I readily confess that I was one of the people who held Professor Jonathan Moyo in high regard as a brilliant intellectual with impeccable moral ethics. That was in the late 1980s and early 1990s; when he was a lecturer at UZ.
The late Robert Mugabe was a corrupt, incompetent, control freak and murderous dictator; it sickened me that anyone with half a brain would ever work for such a tyrant. Moyo join Mugabe’s government and became the tyrant’s answer to Adolf Hitler’s Paul Joseph Goebbels.
In 2014, in a moment of uncontrolled anger and exasperation, Mugabe called Professor Moyo “a weasel, devil incarnate who was destroying Zanu PF from within”. Still the tyrant could not fire his chief propagandist and strategist; there is no doubt the weasel had the tyrant by the family jewels!
In the November 2017 military coup that ousted Mugabe ending his 37 years of corrupt and murderous reign of terror; Professor Moyo was one of Mugabe’s ministers the coup plotters wanted killed. Moyo escaped and has been live in exile in Kenya.
People had hoped that Professor Moyo would use his time in hiding for thoughtful reflection and soul searching. Sadly, that has not happen judging from the foolish tweets from him!
"I know comprehension maybe a challenge. Still the statement is a fact: ZANU PF will never reform itself out of power. And because ZANU PF is JOC (Joint Operation Command), the statement is not a joke. That's why dealing with Zanu PF requires not reforms, but a revolution!” Twittered Professor Moyo!
Rubbish!
Yes, Zanu PF will never reforms itself out of power and it is true that the party relies on JOC (junta comprising the top brass in the Police, Army, CIO and Prison Services plus a select few from the ruling party) to remain in power. What is rubbish is the suggestion that the country needs another revolution to remove Zanu PF from office.
Remember Zanu PF itself is the product of the revolution to end white colonial rule. All that was accomplished was remove colonial oppressors but only to replace them with indigenous black oppressors who, in addition, have turned out to be corrupt and incompetent to boot. There is every reason to believe another revolution will not do any better.
No one with half a brain would expect Zanu PF thugs to reform themselves our of power especially now that they are all punch drunk and addicted to absolute power, have so much loot to protect and have so many skeletons to keep under wraps!
Of all people Professor Moyo knows that the Zanu PF dictatorship would have ended if Morgan Tsvangirai and his fellow MDC village idiots had implemented the democratic reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. He was the one sitting to the then Minister of Justice, Patrick Chinamasa, in June 2013 when latter boasted that MDC had failed to submit even one proposed reforms in five years. He understood the full import of that statement!
"There is a very primitive narrative and mob psychology in Zanu PF that says we will not reform ourselves out of power, they are not worried about getting back into the Commonwealth or serious reengagement." added Walter Mzembi, another former Mugabe minister now living in exile in SA.
This is more like Zanu PF mob psychosis!
When Mnangagwa and his JOC thugs staged the November 2017 military coup, they dubbed it “Operation restore legacy!” To those who did not know what this legacy was, Mnangagwa answered that in his first speech after Mugabe resigned.
“Zanu PF ichatonga! Igotonga! Imi muchingohukura! Nokuhukura!” (Zanu PF will rule! And rule! Whilst you (calling for democratic reforms) bark! And bark!) Mnangagwa announced to the thunderous applause from Zanu PF members!
It is all about absolute power, for Zanu PF; nothing else matters. The regime has ridden roughshod over the people denying them their freedoms and rights, including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country and not even the right to life!
Mnangagwa and company went on to consolidate their November coup strangle hold on absolute power by blatantly rigging the 2018 elections.
Mnangagwa and company’s legacy would have crashed there and then if it the corrupt and incompetent MDC sell-outs had heeded the warning and not participated in the flawed and illegal elections until reforms were implemented. By participating the opposition gave the rigged elections some modicum of credibility.
The majority in international community including the Commonwealth condemned the elections as a farce regardless of the discredited opposition’s participating.
