IN THE PRESS
WITH respected thinktank Afrobarometer research findings indicating that President Mugabe will romp to victory in the 2018 elections, MDC-T has clearly lost the plot on how to tackle ZANU-PF and its leader.
Even former MDC-T director-general and scholar Dr Toendepi Shone, in one of his research papers, has predicted a ZANU-PF victory.
Events on the ground also prove that ZANU-PF is there to stay.
President Mugabe has been busy engaging the youths during his ongoing interface rallies, and the numbers of those attending the meetings have sent shockwaves in opposition.
The wobbly coalition arrangement between MDC-T and Joice Mujuru’s National People’s Party has proved that the opposition is in disarray. The MDC-T and NPP’s party structures are shambolic compared to the massive grassroots support enjoyed by ZANU-PF.
Instead of engaging the masses, the opposition have resorted to violence in recent weeks and months to demand “electoral reforms”.
MDC-T thugs caused a scene in Harare’s central business district last week as they engaged in running battles with the police.
This comes barely a month after a police officer Talkmore Phiri was killed by alleged opposition activists on June 29.
Despite the spate of violence, the private media, Western diplomats and their lap dog political non-governmental organisations have been silent.
If it was ZANU-PF accused of violence, the European Union, Britain and their allies would have jumped on their high horse a long time ago.
Why are they silent? Cat got their tongues? Or are they suddenly afflicted by a case of blindness so debilitating that they are frozen in an ignorant darkness that not even Prophet Sanyangore can claim to cure?
And then we also hear that the alleged arson attack on an MDC-T vehicle was an inside job. But the private media have apparently not heard of this.
What we should brace ourselves for is more violence from the lunatic fringe of the body politic and more deafening silence from the lunatic fringe of the media as we draw closer to the 2018 elections.