Opportunism in the Zimbabwean struggle

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When a struggle becomes long, and the end becomes as illusionary as a mirage, opportunism, hypocrisy and mendacity creep in.

In all these situations, principles are sacrificed on the altar of self-interest. The struggle, already arrested by exhaustion, becomes commodified and bastardized.

History also shows that those struggles that have survived have only done so because a few have stayed the course and have refused to be seduced by myopic soft-landings.

It is this sort of mentality that has given rise to a new school of thought that seeks to revise our recent history and has peddled myths about the limited options available to the people of Zimbabwe and has, therefore, sought to compromise the one thing that can never be compromised. This is the sacrosanct principle that it is only the people that have an inalienable right to decide their course and their destiny.

The revisionist school of thought and its disciples constitute a bunch of tireless, airport lounge activists and a beehive of “people representatives” who are nothing but a cocoon of neo-liberal, elitist mafia.

Oftentimes, their ideology is betrayed by a series of pseudo-intellectual, high-sounding superfluous blur and the sepulchral mucus oozing from this camp. It is a pure distillation of anger and frustration masquerading as political strategy.

Let us begin with the fiction and contention that there was no winner in the 29th of March election.

But indeed there was a winner! We contested this election without resources, without access to the media, without access to vital electoral information and data.

Contrary to the provisions of the Electoral Act, we were not availed the voters’ roll, neither did we know the number of polling stations. The law kept being changed in the course of the game and it was more like playing tennis with a continuously moving base line.

For instance, the law made it clear that every candidate in the four-in-one harmonized election would be entitled to an agent inside the ballot booth but this was ignored. On the 20th of December Mugabe himself signed a law that kept policemen outside polling booths but by the 10th January he had reversed that law through a presidential decree.

Furthermore, as we exposed at the time, all State agents manning the polls were carefully handpicked to exclude anyone thought to be sympathetic to us. Indeed, over 5000 teachers were excluded as a result of this. What monstrous fraud!

Beyond legal shenanigans was the massive vote buying spree authored and executed by the insufferable onyx, Gideon Gono. In March, trillions of dollars were splashed in the so called Phase Two of the farm mechanization program.

On the ground, hundreds of our meetings were denied. Indeed we went to court on this and other issues and not once did this fantastically marinated judiciary pronounce judgment in our favour. At the same time, Zanu-PF gallivanted freely across the countryside. Mugabe roamed the thirsty countryside in three state of the art helicopters whilst Tsvangirai and the rest of us drove like maniacs in dilapidated jalopies in the dusty and cracked cheekbones of Zimbabwe’s countryside.

In short, the political, legal and contextual frame-work could and did not justify an incontestable election. The fact that the election was run by a totally partial body, that there was no access to the media, that there was proscription of free movement, the abuse of state resources and the denial of access to information is evident of the fact this was a limping election whose ethos fell below international standards.

The achievements of the MDC and indeed of the people of Zimbabwe were Herculean. That the opposition in all its forms won this election under these circumstances was hardly surprising. The result would certainly have been more emphatic was it not for the gerrymandering of constituencies by deliberately creating more rural constituencies and indeed the absence of an even and equal playing field. Moreover, Zanu-PF narrowed the gap in two constituencies i.e. Red cliff and Gwanda South which it won in the violent 27th June event.

To suggest that the MDC did not win the election on the 29th March is intended to obfuscate the Zanu-PF decline while inflating the over-inflated egos of some who were severely defeated in that election! Their self-proclaimed mantra as kingmakers is a by product of this myopic venery. More importantly, it underlies a deep and inveterate contempt and disrespect for the people .It is the people that decide their fate and not some overfed Google-addict sitting on a table. Politics is not a chess game of fluent gambits or over elaborate flip-charts.

A second fraud is to try and equate Tsvangirai with Mugabe. This, with all due respect, is sick populism intended not to defile Mugabe for he has done that on his own, but to ridicule and demonise Tsvangirai and the MDC.

