“Boisterous fighters of the
liberation struggle had to abandon their planned demonstration yesterday, which
was meant to show support of their embattled leader, Christopher Mutsvangwa, as
well as stopping Higher and Tertiary Education Minister , Jonathan Moyo, from
attending the Zanu-PF's Politburo meeting,” reported Fingaz.
No one with half brain is surprised
that the war vets developed cold feet and called off their demo.
The war vets have become used to
behaving as if they are a law into themselves notably when they carried out the
often violent seizure of white owned farms and who can ever forget Jabulani
Sibanda and his war vet thugs frog-marching villagers to Zanu PF rallies in
2008. Demonstrating against Zanu PF members were common place in 2014 with the
purge of Joice Mujuru and her supporters, the modus operandi was for bussed in
war vets or women’s league members to besiege the party offices and demand the
ouster of the individual. This demo was not going to be the same as those in
the past.
This demo against Minister Jonathan Moyo,
a G40 faction member; this is the faction started and sustained with the tacit
support of the president himself, and therefore the demo was tantamount to a
demo against the Mugabe himself – a red line that no one ever dared to cross. The very fact that the demo was undemocratic
in that it was seeking to stop the Minister from attending the, for all intent
and purpose, a private meeting made it worse. President Mugabe is renowned for
his strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the law, if that is to his advantage
even when the legality of the matter is not clear; when it is clear he relishes
it!
The war vets were outwitted and outmanoeuvred
by the Women’s League members who stage a counter demo targeting to occupy the
same space at the same time to clash with the war vet’s demo. The women were supposedly
demonstrating to express their thanks to President Mugabe for successfully
chairing the AU for a year. What could be more innocuous than that!
Yes we are now in the realm of
George Orwell’s Animal Farm with the “Thanks to Comrade Napoleon, how sweet
this water taste!” Zimbabwe’s revolution has run its full course and it is now a
fully-fledged dictatorship!
There are those, especially in the MDC
leadership, who have argued that MDC did not implemented any of the security
sector reforms during the GNU because the Zanu PF hardliners would ignored the
reforms anyway. The above story proves that war vets are boisterous as long as
they know they have Mugabe’s tacit support, withdraw that tacit support which is
what the reforms do by severing the undemocratic power and influence the
president has over the Police and Judiciary. The instance the war vets know
they will be arrested and punished like anyone else if the broke the law their
boisterous arrogance will disappear like morning mist in the morning African
sun.
The only reason MDC leaders failed
to implement even one single democratic reform in five years of the GNU is because
they are breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent! Of course MDC leaders
sold-out!
@ John Makamure
ReplyDeleteYou claim that the alignment of existing laws to the new constitution will delivery all our freedoms and human rights is pure conjecture and not based on reality for two reasons:
1) During the GNU it was MDC who were expected to implement the democratic re-forms necessary to ensure free, fair and credible elections because Zanu PF would never implement the reforms since the party know they cannot win such elections. MDC failed to get even one such reform implemented and now we expect Zanu PF to carry out this task?
Anyone who believes that Zanu PF will implement the democratic reforms, whatever these happen to be, necessary for free and fair elections is politically very naive.
2) MDC failed to get even one of the 2008 GPA democratic reforms implemented during the GNU and for anyone to think that the compromise constitution the produced, designed to accommodate the reforms they had failed to implement, would somehow makeup for all the missed reforms is rich. It only shows that the individual had failed to understand what the GPA reforms were about.
Mugabe “dictated” the new constitution as the Zanu PF MP on the drafting commit-tee, Paul Mangwana boasted. In other words it is not a democratic constitution capa-ble of delivering free, fair and credible elections; even if the nation was to force Zanu PF to align all the existing laws to the new constitution.
The new constitution allows the state president to formulate the "security policy", for example, which he can then ask the Police to implement without reference to any oth-er statutory body. The State President alone can appoint and fire the Police commis-sioner and other senior members without reference to parliament or any other body.
So the State President can decide that all public gatherings must be subject to Police approval and the said Police, totally under his/her control, will then ban opposition rallies and allow ruling party rallies.
If you are serious about ensuring the next elections are free, fair and credible then you must demand the appointment of an independent body which will then be tasked to implement all the 2008 GPA reforms and then organize free, fair and credible elections. To suggest any-thing else is just a waste of time.
Without President Mugabe and the other corrupt leaders interfering and egging the more militant individuals, the voices of the war vets who real believed in freedom and liberty for all Zimbabweans and not a select few will now be heard. Many of the freedom fighters were ashamed of what people like Chris Mutsvangwa, Joseph Chinotimba, Jabulani Sibanda and a few others have been doing and saying in the name of war vets because that was not what the liberation war was about.
ReplyDeletePresident Mugabe and other leaders hijacked the revolution to create this heartless dictatorship and people like Sibanda were the guns for hire!
After decades of being brainwashed many of them are incapable of thinking for themselves. If we do not change Zimbabwe and end the dictatorship he/she will have no problem amassing another army of mindless thugs.
DeleteI think Animal Farm should become one of the set book in our schools, it has so many lessons for our people. If our people had read Animal Farm and understood the story they would have seen how President Mugabe and the ruling elite are toying with them just as the pigs toyed with the other animals on the farm.
ReplyDeleteFor all boasting as one of the most literate nation in Africa; the mess we have made of Zimbabwe since independence shows we can read and write and yet lack common sense. We can read and write but what good will that be to the hundreds of thousands facing starvation this year. We used to produce enough food to feed ourselves with plenty leftover for export, now we cannot produce enough to feed ourselves even when we have a good growing season. By failing to produce enough in good years has meant in bad years like this year, we starve.
We can read and write but do not have the common sense to ensure we grow enough food to feed ourselves. Great!
I agree, Animal Farm should be one of the set books at school because it has so many relevant lessons of our people. Our whole school system must be changed, revised and updated so that there is greater emphasis on making the subject relevant to people's lives.
DeleteIt sickens me that some people have done "O" level, "A" level and some even University level and yet they do not know what a verb is. We have a regime that has become obsessed about quantity, it has completely forgotten about quality.
The student to teacher ratio has increased so much that it is impossible to pay any attention to the individual needs of the student. Students are pushed on to the next level regardless of whether they learnt something or not. Parents still have to pay the school fees and students are wasting their lives all for sub substandard education that teaches one how to read and write in 11 to 13 years!
What a criminal waste of resources and humanity!