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AS THE outcry over China’s massive weapons shipment to Zimbabwe continues, I do not believe I have heard a similar outcry from the MDC leadership.  I shared about a week or so ago, and others have echoed the same sentiment, that the fight that the MDC should now be engaged in with Zanu-PF is not one of muscle, but one of brains and political acumen.  

The MDC should be seizing every opportunity that presents itself for intellectual victories over Zanu.  The Chinese ship currently sailing to Angola or reportedly, possibly Namibia, is yet another grand opportunity for absolute decisive victories that the MDC seems not to be keen on capitalizing on.   This shipment is also a golden opportunity to at least try and dislodge China from its unending support for Mugabe.  

 

China is vulnerable to international pressure, more so than Mugabe is.

 

They do not want to be embarrassed just prior to the upcoming Olympics.  Their economic position also now leaves them as a nice target that can be dislodged by bad behavior.  Those in the know have pointed out that China reportedly provided the machetes that decapitated and mutilated many a Rwandan, during the infamous Rwandan genocide.  This point should be drummed up until even a three-year old knows it as historical fact.  I would bet that the Chinese do not want to be seen to be facilitating another genocide at this point in time.  

Call me an “armchair wannabe strategist” for the MDC if you want, but I grow increasingly frustrated by the day, by the seeming lack of bold and smart open leadership by the MDC at this crucial time.  As someone pointed out on one of the numerous online Zimbabwean forums, the MDC won the mandate of the people.   By the way, I do not buy the suggestion that Tsvangirai won the presidential election, but without enough of a majority to dismiss the need for a runoff.  If that had been the case, there would be no need for Zanu-PF to be manipulating the results as they are now obviously engaged in doing.

 

So Tsvangirai won the mandate of the people with a clear majority above the required 50.1 percent or 51 percent, to lead Zimbabwe.

 

So, what Morgan Tsvangirai did with Violet Gonda on SWRadio Africa, he should do with the rest of the world.  Claim the presidency and lead, even from exile.  Do not wait for the presidency to be handed to you by the one you defeated.  The opposition should by now have clearly been defined by the MDC to be Zanu-PF, instead of them continuously let slide without even a wink, continued references of the MDC being the opposition instead.

 

This fact should be clearly highlighted by the MDC to the international press, and they should insist on being referred to instead, as the new Zimbabwean government in waiting.

So, back to the serious point of this posting.  The MDC should lead international pressure to highlight the hand of China in the pending demise of thousands if not millions of Zimbabweans, should the current arms shipment be unloaded anywhere on the African continent.  This pressure should focus not only on preventing the current delivery of arms from China to Zimbabwe, but should focus also on making sure that no more sales of arms are ever made by China to the Mugabe regime.  

 

This, to my simple mind, seems like an achievable and easy victory waiting to be claimed by the MDC and hence the people of Zimbabwe, in the ongoing fight with Mugabe.  So far, the MDC has been nowhere to be seen, or heard from, in this particular effort to save the lives of innocent Zimbabweans in a very direct and defined way.

 

Less weapons to Mugabe, more innocent Zimbabwean lives saved.

Cry Zimbabwe