“OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he
was ready to weigh any offers tabled by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to enable
them to work together for the good of the country, but cautioned that dialogue
would be centred around five key issues his party wants addressed first,”
reported Bulawayo 24.
“The five key issues Chamisa wants to discuss with Mnangagwa
include ensuring that future elections are safeguarded so that they are held in
a transparent manner and can never be disputed again, that there are moves to
ensure the country returns to legitimacy and normalcy following what the
opposition claims was a stolen July 30 election.
“The opposition leader also wants to have dialogue centred around the economy to avert a complete meltdown.
“The fourth issue is around national healing, starting from the Gukurahundi massacres to the August 1 shootings.
“The MDC Alliance leader also wants measures put in place to allow constitutional Chapter 12 and 13 institutions — the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission and the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission, among others, — to have complete independence without undue influence from political players.”
“The opposition leader also wants to have dialogue centred around the economy to avert a complete meltdown.
“The fourth issue is around national healing, starting from the Gukurahundi massacres to the August 1 shootings.
“The MDC Alliance leader also wants measures put in place to allow constitutional Chapter 12 and 13 institutions — the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission and the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission, among others, — to have complete independence without undue influence from political players.”
The offer from Mnangagwa is a bribe to buy the opposition off
given the regime is already under pressure from all the democratic nations who
have pointedly refused to accept the 30 July elections as free, fair and
credible. It is bad enough to have to deal with the illegitimate question
coming from outsiders without Chamisa adding salt to the open wound!
As for Chamisa’s five demands since when has MDC leaders ever
stuck to their guns on anything.
“Morgan Tsvangirai was stupid to go into the 2013 elections with
no verified voters’ roll! I will not make the same mistake!” said Chamisa
before this year’s elections. The idiot went into the elections with no
verified voters’ roll!
If the MDC failed to get even one democratic reforms implemented
during the 2008 to 2013 GNU when MDC had the majority in parliament and SADC
backing what hope is there of getting any reform implemented now with no SADC
and with Zanu PF having 2/3 majority in parliament.
The only hope of getting the reforms implemented now is by
forcing Zanu PF to step down; the party rigged the elections and, per se, it is
illegitimate. If Zanu PF is allowed to stay in power until 2023 then we can be
certain of one thing – the party will see to it that no meaningful reforms are
implemented leaving the door open for it to rig the elections.
Zanu PF rigged the 30th July 2018 elections, that is
a historic fact. The only way we are ever going to stop the culture of rigged
elections is by refusing to recognise and support any party that rigs elections
because it is, per se, illegitimate.
MDC leaders are sell-outs; they sold-out during the 2008 to 2013
GNU by failing to implement even one reform in five years. They sold-out by participating
in the 2013 and this year’s elections, disregarding the warning not to until
reforms are implemented. Whatever deal they make with this illegitimate Zanu PF
junta we can be certain that it is NOT in the national interest.
We have a unique opportunity to pressure this illegitimate Zanu
PF junta to step down to allow the appointment of an interim administration
that will implement the reforms and hold the nation’s first ever free, fair and
credible elections.
Mnangagwa has failed to get any endorsement from anyone in the democratic nations, not even the British have dared to congratulate him. British MP Kate Hoey has already said the elections were rigged. Mnangagwa is desperate to get the opportunist, Chamisa to endorse his victory, he is hoping that would help ease the pressure. Chamisa is only holding back on giving that endorsement for no better reason than to get a better offer. As for any of the MDC demands Chamisa will not remember even one of them as soon as he gets the keys to the ministerial limo!
ReplyDeleteMnangagwa rigged the recent elections and as long as he remains on the illegitimate hook the country has a chance of forcing Zanu PF to step down before the five years are up. Going into the 2023 elections with Zanu PF still in power is the nightmare scenario the nation must avoid because Zanu PF will rig the 2023 elections and nothing will ever change.
