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Mathius Kundai
I would like to acknowledge – I wish to stir a thought and institute debate. It is neither my desire nor my intention to insult anyone. All respect is paid to genuine political actors and the Zimbabwean people. Two weeks ago Morgan showed us a visionless opportunist past his sell by date all sound and fury signifying nothing. A man with no answer to the only question that matters – What is the way forward? – vanity all was vanity. Desperate to respond to a growing “Morgan must go” chorus he used the Mutare event to declare his intention to stay at the helm as CEO until the illusion where – “he” personally removes Mugabe from power is fulfilled.
Deaf to the common sense that the best way forward is to restructure the leadership, with him filling an important “ceremonial” non-decision-making role Morgan prefers instead to surround himself with incompetent and ineffective bootlickers and loyalist hangers-on, people that seek to ride the once lavishly funded bandwagon of their self-proclaimed, “main actor” until the wheels fall off who whisper nonsense into his ear constantly. Their actions make a total circus of a supposedly vibrant and dynamic ‘“emocratic” movement.
Walk the democratic talk, or become another African “dictator” in the making.The question of personal political survival will dominate Zimbabwe’s opposition political arena for months to come. These are immense issues that will shape national politics for years, however, they must be dealt with accurately as the local concerns or national interests that ordinary people want their representatives to be concerning themselves with are not internal opposition movement power struggles that go on ad infinitum.
The crux of the political problem as seen during MDC-T’s 14th anniversary celebrations is one that serious Zimbabwean politics needs to address right across the board. That being a love of rhetoric that hides a total lack of substance — meaning wrong man wrong plan.
Comrades, look to what was deemed the “way forwards” on Saturday — “I shall be engaging Sadc and the AU because they simply do not have the information of how the people’s verdict was stolen.
So I shall visit them and update them on what happened during the July 31 theft.” No apology for failure or continued stupidity just more excuses. More outsourcing of the struggle to Sadc, AU or any other body as if these have jurisdiction in Zimbabwe, no recollection that Sadc was dismissed and insulted, no recollection that court cases were instituted and then dropped due to lack of evidence/lack of seriousness.
No recollection of Maputo where it was stressed that it is our courts that have the final say. That is the contempt that underpins opposition politics at certain levels that “supporters” will endlessly swallow and believe such vomit as nutritious political food . . .
Tsvangirai could not admit that he got things wrong. He is clinging to power and the myth of a 2013 election re-run.
Under his tenure there is zero self-critique. No thought that 2018 requires a strong opposition party that delivers, that is seen as pan-African, nationalist and patriotic. Qualities Zanu-PF manipulates and exploits effectively as not being found within MDC.
Every serious freedom fighter that Africa has produced resonates a depth of heartfelt passionate feeling for ubuntu, an understanding of social dynamics turned into a progressive ideology. Strongly held ideas articulated in ways that offer people and nations, a vision for the future.
In stark contrast, every single appointed Comprador (Fanon’s false leaders) – place their insecurities as the priority, their sense of obscurity never leaves them; their quest is always a parochial grasp for power and they are always the willing tools of agendas set by “others” having no depth of ideology of their own.
How far removed from the true path has the so-called struggle for change in Zimbabwe been taken? It is presided over by a man who sees the masses of party supporters and others in attendance at rallies convinced that all of those people have arrived at politics solely for one reason – to pay homage to him.
That’s it, they have no idea about democratic systems or making calculated political decisions, no interest in democratic organization. Instead they have just turned up to show reverence to him – personally. Only he is “well-liked” he is the face of democracy. Sadly for Mr Tsvangirai, the tired threats of the MDC vanishing without him, the tired ploy of holding public gatherings to present the impression of mass support are no longer enough.
People want answers, plans and delivery on years of promises – they want change not just Morgan waffling – offering nothing then going home to his million dollar mansion. That voice you hear crying for “Leadership Renewal” will not go away. Mutare should have silenced it but it didn’t – thus I say things will only get worse.
There will be “no policies, no way forwards”, only the uncured myopic vanity that claims Sadc wants to hear about 2013 elections when the 2018 plebiscite is around the corner and needs to be prepared for.
People want answers and the hard truth they did not want more praise singing. MDC-T supporters wanted to know why their leadership miserably failed to organise the party to fight Zanu-PF head on in the elections and they know the answer lies with the blundering man at the top.
The opposition claims justice for being “cheated” on July 31 – but the issue of any root and branch review begs them to take full responsibility for their failings. It begs they ask themselves a singular important question – that being – Without Western sanctions what actual power and leverage and policies do you realistically possess as an opposition movement, that the revolutionary party takes notice of; that will ensure the genuine implementation of systemic changes and reforms for the greater social, economic and political good of the nation?
In Morgan we have no leverage at all, politically it is a case of the greedy leading the unsighted, a constant desperate bid to fool people and buy time.
An endless fiction to protect his hold on power and its material benefits part of the opposition movement corrupted by a billion dollar “Mugabe Must Go’” international money making scam that has hijacked a genuine change movement and struggle agenda in Zimbabwe.
True democracy advocates ignore all of his failings and blunders and appeals to a narrow base of loyalists at our peril. Ignore the corruption of absolute power at our peril. Please define “popularity”– how struggle politics was manipulated to make something out of nothing.
The lie that “popularity is everything in politics”, that popularity supersedes actual substance or brain power, is the same the lie that claims every other senior member of the MDC-T is “unpopular” with no breakdown whatsoever of what this much abused term; popularity – actually means in terms of real substantive policies or ideas or ideology.
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