Monday 2 December 2019

If Mutendi cannot stand political heat of telling the truth of rigged elections, get out of kitchen W Mukori

“If you see a frog hoping in the midday heat, you can be certain something is amiss!” so goes the adage. 
Zimbabwe’s economic situation is getting worse and worse. Unemployment still 90% plus; 3/4 of the population now living on US$40 per month or less; inflation is set to reach the 1000% mark soon, if it has not done so already; doctors on their 92 day on strike and all public hospitals closed; etc. The economic meltdown has the politicians hopping in the midday heat; they know the situation is socially, politically and morally unsustainable! 
“President Mnangagwa today met members of the Inter-Denominational Council of Churches at State House to discuss various issues affecting the country,” reported the Herald.
“The churches were led by the patron of the organisation Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi of the Zion Christian Church.
“They stressed that any political dialogue in the country should be premised on the acknowledgement of President Mnangagwa as the elected Head of State and Government.”
The tragedy is the church leaders are telling Mnangagwa what he wants to hear, the same regurgitated nonsense, that will do nothing to get the nation out of the economic mess we are in. 
Zimbabwe is in this economic mess because the country has been stuck with a corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF regime for the last 39 years. The nation has failed to remove Zanu PF from office all these years because the party rigged elections. 
Zimbabwe is a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous tyrants. The country’s economy has been in trouble for donkeys years because it is notoriously difficult to do business in a pariah state. As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state, there will never ever be any meaningful economic recovery. NEVER EVER! 
By blatantly rigging last year’s elections, failing to stamp out corruption, etc. Mnangagwa confirm that Zimbabwe is still a pariah state. International election observers like the EU, the Americans, the Commonwealth, etc. all know the elections were rigged and stated the same in their reports. Zimbabwe’s corrupt and incompetent opposition gave the elections some credibility by participating in the flawed elections knowing fully well Zanu PF was rigging the elections. 
Even with all the evidence of the elections lacked “transparency, traceability and verifiability”, as EU Observer Team stated in their report; the opposition idiots still endorse the elections as free, fair and credible. Chamisa is cherry picking; he endorsed the parliamentary results but would not do the same with presidential result. He wants to be declared the winner even though, like ZEC, he too has failed to verify where he got his figures. 
But even if Mutendi and his friends can get Chamisa to endorse Mnangagwa as the winner, this will not change the reality on the ground. Zimbabwe will still be a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs; Mnangagwa himself wrote that in stone by blatantly rigging last year’s elections. 
Burying our heads in the sand and pretending Zimbabwe is a healthy and functional democracy, we have done this for the last 39 years, has not change the reality. Zimbabwe has remained a pariah state and will remain a pariah state until we finally cure ourselves of this curse of rigged elections.
Nehemiah Mutendi and his friends must tell Mnangagwa the truth because the truth will set him and the nation free. 
The truth is last year’s elections were flawed and illegal, Zanu PF blatantly rigged the elections, and the regime (not just Mnangagwa) is illegitimate. Zanu PF be step down to allow the nation to implement the necessary democratic reforms to guarantee free, fair and credible elections. 
Only by holding free, fair and credible elections will this nation finally cure itself of the curse of rigged elections and pariah state label!

If Nehemiah Mutendi and his friends cannot stand the political heat of speaking truth to power then they must get out of the kitchen!

3 comments:

  1. @ Mbofana

    “Yet, when their ally lost the 2008 presidential elections to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, thereby unleashing a heinous and gruesome reign of terror - which witnessed the killing of hundreds of the latter's supporters - only then did SADC initiate mediation, that resulted in the formation of a Government of National Unity (GNU), with Mugabe retaining the presidency and Tsvangirai becoming prime minister,” you said.

    “As has become embarrassingly customary, SADC dismally failed in undertaking its responsibilities, in accordance with its own principles.”

    Your characterisation of SADC as a corrupt, incompetent regional body with a track record of sitting on its hands until it is too late is accurate and there is a mountain of history record to prove it.

    However, I do not agree with your analysis of events in Zimbabwe during the last GNU. Whilst I agree that SADC could have done things differently it is still, nonetheless, true that the GNU could have delivered its main objectives of implemented the democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections. It was Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends’ fault that not even one reform was implemented in five years. Not one!

    Blame SADC for our own failures is a clear sign that we are so corrupt and incompetent we not only fail to carryout our set task but, worse still, either we are so incompetent we do not even see our shortcomings even with the benefit of hindsight. Or we are just too stupid to admit we failed. Either position has not helped us move forward because SADC leaders would not want to help and then be blamed once again for our own incompetence!

    Before we go to town about SADC’s incompetence, we need to have the humility and acknowledge our own serious shortcomings and, better still, do something to address them. We must make sure neither Zanu PF and MDC leaders are ever involved in mapping the way out of this mess; they landed us in this mess and it is just nonsense to think they know the way out! They don’t!

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  2. @ Tinashe

    Let’s avoid elections for the next ten years and build Zimbabwe

    This is just nonsense! Zimbabwe is in this economic mess not because we have been holding elections but the opposite. We are in this mess because we have failed to hold meaningful elections; rigged elections have failed to produce any meaningful political change.

    If you have nothing useful to say, just shut up! We cannot keep repeating the same foolish nonsense over and over again and hope for a different result!

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  3. @ Zinyama

    It is a great tragedy that many of our churches in Zimbabwe have some of the biggest concentration of naive and braindead individuals. It is no surprise that all our corrupt and incompetent politicians have all found these churches fertile grounds for getting votes.

    For the sake of getting the cheap votes even Grace Mugabe, who had never worn anything without a very expensive price tag ever since the day of her adulterous affair with the late Robert Mugabe, did not mean wearing the calico drab of Apostolic Church. She could not wait to take them off. She had fine silk undergarments, of course, still she complained of the rash from the calico!

    Simpletons like Mutendi and his fellow church leaders have become Zanu PF political commissars per excellence. Whilst the nation is desperately trying to dismantle this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship it is disconcerting that village idiots like Nehemiah Mutendi and our corrupt and incompetent opposition politicians are the ones propping up the dictatorship! Infuriating!

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