Tendai Biti press statement:
The Parliamentary ruling made on Tuesday, 17 March 2015 by the Senate President, Edna Madzongwe and the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Jacob Mudenda and to purportedly expel 17 members of parliament and four senators marks a sad and tragic day for democracy in Zimbabwe.
It is a heavy blow to democracy and democratic agenda when the MDC Renewal Team is building a new narrative and that narrative is to provide the solution.
It is unprecedented anywhere in the history of democracy. Democracy is a very simple process as the people have a say on the issue of recalling an MP not a political party.
The sum total of the people who voted for the MPs in 2013 comes to 102 000 people. The expulsions are therefore undemocratic and not supported by the Constitution.
It is a reflection of naivety, a reflection of surrender by Morgan Tsvangirai as these spaces are going to be very difficult to recover.
Our erstwhile colleagues have now agreed to collude with the ruling party to reverse the gains that the democratic movement has made over the last 15 years.
Our lawyers are in the art of crafting court applications to challenge the ruling. There is no right of recall of an MP in the Constitution.
It is ironic that at a time when they are preaching their message of ‘big tent’ politics, they have seen it fit to cut the nose to spite the face by donating parliamentary seats to Zanu PF at a time when the Zimbabwean democratic opposition movement in Zimbabwe must be making efforts to close ranks and fight the Zanu PF dictatorship. It is a sad reality that they are now more Zanu PF than Zanu PF.
Zimbabwe’s economy is currently experiencing rapid decline and the citizens are suffering with poverty and deprivation on the rise.
The people are suffering and they are looking for a political alternative that gives them hope for a better future.
Zanu PF has demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that it does not have a solution to the challenges we are currently facing. The people are looking up to the opposition to offer leadership and yet our colleagues choose to go to bed with Zanu PF to further erode the little democratic space we had occupied in Parliament following the grand electoral theft by Zanu PF in 2013.
While we respectfully differed with Tsvangirai and his colleagues on strategy and principles, we never imagined that they would one day collude with Zanu PF against the people’s democratic project.
The people of Zimbabwe expected that the few MPs from the MDC formations in Parliament would work together to bring sustainable solutions to the country’s challenges and we have no doubt that they are now disillusioned by Tsvangirai’s shenanigans with Zanu PF.
Further, the ruling by the Speaker yesterday is clearly part of a political strategy that has nothing to do with the law as it is unconstitutional. In making his ruling yesterday, the Speaker of the House of Assembly did not follow due process.
On two occasions last year, 8 May and 14 November, Mudenda ruled that there were two centres of power in the MDC-T and that the legitimacy of the party’s leadership had to be determined by a competent court of law.
The question now is what has made Mudenda change his earlier judgments when the courts have not made any ruling on the matter and the circumstances of the matter have not changed?
Regrettable as it is, it is now apparent from Tuesday’s judgment that there is now political incest between Zanu PF and Tsvangirai and his cohorts.
The actions of the Speaker of the House of Assembly are unconstitutional as the party that purports to have written to him does not exist and Mudenda has succeeded to be in the same bed with it.
Meanwhile, as the MDC Renewal Team, we will intensify our radical constitutional and democratic struggle and we assure Zimbabweans that Parliament or no Parliament, we will be executing the people’s democratic project on the streets and other legal platforms.
The MDC Renewal Team is guided by the Mandel resolutions of 26 April 2014. We will continue with the idea of pushing for the alignment of the country’s laws with the Constitution. We will push for genuine electoral reforms. We will push for the agenda of economic transformation. We will depart from the use hate language and impunity.
We will continue with the idea of the grand coalition of democrats, the national convergence. As genuine democrats, we are able to regroup and in 2018, we give the people of Zimbabwe a chance of undoing what Zanu PF has done for the past 35 years because we are in the correct.
In soccer they say the one with the ball is the one who is marked and the MDC Renewal Team is being marked because it is in control of the ball.
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Good Tsvangirai YOU ARE HUNDRED PERCENT CORRECT,zimeye you are lying biti and co, never represented the interest of mdc-t at all, why do you want to sympathies with fools who connive with the enemy in last election for mdc-t to loose,this is a bunch of clueless cants who were there to destroy the personality of tsvangirai,let them taste their own cooking,now give morgan and party their property or else you are going to be sued for them,foooooooooollsss for everrrrrr.
