By Dziipastatehouse One last truth: Morgan Tsvangirai, for all his efforts, good intentions, sacrifices, donations, awards and victories, will sadly remain as Zimbabwes ex- Prime minister of the country and nothing more. He could have been president of Zimbabwe, but fate and circumstances have ensured that he will always be remembered as the president who never ruled. As much as his supporters love him, slogans, fights and verbal ammunition, will not make him the same man we all rallied behind until he beat the rogue Mugabe outright in 2008. Like the biblical Moses who only saw Canaan but never got to it, Tsvangirai tasted power in the GNU and that most certainly was the last time for him. The GNU gave him a view of Canaan. He will not be president of Zimbabwe even if he were to contest against Dzii. Not because he is not famous or worth it, but it is just natural that the presidency was not meant to be his. This is not to insult him but when one looks at the many things that have played against him, it is not difficult to see why now he had his closest dance with the throne being to serve as prime minister. This is not easy to accept but is a reality that has just a little over four years to be proven. I am not a prophet but just a pragmatist looking at the picture that reality has painted before us. Tsvangirai has lost a number of backers since he took the reigns in the GNU. We rejoiced when he did but time soon revealed to the world how inneffective into pursuing one main duty to quench and satisfy the needs of a starving populace. When we got him to win the election, we were a hungry, butchered people who were tired of Mugabes misrule and needed a change. We had lost brothers and sisters, lost property and livestock, had been displaced and were angry and our desire to punish Zanu pf was immense. The whole nation and world stood behind him and zanu got the biggest shock of it existence in 2008 despite a six week attempt to manufacture a victory. Now when Tsvangirai failed to work in the GNU to make peoples better, many felt betrayed and the numbers supporting him began to go down. His personal blunders did not help him either and indeed he infuriated more people and his support base dwindled some more. As blunder after blunder emerged, supporters continued to desert him. It has been a slow but sure process. The biggest confirmation that Tsvangirai will not lead Zimbabwe came when he became an equal shareholder in tearing the fabric that held us together which resulted in the split. That failure to manage a volatile situation was his greatest undoing and exposed him as having intended for the disastrous outcome. After this, support numbers, even if inflated by rigging will never match those of 2008 or 2013. Also, since renewal is here to stay, chances of further erosion of his support base are very high. Even if supporters do not all come to renewal, the violence, intimidation, intolerance and double standards that have been allowed to take root in the party, will see a further percentage either leaving for other parties or leaving politics altogether than vote for Tsvangirai. On the period of time he has been at the helm of the party, letting him go up to 2018 as leader will mean he would have been there for 20 years. That is clearly overstaying by democratic principles. He will probably never accept it but that is going to work against him too. A selfless leader would have acknowledged that since Zimbabwe is not at war, we can change leaders as per the dictates of the constitution. We do not have a commander who will lead on the battlefront but our victory will come from the votes of members supporting the party ahead of any individual and would vote for any leader the party endorses. Tsvangirai has now come across as intending to cling onto power. Doubts are already in peoples minds that he will win another election either fair or rigged. Mathematical probabilities are against him, bad luck or bad omen plus the already stated force of fate will not give him votes good enough to win a mandate to go to statehouse. It will take great persuasion to convince a broken hearted people that, even in mugabes absence from the 2018, election picture, Tsvangirai can win the election. Im sorry Zimbabwe, i dont hate Tsvangirai but these are realities that cannot just be ignored. I will make this my last post on Tsvangirai in order not to hurt those that respect, tolerate my different view and have an emotional attachment to me and their leader while avoiding the further fuelling strife among us opposition, but that the man is now a threat to all of us beating Zanu remains to me an undisputable fact..........I can fight until 2018 but i believe i have exposed, reminded and enlightened enough on Tsvangirai and it is time to move to the more important phase, helping to develop the Renewal structures. Our differences, if respected, will see the opposition forces take the 2018 election whether zanu rigs or not. The insults, intimidation, violence and arrogance may continue because some have to hit me with the last punch but, i choose to swim out of the crocodile infested waters for the good of maintaining the values and principles guiding Renewal and to honour the peaceful masses of the nation who are the losers of any fight among us.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 21:46:01 +0000
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