Zimbabweans have a knack for blaming everyone else but themselves for their problems, trials and tribulations.
“The US Embassy in Harare whose govt has always rooted for Tendai Biti as safe bet for American interests here, had hoped to use Ngarivhume and his pseudo-leadership of July 31 disturbances to re-launch Tendai Biti as the new leader of MDC-Alliance, with the impulsive Jobho Sikhala as the TONG for handling hot pieces. Both men are America's centurions, Biti designated to play the Philosopher-King, while Sikhala is the Hotspur of the equation,” reported Bulawayo 24, quoting George Charamba.
“The choice of Ngarivhume - another of America's men whose roots are in Chipinge - was the right face for that operation which would have consigned Nelson Chamisa to the dustbin. Previous to Ngarivhume, Americans had hoped for the Malawian cleric, Shingi Munyeza, who was later dropped for being inorganic and tainted after hopes of washing him clean by goading ED to fire him from PAC failed.”
This is just nonsense and the suggestion that the Americans are behind all this makes it all idiotic nonsense. The Americans, the EU and the west in general have rooted for the implementation of the democratic reforms to ensure the July 2018 elections were free, fair and credible. Of course, they were disappointed that Zanu PF failed to implement any reforms and dismissed the whole election as a farce.
The west was disgusted by the sheer naivety of Zimbabwe’s opposition camp, not even one of them had the common sense to demand even something as basic for democratic elections as a verified voters’ roll.
Everyone knows the principle reason the MDC leaders and the rest of the crowded opposition camp have continued to participate in elections even when it was clear Zanu PF was rigging the elections, was greed. Ever since the 2008 GNU Zanu PF has seen to it that it allowed the opposition to win a few gravy-train seats, bait which that latter has found totally irresistible. Still, there are some things a human being is expected to resist and not follow one’s primeval instinct like a mouse enticed into a trap by the smell of peanut butter!
By failing to implement the reforms even when they had the golden opportunity to do so during the 2008 GNU and then participating in flawed elections again and again thereafter MDC leaders have shown they have no common sense.
Having participated in the flawed and illegal July 2018 elections all the opposition parties and candidates have since endorsed the rigged July 2018 elections as free and fair, contrary to the damning reports from the west. All except Nelson Chamisa who has elected to challenge Mnangagwa’s electoral victory not on the basis of something as substantive as the failure to produce a verified voters’ roll. How could he; since he knew the was no verified voters’ roll and decided to participate regardless.
Chamisa challenge Mnangagwa’s victory on the grounds ZEC failed to produce all the V11 forms, summary of all the votes tally at each Polling Station. ZEC only produced 10 987 V11 forms, 10% were missing. Some western observers reported of ZEC officials, with no other witnesses, completing V11 forms 24 hours after this was supposed to be done and dusted.
Chamisa not only wanted the Constitutional Court to dismiss Mnangagwa as the dully elected but declare him as the winner. He claimed to have polled 2.6 million vote which is more that ZEC’s 2.4 million votes for Mnangagwa. Needless to say; Chamisa too failed to produce the V11 forms to support his claim.
The very fact that Chamisa and his fellow MDC Alliance leaders like Tendai Biti, David Coltart, Welshman Ncube, etc. expect anyone including the west to endorse Chamisa’s claim as the winner goes to show just how naïve and stupid the MDC leaders are. Who in their right mind would ever want to be involves with such naïve and stupid with a knack to shoot from the hip, hence the reason they have failed to achieve anything of substance in all MDC’s 20 years in politics.
The way out of Zimbabwe’s economic and political crisis, which has dogged this nation for the last 40 years, is for the country to the hold of free, fair and credible election. This is obvious to everyone with common sense and it is therefore no surprise that the Americans have been arguing the implementation of the reforms to ensure free and fair elections. To therefore suggest that the Americans are behind the chaos and stupidity of MDC politics is laughable!
“The young man (Chamisa) doesn't want risks, which is what riles Americans whose wish is confrontational politics in Zimbabwe,” maintains Charamba. Why then did the Americans want the reforms implemented before the elections, if they wanted confrontation politics?
After 40 years of blundering from pillar to post, Zimbabwe has reach the point of careful reflection because the longer we have stayed on this disastrous path of thoughtless folly and greed the harder it has become to turn back. We will soon reach the point of no return, if we have not done so already.
