Dr Richard Morgan
Tsvangirai will be in UK and will present a paper at Chatham House, London
tomorrow followed by some public rally and dinner in Birmingham. Some MDC members,
backing the MDC renewal splinter group led by Tendai Biti, are planning to
stage peaceful demonstration(s) against the MDC-T leader.
“Members of the Zimbabwean community especially
those who are MDC members have genuine questions that need answers from Tsvangirai,”
said a spokesperson of those behind the demonstration(s).
“The members in the UK
still remember the misappropriated funds, the corrupt handling of elections
which led to the fielding of a controversial team in the 2013 national elections.”
French Connection UK (fcuk) me! Are these really the burning questions of our
time?!
Do any of these would-be
demonstrators not know that the national elections were rigged? Between you and
me and the brick wall, they do; it is just the full ramifications of the rigged
elections have not sunk in yet. No, not really.
The demonstrators are
bitter that MDC candidates, cheated in the MDC primary, should have been the
ones blatantly cheated by Mugabe and Zanu PF in the 31st July 2013 national elections.
They do not mind that Mugabe rigged the national elections denying the whole
nation a meaningful vote but they are furious that a handful, 10% at most, of
the MDC parliamentary candidates’ party-primary selections were contested.
The fact that most of
those “controversial” MDC candidates plus many others beside went on to lose
the elections, cheated, in what has become a monumental vote rigging scandal of
our time have all been water off a duck’s back to the MDC demonstrators. It is
the denial of the free vote of the supporter of the handful of cheated MDC
candidates that matters and not the denial of the free vote on millions across
the land!
Our MDC demonstrators
are the quintessential group who would talk endless about the side issues
without ever bring up the real big issue, the elephant in the room. The demonstrators
are chaffed with themselves that they have had the courage to stage the demo at
all; a monumental achievement for these MDC supporters schooled to follow
leaders without ever asking a question.
Having mastered the
courage to stage a demonstration against the former leader has left the
demonstrators mentally drained they could not think of a single hard-hitting question
in the face of all the big blunders Tsvangirai has made, the most obvious and
serious one being why MDC failed to implement the reforms.
MDC had the majority in
parliament and in cabinet and five years to implement the reforms necessary for
free, fair and credible elections. And yet not even one reform was implement
and thus allowing Mugabe to blatantly rig the vote!
In failing to implement
the reforms Tsvangirai proved beyond all doubt that he was corrupt and breathtakingly
incompetent; get rid of him. How can anyone in their right mind still think,
even now with the benefit of hindsight, such a man can still be trusted to lead
the nation is itself a measure of just how shallow the person is.
Demonstrating about
irregularities in MDC-T’s party primary elections is like fussing about the
ticks on the elephant’s back. Kick the elephant out of the room and the ticks,
flies and dandruff will go with it!
What is disappointing
about these MDC renewal demonstrators is not only have they failed to pick the
real big burning issue worthy of the public demo, the failure to implement the
reforms; the MDC renewal is itself founded on a falsehood. On this issue and
many others blunders MDC has made, the leaders in the renewal team are as much
to blame as Tsvangirai and those around him.
Implement the reforms
was not a one day or one week affair but covered a period of five years; so no
one in MDC can honestly say they were no aware that no reforms were being
implemented. They were all aware or should have been aware if they had been paying
attention.
The decision to go ahead
and take part in the elections with no reform was also a collective leadership
decision as MP Samuel Sipape Nkom, one of the renewal team leaders, has
admitted. “The whole world advised us not to get into the elections without reforms,”
he said.
So if those MDC
supporters backing the renewal team are real serious about leadership “renewal”
then they must they must not just kick the one elephant, Tsvangirai, but the
whole herd of elephants; Biti, Mangoma, Ncube, Coltart, Eddie Cross, the lot! For
they have all proved beyond all doubt that they are corrupt and breathtakingly
incompetent.
Frankly, all MDC
supporters need a kick in the backside; if they had not followed Tsvangirai blindly
like sheep over the years then the reforms would have been implemented. We
would have had free and fair elections and not be in this mess!
Maybe I should stage a one-man demo against the MDC renewal
demonstrators; of all the many burning questions to ask Tsvangirai why ask the
stupid ones only?
9 comments:
Mr Makusha Mugabe is getting carried away here. I too read the New Zimbabwe article, but found nothing "salacious" in there.
Whilst I found little value in MDC renewal group asking Tsvangirai about MDC rigged primary elections given that many MDC candidates went on to lose the national elections because Mu-gabe rigged the vote. It would have made more sense to ask Tsvangirai to explain why MDC did not implement the reforms which would have stopped Mugabe blatantly rigging the July 2013 elections.
