Dear Grace Kwinjeh
First of all, I would like to thank you for
this insightful contribution, “Is Khupe an MDC or Zanu-PF creation?” in Bulawayo
24.
“A pattern that continues to repeat itself,
each time Zimbabweans are in desperate need of opposition leadership, an
internal implosion occurs at the top, which throws the party into a state of
confusion, compromising its ability to deliver change to its supporters and
Zimbabweans at large,” you said.
Given the fact MDC leaders have failed to
implement even one token reform in 20 years; implementing reforms remains the
number task for all the opposition parties in Zimbabwe to this day; proves that
confusion has reigned supreme in the MDC none stop for the last 2 decades and
counting.
Former US Ambassador to Zimbabwe 2004 – 2007,
Chris Dell, said Tsvangirai was “a flawed and indecisive character who would be
an albatross to the nation, should he get into power”! He could have said the
same of the entire MDC leadership and still history would have proven him right!
Lo and behold! MDC did get into power or be it in
the Government of National Unity (GNU) in 2008 to 2013. Tsvangirai and company
had the golden chance to implement the democratic reforms the nation has been
dying for. Not even the constant nagging by SADC leaders to “follow the Global
Political Agreement (GPA) roadmap!” would force Tsvangirai and company to implement
even one reform in five years.
Since the GNU, Zanu PF has allowed the
opposition to win a few gravy-train seats, bait to entice they participate in the
elections regardless of the glaring irregularities and illegalities. By
participating the opposition have given the flawed electoral process credibility
and the result legitimacy.
So, the golden opportunity presented by the GNU
to end the curse of rigged elections was wasted. The nation remained stuck with
the corrupt, incompetent and murderous Zanu PF dictatorship that rigged
elections to remain in power. And, just to rub hot chilli in our sore eyes; by
failing to implement the reforms and then participating in flawed elections; MDC
leaders gave the vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy!
In our effort to get rid of the corrupt,
tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship, the first albatross round our necks; we risked
life and limb to elect MDC leaders to implement the reforms. MDC leaders not
only failed to implement the reforms but are now helping Zanu PF stay in power
and thus have become the second dead-weight albatross accelerating our sinking
into the abyss.
“Horrible contradictions exist, baffling for
instance is that in just two years the same (MDC) leaders who endorsed the coup
against the late former President Robert Mugabe, were soon in bed with him and
are now working with his close allies,” you observed.
Zimbabwe politics is a madhouse! Whilst one lot
of MDC leaders is having quality time with Mugabe and G40 faction, the second
lot is having quality time too. The cries of innocent people shot dead for protesting
rigged elections or soaring cost of living provided the romantic ambience to Mnangagwa’s
“small-house” POLAD marriage!
"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate!"
(Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!) reads the inscription at the gate into
Hell, according to Dante. Enter and there is no coming back!
When MDC leaders failed to implement even one
reform in five years of the GNU they proved they had gone beyond the point of
no return. There was nothing under the sun they would not do for selfish gain.
As for implement the reforms, they had thrown them out of the window during the
GNU there was no retrieving them, much less implement them.
The real tragic is, there are still a number of
Zimbabweans who acknowledge MDC leaders have indeed failed to implemented even
one reform in 20 years and yet they refuse to believe their own eyes even now
with all the benefit of hindsight. It is these naïve and gullible voters who
continue to follow MDC sell-outs blindly like sheep to the slaughter. Their
blind loyalty give discredited MDC leaders credibility just as the MDC leaders
themselves are giving vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy!
A naïve and gullible electorate are a curse to
democracy. And as long as a significant number of Zimbabweans remain naïve and
gullible there is no hope for us ever getting out of the hell-on-earth we now
find ourselves stuck in. None!
9 comments:
@ Grace Kwinjeh
You talked of "a method is MDC's madness." I agree shooting one's self in the foot is madness.
"I contend in this article that a lot of the self inflicting pain, wounding and bleeding the party is going through could have been avoided, offering an opportunity for reflection and introspection in the opposition ranks on what could have been done, must be done differently, to avoid a recurrence of the same crisis," you said.
Where or what is the method in that, especially when it is clear no one is learning from the past?
There is no method is one's madness just as common sense, in some circle, is not common at all!
If the people of Zimbabwe had any common sense then they would have concluded by now, after 20 years and MDC has not implemented even one reform, that MDC leaders are not up to the task. We need to move on and the only people holding us back is our lack of common sense!
@ Nedson Shumba
“We have this story over and again from people like you but what you forgetting to us is that who was going to implement these reforms and allowed by who. You are coward capable of confusing people with your theories. Rite now ZanuPf is amending the constitution which has not been implemented is that the fault of MDC. Come on I don't being able to write gud English makes you gud analyst of the current situation and the solution to it.”
My dear friend, you asked and I will answer you. Who was going to implement the reforms, you asked? Any GNU MP, MDC or Zanu PF, could submit the proposed reforms in the appointment and hiring of senior Police Officers to restore the independence of the ZRP, for example.
