“I am very glad with what the President of the country is doing to respond to the challenges and I think it is very important that the SADC region comes behind the President and the country because the challenges of the country are our challenges,” said Thabo Mbeki.
Here we go again, Thabo Mbeki is off at a tangent!
The root cause of political paralysis and economic meltdown in Zimbabwe is the 39 years of bad governance. 39 years of this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship has sucked the marrow out of nation. The people could not remove Zanu PF from office even when it was clear the regime was dragging the nation deeper and deeper into this hell-on-earth the nation now finds itself in because the party rigged elections.
What Zimbabwe needs is help to break this vicious cycle of Zanu PF rigging elections, impose itself on the nation so it can continue to loot whilst making sure no meaningful reforms are implemented. Come the next elections, the party rigs the elections again and another cycle begins!
By endorsing Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF regime as the legitimate government, thus accepting last year’s elections as having been free, fair and credible, there is really little else President Mbeki and SADC can do to break the curse of rigged elections. Nothing!
What is becoming increasing clear here is that SA is now Zimbabwe’s neighbour from hell! Not only has South Africans been poking their big noses in Zimbabwe’s business but worst of all give us foolish advice!
Of all the SADC leader President Cyril Ramaphosa of SA has played the leading role in calling for sanctions imposed on Zanu PF leaders to be lifted.
There is a mountain of evidence out there, proving beyond all reasonable doubt that the root causes of Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown are the rampant corruption and the endemic bad governance stemming from Zimbabwe being a pariah state. Zanu PF has picked on the sanctions as the cause of all the country’s economic woes without ever producing the evidence to prove it.
Why some one of the stature of President of SA would continue to give prominence to sanctions, a feeble excuse and scapegoat for Zanu PF’s economic failures, and never ever even admit of the real causes beggars belief!
What is worse, President Cyril Ramaphosa is ignoring that sanctions were impose on Zanu PF to pressure the party to restore the ordinary Zimbabweans’ freedoms and rights including the right to free and fair elections and even the right to life itself!
Mnangagwa promised to hold free, fair and credible elections when he seized power from Mugabe in the military coup of November 2017. He did honour his promised and went on to blatantly rig the elections.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said the “elections went well”, whatever that stupid remark was supposed to mean! Of course, it was stupid! How can an election where ZEC failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll be anything other than a farce!
Our SA neighbours have held free, fair and credible elections since the 1994 elections and they have enjoyed the benefits of good governance. They know the importance of an independent judiciary, free media, etc. They know all these democratic institutions have been compromised into nothing more than departments within the Zanu PF dictatorship in all but name.
Of course, it is infuriating that Zimbabweans fighting to end the Zanu PF dictatorship and replace it with a democratic system of government should find themselves being undermined at every turn by South Africa’s leaders.
“National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise has reiterated South Africa’s stand to support the lifting of the targeted economic sanctions against Zimbabwe,” reported Spotlight Zimbabwe.
“In October, National Council of Provinces Chairperson Amos Masondo tabled a motion at the third Ordinary Session of the Pan African Parliament (PAP), held in Midrand, urging members of the PAP to demand the immediate lifting of the economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe.”
Now President Thabo Mbeki is in Zimbabwe to tell us we “need” this illegitimate, corrupt, incompetent, tyrannical and vote rigging Zanu PF regime to remain in office until 2023 so the party can rig those elections too!
There is only so much one can endue in silence and, frankly, I for one has lost all patience with these patronising South African idiots masquerading as helpful neighbours! What we want in Zimbabwe is help to end the vicious cycle of rigged elections and bad governance. We welcome all the help we can get in achieving that holy grail objective.
We do not want SA’s patronising and foolish advice. If SA’s leaders have nothing better to say than wittering about sanctions and worse still endorsing this illegitimate Zanu PF dictatorship then they must shut up and fcuk off!
“The 41 year old and Former Minister of ICT carries a legitimacy tag around him which brings an end to the national crisis. The former Organising & Vice President of the MDC plays a critical role to ensure there is peace and stability in the country. The legitimacy and confidence is entangled around him and this make him an important figure to bring closure to the legitimacy problems which ED and his team are facing. This has been proved by his official meeting with former South African President Thabo Mbeki who flew to Harare last night to resolve the political impasse between Zanu PF and MDC led by Nelson Chamisa.”
ReplyDeleteThis is all just egotistic nonsense!
Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF regime are illegitimate because last year’s elections were marred by flaws and illegalities and it is nonsense to talk of winners and losers. ZEC failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll for Pete sake.
The EU and many other observers dismiss the elections as a farce whose process lacked “transparency, traceability and verifiability”.
Political legitimacy and mandate to govern is derived from winning the majority votes in a free, fair and credible election. There is no clause in the constitution saying this political power can be exercise by Nelson Chamisa or anyone else for whatever reason. None!
So all this talk of “The 41 year old and Former Minister of ICT carries a legitimacy tag around him which brings an end to the national crisis.” is all a figment of your imagination.
