About two years ago, South Africa, through its former president, Thabo Mbeki, cobbled up a power sharing arrangement and, with the assistance of SADC, rammed it down the throats of the long suffering Zimbabwean people.

They called it the Global Political Agreement (GPA). Nonsense!

It was not global and it was not an agreement.

It was just politics of desperation, necessitated by Mbeki's failure to arbitrate; it was dangerous politics, as matters later turned out. Above all else, it was the physical, economic and political rape of a nation.

After the quarrelling trio of Robert Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai and that embarrassing, directionless gatecrasher, Arthur Mutambara, appended their signatures to it, the GPA gave birth to the present government.

But just before the signatures were put on the agreement and the toddler government sworn into office, one of the principals, the Movement for Democratic Change led by now Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai raised a very serious complaint.

They discovered that the original agreement had been tampered with.

They accused Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa of removing some paragraphs and of making several changes to some key sections of the "agreement".

But, surprisingly, despite that Tsvangirai and his party went on to sign the document.

How untidy!

But that is not all.

The MDC even signed the agreement despite the fact that the talks had not been concluded and that quite a number of very important issues still had to be agreed upon.  The MDC signed the document that gave birth to the bastard government we have in Zimbabwe today.

Because of propaganda purposes for those who brewed this concoction, the moribund government in Zimbabwe is today known by misleading monikers.

They erroneously call it the "government of national unity".  Yet, truthfully speaking, there hasn't been any national unity in Zimbabwe and the evidence lies in what is today happening in both the nation and in government.

Like I have said countless times before, the people of Zimbabwe are not, themselves, divided but are being shepherded into silly intolerant crevices in which circumstances have been deliberately created to pit us against each other yet we are all sheltering together and running away from the same enemy.

Tell me, if you will, the difference between MDC-T and MDC-M, never mind the stupid initials imposed on party names to inflate personal egos at the expense of decency.

Then there is the party with a first name, middle name and surname! Save for the initials, what distinguishes Mavambo-Kusile-Dawn (MKD) from the other political parties?

And apart from wanting to parcel out Zimbabwe into little tribal Bantustans, what differentiates ZAPU from all the others?

Tell me the difference between all our political parties. Keep in mind that what the "Marxist" ZANU-PF is doing is not its "doctrine". The only way for them to survive is by dumping both their doctrine and the constitutions of both their party and nation.

ZANU-PF is immoral and uses vice to stay afloat. They legalised illegitimacy.

The other lie is in calling the moribund government in Zimbabwe a "coalition government".

Public understanding of a coalition government is "a cabinet of a parliamentary government in which several parties cooperate".

This comes about after the realisation that "no party on its own can achieve a majority in the parliament".

A coalition government supposedly "gives a government the high degree of perceived political legitimacy it desires whilst also playing a role in diminishing internal political strife".

The "perceived political legitimacy" still refuses to take hold in Zimbabwe as the principals bonk each other at every turn.
And as for "playing a role in diminishing internal political strife", this government has failed dismally, as the political strife in our country indicates today. And it's getting worse. I hope we will be able to retrieve our compatriots from the mountains into which they are being chased. We have no coalition government. The opposition party is ruling while the ruling party spits a pitiful amount of resistance.

The MDC, like all of us, has been had but still remains in perpetual denial. We are continuously warned to be careful about what we pray for because we will be stranded when our wish is granted. We prayed for the MDC and the MDC prayed for itself. And our prayers were answered.

Today, we can clearly see that not only has the MDC leadership been to the Promised Land, they already own property there.
But they are back among us, walking around telling us that they have only seen the Promised Land and want to take us there. They want us to accompany them there so we can be their tenants. They have already forgotten that they are the ones who are our servants.

These people can't be serious. You would think after signing defective constitutions and agreements they would know better!
Guess what happened at the recent SADC Summit in Namibia? After their closed door plenary sessions, I heard my Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who was in Namibia, applauding the SADC Troika for having pinned down Mugabe by giving another ultimatum.

Tsvangirai cheered as if he was the cause of the stalemate and as if he had the ability to unclog the mess.

The MDC, once again, actually believed that they had been given a vote of confidence by SADC.

In Harare, the MDC Secretary General Tendai Biti, who of all people should have known better, rushed to tell the media how glad he was about what SADC had done and described it as "a milestone".

The MDC told everyone how happy they were with the outcome of the SADC Summit.

But a couple of weeks later, the MDC, once again, cried foul. After profusely praising the outcome of the SADC meeting and what had been presented, they suddenly accused someone of having influenced the final draft of what the Troika had agreed upon.

Today, the MDC says the final communiqu� from the SADC Troika had been changed and was tampered with. Tsvangirai's party accuses the carpetbagger, Arthur Mutambara, of having written a letter influencing Zuma and SADC to tie one of the outstanding issues (the swearing in of provincial governors) to the lifting of sanctions.

Once again, the MDC denounced an outcome they had initially blindly applauded.

The nation is polarised but deceptively appears united because we all have a common enemy: politicians!

They are no different from each other because none can survive without exploiting the "common" person.

So what is the beef?

The MDC must firm up as a matter of urgency. They are playing unproductive games and are playing right into the hands of SADC and Jacob Zuma who have no real intention of assisting them.

It's time of reckoning for the MDC. It's sink or swim. They must think before they act and scrutinise situations before meeting the press.

The MDC have to take firm stands and try not to appease anyone but their electorate.

I know they will unwittingly choose to sink; they have an underground Promised Land somewhere and they are determined to get there with or without the people.