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Mugabe 'is indeed a colossal' says former MDC Adviser Dr Magaisa - a man with the intellect of an ant!
04 Feb 2015 at 06:43hrs | Views
If you are an ant anything bigger than a mouse might as well be an elephant! After all there is no difference between an ant squashed by a dick-dick and one squashed by an elephant because way you get a dead ant.
That is the trouble Dr Alex Magaisa, he is an ant, a political ant, in a world of giants, political giants!
"President Mugabe is a big political character, indeed, a colossal figure who divides opinion in a manner that is unparalleled across the entire continent," said Alex Magaisa. He was rationalizing Mugabe's recent appointment as African Union chairman but also explain why MDC did not implement any of the democratic reforms which would have end Mugabe's political career.
Mugabe is a corrupt and murderous tyrant. How can any Zimbabwean much less an intellectual at this stage in our country's history describe such a despicable despot as "a big political character, indeed a colossal figure" as if he or she does not know who the real Mugabe is. Forget about how people in Africa have divided opinions about Mugabe, he has divided Zimbabweans themselves!
Dr Alex Magaisa was Dr Richard Morgan Tsvangirai's chief legal adviser when the later was Prime Minister and leader of the MDC in the GNU. The GNU was set up in 2008 first and foremost to implement a raft of democratic reforms and write a new democratic constitution to ensure the country's next elections are free, fair and credible. The primary task of getting this done was with the MDC, natural, since implementing these reforms meant dismantling Mugabe's de facto one-party, Zanu PF, dictatorship and his political power base.
MDC had five years to implement the agreed reforms and write the new constitution. Not even one reform was ever implemented and the new constitution they produced at a cost of $ 100 million is not worth the paper it is written on. MDC claimed it was an "MDC child" and it would deliver free and fair elections guaranteed. Of course it did no such thing as Mugabe went on to blatantly rig the elections.
The Zanu PF representative on the committee tasked to write the new constitution, MP Paul Mangwana latter boosted that Mugabe had "dictated" the new constitution. Of course he had striped the document bear of all democratic credential and turned it into a tyrant's creed.
So MDC regardless of the fact that they had the services of Dr Alex Magaisa, until then a law lecturer at a highly regarded UK University, failed to get even one reform implemented. Not even one!
Dr Tsvangirai, with Dr Magaisa, his chief legal adviser, by his side claimed the new constitution dictated by Mugabe an "MDC child" knowing fully well it was weak and feeble and it will never ever deliver the nation's most cherish political hope and dream free, fair and credible elections.
Why did Dr Tsvangirai and his follow MDC leaders risk their political careers, indeed most of them lost their parliamentary seats but worse still know their names are "mud", by failing to implement the reforms and produce a democratic constitution? Dr Magaisa too staked his intellectual and political reputation on MDC's pathetic performance and thus is now dismissed as Dr "Nonsense" adviser.
Yes the MDC leaders and Dr "Nonsense" Adviser were corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent but still that does not explain why they gable so much and, in turn, lost so much. There has to be more and Dr Magaisa, in many of his articles since the rigged elections has revealed the addition reason MDC leaders never implemented even one reform – their inferiority complex.
Instead of viewing Mugabe as a corrupt and murderous tyrant that nation was dying, literally too, to get rid of; these MDC political midgets considered Mugabe "big political character, indeed, a colossal figure" the nation was obliged to listen and obey his dictates.
The African Union (AU) is a club of tyrants; the majority of the continent's leaders have, like Mugabe, never held free, fair and credible elections. They have elected Mugabe to be AU chairman for no better reason other than that they see him as one of their own. Dr Magaisa is just clutching at straw, the AU honoured Mugabe because they too see him as a great man, to justify why MDC failed to see Mugabe for the pathetic corrupt and murderous tyrant he is and behaved accordingly.
Mugabe is a liberation war hero who quickly turned into a corrupt and murderous tyrant when he got into power. After 35 years of his ruinous tyrannical rule no Zimbabwean of substance would have any doubt as to who Mugabe or would not want free, fair and credible elections and thus end the tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship.
