So it took Biti 14 years to realise Tsvangirai is an 'illiterate' dictator

Tendai Biti goes to the river and back again on Morgan Tsvangirai, calling his former party president an "illiterate dictator".

"His problem is that he is structurally weak and has turned himself into an illiterate dictator in the mould of Mobutu Sesse Seko and that is the horrible part of all this. It is a sad day for democracy," said Biti in an interview with New Zimbabwe.

"He has confirmed the same hubris we have all been accusing Robert Mugabe (President) of and because he realises he is a weak individuals thinks plastering this over though a dictatorship will help him."

One has only to look at Tsvangirai's track record of failures and blunders ever since he emerged on the public stage as the leaders of the MDC. Not that he ever achieve anything even in his previous role as Secretary General of ZCTU.

The former USA Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Chris Dell, 2004 to 2007 called Tsvangirai a "flawed and indecisive character" in private report back to Washington but leaked and published in Wikileak. The Ambassador came to that conclusion after meeting Tsvangirai a handful. Of course time was to prove the Ambassador right time after time as our Hamas crude missile blundered from pillar to post.

Mr Biti has known Tsvangirai since the formation of the MDC in 1999 (assuming he had just arrived from Mars and therefore did not know him before then). What boggles the mind here is did it take Biti until 2014 to finally realise that Tsvangirai was an "illiterate dictator"?

The greatest blunder for which the nation and history will never ever forgive Tsvangirai and his MDC friends is the failure to implement the democratic reforms. The party had the majority in parliament, the backing of SADC and had a five-year window of opportunity to implement the reforms. And yet not even one reform was implemented. Not even one draft proposal was ever tabled in parliament. Not one!

It is nonsense to hold Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC leader alone, responsible for this serious dereliction of one's duty and betrayal of the people. After all one did not expect an "illiterate dictator" to draft any constitutional reform; he did not even know where to begin. The nation expected those around him, like Mr Tendai Biti, himself a lawyer by profession to draft such proposals.

There is nothing to suggest that anyone in any of the two MDC factions tabled any democratic reform proposal. Indeed all the MDC leaders came out with guns blazing in support of the weak and feeble Copac constitution including Tendai Biti. They promised the people the new constitution would deliver free, fair and credible elections and so people should vote for it in the March 2013 referendum. And so the nation did and passed the new constitution with a massive 95% yes vote.

Mugabe and Zanu-PF blatantly rigged the elections five months later. The failure to implement the reforms coupled by the weak and feeble new constitution meant Mugabe had a field day.

Whilst we accept that Morgan Tsvangirai is indeed a "flawed and indecisive character," as Ambassador Dell noted and an "illiterate dictator" as Tendai Biti has said still we cannot blame him alone for MDC's biggest blunder of failing to deliver free, fair and credible elections in 2013. The whole MDC leadership including Tsvangirai, Biti, Coltart Ncube, etc. failed to get even one reform implemented because they are corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent.

Tsvangirai is an illiterate dictator, yes; but the very fact that it took Biti 14 years to realise this only proves what a breathtakingly incompetent person he is!

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Nomusa Garikai can be contacted at zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com