TANONOKA JOSEPH WHANDE

The heart of the matter is that it is time that the people in each and every constituency not only watched their representative but acted against him or her should they promote ideas in the national assembly that do not reflect their wishes Patience is a virtue, they say.
Nonsense, I declare.
When patience stretches on and on it becomes inactivity and that is also known as cowardice.
The people of Zimbabwe’s patience is running out and Zimbabweans are not cowards as the number of graves at the hands of Mugabe can attest.
For years, week after week, Zimbabweans have been patient and have given their support to various trialists and political upstarts: all in the hope of retaining and protecting their hard won freedom Robert Mugabe.
But alas, for years, in spite of the fact that the nation has always produced notable sons, they all end up being disappointments, charlatans who quickly forgot the grandmothers and uncles who sent them to school.
Our brilliant sons and daughters are easily corrupted and confiscated to work in the wrong camps.

I feel terribly sorry for Morgan Tsvangirai. He has courage and he means well.
But for what he has gone through and what he witnessed the nation going through at Robert Mugabe’s blood-soaked hands, why did Tsvangirai ever believe he could get anything sensible out of Mugabe and the killing ZANU-PF machine?
I have always cautioned against Tsvangirai going it alone and in several articles urged him to invite other “stakeholders” to participate in these talks with him.
Now, because he agreed to deny information to the Zimbabwean people, he is spending a lot of time not attending talks, walking out of talks or denying reports about one thing or other.

Zimbabwe will never be a one-man show nor will it ever be a one-party state; try as he did, Mugabe can attest to that.
My advice to Mr Tsvangirai’s advisors is to backtrack a little, it’s never too late; backtrack and take more Zimbabweans on board.
Had they done that, it would be clear to everyone now that Tsvangirai has a principled stand supported by several other civic groups and freedom fighting individuals and that Mugabe, always the conniving cheat, was the one playing games with the nation.

Our brilliant sons were snatched from us by an unknown foreign spirit and Zimbabwe does not know how to counter that invasion.
What did this Mugabe do to our illustrious sons and daughters?
I would give anything to have a chat with Jonathan Moyo’s parents or legal guardians. From them, I believe, we could get enough information to decide what to do with a man who changes positions more frequently than a windshield wiper.

Zimbabwe watches in awe as the once popular Jonathan Moyo, who dared and taunted Mugabe, declaring at one time that there was nothing Mugabe could do to him “because President George Bush (Senior) would not allow it”, swings from one political whorehouse to another.
In support of his corrupted literary protégé, Caesar Zvayi, who was thrown out of Botswana last week, Moyo peeled layers and layers of fake decency coating his soul and declared, “When a country has more goats than people it suffers a serious leadership deficiency, as is happening in Botswana where a primitive and intolerant military junta is masquerading as a democracy.”
This is from a professor and former cabinet minister who should know what words to use when dealing with people.

Do the people of his constituency care what is said in their name? But since ZANU-PF spat into Jonathan Moyo’s mouth, the man has become an embarrassment to himself and those using him.
He has shown the same disregard for decency that ZANU-PF has shown over the years. We see the deficiency of personal and political morals. We see the craving for the spotlight and for diplomatic passports.

And, as we talk now, what does his constituency think? What do those MDC activists, including Tsvangirai himself, think about having extended a political truce and camaraderie to Moyo by not fielding a candidate in Moyo’s constituency and thereby allowing Moyo not to fight for political recognition, survival and acceptance like other candidates?
Is the MDC so barren that their security departments do not care to investigate and advise their bosses accordingly? How could such a popular party be duped by Jonathan Moyo?
Such a thing would never happen in ZANU-PF because, from thousands of miles, those murderers can smell a drop of embalming fluid in the ocean.

How did we lose prolific Caesar Zvayi to meaningless, empty-headed murderers?
Botswana deported Zvayi because he talked to much in the face of a government that is struggling to stay afloat because of the fall-out of what is happening in Zimbabwe.
Botswana, like many African states, supported the struggle for independence in ways they could afford. And we have many of our people who were sheltered in this country at great cost and loss of lives to locals.
But for the first time since way back when, Botswana had to admit that they had a problem caused by the goings-on in Zimbabwe.

Yes, there is a problem in Zimbabwe and it is caused by the likes of Jonathan Moyo and his mentors like Robert Mugabe and Joseph Chinotimba, Chiwenga, Munangagwa and others.
But Jonathan Moyo, unschooled in verbal decency like his master Mugabe, worries when other nations go about the business of protecting their nations from unscrupulous chancers like Zvayi.
Given Botswana’s admission of problems with Zimbabwe, how could it be expected to accept Mugabe’s spin-doctor to not only teach their students, but journalism students.

If Moyo and Mugabe are proud of the country that they ravaged, why shouldn’t the citizens of Botswana do likewise? Why cry to let their friends be accepted elsewhere?
And, who is Jonathan Moyo anywhere? He is just a small politically undecided child given an overwhelming amount of toys and who does not know which one to play with first.
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We must, of necessity, take our leaders and elected representatives to task and make sure that they do not make arbitrary decisions that may impact negatively on the nation.
Like Zimbabwe continuously reminds the world, Botswana is a sovereign state that reserves the right to accept or reject those people who show up at their borders for whatever reason and for Jonathan Moyo, who himself laughably imposed sanctions on members of Tony Blair’s cabinet, to spout this kind of gruel is also an indication of directionless political immaturity.

I am Tanonoka Joseph Whande and that is the way it is today, August 14, 2008.