Opinion / Columnist
Zanu PF will not 'lose sleep' over MDC-T election boycott but will lose sleep over economic meltdown.
27 Apr 2015 at 15:43hrs | Views
Zanu PF spokesman, Comrade Simon Khaya Moyo said Zanu PF was not losing sleep over MDC elections boycott over reforms.
"We are not going to lose sleep about the MDC. We are the ruling party; we are the liberators of this country. We have the people behind us and therefore why should we worry about anybody?" said Khaya Moyo. What he meant is Zanu PF has a political system that allows it to rig elections and thus deny the people their fundamental right to free, fair and credible elections. Throughout the GNU President Mugabe was rightly worried that the system that he had spent his life to build to guarantee no regime would be dismantled if the democratic reforms agreed and he had signed on to in the 2008 Global Politic Agreement were implemented.
Having agreed to the democratic reforms President Mugabe knew SADC leaders would put him under great pressure to get the reforms implemented. His best and only hope of making sure none of the reforms saw the light of day was for him to bribe the MDC leaders in the GNU. Whilst he could be sure of many of the MDC leaders were easily corruptible, offer them the right price and they will sell you whatever you ask of them; but for all the MDC leaders to be sell-outs; that was doubtful!
President Mugabe must have pitched himself several times; just to be sure he was awake; he could not believe at how easy it had been for him to bribe ALL the MDC leaders into doing nothing about the reforms.
Some SADC leaders, worried about the lack of progress in the implementing of the reforms, had in confidence reminded MDC leaders about implementing the reforms. The leaders were surprised to hear Zanu PF complain about SADC leaders who were interfering in Zimbabwe's internal affairs and quoting verbatim what MDC leaders had been advised!
Of course no one in Zanu PF would be losing sleep over Tsvangirai boycotting elections supposedly because MDC want Zanu PF want some reforms implemented. Everybody knows MDC were supposed to implement the reforms but did not because President Mugabe paid them not to. The boycott therefore is no more that a child tantrum to appease naïve and gullible MDC supporters!
Morgan Tsvangirai is but the modern day Judas Iscariot with one notable difference; whilst Judas had the intellect to throw back the blood money and hang himself Morgan does not have the intellect to see the contradiction of keeping the $4 million Highlands mansion and yet still will not explain why he failed to implement any reforms in five years, ignored SADC warnings on the reforms, why he was given the mansion if it was not a bribe, etc.
Zanu PF has gone through the eight reforms MDC-T is demanding; even if Zanu PF implemented them all, they will never stop the party rigging future elections anywhere!
President Mugabe and the rest of the Zanu PF leadership have a lot more serious matter to worry about than Tsvangirai and his crew of sell-outs. The in-fighting within Zanu PF has now taking a life of its own; if the Zanu PF People First does not die down soon, the party will implode! As if that was not bad enough, the worsening economic meltdown cannot be ignored for much longer.
Even the slow thinkers like Khaya Moyo have now noticed that their gravy train parliamentary allowances have been cut back or stopped because of the worsening economic crisis. The only way to end the economic meltdown is for Zanu PF to accept it has failed to provide a solution and thus accept giving up some of its political powers, at least, in some power sharing arrangement.
Of course President Mugabe, Simon Khaya Moyo and the rest in Zanu PF have every reason to lose sleep over the worsening economic meltdown because it is forcing them into yet another power sharing deal with new political partners who are certainly not going to be as corrupt and incompetent as Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC crew! Whilst Zanu PF would rather have deal with Tsvangirai, it is clear that any new political arrangement in Zimbabwe with Zanu PF and MDC as the main players will not have the backing of SADC or the international community.
"We are not going to lose sleep about the MDC. We are the ruling party; we are the liberators of this country. We have the people behind us and therefore why should we worry about anybody?" said Khaya Moyo. What he meant is Zanu PF has a political system that allows it to rig elections and thus deny the people their fundamental right to free, fair and credible elections. Throughout the GNU President Mugabe was rightly worried that the system that he had spent his life to build to guarantee no regime would be dismantled if the democratic reforms agreed and he had signed on to in the 2008 Global Politic Agreement were implemented.
Having agreed to the democratic reforms President Mugabe knew SADC leaders would put him under great pressure to get the reforms implemented. His best and only hope of making sure none of the reforms saw the light of day was for him to bribe the MDC leaders in the GNU. Whilst he could be sure of many of the MDC leaders were easily corruptible, offer them the right price and they will sell you whatever you ask of them; but for all the MDC leaders to be sell-outs; that was doubtful!
President Mugabe must have pitched himself several times; just to be sure he was awake; he could not believe at how easy it had been for him to bribe ALL the MDC leaders into doing nothing about the reforms.
Some SADC leaders, worried about the lack of progress in the implementing of the reforms, had in confidence reminded MDC leaders about implementing the reforms. The leaders were surprised to hear Zanu PF complain about SADC leaders who were interfering in Zimbabwe's internal affairs and quoting verbatim what MDC leaders had been advised!
Zanu PF has gone through the eight reforms MDC-T is demanding; even if Zanu PF implemented them all, they will never stop the party rigging future elections anywhere!
President Mugabe and the rest of the Zanu PF leadership have a lot more serious matter to worry about than Tsvangirai and his crew of sell-outs. The in-fighting within Zanu PF has now taking a life of its own; if the Zanu PF People First does not die down soon, the party will implode! As if that was not bad enough, the worsening economic meltdown cannot be ignored for much longer.
Even the slow thinkers like Khaya Moyo have now noticed that their gravy train parliamentary allowances have been cut back or stopped because of the worsening economic crisis. The only way to end the economic meltdown is for Zanu PF to accept it has failed to provide a solution and thus accept giving up some of its political powers, at least, in some power sharing arrangement.
Of course President Mugabe, Simon Khaya Moyo and the rest in Zanu PF have every reason to lose sleep over the worsening economic meltdown because it is forcing them into yet another power sharing deal with new political partners who are certainly not going to be as corrupt and incompetent as Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC crew! Whilst Zanu PF would rather have deal with Tsvangirai, it is clear that any new political arrangement in Zimbabwe with Zanu PF and MDC as the main players will not have the backing of SADC or the international community.
Source - Patrick Guramatunhu
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