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The curse of September 11

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MONDAY, September 11 2018 largely went unnoticed, courtesy of many other events, but the roots of this fateful day, whose seeds were planted in 1999, were being felt across the country.
It was a day that the opposition MDC Alliance was supposed to have demonstrated to the country and to the world that it had finally grasped the principle of patriotism but as has been the case since their ill-fated formation, they have yet to come to terms with that simple concept.
Nelson Chamisa, leader of what is now known as the MDC Alliance, was revelling in the ‘success’ of the cholera pandemic that has hit the country in the past few weeks due to his party councillors’ ineptitude and incompetence.
In tow were his indefatigable supporters who gleefully pointed accusing fingers at the ruling ZANU PF for ‘causing’ the outbreak.
They were celebrating as if they are immune to the disease, when it is common cause that it was the negligence of their councillors which resulted in the deadly pandemic.
Such has been the toxicity of the MDC politics since September 1999 that they will stop at nothing in their bid to claim the ticket to State House.
That includes throwing spanners in ZANU PF works and wishing ill for the country they claim to love.
This writer is of the view that those officials at the Harare City Council who did not attend to the burst sewer pipes resulting in the cholera outbreak ought to be charged with murder.
“In all fairness, I think ZANU PF supporters and members have suddenly become more civil than their MDC counterparts,” wrote Andrew Kunambura, a local journalist, on facebook on Wednesday last week.
If there was any doubt about the effects of the illegal economic sanctions, whose inception and nurturing has been ably sponsored and supported by senior MDC officials including Chamisa himself and the abrasive Tendai Biti, then the cholera outbreak has settled it once and for all.
There can never be any discussion on the anguish and unprecedented horror that the cholera outbreak has wrought on to the innocent citizens of this our beloved country without mentioning the name MDC and the attendant sanctions.
It is simply their creation and their baby.
The buck starts and stops with them.
It is all on their doorstep.
The MDC was formed with no proper ideology or alternative solutions to ZANU PF’s policies or programmes.
Instead, their brief, as imposed on them by their founders and handlers from the West was, and still is, to ‘make the country ungovernable so that they can justify external interference.’
This is a point that the late MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, and now Chamisa, was consistent in emphasising.
Even in the face of changing political dynamics in Zimbabwe where the land issue, the major reason behind the formation of the MDC, and where ZANU PF has asserted its politics and policies to the world, the opposition has failed to depart from their politics of chaos and abrasiveness.
Chamisa and cohorts, for all their insipid lies that God is in it, are in fact demons that must be cast away from our land.
We need to summon the spirits of our land so that they can remove this September 11 1999 curse.
Perhaps we could make life easy for Chamisa and his MDC Alliance.
During the run up to the July 30 2018 harmonised elections which he deservedly lost, Chamisa built his campaign around infantile hallucinations.
He claimed he had serious links from across the world who could bring to Zimbabwe ‘massive’ investments.
And it was only last week that Biti claimed, soon after being sworn as a Member of the House Assembly at Parliament Building, that Chamisa had the ‘keys’ to the country’s prosperity.
Since the cholera outbreak, we have not heard or seen any solution being proffered to curb the pandemic.
We are yet to see those investors making an effort to assist their friend make a mark in the country as a serious politician.
We are waiting with bated breath for the investors he promised to come and sort out the mess his councillors have created in the country.
We are hoping to see the tonnes and tonnes of money that Chamisa’s sidekick, Biti, said would be brought to Zimbabwe so that, for once, MDC Alliance-run local authorities can deliver quality service.
There is huge anticipation that the MDC will finally become a responsible opposition that can compete with the ruling ZANU PF Party in delivering service to the people of Zimbabwe.
We will, of course, not raise our hopes high because we know what the MDC is all about and what it stands for.
We know they are merely a platform for the West to take over our land.
We know that they are simply pawns in a game they do not understand.
We know they are a curse to this and other progressive nations.
Let those with ears listen.

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