kingdom of the blind

The feeling of being in the wrong place at the wrong time runs high here. The current Zimbabwean politics is the wrong kind of politics in the wrong era. With a population of less than 6 million voting and taking I month to announce the results which the candidates dispute after all is the most weird thing in my generation. Why I say so is because Zimbabwe is still stuck with an octogenarian leader who has nothing to offer anymore and an opposition leader who has lost two previous general elections and failed to deliver on the third. I am talking about MDC-T is announced result of 50, something % to 43, something% for ZANU PF. No one really knows the truth because everyone refuses everyone’s result. In a country where everything has come to a standstill no food, no fuel, and no work that margin of win shows a flawed candidate. A situation where candidates have to be persuaded to contest a run-off, the cry baby syndrome. From the discussions that I have had with a few of my highly regarded gurus including Gumbo, Samanyika and mhofu in the city of kings, they are less than impressed and wonder who the advisers of Morgan are. They tell me this was the ground for landslide victory. In shona they have a saying that goes: Kana worova nyoka, rova musoro, ukarova padumbu ino kuruma. Literally translating to that when you want to kill a snake, hit it on the head, if you hit it in the middle it will turn and bite you.
Now if it were the real politics at stake, what could be the situation? I asked Gumbo. He told me that we could be talking about King Makers and swing votes and smooth and free campaigning without creating a leadership vacuum where people start slaughtering each other. There should be a swing vote of 10% from the losing candidate who really took people for granted euphoria that so him condemned to the dust bins of politics. Mhofu in city of kings however told me that the run-off is not going to change anything; his vote is going to go back on MDC-T. His rationale was that Mugabe needs to go and then get rid of Morgan in five years time. He does not have any confidence in the man. Such is the situation where people get stuck with politicians they don’t want. But mhofu’s theory is like a pepper spray we have seen it before when leaders refuse to leave.