‘Tsvangirai can be crushed like a fly’

Newsday, Zimbabwe's privately owned daily tabloid has quoted War veterans’ leader Jabulani Sibanda equating the country's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to “a fly” that could “easily be eliminated” from the political scene if need be, as the Premier did not have the power to rule Zimbabwe.

Sibanda reportedly made the remarks while addressing hundreds of villagers at Mashoko business centre in Bikita West in Masvingo at the weekend where he is allegedly terrorising villagers with the help of a group of war veterans and Zanu-PF activists.

Zaka Central MP Harrison Mudzuri said the statements by Sibanda were worrying, coming at a time when several MDC-T legislators have been involved in suspicious “accidents”.

Sibanda addressed the rally unaware that two MDC-T MPs — Mudzuri and Masvingo Central MP Jefferson Chitando — were among the crowd.

The war veterans’ leader is alleged to have equated Tsvangirai to a fly saying that the Premier could be easily “eliminated” from the country’s political landscape.

“Tsvangirai is just like a fly in a kombi or a bus. The fly can sit on the driver’s seat but that does not make it the one in charge of the bus. He (Tsvangirai)can be eliminated in the political set-up anytime and life will go on,” Sibanda is quoted as telling villagers at the rally.

Mudzuri told NewsDay that the statements by Sibanda could be interpreted to mean that Tsvangirai is taken as an ineffectual partner in the inclusive government despite the country’s three main political parties agreeing to work together.

What Sibanda said can also mean that there is enough machinery in place to crush Tsvangirai both off the political landscape and off the face of the earth. The basis of the argument is the alleged attempt on his life last year that saw his wife perish in a typical ZANU PF inspired "hit" accident.

But Tsvangirai ever since tasting how it feels being at the helm albeit with little close to limited grip on the joy stick has been velvet cushion on Robert Mugabe's couch, firstly rubbishing the talk of an attempt on his life, then calling on the west to remove sanctions and later tell South Africa's Jacob Zuma not to pressure Zimbabwe into having elections.

Power corrupts and for Tsvangirai it goes on to blind one to see that its still the same ZANU PF that has run down the economy and caused multitudes to be maimed and killed by its life of brutality and violence.