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Insight into Zim’s redemption

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NEWSFLASH: “UK breaks lending drought for Zimbabwe with US$100 million loan.”
Ordinarily, this story would have made much more sense in the year 1997, but this is 2018, the good year of our good Lord!
It sums up how Zimbabwe, against all odds, finds itself a darling of the world again.
Like an ostracised villager who was rejected and neglected by all and sundry in silent winds of the countryside, its return to the global fold has been somewhat a remarkable tale that will take years to unpack and understand.
Crushed under the burden of isolation with corruption and incompetence wreaking havoc, the pressure on Zimbabwe was from all over the place.
Then in November 2017, the people spoke and the world duly responded in kind.
This is where Tendai Biti comes in handy in so far as unravelling Zimbabwe’s return to the global political and economic arena is concerned.
He is evidently not a happy man and the reasons are many.
The fury that accompanied the UK loan revelation rang far and wide but only to Biti’s uncultured world of narcissism and, for lack of a better word, egocentricism.
Typical of the chauvinistic Biti, it was full of sound but as nauseating as the sound of a discredited political hymn to the aggrieved voter.
Yet it was not coming from Zimbabweans who have had to bear the brunt of a hostile economy, an economy limping from the devastating effects of mismanagement.
And this was Tendai Biti speaking against his country, against his people and against the voter he is desperately courting.
His anger was understandable.
ZANU PF has taken the world by storm since the historic events of November 2017.
It has been a roller-coaster for Zimbabwe after years of stagnant economic growth, looting of state resources and abandonment of duty.
Still, its redemption is, and can never be good for the opposition.
For what good can there be for a people who have a false sense of entitlement?
What good can there be to those who believe Zimbabwe cannot develop without them?
There is nothing new or surprising here.
Once the rug was pulled from under the MDC’s feet, all that is left for the voter is a naked opposition that has been exposed beyond redemption.
President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has taken back from the opposition the rights of the Zimbabweans which were being violated by the MDC-T.
It is every Zimbabwean’s right to interact with whomsoever he/she wishes, but the MDC-T has been flagrantly abusing those rights while at the same time claiming to be fighting for democracy.
Such has been the dishonesty that, once exposed, the opposition was never going to recover from.
By opening up for the reintegration of Zimbabwe, the world has committed a cardinal sin against the embattled opposition.
The 100 million still came despite the MDC Alliance’s ‘successful trip’ to London.
“This attempt to put lipstick on the crocodile is most unfortunate,” said Biti.
We leave it there for now.
Investments that provoke anger
Nelson Chamisa, the MDC-Alliance leader has been on a crusade that has seen him criss-crossing the whole country.
In those rallies, one narrative after the other that is aimed at putting him ahead of the contesting pack has been created.
First it was the generational consensus narrative.
It died a natural death.
Then the ‘spaghetti roads’ issue was invoked.
Again it floundered.
Then came the lie that it was only them who could turn around the fortunes of this country.
But President Mnangagwa has averred a political strategy that summons the might of economic prowess straight into their faces.
Again the opposition lies have run out.
And it is important to understand the MDC-Alliance’s anger from that context.
The MDC has thrived on the pretext they hold the keys to unlocking Zimbabwe’s potential.
They have built their politics around that miasma, yet what we have seen in the few months that President Mnangagwa has been at the helm points to a completely different story.
This is why any investment into a country they want to run makes them angry.
And it gets worse.
Biti’s feudal state
The numbers at the MDC-Alliance’s much hyped rallies have not been pleasing, not least to the owners of the coalition itself.
They have tried to sell the world a dummy by posting pictures of those rallies, but with the advent of technology, it is not difficult to decipher facts from lies.
So, last week, they were in Marange, where again a poor turnout characterised their rally.
A furious Biti came out guns blazing, attacking the good people of Manicaland.
Here goes the raving Biti:
“A big rare smile from Marange… Manicaland regrettably has the highest rate of polygamy in the country with 45 percent of ‘married’ persons in this community being in polygamous unions.
Education and development will eliminate these throwbacks from our feudal past.”
And this is a person who is hoping to lead the country who finds himself antagonising the voter whose vote he is clamouring for.
Surely with an opposition like this, who needs elections?
But that is not the import of the whole story.
The whole story is on the simmering tensions within the ‘Alliance’.
Biti is eyeing the top seat.
He wants Chamisa to lose the forthcoming elections so he can take over the party.
Remember he is the one who first raised the issue of leadership renewal in the MDC-T in April 2014?
Douglas Mwonzora, the MDC-T secretary-general, seems to have read through the Biti game plan.
He is having none of it, hence his furious rebuke of Biti for his rantings.
It is now open warfare in the MDC-Alliance.
In the meantime, Zimbabwe’s remarkable redemption continues unabated.
Let those with ears listen.

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