“I am honoured to be appointed by President
Mnangagwa as Zimbabwe’s Minister of Youth, Sports, Art and Recreation. I will
continue to carry our Flag with pride and dedication of service so we can come
together and take Zimbabwe forward. God bless you and God bless Zimbabwe,”
twittered Kirsty Coventry.
Of course, you are honoured and we are all
pleased for you! But do you really think you will accomplish anything of
substance given Zimbabwe is a pariah state ruled by corrupt, vote rigging and
murderous thugs?
President Mnangagwa promised to hold free, fair
and credible elections following last November’s military coup. He clearly
never meant to keep his promise as the recent rigged elections showed. He made
the promise for the sinister and cynical purpose of deceiving the world, and
taking the sting of the illegitimacy of the military coup.
President Mnangagwa knows that he blatantly rigged
the recent elections and, per se, his regime is illegitimate. He has appointed you,
Kirsty Coventry and a few other innocent and decent individuals into his
cabinet for the same sinister and cynical purpose of deception. You are the
human face of the tyrannical regime, the whitewash on the tomb.
The illegitimate Zanu PF junta will never accomplish
anything of substance, economically or politically, because the regime is
rotten. The country will never attract the much need local and foreign
investors because they do not do business with corrupt and vote rigging thugs.
Investors are a shrewd and savvy lot, they know Zanu PF rigged the elections
and they will not be fooled by the whitewash!
On the political front, Zanu PF is NOT going to
implement even one democratic reforms in the next five years and so we can be
100% certain that Zanu PF will rig 2023 elections just as readily as it rigged
2018 elections! No doubt the regime will look for more innocent but very naïve Zimbabweans
to front the regime!
Zimbabwe is in this political and economic mess
because the country is stuck with this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF
dictatorship. Each time the regime rigged the elections Zimbabweans have found
one excuse after another why they should accept the result and move on, hoping against
hope that the nation will stop Zanu PF rigging the next elections.
For the last 38 years now, Zimbabwe has been
caught up in this insane but deadly cycle of Zanu PF rigging elections to loot
resources and to make sure no meaningful democratic reforms are implemented so
the party can rig the next elections. The only way to break this vicious cycle
is to deny the vote rigging regime legitimacy.
Zimbabwe is stuck with a corrupt and tyrannical
Zanu PF dictatorship regime and by accepting the appointment you are only
helping the illegitimate regime gain some modicum of credibility and thus
extend its stay in power for the purpose of looting and rigging the next
elections. 38 years of Zanu PF misrule have seen unemployment soar to 90%,
basic services such as clean running water and health have all but collapse,
etc.; that is where Zanu PF is taking the nation.
“I will continue to carry our Flag with pride
and dedication of service so we can come together and take Zimbabwe forward.” Not
this time my dear.
38 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule
has dragged this nation into the very depths of economic and political hell;
how anyone can be so naïve and downright foolish to call this “forward” beggars
belief! But then Kirsty Coventry is not
the first nor will she be the last to be seduced by the trapping of high
offices. Viewed through the rose tinted windows of the ministerial limo, the
potholes, the illegitimacy and all the bad things disappear; everything is rosy!
"We must resolve the fundamental question of the day which is the will of the people. It is the very reason why we went to the Constitutional Court and the very reason why we are saying there has to be a political solution to the problems. Hiding behind a Cabinet and inaugurating oneself as Mnangagwa did will not resolve the question," said Chamisa
ReplyDelete"Zimbabwe is entrapped in a vicious cycle of disputed elections."
There are three issues here:
1) There is no doubt that Zanu PF rigged the last elections and letting the regime get away with it is not the answer because it will only serve to perpetuate the problem as history shows.
2) These elections should have never taken place without first implementing the democratic reforms to stop the vote rigging. The elections went ahead because MDC leaders would not listen.
3) The solution Chamisa is after in which he is given some gravy train seat will not solve the problem of the nation being stuck with an illegitimate Zanu PF regime in the short term and long term as the Zanu PF regime will never implement any reforms to ensure next elections are free, fair and credible. The only way forward here is for these elections to be declared null and void and an interim administration appointed. We do not want another fudged solution!