By failing to end the scourge of corruption, to hold free and fair elections, etc. Mnangagwa has confirmed that Zimbabwe is still a pariah state. His much publicised mantra, “Zimbabwe is open for business!” has failed to attract any investors because it is notoriously difficult to do business in a pariah state.
As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state there will be no meaningful economic recovery. The country’s economic meltdown has forced unemployment to soar to 90%, WB reported that 34% of our people now live in extreme poverty, the country hospitals have all but closed, etc., etc.
This is economically unjustified since Zimbabwe is a rich country and the economic meltdown is a man-made problem, decades of bad governance. This is socially, politically and morally unsustainable.
Like it or not Zanu PF’s iron grip on power is slipping because of the twin pressure of the economic meltdown and a nation sick and tired of rigged elections. The only reason why Mnangagwa and company have failed to see the writing on the wall that change is coming upon us is because their minds is a fog. Comprehension is a challenge when you are drunk, this will not stop change coming.
Whilst the nation has remained peaceful this long in the hope the fog will clear; time is running out, the possibility of a violent revolution now loom large. A bullet in the head is known to clear even the thickest of fogs or be it that many innocent people suffer and die too!
No individual or group can ever hold a nation to ransom for long; Zanu PF has held this nation to ransom for four decades. Enough is enough!
“Fewer than half (43%) of Africans enjoy a reliable supply of electricity, a marginal improvement since the previous survey round,” Afrobarometer says.
ReplyDelete“While electricity that works most or all of the time is the norm in Mauritius (98%) and Morocco (91%), it’s a luxury in Malawi (5%) and Guinea (7%)… Ghana, more than doubled its share of citizens reporting reliable power, from 37% in 2014 to 79%.”
What is the point of having 48% of the population connect to the electric grid if they all then face 18 hours per day power cuts! In a way this serves to underline why the country is such a mess, the leaders have been more concerned with cheap popularity than in what works and now the nation is paying dearly for it.
In the 40 years of Zanu PF rule the nation has failed to maintain the generating plant it inherited from Ian Smith much less build new generation plant. There were more new consumers connected year after year and no one bothered to ask where the additional power was coming from! The problem did not go away and now the nation is being forced to deal with it - it could not have happened at a worse time as the nation is having to deal with a multitude of other challenges it had neglected for years!
@ Ntombi Langa
ReplyDelete“But Wilbert the professor is right this time. Zanu will be removed by a violent revolution and never reforms. He is saying zanu will never reform itself out of power. I agree with him fully on that. I am not a fan of the professor,” you said.
Ntombi Langa, we are dealing with ruthless thugs whose number one interest is to retain absolute power at all cost and what better way of achieving that than convincing us all that they are invincible.
No one is that foolish to expect Zanu PF to reform themselves out of office. During the 2008 to 2013 GNU SADC leaders got Mugabe and Zanu PF to agree to the raft of democratic reforms and it was up to MDC to implemented those reforms. If would the MDC village idiots had implemented the reforms the 2013 elections would have been free, fair and credible and Zanu PF would have long been booted out.
The full import of the Chinamasa interview about was Zanu PF boasted that it was not Zanu PF’s fault that not even one reform was implemented in five years but MDC’s fault; which is true. Tsvangirai and his jokers failed to submit even one reform proposal. Not one.
We do not need a violent revolution to remove this Zanu PF dictatorship, as these drunk psychotic Zanu PF thugs would have us believe. Nothing would please Zanu PF more than a violent confrontation; the regime will deploy the full force of the state security machinery. This is a trap! Why go into a fight which you will not win especially when you have other sure ways of winning the fight.
What we need is a competent and focus opposition and not these MDC village idiots. Surely you must be aware by now that MDC leaders have been running with the hare and hunting with the hounds!
@ Fungai Chiganangana
ReplyDeleteOur fight for independence was a just cause but not everyone involved in the struggle believed in the national cause as we soon learned the hard way.
"What was accomplished by the bullet cannot be undone by the ballot!" thundered the late dictator, Robert Mugabe, at the height of the 2008 wanton violence!
