ZIMBABWE - HARARE - Dear Mr Tsvangirai, Please, accept my belated congratulatory message on the historic signing of the GNU agreement between MDC-T, MDC-M and ZANU PF: congratulations! I vividly recall your apt remark a few days after the much publicized signing ceremony: ‘The devil is in the implementation’.

 

I was impressed that you realized the mammoth task that lay ahead.

 

It is very fortunate that you have come face-to-face with the devil sooner rather than later.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The intransigence displayed by ZANU PF in the sharing of ministries, which is epitomized by Mugabe, is just a foretaste of what you will have to live with; if ever this GNU takes off.

 

If, in your wildest imagination you ever thought that ZANU PF was serious in sharing power, then you are in for a rude awakening.

 

I will not lecture you on the history of Zimbabwe, but will remind you that ZAPU was once a formidable party, but today it is confined to history textbooks.

 

The unfortunate thing about history, Mr Tvangirai, is that, it has this tendency of repeating itself.

 

Mr Tsvangirai, let me point out one major weakness that MDC has consistently displayed, and which ZANU PF has consistently exploited. MDC has on numerous occasions set demands or preconditions that they never followed up on.

 

Before every election, for example, you set demands that you wanted met before your participation. However, much to the delight of ZANU PF, you participated in every election without your demands or the major ones being met.

 

Lately, before you signed the MOU, one of your demands was that all the detained MDC activists and supporters should be released from police custody.

 

To this day, correct me if I am wrong, your supporters, are still languishing in police custody. You (MDC) cannot stand firm on your demands! Could this be what they call flip-flopping, or MDC are too malleable bordering on gullibility?

 

Now that you are demanding these key ministries, ZANU PF is aware that you (MDC) are prone to flip-flopping (malleable and/or gullible). My advice for you Mr Tsvangirai is simple. First, do not let the notion of power get into your head (same for your colleagues); do not consider yourself to being so close to becoming prime minister.

 

If you do not get these key ministries, you will be a ceremonial prime minister par excellence. In the same vein, I was surprised to read in the Herald that Thokozani Khupe was already at Munhumutapa Building ‘inspecting her offices’.

 

What then really shocked me was the agonizing silence from MDC, strongly suggesting that the event actually took place! Mr Tsvangirai, by getting into bed with ZANU PF, you are giving the monster a much needed breather and time to regroup.

 

In short, you are saving a ZANU PF that was on its deathbed. I am acutely aware that people (we) are suffering, but if you are really for the people, then bring total independence, not this charade of a GNU. This, Mr Tsvangirai, is your best opportunity; seize it, and pull out of the GNU.

 

Yours truly, Tawanda Mudzingwa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

JOKE OF THE DAY - Girl Died After illness, before burial her granny saw the g-string she had. Granny remarked "Chirwere chakaoma ichi! Chakadya mwana chikadya bhurugwa kusiya tambo chete!"

 

 

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