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Magaisa, with Herald's help, sends MDC on another wild goose chase whilst the hare, Mugabe, get away!
11 May 2015 at 08:58hrs | Views
Dr Alex Magaisa team up with the Herald to send the opposition on a wild goose chase as the opposition chases Mugabe's 63% popularity rating according to an Afrobarometer survey.
"My message to the opposition in the wake of the Afrobarometer survey has been that the opposition should not be flippant in their response to its findings. Even if they have criticisms of the report and believe that it is not a true reflection of the people's attitudes, my advice has been to adopt the "What if it is correct?" approach," Magaisa told The Herald Political Editor, Tichaona Zindoga in a long interview.
"In other words, even if you don't believe it, assume that it might be right and find ways of addressing the issues that it raises."
This is a nauseatingly nonsensical argument, design to set the opposition on a wild goose chase whilst the hare they should be after is allowed to get away.
No doubt Dr Magaisa gave MDC the same stupid "what if it is correct!" advice in 2012 following another Afobarometer survey that gave Mugabe a higher popularity rating than MDC. MDC took their eyes off the ball – of implementing the democratic reforms – then to focus on holding nationwide political rallies which had MDC leaders criss-crossing the country east to west and north to south and everywhere else in between to improve their rating.
In the end Mugabe did not "win" the July 2013 elections because he was popular but because he was able to blatantly rig the election; that is the irrefutable historic fact. Nearly one million voters failed to cast their vote, most of them were suspected to be MDC supporters, in that election because Mugabe, with the help of the Israeli company Nikuv, had deliberately posted the voters names in the wrong constituency.
Zanu PF supporters were issued with voter registration slips which allowed them to vote although their names were not in the voters roll. The arrangement these supporters to at more than one polling station. There were many confirmed reports of bussed in voters voting on elections day.
If MDC had ignored the Afrobarometer's survey and just concentrated on task of implementing all the democratic reforms, as SADC and other parties advised, then MDC would have stopped Nikuv tampering with the voters roll, for example, because an independent and none partisan ZEC would have ensured an accurate voters roll was produced and released to all parties on time.
There would have been no bussed in voters because a reformed Zimbabwe Republic Police would have arrested those involved and thus nipped that vote rigging trick in the bud, etc. In short, the July 2013 elections would have been free, fair and credible.
Instead of advising MDC to once again concentrate on getting all the democratic reforms implemented and thus stop a repeat of the July 2013 elections in Zimbabwe's next elections; Magaisa is once again telling the opposition to take their eyes off the ball. And judging from MDC-T's response the distraction is working!
"Naturally, the MDC will use the (Afrobarometer) report to inform its strategies going forward. These types of surveys assist us in providing data on the electoral environment," responded MDC-T spokesman Obert Gutu.
In all it's over 15 years in politics MDC-T has never produced anything anyone could call a "strategy" and no one expects these corrupt and incompetent individuals to do so now or ever.
MDC failed to implement even one reform in their five years in the GNU because they are incompetent, they swallowed hook, line and sinker of Magaisa's stupid advice, and corrupt, Mugabe bribed them to kick reforms into the tall grass. Of course MDC leaders "sold-out" as Mukanya Thomas Mapfumo rightly pointed out.
"It is an indisputable fact that the present political environment in Zimbabwe is dominated by fear and insecurity largely because of the tyrannical and dictatorial tendencies of the Zanu PF regime. Since attaining independence in April, 1980, the Zanu PF regime has, over the years, perfected the art of political thuggery, voter intimidation and electoral manipulation," continued Gutu, with his usual breath-taking incompetence.
MDC-T has already produced a watered down list of eight reforms from the original raft of democratic reforms agreed in the 2008 GPA. Whilst MDC-T has rightly identified Zanu PF's culture of political violence as a serious impediment to the holding of free, fair and credible elections yet none of the eight reforms the party has demanded will do anything to end this serious problem. Nothing!
Even if Afrobarometer's survey was right and one accepted Magaisa's "What if it is correct?" approach; still it would have made no sense back in 2012 to ignore the implementation of the democratic reforms given Mugabe's historic record of rigged elections. Today, with the benefit of hindsight of yet another Zanu PF blatantly rigged July 2013 elections; one would expected MDC's commitment to getting ALL the democratic reforms implemented properly unshakeable. Instead MDC is again neglecting this task to chasing this popularity rat race!
