Opinion / Columnist
Opposition: below par to dislodge Mugabe
12 Oct 2011 at 03:33hrs | Views
Zimbabwe the superb land of our fathers has become personification of poverty, unemployment and HIV/AIDS due to political autocracy of his Excellence the head of state Robert Gabriel Mugabe.
Instead of cogitating on ramping up a strong economy in Zimbabwe his excellence spent and concentrated more time on constructing fortress against political opponents and threats. Many have came and vacated the political field, some through seizure to life yet some are exiled. In cognisance of the police and army correctional co-habilitation expressing one's views comprises one's domicility in the country.
He mastered the art of Power magnificently well. Mainly demonstrated by his earlier political strategy of 'divide and rule' and then later through the use of 'terror'. Ordinary citizens are scared to even mention his name as you can see that from the beginning of this article I only mentioned his name once.
Earlier in the day was PF ZAPU led by Joshua Nkomo which was out smarted in the negotiation table in 1987. Nkomo a great and fierce Leninist Marxist, a USSR decorated army chief and a Social Scientist by profession. Nkomo conceded defeat and joined ZANU PF which saw him being the ceremonial vice president of Zimbabwe. Many conclude that PF ZAPU sold out the people of Zimbabwe but what should sticky in the minds of people is the old rusty cliche "if you can't beat them its better you join them".
In 1999 the emergence of the (Movement for Delayed Change) aka Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) sent shockwaves to the spine of the hardliner at question. Nevertheless this lasted for no more than 6 months because contrary to popular belief the MDC was engulfed with heavy divisions and infiltrated to the marrow by the ZANU PF agents. This was later exhibited by the 2005 unpopular split when the then president of the MDC Dr Morgan Tsvangirai and a few other unprincipled leaders wanted to gang rape the constitution of their own party. This saw the president of the MDC breaking away to form his own political party and naming it after himself, MDC-T. This did not only weaken the opposition it was laughishious, disappointing and embarrassing to the multitudes of Zimbabweans and the international world.
The opposition of Zimbabwe has no masonry to dislodge Mugabe and his Zanu Pf party. Precedence has that a mere a "X" will not unsit Mugabe. He will just ignore the result and nothing will happen to him. Anyone who opens his mouth to dare challenge will fall victim of a violent outdated dictatorship. SADC and AU will be complaining from their Ethiopian offices, the best they can do is to appoint Jacob Zuma or Michael Chulufya Sata to be a peace broker in the country. The best that a peace broker can do for Zimbabwe is to form yet another coalition Government which will see Mugabe as the Head of State and a long tail of grateful opposition political slaves following to occupy other not so important offices.
The opposition can campaign, craft great policies, lobby internationally, etc but the underlying fact is that an election will not earn them the highest position in the country. The best solution right now is to attract the securocrats and other ZANU PF caders in to their parties. The current approach of grand standing will only get them money from donors and imperialists not the First and highest office in the country.
Dear Zimbabwean opposition you don't need Niccolo Machevelli to tell you that it is unprecedented to dislodge a violent dictatorship through an election. Nor do you need Dinizulu Macaphulana to tell you that in order to dismantle a gadget you need to unscrew it.
Going back to my argument, the opposition has assumed a visible form that even a fool can figure out while ZANU PF has assumed formlessness and it has became more slippery like fish in water more than ever before. The opposition was set up to dislodge ZANU PF but in pragmatic instance ZANU PF is dislodging the opposition. They can't even lobby support from neighboring countries however they are very good in fund-raising and wealth amassing. Instead of fighting for political power they should beg Mugabe to give them the treasury, the country could do with skilled fund-raisers.
The resurrection of the MDC under the new leadership led by a great legal mind Professor Welshman Ncube is the last hope for Zimbabweans because Tsvangirai and his MDC-T have dismally failed to save and serve Zimbabweans as the main opposition in the land.