The nation's top priority is to put an end to this cycle of Zanu PF rigging elections to rule and ruin the nation for five years only to rig the next elections and start another five years of corrupt and tyrannical rule. Chamisa will sell-out and get Mnangagwa off the hook - we must make sure the rest of the world see this and keep Mnangagwa on the hook regardless!
CHINESE diamond miner Anjin Investment is set to resume mining operations in Chiadzwa after the government allegedly bowed to pressure from Beijing.
ReplyDeleteAnjin and other diamond companies were barred from mining in the once rich diamond fields by former President Robert Mugabe's government in 2016 following allegations of looting.
Other companies were forced into a merger to create the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC), but Anjin resisted the move.
According to government sources, Anjin's licence was restored following intense pressure from Beijing, and operations at the miner's Chiadzwa site will resume soon.
The revelations were first made at a human rights workshop organised by the Centre for Natural Resources Governance (CNG) and Bocha Diamond Community Trust (BDCT) last week amid protests by locals.
Moses Makwanda, a BDCT official, told the workshop that he had received a call from an unnamed ZCDC official who disclosed the developments.
CNG director Farai Maguwu said he was aware of Anjin's return, describing it as a sad development.
The Chinese helped Mnangagwa rig the recent elections and now they are free to milk the Zimbabwe cow to the benefit of China and at the expense of the people of Zimbabwe! Zimbabwe lost $15 billions of diamond revenue due to swindling and now the swindlers are back to full strength!
Zimbabwe will never have a competent government and put a stop to the looting until we put an end to this curse of rigged elections! Good governance start with free, fair and credible elections. Like it or not this Zanu PF junta is more accountable to the Chinese, Israelis and everyone else who helped it to rig the elections and stay in power than it is to the povo whose political power is zero!
The determination by Zanu PF to cling to power at all costs-including sacrificing human life- as well as the military element stand as the biggest obstacles to peace in Zimbabwe.
ReplyDeleteAs CiZC, we have already expressed serious reservations with the local composition of the Commission of Inquiry set up by President Mnangagwa to investigate the extra-judicial killings of civilians by the army.
It is in this regard that the coalition calls for a broad-based multi-stakeholder approach in responding to the crisis of governance and legitimacy bedeviling Zimbabwe.
The only realistic chance of end Zimbabwe’s seemingly unending swan-song of political and economic crisis is for everyone to stop paying lip-service to demands for free, fair and credible elections. Zanu PF has rigged elections again and again and each time most people have treated the regime as if it had done nothing wrong. After 38 years of Zanu PF rigging the elections and getting away with it we have to stand up and say no to this madness.
Zanu PF rigged these recent elections and the party must be denying all support and pressure brought to bear for the regime to resign because it is illegitimate!
“Thank you for the confidence and trust in us. Our struggle is by and for YOU THE PEOPLE OF Zimbabwe,” said Chamisa.
ReplyDelete“Your WILL and wellbeing come first. My role in the struggle is not about perks, position, title or entitlement but to fight for you.
“I will never betray or disappoint. #Godisinit”
The sheer hypocrisy of it all would have left anyone else with a conscience cringing with guilty and shame!
Mr Chamisa you have already betrayed and disappointed the nation. You were in the GNU for five years and failed to get even one democratic reform implemented because you and your MDC friend sold-out. If you lot had implemented the reforms the nation would have moved on a long time ago.
You participated in these elections without even having the common sense to demand that ZEC release a verified voters’ roll. If the international community had not withheld its endorsement of the elections you would have thrown in the towel a long time ago. You are an opportunist who is trying to cash in on the situation. We know countries like Britain is hoping than by MDC endorsing the flawed elections it will make it easier for it to do the same. You are ready to cash in even though this will do nothing to get the nation out of the mess.
“All what is necessary when you get any loans for investment is that it must be structured. There are capital loans for investing in projects which can refinance themselves to pay the loans not based on the fiscus,” said President Mnangagwa.
ReplyDeleteNonsense, the Chinese are back in Chiadzwa to continue the wholesale looting that has been going on there for the last 20 years! The Chinese help Zanu PF rig the elections and now it is pay-back time!
