ANALYSIS | Popularity without power is useless, totally worthless, the MDC Alliance was warned at the weekend.

In a no-holds-barred flaming speech, Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala hinted that His Excellency President Nelson Chamisa’s glory could soon end up ku ‘Mahusekwa, ‘ literally, pun intended.

Sikhala, (who will be live doing news review on ZimEye Tuesday night 7pm) emphasised that the MDC Alliance needs to find a strategy to convert its popularity into power.

Things have to change. Focus has to shift.

He was immediately accused by some who said he should have kept his mouth shut and spoken in private. Some even suggested that he possesses wild ambitions to take over the MDC Alliance party.

But what better things could have been said at the funeral?

It seems strongly that the MDC Alliance has wasted a lot of opportunities.

The people of Zimbabwe in 2018 (soon after the elections had been rigged and innocent citizens killed) did not want to wait for a criminal, Emmerson Mnangagwa to hand over the country. The people wanted to go ahead and set up government right on the night of the 31st July 2018. Some have asked how this would have worked.

There are numerous times in other parts of the world where the same has been done very very successfully. Even right here, during the liberation struggle, this model was used. In the 70s the then terrorists, ZANLA and ZIPRA were running their own parallel government and they were even representing the entire racist Rhodesia, at the United Nations. They did not wait for Ian Smith to give them approval to fly to New York and represent the country. In the video below in 1978 here they are, speaking for the whole country, believing fully the nation has been delivered into their hands. They didn’t wait for the apartheid regime to anoint them Rhodesian patriots. In the VIDEO below is Edson Zvobgo representing the non existent Zimbabwean government. It didn’t exist anywhere on earth but it did, inside the hearts of these few men and women, who believed in themselves,

So in this case, someone could ask how does this happen? Because in Zimbabwe you will get arrested. Back in 2018 there were a number of Zimbabweans who came together and said they would set up the government of Zimbabwe and the state’s seat doesn’t have to be in Harare, it can be anywhere in the world, in New York, in London, in Pretoria, or in the middle of the sea.

You can setup your own government of Zimbabwe anywhere and say, look, this is our authority. There is nothing illegal with you calling yourselves government of Zimbabwe anywhere. You can set up structures across the world consisting of your more than 7 million citizens who are stationed in these nations. 7 million is half the national population, and this number also consists 95% of the country’s entire workforce.

In 2018, there were many of these Zimbabweans in the powerful 95% category who were ready to put in money and start running government. Did the MDC Alliance take up the opportunity then? No, they chose to remain a reactionary movement. They were very clever. Very.

Fast forward to early April this year, when Ms Thokozani Khupe announced she would recall the MDC Alliance MPs, diaspora based Zimbabweans once again stood up to announce that they would donate £10 each to pay MPs. UK based citizens alone were now on the way to raise their first £2000,000. This was a citizen initiative nothing to do with the MDC Alliance party, but within 48 hours, the MDC A leadership sent words to discourage all fundraising. Harvest House leadership said all fundraising should stop as it was not sanctioned by them. Within a few hours all that morale had been killed. Who killed it, Mnangagwa? No, it was MDC Alliance on its own, killed the fire that could have kept them warm throughout the coming winter season, the millions of dollars that could have paid all its MPs, and also purchased another building, cash. All that fire, all that money, gone. As a result less than £3,000 were raised.

If MDC Alliance had been stategic, by today none of these recalls would have affected people like the late Anna Mpofu, who collapsed in a stroke of shock over a morsel of bread, a paltry USD 150 per month dishout from Jacob Mudenda. Hon. Mpofu was hit by the shock of being recalled from parliament by Ms. Thokozani Khupe. Had this diaspora based government been setup by last year, there would have been more than enough money to make the members of Parliament comfortable, so they are never bullied by criminals.

Law And Order Section

Last year in October 2019 it was not only reported but demonstrated LIVE on ZimEye.com, that international prosecution facilities can be deployed even by a single citizen and criminality be stopped. All this was done on live camera in Eastern Europe when Mr Jacob Mudenda had a prosecution filing set up against him and was nearly arrested in Belgrade. Months down the line a program has been set up by ZimEye, with a group of international criminal experts, who are literally doing it, and have practically demonstrated how easy peezie it is to get a government official arrested in foreign countries despite enjoying diplomatic immunity. The other group on this panel of legal experts has already won a Supreme Court ruling in South Africa for Zimbabwe. This large team of legal experts is that the disposal of the MDC Alliance, but have they bothered to use them? When will the MDC Alliance set up its own CID Law And Order division in Pretoria, London, New York, Sydney, Tokyo, Madrid, Brussels? When will the MDC A choose to stop being a useless, toothless grouping that is only good for street demonstrations, and 21 years later it still does not have power to influence a single police arrest? Why is this party content with mediocrity? When will it wake up, in the after life? Below is a live discussion held on ZimEye.com on the 3rd of Aug 2020 as some of these lawyers speak on what is working to fix countries like Zimbabwe.