Dear Tendai Biti, what’s your vision for Zimbabwe?

By Cde Zisunko Ndlovu

I learn and accept with profound negation your abrupt and loose autocratic assumption of authority through your current hazy MDC Renewal team page maker. 

While you are allowed as an individual to exercise your right to freedom of dissociation just as anyone else, you should consider the amount of dross you are dipping/ have dipped yourself into politically.

It has been an utter surprise why many people have been throwing tantrums of disregard to your extra-ambitious adventures with Grace Kwinjeh and Douglas Mwonzora dismissing you as deceitful and running a formation likely to be a Lillipian party of conspiracy.

Despite obvious politicking, would everyone baselessly opt to view you with skepticism if your agenda was one that is respectable and candid?

In one of your recent speeches, you stated that it is actually national failure to delegate the task of development engineering to elites called political parties.

‘They are the last people we should expect solutions from because they think territorially. Here, we need Nelson Mandela characters and unfortunately we do not have such characters. We have selfish little people with big egos, people who think they own the people of Zimbabwe, who believe they are owed by citizens, a catalogue of failures’, you said.

Indeed, such miniature statements have left a lot to be desired. Does it empirically imply that you are the demigod whose solutions will prove keynote? Why then should people entrust faith in your own political party, if by virtue it should be called thus?

Firstly, once Honorable Minister, as a lawyer by academic indulgence, Zimbabweans look up to your exemplary leadership when it comes to constitutional and executive issues. Nonetheless, I accept that you are human and of flesh hence can never be a connoisseur in a field sighting the law curriculum has seemingly slipped off your tender memory.

As thus, as evidenced by your act of betrayal to Morgan Tsvangirai, whom you have opted to coldly jilt at twilight, when everything in his camp has transmuted to gloomy and dull, you have disobeyed the MDC-T constitution which I am made to believe you have foot in its authorship, disobeyed the MDC-T leadership and some Zimbabwean people who had come to terms with the skewed MDC-T master plan and presented yourself as a biblical Lucifer.

The ratiocination that your detachment sought to circumvent Tsvangirai’s extended stay as the president of the  MDC-T, a ‘Frankenstein monster’ as per your new appellation to the party, lies on  swampy plains and deserves not an unconstitutional reverberation from a presumably schooled law expert who once was trusted to assume the post of a Zimbabwean Minister of Finance.

Therefore that, if said in earnest, is un-thoughtful and shallow. The MDC-T’s institutional constitution lives and any breach is not amended by revolt and backstabbing. Personal intuitions are not paramount but only augurs with Ian Smith’s UDI.

Zimbabweans are a politically mature people who can never be swayed by miniature political rivulets. Perhaps that has to be a pointer as to why your debut Mutare rally was honored and graced by a mere 50 compassionate human beings. You need to be aware that politics is far detached from betrayal, edge sitting and greed.

It requires a modicum of dedication, sacrifice and humility. Seek ye first good camaraderie and sacrifice of purpose remembering politics is a humanitarian facet.

Nelson Chamisa and a few others have done considerably sufficient for the Movement for Democratic Change led by Tsvangirai, but continue to exercise utmost homage. In lieu of proffering you plain political accommodation, the MDC-T’s extra task should have been teaching you salient political intelligence and tact, this demanding you to ‘sober up and learn the ropes’.

If verily you have for long viewed yourself as a credible leader of any sentient party, would you not have rose to the test to redeem the MDC-T whose spine was crumbling even shortly before the 2013 plebiscite leading it to a monumental defeat by Zanu PF?

Then Morgan Tsvangirai would not have casted a gaze into the United Kingdom to pick on lawyer Alex Magaisa conferring him with title of a special Presidential Advisor, unbeknown he was also un-serving to his cause. And, as you may attest, Tsvangirai exuded failure locating your intellectual property.

Your project seems to announce zilch but zeal and zest. If the craftsmanship of the failed manifesto linked MDC-T economic blueprints, dubbed JUICE and ART excluded your wits, and then it goes without saying that Zimbabweans would be forgiven to think twice about your purported snares packaged in your maiden MDC Renewal.

It is crucial for you as a politician you envy to be, to draw lessons a tad from equally ambitious dreams of preceding trials,  Job Sikhala’s MDC 99 , Prof Welshman Ncube’s  MDC Green, which now stand as frowning scarecrows in empty acres.

As opposed to the MDC renewal team (whosoever beefs the composition), Welshman’s splinter sect posed an ideologically sensible advocacy flag of devolution and that leaves one bewildered on what your renewal inquest is fueled and ignited by. Non-peoplocratic and repressive ideas only comes back to haunt the implementer. Where is Abel Muzorewa’s UANC?

ZIDERA and economic sanctions can only expose the nature of alliance the MDC family is fond of and these initiatives correctly spelt the fate for the MDC in the manner never expected. Just after a humiliating defeat by Zanu PF in the 2013 elections, the west withdrew its funding for the MDC leaving the party helpless rendering members monstrums against each other as the party blew trumpet calls summoning every member to contribute finances to babysit it and save its demise.

ZIDERA, and its related United States package, the infamous Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list, which freezes assets and imposes a travel ban, slowly is reaching for the MDC-T’s jugular.

As you risk political extinction, to retrench into law chambers, the greatest truth you should gulp is that you have voluntarily humiliated yourself in the public sphere with utmost confusion and incoherence.

You have admitted the defeat of the MDC-T in the 2013 to Zanu PF as one that was articulately calculated by Zanu PF through its people-centered development programmes, in special mention, the party’s concise indigenization programme that encourage local beneficiation from local resources found in Zimbabwe.

According to Grace Kwinjeh, an MDC-T activist who is the party’s former European Union (EU) representative, the MDC was blinded by pre-election euphoria naively hoping to trounce Zanu PF and it would be foolhardy to imagine that Zanu PF would have gone to sleep and given over to MDC just like that.

In one of her literary offerings, she also expressed her vision of a dying opposition which she attributes to a devastating defeat in the 2013 plebiscite.

“It seems the opposition is failing to recover from the loss of the 2013 general elections in which Mugabe won 61,09% of the votes to Tsvangirai’s 33,94%, with the rest being shared among little known smaller parties. Not even a united front of the opposition would have tipped the vote against Zanu PF in favour of the opposition”, she writes.

Yours,

Cde Zisunko Ndlovu.

(Zisunko Ndlovu is a social development and political activist from Binga, Zimbabwe. Send comments and suggestions to: [email protected] )