“MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday tagged Joyce Mujuru and PDZ party leader Barbara Nyagomo into his MDC party,” reported ZimEye.
“ZimEye.com can reveal members of the various political formations were pulled into the MDC State of The Nation Address special function on Saturday”
Exciting indeed!
Tsvangirai gave the nation details of the consequences of the Zanu PF’s rigged elections in his address but said nothing about how the rigged July 2013 elections were themselves a consequence of MDC’s failure implement the democratic reforms agreed in the GPA.
Tsvangirai and his fellow MDC leaders had five years to implement the reforms but failed to get even one reform implemented. SADC and others had warned MDC on the need to implement the reforms to ensure future elections were free, fair and credible but MDC ignored the warning.
All along Tsvangirai has publicly denied that SADC heads warned MDC on the reforms. But three months ago his spokesman, Luke Tamborenyoka, has publicly admitted to MDC being warned on the reforms and the “folly” of ignoring the warning. MDC made the public admission just before the scheduled SADC meeting in Harare because the party wanted to meet SADC heads and present them with another one of MDC’s endless petitions. SADC heads ignore MDC.
Ever since the rigged July 2013 when SADC heads dismissed Tsvangirai and his fellow MDC leaders as corrupt, incompetent and sell-outs they have pointedly ignore MDC. SADC vomited you MDC lot out then, so did the Western donors and many others too; they will never gone back to eat vomit.
Yes MDC still has some followers amongst the Zimbabwe electorate but these are who have never understood what the reforms were throughout the GNU years and still do not to this day! These are the naïve and gullible who have been brainwashed by the decades of Zanu PF propaganda into simpleton who can only follow like sheep and are incapable of thinking for themselves or see reason! It took two decades for them to finally accept that Mugabe is a corrupt and murderous tyrant it will take another two decades for them to see Tsvangirai for the corrupt and incompetent man he is.
To be fair to the MDC supporters, they are not the only ones who have no idea what the democratic reforms are about. Tsvangirai and his MDC teams have no clue what these reforms are. Since the rigged July 2013 elections MDC-T has called for the boycott of all future elections until their demands of eight electoral reforms are implemented.
“In the previous elections, the people of Zimbabwe have won the election but lost the results and we pledge in our diversity to continue to insist on the implementation of both the Constitution and the reforms agreed under the auspices of SADC and the African Union,” said Tsvangirai is his Saturday address.
Tsvangirai has never mentioned and of the GPA reforms until now. If he really understood anything about the GPA reforms then he would know that Zanu PF will never ever implement these reforms now that the GPA has expired just because Tsvangirai has finally woken up to their importance!
“I see the true grand coalition (MDC-T being joined by Mai Mujuru’s People First and Nyagomo’s PDZ) not as the unity of individuals or leaders of political parties, but as a unity of Zimbabweans who possess shared values and convergence on the patriotic goal to take our country forward,” said Tsvangirai.
“Today, I promise Zimbabweans that we are on the brink of an exciting political moment and they will be see us as political leaders converging on those issues that matter most to us all Zimbabweans.”
This is nothing but a case of the blind leading the blind deeper and deeper into the political and economic hell Tsvangirai got the nation into by failing to implement the raft of democratic reforms agreed in the GPA in 2008.
Until the Zimbabwe electorate take time to understand what the reforms are about; only then will they elect the men and women who too understand the reforms and will the nation be assured that all the reforms will finally be fully implemented; this nation will never break the endless cycle of empty promises change from the opposition followed by more Zanu PF rigged elections.
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Those you still support Tsvangirai did not do so because he was going to deliver change and that is why they still support regardless the fact he failed to deliver any!
I could not agree with you more.
We should not forget that SADC heads dumped Tsvangirai after the rigged July 2013 elections and they have ignored him ever since and so has the rest of the thinking world. Even if all Zimbabweans out there swore their support for Tsvangirai, it will not change the fact that he is a corrupt and incompetent idiot. All the public support will show is that Zimbabwe is a nation of idiots, because only certified idiots would elect an idiot again and again and again!
What good has President Mugabe done to the struggle if he fought in the war only to deny us all our basic human rights and freedoms including the chance to earn a decent living, the right to a meaningful vote by rigging elections and even the right to life! He has murdered over 30 000 in his 35 years in power.
What good has Tsvangirai done if he stood up against the Zanu PF dictatorship but only to forget about the reforms the minute he was in the GNU?
Both President Mugabe and Tsvangirai have revealed that they took part in the struggle for freedom and human dignity not because they believed in the cause but as a means of getting them into power. The minute they got into power they showed they real intention, they have been transformed from liberators to a murderous tyrant and to a sell-out.
You want to live in the past and see the liberator and not the mercenary before you; you have always had your head stuck in these leaders’ backsides, that is your stupid business; do not try to force others to do the same.
