On the wild side, at the deep end

such, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s “shortlived” marriage generated interest in me as much as it did to a number of other Zimbabweans as evidenced by the media reports.
What compelled me to write was the PM’s response and reaction since the whole matter was brought to light by the media.
His response left me with more questions than answers, and got me more worried about the nature of the person aspiring to take the number one job in Zimbabwe, our country’s presidency. To start with, he claims that there is a force directing events for him.
I get very worried if a presidential aspirant gets his personal life directed by other people without his knowledge while he is reduced to a mere “innocent bystander”.
It appears he has fallen into other peoples’ trap.
Why would a whole president of a party and PM of a country walk blindly and fall into traps like a zombie?
Secondly, he claims that because of the Press reports and the alleged political force behind the whole thing, his union to Ms Tembo will not be perfect.
I think this is a cowardly way of trying to pull out of his relationship.
It shows he was never interested in a long lasting relationship with Ms Tembo and would take any opportunity to leave her.
Is that how a cultured, traditional man who values family union behaves. Love cannot be broken by news reports unless where it never existed and one takes the reports as a scapegoat.
After all, it is not Ms Tembo or her family peddling and or fanning the reports.
So why should they be the ones to suffer rejection?
Judging by the number of women the man is reported to have had affairs with, it shows that “murume ave bhuru remashanga” there is nothing positive the younger generation can learn from him anymore. It is unfortunate it had to take Mrs Tsvangirai’s departure “may her soul rest in eternal peace” for us to see Morgan Tsvangirai’s wild side.
I wonder what his poor wife had to put up with for those 31 years.
Third is confirmation by the PM that he lacks foresight or vision as some would put it.
He said “there are many things that I have learnt in the process and one is that with the benefit of hindsight I could have done things differently.”
This is not the first time I have heard him say that.
What kind of a leader would the man make that is always making mistakes and continually “learning?”
National leadership requires people of long vision because any mistake at that level can have disastrous consequences to the nation and its people.
The PM does not take full responsibility for his failures and lack of judgment, preferring to put the blame on alleged infiltrators and others.
In his closing remarks he said, “I will not expose the people’s struggle for democratic change to machinations of infiltration.”
This is not new from the PM as he has used a similar excuse before when his party split and when his members were butchering each other at their gathering in Bulawayo.
With all that experience of “infiltration” in the past, when is the man going to build a fence around his own to stop the problem?
Your failure to address a problem that is inevitable in the dirty game that politics is can be your undoing, because people need a leader who is capable of protecting them and their interests.
In the future, the country under your leadership can as well be “infiltrated” or invaded while you are reduced to an “innocent bystander.”
Lastly, I find the man to be poor in damage control. His attempt at putting the record straight achieved completely the opposite for me.
Despite his claim to clear the air on the issue he described things in general terms adding more confusion. While he attempted to rescue his political image, he would have done better by remaining silent as he has managed to destroy himself more, further vindicating his political opponents on his lack of eloquence and better judgment.