Tsvangirai Too Drunk To Hear Villagers Warning On Mugabe Terror | OPINION
28 February 2017
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Talking to Morgan Tsvangirai is like talking to a drunkard; he hears everything you have said but, judging from his reply, none of it registered.

“Pastors, chiefs, headmen, village heads, war veterans, women and ordinary villagers all spoke to endemic fear and intimidation being orchestrated by Zanu PF. Since the run-off violence of 2008, Zanu PF continues to emasculate communities, particularly chiefs and headmen, coercing them to frog-march people to vote for Zanu PF in the next elections,” reported Luke Tamborinyoka. The MDC-T leader is in Mashonaland East on his on-going countrywide meet the people tour.

“The community leaders said the national challenge was to unlock the fear planted in the villages and local areas where people were not free to express themselves.

“The underlying factor in Mash East is endemic fear and, as one pastor told President Tsvangirai, fear is a demon that needs to be exorcised ahead of the next elections.”

Well the people could not have been more explicit as what they believe is the BIG ISSUE in Zimbabwe politics is today!

“In his response to the various inputs, President Tsvangirai told the opinion leaders that 2018 provided everyone with an opportunity to vote in a new government that would address their concerns,” reported Luke.

Tsvangirai is not even address the problem of fear but assumes it has been dealt with already!

The people of Mashonaland East are saying, which is what the whole nation has been saying too all along, is how is MDC going to stop Zanu PF rigging the election using fear, vote buying and a multitude of other dirty tactics? The one thing that has stopped MDC winning elections in the past was Zanu PF’s blatant voting rigging and, unless something is done about this, Zanu PF will rig the 2018 elections too.

“I saw grassroot support Tsvangirai addressing 11 people!” commented Pardon on WhatsApp.

It is easy to see why people are deserting MDC; the party is not listening to the people and they are getting sick and tired of being ignored! Zanu PF’s acts of intimidation, harassment, beating, etc. are real and so too is the people’s fear. MDC-T leaders should know Zanu PF’s modus operandi well enough by now to know fear is a big factor in Zimbabwe politics. So, MDC-T’s failure to come up with workable solution to the problem is a measure of the party’s breath-taking incompetence.

Vote rigging is the greatest problem in Zimbabwe today and has been for decades. Tsvangirai & co. failed to deal with this problem during the GNU when they had the golden opportunity to do so. The failed to get even one reform implemented in five years and the nation has paid dearly for it!

What is more, they do not seem to realise that nothing of any substance can ever be accomplished in Zimbabwe until implement the reforms, stop the vote rigging and have free, fair and credible elections. Tsvangirai is not helping the nation by not only failing to tackle the problem head-on but worse still by introducing unnecessary diversions taking the nation’s attention away from the primary task of implementing the reforms.

“The community leaders in Mash East said they were behind the proposed alliance (of opposition parties), on condition it was led by tried and tested leaders and that it was able to rally the nation towards change,” Luke reported.

Again, one has to ask: how will a coalition stop Zanu PF rigging the election and address the people’s problem of fear?

Following the July 2013 rigged elections, Tsvangirai and his MDC friends promised the nation they will never again participate in any future elections until meaningful reforms are implemented. They have since realised that they will never get Zanu PF to implement any meaningful democratic reforms and have thus decided to participate in the 2018 elections regardless, just to win the few seats Zanu PF gives away as bait.

The creation of an opposition coalition will have marginal gains for the opposition, there is no evidence to suggest the coalition is the game-changer. Zanu PF won the 2013 elections and recent Bikita West by-election with a warping 62% and 78% of the votes respectively. Fielding a single opposition candidate will not have changed the result.

Indeed, MDC-T is using the opposition coalition as a smokescreen to hide the party’s failure to get even one reform implemented and yet still want to contest the elections, contrary, to the party’s own congress resolutions of “No reform, no elections!”

It is great that many Zimbabweans are finally realizing that Zimbabwe’s culture of political violence and vote rigging are the “demons that needs to be exorcised ahead of the next elections”. We must not tire in our demand for the demons to be dealt with BEFORE the next elections. We must not allow ourselves to be fooled by these sell-outs politicians who are pretending coalition building will solve all Zanu PF’s vote rigging tactics. This country cannot afford another five years of this Zanu PF misrule.

