There
is no doubt about it, the most valuable possession in man or beast is one’s intelligence.
Those who have the intelligence have thrived and prospered whilst those
mentally challenged have struggled and suffered.
A meerkat
is a creature of habit and being intelligent demands that one must think
outside the box, outside one’s normal routine. In its daily foraging a meerkat
will stable on a bird’s egg. A bite of the shell and it will have a fine meal.
It is a different proposition when the bird happens to be an ostrich. Not ever
father meerkat with his mouth wide open can wrap his mouth round the egg. Ever
if he could, he will break his teeth before he breaks the thick egg shell.
But not
being ones to give up so readily on a good thing the whole family will take it
in turn to dig the ground under the egg. Habit has kicked in – meerkats get
most of their food by digging it out and so they dig. If the egg did not roll
away, the meerkats would certain dig a hole deep enough to bury it!
Even
if one could speak meerkat language perfectly, no one would be able to explain
to that lot that digging will not solve anything given the egg is already out
of the ground! There is nothing like frustration, desperation, panic, anger,
etc. a whole cocktail of all those emotive feeling to slam the door shut to
logical thinking.
Eventually
the meerkat family will wonder off, cursing and swearing at the foolish
creature that laid the egg. “What is the blood point of laying an egg so big
and so hard one cannot crack it open!” They will mutter away for hours if not
days!
If
they should stumble on the ostrich egg again, it can even be the same egg; they
will re-enact the same scene and walk away cursing as before.
In
walks the crow, it too would make a meal of other birds’ eggs if it can get
them. One or two perks with its beak and dinner is served! Just one perk at the
ostrich’s egg in enough to give the crow a splitting headache, an experience
never to be repeated ever again.
The
crow will wonder off in search of a stone which it will then throw at the egg
repeatedly until the egg cracks.
Even
if our family of meerkats were to see the crow crack the ostrich egg a thousand
times they will still dig round the egg and walk away cursing and swearing!
When it comes to intelligence mankind’s intellect superior to
all the other creatures that have ever lived, man is peregrine falcon flying
highest and swiftest in a Jurassic world of lumbering dinosaurs. Mankind is not
competing against the other animals, not even our nearest evolutionary cousin,
the chimpanzee; we are too far ahead, for that. Mankind is out competing
against his own kind; man against man, nation against nation.
The crow may have shown it has a superior intellect to that
of a meerkat in solving the problem of how to crack an ostrich egg but so what.
Meerkats have a pretty good nose to sniff out a juicy grab which will the crow’s
nose will never pick up nor will it be able to dig out even if it knew it was
there! Intelligence really come to its own when it is like for like competing
for the same thing!
In the man against man, nation against nation, those who have
shown to have the intelligence, the crow, have certainly done well whilst their
mentally challenged competition, the meerkat, have lagged behind.
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different
results,” said the great Physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Albert Einstein.
We
have a world full of insane people! The only reason we have not send them all
mental institutions is because we would have to declare whole towns and cities mental
institutions and, even then, that will not be enough. In some cases, it will
easier to declare the whole country a mental institute and be done with it. That
is right, I am talking of Zimbabwe as a nation of mentally challenged and here
is a simple proof!
Zimbabweans
are renowned for doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different
result. Every Zimbabwean, even one with half a brain, would know the country is
stuck in this s**thole because of the country’s failure to remove the corrupt
and tyrannical Zanu PF thugs from power. Here is a simulated dialogue one might
have to get even the half-wit to agree on this point.
Question:
Would you agree that Zimbabwe is in a s**thole, given unemployment has soared
to 90% and ¾ of the population is living on US$1.00 or less a day?
Answer:
Yes, I agree.
Q: Would
you agree the country was in a much better economic state in 1980 than it is in
today?
A:
Yes, I agree.
Q:
When would you say, the nation noticed something was amiss and what did the
people do about it?
The
line of question can continue for a while; the aim is to establish the
fundamental and historic facts that the people of Zimbabwe did realise that
Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs were delivering mass poverty and not mass
prosperity the regime had promised.
The
people then tried to effect regime change by voting the corrupt and incompetent
regime out of office. They failed because Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs
blatantly rigged the vote, used wanton violence including cold blooded murder
to coerce the people to vote for the party and even staged a military coup
following the March 2008 elections to stop MDC getting into power.
So, to
put is in simple terms then; for the last 38 years the overwhelming majority of
our people have suffered the consequences of the series economic meltdown cause
by decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption by this Zanu PF regime.
Many have died from the economic hardship and over 30 000 were victims of the
politically motivated murders. The nation has wringed its hands in anger and
frustration but were totally helpless to effect any meaningful change because
Mugabe and his cronies had the bloody veto. They and they alone decided who
ruled the country and we, the ordinary people, had to accept it as fait accompli,
regardless how disastrous the regime’s rule has proven.
Now
to close the case.
Q:
Would you agree that from the day each one of us, povo, concluded that Mugabe
and his Zanu PF thugs were wielding a veto to stop regime change against our
democratic wish it was imperative that we all, as one, expend all our time, energy,
treasure, everything in wrestling this veto from Zanu PF?
A:
Yes, I agree.
Q:
You agree wrestling the veto from Zanu PF was the most logical thing to do and
that nothing of any substance could ever be accomplished until that is done?
A:
Yes, I agree.
Q:
Would you agree with me that the only sure way to wrestle the veto from Zanu PF
is by implementing the democratic reforms designed to stop the regime from
blatantly rigging the vote, using violence and staging military coups?
A:
Yes, I agree.
Q: Would
you agree that if this year’s election go ahead with no democratic reforms in
place; President Mnangagwa and his coup cabinet will still have power to
blatantly rig elections, the veto? It may not be necessary for them to blatantly
rig the elections this year, after all they only need to wield the veto when
the vote is going against them.
