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SOME would say, the chickens are finally coming home to roost. Others will say, sense is finally prevailing over emotions. Those in the know, will say the pound power is dying. Of course, there are those who will still doubt it, but time will soon tell the full story. When it all began, we were telling the story, but some dismissed it as mere propaganda. Others thought we were telling the story just because of our blind hatred of the MDC leader, Mr Morgan Tsvangirai. Some even whispered in the corridors that we were being used by the ruling Zanu-PF party. Now, those they thought were saying the truth are finally telling the story that we have always been telling. Those who have been working as mouthpieces of the MDC are telling the story as it is. Those who had been overdosed by the British pound are slowly becoming sober. Even the sycophantic supporters of the MDC are fed up. The time to flatter Mr Tsvangirai is over. The time to fool the MDC leader is over. The time for protecting Mr Tsvangirai�s shortcomings behind falsehoods and cheap propaganda is over. No more false hope! No more dreams and hallucinations! All the doubt has been cleared � Mr Tsvangirai lacks almost everything that makes one a leader. He is not articulate; he has no vision; he cannot motivate; he cannot lead; he has no strategy; he has no direction; he is not politically mature; and he is not a likeable character. Never mind the academic qualifications. Someone once joked that he would not even elect Mr Tsvangirai as a class monitor. Mr Tsvangirai is one person who makes everyone believe that leaders are born and not made. It�s not The Sunday Mail that is saying the story. It�s not The Herald that is saying the story. It�s not The Chronicle or The Sunday News. Neither is it The Manica Post nor the ZBC that is saying the story. The public media revealed the story a long time ago when the madness began. The story is now being said by the so-called independent Press, especially the unregistered Daily News, The Financial Gazette, the Zimbabwe Independent and The Standard that have always fooled Mr Tsvangirai that he is not only the country�s next leader but has good leadership qualities. Just last week, the Zimbabwe Independent had no kind words for the MDC leadership in general and Mr Tsvangirai in particular. In his "Publisher�s Memo" in the paper, Mr Trevor Ncube lashed out at the MDC leadership for its "shocking levels of political naivety, immaturity and lack of cohesiveness". Mr Ncube wrote: "Many now believe the MDC�s failure to get into power was a blessing in disguise. Their obvious lack of decisive leadership and a clear vision for the nation would have plunged this country into another crisis in the mould of Frederick Chiluba�s Zambia." Mr Ncube is discovering now what we discovered when the MDC was formed. We have always said the MDC has no capacity to rule this country because it lacks direction and has no vision. The reason why we have been lambasting the MDC left, right and centre is because we have always seen and believed that an MDC government would be a disaster. The Zimbabwe Independent did not end there. On Page 13 of the January 31 2003 issue, the paper gave acres of space to Denford Magora, the executive creative director of DDB Hash Three, to go all out for Mr Tsvangirai. "Morgan Tsvangirai should do the honest and decent thing: step down now and allow fresh blood to take over the leadership of the MDC . . . "It appears Tsvangirai is at a loss regarding the way forward for Zimbabwe. His recent fulminations against France, South Africa, Nigeria and even Britain should leave every level-headed Zimbabwean speechless with wonder . . . "It is clear that Tsvangirai, apart from addressing foreign diplomats and shouting at foreign countries, has absolutely no clue about what to do about our situation," wrote Denford in the Zimbabwe Independent. Well, we have always been saying it that Mr Tsvangirai has no clue about what to do about our situation. All political opportunists and puppets will obviously find it difficult to rule a country like Zimbabwe. How can a person who calls for sanctions against a country that he intends to rule be a leader worth talking about? Let�s get serious. But then it�s not only the Zimbabwe Independent that has finally seen the light. Even The Financial Gazette has seen it all. The assistant editor at The Financial Gazette, Sydney Masamvu, is clearly getting angry with the MDC leadership. He is now writing about the "paralysis within the MDC". In one of his opinion pieces headlined "Has the MDC run out of ideas?" Sydney spits his anger at the opposition leadership. "People are simply saying the MDC should put up or shut up. Zimbabweans have rightly begun to ask: Where is the leadership of the MDC?" wrote Sydney. Sydney should tell those asking where the MDC leadership is that the opposition leaders are here, as usual, but, as it was in the beginning, are waiting for instructions from Number 10 Downing Street in London. He attacked the MDC officials, saying: "Some, we are told, spend most of their time lounging at Harvest House, engaging in endless sessions of tea, coffee and gossip." One Prosper Jima, a medical doctor, asked The Financial Gazette�s Farai Mutsaka: "Where is this man called Tsvangirai these days?" Jima�s drinking mate added his voice, saying: "The man (Tsvangirai) is an abject coward." Just as a reminder, cowards are those people who have no spine and who let other people down just like what Mr Tsvangirai did when he ran away from the liberation struggle. In The Standard issue of January 26 2003, one Walter Marwizi wrote under the column "Newsfocus" saying, "Tsvangirai spends most of his time at Harvest House giving interviews mainly to the international Press". Of course, Mr Tsvangirai has to spend most of his time giving interviews to the international Press because he has to get the message across to his masters in Britain. In the same article, the chairman of the NCA, Dr Lovemore Madhuku, is quoted as saying: "I feel let down by Tsvangirai . . . He has not lived up to our expectations." What expectations? Mr Tsvangirai has done what we have always expected � that is to boycott reason and kill the MDC. Under The Standard comment of the same issue headlined "MDC leadership cowardly and aloof", the writer said: ". . . it makes Zimbabweans conclude that the MDC leadership is either lazy, cowardly or both. And they are right. The MDC is a big letdown at the moment". The MDC from the beginning has always been a big letdown. Surely, how can a political party that claims to be a Zimbabwean party get funding and is controlled by the country�s former colonisers? That�s outright madness. Even the unregistered Daily News, that has become the MDC mouthpiece, is also singing the "Tsvangirai must go" tune. In its January 28 issue, the Daily News gave one Wilfred Kamunhu, who is in Scotland, space to give advice to the MDC members. "If change is to come to Zimbabwe, the MDC is no longer credible enough to bring it . . . Please, can the MDC pave the way for a more radical movement that is ready to do the job while the sun shines?" During a meeting held recently, one MDC supporter told the Daily News that: "There is a crisis of conviction within the MDC leadership. The party appears to have lost its steam. The party has lost direction." What more can we say when the MDC mouthpieces are finally telling it as it is? At the rate at which the oppositional Press and the MDC supporters are lambasting Mr Tsvangirai, it looks as if very soon he will be wallowing in the political dustbin. Thank God the chickens are coming home to roost! Those who thought Mr Tsvangirai was the best thing that has happened in Zimbabwe in recent years are finally discovering the real Tsvangirai that we discovered when he joined politics in 1999. The Mulindwas
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