Ephraim Tapa

"We want more dem-a-crazy"

One wonders whether the this trio understood the word as “dem-are-crazy” when it was using it, or whether it was just an attempt at being clever – using big words which they do not know the meaning of. This has happened before but the performer only got away with it until somebody saw through their façade.

Once you are exposed, the honourable thing is to just retreat back with what is left of your dignity because if you find yourself having to cling to office against the wishes of those who elected you into office, then you have started on the road to hell, just like the guy who tries to argue that he knows the meaning of his English words when he does not.

If your refusal to accept a people’s verdict, on your way to hell you will find plots; you will create plots; there will be counterplots; you will find subversion; lies you will tell and votes you will buy; ballot boxes you will rig and election officials you will corrupt , and eventually you will engage in violence, and ultimately war.

Most wars today are because one person or group of people is trying to impose its will upon the unwilling, whose right it is to resist with all possible force and tactics, leading to community mobilisation to confront the common enemy, when people come together for a resistance.

Resistance can start in a small community that really feels aggrieved and spread to the rest who may not be so aggrieved but nevertheless are also irked by the annoying habits of the oppressive group, especially if they realise that it is their common aspirations that are being thwarted.

So it is with our brothers. In the face of a harmonised election which we have fought for innumerable years, they decide to divert our energies again towards formations which come up every time that an election draws near.

It is not that they really believed in the MDC or that they feel mistreated by the dissolution of their plots-and-counterplots-riddled, lying and cheating executive that even tried to fan violence at the last council meeting. They are not disgruntled about some flouting of the rules, only at being out-manoeuvred.  

Their current meetings, website-postings and e-mail-abuse are only tactical tools in an unprincipled fight to remain in power; and to them it does not matter whether that means in another party or another formation, as they have now begin jumping on any bandwagons that become available.

Only yesterday they were denouncing Mrs Lucia Matibenga for the principled stance she took in thwarting their last and final plot that led to their downfall, but now they latch onto her personal cause because they think they can make political capital out of it.

They have denounced Nelson Chamisa and Engineer Mudzuri, let alone President Morgan Tsvangirai who you would believe they were talking about Robert Mugabe if you heard them, but now they want to smear all of them with some talk of rebellion.

Immediately after dissolution they are known to have started approaching Third Way representatives offering to bring across lots of former MDC UK members. The chairman of the MDC UK-coordinating committee, John Nyamande, was correct to refer to Tapa, Nyakudya, Mutyambizi and Nyoni as working for some new political masters, surrounded and being advised by enemy operatives.

They are continually chanting about a fall-out within the ranks of the MDC which they hope might happen and resuscitate their political careers. They actually hope that the MDC divides again so that they can remain leading some national body. Real democrats who were dissolved have gone back and are busy working in their branches.