We are particularly shocked because it is the same Tsvangirai who was busy denouncing us claiming that we were seeking “Unity Accord Number Two” with Zanu PF.

The same Tsvangirai was busy claiming that we wanted to compromise the struggle by negotiating with Zanu PF. Assisted by his hangers-on, including Eddie Cross, Tsvangirai claimed that our Secretary General, Professor Welshman Ncube and Deputy President, Gibson Sibanda were plotting to remove him and replace him with a leader who favoured dialogue with Zanu PF.

Tsvangirai projected himself as a hard-nosed leader who opposed dialogue with Zanu PF in favour of “confrontation”. Tsvangirai declared that the dispute between himself and us was that we favoured and sought dialogue with Zanu PF while he favoured and sought confrontation. We have not forgotten claims by Tsvangirai that our leadership wanted to kill him so that we could talk and compromise with Zanu PF! Who is now seeking dialogue and compromise with Zanu PF?

We once warned all of Tsvangirai’s propagandists that they shall one day bow in shame and disgrace once the truth bares itself. We have all along been aware of the secret meetings between Tsvangirai and certain senior military commanders closely associated with the Zanu PF succession battle. We have been fully aware of the document titled, “MDC Proposals For The Resolution Of The Zimbabwean Crisis: Sign Posts To Peace, Democracy, Legitimacy, Reconstruction and National Healing” since 2005 and it explains Tsvangirai’s recent utterances in London about granting amnesty to the Mugabe regime as if he lost a single kitten during the Gukurahundi massacre of innocent Zimbabweans. We find this shameful and a gross betrayal of the people who have suffered greatly at the hands of Mugabe’s criminal government.

We hold the view that Tsvangirai is self-seeking and opportunistic. Here is a leader who in one breath is talking about mass-action, ostensibly to “topple” Mugabe. In the next breath he is saying No! No! It’s about demanding free and fair elections. Next he claims he does not want to remove Mugabe “undemocratically”! Since when has mass actions been democratic? Tsvangirai is a leader who is inconsistent, confused and who has no strategy on anything that matters

It would be a monumental national tragedy if this country were to have the misfortune of having Tsvangirai as its President. There it is, he called for “a winter of discontent and short sharp action to remove the dictator" but the cold season is almost over and we have seen nothing! In London he called off his imaginary “mass action”.

In his document “MDC Proposals For The Resolution Of The Zimbabwean Crisis: Sign Posts To Peace, Democracy, Legitimacy, Reconstruction and National Healing” he offers to suspend mass action in exchange for dialogue with Zanu PF. How do you suspend something which does not exist?

How does he expect Zanu PF to agree to negotiate with a factional leader controlling 19 legislators, leaving out Professor Mutambara who leads 27 legislators in Parliament?

Gabriel Chaibva is the secretary for information and publicity for the MDC faction led by Professor Arthur Mutambara
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