Tendai Biti goes to the river and back again on Morgan
Tsvangirai, calling his former party president an “illiterate dictator”.
“His problem is that he is structurally weak and has turned
himself into an illiterate dictator in the mould of Mobutu Sesse Seko and that
is the horrible part of all this. It is a sad day for democracy,” said Biti in
an interview with New Zimbabwe.
“He has confirmed the same hubris we have all been accusing
Robert Mugabe (President) of and because he realises he is a weak individuals
thinks plastering this over though a dictatorship will help him.”
One has only to look at Tsvangirai’s track record of failures
and blunders ever since he emerged on the public stage as the leaders of the
MDC. Not that he ever achieve anything even in his previous role as Secretary
General of ZCTU.
The former USA Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Chris Dell, 2004 to
2007 called Tsvangirai a “flawed and indecisive character” in private report
back to Washington but leaked and published in Wikileak. The Ambassador came to
that conclusion after meeting Tsvangirai a handful. Of course time was to prove
the Ambassador right time after time as our Hamas crude missile blundered from
pillar to post.
Mr Biti has known Tsvangirai since the formation of the MDC
in 1999 (assuming he had just arrived from Mars and therefore did not know him
before then). What boggles the mind here is did it take Biti until 2014 to
finally realise that Tsvangirai was an “illiterate dictator”?
The greatest blunder for which the nation and history will
never ever forgive Tsvangirai and his MDC friends is the failure to implement
the democratic reforms. The party had the majority in parliament, the backing
of SADC and had a five-year window of opportunity to implement the reforms. And
yet not even one reform was implemented. Not even one draft proposal was ever
tabled in parliament. Not one!
It is nonsense to hold Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC leader
alone, responsible for this serious dereliction of one’s duty and betrayal of
the people. After all one did not expect an “illiterate dictator” to draft any
constitutional reform; he did not even know where to begin. The nation expected
those around him, like Mr Tendai Biti, himself a lawyer by profession to draft
such proposals.
There is nothing to suggest that anyone in any of the two MDC
factions tabled any democratic reform proposal. Indeed all the MDC leaders came
out with guns blazing in support of the weak and feeble Copac constitution
including Tendai Biti. They promised the people the new constitution would
deliver free, fair and credible elections and so people should vote for it in
the March 2013 referendum. And so the nation did and passed the new
constitution with a massive 95% yes vote.
10 comments:
@ Conrad Nyamutata
Could not agree with you more that Zanu PF loyalty to the great leader is born out of fear and relevance other than to add that it is all misplaced in that, in the long run, the individuals always end up losing the very favours they had hoped to secure by all the grovelling. I will use the example of the late Nathan Shamuyarira rather than someone like Shuva Mahofa; the former had some intellect and was therefore expected to sass things out for himself whilst the latter is just an empty vessel which tyrants like Mugabe would happily fill with nonsense.
Nathan Shamuyarira is the father of Zimbabwe’s corrupt and “Zanu PF is always right” brainwashing mentality id the country’s public media. Of all people Shamuyarira must have known of the importance of freedom of expression and a free media in the estab-lishment of a free and functional democratic society. He disregarded the good of the country to appease Mugabe out of fear of the tyrant and selfishness.
He lived the last ten years of his life in abject poverty, showing that he had been thrown off the ruling elite top table and therefore no longer gained anything from the corrupt and oppressive system.
By helping Mugabe create the Zanu PF dictatorship Shamuyarira and all the other Zanu PF leaders did not secure for themselves a better live as the whole nation has suffer under the tyrannical rule and corruption has impoverished us all.
@ Kurauone Chihwayi
"All these people are not in politics for a living but for the genuine love of their country; a country trashed and reduced to a shell," you say.
If any of these individuals have been in politics for selfish gain in the past and are today, would they or you say so? So why are you telling us what is therefore clearly a lie! We all these people and many of them were involved in the decision to do nothing about the reforms because Mugabe had bribed them and they did not want to upset him!
@ Obert Gutu
With Obert Gutu as new MDC-T spokesman we can look forward to a lot of double Dutch! This is the first of many instalments to follow.
Gutu denies the recent MDC constitutional amendments have concentrated all power in the hands of one individual, the president.
"The relevant principle that was actually followed was that of giving the authority that goes with the responsibility placed on the President of the party to the incumbent, thus correcting the anomaly in the old constitution which held the President responsible for matters that he had no power over," Gutu said.
If the anomaly was making the president responsible for matters over which the Secretary General had the authority then why not correct the anomaly by giving the latter responsibility too if you really cared about separation of power.
@Business transaction
Yes Zimbabwe Social Democrats is a political party but unlike other parties we have decided to focus all our energy on getting the Zimbabwe populous to understand the critical importance of the democratic reforms as the pre-requisite for free, fair and credible elections and good governance.
