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VARIOUS theories have been propounded as to why the British founded and funded MDC-T party led by the increasingly garrulous yet ignorant Mr Morgan Tsvangirai decided to boycott the recently announced electoral contests which emerged after numerous seats were declared vacant.
The Headlands and Hurungwe West constituencies became vacant after the two legislators, Mr Didymus Mutasa and Mr Temba Mliswa, were expelled by the revolutionary party, Zanu-PF after finding them guilty of various misdemeanours which had the cumulative effect of placing the name of the party into disrepute.
Yes, the two were good riddance for they were behaving like raging bulls out to outmanoeuvre rival bulls from another territory.
Indeed, unacceptable behaviour inconsistent with the renowned virtues of one of Africa’s principled and visionary former liberation movements, Zanu-PF.
The other 21 seats are a result of the expelled MDC-T legislators who recently formed a new political party, the United Movement for Democratic Change (UMDC), a loose coalition of ambitious yet myopic and politically immature individuals who thrive on controversy.
Their avowed goal is just the removal of Zanu-PF from power using any unscrupulous and illegal means available. Think of it, there has never been any debate about any alternative policy prescriptions anywhere in the corridors of these politically thin-minded fools.
A glance at the original thrust of this article, the real reasons behind the intended boycott of the elections, never mind what the excitable and loud-mouthed MDC-T spokesperson, Mr Obert Gutu, claims in his now common discredited village rants. The truth of the matter is that the various MDC-Ts which continue to disintegrate by each passing day are certain that they will be humiliated if they dare challenge the well-oiled Zanu-PF campaign machine.
The MDC-T does not have the numbers to win any election.
What with the recent news from the Western capitals that they are financially dry, it is as difficult as the biblical camel attempting to pass through the eye of a needle for them to win any election.
A closer look at this British project called the MDC-T will reveal that it does not have even a single structure in most parts of the country yet the revolutionary party Zanu-PF has and is always in restructuring and reorganisation campaigns.
Such an exercise enables the ruling party to self-introspect hence its ever conquering electoral machine. If being loud mouth was a measure for electoral invincibility, by now Mr Obert Gutu and his MDC-T leader, Mr Morgan Tsvangirai, would have won an Oscar for their foolish media utterances which do not add value to the national economic discourse which all Zimbabweans of good standing are seized with.
MDC-T participated in the creation of a new national Constitution which is the supreme law of the Republic.
It therefore boggles the mind when they turn around and cast aspersions to the same Constitution-making process that they were part of.
The alignment of the law is a process and not an overnight event. In politics, it is not the reforms that count most but the numbers to emerge victorious. Anyway a closer look at the political architecture and behaviour of this political party will show that it is remote controlled, a scenario which leads it to be a flip flopper in decision making.
The MDC-T has never been an authentic Zimbabwean political party. If it was a Zimbabwe political party, how then does it pride in celebrating any catastrophe that grips the nation.
A perusal at the recent statements by the MDC-T will show that they are even celebrating the now likely drought after a prolonged dry spell early this year. They also jubilate whenever any disaster unfortunately visits Zimbabwe, as epitomised by the Tokwe-Mukosi disaster.
Then any rational Zimbabwean will wonder as to the real intentions of such a political party which derives pleasure from the misfortune of the very people it wishes to govern one day. If it is not pure madness, then it can only be stupidity.
The MDC-T at one time invited the evil Western nations to militarily depose a legitimate popular government.
Did its leadership ever give thought to the likely consequences of such an uncalled for actions. The people of Zimbabwe need to have an urgent change of the law to ensure a mandatory life sentence is handed to such pervert minds like Mr Tsvangirai, his former allies Mr Tendai Biti and Professor Welshmman Ncube, who were architects of the ruinous economic sanctions.
Who in their right senses could vote for such politicians and their political parties?
These so-called proponents of democracy are challenged to spell out their alternative economic propositions if ever they have them.
They only clamour for the removal of Zanu-PF yet on the ground the revolutionary party commands incredible support.
Zanu-PF has tangible economic prescriptions with the ability to counter the diabolic sanctions and grow the economy.
The current economic blueprint, the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (Zim-Asset), has transformed the lives of Zimbabweans and has the potential and pedigree to implant the much-needed and sought-after economic take-off which Zimbabwe needs.
The writing is on the wall even for the country’s detractors that Zimbabwe is a political and economic giant ready to explode.
It is God’s will that this great nation prospers so no amount of human effort will scuttle that reality.
The talk by the bemused and clueless Mr Gutu that reforms have to precede elections is as hollow and empty as is the MDC-T’s now usual cheap and useless rhetoric which only serves to ingratiate them with their Western masters who know too well that their Trojan horse will be humiliated if it dares challenge the popular Zanu-PF in any electoral contest.
This is the truth which the various MDC-T formations have chosen to ignore, choosing instead to proffer other little and myopic reasons for their self-gratification.
◆ Muchadura Dube is a Nyanga based farmer and political analyst.
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