Correspondent
Last week an image of a
The sight of a political graffiti message spray-painted incongruously on a recently painted
Granted, the first thing that the party would do would be to deny responsibility for the criminal act and argue that anyone could vandalise the outlet's wall.
Yes, anyone could have done it, but how would a non-MDC member benefit from appealing for the release of the
The shameful act also exposed how the MDC leaders and members are short-sighted.
Their roots in the student activism mindless militancy that manifests itself in their readiness to engage in violence and destruction is evident.
Apart from tertiary institution student politics, this mentality also has its origins in the formation's historical origin from a labour body.
Food riots
Following Government's adoption of
This is why all it took for the destructive January food riots in 1998 was a bread price hike.
The protests were hijacked by the
While protesting is a right, which is guaranteed by the
It ceases to be a right and becomes a criminal act.
Given the fact that all the MDC formations trace their umbilical cord to the ZCTU, one is not surprised that each time the formations stage protests, they re-live the massive destruction and looting of
It never crossed the minds of the ZCTU leadership that pillaging private business also meant destroying workers' sources of livelihood and the labour body's source of its lifeblood -- membership subscriptions.
NERA and MDC-T youth violent and destructive protests
As part of the MDC-T's strategies to win the 2018 harmonised elections and to secure a conduit for funding from some countries following its traditional Western funders' decision to turn off the funding taps after its 2013 poor electoral showing, Tsvangirai formed the National Election Reform Agenda (NERA) in 2015.
The outfit was born out of the MDC-T's internal campaign, #WithoutReformsNoElections (WRENE).
Tsvangirai also invited the membership of other 13 opposition political parties into NERA during the same time that he was pushing for a coalition of opposition parties to face Zanu PF in 2018.
It is, therefore, not surprising that on
The MDC-T youths claimed to be demonstrating against alleged police brutality, while NERA youths were ostensibly protesting for political reforms ahead of the 2018.
In both cases, most of the casualties of the two mindless and violent protests were not Government as the perpetrators claimed.
While the
A civil society group,
In a default judgment issued in
Fuel price increase protests
When President
In Bulawayo, many shops were torched and looted and, again,
Dragging innocent business into opposition politics
The story of the vandalised
Following the claims that a hired Impala Car Hire truck was used in the alleged abduction of a Bulawayo-based journalism student, Tawanda Muchehiwa, by unknown people in July last year, the formation's excitable youths like Takudzwa Ngadziore and Makomborero Haruzivishe went on rampage harassing the company and its workers.
The latter even locked up Impala Motor Spares workers in their central
One would not be surprised that the attack on
It is, therefore, not surprising that a few weeks ago, the political outfit's leadership drove over 400 kilometres to Chiredzi to tell the Chilonga folk they (leaders) would boycott
The people were obviously miffed because all they got was a statement that the
Although the formation's co-vice president,
Biti and the rest of the
He has been at the forefront calling for the boycotting companies such as
To the
Facing futility
One wonders which country they are dreaming of running one day by planning to bring the economy to its knees.
Fortunately, Zimbabweans are not as foolish as the
The targeted companies continue do well because the
The futility of the formation's hatchet job on the economy and Zimbabweans is exposed by the fact that it calls its largely unemployed young members (thanks to the sanctions) to boycott Impala when they cannot afford a one-way mushikashika (pirate taxi) trip or the most affordable meal at
The party is just out of touch with people's concerns and stupidly running rings around itself.
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