Magaisa Warns MDC Might End Up "Losing Public Trust"

2. It would be foolhardy for MDC Alliance MPs to imagine it can still be business as usual. Speaker Mudenda has just placed them under the guardianship of Thokozani Khupe, who was their rival at the elections. It’s an insult to voters who overwhelmingly rejected her & her party

3. It’s only in deeply corrupt Zimbabwe where you can contest and win elections under one-party & one leader but, with the help of the state and the ruling party, another leader and another party can remove you from Parliament & it’s considered perfectly lawful #ZanupfMustGo

4. You have Khupe who is unelected; Mwonzora & Komichi who are in the Senate by virtue of proportional representation have the audacity to recall MPs who were voted directly into office by the people. For no reason except a claim to power. The absurdity doesn’t even occur to them

5. If it was a matter of principle, Mwonzora & Komichi, who were elected to the Senate on the basis of a party-list system (that party being the MDC Alliance) would have resigned since they chose to abandon that party. But it’s not about principle. It never was.

6. ZANU PF under ED is not up for gentlemanly politics anymore. The strategy is one of asphyxiation of the opposition, using willing instruments within the opposition & political referees. Short of radical measures, we’re witnessing a slow & painful death of opposition politics

7. If the MDC Alliance does not yet feel the asphyxiation that we are witnessing, when it does it will be too late. ZANU PF under ED has broken all the taboos; the things that even MPs always a club across party lines, would not do to each other. They’ve crossed the Rubicon.