"Zimbabweans have their rights. They are the authors of the history of this country. They are the last line of authority in this country. It is not just the question of Mr Mnangagwa. Mnangagwa has no power to define the course of this country alone," Chamisa said.
"He is just an individual, one citizen. So the future must be defined by all of us. We must, therefore, come together and break barriers so that we have an initiative, whereby we have a national consensus."
He said 2020 was the year his party would take over power.
MDC and Zanu PF had their dialogue in 2008 following a flawed and illegal elections that even SADC and AU known for digesting rigged election found too foul to swallow. SADC hammered out a Global Political Agreement (GPA) in which they got Robert Mugabe to agree to the implementation of a raft of democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF from rigging elections.
Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC colleagues were the GNU partners tasked to implement the reforms. Sadly, they took their eyes off the ball and failed to get even one reform implemented in five years. Not one!
Chamisa has been wittering about wanting a dialogue with Mnangagwa and claims that MDC will get “comprehensive reforms implemented” this time. The National Transition Authority (NTA), as he calls it, is a watered down version of the 2008 to 2013 GNU; for one thing, Zanu PF will retain its 2/3 parliamentary majority since MDC has accepted the 2018 parliamentary result as legitimate. A Zanu PF controlled parliament will never approve reforms to end the party’s carte blanche powers to rig elections.
Besides, Zanu PF leaders know that MDC leaders will participate in the next elections, set for 2023, even if not even one reform is implemented. MDC has been proclaiming these redline demands for decades but when push came to shove they are the ones who have crossed the same redlines!
What Chamisa is fishing for is a cabinet post for himself and his fellow MDC leaders and in return would proclaim Mnangagwa and Zanu PF legitimate. Zimbabweans may be fooled into believing the addition of a few MDC manikins into Zanu PF cabinet will transform the pariah state into a democratic one; investors and lenders are more savvy, they will not be fooled.
Zimbabwe is a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous tyrants. By blatantly rigging the July 2018 elections Mnangagwa confirmed that Zimbabwe had not change one bit from the pariah state of Mugabe days regardless of all Mnangagwa’s post November 2017 coup propaganda. The suggestion that Chamisa can sell this pariah state as a democracy, for the right price of thirty pieces of silver, is simply preposterous!
If we, Zimbabweans, want the world to help us get out of the this serious economic and political mess; of our own making it must be said; then we must start coming up with at least sensible solutions. Proposing same failed GNU; insisting in giving it a new name, NTA, as if that changes anything; only proves we are not serious about change.
"As you know, it takes two to tango. We must smoke a peace pipe for this country to have peace. Zimbabweans are suffering. The whole country is in trouble. We have to look into the problems affecting us. Look at the region, it's not stable because of us,” argued Chamisa.
The root cause of Zimbabwe’s economic and political problems is our political leaders; we have corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging murderous thugs in the ruling party, Zanu PF, and equally corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless opposition parties, all 130 of them!
Both Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF regime are illegitimate because the July 2018 elections were flawed and illegal. Zimbabwe is in exactly the same position it was in after the 2008 elections were declared null and void and failed to produced legitimate government. We need to appoint an GNU to implement the reforms and take us to the next elections.
Both Zanu PF and MDC cannot play a role in the new GNU, they failed to get even one reform implemented and it is naive to believe they will do any better. Besides, Zanu PF and MDC leaders are the root cause of our problems; how can they be the solution too!
“We must smoke a peace pipe!” The country have been sinking deeper and deeper into this hell-on-earth of your making. Whatever it is you village idiots have been smoking, it is not tobacco!
@ Patson Maseko
ReplyDelete“It is not Chamisa who is affected by this economy. It is the ordinary men and women of Zimbabwe who are affected. So it is the ordinary men's desire for the peace pipe to be smoked.
“Can you tell me Mr Writer how you are benefiting from the current economic situation for you to be busy instigating enmity between national leaders? Do you really believe that Chamisa can be ignored by anyone seeking peace and stability in this country?
