Patrick Guramatunhu|Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC spokesperson, Obert Gutu says less than 5,000 people turned up for Robert Mugabe’s march in Harare Thursday.
We have all heard of the expression “of the ostrich burying its head in the sand” meaning someone who is refusing to confront or acknowledge a problem. With the MDC ostrich the expression has assumed a more sinister meaning!
“The so-called million men march that was staged by the faction-ridden and crumbling Zanu-PF regime on Wednesday, May 25, 2016 was a spectacular flop,” wrote Obert Gutu.
He continued, “a few thousand people, most of whom had been commandeered to travel to Harare to attend the puerile and utterly purposeless march, turned up for this non-event. In fact, less than 5,000 people turned up for this march, whose main agenda was to massage the ego of a nonagenarian who has run down the former jewel of Africa. What a big yawn, the march was.”
There is no doubt that President Mugabe “has run down” Zimbabwe’s once promising economy the facts on the ground speak volumes; unemployment rate has soared to 90% as the nation has continued to lose jobs and the regime has failed to deliver on its 2013 promise of 2.2 million new jobs.
Yes the march was “to massage” President Mugabe’s humongous ego praising his “visionary and iconic leadership” many of the huge and industrial produced quality placards. Given that he is the one responsible for the country’s economic mess, only someone with a humongous ego would still beam with pride, as Mugabe did, at be showered with such meaningless praise.
It is laughable that 90% of those marching and singing Mugabe’s praise are unemployed. Surely there must be one or two homemade placards at least demanding that the President should honour his promise and create jobs; there were not even one such placard! None!
President Mugabe spend billions of dollars in the last election to pay for his very elaborate and expensive vote rigging scheme in the 2013 elections. He paid the Israeli company that tampered with the voters roll US$10 million and must have spent millions on the hired crowd and on bussing them around the country to attend rallies and then to vote on polling day.
Some people believe it must have costed the regime $200 million to hire and bus this one-million man march crowd (none of them dared raised the lack of employment opportunities or many of the other problems because they were paid to praise the great leader even when that meant lying about his competence). President Mugabe admitted in March that $15 billion in diamond revenue was looted; it is no secret that Zanu PF chefs are the looters including the President himself. President Mugabe paid the $200 million for his one-million man march, it was small change to him!
The one million man march was a “flop” first and foremost because this country has a thousand and one other pressing matters to which the $200 million should have been used. Zimbabweans are very rarely granted a chance to meet President Mugabe and so for these marchers to do so and then say nothing to him about their myriad of economic problems included the lack of job opportunities was a wasted opportunity.
Only a shallow minded person like Obert Gutu would argue the march was a flop because instead of the one-million Zanu PF claims “less than 5 000 people turned up”. He missed the point completely because it is not the head count that is at issue here.
What exposed Gutu for his the proverbial ostrich with the head buried in the sand mentality is his claim that “less than 5 000 turn up” and even gave the list of school buses commandeered by Zanu PF as it to “prove” his case. Anyone who has seen the photographs or videos of the rallies saw there were a lot more that 5 000 people at the rally!
Failure to implement reforms is like ostrich burying its head in the sand to escape grass fire
Tell you what you empty head Gutu; give me $200 million even $2 million and even I Patrick Guramatunhu the son of a peasant with none of your Deputy Minister of Justice in the GNU political credentials, will amass a hired crowd of one million!
Zanu PF’s unfettered access to State human and material resource including the looted wealth from Marange diamonds is at the very heart of its ability to amass a one-million man hired crowd and to rig national elections. This is way we must implement the democratic reforms necessary to stop the regime looting the nation’s resources and then, to rub hot chilli into the nation’s eyes, use the looted wealth to bankroll its vote rigging schemes.
MDC failed to implement even one democratic reform during the GNU allowing Zanu PF to blatantly rig the July 2013 elections. Since the elections MDC-T has promised to implement the reforms but to date, it is only two years now left before the next elections, the party not implemented even one reform.