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he was ready to weigh any offers tabled by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to enable them to work together for the good of the country, but cautioned that dialogue would be centred around five key issues his party wants addressed first.
ReplyDeleteChamisa, you are corrupt, incompetent and a sell-out; we all know that so why bother waste our time with your stupid demands for reforms. You and your fellow MDC friends were in the GNU for five years and you failed to get even one democratic reform implemented. Not one!
Any reform demands you make Mnangagwa will agree to, knowing that the minute you get the keys to the ministerial limo you will have forgotten them completely!
For your own information, not that you understand anything, Mnangagwa is illegitimate because he rigged the elections, it is the people of Zimbabwe in a free, fair and credible elections who can grant legitimacy and not you. Your joining Zanu PF on the gravy train does not lift the stigma of illegitimacy on the regime!
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ReplyDeleteThe percentage of Africans living in poverty has dropped from 59 percent of the population in 1990 to 38 percent today.
Africa’s improvement in living conditions is one of the most important trends in recent history, and yet the data shows that it is also one of the most fragile.
Each year, our foundation releases a report tracking progress in the fight against global poverty and disease.
According to current trends, the number of people around the world living in extreme poverty could stop declining and could even start growing again.
Most countries in the region are continuing to make steady progress against poverty Ethiopia, for example, is on track to eliminate poverty within a couple of decades.
The key to providing opportunities in the places where they are currently lacking is investing in what economists call, “human capital,” or the health and education of young people.
These investments are not the only ingredient of a healthy economy, but they have played a pivotal role in lifting nations like China and India out of poverty. Economic models show that they can do the same for Africa, growing the continent’s GDP by nearly 90 percent by 2050.
But first, African governments and businesses will have to invest more in their young people.
There are two areas, in particular, where they should focus this investment to maximize long-term growth prospects:
First, health: Most African countries have participated in the global revolution in child survival. Rwanda, just a few years removed from genocide, has built and effective health system from the ground up and seen the steepest drop in child mortality ever recorded.
The next step is making sure children don’t merely survive but thrive. One third of African children are stunted, which means their brains and bodies aren’t developing fully. But there are proven strategies solving the stunting problem, and many have to do with food security.
For example, China was able to reduce stunting by nearly 70 percent between 1990 and 2010, in part because the country’s farmers adopted new agricultural technologies.
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ReplyDeleteFor example, China was able to reduce stunting by nearly 70 percent between 1990 and 2010, in part because the country’s farmers adopted new agricultural technologies.
African countries, most of which are still predominantly rural, must invest in agricultural transformation to fight malnutrition and poverty.
Second, education. Since 2000, the number of African children enrolled primary school has increased from 60 million to 150 million, and the number of girls in school is now virtually equal to the number of boys.
The next step is improving the quality of the education all students receive.
The data is spotty, but it suggests that more than half of students on the continent aren’t achieving minimum proficiency in math and reading.
Low-income countries can achieve excellent results in their schools. Vietnam, for example, has a 97% literacy rate; in 2015, they were the poorest country to participate in international student testing, but still ranked 8th.
Governments must learn how to transfer this success so that all students benefit. For most of human history, poverty was thought to be an inevitable part of the human condition, something that had always – and would always – exist. Over the last two decades, however, Africa has proven otherwise and shown the world that poverty is not an inevitable.
Whether more young Africans live in poverty – or more live to fulfill their potential – depends on the choices and investments we make today. I am hopeful we will make the right ones.
Bill Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Yes, “poverty is not an inevitable” it has become inevitable in Zimbabwe because we are been stuck with a corrupt, tyrannical and murderous regime that has perfected the art of rigging elections for 38 years and accounting. In 1980 Zimbabwe was one of the top five rich countries in Africa with prospects of becoming the South Korea of Africa. Today we are the poorest nation in Africa with ever prospect of staying at the bottom for many years to come.
By rigging the recent elections the Zanu PF regime have just extended their stay in power to 43 years. If the regime is still in power in 2023 it will rig that year’s election and so extend the regime’s rule to 48 years, etc. Meanwhile on the economic front the nation will continue to sink into the abyss because nothing thrives in a pariah state!