“You are the type of people who benefited a lot from GNU in the past but you still see no need for unity. You are very destructive. We must put the country before partisan politics.”
My dear brother, it is you who need to open you eyes and your mind! The root cause of the country’s economic and political problems is the country’s repeated failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. We have been stuck with the corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship for 40 years and counting.
It is all very well for Chamisa to say he is going to get the democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections implemented. The question he has failed to answer is: why has MDC failed to implement even one reform during the last GNU when it had the golden chance to do so?
If you had you eyes open and the lens-cap of your brain off, then you will know by now that MDC sold-out big time during the GNU and ever since. MDC will never get the reforms implemented, they are just stringing the nation along. You need to wake up and smell the coffee!
“Mbeki — who helped to broker the stability-inducing 2008 government of national unity between former opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and ex-president Robert Mugabe, who are both late — was in the country last December to try and nudge Mnangagwa and Chamisa to hold direct talks.”
ReplyDeleteThe Daily News may have its own agenda but it must respect historic facts. The 2008 Global Political Agreement was about implementing the democratic reforms so that the blatant vote rigging and wanton violence that had marred Zimbabwe’s 2008 elections will not be repeated. In 2013 it was clear that none of the reforms were implemented and SADC leaders moved to try to get the 2013 elections postponed until reforms were in place. Sadly MDC leaders ignore the warning.
The failure to get even one reform implemented was a disaster for SADC and Zimbabwe, it is nonsense to suggest the GNU brought stability.
Mzembi who denied that rigging is done on voting day said, “I am doing an article on what happens inside a Zanu PF cell from pre independence to date which keeps our people voting for Zanu PF. There is no rigging on voting day or after. The minds of our people have been rigged for over 40 years, get it?”
ReplyDeleteMzembi said ZANU PF was implementing a silent election rigging strategy through the Roller Meal purchasing coupons introduced by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube claiming that it is a patronage system.
“Beware of clientelism. This database is an exercise in smart vote-buying and patronage. Vote rigging in Zimbabwe is a process, not an event, this is the real V11 in the making that cannot be presented to the Constitutional Court but very deadly act!”
That Zanu PF was going to use the Roller Meal purchasing coupons for selfish party political gain is not exactly news, the party has used state aid for political gain for decades!
If we are serious about wanting free, fair and credible elections in Zimbabwe then we must be prepared for a hard slog - after 40 years the roots of the Zanu PF dictatorship run deep, very deep.
@ Takasimba
ReplyDelete“You are wrong Wilbert, Chamisa and MDC are boycotting because they know that they lost the 2018 elections and they are 100% likely to lose the 2023 elections solely because they have absolutely nothing to offer and no message to deliver except, "Heeee I am young, hee ED is old, hee the elections were rigged, heee we are going to riot". While ED will be talking about the various national projects that would have been completed and the next ones to be implemented. Hopefully the Chirundu - Beitbridge highway would be completed by then. So you see my friend, Chamisa and MDC have nothing to offer, not even one functional MDC led municipality. It is good riddance to bad rubbish.Mzembi who denied that rigging is done on voting day said, “I am doing an article on what happens inside a Zanu PF cell from pre independence to date which keeps our people voting for Zanu PF. There is no rigging on voting day or after. The minds of our people have been rigged for over 40 years, get it?”
You are only partly right my friend, MDC will only boycott the 2023 elections if they are cocksure that Zanu PF is not giving away any of the bait seat - which even Mnangagwa knows it will be stupid to do. Of course, MDC leaders knew that Zanu was rigging the 2013 and then the 2018 elections and still they participated for the sake of the scraps!
As for Zanu Pf winning, that has nothing to do with the party’s accomplishments otherwise the country would not be in this mess! Zanu PF has been a total disaster for the country but that does not if you have carte blanche powers to rig elections.