"It
is now time to put behind the elections and be united in working to achieve the
Zimbabwe we all want. We are indeed building the Zimbabwe we want, growing the
economy together, and creating employment and improving the standards of living
for everyone, where everyone is involved, irrespective of tribe, creed, gender,
religion and party affiliation," President Mnangagwa told the Hero’s Day
celebration crowd.
Mr
Mnangagwa you promised to hold free, fair and credible elections, that is the
one vision we shared. You stubbornly refused to implement even one democratic
reform to make this possible and even went so far as to dismiss those calling
for reforms as barking.
“Zanu PF
ichatonga! Igotonga! Imi muchingo hukura! Nokuhukura!” (Zanu PF will rule! And
rule! Whilst you (calling for reforms) bark! And bark!) said President
Mnangagwa.
President
Mnangagwa, you failed to keep your promise, Sir; you rigged these elections.
By failing
to hold free and fair elections you have just confirmed that Zimbabwe is a
pariah state ruled by vote-rigging thugs! All your “Zimbabwe is open for
business!” PR work of the last eight months will come to naught. The flood of
foreign investors you have been trying to lure to come to Zimbabwe will never
happen because investors, Sir, do not do business in pariah states ruled by
thugs.
President
Mnangagwa, if you thought you could rig these elections and get away with it,
just as Zanu PF has done countless times these last 38 years; the rigging was
easy but getting away with it is proving impossible, especially on the economic
front. Without the desperately needed foreign direct investment to kick start
the country’s comatose economy there will be no meaning economic recovery.
"Let
us move forward with the same determination and a single mind, after all we
share the same vision and dream for the country," the President added.
That is
just the thing Mr President we do not share the same vision and dream for
Zimbabwe. You and your Zanu PF junta friends dream of Zanu PF ruling “until the
donkeys sprout horns,” as Zanu PF Minister Simon Khaya Moyo would put it, hence
the need to rig the elections to ensure party victory. Everything else; individual
freedoms and rights, national economic prosperity, etc. only matter once Zanu
PF claim to absolute power is secured.
The vision
and dream of every thinking Zimbabwean out there is and has always been of a
country in which the individual freedoms and rights including the right to free
and fair elections and the right to life of all its citizens are the nation’s
number priority. This is the solid rock foundation on which we should have built
the country and not the quicksand of selfish greed foundation Zanu PF fostered
on the nation.
Zimbabwe
is in this economic and political hell-hole because of 38 years of Zanu PF
corrupt and tyrannical rule. “Let us move forward!” you say, after you have
just rigged the elections. How naïve! President Mnangagwa, as long as Zanu PF
continues to rig elections Zimbabwe will remain stuck in this hell-hole!
These elections should not have happened without first implementing the democratic reforms to ensure they were free, fair and credible. Chamisa and his MDC fiends were warned of the folly of going into these elections without reforms but they would not listen. To now expect any good to come out of this flawed process is like throwing someone out of a plane and hope they will learn to make a parachute!
ReplyDeleteThe real tragedy here is people like President Mnangagwa, VP Chiwenga and the rest of the junta are set in their ways; whatever happens, no one would have done better. They are convinced they are the best thing that has ever happened to Zimbabwe. Since they are the best, it is therefore unthinkable that they should ever give up power even to the point of rigging the elections and committing mass murder. Getting this lot to give up power is not going to be a walk in the park, of that we can be certain.
ReplyDeleteThe 2008 to 2013 GNU was a once in a lifetime opportunity to dismantle the dictatorship peacefully and thoroughly. It is a great pity that the opportunity was wasted.
"Let us move forward!" said President Mnangagwa. You can tell him the nation is stuck and explain why it is stuck; he is either too dull to understand it or too selfish to care about since realities as long as he continues to enjoy power.
Robert Mugabe was lucky to inherit a national economy that was fat it has taken decades to run it down to the sorry state it is today.
Poor Mnangagwa has inherit the national economy that is skin and bones and in a comatose state, he will have very little to give away to buy loyalty. He will try his best to pretend the economy is recovering but that will be impossible to sustain the lie for long.
@ Takavarasha
ReplyDeleteMDC should have never agreed to go into these elections without first implementing the democratic reforms. Zanu PF took full advantage of MDC stupidity and rigged these elections. What we must not forget here is that millions of ordinary Zimbabweans are the ones who are paying dearly for yet another rigged elections. It is totally unacceptable that millions of ordinary Zimbabweans should be the ones to suffer another five years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule.
It really does not matter what the ConCourt decide on this, we all know that these were not free, fair and credible elections!
Zanu PF does not have the right to rigged elections even if it is taking advantage of MDC's stupidity. Zanu PF owes the people of Zimbabwe free, fair and credible elections; it has never hold such elections for the last 38 years!
@ Tapera Chinhoyi
ReplyDelete"Spewing venom, bitterness and fury will not change the fact that you were convincingly defeated. Please calm down and accept the reality. The earlier you embrace this veracity, the better for your rapidly deteriorating health," you say.
It is President Mnangagwa you should be telling to "calm down and accept reality"! He is the one wittering about "Let us move forward!" when the country is stuck and going nowhere! With the country's economy is such a sorry state it has very little slack he failed to increase the cash in the bank to end the bank queues even for a few weeks during the elections, for example. The mega deals he is supposed to have signed will be quietly forgotten. It will not take long for reality to finally dawn on him that the country is going nowhere.
The army chief said the military intervention, dubbed Operation Restore Legacy, which saw Mugabe placed under house arrest for a week leading to his resignation, was a "people's operation whose main objective was to arrest potentially volatile, economic and political situation in the country".
ReplyDelete"The operation was launched to rescue the values and those of the liberation struggle that had been threatened by counter revolutionaries of the so-called G40 cabal," ZIMBABWE National Army (ZNA) Commander Lieutenant-General Edzai Absolom Chanyuka Chimonyo.
He is just an empty head making a lot of noise; the values of the revolution were betrayed a long time ago by idiots like him who had helped impose the de facto one-party state. The November coup remove one dictator but only to replace him with another. Nothing has changed here but the idiot does not see this, of course!
Analysts who spoke to The Herald dismissed UK legislator Kate Hoey's suggestion that there should be no change of policy on Zimbabwe from the European Union (EU), United Kingdom and United States unless Vice President Constantino Chiwenga was removed from his Vice Presidency and his control of the military as Defence Minister.
ReplyDeleteOne of the political analysts who spoke to The Herald, Mr Tafadzwa Mugwadi, said any reports that Zimbabwe's Government is captured by the military are baseless. He said people with a military background should be allowed to serve in Government as is the case in the United States.
Zanu PF rigged last month's elections and it will be criminal to let these thugs get away with it! After 38 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship, the people of Zimbabwe deserve a meaningful say in the governance of the country.