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Nomusa Garikayi | The return of Pastor Mawarire created panic and confusion in the Zanu PF regime, in the opposition camp and amongst the ordinary Zimbabweans in equal measure!
“If you keep on defending Mawarire’s exodus I think you are very wrong and being selfish,” commented Brooks. “We have to face the reality that people have lost confidence in Mawarire because of the time which he left the people. In every struggle, we need a strong and brave leader who can fight with his/her team to the last drop not people who run away from a misfiring Peugeot 404.”
Is this call for a “strong and brave leader” not also the call for the kind of leader who will go on to be a dictator like Robert Mugabe!
A national struggle should not have to depend on one or two individuals regardless how courageous and visionary they happen to be. If that was the case then the true measure of their visionary qualities is the realization to spread their leadership qualities to as many others as possible so the struggle does not suffer if they, for whatever reasons, should have to give up their leadership role.
Pastor Mawarire, many would agree, gave people the courage to stand-up and demand their basic rights and freedoms by his example. When he left the country, there was no reason why the people did not continue and do the same other than the mental blockade telling them they could not do anything without him.
Tyrants like President Mugabe have actively cultivated the notion that they are indispensable and re-enforced this mystic by stifling debate, freedom of expression and free press and replaced it with a public media who primary purpose is to misinform and brainwash into believing the tyrant is a genius. The have deepened the mystic even further by surrounding themselves with some of the naïve and stupid people like Simon Muzenda and Joice Mujuru whom the tyrant can run rings.
President has stayed in power all these last 37 years riding on the belief that he is the “strong and brave leader” Zimbabwe needs. How ironic that we are right now in the middle of life and death struggle to remove one dictatorship and yet are keen as mustard to create a new dictator!
“There is also a legitimate fear that Mawarire is a destabilising influence;” wrote SA Journalist Simon Allison. “that his presence, and the possibility of him running for public office, could derail the delicate coalition negotiations that are currently happening between the major opposition parties. Because his return to Zimbabwe was shrouded in such secrecy, no one really knows what he intends to do, or how it will affect them. He is a wild card.”
If these opposition parties are the true democrats, they claim to be, then there is no cause for them to fear a democrat in their midst. The frantic coalition forming activity is an excuse for participating in an election process they know is flawed and illegitimate. They also know that by participating they will grant the process a veneer of democratic legitimacy. The only reasons all these opposition parties are participating in the flawed elections is to win these few seats Zanu PF has been giving away as bait to the opposition, a reward for legitimising an otherwise illegitimate process.
Many people have been calling for the boycott of elections until democratic reforms have been implemented and the call is gaining traction by the day. Tsvangirai, Mujuru and all the other opposition leaders who have already said they will participate in next year’s elections with no reform in place now run the risk of losing all political credibility is they were forced to capitulate and join the boycott!
Pastor Mawarire has already admitted he will run for public office in future. He is “a wild card” to the opposition in not only that he will be competing with some of them but even more pointedly he may denounce them for contesting in flawed elections knowing the people will be denied the right to free, fair and credible vote. He will throw the cat amongst the pigeons, if he did that!
Democracy is a system of government by the people, typically through elected representatives. As a nation that is still struggling to get rid of a tyrant we should be the one very wary of the strong, brave and mister-know-it-all! In fact none of our present leaders have in anyway proven to have an common sense much less be the infallible leader they claim to be.
If we are serious about wanting a democratic Zimbabwe then we must first understand what it is exactly we want, and then have the courage to embrace if we are going to have a healthy and functional democracy. As things stand, we are in real danger of removing Mugabe and replacing him with another dictator!
Leaders like Robert Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai, Joice Mujuru and all the other recycled rubbish have already proven beyond that they are corrupt and incompetent and, in some cases, murderous tyrant. We continue to hang on to these failed leaders like a toddler hanging to a mother’s dress because we have been brainwashed to believe they are strong leaders and we will be helpless without them.
