“There is an old English adage that says life begins at 40. If the adage is true, maybe that's the reason Chamisa is behaving like a toddler. Maybe indeed his life started at 40 and he is now a 2 year old boy,” wrote Chipo Mutasa in Bulawayo 24.
The dismissal of Chamisa as an amateur politician, a 42 year old with intellect of a 2 year toddler, is true enough. The very fact that MDC has failed to implement even one meaningful reform in the party’s 20 years on the political stage speaks volumes of just how breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent MDC leaders are.
“No country is devoid of challenges and Zimbabwe is not an exception. However, His Excellency President Emerson Mnangagwa opened a door, through the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD), for all political players to discuss and proffer solutions to challenges bedevilling our motherland,” continued Mutasa.
Well that was a dead give away, exposing Chipo, herself, as an intellectual green horn of small intellectual and analytical ability.
Prime Minister, Boris Johnson won the December 2019 UK elections with a working majority, allowing him to govern without having to seek political support from any other party. His predecessor PM Theresa May did not have the majority and so was forced to seek the support of the DUP. PM David Cameron went into a coalition with Liberals.
Mnangagwa has more than 2/3 majority in parliament and in senate following the July 2018 elections. He does not need the political support of anyone much less that of political minions who do not even have one elected local councillor much less a MP or Senator!
Mnangagwa has failed to come up with “solutions to challenges bedevilling our motherland!” His “Zimbabwe is open for business!” mantra is dead in the water. He continues to wear the multi-coloured scarf, symbolising the mantra, and out of recalcitrant pig-headedness!
The one man Mnangagwa had pinned all his hopes of reviving the economy was his Minister of Finance, Professor Mthuli Ncube. He was bowled over by the Professor’s booklet size CV, his 600 pages technicolour Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) - the blue print Zimbabwe’s post November 2017 military coup economic reform programme -, etc.
IMF, WB, AfDB and all the other leading financial institutions were not so easily fooled by Professor Ncube’s all show and no substance programme. There was nothing in the TSP to stamp out corruption, for example, and yet it is biggest economic problem in Zimbabwe. The IMF and the rest have refused to bankroll the TSP regardless of Minister Ncube’s repeated assurance that they will.
Last week the IMF publicly dismissed Zimbabwe’s reforms as “off-track” and ruled out any hope giving the country any financial assistance in time soon. The WB, AfDB, the Paris Club and all other financial institutions have followed IMF’s example and walked out!
So Finance Minister Ncube’s TSP, just like Mnangagwa’s “Zimbabwe is open for business!”, is dead in the water.
Since Mnangagwa and his regime had failed to come up with solutions to the revive the nation’s economic Mnangagwa formed POLAD in the hope that even political minions like Chamisa may do better than him! The move underlines just how desperate Mnangagwa himself must be. And it speaks volumes of your own kop, Mutasa, from your praise of POLAD.
Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies believe because they fought in the liberation war; they have the divine right to rule Zimbabwe, by right of conquest.
Yes of corse, Mnangagwa had hoped “Zimbabwe is open for business!”, TSP, etc. would revive the country’s economic fortunes. The failure does not mean he and his Zanu PF cronies have given up their claim as the only one fit to rule Zimbabwe. They have not!
POLAD is just a variation on the 2008 to 2013 GNU in which Zanu PF allowed others to have a role in the governance of Zimbabwe but with the party retaining an iron grip on power. As the economic meltdown gets worse, Mnangagwa will concede to MDC demands and give Chamisa and a few MDC leaders cabinet posts.
The IMF, investors, etc. will not be so easily fooled with a Zanu PF government in all but name. Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown will only get worse.
So the only other benefit Mnangagwa will derive from sharing power with Chamisa would be to shut MDC leaders up.
“It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in,” as US President Lyndon Johnson, in a comparable situation once said regarding FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
Even then, if the economic meltdown continue to get worse it will not be long before the people wake up to the reality they had been short changed. The pressure for real solution to their economic hardship will mount and this time Zanu PF will be forced to accept meaningful reforms leading to the holding of free, fair and credible elections.
In the end Mnangagwa will be forced to admit he gained little by admitting 42 year old Chamisa into the political tent only for him to behave like 2 year old with mental diarrhoea and no one the nappies!
The prospect of losing an election has become something of a anathema to Zanu PF leaders, even after 40 years in power and nothing to show for it they still believe they are the only ones competent to govern. They have clearly agonised over the need to hold free, fair and credible elections and have clearly decided against t because the pain of being out of power far exceeds anything they could possibly face by failing to hold free elections.
ReplyDeleteWhilst Mutodi’s advice to President Trump to serve himself the agony of losing the election is that he must rig the elections.
