indeed a
mediocre, the clueless, corrupt and murderous tyrant!
If the greatest crime
this Mugabe regime is committing “is failing to pay the civil servants” then,
Mr Biti that is nothing compared to the greatest crime you and your fellow MDC
leaders in the GNU committed against the good people of Zimbabwe. You lot betrayed
the nation and sold us all to this corrupt and murderous regime for rapturous
time on the gravy train - a piece of calico cloth and handful of beads in my
book.
If MDC had implemented
the reforms as it had promised to and had five years to do it but failed to get
even one single reform implemented; then the July 2013 elections would have
been free, fair and credible and the nation would not this tyrannical Mugabe
regime ruling and ruining our lives, hopes and dream!
Tendai Biti and his
grand coalition are only interested in positioning themselves as Zimbabwe’s
main opposition party in partnership with Zanu PF as the ruling party. He will
never get the democratic reforms necessary for free, fair and credible
elections a pre-requisite for ending and removing this corrupt and oppressive Zanu
PF dictatorship and replacing it with a system of government accountable to the
people.
Calling Mugabe a
mediocre and clueless leader is political posturing and grandstanding, good for
newspaper headlines but does nothing about changing the political reality of
Zanu PF’s position to rig elections.
Tendai Biti, Morgan
Tsvangirai cannot talk of implementing the democratic reforms, the
pre-requisite for free, fair and credible elections, because they can never
explain why they did not implement the reforms when they were tasked and had
the chance to do so during the GNU!
Yes Zimbabwe needs to
remove this clueless Mugabe regime but first we must find competent leaders to
do it, the breathtakingly incompetent Biti and Tsvangirai have failed us once
and will only fail us again!
3 comments:
@ Isu zvedu
The fact that people would acknowledge that Tsvangirai has failed but still hang on to him like a child hanging on to its mother's apron really worries me! It shows that we lack the confidence in chart out a clear road map for the future and conviction to carry it out. We are like the Children of Israel pleased to see the end of decades of slavery but scarred stiff of what lies ahead, so scarred that for the last 34 years we have been camping outside the gates of Egypt!
@ Rwendo
“How to release the grip on power by post-liberation war movements, be it ZANU, MPLA in Angola or FRELIMO in Mozambique?” I agree that is an important question, which I will try to answer.
I think the post-liberation war movements’ grip on power is actually a myth no more real than the owl’s claim that the tufts of feathers on its head are horns! What has been lamentably lacking is the smart blackbird, nengure, in the child’s book, to expose the lie. What has been lacking is the narrative to counter tyrants like Mugabe’s propaganda claims that he and his thugs are heroes and expose them as the ruthless and greed mercenaries that they are.
Of course it nonsense that Mugabe liberated Zimbabwe when all he and Zanu PF did is remove the white regime only to replace it with a corrupt and even more oppressive regime of their own. Mugabe and Zanu PF has systematically denied the people the fair share in the nation’s wealth, the freedoms and human rights and dignities; the very things the people had risked their own life and limb during the civil war for! How can anyone then claim to be their liberator and use that to justify their being the oppressor!
Zimbabwe had its best chances yet to end Mugabe’s iron grip on power if MDC had implemented the democratic reforms. The reforms were designed to dis-mantle the Zanu PF dictatorship brick by brick and use the bricks to build democratic institutions. MDC leaders and the people themselves failed to see the chances and they went begging because, as I said above, they all had a “superficial understanding of the reforms, at best”.
There are countries like Malawi and Zambia that did not have a torturous liberation war before attaining their independence and yet they too have had tyrants and de facto one-party dictatorships and chaos has reigned supreme. We need an electorate that is smart enough to at least appreciate some of the key issues of the day and not to be so shallow they are easily blown hither and thither by empty rhetoric and meaningless slogans. An electorate that cannot distinguish the good from the bad, the bad from the ugly is prone to elect the worse of the lot!
There are going to be many chances to end this Zanu PF dictatorship. As a matter of fact, the regime has dug its own grave and cannot get out as regards the economy; after decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruptions the Zimbabwe economy is the economy is in melt-down and the regime is at sixes and sevens as what to do. We can force the regime to change but again only if we have competent people who can force Mugabe to do so.
No we had many, many chance in the past and will, no doubt many more chances in the future to establish good government; what has stopped us doing so is us, the people’s, failure to understand what is in our own best interests. How can being led by an incompetent individual like Tsvangirai be in our own best interests, and yet some people still want him as leader even after all his blundering failures.
The whole world is keen to see Zimbabwe free and with a stable and competent government and will help us attain that goal but first we must show the world that we are serious about change. Electing failed leader like Tsvangirai is sending a clear message to the world that we are not yet serious about wanting change!
Biti says the West promised Zimbabwe $4 billion if the country held free and fair elections.
Sadly that did not happen and now Biti thinks he can still get the money if there was a Technocrat Take Care government he is proposing as the way forward.
There were times when the West, like many others, was impressed by Tendai Biti but not anymore. Biti has completely failed to grasp the damage MDC's failure to implement not even one democratic reform has done. There was absolutely no excuse why MDC failed, they never even tried! Biti, your name is mud!
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