Chamisa has been peddling this bull to help pressure Mnangagwa to give him a cabinet position. Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies will still be illegitimate and Zimbabwe still a pariah state with or without MDC member in the cabinet.
As for you, stop talking nonsense!
Charamba had revealed that Mbeki’s mission in the following words, “Correct! The former President of South Africa offered his stature and access globally to help push Zimbabwe’s agenda to have sanctions removed and to ensure reconnection with the rest of the willing world.”
ReplyDeleteOn the brew prepared for Chamisa yesterday, one Ntando Ncube had tweeted saying “Something is brewing here,” when Charamba responded saying,
“True; it did! The issue is when the brew will be served, and how many will lose their way home and into oblivion!!”
Accepting that this illegitimate Zanu PF regime is legitimate is tantamount to accepting that last year’s elections were free, fair and credible. That is simply unacceptable because the worst thing that can happen is do allow Zanu PF to stay in office till 2023 and so allow the party to rig those elections and start yet another cycle of rigged elections followed by five years of looting and bad governance!
The single most important task for us is to break the vicious cycle of rigged elections by making sure Zanu PF steps down to allow the implementation of the democratic reforms. Zanu PF will never implement the reforms and reform itself out of office, that is now obvious.
Leader of the opposition MDC, Nelson Chamisa spoke with what sounded like a changed heart after meeting former South African president Thabo Mbeki yesterday to suddenly announce that the standoff existing between his party and the ruling ZANU PF over the 2018 elections which the MDC says were rigged, needs to come to an end.
ReplyDeleteChamisa was never going to get Zanu PF to implement any meaningful democratic changes given Zanu PF was taking its 2/3 parliament majority into the power sharing arrangement.
Chamisa will get his cabinet position and then pressure will be on him to deliver on his promise to get the sanctions lifted and to revive the country's economy. He will failed to deliver on both fronts!
@ Dzingai Kamamba
ReplyDelete“There is need to appreciate efforts being made by SA Presidents both former and current. All for our own good.”
These South Africans are telling us that Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown is being caused by sanctions and would not even mention the rampant corruptions as problem. Mugabe admitted the nation was being swindled out of US$15 billion in diamond revenue. He never arrested even one diamond swindler nor has Mnangagwa.
S Africans booted out Jacob Zuma after he was accused of corruption because they know how damaging corruption can be to a country. But, being the neighbours from hell they are, they want Zimbabweans to keep their corrupt leaders!
ZEC did not even produce a verified voters’ roll so no one, except Zanu PF thugs, who voted last year. Ramaphosa insist the elections “went well”. Why did he not do the same in SA?
“You do not need to show tempers to express yourself like you did here.”
When 90% of the population is unemployed; hundreds are dying everyday because there are no doctors, nurses, etc.; etc. all because of bad governance. You know it is bad governance and some village idiot is forcing to keep the corrupt and vote rigging thugs; if you do not get angry about that then it must be because you are just a village idiot yourself.
You have no clue what is going on around you, you are such an idiot you fight those you are helping you! The real tragedy is village idiots like you have a vote and hence have a tendency of dragging the whole nation into a mess by supporting tyrants!
“You cite other vises like corruption and u less the impact of sanctions as if you do not know how devastating they are to our economy. Its wonder we have u among our educated but not learned. Think outside the box of the American and MDC A propaganda.”
Even if all you are saying is true, why should ordinary Zimbabweans be denied the right to a free, fair and credible elections just because Zanu PF leaders have quarrelled with the west! The argument that Zanu PF will implement reforms if sanctions are lifted is a fallacious nonsense.
The root cause of Zimbabwe economic meltdown is corrupt and the country's failure to hold free, fair and credible elections.
ReplyDeleteZanu PF maintains that last year's elections were free, fair and credible; an insult to every thinking Zimbabwean. How can the elections be free and fair when 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora were denied the vote, there was no verified voters' roll, etc., etc..
Yes President Thabo Mbeki is not new to the Zimbabwe political and economic crisis and has tried to address this very issue of rigged elections. He is the one who signed the 2008 Global Political Agreement (GPA) on behalf of SADC as the guarantor. the agreement was that Zimbabwe will implement a raft of democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections in future.
Sadly, not even one meaningful reform was implemented in five years and hence the reason we are here again, 2018, still talking about rigged elections.
Zanu PF and MDC leaders failed to implement even one reform during the 2008 GNU and to ask the same individuals to implement the reforms is naive to say the least!
Those who even mention the lifting of sanctions as a condition for implementing the reforms are very insulting and patronising in the extreme. The right to free, fair and credible elections like the right to life and all the other universal accepted human rights are sacrosanct and inalienable and therefore that Zanu PF has willy-nilly denied many Zimbabweans their basic freedoms and rights is tantamount to declaring the individuals are not humans and therefore are not entitled to these freedoms and rights. This is high treason!