Opinion / Columnist
MDC-T ej*culating on national ambos
12 Aug 2014 at 02:50hrs | Views
Preceding weeks have positioned the MDC-T as a true opposition movement. Not in any way adorable. I apologize to all those who might think my language is a trifle off the radar of satisfactory normalcy. Those who will find the article phonetically profane. It is not.
There are two things that specializes this literary instalment, first it is the article's timing. It is that frivolous moment when the Movement for Democratic Change gets extremely charged to exercise one of their freedoms. The freedom of speech, as they untiringly surf thru their known diction for the most befitting verbal flex, proverbial of a galloping chicken with a severed head, and yet sputter so loud. Creating calico. Secondly, the date of 31st July does not go down well with the movement and evokes equally uncontrollable outcries in ominous remembrance of MDC-T's electoral casualty recorded a year past. The MDC has seemingly failed to admit to the reality on the ground. The truth that even when Zimbabweans accept it as a symbol and champion of opposition politics in the country, the majority cannot succumb to the treacheries composed in the party's promises which have validated otiose and ephemeral. This then empowering the truth that the decision to intromit its leadership into State House could have been somewhat an enormous misadventure which Zimbabweans would rue even till this day, a year after the polls, since the dissolution of the congested Government of Unity Government (GNU). And so the celebrations at state house held on the 31st of July could not have born so much significance but rather remained an infamous activity found on delusion and overstated ardor. For this and other reasons, the aftermath of the July 31st 2013 plebiscite go with a merit.
I am so much convinced everyone is aware the party is just coming from the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), London, a very influential think tank, according to one Luke Tamborinyoka, where the party's President, Morgan Tsvangirai had gone to pitch his marketing package for the beleaguered party or maybe to register its dismay at the people of Zimbabwe. Or are we now a country of sellouts? Yet still, the Chatham House sojourn only got to me as a marketing strategy which reminds of frogs beautified with lipsticks, and baboons crowned with weaves that dance to a July breeze. Only a misleading countenance.
Nathaniel Manheru's premonition that the invite was a definitive statement against former MDC secretary-general Tendai Biti and his Renewal fellows, and that it was a clear warning to Zanu PF, should not be discarded so urgently, or should never at all be, anyway. Instead, any such psychological misalign to do thus should be mushed, out rightly.
The party has never been any sentient on matters of national interest. It has always been an opposition movement, even to rational ratiocination, I am afraid. MDC's politics of alienation has seen only the anti-Mugabe daily dosages when focus should be on economic trailblazing through non-political engagements. Testing indigenization policies, radically defying poverty. That is the change we need. And that should be the advocacy line for the National House of Assembly members who exist on MDC emblems.
Purported to be a platform to seek to forge a way forward for the MDC as the platform was marked in symbolism of stagnant shock after Zanu PF's win, and despite the statement being eloquent and plain in its quest of giving a provision of re-engagement through proffering workable solutions to the MDC so that the party's strategic vacuum could be filled with sound schemes to see it perpetuating till another trial, hopefully in 2018. Morgan lost trail. But engaged in an undirected ballistic repertoire of some polemic vengeance.
In place of a sober financial canvassing or idea sourcing, the former premier launched a futile fulmination that only saw him coming back home, somewhere in the confines of Harvest House, dejected with hands still open palmed , branding nothing-ism. Prone to relapsing into deplorable immiseration, again.
His statement at the Chatham house was dysphemistic and so sickening. One would have expected an early severance of Morgan's speech, with some white chap humbly directing him to a chair somewhere in the "cool room", to his reserved small corner bailing 'those Royal people from Her Majesty's clan, from tedious vigilance. The presentation staggered only in margins of inutility, seemingly seeking to sanitize and justify the party's glowing shortcomings, prejudicial even to itself.
In what seemed an act of cohesion for Europe to discount any engagement with Zimbabwe, even against the backdrop of observed normalcy in the areas the European world forged economic sanctions protesting against? Morgan profusely cajoled the International world to preserve any form of sanctions against the government of Zimbabwe noting with a sad heart that the European Union was now viewing them as an economic stymie.
