Zimbabwe’s biggest trade union, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) has called for a stay away starting from tonight to protest against government’s decision to hike fuel prices by over 200 percent.
Posting on Twitter today, labelled the new fuel prices as insensitive and provocative as it adds more misery to the already hard pressed workers.
There is a real danger of Zimbabwe descending into mob rule and anarchy from which Mugabe and even Mnangagwa days would look like heaven on earth!
Wrote Mutodi: “New fuel prices will stamp out arbitrage in the fuel sector and normalize fuel supply but Zimbabweans must brace for commodity price volatility emanating from the fuel price shock.
“Volatility will be temporary before goods prices normalise.
“Faced with high fuel costs, clever people know what to do and here are some tips: Avoid fuel guzzler, reduce fleet, cancel unnecessary trips and use bicycles where possible to save BIG. Do not protest in the street you can lose a limp in skirmishes.”
Minister Mutodi should stop boasting about Zanu PF’s barbarism!
Minister Mutodi, 75% of the ordinary Zimbabweans out there are already living on US$1.00 or less a day this new wave of price increases will drag them even deeper into abject poverty. These people are so poor basic needs of food, shelter, health care and education are now beyond their reach. Many of these people do not have even one decent meal a day and cannot afford even the most basic health care. People are dying of hunger and disease Minister Mutodi.
Many people will be on the streets protesting the suffering because they are not animals you can expect to suffer and die in silence. Of course, they fear Zanu PF brutality but they are also painfully aware of their dehumanising suffering and deaths brought on be the country’s worsening economic meltdown.
Mugabe and Mnangagwa have had the time and space to accept peaceful change; they refused. Now they must accept violence change and will be held to account for all the death and destruction mob rule brings!
The Minister of Finance Mthuli Ncube has announced that Government has decided to provide relief through refund of excise duty on fuel consumed by registered businesses in manufacturing, mining, agriculture and transport.
This is just another layer of bureaucratic mine field open to abuse and corruption.
This Zanu PF regime was not elected by the people, it rigged the elections, and it should just step down. It has failed and is now holding the nation to ransom.
Mugabe and Mnangagwa have had the time and space to accept peaceful change; they refused. Now they must accept violence change and will be held to account for all the death and destruction mob rule brings!
Professor Mthuli Ncube sold his soul to the devil by agreeing to be minister in a regime he knew was illegitimate. His voodoo - economics is not getting the nation anywhere, he should just fcuk off. Who could have ever imagined that such a prestigious university as Cambridge would ever have someone devoid of common sense as one of its graduate!
Four people were reportedly shot and injured in Epworth, Harare for taking part in today’s protests against the government.
According to a NewsDay report, 8 people have been arrested for taking part in the protests and the police are reported to be moving from house to house smashing in doors in order to arrest the people inside.
All this could and should have been avoided. Mugabe and Mnangagwa have had many golden opportunities to accept that Zanu PF has failed and accept peaceful change. They have refused to do so and have rigged elections and used brute force to impose themselves on the nation.
They have dragged this nation into this hell-on-earth and left the people with no alternative but to stage these violence street protests. Now the two corrupt and murderous tyrants must accept violence change and they will be held to account for all the death and destruction the protests brings!
This time around the publication’s story on 14 December 2018 about a new Zimbabwe currency being launched in early 2020, has received confirmation from President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government, through his finance minister, who revealed yesterday that the country will be having it’s own money in 12 months time. Instead of diamond and gold reserves, government says the new currency will be anchored by foreign currency it is raising.
There is nothing wrong with Zimbabwe having its own currency per se, the problems arises from the regime having no discipline to resort to such gimmicks as printing money to all its misrule problems.
In addition to Belarus, he will visit Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. After this, Mnangagva will travel to Switzerland, where he will take part in the World Economic Forum, which will be held from January 22 to 25.
The trip to Davos will be a total waste of time. Last years his "Zimbabwe is open for business!" was not very convincing as many people doubting whether Zanu PF had changed and abandoned its dictatorial tendencies. He has since rigged the elections and removing all doubt that the regime is still a party of corrupt and vote rigging thus. He will be calling for investors to do business in country up in flames as the street protest will only get worse!
Exiled former Minister of Youth Patrick Zhuwawo has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa that ZANU PF legislators are plotting to impeach him.
Writing in his Zhuwawo Brief on Monday Zhuwawo said, "You already know that most of the ZANU PF legislatures are itching to impeach you as you correctly observed on Wednesday 30 May 2018. The mass action is spurring them on to save the nation and their constituents from further suffering and to also protect their jobs.”
