Caesar Zvayi: How petty can one get?

humble origins as a teaboy in the mines of Bindura, MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai responded with an advert that backfired spectacularly that his party promptly killed it.
The advert lauded one ‘‘great African leader” who began his working life as a teaboy before rising to be his country’s head of state and government.
Zanu-PF soon identified that African leader as the late Ugandan autocrat, Idi Amin Dada, a man who has become synonymous with the word tin-pot dictator.
Though I doubt that Tsvangirai consciously admires Amin, or knew that ‘‘the icon” he was lauding in his party’s adverts; he has definitely shown disturbing traits that make the ‘‘new Zimbabwe” his party claims it will usher such an ominous proposition.
To Tsvangirai and his personalised party, no MDC-Tsvangirai official commits a crime.
It’s never prosecution, it’s always persecution, and the charges are always ‘‘trumped-up” a favourite phrase of the MDC-T information department.
The courts, which coincidentally have acquitted several high-ranking MDC-T officials Tsvangirai included, are never given a chance to determine the guilt or innocence of arrested MDC-T officials as they are promptly accused of being Zanu-PF Kangaroo courts.
The judges all become card-carrying members of Zanu-PF.
Cases in point being the arrest of Elton Mangoma, the Energy and Power Development Minister, drawn from MDC-T who faces charges of criminal abuse of office and the Supreme Court’s nullification of the results of House of Assembly Speaker Lovemore Moyo’s election.
All clear-cut cases that should be left to the courts but to Tsvangirai, the Supreme Court erred, it was compromised by Zanu-PF to find against Lovemore Moyo.
The judges all conspired against Lovemore Moyo.
Tsvangirai promptly called a Press Conference at his party’s headquarters where he poured vitriol on the judiciary without a shred of evidence that the court had exercised bias when it had actually ruled 3 to 2 with justices Wilson Sandura and Luke Malaba dissenting.
As such if the bench was compromised would there have been any dissenting voice?
And Tsvangirai was blissfully ignorant of the fact that to safeguard their judicial independence, judges are not answerable to anyone as they are appointed for life and can only leave office upon retirement or if they commit a crime like Benjamin Paradza did.
‘‘This decision is a clear reflection of the state of affairs on the Bench, a judiciary which in the post-Dumbutshena and post-Gubbay era has largely discredited itself by becoming a willing appendage of Zanu-PF.
Dubious and pro-executive decisions have been made in this era (I suspect the man was miffed by findings against white commercial farmers).
‘‘We will not accept the decisions of some Zanu-PF politicians masquerading as judges.
“Zanu-PF is trying to use the courts to subvert and regain what it lost in an election,” Tsvangirai quipped in his statement.
When these same courts find against the State, they are never given any credit for acquitting themselves well, the judges remain accused of trying to persecute the innocent.
Tsvangirai, who appeared unaware that he was part of the executive, accused the courts of finding in favour of the executive.
The clincher was where he charged, ‘‘what is common cause is that Parliament is a separate body, with its own rules and regulations and the courts should not interfere with other arms of the State namely, the Legislature.”
Yet his scandalous statement was trying to do just that, interfere with the judiciary when he is part of the executive.
It was quite hilarious to hear Tsvangirai, a man who aspires to lead Zimbabwe, be so petty as to complain that Mangoma had been arrested by a constable, a development he claimed showed disregard to decency.
‘‘The fact that a Cabinet minister can be arrested by a constable, is a reflection of Zanu-PF’s total disregard to the basic tenets of decency.
His arrest is an assault on the GPA. Hon Mangoma, just like Hon Mwonzora, Munyaradzi Gwisai and Hon Rodgers Tazviona, are all innocent victims of a barbaric and senseless dictatorship,” Tsvangirai quipped without any sense of irony.
Tsvangirai’s envisaged new Zimbabwe, if it ever happens, will probably be the only country in the world where high-ranking criminal suspects are arrested by Police Commissioner-Generals and serve their sentences in five-star hotels.
Here he again appeared lost to the fact that a suspect loses some of his/her rights, which is why even the Press drop honorifics when reporting on such persons.
I wonder what the MDC-T information department will be doing when such gaffes are communicated sto the whole world to guffaw at.
How a lawful arrest can be deemed to threaten the GPA only Tsvangirai knows.
And after fulminating for several minutes, Tsvangirai threatened to pull out of the GPA, and again appeared unaware that even if his party pulled out, the inclusive Government would still subsist between Zanu-PF and the MDC.
This union of convenience can only collapse if Zanu-PF pulls out for the simple reason that Zanu-PF is the only party therein with the mandate to form a government by virtue of holding the Presidency.
The Presidency does not derive from the GPA but from the presidential run-off poll that Tsvangirai lost to President Mugabe.
I hope Tsvangirai and his party remember this the next time they threaten to pull out of government.
Meanwhile, can someone please keep that man away from a microphone, it seems to bring out the worst in him.
Better still can he be glued to one, its better from everyone.
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