Zanu PF has destroyed the country because it is a corrupt and tyrannical regime that has been rigging elections to stay in power. The only way Zimbabwe will ever recover is for the nation to cure itself of this curse of rigged elections. So if someone rigs the election we should deny him/her legitimacy. Zanu PF rigged these elections and so must be denied legitimacy.
ReplyDeleteThe single most important question Minister Coventry should have been asked is whether she believes the elections were free, fair and credible?
Given that she accepted the appointment, she must believe the elections were free, fair and credible or else the appointment as minister has blinded her all doubt she had evaporated.
If Kirsty thinks she will accomplish any thing of substance then she is naive because the regime did not appointed her to do anything other than give the regime some modicum of credibility. The Zanu PF junta will continue with its primary activities of looting and rigging elections under the cover of the good publicity individuals like her generate for the regime.
"When asked if she endorses President Emmerson Mnangagwa's strongly disputed victory in Zimbabwe's July 30 presidential election, a wily-looking May immediately alluded to the commission of inquiry which the former vowed to establish to look into the army's violent crackdown on opposition supporters," you said.
ReplyDeleteYou are right PM May tried her best to avoid endorsing Mnangagwa's election because she knows that the elections were rigged. One of the British MPs who were in Zimbabwe to observe the elections, Kate Hoey, has spelt it out in no uncertain terms that the elections were rigged. She said Mnangagwa was "mark 2 Mugabe and did not deserve international support".
The would be investors and lenders, whose money is key to kick-starting Zimbabwe's comatose economy, know that Zanu PF rigged the elections and they will stay away. Recent reports of shortages of basic commodities such as medicine, fuel and wheat whilst Mnangagwa continue to spend millions on new cars and chartered planes for cronies only help cement the view Zimbabwe is still a pariah state.
"Though the task before us is a great one, I am confident that we have the team in place to turn our economy around and build a more prosperous and secure future for all," said Mnangagwa.
ReplyDeleteZimbabwe's future is only secure when all Zimbabweans have the freedoms and basic human rights restored including the right to remove failed leaders in a free, fair and credible elections. You sir have just rigged the recent elections for the selfish purpose of giving yourself and your cronies absolute power to loot and rig elections; the very things that landed Zimbabwe into this economic and political mess.
The fight before us is to make sure the Zanu PF junta does not get away with another rigged elections because if that was to happen, it will rig the next elections just as it rigged this year's elections. After 38 years of this insanity of rigged elections - we need to end the madness.
@ Tapera Chinhoyi
ReplyDeleteI will be honoured to be named minister or any other such public office. Kirsty is clearly pleased to be named minister and I, as would many others out there, salute her. However, the honour and salute is not an open ended affair, it is on condition that the appointment was not a sinister and cynical move which is the case here.
If you believe that Zanu PF rigged these elections, of which there is overwhelming evidence to prove that it is so, then the Zanu PF junta is illegitimate and like it or not be taking up the appointment one will be giving the regime some modicum of respectability. There is a lot of commonwealth good to be gained from ending the curse of rigged elections and nothing or worse for the common man from perpetuating the Zanu PF dictatorship.
"You are a dangerous and destructive pessimist Wilbert. Zimbabwe will not fail to progress because of your defeatist attitude," you say.
Zanu PF has rigged elections and got away with it for the last 38 years and clearly the country has not made any progress unless you call the wholesale looting and brutal oppression and vote rigging progress? The real dangerous people are the fools who bury their heads and will not accept that the present system has failed millions of ordinary Zimbabweans and it must go!
Zanu PF rigged the elections, it is therefore illegitimate and must go; that is not negotiable and all those naïve and foolish enough to prop up the illegitimate regime for their selfish egotistic reason must know they are sleeping with the enemy!
Newly appointed Finance and Economic Development minister Professor Mthuli Ncube says one of his immediate goals as minister will be to re-engage international financiers such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank through clearing arrears Zimbabwe has with these bodies.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking to journalists after the swearing-in ceremony of ministers and deputy ministers at State House this morning, Prof Ncube said he will work towards the return of a local currency and also cut Government expenditure.
"New brooms sweep clean!" so goes the adage. Every time Minister Ncube speaks one is left with the sickening feeling that this is one new broom that will prove the exception to the rule. For someone who is an economist and banker and has been following what has been going on in Zimbabwe one is disappointed to note just how little he knows.