The job of making sure there are free, fair and credible elections in Zimbabwe so the country can finally get out of the death trap Zanu PF has landed the nation is the single most important job I have ever done in my whole life. My only wish is that more Zimbabweans saw the matter in the same light because we will be assured of victory then.
You and your regular job, whatever it is, will change nothing as long as at the end of the day Zanu PF is allowed to rig elections and stay in power. It is this Boxer, the horse, mentality of “I will work harder!” when what is called for is working smarter.
Fighting Zanu PF should not mean turning a blind eye to the reality that people like Tsvangirai are corrupt and incompetent and sold-out during the GNU.
If you set out to water the garden and after hours of hard work you realize you have made little progress it makes sense to posse and investigate why. If you discover you have a leaking bucket then fix the bucket instead of carrying on regardless like a madman!
As to setting the limits of buffoonery, I will leave that one in your hands seeing you are one yourself!
Like in every other field of human endeavour there are the few smart ones on one extreme, followed by the bell-mass of the average and mediocre and then the real stupid ones forming the tail. There is no doubt that armchair political analysts and critics will have its own distribution curve. You are a political analyst yourself Gandanga and from what you say one can tell where about in the distribution curve to place you.
“That is the tragedy we have in Zimbabwe where cowards run away and start shouting on top of their voices from safe heavens in Europe. Come back to Zimbabwe and challenge zanu pf in broad daylight like Tsvangirai or shutup,” you say.
This argument that only Zimbabweans who in the country are the only one who are not cowards, have the right to shout on top of their voices and, most important of all, are changing things on the ground is; does not have even a shred of evidence to support, is illogical and downright stupid. Let us assume for the sake of argument that only Zimbabweans in the country are courageous what evidence is there to support the theory that the minute they cross the invisible line constituting the border they suddenly become cowards?
Only a real idiot would still be singing Tsvangirai’s praise as one who “challenges Zanu PF in broad daylight”. The people of Zimbabwe risked life and limp, over 500 died in 2008 alone, to elect Tsvangirai and his MDC friend into power on the promise they will bring about democratic change. They had the golden opportunity to deliver that change during the GNU but failed to get even one reform implemented. Not one!
Tsvangirai is just a corrupt and incompetent leader who sold-out during the GNU and will never bring about the democratic changes we are dying for. Never! And all those who continue to follow him do so out of ignorance and folly.
You may consider yourself a political analyst, Gandanga, but what must know is you are just one stupid analysts masquerading as one of the smart ones. A mouse and lion are both animals but no amount of grandstanding and chest drumming will make a mouse a lion. You Gandanga, from your foul language, you are not even a field mouse but a filthy sewer rat!
Here we have stupid armchair political analysts all blaming Tsvangirai BUT doing nothing tangible on the ground to dislodge zanu pf. That is the tragedy we have in Zimbabwe where cowards run away and start shouting on top of their voices from safe heavens in Europe. Come back to Zimbabwe and challenge zanu pf in broad daylight like Tsvangirai or shutup. Tsvangirai Ncube or Mujuru are not angles but at least are openly challenging Mugabe not all dogs Barking here
The big issue in Zimbabwe today is the need to hold FREE, FAIR AND CREDIBLE ELECTIONS. Indeed this has been the big issue in the 2013 elections, during the GNU and going all the way back to the early 1980s when it was clear that Mugabe was dead set on imposing his one-party cum one-man dictatorship.
Even the corrupt and incompetent Tsvangirai has accepted the need for democratic reforms leading to free and fair elections which is why he latched on the name MDC – movement for democratic change. He did not understand what these democratic changes should be or how they would be implemented which is why not even one reform was implemented when he had the opportunity to do so but that is a different matter. He appreciated there was need for change – given he is a simpleton, this was a giant step for him.
Even the corrupt and incompetent Joice Mujuru has too accepted that there is need for democratic change and hence the reason Zimbabwe PF has subscribed to the National Electoral Reform Agenda (NERA) together with 17 other opposition parties including MDC-T. Didymus Mutasa is the party’s man on the grouping. ZimPF people understand even less what the reforms are and how they should be implemented. If Mujuru was ever to get into power she never implement any reforms, she will be busy adopting the present system so it works for her and her party.
