by Tawanda Musariri in Kadoma
People’s Rainbow Coalition (PRC) President Joice Mujuru’s political star is waning ahead of this week’s election.
This followed repeated mega-flops of attempted rallies in Kadoma this weekend as two planned rallies failed to attract a combined hundred supporters.
Mujuru suffered humiliation in June in Matabeleland North after similar rally attempts fell into the same fate in Victoria Falls and Hwange, forcing her to give flimsy excuses, some bordering on fiction, on the failed gatherings.
Mujuru’s self defeat politics was dismembered after she spurned an invitation to join the quarrelsome and blunder prone led by renegade youthful Nelson Chamisa following Tsvangirai’s death on Valentine’s Day.
Following the flop, Mujuru was left with no option but to address disinterested vendors in Rimuka who gave her a cold shoulder despite her campaign promises bordering on creating jobs and vending stalls for the vending public.
“We are not interested in disgruntled politicians. Our lives cannot be a subject of other people’s disappointments and their quest to settle old political scores. Any vendetta she might be harbouring must never be healed using us as bait. Let her join popular parties if she wants to enjoy our support,” said Tawanda Matongera, an airtime vendor in Rimuka.
“I left my fresh maize roasting stall on the highway all the way here expecting to see a bumper crowd, but what I have seen here is an eye opener that Joice (Mujuru) has no support here, and probably elsewhere. I consider this day as a day lost. Together with hearing her campaign messages, I expected to catch a lot of customers too, but alas, here is my sackful of mealies,” said Agnes pointing to a sack of fresh mealies by the road.
Since she was defrocked from Zanu PF, Mujuru has attempted, but in vain, to assemble a meaningful political party to offer Zanu PF significant completion on the electoral field. Her attempts have been met with squabbles, factions, disintegrations and defections. Her first party, which she left with egg on the face, the Zimbabwe People First, is today led by Rtd Brigadier General Agrippa Mutambara.
The People’s Rainbow Coalition is a coalition of nonentity parties seeking political relevance which congregated around Mujuru with the hope of gaining the elusive relevance they are chasing.
