Political dwarfs casting long shadows, thanks to the setting sun

OVERESTIMATING their competences and capabilities, they said to one another, “Let us build a tower with its top in the heavens and make a name for ourselves”.

The Babylonians made this resolution under the tutelage of the arrogant Nimrod. To this effect, they set out to make burnt brick and tar and undertook the construction of the tower in Babylon, itself meaning confusion.

Despite casting a long shadow, obscuring the sun and threatening to reach for the skies, the seemingly yet to be gigantic tower of babel provided a stairway to nowhere instead. All this happened amid great linguistic confusion on the part of the too ambitious yet incompetent architects.

In reality and in God’s eyes, the structure was just an ambitious dwarf. God perceived the danger of such unity and said NO! As Christians would sing: When Jesus says yes, nobody can say no and when He says no, nobody can say yes. lines, the so-called Team Lacoste and G40. In as much as factionalism is irritating and disheartening as it threatens to reverse the gains of the liberation struggle, it has to be put into cognisance that factionalism is actually a result of ineffective and invisible opposition.

Ah! Did Pharaoh’s chariots not stampede on each other when the Israelites were no longer on sight at the sea of reeds? You see, good politicians are versatile. They just need to be occupied, idleness is nowhere in their vocabulary. Failing to understand that a coalition is not about names but minds and that great minds are inborn, Tsvangirai and Mujuru are leading the pack in the brickburning exercise and preparing tar for the construction of the already demised political tower, amid great confusion.

The confusion in tongues has gotten out of hand in the opposition confines, shattering any dreams of speaking with one language again. Citing that opposition parties needed to field candidates with a real chance of winning in 2018, Tsvangirai clearly shut out Mujuru on leading the coalition. He dictated that the presidential candidate must be selected on the basis of the best individual who can win an election for the coalition against President Mugabe. The party, based on past performance and other factors, and which is the strongest electorally in a given constituency must also field the candidate for the coalition.

Mujuru’s outfits, ZimPF or NPP, have no electoral history save for the Bikita West rude awakening. But she and those around her are hungry and thirsty for power as well. It is already survival of the fittest at her justformed-yesterday NPP outfit ahead of its elective congress slated for next month. Samuel Sipepa Nkomo, Bongani Nyathi, Cuthbert Ncube, Linda Dube, Elliot Kasu and John Shumba are already jostling for the VPs posts.

Meanwhile, with parochial interests, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has reportedly forged an alliance with Mujuru. On the other hand, her prospective coalition colleagues in the MDC-T and MDC have rubbished any prospects of her leading a coalition. Tsvangirai has himself hinted on starting solo preparations for the forthcoming elections. The MDCs have seen a political liability in Mujuru and have regarded Tsvangirai as a natural leader for a coalition. Mind you, these have travelled with Tsvangirai for more than 17 years on a thorny road to nowhere. That is not a joke.

Added to the confusion, suspicion is engulfing the opposition camp. There is lack of trust and suspicion with regards to whether the other oppositions, devoid of any liberation credentials, uphold the values of the liberation struggle. The opposition landscape now comprises former liberation cadres who were expelled from the ruling party. They fought their hearts out in the protracted war of liberation. Having to be equally yoked with western engineered political formations should, in all respect, look themselves in the mirror and allow conscience to take its toll in their lives.

It therefore becomes a bone of contention if God can allow such a dangerous union. Imagine the mayhem and turmoil, or even bloodshed likely to grip our motherland as these political home seekers with similar genes will obviously stampede for positions and candidature come 2018 as they execute their politics of the belly.

Languishing in bankruptcy in as far as time, money and the people are concerned, the opposition movements are likeminded in selfishness and poor strategy.

Financial coffers have dried up due to poor funding from the West owing to their failure to fulfil the reason for their existence, which is to effect a regime change.

Let us have a front row seat to the unfolding calamity and watch the fading shadows as the opposition coalition shadow fades like the rest of the failed resuscitation strategies, which have gone down the dungeons of Zimbabwe’s political history.