We are well and truly stuck!
Unless we grasp the nettle and demand the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging elections; this nation is going nowhere but sink deeper and deeper into poverty and hopelessness!
Mnangagwa is ILLEGITIMATE because he rigged the recent elections. No one with half a brain would ever claim that an elections in which 2 to 3 million (4.5 million who voted) in the diaspora are denied the vote for no better reason than that Zanu PF feared they would vote for the opposition is a fair election. The regime even failed to produce a verified voters' roll and went on to have multiple voting and other vote rigging shenanigans!
ReplyDeleteThese elections should have never gone ahead without first implementing the democratic reforms, Nelson Chamisa and his MDC friends were warned of this 100 000 times but would not listen. The village idiots did not even have the common sense to insist on ZEC releasing a verified voters roll. It is rich that Chamisa should now be complaining that the elections were rigged as if this came out of the blue.
What is more, the political upstart is now masquerading claiming he has the power to absolve all Zanu PF's vote rigging shenanigans and make the regime legitimate. What political chic and chutzpah from the village idiot! It is the Zimbabwe people and they alone who have the political power to grant anyone the mandate and legitimacy to rule Zimbabwe.
Chamisa can get his thirty pieces of silver from Mnangagwa but the latter must know that he and his regime are still illegitimate. A hyena is a hyena regardless of whether or not it has ticks or not; Chamisa is nothing more than a tick Mnangagwa has picked up!
Chamisa is keen to get back on the gravy train and will not bring about any meaningful change. If MDC failed to get even one reform implemented during the 2008 to 2013 GNU when the party had the majority in parliament and SADC backing what hope is there of them doing anything given Zanu PF has 2/3 majority in parliament!
If Mnangagwa is allowed to stay in power until 2023 then we can be 100% certain that Zanu PF will rig those elections just as the party has done for the last 38 years. We will back to where we are right now - stuck with this corrupt and tyrannical dictatorship. This is why we cannot afford to let him and his junta regime off the illegitimate hook!
Our mission is simple: Mnangagwa rigged the elections, he is, per se, illegitimate and we must force him to step down BEFORE 2023 elections! There will be no compromise on that! Forget the nonsense Chamisa is doing - we know he is a sell-out!
Mnangagwa rigged the recent elections the idea that he can give Chamisa a seat on the gravy train in return for legitimacy is a political nonsense. It is the people of Zimbabwe alone who can give Mnangagwa legitimacy! Whatever arrangement they two come up with they must know that it will not change the political reality - i.e. Mnangagwa is illegitimate. And it is only by holding fresh elections that this can be put right!
ReplyDeleteMnangagwa rigged the recent elections and it would be hypocritical for you Chamisa to say today Mnangagwa is illegitimate and tomorrow say he is legitimate because he bribed me! Legitimacy is not yours to sell for thirty pieces of silver. We know MDC leaders sold-out during the GNU we will not allow this to happen again!
ReplyDeleteThe only hope of breaking this Zanu PF cycle of rigging elections is by standing firm and demand that those who are illegitimate must step down! And by standing firm and demand that the opposition must not sell-out!
@ 2018
ReplyDeleteYeah right, ED won elections in which there was no verified voters' roll allowing multiple voting and other vote rigging shenanigans!
These elections should have never taken place without at least insisting on a verified voters' roll! But when you are dealing with someone as corrupt and incompetent village idiot like Chamisa anything is possible! The real surprise here is the idiot accept Mnangagwa rigged the elections and is therefore illegitimate and the idiot thinks he can declare Mnangagwa legitimate, for the right bribe!
MDC leaders sold-out during the GNU and, no doubt, are itching to do so again. We must make sure that they, like Zanu PF with vote rigging, do not get away with this. If MDC leaders endorse those rigged elections as having been free and fair after receiving a bribe then there is no reason why the USA sanctions imposed of Zanu PF should not be extended to include MDC leaders too!