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Gibson Mhaka
MDC-T leader and outgoing Prime Minister, Mr Morgan Tsvangirai lost two consecutive presidential elections in 2002 and 2006, led in the third in March 2008 but lost the subsequent run-off before he dismally lost in his fifth attempt exactly a month ago. President Mugabe emphatically garnered over 61 percent of the vote in the just-ended election, way ahead of Mr Tsvangirai who only managed 33,9 percent.
Observers see 31 July as the day that marked the beginning of the end to the Western-sponsored party.
Former MDC-T councillor for Ward 14 in Bulawayo, Mr Phinias Ndlovu, who contested the 31 July elections as an independent candidate, said the defeat was morale shattering for MDC-T. He said the electorate was now waiting for a new political party to take over from the MDC-T.
“The party is finished as a political force,” he said.
“They have tried and failed to win three times in a row. Their undoing has been personal shortcomings, greed and violating the party’s founding principles. The leaders have to ask themselves what is wrong, especially after having more than 57 people from the party contesting as independents,” he said.
He said if the party continued on the self-destructive path it appears to have set for itself, it would contest the 2018 elections as a minority group and that is if it survives until that time.
The underlying truth is that the MDC-T, particularly its leader Mr Tsvangirai who is clearly heading to a political wilderness, lacked the strategy to campaign which led people to overwhelmingly vote for President Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party.
Among other reasons, Zanu-PF won because of its sound manifesto which spelt out progressive policies aimed at restoring people’s God-given sovereignty through economic empowerment.
It does not need messianic wisdom to see that the revolutionary party won because of its pro-people programmes.
The perennial loser, Mr Tsvangirai needs to be reminded that politics is not about pursuing Western-designed policies bent on dispossessing Africans of their natural resources but it is all about advancing homegrown and people-oriented policies.
Politics is not about going around opening your zip to every woman whom you think can satisfy your sexual desires with but is about respecting the values and principles of womanhood.
Again Mr Tsvangirai needs to be reminded that politics is not about reversing God’s wisdom, indeed God created Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve so his support for homosexuality which the President and Zanu-PF roundly condemned proved costly for him.
Before the harmonised elections, Zanu-PF’s triumph was certain after self-loving Zimbabweans realised that the opposition party had been perfecting the art of taking them for a ride since its formation in 1999.
They realised that many half backed ideas from the party were advanced subtly as locally formulated policies when they were in fact the not-so-secret plans by the West to effect a regime change in the country, with the Western sponsored party’s leaders being unwitting pawns.
Another monumental blunder made by the party prior to the elections under the rubric of democratic space is that its politicians became self-appointed purveyors of falsehoods amply supported by the Western media to spearhead the “blame-it-on-President Mugabe campaign” that all problems bedevilling the country were caused by the President and his Zanu-PF party.
A case in point is when Mr Tsvangirai and his party lied to the people that the illegal sanctions do not affect them but a few in Zanu-PF whereas reality shows that ordinary Zimbabweans are the worst affected. The sanctions were meant to inflict pain on people so that they turn against Zanu-PF.
They were also part of an elaborate propaganda strategy to create hatred and revulsion in the hearts and minds of Zimbabweans so that they would turn against their liberators in pursuit of an agenda driven by imperialists.
At worst the MDC-T were hoping to use the hoped-for protests to build cheap politics for the minds of the gullible, which however, proved hard to come by as Zimbabweans have learned to separate fact from fiction.
Rather than blaming President Mugabe for imaginary wrongs, it is time that MDC-T took responsibility for the dark decade of poverty and violence their Western-tailored policies unleashed on the innocent people of this nation.
People resoundingly voted for Zanu-PF because they have recognised that MDC-T stands for the reversal of all the revolutionary party’s pro-poor policies, with land being redistributed to the landless blacks.
There is no democracy in such change (that protects minority interests) but it is just mere rhetoric which MDC-T was employing to push its political adventurism.
President Mugabe was also voted because people rejected to be baited by Mr Tsvangirai’s nocturnal acts of sacrificing the nation on the altar of British colonialism. Remember that the MDC-T leader who lost the presidential race to President Mugabe is the same Mr Tsvangirai who once fell short after declaring that he would reverse the land reform programme if his party took over the Government.
He taunted fellow blacks who benefited from the land reform programme as “stone-age scavengers” who would fail because of lack of the requisite farming equipment and knowledge.
What he failed to appreciate was the fact that the resettlement or allocation of land to the landless majority was only the first step in the agrarian revolution.
From these observations it is clear that Mr Tsvangirai was an unwitting victim of his own deception. His move to file an election petition claiming elections were not held in a credible manner, although he later withdrew it claiming the courts would deliver an unfair judgment, was a woefully empty, symbolic protest that has exposed his shallow understanding of the legal process.
There is also no doubt that the move was just cheap politicking, high sounding threats but very thin in detail. Mr Tsvangirai was just acting like a court jester, engrossed in his play to the gallery as the whole thing exposed his political immaturity.
His claims, as one political commentator put it, was equivalent to the quandary of a drunkard who loses his car keys on the dark side of the street only to look for them on the lit side in the real but vain hope of finding them there.
Mr Tsvangirai is displaying some political shortcomings not expected from someone like him who was or is eyeing the highest office in the land.
His solace now seems to lie in the camaraderiefrom his handlers, the Europeans, who sponsor his party.
Online Reporter