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elections have been carried out and the number of the people who have voted in these primaries have also been fascinating.
Arguably MDC-T is in a permanent state of political decomposition.

The years that they have been part of the inclusive Government depict that their aims and objectives as a party have rapidly become unattainable and their efforts to become a competent political party are futile.

An interesting observation that has been made by the party’s funders which the party finds hard and difficult to comprehend is that their support is waning.
The party is internally haemorrhaging.

It has lost its glitter and has in fact outlived its usefulness, something that can be dubbed as the evaporation of political efficacy (EPE).
Evaporation of political efficacy plus politically discordant couples equals disaster (EPE + PDC= D).

The impression that the MDCs had painted in the electorate’s minds derived from their “chinja” slogan has equally become useless and has lost its gleam.
The party has shown that it is politically and economically clueless explaining why its leaders have “shut minds” and must be resoundingly defeated in the impending harmonised elections.

It is a political party that has never been politically romantic because it has got politically and economically unromantic policies.
“Seafaring is necessary, navigare necessest, but not when you are going to drown.’’

Primary elections have shown that Zanu-PF provides the ladders for talent to climb.
This is what the MDCs have found too irritating because they feel that some are not fit to climb these ladders.
The MDCs executive systematically “sheltered” the so-called party heavy weights because they knew that was going to result in them exiting the political field.

Zimbabweans are fully aware that the essence of having an opposition political party is that it must have vibrant competing policies that are homegrown and not policies that are foisted on a political party by foreigners.

There are no connections between MDC-T policies and the Zimbabwean general populace.
It is evident that the party is plagued by a low level of institutionalisation; it is reliant on the clout of its political leader who Professor Jonathan Moyo noted has “an open zip and a shut mind.”

What more would you expect from such a party?
No wonder why some youths are already coining it “a movement for destructive change.”

MDC-T has failed to come up with a campaign strategy that can outwit Zanu-PF’s indigenisation and economic empowerment drive.
It is beyond any reasonable doubt that support for the MDC has waned.
MDC-T has done very little to win the hearts of the electorate.

It cannot live up to its rhetoric and the electorate is surely going to punish it.
MDC-T failed to defeat Zanu-PF during the 2008 elections when the supermarkets were virtually empty and when the people “were voting with their stomachs.”
All those who voted for the revolutionary party during that time are still there and are prepared to go and cast their votes any time anywhere.

Those who had defected to the opposition have already come to the realisation that the opposition party has nothing to offer.
Many have seen that MDC-T parliamentarians cannot deliver.

They have instead involved themselves in financial scandals and mismanagement in their bid to catapult themselves to riches.
As if this is not enough, the MDC-T secretary general had the audacity to insult the people when he was being interviewed.

How can an MP, a minister say “I cannot answer zvinhu zvemastupid people . . . ” when the people who voted him into office wanted him to account for how he had used the Constituency Development Fund.

It appears that Tendai Biti is not aware that the people are the water and he is the fish and he cannot survive without the people.
It will be interesting how he will be able to convince the people to vote for him during the forthcoming elections.

Voting patterns in the constitutional referendum depict that Zanu-PF has got an edge over the opposition.
MDC-T’s rallies in Matabeleland have also shown that the party has lost a lot of support.

It is a pity that Morgan Tsvangirai has failed to read the signs of his political demise and has in fact started his blame game.
Given his party’s incompetence and the failure of his MPs to deliver, how can he blame the security sector for the poor attendance at his rallies?

He must read the signs and realise that he is on a wild goose chase.
Can you imagine that his so-called star rally had less than 200 people and in Uzumba the Zanu-PF supporters who cast their votes in the primary elections  between Cde Simbaneuta Mudarikwa and Joseph Kandemiri had a total of 11 562 people.

The political temperature is rising and it requires those who are tried and tested to withstand the political heat.
The MDC is in a permanent fix.

It is a fact that a toad likes a lot of water, but not when it is getting hot.
The MDC situation is synonymous to that of a frog that is in a tin oblivious of the fact that the tin is on fire.
What the frog does not know is that it is dying slowly.

By displaying their political incompetence during its years in the inclusive Government, the MDC-T has been like a piece of iron that was being corroded by rust.
They do not have anyone to blame, but themselves.

They have shown that they have an appetite for power but they do not have the people at heart.
Zimbabwe is better served by politicians who know the importance of undertaking policies that are bent on eradicating poverty and breaking the dependency cycle.

Zimbabweans are now aware that development is a process of self-realisation and that it is so only insofar as the people are the means and the end.
We strongly opine that the self-development of the general populace is democratisation at its most concrete and most profound.

Zimbabweans can no longer be manipulated or used in the interest of a few ambitious people who simply want to enrich themselves.
Politicians must be accountable to the people.

The looming harmonised elections are an opportunity for us as the electorate to ask our representatives what they have done for us that warrants our trust to re-elect them into office.

We cannot allow ourselves to simply be part of the gesture.
It’s very interesting to note that most Zimbabweans are politically conscious and are prepared to direct their political consciousness to the support of the political elite who want them to benefit from indigenisation programmes.

Arguably, MDC-T will never be able to overcome its infamous legacy of puppetry and economic and political cluelessness.
It is a legacy that is meant to keep the people in a servitude position and growing poverty and immiseration.
They have shown that they are reactionaries undertaking reactionary activities.

All progressive Zimbabweans must go and vote wisely so that the nation rids itself from the influence of such reactionaries
Dear reader, you may naturally expect us to make a comparative assessment of what MDC-T has done during its years in the inclusive government but we leave that for another day.

It is evident that the MDC is a movement that is completely lacking in every sense political and economic responsibility.
Voting for it is synonymous to what we say in shona  “kunanika hura pachitsiga kuti hudyiwe nemakunguwo.” 
All that the MDC promised the people and what they are still promising the people are nothing but nonsensical mental images which all sane and progressive Zimbabweans cannot accept because they have come to the realisation that their policies are extremely hazardous.

The Zanu-PF vision exudes all the facets of the chimurenga; we must finish the unfinished business.

• Darlington N. Mahuku & Bowden B.C. Mbanje are lecturers in International Relations and Peace and Governance with Bindura University of Science Education.