Opinion / Columnist
Mnangagwa was first class freedom fighter but State President, no!
02 Mar 2015 at 08:11hrs | Views
Whilst I like Wilbert Mukori's contribution to the country's on-going debate and search for a way out of the country's political and economic problems. Still, I believe his relentless attack of the MDC leaders' failure to implement the reforms is now counter-productive.
We want a democratic Zimbabwe and Mukori is killing the democratic spirit.
"MDC will never implement any reforms and bring the nation out of this nightmare all they want is to join Mugabe in the feasting! MDC conned the nation once, we must never allow them to con us again! MDC must apologize and walk into the political sunset!," wrote Mukori in one of his recent articles.
How can he say he is fighting for a democratic Zimbabwe when he seems set on seeing all the MDC leaders "walk into the political sunset"?
I too believe the democratic reforms were important to ending the Zanu-PF dictatorship. I agree that it was a serious mistake that MDC leaders failed to implement the reforms when they had the opportunity to do so. Yes the only reasons they failed to do is they are "corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent" as Mukori has said a thousand times. Still it is for the electorate and not for Mukori or anyone else to decide whether MDC leaders like Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti, Welshman Ncube, etc. should "walk into the political sunset" or not.
In any case MDC are the only opposition on the ground at present; Zimbabweans would be very foolish to listen to people like Mukori to ditch the only politically active opposition the country has.
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Patrick Guramatunhu can be contacted at patguramatunhu@gmail.com
Source - Patrick Guramatunhu
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