If Zanu PF thugs believe they can save the dictatorship by throwing overboard a few of their own fellow thugs just as they did a few ago; they cannot be more mistaken. How many of the Zanu PF MPs do not know that Zanu PF rigged the last elections?
Woman shot in both legs being ferried in a wheelbarrow.
This is what everyone with half a brain had feared and could and should have been avoided if only Mugabe and Mnangagwa had accepted that they have failed to govern and stepped aside peacefully. Instead the two tyrant have rigged elections and used brute violence to remain in power. Now the violent street protest will finally force them to step down and they will be held to account for all the destructions, injuries and deaths the violence will bring!
Below is the expensive private jet Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa has hired for his Russia and Europe trips. In the pictures below is the man himself touching down in Russia today, and the video afterwards shows the expensive private jet which costs $70,000 per hour to hire, and all this expenditure coming at a time when he pays doctors a paltry $85 per month.
This is just unbelievable! So Mnangagwa hired the jet starting 13 January to say 22 January when he will be in Davos for the World Economic Forum. This is ten days at US$ 70 000 per hour. If we assume Mnangagwa and his entourage are going to stay in the jet, have all their meals there, etc. and not book in some five star hotel and cost the nation one more dollar still it will cost US$16 800 000! No wonder Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies have been rigging elections; they have been living such extravagant lifestyles they simply cannot even bear thinking of giving it all up!
No doubt when Mnangagwa was told there were violent demonstrations back in Zimbabwe a lot of things must have crossed his mind including giving the order of shoot to kill, again as he did 1 st August 2018. He rigged last July’s elections but resigning will be the last thing on his mind – it does not exist in his dictator vocabulary.
The only way to get Mnangagwa out of office is by shooting him dead! How tragic!
“We are gravely alarmed by reports of growing unrest and intimidation across Zimbabwe. President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has responsibility to manage the economy in a just and efficient way and must listen to voices of civil society so that the crisis can be resolved peacefully.”
I salute the Elders, they have done their best in warning SADC leaders to take decisive action to end the Zimbabwe economic and political crisis. Sadly, their warning fell on deaf ears. Zimbabwe is now tumbling into the abyss, causing heart-breaking human suffering and death, and it is almost certain that it will drag many other countries down with her.
What the Elders should now be telling Mnangagwa is for him and his regime to step down, they have clearly failed govern and they are now the problem not part of the solution. Mnangagwa rigged last year's elections, he does not have the people's mandate to govern and he must go. It is a big mistake to try appeasing such a tyrant especially after 38 years of doing so and dragging the nation deeper and deeper into this hell! Mnangagwa and his junta need to hear some home-truths - they have failed they must go, period!
The Head of Delegation of the European Union to Zimbabwe Timo Olkkonen and the United Kingdom Ambassador to Zimbabwe Melanie Robinson have urged Zimbabwe to observe peace when exercising their right to protest.
"Following with growing concern events unfold in Harare and elsewhere in Zimbabwe.People have a constitutional right to demonstrate, but this should be exercised peacefully." Olkkonen said.
He also urged security forces to respond proportionally when dealing with protestors.
At the heart of Zimbabwe's economic crisis is the political one; the nation is stuck with a corrupt and incompetent dictatorship that will not admit it has failed and the people are helpless to remove from office because it rigs elections. And so Zimbabweans are stuck now 38 years with a regime now frog matching the nation into the abyss.
If are serious about ending the tragic human suffering brought about by the shortages of cash, foreign currency, fuel, food, employment opportunities, collapsed health care and education services, etc., etc.; then we must first end the Zanu PF dictatorship.
Mnangagwa and his junta have no clue what to do to end the economic meltdown and we should not waste another day waiting for them to revive the economy. After 38 years of dragging us deeper and deeper into this mess, it is naive to expect them to do the opposite now. The Zanu PF regime must be told in no uncertain terms that it rigged last year's elections. it is illegitimate and it must step down.
All these street protests could and should have been avoided. Mugabe and Mnangagwa have had many golden opportunities to accept that Zanu PF has failed and accept peaceful change. They have refused to do so, they have again and again rigged elections and used brute force to impose themselves on the nation.
Zanu PF will be held to account for all the destruction, broken limbs and deaths resulting from the unrest sweeping the country!
As Mnangagwa Jets Into Moscow, Russia Rubbishes Unjustified Fuel Price Hikes And Says “We Never Promised to Make Up For Other countries’Revenue Shortfalls”
Russia has joined in the looting of Zimbabwe’s diamonds and is not interested in anything else.
