THAT the MDC-T is slowly becoming a burden to the world is now a matter of public record if the wild accusations made by party leader Morgan Tsvangirai that China and Angola helped ZANU PF to ‘rig’ the July 31 elections during their much hyped 14th anniversary celebrations held in Mutare over the weekend are anything to go by.

A crusade that started with the party pointing fingers at Israel as being behind the ZANU PF victory is now becoming a circus as the MDC-T now accuses everyone of being behind its humiliating defeat.

Surely this stuff takes pride of place in the league of the ridiculous.

Soon after their thumping in the July 31 elections, the MDC-T claimed that a ‘shadowy’ Israeli company, Nikuv had manipulated the voters roll and rigged the polls in favour of ZANU PF, allegations which have been diluted by the serious infighting in the party, among other issues.

Recently the party’s Matabeleland North provincial leadership admitted that the party had lost the elections because of its poor manifesto which found no takers among the electorate, imposition of candidates and shambolic structures.

A fortnight ago, the MDC-T held what it said was a ‘strategic’ meeting to map out the way forward but the gathering degenerated into a volley of nasty words between members who accused organising secretary Nelson Chamisa of ‘destroying’ the party from within.

Most recently there has been a growing chorus from party members who want Tsvangirai to step down.

While this has been happening, Tsvangirai has been defiantly clinging on and is now pointing his fingers at other sovereign States with lousy and fictitious claims.

Addressing the celebrations, which reportedly attracted a paltry crowd at Sakubva Stadium that had been touted as the platform to ‘reveal’ what happened, Tsvangirai failed to give a convincing explanation of how the elections were ‘stolen’.

Instead, he threatened the new Government, saying they had no capacity to rule the country.

“They (ZANU PF) can have their Cabinet, asi tinoti tongai tione,” he said.

It is common knowledge that Tsvangirai drew his threats from the mistaken belief that his Western handlers who imposed sanctions against Zimbabwe to assist him to ascend to power are still behind him.

Yet events on the ground point to the contrary.

Western governments are now readying themselves for the vast investment opportunities in Zimbabwe.

Previously bound by the sanctions embargo, the European Union (EU) is now deeply divided over whether to maintain its hard-line stance or to engage Zimbabwe with Belgium, the centre of global diamond trade, fiercely opposed to the former.

Already, this week, the EU capitulated by agreeing to remove the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC), a diamond mining firm, from their sanctions list.

Last week a leading British paper, The Financial Times urged the United Kingdom who mobilised the whole Western world to slap Zimbabwe with the sanctions over a bilateral issue to engage President Robert Mugabe and ZANU PF or risk losing on the various investment opportunities.

In an opinion piece titled, ‘Emboldened by economic recovery, Africa has a new voice’, Michael Holman, the paper’s former Africa editor, said it was time that the West set aside old scores and took a fresh look at Zimbabwe.

“And as the prime mover in a strategy that has failed to deliver after a decade of trying, Britain should take the lead in an effort to break the deadlock and recover its influence in a country at the strategic heart of southern Africa,” reads Holman’s report in part.

“Unpalatable though it is, President Robert Mugabe has emerged from his country’s recent harmonised elections with more than his domestic power consolidated and the opposition in disarray.

“He has been welcomed back into the African fold by the very leaders the West had been hoping would denounce the conduct of July’s election – (Mr) Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s president, and (General) Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s former president and head of the African Union group of election observers.”

This is what Tsvangirai who became a burden to Zimbabwe and now to the progressive fraternity fails to read when he accuses other nations of helping ZANU PF to ‘rig’ elections without providing evidence to that effect.

Africa and other progressive nations across the world have embraced President Robert Mugabe and are eagerly waiting to do business with Zimbabwe.

This is why he fails to grasp the banal fact that gone are the days when the West used to support the MDC-T in its futile quest to claim power in Zimbabwe.

The West now has no option but to join the bandwagon of those willing to invest in Zimbabwe.

This leaves the MDC-T completely out of the equation except for their provocative public posturing against sovereign States.

What this means for Zimbabweans is that they have to carry on with the burden that was created by the British in the hope that it would dismantle the nationalist movement.

The same applies for the rest of the world.

The MDC-T was created by three British political parties- Labour, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats who came together under the Westminster Foundation for Democracy.

Their goal, as President Mugabe repeatedly said during his star rallies in the run-up to the July 31 elections, was to reverse the gains of the liberation struggle by removing ZANU PF from power.

Today we live with such evil in our midst.

We have a creation of the British desperately trying to seek relevance by provoking friendly nations and attempting to create diplomatic spats with their wild claims of vote rigging.

Zimbabwe and the world surely deserve better.

Let those with ears listen.