I agree, we must be very careful not to go into yet another violent revolution only to replace these Zanu PF thugs with equal corrupt and incompetent murderous thugs! We can and could have reformed these Zanu PF thugs as far back as 2013 if the MDC village idiots had implemented the democratic reforms. It was not for Zanu PF to implement the reforms but MDC, they had five years to do it and failed to get even one reform implemented because they sold-out.
Mugabe saw to it that Tsvangirai and company had ministerial limos, generous salaries, a US$ 4 million mansion for Tsvangirai himself, etc. Whilst they had they snouts in the feeding trough, MDC leaders forgot about the reforms.
It is shocking just how many Zimbabweans out there who still do not know, even with the benefit of hindsight, what the 2008 GNU was about much less that MDC leaders sold-out big time. We do not need a violent revolution but rather to wake up our people from the sloth-like slumber. What we will never have a healthy and functioning democracy when the electorate and more no than sloths!
@ Nobert Dube
ReplyDeleteAnswer me three questions: one, what was the PRIMARY purpose of the 2008 to 2013 GNU?
Two, who was responsible for implementing the reforms?
Three, did MDC implement any reforms during the GNU?
The PRIMARY purpose of the GNU was to implement the raft of democratic reforms to prevent the blatant cheating and wanton violence of the March and June 2008 elections. It was MDC, not Zanu PF, leaders’ responsibility to implement the reforms.
Of course, it is foolish to talk of a violent revolution to remove Zanu PF when all we need to do remove the corrupt and incompetent MDC village idiots.
If the truth be told, there are many Zimbabweans out there with no clue what the 2008 GNU was all about much less that MDC leaders sold-out big time. For a healthy and functioning democracy we need an informed and diligent electorate - we are clearly no where near there.
Former Local Government Minister Saviour Kasukuwere says he is not guilty of the US$ 3 Billion that has been reportedly lost to land barons due to illegal land deals involving state land.
ReplyDeleteWhen threatened that he will be arrested over the issue Kasuskuwere said he is the one that initiated that Land Commission of Inquiry.
"I initiated the Land Commission of Inquiry and decision adopted at a cabinet meeting chaired by HE Mugabe. Your excitement is misplaced and short lived for you shall soon come across reality. It was meant to correct a situation not for vindictiveness.”
The money disappeared during your watch, you are known for your lavish lifestyle and you say your are innocent.
Said Mutodi, "Re-joining the Commonwealth may be crucial to the UK and to Ambassador Melanie Robinson from one angle but to us there is no excitement in rejoining a club of former colonies without guarantee of mutual respect and sovereignty. The game of endless reforms is shameful.”
ReplyDeleteWhen Mnangagwa seized power from Mugabe in 2017, he promised democratic reforms and to hold free, fair and credible elections. Those in the know, said there and then, that this was all hot air, Mnangagwa and his coup plotter friends would never implement any democratic reforms and risk losing power in a free and fair elections. The doubters have been proven right!
By condemning last year’s elections as a farce the Commonwealth, the EU and many other nations and institutions made their position clear that they want to see meaningful democratic changes in Zimbabwe. It is a great pity that the Commonwealth and others’ principled position was undermined by none other than Zimbabwe’s corrupt and incompetent opposition parties, the main MDC opposition plus 130 others, who not only participated in the flawed and illegal elections but have endorsed the process as having been free, fair and credible.
The people of Zimbabwe must now wake up to the political reality that Zanu PF has no intention of implementing any democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections. The party knows that the opposition will contest the elections regardless how flawed and illegal the process get and thus giving the election some modicum of credibility. So there is no pressure on Zanu PF to implement the reforms and hold free and fair elections. None! Zero!
The only way Zanu PF can feel the pressure to implement the reforms is for the people of Zimbabwe themselves to denounce MDC for selling-out and show the world these corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless politicians no long represent the common people. A tail order given most Zimbabweans has no clue what the 2008 GNU was about and much less that MDC leaders sold-out!