Zimbabwe is in this political and economic mess because of Mugabe's decades on misrule and the last thing the people want to hear is some idiot like Zhuwao trying to pretend the murderous tyrant was a saint!
At the heart of Zimbabwe's economic crisis is a political crisis, the elephant in the room holding us back but no one dares to talk about. The nation is stuck with a corrupt and incompetent dictatorship that will not admit it has failed, has rigged elections to stay in power and so for the last 38 years the nation has been trying to work with as best as it can.
If web are serious about ending the tragic human suffering brought about by the shortages of cash, foreign currency, fuel, food, employment opportunities, collapsed health care and education services, etc., etc.; then we must first remove the Zanu PF dictatorship which is stopping us dealing with the problems because it claims that as the government it has the power and authority to deal with the problems and yet continue to do nothing..
Mnangagwa and his junta have no clue what to do to end the economic meltdown and we should not waste another day waiting for them to revive the economy. After 38 years of dragging us deeper and deeper into this mess, it is naive to expect them to do the opposite now. The Zanu PF regime must be told in no uncertain terms that it rigged last year's elections. it is illegitimate and it must step down.
All these street protests could and should have been avoided. Mugabe and Mnangagwa have had many golden opportunities to accept that Zanu PF has failed and accept peaceful change. They have refused to do so, they have again and again rigged elections and used brute force to impose themselves on the nation.
Zanu PF will be held to account for all the destruction, broken limbs and deaths resulting from the unrest sweeping the country!
FIVE people reportedly died while 24 others were injured as police clashed with protesters across the country yesterday as anger over the worsening economic crisis spilled onto the streets with business, warning government that “the house is burning.”
At the heart of Zimbabwe's economic crisis is the unmovable political problem of a failed corrupt and incompetent regime, Zanu PF, that will not admit it has failed but, worst of all, rigs elections so the people are stuck with it! Mugabe and Mnangagwa have rigged elections slamming the door shut to peaceful democratic change.
After 38 years of corrupt and brutal oppression that has left the country in economic ruins; the people are absolutely desperate for meaning change and since they cannot have peaceful change they are going for violent street protests. Zanu PF must and will be held responsible for all the destructions, broken limbs and deaths that those violent protests have caused.
As of now, the nation should focus one thing and one thing only, forcing this corrupt and vote rigging Zanu PF to stop down. Nothing of any substance will ever be accomplished as long as these Zanu PF thugs remain in office. The party rigged last year’s elections and therefore it has no mandate to govern. It must step down now, that is not negotiable!
FÉLIX Tshisekedi is the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) President-elect. He is the leader of one of DRC’s longest-serving opposition parties, the Union for Democracy and Social Progress.
The DRC has never had a moment of peace ever since the nation gained her independence in 1960. Last month’s elections were chaotic to say the least but many have cheered to see they produced a result at all. After nearly 60 years of independence the country is still struggling to hold free, fair and credible elections.
Zimbabwe held her elections over six months ago, Zanu PF blatantly rigged the process creating the economic and political chaos whose consequences are tearing the nation apart right now. After nearly 40 years of independence many Zimbabweans including the political leaders themselves still have no clue what constitutes free, fair and credible elections. How tragic is that!
There is no SADC leader who can honestly say they did not know that MDC leaders sold-out big time during the GNU because SADC leaders were the one who nagged Morgan Tsvangirai, Chamisa and the rest of the MDC leaders on the need to implement the democratic reforms. "Follow the Global Political Agreement (GPA) roadmap!" they kept saying. MDC leaders ignored the nagging.
SADC leaders tried to get the 2013 elections postponed until the reforms were in place. "If you take part in the elections next month; you will lose. The elections are done!" they warned MDC leaders. Once again MDC leaders ignored the warning.
"MDC leaders were too busy enjoying themselves during the GNU and the forgot why they were there!" One SADC leader remarked soon after Zanu PF had rigged the 2013 elections, in sheer exasperation at the MDC leaders' incompetence and betrayal.
Chamisa and his MDC Alliance showed all just how stupid and naive they are by agreeing to contest last year's elections even when ZEC had failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters' roll. "I will not make the same stupid mistake Tsvangirai made by participating in the elections without verified voters' roll!" Chamisa boasted at one point.
The people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb, over 500 were murdered by Zanu PF and hundreds of thousands had their limbs broken in the 2008 elections alone; on the ticket MDC would bring about democratic change. MDC have failed to bring about even one meaningful democratic change in 19 years.
