Thursday 7 January 2016

No wonder Vince Musewe is totally lost, he has a broken compass and cannot read the roadmap! By Wilbert Mukori


Vince Musewe, now I can see why you are hopeless lost; you have a compass that does not work and you are holding the map upside down – a clear sign you cannot read!

“In 2013 before the July elections, I asked the question- what if ZANU (PF) wins,” you said. “It turns out that I was unintentionally correct and the sad reality is that our opposition political parties had not even considered that scenario in their strategies. They never had an alternative plan. As a result they were subsequently paralysed by the shocking result and up to this day, we have all suffered for their inability to consider and plan for all probable outcomes. My greatest fear is that history may repeat itself once more come 2018.

You have clearly missed the heart and soul of this GNU and reform debate! If was never a matter of what if Zanu PF wins the July 2013, without even one democratic reform implemented Zanu PF was certain to win!

“In my humble opinion what I see as the problems include the loss of the 2013 general elections and our pretence that rigging was the main problem,” admitted Samuel Sipape Nkomo in an interview with Hebert Moyo of the The Independent in 2014.” We have failed to admit that we did not live up to expectations. For me, I would say that rigging would only be 10% of the problem, and 90% was our fault.”

“Can you explain?” asked Hebert Moyo

“We failed to secure critical reforms before participating in the elections. The whole world advised us not to get into the elections without reforms, and so in everything that we have been saying we have failed to acknowledge that we also made a mistake,” answered Nkomo.

Of course the whole world could see what was coming; with not even one reform implemented there would be nothing to stop Mugabe rigging the elections and that is exactly what happened! It is cheap politicking, to say the least, for brother Musewe to tell us he raised the possibility of Zanu PF winning the July2013 elections as if it was a bolt of pure genius.

What the nation would want to know Mr Musewe is whether you raise this matter with Tsvangirai and the other MDC leaders warning them of the folly of taking part in the elections with no reforms in place.

“It is common knowledge that Lindiwe Zulu (President Jacob Zuma’s international relations adviser) advised us,” answered Sipape Nkomo when he was asked who had warned MDC. “Zuma also advised us and even the Sadc Heads of State meeting in Maputo (Mozambique) also advised not to participate in the elections without electoral, media and security sector reforms, among others.”

So you see Mr Musewe, Zimbabwe had its golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms during the GNU but wasted it because of Tsvangirai and his MDC friends’ breath-taking incompetence. They warned repeatedly to follow the roadmap and implement the reforms but they would not listen.

If you had your full wits about you, Mr Musewe, then you would see that your “greatest fear of history repeating itself come 2018” are completely founded and that you, in your naivety, are dragging the nation down that path of yet another Zanu PF rigged elections. Tsvangirai and his MDC friends have already proven beyond all reasonable doubt that they are corrupt, incompetent and sell-outs so why are you presenting them to the nation as potential national leaders. If Mugabe was able to bribe and bamboozle them into doing nothing about democratic reforms during the GNU what makes think the tyrant will fail to do so again?

Sometimes one meets their destiny by the path they chose to avoid it! Here, by electing corrupt and incompetent leaders, whom we already know that they are indeed corrupt and incompetent, we will be going out of our way to court failure and disaster. Only a first class fool would do that!

Without severe international pressure on Zimbabwe to change its political systems, especially from the rest of Africa and within the region, it is highly unlikely that we will achieve any fundamental change in our politics. We are on our own,” you said.

You are absolutely right there my brother “we are on our own” now and rightly so too.

Think for once; why should SADC want to help us implement the reforms when we, through our MDC leaders, ignored their warning during the GNU?

In the face of the increasing economic meltdown in Zimbabwe, believe the international community would have started applying pressure on Mugabe to accept meaningful political reforms. But “to what end and purpose?” they ask themselves. The international community has lost all confidence in Tsvangirai as a national leader and hence the reason why some have even started re-engaging Mugabe.

Zimbabweans have the right to stick to Tsvangirai as their leader but we must know there is a price to be paid for that; by sticking to a corrupt and incompetent leader we are telling the whole world we are not yet ready for democratic change!
Mugabe is under great economic and political pressure from the economic meltdown and Zanu PF imploding he is still in power only because we, the people, are not clear what we want and where we are going. The men and women the nation has been looking up to, it turns out have compasses that do not work and cannot even read the map!

4 comments:

  1. During the GNU it was not up to Zanu PF whether or not to implement the GPA reforms, the reforms were listed and agreed they would be implemented. The only reason why not even one reform was implemented during the GNU is that President Mugabe had bribed MDC to forget the reforms. Your biggest problem Comrade Vince is that you do not want to accept that Tsvangirai sold out because you will then be force to accept that he is not suitable to be president.


