Blundering along!

I have neither the desire to nor any interest in, overstating the fact that our friends in the leadership of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) seem to be trying to feel the bottom of the pond with their feet while trying to wade across it.
The events of the past few days with regards to Roy Bennett seem to confirm this suspicion. It was as if they were caught completely by surprise when Bennet was indicted to the High Court and temporarily lost his freedom. Those of us who have been observing the Zimbabwean scene for three decades now surely were not be surprised that the state would opt to charge with the highest offence that the alleged facts could possibly support in a non-evidentiary hearing?
As I understand it, the switch from regional to high court occurs quite frequently in Zimbabwean prosecutions (persecutions, if you like) and if the Zimbabwe government had an opportunity to exercise "judge shopping", what sane person would be astonished at such a development?
Clearly, the outrage of the MDC leadership was an exercise in damage control because I cannot persuade myself that they were caught unawares by these developments, unless rumours that they are a bunch of rank amateurs are to be believed. At the risk of sounding cynical, it seems to me that the MDC fell "hook, line and sinker" for a ZANU-PF ruse aimed at creating the impression that the latter had made a concession by allowing Bennett to be free again pending trial. But the idea that the ordeal of one person, who happens to be white, sparks almost unprecedented outrage by the leadership, leaves them open to manipulation by the opposition.
After all, Bennett still has his life while thousands of Zimbabweans have lost theirs resisting ZANU-PF repression.