He wants to engage IMF and WB to clear Zimbabwe's debt with what? The country is broke and the prospects of meaningful economic recovery are not good.
Eight months of President Mnangagwa and the rest of the junta gallivanting round the world in their colourful scarfs and ear to ear smiles have failed to attract the much hoped for flood of investors and lenders. The investors were not convinced Zanu PF thugs were now born-again democrats and "Zimbabwe was open for business!" By rigging the elections the junta removed any lingering doubt that Zimbabwe was still a pariah state and nothing had changed.
No doubt, Minister Ncube will be wearing the junta trademark colourful scarf and ear to ear smile when he meets IMF and WB officials. Someone please tell the minister the officials will want the debt paid in cash and not smiles!
@ Vigil
ReplyDeleteViolet took the opportunity of the new 'freedom' proclaimed by Mnangagwa to return to Zimbabwe to report on the elections. Having been based in the UK and the USA for many years, she took the opportunity to apply for a passport as a born Zimbabwean citizen, untainted even by being Malawian, Mozambiquan or white. She was turned down. So much for the new regime. Open for business but not for citizens. But charitable to the rich.
Yes the Zanu PF junta is very charitable to the filth rich, the richer the more you get. Grace Mugabe got $1.4 million chartered plane, the Chiefs got Isuzu twin cab trucks valued at $80 000, rogue war veterans used trucks with Zanu PF name and logo valued at $20 000, Zanu PF supporters 10 kg of maize seed suspected MDC supporters no maize seed handout plus harassment. The junta can afford all this but cannot afford an ambulance for even provincial hospitals, there are medicines, fuel and wheat!
Is it any wonder losing power is simple unthinkable for the Zanu PF ruling elite; when one has been living such a life of unparalleled leisure and luxury giving it all up is unthinkable. It is little wonder Zanu PF thugs rig elections; they cannot afford losing the elections, who will pay their bills if not the taxpayer!
The extraordinary Politburo session resolved that 11 departments will now be manned on full time basis by most of the former ministers who were retired from government recently.
ReplyDeleteDr Obert Mpofu, Patrick Chinamasa, Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo, Simbarashe Mumbengegwi and Dr Chris Mushohwe are some of the former ministers who have been re-assigned.
Other cadres who have been assigned to conduct party business on full time basis are Paul Mangwana to head legal affairs, Lewis Matutu full time youth affairs, Douglas Mahiya war veterans, while head of security and one for women affairs will be named in due course.
UK MP, Kate Hoey said Mnangagwa was "Mugabe mark 2", she was spot on. One of the thinks Mugabe is renowned for creating governorships, ministries, brigades, executive mayors, parastatal boards, embassies, etc. all for the purpose of creating employment opportunities for cronies, relatives, party loyalists, etc. So Mnangagwa, just like Mugabe, is creating all these new positions to accommodate the Zanu PF faithful who could not be given ministerial post after nearly 40 years as ministers, for some of them.
Zanu PF members are like rats, they do not leave the nest, the make the nest bigger!
The serious dog-eat-dog that broke out resulting in the booting out of the party of Mai Mujuru and her supporters and Mugabe and some of the G40 leaders was typical rat behaviour. The large nest mentality is all very well as long as there is food for all when there is no food the weaker members are viewed as food.
Mnangagwa needed to consolidate his hold on power and is doing so by keeping a bloated civil service, bloated army, bloated party, bloated everything. The question is who is going to pay for it all?
What people like most about Ncube is that he has a technical, rather than a political background, which makes him the best fit for the job of controlling the insatiable spending appetite of politicians.
ReplyDeleteThe economic challenges may be herculean, but they have come face to face with a man who can look them in the eye.
You hit the nail in the head right there; will he be able to control the insatiable spending appetite of the politicians?! I do not think so!
Minister Ncube is taking over at a time when the new President Mnangagwa is himself desperate to consolidate his own hold on power and is doing it the only way he knows - buying loyalty with generous bribes.
Minister Ncube will be greeted with a mountain of bills for medicine, fuel, wheat, etc. Bills with stickers showing they have already been through the president's office and approved and therefore MUST be paid. These will be for Grace Mugabe's late mother's funeral, bills to buy cars for Chiefs, bills to cars for new ministers, etc.