You cannot talk of Chamisa's political career, or any of the other MDC leaders there at the time, without mentioning the breath taking incompetence and corruption he displayed during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Zimbabwe is in this sorry political and economic mess because the country failed to capitalise on the golden opportunity to implement the reforms and end the Zanu PF dictatorship once and once for all.
ReplyDelete"He launched his illustrous political career as a Zimbabwe National Student Union leader in the 1990s!" Yeah right!
Mashakada was himself a senior MDC leader in the GNU and knows all too well that Chamisa and the rest of the party leadership sold-out big time. He is lying for the sake of sucking up to the leader in the hope of advancing his own political career!
Exiled former Zanu-PF strategist, Jonathan Moyo, revealed this in his book, Excelgate, which he claims exposes how the 2018 presidential elections were reportedly rigged in favour of Mnangagwa.
ReplyDeleteGovernment has, however, rubbished Moyo's claims in the book.
ln his book, to be launched on December 13 in Harare, and has already been sold to more than 200 people in advance, Moyo said Chigumba irked Mnangagwa when she presented to him early this year some proposed reforms that included a clause that the Zec chairperson should be appointed through a parliamentary process.
"Chigumba then sought Mnangagwa's approval of Zec's proposed electoral reforms. She was granted audience. To Chigumba's utter shock, Mnangagwa hit the roof and blew his top, asking her a series of politically blinding questions: What is your motive? Who has sent you with this? You are a sellout," Moyo claimed in his book.
He wrote that Mnangagwa told Chigumba there would be no electoral reforms and that "she should just go away”.
This is rubbish. Zanu PF has 2/3 majority in Parliament and we all know those MPs own their position to Mnangagwa and the party’s vote rigging juggernaut of course they will rubber stamp whatever Mnangagwa want. Why would Mnangagwa then be unduly concerned about reforms he knows will change nothing.
If Chigumba told this story then it must be for selfish reasons. She knows that she played a key role in helping Mnangagwa rig last year’s elections and was paid and paid well for her sold-out. Now she wants to be seen as a reformer who did her best to ensure the elections were free, fair and credible.
She only had to tell the fabricated story to a Jonathan Moyo informer and knew he will be broadcasting it to the world as establish fact!
If anyone ever though Excelgate book was worth buying they now know it will be a waste of money.
Last year’s elections were blatantly rigged, ZEC failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll and one does not need to know the details of the disappearing V11 forms to know the elections were rigged.
I agree 100% that Chamisa’s repeated calls for “comprehensive democratic reforms” is but the growling of cats making love and only the naive and gullible would still take for MDC fighting for free, fair and credible elections. If MDC cared about reforms then why did the party fail to get even one reform implemented during the 2008 to 2013 GNU?
ReplyDeleteChamisa himself dismissed those of us who said the opposition should not take part in last year’s elections without reforms. “MDC has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections,” he said.
“Also had high profile meetings with the Germany government on governance,” he is telling us now. No doubt his demands for comprehensive reforms was central to MDC’s virtuoso good governance. And no one in the Germany government delegation had the intellectual insight to ask him why MDC participated in last year’s elections without even something as basic as a verified voters’ roll, a legal requirement in Zimbabwe electoral law.
It is bad enough that we have naive and gullible Zimbabwe electorate but it is down right frustrating that nationals from well established democratic nations pretend not to see the deceitful machinations of upstarts like Chamisa.
Of course, the Germans know Chamisa and company are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless; they pretend Zimbabwe is incapable of doing any better, just patronising. Some of us are fighting for a democratic Zimbabwe and the last thing we want is being patronised.
Self exiled former Cabinet Minister, Professor Jonathan Moyo has dropped a bombshell claiming that President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Presidential Advisory Council (PAC) has been hit by absenteeism with the bulk of members no-longer attending routine meetings save for a few who are in it for patronage.
ReplyDeleteThe 26-member PAC was set up in January this year by president Emmerson Mnangagwa to advise and assist him in formulating key economic policies and strategies that advance his highly popularised Vision 2030.
