WHEN regime change proponents suffered a severe blow in the July 31 2013 harmonised poll, we knew it would not be long before they would emerge with new desperate strategies for survival.
Their task was made even more difficult as their financial backers realised the hopelessness of their cause and withdrew their cash support.
The defeat was so eloquent and the people of Zimbabwe had sent a message that was loud and clear that they were fully behind ZANU PF.
Forget about the muffled noises from the West about elections being ‘defective’.
They silently acknowledged that indeed the elections were free, fair, transparent, credible and an honest reflection of the will of the Zimbabwean electorate.
Recently, the MDC-T and civil society organisations, the torchbearers of the regime change push, still dazed by the crushing July 31 electoral defeat have come out with desperate proposals.
Elsewhere in this edition we have a story about the International Crisis Group (ICG) which still has nostalgic memories of the dysfunctional Government of National Unity.
The group is seeking not only relevance but cash as well.
And they remember that the last time they got both was when their partner, the MDC-T, was still part of the GNU.
But then that was before the Zimbabwean electorate had made their decisive statement on July 31 2013.
The paucity of their argument is confirmed by their clinging to an unsustainable stance that the Zimbabwean Government, true to their name, is facing a crisis.
And to avert the crisis the solution lies in an ‘inclusive’ national dialogue between the buoyant ZANU PF Government and the moribund MDC-T, so they say.
Former European Union Ambassador Aldo Dell’Ariccia addressing a workshop organised by Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, an extension of the ICG, recently hit the nail on its head.
He accused the regime change agents of being ‘anchored in the past’.
Thus, they still believed in the pre-July 31 2013 era when they thought through deceit and lies they could influence both the Zimbabwean electorate and the West to reject ZANU PF.
This, according to DellAriccia , had reduced civil society organisations to ‘anti-government organisations’ as opposed to non-governmental organisations they profess to be.
This has laid bare their regime change agenda.
Rejecting the call by civil society to tamper with the present Government, Dell’Ariccia is quoted as saying, “We still have a leadership who manages to keep at bay and under control these forces that are very much contradictory.”
Contrary to the assertion by regime change agents like the ICG that the country is facing an economic and political crises we have a leadership that is able to negotiate multi-billion dollar deals with China and Russia.
To the myopic ICG and other civil society organisations of its type, the world begins and ends with the West.
Suffice to tell the ICG that their attempt to initiate the so-called ‘inclusive’ talks is a mere wild goose chase.
And of late the publicised dream of the MDC-T to organise mass uprisings as a way of trying to fulfill the ‘crisis’ prophecy of their bosom ally the ICG, is bound to fail.
Expecting Zimbabweans to create a crisis by going to the streets when there is clear evidence that with the recent multi-billion deals that the economy will soon be on the rebound is the height of miscalculation.
If the new strategy of the regime change agents is to milk more cash from their traditional suppliers , who are we to stop them from trying their luck.
However, if it is to create a crisis in the country, they must revisit the results of the July 31 2013 harmonised poll.