The attack is personal and is no different from the daily diatribe of defamatory vituperations churned in the Herald. In short, to both Mugabe and others, Tsvangirai is the red flag that has generated anger and hatred of satanic proportions.

Is it an accident that a rocket scientist can be so ahistorical and so revisionist as to equate the sins of this regime with any other person? Can the failure of this agreement be visited upon our shoulders?

One thing has to be emphasized for the benefit of those conducting the symphony of hatred and discord at Herald House. Tsvangirai is the undisputed and uncontestable leader of the MDC. Not only that, he is the leader of this struggle. Every struggle has a face and a leader.

Thus, Vladimir Lenin was the face of the Bolshevik Revolution despite the array of luminaries in the Bolshevik party. Equally, Nelson Mandela is the face and leader of the struggle against apartheid despite giants like Albert Luthuli, Govan Mbeki, Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and others.

For the record, it is Mugabe alone and his acolytes who have been responsible for the castration of Zimbabwe’s manhood. It is not land reform or so-called sanctions that have created the phenomenal decline of this economy to levels unheard of in modern economics. Gukurahundi and Murambatsvina, the post 2000 violence and the post 29th March violence are a progeny of this violent “thugocratic” state run by a securocracy or, as I described recently in Parliament, a “juntacratised” State.

Now where does Tsvangirai fit into all this?

The answer is simple. It is not Tsvangirai who is frustrating the consummation of this deal but rather Mugabe himself. In this regard let’s put into perspective the MDC position on the dying dialogue.

It is that there must be a satisfactory legal framework to underpin the agreement. Secondly, that there must be an equitable distribution of ministerial portfolios – in short, responsibility with authority.

Thirdly, there must be defined the constitution and composition of the National Security Council. In view of the “juntacritisation” of the State surely this overseeing body is essential to ensure the gradual weaning of State Institutions from the breast of Zanu-PF.

Fourthly, there must be an equitable and fair distribution of key public positions including governors, ambassadors and permanent secretaries.

Lastly, there must be a reversal and cessation of all breaches of the MOU and the GPA. This includes the unconditional release of Jestina Mukoko, Gandi Mudzingwa and all abductees and the reversal of all executive appointments unilaterally made after 21 July 2008.

Surely there is nothing extraterrestrial about these demands. The demands are not domiciled at Albus Dumbledore’s Hogwarth School of Magic and Wizardry. There is nothing British or American in the same. In fact the demands are a logical platform if not precondition for any viable Government of National Unity.

That however is not the view of others. Just get in there and sort everything while you are inside! In short, put your eggs in the basket of hope and faith. More plaintively, trust Zanu- PF.

Trust is exactly what we did when we signed the GPA on the 11th September and attended the glittering ceremony of a doctored document of the 15th September when so many issues were outstanding. We genuinely assumed that Zanu-PF was ready and bona fide. Alas, we were naive. We ignored the fundamental construct that Zanu-PF sees itself as being endowed with a divine right and obligation to rule Zimbabwe . The sense of entitlement common in many nationalist parties is disproportionately overdeveloped in Zanu-PF, particularly when one considers the role of the peasant countryside in the war of liberation.

The sense of entitlement is the tumour at the epicenter of Zanu-PF’s power retention mantra which is the sole reason for its existence and not any other ground norm. Thus, engaging the MDC through the GNU is a strategic retreat in the power retention project. A retreat that is necessary for the party to regroup following what Mugabe has called the “lapse” of the 29th March.

The events of the last three months following the execution of the GPA have shown beyond reasonable doubt that no self respecting person can ever trust Zanu-PF. Daily have been episodes of the clear lack of paradigm shift on the part of Zanu-PF.

First has been the interference and frustration of food and humanitarian assistance in breach of agreements. Second has been the unleashing of a fresh wave of violence, this time characterised by an evil spate of extra legal abductions. The case of Mr and Mrs Chinanzvavana, Gandi Mudzingwa, Chris Dhlamini, Jestina Mukoko and others reflects beyond a shadow of doubt the mindset of this voodoo regime and its lack of bona fides.