Of all the people, SADC leaders KNOW that MDC leaders are breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent. SADC leaders should also know how much ordinary Zimbabweans have suffered these last 38 years and therefore how desperate the people are for meaningful political change. It would therefore be unforgivable if the regional leaders should conspire to deny the people of Zimbabwe another chance to bring about meaningful political change by imposing another ineffective MDC Alliance and Zanu PF GNU.
“During that GNU the MDC had no chance please give this MDC chance they won't disappoint’” you have argued.
I would join you in asking for Chamisa and company to be given a chance if you can explain to me why they failed to implement even one reform during the last GNU and why they have ignored the repeated warnings not to contest the 2013 and then 2018 elections with no reform in place?
Biti calls for an extra-ordinary SADC summit on Zimbabwe.
Tendai Biti has a very leaky memory but let as remind him. Mr Biti do remember SADC’s summit in Maputo in June 2013? Do you remember what SADC leaders advised you and your fellow MDC leaders?
"If you take part in the elections next month; you will lose. The elections are done!” SADC leaders warned. You and your fellow MDC leaders ignored the warning back then and did so again regarding last year’s elections.
Zimbabwe is in this mess because MDC leaders failed to implement even one reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. You are calling for a SADC summit to pressure Zanu PF to invite you into a new GNU. You are desperate for a seat back on the gravy train, that is all you and Chamisa are after.
The people of Zimbabwe are desperate for meaningful political change that is only possible from implementing the democratic reforms followed by democratic elections. We need a new GNU but one in which new players will be appointed to implement the reforms and not the same recycled corrupt and incompetent MDC and Zanu PF trash.
The only message for Mnangagwa and his vote rigging Zanu PF thugs is that the regime is illegitimate and it must step aside. MDC have given the flawed and illegal elections the modicum of credibility by participating in these elections. You did so out of selfish greed. Step aside.
Any effort by both Zanu PF and MDC to hang on to power will be seen for what it is - you are hold the nation to ransom.
The South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) is "confident that the measures being taken by the Zimbabwean government will resolve the situation" as protests over fuel prices continue.
Sure the same Dirco officials were “confident” the serious street protests were not going to happen in Zimbabwe; just as they were confident Zanu PF was going to hold its promise to hold free, fair and credible 2018 elections. As we know Zanu PF blatantly rigged last year’s elections and SADC leaders were foolish in pretending not to notice.
If SADC does not do something to end the worsening political crisis in Zimbabwe the economic and social instability will affect the whole region. The only way to end the crisis is by forcing Zanu PF to step down; we all know the party is illegitimate.
Contrary to claims by Constantino Chiwenga to ZimEye on Tuesday, Econet boss, Strive Masiyiwa has revealed that it is the government which has blocked all internet services across Zimbabwe.
It was clear from the word go that VP Chiwenga was lying; internet and social media services do not fail across all platforms just like that useless there is a major incident such as a nationwide power supply failure or the authority have ordered a blackout! What is so foolish about Chiwenga's denial is that he was naive and stupid enough to believe he could order the blackout, pretend he is totally innocent and get away with.
We are back to the calling a military coup "a military assisted transition!"
It is little wonder the nation is in a real mess, with such dimwits what else. How they have managed to stay in power all these 38 years is the greatest mystery of our time!
Zanu PF is a party of thugs and the only language they know and "speak" well is violence. They have failed to rig economic recovery and so they are out beating the people into submission to silence the criticism over worsening economic situation.
"We have always had cooperation in the field of defence and security with Russia," said Mnangagwa who is in Moscow on a three-day state visit.
"This we are not abandoning … Yes, at the moment we don't have much economic muscle to buy the things which we would want to buy from the Russian Federation, but down the line, as Zimbabwe becomes stronger in terms of its economic muscle, we should be able to buy the type of hardware, which we know the Russian Federation has and is the state-of-the-art type of equipment that they have, but we are not in a hurry.”
The country’s health care services, for example, has all but collapse. Doctors and nurses are on slave wages and the hospitals are so poorly equipped they have no drugs, no working basic equipment, etc. And instead of getting our health care services back on track all Mnangagwa is concerned about is buying more guns, more bullets and bombs!
Mnangagwa rigged last year’s elections. He does not have the people’s mandate to govern and is in government to serve his own selfish interests and is prepared to kill to impose his will. The sooner the nation force this Zanu PF regime to step down the sooner the nation can start the difficult task of rebuilding the country’s economy.
Zimbabwe’s biggest trade union, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) has called for a stay away starting from tonight to protest against government’s decision to hike fuel prices by over 200 percent.
ReplyDeletePosting on Twitter today, labelled the new fuel prices as insensitive and provocative as it adds more misery to the already hard pressed workers.
