Wednesday 5 February 2020
To end the economic meltdown must first end Zanu PF dictatorship; it is illegitimate and must step down W Mukori
Mnangagwa has given up reviving the country's economy, he has no clue what to do. He is now focusing on how to stay in power at all cost.
His main argument why he must be allowed to stay in power is that he won the July 2018 elections and has therefore the mandate to rule. The catch is, if he is allowed to stay in power till 2023, he will see to it that no meaningful reforms are ever implemented and so will be able to rig those elections and thus extend his stay in power by another five years.
Indeed, Zanu PF rigged the 1980 elections and used its position in office to create the de facto one party dictatorship with carte blanch powers to rig the elections. The party has also resisted all efforts to introduce democratic reforms to dismantle the dictatorship.
"Zanu PF ichatonga! Igo tonga! Imi muchingo hukura! Nokuhukura!" (Zanu PF will rule! And rule! Whilst you (calling for reform) bark! And bark!) Mnangagwa has often boasted.
The Zanu PF dictatorship has lasted these last 40 years and Mnangawa and company are determined that it must last for many, many more moons to come regardless what the democratic wish of the people. And, unless we implement the democratic reforms, there is clearly nothing else to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections in 2023 and beyond! Nothing!
Nelson Chamisa's 2020 Agenda has placed implementing comprehensive democratic reforms top of his party's list. It should be remember this is a volte face on MDC's party. The party has ignored calls to implement the reforms during the 2008 GNU and thereafter.
"MDC has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections," Chamisa boasted before the 2018 elections. This was just political posturing as we know. Zanu PF went on to rig the 2018 elections and the rest is a matter of historic record.
Has the rigging of the 2018 elections being a turning point for Chamisa and company? They now genuinely want comprehensive reforms implemented before 2023 election.
Actually, the penny has not dropped, MDC leaders are not serious about making reforms are implemented. There is nothing in the 2020 Agenda to suggest MDC want Zanu PF to step down. Nothing. MDC is counting on the Zanu PF controlled parliament implementing the reforms - that simply will never ever happen.
Zanu PF will never reform itself out of office. Anyone who thinks otherwise is "barking", as Mnangagwa has said.
The only way we are ever going to get the reforms implemented is by appointing a competent and independent body, free of any influence from Zanu PF, to implement the reforms. For this to happen Zanu PF must step down.
We have a very sound reason to demand that Zanu PF step down, the party rigged the July 2018 elections, it has no democratic mandate to govern.
Yes Zanu PF has rigged elections in the past and we, the people have turned a blind eye and allowed the party to govern. That was a grave mistake on a part, setting a very dangerous precedence and with grave consequences - the economic and political crisis we are facing today. Today, with the nation's very survival on the line, we are being called upon to demand that Zanu PF step down, put and end to the dangerous precedence and, most important save the nation from being dragged into the abyss by Zanu PF!
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@ Artur Jovo
ReplyDelete“ZanuPF dictatorship ended long back with the death of Mr Mugabe. We now have ZanuPF ignorance and primitive leadership.”
The two are one and the same thing, I would say.
The November 2017 military coup remove one dictator plus a few thugs around him but only to replace him with another dictator with a few new faces added to the old guard. The dictatorship was no touched. Zimbabwe was still a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs.
Mnangagwa has gone to town to claim the post November 2017 Zanu PF regime was different from the pariah state of Mugabe days; it was a new dispensation, a second republic, with zero tolerance on corruption and he even promised to hold free, fair and credible elections. This was just a selling gimmick to help attract investors with his “Zimbabwe is open for business!” mantra.
He did not stamp out corruption; his “catch and release” is the joke of the day! He blatantly rigged the elections, etc. thus confirming Zimbabwe was indeed, still a dictatorship and pariah state.
Some Zimbabweans want to bury their heads in the sand and pretend the July 2018 elections were free, fair and credible but that is only because they do not want to admit the reality that the elections were rigging and Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF regime are therefore illegitimate. If you do not want to have to deal with the tough challenge of having to force the illegitimate regime to step down, you pretend it is legitimate!
The consequence of having a pariah state is the economic meltdown, the 90% unemployment, the collapse education and public health, mass poverty, etc. Even those with the heads buried in the sand are feeling the ill effects of 40 years of bad governance!
Robert Mugabe Way in Kwekwe has been renamed after Emmerson Mnangagwa.
ReplyDeleteKwekwe mayor Angeline Kasipo, quoted by NewsDay said:
Yes, it is true that the street was renamed and there is a sign post on the corner of the street right now.
1) There will be few Zimbabweans who will even be bothered to see Mugabe airbrushed out of the nation’s history. The man was a corrupt, incompetent and murderous tyrant.
2) Mnangagwa is clearly desperate that he should be remember and, just like Mugabe, he is erecting monuments of himself now whilst he is power because he cannot trust future generations to do it.
3) Rest assured all the street names and monuments bearing Mnangagwa’s name will be change and or levelled and his memory wiped out because, like Mugabe, he is a corrupt, incompetent and murderous tyrant!
It is all very well to say the government wants to see everyone employed, especially the youth. How many new jobs has this Zanu PF government created since coming into office one and half years ago?
ReplyDeleteFor the 40 years Zanu PF has been in power, the party has always promised the nation prosperity but has delivered poverty, more jobs and yet unemployment has soared to 90%! The real question the nation should have been asking of itself is why is it that Zanu PF has promised jobs and yet unemployment has soared to 90% and the party is still in power to dish out even more empty promises.
Zanu PF has failed to create any new jobs in the last one and half years and, there is nothing, to suggest the regime will do any better in the remaining three and half years to the 2023 elections. There is nothing to stop Zanu PF rigging the 2023 elections to secure another five year term and make fresh empty promises.
Zimbabwe is stuck with a corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship unable to remove it from office because the party has carte blanche power to rig elections. The principle task for us all should be to end this corrupt and dysfunctional political system. Sadly there are those like Professor Mthuli Ncube who are denying the problem of lack of democratic accountability and concentrate on sprucing Zanu PF propaganda and empty promises.
Why is it that Professor Mthuli Ncube and those of his corrupt eke are obsessed about the glorious future Zanu PF has planned for the nation but they are not interested in why Zanu PF is not accountable to the people when its plans fail!
Surely the people have a right to ask you Professor Ncube, what if you fail to create the promised jobs.
@ Alton Moyo
ReplyDelete“To end ZANU dictatorship we need strong judiciary like in Malawi not zim captured judiciary.”
Yes we need a strong judiciary but also an independent Police Force, public media and other state institution. We also need competent and honest political leaders and parties and, just as important, an informed and diligent electorate. To accomplish all this, we need to implement the raft of democratic reforms agreed in the 2008 Global Political Agreement.
The only sure way to get the reforms finally implemented fully so Zimbabwe can finally be a healthy and functioning democratic country, we need an independent and competent body to implement the reforms. It will take three years to implement the reforms and give the nation time to adapt and bed in.
We must get Zanu PF to step down by July 2020 so we can appoint the independent body to implement the reform in time to hold free, fair and credible elections in 2023.