RECENT events within the main opposition are living proof that the late founder of the MDC in 1999, Morgan Tsvangirai, was all but surrounded by insincere, dishonest and mean-spirited people. The tragedy of it being that he trusted some of them into highly confidential roles much to his detriment. His life was in the full glare of his enemy. The events that have stood like a colossus in opposition political affairs in the past two weeks bear living testament that the new crop of politicians in the MDC are a far cry from the founding stalwarts of 1999. The work painstakingly begun by Gibson Sibanda, Morgan Tsvangirai (both late), Welshman Ncube, Learnmore Jongwe (late), Tendai Biti among many others, today faces a possible varnish into thin air. Undoubtedly, Zanu PF today has a field day palpably laughing with glee at how things have turned out in the MDC. Zanu PF has not been and cannot be exonerated in the ensuing melee in the MDC. Its hand and fingerprints continue to be cited. It is the joy of every political party to see another in disarray as has become of the MDC in its entirety. Zimbabweans in general and the world in particular are not blind to the fact of what amounts to a formidable opposition party between Thokozani Khupes MDC-T and Neslon Chamisas MDC Alliance. It is not lost on the people of Zimbabwe what has happened and what this Supreme Court ruling will lead to. The law has chosen to favour Khupe, who unfortunately cannot stand in any election against any Zanu PF minnow. The powers conferred upon Khupe by the Supreme Court which bestowed upon her the right to the MDC throne after Tsvangirais death should frighten and prick her conscience. How can she wake up with legislators who never campaigned under her name? How could all the senators that were never subservient to her wake up at her disposal? How does she lead what she did not lead? Chamisa, in the last election, garnered over two million votes which Khupe would never achieve by any stretch of imagination. The MPs elected clearly knew the impetus in aligning to the Tsvangirai-endorsed young Chamisa. Enough has been said and legal opinions on the Supreme Court ruling thrown around, but it must be borne in mind that politics has a mind of its own far away from the law. The law in itself does not necessarily lead to justice. The law must simply be interpreted; it is not a means to justice per se. The daggers that have been drawn against Chamisa and the mountain-goat like agility to clutch on to the ruling by some whom we thought were in the trenches with Chamisa should send a clear message that the MDC party even during Tsvangirais time was heavily infiltrated. It is mockingly said of Tsvangirai that he took advice from the last person he spoke to. And we all know Tsvangirai was never short of advisors; they came in all shapes and sizes. But what we have seen lately is that the MDC even from its foundations was made up of defective bricks. It had and clearly has always had informers, people who dined and wined with Tsvangirai, but sent from the enem