Unfortunately folks will rewrite history and fail to be accountable for the issues we are witnessing today.
Over the years, people rose through the ranks of MDC through stepping on others and smearing genuine cadres until the bulk of them chose to walk away and live their lives away from the toxicity of the “struggle”.
By the time we got to the GNU a lot of genuine cadres who had given their all were cleared.
Most of them became academics or left for the Diaspora. The gaps they left were filled by untested people – some good, some horrible.
By the time we got to 2018, most of the cdes I had worked with since 2001 were on the sidelines which meant the base of MDC-18 was relatively a coalition of the old-of-2008 and the post-2013 crop with different views on how the struggle is executed.
The Khupe incident remains a very bad chapter in MDC’s history. It set a very bad base for the MDC-2018. But again, it was an opportunity not only for Nelson Chamisa but for a lot of people to rise on the back of stepping on other people or outmanouvering others.
Again, when Douglas Mwonzora left (Which I still think was avoidable if egos were not the primary factor) it was an opportunity for people to rise.
All this meant, the opportunities fell on untested people most of whom were mere opportunists with little commitment to the real struggle for change.
By 2022, the mantra was – The NEW! CCC was born. The pre-2018 MDC remnants existed mostly at the benevolence of Chamisa. There was a new crop. A crop that generally had no understanding of the historical non-commercial execution of the struggle.
The struggle shifted from being radically ideological to purely theological. The struggle lost its bearings!
By the time Sengezo Tshabangu erupted, there was really nothing to defend in CCC. There were no stockholders. CCC had sympathisers not members.
Most of those who viewed themselves as stakeholders were folks born and bred in environments that believe God will intervene, all they needed to do is kneel/pamabvi/emadolweni.
The crew that were deployed in councils and parliament via berekamwana, most of them had zero history in the previous struggles that actually had a resistance factor in them. It was an opportunity for survival. They had no issue licking the side where their bread is buttered.
So, what have we learnt?
- History is more important than today
- Until the stomach is challenged, the heart remains a mystery
- There is a reason the body does not kill normal bacteria (flora) in the gut or vagina
- Prayer must not get in the way of swords, they can co-exist but each knowing their purpose.
#NOTO2030
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