Ncube admit "to fleeing political crime scene" of rigged 2013 elections but not being one of the criminals!

“Fortunately, for us as the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), we not only participated in constructing Zimbabwe’s national constitution but also our value systems and operational ethos fall squarely within the paradigm of and are commensurate with democratic constitutionalism. This is the very reason we are always quick to ‘flee the political crime scene’ where basics of democratic constitutionalism are blatantly flouted.” Wrote Professor Welshman Ncube in the party’s latest but equally pathetic attempt to justify why MDC is boycotting all elections now although it took part in the 2013 elections. (New Zimbabwe columnists 10/04/15)

The operative admission by the Professor the reader should focus on is that he and his friends from his own party and the since splintered MDC-T and MDC – Renewal “flee the political crime scene” on elections day, 31 July 2013. Yes it was Mugabe and Zanu PF who blatantly rigged the elections yet again denying millions of Zimbabweans their basic right to a meaningful democratic vote and the chance to end the corruption and tyrant the Zanu PF dictatorship has visited upon our nation.

Yes it was Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs who walked away with the prize – the opportunity to impose their corrupt and tyrannical will on the nation for possibly another generation (having accepted this defective system at the end of the GNU, changing it now will not be a walk in the park – it could take another generation to build up the head of steam).

Professor Ncube walked away with the wooden spoon in 31 July 2013 elections; he failed to get even 3% of the rigged vote. His fellow MDC presidential candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai did a lot better than the Professor but still lost to Robert Mugabe and in this game where winner takes all a near miss is as good as a missing by a mile. Mugabe and Zanu PF secured a comfortable majority in both parliament and senate allowing the MDC factions to take the rest. It would not have done Zanu PF’s political legitimacy any good to have a clean sweep!

What makes Professor Ncube and his MDC friends criminals “fleeing the political crime scene” – the blatantly rigged elections – is that they had five years in the GNU to implement the democratic reforms very one agreed were necessary for free, fair and credible elections and failed to implement even one reform. Not even one!

Throughout the five years SADC reminded the MDC leaders to implement the reforms but they would not listen. At the eleventh hour SADC and donors argued MDC not to take part in, in other words boycott, the July 2013 elections without the reforms but again MDC ignored the warnings.

In the article Professor Ncube justifies the election boycott now because Zanu PF has failed to adhere to the word and spirit of the new Copac constitution. This is nonsense because the laws governing the conduct of elections since 31 July 2013 are exactly the same as those in operation in 2013.

One can argue that in July 2013 MDC assumed, wrongly as it turned out, that the July 2013 elections will be conducted in the accordance with the word and spirit of the new constitution. The new constitution was approved in the March 2013 referendum and there was little time before the July 2013 elections to get make sure all the laws were aligned to the new constitution. MDC did try to have the elections delayed to carry out this task but Zanu PF refuse.

This is a fallacious argument in that MDC had already agreed to a time-table of implementing all the democratic reforms and writing the new constitution in 18 months it took MDC more than four years to get the new constitution and not one reform! Just how much longer did MDC think they could drag out this process?

The process of the reforms did not have to wait until the new constitution was approved; MDC could and should have at least produced their proposed reforms. And yet they failed to produce even one proposal. Not even one!

I read Professor Ncube’s long winded, it is always a trial and tribulation to read his stuff but I did it; he has failed to spell out what reforms he wanted to be implemented and how this was to be done. None of the other MDC members in all their press interviews, congress resolutions, etc. have ever done this.

MDC have never produced a single proposed reform throughout the five years of the GNU because none of them ever paid any attention to the reforms then and they still have done so to this day. Some of the leaders like Tsvangirai do not have a clue what the reforms are about much less how they are to be implemented.

Surely there must be something else that MDC are hiding from us to explain why they failed to implement even one reform in five years and did not listen to SADC’s calls to implement the reforms. That something else is that MDC leaders are corrupt; Mugabe bribed them to pick reforms into the tall grass and they did just that.  

