“Today we are witnessing the beginning of unfolding democracy in
our country.” Mnangagwa said.
Here is a man who has no sense of shame. None! He has been at
the very heart of this Zanu PF regime for 37 years and has no shame in
admitting the nation has been forced to wait until today for “the beginning of
unfolding democracy”. He is right that until now the country had not seen
democratic freedom, liberty and peace under this corrupt, vote rigging and
murderous Zanu PF regime. He knows all these evils were happening because he
was for the great many of them the one perpetuating the heinous acts.
He has also been on the receiving end of the barbarism as he
readily testified.
“Within two hours of me being dismissed I got a report that they
were planning to eliminate me and that’s when I decided that I cannot wait for
that to happen,” he said.
“On the 12th of August this year, I was poisoned which resulted
in me being airlifted to South Africa for treatment.”
However he is mistaken to think the country is now on a
democratic path. The Zanu PF dictatorship, the instigator of all the
lawlessness and mayhem that has haunted the nation to this day, is alive and
strong as demonstrated by its ability to hold Mugabe hostage and force him to
resign.
“Pamberi neZanu PF! Pasi nemhandu!” (Forward with Zanu PF! Death
with the traitors!) chanted Mnangagwa at the beginning and end of his speech on
his return from exile.
So, even now, 37 years after independence with Mugabe finally
booted out of office, he still believes that there are traitors who must be hunting
down and killed! He did not have to say it, we all know, that he and the Zanu
PF dictatorship considers all those daring to challenge Zanu PF’s undemocratic
strangle hold on the State Institutions like the Police, Army, ZEC, etc. and
demanding the implementation of democratic reforms as the only way to end the
country’s lawlessness and chaos.
“Vachahukura! Vachihukura! Zanu PF ichitonga! Igotonga!” (They
will bark! And bark! Whilst Zanu PF will rule! And rule!) He told his audience referring
to those calling for democratic reforms and free and fair elections.
Many people have nursed the fervent hope that Robert Mugabe was
not just the dictator but the embodiment of the dictatorship itself and his
demise therefore mark a new dawn. “The real independence day!” many people had
greeted his announced resignation. It was a fervent hope doomed to end in
disappointment because it ignored the facts on the ground.
Mugabe, the dictator, was the public face of the Zanu PF
dictatorship; there was no excuse for assuming the demise of the dictator was
the demise of the dictatorship. Indeed, it was one arm of the dictatorship, the
securocrats who stage the coup and force the dictator to resign. The public who
joined in the march to demand Mugabe’s resignation had their own agenda, they
wanted the dictatorship to go to but that was not the coup plotters’ agenda.
The coup plotter surgically removed the dictator from the
dictatorship and replaced him with another figure head. The dictatorship itself
has emerged out of the last two weeks’ events largely untouched; there will be
some individuals who will be booted out and others brought in but otherwise the
dictatorship is well and thriving.
The new dictator, Emerson Mnangagwa, wanted to assure the Zanu
PF dictatorship that he was totally committed their most cherish life-long political
goal – that Zanu PF must hold on to absolute power at all cost!
“Vachahukura! Vachihukura! Zanu PF ichitonga! Igotonga!” That was
music in the ears of General Chiwenga, coup ringleader, Chris Mutsvangwa, the leader
of the rogue war veterans, and all the other die-hard Zanu PF members in dictatorship
fraternity!
Mnangagwa was clearly the right choice as the next dictator to
succeed Mugabe, all the decades he had spent at the feet of the ruthless tyrant
had not been wasted. He had learnt from the grandmaster and learnt well!
Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent
India and the other leaders fighting to end British rule of India considered
waging an armed struggle against the British. They decided against the armed
struggle.
“What kind of leaders would the armed struggle throw up?” they
asked, rhetorically. “Are those the men and women we would want to rule India!”
If any has ever wanted to know what kind of leaders an armed
struggle can throw up – they should look at Zimbabwe. 37 years and counting
after our independence we are still regretting we wage the war to end white
colonial rule!
