Opinion / Columnist
MDC-T hallucinating
31 May 2016 at 10:16hrs | Views
My departed grandfather (may his dear soul rest in eternal peace) used to tell me that one might enjoy lying to others but it is dangerously suicidal to lie to yourself.
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), led by Morgan Tsvangirai, is not only lying to itself, but also hallucinating more than a person who has taken a tonne of cocaine.
Indeed the MDC-T, after having gathered a few thousand hooligans for its recent demonstrations in Harare and Bulawayo, the party suddenly lies to itself that come 2018, its discredited leader, Tsvangirai's new bedroom will be at the State House.
Well, our democracy allows even zombies to dream.
According to the BBC, during the Harare MDC-T demonstration, only a paltry 2 000 rowdy crowd demonstrated. This gave the overzealous Tsvangirai courage to call for the resignation of President Mugabe so that the opposition leader can sneak into the State House through the back door.
In Bulawayo, the party howled its usual slogans that "Mugabe must go; No to bond notes; Where is $15 billion; Stay away from MDC Municipalities etc'' as expected, yet the leadership addressed less than 4 000 supporters out of 30 000 the party had hoped would attend.
Some of the attendees were bussed from Matabeleland North and South Provinces; and yet that party is lying to its self through the teeth, that Bulawayo is its stronghold.
The Secretary General of the confused party, Douglas Mwonzora, was earlier on quoted saying "Bulawayo was the party's stronghold and the march will be bigger than ZANU (PF)'s Million Man March in Harare".
Not to be outdone, Mwonzora's "learned colleague", Obert Gutu the spokesperson, also waffled that "ZANU (PF) Million Man March in Harare attracted less than 5 000 people''.
The MDC-T is demonstrating saying that the government should not interfere in local authorities under its control. Some dirty fish smells here. The MDC-T wants to hide its rampant corruption in local authorities.
It is public Knowledge that the party is siphoning money from local authorities under its control in order to fund its nefarious activities, including its leader's unstoppable womanising. The recent Gweru debacle is a case in point.
Gutu, surely numbers don't lie, and you know it.
As that was not enough, Gutu further lied that ZANU (PF) spent $200 million dollars (American by the way) on transport in addition to commandeering school buses to ferry people to the march. Am I missing something here; 200 million dollars to ferry less than 5 000 people within the borders of Zimbabwe? Gutu is showing us his interest in ZANU (PF) to the extent that he attends the party's gatherings just to make head counts.
Gutu and Mwonzora please stop casting the noble law profession in bad light since we know you first as lawyers. You are the ones busy promoting the adage that "Lawyers are trained to lie on behalf of their clients''.
In another interesting twist of events, which exposed MDC-T's lies, we now know that the MDC-T has been abusing names of missing people, claiming that they belong to that party.
This was recently confirmed by Paul Chizuze's wife, Sibongile Maposa. Chizuze allegedly went missing in 2012. Sibongile had this to say, "These people are just using my husband's picture for selfish reasons. When he disappeared in 2012, they never even came to our house to show their support. Besides, he was not even MDC-T; how then does he fit in their campaigns?''.
Maposa even confronted the MDC-T leadership threatening to sue that party over the abuse of Chizuze's name, forcing Mwonzora to swallow humble pie.
The MDC-T should stop lying and hallucinating. Zimbabweans are not fools who it can take for a ride. You are alleging that ZANU (PF) looted $15 billion diamond money; conveniently forgetting that President Mugabe is the one who revealed this development to the nation. Currently appropriate investigations are underway.
While MDC-T is wasting time with the usual useless rhetoric at its gatherings; ZANU (PF) holds such gathering to iron out its differences and seek ways to solve national problems.
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Chadzimura Mhute <chadzi.mhute@gmail.com
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), led by Morgan Tsvangirai, is not only lying to itself, but also hallucinating more than a person who has taken a tonne of cocaine.
Indeed the MDC-T, after having gathered a few thousand hooligans for its recent demonstrations in Harare and Bulawayo, the party suddenly lies to itself that come 2018, its discredited leader, Tsvangirai's new bedroom will be at the State House.
Well, our democracy allows even zombies to dream.
According to the BBC, during the Harare MDC-T demonstration, only a paltry 2 000 rowdy crowd demonstrated. This gave the overzealous Tsvangirai courage to call for the resignation of President Mugabe so that the opposition leader can sneak into the State House through the back door.
In Bulawayo, the party howled its usual slogans that "Mugabe must go; No to bond notes; Where is $15 billion; Stay away from MDC Municipalities etc'' as expected, yet the leadership addressed less than 4 000 supporters out of 30 000 the party had hoped would attend.
Some of the attendees were bussed from Matabeleland North and South Provinces; and yet that party is lying to its self through the teeth, that Bulawayo is its stronghold.
The Secretary General of the confused party, Douglas Mwonzora, was earlier on quoted saying "Bulawayo was the party's stronghold and the march will be bigger than ZANU (PF)'s Million Man March in Harare".
Not to be outdone, Mwonzora's "learned colleague", Obert Gutu the spokesperson, also waffled that "ZANU (PF) Million Man March in Harare attracted less than 5 000 people''.
The MDC-T is demonstrating saying that the government should not interfere in local authorities under its control. Some dirty fish smells here. The MDC-T wants to hide its rampant corruption in local authorities.
Gutu, surely numbers don't lie, and you know it.
As that was not enough, Gutu further lied that ZANU (PF) spent $200 million dollars (American by the way) on transport in addition to commandeering school buses to ferry people to the march. Am I missing something here; 200 million dollars to ferry less than 5 000 people within the borders of Zimbabwe? Gutu is showing us his interest in ZANU (PF) to the extent that he attends the party's gatherings just to make head counts.
Gutu and Mwonzora please stop casting the noble law profession in bad light since we know you first as lawyers. You are the ones busy promoting the adage that "Lawyers are trained to lie on behalf of their clients''.
In another interesting twist of events, which exposed MDC-T's lies, we now know that the MDC-T has been abusing names of missing people, claiming that they belong to that party.
This was recently confirmed by Paul Chizuze's wife, Sibongile Maposa. Chizuze allegedly went missing in 2012. Sibongile had this to say, "These people are just using my husband's picture for selfish reasons. When he disappeared in 2012, they never even came to our house to show their support. Besides, he was not even MDC-T; how then does he fit in their campaigns?''.
Maposa even confronted the MDC-T leadership threatening to sue that party over the abuse of Chizuze's name, forcing Mwonzora to swallow humble pie.
The MDC-T should stop lying and hallucinating. Zimbabweans are not fools who it can take for a ride. You are alleging that ZANU (PF) looted $15 billion diamond money; conveniently forgetting that President Mugabe is the one who revealed this development to the nation. Currently appropriate investigations are underway.
While MDC-T is wasting time with the usual useless rhetoric at its gatherings; ZANU (PF) holds such gathering to iron out its differences and seek ways to solve national problems.
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Chadzimura Mhute <chadzi.mhute@gmail.com
Source - Chadzimura Mhute
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