Good Tsvangirai YOU ARE HUNDRED PERCENT CORRECT,zimeye you are lying biti and co, never represented the interest of mdc-t at all, why do you want to sympathies with fools who connive with the enemy in last election for mdc-t to loose,this is a bunch of clueless cants who were there to destroy the personality of tsvangirai,let them taste their own cooking,now give morgan and party their property or else you are going to be sued for them,foooooooooollsss for everrrrrr.
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Mr learned Biti, its easy, you have been given the opportunity to ask from the 100k people you talking about to now vote you and your collegues into parliament, dont shed crocodiles tears. Its your time to renew everything and write a new narative.
This highly schooled but grossly miseducated lawyer wasted a whole precious year denigrating MT while people where waiting and expecting him say something more exciting, more aggresive, bring new tactics and innovation to the political landscape of Zim. All we heard from the pin–head was Tsvangirai this, Tsvangirai that. People are so dissapointed with Biti that he will be humiliated if his name ever shows up on a ballot paper. Soon there will be no party to talk about be it the orange thing or UMDC. Soon he has to face men and women he misled and whose political carreers have come to a dead end…
This highly schooled but grossly miseducated lawyer wasted a whole precious year denigrating MT while people where waiting and expecting him say something more exciting, more aggresive, bring new tactics and innovation to the political landscape of Zim. All we heard from the pin–head was Tsvangirai this, Tsvangirai that. People are so dissapointed with Biti that he will be humiliated if his name ever shows up on a ballot paper. Soon there will be no party to talk about be it the orange thing or UMDC. Soon he has to face men and women he misled and whose political carreers have come to a dead end…
Adzambadza, apererwa.
Adzambadza, apererwa.
the problem biti is not tsvangirai or those who kicked your sorry butt out of parly the problem is greed, u sit there now “ripping tsvangirai apart ” but who is benefiting from that oh hang on you want a political score.now tell me what have you done about our brother who was abducted i and why did you even think of diengaging yourself from tsvangirai if you are fighting for the same cause and that is to dislodge the pf party so you see it comes back pakuti urikuda kudya is it not true that you were fighting for positions in that renewal party of yours? Zimbabwe needs leaders who can bring the chicken home for dinner not leaders who dig at each other.STOP POINTING FINGERS AND SOLVE THE ISSUE.
the problem biti is not tsvangirai or those who kicked your sorry butt out of parly the problem is greed, u sit there now “ripping tsvangirai apart ” but who is benefiting from that oh hang on you want a political score.now tell me what have you done about our brother who was abducted i and why did you even think of diengaging yourself from tsvangirai if you are fighting for the same cause and that is to dislodge the pf party so you see it comes back pakuti urikuda kudya is it not true that you were fighting for positions in that renewal party of yours? Zimbabwe needs leaders who can bring the chicken home for dinner not leaders who dig at each other.STOP POINTING FINGERS AND SOLVE THE ISSUE.
What is there for Tsvangirai to pleased about!
What is there for Tsvangirai to pleased about!
Tendai Biti gets fired from parliament and that becomes “a heavy blow to democracy and democratic agenda”. But when the MDC idiots sit and do nothing about implementing the reforms which would have end the Zanu PF dictatorship and free the whole nation of 23 million people and Biti does not even notice!
The failure to implement the reforms was the heaviest blow the nation has suffered in the last 15 years, you moron!
MDC MPs are breathtakingly incompetent and it is per se irrelevant whether 21 or even all of them are recalled. If you know the milk is contaminated, who care whether the glass is full or half full!
Tendai Biti gets fired from parliament and that becomes “a heavy blow to democracy and democratic agenda”. But when the MDC idiots sit and do nothing about implementing the reforms which would have end the Zanu PF dictatorship and free the whole nation of 23 million people and Biti does not even notice!
The failure to implement the reforms was the heaviest blow the nation has suffered in the last 15 years, you moron!
MDC MPs are breathtakingly incompetent and it is per se irrelevant whether 21 or even all of them are recalled. If you know the milk is contaminated, who care whether the glass is full or half full!
