The Sunday News
THE leader of MDC-T, Mr Morgan Tsvangirai, is a desperate politician who is trying to come up with any means necessary in his bid to quench his political lust.
Of late Mr Tsvangirai has been making headlines with his foolish statements that he is working on plans to mobilise Zimbabweans to take to the streets in mass protests in his foolish belief that he would be doing so to force President Mugabe’s democratically elected Government to address what he calls the country’s economic challenges.
He repeated his statement to South African television channel, etv’s 360 Degrees programme last week.
The politically fading Mr Tsvangirai, while making the statements in the hope that he is exhibiting bravado, the majority of Zimbabweans are not impressed because they have a lot to do for themselves, their families and their country. In fact, Zimbabweans have never taken Mr Tsvangirai seriously and the results of the country’s successive elections are there for everyone to see as he has been taking a huge thud in political contests that he has been engaging in since 2000.
Even people, who once thought he was a God-sent politician, have deserted him and last Friday, another splinter group from MDC going by the name, the Renewal Team denounced Mr Tsvangirai’s plans to mobilise people for the so-called mass protests.
Addressing a Press conference after the Renewal Team’s meeting in Bulawayo, the group’s interim chairperson, Dr Samuel Sipepa Nkomo, said Mr Tsvangirai’s mass protests would not achieve anything.
“We don’t believe in taking to the streets. We’re not that (MDC-T) violent formation and we’ll not copy the things they do.
“Mass protests are not good for the economy, they are not good for the people and we don’t subscribe to that.”
Only last week, United Family International Church leader, Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa urged Zimbabweans not to engage in mass protests saying nothing good would come from them.
We, therefore, want to take this opportunity to remind the few Zimbabweans who might have been fooled by his latest stunts that this is not the first time that Mr Tsvangirai has been on a destructive path and he normally comes up with such plans in a bid to seek political relevance. When he was at the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, he led workers to protests resulting in looting of shops and a massive hit on the economy.
Armed with propaganda, he managed to win the hearts of workers who thought he was doing this for them when it was a way of trying to seek sympathy and attention for his political project.
Even when he was now in politics, each time he discovered that his support was going down, he would provoke authorities through reckless statements and threats. He was doing all this as a way of seeking attention.
Given a peaceful environment, Mr Tsvangirai is very much aware that he is empty and cannot do anything as evidenced by the embarrassing loss he suffered at the hands of Zanu-PF during last year’s elections when the campaign period was very peaceful.
Does he think that people will abandon economic activities that support their livelihoods to join a march which they know fully well is just an attention-seeking gimmick?
Mr Tsvangirai is so immersed in the past that he cannot read the mood in the country.
He should wake up and smell the coffee. He should realise that under the leadership of President Mugabe the country is taking major steps in the development and rehabilitation of its economic infrastructure especially in the strategic areas such as energy and transport.
Such developments are a clear indication that the country is ready to take a corner in addressing the economic problems that have been weighing heavily on the people of Zimbabwe as a result of the evil economic sanctions that were slapped by the Western countries stung by the revolutionary land reform programme and in vain efforts of effecting regime change.
In the past few weeks, a lot has been happening on the economic front with the signing of mega deals, some of them triggered by President Mugabe’s visit to the People’s Republic of China where a number of deals were signed as the country moves towards a new economic dispensation that will change its socio-economic landscape.
The Russians have also come on board and signed a deal worth $3 billion for the establishment of a platinum mine in Darwendale and who cares to listen to Mr Tsvangirai.
