Opinion / Columnist
Biti is seek coalition with Mujuru on the mistaken belief he can wash off the gamatox!
10 Jun 2015 at 01:56hrs | Views
Tendai Biti is actively seeking a coalition between his MDC -Renewal with Mai Mujuru's People First. He is so convinced this is the right move he has dismissed doing otherwise as "idiocy".
Biti and Mujuru can talk until the cows come home the political reality is that both of them are incompetent, corrupt and sell-out; God knows they have proven this beyond all doubt already. Whilst education may cure one of incompetence, there is no known cure for being corrupt and a sell-out other than hang oneself as Judas Iscariot did.
They two should have apologized for betraying the people whilst they were in power and then resign from all public life!
They have both their political virtue on Zimbabwe's infamous political gravy train. They have since lost their seats; Biti was in the GNU and lost his seat following the rigged 2013 elections and Mai Mujuru was a senior member in Zanu-PF for 34 years only to be kicked out of the party last December. They are both itching to get back on that gravy train so much so they will do or say anything.
As far as the people of Zimbabwe are concerned the single most important task this nation must accomplish is to get all, not just some water down few but ALL, the democratic reforms agreed in the 2008 Global Political Agreement, GPA, which then gave rise to the formation of the GNU, implemented.
The reforms were designed to dismantle the Zanu-PF dictatorship which has allowed the party to abuse state institutions like the public media, the Police, Security sectors, ZEC, etc. and rig elections. MDC failing to get even one reform implemented during the five years of the GNU and hence Zanu-PF was able to blatantly rig the July 2013 elections and is set to do so again in future elections.
Although Mai Mujuru has been kicked out of the Mugabe faction of Zanu-PF that is now in power, as a former Zanu-PF member herself she still knows how the Zanu-PF dictatorship works. If she was to contest the next elections and win then she will inherit the essential components of the Zanu-PF dictatorship lock, stock and barrel!
The day Mai Mujuru and her former Zanu-PF are returned back to power they would want to quickly consolidate their power base by appointing people loyal to the her in the state institutions and assure them all that it is business as usual. Her political power base is founded on the Zanu-PF dictatorship and she would certainly not want that disrupted by someone implementing democratic reforms!
As for Tendai Biti and his MDC friends they have never believed they could govern Zimbabwe own their own and hence the reason the readily accepted GNU in 2008 and were not keen to implement the democratic reforms during the GNU years. MDC were quite content to have the Zanu-PF dictatorship survive after the GNU provided it changed enough to allow MDC seats on the gravy train.
MDC leaders expected Zanu-PF to blatantly rig the July 2013 elections but not to the extent of a landslide victory for Zanu-PF!
Tendai Biti is hoping the coalition with Mai Mujuru will result in the political system MDC had hope would emerge after the 2013 elections; a Zanu-PF dominated government but with a number of reserved seats for him and his MDC friends.
Many Zimbabweans have been fearful Mai Mujuru and her supporters' strong Zanu-PF corrupt and tyrannical past; a leopard does not change its spots, ever! MDC-Renewal has been quick sooth these public fears by assuring the public MDC-Renewal will "wash off the gamatox" as soon as the coalition is back in power.
The gamatox reference comes the time Mugabe was angry with Information Minister Jonathan Moyo he called him a "weevil" that was destroying Zanu-PF from within. Didymus Mutasa, Mujuru loyalist, saw Moyo and his faction in Zanu-PF as the greatest threat to the Mujuru faction's bid to position her to take over power from Mugabe. So Mutasa seized the chance to get rid of the competition and offered to bring the gamatox insecticide use to kill weevil.
Within six months it was Minister Moyo and his faction that successfully ousted the Mujuru faction out of the party. So it Mutasa himself who ended up covered to his eyes in the gamatox!
So for the sake of winning the next elections MDC –Renewal are willing to put aside democratic reforms and work to Zanu-PF modus operandi thus accepted to be contaminated with the gamatox, as it were. The day after the coalition has won the elections MDC –Renewal will want the democratic reforms implemented or wash themselves free of the gamatox.
After what all what Mai Mujuru and her Zanu-PF has already gone through being kicked out of the party and what they still have to go through to win back power, this lot will have no patience with some political upstart threatening their recovered political power by implementing some democratic reforms. Frankly Tendai Biti and his lot will be chaff to bit that they are back on the gravy train again they will not want to rock the boat by pushing reforms.
The bottom line is the Mujuru's People First and Tendai Biti's MDC-Renewal marriage of convenience will never ever implement all the democratic reforms; not before the next elections or after those elections. This proposed coalition is a political distraction, offering the false hope of a way out when it is in fact a cul-de-sac, easy to get in but near impossible to get out.
The only way out of this political and economic mess we find ourselves in is by getting all the democratic reforms agreed in the 2008 GPA implemented. Mujuru and Biti are not offering to implement any reforms so forget them.
Mugabe's ZimAsset plan is dead in the water; he failed to get any donors to bankroll the plan. The regime has no plan B to end the worsening economic meltdown. The regime is under increasing pressure to accept meaningful economic and political reforms design to end the corruption, lawlessness, etc. which destroyed local companies and stopped new investment. We must insist on the implementation of all the democratic reforms.
Implement all the reforms and the country the polluted political air will be cleared allowing competent politicians and political parties will emerge and flourish.