The real shock will be that all government's accounts are overdrawn! That's right Minister Ncube, Zimbabwe's ruling elite have been living like kings on borrowed money!
It is good to hear Minister Ncube has an impressive CV but if he can get the regime to implement even the common sense ideas the country's economy will show a significant improvement!
For all his impressive strategic ability he has completely failed to understand that Zanu PF rigged these elections and the serious consequences of this as regard attracting investors. If he thinks he can attract investors to invest their money in a country whose next regime change is yet another military coup or widespread street protests then he is really naïve!
What matters here is that Zanu PF rigged the 30 July 2018 elections and thus reaffirming that Zimbabwe is still a pariah state ruled by thugs. After last November's military coup President Mnangagwa promised to hold free, fair and credible elections to assure the world he was aware the coup made his regime illegitimate and he was keen to put that right. When push came to shove he and his putsch junta found they could not keep their promise.
ReplyDeleteThe euphoria surrounding the appointment of the new cabinet is fuelled by the desire to move on from the reality of the rigged elections and the challenge of what to do about this illegitimate regime. For the last 38 years Zanu PF has rigged elections and Zimbabweans have buried their heads in the sand and pretended nothing happened allowing the party to not only get away with immediate treasonous act but, worse still, to make sure nothing is done to stop the party rigging the next elections.
If this illegitimate, corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging Zanu PF dictatorship is allowed to stay in power the full five year term then not even one democratic reform will be implement and so we can be 100% certain that Zanu PF will rig the 2023 elections. And so the nation will be in the same situation we are in today and have been for the last 38 years - stuck with a corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. No doubt we will find other excuses for letting Zanu PF get away with yet another rigged elections, we always do.
What I find inconceivable is that seeming ordinary citizen like Kirsty Coventry and Professor Mthuli Ncube; who have lived an honest life and are not one of the beneficiaries of the gravy train and I would have counted with as one with the long suffering masses of Zimbabwe; can be so ignorant. As the outstanding citizen I took them to be, they would have never accepted to serve in this illegitimate regime knowing fully well that it is ILLEGITIMATE. So I have to assume they did not know Zanu PF blatantly rigged the elections. They do not know that an election in which something as basic as a clean and verified voters' roll is essential for free, fair and credible elections even when the election results show blatant multiple voting.
ReplyDeleteAs well travelled individuals themselves Mademoiselle Coventry and Monsieur Ncube must have met one or two of the 2 to 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora who were denied a vote in these elections for no better reason than that Zanu PF feared they would not vote for the party.
Having excuse the Mademoiselle and Monsieur of having accepted their ministerial appointments because they are ignorant has left me in conundrum; if these individual are as ignorant and stupid as they have to be not to see the obvious then I have to dismiss them as greed buffoons thrilled to bits to join the gravy train even if they are nothing more than the esca or illicium, the lure, of the anglerfish, Zanu PF.
With all the good will in the world Coventry, Ncube, etc. will not change the nature of Zanu PF, it is a corrupt, tyrannical regimes hell bend on enjoying absolute power and all the influence and good-living it brings. They will rig elections to stay in power ad infinitum. With such a reputation as vote rigging, corrupt and murderous thugs, the party knows that the inclusion of clean and naïve souls will only help make the regime more acceptable to the public; a sugar coating on an otherwise very bitter poison pill!
Yes but within days of ED being declared president he was spending $1.4 million chartering a plane for Grace Mugabe when the country has no life saving medicine, fuel and wheat. The regime is out begging for cash to fight the cholera outbreak but had just squandered hundreds of millions of dollars buying new cars for Chiefs, Zanu PF candidates, etc. Is that progress?
ReplyDelete@ Mazicobomoco7
ReplyDeleteThe trouble with narrow minded people like you is think that anyone who criticises Zanu PF must support MDC, it is either black or white, 0 or 1. Zimbabwe is in this mess because of the corrupt and incompetent Zanu PF regime which has rigged elections to stay in power against the democratic wishes of the people. Forget the nonsense that last November's military coup transformed Zanu PF, by rigging these recent elections Mnangagwa has confirmed that the party has not changed and Zimbabwe is still ruled by corrupt vote rigging thugs or be it with a new top dog!
