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Minister racial abuse Coltart - no goat feels sorry for vulture abused by the hyena!

05 Oct 2015 at 06:34hrs | Views
David Coltart
"Former Education minister David Coltart is a victim of Zanu PF politician Jonathan Moyo's acerbic rants on social media, which always have racial undertones. President Robert Mugabe does not hide his disdain for people like Coltart and once encouraged his supporters "to drive fear into the white man's heart," reported the Standard.

Our sympathy for Mr Coltart should not nonetheless blind us from seeing him for the corrupt and incompetent MDC leader he is.

Many Zimbabweans who have known David Coltart after independence, held him in very high regard; right up to the watershed July 2013 rigged elections. David Coltart, like all the other MDC leaders in the GNU played his part in doing nothing to implement the democratic reforms agreed in the GPA.

To rub hot chilli into the open wound, he was one of the leading MDC leaders who led from the front in the campaign for a yes vote in new constitution referendum. The new constitution was a weak and feeble one, not the democratic constitution the nation was after. MDC desperately needed the new constitution approved because they had little else to show for all their five years in the GNU.

Mr Coltart and the other MDC leaders assured the nation repeatedly that the new constitution would deliver free, fair and credible elections. The people believed them and approve the feeble constitution by a whopping 95% yes vote in the March 2013 referendum.

By noon of elections day, 31 July 2013, the penny finally dropped as Tsvangirai and his fellow MDC leaders realized that the elections were being rigged and blatantly so too. 

Some of the MDC leaders like Sipape Nkomo and Tendai Biti have since admitted that MDC betrayed the nation; Biti called it "collective (act of) idiocy". David Coltart is one of the MDC leaders who have to this day stubbornly refused to acknowledge they are corrupt, incompetent and sell-outs. Indeed they are actively seeking to be re-elected back into power as if they are as innocent as Saint John the Baptist himself!

Right now Zimbabwe is in the middle of devastating political and economic hurricane that has forced unemployment to soar to 90% plus, millions now live in abject poverty and hopeless despair, we have 18 hours a day power cuts, clean running water is a rare treat, etc. Worse still, the situation is set to get a lot worse as long as Zanu PF remains in power.

We are not getting out of this mess until we implement the GPA reforms and holding free and fair elections.  Given the country's feeble constitution and the fact that none of the democratic reforms were implemented (thanks to Mr Coltart and his MDC fiends), it is not going to be easy to get Mugabe and Zanu PF to accept the implementation of the GPA reforms now. Buckle up Zimbabwe, we are in for a long rough ride and only God knows when and how this is going to end! 

It should be said loud and clear that this hurricane could and should have been avoided if MDC leaders, including Mr David Coltart, had faithfully implemented the democratic reforms and drafted a democratic constitution. So all those who still prophesy to hold MDC leaders like David Coltart in high regard after they sold-out during the GNU either do not understand the seriousness of betrayal and its catastrophic consequences to the nation and/or they are sentimental fools!

Of course any reasonable Zimbabwean would not only condemn Minister Jonathan Moyo racist taunting of Coltart but condemn the Minister for he is the grandfather of all betrayers and sell-outs. Moyo has been one of Mugabe's most reliable and consistent propagandists and strategists producing one dirty scheme after another which have helped the tyrant stay in power all these years. Moyo has even boasted of his exploits in being the tyrant's schemer. It takes all sorts!

Jonathan Moyo is the type of sell-out who would sell his own mother for a price and be proud he had a mother to sell!

Still Jonathan Moyo's racist taunting of David Coltart, in the grant scheme of things, nothing more that the murderous hyena snapping at the vulture for no other reason than that he alone should be the mid-wife to the goat. Of course the goat wants neither the ravenous hyena nor the gawking vulture for a mid-wife!

Source - Wilbert Mukori
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