First things first, get the democratic reforms implemented and that will finally secured the right of every Zimbabwean to free, fair and credible elections plus the host of all the other basic freedoms and rights for all time. Good and competent government and economic prosperity will follow guaranteed!
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Nomusa Garikai <zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com
Biti and Mujuru can talk until the cows come home the political reality is that both of them are incompetent, corrupt and sell-out; God knows they have proven this beyond all doubt already. Whilst education may cure one of incompetence, there is no known cure for being corrupt and a sell-out other than hang oneself as Judas Iscariot did.
They two should have apologized for betraying the people whilst they were in power and then resign from all public life!
They have both their political virtue on Zimbabwe's infamous political gravy train. They have since lost their seats; Biti was in the GNU and lost his seat following the rigged 2013 elections and Mai Mujuru was a senior member in Zanu-PF for 34 years only to be kicked out of the party last December. They are both itching to get back on that gravy train so much so they will do or say anything.
As far as the people of Zimbabwe are concerned the single most important task this nation must accomplish is to get all, not just some water down few but ALL, the democratic reforms agreed in the 2008 Global Political Agreement, GPA, which then gave rise to the formation of the GNU, implemented.
The reforms were designed to dismantle the Zanu-PF dictatorship which has allowed the party to abuse state institutions like the public media, the Police, Security sectors, ZEC, etc. and rig elections. MDC failing to get even one reform implemented during the five years of the GNU and hence Zanu-PF was able to blatantly rig the July 2013 elections and is set to do so again in future elections.
Although Mai Mujuru has been kicked out of the Mugabe faction of Zanu-PF that is now in power, as a former Zanu-PF member herself she still knows how the Zanu-PF dictatorship works. If she was to contest the next elections and win then she will inherit the essential components of the Zanu-PF dictatorship lock, stock and barrel!
The day Mai Mujuru and her former Zanu-PF are returned back to power they would want to quickly consolidate their power base by appointing people loyal to the her in the state institutions and assure them all that it is business as usual. Her political power base is founded on the Zanu-PF dictatorship and she would certainly not want that disrupted by someone implementing democratic reforms!
As for Tendai Biti and his MDC friends they have never believed they could govern Zimbabwe own their own and hence the reason the readily accepted GNU in 2008 and were not keen to implement the democratic reforms during the GNU years. MDC were quite content to have the Zanu-PF dictatorship survive after the GNU provided it changed enough to allow MDC seats on the gravy train.
MDC leaders expected Zanu-PF to blatantly rig the July 2013 elections but not to the extent of a landslide victory for Zanu-PF!
Tendai Biti is hoping the coalition with Mai Mujuru will result in the political system MDC had hope would emerge after the 2013 elections; a Zanu-PF dominated government but with a number of reserved seats for him and his MDC friends.
Many Zimbabweans have been fearful Mai Mujuru and her supporters' strong Zanu-PF corrupt and tyrannical past; a leopard does not change its spots, ever! MDC-Renewal has been quick sooth these public fears by assuring the public MDC-Renewal will "wash off the gamatox" as soon as the coalition is back in power.
The gamatox reference comes the time Mugabe was angry with Information Minister Jonathan Moyo he called him a "weevil" that was destroying Zanu-PF from within. Didymus Mutasa, Mujuru loyalist, saw Moyo and his faction in Zanu-PF as the greatest threat to the Mujuru faction's bid to position her to take over power from Mugabe. So Mutasa seized the chance to get rid of the competition and offered to bring the gamatox insecticide use to kill weevil.
Within six months it was Minister Moyo and his faction that successfully ousted the Mujuru faction out of the party. So it Mutasa himself who ended up covered to his eyes in the gamatox!
So for the sake of winning the next elections MDC –Renewal are willing to put aside democratic reforms and work to Zanu-PF modus operandi thus accepted to be contaminated with the gamatox, as it were. The day after the coalition has won the elections MDC –Renewal will want the democratic reforms implemented or wash themselves free of the gamatox.
After what all what Mai Mujuru and her Zanu-PF has already gone through being kicked out of the party and what they still have to go through to win back power, this lot will have no patience with some political upstart threatening their recovered political power by implementing some democratic reforms. Frankly Tendai Biti and his lot will be chaff to bit that they are back on the gravy train again they will not want to rock the boat by pushing reforms.
The bottom line is the Mujuru's People First and Tendai Biti's MDC-Renewal marriage of convenience will never ever implement all the democratic reforms; not before the next elections or after those elections. This proposed coalition is a political distraction, offering the false hope of a way out when it is in fact a cul-de-sac, easy to get in but near impossible to get out.
The only way out of this political and economic mess we find ourselves in is by getting all the democratic reforms agreed in the 2008 GPA implemented. Mujuru and Biti are not offering to implement any reforms so forget them.
Mugabe's ZimAsset plan is dead in the water; he failed to get any donors to bankroll the plan. The regime has no plan B to end the worsening economic meltdown. The regime is under increasing pressure to accept meaningful economic and political reforms design to end the corruption, lawlessness, etc. which destroyed local companies and stopped new investment. We must insist on the implementation of all the democratic reforms.
Implement all the reforms and the country the polluted political air will be cleared allowing competent politicians and political parties will emerge and flourish.
First things first, get the democratic reforms implemented and that will finally secured the right of every Zimbabwean to free, fair and credible elections plus the host of all the other basic freedoms and rights for all time. Good and competent government and economic prosperity will follow guaranteed!
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Nomusa Garikai <zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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