GNU Boycott & Pull-Out Method

By Phil Matibe 

In cases where family planning is used to limit the size of a family unit and modern contraceptives are unavailable, or because of certain religious beliefs, Coitus Interruptus is often practised.

This is a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but withdrawal is deliberate prior to ejaculation. However, this technique is not recommended for overzealous teenagers engaged in casual, premarital recreational sex, or men with hereditary premature ejaculation problems.

The GNU is equivalent to a gullible youthful man reluctantly married to an ageing lady of loose virtues (geza tidye); one is not supposed to impregnate—let alone marry. If the young eager male partner suggests the pull-out method, this will certainly result in an abortion, or a first born child aptly named “Mistake”, or the last born “Zvakwana” –enough is enough.

It is time that all non-ZANU (PF) actors completely pull out of the GNU; leaving it half-way in still results in an unwanted pregnancy.

“Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.” ZANU (PF) is disingenuous, manipulative and an outright deceiver that treats its Global Political Agreement (GPA) partners like “mubvandiripo”, a stepson to the chief’s family—an unwanted stepchild—who is always neglected. Mugabe has used his GPA partners to buttress his waning political fortunes and to regroup his war machinery for another brutal election campaign in 2011.

Draconian laws have not yet been repealed. Gono, the Reserve Bank Governor, and Tomana, the Attorney General, are still occupying offices they should have vacated. Farm invasions and business property misappropriations are ongoing, encouraged by Mugabe himself.

National healing has failed to occur and the continued blatant raiding of state coffers remains unchecked.  Perpetrators of violence and violators of international humanitarian law are still roaming free. Furthermore, specifications, arbitrary arrests, torture, and the murder of innocent civilians is prevalent.

The conspicuous absence of the rule of law is a fundamental failure of the GNU. The Joint Operations Command (JOC)—the defacto sovereign authority in Zimbabwe—is still in charge and functioning outside of the provisions of the constitution.

Mugabe lost the presidential election and yet insists on being addressed as: His Excellency, Comrade Robert Mugabe, the Head of State and Government, Commander in Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, President and First Secretary of ZANU (PF), Life President of the Republic of Zimbabwe.

The GNU was born out of a secretive political compromise by persons who prematurely penned a surreptitious agreement for political expediency, and to appease an unpopular SADC leader, Thabo Mbeki. Two principals to the GPA, Mutambara and Mugabe, are unelected and unpopular.

Karl W.Deutsch noted in 1953: “…totalitarian regimes require more power for dealing with their subjects than do other types of government, such regimes stand in greater need of widespread and dependable compliance habits among their people…”

Morgan Tsvangirai is being used to legitimise tyranny and to extricate ZANU (PF) from its pariah status. His function in the GNU is to ensure the removal of travel restrictions and the asset freezes imposed on perpetrators of human rights violations.

Without Morgan Tsvangirai, ZANU (PF) has no hope of receiving any financial support from multi-lateral institutions. Zimbabweans seeking real change need to suffocate the regime with a chokehold on its air supply—the oxygen that makes it breathe—money.

Mugabe acquiesced to the Ministry of Finance being run by the MDC hoping for a financial windfall. Tsvangirai and Biti were expeditiously dispatched to Western capitals, holding Mugabe’s begging bowls, but returned with less than the US $8 billion Mugabe required for righting his mismanagement. ZANU (PF) is technically insolvent; Zimbabwe is fiscally bankrupt, only foreign aid is propping up our country’s decimated economy.

Without political stability brought about by the immediate cessation of wanton violence, a lean government, a new constitution, accountability and an adherence to a stringent ethos of fiscal discipline, the GNU is nothing more than an expensive experiment..

Once a commercial sex worker is married to an honourable man, she becomes respectable too, unless she reverts to her trade whilst married. Tsvangirai should pull out now; the continued human rights violations occurring under the GNU will be a shared responsibility.

“Simba rehove ririmumvura”—once separated completely, Tsvangirai should immediately call for a referendum on the constitution, a fresh general and presidential election under the auspices of the United Nations, and return the perks of ZANU (PF)’s poison chalice. Aristotle warned long ago that “. . . tyranny can also change into tyranny.”

“ZANU ndeyeropa” – ZANU spills blood, the popular dogma that is at the core of the ruling party’s ideology. MDC was offered a quick ride on the back of a man-eating lion and now the challenge is how to dismount.

With the support of the people who voted for the MDC in March of 2008, pragmatic Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) members, visionary African Union (AU) leaders, and the international community, democracy will prevail. Democracy will be ZANU (PF) and Mugabe’s, Achilles’ heel.

Phil Matibe – www.madhingabucketboy.com