United opposition 'would have won 7 of 13 Mat South seats,' says Ncube - we do not want scraps

"If you want to make a case that we are stronger in Matabeleland when we are divided, it's self-evidently untrue. First just take Matabeleland South, if you go to the 2013 elections,

"Zanu-PF won all the 13 seats. But if you put together all the opposition votes in Matabeleland South alone we could have won seven seats from Zanu-PF.

"So how is it possible for someone to construct such an argument that we are stronger apart when the most recent example illustrates that when we are united we would have won seven seats in Matabeleland South alone? It does not make sense to me," said Prof Ncube.

To win the presidential race Zanu PF has to generate a number of vote in each constituency, including those in opposition strong holds. We all saw the bussed hooded Zanu PF youths in Mount Pleasant casting multiple votes. It is this starting baseline that the opposition then have to compete against to win the seat. Where the opposition split the vote they will fail to beat Zanu PF.

In so called Zanu PF strong holds, the party is able to generate even more votes using such tactics as frogmarching the people to make sure they vote for Zanu PF and the multiple voting by party loyalists is at an even bigger scale.

Professor Ncube is not interested in stopping Zanu PF rigging the vote to generate its baseline in opposition strong holds and frogmarching the rural voters to generate the landslide victory in rural constituencies. All he is interested in for his party to have a share of the 7 out 13 winnable seats in Matabeleland South.

May I remind you, Professor Ncube, that you and your MDC friends, Tsvangirai, Biti, Coltart, Eddie Cross, etc., etc. were elected on a ticket to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship and bring about democratic change to the nation. The people have risked life and limb to elect you into office. Over 500 were murdered in cold blood by Zanu PF in 2008 alone for no other reason other than that they dared to vote for MDC.

MDC has failed to deliver even one democratic change in all the party's 17 years in politics. The party had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms agreed in the 2008 Global Political Agreement which would have restored all our individual freedoms and rights including the right to free and fair elections. You people failed to get even one reform implemented in five years of the GNU.

SADC leaders warned MDC not to contest the 2013 elections without implementing the reforms first but no one paid heed. Zanu PF went on to rig the elections with easy.

Professor Ncube, if you had implemented the reforms you would have stopped Zanu PF bussing in hooded party youths, frogmarching rural voters, denying opposition supporters everywhere the vote, etc. Every seat in Matabeleland South and right across the country would have been winnable seat and every Zimbabwean would have had their first free and fair election.

By contesting flawed elections the opposition are doing Zanu PF a great service by giving the process credibility. This is a great disservice to the nation who right to free and fair elections is being flagrantly violated by the holding of each flawed election. The nation is sickened by MDC leaders' betrayal, all Professor Ncube and other care about is how the few winnable seats are shared out amongst themselves and damn the consequences to the ordinary Zimbabwean.

Well damn you too Professor, you and your fellow selfish opposition politicians!

Zimbabweans are desperate for democratic change and an end to this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. There is no excuse for going into next year's elections knowing fully well Zanu PF will rig the vote, this is insane.

We, the povo of Zimbabwe, demand the implementation of the reforms, the only guarantee the elections will finally be free and fair, BEFORE the next elections. We have been cheated out of our right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country all our lives, enough is enough.