Wilbert Mukori | Nelson Chamisa, MDC-T VP, is one individual who believes in rhetoric and has become so addicted to it he cannot change. “MDC is the party of excellency!” he used to boast. It took the disastrous performance of the party in the 2013 elections, which he and others were convinced was going to propel them into office, to shut Chamisa up. The party was deserted by its donors and SADC leaders alike for failing to implement even one democratic reforms during the GNU. The real Nelson Chamisa is back boastful as ever.
“I am so delighted to be on this hugely beneficial trip (to the USA to meet the Senate committee on foreign relations – the committee that will decide on whether to lift the targeted sanctions imposed on Zanu PF leaders for human rights violation including failing to hold free and fair elections). We are on this vital global advocacy and diplomatic engagement program to give Zimbabweans a fighting chance in the crucial and landmark 2018 general elections. This trip is about you and me and the future of our children and generations to come,” he wrote in a recent article in Nehanda Radio.
“As a people, we cannot afford to squander this merited goodwill through partisan and petty party political sandpit arguments, which have no material benefit to our people.”
The article continued on the same vein, full of the usual verbosity and drumming of the chest of the silver back. Let me just focus on one or two snippets.
“This trip comes as a continuation of diplomatic outreaches already under way focusing on SADC and the AU. Our overall persuasion and perspective is to state and restate our case for credible, free and fair elections in Zimbabwe, elections whose results are not contested,” he stated.
“I saw and read a false message that this trip was about sanctions. Far from it, the trip has all to do with our take on free and fair elections in Zimbabwe and our post-election reconstruction plan.”
This is really hopeless! No wonder the country is in a real mess, with the opposition politicians who are this incompetent, we have nowhere else to go.
This is just like the foolishness of General Chiwenga and his coup plotters who seized key state institutions, put then President Mugabe under house arrest, etc. and insisted it was NOT a coup! The West imposed sanctions on Zanu PF leaders because the regime had failed to hold free and fair elections. The Senate committee Chamisa and his friends met will decide on whether to lift the sanction or not on the basis of there being sufficient evidence next year’s elections will be free and fair. So, what is Chamisa wittering about the trip was not about sanctions!
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because for the last 37 years the nation has been stuck with a corrupt and incompetent Zanu PF dictatorship. They have failed to rid themselves of this regime because Mugabe and his cronies rigged the vote to stay in power. The nation had its best opportunity ever to finally get rid of the dictatorship during the GNU years but the chance was wasted because Chamisa and his MDC friends failed to implement the democratic reforms. If anyone thought the MDC leaders had learnt from the past, he or she was wrong because instead of finally focus on piling the pressure, maintaining the sanctions is one way, to force the implementation of the reforms MDC leaders are once again going off at a tangent.
SADC leaders pushed hard to have the reforms implemented during the GNU and it was none other than MDC leaders who did nothing. The American and the rest of the West imposed sanctions on Zanu PF to highlight the need for Mugabe to honour his legal obligation to hold free and fair elections. It is really frustrating that it is none other than the MDC again who failing to give the matter the seriousness it demands.
“MDC is a party of excellency!” Yeah right!
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Only fools go on and on with one issue. This topic has been dealt with and done with. There are other issues that you can comment on rather than going on and on on one comment. If you kept quiet people would not notice how foolish you are than making noise at every comment you come across.
What facts have you given yourself? Telling someone to form his/her own party is just a stupid way of saying MDC should not be held to account. Why should MDC leaders not be held to account for all their blundering incompetence? Give us the facts and not feeble excuses!
Sometimes one is call stupid as an insult but when the individual is indeed stupid, it is stating a fact. You are stupid and that is a fact!
Yes Wilbert can form his own political party but what has that to do with holding MDC to account? Are you saying only those who have formed their own parties have the right to question public figures? This is the kind of stupidity that is dragging this nation deeper and deeper into this hell-on-earth Mugabe led us into.
“Form your own party!” that comes to you as natural as s***ting to a goose! A goose flying North will get there, the same cannot be said about you lot. MDC have been onthe political stage for 17 years now and have failed to bring about even one democratic change!
Whilst many people will readily accept democracy as a viable system of governance has brought peace, vibrancy and unparalleled vitality and success wherever it has been practised be it a family, private company or at national level. The reason why democracy has never taken root in such countries as Zimbabwe, now 2 500 years after the Greeks devised the system, is because Zimbabweans, with may be a very few exception, like to hold others to democratic account but deeply resent being held to account themselves. At national level, those who do not want to be held to public account have since come up with standard defensive/offensive moves:
a) We risked life and limb in the struggle, where were you?
b) Go form your own party and let us see if you will do better (in other words you cannot hold me to account because you have never held the same public office).
c) When push comes to shove, accuse the other of being a counter revolutionary, “criminal elements who have captured the State”, anything to justify ruthlessly silencing them forever!
The default setting for mankind is to seek absolute power and human experience, civilization, has shown that those seeking absolute power have necessarily condemn themselves to a lifetime of conflict bound to end up in defeat because no one wants to be dominated. Some people have the capacity to see the futility of perpetual conflict, to see the bigger picture, and embrace democracy. For others their primeval instinct to dominate are just too strong to be teamed by reason.
Gara pasi, ngesindebele hlalapansi, you are incoherent and as foolish as the propagater of the article. It is not my usual thing to be on discussion platforms to insult different opinions from mine, but I am tempted to tell you that you are as hollow as can be. If you have anything to argue about just give facts without calling names you little brains. Stupidity clouds your thinking to the extent that you think everyone should think like you. I am not going to be bullied by an imbecile like yourself into silence. I have a mind of my own and no body is going to stop me from saying what I have to say just because my view is different from theirs. So I ask you to stop bullying you little fool.
