“The Minister of Energy and Power Development
Advocate Fortune Chasi has urged Zimbabweans to consider using bicycles and
motorbikes given the dire fuel shortages hitting the country,” reported
Bulawayo 24.
“Chasi said developed countries like the United Kingdom and Holland are already using bicycles. The Minister of Energy and Power Development Advocate Fortune Chasi has urged Zimbabweans to consider using bicycles and motorbikes given the dire fuel shortages hitting the country.
“Chasi said developed countries like the United Kingdom and Holland are already using bicycles.”
“Chasi said developed countries like the United Kingdom and Holland are already using bicycles. The Minister of Energy and Power Development Advocate Fortune Chasi has urged Zimbabweans to consider using bicycles and motorbikes given the dire fuel shortages hitting the country.
“Chasi said developed countries like the United Kingdom and Holland are already using bicycles.”
Chasi has been back in government only a few weeks
and already he is talking with the same Zanu PF arrogance and indifference to
the long-suffering people of Zimbabwe. He promised to solve Zimbabwe’s
crippling energy and power crisis whose solution is staring him in the face –
end the pariah state which is blocking everything.
He took delivery of his ultra-modern ministerial
limo, the generous salary and allowances and loads and loads of the other gravy
train benefits. He will be fighting to retain the Zanu PF dictatorship and the
pariah state. The dictatorship is the sacred cow that must be left untouched and
to alleviate the effects of the worsening economic meltdown he is suggesting
the people buy bicycles and motorbikes! The chic arrogance of tyrants who know
they are not democratically accountable to those they so dismissively abuse!
Zanu PF blatantly rigged last year’s elections to
make sure the party remains in power, period. If the party delivered any
economic recovery, that is a bonus, as far as the regime is concerned.
Zimbabwe’s economic situation is dire, unemployment
has soared to dizzying heights of 90%, ¾ of the population are living in abject
poverty, etc. The situation cannot be allowed to continue. Zanu PF must be
forced to step down and the nation finally allowed to end this curse of rigged
elections and pariah state.
Minister Chasi, we do not want your bicycles; we
want you and your fellow Zanu PF thugs to go. And go you will! The prospect of
Zanu PF remaining in office until 2023 is unthinkable!
If Zanu PF is in power in 2023 the party will rig those elections and thus
extend the regime’s corrupt and tyrannical rule. We must not allow that to
happen!
Chasi has just taken delivery of his ultra-modern limo, he has his generous salary and allowances and will most likely have a farm plus many other gravy train benefits and loot.
ReplyDeleteThe solution to Zimbabwe's economic meltdown is good governance. We must put an end to the present corrupt and incompetent tyrannical dictatorship. For the last 39 years we have been stuck with the dictatorship and year after year the regime has dragged us deeper and deeper into this hell-on-earth. It is madness to expect the regime to reform itself, stop its wasteful and tyrannical ways, end the vote rigging and dismantle pariah state and finally implement the sound policies the nation has been dying for.
Zanu PF is set in its way and you cannot teach an old dog new tricks. If we are serious about rescuing Zimbabwe from the economic and political mess the nation is in then we must take up the demand for Zanu PF to step down with the urgency the matter demands. It is no good enough to demand free, fair and credible elections, for example, and then chicken out of demanding the Zanu PF must step down when it is clear the regime rigged the elections.
So President Magufuli calls for the removal of sanctions against Zimbabwe but has nothing to say about 39 years of corruption, rigged elections and tyrannical rule by Zanu PF. By Mugabe's own admission Zimbabwe has lost $15 billion in just a few years due to corruption; whatever Zimbabwe has lost to corruption, it must be small change in comparison.
ReplyDeleteZanu PF blatantly rigged last year's elections. The failure to hold free, fair and credible elections are at the very heart of Zimbabwe's economic and political crisis.
President Magufuli is showing the common weakness, the common denominators, in African leaders, the weakness that has made Africa the dark continent; penny wise but pound foolish!
The sanctions are the cause of Zimbabwe's economic and political mess but a pressure point helping to force Zanu PF to accept democratic change. The sanctions must therefore stay and idiots who do not know what they are talking about on the matter must shut up!
USA destabilizing Zimbabwe says Dr Mumbi.
ReplyDeleteThis is just nonsense, Zimbabwe is in economic ruins and has been dragged to the edge of the political precipice by 39 years of incompetent, corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF misrule. The idea of blaming USA or anyone else is black inferiority complex taken to its most sickening limit. The most common manifestation of black inferiority complex is the refusal by blacks to accept that blacks, especially black leaders, can make a mistake. By refusing to admit to making mistakes even in the face of a mountain of evidence proving the mistakes, blacks have repeated the same mistakes over and over again.
