Much Ado About Nothing
The state of the nation address by Nelson Chamisa turned up to what we have expected. We have the usual empty but potential dangerous threat of public disorder and a call to his "stupid" followers to break the law. This has been said and been done before., and we expect nothing to come out of the "threat" of the nation address!!
I would like to familiarise you with the famous English playwright William Shakespeare play called "Much Ado About Nothing". In this play, a couple is in love and a lot of drama and mischief is done to destroy the relationship. People are arrested, people are confused, some people are lied to in this well-written play. The twist in this play is that the couple will marry at the end despite all the chicanery and noises.
The play is parallel to the life of the MDC Alliance and its leader Nelson Chamisa. He started with nothing in 2018 when he declared himself the de facto leader of a non-existent party. He went on to contest the elections and come out with nothing. He orchestrated numerous demonstrations and he comes out with nothing all the time!! Nelson Chamisa's political journey has been about nothing!!
Empty Threats
In his address, Nelson Chamisa is threatening a sitting government by telling that he is ready to govern and urge his supporters to follow what he calls a "New Zimbabwe Blueprint." The so-called blueprint is just a list of empty threats of pending and imagined civil disobedience. How can you be ready to govern if your party is haemorrhaging members?
Nelson Chamisa actual state in his address that his non-existent party will create "pockets of resistance". These are empty but very dangerous threats. It is in Nelson Chamisa best interest to form a party and attract followers so that he can win the 2023 elections and govern.
Fading lies
In his speech, he calls his former party the MDC-T, a government-controlled opposition and I believe his imagined party, the MDC Alliance, is independent of any form of control. Members are defecting and leaving the party in droves to ZANUpf and to MDC-T. The MDC Alliance is fading into the horizon. Nelson Chamisa permanent campaign of lies about a stolen 2018 election and illegitimacy of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has failed to impress both his handlers and his supporters.
Context and Content
Finally after all is said and done, the speech can be discounted to call for recognition and to attract attention. The content of the speech was to threaten the general populace by calling for civil disobedience. The context, in this case, was to create in our minds a " twin crises' of the COVID19 pandemic and to cover up the exodus of MDC Alliance supporters to MDC-T and Zanu-PF.
Zimbabwe awaits Mr Nelson Chamisa next list of threats!!
