The MDC and Zanu-PF are the same.

My long standing argument has always been that the MDC are no better than Zanu-PF because they exhibit the same signs of intolerance, the same signs crony enrichment, the same signs on heavy handedness and the same cluelessness about the true meaning of freedom.

Both parties are full of people who brazenly use threats and insults to intimidate opponents, whether real or perceived. Both parties are full of people who shy away from intelligent discourse in favour of belligerent pronouncements, threatening accusation and a tar-brush approach to criticism.

Many of them exhibit political maturity below that of medieval warlords and pre-colonial African chiefs. Despite all of them making a lot of noise about the constitution, they seem to think their personal word is the supreme law of the country.

How else do you explain a sitting MP, making brazen threats like “Martin Chinyanga Da William, I have fired you from MDC from onwards you are no longer a member of MDCT have nothing to do with us. You can go and petition anywhere you want…I am an MP. I HAVE FIRED YOU”. This person seems to be totally unaware that there is something called due process, and a disciplinary committee.

Like Zanu-PF the MDC also exhibit an astounding level cluelessness about the technical aspects of running an economy. They seem to suffer from the same belief that authority can impose control on economic factors. The only thing authority can do is carefully study the factors and then adapt their own actions to suit the reality.

The size and expense of Zimbabwe's cabinet under Zanu-PF, made even worse under the GNU (Zanu-PF and MDC together), does not suit the reality that Zimbabwe is a country with a struggling economy.

Maybe I am dull stupid or something. Maybe it is because my mind is so simple, that I fail to understand how we can have more than seventy ministers and their deputies - each with several government bought cars - in a country that cannot provide a basic ambulance service in its capital city.

Is it too much of a request upon the powers that be, to ask them to give up some of their cars so that at least a few ambulances can be bought to take people to hospitals. Is it too much of a burden upon the powers that be, to ask them that give up a few of they foreign trips so that we can put just a few more medicines, even if only pain killers, in the cupboards of our clinics.