Thursday 6 September 2018

ED rigged elections, per se, illegitimate, "Chamisa holds the key" argue Biti - what a narcissist N Garikai


Zimbabwe is in serious trouble already with unemployment at the dizzying heights of 90%, basic services such as clean running water and health all but collapsed and 75% of our people living on US$1.00 or less a day. The whole nation was hoping that the recent elections will mark a point of departure from the chaos of the past, it has instead confirmed that the lunatic are still in charge. As usual, they have no clue what they are doing but you would not know from all the silver-back gorilla posturing and chest-drumming.

"I hope wisdom can prevail, this country needs a dialogue, and Emmerson has to talk to Chamisa because Nelson holds the keys and that is fact," said Tendai Biti, the newly sworn in MDC Alliance MP Harare South.

"We are not talking about the government of national unity its nothing close to that, they must be discussions around the issues on legitimacy, there has to be discussions about state departure on militarization issue, issues on national healing reconciliation and inclusivity because we hold the keys we simply hold the keys. Emmerson must find it in his wisdom to talk to Chamisa because Nelson holds the key."

How can Nelson Chamisa hold the key to solving any of the nation’s mounting economic and political problems when he has already proven again and again to be breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent. Chamisa, Biti and the rest of the MDC leaders were in the 2008 GNU that failed to implement even one democratic reform in five years! And it was at their insistence that the nation was dragged into these flawed and illegal elections.

“Tsvangirai was stupid to take part in the 2013 elections with no verified voters’ roll. I will not make that mistake!” Chamisa said before this year’s elections. And yet that is exactly what he and his MDC friends did!

As expected, Zanu PF has gone on to blatantly rig these elections. Zanu PF denied 2 to 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote for no better reason than that most of them support the opposition. The party used handouts and threats of beatings or worse from its proxies, Chiefs, rogue war veterans and the deployed 5 000 soldiers, to reduce rural voters to nothing more than serfs beholden to Zanu PF.

Chamisa challenge Mnangagwa’s win of the presidential race in the Con-Court. The evidence produced in the court showed series vote rigging. There were 16 polling stations in which two or three stations had exactly the same number of cast ballots and contestants had exactly the same number of votes, proof of multiple voting.

Of course, multiple voting and other vote rigging shenanigans would have been considerably reduced if not eliminated if ZEC had released a verified voters’ roll, the smoking gun, as is required by law. Of course, it was stupid to go into the elections without something as basic as a voters’ roll; more so for Chamisa since he was aware of MDC making the same blunder.

Right Honourable MP Tendai Biti is thrilled to bits to be back on the gravy train; he and others did not care that the elections were flawed and illegal as long as they are the lucky ones to win the few seats Zanu PF gives away as bait. He is now fighting for his colleague, Chamisa to have a seat too.

Tsvangirai’s . Con-Court food aid  the nation But rubbished Biti's claims saying the ruling party had the pedigree to run the economy without support from the opposition.

"The people of Zimbabwe hold the keys to their own economic development not an individual, the people of Zimbabwe gave a mandate to those that they want to lead them for the next five years, so it's not an individual who holds the key to economic development," came the rebuttal of Biti’s claim from Zanu-PF MP Ziyambi Ziyambi.

Materially, the people of Zimbabwe are poor, the poorest in Africa, but they are not poor mentally, at least not that stupid not to know that these Zanu PF thugs are corrupt and incompetent and that it is them who have destroyed the nation’s once promising economy. The only reason why Zanu PF has remained in power all these last 38 years is because the thugs cheat and even use wanton violence to make sure they win elections.

When President Mnangagwa promised to hold free, fair and credible elections, the whole nation held its breath and crossed its fingers in high hope. These would be the nation’s first such elections and thus marking a break from the nightmare of rigged elections and corrupt and tyrannical rule. President Mnangagwa did not keep his promise as he instituted the same vote rigging system that he, as Mugabe’s Chief Enforcer, had used all these years.

The people of Zimbabwe are devastated that Zanu PF blatantly rigged these elections, they know there will be no meaningful economic recovery because the same corrupt and incompetent thugs who landed the nation in this mess are back in charge.

The people view all these political gerrymandering by the MDC leaders, the shameless deceit on the part of the British, to get Chamisa and one or two others into this Zanu PF government as a total waste of time. A corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship that has blundered from pillar to post all these last 38 years will not be transformed into a competent and democratic regime by the addition of a few corrupt, incompetent and equally clueless MDC leaders!

After 38 years of rigged elections and the country sinking deeper and deeper into economic ruin the solution is as clear as daylight; to get out of this mess we must end this scourge of rigged elections. Tendai Biti is right to say this Zanu PF regime is illegitimate because it rigged the elections. Biti thinks the issue will be resolved by giving Chamisa and a few MDC leaders cushy ministerial posts; but that is to be expected of the corrupt and incompetent empty head. After 38 years of appeasing Zanu PF by letting the thugs get away with vote rigging we must now grasp the nettle and deal with this problem decisively.