The reappointment of Gideon Gono as Reserve Bank governor and the appointment of Johannes Tomana as Attorney General add to the body of incontrovertible evidence of this lack of paradigm shift. Quite clearly, these are the things that others will not talk about. But that we are expected to gloss over these issues and pretend they don’t exist eludes our wisdom.

One can understand the desperate shrill of some to make this agreement work despite the clearly foreseeable Golgotha . After all this is the one God-given opportunity of holding public office to many of us who cannot in the immediate to short-term win any election

What is clearly as hypocritical as it is obnoxious is the populist attack on the West. Two things are particularly appalling.

First, is the attempt to frame an anti-Mugabe position as being mothered and authored by the West. Therefore we in the MDC can’t think for ourselves but must wait for Condoleeza Rice and Jendayi Fraser.

What philistine madness!

Second, for some having cut our teeth in the West and some of its best universities to try and reinvent ourselves as latter-day Che Guevaras is a humourless banality. It does not fool any one. Not at all.

The struggle for democratisation in Zimbabwe has been a long and arduous one. Indeed the struggle for independence itself was a first step in this gravel road. This generation has a duty is to fulfil the unfinished business of that struggle. On this we stood with Joshua Nkomo, Edgar Tekere and Ndabaningi Sithole as they were persecuted by Mugabe.

We were there when thousands were violently displaced killed and maimed during Gukurahundi, Murambatsvina the post 2000 violence, the Final Push and other great demonstrations.

We were proudly there in Hillside at the National Working People’s Convention on 26 February 1999. We were also there on that sunny, lovely Saturday afternoon at Rufaro stadium on 11 September 1999 when Gibson Sibanda arrogantly told Mugabe that: “We have accepted your invitation to form our party. This is our party.”

We were there inside Matapi police station as Isaac Maphosa told us the results of the Constitutional referendum on a smuggled mobile phone. And yes, we have buried comrades, from Tichaona Chiminya, Talent Mabika, Trymore Midzi, Nomore Sibanda and the irresistible Learnmore Jongwe. Tonderai Ndira still looms large in our dreams, the peerless Gertrude “Diesel” Mthombeni will not leave our hearts and the pillar of our struggle, Isaac Matongo, continues to lift us on his bulky shoulders.

That is our history. No one then can bastardize the same and seek to frame it on a template of a neo-liberal, British or American creation or construction. That is the greatest insult to the people of Zimbabwe and to our history as a social liberation movement completing the unfinished business of the liberation struggle.

Finally, a myth has been peddled that there is no other strategy or option other than that of a GNU. This can only be a Freudian dislocation. Dialogue and the GNU are the conscious by-product of a roadmap we crafted in May 2006. They are the baby and not the mother.

They are a means and not the end. They are an adjectival issue and not the substance. The substance is to achieve democratic change in Zimbabwe through peaceful, democratic, constitutional and non-violent means. To then suggest that this can only be achieved through a GNU chaired by Mugabe is somewhat cataleptic.

In short, we remain committed to the cause of change in Zimbabwe as we remain committed to the GPA, subject to the resolution of our demands. However, we are not naïve to allow Zanu PF to trap us in the cul-de-sac of any sterile processes.

Our party might be 10 years old, but our experience is of gerontocratic proportions.


Editor’s note: Tendai L. Biti a lawyer by profession is senior MDC Member of Parliament for Harare North and the party’s Secretary General. He is also the MDC’s Chief Negotiator in the Thabo Mbeki brokered power sharing talks between the MDC and ZANU PF.

27 Responses for “Opportunism in the Zimbabwean struggle”

  1. mukoma pedzi says:

    What are gerontocratic proportions? 47.9% of the national vote?

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  2. Ndodla Ndolila says:

    This is the best peace ever from MDC, beautifully constructed, eloquently presented and elaborately presented. Jonathan must be turning green with envy.