    Tsvangirai is corrupt, incompetent and a sell-out these are historic facts that even you Vince with your command of language cannot gloss over.


    Of course President Mugabe will never accept the implementation of the reforms for obvious reasons - he cannot win free and fair elections. So he will have to be pressured into doing it. He was under pressure from SADC to implement the reforms in that he had signed the GPA agreeing to the reform. He was only let off the hook because MDC let him off the hook.


    Today President Mugabe is under pressure to accept political reforms as the only way to end the economic crisis but someone has to demand the implementation of the reforms and, so far, no one is doing so. The MDC led by none other than Comrade Musewe does not want reforms under the pretext Zanu PF would never implement them (MDC did not implement them during the GNU because President Mugabe bribed them and the latter is entitle to ex-pect MDC to accept the bribe was for all time).

    The only other group that could demand the implementation of reforms is the people them-selves. The people did not pressure MDC during the GNU to implement reforms because they did not know what the reforms were about. It is fair to say many still do not know. Con-fusing messages from the likes of Musewe and Tsvangirai has made things worse and not better!

    Even if Zanu PF was to somehow manage to stay in power to 2018, rig those elections and extend its stay in power the fact of the matter is the economic meltdown will continue to get worse and worse. Sooner or later the regime will come to its senses and accept political re-form. The only question then will be whether the nation will be smart enough to push for re-forms to ensure free and fair elections or will it be yet another political fudge resulting in the removal of Mugabe but only to replace him with another dictator!

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  2. @Choto
    I agree with you point that ordinary Zimbabweans have no political power and it is so because they are ignorant. This is not a new thing; they were ignorant and therefore powerless during the GNU too. If the people knew how important the reforms were they would have certainly forced those MDC village idiots to implement the reforms.

    Most of the people are still ignorant of how important the reforms are today. Educating them is not going to take place over night but it has started. Even you will have to admit a lot more people know about the reform now that did a few months ago. And not only that, most of these people also know that MDC sold-out during the GNU and deliberately did nothing to implement the reforms.

    Knowing that MDC sold-out during the GNU is very important because it means a lot more people are on guard against MDC selling-out again.

    You are putting pressure on the people to get the reforms implemented but smart people would also put pressure on Tsvangirai and MDC to get the reforms implemented because they are the country's official opposition and for once the public are going to have their money's worth. The second reason to push MDC to get the reforms implemented is because it was their fault not one reform was implemented during the GNU.

    For all you hot air, what are you proposing as the solution. But before you say anything you should know that allowing Zanu PF to to rig the next elections is not a solution. No opposition party worth its salt will take part in one more meaningless elections!

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  3. @ Mukanya
    What are you wittering about Wilbert must to this and by some stupid date "we tell him off and retake the initiative". If you were so smart why did you not pressure Tsvangirai and MDC to implement the reforms, they had majority in parliament, majority in cabinet, the backing of SADC, five years not three months to implement the reforms and, most important of all, you threatening to takeover everything.

    It is not for Wilbert to demand the implementation of reforms but the people themselves to. The right to free, fair and credible elections is for Wilbert it is the people's right. It is the people who want to see an end to the economic hardship, well the only way is by having free and fair elections and good and competent government.

    Wilbert has done an excellent job pointing the way out why should he be the one dragging the people by their ears out of this hell. They have been shown the way it is up to them to take it.

    What fresh ideas are you offering you empty head?

    You have been talking of Zanu PF connections but have failed to produce one iota of evidence to back you. I think it is you who is a Zanu PF agent pretending to be an MDC sup-porter and advising MDC to make one blunder after another.

    You are disparate to have the idea of implementing the reforms ruled out but so far have failed to give one sound reasons why it is a bad idea. If Wilbert Mukori is a Zanu PF agent fighting for me to have me right to a free, fair and credible elections, for economic recovery, etc. then I would be foolish to listen to an empty head like you Mukanya just because you say he is a Zanu PF agent!
    Whether you are just one of those MDC empty heads or a Zanu PF agent it is irrelevant, Wilbert has got you looking real stupid. You do not know what to do with him.

    So if nothing has happen after three months what are you going to do? What down every internet publication, have Wilbert arrested and locked up, what? This is just another frog boasting he will put out the forest fire with his fart!

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  4. If there are going to be any reforms implemented now it will have to be because the people pressured Zanu PF to accept reforms. It must also be appreciated that the only way for the country out of this mess is implementing the reforms another rig elections will only mean the nation is stuck in this hell for more years. So the question is not "What if no reforms are implemented by 2018?" But rather "What must we do to get those reforms implemented a.s.a.p.?" because we are going nowhere until they are implemented.

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