Chamisa and his MDC friends had the opportunity to implement the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections. They failed to get even one reform implemented in five years. Are you proud of that too?
@ Shonhai
This is the kind of idiotic nonsense that is holding back Zimbabwe and therefore must be rebuffed with the energy and vigour!
“Wilbert is free to form his own party and tackle the problems that MDC is failing to solve; it does not help to continue to lambast the MDC without doing the right thing,” you write.
Zimbabwe has over 75 political parties already and therefore to argue that the country needs more political parties is foolish. Lambasting corrupt and incompetent parties like MDC has my vote because it is helping to educate the electorate to understand what they should be looking for in a leader. If most of our electorate were not fools like you who follow blindly like sheep we would not have so many corrupt and incompetent politicians ruining our lives.
“If you think the sanctions are the most important tool to force the present government to reform; the best is for you to form and launch your own competent party that is capable of forcing the government to reform,” you write.
Who said anything about sanctions “being the most important tool”? They are a tool and like all tools they should be used. The criticism here is that MDC Alliance are wishy-washy they want the sanctions retained in one breath and lifted in the next.
“For how long do you want people to suffer under the economic sanctions than to have other means of persuasion for the reforms to be implemented?”
The country is in total economic meltdown because we have been stuck with this corrupt and incompetent Zanu PF dictatorship for 37 years and not because of the sanctions. The economy recovered by 12% in 2009 during the GNU although the country was still under the sanctions.
Shonhai, you should not bubble on matter you do not understand. It is fools like you who keep electing idiots into power because you do not stop to think!
Wilbert is free to form his own party and tackle the problems that MDC is failing to solve; it does not help to continue to lambast the MDC without doing the right thing. If you think the sanctions are the most important tool to force the present government to reform; the best is for you to form and launch your own competent party that is capable of forcing the government to reform. These sanctions you are frothing at the mouth about have been in place since before 2008 elections and continued after 2013 elections; if the government cared that much about your sanctions I am sure they would have implemented the democratic reforms. What makes you think it’s going to make a difference now? These economic sanctions you think are the most important tool to force the government to reform are only hurting the ordinary poor people and most people know that. For how long do you want people to suffer under the economic sanctions than to have other means of persuasion for the reforms to be implemented? Your energy you spend attaching MDC makes me believe you are surely interested in the maintenance of the status quo.
Wilbert Mukonori…with all due respect you are sounding shallow minded sir. what specific matters related to sanctions are we talking about? I only have one element of ineterest for you…Itai Dzamara…he is not with his children and wife…And to avoid that happening…abd to bring him back…the government must arrest and jail the abductors, bring back Dzamara..
i will tell you….we would fight sanctions together after that….We have briefcase companies of Zanu PF that exploit on Western funds and they take that money far from the people…so you want the Americans to bless stealing of its tax payers’ funds meant for Zimbabwe’s development, ndeyenyu here mari yacho, kuchemei imi munemaChina on your Zanu PF side. Mbavha. Chamisa should be boastful yes…because he stands for the good and we love him for that…you seem to be jealous of the young politician and don’t have sound arguments at all.
If you are to pretend to know why people behave the way they do have your facts. Do not write from ignorance. Mugabe created the female presidency as a way of denying Ngwena victory. He could not have been allowed to do a repeat
You need to read the article above again because you will find it is critical of MDC Alliance leaders’ failure to make it clear that the sanctions on Zanu PF must be retain because the regime has not change.
The US Senate imposed sanctions on Zanu PF leaders because the party had failed to hold free and fair elections. For Tendai Biti to pretend the two issues are not related is like saying the GNU had nothing to do with democratic reforms. It was little wonder MDC failed to implement even one reform during the GNU. It is this failure to appreciate detail that has made the opposition such a useless bunch.
The very fact that there are many Zimbabweans out there who still have no clue what the GNU was about or more specifically that MDC sold-out in failing to implement even one reforms has not helped our cause. The only reason MDC still have followers today is proof there are still many Zimbabweans who have no clue what the GNU was about. We have a classical case of the blind leading the blind into the ditch!
Not many Zimbabweans will get the chance to meet US Senators and this was a great opportunity and Biti and company wasted it.
Dofo remunhu. Urirema
Why would Chiwenga and Ngwena revolt against Mugabe on behalf of Joyce? that revolt distinguishes them from Joyce. Mugabe was unable to do a Joyce on them because they are not Joyce.
Mukonori shame on u. We all know Mnangagwa would still be a Mugabe crony if he was not removed. Chiwenga the same and most of those that are in his cabinet. If not why did they not stage the revolt when Joyce was fired. ED praised Grace for his ascendancy to the post of VP. This is public Knowledge. To any bipartisan zimbabwean this is is not the right guy to lead us . He is there for personal gain. He showed us all that he is good at stabbing people in the back by stabbing Mugabe. I do not support Mugabe at all but an just saying this kind of character can stab us all in the back and the signs are already showing. He is going to use the army against all of us. His ascendancy is a step backwards. They are doing a lot of wrong things to attract sanctions which is why they are blaming MDC . He must govern and produce the results and stop lying. I lastly challenge all Zimbabweans to read Biti’s speech rather than rely on zanu interpretations
Incidentally at one time this Chamisa fellow retorted that he is a secret admirer of RGM when he was interviewed by Barwe after being admitted to the bar , so what is going on here, a bloke who is zanupf to the bone decides to disrupt the party of his dreams from running a smooth caretaker government ,i do not get it.