Opinion / Columnist
New York anti-Mugabe demo: lesson for opposition
17 Sep 2017 at 15:00hrs | Views
They say you can never keep a good man down, that is exactly what New York witnessed yesterday when an anti-President Robert Mugabe demonstration dismally failed to kick off at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly, in US.
Instead the D12 Movement stole the limelight from the MDC-T North America Province which had hyped on their protest that was designed to humiliate President Mugabe and Zimbabwe at the Summit.
Video clips have since gone viral featuring a lone Savanna Madamombe marching against a multitude of the determinative D12 Movement activists that thronged the UN headquarters.
Conventional wisdom will tell one that the deafening pro-Mugabe mantra that engulfed the Summit was to be anticipated given the prophetic and academic submissions by Afrobarometer which pointed out that President Mugabe still commands popular support.
The Research and Advocacy Unit also threw its weight behind this notion stating categorically that ZANU PF would romp into victory in 2018.
These indications in the surging of President Mugabe's support amid claims that he has allegedly run down the country and the happenings in New York, need no rocket scientist to explain how ZANU PF will bury the opposition in the 2018 harmonised elections.
As usual opposition sympathisers have sought to bury their heads in the sand in face of this crushing humiliation by seeking to hide behind the finger and insinuate that the D12 is a hired Movement.
This fear to face reality and complacence by the opposition is what is chipping away their electoral appeal.
Suppose theirs is a genuine cause, should we have seen thousands of demonstrators at the Summit? Alas, there was just a lone Madamombe.
The message has always been send out there that a shadow follows where there is light. Without light there cannot be a shadow.
The smear campaigns by MDC have not yielded any political dividends for the brothers and sisters.
The no show at New York has empirically exposed the opposition that they have no capacity to mobilise for their cause. What they did, was just a favour on ZANU PF, which they helped market by threatening to demonstrate against.
At the end of the day pro-ZANU PF activists emerged victorious while the opposition's Madamombe became the principal victim.
An old adage goes; the voice of many is the voice of God.
The battle of numbers has over the years been ZANU PF's staple food; as such the opposition can do Zimbabweans a favour by stopping to fight against nature.
The best option available for them is to go back on to the drawing table and devise competitive policies and strategies and imperatively dump their sabotage approach to politics.
Zimbabweans understand now that President Mugabe means good to them and that most of the touted problems are a creation by his enemies in a bid to soil his image. Thus indeed, no matter how much mud one swings at a good cause, the good man will emerge victorious at the end of the day.
Instead the D12 Movement stole the limelight from the MDC-T North America Province which had hyped on their protest that was designed to humiliate President Mugabe and Zimbabwe at the Summit.
Video clips have since gone viral featuring a lone Savanna Madamombe marching against a multitude of the determinative D12 Movement activists that thronged the UN headquarters.
Conventional wisdom will tell one that the deafening pro-Mugabe mantra that engulfed the Summit was to be anticipated given the prophetic and academic submissions by Afrobarometer which pointed out that President Mugabe still commands popular support.
The Research and Advocacy Unit also threw its weight behind this notion stating categorically that ZANU PF would romp into victory in 2018.
These indications in the surging of President Mugabe's support amid claims that he has allegedly run down the country and the happenings in New York, need no rocket scientist to explain how ZANU PF will bury the opposition in the 2018 harmonised elections.
As usual opposition sympathisers have sought to bury their heads in the sand in face of this crushing humiliation by seeking to hide behind the finger and insinuate that the D12 is a hired Movement.
This fear to face reality and complacence by the opposition is what is chipping away their electoral appeal.
Suppose theirs is a genuine cause, should we have seen thousands of demonstrators at the Summit? Alas, there was just a lone Madamombe.
The message has always been send out there that a shadow follows where there is light. Without light there cannot be a shadow.
The smear campaigns by MDC have not yielded any political dividends for the brothers and sisters.
The no show at New York has empirically exposed the opposition that they have no capacity to mobilise for their cause. What they did, was just a favour on ZANU PF, which they helped market by threatening to demonstrate against.
At the end of the day pro-ZANU PF activists emerged victorious while the opposition's Madamombe became the principal victim.
An old adage goes; the voice of many is the voice of God.
The battle of numbers has over the years been ZANU PF's staple food; as such the opposition can do Zimbabweans a favour by stopping to fight against nature.
The best option available for them is to go back on to the drawing table and devise competitive policies and strategies and imperatively dump their sabotage approach to politics.
Zimbabweans understand now that President Mugabe means good to them and that most of the touted problems are a creation by his enemies in a bid to soil his image. Thus indeed, no matter how much mud one swings at a good cause, the good man will emerge victorious at the end of the day.
Source - Jasper Hloka
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