Q: Just,
two more question and I am done. Would you agree with me that every Zimbabwean
has a right to all the freedoms and human rights stated in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights including the right to free,
fair and credible elections? And that Zanu PF thugs have no right to deny any
of us these rights by refusing to implement the democratic reforms?
A:
Yes, I agree.
Q: Last
question. Would you agree with me by continuing to take part in flawed and
illegal elections, after 38 years of rigged elections, the Zimbabwe people are
doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result?
A:
Yes!
There
is no need to say anything more. QED!
@ Chiwoneso Mpofu
ReplyDeleteI agree with you there 100% on everything except one thing; you are asking the people of Zimbabwe to go and register to vote. You have already acknowledged that Zanu PF bought the Chiefs the trucks for the sole purpose of making sure the Chiefs frog march the rural voters to vote for Zanu PF. The rural vote constitutes 60 to 70% of the vote. So Zanu PF has 60 to 70% of the votes in the bag before the voting has even started.
Zanu PF has many other vote rigging shenanigans lined up to make sure the party wins this election.
"If you go into elections next month, you are going to lose; the elections are done!" SADC leaders warned Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends in June 2013. They warning is still true today!
So, I ask you Madam, what is the purpose of keeping on contesting "elections one has already lost and they are done" months ahead of the first vote? All we will do here is give the process credibility! It is insane! We need to start thinking outside the box!
There is no point in participating in flawed and illegal elections; we must refuse to accept there can be free and fair elections without first implementing the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging the vote. We must demand reforms before elections and refuse to be short change.
If Zanu PF goes ahead with the flawed elections then our position is as clear as bell - the whole process is a sham and must be declared null and void.
SADC and the world are sick and tired of Zimbabweans who ignore the mountain of evidence that Zanu PF is rigging the elections and the warning not to take part. Only when the elections are rigged the same idiots then make a big song and dance about how Zanu PF rigged the election as if they did not know that was going to happen!
@ Pedro
ReplyDeleteIf you know Zanu PF is going to rig the vote just as it has done countless times it is pretty silly to continue to pretend that we can, somehow win the rigged elections! Our problem here is that we are locked into this one gear - that we must take part in the elections no matter how flawed and illegal the process gets!
We know we need to have the democratic reforms implemented to have free, fair and credible elections. What we lack is the political conviction and intellectual fortitude to demand the reforms and refuse to take part in any elections until the reforms are implemented.
@ Chaurura
ReplyDeleteDo not be too sure of it! SADC leaders themselves wanted the 2013 elections postponed and I would not call them cry babies, if I was you. SADC leaders should have stood their ground and declared the 2013 elections null and void; they did not and led to last November's coup. That was a close call and they are not going to allow Zanu PF together away with another rigged election, of that you can be certain!
Petina Gappah, the Zimbabwean international law expert who has courted controversy after being hired to organise President Emmerson Mnangagwa's participation at the on-going World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, has denied swirling social media claims that she has joined the Zanu-PF administration.
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing wrong with Zimbabweans or outsiders working with the Zanu PF government of President Mnangagwa per se, the problem here is whether one is working with a democrat or the same old corrupt, vote rigging and murderous thugs. There is not even one bit of evidence to suggest the regime has change from that on Mugabe days other than the thugs themselves claimed it has. The only two that have changed is that the dictatorship now has a new face and the party regalia now has Mnangagwa’s face and not Mugabe’s face.
The ordinary Zimbabweans who joined in the march to demand that Mugabe must go on 18 November 2017 were duped by the coup plotters into believing the coup was not a coup and that it has ushered in a new democratic dispensation in which there will be free, fair and credible elections. The majority of these people are naïve and gullible the believed Mnangagwa and his coup plotters Mafia thugs just as readily as they believed Robert Mugabe and the same thugs in 1980 when they made similar claims. The thugs have not implemented even one democratic reform – proof they have every intention to retain the de facto one-party dictatorship and there will be no free elections.
Surely Ms Gappah is not naïve and is savvy enough to see through the regime’s trickery. It is savvy people like her that the nation looks up to for guidance at such times as now on such complex matters. So, by working with this Mnangagwa regime Ms Gappah is endorsing the lie that the regime has changed and it will deliver free and fair election. That is a lie Ms Gappah, of all people knows it!
The harder this Zanu PF regime tries to convince the world that it has change the more everyone can see it has not change one bit!
ReplyDelete“Over the next few days, I will be meeting with presidents, prime ministers and business leaders from around the world. My message is very simple – the new Zimbabwe is open for business, looking to the future, and ready to take its place in the family of nations once again,” insist President Mnangagwa.
One of the most annoying things about this Zanu PF regime is its “in your face” arrogance. The regime is illegitimate born, as it was, out of a military coup – trying to pretend it was something else is just nonsense – and the international community has said clearly that holding free, fair and credible elections will be one sure way to restore its legitimacy. For the love of power, the regime knows that it cannot afford the luxury implementing the reforms to ensure free elections and so with its characteristic arrogance the regime promises free elections but ignores the reform.
President Mnangagwa is talking of a new Zimbabwe when he knows all that time that nothing has changed. The business people is trying to woo are shrewd people, the can see the country is still being ruled by lawless thugs who think everyone out there must believe everything they say – The coup was not a coup because they said so! There is now rule of law in Zimbabwe because they said so!
It is one thing reading out the names of big companies from the yellow pages getting them to invest in Zimbabwe is another matter. No one wants to do business in a country they know is ripe for another military coup or serious social unrest – how else can the nation achieve regime change given the regime will rig elections.