adminenough to warrant the death of Zanu-PF; the perceived western enemy that has no respect for Western interests in Zimbabwe. Indeed, it nearly made the MDC wantonly grab power on two occasions; in 2000 and in 2008, which years Zanu-PF was caught napping.
Now the MDC-T has come up with an avalanche of litigation all to scuttle elections that should be held by July 31.
The year 2008, is the year that Zanu-PF must never forget; the year that must remind the revolutionary party never to employ the “Bhora Mudondo” doctrine again. It is a year that must continuously remind Zanu-PF that “factionalism and imposition of candidates” are not concepts that wins the party the two thirds majority required to defend Zimbabwe’s sovereignty against the vampires from the West and their sponsored surrogates.
Starting from the day the MDC formations were formed in 1999, the hype and psyche of democracy, good governance and constitutionalism swept across the demographic strata of Zimbabwe.
Riding on the success story of a labour sister movement in Zambia (the MMD) the call for a democratic change in Zimbabwe was received with open ears and shut minds, mostly in urban areas.
The fact that the MDC as a movement, needed wheels and other platforms in order to drive its agenda was never a point of analysis.
The fact that its wheels and platforms from which it was driving the change were the West and Western founded and funded civil societies was never an analysed fact by the electorate especially the urban voters.
The MDC, riding on the illegal economic sanctions that caused compelling actions on voters, found it easy to lay the blame of economic mismanagement on Zanu-PF which had earlier been weakened by ESAP. This was an excruciating moment; the days of madness when the road for neo-colonialism was fast approaching.
The MDC asymmetric preach of democracy, human rights, rule of law and good governance intensified as it moved like a cyclone bombarding ears of every Zimbabwean with a reactionary melodious tune calling for the new dawn and democratic change.
Many of the weak minds succumbed to the propaganda that was supported by an attack on the Zimbabwean currency that resulted in quintillion percent supersonic inflation which was predicted by the architect of regime change; the US Ambassador Christopher Dell. By the way Dell is now working with Africom as the political advisor with an agenda of corrupting African Presidents to abandon Pan-Africanism. Wait and see!
The MDC formations finally agreed to form the inclusive Government together with the experienced revolutionary party Zanu-PF in 2009. The talk in the MDC circles then was that there was need for a home-grown constitution and to practice constitutional democracy as if they were merchants of hope when in fact they meant reversing of the Land Reform and negating the black empowerment act that Zanu-PF had started in 2000.
The day the MDC formations entered the IG was the day they started abrogating the constitution as they wantonly viewed that Tsvangirai had equal powers as the State President. The MDC started forming parallel Government institutions which was against the principle of good governance.
The MDC started overtly employing foreign security personnel such as Heatly, meeting NATO commanders and secretly calling for non-removal of sanctions which was against the constitution.
As the MDC formation in the IG went into both donor and IG driven comfort zones the talk about constitutionalism and democracy plunged to the “deep end”; the title for Tsvangirai treacherous book.
The call for the need of a level playing field, security sector reform, media reform and the deliberate delaying tactics in Copac became the new melodious tune for a continued de-factor presence in government. Many trips meant to canvass support from Sadc and AU for the elections to be unconstitutionally held in October 2013, were carried out with the support of the West.
Remember the West call themselves the tamplet for democracy and constitutionalism which in fact they deliberately financed to be abrogated by the MDC formations. What a shame!
Fellow citizens, the level playing field or environment that the MDC formations and Ms Lindiwe Zulu are treacherously calling for was never meant to be level in all intends and purposes.
The brutal truth is even the desert full of sands is never level. The seas which are full of water are never level. The earth which God created is never level, even human beings differ in shapes, size, social, political, economical and educational status hence the question of level playing field is not achievable.
The political playing field in Zimbabwe is skewed towards the MDC formations because more print media houses negatively write about Cde Mugabe and Zanu-PF as opposed to MDC formations. There is a plethora of foreign media which even at these times of re-engagement between Zimbabwe and the West they still report most favourably good about the MDC formations.
Thus the MDC formations call for the continued extension of the elections is an abrogation of constitutionalism and democracy which these formations speak highly about. MDC formations must learn from Zanu-PF that agreed to contest the 2008 elections regardless of the illegal sanctions impacting negatively on Zanu-PF side.
By proclaiming and setting elections dates, even when a fool knew the playing field favoured MDC formation in 2008, President Mugabe demonstrated a respect of constitutional democracy, not the nonsense we hear from the MDC formations.
One wanders what the legions of lawyers are doing in the MDC formations when they fail to interpret the constitution that a journalist Jealous Mawarire could easily interpret and win a constitutional case against them.
The MDC formations, instead of conceding to the constitutional court ruling, they chose to abrogate the constitution by attacking the Constitutional Bench which demonstrates violation of the rule of law and the principle of separation of powers.
It clearly demonstrates dictatorial tendencies akin with these formations and people may still recall the Angolan President telling Tsvangirai to look for a good lawyer instead of Biti and those in his party if ever Morgan was to get good unpolluted advice.
People must understand that a constitution sets the time frame within which elections must be held. What it means is that any electoral process must be done within the time frame set by the constitution as the supreme law of the land.
The constitution as a governing law on elections frequency is interpreted in line with the electoral frequencies that are enshrined in it. Electoral process cannot be applied to replace the frequencies through which elections in a constitutional democracy must be done.
Politicians must understand that elections are time framed to avoid any leader from ruling by decree except in times of war or when a state of emergency is declared.
Politicians must understand that elections are like a soccer game where injury or hospitalisation of any club player does not stop the game from being played except where more than two players are on national duty which equals what happens with elections when there is war.
Soccer teams train to be ready for any game at the stipulated date by the soccer governing body and the game date only changes if the soccer body cancels it for any reason which is simply the case with election dates that only change when the constitution is amended. However, the amendment must have constitutional reasonable grounds rather than individual or party reasons.
The MDC formations together with their wheels (the West) and platforms (civil societies and NGOs) must not endlessly abrogate the constitutional democracy that Zanu-PF has abided with since independence. Fellow citizens, let us be worry of importing the MDC leader Morgan Tsvangira’s dictatorship from Harvest House to the national Government. Icho!
Panganai Kahuni is a political socio economic commentator.
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