This election is about policies not slogans and faces: Joshua Mhambi!

Lest We Forget III

Okuqakathekileyo yikutshintsha uhulumende na?The fallacy and myth hangs all over and is being sponsored to create haste, desperation and a sense of stupid urgency to change regimes as if people discovered in 2000 that the ZANU(PF) regime is corrupt, tyrannical and a killer machine. Those who claim that the most important task is to remove the devil we know and we think and plan latter about what we want, are criminal opportunists and confusionists driven by greed for political glory than love of the nation. Thank God we have been given a glimpse into what some political actors are made of in terms of character, competence and capacity, and how they were going to govern had they been able to take power. If you look at them closely, they belonged and benefited from the system. Some of them were active participants in the genocide against the people. So they want it crushed before it names them and hope that their villain acts will be forgotten in the euphoria of change. Watch them as they fight for power within their own ranks.

We cannot accept change to be the guiding ideology if that change does not define itself explicitly. The change of personalities or names of parties is a smokescreen to us, it is not change. We do not have personal vendettas with those currently in office belonging to ZANU. We say, what will befall them must be a historical process, not an act of vengeance, revenge or hatred. If we call for justice, then justice will come, not by forgetting how we got into this mess but by going through it all the way. True change has no short cuts.

Change is not a matter of fantasy but reality. Reality is that change is slow and gradual. It requires hard work, a bit of luck, a fair amount of self-sacrifice and a lot of patience. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. On the other hand fantasy believes that a sudden transformation will bring a total change in our political fortunes bypassing work, luck, self-sacrifice and time in fantastic stroke. That is why it was important to have a government of national unity it has shown as who is who in Zimbabwean politics. Sadly, the regime has also been exposed in its inability to adapt to change and continues to believe that it was joined by other political parties in governing the country. They have continued to mature in their vices. This can be likened to a marriage where one partners continues with their pre-marriage habits.

It is true that the call for change has gained popularity and the next government will be based on non-other than those whose ticket is change. We should not fear change that is brought about by reactionary factors; it will not be long before those who back it realize the limitation of opportunism. In facat those who are observant have realized it already.We do not believe that being popular implies that you are right. Popularity will give you the mandate to rule but cannot give you answers to historical injustices. The regime (ZANU-PF) now facing collapse was once popular and people danced for it everywhere, but that did not make it right or less corrupt. History is very rude; it neither respects the powerful, the popular or the royal. It disregards masks and manipulation and exposes evil and short-sightedness as it is. Who imagine that ZBC and ZTV could be flooded with Nkomo and false praises being sang about him today? You recall Robert Mugabe saying of Nkomo and ZAPU. I quote Nkomo writing to Mugabe in 1983 "You added, “Dr. Nkomo was trying to overthrow my government”. “ZAPU and its leader, Dr. Joshua Nkomo, were like a cobra in a house. "The only way to deal effectively with a snake is to strike and destroy its head.” The man who was said to be leading dissidents and made the Ndebele earn public wrath in the same station. ”Dissident Chii?-MuNdere.” Let those who are placed before the gravy train drink it, we are not so the struggle continues.

We are not against any progressive forces that can improve the lot of our people, but what we are against is the worship of power and the fascist glorification of populism as an end in itself. We do not want people to support faces but policies. As a party we cannot betray the principle of choice denying people no matter how few, the right to be heard. That is why the call for coalition with others for the sake of taking short cuts will not wash. Stable democracies are marked by the harmonious cooperation of minorities and majorities. We cannot change or mortgage our policies for political expedience.

The fallacy of splitting votes remains a fallacy except to those who sponsor it. There no division in votes. People assume that votes are like sweets that must be shared equally among children where each gets the same number. No this is contest for power and a promise for prosperity. People must take responsible for their choices. Voters know what they want, so let them decide as it is their right to do so. Those who are undecided and do not know who to vote for are very dangerous voters and are not promoting democracy. They are not different from those who coerce people to vote for them. On the other hand there could be not offer suitable for them, but in that where two or more evils are available, wisdom is in choosing the lesser evil.
Mhambi wrote this on his face book page!