By Bernard Bwoni
Many people might not be aware of it but the opposition MDC-T party recently held its elective or should I say selective Congress where Mr Tsvangirai charged without conviction that ‘We will mobilise and galvanise the nation for the end-game’.
What is it about Tsvangirai’s preoccupation with ‘endgames’, ‘game-changers’ and ‘deep-ends’?
These are the
clutches and grasping at straws by a man and a party with no game, guile or
guts, a man whose game ended a long time ago that is if there was ever any game.
This is a man who fronts an increasingly irrelevant and disintegrating grouping
that has got no game or game to play let alone change. As Mr Tsvangirai rightly
predicted in his book the only way for the opposition is a slow but sure
descend into the deep-end never to come back up. Right now all the games are
happening on the ruling party court with the opposition as mere spectators
gazing in awe at the intraparty democracy and reconfiguration.
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| Political Voyeuristic Disorder: Tsvangirai, Chamisa and Biti tripping over each otherto read the ZANU PF Manifesto |
The picture of Mr Tsvangirai, Nelson Chamisa,
Tendai Biti and other MDC-T party leadership tripping over each other to read
the ZANU-PF Manifesto just before the 2013 elections is telling and clearly
illustrates the political voyeuristic disorder that we see and continue to see
within this party. And Mr Tsvangirai could not resist ‘borrowing’ from ZANU-PF again
as always during his address at this Elective Congress saying ‘the solution to
the national crisis lies in none but ourselves’. None-But-Ourselves (Iwe Neni
Tine Basa – Mina Lawe Silo Musebenzi) is the ZANU-PF ideology and it is clear
as crystal that MDC-T idolises ZANU-PF hence the huff and puff and tantrums
about leading demonstrations to ‘force President Mugabe to accept the need for
reforms’.
This is the same Tsvangirai who during his five years in the GNU
made, sorry I meant shared tea daily with President Mugabe and the only reforms
he called for were matrimonial ones. The only game Mr Tsvangirai changed during
his time as Prime Minister was scoring own-goals and plenty of them for that
matter. Nothing personal against Mr Tsvangirai but the trail is there for all
to see.
The fact that the opposition had this Elective
Congress and very few people knew about it or cared less is a telling sign of
party with no game to play or change or end-game. Even the MDC-T party itself
was not very much interested in its own Congress and the leadership mainly
preoccupied themselves with analysing and admiring the ZANU-PF internal politics
and so-called succession battles. The only game in Zimbabwean politics right
now is found in the ruling party where self-introspection, self-analysis and
self-reconstruction is effectively at play. The opposition can only wish for
the ruling party to implode but what we are witnessing in ZANU-PF is intraparty
politics of uninterrupted self-reflection and growth, a party Constitution that
works and works efficiently to draw the line, bring cadres back in line and
carry the party forwards not backwards or side-ways, not splitting, spitting or
splintering.
In
his address Mr Tsvangirai stressed that ‘the protests will force Robert Mugabe
to the negotiating table and build consensus on the need for a timetable
towards a free and fair election’. What is evidently clear from this statement
is that Mr Tsvangirai is looking for a short-cut to another GNU and he is
enlisting the masses to shoulder his quest for and pursuit of the
petal-littered path towards the trappings and luxuries previously presented to
him when he was Prime Minister. The only end-game etched in the opposition minds
right now is a return to the GNU and that is why they are not presenting any
shadow strategy but rather but rather looking for negotiations into government.
he elections have been, over and done with and the opposition ought to start
presenting their own proposals to counter what the ruling currently has to
offer. Let us not confuse this relentless quest for splendour and grandeur of
the upper echelons of power with championing and leading demonstrations for
this so-called desire for ‘constitutional reforms’. Tsvangirai had five years
to clamour for these ‘constitutional reforms’ and he did nothing. This is a man
who during his entire five years in the GNU frolicked on the High Seas and we
have pictures to prove it. A man who wined and dined with the elites of Western
capitals has no game to change because he was changed by the game. The only way
unfortunately is via the deep-end.
The ruckus and
fracas about friction within the ruling are a smoke-screen to confuse, conceal
and throttle the the ZANU-PF led Zimbabwe ground-breaking beginning of economic
liberation. That will not succeed as there is only one united ZANU-PF, one
united Zimbabwe that will prevail at the end of it all. There is indeed is an
invisible hand in all attempts to foil and misdirect Zimbabwe’s path toward
real prosperity, real wealth and economic emancipation of her citizens.
The
many principled men and women in the mould of President Robert Mugabe who are
the real drivers for African Renaissance have that difficult but essential task
of addressing and redressing the inequalities created by the colonial system
through empowerment of the indigenous people of Zimbabwe. President Robert
Mugabe is an inspiration and even the incoming British Ambassador to Zimbabwe
Ms Catriona Laing rightly described him as ‘iconic’. President Mugabe is an
icon yes, not an object of aesthetics, but pure substance. He is the glue that
binds the nation and the history that will inspire future generations. It is up
to the people of Zimbabwe to define who their real heroes are and no amount of
modification or moderation is going to change that.
The heroes who hold that
fundamental belief in the African dear to their hearts are there among us.
Those who sit on the fence, swaying in any direction the pendulum swings only
tarnish the principles and pose a threat to the ideology that holds and has
held this country together amidst the external economic and political
obstruction. The only game left to change is to forge ahead with the economic
emancipation of the people of Zimbabwe. Another GNU as being advocated by
Tsvangirai and his party is all games.
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Cde Bernard Bwoni
Deputy Secretary for Admin; ZANU PF UK
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