No CSO propping up of Tsvangirai will change the fact that he is a failed leader

"MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai this week received a major boost in his bid to cajole the country's influential civil society community after they turned up for a key meeting where he appealed for support to challenge President Robert Mugabe's stay in power," reported Radio VoP Zimbabwe.

Among the key Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) who attended Tsvangirai's breakfast meeting were leaders of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CZC), the Election Resource Centre and the Labour and Economic Research Institute of Zimbabwe (LEDRIZ) among other organisations.

Tsvangirai lost credibility after the MDC's treasonous betrayal of the nation by failing to imple-ment even one democratic reform out of the raft of reforms agreed in the 2008 Global Political Agreement (GPA) throughout the five years of the Government of National Unity (GNU). The MDC has been desperately seeking political relevance by offering to host an all stakeholders meeting, "convergence conference", to discuss the roadmap out of the country's political and economic mess. The meeting was to try to get the CSOs to back his idea.  

There is a crying need to find a political and economic solution in Zimbabwe; there is no question about that. What is failing to understand is that it was his blundering incompetence in failing to implement the reforms during the GNU that landed the nation in this mess. In any other country with an informed and vigilant electorate he would have been forced to resign a long time ago because he disqualified himself as someone who could ever be trusted to lead again.

The task of getting the democratic reforms implemented now is a lot tougher than it was during the GNU. So what hope is there that Tsvangirai will get the reforms implemented now when he failed to do so during the GNU? None!

The SADC, international community and the whole world would like to help Zimbabwe end this political nightmare of Zanu PF tyranny but after the debacle of the GNU they all walked out in disgust. If we want to be taken serious ever again by anyone then it is for us to show the world that we learnt something from our folly of having elected someone as corrupt and incompetent as Tsvangirai in the first place. By re-electing Tsvangirai to lead in any way shows that we have learnt nothing and are therefore not yet ready to be taken seriously.

Tsvangirai will never deliver any democratic change in Zimbabwe; that is a fact. He can have as many local CSOs as he pleases to his social gatherings that will never change that he is a failed leader who will never add up to much. None of the foreign donors attended the meeting, they all deserted MDC in droves as soon as it was clear MDC was going to take part in the July 2013 elections with not even one reform implemented against the repeated advice not to. They knew then that Tsvangirai would never ever deliver any meaning change and they have since kept they distance.

  Dr Richard Morgan Tsvangirai hosting a "convergence conference" – what would a scatter brain like him do now that he failed to do when he was Prime Minister Richard Morgan Tsvangirai; he failed to do a single thing of any substance then!

Of course Zimbabweans are free to hold on to the belief that we can make a silk purse from a rat's ear but we must not expect anyone else out there to pay any attention to what we say or do much less spend a single dollar supporting such hare-brain schemes! The continued support of failed leaders is not helping our struggle for democratic change but is instead undermining it because it is sending the message that we are not serious.