ZIMBABWE is at a crossroads because of a crisis of leadership that has been allowed to go on for too long.
Our leaders have been too busy pursuing politics of revenge and self-entitlement at the expense of national consensus on an economic trajectory that would extricate Zimbabwe out of the vicious cycle.
It is times such as this where a vibrant opposition is needed to keep the governing party on its toes.
A year after elections that ushered in a single ruling party, a strong opposition would be taking the governing party to task to ensure that it fulfils its promises.
However, the main opposition seems to be falling into President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF’s trap to reduce discourse about Zimbabwe’s future into name calling and labelling.
This was evident at the weekend when former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai addressed MDC-T supporters in Bulawayo.
The MDC-T leader launched a salvo on renewal faction leaders Tendai Biti and Samuel Sipepa Nkomo saying the two were not qualified to criticise him for his love scandals.
He went on to make claims that Nkomo and Biti had their own scandals to worry about.
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Tsvangirai also went on to repeat the Mugabe-must-go mantra without telling the people of Bulawayo how his party propose to halt the city’s de-industrialisation.
The jobless majority in the city are not interested in hearing who slept with who among our politicians.
Instead, they want those in the opposition to lay out alternative plans to rescue the economy.
They want to hear how Tsvangirai would be different from Mugabe if he were given the mandate to rule this country.
Zimbabwe badly needs politics of substance and what it is getting from the opposition is child’s play.
Mugabe also needs to rise above petty politics and leave the juicy parts about Tsvangirai to the tabloids.
Zimbabweans want to know how he plans to rescue the economy from the mess he created.
