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Political Wisemen from The East! Where are you as political illiteracy grips The Opposition?

02 May 2017 at 18:06hrs | Views
Today, I here-by, strangely, start my discussion with a multi-million US $ question! Multi-million US$ question with the intention of provoking pedigree political introspection upon Zimbabwe's mass but token opposition! Twenty years of Mass Token Opposition  to The Mugabe Regime. An open dictator of the highest order opposed by the vast majority of The Zimbabwean population but has managed to over-stay in power? Why, in this grave moment of the usual five year electoral interval opposition mobility, and in the ruling ZANU PF most fragile moment since the revolutionary party's formation in Highfields in1963, is the former gigantic party non-concerned about the historical, and, supposedly, most threatening higher levels of opposition mobilisation? Because it lacks living political strategy.

The big business within Mugabe's ZANU PF has remained focussed upon the the most grave jockeying between Team Lacoste and Team G40! All working on a common-denomenator electoral done deal. With Mugabe, in his most grave frailty, openly ridiculing the multi-opposition pacts of desperation to off-load him out of State House. Mugabe is right! Because he remains as most aware that in all electoral fairness, he just needs one politically blind Morgan Tsvangirai, holding upon his open zip chase after women of all ages, running at full-speed with a closed mind, to get him (Mugabe) packing his Shangan Bags out of State House. Mugabe is right. He has lived with that opposition strength of numbers since the formation of the political whirl-wind in the form of The Movement for Democratic Change that has won every election but lacked a victory claimant within itself. A leadership vacuum of two decades. Or lacked a character that would carry the respective electoral blessing. A Morgan Tsvangirai ever-ready to wail in the streets as a political jelly-cry-baby street kid. Most afraid of his victory! That has been his major repeat function at electoral time. Right now Morgan Tsvangirai and entourage are already in rehearsals for the 2018 electoral theft out-comes. We await his wail! No longer fair to call it theft as it gets unhurriedly taken right below the noses of, this time, opposition multi-coalition. Coalition of political blind-lead-the blind!

The so-called opposition coalition has already lost the election! I give them the news now so that they may go into mourning straight-away! They have been deployed upon their own demise! In their numbers! They have, in their numbers, calling themselves NERA (National Electoral Reform Agenda). What great, inspirational and informative name that has confined themselves to the purchase of The Biometric Voter Registration kits and Freedom Square toyi-toyi as top priority along-side That Flag Movement Man of God. The NERA has no vision beyond that. Hence Mugabe has continuously poured unlimited and most comfortable scorn upon it despite his weather-bite ailments. This opposition coalition gives him a great opportunity to smile! "With zero energy and little wisdom I've already electorally freezed you!" Says Mugabe. The Opposition Coalition has failed to make any sense out of a most unambiguous and straight forward would have been strategic information made by ZANU PF principal charlatan and G40 leading anti- Team Lacoste activist, Professor Jonathan Moyo, "You expect us to reform ourselves out of power?"  That was in response to opposition token pressure on urgent electoralreforms. Electoral reform should have been a top-agenda item prior to any electoral dating. The opposition coalition remains so incensed and fevered by the desire to rule! They have so outrageously reduced the revolution to Mugabe's face, and not the change of The Electoral Systems and Governance at State House that has stolen the election all the time. That confirms the reasons of over-looking Morgan Tsvangirai's most grave flows, a gross lack of presidential decorum, in some cases, worse than Mugabe. Tsvangirai's high propensity for corruption. Scrambke for ZANU PF left-overs in all the municipalities that fell into his party at the 2008 elections. A great sign of the quality of national governance he is likely to preside-over if hiven the mandate to rule! Highest levels of political and administrative mediocrity at the eleventh hour. The BVR kits will not run the election, neither would Mugabe's weather-biten face that the opposition so much targets. Neither would freedom square politics! But real political reforms. Morgan Tsvangirai, individually or in the entourage, would wield of zero victory without realistic electoral reforms! Electoral reforms that would extract The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission from Mugabe'ruling ZANU PF militants and The ZANU PF inclined military. A ruling ZANU PF loyalist judge in the Chair and her Deputy. Another big question for The Morgan Tsvangirai entourage! For how long would you continue being devastatingly bitten by a long-dead snake on the same spot? The last question! When your child falls sick would you take the child to the same witch who caused the ailment for treatment or to hospital or a different physician? You politically bankrupt coalition that lacks Tact! Wisdom! And Vision beyond Mugabe's face and Freedom Square toyi-toyi.

Morgan Tsvangirai leaves The Witch fulltime in house  criss-crossing Zimbabwe's 10 provinces on his usual electoral meet-the-people and the besieged students opinion-shopping/consultation sprees! The defenceless hostages who have faithfully and aggressively voted Mugabe out-of-power since year 2000, instead of engaging The Witch in the house fulltime and ansure that the children would keep their wellness. Tsvangirai's Vice President Thokozani Khupe has proclaimed her position in a most unambiguous way! She was in politics for money! When those defenceless masses thought they had made a well-calculated deployment to speak their emancipation from The Mugabe regime. Public service goes many times beyond the politics of the stomach! This gives the masses in a mass movement a most informative warning on the calibre of governce aspirants at State House. Khupe must urgently rise much above the calibre of an ordinary National Railways of Zimbabwe Security Guard and start thinking like a Vice President in waiting. I wonder what really happens when our women Vice Presidents get to England! This follows hard upon former Mugabe Vice President, Joice Mujuru's British political career immeasurable blunders.

Morgan Tsvangirai, Welshman Ncube and Tendai Biti remain as my Star Witnesses to the effect that at The Maputo 2013 SADC Summit in preparation for the Zimbabwe election, The SADC Heads of State called them into a meeting after The Summit, in the absence of Mugabe, to advise them out of the 2013 election as it was already a confirmed done-election. This was to reiterate The Summit deliberations. Mugabe had been pursuaded to postpone the election and paid lip-service to that SADC stance at the time. When they got home, Mugabe served court papers upon the opposition to show cause as to why elections had to be prostponed. Skipped to his toes and threatened to walk-out of The SADC in a televised stance. Alas! The men in the opposition went into a long-long rigged election with full knowledge. But the political hostages that they lead, who financially and morally support the respective political parties did not. Morgan goes to sit with rural communities under trees, in the kitchens and in village courts to false victory projections. Ignoring the real barriers under his nose. That tells the world of what the man was made of. Another 2013 was in the making. Morgan Tsvangirai and entourage, be informed, in all clarity, that your victory sits no-where beyond State Reforms and exorcising of all ZANU PF polluted state institutions as per The Global Political Agreement of 2009 which the opposition seems to have tucked-away soon after the brocker, former South African president, Thabo Mbeki, left for the airport. They sat for a good five years in a most strategic point of influence, enjoyed good comfort. Making money The Thokozani Khupe fashion. To this point and time, there seems to be no intention to rise from the over-stayed political slumber that prevails within the opposition.

Reginald Thabani Gola. Political Consultant and Independent Journalist. E-mail:regtgola@gmail.com

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