Gloves are off in a MDC factions punch up to political oblivion!

Yesterday it was Tsvangirai who was battering MDC-Renewal by insisting on recalling all their MPs and Senators. Well Gugugu Magorira in Zvishavane has taken of the boxing gloves and is hitting back with all has got – no holds barred.

Gugugu was very bitter that Tsvangirai was recalling the MDC-Renewal politicians.

“This is not different from a snake that bites what it does not eat. What is now clear is that Morgan Tsvangirai and his overzealous secretary general Douglas Mwonzora want to donate the seats to Zanu-PF,” retorted Gugugu with the bitterness of one who has been bitten by the snake and can already start to feel the poison racing in their body.

MDC –Renewal did not contest the upcoming by-elections, ostensibly to pressure Zanu PF to implement reforms to ensure free and fair elections although it is no secret that the party is broke. However if the recall goes ahead the party would be damned not to try to win back these seats even if that will mean doing a cartwheel and landing on their face on implementing reforms demands. Whatever they do now, MDC-Renewal, are in for a rough ride!

“We are seeing a better Zimbabwe coming as a result of Renewal and mdc alliance which is putting national interests ahead of everything,” commented our MDC-renewal member in Zvishavane. This is just a bit of theatrical posturing before taking the knock-out punch, nothing more!

Both MDC-T and MDC – Renewal have both failed to make any meaningful comeback since the July 2013 rigged elections and the genesis of their demise can be traced back to the GNU!

Mugabe and Zanu PF were able to blatantly rig the July 2013 elections because not even one of the democratic reforms agreed in the GPA in 2008 were ever implemented. Not one! The MDC supporters are not the cleverest people on earth; they really did not see the vote rigging coming, for a start.

They believed that the July 2013 elections would be free and fair because Morgan Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti, Welshman Ncube, David Coltart and all the other MDC leaders promised they would be without even looking at the evidence on the ground for themselves. With not even one democratic reform implemented it was naïve to think the elections would not be rigged.

Still the people were shocked and confused to see Mugabe romp home with a landslide election victory. At the time the supporters had accepted that Mugabe had cheated and that was that but since then they have asked why it had been so easy, child’s play really, for him to cheat.

Slowly but surely many Zimbabweans have come to the realization that Mugabe rigged the elections with the greatest of ease because not even one of the democratic reforms agreed at the GPA as necessary for free and fair elections had been implemented. MDC had the majority in parliament, the backing of SADC and five years of the GNU to implement the reforms but failed to do so.

The only logical reasons why not even one reform was implemented was that the MDC leaders were and still are corrupt – there is no doubt Mugabe bribed them with the gravy train lifestyles and for Tsvangirai the Highlands mansion to forget about the reforms – and breathtakingly incompetent – SADC and donors begged MDC to implement the reforms and not to take part in the elections with no reforms but they paid no heed. As the penny has dropped with each MDC supporter of the betrayal of course they have cursed the MDC leadership.

Yes Tsvangirai and his MDC-T faction has been losing support but so too has UMDC because during the GNU the leaders of all these MDC factions had taken their share of the gravy train bribe as prime minister, deputy prime minister, minister, deputy minister, etc. Many of them were ministers of nothing really as these were superfluous positions created to accommodate as many individuals as possible on the gravy train.

People like Simba Makoni and Dumiso Dabengwa have found it very difficult to re-launch their political careers after they left Zanu PF. They worked for decades with Mugabe to establish the Zanu PF dictatorship and never once raised their voices against all the corruption and human rights violations perpetrated by the regime. It was only when Mugabe failed to promote them that they finally left Zanu PF and suddenly they would not shut up about evil things Zanu PF was doing.

They were talking of Zanu PF corruption, etc. to be noticed and win votes to get back on the gravy train; they never cared about these things before or the suffering and deaths they brought to the nation. The Zimbabwe electorate was smart and refused to be taken for a ride again by these political turncoats.

Now it is the turn of the MDC leaders to learn that there is a price to be paid for being corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent. They have all tried to gloss over their betrayal of the people by failing to implement the reforms hoping the matter will go away but like squeezing acne on a teenager’s face, it only makes it swell up and sore!

After the rigged 31 July 2013 elections Morgan Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti and the rest of the MDC leaders should have immediately apologized to the nation for selling them to the tyrant for a piece of calico cloth and handful of beads and then they should have resigned on mass from politics.

There is nothing the people can do to force them to apologize but they can see to it that corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent individuals never again hold public office by denying them the political support and vote!

“The recent MDC-T rally in Highfield shows that Morgan Tsvangirai has lost a number of his supporters,” wrote Gugugu.
 
“That was not a huge crowd at all as compared to previous gatherings where thousands used to flock to the same venue for Tsvangirai. Whoever is or has plans to finance Morgan Tsvangirai projects is a great dreamer.
 
“ . . .  . . Sing, ululate and dance for Morgan Tsvangirai but nothing will come out of him. The man will never rule Zimbabwe today or later.”

You are spot on there but if the whole truth is to be told, and it must, UMDC is not getting much funding either and Tendai Biti and Welshman Ncube will never rule Zimbabwe either!