TITLE: “Zimbabwe sinking into abyss, punishment for supporting 2017 coup” - foolish arrogance is insufferable
BY: Patrick Guramatunhu
SOURCE: zimbabwelight.blogspot.com
I am very disappoint to note that Professor Jonathan Moyo, Mugabe’s former Minister cum principle propagandist and strategist, has not used his forced sabbatical to redeem himself. He still considers himself and his boss, Zimbabwe’s former Zanu PF dictator, as the centre of every Zimbabwean’s universe. And the November 2017 military as a catastrophe that rob us of that centre and left us lost of direction and purpose.
"Finger-pointing aside, the political paralysis & rot in ZanuPF & the MDCs is a direct result of the 2017 military coup, which overthrew the 2013 Constitution. Failure by Zimbabweans, most who supported the coup, to come to terms with this will push Zim deeper into the dark abyss!” Twittered Professor Moyo, presumably, from fox-hole in exile in Kenya.
There are eight things I would like to say to you, Professor Moyo:
- Yes, Zimbabwe is sinking deeper and deeper into the dark abyss but not because Zimbabweans have failed to “come to terms”, whatever that is supposed to mean, with the November 2017 military coup. Zimbabwe has been on this disastrous trajectory ever since the country attain her independence and Mugabe rigged the first elections and imposed a de facto one-party dictatorship at the end of the 1983 to 1987 Gukurahundi massacre. It is Zimbabwe’s failure to hold free, fair and credible elections that is root cause of the country’s demise.
- Decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption destroyed the country’s economy causing social unrest in society including within Zanu PF itself. The shrinking national cake left Zanu PF leaders fighting amongst themselves like hungry hyena. Mai Mujuru and her supporters were booted out of the party in 2014. The remaining faction divided into the G40 faction led by Grace Mugabe and yourself, Professor, and Lacoste faction led by Mnangagwa. The fighting was fierce and the latter prevailed and hence the reason you are in exile.
- The ordinary people had no say in the November 2017 military coup other than wanting the demise one faction as a desirable part in the demise of the dictatorship. To choose between G40 and Lacoste is a false choice; it is comparable to a mouse choosing a black mamba or cobra.
- There is talk of the Lacoste faction has already divide fuelled by worsening economic meltdown. There will be no meaningful economic recovery as long as Zimbabwe remains a Banana Republic; a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs.
- The de facto one party dictatorship has stifled all meaningful democratic discourse forcing competent and quality individuals out of politics leaving the space for corrupt and incompetent individuals. There are no quality leaders in Zanu PF and the opposition and little wonder there is political paralysis.
- The only time Zimbabwe had the golden opportunity to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorships was during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Sadly, Mugabe bribed Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC fiends with the trappings of high office and, with their snouts in the feeding trough, the forgot about the reforms. You, Professor Moyo, accompanied Patrick Chinamasa when he announced that Zanu PF would not postpone the July 2013 elections because it was not the party’s fault that no meaningful reforms were implement. It was Zanu PF’s victory lap!
- So Zimbabwe’s march into the abyss has been a relentless starting back in 1980. It is proving very difficult to implement the democratic reforms and dismantle the dictatorship because the dictatorship is deep rooted and also because we are stuck with a corrupt and incompetent opposition.
- If Zimbabwe ever get through this hell then the nation must marshal all the Zanu PF leaders and the cronies, wherever they are, and hold them to account for having dragged the nation into this hell-on-earth. The nations owes its to millions who have suffered and died at the hands of these Zanu PF thugs and owe it to themselves to make sure this never ever happen again.
The human rights lobby group said the swearing in of Khupe violated the electorate's choice.
ReplyDelete"ZimRights distaste the imposition of leaders, some who were rejected by the electorate in 2018 and call on the ‘fake' representatives to step down and allow the will of the people to prevail," the rights lobby group said in a statement yesterday.
Does this mean that ZimRights has endorsed the 2018 elections as free, fair and credible. This was an election in which 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora were denied a vote; millions of ordinary Zimbabweans notably in the rural areas were reduced into medieval serfs beholden to the overbearing Zanu PF chefs and their proxies; ZEC failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll; etc.; etc. What democratic will did this voters have then?
