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“Born a man of little imagination he found fortune in the holding hands of foreign allies of European extraction. His ambitions were suddenly swelled by the generosity of the same and he soon esteemed himself a king. His struggle of 14 years was coloured by an uncommon and commendable tenacity as he fought to unseat a foe greater in many ways than he. Buffeted by the unrelenting wiles of an older more tactful opponent, his exertions became unequal to his strength and in the winter of 2013, he gave up his political ghost. Behind he leaves an inconsolable horde, sore at a loss so unexpected.”

What a fitting epitaph for Morgan Tsvangirai’s political tombstone! His story is that of a man enlarged by swelling imagining himself a true giant.
Julia Gillard manipulatively knighted him into the ranks of greatness and equated him to Mandela.

Mr Tsvangirai

Tsvangirai foolishly believed her. Western efforts to paint Tsvangirai as being greater than he really was did not begin with the manipulations of Gillard. The reader will recall that Tsvangirai was once short-listed for the Nobel Peace Prize.

We watched in astonishment, this brazen attempt to cover up the very many flaws in the man in whom the white world was investing billions. He was held up as a champion of democracy. The fact that he rejected democratic principles in 2005 and led to a split in the opposition was ignored.

He was held up as a model of peace. The fact that Trudy Stevenson suffered great violence, and nearly lost her life, at the hands of thugs loyal to Tsvangirai’s faction was ignored.

The West plugged their ears with wax and refused to hear of the tortures carried out by Tsvangirai’s hoodlums at Harvest House, shocking cases of grown men being stripped naked and beaten before young girls. Welshman Ncube is all too eager to share these stories with as many as are willing to listen.

It is amusing to watch the white world respond with disbelief to the rejection of their puppet in whom they had invested so much.
Tsvangirai was a Mandela to white people and I see no reason why he should not carry on in this role.

Since they esteem him so highly and have honoured him with an honorary doctorate I imagine they will now make him a special advisor on African affairs? Or perhaps they will invite him to speak in their universities and impart knowledge to their students? Likely not.

The whites know Tsvangirai is a half-wit, sex-crazed man that has nothing real to offer. He is no Kofi Annan. It is for this reason that he was such a useful asset to pinks like Roy Bennett and Eddie Cross.

A man without a mind can be easily steered. A man without an ideology can be initiated into any doctrine.

Open-zip meets open-legs

Fate has not completed its work with Tsvangirai. The loss of the election does not seem to be the end of his misfortune. It seems his open-zip approach has met its match with his young wife adopting her own open-legs approach.

Troubling revelations that his young wife has been cavorting with a married man and is facing a lawsuit by the man’s wife has been further testament to Tsvangirai’s lack of judgment. A reader, commenting on the new episode in Tsvangirai’s troubled love life aptly captured the issues:

“How does an aspiring state president marry a woman who has FOUR children with several men without checking her background? And to imagine she has a matter pending at the High Court (for adultery, to put it crudely); and a whole Prime Minister with a coterie of aides and state resources fails to pick this up boggles the mind!”

This lack of judgment has characterised Tsvangirai’s time in politics. Only a few days ago Douglas Mwonzora appeared on television arguing that they knew the court action would not succeed due to a hostile bench. However, they would carry on just to show how corrupt the system was.

On Friday, the same people withdrew their application on the grounds that they would not get a fair hearing. This kind of mindless vacillation is hardly surprising coming from Tsvangirai.

Deborah Bronnert vs. Jonathan Moyo

The MDC-T did not withdraw their case for the reasons they state. The issue has more to do with a major propaganda coup by Zanu-PF spin-doctor Jonathan Moyo over the British envoy, Deborah Bronnert, and her involvement in the MDC-T court petition.

The response by Zanu-PF included a video attachment and transcript of the British Ambassador speaking to Sky News in a live interview. She alleged that 10 000 voters had been assisted in a constituency in which 17 000 votes had been cast.

The MDC-T included the exact same charge in their petition filed with the court.
The problem is that no such constituency exists. Zanu-PF offered a robust rebuttal demanding to know the name of the constituency.

Their argument was that the petition by Tsvangirai was frivolous hearsay and should be thrown out. One cannot approach the highest court in the land simply to regurgitate something heard on television.

The fact that the MDC-T included an allegation that was completely false proved hugely embarrassing. Once the MDC-T had a chance to look at the opposing papers by Zanu-PF they decided to save face by alleging an unfair process when in fact they were avoiding a major embarrassment on the basis of this Deborah video.

The MDC-T cannot claim to have withdrawn on the basis of an unfair court process. At the very onset of their petition they argued that they expected an unfair process but were proceeding to make an example of this and give a full account for posterity.

It is outrageous that they now claim withdrawal on that basis when in fact they are ashamed of the Deborah fed lies which they included in their case without attempting verification.

The resurrection of Morgan Tsvangirai

Barack Obama, Morgan Tsvangirai

All is not lost for Tsvangirai. He can redeem himself if he quickly wakes up to the dynamics that are at play. The first thing Tsvangirai must realise is that the West does not have his interests at heart nor those of his people.

They just want to use him. Tsvangirai simply needs to look at the Wikileaks cables and the decidedly ungenerous evaluation his Western handlers gave him in those private cables. The pinks are masters of manipulation. In public they smiled cheerfully and called him a Mandela.

Tsvangirai must begin by taking the side of Zimbabwe in the bilateral dispute with Britain. Over the past 14 years Tsvangirai has been unable to state that Britain is responsible for paying compensation to the evicted white farmers. Tsvangirai could not say this because he was a puppet of the British.

If Tsvangirai is a serious politician with the interests of Zimbabweans at heart he cannot expect our poor people to be taxed to compensate white British farmers.
I doubt Tsvangirai can summon the courage to state this truth. His fear is that once he takes the side of the Zimbabwean people he will immediately extinguish his usefulness to the British.

The same is true as regards sanctions. The sanctions imposed on this country continue to find justification because Morgan Tsvangirai legitimised them.
If Tsvangirai wants to become truly great he will fight for the removal of those sanctions. His position must be unequivocal.

He is the only person who can completely strip the sanctions regime of any legitimacy. During Tendai Biti’s tenure as Finance Minister he quickly learnt of the devastating effect of these sanctions.

Tsvangirai initially supported indigenisation before being brought to order by his handlers. There is video footage of him fully supporting the policy before he abruptly changed his position without explanation. Tsvangirai must cut off the puppet strings holding him back.

Instead of enunciating policy positions that are favourable to British capitalists he must instead stand for truth.
He has been down this road and it has never ended well for him. During the land reform he was used by pink Rhodies to fight a good policy.

He lost that fight as well as the 275 000 households that were resettled.
If Tsvangirai continues to allow himself to be used to fight indigenisation he is going to lose more support. Zanu-PF is not going to stop indigenising the economy and as time passes the benefits are going to become more apparent.

Tsvangirai risks being recorded in history as the witless black puppet that was used to fight land reform, to call for sanctions and to fight indigenisation.
All these positions were not his own. His British handlers were simply using him.

Tsvangirai can change that narration or he can dig his grave still deeper.

RIP Comrade.

Ndatenda, ndini muchembere wenyu Amai Jukwa.