These elections should have never gone ahead without first implementing the democratic reforms. They did because MDC leaders would not listen. Of course Chamisa et al are corrupt, incompetent and sell-outs and they have proven this beyond all doubt.
The choice before the nation is not one between Zanu PF or Chamisa only people like you who refuse to think outside the box who think this is a choice. This is like a dog being presented with its own vomit or s***t, it has the common sense to know it must look somewhere else for food. It is sickening that a human being would still look to one or the other as the only choice. It is little wonder the country is in a real mess!
The choice is to implement the democratic reforms and thus dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship that has stifled all meaningful debate and democratic competition and stopped quality leaders from emerging hence the reason why the nation is stuck with the corrupt and incompetent and murderous thugs who now crowd the political stage.
There are a lot more colours, the whole rainbow, and not just black or white, Zanu PF or Chamisa. You need to open your eyes and your mind!
"Zanu pf have rejuvenated itself!" Yeah right! Why then did the junta found it necessary to rig the elections if it had just rejuvenated itself?
You seem to forget that Zimbabwe is in areal mess right now and has been for the last 38 years and ED was at the heart of the Zanu PF government all those years. ED has just started his reign by rigging the elections and I do not need a crystal ball to know this pariah state is going!
ReplyDeleteControversial Zanu PF legislator for Goromonzi West and Deputy Minister of Information, Energy Mutodi has once again caused a stir on Twitter after he accused the opposition MDC run Harare City Council PF 'breeding' cholera and typhoid.
ReplyDeleteZanu PF rigged the elections and so it is business as usual including falsifying the facts, finding scapegoats for Zanu PF's failures, etc. The country's basic infrastructure including roads, water supply, power supply, health services, etc. have all but collapsed. There is simply no money to keep any of these basic services going when the national economy is itself in total meltdown. Unemployment has soared to dizzying height of 90%, there is no money to pay for anything including these essential services.
38 years of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and lawlessness have left the Zimbabwe economy in ruins. Ordinarily the people would have removed the corrupt and incompetent leaders but not in Zimbabwe; the nation has been stuck with the Zanu PF thugs because they rigged the elections to stay in power.
Zanu PF, as the ruling party, blaming MDC, running councils, for the cholera and typhoid is comparable to the husband who squanders all the family's income on beer and other pleasures and then blames the wife for failing to provide meals for the children. Where is the wife expected to get the money to buy the food?
"The current cholera epidemic is a terrible consequence of Zimbabwe's failure to invest in and manage both its basic water and sanitation infrastructure and its health care system. It is appalling that in 2018, people are still dying of such a preventable disease," said Jessica Pwiti, Executive Director of Amnesty International Zimbabwe.
ReplyDelete"Given what happened in 2008 the government should have been better prepared. But no lessons were learned from the 2008 epidemic and the outbreak and deaths we're seeing now is symptomatic of a still broken-down sanitation infrastructure and poor sewer management, worsened by shortages of drugs and medical supplies."
"The newly elected government of Zimbabwe must learn from its predecessor's mistakes and take action that stops people dying from preventable diseases. The authorities must invest in proper sanitation and health infrastructure and ensure universal access to health care," said Jessica Pwiti.
The one thing Mnangagwa and the junta have learned and learned well is how to rig elections. It was none other than Emmerson Mnangagwa who carried out most of the vote rigging including the cheating and the use of wanton violence to secure landslide victories for Mugabe and Zanu PF that kept the tyrant in power all the last 37 years. Mnangagwa has just blatantly rigged these recent elections to secure his own continued rule.
He has squandered $1 billion in election expense but all told, $4 billion will be closer to the mark. Meanwhile the country has been left with no money to buy, fuel, medicine, wheat and other essentials. It is shocking that the country that has just been spending millions of dollars on new cars and chartering planes should be begging for money to stop the spread of cholera!
The people of Zimbabwe are tired of illegitimate regimes that care more about power than the people. Everyone knows that Zanu PF is illegitimate and pretending that it did not rig the recent elections is not helping the people of Zimbabwe end this curse as it allows the regime to stay in power only to rig the next elections. Zanu PF is illegitimate and must be treated accordingly and pressure to step aside; how else otherwise will the nation end this nightmare!