There is a real danger of Zimbabwe descending into mob rule and anarchy from which Mugabe and even Mnangagwa days would look like heaven on earth!
Wrote Mutodi: “New fuel prices will stamp out arbitrage in the fuel sector and normalize fuel supply but Zimbabweans must brace for commodity price volatility emanating from the fuel price shock.
ReplyDelete“Volatility will be temporary before goods prices normalise.
“Faced with high fuel costs, clever people know what to do and here are some tips: Avoid fuel guzzler, reduce fleet, cancel unnecessary trips and use bicycles where possible to save BIG. Do not protest in the street you can lose a limp in skirmishes.”
Minister Mutodi should stop boasting about Zanu PF’s barbarism!
Minister Mutodi, 75% of the ordinary Zimbabweans out there are already living on US$1.00 or less a day this new wave of price increases will drag them even deeper into abject poverty. These people are so poor basic needs of food, shelter, health care and education are now beyond their reach. Many of these people do not have even one decent meal a day and cannot afford even the most basic health care.
People are dying of hunger and disease Minister Mutodi.
Many people will be on the streets protesting the suffering because they are not animals you can expect to suffer and die in silence. Of course, they fear Zanu PF brutality but they are also painfully aware of their dehumanising suffering and deaths brought on be the country’s worsening economic meltdown.
Mugabe and Mnangagwa have had the time and space to accept peaceful change; they refused. Now they must accept violence change and will be held to account for all the death and destruction mob rule brings!
ReplyDeleteThe Minister of Finance Mthuli Ncube has announced that Government has decided to provide relief through refund of excise duty on fuel consumed by registered businesses in manufacturing, mining, agriculture and transport.
ReplyDeleteThis is just another layer of bureaucratic mine field open to abuse and corruption.
This Zanu PF regime was not elected by the people, it rigged the elections, and it should just step down. It has failed and is now holding the nation to ransom.
Mugabe and Mnangagwa have had the time and space to accept peaceful change; they refused. Now they must accept violence change and will be held to account for all the death and destruction mob rule brings!
Professor Mthuli Ncube sold his soul to the devil by agreeing to be minister in a regime he knew was illegitimate. His voodoo - economics is not getting the nation anywhere, he should just fcuk off. Who could have ever imagined that such a prestigious university as Cambridge would ever have someone devoid of common sense as one of its graduate!
Four people were reportedly shot and injured in Epworth, Harare for taking part in today’s protests against the government.
ReplyDeleteAccording to a NewsDay report, 8 people have been arrested for taking part in the protests and the police are reported to be moving from house to house smashing in doors in order to arrest the people inside.
All this could and should have been avoided. Mugabe and Mnangagwa have had many golden opportunities to accept that Zanu PF has failed and accept peaceful change. They have refused to do so and have rigged elections and used brute force to impose themselves on the nation.
They have dragged this nation into this hell-on-earth and left the people with no alternative but to stage these violence street protests. Now the two corrupt and murderous tyrants must accept violence change and they will be held to account for all the death and destruction the protests brings!
This time around the publication’s story on 14 December 2018 about a new Zimbabwe currency being launched in early 2020, has received confirmation from President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government, through his finance minister, who revealed yesterday that the country will be having it’s own money in 12 months time. Instead of diamond and gold reserves, government says the new currency will be anchored by foreign currency it is raising.
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing wrong with Zimbabwe having its own currency per se, the problems arises from the regime having no discipline to resort to such gimmicks as printing money to all its misrule problems.
In addition to Belarus, he will visit Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. After this, Mnangagva will travel to Switzerland, where he will take part in the World Economic Forum, which will be held from January 22 to 25.
ReplyDeleteThe trip to Davos will be a total waste of time. Last years his "Zimbabwe is open for business!" was not very convincing as many people doubting whether Zanu PF had changed and abandoned its dictatorial tendencies. He has since rigged the elections and removing all doubt that the regime is still a party of corrupt and vote rigging thus. He will be calling for investors to do business in country up in flames as the street protest will only get worse!
Exiled former Minister of Youth Patrick Zhuwawo has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa that ZANU PF legislators are plotting to impeach him.
ReplyDeleteWriting in his Zhuwawo Brief on Monday Zhuwawo said, "You already know that most of the ZANU PF legislatures are itching to impeach you as you correctly observed on Wednesday 30 May 2018. The mass action is spurring them on to save the nation and their constituents from further suffering and to also protect their jobs.”
If Zanu PF thugs believe they can save the dictatorship by throwing overboard a few of their own fellow thugs just as they did a few ago; they cannot be more mistaken. How many of the Zanu PF MPs do not know that Zanu PF rigged the last elections?