The rigged July 2018 elections produced a 2/3 Zanu PF majority and Mnangagwa won the presidency, that has far more reaching political consequences than what happens to the recalled MDC A MPs and councillors.
Indeed, the MDC A MPs and councillor who participated in the July 2018 elections should have never done so; they know the elections would be rigged. They did participate but only because they also knew that Zanu PF was giving away a few gravy train seats as bait. They could not resist the bait!
It is a fact that by participating in the flawed and illegal elections the opposition gave the process credibility and, by extension, gave the vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy.
How ironic that ZimRights has seen it fit to come to the defence of the sell-outs opposition politicians but was as silent as a grave about the 3 million in diaspora who were denied the vote, etc. There is no democracy in Zimbabwe and it is infuriating to see all these village idiots gallantly defending a mirage!
Pompeo said the US was closely monitoring African leaders promoting election-related violence to stifle democracy and warned that they risked dire consequences.
ReplyDelete"We will watch closely the actions of individuals who interfere in the democratic process and will not hesitate to consider consequences, including visa restrictions for those responsible for election-related violence," Pompeo said.
"As long-time partners to the nations of Africa, we care about the region's democratic trajectory and are committed to working constructively with international and regional partners."
He added: "The United States is committed to supporting free, fair, inclusive elections. The conduct of elections is important not only for Africans, but also for defenders of democracy around the world.
"We believe all sides should participate peacefully in the democratic process. Repression and intimidation have no place in democracies."
Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday rubbished the US threats, saying: "Secretary of State Pompeo arrogantly assumes a sanctimonious as champion and proselytiser of democracy. He needs be reminded that the modern advent and practice of democracy in Africa was never a gift of Washington, London and other imperialist metropolis."
This Zanu PF government is under increasing pressure to accept that it has failed to address the nation’s basic needs and must allow the people to have a meaningful say on how governs the country.
The government is paying teachers as little as US$30 per month in a country where the PDL is US$650 per month. School reopened last week after 6 months corona virus shut down; the children are back at school but no teachers. This is the final nail in Zimbabwe’s education coffin; education is dead. The same has happened in the health sector.
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because the nation has been stuck with a corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical regime for 40 years. Zanu PF has rigged elections to stay in power. This must now stop.
Zanu PF cannot drag this nation into the abyss under the pretext that is is the party that liberated the nation and Zanu PF leaders alone have the right to govern the country. The right to a meaningful vote is every Zimbabwean's birthright and what is more it is our only hope to end the curse of bad governance.
It is not only the West that is calling for free, fair and credible elections; millions of ordinary Zimbabweans are calling for such elections too. Zanu PF must listen to them and stop ignoring them.
Professor Jonathan Moyo is the one man who has sold Zimbabwe and with it his own mother for a price and had the chic to boast about his betrayals. When he joined Zanu PF, he said he wanted to destroy it from within and have instead help build Zanu PF into a ruthless regime and helped keep it in power all these years.
ReplyDeleteMugabe and Zanu PF were on the ropes especially after losing the 2000 referendum on the proposed new constitution. Zanu PF fought back with its flagship land redistribution policy; land was seized from the whites and given to the party leaders and loyalists, mostly. For the next 15 years the land issue flared up towards elections and the party used it as cover for rigging the elections under the pretext its political opponents and critics would give the seized land back to the whites. Jonathan Moyo was Zanu PF's chief strategists and played a pivotal role in all this.
The farm seizures destroyed the country's agricultural sectors and with it the economy. Zimbabwe's economy has never recovered from this to this day and poverty has made Zimbabwe its home.
There is no doubt that Professor Moyo is bitter about the November 2017 military coup; he lost his position as one of the country's political supremos complete with all the influence and wealth that came with it. Zanu PF was a party that was doom to implode, the reckless waste of the nation's human and material resources was unsustainable and the infighting in the party was inevitable as the national wealth started to shrink. The military coup was a consequence of the party imploding.
Why Professor Moyo is blaming the people for the coup when it was clearly an internal Zanu PF matter beggars belief! It goes to show what a sick and unrepentant thug we have in Professor Moyo!