'Know first what coalition is about,' says Ms Holland - dumb getting dumber, we do not need it

Zimbabwe's greatest curse is to have some of the most corrupt and incompetent leaders the world has ever seen!

"They (opposition parties) should know first what the coalition is about," Ms Sekai Holland said, according to a New Zimbabwe report.

 "Once you know what the coalition is about, then you really know how the structures are put in place and you know how the leadership is chosen.

"If you are having a grand coalition, everything must be by consensus building based on the issues that bring the coalition together." She was giving her two-pennies' worth to want the opposition needed to do to win next year's elections.

Ask her why did MDC lose the 2013 election and even she will admit the elections were rigged.

Ask her why Zanu PF was able to rig the elections and she will probably give one of her long-winded summon on the mount, starting nowhere and going nowhere else! The simple answer is; Zanu PF was able to blatantly rig the vote because MDC leaders had failed to implement the democratic reforms designed to stop the vote rigging.

Mai Holland was one of the MDC cabinet ministers in the GNU whose party's primary task was to implement the reforms. The GNU was supposed to last 18 months but ended up lasting 60 months and yet MDC leaders still failed to get even one reform implemented. Not even one!
The tragedy was that MDC leaders were repeatedly warned of the critical importance of the reforms and why they should be implemented but they ignored the warning. In a last minute desperate attempt to get the reforms implemented SADC leaders pulled MDC leaders aside at the last regional summit and, literally, begged them not to contest the 2013 elections with no reforms in place.

"In 2013 the Maputo Summit, in June 2013, before the elections, the Maputo Summit was all about having the elections postponed - the SADC summit. I went there," Dr Ibbo Mandaza told Journalist Violet Gonda.

"I was there at the Summit and Mugabe pretended to agree to a postponement of the elections. If you recall, the postponement was based on the need to reform at least electoral laws.

"And after that Summit, Morgan Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti, Welshman Ncube, all of them were called to a separate meeting by the Heads of State of SADC in the absence of Mugabe, that same evening. And they were told; I was sitting there outside the room with Mac Maharaj; they were told 'if you go into elections next month, you are going to lose; the elections are done'."

The full interview with Violet is available on violetgonda.com.

As we know MDC leaders still paid no heed and went on to contest the July 2013 elections and, as noted above, Zanu PF went on to blatantly rig the vote and win with a landslide.

Since the rigged July 2013 elections, the opposition have since vowed they will not contest any future elections until the reforms are implemented. Mai Holland should know that not even one reform has been implemented in the last four years and there is very little hope that any will be implement in the remaining year, before the election.

So, to summarise, Mai Sekai Holland knows the follow as established facts:
1)    MDC lost the 2013 elections because Zanu PF rigged the vote – the coalition was not an issue since Mugabe won 62% of the vote and a single opposition candidate would have got the remaining 38% and still lose

2)    Zanu PF was able to blatantly rig the vote because MDC had failed to implement even one democratic reform throughout the five years of the GNU. And MDC leaders paid to heed to the warning that, with no reforms, the elections would be rigged.

3)    Still not even one reform has been implemented in preparation for next year's elections. SADC leaders' warning not to contest the elections with no reforms is as valid today as it was before the 2013 elections. And yet the opposition is once again gearing to contest the flawed election in violation of their own "No reform, no election!" party resolution.

So, knowing the above established facts and realities, how is it possible that Mai Holland would be harping on about contesting next year's elections with not even one reform in place. The grand opposition coalition, even if it was finally created, will do nothing to stop the vote rigging! Contesting yet another flawed election knowing fully well Zanu PF will rig the vote and hope against hope the regime will rig the vote but, somehow, lose the election is the crass of insanity!

It is said that wisdom comes with age; sadly, that is decidedly not the case in Zimbabwe, especially with our political leaders. They were dumb in their youth and have grown progressive dumber with age. The MDC leaders like slagging President Mugabe for his advanced age and yet he is the one who out foxed them for five years into doing nothing about the reforms. Even now, he is the chief beneficiary of their folly of contesting flawed elections. We do not need to ask Mai Holland or anyone who, amongst our political leaders, is the dumbest; we know!