The ManicaPost
Moffat Mungazi
Post Reporter
IF lunacy was a currency, then Zimbabwe’s political main opposition party, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and its leader, Mr Nelson Chamisa, would be very rich.
Sadly, that lunacy has come at a hefty price as the party has been left ideologically bankrupt.
Their lunacy stems from the way they expose themselves as lacking a moral compass for political direction.
Out to score cheap political points and gain mileage in their doomed careers, the CCC leadership continues to struggle to profile the party as an outfit of seasoned politicians that can be taken seriously.
But there is a certain method to Mr Chamisa and his party’s innate insanity.
How CCC have frantically been attempting to politicise Moreblessing Ali’s suspected murder, claiming that she was a member of their party when they actually do not have any structures to corroborate that, smacks of desperation and deceit.
In their delusion, they are jumping to all manner of accusations and conclusions when the police are actually still investigating the case which is now before the courts.
There is also precedence to that absurdity.
In the build-up to the legislative and local authority by-elections in March, CCC was conspicuous by the raucous noise they made.
The party leader, Mr Chamisa’s address at a rally at Sakubva Stadium on March 19 highlighted the futility of this political project’s ambitions.
What Mr Chamisa’s speech lacked in substance, he tried to make up for with rhetoric.
He went to town about transforming the country into a paradise, claiming that him alone is capable of turning around Zimbabwe’s perceived waning fortunes in no time at all if he comes into power.
Harping on the same string as before, he promised people heaven on earth.
Talk of all-froth-and-no-beer!
“Mune nzara here? Hamuna mabasa here? Hamuna mari here? Munoda nyika yakanaka here? Zanu PF yatadza here? (Are you hungry? Do you have jobs? Do you have money? Do you want a good country? Has Zanu PF failed?) You have to vote for us because we can make Zimbabwe great again; remember dollar-for-two started with us,” quipped Mr Chamisa.
What drivel!
How ironic!
Is this not the same man, as shown in a video footage, who boasted about goading the party’s Western masters into slapping economic sanctions on Zimbabwe?
“Ndakabvamo ndikapinda muDenmark, ndikabvamo ndikapinda muUK, ndikabvamo ndikapinda muGermany, ndichisunga; sunga one, sunga dozen (I hopped from Denmark to UK and Germany asking for the screws on sanctions to be tightened),” a barefaced Mr Chamisa unabashedly prattles in a video during his days in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance.
Too obsequious to their handlers was Mr Chamisa and his ilk that, as agents for the regime change agenda, they grovelled for the illegal embargo that has gone on to cause untold suffering among the people of Zimbabwe.
His condescending attitude is purely snobbish and stinks to high heaven.
As a megalomaniac, his hubris is his hamartia; the self-aggrandisement being his fatal flaw.
It is an open secret that these illegal economic sanctions are the source of the challenges presently bedevilling the country.
And for the CCC leader to gloat over the people’s suffering through those remarks he made at the Sakubva Stadium rally is the height of scornful disdain of the people.
That said, since surfacing onto the political landscape in the colours of MDC, Mr Chamisa has failed to morph into a mature politician who is solemn about national issues.
With an inflated ego and a robust sense of himself, the exaggerated belief in his own and party’s capabilities has intricately trapped him in archaic student activism that he wants to pass up as national politics.
Zimbabweans, who need enemies when we have the likes of Mr Chamisa and his cabal – puppets who are controlled by the strings their handlers pull?
An opposition that panders to the West’s whims must never be trusted with leading a country.
We cannot follow people who are always following others and are not their own masters who can shape their own destiny.
They have been nothing short of woeful in building any credibility.
This is the opposition, in its warped wisdom, that is contemptuous of the country’s national anthem to that extent that they opened proceedings with “Ishe Komboreari Africa” at the Sakubva Stadium rally.
That was an indication that the CCC does not identify with Zimbabwe and her cause, which is a serious indictment on them.
Even their increasingly disillusioned supporters are beginning to see through the beleaguered party’s machinations.
To believe that Mr Chamisa and his cohorts can deliver better for the country is just hopelessly hoping against hope.
This is also an opposition that never owns up to its shortcomings and only apportions blame on the ruling Zanu PF even for what it is responsible for, which is not only deceitful, but unfair and misleading.
Do the citizens have to suffer first for them to vote for CCC?
Is CCC sincere about putting the country and the people’s interests first or they are only out to advance a neo-colonialist agenda?
Any discerning Zimbabwean can make out that they completely have nothing to offer, which brings to the fore the fallacy the party is founded on – that of serving the citizenry.
In fact, from their actions and utterances, CCC can be taken to mean Chamisa’s Coalescence for Chicanery!
Instead of offering a viable alternative to the ruling party, they are just truly antagonistic in nature.
Opposition just for the sake of it has a truly inevitable futility.
With their ideological bankruptcy, they cannot be trusted to deliver.
Service delivery in most cities has taken a massive nosedive and virtually broken down with the opposition behind the wheel.
Under their watch, moth-eaten roads, dilapidated public structures, swamps of sewerage, mounds of uncollected garbage and the corruptly parcelling out land to councillors and their cronies have become the order of the day.
For the time the opposition has been running local authorities, they have achieved nothing but declining and deteriorating standards.
Enter Zanu PF and its game-changing pro-development programmes!
The Second Republic is moving to implement various initiatives to drive agricultural evolution, economic transformation, infrastructural development, food sufficiency, water security, devolution, manufacturing and mining with a national outlook.
President Mnangagwa is walking the talk of achieving Vision 2030 which will culminate in an empowered and prosperous economy, with the National Development Strategy (NDS1) being one of the vehicles taking us there.
The President – who has been indefatigably hands-on throughout – has been unequivocal about building the country brick-by-brick and stone upon stone, using our own indigenous resources.
This is already bearing fruit and progressive Zimbabweans will not be distracted by the sideshows of CCC’s circus.
Zimbabwe is now well on course to regain its status as the breadbasket of Africa and, indeed, “Nyika inovakwa nevene vayo”.
In reassuring the nation, President Mnangagwa has reiterated: “As the Second Republic, we will never promise what we cannot deliver. Of course, we have our own challenges but we are solving them.”
Zanu PF continues to galvanise its gravitational pull as its development-oriented programmes are spurring social transformation and economic growth.
With next year’s harmonised general elections on the horizon, the West’s latest political project faces outright rejection by all forward-thinking Zimbabweans and will be soundly beaten at the polls.
Consignment to the political dustbin awaits Mr Chamisa and CCC. Zanu PF’s unshakable bond with the masses will carry the day.
Again, victory is certain.
