Ought you not to have smelled a rat with media reports on Zimbabwe? Or have the forces of darkness succeeded in controlling your mind? Monday Meeting's endeavours to expose Tsvangirai's true personality will hopefully serve as an antidote for the enslaved mind.
Tsvangirai is a high priest whose gospel is violence; his fondness for violence predates the MDC era. In the late 1990s, as leader of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) he organised national labour strikes that forced government to backtrack on tax increases. The labour strikes mutated into unprovoked orgies of violence which saw public transport buses torched, private cars vandalised, the looting of shops, and passer-bys and workers who refused to strike beaten up. Incidentally, at about the same time, Arthur Mutambara, then leader of the University of Zimbabwe student body, masterminded riotous demonstrations that resulted in the indefinite closure of the campus. Because of his evident penchant for violence, Mutambara was to be drafted into the MDC party, and today he heads one faction of the party while Tsvangirai heads the other. In other words, today the two MDC factions are led by political thugs who are not averse to using violence to achieve their objectives.
With the then British High Commissioner, Peter Longworth, serving as a midwife, the MDC was born in 1999 as a front for Western capitalist interests and a vehicle for the preservation of White privileges in Zimbabwe, with Tsvangirai at the helm. During the run-up to the February 2000 referendum on constitutional amendments that sought to make it easier for government to recover stolen land from White settlers and which Mugabe lost, violence was the tool of choice for the MDC and coalition partners on the payroll of the West. The four national elections that followed were also accompanied by widespread political violence, and, true to form, Western and local media placed the blame for the violence squarely on the doorstep of the ruling Zanu-PF. The truth of the matter is that the MDC was the instigator of virtually all the violence but, naturally, the imperialist Western media and its Afrikan acolytes had to shield Tsvangirai and the MDC in order to maintain the false image of a squeaky-clean party and leadership.
However, this faade became unravelled towards the end of 2005 when the MDC split into two factions. Contrary to popular belief, Mugabe had nothing to do with the MDC split. The split stemmed from Tsvangirai's blatant disregard for democratic values and principles. Just before the November senatorial elections the MDC was badly divided over whether the party should participate in the elections. On one side there were those who supported participation and, on the other side, there was Tsvangirai who, given the unlikelihood of victory, had been instructed by the puppet masters that under no circumstances should the MDC participate in the elections lest it legitimised Mugabe's rule when efforts were underway to demonise him.
The issue was eventually put to a vote at the party's national council, which, by a slim majority, decided that the party should participate in the Senate elections. To meet the expectations of his paymasters, Tsvangirai had to stop masquerading as a democrat. He promptly refused to accept the council's decision though, certain of victory, he had just before the vote implored members of the council to accept and defend the outcome of the vote. With all pretences now dispensed with, Tsvangirai then convened and addressed a press conference at which, without any shame whatsoever, he deliberately misrepresented the outcome of the council vote when he said the vote was a stalemate and he had to use his casting vote in favour of a electoral boycott, despite the fact that in terms of the MDC constitution (section 5.4.9) the party president did not have a casting vote in all decisions of the national council - a respectful politician, indeed.
He then proceeded to mobilise party members to subvert the majority will and deny the party its democratic right to participate in the senate poll. His intransigence eventually led to the split of the MDC; and he reacted to the split in the only way he knew: by unleashing violence against his political rivals - thug life! To be continued. [email protected]
