Naïve and opportunist Tsvangirai believes Mujuru had her 'Damascene moment'!

Throughout the GNU the country had one chance after another to do something to end the Mugabe dictatorship but chance after chance was wasted. Instead of sobering up to the reality that the nation was heading for trouble with time running out and nothing of substance achieved the nation did the exact opposite, people became hysterical with euphoria and excitement because they saw success and not the impending failure.

Tsvangirai and his MDC friends praised the new constitution to the high heaven confident it would deliver free, fair and credible elections and argued the people to approve it in the March 2013 referendum. The people were so cock sure they voted yes without even reading the document. On 31 July 2013 the nation was shocked as the truth of the blatant vote rigging by Zanu PF finally sunk in; of course the new constitution was too weak and feeble to have delivered free and fair elections.

The last two years since the rigged elections should have been used to reflect what went wrong during the GNU – mass hysteria without care study of the facts -, learn from that to ensure the nation does not make the same mistakes ever again. Sadly the mass hysteria is back again with Tsvangirai doing what he does best leading from the front!

"But today, we are heartened that there are more of us with the same vision, including others who were formerly with Zanu-PF," said Tsvangirai, referring to Mai Mujuru and her People First. "Everyone has their Damascene moment and they must be encouraged. They deserve our support for their new sense of patriotism and the realisation that together, we are bigger, better and more formidable."

Mai Mujuru and her fellow People First friends were kicked out of Zanu PF kicking and screaming because as the national cake continued shrinking it was clear there would not be enough for everyone, it was a simple case of kicking out the other fellows or they will kick you out. In the end Mai Mujuru's faction was outwitted and kicked out.

Mai Mujuru, Didymus Mutasa, Rugare Gumbo and all the other former Zanu PF leaders are corrupt and they are fighting to get back into power so they can take up their corrupt activities from where they left off last year when they were booted out of government. Mai Mujuru is on record denying there was no corruption even in the face of all the evidence of absurd salaries and allowance of $ 500 000 per month paid to Premier Medical Aid Society CEO Cuthbert Dube. She maintained the stories were lies by "those bend on regime change".

Zanu PF has failed to hold free, fair and credible elections for 35 years and it is inconceivable that in her senior position in the party she was not aware of all the blatant denial of the people's freedoms and human rights. She was aware of these treasonous activities but never raised a finger to stop them because she too reaped the benefits. The dictatorship secured her position in power and unfettered access to looting and plundering the nation's riches – until last year when she was kicked out of Zanu PF because there is no longer enough loot for everyone.

The same economic hardships that have led to the shrinkage of the national cake and the dog-eat-dog fighting within Zanu PF are been felt by the ordinary people and they are desperate to see an end to the Zanu PF dictatorship. Mai Mujuru and her friends purged from Zanu PF are smart enough to know they can tap into this public desire for change by promising that democratic change. They are smart enough to know the Zimbabwe public are so desperate for change they will accept their promise with the same blind euphoria as shown again and again in the past.

Tsvangirai, for selfish reasons, is not helping the situation here by whipping up the public into another stampede and acceptance of Mujuru and her People First as the definitive last step in our 35 year journey to the free, just and democratic Zimbabwe. Tsvangirai lost political credibility after the rigged July 2013 elections he is desperate to revive his own sinking political fortune and is hoping that by teaming up with Mai Mujuru will help him do that.

Mai Mujuru's manifesto promise to end corruption and bring democratic change in Zimbabwe is just a political lure to gain public support to be elected back into power. She made the same promise before independence only to abandon her promise and the people and for 34 years she has shown her true colours as just another corrupt, incompetent and ruthless thug. If the nation is naïve and gullible enough to elect her back into office then she will once again forget her promise of freedom, justice and democracy and revert back to her corrupt and repressive ways.

For 34 years Mai Mujuru, Didymus Mutasa, Rugare Gumbo and all the other former Zanu PF thugs have shown that they will betray the nation for selfish political and material gain. Elect them back into power and they will betray the nation once again. Tsvangirai is seeing them as having changed, having had their "Damascene moment", he is desperate for allies and is seeing what is not there.

It was because of Tsvangirai's breath-taking incompetence that we failed to get even one reform implemented during the GNU and thus lost the opportunity to deliver change and end the Zanu PF dictatorship. We should not allow ourselves to be swept away by his totally unfounded claim that People First is nothing else but Zanu PF dictatorship by another name. We have a real chance to force the implementation of all the democratic reforms agreed in the 2008 GPA, we should not waste that chance by once again following the corrupt and incompetent Morgan Tsvangirai!