Shame shame shame.Were you asleep Biti when MDC-T held its congress last year? Why did you not stop the congress from taking place if that party did not exist? You accepted that Tsvangirai was relected President of MDC-T,and it is that party that dismissed you and your lot from MDC-T at its congress.Wadyiwa Biti.Hauna kufunda iwe.
Shame shame shame.Were you asleep Biti when MDC-T held its congress last year? Why did you not stop the congress from taking place if that party did not exist? You accepted that Tsvangirai was relected President of MDC-T,and it is that party that dismissed you and your lot from MDC-T at its congress.Wadyiwa Biti.Hauna kufunda iwe.
You are free to contest and reclaim your “MPship” on a Renewal Team ticket….The 102 000 you purport in your wet dreaming are still out there to vote for you….kurwara kuya kwabata urozvi. …
in the whole article there is not even a single fact raised by biti, i think he was too emotional when he wrote this article maybe anga achitosvimha tumisodzi twehasha kkkkk. You lost on this one biti tsvangirai just followed the constitution and i think thats that part of democracy. in your article biti you have proved beyond reasonable doubt that you are sort of a crook, you cant be trusted by your words just like the whole lot with you in the wilderness. Tsvangirai is the ONLY man so far who i can trust with my vote, he is really fighting for a better zimbabwe judging from where we have come from with him, biti you are an opportunist i want to be clear on this one, you are an opportunist!!! Imiwo vamunyori itai mushewo imi ko ripping iripapi munhu arikuataura shungu dzake hake nenyadzi dzokuti handinganyarari but dzisina kana point 1 zvayo
in the whole article there is not even a single fact raised by biti, i think he was too emotional when he wrote this article maybe anga achitosvimha tumisodzi twehasha kkkkk. You lost on this one biti tsvangirai just followed the constitution and i think thats that part of democracy. in your article biti you have proved beyond reasonable doubt that you are sort of a crook, you cant be trusted by your words just like the whole lot with you in the wilderness. Tsvangirai is the ONLY man so far who i can trust with my vote, he is really fighting for a better zimbabwe judging from where we have come from with him, biti you are an opportunist i want to be clear on this one, you are an opportunist!!! Imiwo vamunyori itai mushewo imi ko ripping iripapi munhu arikuataura shungu dzake hake nenyadzi dzokuti handinganyarari but dzisina kana point 1 zvayo
You’re attacking Tsvangirai munaWelshman wako but you claim to be have departed from hate speech. Hypocrite
You’re attacking Tsvangirai munaWelshman wako but you claim to be have departed from hate speech. Hypocrite
Garai muchiOffice chenyu chisina maChair imbwa dzevanhu!!! Just listen to yourself BITI….You are a big fool. You are crying for democracy when YOU rebelled against Tsvangirai and formed a new party UMDC (Inopfeka zveOrange) – but you want to continue riding on his party MDC-T???The parliamentary ruling is a clear sign of pure democracy. If you think your banch of confused cocrochies are needed by the electorate; participate in the by-elections and thats when you are going to see that Morgan is far far much better than you by 10 folds. Biti et al, go and hang!!!!
Garai muchiOffice chenyu chisina maChair imbwa dzevanhu!!! Just listen to yourself BITI….You are a big fool. You are crying for democracy when YOU rebelled against Tsvangirai and formed a new party UMDC (Inopfeka zveOrange) – but you want to continue riding on his party MDC-T???The parliamentary ruling is a clear sign of pure democracy. If you think your banch of confused cocrochies are needed by the electorate; participate in the by-elections and thats when you are going to see that Morgan is far far much better than you by 10 folds. Biti et al, go and hang!!!!
