Opinion / Columnist
Tsvangirai, Khupe the only solution to Zimbabwe's woes
22 Aug 2014 at 13:39hrs | Views
In our article published on the 19th, entitled, "Tsvangirai, the best since sliced bread," we argued that Zimbabwe was better under the leadership of Premier Tsvangivarai and Deputy Premier Khupe.
The following day, Willbert Mokori penned a response entitled, "Tsvangirai did not save the Nation from the precipice, but rather sold it for Calico cloth"
He challenged the fact that the leadership of Tsvangira and Khupe brought hope to the millions of our people by opening the doors of education and Health care to the downtrodden of society.
He accused us of crediting the work done by donors to the premier and his deputy. He goes further to say the duo failed to arrest corruption and lawlessness.
Willbert Mokori, rightly questions why there were not sufficient reforms to guarantee a free and fair election.
He then reaches a bizarre conclusion that, the lack of reforms was due to, and l quote, "Tsvangirai spent a lot of time gallivanting round the world and chasing women of ill repute"
Willbert Mokori, goes on and justly so, rebukes the folly of the youth and women's wing of ZANU PF in selling out for a mere 30 cows and 1000ltrs of milk.
What Willbert Mokori, and most people in the country do, is the mistake of being too fixated over and over again, with Tsvangirai's personal life.
It would be easy for Tsvangirai to accept money from the enemies of our people and be rich the rest of his life as a puppet of ZANU PF. Dabengwa, Ncube, Biti, Mangoma and Maduku all sold out on the altar of money and protection from state sponsored violence. (Abuse of WOZA, MDC youth prosters and Grabbing of Mazwi Farm in Bulawayo) but Tsvangiria has endured the worst of ZANU PF all for the ideals of a free and prosperous Zimbabwe.
The donor community has always been there and they remain still to this day. However, they have restricted their cooperation to an MDC led government because they find it able and a dependable partner in delivering social services and governance to the people of Zimbabwe.
The security cluster, even under the GNU remained the sole preserve of Zanu-PF, and MDC was a big victim of lawlessness, some perpetrated by the state and there was nothing Tsvangirai and Khupe could do in this regard.
With regards to corruption, Tsvangirai remains the only leader who fired a whole council for allegations of corruption (Chitungwiza Town Council), so it is illusion that his leadership was soft on corruption.
There is a verse in the Holy Book that says, "He without sin let him cast the first stone." The actions of president Tsvangirai, with regards to his personal relationships can never be condoned, especially in a type of society that he seeks to build. However, there is a context for everything in life; some things are easy when you are a commentator, not the main actor. We can never claim to understand what the premier was going through after his wife of so many years was brutally murdered in cold blood. He never got the opportunity to mourn his wife, but had to dedicate all his energies in uniting a divided country.
Mr Tsvangirai, has gone on record to apologize to the country, notwithstanding the fact that there are no indicators to date, proving that his personal life affected his work, nor impacted negatively on his ability to carry out his constitutional mandate as Prime Minister.
The constant obsession with Mr Tsvangirai's personal life, to the extent that it gets exaggerated and magnified with the hope that it will cloud people from celebrating his exceptional achievements in government is mischievous, to say the least.
The prosperous years of the GNU, built on the sweat of Tsvangirai, Khupe and the MDC they lead, are evaporating right before us.
The GNU was guaranteed by SADC, and chief amongst its objectives was for Zimbabwe to run a free and fair election, whose outcome would not be contested.
SADC had an opportunity to pronounce after the elections if the primary objective of the GNU was met. Surprisingly, what we got from SADC was diversion from the normal FREE and FAIR verdict to FREE and GENERALLY CREDIBLE, and that some irregularities cast doubt on fairness.
It's easy with hindsight to blame MDC for participating in those elections. However, that did not excuse the guarantors of the GNU to carry out their work without prejudice.
I appreciate that we as Zimbabweans have suffered a lot under this repressive regime, and some good people like Willbert Mokori, by reason of our endless suffering, in their analysis of the source of our suffering, are unwittingly complicity in this dastardly regime of Mugabe.
