MPC forsaw the failure of the ZANU PF,MDC Agreeement in September

STATEMENT ON THE POWER-SHARING AGREEMENT BETWEEN ZANU-PF AND MDC SIGNED IN HARARE ON THE 15th SEPTEMBER 2008.

MPC says there is no need for the world to wait and see how the so-called power-sharing agreement between Zanu-PF and the MDC signed in Harare on Monday, 15th September 2008, will work. Its fate is a foregone conclusion because it is a political fraud preordained to fail.And the agreement fools no one. Mugabe is still firmly in charge. He has not lost any of his powers.The political grandstanding of the whole signing event bore all the hallmarks of a political fraud seeking political legitimacy well after the event.The body language of the signatories and their speeches gave everything away. The one man tried too hard to be accepted while the other was only too happy to showcase his total disdain. A lie that even the supposed actors could do nothing to hide. It will simply not work.A public event cannot legitimise a secret political fraud made out in the shadowy corridors of power. The whole process had no political legitimacy; the outcome completes the political fraud. That it was negotiated with the so-called mediation of South Africa does not grant it legitimacy retrospectively. In the circumstances, it makes it worse. If anything, it is unZimbabwean as it is unAfrican and not international. It is a private agreement, devoid of political legitimacy.We fear the MDC long sold-out the popular cause, the so-called agreement only being the manifestation of that betrayal. Nothing short of a genuine democratization process will suffice. MPC believes it is better to have no revolution at all than to have a still-born one. The people of present-day Zimbabwe are the losers and the 15th September 2008 must be recorded as a sad day and not the great, non-event it was touted as.The citizens of present-day Zimbabwe not only deserved to know what was happening, they have the right to know and to be fully informed and to fully participate on such a crucial matter that not only affects them but their future generations as well.What the world saw on the 15th September 2008 was a re-enactment of the old and archaic mentality that the world should discard in 2008 and not endorse. It is a mentality that says that so-called leaders know everything and the people must just accept and follow. This is a lost golden opportunity to truly democratize present-day Zimbabwe and rescue it from the black-hole of regression that Mugabe and Zanu-PF have frog-marched Zimbabwe into. MPC and Mthwakazi, and indeed all progressive and open-minded Zimbabweans, will and must do everything in our power to stop this.This is also the mentality that gave Zimbabwe the political monster of Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF, and uMthwakazi, the tragedy of Gukurahundi. It is about to hand us the political dinosaur of Morgan Tsvangirai and the MDC. The people must say; not this time!Who mandated all the actors here and in whose name were they acting, we ask?2MPC and the world know what gave Zanu-PF and MDC-T a place at the negotiating table. It was mutual violence. Kenya is a dangerous precedent that must be buried in Kenya. It is the new head of evil that all Africa and the world must not see repeated elsewhere. It must not see the light of day in present-day Zimbabwe.It is time to stop the privatization of public processes and return their ownership to the people. The people of present-day Zimbabwe must bury their differences and reject comprehensively and loudly this political fraud. More than that, Zanu-PF and the MDC must bear full responsibility for prolonging the political and economic agony that the people of present-day Zimbabwe are going through and will in all probability still go through. Zimbabweans are being made to pay the ultimate political price for the selfish interests of a few men and women who won’t subordinate themselves to the greater and common good.The political fraud of 1987, the so-called Unity Accord, casts a large shadow over this latest charade. The fate of this latest accord is sealed. By this agreement Zanu-PF and the MDC have formally taken us back to the Dark Ages and down the political drain.The political problems of present-day Zimbabwe are political. It does not take a VIDCO Chairman (Village Development Committee) to know that.Therefore a political fraud crafted to achieve an economic miracle will not work. Zimbabwe must address its political problems openly, accountably, genuinely and without fear or favour. That is what will fix the collapsed Zimbabwean economy, not this political mischief-making we witnessed on the 15th September 2008.MPC understands that the diplomatese that has greeted the so-called agreement is unavoidable but we hope that the international community will give careful consideration to this agreement before writing the cheques and tempering with the targeted sanctions presently in place.The world might be tempted to give limited financial support now as an incentive for the regime to increase political reforms. We remind the world that this is a scared and running Mugabe. It will never work. Gukurahundi and all the crimes that he and his cronies have committed since, hang like a sword over their heads. The protection of office is Mr Mugabe and his cronies’ primary and overriding concern. Everything revolves around this concern.MPC remains of the considered view that only a true all-inclusive political process involving all the stakeholders and addressing all political issues openly and robustly, will rescue present-day Zimbabwe, and not the sort of political fraud we saw signed with a pliant, out of sorts political opposition on the 15th September 2008.MPC has long called for and continues to call for such a process. We continue to call for Codaz (the Convention for a democratic alternative in present-day Zimbabwe). Only such a process will stop self-saving leaders disgracing the political landscape of present-day Zimbabwe and give us leaders who are not afraid of the people but are prepared to submit and subordinate themselves to the sovereignty of the people. That is the essence of democracy and democratic activity.Zimbabwe and the rest of the world have an obligation not only to reject this so-called agreement between Zanu-PF and the MDC but also not to waste time on an agreement as visibly hollow as this one. The protection of a group of men and women cannot be allowed to hold a whole nation at political ransom. No man or woman’s mistakes are worth the suffering of all.MPC is challenging the people of present-day Zimbabwe and the rest of the world to reject this agreement without equivocation.

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