"Any re-engagement must be alive to the past and present acts of omission and commission and the crimes committed against the innocent citizens of the people of Zimbabwe. Individual EU countries must not just call for re-engagement because of the selfish interests of their respective individual countries. They must re-engage to add to global pressure on universally acceptable norms and standards of governance that respect the interests of the people of Zimbabwe", he said in a speech.
EU Ambassador Aldo Dell' Ariccia
Clearly, Mr. Tsvangirai would not observe any development with any eye pure beyond circumferencing around opposition politics. What more less than a myopic body politic of crippled nature. I am surely convinced he is amongst the legion that wishes Dell' Arricia ill for his straight-from-the-shoulder declaration on the situation of Zimbabwe. Ambassador Dell is one man who has now tested the wrath of Zimbabwe's opposition dissonance through his observation which I quote;
'If we had a leadership crisis, there would be chaos. We still have a leader who manages to keep at bay these forces that are very much contradictory." On the growing movement of the civil society, the European Union said. "The civil society has a role to play but I have the impression that you are a little bit anchored to the past where instead of being NGOs, one perceives AGOs, Anti-Government Organizations."
This is the same statement that earned him (EU Ambassador Dell) fluffed camaraderie with the opposition, including Morgan himself, creating enemy lines. There is no platform ideal for showering President Robert Mugabe with eulogies if he deserves precisely not that. But again, what qualifies a condemnation to a man whose idealism is development promoting. I bet Chatham House crew was left a stunned lot.
Morgan Tsvangirai at Chatham House (UK)
Besides, the statements by the former premier were definitive of a gimpy opposition buildup in country Zimbabwe. Sadly, that goes a very long way in discrediting all possible political bodies that will emerge out of Zimbabwe provided the MDC-T does less in purifying this 'stark accusation' to prove it wrong.
"I am aware that the EU has decided to re-engage Zimbabwe and I know that the people of Zimbabwe stand to benefit from any form of re-engagement. But the international community must not just re-engage without a framework; but must insist on implementation of agreed electoral conditions and the embracing of universally acceptable standards by the authorities in Harare.
We also notice that sanctions have to all intents and purposes been removed except the travel bans on Mugabe and his wife. This is welcome in that it obliterates and removes any excuse by the government for not delivering services to the people.
What we do not encourage is a mere removal of sanctions without a framework that plods and entices the nation towards the respect of full democratic values", he says.
I waited to be beaten with aggressive lines like 'as the MDC, noticing the handicap in Zanu PF's economic blueprints, or growth formulas, we have created radical economic development strategies which I today present before you for intensive scrutiny, we are convinced that if these strategies are implemented, they will undoubtedly proffer alternatives for the people of Zimbabwe and excite the economy'.... But none of that came. The presentation ended frail.
Who are Zimbabweans?
When little minds assume omnipotence, pretending overwhelming ken in a way that overshadows views of many, displaying a red insignia of danger where there is plainly no danger. The question that then arise in a country like Zimbabwe is one that seeks to establish who or what Zimbabweans are? What their take on the political world view is, away from sole dependency on a political formation that is on continuous restimulation for attention and renown. Vince Musewe alluded that Aldo Dell'Ariccia's Zimbabwe declaration showed gross lack of respect for Zimbabweans who continue to suffer under what he solitarily perceives is Mugabe's 'leadership shortcomings' and 'reinforces Mugabe's arrogance'. I admit I am rustic and not too schooled to infer meaning to this.
Although Morgan Tsvangirai imagines a new Zimbabwe proudly taking her place in a family of nations, as he told Chatham House conveners, I am sorry to say his actions are deceptive to his mind and runs contrary in lieu. Wasting time seeking a head on collision with Mugabe is not only psychotic but underplays the vision of MDC which is that of molding the party through begetting workable economic solutions that outshines the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation. We too need to see MDC's innovation? Let the radical marketing of your economic strategies, if any there can be, hypnotize us in broad daylight on national or even international ambos.