Zimbabweans are today the poorest nation on earth with 72.3% of
the population living on US$ 1.00 or less a day. Life expectancy, the qualitative
and quantitative measure of the standard of living has plummeted from 68 years
in 1980 to 34 year in 2004, the last time there was accurate data.
On the political front the only right the ordinary person, povo,
can lay claim to in the right to vote, if they are lucky, and this is countered
by those who fought in the liberation war who have a veto.
If one could turn back the clock then Zimbabweans would certain
opt for Gandhi’s peaceful protest and not an armed struggle to end white
colonial rule. Getting the democratic reforms implemented to dismantle the Zanu
PF dictatorship is the nation’s holy-grail quest and proving just as illusive!
“Today we are witnessing the beginning of unfolding democracy in
our country.” Said President-elect Emerson Mnangagwa.
No it is not! You are a dictator and are in office today thanks to the Zanu
PF dictatorship, which you are there to serve and not democracy much less the ordinary
people, povo.
“Vachahukura! Vachihukura! Zanu PF ichitonga! Igotonga!” Is your
catch phrase, you cherish it, very proud of it and live by it! For us, povo, the
phrase is your reaffirmation of your refusal to accept democratic change, it is
the very embodiment of the dictatorship, our curse; we are suffering and dying
because of it!
We all know that Mugabe rigged the last elections (Mnangagwa, Chiwenga and the rest of the Joint Operation Command (JOC) Junta know this better than anyone else because they are the ones who masterminded the vote rigging schemes from start to finish) and so he was never the country's legitimate head of state. The irony is that it was the same Junta that mounted the coup that toppled the tyrant and installed Mnangagwa. What must be made very clear here is that Mnangagwa himself is NOT Zimbabwe's legitimate head of state because the coup itself was not a legitimate.
ReplyDeleteTwo wrongs do not make a right, never did and never will!
What makes the recent Chiwenga coup particularly repugnant is the fact that the same thugs who perpetrated the first wrong, the blatant vote rigging, are the ones behind the coup. A close examination of the Junta’s past shows that these are career criminals. They are the one who staged the 2008 coup d’état in all but name to falsify the vote count of the March 2008 election to stop Tsvangirai becoming president, among many other treasonous crimes. The names of Chiwenga, Mnangagwa and Mugabe himself feature throughout the years as the ringleaders.
The only thing unusual about the 15 November 2017 coup is that the Junta was acting against one of its own.
“Today we are witnessing the beginning of unfolding democracy in our country.” Mnangagwa said.
That is a truck load of bull! How can the illegal act of the Junta, which is itself an illegal body that has no regard for the rule of law and democracy and the end product of the coup is clearly meant to reassert the Junta’s hegemony and veto in Zimbabwe politics be considering “the beginning of unfolding democracy”?
This is all about power and Zanu PF dictatorship led by JOC Junta’s ruthless determination to retain political power at all cost.
“Vachahukura! Vachihukura! Zanu PF ichitonga! Igotonga! Pamberi neZanu PF! Pasi nemhandu!” Is the devil, Mnangagwa, JOC Junta’s and Zanu PF thugs’ creed. There is no room for free, fair and credible elections in that creed!
Many of us suffered many hardships and risked life and limb in the liberation war, many comrades lost their lives, fighting for a free, democratic and independent Zimbabwe. It is heart breaking to see what Mugabe and his gang of thieves and murderers have done to this great nation. If I had known this would happen, I and many others would have never left home to fight! Never!
The men and women we fought along side with for freedom now call us barking dogs for reminding them that they are denying povo the very things we all fought for – freedom, human dignity, a meaningful say in the governance of the country and a fair share of the nation’s wealth.
Mnangagwa’s ascendance pinto the presidency was engineered by thugs for their own gain. It stinks! Enough of this corrupt and tyrannical rule by thieves, vote rigging tricksters and murderous tyrants. Zimbabwe will never live up to its full potential or its people ever taste the sweetness of freedom as long as the Zanu PF dictatorship survive. We must demand the implementation of the democratic reforms and only then can we be certain of the demise of this curse!
