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recall it, is in a sad mood, this time around.
All is not well in the village, where people expected a new constitution and subsequent elections to have hit a final nail on colonialism and its cousin, neo-colonialism by now.
Like their soothsayer, the villagers, the unwavering vanguards of the liberation struggle and its ethos, its beliefs and everything, are getting impatient.
Yes, impatient about the delays in the constitution and the elections and the yoking of the “ox and the donkey” in particular.
The ox and the donkey village lingua franca for the inclusive Government!
Recently, villagers thronged Muroiwa Business Centre surrounded by Nhamoyebonde, Mapira, Muroiwa and Nhemachena villages – bare footed, booted feet, on bicycles – all sorts of village transport, and their tone was, elections now!
This villager, having spend most of his time in the metropolitan, where roads are covered by cement and scantily dressed women don’t care about defending their womanhood, let alone their country and its values, was shocked that the villagers are in no mood to allow the further yoking of the ox and the donkey.
This villager will not go into the details of which one is the donkey or which one is the ox, for he expects you all to know that the ox is valuable, respected and provides meat too, but the donkey is something else.
How many of us feed on donkeys? Are they not careers for their masters?
A constitution is the bible of a country. Respecting the constitution is therefore, sacrosanct.
The hullabaloo about a new constitution in Zimbabwe started with an excited whoop by one Lovemore, though not so loveable, Madhuku, boosted immediately by other Eurocentric or Europe controlled voices, rising in volume, tempo and pitch to a frenzied shrieking crescendo.
It was a part of a grand regime change plan and we embraced it, culminating in the 1999 referendum.
When they realised that the constitution did not favour the masters of exploitation and dehumanisation, the never-so-loved Madhuku, then opposed it and with the aid of Europe, they scratched through a “No Vote”, and still called for e new constitution.
The MDC was sired thereafter, and joined the bandwagon of those calling for a new constitution, but suddenly, after reading the mood in the villages, MDC is developing jelly feet.
Their time is up and the Inclusive Government is their only claim to national governance.
Tendai Biti has become a vital cog is ensuring that donors do not timeously release funding for the constitution making process, and also using his position as Minister of Finance to scuttle plans for an election.
The village soothsayer, says the MDC, whether MDC-T, MDC-N, MDC-M or whichever name they use, will not win the next election because the Inclusive Government exposed the MDCs as corrupt, power hungry and lacking national interest.
The recent MDC-T congress exposed it as an ultra-violent political entity, whose orgy of violence forced even its masters to scamper for cover in shame and disbelief.
The village soothsayer says, like father, like son. It runs in the family.
“Having been sired by extremely violent parents who have killed many in Iraq, Afghanistan and of late Libya, what do you expect?
“We fought their parents here in Rhodesia to give birth to a democratic Zimbabwe. Now we are fighting the child.
“At the moment, the child is not ready for a fight that he will certainly lose.
“The British, American and European countries’ embassies have done their homework and realised that the great revolutionary party is back in full force and ready to take the bull by the horns,” says the soothsayer.
The MDC, which has failed to articulate national issues has been severely exposed by the Inclusive Government, evicting the elderly in the high density suburbs and taking over the houses themselves, in the name of democratic change.
Like in football, when you are not winning and the prevailing scenario favours you, you apply all delaying tactics to see you through the period.
Is it not paradoxical that the same MDC formations that were formed around the simple goal of removing President Mugabe now want the man to stay longer in power?
“Mugabe must go has become Mugabe must stay. All they want is to remain in Government, at whatever cost.
“They are afraid of elections but we in the village are ready.
“Anyway, the elections will come and either way, the yoking must change.
“We need a strong ox to pull through,” says the soothsayer.
The village mood is that elections must be held now and not next year.
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