YOUR sins will pursue and overtake you, so goes the biblical admonishing.
It was all smiles when former Welshman Ncube’s Members of Parliament, the likes of Abednico Bhebhe and Njabuliso Mguni to name a few, were enticed to cross the floor over to the mainstream MDC-T.
Collectively, President Robert Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara shut Welshman Ncube from the inclusive government business. Tsvangirai subscribed fully to this arrangement, whiler Mutambara was a beneficiary and therefore, the longer the court battles with Ncube continued the cosier it was for him.
Ncube with his constitutional expertise was the right man to deal with teething issues around the formation of the new Constitution. It is suggested that Tsvangirai avoided Ncube, as he viewed him as too smart for his intelligence.
By shutting out Ncube, he hoped to retain the limelight which would naturally have gone to Ncube What an opportunity was missed during the making of our current Constitution?
One would have thought that the best arrangement would have been for Tsvangirai to concentrate on issues he was best at – crowd pulling, charismatics and of-course women. On the other hand Ncube could have handled legal issues including the constitution-making process.
The man handled this portfolio so well in the last Sadc meeting before the July 31 2013 general elections.
Tendai Biti could not hide his admiration of that superb presentation by Ncube.
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“The lion of Vungu has roared” that was Biti’s caping remarks. Tsvangirai’s selfishness and hunger for power is not a new phenomenon, in the run-up to the formation of the MDC 1999, ZCTU’s resolution was that the former ZCTU leaders proceed to form the new party in their current positions.
The late Gibson Sibanda was to retain the presidency of the new party, with Tsvangirai serving as its secretary-general.
At the 11th hour Tsvangirai demanded the presidency. Knowing the late Sibanda, he did not want chaos and as a result he humbly gave in.
Issues now raised by the MDC-Renewal team, of departing from the founding values, dictatorship and violence among others, were raised as far back as 2005, yet this was brushed aside.
One would want to know what difference there is for the MDC-Renewal team to get buy-ins from other MDC-T leaders and members of Parliament. Is it the right timing? The right people leading the renewal team?
An honest answer to this question will go a long way in resolving our myriad political as well as other problems.
Look at the splinter group then, it was composed of Ncube, Paul Nyathi, the late Dulini Fletcher Ncube, the late Sibanda to name a few. Contrast and compare the names in the renewal team.
One is tempted to conclude that the difference between the 2005 and 2014 MDC split is in the faces and ethnicity of the people in the two groupings.
As long as Zimbabwe is viewed from an ethnical perception we are far from genuine resolution of this beloved country’s problems. One yearns the son of the soil philosophy of the late Umdala Wethu, Father Zimbabwe Joshua Nkomo.
If this mindset is not changed, one can rest assured that the much-hyped grand coalition is headed for a still birth.
Immediately after last elections Mugabe quipped: “We have buried MDC.” Current events in the MDC-T prove that indeed the party has been or is being buried.
Back to the introduction verse: “Your sins will pursue and overtake you”, MDC-T and Tsvangirai to be specific, is reaping what he sowed. He thought he was smart when we worked 24/7 hours to destroy Ncube’s party.
Besides being unwitted by Zanu PF, he is watching helplessly as his party disintegrates. Recently his attempt to smuggle all power to himself was stopped by his lieutenants.
Words of wisdom – never support a wrong thing simply because it is being done to someone else.
A story is told of a woman who used to set his sons on their father. One day the old man died. The sons who had been trained to beat up their father turned their attention to their mother.
Sad though it was, the truth of the matter was that the mother was now reaping the fruits of her liking. Cry beautiful Zimbabwe, cry motherland, Zimbabweans have been torn apart on racial, tribal and ethnic lines.
Children grow up trained to hate a certain tribe for no reason other than having been born on the other side of the tribal or racial boundary.
The day of reckoning is fast approaching when the Almighty God will demand honest answers on why so many years were lost in hate language, demonisation and denying each other their God-given opportunities.
God see what you can do to save Zimbabwe from self destruction.
Moses Tsimukeni Mahlangu is the general-secretary for Zimbabwe Urban Councils Workers’ Union. He is a labour consultant and arbitrator.
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