The biggest mistake Zimbabweans have made these last 15 years was to believe Tsvangirai and his MDC friends were genuine in their promise to bring democratic change in Zimbabwe and free and fair elections. It has turned out that these MDC leaders also believe that Mugabe and his Zanu PF are the giants of Zimbabwe politics and they are not to be replaced regardless corrupt and oppressive they have turned out to be. For all their political posturing Tsvangirai and his MDC friends see themselves as nothing more than ants in an elephant's world.
Zimbabwe is in a serious political and economic mess after 35 years of Mugabe's corrupt and tyrannical rule; the only way out of the mess is for the nation to hold free, fair and credible elections. Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs must be held democratically accountable to the voters in a relationship of equals – all human beings with equal freedoms and rights including one-man-one-vote in free, fair and credible elections.
Tsvangirai and his MDC friends have failed to implement even one reform and to deliver free and fair elections because deep down in the ethos they believe Mugabe is an elephant and they are ants; no amount of reforms can make an ant and an elephant stand as equals! Zimbabweans have to be careful never again to elect someone with an outward appearance of a human being but with, nonetheless, the intellect of an ant!
Mugabe and Zanu PF have dragged us into this political and economic mess but it is leaders like Tsvangirai and Dr Magaisa, men and women, of little intellect who have held us captives in this mess. We the electorate have played our part by electing them our leaders. After their callous betrayal of our cause for democratic change for any thinking Zimbabweans to allow themselves to be once again coned by Tsvangirai and his crowd into believing they will ever deliver change is unforgivable. To have been coned the first time was foolish but to be coned again is folly for which the nation rightly deserves to be punished.
The international community has, since the rigged 2013 elections, taken a hand-off approach to Zimbabwe's political situation. By allowing MDC to get away without implementing even one reforms showed that we, the electorate, did not really care whether the Mugabe dictatorship remained in power or not. The international community withdraw and has been waiting to re-engage once Zimbabweans prove they are no serious about democratic change. By electing to follow the same failed MDC leaders Zimbabweans are saying they are not ready for change. We will have to stew in this political and economic mess for a few more years, decades or even generations!
Mugabe "a big political character, indeed, a colossal figure"! I would have been disappointed to hear that from someone totally incapable of one coherent thought after decades of Zanu PF propaganda and brainwashing but not an academic and intellectual. And this is the intellectual ant who had the destiny of the nation in the palm of his hand; no wonder we are in a mess! We are in serious trouble!
-zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com
That is the trouble Dr Alex Magaisa, he is an ant, a political ant, in a world of giants, political giants!
"President Mugabe is a big political character, indeed, a colossal figure who divides opinion in a manner that is unparalleled across the entire continent," said Alex Magaisa. He was rationalizing Mugabe's recent appointment as African Union chairman but also explain why MDC did not implement any of the democratic reforms which would have end Mugabe's political career.
Mugabe is a corrupt and murderous tyrant. How can any Zimbabwean much less an intellectual at this stage in our country's history describe such a despicable despot as "a big political character, indeed a colossal figure" as if he or she does not know who the real Mugabe is. Forget about how people in Africa have divided opinions about Mugabe, he has divided Zimbabweans themselves!
Dr Alex Magaisa was Dr Richard Morgan Tsvangirai's chief legal adviser when the later was Prime Minister and leader of the MDC in the GNU. The GNU was set up in 2008 first and foremost to implement a raft of democratic reforms and write a new democratic constitution to ensure the country's next elections are free, fair and credible. The primary task of getting this done was with the MDC, natural, since implementing these reforms meant dismantling Mugabe's de facto one-party, Zanu PF, dictatorship and his political power base.
MDC had five years to implement the agreed reforms and write the new constitution. Not even one reform was ever implemented and the new constitution they produced at a cost of $ 100 million is not worth the paper it is written on. MDC claimed it was an "MDC child" and it would deliver free and fair elections guaranteed. Of course it did no such thing as Mugabe went on to blatantly rig the elections.
The Zanu PF representative on the committee tasked to write the new constitution, MP Paul Mangwana latter boosted that Mugabe had "dictated" the new constitution. Of course he had striped the document bear of all democratic credential and turned it into a tyrant's creed.
