'We neither give up nor give in!' twittered Chamisa - fancy that, insane too never give up

"Insanity," said the great Physicist Albert Einstein, "is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result!"

I had my first encounter with the insane when I visited my aunt in Bulawayo, her husband was nurse-assistant at Ingutsheni Mental Hospital. Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result was a common factor with the hospital's patience.

"MaDube, you bucket is leaking!" said my uncle to one patient who had been slaving away in the midday heat watering the garden with a leaking bucket. She was covered in mud but making very little progress.

"Ah!" said MaDube, as if noticing it for the very first time that the bucket was leaking. "I will carry the bucket on my head!" after a long thoughtful pause. She had been carrying the bucket on her side.

Off she went, bushy tailed and full of enthusiasm. She was soon soaked through and through from head to toe and still made no progress in watering the garden.

There is one thing to be said about the insane, they never ever give up. Even if they are forced to admit that they are not making progress, they will come up with an excuse why they should carry on! Carrying a leaking bucket on the head or side will not stop the leaking; but you wasting time trying to tell that to MaDube!

It was one thing seeing MaDube slaving away watering the garden with a leaking bucket as long as she remained in the confines of the Hospital, confident that she would be sedated if her activities should be a threat to herself and/or others. It is a different matter having Madube set loss on society and a real nightmare if such individuals should occupy positions of power and authority! Sadly, that is exactly what has happened in Zimbabwe.

It is sad and tragic that Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because of 38 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule. What has made our situation even worse is that we have had many golden opportunities to end the Zanu PF dictatorship but have wasted them all blundering from pillar to post. In his latest twitter, Nelson Chamisa, like MaDube, readily acknowledge the many wasted opportunities before reaffirming MDC Alliance's commitment to continue blundering.

"WE NEITHER GIVE UP NOR GIVE IN. The past 38 years signified missed opportunities and neglected advantages. Zimbabwe must now move on not move around. Taught by the errors of the past, we stand ready to challenge all lies, contesting all deceptions until final victory," twittered Chamisa.

By agreeing to contest these elections with no meaningful democratic reforms in place, MDC Alliance allowed Zanu PF to blatantly rig the elections. Chamisa and company did not even have the common sense to demand that ZEC produce a clean and verified voters' roll before the elections, this is a legal requirement.

Thanks to Zanu PF's carte blanche dictatorial powers to deny 2 to 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote; to frog march the 60% or so rural voters who are no more than serfs who did not dare displease their landlord, Zanu PF, by voting for the opposition; etc. the party secured its landslide 2/3 majority in parliament and senate. For the party to win the presidency too would be a bonus!

Chamisa has conceded the parliamentary defeat and is challenging the presidential result, he is even boasting of not giving up. What will a President Nelson Chamisa administration hope to accomplish given Zanu PF has already secure 2/3 majority in parliament and senate and every sector in Zimbabwe society is controlled by die-hard Zanu PF loyalists?

After 38 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule Zimbabwe is serious economic and political trouble and desperately needed meaningful political change and economic recovery. The recent elections and the follow-up Con-Court challenge of the presidential results are another scene in macabre political circus. The rigged elections killed all hope of a meaningful political change, Con-Court challenges, regardless who wins, will not change that political reality.

Nelson Chamisa and his MDC friends failed to implement any reforms during the GNU, they participating in the 2013 and now 2018 elections with no reforms and he is now pursuing an inconsequential Con-Court challenge; confident each action will finally produce the desired democratic electoral victory. What we have here is a projection of MaDube carrying her leaking bucket on her head, her side, her shoulder, etc., etc. What matters here is how long is this nation going to allow village idiots like Chamisa determine the nation's destiny!