Opinion / Columnist
MDC-T, United we WON 2018 General Elections BUT Divided we FAIL
17 May 2015 at 20:26hrs | Views
In 1999 we took the bold decision to give life to challenge the Zanu-Pf devil regime, it was to take our country from the dark depths of poverty and oppression using the X as our weapon. We are in what we are because of brave, strong Leadership led by His Excellence President Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai. The party is well represented by the Youth that had promise. We had Generation of Leadership that take over in 2014 as the masses so decided to. MDC is truly Democratic and is the party of choice. The message our Leadership preached then was difficult to accept but was very correct. They preached non-violence and built upon that a confidence that made us realize that we had more power unarmed than Robbery Garbage Mudonhi Mugabe and his World War artillery. In the face of the worst atrocities, we got into Parliament, a victory that saw us strengthen our resolve to slowly but surely take down the devilish party. Our greatest moment came in 2008 when we beat the devils hands down, leaving them so shocked that it took them a good five weeks to recover. We achieved that feat against the background of the very painful 2005 split.........the split that till this day remains the curse that lost out on an unassailable victory. This history remains vivid in our minds. As hard as it is, we have to take time to dissect the few lessons we could have taken into the 2013 elections, with a view to preparing for 2018.
The Zanu-Pf regime never stopped being evil because Zimbabweans made the loud call telling it to go to hell. In fact it got worse. That is something we should never fool ourselves to think it will change. Come 2018, we are already guaranteed that the devil will be hitting even harder than the pre-2008 period. Plan B must be made to counter, neutralize and or avoid the impending bloodbath.
A child who was 13 yrs old in 2018 will be eligible to vote in 2018. While they didn't understand much of the propaganda then, when its replayed in 2018 it will definitely confuse a lot of them. We do not want that because those are the voters we need to educate and capture in totality in addition to what we have already.
This requires selflessness and the belief and acceptance that we can take out Zanu-Pf with its rigging machinery only if we go into the next General Election as a United force. Our greatest advantage would be the avoidance of a split as what happened in 2005 and 2013. Zanu-Pf will not be having Robbery Garbage Mudonhi Mugabe factor in 2018 so no matter how much rigging or violence they employ, they will be fighting a losing battle.
For as long as we are suspicious to the SADC and AU and some International institutions that can help ensure a free, credible and fair Elections for us, we will remain bullied by Zanu-Pf. We can only gain the confidence of these institutions and member countries if we show ourselves to be well organized, selfless, united, focused and desirous of freedom above our personal desires. We need every Country backing our efforts, we must begin now to engage them and show our intention now. We cannot do that six months before General Election. We need to build strong relations so we are backed in our quest to remove Dictatorship. I believe we will dislodge Zanu-Pf,I maintain we have our greatest power in ourselves only if we are a United MDC Family. Zanu cannot beat us in 2018 even if they bring all available ghosts to vote!!!
Let's unite to fight our Enemies and let's stop to fire our bullets in within but to Zanu-Pf
Together as one United MDC-T Family as Victory is Certain
Source - Prof R M Simango
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