MDC leaders “were enjoying being in the GNU and forgot why they were there” complained SADC leaders in sheer frustration at MDC’s failure to get even one reform implemented.

It was not just SADC heads who were annoyed by MDC leaders but all the donors who had help fund the parties; they deserted MDC in droves. Both MDC-T, MDC (Ncube) and MDC- Renewal are stone broke. Tsvangirai has felt the financial squeezed hardest. Although Mugabe has allowed him to stay in $4 million Highlands mansion, his most cherished bribe prize from the tyrant; it is hard to keep up the appearance of a posh life style in keeping with one living in a mansion on zero annual income!

All the MDC factions have no money to pay for the day to day running of their parties let alone to pay a meaningful election campaign particularly when all they will get is yet another wooden spoon guaranteed!

I am for boycotting the elections until all the reforms are implemented what I object to is the dishonest and double talk by MDC leaders. They had all the opportunities to implement all the democratic reforms; they failed to get even one reform implemented because they are corrupt. Mugabe paid them to ignore implementing the reforms and they took the bribes and for five years pretended they had never heard of reform! “Democratic reforms! What democratic reforms? Is that an animal or a bird?”

Professor Ncube and the other MDC leaders have pointedly refused to admit that they are corrupt. But that is to be expected because it is in the nature of hardened criminals like them never to admit to committing a crime even when they caught red-handed. Tsvangirai has attached himself to his mansion bribe like a binnacle to a rock.

MDC should come out clean and tell the nation that they are not going to take part in future elections because they are broke and stop hiding behind the feeble excuse they boycotting elections until reforms implemented when they have no clue what these reforms and how they will be implemented.

The most criminal act of deception by Professor Ncube and his MDC friends is how they are conning the people into believing they should join up with Zanu PF to form yet another GNU to save the nation from economic collapse and, this time, they will implement the reforms. The last GNU failed to achieve any lasting economic recovery, which is why we are in this mess, because the political fault lines in our political system where not addressed. If MDC failed to get even one reform implemented during the last GNU, when they had all the trump cards what chance do they have of doing so now that Zanu PF has all the trump cards!

MDC leaders are too corrupt; they have already proven this beyond doubt by failing to implement even one reform in five years; to be trust to implement the reforms ever again. All they real want is to go back on gravy train and see what goodies Mugabe will offer them this time to help him deceive the nation that democratic change was coming and at the end of the day still deliver nothing!

“Let me conclude,” wrote Professor Ncube (I did soldier on to the end). “Non-violent demonstrations, vigils and petitions; strikes, go-slows, boycotts and emigration movements; sit-ins, occupation can compel any government to cede power. Says Wikipedia: “The phenomenon of civil resistance is often associated with the advancement of democracy.” The source gives examples of Mahatma Gandhi, Ayatollah Khomeini, South Africa’s black power movement, dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Tahrir Square forced departure of Hosni Mubarak in 2011, Vaclav Havel’s Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and Lech Walesa’s Polish Solidarity movement.

“Therefore, the answer to my question is - yes. If Zimbabweans have no confidence in the electoral processes, they can agitate for changes by using peaceful popular dissent. It is part of their democratic right to free expression and association.”

Yes election boycotts, street protest do create opportunities for democratic change and the GNU of 2008 to 2013 was one such golden opportunity for Zimbabwe. But having created the opportunity we should have seized it and implemented ALL the democratic reforms, sadly not even one reform was implemented. Not one.

Professor Ncube, you and your fellow MDC friends are advocating for the elections boycotts, street protests, etc. because you want the opportunity to get back on the gravy train under the false pretence that you will implement the reforms the nation has been dying for. Zimbabwe cannot afford to create another chance for democratic change and see that wasted yet again by corrupt and selfish politicians like you. You and your fellow corrupt MDC friends must be stopped from taking this great nation for a ride one more time – you have done so many times already these last 15 years, enough is enough!