Confusion in opposition will present Mugabe with a landslide victory

Our opposition should learn from its past mistakes and learn to correct them. In the past there are many flawed processes that took place but now its water under the bridge and it's high time that they must regroup and begin to work together. It's very disturbing that in this era today. In 2008 MDC-T T failed to garner the 50+1 percent vote because of Simba Makoni. What the opposition has failed to realise is that they is always infiltration in every election. There are so many opposition who are claiming to be democratic yet they are agents of Zanu-PF.

MDC-T should be calculative and intelligent to observe such kind of issues. In 2008 Tsvangirai was prevented from going to State House because of Makoni fiasco. Makoni was a project and I would like to believe he is still a project and he succeeded. He garnered 8% that prevented Morgan from walking into state house. In 2013 it was Mawarire Jealousy who made a silly application in high court and he was successful. Morgan was forced into a premature election without reforms.

Morgan should have not participated in the 2013 election by doing so he legitimised the whole process. What Zanu-PF wants is legitimacy and they know without legitimacy they can't run this country. In 2018 another samba Makoni will come in the form of these small parties. Tsvangirai and his advisors should wake up. I've reservation on people who are advising Tsvangirai, because if they can't see such things coming then it means we have a long walk towards the democratic struggle.

Now we hear Tendai Biti and Simba Makoni they want to lead the coalition, how many people does Tendai Biti and Makoni have? There is high level of suspicion over Tendai Biti s inclusion in these called South African talks. There are some small sponsored parties which are meant to destroy the coalition process and scuttling the whole process.

The same agents they tried to weaken the opposition base by splitting the party and it never worked well for them now they want to come back again in the form of coalition issues and national transitional processes. These are sponsored parties meant to dilute the opposition power house. Whilst the opposition is gripped with issues of who will lead the coalition, Zanu-PF is busy regrouping by reactivating their structures and oiling their machinery whilst the opposition are busy chasing after their shadows. Every plans in NERA are well known every time they have meetings the intelligence will be well ahead of them. When they formed NERA, they did it tactfully by forming CODE and I would like to believe CODE is an agent which is meant to dilute NERA. Zanu-PF knows well that a strong opposition with Tsvangirai on the lead will send panicking waves.

What Mujuru and Morgan should is to hold their talks and discussions in confident and solitary places and make public discussions in a wise manner. What Zanu-PF does not want to hear at the moment is coalition talks between Tsvangirai and Mujuru so what they have done is to sponsor these South Africa talks in order to bring confusion. We have more than 30 parties in this country why can't they field one candidate which has a good brand? The answer is simple, majority of them are sponsored parties meant to divert people s attention and hoodwink people into believing wrong information.

MLISWA SAGA

Tsvangirai and his aides were meant to believe that Mliswa is an opposition figure yet it was Zanu-PF at work. Mliswa visited Tsvangirai at his residence and he was meant to believe that Mliswa is part of him. If you check those cables that leaked in 2009 they revealed that Tsvangirai will take advice to the last person he meets. Why did Morgan accept rejects from Zanu-PF? If he is not careful the same thing will happen in 2018, he will discover it when it's too late. You need an intelligence department to work on this and identify the weaknesses of your opponent. When Morgan backed Mliswa he got the Norton seat on a silver platter, at a later stage he made a u turn and attacked Morgan and this was an embarrassment for the opposition who had trust in Mliswa.

FIELDING OF CANDIDATES

Tsvangirai and Mujuru should discuss the issue of ideologies, their differences and iron them quickly. They should identify which strong holds which Tsvangirai has and that of Mujuru then field single candidates in those areas. They should never make a mistake of fielding many candidates. Here is our proposals. What these leaders should do is to revise their past and correct their mistakes.



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Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo writes in his personal opinion as the Director of Mentorship Institute of National Development and Sustainability. MINDS is a civic society organization responsible for policy research, gender and development studies, public finance, sustainable development through Agriculture and rural development. He is also a consultant in Development and Capacity Development and Institutional Building. He can be contacted at greatorminds@gmail.com