MDC playing futile ‘underground’ politics

WHAT underground politics is Tendai Biti, the Minister of Finance and traitorous implementing tool of the illegal US and EU sanctions on Zimbabwe, playing by barking mad in his shrill and treacherous calls for the probing and auditing of the country's diamond money trail?
Have prompt, transparent and full disclosures not been made to him by the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development about the total diamond proceeds thus far?
Is it a coincidence that Biti's underground calls for the auditing of the diamond money trail are coming at the same time when the Minister of Public Service, Eliphas Mukonoweshuro, has unprofessionally and unethically used the dirty underground to leak to sections of the pliable media ' which thrive on peddling one-sided anti-Zimbabwe information ' a clearly bogus civil service "payroll and skills" audit?
The audit was illegally initiated and prepared by a British intelligence operative and spy called Charles Beatly, who headed the illegal parallel government in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's office for over a year up until recently when he escaped deportation by fleeing to Spain.
Whom did the MDC-T and its beleaguered sponsors imagine they were fooling when Tsvangirai read a British-authored speech at an American-funded purported public lecture last Tuesday which contained the following underground assertions, "… You would think they (Zanu PF) would welcome a land audit into the beneficiaries, impact and fairness of such a scheme. And yet they shy away from any attempt to shine a light into the dark crevices of their past activities.
"Whether it be on land, diamonds or parastatals, Zanu PF does not want its record reviewed … Rather than investigating the findings of the recent public service audit, they are condemning the terms of reference …"
Tsvangirai's reference to the MDC-T's treacherous calls for subversive auditing of land reform, the diamond money trail and the public service speaks volumes about the underground politics that are now at play in a futile attempt to bring down Zimbabwe in the face of the fact that the inclusive government itself has become the only outstanding issue of the Global Political Agreement.
This is even more so given that there is growing evidence from elsewhere which indicates that the MDC-T and its founders and funders have an underground project co-ordinated through its parallel government structures headquartered in the Prime Minister's office to create general instability in the country to scuttle the holding of elections in 2011 and to incapacitate, by any means necessary, certain individuals, companies and public institutions linked to Zanu PF.
But how does all this speak to an operational underground strategy being pursued by the MDC-T, and what are the destabilising intentions of that strategy?
Nelson Chamisa, the occasional spokesperson of the embattled MDC-T who is apparently prone to as-yet-untold immoral and crude escapades under the corrupt cover of the GPA trappings, made a helpful revelation a few weeks ago when he told NewsDay that Morgan Tsvangirai's increasingly clueless party has decided to prepare for the forthcoming general election by launching an underground political operation in response to Zanu PF's door-to-door campaign which is now in full swing.
In a needlessly sensational lead story published by NewsDay on February 7, 2011, headed, "Elections On: Zanu PF in door-to-door campaign, MDC mobilises underground", Chamisa was quoted as revealing the following: "We are on the ground but we can't divulge our strategy. All you are seeing, the Zanu PF flags and so on, is darkness. Darkness will be visible before light comes and when light comes it disappears."
Notwithstanding his schoolboy failure to understand that darkness and light always follow each other with one giving way to the other in a cyclic relationship, Chamisa's disclosure to NewsDay that the MDC-T is pursuing a sinister underground strategy was helpful mainly because of its unintended truthfulness, whose useful consequence has been to confirm that the MDC-T is for all intents and purposes a ghostly movement of sell-outs founded and funded by racist American and European governments for underground purposes of derailing and subverting the legacy of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle expressed through the gains of our national independence since 1980.
While it was not immediately clear what Chamisa meant by his party's "underground campaign" ahead of the forthcoming harmonised election, subsequent events have unfolded in manner that has let the cat out of the bag.
This is because, as an expression of the hitherto unyielding and now stranded American and European regime change agenda, the logic of the MDC-T's underground election campaign has over the last 10 or so years been written on the wall for all to see.
The essence of that logic which, like in previous elections in 2000, 2002, 2005 and 2008, defines the core of the MDC-T's 2011 election manifesto is that "when Zimbabwe's economic and political fortunes rise because the country is doing well in every important respect either because of the irreversible success of the land reform programme or because of the economic windfall from the discovery of alluvial diamonds, the American and European-sponsored regime change fortunes of the MDC-T dramatically fall".What this means is that the MDC-T is by design a bad news political party because it can do well at the polls only and only if and when Zimbabwe is not doing well. Any good news for Zimbabwe is necessarily bad news for the MDC-T.
This is why the MDC-T election strategy is always underground and this is why the MDC-T has no policies of any kind to tangibly benefit ordinary people in a material way besides predictable American and European-sponsored opposition to Zanu PF initiatives that seek to empower the youth, women and the generality of the indigenous population through the consolidation of our God-given natural resources, especially in agriculture, mining and through the indigenisation of at least 51 percent of equity across the national economy.
