MDC rebels hopeless hypocrites: Dzamara

Oh no! Almost unbelievable.

Zimbabwe is yearning for an answer to the serious leadership crisis, but it surely won’t come from a certain gang that tried a failed rebellion in the MDC.

The rigmarole and rumbling chaos in Zanu PF had made us almost totally miss another act of madness on the national political scene, starring forgotten noise makers that have attempted to sell themselves as paragons of democratic leadership renewal.

The demons of political madness must have been unleashed onto the nation of Zimbabwe in 2014, and equally distributed between Zanu PF headquarters and a small group that is led by former MDC secretary general Tendai Biti and former deputy treasurer of that party Elton Mangoma.

One wonders what kind of toxic materials the Biti gang is putting into their cups of tea or coffee.

The Biti outfit held what it termed a youth convention, which, on the surface, would have made observers hope for, finally, serious and committed progress by the group, towards adventuring into their reality of political world.
But no, it was not to be.

Rather, it was yet another ridiculous farce and stupid display of confusion as well as hypocrisy.

After the so-called convention, one Promise Mkwananzi, the former MDC Youth Assembly’s secretary general, came out to stage a foolish farce.

Mkwananzi purported to have expelled seven members of the MDC Youth Assembly’s top leadership.

Yes, expelled, so he claimed.

In other words, according to Mkwananzi, his small outfit led by Biti or Mangoma, has some supernatural powers that enable it to decide what to do with the leaderships of other political parties.

It just does not get worse in terms of self-destructive and delusional political antics.

And, one wonders really if the Biti-Mangoma outfit seriously expects people to respect it.

For, it had hitherto appeared virtually sealed that the MDC rebels had exorcised their demons and crossed over into a new realm of reality by accepting that they no longer have anything to do with the MDC.

The Biti-Mangoma outfit had appeared serious about moving on to confirm formation of their own party – making interesting spectales through truckloads of oranges at their events, as probably their symbol or magic wand.

The MDC rebels have been losing many listeners and sympathisers through obsessive and very controversial utterances clearly meant to spite the MDC leadership, such as that Zanu PF credibly won last year’s polls, or that the MDC and its leader Morgan Tsvangirai were dead and never to rise.

Those sentiments and narratives would have made the Biti-Mangoma outfit appear finally on the move towards reality of becoming their own party. But, not with this gang, because, according to Mkwananzi’s resolution, they, after all, not only claim to be still in the MDC, but, quite ridiculously, to wield powers to expel that party’s leadership.

A carbon copy of the MDC rebels’ April Mandel meeting farce, the Mkwananzi resolution precisely is, raising serious questions about the mental status of those behind the gimmicks. Mandel flopped, and became a major basis for the rapid collapse of the Biti-Mangoma rebellion.

The attempt to oust the Tsvangirai leadership at Mandel plunged the MDC rebels into both a political and legal conundrum. They crashed into a dead end politically. Subsequently, they lost several legal battles simply because Mandel just would not stand or sell.

The Mandel farce, l have no doubt and really articulated at the time, effectively blew off the bubble that the MDC rebels had tried to ride on, by exposing their lack of capacity to be, or do, what they had claimed.

It is the flop of Mandel that eloquently outlined to the whole world, the reality of power dynamics between the rebels and the Tsvangirai leadership.

Mandel exposed the fallacy of the rebels’ claims to have the backing of the majority of structures. It revealed that the rebels were a tiny group, whose rebellion had no significant backing within the MDC.

It would have been inconceivable that normal men and women would attempt a replica of that disaster.

It all adds up to the summation of two major aspects.

First, yet again, the farce of Mkwananzi’s resolutions shall have exposed the madness and foolish antics of the Biti-Mangoma gang to key sectors and constituencies. These include the general public, from which the nameless political outfit is soliciting for support.

It should be beyond debate now that, if anything, the oranges gang shall not gain the respect and support they desperately require. The people, in their simplicity and deceptive apathetic postures, can see and identify things. The people look out for bravery, consistency and assuring, principled conviction.

Those traits are the opposite of what the MDC rebels keep displaying.

I have no doubt, save for the few numbers they had bought over during their time in the MDC, the Biti-Mangoma outfit cannot genuinely recruit right thinking people with their hotch potch of confusion and hypocrisy. No need to explain the obvious shock that keeps emanating from diplomatic and donor circles where the MDC rebels had initially obtained some sympathy.

The second key aspect about the implications and effects of the Mkwananzi resolution is that the Biti-Mangoma gang is trying to hang onto its frail strategy aimed at defending their members in parliament. From the beginning, it was a major challenge for the schemers, to assure MPs on their side of protection from being recalled by the MDC.

To try and achieve that, the schemers baked the rebel group into a box of having to continue acting and pretending to be the ‘real MDC leadership’, that purportedly expelled Tsvangirai and the others.

What is amazingly shocking is that the oranges outfit has not yet identified the fallacy behind that strategy, precisely that it really trashes all their claims of having capacity and momentum to become the new political game in town.

In their desperation, they ultimately always bring out totally conflicting signals and positions.

Finally, the self-destructive boobs and desperate fight to cling onto parly seats, shall mean the MDC rebels getting that mere and temporary reprieve but at the huge expense of their future political fortunes. The moment the tenure of current parly ends, that will be the end of anything worth mentioning for the MDC rebels, who are staging their foolish games for the electorate to laugh at them.

I do not see any miracle transforming the oranges outfit into a serious political entity that appeals to the electorate – the damage they are doing to their aspirations is beyond redemption.