Friday 26 May 2017

Mphoko justify storming of Police - no one is more blind than he who refuse to see! Nomusa Garikai

There is no one more blind than he who close the eyes and refuse to see! VP Mphoko is one refusing to see because he has his eyes shut!

"How could they (Police) arrest people, who were in the meeting, accusing them of throwing stones, and letting those who had come to disrupt the meeting go scot-free? How does someone in a hall throw stones, getting them from where? This is what the Acting President (Mphoko) wanted addressed," Zanu PF Bulawayo provincial secretary for security, George Mlala, explained.

This relates to the story of VP Mphoko storming into the Police Station and accusing the official of failing to do their duty following the arrest of Zanu PF members after fighting broke out amongst the party members in the on-going factional war.

Even if the Police had indeed arrested the victims of the violence and not the perpetrators; is this not standard practice in Zimbabwe’s mudded political waters? Surely VP Mphoko must know the history of our troubled nation enough to know that Zanu PF instigated violence is the norm and that the party’s thugs are above the law!

As recent as 2008 over 500 innocent MDC supporters were murdered in cold blood and no one has ever been arrested because President Mugabe himself set up operation “Mavhotera papi!” (Who did you vote for!). He wanted to reverse the 73% electoral defeat to Tsvangirai in the March vote. He led the operation from the front!

“What was achieved by the bullet cannot be undone with the ballot!” He thundered!

It worked; he won the July run-off by a staggering 84%, the biggest ever vote swing in human history.

In the Zanu PF factional war, VP Mphoko is with the G40 faction, and he is outraged that G40 supporters were ever arrested; even if they were they were the ones who stormed the meeting and throw the stones. Mphoko is outraged at the arrest of his Zanu PF factional supporters and yet when hundreds of opposition members are murdered he sees nothing wrong! The sheer arrogance and hypocrisy of the man is an insult to the nation!

No wonder the nation is a real mess; with corrupt and murderous thugs like Mphoko, Mnangagwa, Mugabe, etc. at the helm, it is naïve to expect anything else. The need for meaningful political change and remove the thugs from office in now a matter of life and death for this nation.

During the 2008 to 2013 GNU, SADC leaders present the people of Zimbabwe with a way to end the country’s culture of political violence, vote rigging and lawlessness. All the nation had to do was implement the raft of democratic reforms designed to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship. The important task of implementing the reform was given to Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends. They had five years to complete the task. They failed to get even one reform implemented. Not one!

President Mugabe bribed the MDC leaders with the gravy train lifestyles, a seized white farm for Welshman Ncube, a $4 million Highlands mansion for Tsvangirai, etc., etc. And, in return, MDC leaders kicked all the reforms straight out of the window. SADC leaders tried their best to get Tsvangirai & co. to implement the reforms but the warning fell on deaf ears.

MDC leaders themselves became aware of their folly of failing to implement the reforms in the dying months of the GNU. They could, even at this eleventh hour, have forced the implementation of the reform but greed once again got the better of them, as former MDC cabinet minister, David Coltart, readily admitted.

“The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious – withdraw from the elections,” wrote Coltart in his book.

“The electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility.”

The country lost two golden opportunities to dismantle the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship; first, during the GNU by failing to implement even one reform in five years. Second, by participating in the flawed 2013 elections we gave the process credibility and acceptance and thus forfeiting our chance to have the elections condemned and force through the reforms.

It is clear that Zanu PF has not changed in any way, as VP Mphoko’s arrogant and hypocritical actions clearly shows. The regime will rig next year’s elections as readily as it rig the 2013 elections. Claims by Tsvangirai and his opposition friends that they will win are as empty as the similar claims of yesteryears. The opposition leaders like Tsvangirai cannot see the wood from the trees because their minds are a fog, they are afflicted by the sickness of greed.

Zimbabwe has the chance of forcing the implementation of the democratic reforms and thus finally dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship for all times! All we have to do is stop the sell-out opposition politicians contesting the 2018 elections until all reforms are implemented.

