By Dr Masimba Mavaza |The announcement of the death of the President of Zimbabwe by Western papers and opposition parties shows that the opposition is afraid of Mugabe and ZANU PF’s popularity. They are trying to portray Mugabe as a frail dying man. In the meantime they are in cahoots trying to enter into alliance for the upcoming general elections.
 
Consequently, the death of the president is not an issue for them. Rather they are playing politics on this issue. Getting straight to the point of the matter, one would posit that the actual issue is the 2018 elections and the opposition is trying to enter into an alliance as they know that no single party can defeat the great ZANU PF.
 
It is patently clear, the opposition is well aware that if MUGABE completes five years in government, masses will benefit from the fruits of his policies and will vote again for him in 2018. Going further, the opposition also desires to defame the President on non issues because they think that with present popularity of ZANU PF the opposition cannot win 2018 elections.
 
The opposition is not serious in investigating corruption rather they want to exploit it for agitation to divert attention of the people from the progress in the country. They wish to have the masses view Mugabe as an old clueless man hence their personal attacks on the first family.
 
The government desires solutions on issues of concern through the Parliament and it is also the responsibility of other political parties that this matter is resolved in the Parliament.
The government will put its Terms of Reference before the people and it would be clear as whose draft was professional and who is corrupt. Problems being faced by Zimbabweans are global. Most caused by illegal sanctions. Mugabe has done all to alleviate such problems.
“It should be decided by the commission as to who should be summoned for investigation on corruption and not by the opposition. Opposition wants person specific accountability but the government wants across the board accountability, ZANU PF hands are clean and need no more soiling. Strikes and stay aways are acts of terrorism and must be treated as such.
It is clear that the opposition was not standing with the People of Zimbabwe rather it was trying to escape from its corruption as mentioned by Tendai Biti. This bargaining will do no good to people because masses want food employment not strikes and not strikes. Strike actions would harm national interests like economic recovery and a number of things.
Declaring a man dead is not gimmick but stupid.
 
It is true come 2018 the afraid opposition will always be scared of Mugabe.
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