MDC leaders are corrupt, incompetent and sell-outs and, like all cowards, they love being portrayed as courageous fighters. They loved the News Day headline “Mwonzora's senators reject Mnangagwa Bill”.
“Harare Metropolitan senator Elias Mudzuri warned other senators against betraying the will of the electorate by passing a defective constitutional amendment,” reported News Day.
Masvingo senator Tichinani Mavetera (MDC-T) said: "I do not want to be reminded of the most embarrassing situation in the previous dispensation where we had a Vice-President being embarrassed in public and being told by the First Lady: ‘you work at the mercy of the President’.”
The MDC leaders know Zanu PF has the constitutional power, 2/3 majority, to pass any amendments. They know their fight to stop the Bill is futile, they are just putting on a show to impress their naive and gullible supporters.
If MDC leaders were not so corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent then they should have implemented the democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. They had the golden opportunity to implement the reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU and they wasted it.
Mugabe bribed the MDC leaders with the trappings of high office and, with their snouts in the feeding trough, they forgot about the reforms.
Ever since GNU debacle, MDC leaders have completely given up on implementing reforms and have been participating in flawed and illegal elections giving the vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy. Just to make sure the opposition participated, Zanu PF has dangled a few gravy train seats to entice them. As we can see, it has worked.
Senator Mudzuri and his fellow MDC leaders, be they from the Chamisa or Mwonzora led faction, are all gearing to participate in the 2023 elections with no reforms in place. As before, Zanu PF will rigged the elections and, as before, MDC participation will give the vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy. And so Zanu PF will remain in power, the MDC leaders will stage more futile shows of defiance and meanwhile the country will continue to sink deeper and deeper into the abyss.
41 years of corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship has destroyed the country’s once promising economy, even basic services such as education and health care have collapsed and 49% of our people are living in abject poverty. The prospect of extending Zanu PF ’s corrupt and tyrannical rule in 2023 is unthinkable.
The challenge before us is make sure the reforms are implemented and the next elections are free, fair and credible. After 41 years of bad governance and the country in total economic meltdown, God knows we need the antidote, good governance.
Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies have a vice-grip on the reins of power, thanks to the treasonous betrayal of the MDC leaders who failed to implement the reforms. They are not going to implement any reforms and will resist demands to do so, and for good reason. They know Zanu PF will never win a free, fair and credible elections, not with the party’s record of corruption, incompetence and tyrannical oppression.
Zanu PF will never ever reform itself out of office.
The 2008 to 2013 GNU was special in that SADC leaders had managed to force Zanu PF to agree to implementation of democratic reforms. The task of implementing the reforms were given to Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends. But, as state above, MDC leaders sold out!
We are where we are; we can we do to end this circus of rigged elections and bad governance?
Zanu PF will hold the 2023 elections with not even a token reform in place and determined to blatantly rig the election. The party will be banking on the MDC leaders and the usual suspects to participate in the flawed elections in droves and thus give the vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy.
Both Zanu PF and MDC are banking on ordinary Zimbabweans participating in the flawed elections to give the process credibility and the results legitimacy. Zanu PF will be counting on the party’s coercive powers to force Zimbabweans to register as voters, to attend rallies and even frog-match them to the polling station, especially those in the rural areas.
MDC will claim to have Win In Rigged Elections (WIRE) strategies. All nonsense, of course. They always complain of Zanu PF “stealing the elections”, the very thing their strategies were supposed to stop.
Wining rigged elections is an MDC oxymoron. Why would one continue to take such a foolish and unnecessary gabble particularly given what is at stake here - the chance to end the curse of bad governance and return to peace, freedom and chance for the nation to live.
It is time for every thinking Zimbabwean out there to refuse to participate in these flawed and illegal elections and to demand the country implement the reforms and hold free, fair and credible elections.
Here are some of the reforms that must be implemented before the next elections:
3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora must be allowed to vote.
ZEC must produce a verified voters’ roll, it is an outrage that Zimbabwe has never ever produced a verified voters’ roll in 41 years of the country’s independence.
Public bodies like ZEC, Police, Army, Judiciary, etc. must be reformed to guarantee their independence and impartiality in carrying out their constitutional duties.
State assistance must not be politicised and the practise of turning traditional leaders into political party commissars must seize.
The wholesale looting of the nation’s resources such as diamonds and gold must be stamped out. The ill-got loot has been used to bankroll the vote rigging activities making it impossible to have free and fair election.
Just because both Zanu PF will never implement the reform and MDC failed to implement even when they had the golden opportunity to do so; does not mean the reforms are no longer required. The reforms are the key to ending Zimbabwe’s curse of rigged elections and bad governance. Both Zanu PF and MDC leaders are not up to the task and so we must find others who will implement the reforms.
Mudzuri et al damning criticism of Mnangagwa’s dictatorial tendencies are nothing more than quarrelsome hen’s shtick, cursing and swearing at the chick-snatching eagle. MDC belated criticism will not stop Mnangagwa enjoy the dictatorial powers accrued from Amendment Bill No 2 no more than the hen’s shtick stop the eagle enjoy its chicken meal!
You (V P Emmerson Mnangagwa) work at the mercy of the President!” Grace Mugabe told Mnangagwa to his face. It was not a nice thing to hear and yet she was stating a well-known fact.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, Margaret Dongo was even more blunt when she dismissed the Zanu PF leaders, MPs and cabinet ministers alike as, “vakadzi vaMugabe!” (Mugabe’s utterly useless and irrelevant concubines!)
