Chamisa Threaten “Radical Approach” To Force ED Into New GNU – Same Stuff Different Name
20 February 2020
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By Patrick Guramatunhu- “They will arrest and kill some of us, but no gun is more powerful than a conscious mind. Some people are saying why don’t you focus on 2023. That is foolishness. Foolishness is doing the same thing with no results. There has to be a radical approach, a disruptive approach,” said Nelson Chamisa, leader of MDC. 

Hah! So Chamisa has finally accepted that it is insane to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result! After 20 years on the political centre stage, elected there to delivery the democratic changes the nation has been dying for, and yet has nothing to show for it. 

The tragedy here is what he is calling “a radical approach, a disruptive approach” is nothing but the same foolishness, same s***t different day.

Mr Chamisa and his MDC friends were warned of the folly of participating in elections without first implementing the reforms – Zanu PF will rig the elections leaving the country stuck with the same corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical regime. 

“MDC President Nelson Chamisa says his party will engage in a radical approach and hold demonstrations to push President Emmerson Mnangagwa to the negotiation table and the implementation of political reforms ahead of the 2023 elections,” New Zimbabwe reported.

Chamisa wants him and Mnangagwa to the negotiate a power sharing arrangement in which he, Nelson Chamisa, and a few of his MDC friends will be allocated some cabinet positions in a Zanu PF and MDC joint cabinet.

This will be a replica of the Government of National Unity (GNU) of 2008 to 2013 except that Chamisa is insisting in calling it a National Transition Authority (NTA). He is welcome to call the power sharing arrangement whatever he pleases, it is whether or not it will delivery any change. 

“It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white so long as it catches mice!” said Chairman Deng Xiaoping, the man credited with the modernising of China after the decades of chaos and misguided socialism ideological madness of Chairman Mao Zedong.

The acid test of the NTA is to implement the democratic reforms necessary for free, fair and credible elections. The NTA is doomed to fail for two reasons:

1) Even if the mixed cabinet was to agree on the need for democratic reforms, it is for parliament to debate and agree on the details of the proposed reforms. 

Zanu PF, with its 2/3 majority in parliament, will never pass any meaningful reforms. Zanu PF will never ever reform itself out of office; this is obvious but clearly not to Chamisa and company.

2) Zanu PF has all the four Aces up its sleeve! Zanu PF knows that MDC will demand to have the reform implemented and make all manner of threats of what the party will do if reforms are not implemented. But when the chips are down Chamisa et al will participate in the 2023 elections even if Zanu PF has not implemented even one token reform. 

MDC and the rest in the opposition camp have participated in flawed and illegal elections even when Zanu PF had failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll. Since the 2008 GNU, Zanu PF has learnt that the party can rig the elections all it wants and still have opposition participating to give the process legitimacy as long as it allowed them to win a few seats. And Zanu PF is going to spice up its bait!

Zanu PF is going to amend the constitution to create “the official leader of the opposition and shadow cabinet” who will be rewarded with ministerial limos and perks. The very thing Chamisa and company are ferreting for right now!

There is the added attraction of another well funded Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) for the losers. The 2023 elections will be a hotly contested affair even with no reforms, no verified voters’ roll, etc. and Chamisa and his MDC will be right there in the thick of it!

We have all heard of the anecdotal story of the mental patient watering the garden using a leaking bucket and making no progress. Once in a while the penny will drop, the patient will acknowledge the problem of the leaking bucket but it is what he/she does next that will show they are not a full shilling!

“I will carry the bucket on my head!” And off they go with renewed vigour and enthusiasm!

For the last 20 years, the people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb to elect MDC leaders to power on the understanding the party will implement the democratic reforms and end the Zanu PF dictatorship. Not even one reforms has been implemented. Not one! 

The nation is still stuck with this corrupt, incompetent, voting rigging and tyrannical Zanu PF regime. And after 40 years of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and lawlessness; the country is in economic ruins, millions now live in abject poverty. The nation is desperate for a solution to end the Zanu PF dictatorship! 

“No gun is effective against a people who are resolute. We have given peace a chance. The regime must not take us for granted,” said Chamisa. And off he goes with his leaking political bucket!

This is not a solution; we are just stuck in a rut, running round and round like headless chickens! We are desperate to do something right and not be doing the same foolish thing and pretend it is not only different but, better still, that we are making progress.  

“Hupenzi inyama yegakava!” (The insane are stubbornly single track minded!)