“So the ridiculous slogans about a ‘new dispensation', ‘open for business' and ‘second republic' this and that have been shown to be superficial rhetoric and delusions of a clueless regime now muddling through on the basis of directionless experimentalism hoping that somewhere along the way it will stumble on solutions to our problem. That's not how things work. We need serious and competent leadership with a clear vision and pathway forward through structured reform, re-engagement and talks,” you said.
And you are 100% correct Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF regime are have no clues what they are doing; they are just muddling and dragging the nation deeper and deeper into this political and economic crisis. But if the truth is told; you, Nelson Chamisa, and your MDC friends are equally clueless and you too are blundering from pillar to post.
“We have heard you ask time and time again. What are you doing to provide an alternative, and I say to you again, we are the people's leadership? We hold within us your deep desire for change. We are the unfulfilled expression of the people's true will. We are you. It is you who voted for us. You, whose vote was stolen in 2018. You who we will continue to fight with, side by side,” you said.
MDC had the golden opportunity, especially during the 2008 to 2013 GNU, to implement the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF stealing the elections. You failed to get even one reform implemented. Not one.
You and your MDC friends knew that Zanu PF was going to steal the July 2018 elections and you lied that you would stop Zanu PF stealing the elections. “MDC has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections,” you said.
You lied for the same reason why you failed to implement even one reforms during the GNU - greed.
Worse still, you and your MDC friends knew that by participating in the flawed and illegal elections you would be giving credibility to the stolen elections and thus modicum of legitimacy to the illegitimate Zanu PF regime. We have proof written proof that MDC leaders knew this!
“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,” confessed David Coltart, MDC A Treasurer, in his 2016 Book The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe.
“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.”
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because the country has been stuck with this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical regime for 40 years and counting. The nation has failed to remove the regime from office because it rigged the elections. And, this is where you, Mr Nelson Chamisa and your MDC friends come in, you, not only, failed to implement the reforms to end the curse of rigged elections but gave the illegitimate Zanu PF regime some democratic credibility by participating in the flawed and illegal elections.
“We will act,” you now promise. “We will lead and represent. We will speak up in parliament. We will challenge unlawfulness. We will work in every community. We will not betray the people's vote, nor let their voice be silenced. This is our Agenda in 2020.
“We will walk the path of resistance. We are emboldened and resolved. Come what may. We will not be intimidated.
“It is time to fight for the Zimbabwe we want and have so rightly dreamed of and worked for. In 2020, we will focus our efforts on the people's fight:
“The fight for a people's government, reforms and return to legitimacy.”
For the umpteenth time; Mr Chamisa this Zanu PF regime is illegitimate because the July 2018 election process was flawed and illegal. 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora were denied the vote, compared with the 2.4 million Mnangagwa says he got to win. ZEC failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll, for Pete’s sake!
MDC’s participation in this illegitimate government will not return it to legitimacy. Just as participating in the flawed and illegal elections gave the process some modicum of credibility the continued participation in this regime will too give the illegitimate government some modicum of credibility.
In short MDC is not helping Zimbabwe end the curse of rigged elections and pariah state but rather helping to perpetuate the Zanu PF dictatorship.
“In 2020, we will fight for a people's government, reforms and return to legitimacy!”
Well, MDC has certainly not been fighting for any of these things for the last 20 years. The party has failed to bring about even one democratic change since its formation in 1999. It is only the politically naive and gullible who will believe MDC will finally delivery the reforms and good governance especially when the party stubbornly continues to give credibility to flawed and illegal election process and illegitimate government out of selfishness and greed.
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“The change we have sought as the MDC is not change for us as a political party but change for us as Zimbabweans. That is why we have become a people’s movement. Our political party is an instrument for change meant to benefit each and every Zimbabwean regardless of who they are, their station in life, their tribe, their national origin, their totem or even their political affiliation.”
This is just empty rhetorical nonsense! MDC has been on the Zimbabwe political stage for over 20 years now, five of which they were in government in the GNU; what democratic changes has the party ever brought?
“Over the years, our elections have been a bloody affair. But for us, life is more precious than politics, blood is more precious than power. No drop of blood must be lost on account of politics or elections in Zimbabwe,” he said.
But you have had many golden opportunities to implement the democratic reforms designed to stop the blatant vote rigging and wanton violence and have failed to implement ever one reform. Not even one!
Chamisa said 2020 was to be the year of change. “This year, 2020, is the people’s year to start the people’s decade,” he argued. “It is the year of the people’s action. This is the year when something must and will give. This year is our revolutionary moment.”
And yet has not articulated any revolutionary act beyond the usual rhetorical nonsense.
“A # Zimbabwean national allegedly killed a police officer in Diepsloot, Johannesburg on 17 January. The killing sparked xenophobic violence which is raging still,” Human Rights Watch Southern Africa director, Dewa Mavhinga confirmed.
Those Zimbabweans who left the country for SA for political, economic or for whatever reasons must be feeling helpless and frustrated. They are not wanted in SA and yet cannot go back to Zimbabwe because whatever they were running away from is worse now than it was yesterday!
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