What has previously not been understood but is now crystal clear even to die-hard partisans and therefore in the radar of the revolutionary custodians of our country is that, in order to engender a general sense of national insecurity by instigating violence and promoting economic instability which combine to create a bad impression about Zimbabwe, the MDC-T has invariably gone underground to cook up all sorts of mayhem before each and all of the previous elections in 2000, 2002, 2005 and 2008 and it is doing the same ahead of the forthcoming harmonised election.
Three recent examples of the MDC-T's quest for bad news about Zimbabwe as part of its underground election manifesto bring home the point that Tsvangirai's party does not believe that it can do well at the polls if Zimbabwe is also doing well.
Firstly, and in order to provide the EU with a neo-colonial pretext for renewing and extending its illegal economic sanctions against Zimbabwe, some MDC-T mouthpieces and their associated puppets in the NGO community converged in Addis Ababa for the 2011 African Union (AU) summit last month as part of an underground operation whose failed objective was to scare the AU into including Zimbabwe on the agenda of "nations in crisis" along with the likes of the Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Egypt and Somalia.
After being rebuffed in Addis Ababa, the sell-outs came back home to cook up sporadic incidents of political violence in Harare and nobody was surprised that those incidents were predictably used by the EU in its official statement to justify its shameless decision to extend the illegal economic sanctions that are specifically designed to cause the suffering of ordinary people in the vain hope that they would blame their suffering not on those who have imposed the sanctions but on their nationalist leadership who are committed to ensuring that the liberation legacy of national empowerment succeeds.
On this point, and given that everyone knew that the EU was due to review its illegal sanctions against Zimbabwe on February 15, it would take a foolish or mad person to think or believe that Zanu PF was behind the unacceptable political violence that rocked Mbare and other parts of the capital city.
The only political party which had a beneficial interest in that violence whose underground sources were palpable is the MDC-T and it indeed benefited treacherously as the EU specifically cited the Mbare violence as a justification for the extension of its illegal sanctions on behalf of the MDC-T.
Secondly, and related to the Mbare violence that the MDC-T engineered as part of its underground strategy confirmed to NewsDay by Chamisa, it is very clear that the timing of Minister Mukonoweshuro's unethical and unprofessional leaking of a bogus public service "payroll and skills" audit to sections of the press that routinely publish rubbish about Zimbabwe was also intended to arm the EU with patently false claims that the civil service has 75,000 ghost workers in order to embolden the EU's extension of illegal and evil neo-colonial economic sanctions whose full harm to ordinary people is yet to be told.
It is shocking that Tsvangirai and Mukonoweshuro have even gone as far as not just falsely but also irresponsibly claiming that the alleged 75,000 ghost workers who exist only in their treacherous heads are the reason why salaries in the public service are low.  People who are that irresponsible with information that is otherwise protected as a matter of national security do not deserve to be Cabinet ministers as they are no better than average hooligans in the streets.
The MDC-T and its regime change sponsors must understand that their underground games are now public information and that they will not be allowed to get away with their fiction about a public service audit that never was. The information about who did what, when and why in that bogus audit is known and will be made public at the right time to expose the shameless sellouts and flush them out of their underground so-called safe houses once and for all.
In the meantime, Minister Mukonoweshuro is better advised to stop embarrassing himself wasting time peddling a bogus public service audit, based on a bogus methodology designed by a British intelligence operative who was in Zimbabwe working illegally in the Prime Minister's office, and done by bogus enumerators on behalf of a bogus political party with bogus funding during a bogus time when normal people including civil servants were on holiday.
One would have thought that by now Minister Mukonoweshuro knows that in terms of the rule of law, and in accordance with good governance, the only credible and acceptable public service audit can be done by or under the auspices of the Public Service Commission which is an autonomous constitutional body empowered to manage the public service without any influence or direction from any authority whatsoever.  Anything else is by definition bogus and therefore totally unacceptable even if it has a bogus World Bank stamp.
Thirdly, and finally, it is also clear to everyone who can think that Minister Biti's treacherous call for the auditing of the diamond money trial, like the political violence in Mbare and Mukonoweshuro's bogus public service audit, was timed to give substance to the retention of the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) in the illegal EU economic sanctions on Zimbabwe whose extension was announced at the same time as Minister Biti was ranting in Parliament about auditing ZMDC ' to uncover the diamond money trail.
Now that Biti's pivotal role is known in recommending which company or parastatal is included or excluded from the list of illegal economic sanctions, his call for the auditing of ZMDC is patently treasonous and must be rejected for that reason and that reason alone.
Instead of auditing ZMDC to trace the diamond money trail which the US and EU want to know for purposes of widening and entrenching their illegal economic sanctions, relevant authorities should probe Biti in the light of WikiLeaks revelations that he is the local linchpin of the illegal sanctions and the law must take its course without fear or favour.
Anyone who tries to assist Biti in his audit crusade on behalf of hostile foreign countries that have imposed sanctions on our country must face the same legal consequences.
Meanwhile, Chamisa and his handlers must take note that if the MDC-T really wants to play underground politics like rats, then it will be buried there and that would be the end of the story of its treachery.
Professor Jonathan Moyo is a political scientist and MP for Tsholotsho North (Zanu PF)