"Opposition parties have largely become by-standers in
the unfolding Zanu-PF factional and succession drama that is negatively
impacting on the country and its economy,” observed Ibbo Mandaza, a political
analyst and commentator.
The lack of quality in our so called expects has not helped us avoid this economic and political mess we now find ourselves in and, worse still, nor will it help us get out of the mess. Ibbo Mandaza said the “opposition parties have largely become by-standers” as if he really expected them to do something useful.
The lack of quality in our so called expects has not helped us avoid this economic and political mess we now find ourselves in and, worse still, nor will it help us get out of the mess. Ibbo Mandaza said the “opposition parties have largely become by-standers” as if he really expected them to do something useful.
We are talking here of the MDC opposition which failed to get
not even one democratic reform implemented in five years of the GNU. These are
breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent men and women with no principles or
sense of moral responsibility to anyone. For a seat on the gravy train and $ 4
million Highlands mansion for Tsvangirai they sold-out to Mugabe and kick
reforms into the tall grass.
There are many, many lessons we as a nation should have
learned in the last 36 years of relentless march from a nation full of hope and
confidence in 1980 to the impoverished and disillusioned nation we are today.
One of the many lessons we should have learnt is the critical importance of
electing good leaders; like it or not this nation is not going anywhere until
we learn this lesson.
“It pays in the end, to buy the best in the beginning!” ran the
Eric Davies advert, a quality man’s wear shop in Harare and Bulawayo.
The price of electing poor leaders to the nation is even
higher than the price the individual pays for buying a poor quality shirt from one
of those “Tinopangana” shops.
In 2008, with the shops empty and the value of Z$ not even
worth the paper it was printed on, Zimbabweans were desperate for democratic
change they risked life and limp in 2008 to vote for Tsvangirai et al. Sadly
they were so desperate they did not pay attention to the key issue of quality.
Tsvangirai and his friends have since turned out to be breathtakingly corrupt
and incompetent; they failed to bring about even one single change in their
five years in the GNU.
To expect Tsvangirai at el to come up with anything remotely
useful now or ever is to fail to see them for the breathtakingly corrupt and
incompetent and sell-outs they are. One does not expect blood from a stone so why
should one expect something useful or competent from a breathtakingly corrupt
and incompetent person!
Zimbabweans have yet to take the business of electing competent
leaders with the seriousness and urgency the matter demands because until we
do, our 36 year march into the abyss will continue!
It is hard to believe that someone as shrewd as Ibbo Mandaza has not yet worked out for himself what happened during the GNU and arrived at the conclusion many people have arrived at; i.e. that Tsvangirai and his MDC friends are breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent. If we give Ibbo Mandaza the benefit of the doubt and assume that he now knows Tsvangirai is indeed corrupt and incompetent then, yes, why in the name of the living GOD is he expecting MDC to come up with anything useful.
ReplyDeleteIt seems some Zimbabweans are able to think as far as the tip of their nose and can go no fur-ther!
So if a an intellectual like Ibbo Mandaza cannot make the quantum leap that someone who is corrupt and incompetent - Tsvangirai has proven that beyond all reasonable doubt - is not suitable to hold public office much less the highest office in the land how do you expect my aunt in the rural back water to make that leap!?????
For all their University PHDs (put aside the dodgy three months ones), degrees, diplomas, etc. Zimbabweans lack the key without which all their academic qualification are useless - common sense.
President Mugabe has seven University Degrees including one in economics but one would not to think so to look at the economic mess he has made of the nation's once promising economy. Some of the policies the regime has pursued defy common sense.
Zimbabwe does not need a complete overhaul of its political institutions but of its academic institutions too; we do not need academic who are so naive and gullible they expect blood from a stone!
Both Zanu PF and the opposition have played their part in dragging us into this hell and we need to think outside the box because the people who got us into this mess are not going to get us out of it. We have a political system that says the only political leaders are either Zanu PF, Zanu PF rejects, MDC or MDC rejects. Thinking outside the box in this case means not just rejecting all the failed leaders the system is offering but go one step further and reject the system itself. We must implement ALL the GPA reforms designed to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship and replace it with a healthy and functional democratic system.
ReplyDeleteThe only leaders the nation should consider for leading the nation must be those who have gone through the new democratic purification process. Democracy will wash whiter than white! Corrupt and incompetent leaders like Tsvangirai will fall flat on their faces if he was to face a grilling from some clever journalist like Violet Gonda as contrast to the brain dead Ruben Barwe!
@ Mukanya
ReplyDeleteThis is not the first time we will be subjected to this kind of classical divide and rule nonsense regardless how feeble and unproven the basis happens to be. Musewe and now you have come up with this ridiculous notion that only Zimbabweans in the diaspora want the GPA reforms implemented those inside the country do not.
When Zanu PF came up with its claim that the majority of Zimbabweans want the sanctions lifted the party took the trouble to force thousands of ordinary people to sign its petition and bussed the people from as far afield as Gweru for its 0ne million-man match in Harare (still the crowd was less than 500 000). Musewe has not done any such thing and yet he has the audacity to claim all Zimbabweans in the country do not want GPA reforms implemented and he knows best what the people want! Nonsense!
If anything it is the people inside the country who will be pushing hard for the reforms to be implemented before the elections; if the country is subjected to the same political violence as happened in 2008, it is they on the coal face who will burn not those in the diaspora.
The people must not allowed themselves to be conned by MDC into risking life and limp in elections with no reform just to remove Mugabe only by being more assertive they can have it all. Demand the full implementation of GPA reforms and they will finally have free, fair and credible elections; they will remove Mugabe from office guaranteed this time and they will have destroyed the one-party dictatorship for all times!
@ Themba
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