Zimbabwe has been an independent country for the last 39 years and to suggest that the country and its leaders are not responsible for the mess the country is in is pathetic. This is tantamount to admitting that Zimbabweans are so utterly helpless they cannot be blame for the mess the country is in. In other words black Zimbabweans are so foolish they cannot be blamed for the mess the country is in the same way one cannot blame a child for setting the house on fire!
Zimbabwe has become the arch-type failed state and many African countries, considering themselves wiser and superior to Zimbabweans have sudden become experts in Zimbabwe's affairs and are joining the Zanu PF thugs in blaming outsiders for all the country's ills. Zanu PF thugs are doing this to hide behind their fingers and the blacks joining them are doing this out of foolishness or to message their own egos. We are dealing with the Zanu PF thugs and as for the self-righteous blacks poking their noses in our business they should shut up and solve their own problems.
Anyone who even believed Mnangagwa's "Zimbabwe is open for business!" call would attract back a flood of investors, as Mnangagwa and his followers claimed, was naive. Investors walked away from Zimbabwe two decades ago when it was clear the country was a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. They were not going to flood back into the country just because the old dictator Mugabe and a handful of others were booted out especially when it was clear nothing much had changed. They were not going to be fooled into believing the removal of one dictator only to place him with another was enough to transform the pariah state into a democratic one.
ReplyDeleteZanu PF propaganda machinery went into overdrive promoting the clarion call "Zimbabwe is open for business!" Today, eighteen months since Mnangagwa took over from Mugabe, it is clear the country has failed to attract new investors and lenders. Mnangagwa rigged last year's elections but now finds he cannot rig economic recovery.
"It is the economy, stupid" that will force Zanu PF to step down!
“The headline is a total distortion of what I said – in fact I said the complete opposite. In the interview I said that ZANU PF has no capacity to rectify the economy and that they have created such a mess that it will take hard work and time to undo their mess.
ReplyDelete“I would not have agreed to stand for TG of the MDC if I didn’t have absolute faith in Nelson Chamisa to lead Zimbabwe to a new dawn,” said Coltart.
And yet not even Coltart can deny that MDC has failed to implement even one meaningful reform in its 19 years on the political stage. We would not still be talking of a “new dawn” in Zimbabwe, we would have settled this problem of rigged elections once and once for all if MDC had implemented the reforms.
There is nothing in what Chamisa and MDC A has said or done to give anyone the confidence he will finally implement the reforms. Indeed, what is clear is that MDC had accepted the present status quo of Zanu PF rigging the elections as long as it wins the few gravy train seats the regimes gives away as bait.
As long as Zanu PF continues to offer Zimbabwe’s corrupt and incompetent opposition a few gravy train seats they will continue to participate in the elections regardless how flawed and illegitimate the process gets. By participating the opposition are giving the illegitimate Zanu PF some modicum of credibility.
Coltart, Tendai Biti and a few other MDC A leaders are very pleased to be the winners of the few gravy train seats on offer last year. They are very pleased to be back on the gravy train and that is all they care about. Chamisa’s bone of contention with Mnangagwa is for an interim authority in which he too has a gravy train seat. Anyone who thinks MDC A will ever implement the democratic reforms necessary for free, fair and credible elections is naïve.
@ Mavaza
ReplyDelete“Zimbabwe needs a Major reshuffle as soon as now to get it moving again. In the inauguration speech the previous year ED had pledged to hit the ground running. The team has been assembled for the running but their legs are not reaching the ground. The ground is available the running has started but unfortunately you can not see the speed and the direction. At least for now. very few ministers can justify their existence. A major reshuffle is needed in order to get our economic woes sorted,” you say.
You will not want to speak truth to power and so you call for cabinet reshuffle because you lack the guts to tell Mnangagwa that he has failed and should go. We are in this mess because for the last 39 years people like you would not accept that Mugabe and now Mnangagwa and their Zanu PF thugs have failed.
Mnangagwa can carryout another cabinet reshuffle but as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs the country’s economic meltdown will only get worse!
Minister Chasi said he was going to get the money crooks like Wicknell looted from ZESA but he already dropped that hot potato. Someone told him in no uncertain terms that if he opened that Pandora's Box it will not only be Wicknell who will be in Chikurumbi but many other Zanu PF bigwigs - Wicknell will see to it that he has company. The same day Chasi received his ministerial limo and got the message - enjoy you stay on the gravy train and shut up!
ReplyDeleteSo instead of recovering the billions of dollars being looted in the energy and power sectors every month Minister Chasi is now taking up petty project like telling the poor how to spend the meagre earnings! It is amazing how quickly some people change as soon as they step into the gravy train. "Kungo piwavhara muromo, Chasi yava bofu, mbeveve nematsi!"