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(Zisunko Ndlovu is a social development practitioner and political writer from Binga, Zimbabwe. Send comments and suggestions to: kubutonga@gmail.com )
There are two things that specializes this literary instalment, first it is the article's timing. It is that frivolous moment when the Movement for Democratic Change gets extremely charged to exercise one of their freedoms. The freedom of speech, as they untiringly surf thru their known diction for the most befitting verbal flex, proverbial of a galloping chicken with a severed head, and yet sputter so loud. Creating calico. Secondly, the date of 31st July does not go down well with the movement and evokes equally uncontrollable outcries in ominous remembrance of MDC-T's electoral casualty recorded a year past. The MDC has seemingly failed to admit to the reality on the ground. The truth that even when Zimbabweans accept it as a symbol and champion of opposition politics in the country, the majority cannot succumb to the treacheries composed in the party's promises which have validated otiose and ephemeral. This then empowering the truth that the decision to intromit its leadership into State House could have been somewhat an enormous misadventure which Zimbabweans would rue even till this day, a year after the polls, since the dissolution of the congested Government of Unity Government (GNU). And so the celebrations at state house held on the 31st of July could not have born so much significance but rather remained an infamous activity found on delusion and overstated ardor. For this and other reasons, the aftermath of the July 31st 2013 plebiscite go with a merit.
I am so much convinced everyone is aware the party is just coming from the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), London, a very influential think tank, according to one Luke Tamborinyoka, where the party's President, Morgan Tsvangirai had gone to pitch his marketing package for the beleaguered party or maybe to register its dismay at the people of Zimbabwe. Or are we now a country of sellouts? Yet still, the Chatham House sojourn only got to me as a marketing strategy which reminds of frogs beautified with lipsticks, and baboons crowned with weaves that dance to a July breeze. Only a misleading countenance.
Nathaniel Manheru's premonition that the invite was a definitive statement against former MDC secretary-general Tendai Biti and his Renewal fellows, and that it was a clear warning to Zanu PF, should not be discarded so urgently, or should never at all be, anyway. Instead, any such psychological misalign to do thus should be mushed, out rightly.
The party has never been any sentient on matters of national interest. It has always been an opposition movement, even to rational ratiocination, I am afraid. MDC's politics of alienation has seen only the anti-Mugabe daily dosages when focus should be on economic trailblazing through non-political engagements. Testing indigenization policies, radically defying poverty. That is the change we need. And that should be the advocacy line for the National House of Assembly members who exist on MDC emblems.
Purported to be a platform to seek to forge a way forward for the MDC as the platform was marked in symbolism of stagnant shock after Zanu PF's win, and despite the statement being eloquent and plain in its quest of giving a provision of re-engagement through proffering workable solutions to the MDC so that the party's strategic vacuum could be filled with sound schemes to see it perpetuating till another trial, hopefully in 2018. Morgan lost trail. But engaged in an undirected ballistic repertoire of some polemic vengeance.
In place of a sober financial canvassing or idea sourcing, the former premier launched a futile fulmination that only saw him coming back home, somewhere in the confines of Harvest House, dejected with hands still open palmed , branding nothing-ism. Prone to relapsing into deplorable immiseration, again.
His statement at the Chatham house was dysphemistic and so sickening. One would have expected an early severance of Morgan's speech, with some white chap humbly directing him to a chair somewhere in the "cool room", to his reserved small corner bailing 'those Royal people from Her Majesty's clan, from tedious vigilance. The presentation staggered only in margins of inutility, seemingly seeking to sanitize and justify the party's glowing shortcomings, prejudicial even to itself.
In what seemed an act of cohesion for Europe to discount any engagement with Zimbabwe, even against the backdrop of observed normalcy in the areas the European world forged economic sanctions protesting against? Morgan profusely cajoled the International world to preserve any form of sanctions against the government of Zimbabwe noting with a sad heart that the European Union was now viewing them as an economic stymie.
