Opinion / Columnist
Hard-nosed but slow witted Zanu PF banking of MDC to save them need boot in backside!
05 Aug 2015 at 21:58hrs | Views
"Confidential talks around the issue have already been made," said a Zanu PF legislator from Mashonaland West, according to The Telescope report. "The military brass is in favour of another coalition government, which they know is likely to be irresistible for Tsvangirai and his party.
"We are aware that VP Mnangagwa is reaching out to the opposition for the deal to be made, with the support of senior officials in the Politburo. The grand aim is to destroy Joice Mujuru's threats of forming an alliance with Tsvangirai in 2018, while using the MDC-T to canvass for economic recovery and foreign investment from it's Western allies."
I can well believe that there is frantic political activity in Zanu PF Head Quarters in search for a way out of this political and economic mess the party and country is in now. Zanu PF leaders with any brain will have now seen the writing on the wall that the party is imploding and the national economy is in total meltdown. This political and economic situation is totally unsustainable, that much is obvious even to the hardnosed but very slow witted party militants. What to do about it; that is the question easier asked but impossible to answer!
One can see why many people in Zanu PF, especially the hardnosed and slow witted ones, would be "in favour of another coalition government with MDC" and they are right Tsvangirai will jump at the idea. If these hardnosed but slow witted Zanu PF members really think Tsvangirai will help in any way to revive the country's economy then they are so slow witted they are a decade, at least, behind. To them we are still in the Zimbabwe at the dawn of the first GNU of 2008 when MDC still has the mythical power "to canvass for economic recovery and foreign investment from it's Western allies"!
In June 2009 Tsvangirai, beaming with self-confidence, toured the West, wining and dining with US President Barack Obama, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, etc. as equals. The bottom line is no one in the West was fooled by political charade in Zimbabwe; the GNU was just the same Zanu PF dictatorship masquerading as a democracy. Tsvangirai lost all the little political credibility the Western leaders had accorded him by agreeing to meet him when he would not listen, insisting President Mugabe "had reformed" although the evidence on the ground told a different story.
Tsvangirai to bring about the much hoped for Western aid and new investment in 2009 and throughout the life of the GNU because Tsvangirai and the whole GNU set up did not have political credibility. The rig 2013 elections have since proven the political sceptics were right; the GNU was just Zanu PF by another name.
Tsvangirai and MDC have even less political credibility today than they had back in 2009.
The only reason Zanu PF would want to go into a political marriage of convenience with Tsvangirai and his MDC is because they know the will be the dominant partner throughout the years of the coalition and they are guaranteed of emerging the dominant party just as happened in the 2008 to 2013 GNU!
But if at the end of the day fails to deliver any meaningful economic recovery, which it will not guaranteed; even the hardnosed and slow witted Zanu PF members will feel cheated. Marrying someone for their money only works as long as the money there to smooth things over; if one should discover that the supposedly rich spouse is in fact as poor as a church mouse then the thoughts of money will turn to murder!
What all the Zanu PF members, hardnosed, slow witted or whatever, have to understand now is that the party has failed to rule and the only way to get the country out of this political and economic hell-hole the party landed the nation in is by having regime change. For the last 35 years the party has succeeded in avoiding regime change by hook and by crook and the accumulated evil of all those years is what is killing the nation.
There is nothing anyone can do to save Zanu PF imploding but there is something the nation can do to stop Zanu PF dragging the whole nation into the abyss with it - regime change. If anyone thinks they can stop Zanu PF implosion and revive the national economy by teaming up with Tsvangirai and MDC then they are day-dreaming and need a rude awakening of a boot in the backside!
"We are aware that VP Mnangagwa is reaching out to the opposition for the deal to be made, with the support of senior officials in the Politburo. The grand aim is to destroy Joice Mujuru's threats of forming an alliance with Tsvangirai in 2018, while using the MDC-T to canvass for economic recovery and foreign investment from it's Western allies."
I can well believe that there is frantic political activity in Zanu PF Head Quarters in search for a way out of this political and economic mess the party and country is in now. Zanu PF leaders with any brain will have now seen the writing on the wall that the party is imploding and the national economy is in total meltdown. This political and economic situation is totally unsustainable, that much is obvious even to the hardnosed but very slow witted party militants. What to do about it; that is the question easier asked but impossible to answer!
One can see why many people in Zanu PF, especially the hardnosed and slow witted ones, would be "in favour of another coalition government with MDC" and they are right Tsvangirai will jump at the idea. If these hardnosed but slow witted Zanu PF members really think Tsvangirai will help in any way to revive the country's economy then they are so slow witted they are a decade, at least, behind. To them we are still in the Zimbabwe at the dawn of the first GNU of 2008 when MDC still has the mythical power "to canvass for economic recovery and foreign investment from it's Western allies"!
In June 2009 Tsvangirai, beaming with self-confidence, toured the West, wining and dining with US President Barack Obama, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, etc. as equals. The bottom line is no one in the West was fooled by political charade in Zimbabwe; the GNU was just the same Zanu PF dictatorship masquerading as a democracy. Tsvangirai lost all the little political credibility the Western leaders had accorded him by agreeing to meet him when he would not listen, insisting President Mugabe "had reformed" although the evidence on the ground told a different story.
Tsvangirai and MDC have even less political credibility today than they had back in 2009.
The only reason Zanu PF would want to go into a political marriage of convenience with Tsvangirai and his MDC is because they know the will be the dominant partner throughout the years of the coalition and they are guaranteed of emerging the dominant party just as happened in the 2008 to 2013 GNU!
But if at the end of the day fails to deliver any meaningful economic recovery, which it will not guaranteed; even the hardnosed and slow witted Zanu PF members will feel cheated. Marrying someone for their money only works as long as the money there to smooth things over; if one should discover that the supposedly rich spouse is in fact as poor as a church mouse then the thoughts of money will turn to murder!
What all the Zanu PF members, hardnosed, slow witted or whatever, have to understand now is that the party has failed to rule and the only way to get the country out of this political and economic hell-hole the party landed the nation in is by having regime change. For the last 35 years the party has succeeded in avoiding regime change by hook and by crook and the accumulated evil of all those years is what is killing the nation.
There is nothing anyone can do to save Zanu PF imploding but there is something the nation can do to stop Zanu PF dragging the whole nation into the abyss with it - regime change. If anyone thinks they can stop Zanu PF implosion and revive the national economy by teaming up with Tsvangirai and MDC then they are day-dreaming and need a rude awakening of a boot in the backside!
Source - Patrick Guramatunhu
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