Sundaymail Editor
Retired Major Action Mandingo
As chickens continue coming home to roost, one of the opposition’s key advisers, Dr Pedzisai Ruhanya, is the latest academic to show that he is fed up with Nelson Chamisa’s dictatorial tendencies.
He was scathing and ruthless in his assessment of little Chamisa. In a series of tweets headlined, “Nelson Chamisa is a dictator”, Dr Ruhanya wrote: “Decisions in politics make sense when they are collective and reflect the will of the people politicians represent.
“When you find yourself thinking you know everything, you can dribble and hurt everyone and that only your ideas matter, then you are precipitating into dictatorship.
“Machiavellian politics don’t work in the modern age because they are contradictory to democratic principles.
“You can’t be Machiavelli and a democrat at the same time, its contradictory, its oxymoronic, it’s an aberration.
“Differences are not bad for democracy; they nourish democratic practices.
“In politics, don’t expect to be surrounded by friends.
“Even in church, differences occur but what makes the church an enduring institution is the capacity of the leaders to manage differences institutionally.
“I represent myself and myself only. I don’t speak on behalf of anyone but Pedzisai.
“Don’t associate myself with things I don’t know. I love my independence. I can’t survive an hour in any political party because I am allergic to stupid things. I can never say Fanta is Coke because a particular leadership says so.”
Finally, Dr Ruhanya has sobered up and is seeing the little Chamisa that we saw since he violently grabbed the MDC from its rightful owners.
I have said it a million times that Chamisa is a danger to himself and his party, CCC. He is a danger to democracy.
Surely, how can this little boy think he is so popular and his politics so sweet that he can run a one-man show against the tried and tested ZANU PF?
He is too big-headed and sickeningly reckless.
The arrogance is nauseating.
London-based political and economic analyst Brighton Musonza added his voice, saying: “Going into a national election without congress and structures means anything you pledge to deliver is not a shared vision; it’s desktop fiction that has not been debated or let alone tested for validation and verification. You are imposing your views and so you’re a dictator.”
Unfortunately, Chamisa will not listen. He is too drunk with imagined power. If imagined power is making him this drunk, what will real power do to him?
If imagined power is making him such a dictator, what will he do with real power? While little Chamisa continues staggering under the mistaken belief that he is on his way to State House, the ZANU PF machinery is being oiled. Anyone who knows the history of ZANU PF will tell little Chamisa that the game is over before it has even begun.
When the ZANU PF juggernaut finally rolls into town, Chamisa will not know what has hit him.
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Those who are fooling him into thinking that he can stage a one-man show against ZANU PF will swallow their lies. After the 2023 elections, there will be so much chaos in CCC as fingers will be pointing all over the place in a bid to pinpoint chaita mukomana apera so fast! Last Saturday, ZANU PF held crucial elections to elect members into the Central Committee and the elections showed that the revolutionary party is slowly transforming itself.
Before the elections, President Mnangagwa gave a directive that everyone will be contested.
The time for “sacred cows” or “mashef” is over in ZANU PF.
“Where people have come forward and they are interested, that is democracy, that’s what ZANU PF is all about. ZANU PF brought democracy, therefore, we must practice that democracy to the latter. So, there are no sacred cows,” said the ZANU PF national commissar, Cde Mike Bimha.
To show beyond doubt that ZANU PF is a democratic party, several political heavyweights lost during the Central Committee elections.
No violence! No bloodshed! And no tears!
ZANU PF national spokesperson, Cde Christopher Mutsvangwa explained how the elections were held in a peaceful environment.
“We are a family in ZANU PF, this is a party of more than 60 years. It has gone through thick and thin. It has undertaken some of the most difficult assignments on behalf of the people of Zimbabwe, like setting up an army to defend themselves, which is now the soul of our Zimbabwe Defence Forces.
“We are a family and we tend to be governed by ethos which come from our history. This is manifest in the general organisational discipline, which has marked the elections all over the country. We have this other singular pedigree as a revolutionary party than in 1979, we had overcome the catspaw of the British army in the form of the Rhodesia forces.
“We were on the verge of military victory and hitherto the tradition was that you march from bullet to office – from bush to office. ZANU PF decided that in 1979, we lay down our arms. We gathered at assembly points, we gave the people the freedom to choose the pen and the ballot box as a way to come to power. This was done with the whole world watching, with even the former imperial power being invited to go through the ceremony of lowering their flag.
“We came to office through a democratic manner and we have been true to the word of democracy, that we fought for. Forty-two years later, we will hold elections at national level to choose who is our leader. We never pride ourselves that we were a victorious army therefore we are entitled to rule, no. We work very hard to make sure that the people support us,” said Cde Mutsvangwa.
What a profound analogy!
And surely, you want to pit such a mean machine against some Mickey Mouse cartoon character who thinks charismatic authority can clear his passage to State House.
The late and great Dendera guru, Simon Chimbetu was not just being artistic when in his hit song “Kure kachana,” he boldly declared that “KuState House kure.”
Chimbetu wasn’t talking about the geographical distance.
He was talking about the sacrifices, the sweat and the pain one has to go through before winning power to rule this country.
If little Nelson thinks he can win the ticket to State House, just by exciting his gullible supporters with meaningless rhetoric at rallies then he is in for a rude awakening.
If he thinks he can grab power by lying to his blind supporters that SADC and AU will listen to him, then he hasn’t learnt a thing about African politics.
Can’t he smell the coffee and see that through the united stance against elections, SADC and AU have already taken a solid position on Zimbabwe?
But then someone said something that tickled my mind. “You guys are always talking about Chamisa establishing structures for his party. Have you ever asked yourself, whether he has the capacity to actually establish the structures?”
It dawned on me that it’s not that little Nelson doesn’t want to establish the party structures, he can’t establish the structures.
Chamisa didn’t take control of the MDC now known as CCC through democratic means and so he is afraid of any democratic process.
Let me state it categorically – in 2023 little Nelson will be taught a practical political lesson.
He can dodge the democratic process in his party, but he can’t dodge it at national level.
ENDS_
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