MDC Secretary, Douglas Mwonzora’s justifying
his assertion that Tsvangirai is the best foot forward for the nation on
Tsvangirai and MDC electoral achievements. They defeated Mugabe and Zanu PF at
all the elections but did not get into power only because Zanu PF cheated. He
has been very careful not to say a word about why it has been child’s play for
Zanu PF to cheat MDC again and again especially in the 2013 elections when MDC
had boosted that the elections would be free, fair and credible!
Like all the other MDC leaders Mwonzora is
fastidious in making sure he does not mention MDC’s record during the GNU,
particularly the party’s failure to get even one reform implemented in five years.
The fact of the matter is Zimbabwe is looking
for a leader who first and foremost will implement all the democratic reforms
and end once and once for all the corrupt and tyrannical dictatorship Zanu PF
has imposed on the nation. So Mwonzora is insisting Tsvangirai is that leader
and above all insisting we ignore the fact that Tsvangirai has already failed
to get even one reform implemented when he had the chance to do so during the
GNU. He has airbrushed MDC’s pathetic performance during the GNU and is
insisting we all do the same!
This is core weakness of our national politics;
we take two steps forward and ten steps back and instead of taking a holistic
outlook on our situation we coerced to make a big song and dance about the two
steps forward and bamboozled, beaten and even murdered anything to force us to
ignore ten steps backwards. Mugabe and Zanu PF have become masters on cherry
picking on events they want and force feed the nation on these falsehoods and
distortions.
If there is one part of Zimbabwe’s history
everyone should know inside out it is the struggle for independence, for the
last 35 years that is all Mugabe and his tightly controlled media has talked
about and nothing else. Mugabe abandoned the all the commitment to freedom, liberty,
justice and has for 35 years taken the nation down this ruinous economic path
and yet the nation has not been allowed to talk about any of these things.
Before independence the nation aspired to
one-man-one-vote, it was a rallying call; not so after independence. The right
to free, fair and credible elections is core to our struggle today as it was
before independence and yet all those demanding this fundamental right have
been labelled by Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs puppets of the Western government
bend on regime change.
Mugabe has taken the nation ten step forward in
the fight to end the oppressive white colonial rule but has since independence
drag the nation fifty steps backwards by denying the people the very freedoms
and basic human rights including the right to a meaningful say in the
governance of the country and the right to life itself. We refuse to be forced
to focus on liberation heroics only and ignore the reality that the same heroes
have since become corrupt and murderous tyrants!
Mr Mwonzora, the people of Zimbabwe are
refusing to accept Mugabe’s fallacious argument that because Zanu PF
spearheaded the war of independence it is the only party fit to rule the
country and anyone demanding free, fair and credible elections is a puppet of
the West. Similarly the people are refusing to accept MDC’s equally fallacious
argument that Tsvangirai is the best leader going forward just because they
voted for him in the past regardless of the fact that he sold-out during the
GNU. He took the nation two steps forward and then ten steps back and then
means he will be a disaster for the nation!
2 – 10 = - 8
Mathematics is an exact science and the maths
on Tsvangirai says it all!
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