Zanu PF thugs must be told in no uncertain terms that they rigged the elections and therefore they are illegitimate and, per se, they must step aside to allow the country to deal with this scourge of vote rigging. All those giving President Mnangagwa and his junta an hope that they can somehow get way with yet another rigged elections are not being helpful, to say the least!

Zimbabwe is in serious economic and political trouble and it needs serious solutions and not the same failed platitudes that landed us in this mess in the first place.

11 comments:

  1. Three hundred and fifty Zimbabwean legislatures - 270 House of Assembly and 80 Senators - were sworn-in today by the Clerk of Parliament, Kennedy Chokuda, in Harare. This paves way for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to pick members of his cabinet, the majority of who have to be elected officials
    This is comical in that these guys are swearing on the Holy Bible when they had just blatantly rigged the elections. How many of these Zanu PF MPs and senators would swear on the same Bible that the elections were free, fair and credible!

    There is no way the people of Zimbabwe would have voted for the same corrupt and incompetent thugs who have landed them into this hell-on-earth time and time again all these last 38 years! The people are poor and powerless but they are not that stupid not to see this is not working.

    Those, like the British, who are trying to sanitise this Mnangagwa regime are not doing the long suffering people of Zimbabwe any favours as nothing good will ever come out of this regime. In five years' time the nation will still be facing the same problem of another rigged elections because these thugs are not going to implement even one reform.

    We need to break this cycle of rigged elections followed by five years of corrupt and tyrannical government, each time hoping the next elections will be free and fair. We need to say no to rigged elections and mean it!

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  2. The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has warned that the country faces an imminent shortage of bread due to low levels of wheat in the country.

    But Mangudya, quoted by the state media said the situation was "under control" as the central bank has put in place measures to ensure uninterrupted supplies of "essential imports".

    The RBZ owes suppliers $12 million for grain supplied in 2016. But the wheat problem goes back to 2005. Since 2005, the national stocks have severely deteriorated, an impeccable memo reveals.

    We hear of shortages and the prices of basic commodities are going up with some going up as much as 50%. The world will remember that this is all happening days after the rigged elections in which President Mnangagwa was spending money hand over fist as if there is no tomorrow to buy votes or bankroll his many vote rigging schemes. The chickens are coming home to roast!

    UK MP Kate Hoey is right, "Mnangagwa is mark 2 Mugabe and should not be supported". Those supporting this regime, like the British government, are not helping the ordinary Zimbabweans because they are allowing Zanu PF to remain in power knowing fully well the regime is corrupt and incompetent and will accomplish nothing of substance in the next five years.

    We need to deal with the scourge of rigged elections and stop kicking the can down the road!

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  3. Mnangagwa is under increasing pressure to rope in the opposition MDC Alliance leaders in his cabinet to douse the threatening collapse of the economy.

    His allies are also angling for top positions and his headache at the moment is to balance between rewarding his colleagues while roping in technocrats especially in the ministry of finance which is seen by many as the most strategic department that could foster investor confidence.

    The essential character of this Mnangagwa Zanu PF junta is that it is a party of corrupt and incompetent ruthless thugs. Roping in a handful of MDC leaders, even if one assumed they are any better which is not the case, it is naïve to think they will change the character and direction of Zanu PF.

    We know that Zanu PF rigged these elections to stay in power against the democratic wish of the people. Allowing the thugs to stay in power and hope they will do something good is the kind of wishful and head-in-the-sand thinking that landed us into this mess. It is even more foolish to expect it to get us out!

    Zanu PF rigged the elections when are we going to stand up to those thugs, look them straight in the eyes and tell them they are illegitimate and must step aside. There is no other way of stopping this madness of rigged elections!

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  4. Tendai Biti and his MDC friends' narcissist tendencies are at the very heart of our problem here. It is the narcissist tendencies in Mnangagwa and his fellow Zanu PF junta that is behind their repeated vote rigging of elections. They believe they are God's blessing to Zimbabwe and therefore they and they alone MUST rule Zimbabwe. They are so convinced their great leadership qualities are second to none and therefore refuse to see their own pathetic track record of failure as proof they are as fallible as everyone else.

    Tendai Biti and company too do not want to see their own pathetic track record during the GNU as proof they are corrupt and incompetent. They still believe they are the ones "holding all the keys" to solving all the nation's problems not knowing their narcissist ego is one of the many problems holding back the nation.

    Whilst Biti accepts that Mnangagwa and his junta are illegitimate because they rigged the elections the idiot is so full of himself he now believes that MDC can grant the junta legitimacy - for a fee of course. Biti, you big headed fool, it is only the people of Zimbabwe who, in a free, fair and credible election, can grant anyone the mandate and legitimacy to rule Zimbabwe.

    Zanu PF blatantly rigged the last elections; cursed are all to MDC Alliance and all those opposition opportunists who, by participating, gave the flawed and illegal process some modicum of credibility by participating. Allowing the thugs to get away with the rigging will only encourage them to rig future elections as history of the last 38 years shows. The only way to put an end to this circus is to declare the elections null and void and demand fresh elections.

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  5. If Biti believes that Mnangagwa and Zanu PF rigged these recent elections and are therefore illegitimate then he should know that the only way Zanu PF can regain legitimacy is by going back to the people and hold a free, fair and credible elections. It is very presumptuous for Biti to think he can sell legitimacy to Zanu PF for thirty pieces of silver!

