By Bernard Bwoni
That
the senseless and shameless sanctioned Mangoma mugging by members of his party
is appalling and disturbing is a euphemism. Zimbabwe is endowed with irreparable
oppositional imperfections with the current tragic unravelling within the ranks
being affidavit to the inevitable lasting malfunction. The Achilles heel of
Zimbabwe politics is a lack of an authentic, relevant and effective opposition
to the ruling revolutionary party. The void this shortfall creates has the
negative consequences of any ruling party becoming content with short-changing
the electorate. A credible opposition is there to keep this complacency in
check by critically challenging the privation induced by the short-comings of the
government.
The
Zimbabwe opposition has been entirely dishonest and concocted counterfeit
claims of democracy, rule of law and civil liberties to lure the unsuspecting
electorate. These indeed were substance-defunct proclamations from the dishonourable
and morally-unconscious collective oppositional Machiavellian machinations. Mangoma’s
democratic right and civil liberties were asphyxiated by the very democratic
hand the Zimbabwean opposition claims to be the foundation of their western
funded and founded ‘ideology’. Instead of grilling the ruling party about the
recent revelations about the sleaze and salary scandals the opposition would
rather pounce on one of their own for rightly calling for leadership renewal
and party revamp. An opposition with sobriety acts as trouble-shooters as
opposed to mere spectators who concern themselves with the frivolities of supplementing
futile bedroom bareness and sampling the sumptuous trappings of their imagined ‘success’
and political celebrity status.
Political
violence is a malady, an ailment of those with misguided and misplaced loyalties
and will be used to push forward the interests and agendas of the powerful, the
internal and external players with inauspicious grounds and misdirected
fidelities. All people have a right to life, all people deserve respect and the
haunting images of a battered and bruised Mangoma with his shirt tattered is
the most despairing moment in Zimbabwean politics. There is no smooth side to
killing, there is no painless side to violence, there is no excuse for acts of
violence; there is no better or worse violence and all perpetrators walk the
same line in the eyes of the recipients of the vile acts. Violence in politics
must never be downplayed as there are innocent victims and misguided
perpetrators. A machete’s slicing affliction bears the same revulsion whether
it’s inter-party or intra-party violence. There is no way of separating the two
unfortunate and irresponsible immoralities.
The
disconnection with the grassroots and discord within the opposition structures
is testimony to the inadequacy that defines the depth of the current opposition
in Zimbabwe. The opposition willingly succumbed
and indulged in the politics of the elite and entitlement during the tenure of
the government of national unity and their starry-eyed connection with a neo-colonial
configuration which seek to relegate the Zimbabwean indigene to perpetual
subjugation has eroded their credibility. The opposition in Zimbabwe is a
coalition of the deluded democrats and conniving colonial and neo-colonial point-men
and seeking to reverse the gains of the liberation struggle is the opposition’s
raison d’être it has been proven beyond reasonable doubt.
The
ironic thing is that in Zimbabwe the opposition have incessantly and freely
called for the removal of President Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai even called
for ‘Mugabe to be violently removed from power’ and he remains intact to
impotently engage in his national and bedroom transgressions. The moment one
from with his ranks peacefully called for Tsvangirai to resign the daggers were
drawn and Mangoma was shamelessly degraded and pummelled to a pulp for it. Now
that is the depressing nature of opposition politics in Zimbabwe.
The disingenuous external media of those with the
illegal fascination on Zimbabwe would most definitely have gone into a frenzy
had this violence been apportioned to the side whose recalcitrance to their
neo-liberal and imperial agenda they find revolting. The regrettable reality is
that the opposition in Zimbabwe was build on false and flimsy foundations and
the unfolding domino-effect we are witnessing will only intensify as the
opposition slides towards the unavoidable permanent political blackout. The
opposition in Zimbabwe has been structurally and strategically warped from
formation and the continued anchorage of the neocolonial agenda renders it with
a lack of gravitas and credibility. The Western-funded and founded show is
finally approaching its finale and the marionette strings are dangling with
anticipatory annihilation.
As the opposition continue with the dishonorable descend
into self-induced political comatose the ruling revolutionary party continue to
ascend with practical and patriotic precision. President Mugabe calling for ‘decisive
action’ against those convicted of corruption is reassuring and the country’s
vision remains intact as long as the tackling of the sleaze remains genuine and
those incriminated are prosecuted accordingly. As we bid farewell to the
courier extension of the crafty neocolonial project there is a renewed
guarantee that the founding principles and the core of the country’s vision
remains absolute and fortified with a feisty fidelity.
Bernard Bwoni can be
contacted on bernardbwn@aol.com/ http://www.bernardbwoni.blogspot.co.uk/
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