Still, I think the renewal team have a democratic right to hold the demonstration and ask Tsvangi-rai any question – even when the questions are irrelevant.
Maybe Mr Mukusha Mugabe would care to explain why MDC failed to implement the reforms, given he is so protective of Dr Tsvangirai and his high position in the party?
@ Ryton Dzimiri
I once read an article of how everyone in the tyrannically ruled USSR had become a little tyrant themselves modelled after the country’s tyrant. Even the park attendants would routinely ask members of the public to get off a park bench, just to rub it in that in the park they ruled from on high!
It is a great pity that many Zimbabweans are all little tyrants in the image of Mugabe, especially the war vets and Zanu PF youths who have been terrorizing the nation! Ending this culture is not going to be easy!
@ Brian
For you to be saying than the elections were rigged because the electoral “process was militarised” only goes to show, even now, how you have completely failed to understand what the reforms were about.
Of course the process was militarized that was why MDC should have implemented the reforms way before the elections. The reforms were meant to end Zanu PF’s influence and control of the Army, Police, Judiciary, media, etc. These reforms were identified during the GPA and it was agreed they were necessary for free and fair elections and stop a repeat of the disputed 2008 elections.
The very fact so many MDC supporters did not have a clue what the reforms were about throughout the GNU years is unforgivable. How can we expect to have a healthy and functioning democracy if millions of the elec-torate are so ignorant they did not even know what democratic changes were required. For years they have all been screaming “Chinja! Chinja!” (Change! Change!) but with no idea what changed they wanted.
Even now, with the benefit of hindsight, millions of MDC supporters still do not have a clue what the reforms were about, as you yourself have just demonstrated. Of course one despairs!
The fact that the MDC leaders failed to implement the reforms and thus allowed Mugabe to rig the elections because they were corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent is a great national tragedy. Of course it will be an unforgivable act of folly if the nation was to elect the same breathtakingly incompetent individuals into a position of trust and responsibility.
In the case of Tsvangirai, like you, he clearly did not understand ere about and even now he still does not have a clue. In other words besides being corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent Tsvangirai is really a village idiot too. And people like you still want him to play any role in future?
The depth of your own incompetence and total inability to comprehend even the most basic issues is astonishing! No wonder the country is in a mess; with voters like you, what chance the nation have of accomplishing anything that makes sense!
@ Brian
Let us just follow your line of argument; that all the reforms necessary for free and fair elections were in the Copac constitution including the reforms forcing the military out of politics and making ZEC independent. You have stated and so has Tsvangirai that the 2013 elections were militarised and that ZEC was not independent.
Well it is clear then that the Copac constitution, for whatever reasons did not deliver free and fair elections as was intended.
It was clear before the elections that the elections were not going to be free and fair and hence the reason SADC and the international community argued MDC NOT to take part in the elections but, of course, MDC paid no heed.
Tsvangirai and MDC insisted that Copac would deliver free and fair elections and maintained that position until midday 31st July 2013, the day of the voting, when it finally dawned on them that the elections were being rigged.
You need to deal with the facts; Tsvangirai and MDC had five years to make sure they imple-mented the reforms necessary for free, fair and credible elections. They failed to get even one reforms implemented; not one.
When you have been given a get out of jail card and you do not use it; it is nonsense to talk of the jail’s high walls and razor fence because you did not need to scale the walls, that is the point you have completely missed here! I will tell you why you have missed it; you are hardwired to follow a leader and never to ask and question. Even when the leader has made monumental blunders you refuse to see reason because you cannot think.
Man is supposed to be a creature of reason, endowed with a discerning mind to know right from wrong, but clearly not people like you and the hundreds of thousands of the MDC herd out there. Your human brain has reverted to the animal default setting – hard wired and there is no room to think or reason. You gut instinct right now is to defend and follow Tsvangirai regards of the fact that he has proven beyond all doubt to be corrupt and incompetent.
Zimbabwe is in this political and economic mess because of it failed leaders, but those are the ears of the hippo we see. The real reason the country is in the mess is because of the body mass of the hippo covered by the muddy water, electorate, the leaders have been able to drive back and forth and whip into a stampede at will. As long as we have such a naïve and gullible electorate we have no chance of ever getting out of this mess. None!
Tsvangirai did not even get one reform implemented in five years and you still say “he did what could be done by bare hands”! Who asked him to use his bare hands, he had the majority in parliament to pass the reform proposals! Yeap, thick as a brick; he failed to get even one reform implement which part of “not even one reform” do you not understand?