If the people had understood the importance of the reforms then they would have never elected the MDC, a bunch of corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent individuals, in the first place. Even if they had, the people would have forced MDC to implement the reforms.
We in the ZSD believe that there will be other opportunities to implement the reforms but unless the peo-ple themselves comprehend the critical importance of the reforms those opportunities will be lost just as the opportunities to do so during the GNU were wasted.
The ZSD resolved that the party will not take part in any Zimbabwean elections until the democratic re-forms are implemented first. We will remain completely focused on educating the electorate of the reforms and build the head of pressure to get them implemented.
The net is closing in on Jabulani Sibanda; in the past every Zanu PF who wanted the ordinary Zimbabwe-ans in their area gagged the called on Sibanda to do the dirty work of intimidating and terrorising the people.
Of course Sibanda was right to say Grace was assuming presidential way above her station was nothing short of a "bedroom coup". Everyone could see that but no one dared to say it loud. The very fact that it was true and Mugabe was ashamed to admit it all made the tyrant even more furious and since he could not take his revenge on Grace, he did not dare, he took the sledge hammer to kill the mosquito, Sibanda. But because Sibanda has been at the forefront of terrorising others today the table have turned.
Today the system has gone full circle; it is Sibanda who is being gagged and terrorised and the public can-not help but say it serves him rights.
Chawakadya chamuka Comrade Sibanda!
THE Danish government is ready to engage and normalize ties with Zimbabwe provided the country addresses human rights and governance issues as well as compensate white farmers who were disposed of their land during the land reform program, a visiting Danish minister said Thursday.
For the ordinary people of Zimbabwe, we are specifically demanding the implementation of all the democratic reforms necessary for free, fair and credible elections. Do that and nothing would please us more than to have all normal relationships restore with Denmark, the EU and the whole world!
@Muoni
Mugabe has been clever to pick a fight with the British and co-opt everyone into it, forcing them to take sides. Every time the ordinary Zimbabweans talk about their basic human rights including the right to a meaningful vote and the right to life itself Mugabe brings up the land issue.
The tyrant accuse the British and the West of demanding free, fair and credible elections because they want to see regime change. And so he is justifying all the dirty tricks he has used to ensure there was no regime change on the pretends that he is hitting the British and the west. The fact that we ordinary Zimbabweans are the ones being denied our right to elect a government of our own choosing has become a side issue of no consequence.
The truth is denying the people the meaningful vote has indeed been the big issue here because even before the farm invasions in 2000 and the west imposed sanctions in 2002 Zanu PF had never held free, fair and credible elections. But it is amazing how many people in Zimbabwe and outside have been taken in by this Zanu PF trickery.
The right to free, fair and credible elections is an absolute right and not a conditional one to be enjoy subject to the west lifting sanctions against Zanu P, etc. Those who have failed to see this tranchilla trap soon found themselves tangled up and defending historic white colonial policies over which they had no say and having accepted the linkage between the land issue and the blacks’ right to a free vote would find it impossible to separate the two again.
“It is high time that we, as a country, focus on making the local diamond industry benefit and transform the lives of the ordinary citizens,” said the 90-year-old veteran leader.
Up to now the nation has not seen very little of the diamond revenue because of the rampant corruption with you, Mugabe, getting as much as $2 billion in 2012 alone according to Canada Africa Partnership report! Are you saying your treasure chests are full "it is high time" the nation benefited from the diamonds too?
Do you, R G Mugabe, have any power to stop corruption and looting by those around you, especially your power crazy and shopaholic wife? Since the "bedroom coup", as Jabulani Sibanda so aptly and bravely named it, it is Grace who has told you what to do on all important matters concerning the party and government and you have slavishly done it.
@Dumbu
Since the bedroom coup, he knew were the diamonds loot was going; he was pocketing $2 billion a year according to a Canada Africa Partnership report! But now it is Grace who calls the shots and there is no doubt that she will not want to lose a dollar of the loot.
Mugabe is just saying that as part of the Zanu PF "suffer today for a glorious and bright tomorrow". The nation has waited for 34 years for this glorious and bright tomorrow that is always just over the horizon. However looking back we can see that all our todays have been progressively worse than our yesterdays and yesteryears; things are get worse and not better.
@ Whichfool
I am talking of ordinary black Zimbabweans why are you talking about the British or EU and never about the black Zimbabweans as if they are minors and the British are their guardians!
I am a black Zimbabwean and I demand to be heard and will be heard. Just because Mugabe bribed and bamboozled Tsvangirai and MDC you Zanu PF idiots think you can do that with everyone. Mark my words, the democratic reforms will be implemented before the next elections!
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