Dear Sir/Madam
We wanted to make sure you do not miss this story!
The most import bit is the admission. "Legitimacy is an issue - last year's elections were illegal, and not free and fair. All reasonable observers concede that."
The admission was long in coming but it is finally out.
We, in the Zimbabwe Social Democrats, and many other ordinary Zimbabweans view the proposed political dialogue a way of sinister move by those who fail to deliver free, fair and credible election to legitimise they betrayal. It is a waste of time since no meaningful reforms will be implemented and the next elections will be rigged again.
This Zanu PF government of President Mnangagwa is illegitimate and the regime should step down and allow the country to appoint an interim administration that would be entrusted the task of implementing the democratic reforms necessary for free, fair and credible elections.
Best regards
Wilbert Mukori
Secretary General
Zimbabwe Social Democrats.
@ Tshetshe Ndlovu
ReplyDelete“Zanu PF will never voluntarily step down and go to prison for crimes committed against humanity let alone the gravy train they are in, it’s a dream,” you say.
This is the worst kind of defeatism – the kind where one shoots himself in both legs just to be absolutely certain one loses the race!
You ever said that Zanu PF will “voluntarily step down”? Would you do so if you were a seasoned corrupt, incompetent and murderous tyrant like Mnangagwa or any of the other Zanu PF thugs? Of course, not! So, why are you wasting time and energy talking of an outcome that not even an idiot would consider.
Zanu PF rigged the 2008 elections and MDC were quick off the mark in condemning the elections, Tsvangirai withdraw from the race for Pete’s sake. The international community, including AU and SADC who are renowned for approving dodgy elections, too condemn the elections and would not accept Zanu PF’s claim as the legitimately elected government.
Zanu PF was forced to give up its legitimacy claim, sign 2008 Global Political Agreement in which the party would share power in GNU and to agree to the implementation of the raft of democratic reforms to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship. Mugabe did not volunteer to do these things, he was forced!
Now that it is agreed that last year’s elections were “illegal, and not free and fair”. (MDC A would have endorsed the elections as free, fair and credible a long time ago if Mnangagwa had played ball and given Chamisa and a few others in MDC A cushy gravy train seats complete with ministerial limos, generous salaries, etc.) This puts Zimbabwe back in the same situation as in 2008, we have no legitimate government.
Instead of forcing Zanu PF to agree into yet another power sharing arrangement, which is what Chamisa and his MDC A friends are demanding, we must demand that Zanu PF steps down!
The reality of the worsening economic meltdown will pile on the pressure for Zanu PF to step down. In the end, Zanu PF will step down! Even with all your defeatists negativity; Zanu PF will step down. It is just a matter of when and not if!
"Fortune Chasi, propaganda will not take this country anywhere. On Wednesday in Parliament you talked about government paying $10m to Eskom after I asked about the power crisis in this country. So, where is the money then?” said MDC A MP Mamombe.
ReplyDeleteWhy Chasi made the stupid statement with no proof that the money was paid only goes to show how incompetent our leaders are!
“We need a national transitional authority, we need to have a soft landing for our country. If we do not do that, we are heading for an implosion, an Armageddon.
ReplyDelete“An Armageddon, in the form of another military coup and this is a point which I keep on seeing, that the signs are there just as they were obvious in 2017,” said the Harare East legislator.
Zimbabwe had a GNU and soft-landing following cheating and wanton violence of the 2008 elections. Sadly, the GNU failed to implement not even one democratic reform and hence the reason was able to rig the 2013 and last year’s elections landing us back in the political mess of having no legitimate government.
The only reason Nelson Chamisa, Tendai Biti and few other MDC A leaders are as keen as mustard to have this transition authority is because they are desperate for a gravy train seat.
Mnangagwa was cocksure his “Zimbabwe is open for business!” would revive the country’s comatose economy. It did not because, contrary to his cheap propaganda, Zimbabwe was still a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. No one wants to do business with thugs. The inclusion of Chamisa, Biti and one or two other MDC A leaders in the illegitimate Zanu PF regime will NOT change the pariah state reality.
The TA will be a soft-landing for both Zanu PF and MDC A leaders but will be a complete waste of time and opportunity for the nation. Zimbabwe needs to end the curse of rigged elections and pariah state and the only sure way for that to happen is to appoint an interim administration tasked to implement the reforms.