From the Streets of Harare with Itai Dzamara

d subjects see or think about him – from hilarious, to farcical, hard-core political and antagonistic. He brought from Malaysia what perhaps he hoped would be a joke, news that he gave about 46 students there pocket money after discovering that “they were out of pocket”.
But after wondering when he would bring the same benevolence home and dish out pocket money to battered students in Harare, Zimbabweans reverted to the emotional debate about the MDC factions’ latest round of squabbling and mudslinging. It is much noise about simple things. Arthur Mutambara is entitled to his rights. He must be allowed to analyse and criticize Morgan Tsvangirai the same as he does Robert Mugabe.
In the same way, Tsvangirai should enjoy all such liberties, including operating on the basis of the capacity as well as abilities of his intellect, or academic aptitude.
Indeed, it would have been ideal to have a form of unity of the opposition to face the Zanu (PF) regime at this top hour of people’s suffering.
But reality is more useful than idealism, and it is reality that the MDC split almost two years ago on the basis of serious clashes and fights, which to our knowledge have not been revisited or corrected. In that case, the nonsense about acres of space and time being wasted on this one crying because that one refused to go into a coalition or being a single candidate helps nobody, least of all the suffering Zimbabweans.
Why should Mutambara cry to be led by Tsvangirai when he believes his party has a following and an intellectually gifted leadership? And on the other hand, why does Tsvangirai fail to come out in the open and articulate his position that he is not interested and shall go it alone rather than waste time appearing to be engaged in negotiations, without the desire?
In short, Zimbabweans are desperate for serious confrontation of the Mugabe regime both now and at the elections and cannot afford the dithering and politicking of professors and former trade unionists confused about their abilities, positions and commitment. The people are crying out loud for leaders who believe in people power, and will struggle with the people to confront Mugabe and deliver them from this bondage.