“ZIMBABWE was one of the few countries
that Tuesday voted against a United Nations General Assembly resolution seeking
to protect vulnerable populations against “genocide, war crimes, ethnic
cleansing and crimes against humanity.” Reported New Zimbabwe.
“However, the resolution was adopted
after 115 countries including neighbouring South Africa, and Botswana voted
favour while 15 including Zimbabwe, voted against.”
Zimbabweans should not be surprised at
all. These Zanu PF thugs fought the white colonial rule not to end oppression
but to be the new oppressors.
Robert Mugabe and his fellow black
nationalists presented themselves as the champions fighting for freedom,
justice and liberty. The masses were promised one-man one-vote. This was just
cheap propaganda and a clever rallying call to mobilise the masses behind the
fight for independence.
During the Lancaster House talks to chart
out the roadmap for independent Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF nationalists
made it clear they wanted a one-party state and not a multi-party democratic
Zimbabwe. The British arm-twisted them to accept a multi-party democratic
constitution.
By the time the elections were announced,
Mugabe and company had already hatched a plan to ensure Zanu PF will win the
elections. Zanu PF’s campaign mantra was that if the party did not win the
elections then the bush war will continue. The long cherished one-man one-vote clarion
promise to the masses was ditch without so much as by your leave.
The people voted to end the war. They
knew better than argue looking up the business end of an AK47 rifle.
Mugabe and company went on to consolidated
Zanu PF’s strangle hold on power by launching the 1983 to 1987 Gukurahundi
massacre that forced the late Dr Joshua Nkomo and his PF Zapu to join Zanu PF.
Mugabe got his long cherish wish a de facto one-party, Zanu PF, dictatorship.
As the country’s new oppressors Mugabe
and his Zanu PF cronies have never seen anything wrong them riding roughshod
over the regime’s critics and opponents. Zanu PF leaders believe they have the
divine right to rule Zimbabwe and therefore anything they do, rigging elections
and even committing mass murder, to secure the party’s iron grip on power is
divinely sanctioned and authorised.
Indeed, it would have been hypocritical
the regime had not voted against the UN resolution protecting vulnerable
populations against genocide, etc. because Zanu PF has committed similar crimes
itself in the past and will do so again in the future as its grip on absolute
power is totally dependent on such underhand brutality!
“Zanu PF ndeye ropa!” (Zanu PF is not
averse to shedding innocent blood!) Zanu PF leaders have often boasted.
@ Motsi
ReplyDelete“In 2005, Zimbabwe was one of the nations to accept the right to protect as it was a noble idea that would ensure citizens were protected especially minority groups in many nations. However, in 2011, the same resolution was abused and used to invade Libya, the result of which was the deposition of Colonel Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi.
Now the state of Libya is in constant war against itself and what was once a beacon of hope and development in Africa has been reduced to nothing, but rubbles and dirt. While North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and their western allies celebrated the downfall of Gaddafi, the people of Libya are dying every day, due to the unending civil war and its resources are being looted by the same states that purported to want to protect its people.”
Zanu PF voted against the UN resolution for selfish reasons, the regime is in the habit of committing the same heinous crimes for selfish political gain. If a similar UN resolution had been in force in 1983 to 1987 the nation would have been spared the Gukurahundi massacre!
The chaos in Libya is a result of the complete breakdown of law and order, state institutions and the deeply entrenched mistrust in the community and these are all a product of decades of corrupt and tyrannical Gaddafi misrule. The death of the murderous dictator was always going to happen with or without the West’s assistance and the deep mistrust in the country boiled over.
Dictators keep peace by brute force and when they finally go there is always a real danger of the nation breaking up after all the years of bottled-up anger and frustration. Look at what happened to Yugoslavia, there was civil war and the country broke up into several pieces after the death of the dictator Josip Broz Tito.
The lawyers are representing Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum director Musa Kika in the Supreme Court appeal.
ReplyDelete"To that end, without any admission to or acceptance that Constitutional Amendment No. 2 is valid, we respectfully request the following documents to be made available to us for and on behalf of our client," the lawyers' letter to the JSC reads.
This is just an academic exercise that will not achieve the primary object of giving Zimbabwe an independent and competent judiciary the nation has been yarning for. The primary reason the nation is up in arms against the reappointment of Luke Malaba is because he track record as Chief Justice proves Zimbabwe’s judiciary is captured by the Zanu PF ruling elite. But stopping his reappointment will not change anything since Mnangagwa can appoint anyone of the other individuals whose track record is just as bad as that of Malaba.
We have a captured judiciary and should be focused on the bigger picture of how to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. We need to stop Zimbabweans being hoodwinked into participating in the flawed and illegal 2023 elections only to give legitimacy to the vote rigging Zanu PF, for example.
What good will it be to the nation if we stopped the reappointment of Malaba and Zanu PF rig the 2023 elections and get away with it for yet another five year term? Focus!
The lawless will never vote for law and order. Zanu PF has an outstanding Gukurahundi genocide charge still to be resolved. Mnangagwa and many others in Zanu PF have fresh blood of innocent victims of some of the recent cases. Of course, the regime was never going to vote for this UN resolution. Never ever!
ReplyDeleteWhat goes round come round! Many Zanu PF thugs have themselves been killed by fellow Zanu PF thugs!
I wonder what Mugabe would have said if the coup plotter wielding the AK47 had woken him with "Zanu PF ndeyeropa!" He wanted SADC, AU, UN anyone to intervene forgetting none of them had the mandate to do so. In his hay days he would have dismissed any such intervention as blatant interference in Zimbabwe's internal affairs!
