Ncube blame failure to 'operationalize' Electoral Act for rigged 2013 elections - he sold-out, that is the truth!

Zimbabwe's land reform has been a total failure; many have argued that it was the farm invasions that triggered the country's economic decline from which it will never recover until the matter is properly dealt with. But since it is only Zanu PF's voice that is heard on the matter; the party's position and thus the nation's position is the land reform has been a resounding black empowerment success.

Mugabe has taken the land reform as his greatest legacy he now has Zanu PF hardliners and war vets who have taken it upon themselves to defend this legacy with their very lives. In other words the nation is stuck with a failed policy it desperately need changed to turn round the economic decline!  

It is not only Mugabe and Zanu PF who have taken advantage of the fact that the Zimbabwean people have no political voice and have thus sort to impose their own narrative on the nation. The country's opposition leaders and parties have done the same. Professor Welshman Ncube has jumped on to the same bandwagon.

Professor Ncube, together with his fellow MDC leaders like Morgan Tsvangirai,Tendai Biti, david Coltart, Obert Gutu, Eddie Cross, etc. were tasked after the signing of the 2008 GPA to implement a raft of democratic reforms and write a new democratic constitution to ensure future elections are free, fair and credible. At the time, the GNU was given 18 months but it lasted 60 months over three times as long but, worse still, they failed to deliver the set tasks.

MDC failed to get even one of the many reforms implemented; not one.

The new Copac constitution presented to the nation was a weak and feeble one which was never going to deliver free and fair elections contrary to MDC leaders like Professor Ncube and Tsvangirai's repeated promises before the March 2013 referendum that it will.

Just as Mugabe has stubbornly refused to admit his land reform was a total failure and offered all manner of stupid excuses for the subsequent economic failures; MDC leaders too have stubbornly refused to own up that they sold-out in failing to implement the reforms and they too have offered all manner of feeble excuses.  

"Readers will recall that the new national constitution contained new clauses on electoral reforms and that an agreed new Electoral Act had been agreed to," proffered Professor Ncube.  "But before it could be enacted and operationalized, ZANU PF abandoned the GPA electoral roadmap and with the support, some might say connivance, of the then Supreme Court sitting as a constitutional court, frog marched the country to premature elections which were then conducted under electoral laws enacted by Presidential decree but not operationalised."

This is nonsense of course because the new constitution alone, even if it had been a democratic one, was never going to deliver free and fair elections without the raft of reforms. MDC had failed to get even one reform implemented. Not one!

Even if the nation was to accept that the operationalization of the Electoral Act was all that was required to guarantee free and fair elections; one has to ask why MDC had failed to get the new constitution approved and the Act operational in five years. They were supposed to have done all this in 18 months, they had 60 months instead and yet still failed to complete the job!

If there was any question of Mugabe "frog matching" the nation into the elections then there was also the question of MDC dragging their feet to avoid elections.

"I still remember vividly the woman from Binga," wrote Professor Ncube, "who had voted for the party at a polling station in Binga and was shocked on reading the election results put up at the door of the polling station showing that the candidates she had voted for had obtained no votes at all and had to sell her goat to come to the MDC Bulawayo Regional office to seek an explanation as to how it could have happened when she together with others had voted for the party at that polling station. Even more disappointing for her was our inability to explain to her how such electoral outcomes were possible in those circumstances."

Why did you not tell her the truth Professor; that she was not the only one disappointed with the rigged elections; that you had been warned about implementing the reforms by ignored warnings because you had sold-out; that you are boycotting all elections because all party donors deserted you because you are corrupt and incompetent; etc.

"I therefore insist that by not participating we are sending a strong message that there should be a change. It is not the mechanistic exercise of fake elections that brings democracy. Elections must be Elections, which means they must present a real opportunity for people to make a choice between or among different political parties/ individuals," pleaded Professor Ncube.

"My colleagues and I who lead the opposition parties have to be prepared to defer our dreams for better national good rather than pursuing rent-seeking parochial interests. The MDC and I are in it for the long haul - to win - not just dressing the devil in pin -striped suits to conceal its evil nature."

But is that not the point Professor; that throughout the five years of the GNU you and you fellow MDC leaders "pursued rent-seeking parochial interests" and kicked the reforms into the tall grass. You are now counting on the Zimbabwe electorate not noticing you betrayed them and thus get yourself elected back into power again.

If Zimbabwe had been a healthy and functioning democracy you, Professor Ncube, and your MDC friends would have apologized to the nation on 31 July 2013 for selling-out and then resigned from the political stage, never to be heard or seen again. Since you lot will not do the honourable thing and resign someone has to tell the nation the truth about you and ensure you are never ever elected into office again.

Professor Ncube you sold-out during the GNU and that is the truth!