Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai left for a four-nation regional tour to consult with leaders on the crisis in the southern African country.

Tsvangirai will meet Mozambique president Armando Guebuza in Chimoio on Tuesday. Guebuza is the chairperson on SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security.

The MDC leader will also travel to Angola, DRC and will meet SA president Jacob Zuma.

I must admit that I’m particularly happy about the decision that Tsvangirai and his MDC took to withdraw from communication with president Robert Mugabe’s party.

I often hear people talk about the unity government as a marriage but I beg to differ. In a marriage there is a husband and wife, and if we were to agree that the unity government is a marriage, who would be the husband, head of the family and who, would be the wife.

I think Zimbabwe’s unity government is more to do with two bachelors agreeing to start a business together. Both Mugabe and Tsvangirai share executive power and so cannot be classified as being in a marriage whether of convenience or genuine.

Mugabe has filled himself with the notion that he is the husband, the bully in the construed marriage that is why he behaves like an angry papa.

Tsvangirai to an extent is behaving like jilted lover, or a wife being subjected to brutal domestic violence, and always running to NGOs (SADC) for protection.

I think Tsvangirai must stand up to Mugabe in his face and tell him once and for all, that he is destroying the nation.