Opinion / Columnist
Tsvangirai calls off boycott but will participate in free elections only - clear as mud!
04 Aug 2015 at 23:22hrs | Views
The thing about Morgan Tsvangirai, Welshman Ncube, Tendai Biti and the rest of MDC leaders without exception is that they are both breathtakingly corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent in equal measure! How else can one explain why the MDC failed to get even one democratic reform implemented after five years in the GNU and, more significantly going forward, they are still mired and confused as what to do next two years after the rigged July 2013 elections.
The 2008 Global Political Agreement (GPA) signed by Mugabe, Tsvangirai, Mutambara on behalf of their parties and principles in the GNU and counter signed by then SA President Thabo Mbeki on behalf of SADC, the guarantor to the agreement; had a raft of democratic reforms which all the parties agreed should be implemented to "ensure the next elections are free, fair and credible and prevent a repeat of the disputed elections as happened in 2008".
SADC leaders reminded Tsvangirai and his MDC colleagues again and again throughout the five year life of the GNU to "follow the GPA roadmap" and implement the democratic reforms. So with this regular reminder none of the MDC leaders can ever say they did not push for the implementation of the reforms because they did not know about the reforms, unless they are breathtakingly incompetent.
Not even one reform was implemented at the end of the five years of the GNU. Not one.
If we give all the MDC leaders the benefit of the doubt that none of them is breathtakingly incompetent and therefore understood what the reforms were all about. The only reason then why not even one reform was implemented is that the MDC leaders are corrupt; Mugabe bribed the MDC leaders with the ministerial cars, generous salaries and perks, the $4 million Highlands mansion for Tsvangirai, etc. into doing nothing about implementing the reforms. There was nothing new here, Mugabe has bribed his own Zanu PF cronies throughout the years into forgetting all the pre-independence commitment to freedom, justice, human rights, etc. and join him in the building of the corrupt and oppressive Zanu PF dictatorship that has ruled the nation with an iron fist since 1980.
MDC leaders, en masse, accepted Mugabe's bribes and kicked the GPA reforms into the tall grass.
SADC Heads of State complained of MDC leaders "enjoying their time in the GNU and forgetting why they were there" in sheer frustration at MDC's failure to get even one reform implemented.
What makes MDC leaders breathtakingly incompetent is that they all failed to realized that their political careers; make no mistake about to the last man and woman all MDC leaders never imagined that their swan song would end after the 2013 elections. They all believed that regardless of their failure to implement and reforms and thus ensure the elections are free, fair and credible MDC will still go on and win the elections.
It was not until noon on polling day, 31 July 2013, that it finally dawned on Morgan Tsvangirai that Zanu PF had rigged the vote!
By the end of 2014, all the three MDC factions; MDC-T, MDC (Ncube) and MDC Renewal; had one common position – they would not take part in an future elections until the democratic reforms necessary for free, fair and credible elections are implemented. They all saw the sheer futility of take part in elections whose result was predetermined. The position was to boycott elections until the reforms are implemented.
It was doubtful whether the election boycott would achieve the objective and force Zanu PF to implement any reforms; particularly when the party in certain to lose the elections if it did. Now that the party is no longer any obligation to implement reforms Mugabe is almost certain to resist all calls to revisit the GPA reforms on the pretext that all reforms were implemented during the GNU.
But before the year is out since MDC-T announced it's "No reform no elections!" position the party change its position. Tsvangirai told party supporters that his party will not boycott elections but will only take part in an election which will produce credible results.
"We will only take part in an election which is conducted in a free and fair environment," he said. Yes, Dr Tsvangirai that is as clear as mud!
No one knows, not even Tsvangirai himself, knows what that means. How anyone can be this corrupt and incompetent and yet still be considered competent to be Prime Minister is a complete mystery! As long as we continue to have such a laissez-faire attitude to the important task of electing competent, the nation is even considering re-electing the same corrupt and incompetent MDC leaders regardless of their track record of failure, then we are going to remain in stuck in this hell-hole for a long time.
The 2008 Global Political Agreement (GPA) signed by Mugabe, Tsvangirai, Mutambara on behalf of their parties and principles in the GNU and counter signed by then SA President Thabo Mbeki on behalf of SADC, the guarantor to the agreement; had a raft of democratic reforms which all the parties agreed should be implemented to "ensure the next elections are free, fair and credible and prevent a repeat of the disputed elections as happened in 2008".
SADC leaders reminded Tsvangirai and his MDC colleagues again and again throughout the five year life of the GNU to "follow the GPA roadmap" and implement the democratic reforms. So with this regular reminder none of the MDC leaders can ever say they did not push for the implementation of the reforms because they did not know about the reforms, unless they are breathtakingly incompetent.
Not even one reform was implemented at the end of the five years of the GNU. Not one.
If we give all the MDC leaders the benefit of the doubt that none of them is breathtakingly incompetent and therefore understood what the reforms were all about. The only reason then why not even one reform was implemented is that the MDC leaders are corrupt; Mugabe bribed the MDC leaders with the ministerial cars, generous salaries and perks, the $4 million Highlands mansion for Tsvangirai, etc. into doing nothing about implementing the reforms. There was nothing new here, Mugabe has bribed his own Zanu PF cronies throughout the years into forgetting all the pre-independence commitment to freedom, justice, human rights, etc. and join him in the building of the corrupt and oppressive Zanu PF dictatorship that has ruled the nation with an iron fist since 1980.
MDC leaders, en masse, accepted Mugabe's bribes and kicked the GPA reforms into the tall grass.
SADC Heads of State complained of MDC leaders "enjoying their time in the GNU and forgetting why they were there" in sheer frustration at MDC's failure to get even one reform implemented.
What makes MDC leaders breathtakingly incompetent is that they all failed to realized that their political careers; make no mistake about to the last man and woman all MDC leaders never imagined that their swan song would end after the 2013 elections. They all believed that regardless of their failure to implement and reforms and thus ensure the elections are free, fair and credible MDC will still go on and win the elections.
It was not until noon on polling day, 31 July 2013, that it finally dawned on Morgan Tsvangirai that Zanu PF had rigged the vote!
By the end of 2014, all the three MDC factions; MDC-T, MDC (Ncube) and MDC Renewal; had one common position – they would not take part in an future elections until the democratic reforms necessary for free, fair and credible elections are implemented. They all saw the sheer futility of take part in elections whose result was predetermined. The position was to boycott elections until the reforms are implemented.
It was doubtful whether the election boycott would achieve the objective and force Zanu PF to implement any reforms; particularly when the party in certain to lose the elections if it did. Now that the party is no longer any obligation to implement reforms Mugabe is almost certain to resist all calls to revisit the GPA reforms on the pretext that all reforms were implemented during the GNU.
But before the year is out since MDC-T announced it's "No reform no elections!" position the party change its position. Tsvangirai told party supporters that his party will not boycott elections but will only take part in an election which will produce credible results.
"We will only take part in an election which is conducted in a free and fair environment," he said. Yes, Dr Tsvangirai that is as clear as mud!
No one knows, not even Tsvangirai himself, knows what that means. How anyone can be this corrupt and incompetent and yet still be considered competent to be Prime Minister is a complete mystery! As long as we continue to have such a laissez-faire attitude to the important task of electing competent, the nation is even considering re-electing the same corrupt and incompetent MDC leaders regardless of their track record of failure, then we are going to remain in stuck in this hell-hole for a long time.
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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