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  3. n'gadios says:

    @ mukoma pedzi:
    Thats right. 47.9% from an election whose result was announced 6 weeks after the voting booths closed and whose pre election media airwaves was only accessible to one party. To resolve this lets just have a free and fair election, I mean by international standards.
    musatinyaudza. Either an election is credible or its not.

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  4. MDC T all the way says:

    You are so right, Johnathan must be green with envy to read such superior eloquence combined with fact. Johnathan is a vicious and spiteful scribe peddling lies and fiction with a Dollar bubble over his greedy head. His intellect lives in his head no where else. Tendai is a true intellect and we can feel warm comfort that we in the MDC have put our faith and trust in such dedicated brave hands. We can only win this battle no matter how slow the process. The final event is near be brave Zimbabwe..

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  5. John Moyo Says says:

    Tendai ,thanks for taking your time out of your busy schedule to pen this brilliant and informative article.

    Whilst I agree with most of the things you have said about the past , present and future strategies I have an axe to grind with the static , stoic MDC future strategy which you have summed up as

    “The substance is to achieve democratic change in Zimbabwe through peaceful,
    democratic, constitutional and non-violent means”

    Where is your plan B , where is your plan C.What are the chances of MDC winning future elections in Zimbabwe , on the same vein , as long as Zanu and the military junta is in charge, what are the chances of having elections elections similar or even near to the March 29 ones (even though they had their flaws that you have narrated) or the chances of having internationally supervised elctions in Zimbabwe.What are the chances of Mugabe’s regime collapsing on its own and for you to be invited by Zanu PF to continue and take over from where they left ? For all these questions , I think you would agree with me that the chances are zero. So what is your strategy ????

    Zanu came to power because they did not limit their strategies , ANC came to power because they did not limit there strategies to an impressive statement like “The substance is to achieve democratic change in Zimbabwe through peaceful, democratic, constitutional and non-violent means.”

    I suggest you should revise you mission statement or strategy to read on something on the lines “The substance is to achieve democratic change in Zimbabwe through all means necessary as deemed by the citizens of Zimbabwe”

    That way you do not have a static but you have a fluid strategy to match up to the task of liberating Zimbabwe from the oppressive regime.

    For me the way forward is – Either you agree to join in as a junior partner and try and change the system from within or you withdraw from the GNU in total and announce your decisive next moves.It is as clear as that and you can’t try to simultaneuously pursue two dichotomous , ambiguous and ambivalent strategies which are so diametrically opposite each other as night and day.

    You are racing against time – people gave the mandate to rule when they decisivley voted for you in the 2002 elections that were rigged and they again gave you another mandate when they voted in the 29th March rigged elections.You can’t keep on trying the same things that have been tried and failed to delver without being pronounced to be fools – by the way according to Albert Einstein “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.

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  6. Richard Pamire says:

    Tendai,
    I love the way the article was presented, makes for an infromed articulate missive. Zanu used to have brainy people in their ranks, this is what they obviously lack right now…..”some brain to balance the brawn” Zanu will point to people like George Charamba as the brainy ones in their midst, but it’s struggle to distinguish between his IQ and his shoe size. The main problem is that we are negotiating with a people on tatally inferior level. People whose selfish a****ons and inflated egos arrest them from seeing beyond their own noses. They know violence as the only means. The beauty is that, in the end, good always prevails over evil. There comes a time when God will say “enough!” and will bring judgement to Zimbabwe. Please MDC, stay true to the people. donot be distracted by short term gains and disqualify yourselves. Zanu will offer you counterfeit democracy. For every Isaac, there’s firstly an Ishmael. May the sweet aroma of freedom emancipation keep you going. We the people of Zimbabwe will carry you in our prayers, and will stand up with you on the day of reaconing, when Robert and his scumbags will have to give an account; when the books shall be balanced. When the widow and the ophan will be recompenced in full. Zimbabwe shall be great again.
    The Glory is the LORDS!!!

