Sundaymail Editor
I must apologise for giving myself unofficial leave for the last two weeks. And as I reflected I could not help but take aim at these two outfits led by Morgan Tsvangirai and Joice Mujuru.
I really lost my composure when Morgan began his shallow remarks at the MDC’s policy dialogue forum by stating that he is a proud leader of the MDC and in the very next breath went into his familiar denial mode: “This party is not sleeping.”
What the common man will infer is that the party is actually sleeping. Some of us immediately know that Morgan is actually not sleeping as he satisfies his plethora of women.
The MDC has nothing to offer except opposition.
If President Mugabe had not issued his intelligent State of the Nation address the MDC would be idle because this is a reactionary party.
It only responses to stimuli but never initiates anything new and solid.
It is a pity that day in day out they keep dreaming that there are a government-in-waiting.
Waiting for what Morgan? Indeed, just like Samuel Beckett’s two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, Morgan you will wait endlessly and in vain for Godot.
Can the MDC really compare its Agenda for Real Transformation with Zim-Asset?
To claim that “we in the MDC have been both battered prisoners and respected leaders of government” is an insult to prisoners who are honestly doing their time for various crimes and an affront to government leaders that suffered the indignity of power-sharing with puppets of a Western inclination between 2009 and 2013.
MDC is neither populated by prisoners nor leaders but by greedy opportunists who have failed to serve their Western masters well.
Never before have I painfully gone through such a contradictory policy dialogue statement! In some paragraphs there is the accusation of “a regime preoccupied with succession and not national success!”; the accusation of “a regime that has destroyed all industry”; and yet in another there is the bold statement “we in the MDC are no longer pre-occupied with the omissions and commissions of this clueless party and government”.
In fact, not too long ago, a clearly un-clever Obert Gutu said his party would no longer worry about what President Mugabe and Zanu-PF did.
And yet Morgan cannot let go of the straws he is clutching onto, taking pot shots at President Mugabe at the slightest opportunity.
This is the same Morgan who since the last century has not won a single election. Morgan bleats that “yesterday’s people cannot solve today’s problems”.
So please tell us why you are still using yesterday’s clearly unviable strategy of blaming President Mugabe for all of today’s problems?
Have you not learnt anything, anything at all, in the last 16 years? It’s little wonder why every other year there is a breakaway from MDC.
There are too many limitations and impracticalities in your politics, Morgan.
For starters, you draw lines in the sand and each time the wind comes, they are blown away.
Your high-sounding nothings neatly stacked in cupboards at Harvest House are pieces of sublime mysticism and nonsense because they are premised on a reactionary ideology.
There is nothing new that the MDC has to offer. The only new thing so far is the different sounds of heckling they produce when the Zanu PF leadership stirs the nation towards economic growth.
For instance, MDC MPs opted to bray, neigh, bark, wail, howl, shriek, moo or cockadoodledoo when President Mugabe delivered that brilliant State of the Nation address in Parliament.
They simply had nothing to debate.
And when the President was gone, they whined that they wanted to ask him questions.
If I were unfortunate enough to be an MDC supporter, or if I were Obert Gutu, I would certainly call for Morgan to immediately step down for embarrassing us all and bringing the party into severe and crippling disrepute.
This nation is being drawn back by a fragmented and clueless opposition.
While one would have expected the Gamatox cabal to soft-pedal and back out of the journey to self-destruction, they continue to pig-headedly fan a “People First” mantra that lost flavour the moment a crazy Sisi Maggie latched onto it and launched Movement for People First.
And we also have the People’s Democratic Party led by a certain Tendai Biti.
People this, people that, my foot!
Indeed, Gamatox clowns have hardened their hearts and all we hear from them are the banal sounds of a greedy, selfish and power-hungry mis-leadership.
Rugare Gumbo and Didymus Mutasa are cheer-leading Mujuru’s demise.
Zimbabweans will not be misled by these pharaohs who wait until the 10th plague consumes their children for them to realise that they are up against a more superior force than the pathetic gods they worship.
In “Flesh and Blood”, Kunle A Omowumi asks: “Why are factional leaders not ready to come and resolve their differences? The truth is that they are only fighting for their personal gains. They have turned the quest for power to be ‘winner takes all’.
“After destroying their people and depleting the resources of their nations, who are they going to lead or govern?”
Indeed, I too may ask, after alienating themselves from the people, who is this cabal going to lead or govern?
It is all a circus in the opposition.
I mean, I said in this very column the other week that Sisi Maggie, for instance, is a spoilsport.
And this is what spoilsports say: “It is necessary to correct the seeming impression that what we have launched is a fully-fledged political party that works against the People First aspirations to form a new political party in Zimbabwe.
“The correct position is that the Movement for People First is a grouping that is set to work towards a common political front under Joice Mujuru…”
With such confusion, plague after plague will surely rid Zimbabwe of the debris called the opposition.
Dubulaizitha!
Online Reporter