By Special Matarirano

WITHIN the Zimbabwean political landscape, we have a party, MDC Alliance, that has been affected by a very toxic mental disease known as oppositional defiant disorder (ODD).

On the other hand, we have a reality-oriented Party, ZANU PF, which, since time immemorial, has been working to fulfill the aspirations of the country’s citizens. 

That is why ZANU PF, a Party that accomplished more for Zimbabwe, from waging the liberation war, waging economic and agrarian wars to the current fight against illegal economic sanctions and control of the true Zimbabwe narrative.

As aforementioned, the MDC Alliance has gained notoriety as a party suffering from ODD. 

ODD is a behavioural disorder in which a child displays a pattern of an angry or cranky mood, defiant or combative behaviour and vindictiveness toward people in authority. 

The child’s behaviour often disrupts daily routine, including activities within the family and at school. 

I need not mention the MDC Alliance dramaturgy of faked abductions and kidnapping attempts from last year and the recent John Mupanduki’s film script from Bikita. 

The Makomborero Haruzivishe, Cecilia Chimbiri et al issues are also a clear ODD syndrome where one deliberately commits himself/herself to crime and knows very well that the hand of the law will catch up to him/her but obligates himself/herself to be arrested all the same. 

This has been going on for some time now and has been heavily supported by Diaspora-based Alex Magaisa. 

In fact, Magaisa has become a de-facto spokesperson for the MDC Alliance since Fadzai Mahere only knows how to write the 140 maximum twitter words and nothing more.

Magaisa, now a Diaspora self-imposed ‘MDC spokesperson’, on January 7 2022, in his so-called ‘Big Saturday Read’, wrote a piece that attempted to insinuate that the Stockholm Syndrome is represented in the political situation in Zimbabwe.

Magaisa purports that the MDC Alliance is ready to liberate the people of Zimbabwe from their Stockholm Syndrome. 

What he is failing to understand is that, actually the opposite of his assertion is true. 

Actually, the people of Zimbabwe are being held hostage by the MDC Alliance through their control and monopoly over continued instigation of the illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe. 

Sanctions continue to hold Zimbabweans to ransom.

People have lost a universal right to personal, group and community economic growth. 

All transactions they are involved in are monitored. 

A friend of mine, for example, sent US$15 000 from Canada to Zimbabwe in 2015 and the money was intercepted by the US and confiscated. 

Efforts to recover the money proved futile. 

This friend is not a ‘political animal’ and neither is he on the so-called ‘targeted individuals’ list. 

He was a victim of the sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe. 

How can that explain the targeted nature of the sanctions? 

Let’s leave this subject for another day.

Within such an environment, the MDC Alliance has been on record describing ZANU PF as being responsible for the slow economic decay. 

They (MDC Alliance) tell people that if they get into power, they will change the course of the country’s economic trajectory. 

They promise the people they will ensure that their Government puts food on the table. 

But the truth is people are hungry and their hands are tied by the sanctions. 

They can’t breathe. 

They are being suffocated by punitive coercive measures called for by the MDC Alliance hierarchy, the same party that is feeding them with promises —promising life to a person whose oxygen you have cut off! 

Here are some questions I think Magaisa should have posed.

Why would anyone sympathise with or defend a person who deliberately hurts them? 

Why would someone think a person who has engineered their suffering holds keys to their freedom? 

Magaisa said: “It seems utterly irrational for an abused person to side with their abuser. Yet it is not uncommon to find victims of abuse expressing sympathy with or even defending their abusers.” 

One will quickly realises that the ‘change mantra’ for the MDC Alliance has close reflexes with the sanctions impact on the country and the urbanites electorate must take heed. 

They need to open their eyes and see ‘our enemy’.

Within this context, one may ask: Who is our enemy as Zimbabwe? 

The MDC Alliance stands guilty as it is the tormentor of our people. 

They are a tool on display by global powers. 

They don’t stand for a bona fide Zimbabwe narrative and we can’t live on a borrowed narrative, because we may as well cease to be proud of our country and nation.