    The Zanu PF junta is corrupt and incompetent and illegitimate the best way forward is to demand the regime step aside rather than waste time hoping any good will ever come out of it! All Biti and Chamisa want is a seat on the gravy train, they do not care that the regime is illegitimate and will accomplish nothing of substance.

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  6. @ Francis

    So you think ED admitting that he stole the elections and appointing Biti and Chamisa ministers is enough to open the flood gates of investors! How naive you are!

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  7. @Modify

    "No need to talk. ED should appoint him cabinet with a sense of urgency. All this strangling of the economy to force him to appoint the Bitis will come to an end. ED needs to talk but not necessarily to MDC. We got progressive recognized economists and strategists who are neither in ZANU PF or MDC. Those are the real deal, they must get appointments on merit. They got no masters to please and no party agenda to fill. ED needs to put a line between party business and govt business. MDC holding the nation at ransom," you say.

    No my friend, it is ED and the junta who are holding the nation to ransom by rigging election just to stay in power. By rigging the elections ED confirmed Zimbabwe is still a pariah state ruled by vote rigging thugs. No investor is going to invest in a pariah state.

    What Tendai Biti and Chamisa are doing is cashing in on ED's panic of the illegitimacy and the prospects of economic collapse. Investors are not going to flood back into Zimbabwe just because Biti and Chamisa are ministers, that did not happen during the last GNU and it will not happen now.

    The only way out of this mess is to declare these elections null and void and organise fresh elections!

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  8. @ Mugocha

    What good came out of the last GNU other than the taxpayer paying through the nose for all these ministers, deputy PMs, PM, President, VPs, etc. They failed to get even one reform implemented although this was their primary task!

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  9. China Gives Africa a Massive $60 Billion in Funding.

    How much will China screw out of Africa one way or the other! In countries like Zimbabwe cheap Chinese imports have killed off local industries leaving the country totally dependent on Chinese imports!

    The Chinese dragon is nothing but the modern day Trojan Horse, particularly for those nation like Zimbabwe that lack the financial discipline to put these loans to good use! It is no secret that Zimbabwe has been selling its resource for a song to the Chinese just to borrow more money to buy cheap Chinese goods for consumption with no chance of generating wealth to repay the growing debt.

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  10. "What is happening is that the capitalists are fighting against Zanu PF victory politically and economically, so it shows that the ruling party is not getting the co-operation of the business community," ZNLWVA spokesperson Douglas Mahiya said.

    "It is an economic battle between the oppressors and the oppressed. Price hikes and shortage of basic commodities is a battle for the people to be caused to turn against their vote and disapproval themselves from being a justifiable population to have a government which determines its destiny."

    He said the force that controlled the industries was responsible for shortages of basic commodities in a bid to maintain the capitalistic status quo.

    Mahiya said the MDC-T must fulfil its promises to bring multiple connections that would avail loads of cash to ease the situation during the campaigns.

    Zanu PF rigged the elections and investors do not do business in pariah states ruled by vote rigging thugs. This is a message that empty heads like Victor Mahiya have yet to learn even after 38 years of economic meltdown. The idiot defended Mugabe to the hilt all these years and particularly after getting the $50 000 cash in 1997. Mnangagwa has just given a few rogue war veterans new cars and the idiots are once again out in full force to help impose the de facto Zanu PF one-party dictatorship.

    Zimbabwe is in this economic mess because of decades corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule and idiots like Mahiya can blame everyone else they want that will not change the reality.

    Zimbabwe is stuck in this mess because for the last 38 years the country has failed to hold free, fair and credible election. This is the key for the nation to get out of this economic and political mess. We demand an end to this nonsense that some people are the "stockholders of Zimbabwe, they have the veto over who rules, whilst the rest of us are stakeholders with the token but valueless vote".

    President Mnangagwa promised to hold free, fair and credible elections, he did not keep his promise. He and the junta must step aside and stop holding the nation to ransom!

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  11. @ News Day

    There two main reasons why the economy has taken a knock:

    1) President Mnangagwa has been spending money buying cars and paying for all the other vote rigging shenanigans as there is no tomorrow. Well winning the elections was everything to him and no expense was spare. He did win the elections but also tomorrow did come with all the shortages. He took money needed to buy medicine, wheat, fuel and all the other essentials to buy cars for Chiefs, etc.! Now it is payback time.

    2) By rigging the elections Mnangagwa showed the world that Zimbabwe is still the pariah state of Mugabe days. The much hope for flood of investors will never come because investors do not do business with vote rigging thugs.

    "It must dawn on the authorities that politicking will not solve this crisis and they must engage the opposition to resolve the legitimacy crisis and rebuild public confidence," you argue.

    This is just wishful thinking Zanu PF lost legitimacy by rigging elections there is absolutely nothing the opposition can do to undo the rigging. Adding a few MDC leaders in the Zanu PF cabinet will not change the fact that Zanu PF rigged the 2018 elections or improve the quality of the cabinet turning it from the corrupt and incompetent one into a competent and accountable one.

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