ZIMBABWE — For months our nation has been in anxiety. The latest news headlines have resulted in more confusion; talks end in deadlock, Mugabe to go it alone, Mbeki heads Harare in search of deal…. Even though I expected nothing out of this process; MOU, talks and all that nonsense, the outcome still disappointed me.

 

The fact that it’s done behind closed doors is even disgusting. Do they have an idea that we the people, they claim to be representing, we need to know the details.

 

Remember when all is said and done, we are the ones they are going to lead, so let us have our input. Consult us each and every step of the way.

 

Anyway, the whole process is doomed. How can it succeed when more than half the ingredients are wrong?

 

Two thirds of the people designated to chat the way forward were resoundingly refused by the people. They do not have the people’s mandate.

 

Chinamasa, Misihairabwi and Ncube were all thrashed in the March 29 elections. What can we get out of a dialogue with political midgets? What can we expect from a dialogue with tyrants? Nothing. MDC should pull out of this doomed process.

 

Zimbabwe would have been free on March 29 had it not been for political opportunists, the likes of Welshman Ncube, Arthur Mutambara, Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga. I know David Coltart will not agree with this, but that is the truth. These joy riders ruined it for us.   

 

Can you imagine if Simba Makoni had not contested? Tsvangirai would have had the necessary Majority. We all know that he had the majority support, just not on “ZEC ballot paper”. March 29 would have truly been our independence day.

 

More importantly, there would have been no MOU and no talks. When we rewind, Simba had a long chat with Mugabe before he submitted his papers.

 

Was he part of the Mugabe strategy to confuse the swing voters? There is no way all those people who voted for him would have voted for Mugabe had he not contested. I had a dream and Mugabe was thanking him for a job well done.

 

And what did our “good” professors do, they support Simba. It’s unheard of, a fully fledged political party endorsing an independent, without even consulting him.

 

Dr/Prof Mutambara (Whatever the real title is), history will remember you as a man without clout, a leader who did not have enough oomph to represent his party in the presidential elections, or at least endorse the man of the people, President Morgan Tsvangirai.

 

All he could do was to jump onto the Mavambo project because he could not stand on his own two feet.

 

Unfortunately, he is amongst the wrong ingredients of the talks. Mutambara and company have no business discussing Zimbabwe’s future. These political midgets shattered our hopes on March 29.

 

That’s the only reason why Mugabe and cronies want them in the talks. To frustrate us even more.  On the other hand, Mugabe and ZANU have failed us for the past twenty-eight years, they cannot save us now. MDC should pull out of these talks.

 

It’s a waste of our time and it’s causing unnecessary stress. The solution is there and it’s clear: let the people speak.

 

Thank you Tsvangirai, people voted for you and keep putting their interests in front and they will be with you all the way to the State House.

 

Dialogue has failed, it was doomed anyway. It’s time to move on and do the right thing. Let the Zimbabwean people speak again. Let us have internationally monitored elections. A lot of resources have been put into these talks; instead let them be used in internationally supervised elections.

 

Mbeki if you really are interested in the will of the Zimbabweans, then let Mugabe and cronies swear to a violent free Presidential election. We need to freely use our constitutional right, the right to choose our own leader.

 

Florence Nyemba

 

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