Woman shot in both legs being ferried in a wheelbarrow.
ReplyDeleteThis is what everyone with half a brain had feared and could and should have been avoided if only Mugabe and Mnangagwa had accepted that they have failed to govern and stepped aside peacefully. Instead the two tyrant have rigged elections and used brute violence to remain in power. Now the violent street protest will finally force them to step down and they will be held to account for all the destructions, injuries and deaths the violence will bring!
Below is the expensive private jet Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa has hired for his Russia and Europe trips. In the pictures below is the man himself touching down in Russia today, and the video afterwards shows the expensive private jet which costs $70,000 per hour to hire, and all this expenditure coming at a time when he pays doctors a paltry $85 per month.
ReplyDeleteThis is just unbelievable! So Mnangagwa hired the jet starting 13 January to say 22 January when he will be in Davos for the World Economic Forum. This is ten days at US$ 70 000 per hour. If we assume Mnangagwa and his entourage are going to stay in the jet, have all their meals there, etc. and not book in some five star hotel and cost the nation one more dollar still it will cost US$16 800 000! No wonder Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies have been rigging elections; they have been living such extravagant lifestyles they simply cannot even bear thinking of giving it all up!
No doubt when Mnangagwa was told there were violent demonstrations back in Zimbabwe a lot of things must have crossed his mind including giving the order of shoot to kill, again as he did 1 st August 2018. He rigged last July’s elections but resigning will be the last thing on his mind – it does not exist in his dictator vocabulary.
The only way to get Mnangagwa out of office is by shooting him dead! How tragic!
Said The Elders:
ReplyDelete“We are gravely alarmed by reports of growing unrest and intimidation across Zimbabwe. President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has responsibility to manage the economy in a just and efficient way and must listen to voices of civil society so that the crisis can be resolved peacefully.”
I salute the Elders, they have done their best in warning SADC leaders to take decisive action to end the Zimbabwe economic and political crisis. Sadly, their warning fell on deaf ears. Zimbabwe is now tumbling into the abyss, causing heart-breaking human suffering and death, and it is almost certain that it will drag many other countries down with her.
What the Elders should now be telling Mnangagwa is for him and his regime to step down, they have clearly failed govern and they are now the problem not part of the solution. Mnangagwa rigged last year's elections, he does not have the people's mandate to govern and he must go. It is a big mistake to try appeasing such a tyrant especially after 38 years of doing so and dragging the nation deeper and deeper into this hell! Mnangagwa and his junta need to hear some home-truths - they have failed they must go, period!
The Head of Delegation of the European Union to Zimbabwe Timo Olkkonen and the United Kingdom Ambassador to Zimbabwe Melanie Robinson have urged Zimbabwe to observe peace when exercising their right to protest.
ReplyDelete"Following with growing concern events unfold in Harare and elsewhere in Zimbabwe.People have a constitutional right to demonstrate, but this should be exercised peacefully." Olkkonen said.
He also urged security forces to respond proportionally when dealing with protestors.
At the heart of Zimbabwe's economic crisis is the political one; the nation is stuck with a corrupt and incompetent dictatorship that will not admit it has failed and the people are helpless to remove from office because it rigs elections. And so Zimbabweans are stuck now 38 years with a regime now frog matching the nation into the abyss.
If are serious about ending the tragic human suffering brought about by the shortages of cash, foreign currency, fuel, food, employment opportunities, collapsed health care and education services, etc., etc.; then we must first end the Zanu PF dictatorship.
Mnangagwa and his junta have no clue what to do to end the economic meltdown and we should not waste another day waiting for them to revive the economy. After 38 years of dragging us deeper and deeper into this mess, it is naive to expect them to do the opposite now. The Zanu PF regime must be told in no uncertain terms that it rigged last year's elections. it is illegitimate and it must step down.
All these street protests could and should have been avoided. Mugabe and Mnangagwa have had many golden opportunities to accept that Zanu PF has failed and accept peaceful change. They have refused to do so, they have again and again rigged elections and used brute force to impose themselves on the nation.
Zanu PF will be held to account for all the destruction, broken limbs and deaths resulting from the unrest sweeping the country!
As Mnangagwa Jets Into Moscow, Russia Rubbishes Unjustified Fuel Price Hikes And Says “We Never Promised to Make Up For Other countries’Revenue Shortfalls”
ReplyDeleteRussia has joined in the looting of Zimbabwe’s diamonds and is not interested in anything else.
The internet is shut down and government does not know anything about it! How convenient!
