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The day Mnangagwa visited Tsvangirai - Is it a noble gesture or cheap political points scoring?

05 Jan 2018 at 18:30hrs | Views
Campaigning in Zimbabwe for 2018 elections has begun, at Tsvangirai's bedside, ZANU PF using his painful situation for image building, campaigning at the expense of MDC T /Alliance. This is for publicity not caring, not respect and it's not going to help both ZANU PF and M DCT.

Internationally, we must correct this stance. Its cheap political scoring and its written Chamisa all over, a ploy to inherit the Party and deliver it to ED.

Mocking a sick man is distasteful. Mnangangwa is dry cleaning himself using a bedridden fellow Zimbabwean, how pathetic. Cheap, hollow and inhumane behaviour, EDM and Chiwenga, where did you get money from all of a sudden?

How can a president of a political party be a beneficiary of a pension that is not recognised at law but a script of military barracks and a gukurahundist? How different is this from Mugabe s 10 million package presided over by the junta. Cry my beloved country. The struggle begins.

Nelson Chamisa has been busy trying to bring these two together since November Coup. This is being properly utilized to kill MDC-T and the Alliance as even Welshman Ncube and Tendai Biti had gone back as vultures waiting to feed on Tsvangirai's legacy and inheriting his hard work and what's left of his popularity, taking advantage of someone's health problems and making it a political positive notch.

MDCT or it will be MDC C, when Tsvangirai's close ally and handpicked deputy ascends the throne, it remains to be seen. My honest view is that MDCT/ Alliance is now retired together with Dr Save. How can it survive when knives have been out for some time, implosion of this party is imminent, unavoidable and waters are too muddy for an operation rescue to be launched?

Vultures waiting for MDC T's carcass

Chamisa wants to inherit the MDC T carcass thru state machinery. Mnangagwa is his patron in this project.

Khupe dreams of inheriting the party thru the constitution. She is the only VP elected by congress.

Mwonzora wants to take over the party thru a special congress. He beat Chamisa in the last Congress and hopes to bit him again.

Biti hopes to hijack MDC T thru a still born alliance. Welsh is the patron of Biti's foiled enterprise.

Mudzuri is praying that all the above get exposed and he remains the only clean heir to the throne.

Only Time Will Tell.

Dr Tsvangirai, after splits lost strategy and the party has always been weak tactics too, he sat on the Mugabe must go mantra for far too long.

MDCT mainly after splits lacked a sober think tank and brain bank to review party policies and Image Management.

Save Chete became the Motto, I'll advised, Dr Tsvangirai never corrected that, now if the party is his personal property, he has the right to write his will. He appointed Nelson Chamisa and ......Mudzuri, as his "own" deputies and Dr Khupe remained as Party elected deputy, with people's mandate from congress.

This and other senior positions have been given to those from Masvingo, threatened to turn the party into some home boys Club. Dr Tsvangirai did nothing to uproot that domination of the Party by one region, it's a total anomaly.

An unfortunate episode of the years of wining votes and failure to take power, made him lose his political mantle. He failed to understand the holistic political dynamics of Zimbabwe body politics, his foreign policies a total fiasco. The lack of understanding the SADC region mood towards unseating a "so called" liberation party, following on the foot prints of Mr. Frederick Chiluba of Zambia, setting a precedent that these Cdes from trenches can be rolled over with easy, Tsvangirai had no means of dealing with those issues, and he lacked dearly to package MDC then correctly.

ZANU PF seized the opportunity, labelling him traitor, tea boy etc....like they are seizing the opportunity again now, sponsoring other pretenders to the throne, President Mnangagwa and one of his deputies, General Chiwenga, staging a 3rd coup in Zimbabwe.

First 2008, When the very same benefactors sat on the results for months refusing to announce them, then parallel to that telling the then President to stay out. Second coup was in 2017, am told it was a smart coup, in Ndebele there is a saying that goes "....ingaqhoba uthambo iyejwayela".

Zimbabweans from today, we bid farewell to MDC T/ Alliance, officially welcoming People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) as only official opposition, for few months though till winning 2018 Elections, which PRC will win with resounding two thirds Majority. Dr JTR Mujuru, is the President in waiting.

ZANU PF will not win these coming elections, people who went to assist in Pushing Ex - President Mugabe out of office, are not ZANU PF, those were Zimbabweans' tired of ZANU PF and their repressive, oppressive system which is now a Military govt. The same masses stand ready for total onslaught on ZANU PF in the ballot box, come elections 2018.

Our economy is in comatose, infrastructure none existing, no Cash, no jobs, no hope all thanks to ZANU PF misrule, corruption and patronage. Only Dr Mujuru led PRC can inject life into our economy, bring food stability, and improve our education, healthy and infrastructure in general. The People's Rainbow Coalition is calling for all peace loving democrats in Zimbabwe, all struggling Sons and Daughters of the soil, Diasporans, Workers, Youths, Women, Chiefs, technocrats to join hands with us and remove ZANU PF and military Junta from power.

We wish Dr Save (MRT) speedy recovery and extend our hand of Comradeship to MDC T and Alliance to come to the table, work out Grand Coalition for the sake of the nation and future generations.

We are not into political scoring, we are in this for one mission, dispose ZANU PF and build a better New Zimbabwe.


Sikhumbuzo SK Ndiweni
PDP Deputy President and PRC JSC Member. Entumbane & Emakhandeni MP Candidate



Source - Sikhumbuzo SK Ndiweni
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