Besides being a writing fanatic Shephard Dube is the Director General of Zimbabwe Students Alliance. He is doing LLB with the University of South Africa.
Contactable on 49572571@mylife.unisa.ac.za
Instead of cogitating on ramping up a strong economy in Zimbabwe his excellence spent and concentrated more time on constructing fortress against political opponents and threats. Many have came and vacated the political field, some through seizure to life yet some are exiled. In cognisance of the police and army correctional co-habilitation expressing one's views comprises one's domicility in the country.
He mastered the art of Power magnificently well. Mainly demonstrated by his earlier political strategy of 'divide and rule' and then later through the use of 'terror'. Ordinary citizens are scared to even mention his name as you can see that from the beginning of this article I only mentioned his name once.
Earlier in the day was PF ZAPU led by Joshua Nkomo which was out smarted in the negotiation table in 1987. Nkomo a great and fierce Leninist Marxist, a USSR decorated army chief and a Social Scientist by profession. Nkomo conceded defeat and joined ZANU PF which saw him being the ceremonial vice president of Zimbabwe. Many conclude that PF ZAPU sold out the people of Zimbabwe but what should sticky in the minds of people is the old rusty cliche "if you can't beat them its better you join them".
In 1999 the emergence of the (Movement for Delayed Change) aka Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) sent shockwaves to the spine of the hardliner at question. Nevertheless this lasted for no more than 6 months because contrary to popular belief the MDC was engulfed with heavy divisions and infiltrated to the marrow by the ZANU PF agents. This was later exhibited by the 2005 unpopular split when the then president of the MDC Dr Morgan Tsvangirai and a few other unprincipled leaders wanted to gang rape the constitution of their own party. This saw the president of the MDC breaking away to form his own political party and naming it after himself, MDC-T. This did not only weaken the opposition it was laughishious, disappointing and embarrassing to the multitudes of Zimbabweans and the international world.
The opposition of Zimbabwe has no masonry to dislodge Mugabe and his Zanu Pf party. Precedence has that a mere a "X" will not unsit Mugabe. He will just ignore the result and nothing will happen to him. Anyone who opens his mouth to dare challenge will fall victim of a violent outdated dictatorship. SADC and AU will be complaining from their Ethiopian offices, the best they can do is to appoint Jacob Zuma or Michael Chulufya Sata to be a peace broker in the country. The best that a peace broker can do for Zimbabwe is to form yet another coalition Government which will see Mugabe as the Head of State and a long tail of grateful opposition political slaves following to occupy other not so important offices.
The opposition can campaign, craft great policies, lobby internationally, etc but the underlying fact is that an election will not earn them the highest position in the country. The best solution right now is to attract the securocrats and other ZANU PF caders in to their parties. The current approach of grand standing will only get them money from donors and imperialists not the First and highest office in the country.
Dear Zimbabwean opposition you don't need Niccolo Machevelli to tell you that it is unprecedented to dislodge a violent dictatorship through an election. Nor do you need Dinizulu Macaphulana to tell you that in order to dismantle a gadget you need to unscrew it.
Going back to my argument, the opposition has assumed a visible form that even a fool can figure out while ZANU PF has assumed formlessness and it has became more slippery like fish in water more than ever before. The opposition was set up to dislodge ZANU PF but in pragmatic instance ZANU PF is dislodging the opposition. They can't even lobby support from neighboring countries however they are very good in fund-raising and wealth amassing. Instead of fighting for political power they should beg Mugabe to give them the treasury, the country could do with skilled fund-raisers.
The resurrection of the MDC under the new leadership led by a great legal mind Professor Welshman Ncube is the last hope for Zimbabweans because Tsvangirai and his MDC-T have dismally failed to save and serve Zimbabweans as the main opposition in the land.
Besides being a writing fanatic Shephard Dube is the Director General of Zimbabwe Students Alliance. He is doing LLB with the University of South Africa.
Contactable on 49572571@mylife.unisa.ac.za
Source - Shephard Dube
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