1] Perhaps the actual problem isn't with those you enjoy grouping & patronizing.
Perhaps you're the one failing to come to grips with the reality that social media isn't a church were someone gets to play Senior Prophet.
Here we are equal & every narrative will be challenged.
2] To those who have become fatigued and/or disillusioned with the trajectory the movement has/is taking, we have no option but to find each other.
Lets focus on FIXING the change vehicle opposed to needlessly exchanging blows.
The agenda remains winning Zimbabwe for change.
3] To the intellectuals, any narrative that equalizes ZanuPF & MDC-A is bar talk.
It will be ferociously resisted & mercilessly attacked.
Any "intellect" that fails to recognize the "weapons of the weak", is itself nonexistent.
The weak will always find ways of fighting back.
4] Importantly, noone has shielded the Leader of the Alternative, nor the vehicle he leads, from criticism.
Rather, what remains missing is your proposed alternative action, & your own roles in it.
Criticism for the sake of it, feels like a script from Chitepo School of Idocy.
5] How does it happen that your "criticism" fails to acknowledge the difficulties of being change agents under a bloodthirsty military dictatorship?
Why does your "criticism" always fail to acknowledge that whereas "not enough", some people are actually trying to do something?
6] Why not acknowledge that the "immature & clueless" Leader of the Alternative has been meeting local & regional thought Leaders, to tap from their own "knowledge"?
Is that business as usual, or its actually part of the "plan"?
Why hasn't that excited your "intellect"?
7] Isnt it a plan on it's own, seeing that the Leader of the Alternative now has one of his ex-critics as Spokesman?
Is it not significant that an ex-independent candidate is now the brilliant voice of the Alternative?
Doesn't that signal a desire to learn & "mature"?
8] More importantly, by continuously fixating on Nero, cryptically or otherwise, how are you detoxing our politics?
How will that move us away from personality politics?
Who benefits from narratives & rhetorics that keep the Alternative internally focused and in "defence mode"?
9] When the Alternative makes policy propositions, you seldom react to it!
Why are you seemingly only interested in politics & politicking, and not what the alternative is proposing?
Are you afraid of creating traffic about it?
Do you only enjoy amplifying the bad & the ugly?
10] Sadly, those rightfully pointing out that 2023 is on the horizon, aren't proposing anything useful towards ending the ruinous rule of ZanuPF
2023 is bigger than Nero.
It's about sustaining the regional & global trend of ending dictatorship, one State after another.
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1. Admittedly, when I first read the "structured currency" headline, I thought the Harare regime was taking its "structures" propaganda too far.
With the benefit of more research on the topic, I'm now totally convinced the Harare regime is indeed taking its propaganda too far.
2. By definition, a structured currency is "structured" in that it's supposedly backed by both mineral reserves (in our case gold) and trust in government's monetory policies & regulations.
Unfortunately, no one believes any of the two are present in our existing circumstances.
3. Part of why all previous gimmicks have failed is a trust deficit.
Even if the government opts to accuse commentators of being alarmists, causing panick and despondency, no one can be faulted for rushing to withdraw their forex savings if we have learned anything from history.
1. Imagine trying to make sense of how some 4 gentlemen in Bulawayo can randomly claim, 'we have recalled Amos Chibaya, he has ceased being a member of CCC'.
Outside the influence of social media, many only know about #CCC because of the efforts of this indefatigable organizer.
2. Propaganda has to make some sort of sense.
Even where some decide to hide behind the claim of "a traceable history in the struggle," Chibaya would make the mark.
A devoted organizer during the times of Tsvangirai & even more so, during the times of Chamisa under the MDC-A.
3. For the successive elections between 2018-2023, it's a mystery how Chibaya found the passion to abandon the comfort of his home and the herculean energy to traverse the country, organizing the Opp for electoral triumph.
Chibaya is very much unheralded & doesn't seem to care.
1. So, a group of at least 25 individuals have decided to join nonexistent forces under the otherwise much heralded #NERA banner to push for electoral reforms.
It's difficult to even identify them as political leaders because they don't represent any political constituency.
2. If you review the outcome of the controversial 2023 election, these people combined had fewer votes than the Councilors who won your ward election.
Many of them have never even bothered to field candidates in successive elections but only pop up whenever they sense a need.
3. If you were to profile them, there is one Lucia Matibenga, masquerading as PDP President.
Her "party" never contests.
She only temporarily enjoyed limelight under PDP when Sen Mwonzora brought her as his MDC-A partner before they connived to recall MPs elected under Chamisa.
1. Interesting comment on this unfolding drama by Prof Ncube.
I, however, can't help recognize the continued conflation of politics & law, which I've previously written about, regarding the formation of CCC party from MDC-A.
It's quite strange that BaNcube does the same here.
2. I take notice of @Welshman_Ncube choice of words here.
He says: MDC-A party's "...National Council resolved to reconstitute itself as CCC..."
By definition, when you "reconstitute," you simply restore or build up again, using remaining parts of whatever has been destroyed.
@Welshman_Ncube 3. However, it was a legal nulity not only for MDC-A to 'reconstitute' itself but to even meet & make legally binding resolutions to begin with.
In 2020, Justice Chitapi ruled that the MDC-A party wasn't a legal persona, effectively meaning it wasn't a legally constituted party.
1. We need to accept that we've seen enough to conclude we've no justice system in Zimbabwe.
Perhaps it's time to totally (temporarily) abandon seeking judicial recourse, particularly around political issues
Why continue subjecting ourselves to the wig wearing ZanuPF activists!
2. Let me rationalize this personal view:
Firstly, we are simply patronizing the generality of the citizens by arguing that going to these "captured courts" is an important academic exercise that exposes judicial capture.
What has been the consequence of exposing this capture?
3. ZanuPF's reaction to the damning SADC Observer Mission report is evidence enough that they don't react to "embarrassment" by showing restraint.
ZanuPF chose rather to burn SADC through an unprecedented propaganda offensive and direct confrontation with the Zambia government.