 

SADC leaders warned Tsvangirai & co. against contesting the flawed 2013 elections with no reforms but they were too drunk on the gravy train good life to hear. This time it is the MDC members themselves who are warning the party to “exorcise the fear demons before the elections”; but again no one is listening, the promise of a seat on the gravy train has them punch-drunk already!

 

0 Replies to “Tsvangirai Too Drunk To Hear Villagers Warning On Mugabe Terror | OPINION”

  1. So you want to continue contesting in flawed elections just to stop Zanu PF creating “fake opposition parties”. How considerate of you! But just to make sure there is no misunderstanding here: whose interests are you serving by saving Zanu PF the trouble and expense of creating the opposition parties?

    Tsvangirai and his friends may not be Zanu PF creation in that they happen to be genuinely corrupt and incompetent but that does not change the fact that they are serving Zanu PF’s interest in their blundering incompetence. And let it not be said President Mugabe was slow to recognize the critical importance of corrupt and incompetent leaders like Morgan Tsvangirai and Tendai Biti to his no-regime-change agenda, he was very quick off the mark.

    He was quick to entrap MDC leaders with the gravy train lifestyle to make them forget about the reforms; by the time SADC leaders realized what was going on it was too late, they failed to get MDC to implement even one reform.

    By continuing to contest in flawed elections Tsvangirai & co. are not serving the public interest at all – it is not in our interest to be denied a free vote and to allow the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF to continue to ruin all our lives. Opposition politicians are contesting the flawed elections for the few gravy train seats Zanu PF gives away as bait!

  2. THERE ARE POLLING STATIONS PER VILLAGE…..if there z majority opposition voter results ,….the SABHUKU WILL BE ON FIRE he will be labelled a rebel …….those people in that village will be DEPRIVED OF ANY GOVT AID and be terrorized and beaten up or even killed. …THE LEADERS OF THE OPPOSITION THEREIN WILL BE CAST AWAY FROM THE VILLAGE WHERE THEIR WEALTH OR LIFE IS SETTLED

  3. stopping to campaign is never a solution because they will use their propaganda machines to downplay ur complaints…they will employ their cio to be fake opposition parties to devalue that kind of demonstration.

  4. I note you have such impressive qualifications when it comes to hurling insults which you call ‘ideas and debate’. Surely I do not need a membership card of any political party to participate in a debate? Do I read an element of self-righteousness and intolerance here? You are right about everything and everybody else is wrong? God forbid! Everyone, literary, can see that things have gone wrong now. The question is what can we do to turn things right? If hurling insults is your form of debate then I am for other…So long!

  5. I registered to vote for the 2013 elections but was denied the vote because Nikuv tampered with the voters’ roll and took out my name from the constituency voters roll I expected it to be. Nearly one million other voters were denied the vote for the same reason showing this was not a one-off mistake but a well planned and deliberate act.

    Anyone with any common sense would know that in Zimbabwe registering to vote is nowhere near enough to guarantee your right to vote, you will not be harassed or worse to force you to vote for A and all the other things one would expect if the election was free and fair. The only sure way of stopping Zanu PF doing any of this stuff again is by implementing democratic reforms.

    Of course I would not expect you Sarah to understand any of this stuff; free and fair elections, democratic reforms, etc. After all, you are not a buffoon!

  6. Well we have seen plenty of action from President Mugabe with all the looting and mindless murders to Tsvangirai’s five years gallivanting round the world chasing women and doing nothing about reforms. We have seen plenty of action but most of it ill conceived if any thinking had gone into any of it at all. I think we need people who have some working brain and will not just work but work smarter!

    What people like President Mugabe has been doing these last 37 years has set this nation back 50 years at the cost of much sweat, treasure and human misery and over 30 000 in political murders alone. Enough of this mindless action!

    People like you do not value ideas and debate because you are out of your comfort zone of chaos and confusion, blundering from pillar to post like our friend Richard Morgan Tsvangirai. Why don’t you get yourselves two MDC-T membership cards just to show how much you admire all the confused nonsense he has said these last week alone! He certainly did not think any of it out, which is exactly what a man of action like you want to see!

