Accra to the MDC - It's the African Way Or the Highway

10 July 2007
Posted to the web 10 July 2007

Reason Wafawarova
Harare

THE recent events in Accra, Ghana, where MDC officials were on an anti-Zimbabwe campaign, once again showed that the opposition party is not founded on principles, policy or ideology. The attempt to hijack the AU summit for purposes of hoodwinking and misleading African leaders on the situation in Zimbabwe was a clear sign that MDC leaders are a gang of jet-setting romantics who have been bowled over by the glitter of international gatherings.

Since the MDC's formation in 1999, its leadership has shown disgusting immaturity by gallivanting the length and breadth of the globe, grabbing every opportunity to demean the same Zimbabwe they claim to love so much.

At some international gatherings, the likes of Morgan Tsvangirai have, reportedly, been introduced as presidents of the "democratically elected" government of Zimbabwe. It is such mad indulgence that sees MDC leaders, along with "career workshoppers" like Lovemore Madhuku and Gabriel Shumba having fully-booked diaries requiring attendance of all manner of seminars, workshops and gatherings in the western world.

It appears the MDC's short-lived celebration over the abortive resolution by the Pan African Parliament to send a fact-finding mission to Zimbabwe actually fooled Tsvangirai and his followers into believing that their treacherous stooge party had finally won the hearts of the African leadership.

Even though PAP later rescinded the resolution, the MDC was undeterred as it went on to send a bloated delegation led by Thokozile Khupe to Accra, to "shock" and convince the AU and Ghanaians that there was "dictatorial misrule" in Zimbabwe.

As it turned out, it was the MDC delegation that included Gabriel Shumba, that got the shock of its life from informed Ghanaians.

The people of Ghana, along with their mainstream media refused to be fooled by the MDC delegation's posturing that it was the blameless victim of brutal rule and demanded explanations and answers on pertinent questions the West has chosen to overlook and ignore for a very long time.

The radio presenter demanded explanations and answers that poor Khupe could not give while students, youths and many other people demanded explanations and answers that Elton Mangoma and his team of "speakers and presenters" could not answer.

There was no "Hey, Morgan! Hey Nelson! Aaah, Thoko!" as the MDC leadership has become accustomed to at Western international airports where they reportedly pass through "For EU Citizens only" gates.

This time it was Accra where the MDC activists had to explain their strategy of violent marches and protests. Ghanaians wanted to know why the MDC activists have called for sanctions against their own country. They wanted to know why President Mugabe, conferred the Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath by Queen Elizabeth II, had suddenly become a "dictator" to the people he helped liberate. They wanted to know why the MDC wanted to reverse the land reform programme and even produced damning evidence to that effect by replaying the infamous Fidelis Mhashu "proclamation" on BBC HARDTalk in 2000.

They wanted the MDC to explain its unAfrican alliance with the West. They wanted to know why the MDC was not comfortable with the idea of a forum where both sides of the Zimbabwean story could be heard.

Their colleagues from sections of the Ghanaian civic community could not rescue the beleaguered members of the Zimbabwean "democratic forces" and even the BBC could not spin the events in Ghana as they acknowledged that the ball game was totally different for the MDC.

Instead of learning their lesson that they should either march the African way or take the highway out of the African picture the MDC has, as usual, chosen to stick by its masters, perhaps already preparing for a bigger delegation for the EU-Africa Summit set for Portugal.

As Tendai Biti and Arthur Mutambara inferred in the past, the MDC believes the AU is a "club of dictators" and this is the attitude that makes the MDC membership so arrogant that it now regards Africa as an insular society of jingoistic denizens who will ultimately be unable to resist the imperial power of their masters in the West.

Any wonder then, that as the Tsvangirai-led faction of the MDC was facing a baptism of fire in Ghana one lunatic bishop by the name Pius Ncube was confirming his well-known idiocy by calling for an invasion of Zimbabwe by Britain?

By the way, those who have been fooled by the religious title undeservedly carried by Pius Ncube to the extent of honouring his ludicrous utterances with debate should spare their pens, keyboards, thoughts and breath by simply acknowledging that Pius Ncube is a plain idiot regardless of his religious or ethnic background.

This writer, like many other people, has always reminded the MDC that it is the African way or the highway.