There two types of armchair personalities; the couch potato with his head stuck in the backside of the leader and the thinker chaining out ideas, critics and forcing others to think for themselves. I will leave you, as a mental exercise, to figure out for yourself which group you belong to and which Wilbert belongs to!
The struggle is not always a physical confrontation my friend the mental
struggle is just as important. Indeed in a nation with some many people whose brains have turned to fat because of a lifetime of inactivity our struggle is a mental one.
We will now see for ourselves that the pen is indeed mightier than the gun!
People like Mugabe and Tsvangirai have taken this nation two steps forward and made a big song and dance about that one and then taken the nation ten or even twenty steps backwards, in the case of Mugabe with all he has done to destroy the economy and all the innocent blood he has shed, and the naive and gullible are still transfixed about the two step forward!
It has taken 20 years before many Zimbabweans realized that Mugabe’s net contribution is a large negative it will probably take them another 10 years before these Zimbabweans finally realize the damage Tsvangirai has done. This nation does not have time to waste, another year of this hell is unthinkable let alone another ten years!
We have to get over this nonsense that each time someone tries to hold a public official to be democratically accountable they hide behind this smoke screen of “You are a couch critic who has done nothing but play the blaming game!” This is no different from Zanu PF’s equally fallacious propaganda gimmick in which corruption is now presented to the naïve and gullible as black economic empowerment.
Of course someone will benefit from corruption but that is not what is at issue, it is the activity itself that is at issue. Both Bill Gates and Mugabe are billionaires but what set the two apart is that the former earned his money through hard work; he has produced and sold billions of computers; whereas the latter got his vast fortune by abusing his political position and loot from the nation and people of
Zimbabwe.
Of course Mugabe has been economically empowered by the looted fortune but that does not change the fact that he earned it was all through corrupt means!
First these MDC supporters would not accept Tsvangirai is incompetent and corrupt and they now do but grudgingly and are finding comfort in accusing those pointing out the facts about Tsvangirai of playing the blaming game.
This is not a game, the destiny of the whole nation is at issue here. Tsvangirai is corrupt and incompetent and therefore must never again be elected into public office, period! There is no if or but about that one!
Exactly!
No one has ever said Tsvangirai is “solely” responsible for the failure to implement reforms; the rest of the MDC leaders played their part and so did the Zimbabwe electorate by failing to push them during the GNU and to hold them to account since the rigged elections.
What I refuse to accept is the argument that since he was not the only one responsible for the betrayal let us sweep it all under the carpet, pretend it never happened, and give him another chance! A corrupt, incompetent and or sell-out – and Tsvangirai is all three – does not get another chance; it is one strike and he/she is out!
Point taken but I have another theory why the world at large, SADC, the West and everybody, are washing their hands of Zimbabwe as a lost cause.
During the GNU all these people supported and egged MDC and the nation to implement the democratic reforms because they realized that this was the key to ending the country’s political and economic chaos. Of course the world was disappointed that MDC failed to get even one reform implemented and the whole world was even more disappointed that Zimbabweans themselves did not care that MDC had betrayed them.
So if MDC did not care that Zanu PF remained in power and the people of Zimbabwe themselves do not care too why should the rest of the world care!
If Zimbabweans still give their support to a corrupt and incompetent opposition that has already proven beyond doubt that they are corrupt and incompetent; it is the people’s folly and we must not expect the rest of the world to support us in any way in that foolishness.
Shava we are not helping our struggle to end this Zanu PF dictatorship by stubbornly returning an incompetent leadership to champion the struggle we are doing the exact opposite.
As long as Zimbabweans continue to pick corrupt and incompetent leaders to lead them we are telling the rest of the world that we are not yet serious to end the corrupt and tyrannical rule in Zimbabwe. When we are ready we will demonstrate that by picking competent leaders.
And what did Tsvangirai accomplish by standing up to Zanu PF one day and then betraying the struggle the next day?
It seems many Zimbabweans cannot accept that Tsvangirai is corrupt and incompetent regardless of all the evidence that he is because they have accepted that President Mugabe is a corrupt and murderous tyrant. They cannot accept two wrongs and so they condemn the latter and wash the former squeaky clean!
What these people fail to realize is that they need a competent opposition leader to remove Mugabe, as you have correctly stated Tsvangirai has already had a chance to end the Zanu PF dictatorship but failed because he is corrupt and incompetent.
It is not so much that these MDC supporters cannot handle the reality of Tsvangirai being corrupt and incompetent per se but that they are mentally too lazy to ask themselves what qualities they need to look out for in a quality opposition leaders and then go out and find one such leader. If these people had done this then they would have never elected Tsvangirai in the first place. And now even with the benefit of hindsight, evidence of Tsvangirai’s blundering failures, they are still unwilling to snap out of their mental comatose state and reject Tsvangirai!
