Opinion / Columnist
Tsvangirai cannot be President, he took 2 steps forward 10 back
21 Aug 2015 at 15:40hrs | Views
MDC Secretary, Douglas Mwonzora's justifying his assertion that Tsvangirai is the best foot forward for the nation on Tsvangirai and MDC electoral achievements. They defeated Mugabe and Zanu PF at all the elections but did not get into power only because Zanu PF cheated. He has been very careful not to say a word about why it has been child's play for Zanu PF to cheat MDC again and again especially in the 2013 elections when MDC had boosted that the elections would be free, fair and credible!
Like all the other MDC leaders Mwonzora is fastidious in making sure he does not mention MDC's record during the GNU, particularly the party's failure to get even one reform implemented in five years.
The fact of the matter is Zimbabwe is looking for a leader who first and foremost will implement all the democratic reforms and end once and once for all the corrupt and tyrannical dictatorship Zanu PF has imposed on the nation. So Mwonzora is insisting Tsvangirai is that leader and above all insisting we ignore the fact that Tsvangirai has already failed to get even one reform implemented when he had the chance to do so during the GNU. He has airbrushed MDC's pathetic performance during the GNU and is insisting we all do the same!
This is core weakness of our national politics; we take two steps forward and ten steps back and instead of taking a holistic outlook on our situation we coerced to make a big song and dance about the two steps forward and bamboozled, beaten and even murdered anything to force us to ignore ten steps backwards. Mugabe and Zanu PF have become masters on cherry picking on events they want and force feed the nation on these falsehoods and distortions.
If there is one part of Zimbabwe's history everyone should know inside out it is the struggle for independence, for the last 35 years that is all Mugabe and his tightly controlled media has talked about and nothing else. Mugabe abandoned the all the commitment to freedom, liberty, justice and has for 35 years taken the nation down this ruinous economic path and yet the nation has not been allowed to talk about any of these things.
Before independence the nation aspired to one-man-one-vote, it was a rallying call; not so after independence. The right to free, fair and credible elections is core to our struggle today as it was before independence and yet all those demanding this fundamental right have been labelled by Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs puppets of the Western government bend on regime change.
Mugabe has taken the nation ten step forward in the fight to end the oppressive white colonial rule but has since independence drag the nation fifty steps backwards by denying the people the very freedoms and basic human rights including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country and the right to life itself. We refuse to be forced to focus on liberation heroics only and ignore the reality that the same heroes have since become corrupt and murderous tyrants!
Mr Mwonzora, the people of Zimbabwe are refusing to accept Mugabe's fallacious argument that because Zanu PF spearheaded the war of independence it is the only party fit to rule the country and anyone demanding free, fair and credible elections is a puppet of the West. Similarly the people are refusing to accept MDC's equally fallacious argument that Tsvangirai is the best leader going forward just because they voted for him in the past regardless of the fact that he sold-out during the GNU. He took the nation two steps forward and then ten steps back and then means he will be a disaster for the nation!
2 – 10 = - 8
Mathematics is an exact science and the maths on Tsvangirai says it all!
During the GNU Tsvangirai proven that he is breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent just as Mugabe has proven beyond all doubt since independence that he is incompetent, corrupt and a murderous tyrant; it would be foolish to elect either of them to lead this great nation.
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Wilbert Mukori can be contacted at zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com
Like all the other MDC leaders Mwonzora is fastidious in making sure he does not mention MDC's record during the GNU, particularly the party's failure to get even one reform implemented in five years.
The fact of the matter is Zimbabwe is looking for a leader who first and foremost will implement all the democratic reforms and end once and once for all the corrupt and tyrannical dictatorship Zanu PF has imposed on the nation. So Mwonzora is insisting Tsvangirai is that leader and above all insisting we ignore the fact that Tsvangirai has already failed to get even one reform implemented when he had the chance to do so during the GNU. He has airbrushed MDC's pathetic performance during the GNU and is insisting we all do the same!
This is core weakness of our national politics; we take two steps forward and ten steps back and instead of taking a holistic outlook on our situation we coerced to make a big song and dance about the two steps forward and bamboozled, beaten and even murdered anything to force us to ignore ten steps backwards. Mugabe and Zanu PF have become masters on cherry picking on events they want and force feed the nation on these falsehoods and distortions.
If there is one part of Zimbabwe's history everyone should know inside out it is the struggle for independence, for the last 35 years that is all Mugabe and his tightly controlled media has talked about and nothing else. Mugabe abandoned the all the commitment to freedom, liberty, justice and has for 35 years taken the nation down this ruinous economic path and yet the nation has not been allowed to talk about any of these things.
Before independence the nation aspired to one-man-one-vote, it was a rallying call; not so after independence. The right to free, fair and credible elections is core to our struggle today as it was before independence and yet all those demanding this fundamental right have been labelled by Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs puppets of the Western government bend on regime change.
Mugabe has taken the nation ten step forward in the fight to end the oppressive white colonial rule but has since independence drag the nation fifty steps backwards by denying the people the very freedoms and basic human rights including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country and the right to life itself. We refuse to be forced to focus on liberation heroics only and ignore the reality that the same heroes have since become corrupt and murderous tyrants!
Mr Mwonzora, the people of Zimbabwe are refusing to accept Mugabe's fallacious argument that because Zanu PF spearheaded the war of independence it is the only party fit to rule the country and anyone demanding free, fair and credible elections is a puppet of the West. Similarly the people are refusing to accept MDC's equally fallacious argument that Tsvangirai is the best leader going forward just because they voted for him in the past regardless of the fact that he sold-out during the GNU. He took the nation two steps forward and then ten steps back and then means he will be a disaster for the nation!
2 – 10 = - 8
Mathematics is an exact science and the maths on Tsvangirai says it all!
During the GNU Tsvangirai proven that he is breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent just as Mugabe has proven beyond all doubt since independence that he is incompetent, corrupt and a murderous tyrant; it would be foolish to elect either of them to lead this great nation.
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Wilbert Mukori can be contacted at zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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