Gathering the lost ethnicities of Zanu-PF
INDEED 2018 is upon us and Zimbabweans are going to elect their leader as part of the democratic benefit that our sovereignty has to offer.
However, in the interest of realism Zanu-PF must be able to consolidate its power against a background of factional wrangles that the party has endured over the years.
This makes the 2018 election unique as it will feature former factional elements of Zanu-PF now re-emerging to the political scene as new opposition parties.
Therefore, it is worth noting the new political parties weeded out of Zanu-PF are coming into the election race banking on the shadows of their past factional relevance in a bid to split votes.
Beyond the fear or the euphoria caused by Robert Mugabe’s exit, the political parties birthed by Zanu-PF factionalism will play a largely decisive role in shaping the election outcome. As such, Zanu-PF must find ground to recover its stolen electorate. In the interest of preserving its longevity there is need for the ruling party to win back all its votes lost to its erstwhile factional camps now re-emerging as opposition.
After all, these parties weeded out of Zanu-PF seem to have nothing new to offer besides mimicking the ideological principles of Zanu-PF so as to position their agenda within the broader framework of permanent national interests.
However, it’s known that the agenda they purport to save at face value is not sincere and yet their real agenda is to settle the scores of their bitterness of being ousted from Zanu-PF. Evidently these parties have no national interests at heart.
They cannot be fully entrusted to deliver the much needed recovery of the economy that Zimbabwe needs. This is because their broad plan is to retaliate their losses out of Zanu-PF.
Equally, the generational consensus narrative by Nelson Chamisa’s MDC represents another fraudulent scheme for Zimbabweans to pin their hopes to empty rhetoric.
The idea of generational consensus pushed by MDC-Alliance only came as an afterthought following Morgan Tsvangirai’s death. After all, Chamisa cannot be imposed as an absolute and unifying point of the youths’ divided inclines to national interests. It is wrong to assume that someone can be voted into power on the basis of their age.
There was never going to be any generational consensus to talk about had Tsvangirai still been alive. Therefore, this a clamour for generational consensus by Chamisa’s propagandists is nothing but a situational position by MDC for its convenience in the forthcoming elections.
As such, the future of the country cannot be surrendered to ideas preconceived as indemnifying a political party’s leadership crisis. Again it is also misleading to have Chamisa as the face of the call for generational consensus as if all young people in the country are determined to vote for him.
Moreover, basing on age essentialism as the only justification to assume power is not different from using gender or ethnic essentialism as a manifesto to usurp power.
This is why the rift with regards to continuity in the MDC-Alliance following Tsvangirai has been inclined to popularising the idea of generational consensus to favour Chamisa’s person interests to power; while Dr Thokozani Khuphe uses the gender and ethnicity blackmail — her claim to power is primarily based on her gender and the fact that she comes from Matabeleland.
Therefore, she assumes that she has the Matabeleland vote on her side. Against a background of the obvious crisis in the opposition Zanu-PF has to reclaim its stolen vote and its plot being clandestinely plagiarised by its ejected former factional forerunners. Chinhu ngachibvutwe chidzoke
panzvimbo Having fallen and asserted her factional actualisation out of Zanu-PF in 2014, Joice Mujuru stands in her own corner claiming her stake of belonging to Zanu-PF — the party which positioned her to relevance.
The remnant she walked away with are a lost chunk who must be brought back to the mother nationalist party.
Since her exit from Zanu-PF owing to the factional plague, she has kept some holding on to her old time uncharted worth as a faction leader in Zanu-PF and a wife of a liberation war hero.
As Zanu-PF gathers its momentum, this group must be ideologically repatriated to where it belongs. Out of desperation, Mujuru’s followers who were stolen from Zanu-PF have been tossed from one coalition to another since 2014. Zanu-PF owes these innocent patriots some rest from unproductive ideological co-habitations with both in the party and in the country, contrary to how other disposed luminaries have been erased from the party’s memory in the past.
The continued parade of the former President’s embattlement as the face of the NPF’s quest for relevance betrays the need to exalt Robert Mugabe’s luminary figure as a patriarch of the land. Why not let the great icon spend his last days knitting together the chronicles of his contribution to our independence?
Being the unparalleled intellectual giant that he is, can’t someone just remind him that he owes us a memoir? Indeed — a memoir to inspire the loyalty of generations to come to the true values of being a liberated people.
Talking about Bob resting from politics and leaving the rest for his protégé; it’s worth noting that Mugabe also has his multitude of followers who might influence the election outcome towards an unwanted direction if his legacy is misappropriated in the interests of short term interests.
There is no doubt that he still has followers who are revolutionary grounded. These