Zimbabwe is in this political mess because we have an electorate that will not give up its foolish ways of following blindly like sheep and think for themselves!
Charovedzera charovedzera, gudo rakakwira mawere kwasviba! The Zimbabwe electorate are used to sticking their heads into the leaders’ backsides, a very dirty habit, and some habits are hard to give up!
Hauna nyaya iwe Mr Caplocks armchair critic. Iwe chii chawakaita towards the struggle?
iyo blame game ndomutambo wake Tsvangson. akatombopuwa mukana wekunanzva hurumende akakanganwa zvese zvemareforms izvi. anoti chakamutadzisa kuaita chii? kana akaatadza achirimo ndopaachaaita akunze kwehurumende here? imi hamuoni here kuti zungairwa iri roda kutamba nepfungwa dzrvanhu? kutsvaga chekurarama nacho uku hapana democracy yaanotiudza apa. varungu vakamudhampa kuratidza kuti idofo. he is as useless as a one legged man in an ass kicking competition kkkk
True that Patrick but what i am mostly worried about is the fact that us Zimbabweans do very little if nothing towards the attainment of our individual rights and freedoms whilst at the same time we want to be very critical of those making an effort. In i am not mistaken most of the people that pass comments are actually outside the country and have note voted in a very long time… Freedom is not just going to come on a silver player gentleman.. The reason why even some western countries are now washing their hands off the Zimbabwe issue is because of our general complacency . Its like when people come to a funeral to help you mourn but in the end the find out that they are actually mourning more than the berieved.
There can only be one president and only one leader of the opposition at any given time so the rest of us have to accept the subordinate role of holding these two to account.
Yes Tsvangirai was “actually brave enough to go face to face with the government” no one is disputing that but that does not mean he is now free to do as he please. The people elected him to deliver democratic reforms, he had the chance to do so but sold-out; it is right and proper that he should be held to account for that.
Similarly President Mugabe was brave enough to face the Smith regime that did not give him the right to ride roughshod over the people’s basic rights including the right to a meaningful vote and the right to life. President Mugabe has presided over the murder of over 30 000 innocent Zimbabwe for his selfish political gain; he must be held to account for that, the rigged elections, the looting and plunder, etc. regardless of his liberation war record!
If you do not want to sit down on the couch, stand-up,
sit on the floor do whatever you please as long as you fulfill your duty of
holding those in public office to account the nation will not care what else
you do. What the nation, any nation, will not tolerate couch potatoes who are
not only failing to hold leaders to account but want others to do the same
under the cowardly and false logic that to do so will be to “play the
blaming game”!
I hear what you are saying but will have to beg to differ with you on two points. First of all for us to avoid making the same mistake(s) over and over again we must have the courage to look at the past and be ruthlessly honest with ourselves.
Kenya had a similar GNU following the violent elections in 2007 and credit
where credit is due Raila Odinga was in an identical political situation as
Morgan Tsvangirai. At the end of Kenya’s GNU the country was able to hold free, fair and credible elections and today it has a free media, free and independent judiciary, etc.
Odinga did put his head down and carried out the necessary democratic reforms as contrast to Tsvangirai and his MDC fellows who “were busy enjoying being in government and forgot why they were there” as SADC Heads have said.
You want to sweep Tsvangirai’s corruption, incompetence and betrayal under the carpet and pretend the GNU did not happen?
Putting the two points together leaves us in this unenviable position where we once again electing the same corrupt and incompetent MDC fellows to carry out the exact same task of implementation of reforms which they failed so dismally to do during the GNU. So we are to cross our fingers and toes and hope they will do it this time?
Sorry but that is a stupid argument, only someone incapable of learning from the past would repeat the same time and expect a different result.
We want to give our people hope in the future but that must be based on a sound plan and not a hopeless one. To pin the nation’s hope of implementing the reforms on a corrupt and incompetent leader like Tsvangirai is an act of hopeless desperation and not reason!
By failing to get even one reform implemented in five years of the GNU Tsvangirai and his MDC friends have proven beyond all doubt that they indeed corrupt,
incompetent and sell-out. So why are any Zimbabwean taking MDC seriously is what I fail to understand?
true that Geoffrey the problem with us Zimbabweans is that we practice what is called couch activism and this is when we sit at home and watch politics from the television or rather express comments on social media platforms whilst on the other hand people like Tsvangirai were actually brave enough to go face to face with the government and now all we do is play the blame game!!! ko iwe chi chawakaita???
Tsvangirai is not an angel but to blame him solely for the failure to carry out the needed democratic reforms under the existing political arrangement at that time is dishonest to say the least. Some people are obssessed with the blame game. Anyway, that is water under the bridge now. The crucial and urgent question is What is to be done now?Come on, lets get moving instead of moaning and groaning over our past failures. Time is of essence and there is none to waste.