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(HERALD) Regime change desperados

Regime change desperados
Monday, 27 June 2011 01:00
By Fortious Nhambura and Tichaona Zindoga

Is the regime change agenda in Zimbabwe, as espoused and nurtured and funded by the West principally through the MDC-formations and the attendant NGOs got so desperate?
This is one of the questions that many readers would ask after being confronted by a real head-turning headline of an op-ed in a daily paper on Thursday.
(Not that it is something new, really.)

"Mugabe must go now", yelled one Dewa Mavhinga, regional co-ordinator of a Western funded outfit, Crisis Coalition.

In the opinion piece Mavhinga says that President Mugabe must go now to pave way for "genuine democratic transition" in Zimbabwe.

He puts forward four reasons why this must happen, namely that President Mugabe represents the old order as custodian or godfather; that President Mugabe is "past retirement age"; President Mugabe's age; and, to "allow smooth transition and leadership renewal within Zanu-PF".

Broadly, these views are largely shared by many in the regime change sphere.
If Mavhinga did not have democratic pretensions, which he even exhibit in his piece and if he was not one of the people working in organisations desperately seeking to defer elections as demanded by Zanu-PF, and required by the GPA, his submissions could be taken as emanating from any other anti-status quo vigilante.

Surprisingly, he was in South Africa last week calling for the postponement of elections.

But, how can you stop elections when you ask the President to step down?
However, given Mavhinga's democratic pretensions and what he has been doing lately, Mavhinga shows a desperation that borders on criminality.

Constitutionally, change of leadership in Zimbabwe is predicated on the ballot.
President Mugabe and Zanu-PF party have been demanding that elections be held as soon as possible.

On the other hand, MDC formations and their NGO allies, including Mavhinga's Crisis Coalition, have been resisting the same.

It is to be wondered how on earth, supposed champions of democracy can resist elections then, pontificate that a leader of a political party that does not share the same ideals with them should step aside.

How this constitutes "real transition" only cowards must know.

Such growing noises from the anti- Zimbabwe forces crying for President Mugabe to leave office are clear indications of the feelings of the consortium that sees him as the biggest stumbling block to the ill-fated illegal regime change agenda.

If, as Mavhinga demonstrates, the inclusive Government has been a case of new wine being put in old skins, the MDC formations should surely have demonstrated effervescence that would make them the darling of the populace and the electorate.
This has not happened and, the MDC formations are afraid to face voters.

They know that their end is nigh because they failed to provide voters with answers to their problems.

These are the political parties that promised the electorate all manner of goodies which their Western friends and partners would channel to Zimbabwe.

It is common cause that none came, nor did jobs and salaries for civil servants.
The electorate should be spoiling for a date in the ballot box.

Why then make President Mugabe, champion of such causes of the people as land reform and indigenisation step aside when he is willing to be given another mandate by the people?

There is a very idle if not morbid undertone in the proponents of Western regime change in Zimbabwe.

This relates to President Mugabe's age and health and one can see it in Mavhinga's piece.

Remember disgraced Roman Catholic priest Pius Ncube once prayed for President Mugabe's death.

Zimbabwe has suffered countless stories over the health of its leader. Some people have even spread false news of his death.

Having failed to unseat President Mugabe through the ballot, these death wishes reflect thoroughly idle, base and desperate minds.

If these things were to pass, Zimbabwe would be a sad place to be in.

A "democratic transition" that is grounded in idle, morbid and shallow ideals as espoused by the current regime change industry in Zimbabwe does not promise to be any of the best thing to happen to any country.

Besides the tired mantra that "Mugabe must go" regime change activists in the NGO sector, just like their MDC cousins have precious little to offer to Zimbabwe.

It is known that the democracy they preach is the thoroughly discredited system that puts Western capital first and foremost.

It is the brand of politics that dispossesses the poor while the likes of MDC will be comprador allies and NGOs neo-liberal opiates.

Why try to smuggle in a new leadership that has not been elected by Zimbabweans into the presidency when you are on record that elections should not held?

Why not do the honourable thing and go for the election the same springboard that brought the present governing structure, albeit with its many flaws?

Under the country's laws, this governance structure can thus only be changed through elec- tions.

This is what the proponents of the regime change do not realise or want to, as they know it means Armageddon for those who have authored national suffering.

They have to come up with other ways of deflating the wheel of national resistance and black empowerment.

The only way is to push President Mugabe out of Zanu-PF and Government without the people's participation.

Illegal regime change agenda proponents in their time of desperation, are forgetting that President Mugabe is only advancing national will.

His policies are only satisfying a national will, to cut own development agenda.
That is why he has been able to align himself with the people and not Western pseudo demo- crats.

The life support of the MDC formations and their sidekicks, the Western- funded NGOs is economic stranglehold on the country.

People are aware and that makes an election a journey in futility for the illegal regime change agents.

Zimbabwe's problems cannot and will not be corrected by pushing President Mugabe out of the country's leadership but by the removal the evil sanctions.

fortious.nhambura@zimpapers.co.zwThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; tichaona.zindoga@zimpapers.co.zw

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