“This is my final departure call and I am happy to say we had a
useful discussion reflecting on the last four years and changes that we have
seen; many positive changes but, still some huge challenges ahead,” said Ambassador
Laing.
“We talked
about the elections and the positive steps around peaceful elections and very
high turnout but, also some concerns that the playing field was not completely level.”
The British
were the one ally Zanu PF has had in its corner worth the salt. The Chinese
have the big bucks but they are like the rich uncle who will happily buy you
beer instead of school books, as Mugabe has since learned. The Chinese helped
Mnangagwa rig the elections and they have since demanded their pay back – they back
in Chiadzwa picking up the looting from where they left off after Mugabe booted
them out two or so years ago.
The British have
now confirmed Zanu PF rigged the elections; they have shied away from saying it
for nearly two months hoping for a redeeming event, none such event happened.
Ambassador Laing, had put so much effort in getting everyone to believe the
Mnangagwa regime was worth trusting and supporting has now had to eat humble
pie and admit she was wrong. The Mnangagwa junta is still a bunch of corrupt,
incompetent, vote rigging and ruthless thugs.
The blatant
vote rigging was bad enough but when the regime issued its shoot to kill order
on the 1st August even the British knew Zanu PF was a party of thugs
and nothing had changed.
The British had
tried to help Zimbabwe find ways to pay off its debts with the IMF, WB, etc.
All these efforts have come to naught now Zimbabwe was viewed, rightly, as a
pariah state – it old status under Mugabe.
“This has made
the prospects of the multi-billion-dollar financial package needed to stave off
economic collapse unlikely, which has in turn discouraged private investors,”
reported The Guardian.
With the
British finally admitting that Zanu PF rig the recent elections, the Americans gave
their thumbs down soon after the elections and confirmed the sanction imposed
on Zanu PF leaders will remain, there is real no one of note left in Zanu PF’s corner. Zimbabwe’s economic
collapse is now a certainty.
With
unemployment already at 90% and 75% of the population living on US$1.00 or less
a day it is tempting to think the country has already hit rock bottom it cannot
sink any further. The economists may not be able to quantify the economic
collapse in US$ terms a health care can in terms of soaring numbers of the severely
malnourished or deaths from poverty related diseases.
Zimbabwe’s
economic collapse has unemployment mount Everest high already, at 90% plus; it
is now killing off people.
The only way
out of this mess is for Zimbabwe to remove this corrupt, incompetent and
tyrannical regime that has earned the country its pariah status and replace it
with a competent and democratically accountable government. President Mnangagwa
and his junta must step down or be forced to one way or the other; there is no
other way out!
By
rigging the recent elections President Mnangagwa confirm that Zanu PF is still
a party of thugs. The regime is illegitimate and the only way to correct
legitimacy issues is holding fresh free, fair and credible elections. Zanu PF
has held Zimbabwe to ransom for the last 38 years, this must now stop! 
We have now ended the final and may well be the most deadly phase of Zanu PF's reign of terror: the regime knowns it has lost but will hang on for no other reason than to go down with the ship and take down with it as many people as it possible can. "Shaisano!" as one would say in Shona.
ReplyDeleteWhen South Africa told Ian Smith and his Rhodesia Front friends, much as the British are telling Mnangagwa and Zanu PF now, that they will stop supporting the white regime; Smith and company knew straight away that the game was up and agreed to a speedy end. Not Mnangagwa and his lot, they are digging in and await the bitter end as that of Saddam Hussein and all the other diehard tyrants in history.
SADC and AU leaders must now hang their heads in shame for having given the rigged elections their thumbs up. They will now watch helplessly as Zimbabwe burn and drag other nations down with it! Shame, shame; shame on you!
During the 2008 to 2013 the nation had its golden opportunity to end Zanu PF's tyrannical rule peacefully if only Tsvangirai and his MDC village idiots had not sold-out and implemented the democratic reforms. All the tragic suffering and deaths that have happened since 2013 would have been avoided. Worse is still to come; the dark storm that is coming is frightening!
@ Njero
ReplyDeleteWhen ZEC failed to produce a verified voters' roll even you must have realised this was something the regime much less its supporters like the British would find impossible to get away with! If Mnangagwa thought by inviting the rest of the world he was showing his commitment to democratic value and did not need to do anything else, then he was very much mistaken.
The world was sick and tired of Zanu PF vote rigging shenanigans and anyone with eyes saw this coming! The game is up!
@ Njero
ReplyDelete"Let us write stuff which inspires us to move forward than being negative all the times. Zimbabwe needs to move forward than backwards. Remember MDC president didn't go through the right protocol, that is party's Congress, he was put by MDC thugs," you say.
Could not agree with you more we need to write "stuff which inspire us to move forward". And let me tell you here and now nothing will inspire us to move forward that the truth, negative or positive. And the opposite is equally true nothing holds us back more than lies and damn lies. The minute you filter the negative or positive from the truth then it seizes to be the truth.
Zanu PF rigged the recent elections that it the truth and we must deal with it. You want us to bury our heads in the sand and pretend ED won free and fair elections, his "Zimbabwe is open for business!" mantra is bringing in investors by the plane loads and Zimbabwe is well on course to be a prosperous nation. Open your eyes!
