Tsvangirai, the best since sliced bread

The highly compromised elections of the 31st of July 2013, which were meant to produce stability and an election whose outcome is beyond reproach, brought about a huge apprehension in the country.

The country experienced a huge exodus of financial capital and human resources alike. A lot of people were shocked and devastated to see a dream of a free and prosperous Zimbabwe evaporate just before their eyes.

Most Zanu-PF members of parliament were perplexed by their undeserved win, which ushered with it, a president who even his own party has no faith in.  

The architects of this monumental fraud were celebrating as if it was the second coming of Christ, but soon that celebration was hushed by the realisation that you could fool people, but in the words of the former USA president, Bill Clinton, the economy is not stupid.

Liquidity crush soon exposed Mugabe and his gang, and the old and tired "illegal sanctions from the west" cliché was dusted and fed to the gullible African Union and SADC, who had unwisely, though true to their character, put a ring on a pig's nose. (Endorsing Mugabe's fraudulent election).

But what is more confusing about the whole sorry story of Zimbabwe is the obsession with the personage instead of the ideals of Morgan Tsvangirai.   

You will be forgiven to think he is the president of Zimbabwe when in fact he is normal trade unionist, forced to be a defector leader of the country whose hope and aspirations were violently taken away by Mugabe and his Zanu-PF.

Tsvangirai and his deputy Khupe will be recorded in the annals of history, as the duo that pulled Zimbabwe from the precipice, indeed a manmade disaster.

Who will forget the life in Zimbabwe in 2008 and the years preceding that dreadful period?  Mugabe had single handedly vandalised the beautiful country that we once knew, to the extent that it had become nothing but a 3rd world open prison.

It is Tsvangirai and his deputy, Khupe, who opened those closed schools for millions of Zimbabweans; it is Tsvangirai and Khupe who reversed the rot that had turned our hospitals to morgues, where maggots could be seen from the gates.  

They reversed the world's worst inflation and gave our civil servants their dignity back, by paying them decent salaries and on time.

They improved civil servants working conditions, stopped the sewage from flowing on the streets and causing havoc with the diseases it brings.

All this,  they did defying the so called sanctions because we know that after the 31st  July elections of 2013,  the European Union removed targeted sanctions,  which Mugabe's government had imposed on itself through human rights abuses and holding of shameful  elections.

How ironic is that so much is expected from a person who supposedly lost elections and yet none is expected from a man who supposedly, won the same elections.

Some people feel that president Tsvangirai should have done more to rescue them from the jaws of the dictator.  

Maybe the question should be, what can the nation do, to assist Tsvangirai help her?

The issue is not about Mugabe and Tsvangirai, but the national democratic revolution. It will be naïve, if not stupid, for anyone to suppose that after 35years, somehow Mugabe and his government will evolve and become democratic, care for the people and stop their repressive and sectorial tendencies.

We submit that the ideals of Mr Morgan Tsvangirai be espoused by everyone and it will be good for the country to join hands with him to free ourselves from the clashes of this dictatorship.

God bless president Tsvangirai, God bless Zimbabwe and the marginalised people of Matabeleland.

Dlayila Omuhle
Information and Publicity Secretary