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sibusiso Moyo, is the man who told the world the 15th November 2017 military coup was "a military assisted transition" as if there was such a thing. No doubt, he and his fellow coup plotters must have thought they were being very clever and they successfully fooled everyone into believe this was not a coup! The trouble with such concerted people is that they are so naïve they even repeat the same foolish idea.
ReplyDeleteStraight after the coup, the Zanu PF junta promised to hold free, fair and credible elections. Anyone could see immediately this was just talk because the regime refused to implement any meaningful democratic reforms. So no one was at all surprised that the regime blatantly rigged the elections. But in its usual too-clever-half arrogance the regime is pretending the elections were free, fair and credible.
"They observed our elections and said this was the best election they had seen (contrasted against Zimbabwe's previous polls). Although we still argue, we do not deserve any form of restriction. It is important to note that there has been progress."
The only progress here is that even the regime's hardened liar has been forced to modify his language; instead of the elections been free, fair and credible he now using "best election they had seen".
The elections were rigged and everyone knows that. Minister Moyo are interested in hiding the truth behind semantics and the American, naturally, refused to waste their time in in such trivial. The target sanctions are in place and, one hopes, they will now be extended and fine-tuned to pressure the illegitimate regime to accept meaningful democratic changes!
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"Wilbert, I just have a single question for you. Would you have wanted a person in the form of Chamisa to take ownership of this country? I have read almost all of your articles, and I highly regard your undiminishing wish for a better Zimbabwe. But in all honest my dear brother, do you, for just a second, get to believe that Chamisa, with all the moronic mentally-compromised manifestations he has made, is better able, or you simply wish for a change even for the worse.
"Even if you did not follow Chamisa's nubile offer to ED (as well as other childish antics) during his campaign, if you read today and yesterday's news, you would read how Chamisa is dictatorially imposing his relatives as Mayors in Masvingo and Chegutu Municipalities, as well as Bulawayo deputy mayor position. Now, you tell me what to expect when such Donald Trump prototype is given the ropes to control the whole country.
"Certainly, Hitler and Id Amin were at least cunning during their heinous dictatorial periods in office, a sign that these heinous dictators had some humane feelings some of the times though few. But this one we have in form Chamisa is a glaringly arrogant one, unmasked, overt, pompously boastful and raring to activate all his dictatorial sensitivities to realise his maximum sadistic pleasure, much to the chagrin of whoever cries for change like you do.
"Wilbert, why don't you seek Mwonzora and Welshman Ncube's informative views, for they have very reliable inside information. But Chamisa is someone whose mind has never been difficult to read since his high school days in Gutu. Yes I share your frustrations for a better Zimbabwe, but a hungry eagle doesn't have to pick grass on a dumping site in its ques for food. ED is much better than Chamisa by far, really far and in all respects. It would be a different case, had Nkosana Moyo complained of rigging. I would be pleased to get back your response Wilbert"
I am flattered to hear that you have read some of my articles, I do not believe you have read even a handful and read and understood even less! If you had understood any of them then you would know that I consider Nelson Chamisa and his fellow MDC leaders a complete waste of time. They are breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent and to make matters worse they are sell-outs. I wrote off MDC leaders when they failed to get even one democratic reform implemented in the five years of the GNU.
Whilst I consider Chamisa et al as failed leaders who should never ever be allowed to hold public office; I view Zanu PF leaders as criminals who should be arrested and send straight to Chikurubi for looting, murder and vote rigging and many other high treason charges.
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Whilst I consider Chamisa et al as failed leaders who should never ever be allowed to hold public office; I view Zanu PF leaders as criminals who should be arrested and send straight to Chikurubi for looting, murder and vote rigging and many other high treason charges.
If you had read and understood my articles then you would know that I did not want these recent elections to go ahead because such elections would be a complete waste of time and resources and that is exactly what has happened. Zanu PF has squandered hundreds of millions of dollars buying new cars for Chiefs, Zanu PF candidates, party officials, etc. Hundreds of millions of dollars more were wasted by ZEC and other corrupt officials in various vote rigging and vote buying schemes. All told Zanu PF has spend $4 billion in rigging these elections; legitimate regimes are cheap illegitimate ones always cost an arm and leg!
