admindry throats so I will chug my coke before continuing with this instalment.
Back in the village, those whose palm kernels were cracked for them by a benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble and respectful of the same spirit.
Morgan Tsvangirai, who faced treason, is not in prison on the benevolence of the same judiciary system that he today derides and mocks.
This villager is no expert on Roman-Dutch law, but derives comfort from the fact that the village legal system is based on the same reasoning, virtues and values that the law applies to everyone inasmuch as rain does not fall on one roof, alone
But this villager might understand the pitfalls of a man who is suddenly confronted by the “accidental legal reality” that reflects on his mind that the end of his political career is nigh.
Village elders, the autochthons of wisdom and knowledge say an old woman is never comfortable where dry bones are mentioned.
The elections are upon us and Tsvangirai and his allies are openly no longer at ease. They are no longer comfortable with the law, no longer at ease with everything and everyone. No longer at ease with themselves! The mention of the July 31 election date, has sent chills down the spines of many political pretenders.
The village soothsayer, the ageless fountain of wisdom and knowledge says only a foolish cow cherishes going to the smartest abattoir.
The election is like an abattoir for Tsvangirai’s bovine political career.
He knows it.
He can put a brave face in public but as elders put it, a lizard that jumps from the tallest tree in public, pretends not to be injured, but will certainly feel the pain at night, when alone.
Is it not surprising how the Constitutional Court judgment came, calm, clear and with the depth of still waters? But to MDC-T leader Tsvangirai and his colleagues in the opposition, yes opposition, this calm and silent water will certainly drown them.
The silent and calm waters are never violent but once you sleep under them, you are gone, gone and gone for good.
In the village, the moon moves slowly, but it still crosses the chiefdom from the east to the west. It never fails to complete its course.
The election timeline came slowly but surely, like the moon and it is folly for others never to have expected the time to come. Zimbabweans cannot be held to ransom by a few men whose political ego is threatened by their imminent defeat.
We, in the village do not understand an inch about the so-called security sector reforms. What animal is that? How many legs does that animal have?
How does that affect our lives in the village? Does that animal feed on our crops? Does it prey on our cattle, donkeys and goats?
The animal we know in the village is the sanctions. The sanctions have made us fail to fully use our land. The sanctions have made us fail to market our products.
The sanctions have made Zanu-PF fail to give us the right amount of inputs as it used to do, before the sanctions were illegally imposed. The sanctions have undignified us.
They have sent our children to the Diaspora and they have indeed broken marriages and families.
The sanctions have sent our children outside the country as economic refugees. We the villagers, would land our ears to anyone who talks of removing sanctions to restore our lost humanism and dignity.
For more than a decade we have felt the sanctions. For more than a decade we have felt fully protected by the security sector. In the village, we used to be attacked by the bandits from the Mozambican National Resistance Army (Renamo) and our army liberated us.
As villagers, we do not understand why you talk of reforming this security sector as a precursor to elections.
When Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo fought the Rhodesians did they ask for security sector reform before the 1980 elections? They only reformed the security sector after winning.
What is so special about MDC-T that we should reform the security sector as a condition for elections? What then happens if Zanu-PF refuses to go for elections until the illegal sanctions are fully removed?
In fact, Zanu-PF has given in too much to MDC formations’ demands of this and that without reciprocal manoeuvres in the removal of sanctions. Removing dead people from the sanctions list is a mockery to all and sundry, in as much as it removes the juniors without from the list, without removing the Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the defence forces.
Back in the village, it is silly for Tsvangirai to even open his mouth and talk about reforming the security sector without removing the sanctions regime, he invited.
We, the villagers have very long memories and bear scars of the liberation struggle. When we thought we had done with the white Rhodesian supremacist regime, it manifested itself through the MDC and to us, the white man did not mince his words. “I am going to tell you where I am going to invest my money, I am investing in the MDC.”
Indeed the white man invested in the MDC and indeed the MDC was supported by a sanctions regime that still affects us today. Not even Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai can deny that. Only that he has no skin on his face, haana ganda kumeso.
In the village we know that at one stage Tsvangirai was arrested and charged with a crime we all thought was supposed to take him to jail for a very long time.
We, the villagers, were disappointed when the court dismissed his case.
The majority of villagers really felt he had a serious case. But we said it was rule of law and adhered to the judgment. Today, the same judiciary system has made a ruling giving an election period and so, because it is not in favour of MDC, the judgment is not good. We are villagers but not as silly as the MDC would want us to appear.
In the village, never call the forest that shelters you, a jungle. Back in the village, those whose palm kernels were cracked for them by a benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble, and respectful of the same spirit.
Tsvangirai should be the first to accept that we have the most reasonable and professional judiciary system that has sustained this country for a long time.
Respect for the judiciary is sacrosanct.
The judiciary is the State. You can change a government but not the State. You don’t go into politics and have everything done your way. A man who swallows a mango seed, must surely know that he has a big opening, for the seed would one day demand its exit.
The time is now.
Online Reporter