By Wilbert Mukori | In 2017, the people of Zimbabwe responded to the call to come out into the streets in support of the 15 November military coup.

(I insist on calling it a military coup because it WAS a military coup. Forget the nonsense about it being “a military-assisted transition” — we cannot call a game of musical chairs a transition. As for the coup being “justified, legal, and constitutional,” that was just “bulls***t,” as Blessed Geza would say.)

Back to November 2017: Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends supported the coup out of greed. Chris Mutsvangwa promised Tsvangirai and company that the coup leaders would form a new GNU, similar to the 2008–2013 GNU. Tsvangirai discharged himself from his South African hospital bed, singing, “The good times are here again!”

The MDC leaders failed to implement even one token reform during the 2008–2013 GNU because they were too busy enjoying the gravy train lifestyle. Once they joined the GNU, Mugabe ensured that Tsvangirai & Co. were pampered with all the trappings of high office: E-Class Mercedes-Benz ministerial limousines, generous salaries and perks, a US$4 million mansion for Save himself, and so on. With their snouts deep in the feeding trough, they naturally forgot all about implementing reforms.

The November 2017 coup was a Mafia-style offer that MDC leaders were too greedy to refuse — so they took it.

The MDC leadership had no problem persuading their brain-dead followers to flood the streets in support of the coup. They told the mob that the new GNU would implement all the democratic reforms and finally stop Zanu PF from rigging elections. The mob believed it — no questions asked.

They never asked why the 2008–2013 GNU had failed to implement even one token reform. Had they asked, they would have quickly realized that if MDC leaders failed to implement reforms when Zanu PF was hamstrung by the 2008 Global Political Agreement — with SADC as guarantor — then this new GNU wouldn’t have a chance of implementing any meaningful reforms either. None!

To sugarcoat the bitter pill of a military coup, Mnangagwa assured the nation and the world that Zimbabwe would hold free, fair, and credible elections as soon as possible.

When Mugabe saw multitudes on the streets hugging and kissing the soldiers behind the coup, he knew the game was up. He signed his resignation letter as state president.

As soon as the coup leaders had Mugabe out of the way, they abandoned the promised GNU. Morgan Tsvangirai died a few weeks later “of a broken heart” at the betrayal of the GNU, according to Chamisa.

Mnangagwa did not implement even a single democratic reform before the 2018 elections. He and his Zanu PF cronies blatantly rigged both the 2018 and 2023 elections, confirming that Zimbabwe remained a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent, vote-rigging thugs. The 2017 coup merely swapped one dictator, Mugabe, for another, Mnangagwa — but nothing else changed.

There is nothing — NOTHING — to make anyone believe that this so-called 31 March “uprising” Blessed Geza is calling for is anything but a repeat of the November 2017 military coup. This uprising seeks to replace one dictator, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, with another dictator, Constantino Guveya Chiwenga.

(Geza’s attempts to portray VP Chiwenga as anything but just another Zanu PF thug must be dismissed with the contempt they deserve. Chiwenga is corrupt, incompetent, and has played a key role in establishing and maintaining the Zanu PF one-party dictatorship, while claiming his lion’s share of the spoils. To say otherwise is an insult to our intelligence — and after 45 years of Zanu PF’s insults, we must put an end to the bulls***t!)

If the 31 March 2025 uprising is merely to replace one dictator with another, a repeat of the 2017 coup, then the people of Zimbabwe must stay away. An uprising that only serves to perpetuate dictatorship and prolong the people’s suffering — as the 2017 coup did — is not worth supporting.

It is sheer madness to keep supporting events whose purpose is to prolong your own suffering. If you cannot disrupt the event, as is the case here, then at the very least, do not be used and abused. Stay away.

Would you like me to also suggest a title variation or make it sound sharper depending on your audience? -Source: zimbabwelight.blogspot.com