"Any re-engagement must be alive to the past and present acts of omission and commission and the crimes committed against the innocent citizens of the people of Zimbabwe. Individual EU countries must not just call for re-engagement because of the selfish interests of their respective individual countries. They must re-engage to add to global pressure on universally acceptable norms and standards of governance that respect the interests of the people of Zimbabwe", he said in a speech.
EU Ambassador Aldo Dell' Ariccia
Clearly, Mr. Tsvangirai would not observe any development with any eye pure beyond circumferencing around opposition politics. What more less than a myopic body politic of crippled nature. I am surely convinced he is amongst the legion that wishes Dell' Arricia ill for his straight-from-the-shoulder declaration on the situation of Zimbabwe. Ambassador Dell is one man who has now tested the wrath of Zimbabwe's opposition dissonance through his observation which I quote;
'If we had a leadership crisis, there would be chaos. We still have a leader who manages to keep at bay these forces that are very much contradictory." On the growing movement of the civil society, the European Union said. "The civil society has a role to play but I have the impression that you are a little bit anchored to the past where instead of being NGOs, one perceives AGOs, Anti-Government Organizations."
This is the same statement that earned him (EU Ambassador Dell) fluffed camaraderie with the opposition, including Morgan himself, creating enemy lines. There is no platform ideal for showering President Robert Mugabe with eulogies if he deserves precisely not that. But again, what qualifies a condemnation to a man whose idealism is development promoting. I bet Chatham House crew was left a stunned lot.
Morgan Tsvangirai at Chatham House (UK)
Besides, the statements by the former premier were definitive of a gimpy opposition buildup in country Zimbabwe. Sadly, that goes a very long way in discrediting all possible political bodies that will emerge out of Zimbabwe provided the MDC-T does less in purifying this 'stark accusation' to prove it wrong.
"I am aware that the EU has decided to re-engage Zimbabwe and I know that the people of Zimbabwe stand to benefit from any form of re-engagement. But the international community must not just re-engage without a framework; but must insist on implementation of agreed electoral conditions and the embracing of universally acceptable standards by the authorities in Harare.
We also notice that sanctions have to all intents and purposes been removed except the travel bans on Mugabe and his wife. This is welcome in that it obliterates and removes any excuse by the government for not delivering services to the people.
What we do not encourage is a mere removal of sanctions without a framework that plods and entices the nation towards the respect of full democratic values", he says.
I waited to be beaten with aggressive lines like 'as the MDC, noticing the handicap in Zanu PF's economic blueprints, or growth formulas, we have created radical economic development strategies which I today present before you for intensive scrutiny, we are convinced that if these strategies are implemented, they will undoubtedly proffer alternatives for the people of Zimbabwe and excite the economy'.... But none of that came. The presentation ended frail.
Who are Zimbabweans?
When little minds assume omnipotence, pretending overwhelming ken in a way that overshadows views of many, displaying a red insignia of danger where there is plainly no danger. The question that then arise in a country like Zimbabwe is one that seeks to establish who or what Zimbabweans are? What their take on the political world view is, away from sole dependency on a political formation that is on continuous restimulation for attention and renown. Vince Musewe alluded that Aldo Dell'Ariccia's Zimbabwe declaration showed gross lack of respect for Zimbabweans who continue to suffer under what he solitarily perceives is Mugabe's 'leadership shortcomings' and 'reinforces Mugabe's arrogance'. I admit I am rustic and not too schooled to infer meaning to this.
Although Morgan Tsvangirai imagines a new Zimbabwe proudly taking her place in a family of nations, as he told Chatham House conveners, I am sorry to say his actions are deceptive to his mind and runs contrary in lieu. Wasting time seeking a head on collision with Mugabe is not only psychotic but underplays the vision of MDC which is that of molding the party through begetting workable economic solutions that outshines the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation. We too need to see MDC's innovation? Let the radical marketing of your economic strategies, if any there can be, hypnotize us in broad daylight on national or even international ambos.
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(Zisunko Ndlovu is a social development practitioner and political writer from Binga, Zimbabwe. Send comments and suggestions to: kubutonga@gmail.com )
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