Political Analyst Alex Magaisa has published a list of Army, police and dreaded Central intelligence officers who benefited from the controversial RBZ Farm Mechanisation Scheme.
ReplyDeleteMagaisa said his revelations were likely to cause some tension considering what some senior generals got compared to their peers and indeed, compared to the politicians.
Read the list below:
Current Vice President and former Commander of the Defence Forces, Rtd. General Constantino Guvheya Chiwenga is listed as having got equipment worth US$395,018.00.
His successor General Phillip Valerio Sibanda got US$111,584.00.
The current army boss, Lt. General Edzai Chimonyo is punching in the lower divisions at US$92,577.00.
Former military boss, the late General Vitalis Zvinavashe is listed at US$85,350.00
Police boss Commissioner General Godwin T. Matanga is listed at US$365,839.00.
The looting has continued to this day with the looting in Marange and Chiadzwa, the Command Agriculture and many other similar schemes. Alex Magaisa is being very selective here and is leaving out the names of MDC leaders including his former boss Morgan Tsvangirai who got his US$4 million Highlands mansion through a similar scheme!
In a recent posting on Twitter, the US ambassador said "Transparency is critical even in an emergency for democracy to function," as he railed against purported corruption in Zimbabwe.
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing wrong with the ambassador calling for transparency. If you are going to criticise then focus on the idea and not the individual! You are a Zanu PF apologist whose support of the party has blinded them they cannot see the wood from the trees!
Ncube told local businesspersons: “The future of the Zim dollar is bright, you are abusing it, we will use it. And as a government and together with you the private sector, I believe we’re on the right track”.
ReplyDeleteHis vote of confidence in the local currency comes exactly a month after the Zimbabwe government introduced the so-called Auction Trading System.
Is this the Minister admitting that the last 2 years and the immediate future of the Z$ is going to be hell? This is typical of this failed regime, always dismissive of the hardships the regime's failed policies have caused and are causing and offering a mirage in the distance future as comfort. People do not live in the distant future but the present. What good is it to someone starving to know of a bumper harvest in the future when they need food now!
@ Tawanda Majoni
ReplyDeleteBut if you want to know the real motive behind the latest lockdown measures, look out for the small print. President Mnangagwa said something that many seem to have taken for granted, in spite of its telling message. The soldiers and police will be deployed in full force to implement the lockdown. That's the first major problem.
Normally, an administration that is supposed to be civilian must not be that quick to rely on the military and quasi-military to enforce its policies. There must always be other ways of ensuring that people adhere to policy instructions. They didn't get battalions onto the streets in 2008 when there was a cholera outbreak. But the outbreak was finally contained. The interventions that were adopted then were completely civilian, technocratic and humanitarian. Besides, there is no evidence in the history of epidemiology to suggest that the military is too useful in fighting a community pandemic. Soldiers can only lend a supporting hand to civilian efforts outside a war zone.
That also means that the introduction of a curfew was ill-informed. Ordering a curfew sends out negative perceptions about the government in power. Curfews were a common thing during the colonial seventies. That was because the apartheid musketeers didn't like the idea of black people moving around freely and participating in the liberation struggle. Curfews were meant to curtail freedom of movement and association and give the racist regime enough space to control people, for power's sake. It was the same thing in the early eighties when Mugabe's administration also used a colonial law, the Law and Order (Maintenance) Act, to suppress movement during the self-made Gukurahundi crisis.
I totally agree with you, the curfew is more about Zanu PF keeping its iron grip on power than about trying to contain the corona virus. Whilst the regime was quick off the mark in deploying soldiers, Police and CIO to enforce the curfew it has been very slow in doing even the more common sense things to contain the virus such as deploying covid-19 testing and tracking teams, making sure health institutions have clean running water, etc.
It is shocking that even now with the country grappling with the corona virus, threatening the health of millions of our people and lives of thousands if not hundreds of thousands Zanu PF continue to spend a fortune on securing the party’s hold on power at the expense of the nation’s stability and survival.
The truth is Zanu PF is doomed, the party leaders are corrupt, incompetent and ruthless tyrants who have destroyed the country and are now turning on each other as the fight over the scraps. The tragedy is these Zanu PF thugs cannot bear the thought of anyone else ruling Zimbabwe and so since they have failed to do so then they must destroy the country and take it down the abyss with them.
The only question that matters here is: are we, the people, smart enough to de-couple Zanu PF from Zimbabwe? Just because the Zanu PF thugs are doomed, the nation should not be doomed too!