ReplyDeleteZimbabwe is in this political and economic mess because of Mugabe's decades on misrule and the last thing the people want to hear is some idiot like Zhuwao trying to pretend the murderous tyrant was a saint!
ReplyDeleteAt the heart of Zimbabwe's economic crisis is a political crisis, the elephant in the room holding us back but no one dares to talk about. The nation is stuck with a corrupt and incompetent dictatorship that will not admit it has failed, has rigged elections to stay in power and so for the last 38 years the nation has been trying to work with as best as it can.
ReplyDeleteIf web are serious about ending the tragic human suffering brought about by the shortages of cash, foreign currency, fuel, food, employment opportunities, collapsed health care and education services, etc., etc.; then we must first remove the Zanu PF dictatorship which is stopping us dealing with the problems because it claims that as the government it has the power and authority to deal with the problems and yet continue to do nothing..
Mnangagwa and his junta have no clue what to do to end the economic meltdown and we should not waste another day waiting for them to revive the economy. After 38 years of dragging us deeper and deeper into this mess, it is naive to expect them to do the opposite now. The Zanu PF regime must be told in no uncertain terms that it rigged last year's elections. it is illegitimate and it must step down.
All these street protests could and should have been avoided. Mugabe and Mnangagwa have had many golden opportunities to accept that Zanu PF has failed and accept peaceful change. They have refused to do so, they have again and again rigged elections and used brute force to impose themselves on the nation.
Zanu PF will be held to account for all the destruction, broken limbs and deaths resulting from the unrest sweeping the country!
FIVE people reportedly died while 24 others were injured as police clashed with protesters across the country yesterday as anger over the worsening economic crisis spilled onto the streets with business, warning government that “the house is burning.”
ReplyDeleteAt the heart of Zimbabwe's economic crisis is the unmovable political problem of a failed corrupt and incompetent regime, Zanu PF, that will not admit it has failed but, worst of all, rigs elections so the people are stuck with it! Mugabe and Mnangagwa have rigged elections slamming the door shut to peaceful democratic change.
After 38 years of corrupt and brutal oppression that has left the country in economic ruins; the people are absolutely desperate for meaning change and since they cannot have peaceful change they are going for violent street protests. Zanu PF must and will be held responsible for all the destructions, broken limbs and deaths that those violent protests have caused.
As of now, the nation should focus one thing and one thing only, forcing this corrupt and vote rigging Zanu PF to stop down. Nothing of any substance will ever be accomplished as long as these Zanu PF thugs remain in office. The party rigged last year’s elections and therefore it has no mandate to govern. It must step down now, that is not negotiable!
FÉLIX Tshisekedi is the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) President-elect. He is the leader of one of DRC’s longest-serving opposition parties, the Union for Democracy and Social Progress.
ReplyDeleteThe DRC has never had a moment of peace ever since the nation gained her independence in 1960. Last month’s elections were chaotic to say the least but many have cheered to see they produced a result at all. After nearly 60 years of independence the country is still struggling to hold free, fair and credible elections.
Zimbabwe held her elections over six months ago, Zanu PF blatantly rigged the process creating the economic and political chaos whose consequences are tearing the nation apart right now. After nearly 40 years of independence many Zimbabweans including the political leaders themselves still have no clue what constitutes free, fair and credible elections. How tragic is that!
There is no SADC leader who can honestly say they did not know that MDC leaders sold-out big time during the GNU because SADC leaders were the one who nagged Morgan Tsvangirai, Chamisa and the rest of the MDC leaders on the need to implement the democratic reforms. "Follow the Global Political Agreement (GPA) roadmap!" they kept saying. MDC leaders ignored the nagging.
ReplyDeleteSADC leaders tried to get the 2013 elections postponed until the reforms were in place. "If you take part in the elections next month; you will lose. The elections are done!" they warned MDC leaders. Once again MDC leaders ignored the warning.
"MDC leaders were too busy enjoying themselves during the GNU and the forgot why they were there!" One SADC leader remarked soon after Zanu PF had rigged the 2013 elections, in sheer exasperation at the MDC leaders' incompetence and betrayal.
Chamisa and his MDC Alliance showed all just how stupid and naive they are by agreeing to contest last year's elections even when ZEC had failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters' roll. "I will not make the same stupid mistake Tsvangirai made by participating in the elections without verified voters' roll!" Chamisa boasted at one point.
The people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb, over 500 were murdered by Zanu PF and hundreds of thousands had their limbs broken in the 2008 elections alone; on the ticket MDC would bring about democratic change. MDC have failed to bring about even one meaningful democratic change in 19 years.
