IN POLITICS NEVER GIVE TOO MUCH SPACE TO BREATH TO YOUR ENEMY.
“In politics, never give too much space to your enemies.
By Knowledge Hakata- One of the major reasons why the late former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai failed to topple the late dictactor and former President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe was because he played it safe.
At most he gave Zanu Pf and Mugabe too much space to breath which is severly dangerous when you are dealing with dictactorship governments or systems like Zanu PF. Dictactors are well known for applying gorrila tactics and they always play what I call the Python Theory of which they act very kindfull to their victims before they attack.
The late Morgan Tsvangirai could had been the President of Zimbabwe in 2008 but he played it safe. You don’t respond to violence by prayer. This is politics, if you are attacked you should attack back. If the enemy resorts to brutal tactics , engage him the same way.
President Nelson Chamisa has failed to learn from the past errors of Morgan Tsvangirai but above all he is failing to learn from his own mistakes and that’s a very dangerous attribute of a leader in politics
Now coming to Nelson Chamisa and his compatriots in the MDC Alliance, these guys have given Zanu Pf too much space to breath, that’s why they are now suffocating.
They can’t even breath because of their poor leadership skils. Zanu Pf is doing the same things that they were doing during the late Mugabe’s rule and whenever MDC Alliance is attacked they can’t even counter those attacks.
This shows a leadership vaccum or could it be that there is a crisis in the Alliance? As we speak right now, their organising team is busy preparing for 2023 elections by spreading its wings to the rural areas, and leaders such as Amos Chibaya can’t even see that it’s a fruitless activity.
This is because the regime will always find ways of defeating the MDC Alliance in the upcoming elections. Instead of facing them head on now and fight them eye to eye, they are loosing everything but the MDC Alliance stalwarts have high hopes of winning 2023 presidential elections.
Zanu Pf will succeed in establishing a one party state if leaders like Nelson Chamisa remain at the helm of the opposition politics in Zimbabwe.
To Chamisa, let this sink into your head- Hope is not a strategy in politics. Even if you study the history of politics from dictactorship to democracy, every character that you will meet in those books did not use hope as a political strategy.
Look at Napoleon, the French Revolution, African Independences , the Arab Spring, Uprisings in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Lybia and recently in Mali, all those who were leading all these struggles did not use hope but they had to put in strategic political acumen.
My brother people are now opting for Job Sikhala to be the leader of the struggle not because he is better than you, but because he understands the tactics of the enermy he is dealing with. Zanu Pf needs to be confronted head on. If they deploy violence, you have to rataliate.
You are fast losing the ground and its time that you woke up from your pastoral politics and the only way you can recover is to start applying gorrilla tactics.
Everyone knows that Thokhozani Khupe and her group are a Zanu Pf project, but the problem is that you have done nothing about it.
In Africa money controls politicians and people like Tendai Biti, Welshman Ncube and Job Sikhala can testify on that.
Zimbabwean politicians have been victims of Zanu Pf because they are greedy and they think of their pockets first before those that elected them into their different portfolios.
Zanu Pf is not going to reform itself out of power, looting, killing or even arresting students leaders . Those guys have brutal hearts and they don’t care that the people are suffering. They will never care at any cost, the moment they will show kindness to Zimbabweans that will be their last dance in the corridors of Zimbabwean politics.
Knowledge Hakata is a contemporary Zimbabwean Politics Analyst and can be contacted on+27610014147 or [email protected]