@Ty try
ReplyDeleteMnangagwa is dismissing all those calling for democratic reforms as barking dogs and restating Zanu PF's core tenet to hold on to power at all cost. Zanu PF ichatonga igotonga! Mnangagwa has already made it very clear that he view implementing democratic reforms as tantamount to Zanu PF reforming itself out of power.
The power to decide who rules the country belong to the people and they express it in free, fair and credible elections. Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs have usurped the people's power by corrupting the State Institutions like the Police, Judiciary, ZEC, etc. so that they ignore their duty of maintaining law and order, produce a verifies voters' roll, etc. necessary for the delivery of free, fair and credible elections.
Zanu PF has been resisting demands to have the democratic reforms implemented because it has benefited from usurping the people's power to achieve its no-regime-change mantra.
Mugabe had no right to usurp the people's right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country. It is absurd that the Zanu PF dictatorship should be resisting calls for reforms, calling those demanding reforms barking dogs, as if having usurped the people's power the regime now has the right to hold on to its ill-gotten gains!
Pasi nemhandu is a more that a hate speech! It is treason! The people's right to free, fair and credible elections is at the very heart of the country's political and economic crisis that has dragged this nation right up to the edge of the abyss. The very stability and survival of this nation is on the knife edge! These responsible for this tragic situation are therefore guilty of committing the most serious crime one can ever commit - crime against the nation, treason.
@ Mavaza
ReplyDelete“The man whose name became synonymous with Zimbabwe, has resigned as president after 37 years in power. But will always remain a hero who brought independence and an end to white-minority rule. Even those who forced him out blamed his wife and “criminals” around him,” you say.
This is the type of foolishness that got us into this mess in the first place.
Mugabe and many of all those who have been with him these last 37 years played a key and important role in the liberation war but it is nonsense to still maintain they a liberation heroes when they hijacked the revolution soon after independence for their own selfish purposes. Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs; who, by the way only booted him out of the presidency to replace him with another member of the Joint Operation Command (JOC), the shadowy Junta, proof that nothing has changed; have ruled this nation with an iron fist.
Mugabe and his Zanu thugs looted the country’s wealth like rats in a granary that eats what it wants and urinate and s**t on the rest leaving the true owner of grain to starve. Mugabe has ridden roughshod over the people’s freedoms and basic human rights denying the right to free and fair elections for the sole purpose of extending his rule and looting.
You focus on Mugabe’s liberation war contribution but ignoring his demonic tyrant since independence is an insult to all those who have suffered under his corrupt and tyrannical rule. Only a brainwashed idiot would still consider Mugabe a hero! Sadly, it must be said, Zimbabwe has a glat of such idiots; even now with the mountain of evidence of the real and true Mugabe, a corrupt, vote rigging and murderous tyrant, some idiots still cherry pick on which Mugabe they want to see.
Do not air brush the last 37 years of Mugabe just to suit yourself because his rule affected the whole nation and will continue to do so for generations. History will judge Mugabe for whom he has proven to be – a corrupt and ruthless tyrant whose appetite for absolute power and loot was insatiable! Yes, idiots will want to call him a hero but they are idiots, they think they can change historic facts, and must be ignored!
*COME AND BE AN EYE WITNESS OF HISTORY BEING MADE, THE HISTORIC USHERING IN A NEW ERA AND BETTER COUNTRY LED BY OUR LOVED CDE ED MNANGAGWA*.
ReplyDeleteThe Zanu PF propaganda machine can go into overdrive but even it cannot change the historic fact that Mnangagwa was “voted” president by General Chiwenga and his posse of coup plotters who pointed the gun at Mugabe. Mugabe himself was illegitimate because he rigged the last elections; Mnangagwa, General Chiwenga, the posse of coup plotters, everyone else in the Joint Operation Command (JOC), the Junta behind all looting, vote rigging, murders and coups, and Mugabe himself who was the Commander –In-Chief of JOC know only too well.