Zanu PF rigged the elections and now it is back in power and phase two of the whole torturous process has just kicked in - the Zanu PF thugs are settling down to their business of looting and misrule whilst the country continue to sink deeper and deeper into the abyss. Forget the economic recovery because no investor will ever do business in a pariah state where the next regime change is another military coup or widespread street protests.
Phase three is prepare for the next elections, line up the ducks and the big bucks to bankroll the whole process. Then the elections themselves will take place as above.
Throughout all the three stages the politicians does not have the time or cash to attend to the common man and woman's needs. Indeed, since the elections are rigged the politicians can afford to ride roughshod over common people and that is what both Zanu PF and MDC politicians have been doing.
I want the democratic reform implemented to take away the carte blanche powers to rig elections and give the common people their freedoms and human rights back including the right to hire and fire politicians. The democratic reforms will allow democratic debate and competition creating the political space for quality leaders to emerge and the trash now crowding our political stage will disappear because they will not compete.
Mnangagwa and his junta are illegitimate they must step aside and allow the appointment of a interim admin that will implement the reforms. Going into the next election with Mnangagwa and his junta still in power would be a complete waste of time and resources!
Which court "affirmed" ED's victory; the same court that said his military coup was "legal"!
ReplyDeleteBoth Coventry and Ncube are flattered by being appointed ministers and if this was in regime were ideas count for something I am 100% sure that they would have notched some achievements, especially given the chaotic state in the country. It the Zimbabwe of Mnangagwa and his junta they are there to give the regime a good name and nothing else. There is no doubt that they will boast of their many achievements but whatever they are they will be nothing compared to the regime's tragic failures.
As Nomusa has just said, the two are nothing more than the sugar coating to make it easier for the nation to swallow the bitter and poison pill - the illegitimate Zanu PF dictatorship!
The rural voters are nothing more than serfs beholden to the landlord, Zanu PF, and its proxies Chiefs, rogue war veterans, etc. who frog march the villagers to attend Zanu PF rallies and to vote for the party.
ReplyDeleteElections in which any of the voters are nothing more than serfs cannot be judged free, fair and credible. And so it right to say these elections were NOT free and fair and therefore ED is illegitimate! The nation is being held to ransom by these illegitimate thugs!
With her impressive achievements as an athlete widely known, it is considered a fait accompli that Ms Coventry will implement government programmes to develop Zimbabwean sports at all levels. Critical attention is focused on the Arts aspect of her portfolio.
ReplyDeleteIt is not Kirsty's athletic credentials that are at issue here but the good governance credentials of Zanu PF itself. The regime has just started by rigging the recent elections confirming that Zanu PF is a party of corrupt and vote rigging thugs. Kirsty and one or two other outsiders have been roped into the regime to give it a good name. She and others are nothing more than the whitewash on a tomb!
It is Zanu PF, the corrupt and illegitimate junta that will determine Zimbabwe's fate, and not Kirsty and one or two others. The whitewash does not change the rot and decay in the tomb!
The challenge for the nation was to stop the curse of rigged elections and, having failed to stop Zanu PF rigging, to make sure the junta does not get away with it. Mnangagwa has just appointed one or two people like Kirsty Coventry knowing fully well the naive and gullible public will be distracted by that. She is just sugar coating to make it easy for the public to swallow the bitter poison pill, Zanu PF junta.
In 2008, more than 4,000 people were killed in one of the worst cholera outbreaks to have hit the country, according to the World Health Organization.
ReplyDeleteUNICEF said it was assisting Zimbabwe's government to deploy more resources to affected areas to combat the present outbreak.
The world will remember that Zanu PF had just spent one billion dollar on new cars alone for Chiefs, party candidates and officials and a host of others as part of its vote rigging and vote buying schemes. Only a week before this latest cholera outbreak, President Mnangagwa had splashed $1.4 million to charter a plane to fly former first lady, Grace Mugabe, from Singapore to attend her mother's funeral. Just to save her "the inconvenience of a commercial flight". And now the country is facing a cholera outbreak and it does not have money to buy medicine, many provincial hospitals do not even have working ambulance services, etc.
The root cause of Zimbabwe's economic problems is bad governance, for the last 38 years we have been stuck with a corrupt and incompetent Zanu PF dictatorship that rigged elections to stay in power. We need to deal with the curse of rigged elections!