  7. Ndati iwe chii chaurikuita to make a difference? I mean concrete action. This finger pointing will not take us anywhere. Not even writing on social networks or boycotts will get us anywhere. Kutandara uku. Men of action are what’s needed. And it will take sweat, blood and tears to do the job. Kune vakatoifira it vamwe vakarasikirwa nepfuma nemisha nemidziyo.

  8. Uri benzi shutup you idiot. What reforms are you talking about you buffoon. Come back to Zimbabwe and register to vote rather than shouting from Europe.

  9. After 37 years of Zanu PF rigging the elections, the penny has yet to drop; you still do not know that Zanu PF is rigging elections! That is really amazing!

  10. When people say Zanu PF rigs elections they do not mean just the usual run of the mill of stuffing ballot boxes and vote buying, include these yes but add everything else that will help them win the vote including using violence to stop the opposition talking to the voters, controlling the media so only Zanu PF’s voice is heard, etc.

    In the recent Bikita West by election Zanu PF was able to herd the villagers like cattle to the dip tank to vote for the party’s candidate. Zanu PF won with 78% of the vote. What difference would an opposition coalition have made then?

    “Coalition is the only way to go!” Just because it worked in other countries, you think it must work here too! This is the single track minded thinking that got us into this mess and, unless we change, we keep us in the mess forever.

    Zanu PF rigs elections and has been doing so since 1980. The solution is to stop contesting elections we know are flawed and force the implementation of the reforms designed to stop vote rigging. We need people like you to start thinking outside the box and not be so myopic you cannot see anything beyond the tip of your nose!

  11. Coaliation is the only way to go. We have tried everything with our individual parties but failed to remove Zanupf. I believe what Joice said about having more people to register to vote. Over 4 million youth are eligiable to vote but are not registered. We need to win by a huge number. Zanupf has never rigged an election. Suppose they have done so but then why do they beat people to vote for them if they can easily rig. Fear has been their weapon. Results for election are announced at a polling station before the command centre. Joyce and Morgan should unite for a purpose.

  12. This is just a rat race, with no beginning, no end, no winners and everyone foolish enough to take part is a loser!

    Zanu PF has been winning elections because the party rigs the vote. In the 2013 nearly one million registered voters were denied the vote, for example, because Zanu PF deliberately posted their details in the constituency other than the voter expected. So to talk of voter registration and say nothing about the vote rigging is to miss the point completely!

    Time and time again Zanu PF has rigged the elections; which part of Zanu PF rigs the vote do you not understand?

  13. So, you do not think warning the nation of the dangers of going into the next elections with no reforms in place is useful? I think it is absolutely vital!

    If you think that what corrupt and incompetent politicians like Tsvangirai are doing is good then you do not know what you are talking about. Tsvangirai and the other MDC leaders sold-out during the GNU by failing to implement even one reform.

    Since when has treason been considered better that doing nothing?

  14. Fear is the demon of Zimbabwe politic that must be dealt with. We saw in Bikita VP Mnangagwa and other senior party officials calling on the local traditional leaders to list the names of those who belong to the opposition. Everyone knows that all those so listed will not be receiving a Christmas card from the VP or the party!

    Tsvangirai did not address the problem of fear when his party supporters brought it up because he has no solution. In the past, he advised his followers to fight back and, needless to say, they always ended up on the losing side and Zanu PF could always call on the Police and other State institutions to help them! Last week he was telling his youth members to join Zanu PF, another stupid move because these new members will be forced to behave like a thug just like other Zanu PF members.

    The only real solution to Zimbabwe’s political culture of violence is to implement the wide ranging democratic reforms design to restore the Police and other public institutions’ independence and end the practice that have put Zanu PF thugs above the law.

    The only way to get these reforms implemented now is by boycotting the elections until the reforms are implemented! Tsvangirai & co. have their beady eyes set on winning the few gravy train seats Zanu PF gives away; it will take a long more than reason and logic to stop them contesting the elections!

  15. Go register to vote that’s what people should do and expect results when you participate majority are not registered they spend time discussing politics withoutvputing pen to ballot