'MDC will overthrow Zanu-PF before 2023' - irony of irony, ones foolishly keeping illegitimate regime in power

The country is in serious trouble with unemployment a nauseating 90%; basic services such sheath and education all but collapse; facing fuel, cash and medicine shortages; 19-hour power cuts; 5.7 million people needed food aid; etc. Instead of those in power coming up with solutions to the many teething problems they are wasting time in their own macabre sabre-rattling contest!

"We are a committed leadership that will give Zanu-PF headaches and [Amos] Chibaya was not lying or joking about the war and fight we are going to take to the doorsteps of Emmerson Mnangagwa. We are going to overthrow him before 2023 that is not a joke," said Job Sikhala, MDC Vice Chairperson at a Rally in Bikita.

"When a person says they want to overthrow a constitutionally-elected President, they are committing an offence and they are threatening a coup, this will not be allowed in this
country. We love our peace and it will be protected," came the reply from the Zanu-PF Youth League leader, Lewis Matutu.

The irony is that Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF regime are NOT constitutionally elected because last year's elections were NOT free and fair as MDC leaders have readily admitted.

ZEC failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters' roll, for Pete's sake! It is MDC who have given Zanu-PF the modicum of legitimacy by participating in the flawed and illegal elections. Even with all the evidence that Zanu-PF had indeed rigged the elections, MDC has nonetheless remain ambivalent in their condemnation of the elections.

"Legitimacy is an issue - last year's elections were illegal, and not free and fair. All reasonable observers concede that," commented David Coltart, MDC Treasurer General.

MDC has been calling for political dialogue to resolve the legitimacy issue. The party is demand a power sharing transition authority (TA) in which Nelson Chamisa and a few other MDC members are to be given cabinet positions complete with the ministerial limo, generous salary, etc. MDC claim the TA will revive the economy and implement the reforms to stop Zanu-PF rigged future elections. All nonsense, of course! MDC failed to get even one reform implemented in the 2008 GNU when the party had the majority in cabinet and parliament and the backing of SADC leaders. It is hard to see how the party can achieve anything in this TA when Zanu-PF hold all the trump cards.

MDC leaders are selling-out the cause for free, fair and credible elections as the only basis for political legitimacy for selfish person gain.

It is laughable that MDC sold-out to give the illegitimate Zanu-PF regime legitimacy is now talking of using violence to force the latter to share the spoils of power. Whilst Zanu-PF, for its part, blatantly rigged the elections and will now use brute force to retain its corrupt and tyrannical rule.

Meanwhile, Zimbabwe's economic meltdown is getting worse and worse and the nation is being pushed deeper and deeper into this hell-on-earth we find ourselves in. The only way out is for this illegitimate Zanu-PF regime to step down so we can appoint an interim administration or transition authority, call it what you wish, composed of individuals who can be trusted to implemented the democratic reforms and thus end the curse of rigged elections.

The opportunity to pressure Zanu-PF to step down is there; most of the international community accept that Zanu-PF rigged last year's elections and the regime is therefore is illegal. The fly in the ointment is MDC who want to sell legitimacy and will even drag the nation into violent street protests to push their selfish demands.