The Sunday Mail
Last week we witnessed a handful of unemployed MDC-T youths march to Parliament demanding US$15 billion which they never one day did break a sweat for.
The fliers hastily printed for their pathetic cause, littering a city already reeling from poor waste management, carried voyeuristic activists’ statements: “Huya upihwe thaza rako … $15 billion ungoshaikwa (sic)”, and “Ini thaza rangu ndorida, koi we? Handei!!”
Surely, how can grown men and women would wake up, take a bath, clothe themselves in red and persuade themselves that today is the day they will get US$15 billion with each getting US$1 000 out of it.
US$1 000 to buy booze and more drugs. When that money is blown, then they look for something else to demonstrate about.
Come on.
Come on MDC-T supporters, surely you can do better than that. Surely, you cannot be that gullible and naïve to think that you can just say “abracadaabra” and you will have and US$1000 each.
Yes, that US$15 billion may still be unaccounted for and may have been diverted by some unscrupulous players in the diamond mining industry but let’s say it can be accounted for, let’s say it just happens to be found somewhere — what makes you think it belongs to you as MDC-T?
What makes you think you earned it? What makes you think that part of that money is yours? It would have been understandable if it were Zanu-PF that had demonstrated for that money because they are the ones that have been advocating for empowerment all along while MDC-T was advocating for economic sanctions.
This false sense of entitlement that has engulfed this rag of a party is pitiable.
Besides, these MDC-T chaps had the opportunity to give the electorate US$1 000 each during that ill-fated inclusive Government but instead they were busy feathering their own nests.
Their very own Moses Mzila Ndlovu confessed as much, saying these guys were chopping money as if there was no tomorrow.
Their very own leader got to be known as the Legend of the Seas because of the cruises he splurged on.
Now they are out of Government, their party is as good as dead, and they are flat broke. So they think if they march someone will give them US$1 000 each.
The only money you will get is if you can convince donors to give you 30 pieces of silver as they have always done!
No sensible person went into the streets to march so that Tsvangirai gets another Judas payout from the West. The sensible people were busy making a living, whether they were in offices, farming somewhere or vending wares on the those very same streets.
Okay, let’s imagine they had managed to take their march to Parliament Building, and the US$15 billion was presented to them by, let’s say, the Speaker, or better still the Minister of Finance and Economic Development and the Minister of Mines and Mining Development.
Just imagine Tsvangirai being presented with US$15 billion cash, in crisp hundred dollar bills. Just imagine what would have happened? And remember we are talking here of a Morgan who once bolted out of hospital through the back door the other year because he couldn’t or wouldn’t pay his bill.
Yes, you guessed right. Morgan would have sped off at the speed of light with “everyone’s thaza” and he would be lounging in a park or boat somewhere.
Dubulaizitha!
