“I pay tribute to the fortitude and patience of
my predecessor and her deep sense of public service, but in spite of all her
efforts, it has become clear that there are pessimists at home and abroad who
think after three years of indecision that this country has become a prisoner
to the old arguments of 2016 and in this home of democracy we are incapable of
honouring a democratic mandate,” announced Boris Johnson, Britain’s new Prime
Minister before entering the famous No. 10 Downing Street.
“And so I am standing before you today, to tell
you, the British people, that those critics are wrong – the doubters, the
doomsters, the gloomsters are going to get it wrong again. The people who bet
against Britain are going to lose their shirts because we are going to restore
trust in our democracy.”
After three years of blundering and drifting
aimlessly under the timid and confused Prime Minister Theresa May; what a blast
of fresh air! In walks Boris Johnson, beaming with confident and bombastic!
The most significant and yet easily overlooked thing
here is the orderly change of guard. Since Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980
there have been seven different British Prime Ministers and each has come and
gone in an orderly fashion. Each walked in proudly waving the people’s
democratic mandate to govern and when, for whatever reason, that ran out they
have all walked into the political sunset.
In the same period Zimbabwe has had two
presidents. Robert Mugabe was in office for 37 years and he never had the
people’s mandate to rule because Zanu PF has always rigged the elections. Even
the first elections in 1980, Zanu PF deployed many of its freedom fighters,
contrary to the Lancaster House agreement stipulating that all operatives were
in designated Assembly Points. The deployed fighters campaigned for Zanu PF
with the simple message; it the party lost the elections, the civil war would
continue.
The people voted to end the civil war!
All those who doubted that Zanu PF would have
used violence to secure political power were confounded when Mugabe launched
the Gukurahundi massacre aimed at eliminating Dr Joshua Nkomo and his PF Zapu,
the only real political obstacle to Mugabe’s goal to secure absolute power. In
the end PF Zapu capitulated and joined Zanu PF to create the de facto one-party
dictatorship that has ruled the country with an iron fist.
It was his fellow the Zanu PF thugs who forced
Mugabe to relinquish power at gun point in a military coup in November 2017.
Mnangagwa took over and promised to hold free, fair and credible elections, no
one with half a working brain expected him and his putsch gangsters to honour
that promise.
Mnangagwa blatantly rigged last year’s
elections and gave “shoot to kill” orders to all those who dared to protest the
rigged elections and against the country’s worsen economic situation.
As much as Robert Mugabe and now Mnangagwa have
proven to be corrupt and incompetent, they promised mass prosperity but only to
deliver mass poverty, the nation has failed to remove them from power because Zanu
PF rigged elections.
So, the only way Zimbabwe will have a new
president is Mnangagwa dropping dead (no expense is spared in the form of security
and health care), military coup, street protest or some such violent uprising.
As we have seen already with the November 2017 military coup none of these
violent changes will necessarily deliver a competent and democratic government.
It is not so much that Britain had a timid and confused PM in Theresa May but that the country was able to remove her from office when the people lost confidence in her leadership. That, in my view, is the proof that Britain's democratic system is well and healthy and any gloomster who dared to bet otherwise would be standing before us naked.
Betting on Mnangagwa rigging last year's elections; that his Zimbabwe is open for business!" will have no takers; on hyperinflation in Zimbabwe exceeding 1 000%; etc. would be money in the bank. Mnangagwa is corrupt, incompetent and has no clue what he is doing and because Zimbabwe is a pariah state ruled by vote rigging thugs, we are stuck with him!
Like him or hate him Boris Johnson
has certainly injected a lot of passion, enthusiasm, energy and hope in the
British politics. With Mnangagwa everyone knows the nation is heading for a
crash only time will tell when and how badly it will be! What a sickening
prospect!
This is the secret of a healthy and
functioning democracy; the ability to learn from the past and emerge wiser and
strong. The corollary is equally true, the curse of dictatorship is their
inherent tendency to stifle debate and competition under the pretext of unity
and settle for mediocrity and stagnation.
“As you assume your new responsibilities, I assure you of my willingness and readiness to work closely with you in furthering and indeed accelerating the process of reengagement between our two governments, leading to the full normalisation of relations between our nations and peoples.
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Yeah, but the “somewhat complicated past” is lingering and will not go away. Zimbabwe had the opportunity to sort it once and once for all by holding free, fair and credible elections and Zanu PF wasted that chance. Mnangagwa is the one stuck on this archaic and rather foolish notion that Zimbabwe can be a normal, successful and prosperous nation and yet still remain a pariah state ruled by incompetent, corrupt and vote rigging thugs!
Zanu PF rigged last year’s election, the regime is illegitimate and must step down without further ado!