The real acid test for Mawarire is whether he is smart enough to understand the need to reform our autocratic and vote rigging system. The next question will then be to ascertain at what level he is coming in – at the Tsvangirai superficial level or the more advance level of knowing what the reforms are and how the are to be implemented. The university level, would be understanding that there is nothing of substance to be accomplished by contesting in flawed elections.
From the opposition camp only former Senator David Coltart has so far shown he has grasped democratic reform at the university level as he confirmed in his book.
“The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious – withdraw from the elections,” explained Senator Coltart.
“The electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility.”
It is a pity that the penny on reform did not drop much sooner in Coltart’s head, during the GNU so he could have forced his fellow MDC members to implement the reforms. What was worse is the he did not have the political spine to do the obvious thing himself and boycott the 2013 elections!
What kind of a “wild card” Mawarire turns out to be will depend on how well he understands the big issue of democratic reforms and free and fair elections; depend on his level of understanding of reforms, from Tsvangirai’s superficial level right up to the boycott the elections – university level?
Your buffoonery should have limits you idiot. You fight zanu pf on this forum you fool. Even though I don’t support zanu pf I believe they are better organised than fools like you. Get a job and spend more time at work.
If you think what the writer said is stupid, then tell us why. You cannot dismiss someone’s view as being stupid without saying why. You cannot bully everyone into silence, these are the dictatorial tendencies of the Zanu PF autocracy we are fighting to end and end it we will and silence upstarts like you who are emulating the ways of the tyrannical regime!
Which democratic forces are you talking about? Is Mujuru a democratic force; if so why has she been a key player in the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF regime for 34 years until she was booted out. She did not resign from the dictatorial regime; she was booted out
kicking and screaming.
Is Tsvangirai and his MDC fiends the democratic forces? Why then did the fail to implement even one democratic reform to stop Zanu PF rigging elections in the five years of the GNU? They refused to boycott the 2013 elections although it was the “obvious” thing to do because they were more interested in the few seats Zanu PF gives away than making sure the elections are free and fair.
Tsvangirai & co. are gearing up to contest the 2018 elections again contrary to their own resolutions not to contest any elections until reforms are implemented.
There are NO “democratic forces” in Zimbabwe only corrupt and incompetent opposition sell-out masquerading as democrats. It is these failed leaders who have grown too big for the boots and think opposition politics is their exclusive domain and no one else should enter regardless of their own track record of having failed to bring about any meaningful change.
Mawarire and anyone with any brain would never be fooled by these failed leaders much less allow themselves to be bullied into following them!
I agree with you, what will make Mawarire a cut above all the other activists, NGO, GONGO, etc., etc. is if he can show the world that he is capable of independent and logical thinking. Whereas all the other activists have all subscribe to either Zanu PF or opposition ideology cheering and applauding their respective side regardless how nauseatingly stupid the actions of the leaders happen to be.
The failure by civic society leaders to see opposition leaders like Tsvangirai and Mujuru for the corrupt and incompetent individuals they are and thus encourage the populous to search for quality leaders is one of the most unforgivable acts of betrayal in the country.
If Pastor Mawarire can show that he is capable of thinking for himself and will not follow sheepishly the lead of failed leaders like Tsvangirai and Mujuru especially on such issues as
contesting flawed elections, then he will be fresh start the country has been waiting for. So far he has resisted the temptation of running to the opposition parties for endorsement of his work, which other activists have done; a good sign. Now we will have to wait and see whether he is indeed capable of thinking for himself!
Mawarire is playing his part just like other members of the opposition parties.A word of caution to the cleric and his enthusiasts. Do not get too big for your boots or get ahead of yourselves and create animosity among the democratic forces
You are very stupid. Why don’t you keep this nonsense to yourself dog