Is Zimbabwe 2018 presidential election a choice critical and why?

Zimbabweans need a leader. Better admit it now and put an advertisement. Similarities can be given to an example of having numerous accidents but keeping hiring unqualified drivers because in part they are their own advocates. We need a competent driver more than we need the type of a bus. The type of politics, radical, conservative have yielded no appropriate ideology in terms of safeguarding people security: Evidence many thousands outside and many more leaving the country under threat. That is the bus whose volume is irrelevant because the driver himself is valueless the way he drives it. Once the driver knows how to drive a class one bus well, humanely and with experience, Zimbabweans can make secure the class one bus. To avoid accidents and poor maintenance to the bus, which can be equivalent to political abortions committed by Zanu through rigging while we watched without any meaningful recourse for that matter;  the need for an experienced driver cannot be underrated.

In other words, a political party is least desirable since the concern is a leader who can talk and relate to people is what supply is critically short in.  With one by one kids and sporadic emergence of individuals rising to fight the regime decimated and mysterious put into disappearance one cannot say people are not courageous ever. What has run short is leadership that brings home a strategy which him/her and people can adhere to and take a risk to liberate self.  Once a good leader has emerged people will follow from a cognitive awareness and together the country will be built on a good, strong, culturally sensitive and democratic political party that includes even those in Zanu and in opposition politics masquerading almost as career politicians today. Politics needs a face lift from how destroyed and destructive it has been put through by the Zanu government by further seeding of needless opposition political parties to shield her incompetence.

Zimbabwe has lost count of political parties and what they stand for.  It is no more relevant to argue that political party formation in Zimbabwe has an agenda of rescuing power for the people by the people from long term abusers of power, people and governance processes by a Zanu government. It is more realistic to acknowledge that politics in Zimbabwe currently gravitates around fund raising, possibly for purposes of self-fulfillment than a call for an accounting fact sheet on how donations or even citizen contributions were put to use. The lack of evaluative method of testing a party effectiveness has kept inept political shenanigans exist and thrive at the expense of content and meaning of politics.

Here is an example of intelligent analysis: Nkosana Moyo says people have let down Morgan Tsvangirai and I bet in that narrative is equally embedded the focus on how he, Morgan Tsvangirai let them down the people as well. But one idea at a time for clarity and purpose to overcome the opponent by tying people down on accountability who then from awareness should in turn ask for leadership accountability without letting them offs the hook. People have not been aggressive in making leadership accountable at all and in turn leadership has ceased being accountable. The statement, in my view, needs further subjection to analysis because it brings fresh air to dogmatic political narratives which loose audience in the struggle for self-eminence. Perhaps a new dispensation in political analysis is coming in order to turn tables down. There is need for rare approach that put to quiz both Zanu and her surrogates in any way or shape.

No doubt there is an overwhelming feeling that accountability is a thing of the past in the Mr. Mugabe run government. It begin and ended up with the none accountable disappearance of the infamous $15 Billion money supposedly raised from sale of diamonds or some such related wealth from the subterranean minerals of Zimbabwe. While it was said so casual the president, Mr. Mugabe and possibly in anger on how it had been distributed or however awkward the deal of corruption may not have materialised to benefit all. The fact is the $15 Billion mismanaged funds were neither disputed nor sought for verification as to its employment, source and where it was used on.  Given that Mr. Mugabe is almost, the-be-all and end-all to all proceedings be it in his parliament, in his courts of law or on a self-dominated rally platform he holds; no questions were ever put forward on the President revelations. Is it any wonder today he buys all military personnel vehicles to thank them for a job well done in protecting him from removal from messing the country by the choice of majority. Zimbabwe is lowest in every form of governance and has no hope to rise ever again for as long as a Zanu ticket rules the country. Evidence over thirty-nine years of abuse, dehumanization, disappearance and corruption cannot escape the eyes of any honest person be they Zanu or not. This our country needs a new leader and citizens have to put on their thinking hat this time round or for ever keep quiet as Zanu rigs again and rewards opposition politics for painting a democratic process by working to fail masses.

Opposition politics in Zimbabwe no more believe in being honestly critical of Mr. Mugabe or his political party because they have failed making an impact including causing reforms implementations. It is academics to argue that opposition politics as it existed in 2008 and after had a role then, now, or in the future at all. Unless the politics of opposition takes a serious approach on issues and fearlessly pointing causes to people abuse and rights denial by those in power, masses may not be able to acknowledge importuning amounting sheer posturing. Too much life has been lost and yet those posturing have made riches out of it. Open approach is lacking and death to moral courage has been witnessed over time. An intelligent approach to these topics is required by leadership who stand for people and people who support leadership. It is an educational project based on honesty, integrity and transparency. This has sadly lacked in the thirty–eight years of Zanu ruler ship coupled with deceptive savage innuendos people have been exposed to that left them so traumatized.

Having said this is not to say there is no room for politics of change in the country. Any political party that emerges immediately after the first quarter of 2017 may be able to win elections in 2018 if by its emergency it is born to counter failures nursed by collaboration and assimilation Zanu nurtured through old opposition political parties' formations. Simple intelligentsia data will reveal that people are waiting and will join drastic change narrative that depart from accommodative methodologies and adapt radical changes that fall within constitutional frameworks. The world understands need for political changes more than we Zimbabweans think we do which makes us fail to articulate the specifics for change. Each time we want to tackle change we slip into violence as though violence ever became a strategy for any successful political liberation struggle. This short coming has led to inevitable political fatigue.

Without saying much, street smart approaches based on tangible effects of applying emotional intelligence resonates well to be adopted and used to clamp down on hopeless what-can-we-do mentality taking us to the acute phase when we fail to zealously articulate strong positions that embarrasses and cause for the call to account on the government of Mr. Robert Mugabe's failure running an economic collapsing employ less program for an otherwise rich country like Zimbabwe. The wakeup call has to come to all citizens whether they be abroad or at home, through an organized system on self-awareness and empowerment. Any political party that emerges in Zimbabwe today and does not take a strong position in alliance with Diaspora in her foreign as well as domestic strategy to win the mind and therefore the war over threats and violence from Zanu that has failed and cannot make a meaningful impact towards social change.

Mr. Mugabe now talks to anybody as though he is talking to school boys. Such demeanor needs be put to rest once and for all. The commanders of Mr. Mugabe simply keep dreaming because they use violence and corruption trained to override mass reasoning and courage in claiming what is rightly their own-freedom. Honesty, integrity, experience in world and country community building is imperative as a relevant qualification to project and casting a trajectory on the dynamics of pushing an agenda that will naturally usher timely change.

Zimbabwe has hatched a very unthinking and spoiled group of persons who have relied and supported Mr. Mugabe in order to fill their pockets from drops of rot from the table  thereby survive him by  pushing him to stay on an-forever-in-power strategy.  Much of opposition politics is hutched from this crop of personalities. Talk of change, these persons laugh at you until you begin doubting yourself. This is a propaganda strategy. It is a very successful strategy too in people riddled with fear of an empty tomorrow. Ex-Combatants and veterans all go in rounds singing praises on Mr. Mugabe. Truth be told, Mr. Mugabe has been a disaster to our country, children and future. There is no crime in asking that he comes out and in pushing the agenda of change. But we need be strategic. The hashtag organisations in today Zimbabwe politics are good alliances to any political party that shoots out after May 2017 with leadership that is daring and prepared to take what may come from the Zanu failures.