Tsvangirai Conscripted to Resurrect Political Cadavers?

by T. Tut Tsanga; 3rd February 2009


When your enemy is destroying himself, do not interfere. With ZANU-PF tittering on the brink of collapse under its own weight, Morgan Tsvangirai and his national committee did just that; incomprehensibly offer a lifeline to Mugabe and his band of unrepentant subordinates. Boy, no wonder the geriatric dictator was in rapture after Morgan Tsvangirai pulled an Esau, selling his political birth right for a mere plate of beans.

Mugabe may have been thrilled but his young and hitherto arrogant lieutenants are still nervous the whole thing may come tumbling down. The crowd at Talk Zimbabwe have been chewing fingernails. Take Garikai Chengu’s opinion editorial as an example. Chengu is tremulous over the discontentment over the GNU by some MDC functionaries as well as some quarters of the new media. Comrade Chengu is afraid that the disgruntled faction may break away and form a "nefarious" opposition. Comrade Chengu’s choice of words shows a disturbing trend. It tells us that ZANU-PF will not change its ways despite the new dispensation that calls for such changes. Members of the MDC leery of working with ZANU-PF are evil, charges Comrade Chengu.

Comrade Chengu, it is your visceral vituperations that are at the very core of the distrust and disgruntlement of the MDC elements. Chengu and his ilk are terrified this may mark the inception of a new opposition, sponsored by the Western powers, and the continuance of ZANU-PF’s death march. It is hoped that such elements have the moral fortitude to refuse inevitable overtures from western sponsors, prayerfully posits Chengu. Is Chengu preparing to call such an opposition a puppet of the West should such an opposition emerge?

This reflexive showering of abuse at those who disagree with the ZANU-PF agenda shows that there is no scintilla of remorse within ZANU-PF. Like Comrade Chengu’s op-ed, all the words emanating from the ZANU-PF noise machine are laced with familiar venom. There is no contrition whatsoever coming from the demolishers of Zimbabwe. On the 30th of January 2009, Talk Zimbabwe had a mocking title which read, and I quote; “Bennett quietly slips into Zimbabwe.”

Contrast that piece of cheap ZANU-PF propaganda with the report in The Zimbabwe Times. Ntando Ncube tells us Roy Bennett was welcomed at the Harare International Airport by an immigration officer who, upon inspecting Roy’s passport, said, “Oh, it’s you Mr Bennett, welcome back.” As an exclamation point, Ntando’s piece has a picture of the Lion of Chimanimani fearlessly and confidently walking in the streets of Harare in broad daylight, with a smile to boot. It is a picture worth a thousand words. That is not the image of a cowardly man quietly slipping into the country. The insinuation being that Bennett slinked his way back into the country like a wanted fugitive. Of course Bennett is only a fugitive in the minds of scoundrels that attempt to hide behind a façade of false patriotism.

It is not just the venomous-tinged rhetoric coming out of the ZANU-PF propaganda noise machine that causes people like Masimba Musodza to register understandable pessimism. The action on the ground, as of this writing, points to the leopard not changing its spots but its inherent predilection for goat meat is proven immutable with each passing day since the co-option of the MDC into the Mugabe-Mutambara suicide machine. ZANU-PF supporter, Nyarai Chidemo, writing from the comfort of the Scottish Highlands, urges Zimbabweans to focus on rebuilding the ZANU-PF wreckage that is Zimbabwe. It is quite significant that her co-columnist at Talk Zimbabwe, Brett Nyakudirwa, says it is time to beat swords into ploughshares. Brett has to be commended for this very instructive call.

