Who Moved Tsvangirai's Cheese?

That's the sextillion "non-existent Zimbabwean dollar" question l have decided to ask all those who seem to know very well the goings on. Tell us please without any further delay we need to know, sifun'ukwazi sibili and stop this Ukutshaya inja umfihla umphini approach. For the sake of those not familiar with the question, it is derived from a book written by Dr. Spencer Johnson which is about change, especially personal change that directly affects, or reaches out to us in our comfort zones and how we react to it. We have heard many a times how Zanu-PF is acting out in Zimbabwe, word for word, the storyline of George Orwell's Animal Farm book in the country. Just for a change, l decided how about we draw practical lessons from a different book this time around titled "Who moved My Cheese" as we're faced with yet such interesting times in our politics of the country.

No doubt Tsvangirai has, or had acquired the status symbol of "Cheese-boy", a title with almost a similar meaning to "Msalala" in Zimbabwe's slang the last time l checked. In literal sense, it is a concept that refers to someone better-resourced such that they can afford to eat cheese daily for breakfast if they so wish, but by extension in their relationships they clearly emphasise on material exchanges and can spoil their girlfriends or small houses in whatever manner possible. That's Tsvangirai for you in the very recent past. Now it doesn't need a rocket scientist to figure out what the story from "Who Moved My Cheese" book is all about, in this case "My" is Tsvangison who also plays the little person Hem in the book. Don't forget the other character Haw as well.

Let me admit that l am a typical African who doesn't read a lot or at all technically speaking, hence my question is such that maybe l am still not well read why there is so much hemming and hawing in Tsvangirai's "maze" called the MDC-T yet again. However from the little headline articles and opinion pieces l have just ran my eyes through l was convinced the Cheese-boy is playing his widely known "Hem-character" again. He was visited by change within his own familiar territory, the MDC-T, for the fifth time or so and he is instead expressing shock, surprise and lack of anticipation on the "sudden" moving of his Cheese, read as support-base or votes in this context. He is really determined to stay in a Cheese-less situation no matter what it takes from the reports l am getting. How then can he be trusted he will react differently in a bigger Maze, the country, when the Cheese is moved as is always the case. Ngitshelani phela mina angikho eduze you little mice, no offence on that at all!

We were told by Tsvangirai's friend "Haw", better known as Baba Jukwa that in recent presidential election the Cheese "deserved" by Tsvangirai was deliberately moved by the suspected "little mice" called Nikuv, and Prof. Jonas Moyo. However, recent events tell of a story within a story on who could have moved Tsvangirai's Cheese! Or, we should just be satisfied to say the proof of the Cheese is in the eating, if not say Tsvangirai could not have his Cheese and eat it. Ha ha ha let me have the last laugh, if not laugh at myself for not having noticed when the Cheese was moved!

Get it from me, the Cheeseboy is now in the real deep end by whatever understanding, not the deep end which is from a pigment of his imagination as written of in his over 550-pages book l found myself fast asleep after perusing through its first-six chapters, and l quit never to pick it up again! By the way l have always had a wait and see attitude or approach to Cheeseboy's Maze (MDC-T) since it was established, so l am not part of his Cheese that has been moved in any manner. Let alone acting any role whatsoever in the Animal Farm storyline ever before. But, I can smell the New Cheese at a "New Station 2018" where Tsvangirai shall not have any access but will still be sticking around his Cheeseless maze as his belief system on fears of life has become his worst enemy. Wake up and smell the New Cheese!

Mvukela Mzilikazi-Khumalo is teacher by profession currently studying to be a Decision Scientist with Unisa and writes here in his own personal capacity & can be contacted on mvukhumz@gmail.com!