Trevor and Geoff are confusionist bourgeoisie

Trevor and Geoff are confusionist bourgeoisie

MUGABE and Tsvangirai

• Ncube: Zimbabwe needs 'third way' solution

• Nyarota: Time may be ripe for third force

Veteran journalist Trevor Ncube has put forward a 'third force' argument as the only route to rescue Zimbabwe. Another journalist Geoff Nyarota has put forward a similar view. The curious timing of their arguments - just days before an important election - has got many of you talking. 'It's nonsense," Brighton Musonza argues today

By Brighton Musonza

I HAVE to disagree with Trevor Ncube and Goeff Nyarota on the idea of what the two have called "The Third Way" or "The Third Force" nonsense as an addition to Zanu PF and the MDC. I presume these are the messengers of the neo liberals who thrive on chaos and prolonged crises. I am ashamed at refuting this idea at a time when I am supposed to be rallying my fellow countrymen to go to the polls to exercise their democratic right to make their choices.

Trevor Ncube wrote in his weekly newspapers about the need for a "Third Way" and he was backed by another confusionist, Geoff Nyarota. Just by looking at the two names -- we are talking of the cream of professional journalists well respected in the mind games industry.

What has baffled many though is their effort to discredit the MDC on the eve of the election, branding it unfit to rule and all sorts of rubbish intended to contaminate and confuse the electorate. The question is: why didn't they bring out the issue of a "Third Way" much earlier, or should we be forced to declare that this is an effort to impress Robert Mugabe on the vacant ministry left by Jonathan Moyo?

Trevor Ncube's attack on the MDC, well, not news to some of us who have followed him over the years, only cements our initial assertions that he is doing front office service duties for neo liberals who don't give a monkey at what the poor man is feeding on for supper. Trevor is a selfish individual who has not bothered to do his bit for fellow blackmen who are not into business. He makes an unfortunate attack on the MDC claiming "the MDC is not much better" and that an insider MP recently told him that "only God could save the party from itself". He went on to say "the trade unionists within MDC claim the party as theirs and are battling to marginalise other factions such as civil society organisations." This is clearly a stance by every businessman who is only showing his latent hostility of organised trade unionism, and for that he might not be taken seriously in his future national contributions.

Trevor Ncube claims that "there are also forces ranged against what is perceived as Ndebele influence in the MDC which has wreaked havoc and paralysed it. This is yet one of those cynical cheap political slurs to ferment tribal tresh for selfish means.

"If the truth be told Trevor Ncube and his Harvard colleague are only pushing for an agenda backed by elite businessmen based in foreign lands"

BRIGHTON MUSONZA

The two find themselves in a wierd position in that Goeff Nyarota was last time accusing the current Daily News management of favouring Ndebeles when he was shown the door for mismanagement.

Not to be outdone, Nyarota who goes on to say "instead of exhibiting the dynamism and vibrancy of a young and progressive party, the MDC has become moribund". What is the purpose of "dynamism and vibrancy" if it only opens up space for infiltration by Zanu PF thugs masquerading as "new blood". Take a look at the infiltration of ZCTU now, student activism, churches and even football administration. Besides, the MDC is yet to go to its second congress, to elect new leaders. And he goes on to say apart from the founding fathers and mothers it (MDC) has not attracted any new blood or talent, apart from Shakespeare Maya of NAAG, whose arrival added little value to the MDC. The former Daily News editor goes on to say "the privileged citizens living in the leafier sections of suburbia need to emerge from their cocoon of political complacency".

Alright Geoff, so you want trade unionists to accommodate the Borrowdale Brigades into a labour-based party despite the fact that they are businessmen you have worked to discredit all your life as a corrupt lot? Tsvangirai's undistinguished management of the ZCTU and now the MDC, withering the storm of the state apparatus geared to crack it up has not been a good management attribute in the eyes of Nyarota!

In fact, if the truth be told Trevor Ncube and his Harvard colleague are only pushing for an agenda backed by elite businessmen based in foreign lands and so called educated armchair critics who have been urging the MDC to boycott the election, so that it becomes irrelevant and hope it melts into thin air and they come in as Messiahs made-up of groups of proxy corrupt businessmen in expensive charcoal suits, Professors, Doctors, so-called political analysts cum activists and university lecturers -- the type campaigning for the need for a new constitution and telling Zimbabweans to boycott the election to further their own selfish projects.

As for Trevor Ncube, you have just lost all the respect you have earned for being selfish and trying to rock the boat. Your concern for the businessmen and not the poor folks is no wonder why many have questioned your deliberate failure to establish a daily newspaper despite all the media infrastructure at your disposal. Trevor can retire to his offices in the high streets of Durban, J'oburg, Pretoria and leave the MDC to dig trenches, fighting tyranny. Trevor can also join his pals who have sought asylum on the MDC ticket who when they saw a relatively weaker Zanu PF, they came up with this hogwash about some third, fourth, fifth ways to substitute the guys beaten up and jailed by ZRP and Zanu PF militias for years. This brigade of businessmen now wants to gatecrash into State House.

I think Trevor and Geoff have just lost their bearings, the only Ncube we have amongst us, is the living hero in Welshman Ncube. Calm, witty and nationalistic in stature, he will not to assume a provincial baron status by dabbling in tribal politics like Trevor.

In any case Zimbabwe will benefit from a two-pronged multi party system based on a labour movement and a liberation, nationalistic movement and small parties as moderators to circumvent the ethnic devide that threatens development. The British have the Welsh and the Scots, all under either the Tories or Labour as the main players and the Liberal Democrats moderating - and is that a bad a set up?

Any other form besides that is not worth the mention for now - so let's all recognise the importance of the existence of the MDC and Zanu PF. The intellectuals and business people must comform to the norms of the demands of the people and none conformists should not be used by outside forces to spoil the party.
Musonza is a student and writes from the UK
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