ZANU-PF has won nine nine national Presidential elections since 1980.
The party from 1980 to 2002 used to dominate parliament, a system in this regard I can describe as party chauvinism.
It is consummately asserted in no doubt that the ruling party is the sole heart and soul of a country, which has struggled to step up in new democracy.
However, despite its fortified and pinnacled stance against any opposition rule, opposition by now must learn from experience that Zanu PF ‘’is bent on leadership eternity ‘’despite it being a Machiavellian style of rule.
To a greater extent to enunciate this contrite sequence of political outstanding in-democratic stature of in-human portrait exposed lavishly by Zanu PF, opposition must bend down in low descendancy in terms of its opposed ambivalence to the long-time existential powerhouse.
If opposition goes through memory lane, then there is experiential and digestive reflective practice to be more analytical to.
Who brought born hardline political , economic challenges we face?
Both parties among them, gigantic bullies to humanity and opposers brought more harm than good.
If two bulls fight fiercely to climax and culmination, the environment gets spoiled.
Sometimes it’s comedic and itends a tragedy. It is comedic for opposition to face vehemently the contumacy of the ruling party, but blows in response are a civil blowing out fire to the people.
‘’If it was not opposition of Morgan Tsvangirai things might have been stable in the country.’’
This vociferation is rampart within the fabric of society of Zanu PF.
Opposition is seen or has been seen as the ignition engine to Zimbabwean politics.
In the initial parvenue of their preliminary nagging opposition will be able to set democracy ball rolling. However, the retaliative blow is muscled hard to return and make the population suffer.
People of a section of society talk of opposition from Tsvangirai, but it is vital to turn back hands of time and speak of the prior and post Zimbabwe opposition. The first opposition to face Zanu PF directly left a lot of questions we still ask ourselves.
‘’What will be the end story of Gukurahundi, which witnessed the death of almost 20 000 people in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces’’ ?.
This is the roving question... Even up to now President Emmerson Mnangagwa chews the bone and nut once this discussion roll heads in the country.
Who is then better than the other, was better between the two political cant- carious politicians?
Tsvangirai is said to have never spilled blood of which he was seen as peaceful and sympathetic to humanity.
The automatic failure of great liberation heroes who contributed to the Lancaster House agreement might have been taken note of by opposition.
In this regard following opposition parties were supposed to learn from what had transpired politically and militarily in the 80s.
Although Joshua Nkomo and Ndabaningi Sithole failed to bull-out refractory Robert Mugabe by then, Edgar Tekere the first Manpower Planning and Economic Development minister pulled in opposition cycle to create a wavelength of political disturbance in 1995.
He formed what was called ZUM, Zimbabwe Unity Movement which failed dismally to oust the thick-political minded Mugabe.
After Tekere, popularly known by then as Two Boy failed to bow down to Mugabe victory, Margaret Dongo the first female aspiring presidential candidate by then Member of Parliament for Sunningdale took slice of the nasty taste of politics working together with Kempton Makamure.
On the day of the hot-potato ZUD, Zimbabwe Union of Democrats launch at the National Sports Stadium, thousands of Zimbabweans thronged the venue.
At last, despite the allylation of brave Zimbabweans, ZUD failed to call to victory.
Political ascendancy of Tsvangirai drew to the navel of politics millions of people.
It was taken as the first political party that sided with millions of workers who took industrial collective action and working together to over-throw Mugabe.
All these opposing tongues wagged at a time the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP), abrainchild of former deceased Finance minister Bernard Chidzero was on a high-level syllogism in the country.
ESAP was launched in the mid- 80s, 1985. It was optimised optimistically to elevate the Zimbabwean economy, which was basically in the sheer bleeding start of point.
Several events had pulled down the economy. One most popular of all was grand corruption which involved Maurice Nyagumbo in 1989 and led to his suicide at his home in Borrowdale.
Several government ministers had formed bus companies, which consummated black businesses by then.
Government ministers had formed bus companies. The Willogate scandal, which involved top presidium and ministerial hierarchy led to resignation of Dzingai Mtumbuka the then Education minister, who introduced upper-top schools in Zimbabwe’s rural areas.
Top ministers Tekere, Enos Nkala, Simbi Mubako , Naomi Nhiwatiwa , Swithum Mombeshora and others left Zanu PF.
Mugabe’s truculence and hostility towards assassination of fellow comrades broke records. Some had been already lined out.
Mugabe’s despotism must be a hard rail iron, which the people of Zimbabwe must remember as history not to be repeated.
Several ministers got deceased through unexpected accidents. Where Mugabe killed the soul of democracy is that he did not want any form of persiflage’s in purple passage against his reign.
It then revealed that opposing and knocking down him was a mountain top trigonometrical beacon to descend on.
People have learnt how Zanu PF has never been defeated. The only raw question in the roving air is why then the opposition goes to electiona in singles expecting to head-on defeat Zanu PF.
A multiparty democracy has existed with the arrival in power of Mnangagwa, who studied it that it never throws him down.
Infact it divides votes thereby pulling down into dungeon in the subterranean world of opposition parties.
Zanu PF has already a population of votes ready to sustain its victory.
These are new farmers and their families, friends and relatives, party stakeholders, miners and sundry supporters.
The gross number of the opposition electorate cascades down to be devoured by the ruling party once they are several political parties contesting.
Recently Morgan Komichi advised political parties to unite against Zanu PF. an advice that will never see dawn in Zimbabwe.
There are several political parties to emerge taking cover of Zanu PF of which big divisions, confusion and perplexity arises to pull down opposition parties once votes get divided.
Since get the together of parties has failed to coexist because of perturbing insiders’ , opposition politics has failed to cross boundaries of victory .
It is being ousted in circles of victory and liberal triumph.
Collective action of Zimbabweans for victory working together to stand for accountability, transparency and credibility tells a story of national victory in a natural way.
Victory against Zanu PF meanwhile has failed as opposition in Zimbabwe is consistently way-laid while on its escapade to take victory.
As this rages on now 44 years since 1980, as long as genuine, wayward united party coalition fails in unified unison to stand against Zanu PF, then it’s a matter of God’s time for Zanu PF to leave power , probably one day , perhaps.
*The writer is a private lecturer in community development. Contact him on email nmnevsonmpofu755@gmail.com
These weekly articles are coordinated by Lovemore Kadenge, an independent consultant, managing consultant of Zawale Consultants (Private) Limited, past president of the Zimbabwe Economics Society and past president of the Chartered Governance & Accountancy Institute in Zimbabwe. Email- kadenge.zes@gmail.com or Mobile no. +23 772 382 852