Of all the people, SADC leaders KNOW that MDC leaders are breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent. SADC leaders should also know how much ordinary Zimbabweans have suffered these last 38 years and therefore how desperate the people are for meaningful political change. It would therefore be unforgivable if the regional leaders should conspire to deny the people of Zimbabwe another chance to bring about meaningful political change by imposing another ineffective MDC Alliance and Zanu PF GNU.
@ Francis Maposa
ReplyDelete“During that GNU the MDC had no chance please give this MDC chance they won't disappoint’” you have argued.
I would join you in asking for Chamisa and company to be given a chance if you can explain to me why they failed to implement even one reform during the last GNU and why they have ignored the repeated warnings not to contest the 2013 and then 2018 elections with no reform in place?
Biti calls for an extra-ordinary SADC summit on Zimbabwe.
ReplyDeleteTendai Biti has a very leaky memory but let as remind him. Mr Biti do remember SADC’s summit in Maputo in June 2013? Do you remember what SADC leaders advised you and your fellow MDC leaders?
"If you take part in the elections next month; you will lose. The elections are done!” SADC leaders warned. You and your fellow MDC leaders ignored the warning back then and did so again regarding last year’s elections.
Zimbabwe is in this mess because MDC leaders failed to implement even one reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. You are calling for a SADC summit to pressure Zanu PF to invite you into a new GNU. You are desperate for a seat back on the gravy train, that is all you and Chamisa are after.
The people of Zimbabwe are desperate for meaningful political change that is only possible from implementing the democratic reforms followed by democratic elections. We need a new GNU but one in which new players will be appointed to implement the reforms and not the same recycled corrupt and incompetent MDC and Zanu PF trash.
The only message for Mnangagwa and his vote rigging Zanu PF thugs is that the regime is illegitimate and it must step aside. MDC have given the flawed and illegal elections the modicum of credibility by participating in these elections. You did so out of selfish greed. Step aside.
Any effort by both Zanu PF and MDC to hang on to power will be seen for what it is - you are hold the nation to ransom.
The South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) is "confident that the measures being taken by the Zimbabwean government will resolve the situation" as protests over fuel prices continue.
ReplyDeleteSure the same Dirco officials were “confident” the serious street protests were not going to happen in Zimbabwe; just as they were confident Zanu PF was going to hold its promise to hold free, fair and credible 2018 elections. As we know Zanu PF blatantly rigged last year’s elections and SADC leaders were foolish in pretending not to notice.
If SADC does not do something to end the worsening political crisis in Zimbabwe the economic and social instability will affect the whole region. The only way to end the crisis is by forcing Zanu PF to step down; we all know the party is illegitimate.
Contrary to claims by Constantino Chiwenga to ZimEye on Tuesday, Econet boss, Strive Masiyiwa has revealed that it is the government which has blocked all internet services across Zimbabwe.
ReplyDeleteIt was clear from the word go that VP Chiwenga was lying; internet and social media services do not fail across all platforms just like that useless there is a major incident such as a nationwide power supply failure or the authority have ordered a blackout! What is so foolish about Chiwenga's denial is that he was naive and stupid enough to believe he could order the blackout, pretend he is totally innocent and get away with.
We are back to the calling a military coup "a military assisted transition!"
It is little wonder the nation is in a real mess, with such dimwits what else. How they have managed to stay in power all these 38 years is the greatest mystery of our time!
Zanu PF is a party of thugs and the only language they know and "speak" well is violence. They have failed to rig economic recovery and so they are out beating the people into submission to silence the criticism over worsening economic situation.
ReplyDelete"We have always had cooperation in the field of defence and security with Russia," said Mnangagwa who is in Moscow on a three-day state visit.
ReplyDelete"This we are not abandoning … Yes, at the moment we don't have much economic muscle to buy the things which we would want to buy from the Russian Federation, but down the line, as Zimbabwe becomes stronger in terms of its economic muscle, we should be able to buy the type of hardware, which we know the Russian Federation has and is the state-of-the-art type of equipment that they have, but we are not in a hurry.”
The country’s health care services, for example, has all but collapse. Doctors and nurses are on slave wages and the hospitals are so poorly equipped they have no drugs, no working basic equipment, etc. And instead of getting our health care services back on track all Mnangagwa is concerned about is buying more guns, more bullets and bombs!
Mnangagwa rigged last year’s elections. He does not have the people’s mandate to govern and is in government to serve his own selfish interests and is prepared to kill to impose his will. The sooner the nation force this Zanu PF regime to step down the sooner the nation can start the difficult task of rebuilding the country’s economy.