Tsvangirai calls for economic conference - the only conference must be to implement reforms

Morgan Tsvangirai says MDC-T will host a National Convergence Conference in two to three months' to discuss the country's worsening economic situation.

"This is not an MDC platform; everyone is invited including Zanu PF. This is a very serious challenge as the country is in a serious crisis written and authored by Zanu PF," Tsvangirai said. "The people who should welcome this conference the most are Zanu PF because we will provide a solution to the crisis they have created themselves."
What Tsvangirai has completely failed to appreciate is that Zimbabwe's economic problems have their roots in the country's tyrannical political system hence the reason why throughout the GNU when he had the chance to dismantle the dictatorship by implementing the agreed democratic reforms he failed to get even one reform implemented in five years.

Now he is wittering about economic conference; this is a waste of time and money because this will only seek to address the economic problem and not the political problem causing it. What the country needs is a political solution to a political problem.

The three main problems fuelling the economic meltdown are mismanagement, corruption and lack of donor and investor confidence in the country because of its unworkable indigenisation policies. Zanu PF has stubbornly refused to address these problems because they are closely tired with the political patronage system the regime has instituted and relies on now more than ever to stay in power. The only way forward is for the regime to step aside to allow for the implementation of ALL the democratic reforms and then the holding of free, fair and credible elections.

Tsvangirai and all his fellow MDC leaders like Tendai Biti, Welshman Ncube, etc. have been careful not to call for the implementation of the democratic reforms for fear it will be calling attention on them as people ask why the reforms were not implemented during the GNU.

Ever since the rigged 2013 election which saw many MDC politicians lost their public positions, they have been fighting hard to get back on the gravy train. Tsvangirai and others hope the conference will lead to a GNU mark-2 in which they will have a role and, most important of all, leg in the gravy train.

If there is going to be a conference then it must be to set up the body to implement the democratic reforms of which Zanu PF and MDC will have no role to play given that they are the ones who failed to implement the reforms during the GNU.  
 
"The signs of national leadership failure are now even more glaring for everyone to see, with government now literally lurching from one crisis to the other… Asi azvibatsiri kungochema (it doesn't help to moan all the time). We all have to find a way out of this situation," he said.
One of the greatest leadership failures in Zimbabwe history was MDC's failure to implement even one democratic reform in their five years in the GNU. If MDC had implemented the reforms then Mugabe would not have rigged the 2013 elections and the country would not be in this mess.
After 35 years of independence and being denied their basic and fundamental right to free, fair and credible elections this matter must now be dealt with once and once for all. The right to a free vote is the basis of good, accountable and legitimate government, we would not be in this hell-hole if we had one.