'Tsvangirai has no formula against Zanu-PF," says Magaisa. Well that one is true regardless of whether Dr Magaisa is a stupid advisor giving stupid advice or Dr Magaisa is in fact a double agent pedalling stupid advice to an equally stupid opposition. If indeed Tsvangirai had the formula against Zanu PF then the latter would not have found it so easy to blatantly rig the July 2013 elections. It is already clear that Zanu PF will rig the next elections if allow MDC to dictate what reforms should be implemented next time!
"My message to the opposition in the wake of the Afrobarometer survey has been that the opposition should not be flippant in their response to its findings. Even if they have criticisms of the report and believe that it is not a true reflection of the people's attitudes, my advice has been to adopt the "What if it is correct?" approach," Magaisa told The Herald Political Editor, Tichaona Zindoga in a long interview.
"In other words, even if you don't believe it, assume that it might be right and find ways of addressing the issues that it raises."
This is a nauseatingly nonsensical argument, design to set the opposition on a wild goose chase whilst the hare they should be after is allowed to get away.
No doubt Dr Magaisa gave MDC the same stupid "what if it is correct!" advice in 2012 following another Afobarometer survey that gave Mugabe a higher popularity rating than MDC. MDC took their eyes off the ball – of implementing the democratic reforms – then to focus on holding nationwide political rallies which had MDC leaders criss-crossing the country east to west and north to south and everywhere else in between to improve their rating.
In the end Mugabe did not "win" the July 2013 elections because he was popular but because he was able to blatantly rig the election; that is the irrefutable historic fact. Nearly one million voters failed to cast their vote, most of them were suspected to be MDC supporters, in that election because Mugabe, with the help of the Israeli company Nikuv, had deliberately posted the voters names in the wrong constituency.
Zanu PF supporters were issued with voter registration slips which allowed them to vote although their names were not in the voters roll. The arrangement these supporters to at more than one polling station. There were many confirmed reports of bussed in voters voting on elections day.
If MDC had ignored the Afrobarometer's survey and just concentrated on task of implementing all the democratic reforms, as SADC and other parties advised, then MDC would have stopped Nikuv tampering with the voters roll, for example, because an independent and none partisan ZEC would have ensured an accurate voters roll was produced and released to all parties on time.
Instead of advising MDC to once again concentrate on getting all the democratic reforms implemented and thus stop a repeat of the July 2013 elections in Zimbabwe's next elections; Magaisa is once again telling the opposition to take their eyes off the ball. And judging from MDC-T's response the distraction is working!
"Naturally, the MDC will use the (Afrobarometer) report to inform its strategies going forward. These types of surveys assist us in providing data on the electoral environment," responded MDC-T spokesman Obert Gutu.
In all it's over 15 years in politics MDC-T has never produced anything anyone could call a "strategy" and no one expects these corrupt and incompetent individuals to do so now or ever.
MDC failed to implement even one reform in their five years in the GNU because they are incompetent, they swallowed hook, line and sinker of Magaisa's stupid advice, and corrupt, Mugabe bribed them to kick reforms into the tall grass. Of course MDC leaders "sold-out" as Mukanya Thomas Mapfumo rightly pointed out.
"It is an indisputable fact that the present political environment in Zimbabwe is dominated by fear and insecurity largely because of the tyrannical and dictatorial tendencies of the Zanu PF regime. Since attaining independence in April, 1980, the Zanu PF regime has, over the years, perfected the art of political thuggery, voter intimidation and electoral manipulation," continued Gutu, with his usual breath-taking incompetence.
MDC-T has already produced a watered down list of eight reforms from the original raft of democratic reforms agreed in the 2008 GPA. Whilst MDC-T has rightly identified Zanu PF's culture of political violence as a serious impediment to the holding of free, fair and credible elections yet none of the eight reforms the party has demanded will do anything to end this serious problem. Nothing!
Even if Afrobarometer's survey was right and one accepted Magaisa's "What if it is correct?" approach; still it would have made no sense back in 2012 to ignore the implementation of the democratic reforms given Mugabe's historic record of rigged elections. Today, with the benefit of hindsight of yet another Zanu PF blatantly rigged July 2013 elections; one would expected MDC's commitment to getting ALL the democratic reforms implemented properly unshakeable. Instead MDC is again neglecting this task to chasing this popularity rat race!
'Tsvangirai has no formula against Zanu-PF," says Magaisa. Well that one is true regardless of whether Dr Magaisa is a stupid advisor giving stupid advice or Dr Magaisa is in fact a double agent pedalling stupid advice to an equally stupid opposition. If indeed Tsvangirai had the formula against Zanu PF then the latter would not have found it so easy to blatantly rig the July 2013 elections. It is already clear that Zanu PF will rig the next elections if allow MDC to dictate what reforms should be implemented next time!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
