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courage is proportional to distance, the nearer the event comes, the more afraid the imminent loser becomes.
There, elders with cotton tuft hair do not grow it on their heads as mere decorum, for, with the grey hair comes wisdom and experience.
The elders say if you negotiate with your opponent while you are still a strong and formidable force, he will always fear and respect you, but if you negotiate at the brink of defeat, you will be trampled upon.
After all, in the village, you must know who has the power before you make noise over systems that you cannot control.
The harmonised elections are on July 31, and the man with the Constitutional power to proclaim the dates is one Robert Mugabe, the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces.
There is one President in Zimbabwe and he is not a creation of the GPA. Period!
Does the lion’s power not lie in our fear of his God-given ability and adhering to its principles and laws of the jungle?
Only yesterday, Tsvangirai, who is not so much gifted with imagination, gave Zimbabweans something to laugh about, claiming he held the keys to the elections.
What keys? Is that not a figment of a poor mind? If you have the key and you don’t have the padlock, what is the use? That should be his last joke in Government.
Since the Constitutional Court made its ruling that the country should hold harmonised elections within a moon-and-a-half, look who is running scared? Life is very ironic! Facts can be silly and stubborn. When you like facts, they smell good but when you don’t like them, hey, they stink. Fetid.
When MDC was formed, it rallied its justification in the “Mugabe Must Go Now” mantra, rule of law, democracy and good governance. Today tell them about these things and their tongues stick. Shame saliva sticks and makes their tongue glued down, forever.
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai in particular, wants things done his way, all the time, even if it means abrogating the Constitution of the country.
When then is rule of law, rule of law.
When then does one become accountable to the Constitution of his country? When then does one respect the wishes of the people? When then does one become a patriotic Zimbabwean? When it all started, after the inclusive Government’s lifespan neared its end, Tsvangirai said he was comfortable with an election being held in 2013 not 2011 or 2012. He later again said the elections should be held in July 2013. Is this not the July 2013, that the court has directed we hold our elections?
In a democracy, elections are the only way to change a government and elections are upon us. Tsvangirai has boasted over and over again that he is more popular than President Mugabe, suddenly does not want to go for elections? Suddenly he does not want the people of Zimbabwe to vote him in and vote out President Mugabe. He does not want the people to speak through the ballot. How ironic?
Only a village idiot can fail to read that it has dawned on Tsvangirai that he will not win the election and that Europe is borrowed crowd and support that does not vote. Now Tsvangirai is trying to borrow time to remain in the comfort of Government luxuries. What with Raila Odinga’s fate in Kenya?
What with Odinga struggling to get VIP treatment in Kenya after that monumental defeat? The issue of security sector and media reforms whatever that means, has turned out to be mere smokescreens behind which MDC-T is hiding its fear of defeat.
On security sector reforms the securocrats as the MDC-T and its media allies call them, are under sanctions illegally imposed by MDC-T allies in the West and that alone explains why Tsvangirai is demanding reform. As villagers, we are not academic intellectuals but we are realists.
It is fact and not fiction that the playing field is not level simply because Zanu-PF is going into an election with its Presidential candidate under illegal sanctions. MDC-T will go into these elections with its presidential candidate able to go anywhere in the world to seek whatever assistance and . . . and . . . and, its candidate is going into an election with an advantage in that he has the support of the entire EU bloc and the most powerful country in the world, the United States of America.
Because of this reason, we, the villagers, the vanguards of the liberation struggle, the poor fellows who clothed and cooked for the liberators of this country, will make a point to EU and its allies, through the ballot that our vote is more important than their sanctions. Our vote will liberate us. Our vote is our mandate.
Only our vote gives us legitimate power to choose whom we want and that we will do. We the villagers know that it is no longer Europe’s time. It is no longer America’s power. It is indeed no longer Britain’s power, but our vote.
The village soothsayer, the ageless autochthon of wisdom and knowledge says, many enlightened voters know what they stand for.
“A fly without an advisor, follows a corpse into the grave and gets buried with it. Everyone knows this is no longer time to follow western puppets. It is time to vote wisely and to vote for the total liberation of the country.
“Tsvangirai is running scared. He knows his days in Government are numbered. He can boycott at his own peril, for, there will be another split in MDC-T should he decide to boycott this election.
“Some of his most senior party members are guaranteed to win in their constituencies, while he is fortunately guaranteed to lose, so the MPs would not want to have their chances squandered by his own demise,’’ says the soothsayer.
In the village, the unborn baby that fears life will never be born.
You cannot be elected President unless you compete in a presidential election!
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