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  7. BITI says:

    BITI, YOU WRITE LIKE A PRESENT-DAY LEADER OF THE SRC (Student Representitive Council, from the UZ). We get your points/arguement but please show us some maturity in your writing!!

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  8. Abel says:

    Biti hupwere kwakawandisa mhani plus hasha too much. Ungaite president uchiita kupupa furo nehasha pakuannounca. Hanzi hee the geriatric, and u expect other African leaders to side with you? Grow up mhani and dont waste our time with these SRC statements. Behave like someone who wants to govern not like an unruly SRC president trying to lead a demo.

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  9. mumwewo says:

    Great article! Its about time someone from MDC-T published something like this. I tend to agree with one of the comments above that states that the MDC-T appears to have run out of ideas. This is because the communication arm of the MDC-T seems to only wait for someone to pose a question before they make a public statement. The MDC-T may not be free to publish articles and broadcast within Zimbabwe however there are no restrictions against them outside of Zimbabwe. Why not take advantage of that.
    Write more articles. Publish more books. Release more videos and pictures. There may not be as many Zimbabweans in the diaspora as there are within Zimbabwe, however the opportunity is there for the MDC-T to spread the gospel of the fight for democracy using channels outside of Zimbabwe. If the people in Zimbabwe are being kept from hearing from the MDC-T directly, they can still hear from their friends and relatives in the diaspora. Notice that Mugabe does not miss an opportunity to speak his mind whenever he is given platform at the UN. The MDC-T needs to speak up more – to quote Ray Phiri : “ZWAKALA – dont whisper in the deep”. If calls for democracy are falling on deaf ZANU ears then scream bloody murder to everyone else!

    “The substance is to achieve democratic change in Zimbabwe through peaceful,
    democratic, constitutional and non-violent means” – that my be so but the MDC-T is doing a poor job of planting that seed in the people’s mind. During the Chimurenga, brought up by Hon. Biti, Josiah Tongogara realized that the very villagers who they depended on for support, were not very well informed about the reasons for the struggle. As soon as the liberation fighters started educating the Chiefs about the cause and having information disseminated into the villages, they was a marked improvement in the momentum for freedom. Spread the word, let the people in the trenches know. As it is, if the police ban an MDC rally, then whatever was going to said at that rally never sees the light of day. Why not put the speech up on the internet? Why not get some air time on the numerous radio stations outside Zimbabwe that cater to those of us in the diaspora? Why not have pamphlets, leaflets, articles published outside the country – after all, they will eventually make their way into Zimbabwe. Let the people find your publications on google.

    The peaceful engagement should be fought on several fronts. While Hon. Biti is trading punches on the negotiating table, the communications team should be keeping the people abreast with not only what is going on but also other information about why it is beneficial for Zimbabwe to become a democratically governed inclusive society.

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  10. ndiniuyo says:

    1. Tsvangirai arikudyiwa namudhara pakuita present mareal issues
    2. Anokumbira time to consult only to return 2 hrs later with a typed document which he doesnt understand himself rakanyorwa na BITI nevet yake yakadhakwa iyi.
    3. Paanobuta vana Guebuza vanotosara vachiseka hudofo hwakadai

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  11. kunyorera ani says:

    Who was Biti writing for? Is this the kind of writing that he gives to uneducated Tsvangirai and expect him to present before SADC? If so, even if the UN was to lend an ear to MDC Tsvangirai would be dismissed with contempt. Angazviverenga izvi? If Biti wants to match Nathaniel Manheru he should just write a book which very few will buy. Simple English is it!

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  12. Murove U says:

    Please honourable Biti you must learn basic communication, your writings should be for ordinary people. It would be naive or stupid if not both to think that we should read newspaper articles with dictionaries.

    As a national leader you should have embracing language rather than language that separate people between those who were there and those who were not there. It would be fooling yourself to think or Imagine that only the people who were there in hillside and Rufaro made you get the vote you obtained in these last elections. We expect such misguided and unruly statements to come from the likes of Chinotimba.