Parliament would then debate, modify, etc. the proposals. Parliament would then submit their revised proposal to the State President, Robert Mugabe in this case, for his signature. It would then be left to parliament to implement the reforms.
Who allowed the reforms to be implemented, you ask? I take it you mean Mugabe would have never allowed the reforms to be implemented.
Since throughout the five years of the GNU not one proposed reform was ever submitted in parliament and so not one parliament approved proposal was ever submitted to Mugabe for his signature; where he would have approved the proposal is therefore a hypothetical question.
The more relevant question is why did MDC leaders fail to submit even one democratic reform in five years? Answer: they sold-out. Mugabe bribed them will the trappings of high office, in return the MDC did not want to upset Mugabe by implementing the reforms.
But to go back to the hypothetical question; would Mugabe have refused to approve the reforms? To answer that one must ask did Mugabe freely agree to share power in the GNU arrangement. The answer is no. The same coercive power used to force Mugabe to agree to the GNU would have been used to force him to approve the reforms.
Abednico Mwembe
I have never said I trusted Zanu PF to implement the reforms. Never!
As for following Madhuku, you can believe whatever you want! If Madhuku believe what I have been saying then good for him. I do not need to follow anyone unless he/she happened to be following the same thing - the truth! If you are going in the same direction following the same star, who is following who, is academic!
@ Abednico Mwembe
“Well said how can one dream of reforms in a country where there's no rule of law? Do you think Zanu can reform themselves out of power only? The good thing about pple of today is they are no longer interested in well said lies in English. No reforms will ever happen in this country for as long Zanu is around and in power. Anyone thinking like that must not be normal.”
The spirit is willing but the intellect is weak! You keep tying yourself up in your own knickers!
“How can one dream of reforms in a country where there's no rule of law?” Well is you have rule of law, then you do not need reforms!
“Do you think Zanu can reform themselves out of power only?” Who said Zanu PF do that?
“No reforms will ever happen in this country for as long Zanu is around and in power. Anyone thinking like that must not be normal.”
Are we to assume that you are the one who is normal. Since Zanu PF are “in power and they will not reform themselves out of office then Mr “Normal, you have concluded that we must all throw in the towel and accept that Zanu PF will rule until “donkeys sprout horns,” as Simon Kaya Moyo would say.
Well Mr “Normal”, I say you are nuts!
You say you are a Chamisa supporter; so what exactly have you lot been blubbering about with all the “Chinja! Change!” slogans, if you know all along you cannot change anything?
Or are you a Zanu PF double agent, there to talk MDC into believing they can bring about change when all you ever do is misdirect them into cul-de-sac away from those highways that will bring about change.
Of course, Zanu PF can be forced to step aside so we can implement the democratic reforms necessary for free, fair and credible elections. This is exactly what happened during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. The only reason why not even one reform was implemented is because Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends sold-out.
If Zanu PF was forced to step aside in the past, it can be done again. You trouble is you have raised Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies onto pedastals, they are untouchable demigods. The are demigods to a simpleton like me. They are mortals to me! Of course, they will be forced to step down one way or the other.
We would have implemented the reforms a long time ago if the MDC village idiots had not sold-out. Still, I can rest assure you the reforms will be implemented. Watch and learn. Watch and learn!
@ Abednico Mwembe
“Wilbert Mukori you are a buffoon follower of Madhuku to borrow your words that you use to describe Chamisa's blind millions of supporters You are exposed and now known that you are Madhuku boot licker.”
Some one is getting desperate and for good reasons too. You have been boasting about your golden royal robe, woven with the gold thread so fine only the super-intelligent can see it. A small boy has called your bluff and asked you if you were not naked then how come he can see you sorry looking “sausage!”
I have said that Nelson Chamisa shot himself in the foot by behaving like a Zanu PF thug and seizing the party leadership after Tsvangirai’s death. He is now paying for that folly. But if you think that was bad it is nothing compared to the, again self-inflicted, damage he suffered by participating in the 2018 elections with no reforms in place.
“MDC has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging elections,” boasted Chamisa. Only a first-class village idiot would say such a foolish thing particularly when the first thing he then said was Zanu PF stole the election. What happened to the stringent measure, you twat!
I have said it countless time and will say it again that all the opposition parties and candidates who participated in the July 2018 elections KNEW Zanu PF was going to rig the elections but they still took part regardless out of greed. By participating the gave the flawed process some modicum of credibility and gave the results some modicum of legitimacy – the same phony legitimacy Mnangagwa and Zanu PF are cloaked in!
Of course, all those opposition politicians who participated in the flawed July 2018 elections are sell-outs and village idiots who shot themselves in the head because they lost all political credibility there and then.
For your information Lovemore Madhuku was one of the 23 presidential candidates who was in the presidential race and is therefore included in my statement that all opposition politicians are sell-outs and village idiots. Even a village-idiot like you would not follow someone you consider a sell-out and a village idiot? Or would you!!!!!!