The flight of capital from Zimbabwe is a loud rebuke to President Mbeki, SADC and the AU in their endorsement of Mugabe and a big confirmation of the leadership of Tsvangirai and Khupe.
Dlayila Omuhle
Information and Publicity Secretary
The following day, Willbert Mokori penned a response entitled, "Tsvangirai did not save the Nation from the precipice, but rather sold it for Calico cloth"
He challenged the fact that the leadership of Tsvangira and Khupe brought hope to the millions of our people by opening the doors of education and Health care to the downtrodden of society.
He accused us of crediting the work done by donors to the premier and his deputy. He goes further to say the duo failed to arrest corruption and lawlessness.
Willbert Mokori, rightly questions why there were not sufficient reforms to guarantee a free and fair election.
He then reaches a bizarre conclusion that, the lack of reforms was due to, and l quote, "Tsvangirai spent a lot of time gallivanting round the world and chasing women of ill repute"
Willbert Mokori, goes on and justly so, rebukes the folly of the youth and women's wing of ZANU PF in selling out for a mere 30 cows and 1000ltrs of milk.
What Willbert Mokori, and most people in the country do, is the mistake of being too fixated over and over again, with Tsvangirai's personal life.
It would be easy for Tsvangirai to accept money from the enemies of our people and be rich the rest of his life as a puppet of ZANU PF. Dabengwa, Ncube, Biti, Mangoma and Maduku all sold out on the altar of money and protection from state sponsored violence. (Abuse of WOZA, MDC youth prosters and Grabbing of Mazwi Farm in Bulawayo) but Tsvangiria has endured the worst of ZANU PF all for the ideals of a free and prosperous Zimbabwe.
The donor community has always been there and they remain still to this day. However, they have restricted their cooperation to an MDC led government because they find it able and a dependable partner in delivering social services and governance to the people of Zimbabwe.
The security cluster, even under the GNU remained the sole preserve of Zanu-PF, and MDC was a big victim of lawlessness, some perpetrated by the state and there was nothing Tsvangirai and Khupe could do in this regard.
There is a verse in the Holy Book that says, "He without sin let him cast the first stone." The actions of president Tsvangirai, with regards to his personal relationships can never be condoned, especially in a type of society that he seeks to build. However, there is a context for everything in life; some things are easy when you are a commentator, not the main actor. We can never claim to understand what the premier was going through after his wife of so many years was brutally murdered in cold blood. He never got the opportunity to mourn his wife, but had to dedicate all his energies in uniting a divided country.
Mr Tsvangirai, has gone on record to apologize to the country, notwithstanding the fact that there are no indicators to date, proving that his personal life affected his work, nor impacted negatively on his ability to carry out his constitutional mandate as Prime Minister.
The constant obsession with Mr Tsvangirai's personal life, to the extent that it gets exaggerated and magnified with the hope that it will cloud people from celebrating his exceptional achievements in government is mischievous, to say the least.
The prosperous years of the GNU, built on the sweat of Tsvangirai, Khupe and the MDC they lead, are evaporating right before us.
The GNU was guaranteed by SADC, and chief amongst its objectives was for Zimbabwe to run a free and fair election, whose outcome would not be contested.
SADC had an opportunity to pronounce after the elections if the primary objective of the GNU was met. Surprisingly, what we got from SADC was diversion from the normal FREE and FAIR verdict to FREE and GENERALLY CREDIBLE, and that some irregularities cast doubt on fairness.
It's easy with hindsight to blame MDC for participating in those elections. However, that did not excuse the guarantors of the GNU to carry out their work without prejudice.
I appreciate that we as Zimbabweans have suffered a lot under this repressive regime, and some good people like Willbert Mokori, by reason of our endless suffering, in their analysis of the source of our suffering, are unwittingly complicity in this dastardly regime of Mugabe.
The flight of capital from Zimbabwe is a loud rebuke to President Mbeki, SADC and the AU in their endorsement of Mugabe and a big confirmation of the leadership of Tsvangirai and Khupe.
Dlayila Omuhle
Information and Publicity Secretary
Source - Dlayila Omuhle
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