    At this point in time it would be helpful if you concentrate on the strategy of MDC in our current crisis as a nation rather than talk about Gukurahundi and Murambatsvina with all due respect the victims have recovered not because you are talking about it but out of self resilience.

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  13. country says:

    most comments against Biti are coming from the dirty agents of Baba chatunga; please don’t waste your time consummating with these thugs. They twist anything good in their favour but alas dont stop the struggle huys

    Don’t be distracted with these guys

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  14. mukoma pedzi says:

    Ndakaposta response yakaitwa kunaBiti ikadzimwa pano. Kwachu Kwachu culture regai metro.

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  15. What substance?? says:

    Biti – do not forget that you are trying to converse with ordinary people – who are the majority. You are trying to put across a very good message to millions of people who need to know the truth about what is going on. You know very well the average education standard of millions of Zimbabweans both at home and diaspora. For you to use such words, some of which are nothing but your own invention and mean nothing just demonstrates how unreasonable you are. You are talking to ordinary Zimbabweans, talk to them in a way they will understand you, you know better. What is wrong with using simple straight forward language? Why all these meaningless verbs and adjectives – it just makes you look like a fool. You will be more effective when you put across a simple message that everybody will understand. It’s called effective communication. We know you are a learned man, but it’s not the way it’s done, this is not a “vocabulary” competition, even if it was one, you wouldn’t win. If you were trying to reach 12 million people with this message, I guarantee you, only 2 thousand will come out with an understanding, not because they are not educated – just because you said nothing other spoiling your good presentation with big useless and invented jargon. Even half of your friends in the parliament will not understand what you are wrote. I am sure you do not even know the meanings of some of the words you were throwing around serve for an Oxford or Webster dictionary that you cuddled for all those days you were writing this – not everybody has those dictionaries nor time to waste looking for each and every word you put down, they will even be lucky to find them for they do not exist -”they are nothing but a figment of your imagination” Of all the hundreds of lines you wrote, every one of them is littered with 2 or 3 invented or twisted words which show how proud you are. If you think using such non existent language is a way of displaying how educated you are – then forget it – it only makes you look like a fool. By Einstein’s definition of insanity – as used above by contributer # 5 – “insanity is doing or using the same thing over and over again expecting a different result, in your case using the same meaningless, twisted and at times invented words expecting to make a different impression, i.e persuade people to believe some of your tactless strategies. You write like an overzealous rookie student leader aspiring to be a SRC president if not to to incite a bunch of student zealots to revolt against authority. How many ordinary Zimbabweans (who are the majority by the way) can understand all this jargon and come out in support of you? Even Tsvangirai your boss can not understand this, he will need time to consult before he can talk to you about it. If people can not understand what you are saying – then you have not communicated – you have said nothing! Remember an educated (smart) person is an effective communicator!!

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  16. Butter!! says:

    Abel # 8 – you are right!! Tell it as it is!

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  17. Fury! says:

    Contributer # 15- What substance! you nailed it. We need a leader who can talk to us in a language /way that we understand. How many MDC national assembly members will understand this, even Tsvangirai will need weeks of consultations with Roy Bennet and Coltart. Being educated does not mean throwing around useless, meaningless and misplaced big words like what Biti did. It shows that he does not know what he is doing or talking about – # 8 well said!!

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  18. kisha says:

    You have said it all Tendai not like Mugabe anongo popota zvenhando asina mafacts. All those blaming MDC for joing the GNU I feel sorry for you muri magwara. Never mind Morgan we are on your said. The devil is a lair.

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  19. Muchinda says:

    Kana musinga gone chirungu tengai kwayedza. Tatenda.

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  20. lgeno says:

    It beggars belief to see that the same person who holds such discontent to the GNU is the same person who spent time and energies of gerontocratic proportions, negotiating for it.
    This article shows some clear frustrations within his on system and it would be interesting to see what. I’m sure we will all know after the 14th of Feb.
    Politicians and selfish and self centred and there is no Messiah here.
    Truthfully, the Zimbabwean Messiah is not born yet.
    The struggle continues.