@ Abednico Mwembe
“Wilbert Mukori Now that you are exposed and cornered that you always trying to drive the agenda of Madhuku's dwarf and little less known party you want to say you are not interested in trivia things . That is shallow and cheap thinking.”
I know you and your bosses in Zanu PF Chibuku House are not the smartest guys, you are ruthless but not smart. Let me give you a leg-up.
My agenda is to make sure Zimbabwe implements the democratic reforms so that we restore all the freedoms and rights of the people and the country holds its first ever free, fair and credible elections. The best course of action right now is to pressure Zanu PF to step down.
I dismiss with contempt all this nonsense of a National Transition Authority in which Zanu PF is allowed to play a part. I am sick to the back teeth of appeasing vote rigging thugs at the expense of the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans whose lives the thugs have made hell-on-earth. The thugs’ hands are dripping with the innocent blood of Zimbabweans they have murdered to establish and retain this dictatorship.
Zanu PF has held this nation hostage for 40 years and counting. It is time to free the hostages!
Zanu PF will step down because I have help from none other than Mnangagwa, his cabinet, Zanu PF party leaders and all their cartel partners, apologists, etc., etc. They are all doing an excellent job wasting resources through mismanagement and corruption, they are the ones responsible for the country’s serious economic meltdown.
“It is the economy, stupid!” that will force Zanu PF to step down.
@ Happy Karigomba
I totally agree with you there, Zanu PF will never ever reform itself out of office. I would not do so either if I was in their shoes. But what you are failing to understand is that the 2008 to 2013 was neither a Zanu PF government nor an MDC government. It was a Government of National Unity (GNU) in which Zanu PF and the two MDC factions were the principle players who had agreed to implement democratic reforms to stop the repeat of the blatant cheating and wanton violence that had marred the 2008 elections.
It was the cheating and violence that had marred the 2008 election forcing everyone including SADC and AU in refusing to recognise Zanu PF as legitimate winner and government. SADC played a pivotal role in drawing the Global Political Agreement that gave birth to the GNU and the regional body was the guarantor of the agreement.
It was for MDC leaders to implement the reforms and Tsvangirai and company failed to implement even one reform because they are what they are – incompetent, corrupt and sell-outs. To pretend they did not implement any reforms because the GNU was a Zanu PF government it just a feeble excuse!
@ Obey WekwaDzafunwa
“Brother I admire most of your writings but this thing of MDC wasting reforms opportunities...is becoming an overplayed record...Because you have repeated it 777 times..its just becoming 1 big drag ...talking over and over about this same thing that can't be reversed sometimes becomes a big yawn...Why not look forward and find strategies for the future than keeping on whining and whimpering about the irreversible issues...ZanuPF won't just get out of power simply because you keep on accusing MDC for bungling...Of course MDC fucked up but what now.??.Is it going to change anything now.”
I am pleased we agree on the key point that “MDC fcuked up” in failing to implement the democratic reforms. I am bringing it up again and again because until we implement the reforms Zimbabwe will continue to sink deeper and deeper into this hell-on-earth. According to a WB report 34% of our population was living in abject poverty, that is they could not afford one decent meal a day much less education for the children, health care, etc. There many Zimbabwean who have never had a decent job for 20 years, for Pete’s sake! All the other countries in the region had single digit figures for people living in abject poverty. The report was for 2019, the situation in Zimbabwe has got a lot worse.
Zimbabwe is a rich country, rich enough to afford everyone of us a decent standard of living. The main reason we are in this economic mess is that for the last 40 years we have been stuck with a corrupt and incompetent Zanu PF dictatorship that has rigged elections to stay in power. To cure ourselves of this curse of bad governance we must implement the reforms to stop the vote rigging. Until we have free and fair elections, I will repeat that 777 times a day!
I am just surprise that you are concerned about my repeated call for reforms but indifferent to cries for help of the millions of Zimbabweans out there whose lives is hell! Indeed, you even have the chutzpah to reprimand me for doing something to help. What a nincompoop!
@ Albert Musarurwa
“Wilbert Mukori You have already discounted Chamisa so why do you keep on relentlessly trashing him? Just tell me who your preferred choice is. Forget about any serious reforms, the junta is simply not interested. We have elections in 3 years time and chances are we will choose from the current three. But you deliberately avoid answering my question and instead go on these senseless ramblings. Unless you give me a name, I can't waste anymore of my precious time on this pointless argument. This is my last post.”
To freely participate in the next elections without first implementing the reforms is foolish and an act of betrayal of the millions of ordinary Zimbabwe who routinely denying the vote and/or frog marched to vote for Zanu PF. Chamisa and the rest in the opposition camp will participate out of greed and their supporters will join them out of blind loyalty and, most important of all, because there are not a full shilling! The tragedy for Zimbabwe is that there are so many of these sell-outs and village idiots and they all have a vote!
“This is my last post!” you said. I hope you honour that promise to your grave. It is bad enough to know the nation is stuck because of your greed and insanity without having to read to your feeble excuses for your greed and insanity!
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