"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results." Said the great Physicist, Albert
Einstein.
If one was to accept Einstein’s definition of insanity then, if the
truth be told, most of us are insane when it comes to certain matters. For many
of us will admit to falling into the trap of doing the same thing over and over
again and expecting different results. We all have our mental blind spots, moments
of insanity; what matters how big is the blind spot and what are the
consequences of the insanity!
As a nation one of our collective blind spot; constituting years of
collective insanity with crippling economic, social and political consequences;
is our holding rigged elections time and time again for these last 37 years
expecting regime change. Whilst we are sane enough to appreciate the need for
meaningful political change, regime change; we have a complete mental blockade,
the insanity kicking in, when it comes to realizing we need to stop the vote
rigging.
Whitlaw Mugwiji is one Zimbabwean who is otherwise a very rational
person who, like most Zimbabweans out there appreciates the need for regime
change in Zimbabwe but has a completely to appreciate the need to implement
meaningful democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. As far as he
is concerned we do not need reforms as long as we can unity the opposition!
“Instead of putting our little differences aside, we pick on and
feast on each other’s misfortune. As I write, social media is awash with
opposition members celebrating the split of Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) and
enjoying the insults levelled against Dr Joyce Mujuru,” wrote Mugwiji in Nehanda Radio.
“In
their little heads, they think the coalition is doomed and their positions are
safe. They would rather bask in their little titles as opposition leaders than
join hands with former enemies and remove Mugabe.”
Whilst Mugwiji clearly believes that a strong opposition coalition
is the panacea to defeating Zanu PF next year and is determined to make us subscribe
to his belief. What he has completely failed to do, after all his ranting and
raving, is produce a convincing case why the coalition will win where
Tsvangirai and his MDC friends have failed. One of the reasons why the opposition
coalition will not do any better is that Zim PF leaders, the new addition to
the opposition camp, are as corrupt and incompetent as Tsvangirai and others.
The Bikita West by election results where Zanu PF once again
deployed its usual dirty tactics and rigged the election with ease showed that
ZimPF are as helpless as Tsvangirai at stopping the vote rigging. Last week ZimPF
members started trading barbs accusing each other of being incompetent,
confirming something many people have said all along, ending with the party splitting.
“I have watched several
Joyce Mujuru interviews since the formation of ZimPF,” admitted Mugwiji, “I
cannot say I was impressed by her overall performance but I must admit I was
impressed by her sincerity.
“My own impression of
her is, she wants to make amends of the mistakes they made during her time in
government. Having been confined in a Zanu PF ivory tower for over three
decades, devoid of ordinary citizens and their everyday struggles she suddenly
understands what the people of this country are going through.”
Are we expected to
believe that Mai Mujuru was confined in her ivory tower for 34 years, like some
fairy-tale Princess, and in all those years she had no clue about the gross
mismanagement, the rampant corruption and the murderous tyrannical oppression that
destroyed the nation’s economy forcing millions into a life of abject poverty
and denied the people their freedoms and basic human rights including the right
to a free vote and even the right to life!
No doubt Mugwiji will
admit that Mai Mujuru and her late husband have amassed a great fortune valued
in hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions of dollars. So she emerged
from her ivory tower to claim her lion’s share of the looted national wealth.
Her eyes were wide open to secure her share of the loot but she was blind to
the consequences of corruption, political murderers, etc.! What a load of
nonsense!
We are not going to end Zanu
PF’s corrupt and tyrannical rule by entrusting that task to corrupt and
incompetent opposition politicians like Morgan Tsvangirai or Joice Mujuru even
if they joined forces to form a grand opposition coalition. Recycling the same
corrupt and incompetent opposition leaders will not bring any change, what we
need is quality leaders with the common sense to realise that as long as Zanu
PF is allowed to rig elections it is naïve to expect regime change!
Mai Mujuru and Morgan
Tsvangirai have already proven that they are corrupt and incompetent; they have
had 34 and 5 years, respectively, to transform Zimbabwe and failed to change
anything. It is insane to elect them back into power again and hope against
hope that they will deliver change!
4 comments:
What do you mean, I am accusing Tsvangirai "of not implementing reforms". He did not implement any reforms, not even one in five years. I am stating a well established historic fact and that is not the same thing as accusing someone of something in dispute.
ZSD will decide what to do and when; we have some really focused and determined individuals in the party, I am proud to be a member; and we certainly do not need advice from scatter brain like you Chiremba. You can continue to advise Tsvangirai and the other opposition parties, they are listening!
The opposition have failed to implement any democratic reforms even when they could have done so, during the GNU, because they lacked the political insight to see the importance of doing so. All this talk of such things as an impossible dream are born out of you failure to appreciate what really happened.
Let us mix oil and water! Well try doing that and pour it in your car!
Most Zimbabweans took 20 years or so before they would accept President Mugabe was an incompetent and murderous tyrant although by 1987, seven years of Zanu PF rule, the regime had already murdered over 20 000 innocent Zimbabweans. Mujuru will have to commit a similar outrage for people like Mugwiji to finally accept she is corrupt and useless! The irony is he is supposed to be and intellectual, the cream of Zimbabwe society!
Zimbabwe cannot afford another rigged elections and yet this is exactly where the nation is heading given that not even one reform was implemented since the rigged July 2013 elections. Tsvangirai and his MDC friends promised they will not take part in any future elections unless the reforms are implemented, they have since changed their minds. They contesting to win the few seats Zanu PF gives away to the opposition.
We the people of Zimbabwe are being sold cheap by these politician keen to get on the gravy train regardless the cost to the nation!
We must bring pressure to bear on these MDC sell-outs if the sell-out and political reforms are going to happen.
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