PAC, just like POLAD, is a super numeral body with no constitutional basis and no democratic accountability. Mnangagwa has a 26 member cabinet supported by the expert in government and beyond, why does he need a parallel PAC doing exactly what cabinet is meant to do?
One third of the MPs are from the opposition camp and it is their constitutional duty to criticise and scrutinise government activities. Mnangagwa wants the opposition to air their views in POLAD for his ears alone.
Mugabe was a control freak but so is Mnangagwa. He is undermining the country’s constitutional institutions by creating parallel ones which are answerable to him and him alone. All those who have agreed to be in PAC and POLAD have joined out of greed, they know they are meant to serve no useful purpose other than message Mnangagwa’s ego and undermine democratic governance. They are all paid and paid well for selling-out and that is the only reason they agreed to join.
Mugabe used to pay cabinet member $1 000 for attending cabinet meeting; Mnangagwa should do the same and cabinet, PAC and POLAD meetings will be well attended, after all they are all in it for the money.
Both Mugabe and Mnangagwa have never had a problem recruiting Zimbabwean professionals ready and willing to prop up the Zanu PF dictatorship in whatever role the the dictator asked. We certainly have more than our fair share, per capita, of sell-outs and little wonder the country is in a real mess!
@ Robert Singauke
ReplyDelete“Moyo himself is on record to have said as early as July 2017, a coup was already underway in Zimbabwe. This then means if this was the intelligence in the vaults of the Mugabe and his henchboys, then why would they sit back and let Chiwenga run through with his treasonous coup plans?”
It is a historic fact that not only Jonathan Moyo but Grace Mugabe too had expressed fears of a military coup. Grace talked of her husband “sleeping with one eye open”. And it is also a historic fact that the coup did take place. The only conclusion then is Mugabe and his henchmen were breathtakingly incompetent and Mugabe had one bad eye, it was open on the night of the coup but still fail see the gun man.
Not that the coup plotters are any more competent. They targeted both Jonathan Moyo and Saviour Kasukuwere and failed to arrest the two.
Yes, Zanu PF has the AK47 rifles to impose its tyrannical will but there is no deny the party has some of the most brain-dead individuals in human history.
Zanu PF should have been dismantled a long time ago was it to for the breath taking incompetence to the MDC - double whammy for the nation.
This Excelgate book is clearly full of speculative nonsense and I would not waste time reading it even if I was paid to do so!
"The movement from what I understand from the founders, is cutting across the political divide, (people) who are saying ‘how do we come together in the best interest of our country'," said Kasukuwere.
ReplyDeleteWell, that is rich coming from someone who has everything to serve the interest on number one - Saviour Kasukuwere - and has never ever done anything “in the best interest of our country”.
The trouble is Zimbabwe is that instead of a meaningful democratic change, the country has had this meaningless November 2017 coup in which the nation was told there was change and yet nothing really changed.
What the country needs is real democratic change and the full restoration of democratic institutions, such as a free media. A free media that can cross examine people like Kasukuwere and force them to explain where he got the money to build his bulletproof mansion, for example. And how the looted wealth was in the national interest?
@ Timitia Chamunorwa
ReplyDelete“Constitution was done that was part of reforms. Can you give us the solution than to be just a critic!”
If the 2013 constitution was the democratic constitution Morgan Tsvangirai and company said it was, then why was Zanu PF able to blatantly rig the 2013 elections and beyond with easy.
“Mugabe dictated the constitution” boasted Paul Mangwana, soon after the constitution was passed in the referendum. Mangwana was the Zanu PF MP co-chair on parliamentary committee that drafted the constitution. Clearly, that was not an empty boast!
The trouble with people like you is you only hear what you want to hear. If you can read then you will not be asking for a solution because that is exactly what was proposed above! “Of course, it is foolish to talk of a violent revolution to remove Zanu PF when all we need to do remove the corrupt and incompetent MDC village idiots.”