Hapana zvavangativudza anaBiti kungogwawuta kwembwa yaguta chitunha chedhongi rakavora . MDC before Congress yakati dzokai mukwidze zvisina maSanctions mukaomesa misoro sezvigogodza muchiti makafunda so zvino movovorei. Toda kupinda 2018 pasisina kupiringidza pfungwa dzavatsigiri zvakanaka vanhu vafambe nemusangano wavo mumwe unotungamirigwa naSave avo vanenge vachidawo maOrange Tonga avo vodhla voga . Hambani Kahle maMandel hapana kana mumwe wenyu anodzoka apa manga makateya zvimari zvemaDonor manje zvazoiswa ganjo nokuti hapana vamakamirira . Thank Mudende 2018 HOKOYO MACHINJA TOPINDA TIRIMONDO
Hapana zvavangativudza anaBiti kungogwawuta kwembwa yaguta chitunha chedhongi rakavora . MDC before Congress yakati dzokai mukwidze zvisina maSanctions mukaomesa misoro sezvigogodza muchiti makafunda so zvino movovorei. Toda kupinda 2018 pasisina kupiringidza pfungwa dzavatsigiri zvakanaka vanhu vafambe nemusangano wavo mumwe unotungamirigwa naSave avo vanenge vachidawo maOrange Tonga avo vodhla voga . Hambani Kahle maMandel hapana kana mumwe wenyu anodzoka apa manga makateya zvimari zvemaDonor manje zvazoiswa ganjo nokuti hapana vamakamirira . Thank Mudende 2018 HOKOYO MACHINJA TOPINDA TIRIMONDO
Biti is now talking of a grand electoral theft by zanupf really. I thought they were blaming Tsvangirai for the electoral defeat. Respectfully disagreeing with Tsvangirai really? These guys must be taking us for fools. Depart from use of hate speech? calling Tsvangirai Gumbura I guess is part of that departure. Biti go hang!!!!
“The actions of the Speaker of the House of Assembly are unconstitutional as the party that purports to have written to him does not exist and Mudenda has succeeded to be in the same bed with it. ”
Faark you Tendai Mbiti. Hauna nyaya. What you should be telling us is that you are ready to prove yourself and your lot at the ballot. Obviously not. You are scared of testing yourself against the people…he he he our lawyers are crafting this and that. Faark You!
Biti is now talking of a grand electoral theft by zanupf really. I thought they were blaming Tsvangirai for the electoral defeat. Respectfully disagreeing with Tsvangirai really? These guys must be taking us for fools. Depart from use of hate speech? calling Tsvangirai Gumbura I guess is part of that departure. Biti go hang!!!!
“The actions of the Speaker of the House of Assembly are unconstitutional as the party that purports to have written to him does not exist and Mudenda has succeeded to be in the same bed with it. ”
Faark you Tendai Mbiti. Hauna nyaya. What you should be telling us is that you are ready to prove yourself and your lot at the ballot. Obviously not. You are scared of testing yourself against the people…he he he our lawyers are crafting this and that. Faark You!
kikikikikk, endai henyu munoita regroup tione mukasvika 100
kikikikikk, endai henyu munoita regroup tione mukasvika 100
inini hangu handizi gweta but I seem to be interpreting the law better than this guy who still think 1+1=11
“That is my area of speciality and, surely, I want to tell you that I will change my name to Morgan Mugabe if they can get one councillor recalled,” – T Biti sometym last year
inini hangu handizi gweta but I seem to be interpreting the law better than this guy who still think 1+1=11
“That is my area of speciality and, surely, I want to tell you that I will change my name to Morgan Mugabe if they can get one councillor recalled,” – T Biti sometym last year
KKKK vana Bit muri fine. You are talking of democracy? Why did you leave MDCT when you were voted in on MDCT Ticket? Did you go to the electorate to consult them and hear whether they wanted a break away faction?AND you said that Tvangirai is donating the seats to Zanu PF, why do you think that MDC will lose and not WIN the elections.To be honesty, you will go into the political dustbin without Tsvangirai. Thank you Mudenda for that belated ruling ?
KKKK vana Bit muri fine. You are talking of democracy? Why did you leave MDCT when you were voted in on MDCT Ticket? Did you go to the electorate to consult them and hear whether they wanted a break away faction?AND you said that Tvangirai is donating the seats to Zanu PF, why do you think that MDC will lose and not WIN the elections.To be honesty, you will go into the political dustbin without Tsvangirai. Thank you Mudenda for that belated ruling ?
This is the last kick of a dying hoarse.
This is the last kick of a dying hoarse.
ripping apart yacho handina kuiona hangu
ripping apart yacho handina kuiona hangu
kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk, dhiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, hanzi Dr Morgan havana chikoro, hezvo mangoti tuzu, this is democracy manje, yo team was voted on an MDC-T ticket handizvoeeee??????
kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk, dhiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, hanzi Dr Morgan havana chikoro, hezvo mangoti tuzu, this is democracy manje, yo team was voted on an MDC-T ticket handizvoeeee??????