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  21. Fury! says:

    It’s not a matter of knowing English you stupid – it’s a matter of effective communication. Passing the message! Know who your audience is and know how to reach them! You are not sending a message to the varungu, you are sending it to the villagers of Murewa, Bikita etc. You are a moron just like Biti!

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  22. mapfupa achamuka says:

    bete wandinyadzisa, As much as we wish to have a change in government and be gorvened by an institution that preaches democracy. it boggles the mind to think of a government led by the likes of Biti. i really wonder who our fellow brother intends to engage with his vebatim. i have two degrees but still failed to understand the message honourable Biti intended conveying. It is time dear we take you for a communications course, the fundamental reason of talking or writing is to put across one’s ideas to an audience, this point must have evaded the ears of dear brother, probably you were writing for Dambudzo mar****ra. One thing that i envy honourable bete for, he moans the passing away of learnmore judah jongwe, as he would have done the communicating on his behalf.

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  23. UMJAKADA says:

    BITI REFUSES TO JOIN GNU, THERE IS NO SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE. BITI IS SUSPICIOUS OF GNU AND DOES NOT WANT TO ASSOCIATE WITH TSVANGIRAI’S NONSENSE. WHAT IS MDC WITHOUT BITI? LIZAMBONA UMUGABE – UZALIGINYA!

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  24. jay says:

    talking of you driving a delapidated jalopy is a lie not only a lie but you in contept for taking the public for fools for they know you guys drive state of the art jalopies form day 1 of MDC conception, just be real Tendai, the moment you mention opportunism, you are included in that group, those who sweated for the MDC formation are no longer there, the like of Jongwe, Sibanda, Gwisai, Matibe, Ncube and many more, you came later Tendai, you were at your law firm, uchizida as usual, am just surprised to see you up there, you are an opportunist and don’t start the fire those who know your road to fame will spill it, your white bosses at the law firm know better

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  25. moment says:

    i respect Mr Biti for his triumphal efforts to bring if not limited democracy to Zimbabwe with help from other mdc members and the majority of Zim people.coming to the artefact he presented:it is of course a correct report partially to us and partially on his side in trying to convince us however Honourable Biti your self invented words distort your nice piece of report to a mere imprudent writting of an over ambitous Mar****ra type of man.i do support effective communication

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  26. rtm says:

    l think you getting too harsh for nothing on the comrade akanyora simple english then he is uneducated as Tsvangirai l dont know what kind of people you are , you just cant appreciate he is educated does he has to hide that that makes me to feel like you are all jealous (MAZANU evanhu) of this mastermind Tendai Biti. l salute him he is a legend we need people of his calibre ,thats what mugabe needs extremists like Biti.And quoting Einstein with politics l think you are wrong what then should they have to resolve to (fighting Zanu) come on we are in the 21st century look now the GNU is on its foundation and where do you think these tyrants are heading to hell we got majority in parliament what kind of manipulation can the do now if they any plan so do we .WE WILL NOT REST TILL DEMOCRACY HAS BEEN DELIVERED

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  27. Philip M says:

    Let me tell you one thing which you tend to forget Tendai Biti is a good guy and after all he really is a strong pillar in MDC-T but if ever it happens he splits with Tsvangirai that’s the end of him, he is on the lime light because of Tsvangirai`s popularity and people love Tsangirai more than they love Biti even Zanu PF supporters can conferm that.The fact is that if Biti takes charge of MDC most people will abandon it.I believe and also according to my expertise Tsvangirai has better leadership qualities than Biti.

    Don`t get me wrong i have nothing against Biti all i am trying to shed light on is that Biti may be powerful but he is not MDC and currently Tsvangirai is MDC.I have been a die hard supporter of MDC-T since it as started and i will always be, i like it more as a party not as individuals.

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