The fact that Zanu PF has managed to use its ill-got wealth once again to stage this pointless one-million man rally should be a stake reminder to the opposition body politics and the nation at large that unless meaningful democratic reforms are implemented quick-smart Zanu PF will blatantly rig the next elections. Obert Gutu’s pathetic attempt to falsify the size of the hired crowd is the ostrich in him burying its head in the sand, in this case, not to see the fierce grass fire engulfing it!
We can hardly endure another day of this economic meltdown let alone another five years beyond 2018 and yet unless we implement the reforms that is what we will have. We must not allow ourselves be fooled by people like Gutu, the present economic meltdown is hurting us a hell lot more than it is hurting Gutu and his fellow MDC friends who sold-out during the GNU and failed to implement even one reform.
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Vana Gutu vakutorwara semukuru wavo siyana naye uyo.
This Gutu guy and the MDCT party have proved to be a bunch of idiots, who can are now believing their own lies. The march was done in open for everyone to see the numbers. So as a party if he open lies about this or can hardly see the numbers, what do you expect form such an imbecile to achieve if ever voted into Government. What a clueless idiot, same today, tomorrow and forever. The MDCT is surely a dead party.
This Gutu guy and the MDCT party have proved to be a bunch of idiots, who can are now believing their own lies. The march was done in open for everyone to see the numbers. So as a party if he open lies about this or can hardly see the numbers, what do you expect form such an imbecile to achieve if ever voted into Government. What a clueless idiot, same today, tomorrow and forever. The MDCT is surely a dead party.
What Patrick is saying is whether there were 100k, as you say, is not the point because given Zanu PF’s vast resources they can afford it. MDC should not waste time competing with Zanu PF on the numbers games but rather concentrate on getting the democratic reforms implemented because without the reforms Zanu PF will always win the rat race!
The trouble with some people is you cannot see beyond the here and now which is why you have never understood why SADC was on MDC’s back to implement the reforms during the GNU. You still do not understand the critical importance of the reforms even now! You never will!
What Patrick is saying is whether there were 100k, as you say, is not the point because given Zanu PF’s vast resources they can afford it. MDC should not waste time competing with Zanu PF on the numbers games but rather concentrate on getting the democratic reforms implemented because without the reforms Zanu PF will always win the rat race!
The trouble with some people is you cannot see beyond the here and now which is why you have never understood why SADC was on MDC’s back to implement the reforms during the GNU. You still do not understand the critical importance of the reforms even now! You never will!
There is a lot more to stopping Zanu PF rigging elections than who can have more followers attending a rally. What Mugabe is doing is sucking MDC into doing nothing to implement the democratic removes in the mistaken belief that the crowd attending their rallies will translate into votes. Nearly one million voters, mostly MDC supporters, were denied the chance to vote in 2013. For all we know Zanu PF might have had one million votes from its bussed supporters. This gives Zanu PF two million votes head start in the race!
Was MDC’s supporters in Bulawayo 3 million because anything less means Zanu PF will win this rat race!
We need to implement the democratic reforms to ensure Zanu PF does not have this two million votes head start!
There is a lot more to stopping Zanu PF rigging elections than who can have more followers attending a rally. What Mugabe is doing is sucking MDC into doing nothing to implement the democratic removes in the mistaken belief that the crowd attending their rallies will translate into votes. Nearly one million voters, mostly MDC supporters, were denied the chance to vote in 2013. For all we know Zanu PF might have had one million votes from its bussed supporters. This gives Zanu PF two million votes head start in the race!
Was MDC’s supporters in Bulawayo 3 million because anything less means Zanu PF will win this rat race!
We need to implement the democratic reforms to ensure Zanu PF does not have this two million votes head start!
You sir are an idiot…what is your article about? What is your point/issue? That March did not get a million people maybe(but unlikely) a 100k of whom more than half were vendors/students forced to go…What Gutu is saying is that maybe 5000 attended voluntarily and that is not a stretch…..Get off the smoke sir it’s destroying ur brain….what little brain u had to start with
You sir are an idiot…what is your article about? What is your point/issue? That March did not get a million people maybe(but unlikely) a 100k of whom more than half were vendors/students forced to go…What Gutu is saying is that maybe 5000 attended voluntarily and that is not a stretch…..Get off the smoke sir it’s destroying ur brain….what little brain u had to start with