One has to question what these MDC buffoons were hoping to achieve by reminding Mnangagwa of how Mugabe had treated his Zanu PF cronies, MPs, cabinet members and everyone down to the nameless povo as nothing more than door mates for the dictator to wipe his dirty feet. Of course, Mnangagwa was aware of Mugabe’s tyrannical powers and how he had abused those power. Of all people Mnangagwa, would know how much he had been at Mugabe’s mercy regardless of the fact that as the dictator’s fixer he had done some of Mugabe’s dirtiest jobs only to be kicked in the teeth just like the rest of the Zanu PF leaders.
So if the MDC leaders thought reminding Mnangagwa of Mugabe’s dictatorial tendencies would make him reconsider the constitutional amendment and keep the running mate clause forcing the President to treat the VPs, at least, with some respect; they were wrong. As much as Mnangagwa must have felt the sting of Grace Mugabe’s acidic remark and would have voted for the running mate clause there and then. He would not vote for the clause now because he has the thick end of the whip and is relishing chance to crack the whip.
Make no mistake, Mnangagwa detested the Mugabe tyrannical rule and hence the reason he has insisted in calling the post November 2017 era the “Second Republic and a new dispensation”. He has kept the same laws and practices Mugabe had but will be insulted to be compared to Mugabe because whilst he accepted Mugabe was a dictator he considers himself a benevolent dictator. Unlike Mugabe who had no good reason for what did, he, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has very good reason for everything he does.
@ Nomazulu
ReplyDelete“The first time I agreed with Israel Dube about facts in our mainstream politics. Let me make it clear however, that I am not appealing to Israel to drop death threats hanging on my throat: I have been sentenced to death by Israel: he will use Winnie Mandela necklace method of murder because of my views that are not congruent with that of Mthwakazi's Dube. In Israel Dube's eyes, I am a traitor. But I remain unrepented. If anything I will die only once, and not many times before my death.
I am replying Israel Dube today's article whose first 2 paragraphs made a lot of sense to me. I agree fully to his first two paragraphs, and I decided to reply it acknowledging facts on the first two paragraphs only. I am against the partitioning of Zimbabwe. Our foremothers and fathers never wanted a divided nation, and it shall remain united. So is my reply to the rest of his article in a nutshell.
Kembo Mohadi' rise to the Zapu echelons of power was not by default but because he had the acumen to be counted among intellectuals in Zimbabwe politics back in the early hours of independence. He may not be the only one in Zapu whose politics drifted from a hero to a sell-out. It is not easy sometimes to remain relevant to one's true convictions in Zimbabwe political landscape. The stomach will make you to sell out virtuous values one held for years in the struggle for independence.”
There are those who have been using the Gukurahundi massacre to justify starting tribal and regional conflict in Zimbabwe. If they do not get their wishes on a number of issues then there will be bloodshed.
Mugabe and Zanu PF’s madness is now being revived and revisited on us all. It was a crying shame that Mugabe imposed the Gukurahundi madness just three years after independence and thus gave the white supremacists the excuse to boast that blacks are incapable of self-rule.
After 41 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF misrule, Zanu PF is imploding and the nation has a golden opportunity to reset out failed political system and revive the economy for the good of all Zimbabweans. Nothing will please these Zanu PF thugs than for the nation to disintegrate as Iraq and Libya did after the death of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi respectively. It will be unforgivable if after all the trials, tribulations, heartaches, sufferings and deaths under Zanu PF misrule anyone should be given cause to look back on Zanu PF decades and say they were “infinitely better than this!”
If anyone was ever lynched for whatever much less for expressing their opinion who can ever deny cause to draw parallels with the cold-blooded murders by Zanu PF thugs!
@ Arthur Mntungwa
ReplyDelete“Why is ZANU imposing Nehanda and Kaguvi on the whole Zimbabwe nation?
As a Mthwakazi, I have nothing to do with Nehanda, just like you have nothing to do with Kings Mzilikazi and Lobhengula. Do you realise that?
But still, Shona people and ZANU expect national unity under these foreign and strange impositions.
I say dream on!”
I recognise Nehanda as a historic figure just as much as I recognise King Mzilikazi. If you are saying you do not recognise Nehanda, I am not going to lose sleep over that.
The single most important task before us, all Zimbabweans, is how to rebuild a just, free and prosperous Zimbabwe from the ruins and traumatized nation we are after decades of corrupt and murderous Zanu PF rule. If we fail to accomplish that task it will be because we are just as the idiot Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies who turned a great nation with great potential into a Banana Republic as soon as they got into power. You can blame the failure on Gukurahundi but that will be just a feeble excuse!
SMALL to Medium Enterprises minister Sithembiso Nyoni says only 6 % Zimbabweans were currently unemployed, contradicting wide claims that the country's unemployment rate was hovering above 90%.
ReplyDeleteFaced with an economic collapse, few economic options and a bleak future since the turn of the millennium, a lot of Zimbabweans left the country in search of employment opportunities.
A giant population that was still brave to remain within the country's borders is now into self-help activities, most of it being informal.
This only serves to confirm that Zanu PF leaders have given up reviving the nation’s economy. How can some one selling air-time, tomatoes and trinkets on the street for a paltry US$ 3 per day be said to be in full employment. Frankly, even the teachers and nurses and other civil servants earning the slave wages of earning US$100 pm or less in a country where the poverty datum line is US$ 650 pm would be out looking for employment if there were any.
The people of Zimbabwe must now bite the bullet and demand the implementation of democratic reforms leading to the holding of free, fair and credible elections as the nation’s ticket out of the hell-hole Zanu PF has landed us in. If Zanu PF steamrolls the nation into holding the next elections with no reforms, which is exactly what the regime is doing, then it must be stated here and now that the election will be declare null and void!