So MDC regardless of the fact that they had the services of Dr Alex Magaisa, until then a law lecturer at a highly regarded UK University, failed to get even one reform implemented. Not even one!
Dr Tsvangirai, with Dr Magaisa, his chief legal adviser, by his side claimed the new constitution dictated by Mugabe an "MDC child" knowing fully well it was weak and feeble and it will never ever deliver the nation's most cherish political hope and dream free, fair and credible elections.
Why did Dr Tsvangirai and his follow MDC leaders risk their political careers, indeed most of them lost their parliamentary seats but worse still know their names are "mud", by failing to implement the reforms and produce a democratic constitution? Dr Magaisa too staked his intellectual and political reputation on MDC's pathetic performance and thus is now dismissed as Dr "Nonsense" adviser.
Yes the MDC leaders and Dr "Nonsense" Adviser were corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent but still that does not explain why they gable so much and, in turn, lost so much. There has to be more and Dr Magaisa, in many of his articles since the rigged elections has revealed the addition reason MDC leaders never implemented even one reform – their inferiority complex.
Instead of viewing Mugabe as a corrupt and murderous tyrant that nation was dying, literally too, to get rid of; these MDC political midgets considered Mugabe "big political character, indeed, a colossal figure" the nation was obliged to listen and obey his dictates.
Mugabe is a liberation war hero who quickly turned into a corrupt and murderous tyrant when he got into power. After 35 years of his ruinous tyrannical rule no Zimbabwean of substance would have any doubt as to who Mugabe or would not want free, fair and credible elections and thus end the tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship.
The biggest mistake Zimbabweans have made these last 15 years was to believe Tsvangirai and his MDC friends were genuine in their promise to bring democratic change in Zimbabwe and free and fair elections. It has turned out that these MDC leaders also believe that Mugabe and his Zanu PF are the giants of Zimbabwe politics and they are not to be replaced regardless corrupt and oppressive they have turned out to be. For all their political posturing Tsvangirai and his MDC friends see themselves as nothing more than ants in an elephant's world.
Zimbabwe is in a serious political and economic mess after 35 years of Mugabe's corrupt and tyrannical rule; the only way out of the mess is for the nation to hold free, fair and credible elections. Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs must be held democratically accountable to the voters in a relationship of equals – all human beings with equal freedoms and rights including one-man-one-vote in free, fair and credible elections.
Tsvangirai and his MDC friends have failed to implement even one reform and to deliver free and fair elections because deep down in the ethos they believe Mugabe is an elephant and they are ants; no amount of reforms can make an ant and an elephant stand as equals! Zimbabweans have to be careful never again to elect someone with an outward appearance of a human being but with, nonetheless, the intellect of an ant!
Mugabe and Zanu PF have dragged us into this political and economic mess but it is leaders like Tsvangirai and Dr Magaisa, men and women, of little intellect who have held us captives in this mess. We the electorate have played our part by electing them our leaders. After their callous betrayal of our cause for democratic change for any thinking Zimbabweans to allow themselves to be once again coned by Tsvangirai and his crowd into believing they will ever deliver change is unforgivable. To have been coned the first time was foolish but to be coned again is folly for which the nation rightly deserves to be punished.
The international community has, since the rigged 2013 elections, taken a hand-off approach to Zimbabwe's political situation. By allowing MDC to get away without implementing even one reforms showed that we, the electorate, did not really care whether the Mugabe dictatorship remained in power or not. The international community withdraw and has been waiting to re-engage once Zimbabweans prove they are no serious about democratic change. By electing to follow the same failed MDC leaders Zimbabweans are saying they are not ready for change. We will have to stew in this political and economic mess for a few more years, decades or even generations!
Mugabe "a big political character, indeed, a colossal figure"! I would have been disappointed to hear that from someone totally incapable of one coherent thought after decades of Zanu PF propaganda and brainwashing but not an academic and intellectual. And this is the intellectual ant who had the destiny of the nation in the palm of his hand; no wonder we are in a mess! We are in serious trouble!
-zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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