Ncube scoffs at MDC-T-led coalition

a swipe at the so-called Coalition for Change entered into by MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai, Dr Simba Makoni of Mavambo and Mr Reketayi Semwayo who claims to be Zanu Ndonga.

Addressing his party’s supporters, Prof Ncube announced the coalition between his party and Dr Dumiso Dabengwa’s Zapu and the United Movement for Democracy led by Mr Leonard Mahora, which he dubbed the “Coalition for Devolution”.

“What we are talking of here is a real coalition and not the fake one you have just seen.
“If you enter into a coalition with a driver, yes he can drive you around, but that does not make it a coalition.

“What we have here is a real coalition of real political parties with people behind them,” Prof Ncube said in apparent reference to Mr Semwayo who has since been disowned by Zanu Ndonga which says he never held any position in the party with the closest he got having been a driver to Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole and subsequently his brother, Professor Masipula Sithole.

Prof Ncube said he would not enter into a coalition just for the sake of removing President Mugabe.
“This election is about a new Zimbabwe. This election is about a new beginning. This is why we will not go into a coalition.

“Our job is not just to remove Mugabe, our job is to ensure that when we remove Mugabe we put a leadership with a totally different DNA,” he said.
Prof Ncube warned people against voting Mr Tsvangirai into office, saying the situation would be no different to that prevailing in Egypt.

“If you make a mistake and experiment with people who are clueless we would have an Egypt situation here.
“They removed (Hosni) Mubarak and celebrated, where are they today? They are saying Mubarak was better. Do you want to do that? Do you want another false revolution? Let us not experiment with our future,” he said.

Prof Ncube accused Zanu-PF of causing the hardships being faced by Zimbabweans without mentioning the effects of the illegal sanctions that the West imposed on the country for the past 12 years.

In its manifesto, Zanu-PF said the sanctions have cost the country US$42 billion and have impacted on Government’s ability to provide for the citizenry.
The MDC campaign is running under the theme “Devolution is the New Revolution”.

Prof Ncube said some of the problems facing the country were a result of concentrating powers in Harare and individuals.

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The new Constitution has, however, since addressed the issue of devolution with the establishment of Provincial Councils that would be created after the elections.
Zanu-PF has advocated for a unitary state and is in favour of devolving power through decentralisation and over the years, this system has worked through the local authorities and provincial governors.

“Zimbabweans aspire for national unity because they cherish it as a fundamental and indivisible gain of the liberation struggle.
“This goal is the epitome of Zimbabwe’s indivisible unitary State in which power is devolved through decentralisation.

It is precisely for this reason that December 22 is an important day on the Zimbabwean calendar as National Unity Day to mark the historic 1987 Unity Accord between PF-Zapu and Zanu-PF,” the party says in its 2013 election manifesto.