Since it is ZANU-PF that has all the swords, the onus is upon it to beat the swords into ploughshares. We do not have to wait for six months or however long Mugabe wants to assess the sincerity of ZANU-PF. Mugabe and Mutambara can show the world they are serious by acting right now. I suggest the following;



The country knows the identity of all the wicked people behind the Gukurahundi Genocide, Murambatsvina and Mavhoterapapi Ethnic Cleansers and those who have used the cholera plague as a biological weapon of mass destruction to farther the series of ethnic cleansing agenda. We should think of the elite that have emerged as a result of Mugabe’s patronage not as African nationalists to be admired continentwide but as a new ethnic group not restrained by any traditional strictures or rule of law from committing the most abhorrent atrocities on fellow compatriots. Only from that perspective can we begin to understand why the same cast of characters, our own wabenzi, has been deeply involved in all acts of ethnic cleansing.

Comrade Mugabe and Comrade Guseni Mutambara have been conscripted into accommodating Tsvangirai, a man both of whom loathe with a passion, by dire circumstances on the ground. What about the fate of the ethnic cleansing wabenzi? Mutambara has nothing to say about them. All he wants is money to help him consolidate power and it is not looking good on that front. Like the doofus he is, Comrade Guseni gave away the game at Davos. After spending an inordinate part of 2008 lecturing the West, the tactless doofus demanded that the very same West provide money to buy food for Mugabe’s increasingly desperate soldiers who are starving in the barracks. These are the same goons that thoughtlessly went on rampage, burning crops last year, just after the epic rejection of Mugabe from power and the complete humiliation of Comrade Guseni in Zengeza West.

Like a Pentecostal preacher, Comrade Guseni Mutambara had a few choice words for Gordon Brown and Barrack Obama, the only people likely to inject life into the comatose country that is Zimbabwe. Arthur, how can you be so stupid? First you rip out a sermon tearing apart your would-be benefactors and then pass the collection plate. The only thing worse than a choosing beggar is a congenitally insolent beggar. By barracking likely donors at every opportunity, no country will fund Comrade Guseni’s devious ascendancy to power and the man knows it.

Let us face it, ZANU-PF in tandem with SADC blackmailed Tsvangirai and the MDC into bailing Mugabe out of his troubles. Mugabe and ZANU-PF resolved not to let any help be given to people dying of cholera as long as they did not get the so called government of national unity. Bona has the luxury to go to a Chinese school but no other Zimbabwean child was be permitted to go to school as long as Bona’s father was not getting rescued from his follies. Education is not a privilege but a right. Anyone who threatens to destroy the nation’s children by sending soldiers to shut down schools is nothing but a treasonous snake. Snakes are not very pleasant creatures. The sticking point remains; who will fund the revival of Zimbabwe?

Mugabe and Mutambara want Tsvangirai to go out to beg for money, hat in hand. The success of the SADC-mediated Mugabe-Mutambara political Ponzi scheme hinges on monies generated using Tsvangirai as their ATM card. This presupposes that the sources of the much-needed money are stupid enough not to see the Ponzi scheme for what it is; a means to resurrect the post-rigor mortis political cadavers of Mugabe and Mutambara. It is going to be a tough sell.

Obama is struggling to get his economic stimulus package through and Mr Brown’s treasury will have to borrow £300 billion to stave off an economic depression. South African President Motlanthe promised to help rebuild Zimbabwe but this is the kind of a joke that could make a cow laugh. How can the ANC do for Zimbabwe what it has failed to do in South Africa? With member countries like Malawi bracing for trouble and non-members like Kenya facing starvation, SADC is quickly realizing the Herculean and futile task of helping Mugabe retain power and help him rebuild the country at the same time.

Thus helping Zimbabwe, as belligerently demanded by political cadaver Mutambara, is looking like a pipe dream with each ticking second. The political cadavers will inevitably be buried, as noted by Professor Makumbe, and people of good will hope Tsvangirai is not the proverbial stupid fly that goes into the grave with said cadavers. The success of the resurrection of the cadavers depends on the sincerity of Mugabe, which is as high as the belly of a snake. If Mugabe behaves true to form, and there are signs points to that according to the Bloomberg report, Morgan Tsvangirai’s decision to join Mugabe and Mutambara will increasingly look more like a capitulation than pragmatism.