Zanu PF got away with rigging the 2013 elections because the opposition granted the regime the legitimacy by participating. Stop the opposition participation and Zanu PF will not get away with rigging elections. Stop opposition participation in flawed elections and you starve Zanu PF the oxygen keeping it alive!


If withdrawing from the flawed 2013 elections was the “obvious” thing for MDC to do in 2013, it is the obvious and only thing to do now. MDC leaders promised they will not contest another election until reforms are implemented. “No reform, no elections!” they said. It our solemn duty as the concerned citizens of Zimbabwe to hold Tsvangirai & co. to account and not let the fog of greed win the day again!

5 comments:

  1. @ Pythias Makonese

    Zimbabweans were fooled into participating in the 2013 elections by none other than MDC leaders themselves even when it was clear the elections will be rigged as David Coltart has since admitted.

    “The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious – withdraw from the elections,” explained Senator Coltart.

    “The electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility.”

    Coltart was talking about the 2013 elections.

    “All necessary electoral reforms should be seen to be adhered to and no compromise on this,” you said.

    Well Tsvangirai and company have failed to get even one reform implemented since the rigged July 2013 elections and yet they are determined to contest next year’s elections for the same reason they contested the 2013 elections – greed.

    I agree that it is futile to contest next year’s elections with no reforms in place but if anyone is going to stop the flawed elections then it has to be people like you and me. Do not count on Tsvangirai and his opposition friends they will do everything to contest the elections for the sake of the few gravy train seats Zanu PF is offering them!

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  2. When Zanu PF has made it clear that there are no go areas for the opposition and the party has the political muscle to enforce this. What is MDC-T going to do about it other than the usual grandstanding and posturing!
    “This is the main reason why we are fervently advocating for the adoption of electoral reforms in time for the harmonized elections to be held in 2018. Zimbabwe is at the crossroads and the last thing that our battered and bruised nation needs is another disputed election next year. It is against this background that we call upon excitable and irresponsible politicians in the mould of one Simbaneuta Mudarikwa to tone down their language and behave like honourable Members of Parliament and not like some drunken and misguided political malcontents,” said MDC-T statement.
    Well that should sure assure every Zimbabwean in Zimbabwe of a peaceful election!
    MDC-T will contest 2018 elections regardless of all the threats and violence for the same reason they contested the 2013 elections - greed.
    We need to have all the democratic reforms implemented before an elections and stop wasting time with all this talk of NERA, coalition building, etc. that is not going to stop Zanu PF violence and vote rigging!

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  3. Zambia stop SA opposition leader, Mmusi Maimane, entering the country to observe trial of Zambia opposition leader, Hakainde Hichilema. He is facing treason charges for failing to stop to allow Zambia’s presidential motorcade passed.
    Zambia's problem was the country's failure to implement far reaching political reforms before Chilumba took over from Kenneth Kaunda. KK had corrupted the country's political institutions and once in power Chiluba and all the others who followed after him have kept the institutions.

    We in Zimbabwe must learn from Zambia's mistake and make sure that we implement the democratic reforms BEFORE any one takes over from the present Zanu PF dictatorship. It is naive to expect Tsvangirai much less Mujuru to implement the reforms to guarantee free and fair elections. With their sorry track records neither of the two would win a free and fair election.

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  4. ZIMBABWE has been ranked number 13th among the world’s most fragile States, putting to shame President Robert Mugabe’s recent denials his country was far from the inglorious classification and was second to South Africa among the continent’s most developed States.
    This is according to the 2016-17 Fragile States Index released by United States think tank, Fund for Peace.

    Like it or not Zimbabwe is the neighbour from hell – just like North Korea is to all its neighbours! Zimbabwe is the North Korea of Africa.

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  5. How typical of these Zanu PF thugs; when they are the ones with the thick end of the whip in their hands, it is ok. When they find themselves on the business end of the whip they cry foul! In this case it is the thugs whipping each other, having a taste of their own medicine; it is understandable why the public are not bothered.

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