THE walkout from Parliament by MDC members on Tuesday, as President Emmerson Mnangagwa presented his State of the Nation Address (SONA), was in keeping with current eccentric behaviour by desperate regime change agents.
But this was no more, perhaps even less, than what we expected from a political party still recovering from a numbing election defeat.
After all, this is a tired puerile trick we have witnessed before.
We are not sure what one daily had in mind when it predicted the embarrassment of the President.
Instead, an unfazed President Mnangagwa went on to lay out a confidence-inspiring legislative agenda for the First Session of the Ninth Parliament.
What we saw, that was unusual, was an orchestrated demeaning behaviour by a bunch of MPs and Senators, who are expected to represent the views of those who voted for them into Parliament.
That is what we all might have thought.
But alas, they are instead representing the interests of imperialists, whose primary concern is regime change.
The electorate is just a means to an end.
The weird behaviour by these MPs follows closely on the heels of their recent disgraceful attack of Chief Justice Luke Malaba in the same august house.
Apparently this is done with the forlorn hope that the victory of ZANU PF and President Mnangagwa might be reversed by the imperialists who created them.
How this can happen to a result which was confirmed by both the electorate and the highest court of the land only God knows.
But they are not alone.
Elsewhere in this edition, we carry a story of the ridiculous extent to which civil society is prepared to go to soil the name of the ruling Party.
In its latest post-election monitoring report, Jestina Mukoko’s Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) published a shocking report of a Mutoko man who was allegedly a victim of ZANU PF post-election brutality.
The story of how a politically motivated inferno had destroyed his house and all he possessed was screamed in a number of our local dailies.
Social media also had a field day.
When we went there to investigate, we learned from the villagers that the peace that prevailed in Mutoko before and during the elections persisted.
ZPP’s alleged ZANU PF victim turned out to be a possible trickster who looked like he had burned down his homestead to induce NGO support.
The last time this happened, he was handsomely rewarded with a brand new bicycle by NGOs.
The villagers there are now very suspicious of a possible connivance between David Chamanga, the alleged victim, and NGOs in order to give ZANU PF a bad name.
The speed with which there is enthusiasm to associate ZANU PF with brutality and everything that is bad makes us raise our eyebrows.
Verification is considered a distraction, it appears.
NGOs, like their regime change partner, MDC, look like they are prepared to go even to ridiculous lengths to deny the ZANU PF Government legitimacy.
They have tried sanctions, malicious lies, boycotts and the ballot box, all in the hope of unseating a former liberation movement.
They have failed.
And ZANU PF has moved on.