What I told MDC T Secretary General, Tendai Biti

By Budiriri Peter Moyo

You should really be concentrating your energies on telling people a message of love and hope on how you are going to make their lives better, especially in the constituencies you won if you ever wish to win them again in five years’ time. Also concentrate on self-introspection, find out which sleeping pill you drank over the five years of GNU so you don't drink it again for the coming five years if you wish to remain relevant at all. The Chinja mantra is done and gone so surely in five years’ time you can't be singing the same song. The mistake was to sing the same song for 13 years thinking the same challenges of 1999 remain stagnant in 2013. You should have learnt from Obama who came with Yes We Can but changed it to Forward within four years. You have been singing Chinja for more than a decade as if Zimbabweans are caught in a time warp. Many Zimbabweans have moved from being workers to owners - maybe that's a problem with a labour movement like yourselves - you just thought creating jobs and insulting Mugabe was enough. You should have been singing a tune reminiscent with your record in the cities you have been ruling since 1999, what has changed in those cities? Do we see an improvement of life or we see looting of massive proportions? You can't also be in a government for five years and then come out saying Chinja. Chinja what, when you are the ones building what's already there? What kind of a builder builds a house and then campaign against it asking people to demolish it after five years? Also this issue of using sanctions to punish Zimbabweans for your failures will never win you many friends in Africa and most importantly in Zimbabwe. It is similar to the scotched earth policies of the Rhodesians where if they could not find the comrades, they burnt the whole veld, killing everything and everyone just to flush out one person. That is what you did in essence with your call for sanctions on your mother country. Wake up now and look within yourselves, the best gift you can give Zimbabweans, your supporters and ZANU PF supporters alike, is letting the country move forward because no matter how much Botswana, America and the West can cry on your behalf, nothing is changing for the next five years and no Zimbabweans will die for you like they did in 2008 before you came with a support for a Human Rights body that disregarded these atrocities as if they had not happened. Learn from the Democratic Alliance in South Africa which with just 20% of the vote, they are able to make their spheres of influence as efficient as possible, making them win provinces like Western Cape based on their track record not how much ANC is so bad. They use their efficient record to decampaign ANC and you should show us where you have been efficient not how Mugabe has been so bad for the past 33 years. So stop crying as if that crying will change who is at state house. Start participating in nation building for Zimbabwe is for all Zimbabweans and if you had won you would have won to rule Zimbabweans and not MDC supporters