By Tsitsi N. Nyirongo| Job ‘Wiwa’ Sikhala has made news headlines recently following the show trial in Masvingo in which he was being tried for wanting to overthrow the Zanu PF government.

The trial obviously didn’t go any far because the charges where typical ZANU PF nonsense, even though the government is still trying to get him back in the dock.

Nonetheless, many people have been marvelling at the stance Job Sikhala has taken against President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ZANU PF government. That is good to hear. That is confirmation about the mood in the general public.  

Wiwa has on a few occasions expressed his honest assessment of the problems in Zimbabwe, essentially concluding that only the removal of Mnangagwa and ZANU from government. Some people are calling him a radical for saying this. But what he is saying is common sense and these views are held by many in Zimbabwe who are too scared to say so publicly.

Now, the time has come for other MDC MPs to stop cheering silently at what Sikhala is saying and start  supporting him by repeating his message publicly in a fashion akin to ‘I’m Spartacus’.

It shouldn’t take just one MDC MP to be brave, all of them need to show us they have guts. If our leaders many of whom are lawyers  can’t be brave against Mnangagwa and Zanu, how then can the public who have no money to defend themselves in court show any bravery against state repression.

Yes, Mnangagwa and Zanu pf are a tumour and the only cure for those is removal which is often bloody. It should not be sacred to say that the Zimbabwean government needs to be overthrown since it’s authority is illegitimate.

What is needed right now is for MDC MPs, senators and leaders in their hundreds to stick their heads out and say what needs to be said. It’s the least they can do what with the privilege they have in the country.  If it takes for all of them in their hundreds to be arrested by Zanu for saying these things the better for it as it will finally make this situation a proper struggle.

For a long time now, MDC MPs have been taking what is either a craven approach to the Zimbabwean crisis, a stance that is disconnected to what many of us are thinking. We want it to be clear and public that Mnangagwa and Zanu should be removed by any means necessary if our country is to have a chance of recovery. Time is running out.