via Biti rallies young generation to action. newzimbabwe.com 16 June 2014
OPPOSITION leader Tendai Biti has rallied the young generation to rise to the challenge of rescuing the country saying President Robert Mugabe and his political nemesis Morgan Tsvangirai were two sides of the same coin and abysmal failures.
The MDC-T secretary general told a meeting of his Renewal Team’s Midlands South structures in Gweru at the weekend that Zimbabwe needed a generational paradigm shift.
“President Robert Mugabe represents the failure of the liberation movement that is Zanu PF while Tsvangirai is the face of the failure of the democratic struggle.
“The two are a reflection of each other, a direct reflection of everything that is wrong with this country, politically, economically, socially and morally.”
“We cannot therefore just fold our hands and wait for things to move on their own; we cannot be doing the same things over and over again,” he said.
“It is the height of insanity but, as a people, none but ourselves will rescue this nation. It is a generational calling that we must take up without reservation if we are to rescue this nation.
Biti has emerged as de-facto leader of a group of opposition MDC-T hawks who have, so far, unsuccessfully pressed Tsvangirai’s exit from office, in a development that has effectively split the party into two.
Tsvangirai stands accused of inept leadership and failing to dislodge Mugabe after three presidential poll loses.
Biti is now on a whirlwind tour of the country’s provinces building structures for his movement with indications that a congress for the new political formation eminent.
He said the recreation of the Zimbabwean state needs to happen as a matter of urgency to alleviate the ordinary people’s suffering.
“Zimbabweans are suffering and groaning under the weight of a political, social, moral and economic crisis and nobody seems to care,” he lamented.
“The government is trying to sell a dead economic blue-print in the form of the ZimAsset document while Tsvangirai, instead of proffering an alternative, is busy sloganeering.
“It is a sad indictment on this generation if we are to leave these two mean to keep this country in perpetual electoral mode to cover their shortcomings.”
Tsvangirai has also resorted to holding rallies across the country in a bid to shore-up his support and crush the revolt against his leadership.
The former premier has led the MDC-T since formation 15 years ago and got a feel of life in government while sharing power with Mugabe and Zanu PF between 2009 and last year’s elections.
But after the MDC-T’s disastrous showing in that vote, previously trusted lieutenants among them Roy Bennett, Biti, deputy treasurer general Elton Mangoma on the veteran trade unionist, openly telling him to leave office.
COMMENTS
OK but hey…I expect to see you in the front row leading the student revolt and manning the unemployeds’ barricades. I’ll be with you if you dare put your money where your mouth is….but I’m not holding my breath or the long trumpeted HCC boycott. Yawn
So this page has become a Tendai Biti PR page? You’re betting on a dead horse.
Tats, you are right! This rag is just on and on about Mbiti even if he has nothing new to say. Brown envelop journalism but the effort is like putting the best of cosmetics on a toad!
True its doomed renewal page.
Tendai talk is cheap; lets see your youths on the streets as Morgan did yesterday!!!
but if these utterances from Biti are not the answer what can you zimsit journalists suggest to get us all out of this mess??
Shame on you biti and the rest of the judas iscariots
Biti the cause was to rid us of Bob and his thugs. You simply are handing him the reins to go on ruling. I really am beginning to see where your allegiance lies now and its not with the people of Zimbabwe. Watch your stomach ok its growing by the day.
Pamberi na Tendai Biti. Whatever your basis for disliking him, which I suspect is tenuous at best, and cynical at worst, he articulates what many of us have been mumbling over the years, especially after last year’s fiasco and the philandering of the MDCT leader. How could Morgan look for a wife in the thick of battle, just when nation comes before family? All liberators are known for their dire sacrifices. Mugabe simply takes advantage of a weak national character. The future belongs to the youth, and in all functional societies they lead thr charge to the liberation of the future. Biti is trying to do that. We owe him the benefit of the doubt.
We in Mthwakazi, we are with you Biti. But the moment you resort to gukurahundi politics, we will dump you as well!!
Zanu PF is happy with persons like Biti. Thus exactly what Welshmen Ncube, Mtambara and Simba Makoni did in the past. After ZANU PF uses you, they dump you.