@ Blasher Shereni
Delete“Don't underestimate the duty of state security. They are the ears and eyes of the state. When CIA in America slept on duty Twin Towers were bombed. Any govt in the world will act the same if there is a security threat to state. Some of the threats come in the name of peaceful demonstration. Look at North Africa up to now countries like Libya they don't know peace, Tripoli is being bombarded everyday. All this started as a peaceful demo to remove Gaddafi. Don't underestimate the role of foreign forces in these demos.”
The root cause of the chaos in Libya are the decades of corrupt and tyrannical misrule by Gaddafi. Similarly the root cause of Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown and tragic human suffering and deaths is 40 years of Zanu PF corrupt and tyrannical misrule.
Only a village idiot like you, Shereni, would fail to see the tragedy of having a state obsessed about state security but whose health service has all but completely collapsed. Hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans are going to lose their lives during your so-called state of the art curfew!
Death comes to us all, wait until the corona virus is rampant among the soldiers, Police and CIO. No doubt, having an armoury full of guns, tear-gas, etc. will come in very handy in fighting covid-19!
Chris Dell, USA ambassador to Zimbabwe 2004 to 2007, said in a secret cable back to Washington that Tsvangirai was “a flawed and indecisive character who, if he got into power, can become the albatross round the nation’s neck!” God knows how many times the events that have followed since have proven the ambassador right time and time again.
ReplyDeleteThe Americans certainly invested a lot of time, sweat and money in piling the pressure on Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF regime to implement the democratic reforms to ensure the July 2018 elections were free, fair and credible. The Americans must have been totally disgusted to see how Zimbabweans themselves, especially those in the opposition camp, were totally indifferent to the reforms.
There is no logical explanation why the opposition agreed to participate in the July 2018 elections when ZEC had failed to produce a verified voters’ roll. Not is greed could explain the sheer stupidity of that decision. None!
It is bad enough to have one or two “flawed and indecisive” leaders but a whole opposition camp! Fcuk me! But such is the curse of Zimbabwe’s opposition!
One should not be surprised that George Charamba and his Zanu PF cronies should believe that the Americans are consider the like of Tendai Biti as competent leaders. Zanu PF leaders are themselves renowned for their own breath taking incompetence, after all it is none other than Zanu PF thugs who have brought this nation to economic ruins!
Coltart said they had set an ambitious target to recruit one million paid-up supporters.
ReplyDelete"It is not so much how much we hope to raise, but rather how many members we hope will join and subscribe," he said.
"That will provide us with the most secure support base going forward. We have set an ambitious target of one million members.
"We have had a very good response so far, but we are a long way off our target."
MDC leaders have betrayed the people of Zimbabwe. Not only did MDC leaders fail to implement the reforms when they had the golden opportunity to do so but they are the ones keeping Zanu PF in power right now by participating in elections knowing fully well the elections are being rigged.
The people of Zimbabwe must take the challenge of good governance with the seriousness the matter demands. It is not enough to condemn the corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging Zanu PF and not realise that we have failed to remove the regime from office these last 20 years because the party entrusted with that task, MDC, are not up to the task.
The continued support of the corrupt and incompetent MDC after all the party has done only goes to show that Zimbabweans are not yet ready for good governance. They have not suffered enough to wake up!
“But crookie (Mnangagwa) had already smelt blood and the lure of office, he refused, actually wrote a refusal letter,” said Walter Mzembi.
ReplyDelete“Mugabe phoned me ‘aramba toita sei’ (he has refused, what do we do), do we appoint another VP?’.
“What did he (Mnangagwa) say, I asked RG (Mugabe)? Ati munoda kundisungirira nekatambo muhuro (he said you want to hang me).
“We explored names for VP, and Chiwenga and Bonyongwe’s names came up, we settled for Chiwenga but again according to RG, he refused even the President slot, when RG offered.
“So, this is the basis of my assertion that there are more Qs than As in the mind of the General.
“He preferred kuti Shumba (Mnangagwa) vapinde, how magnanimous but the country has paid the ultimate price of misgovernance.”
The suggestion than Chiwenga or Mzembi himself would have done any better than Mnangagwa is just the usual nonsense of comparing the cobra to a black mamba because either would have been a variation on the same dictatorship. We want a democratic nation not a variation of the dictatorship, the poison snake!