Zimbabwe is a failed state blundering from pillar to post. Why? Well, one of the reasons for the blundering from pillar to post is our failure to pay attention to detail. We blunder from pillar to post very often repeating the same mistakes over and over again because we did not learn from the past.
Detail matters! Detail is everything!
The people of Zimbabwe have risked livelihoods, limbs and even lives to elect MDC/CCC leaders into power these last 25 years on the understanding these leaders would implement the required democratic changes, reforms, to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. The MDC leaders had the best chance to do this during the 2008 to 2013 GNU.
Anyone paying attention to detail KNEW then that the 2008 to 2013 GNU offered the best opportunity ever for Zimbabwe to implement the democratic reforms the nation had been dying for. Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends, the banded mongooses, failed to implement even one token reform in five years of the GNU. Not even one!
Robert Mugabe bribed the mongooses with the trapping of high office; E-Class Mercedes Benz for all the deputy Ministers, Ministers, deputy Prime Ministers and Prime Minister Tsvangirai, generous salaries and allowances all round, a mUS$4 m mansion for Tsvangirai himself, etc., etc. In return the MDC leaders throw the reforms out of the window.
“Mazivanhu eMDC adzidza kudya anyerere!” (MDC leaders have learned to enjoy the gravy train good life, [they will not rock the boat])! boasted Zanu PF cronies when asked why MDC leaders were not implementing the reforms during the GNU.
It is disappointing to note that many Zimbabweans out there had no clue what the democratic reforms were about much less that the primary purpose of the GNU was to implement the reforms. Even now, with the benefit of hindsight many still have no clue MDC leaders sold out big time by failing to implement even one toke reform during the GNU.
Ever since the GNU debacle MDC/CCC leaders have abandoned implementing reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections arguing they have devised Winning In Rigged Elections Strategies (WIRES). They have stubbornly refused to give details of what these strategies, arguing doing so would forewarn the vote rigging Zanu PF.
The tragedy for Zimbabwe is that millions of Zimbabweans believed these idiotic WIRES and were conned again and again into participating in these flawed elections only to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the nation’s suffering. It is the failure to pay attention to detail that has made millions of Zimbabweans sitting ducks, conned into one foolish thing after another.
Zimbabweans should have taken MDC leaders to task for failing to implement even one token reform during the GNU. They did not because they had no clue what the reforms are much less that the primary purpose of the GNU was to implement reforms.
When MDC/CCC leaders abandoned implementing in favour of WIRES the people should have taken these leaders to task each time Zanu PF blatantly rigged the elections - proof the strategies had not worked. The MDC/CCC admitted Zanu PF rigged the elections but have never ever admitted to having lied about having strategies to stop Zanu PF rigging.
Zimbabwe is a failed state and all because for 45 years and counting the nation has been stuck with this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. The regime has rigged elections to stay in power. The curse of rigged elections and bad governance is the number one problem on national agenda - nothing can ever be accomplished until we cure ourselves of this curse.
Will yet another dose of WIRES end the curse of bad governance?
Here is Nelson Chamisa’s latest WIRES offering. "A new nation founded on love - Zimbabwe shall be a new and great nation governed by love, truth and justice, not hate, violence, lies, deceit and corruption," he said. "Love is the missing essential! Love is the foundation.”
The bottom line is Chamisa would want Zimbabweans to participate in the 2028 elections with not even one token democratic reform implemented confident Chamisa and his new political party will win the flawed elections because Chamisa will inject the essential ingredient we have lacked all along - LOVE.
Detail matters and so one must ask Chamisa: How exactly is love going to stop Zanu PF rigging elections? Surely it is insane to participate in yet another election process, “so flawed, so illegal the only logical step is to withdraw,“ as David Coltart aptly put it.
So, it has taken Chamisa 25 years before he realised the new Zimbabwe he was promising the nation up to now had no foundation! All these “#Godisinit!” were all lies because God would never ever be in a hare-brain scheme build a house with no foundation!
Chamisa & Co.’s WIRES are just idiotic excuses to justify participating in flawed elections out of greed. They have got away with these idiotic lies only because the people themselves were not paying attention to detail. WIRES has not worked and will never ever work, we should have the common sense of finally acknowledge that and move on.
Zimbabweans must revert to the original and common sense solution of implementing the democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections. Just because MDC/CCC leaders have sold out on reforms does not mean we do not need reforms and/or that there is no one else competent to implement the reforms.
The immediate task is to stop participating in flawed elections conned to do so by idiotic WIRES lies. If Zimbabweans do not participate in the flawed 2028 elections in their millions as in the past they will deny Zanu PF legitimacy and thus forcing the nation into a new GNU arrangement. This time an attentive populous will ensure all the democratic reforms are implemented.