Zanu PF rigged the elections, Zimbabwe is a pariah state, etc. these are all negative things but there are the reality we must face and deal with here and now if we are ever going to get out of this hell-on-earth Zanu PF has landed us in!
@ Stanford Madzora
ReplyDelete"I think some writers need to be charged for causing unnecessary alarm and despondence. People need hope at the moment than killing them completely like this writer," you say.
I agree with you 100% no one should be allowed to cause UNNECESSARY alarm and despondence. The emphasis is on the unnecessary because telling someone the house is on fire when it is indeed on fire will cause alarm but it is necessary alarm.
What Nomusa is saying here is true and factual; the outgoing British Ambassador, Catriona Laing, has told the Zanu PF government that the elections playing field was not level and, without wasting time on semantics, that means Zanu PF rigged the elections and is, per se, illegitimate. And it also follows as night follows day that the illegitimate regime must step down.
Investors do not like to do business with corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging thugs; we know all that already from all the years of Mugabe's rule!
I agree with you that most people will be rightly alarmed to hear Zanu PF rigged the elections, the party is illegitimate, etc.; assuming they did not know all that already. The question then is: is this UNNECESSARY alarm or not? Only a fool would say that if was unnecessary for them to know the truth that has such a critical effect on their life and the destiny of the nation.
So here is case where someone did not want the people warned of a situation because doing so was going to cause unnecessary alarm and it turns out that the someone was wrong.
Yes it is entirely possible that some may shout fire and cause unnecessary alarm. But even then, I would argue that we must not muzzled everyone for fear that someone would cause unnecessary alarm. My solution would be to let people have all the information so they can judge what is true and what is not for themselves.
If Zanu PF did not rig the elections, the playing field was level, etc., etc. the people of Zimbabwe will not be alarmed because they will already know the elections were free, fair and credible from their own observations of the whole election process, historic record, etc. On the other hand, if people know the regime refused to produce something as basic as a voters' roll; it is easy to see why they would readily believe that the elections were rigged.
So in future before you censure someone for causing unnecessary alarm, you should first be certain that it was indeed unnecessary alarm! Zimbabwe is in a real serious economic and political mess, a life and death situation, and the last thing the nation want is Zanu PF apologists stifling debate and encouraging the people to bury their heads in the sand when they should be rightly alarmed and active!
@ Maphosa.
ReplyDelete"MDC and it's supporters are having sleepless nights, just look at their comments. You must learn to be strong, another five years and you will lose again and again until you accept defeat. All you have is talk, talk. Those who were preaching lies of 5% for Ed are nowhere to be found, They have gone under and so will be those who are still in shock of the outcome. Ed is enjoying the support world over and is even getting very comfortable. Watch and see," you boast.
It is true that Zanu PF has rigged elections these last 38 years and has always got away with it. Still, I would not be so cocky and boastful; sure of getting away with it this time. "Chidya matovo akazodzipwa nedovo remhuru!" (Those who boast of chewing through even the toughest of hides have often choked on a calf's hide!) as the Shona adage goes!
This could well be the occasion when the boastful vote rigging Zanu PF rigs the elections and chokes on its landslide victory!
@ Zengeni
ReplyDelete"i hear all that. is that redness on the lips of mr pfeee lips stick or what?"
When Pinocchio started to lie his nose grew longer and longer, may be ED's lips turn red when he is lying, he did lie. The biggest lie was for him to claim the elections were free, fair and credible when he knows that he blatantly rigged the elections! The British have just told ED to his face that Zanu PF rigged the elections.
The Commonwealth Secretary General, Honourable Patricia Scotland, was in the USA for the UNGA, told ED that Zimbabwe's application to re-join the grouping has been kicked into the tall grass since Zimbabwe failed to hold free, fair and credible elections. The grouping's election observer team have not made their report public but their stone silence said it all!
@ Maposa
ReplyDelete"Wilbert Mukori don't you think 60 days is enough with the help from outside world. Of course becoz we can't have an interim government involving Zanu PF," you said.
Zanu PF has corrupted the country's state institutions such as ZEC, Police, Judiciary, public media, Chiefs right down to the village heads. We need to implement the democratic reform agreed at the onset of the 2008 to 2013 GNU designed to break Zanu PF dictatorial control of all these institutions and restore their independence and power to carry out their statutory duties without fear or favour. We will also need to give the ordinary people time to see the democratic changes work and to believe things have changed, especially in the rural areas. This is such an important and critical task we must take our time and make sure we get it done properly!
Neither Zanu PF nor MDC leaders who were in the last GNU can be in the interim administration; they had the golden opportunity to implement the reforms and failed to get even one reform implemented in five years. Not even one reform! Both Zanu PF and MDC do not want meaningful reforms to be implemented because, given their pathetic track record, they know they will never win a free, fair and credible elections against a competent candidate.
Implement the democratic reforms and the nation will have competent candidate emerging on the political stage, of that we can be certain!
HARARE'S privileged class, living in leafy suburbs and cruising around in luxury cars, has for a long time shunned municipal tap water, in a city notorious for its dirty water.
ReplyDeleteBut if they thought they had found refuge away from sewage water in bottled or borehole water, they better think again: these fancy and sparkling sources of water are turning out to be equally contaminated.
We are slowing getting to the point where we will be spending millions of the foreign currency buying imported water! The poor are condemned to drink the contaminated water.