Mutodi’s advice to the people of Zimbabwe is that if we want free, fair and credible elections then we must increase the price one has to pay for rigging the elections. After 40 years of rigging the elections Zanu PF now believes the right to rig the elections is one of the party’s divine rights!
If we are ever to recover our basic freedoms and human rights then we must demand them and mean it! What better way to underline that we take our right to free, fair and credible elections very seriously than it make vote rigging a high treason offence!
Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies must be hold to account for rigging the July 2018 elections!
VP Chiwenga is said to have already lined up his incoming cabinet, and is going to retain some of his key allies who include: Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Commander, General Philip Valerio Sibanda; Lands and Agriculture minister, Rtd Air chief marshal Perence Shiri; Foreign affairs minister, Sibusiso Busi Moyo; Zimbabwe's Ambassador to Mozambique, Lt. Gen. (Rtd) Douglas Nyikayaramba; Zimbabwe's Ambassador to Tanzania, Lt. Gen. (Rtd) Anselem Nhamo Sanyatwe, among others
ReplyDeleteIn the 2017 military coup, many of the coup plotters retired to take up civilian positions. Now it looks like these plotters are stepping up and consolidating their power by filling even more civilian positions with former military personnels and their cronies.
After 40 years of incompetent, tyrannical rule and, most significantly of all, wholesale looting by the ruling elite; all the Zanu PF hardliners can think of is that the looting must go on. The Zimbabwe economy is now in total meltdown with disastrous economic, social and humanitarian consequences all of which the hardliners have failed to see.
The root cause of Zimbabwe’s economic and political nightmare is the country’s failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. The nation has been stuck with this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF regime. With the country now standing on the very edge of the precipice; we must now address this curse of rigged elections.
Here we go again! Mnangagwa failed to revive the economy and Chiwenga will not do any better!
ReplyDeleteIn the 2017 military coup, many of the coup plotters retired to take up civilian positions. Now it looks like these plotters are stepping up and consolidating their power by filling even more civilian positions with former military personnels and their cronies.
After 40 years of incompetent, tyrannical rule and, most significantly of all, wholesale looting by the ruling elite; all the Zanu PF hardliners can think of is that the looting must go on. The Zimbabwe economy is now in total meltdown with disastrous economic, social and humanitarian consequences all of which the hardliners have failed to see.
The root cause of Zimbabwe’s economic and political nightmare is the country’s failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. The nation has been stuck with this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF regime. With the country now standing on the very edge of the precipice; we must now address this curse of rigged elections.
Zimbabwe belongs to all Zimbabweans and not just to Zanu PF! When you have brain dead Zanu PF hardliners like Mugabe, Mnangagwa, Chiwenga, etc. who believe they have a divine right to rule we have to stand up the buffoons!
'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' (George Santayana-1905).
ReplyDeleteWhen someone repeats the same foolish mistake for 20 years and counting then you must know there is something serious wrong with the individual. We are talking of the MDC, a party led by corrupt and incompetent leaders, and a very significant number of Zimbabweans, not a few individuals, making the mistake of failing to see the MDC leaders for the village idiots they are.
It is no exaggeration that, mentally, Nelson Chamisa is but a two year old masquerading as a 42 year old. Sadly he is not the only MDC leader mentally challenged - how else can one explain why the party has failed to implement even one democratic reform in 20 years of its existence.
“Movement for Democratic Change!” My foot!
It was USA Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Chris Dell (2004 to 2007) who said Tsvangirai was “a flawed and indecisive character, who does not listen to advice, has poor judgement and would be an albatross round the nation’s neck!” The 2008 to 2013 GNU in particular, proved that Dell was right.
The irony is that Dell figured out that Tsvangirai was a buffoon after meeting the guy on a handful of occasions and yet there hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans out there today who still fail to see MDC leaders for the sell-outs, the mile-stone dragging the nation into the abyss, even with all the benefit of hindsight.
Nelson Chamisa and his fellow MDC sell-outs will never implement the democratic reforms the nation is dying for. If we cannot see this after 20 years then we are physically and mentally blind and, most important of all, are doomed to blunder from pillar to post generation after generation to the end of time.
@ Mateveke
ReplyDelete“MDC yaChamisa yakaneta zvayo.”
The tragedy here is that MDC had many golden opportunities to implement the reforms and dismantle the de facto one-party dictatorship. They wasted the opportunities and the whole nation is paying dearly for it.
What makes the situation even worse is that many Zimbabweans still fail to see MDC for what it is - a party of sell outs who have been running with the hare but hunting with the Zanu PF hounds. MDC have failed to implement even one reform in 20 years and they are not going to do it.