The coup removed Mugabe a tyrant the nation desperate to remove, yes, but still that does not change the fundamental fact that the coup itself was illegal. Two wrongs do not make a right. Worse still, the coup itself was carried out be the same criminals who have been behind the imposition of Mugabe all those years not to put their past wrong right but rather to impose a new dictator. Those coup plotters have not done the nation any favour here as this is just the Junta swapping one dictator for another.
The people of Zimbabwe must stay away from the crowning of one dictator and illegal president in place of another dictator who too was illegal. Nothing has changed here and yet the Junta want us to believe this is a new era! This is just the Zanu PF dictatorship playing power games in which we the people are nothing but pawns.
People must stay away and refuse to take part in these stupid games! The only president we will celebrate is one we, the people voted for and not the Junta!
There is no doubt that Mnangagwa will be more pragmatic and ditch many of Mugabe's stupid policies but what we must not lose sight of here is that Mnangagwa is, above all else, a corrupt, vote rigging and murderous tyrant. He will never allow any meaningful democratic reforms and free, fair and credible elections. The pressure on him to implement the reforms must therefore be maintained if not increased.
ReplyDeleteThere is a real danger of these in the West rushing in to engage with Mnangagwa just to catch up with the Chinese who have profited greatly over the years from all the looting that has been taking place in Zimbabwe.
If the dictatorship is going to be dismantled then it is us, the people of Zimbabwe, who will have to fight for it and even have to fight the West, who up to now have been on our side. It will be a great pity if all we have achieved here is get rid of one dictator only to replace him with another and allow the dictatorship itself to carry on as before!
This is typical Mugabe, it is always what he wants that matters. If his demise had been handled by democrats and not thugs then he should be facing trial for all the horrors he has caused these last 37 years. He will die in Zimbabwe in Chikurumbi or by the hangman's noose!
ReplyDeleteMugabe has been granted immunity from prosecution.
ReplyDeleteAn illegitimate regime has no power and authority to grant anyone immunity from prosecution especially on something as serious as treason. Mugabe has looted, rigged elections and committed politically motivated multiple murderers all of which have cause untold human suffering, deaths and brought the nation on the brink of total collapse and instability. To sweep all this under the carpet will be serious dereliction of duty and betrayal of all those who have suffered and died and set a dangerous precedent that will only return to haunt the nation again.
This is one immunity that can easily be revoked and it must and will be revoked!
@ Osama
ReplyDeleteJoint Operations Command, the Junta that has ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist decided to boot out the dictator that was its head and replace him with another dictator. This had nothing to do with the people of Zimbabwe and those who think the dictatorship is died are hopelessly wrong!
Mugabe has never honoured the constitution or the people and Mnangagwa will do the same.
People must focus on getting the reforms implemented because that is the only way they will dismantle and get rid of this oppressive and corrupt dictatorship. People must boycott Mnangagwa’s swearing in, this whole charade is JOC project that has nothing to do with povo. The fight for reforms must be relentless and must start now with the boycotting of swearing in ceremony.
@ Sibanda
ReplyDeleteDo not believe everything two-faced war veterans like Mutsvangwa say, they have done a lot worse than name calling. It was the same war veterans who did Mugabe's dirty bidding all these years!
When you start with the economy in a real mess as was the case in 2008 and is the case today it is easy to produce noticeable changes in the economy. Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends did just that during the GNU. Mnangagwa is certainly a lot smarter than the MDC team and his government would deliver even more noticeable economic changes. The danger here is for Zimbabweans to sit back and relax taking their eyes off the democratic reforms designed to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship.
ReplyDeleteUnless we implement the reforms and dismantle the dictatorship, corruption, vote rigging and tyrannical oppression will hang over this nation like the Sword of Damocles. The people of Zimbabwe will never ever taste the sweetness of freedom and human rights others the world over take for granted and the country will never perform to its full potential.
If we takes our eyes off the ball of reform we will be short changing ourselves again; we are in this mess because we short changed ourselves by allowing Mugabe to ride roughshod over our hopes and dreams all these last 37 years!