Talk
of a Damascene transformation, Vince Musewe has just been transformed into a
different person.
"They
(Zanu PF) simply must go and we cannot therefore entertain another fake
election hoping things will work out and yet I hear many of us exaggerating the
probability of change in 2018. That is a fallacy and false hope likely to
disappoint," said Vince Musewe.
Here
is the man who has spent the best part of the last four years, first, denying
the historic fact that Tsvangirai and his fellow MDC friends’ failed to
implement the reforms during the GNU. He could not fathom the reality that they
are corrupt, incompetent and sold out and so chose to bury his head in the
sand.
He
then spent the rest of the time wittering about how we are powerless to get Zanu
PF to implement any reforms implemented and so we must simple accept the
dictatorship and do our best to work within its set parameters. Of course, it
was a nonsensical argument for two reasons:
a) It was premised on the
falsehood that President Mugabe and Zanu PF had the power and right to deny us,
the people, our basic freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful
say in the governance of the country. No one, absolutely no one, not even a deeply
entrenched corrupt and murderous tyrant, has the right to deny even the lowest
of the low their birth rights!
b) The most important reason why
it was imperative that the reforms are implemented is a practical one – there
can be no denying that dictatorship had failed the millions of ordinary
Zimbabweans causing untold human suffering and, for far, costed of 30 000
innocent lives to establish and retain. Free, fair and credible elections is
the basis of good governance, the nation was dying for good and competent government.
The dictatorship was the one stopping the change and therefore must go and go
now!
It
has been long in coming but the penny has finally dropped in Musewe’s head that
the Zanu PF dictatorship must go and futility of holding flawed elections. When
there is thick mud instead of clean water, the drag on the penny is
considerable; still it is great to see it has finally hit the bottom. With the
like Morgan Tsvangirai and Joice Mujuru, where the mud has been compressed and baked
solid, the penny will never ever go through that brick!
What
the people of Zimbabwe must now realise is that as long as people like
Tsvangirai and Mujuru continue to contest these “fake elections,” as Musewe
called them Zanu PF will continue to rig the elections and claim they were
free, fair and credible. “If they were not free, fair and credible, then why
did Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends, Joice Mujuru and her NPP, etc.
contest the elections?” Mugabe would argue.
There
is no denying that by contesting the flawed elections the opposition are giving
the process credibility as David Coltart noted in his book, The Struggle
Continues 50 years of tyranny in Zimbabwe.
“The
worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs
couldn’t now do the obvious – withdraw from the elections,” wrote Coltart.
“The
electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to
withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the
distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that
the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process
credibility.”
Whilst
the challenge remains the same, removing the Zanu PF dictatorship and replacing
it with a democratically elected and accountable government; the nation must
switch its political focus must from Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF thugs to Morgan Tsvangirai,
Joice Mujuru and the multitude of opposition opportunists queuing to contest
next year’s fake elections. Force Tsvangirai, Mujuru and that mob to withdraw
from the elections and Zanu PF will have no excuse for refusing to implement
democratic reforms.
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