STILL smarting from their comprehensive July 31 2013 thrashing at the polls, the MDC-T has resorted to a campaign of instilling panic among the Zimbabwean electorate.
Recently, MDC-T’s shadow minister of labour Paurina Mpariwa, urged people to stock up in preparation for what she called ‘trouble’ that lies ahead.
The call to ‘stock up’ is a desperate attempt by the MDC to trigger panic buying, so that shortages experienced in 2008 might recur.
Seeing people suffering, Zimbabweans for that matter, is central to MDC-T’s strategy.
Remember the stay-aways encouraged by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) the forerunner of the MDC.
The whole aim was to cripple the economy, a strategy their sponsors, Western capital favoured.
The MDC-T, which is so blind to changing times is through the ZCTU still calling for strikes as reported elsewhere in this publication.
They don’t realise that in the new economy, which was declared by Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa in his recent Budget statement, the means of production are now in the process of being owned by the empowered indigenous folk.
That’s what the 51/49 share ownership policy means.
And to expect the controllers of land and industry to strike against themselves shows the anachronistic age to which the MDC belongs.
Even to this very day, a party which is supposed to have Zimbabweans at heart, still supports the illegal sanctions imposed on our country.
After all, it is public knowledge that the MDC-T actually helped in the crafting of the American version of sanctions, Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (ZDERA).
And when MDC ministers were given a chance to show their calibre in the now defunct Government of National Unity (GNU), they were exposed.
Their performance clearly showed they were anti-people.
Forget about their utterances as they try to hoodwink the electorate into believing that their party is the solution to Zimbabwe’s problems.
People’s memories are not that short.
It is the height of hypocrisy hearing the MDC today criticising the ZANU PF Government for failing to rescue industry.
When MDC-T secretary general, Tendai Biti was finance minister, he ignored Cabinet advice to use the International Monetary Fund allocation of US$500 million Special Drawing Rights to rescue industry.
And this is the party whose regime change allies are today still attempting to sabotage the economy by shutting down their companies.
And today as workers lose their jobs as companies shut down, they can see through the crocodile tears of people like Mpariwa, who was the minister of labour in the Inclusive Government.
The hypocritical MDC showed no sympathy at all to the plight of the civil servants as demonstrated by their ministers in the Inclusive Government.
Then Finance Minister Biti was blunt and insensitive in telling the Government workers that there was no money for them.
Then Public Service Minister, Lucia Matibenga refused even to listen to the submissions of civil servants.
The present ZANU PF Government has now given civil servants a platform to air their views with a promise to better both their salaries and working conditions.
And the hypocritical MDC has already raised their noise levels as they pretend to sympathise with the plight of Government workers.
As we pointed out last week, our new economy which is people driven is going to drive Zimbabwe Agenda for Socio-Economic Transformation.
We leave the MDC to chase shadows as it continues to attack a moribund once white controlled economy.
Moreover, their illusion that harmonised elections will be held before 2018 or that another Inclusive Government will be formed soon will remain a pipe dream.