Opinion / Columnist
Tsvangirai, Welshman Ncube should resign and pave way for young generation
30 Mar 2015 at 05:16hrs | Views
Tsvangirai, Ncube and all other members who have been at the fore front for the struggle to remove President Robert Mugabe should all resign and pave way for a young and vibrant generation to rescue Zimbabwe from the current political morass state.
Several recent developments featuring Tsvangirai's MDC-T and members of the newly formed UMDC point to nothing but a glaring fact that change in Zimbabwe can never come from these dysfunctional parties.
These guys are now tired and perhaps this is the right time youths of Zimbabwe demand their resignation, so that the youth can regroup and come up with progressive ideas on how to win the 2018 elections.
Tsvangirai has become directionless and every time the guy gets a platform, he embarks on ill-thought moves that tend to benefit Zanu-PF not the poor and miserable people of Zimbabwe.
"Tsvangirai is our commissar. He has been since his days in Bindura and now he did exactly what commissars do. That is what PCs do. He gave us 21 (14) seats recently and we now want to readmit him in the party," said Zanu-PF political, Saviour Kasukuwere on Tsvangirai's ill-advised move to recall Renewal movement MPs.
Surely, this is a conspicuous evidence of Tsvangirai's tiredness and Zimbabweans particularly the youths must not pin their hope on a man who re-energises Zanu-PF at a time when the aged institution is in dire need of oxygen.
Tsvangirai has been saying the electoral environment is not conducive for free and fair elections and we feel this is a noble. But, honestly he must not be singing from the same hymn book till 2018.
If Tsvangirai wanted the youths to treat him as a fatherly figure, he was not supposed to recall MPs from the Biti who is a better evil than Zanu-PF. Secondly; Tsvangirai is supposed to do something to block Zanu-PF from proceeding with the by-elections.
Giving Zanu-PF the seats erodes our faith in the MDC and come 2018, voter apathy will characterise the elections. So for the better of the struggle, Tsvangirai must resign and this will also protect his legacy as the first democratic leader to challenge Mugabe.
Nevertheless, Tsvangirai's resignation is not the end itself. Gluttonous and snobbish intellectual such as Tendai Biti and Welshman Ncube should also be taken off the political stage. These lawyers want to be told in no uncertain terms that Zimbabwe is not a court case.
Youths of Zimbabwe, do not want people who enterprise their suffering. Zimbabwe has already being a good example of an autocratic nation, so for Biti to say his expulsion from parliament marks a step towards autocracy is disgusting and nauseating.
Youths were already jobless and living like vagabonds when Biti was fighting Tsvangirai last year labeling him Gumbura, a thing that delayed the struggle to dismantle the Zanu-PF system. There was no democracy in the country when Biti and Mangoma were busy squandering donors' money on national tours dividing voters in the opposition circle.
While youths of Zimbabwe are convinced that there is a need for a new narrative and political discourse, surely that narrative must not be fronted by people with no character such as Biti who pours diatribe and vitriolic to journalists.
People who contemplate quitting when the goings gets tough are not worth mentioning as leaders. Without doubt, the new dispensation should come from people who are honest, committed and have servant leadership skills.
Leaders who purge their national council members for presidency of an imagined UMDC can never take us anyway. Where are Priscilla Msihairabwi, Nhlahla Dube and Frank Chamunorowa? Ncube has become a better "Gammatox" who managed to get rid of the "Gang of four" unlike his counterpart uncle Didymus Mutasa.
Certainly, this rules out Welshman Ncube as the leader for a post-Mugabe Zimbabwe. He should explain to the youths why Priscilla called his party a junkyard.
Going forward, Youths of Zimbabwe can never be rescued by an indecisive man like Tsvangirai and surely a junkyard is not the right place for the people who have endured so much in Mugabe's Zimbabwe.
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Musavengana Hove is a youth activist based in Bulawayo. Email soldierjournalist@gmail.com for feedback.
Several recent developments featuring Tsvangirai's MDC-T and members of the newly formed UMDC point to nothing but a glaring fact that change in Zimbabwe can never come from these dysfunctional parties.
These guys are now tired and perhaps this is the right time youths of Zimbabwe demand their resignation, so that the youth can regroup and come up with progressive ideas on how to win the 2018 elections.
Tsvangirai has become directionless and every time the guy gets a platform, he embarks on ill-thought moves that tend to benefit Zanu-PF not the poor and miserable people of Zimbabwe.
"Tsvangirai is our commissar. He has been since his days in Bindura and now he did exactly what commissars do. That is what PCs do. He gave us 21 (14) seats recently and we now want to readmit him in the party," said Zanu-PF political, Saviour Kasukuwere on Tsvangirai's ill-advised move to recall Renewal movement MPs.
Surely, this is a conspicuous evidence of Tsvangirai's tiredness and Zimbabweans particularly the youths must not pin their hope on a man who re-energises Zanu-PF at a time when the aged institution is in dire need of oxygen.
Tsvangirai has been saying the electoral environment is not conducive for free and fair elections and we feel this is a noble. But, honestly he must not be singing from the same hymn book till 2018.
If Tsvangirai wanted the youths to treat him as a fatherly figure, he was not supposed to recall MPs from the Biti who is a better evil than Zanu-PF. Secondly; Tsvangirai is supposed to do something to block Zanu-PF from proceeding with the by-elections.
Giving Zanu-PF the seats erodes our faith in the MDC and come 2018, voter apathy will characterise the elections. So for the better of the struggle, Tsvangirai must resign and this will also protect his legacy as the first democratic leader to challenge Mugabe.
Youths of Zimbabwe, do not want people who enterprise their suffering. Zimbabwe has already being a good example of an autocratic nation, so for Biti to say his expulsion from parliament marks a step towards autocracy is disgusting and nauseating.
Youths were already jobless and living like vagabonds when Biti was fighting Tsvangirai last year labeling him Gumbura, a thing that delayed the struggle to dismantle the Zanu-PF system. There was no democracy in the country when Biti and Mangoma were busy squandering donors' money on national tours dividing voters in the opposition circle.
While youths of Zimbabwe are convinced that there is a need for a new narrative and political discourse, surely that narrative must not be fronted by people with no character such as Biti who pours diatribe and vitriolic to journalists.
People who contemplate quitting when the goings gets tough are not worth mentioning as leaders. Without doubt, the new dispensation should come from people who are honest, committed and have servant leadership skills.
Leaders who purge their national council members for presidency of an imagined UMDC can never take us anyway. Where are Priscilla Msihairabwi, Nhlahla Dube and Frank Chamunorowa? Ncube has become a better "Gammatox" who managed to get rid of the "Gang of four" unlike his counterpart uncle Didymus Mutasa.
Certainly, this rules out Welshman Ncube as the leader for a post-Mugabe Zimbabwe. He should explain to the youths why Priscilla called his party a junkyard.
Going forward, Youths of Zimbabwe can never be rescued by an indecisive man like Tsvangirai and surely a junkyard is not the right place for the people who have endured so much in Mugabe's Zimbabwe.
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Musavengana Hove is a youth activist based in Bulawayo. Email soldierjournalist@gmail.com for feedback.
Source - Musavengana Hove
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