@ Tendai Kudzanai
By the same logic Tsvangirai was elected Prime Minister during the GNU to do what he liked and not what Wil-bert Mukori liked. “The problem is Wilbert Mukori wanted Tsvangirai to say (do) what he Mukori wanted yet it was not him Mukori invited (elected), let the writer just ask himself why they (electorate) did not invite (elect) him instead of Tsvangirai,” you would say.
We are talking here about what Tsvangirai failed to do during the five years of the GNU, which is what the people had elected him to do - implement the democratic reforms and end the Zanu PF dictatorship. If he had implemented the reforms we would not be talking of an economic crisis “whose root cause is the rigged elections” as Tsvangirai himself has admitted.
For Tsvangirai to therefore present a public paper talking about Zimbabwe’s political and economic mess and fail to mention that it was his breath-taking incompetence in failing to implement the reforms is a gross misrepresentation of the historic facts. He must be held to account for his incompetence and not allowed to sweep it under the carpet.
You to even suggest this should be treated as some private personal affair in which Tsvangirai is to be allowed to please himself shows that you failed to see the bigger picture. Not only is his incompetence responsible for landing us in this mess but understanding that will stop the nation electing him and entrusting him with the next get out of jail card. If you cannot see that, I do! And I will be damned if I am going to let the nation make that blunder again!
As a nation we really have some amazingly shallow minded people, no wonder we are in this political and economic mess!
@ Dr Tsvangirai
No mention of the fact that the elections were rigged because MDC failed to implement the reforms. How can such a man know the "way forward" when he has completely failed to understand why the great opportunities to move the country forward granted in the GNU ended up in such a disaster?
Dr Tsvangirai, the GNU years failed to deliver free, fair and credible elections, the key to moving Zimbabwe out of this Zanu PF dictatorship and tyrannical rule, because you, Sir, failed to implement the reforms. You had five years to implement the reforms and failed to get even one reform implemented. Not even one!
There only two logical reasons why you failed to get even one reform implemented; one you are corrupt, you allowed the trapping of power, showed upon you by Mugabe, distract you from implementing the reforms. The second reason is that you and your fellow MDC leaders are breathtakingly incompetent; you failed to comprehend the critical importance of the reforms to dismantling the Zanu PF dictatorship.
Having proven beyond all doubt that you, Sir, are corrupt and incompetent you are therefore unfit to map out the way forward much less to be entrusted ever again with the responsibility of holding high public office. The best you should do is not to muddy the country’s political waters by giving totally misleading historic accounts of the GNU years. Just quietly ride into the political sunset in shame for having blatantly betrayed the nation. Thank you.
@ Jackson Magaya
This is not about the individual Tsvangirai, Mukori or anyone else; this is about Zimbabwe, the nation. Keep your eyes fixed on that!
Tsvangirai and his MDC friends were elected into public office and joined the GNU; whether I personally voted for them is immaterial. They were elected on a ticket of bring democratic change and they had the best opportunity the nation has had so far to deliver that change by implementing the reforms. They failed to implement even one reform. Not one!
It was the failure to implement the reforms that has landed this nation into this mess. I, Wilbert Mukori, see it as my national duty to hold MDC to account for their failure. If you think holding public officials to account, especially those who have blatantly betrayed the nation and would do so again if their incompetence is not flagged so that even the mentally challenged like you can see it, makes me an "empty vessel" then I am an "empty vessel"!
There is no bigger fool than him whose ego has the better of him that he would not heed an warning of danger or advise from anyone else because to do so would be to acknowledge that anyone saw what he, the eagle-eyed, missed. Frankly I do not give a monkey about your stupid ego or Tsvangirai’s balloon ego. It is the destiny of the nation that is at issue here; if you cannot see that, I can!
@ Panashe
Implementing the reforms was our get-out-of-jail ticket. It was Tsvangirai not Mugabe who failed to use it. The task here is to make sure the nation makes the next chance to end the Zanu PF dictatorship is used properly, giving Tsvangirai another chance will only show that we, as the nation, failed to comprehend the importance of implementing the reforms and MDC leaders' sheer incompetence in this. You do not see it, I do! It is my duty to make sure that you and thousands of others like you do see that point!
Zimbabwe is not going to get out of this mess as long as we have an electorate is so naïve and gullible they cannot even see not a blundering idiot even with a mountain of evidence of his blunders before them.
@ Gibson
There is more at stake here that defending the ego of Tsvangirai; the nation.
All you care about is covering so the world does not know Tsvangirai for the blundering incompetent leader he is.
The very survival of the whole nation was put at risk because he failed to implement the reforms as he should have done. The truth must be known because it will help the nation making a similar blunder in the future. There is no contest here as far as I am concerned, the survival of the nation is more important that Tsvangirai’s ego. He should have stayed to herding goats and not meddle in matter way above his level of competency!
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