"If
you want to make a case that we are stronger in Matabeleland when we are
divided, it's self-evidently untrue. First just take Matabeleland South, if you
go to the 2013 elections,
"Zanu-PF won all the 13 seats. But if you put together all the opposition votes in Matabeleland South alone we could have won seven seats from Zanu-PF.
"So how is it possible for someone to construct such an argument that we are stronger apart when the most recent example illustrates that when we are united we would have won seven seats in Matabeleland South alone? It does not make sense to me," said Prof Ncube.
"Zanu-PF won all the 13 seats. But if you put together all the opposition votes in Matabeleland South alone we could have won seven seats from Zanu-PF.
"So how is it possible for someone to construct such an argument that we are stronger apart when the most recent example illustrates that when we are united we would have won seven seats in Matabeleland South alone? It does not make sense to me," said Prof Ncube.
To
win the presidential race Zanu PF has to generate a number of vote in each
constituency, including those in opposition strong holds. We all saw the bussed
hooded Zanu PF youths in Mount Pleasant casting multiple votes. It is this
starting baseline that the opposition then have to compete against to win the
seat. Where the opposition split the vote they will fail to beat Zanu PF.
In so
called Zanu PF strong holds, the party is able to generate even more votes
using such tactics as frogmarching the people to make sure they vote for Zanu
PF and the multiple voting by party loyalists is at an even bigger scale.
Professor
Ncube is not interested in stopping Zanu PF rigging the vote to generate its
baseline in opposition strong holds and frogmarching the rural voters to generate
the landslide victory in rural constituencies. All he is interested in for his
party to have a share of the 7 out 13 winnable seats in Matabeleland South.
May I
remind you, Professor Ncube, that you and your MDC friends, Tsvangirai, Biti,
Coltart, Eddie Cross, etc., etc. were elected on a ticket to dismantle the Zanu
PF dictatorship and bring about democratic change to the nation. The people
have risked life and limb to elect you into office. Over 500 were murdered in
cold blood by Zanu PF in 2008 alone for no other reason other than that they
dared to vote for MDC.
MDC
has failed to deliver even one democratic change in all the party’s 17 years in
politics. The party had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic
reforms agreed in the 2008 Global Political Agreement which would have restored
all our individual freedoms and rights including the right to free and fair
elections. You people failed to get even one reform implemented in five years
of the GNU.
SADC
leaders warned MDC not to contest the 2013 elections without implementing the
reforms first but no one paid heed. Zanu PF went on to rig the elections with
easy.
Professor
Ncube, if you had implemented the reforms you would have stopped Zanu PF
bussing in hooded party youths, frogmarching rural voters, denying opposition
supporters everywhere the vote, etc. Every seat in Matabeleland South and right
across the country would have been winnable seat and every Zimbabwean would
have had their first free and fair election.
By
contesting flawed elections the opposition are doing Zanu PF a great service by
giving the process credibility. This is a great disservice to the nation who
right to free and fair elections is being flagrantly violated by the holding of
each flawed election. The nation is sickened by MDC leaders’ betrayal, all
Professor Ncube and other care about is how the few winnable seats are shared
out amongst themselves and damn the consequences to the ordinary Zimbabwean.
Well
damn you too Professor, you and your fellow selfish opposition politicians!
Zimbabweans
are desperate for democratic change and an end to this corrupt and tyrannical
Zanu PF dictatorship. There is no excuse for going into next year’s elections
knowing fully well Zanu PF will rig the vote, this is insane.
We,
the povo of Zimbabwe, demand the implementation of the reforms, the only
guarantee the elections will finally be free and fair, BEFORE the next elections.
We have been cheated out of our right to a meaningful say in the governance of
the country all our lives, enough is enough.
2 comments:
MDC leaders sold-out during the GNU; they had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms designed to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship and end its autocratic powers to rig elections. Mugabe set a honey trap in the form of ministerial limos, very generous salaries and allowances, a former white-owned farm for Ncube, $4 mission mansion for Tsvangirai, etc., etc. And everyone of the MDC leaders fell for it; they were all tripping over each other, praising Mugabe to the high heavens.
Mugabe is “the fountain of wisdom, the unflappable father of the nation,” said Tendai Biti.
He is “misunderstood,” said David Coltart.
As for the democratic reforms, not even the constant nagging by SADC leaders would get MDC leaders to implement even one token reform.
After Mugabe rigged the July 2013 elections and many of the MDC leaders lost their gravy train seats it forced the latter to sit up and take stock. They vowed not to contest any future elections until reforms are implemented. Mugabe must have known they were paying lip-service to boycotting elections and called their bluff. The tyrant did not implement even one token reforms and all the MDC leaders are today back to contesting next year’s flawed elections.
Ncube and friends know they wasted their best chance to implement the reforms during the GNU because they are breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent. You can always count on a feeble-minded politician with no vision or political back borne to sell-out and they did, big time. We should not be surprised that all the MDC and former Zanu PF political opportunists are fighting each other for the few gravy train seats Mugabe is offering those will to sell-out and contest flawed elections.
The most important things is for the people of Zimbabwe to realise that people like Ncube, Biti, Tsvangirai and all the others contesting these flawed elections are sell-outs. SADC leaders know MDC leaders are corrupt and incompetent and it is looking increasingly certain that SADC are not going to be fooled. They are going to condemn next year’s flawed as a sham!
@ Khawulani Sibanda
I hope you do not count Professor Ncube, Morgan Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti and all the other MDC leader among “the cheated”. These guys are the cheats in their own right in that by selling-out to Mugabe during the GNU they help the tyrant keep his vote rigging machinery in one piece. And right now the MDC politicians are cheating the people and lying to them that next year’s election will produce political change when they know Zanu PF will rig the vote as before.
The only way of stopping Zanu PF rigging the vote is by demanding the implementation of the democratic reforms BEFORE the elections. There is no Zimbabwean who has not heard or figured it out for themselves that it is insane to keep contesting flawed elections and expecting a different result. If reminding someone of their folly is “blaming the cheated”, according to you; then so be it!
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