Now it is Mnangagwa and Chiwenga's turn to worry about an assassination! Rumour has it Mnagagwa is building himself a bunker that Adolf Hitler himself would have consider over the top. Chiwenga divorced his wife for fear she was going to kill him and still he cannot sleep! They both know their reign of terror will end in a river of blood, their blood; they know the end is nigh but not the hour or day!
Zanu PF ndeyeropa! Chawakadya chamuka! The evil Zanu PF thugs have done is coming back to haunt them!
ZIMBABWE needs a "broader reform and stabilisation agenda" to sustain an almost year-long effort by authorities to support the local currency and lower inflation, the International Monetary Fund said.
ReplyDeleteThe government should address pandemic-related health and social challenges, coordinate fiscal, foreign-exchange and monetary policies, and implement structural reforms aimed at improving the business climate and curbing corruption, an IMF spokesperson said Friday.
Zimbabwe reintroduced its own currency in 2019 after a 10-year hiatus and has been battling bouts of high inflation and shortages of everything from foreign currency to food. The local unit, which was pegged at parity to the United States dollar two years ago, now trades at 84,6 against the greenback at the formal market, while annual inflation stands at 194%.
The IMF plans to hold a virtual staff visit in the first half of June, which would be a precursor to the country's enrolment in a staff-monitored programme. A previous programme ended in February 2020, when the Fund said Zimbabwe had gone "off track.”
The tragedy of the situation in Zimbabwe is the nation is stuck with a regime whose sole interest is to retain power at all cost and so it will continue to resist all the reforms the IMF has been calling for, for decades now, because they entail giving up the regime’s strangle hold on power.
Zimbabwe’s only hope of getting out of this hell-hole Zanu PF landing us in is by breaking the regime’s iron grip on power.
Whilst it is true there is nothing one can do to stop the 2023 elections going ahead which Zanu PF is set to rig to secure 2/3 majority and the presidency. There is also nothing one can do to stop MDC leaders and the usual opposition opportunists participating in droves for the few gravy train seats on offer plus the added enticement of a seat in POLAD.
What we can do however is for the ordinary Zimbabweans to stop participating in the flawed and illegal elections. The rural voters will be coerced by the regime to participate but not so with the urban voters.
Sadly, many of the urban voters are the naive and gullible MDC supporters; last time they participated because Chamisa told them “MDC has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections!” Of course, that was just a cock and bull story, what mattered was the supporters believed him. He will repeat the same cock and bull story and the wildebeest herd will believe him!
In September 2018, Mnangagwa promised to give back the 3 million Zimbabwean in the diaspora their right to vote. He has just passed two constitutional amendments, amending over 30 sections of the constitution to consolidate his dictatorial powers; but has done nothing to restore the right to vote of 3 million Zimbabweans.
Roughly 5 million voted in the July 2018 elections and so the 3 million in the diaspora constitute nearly 40% of the 8 million voters. How can an election be free, fair and credible when 40% are denied the vote? The Zimbabweans in the diaspora can call into question the credibility of the 2023 elections if they so wished. The silence from those in the diaspora is deafening!
@ Innocent Mujeri
ReplyDelete“One MDC Alliance senior member has gone further and argued that in fact Ngarivhume is already leading, or at least inspiring that party. He said, "Watch this space. The Alliance will soon embark on some of Ngarivhume's strategies such as clean up operations and breaking the unity of SADC and AU states on the Zimbabwe issue. We are more inspired, thanks to Jacob”
It is two years to the next elections and Zimbabwe’s election season is well and truly under way. The nation will be bombarded by Zanu PF double-agents (there are very few MDC leaders and supporters smart enough to present even a half-barked argument on anything) articles whose principle message is “MDC is going to win the 2023 rigged elections and all MDC supporters must participate in the elections!”
Innocent Mujeri (if you are innocent then why are you in prison (mujeri means in prison)) message is MDC will win the 2023 rigged election because the party has an inspired, strategic and visionary leader in Jacob Ngarivhume who is leading from the front. No doubt the message has buoyed up many MDC supporters out there!
The truth is Ngarivhume is just an opportunist vying for the few gravy train seats Zanu PF is dangling as bait to entice the opposition to participate in elections regardless how flawed and illegal the process gets. How anyone who participate in flawed elections knowing doing so will give the vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy can ever be considered a competent and visionary leaders beggars belief. Anyone proffering such nauseating nonsense can not be innocent and hence the reason why Innocent Mujeri should be in prison - mujeri - where he belongs.
Zanu PF is desperate to see the opposition participate in the 2023 elections in droves to get legitimacy. We are in for a two years of heavy Zanu PF propaganda onslaught, rigging the 2023 elections will be easy but getting legitimacy may will be a bridge too far for Mnangagwa.
@ Abednico Mweembe Mweembe
ReplyDelete“Some one foolishly thinks mdc alliance followers are dander heads and just follow anyone like a mugodoyi. To write inkalatha of wishful nonsense with no evidence is being disparate by zanu puppets. Let the elections come with what is happening in this country only an insane individual can think of a zanu victory. The writing is on the wall it is very bold ZANU is going !!!!!!”
Zimbabwe has been in this economic and political mess for decades and Zanu PF should have been booted out of office a long, long time ago. The writing has been on the wall and, like everything else, the roads, hospital, etc., the writing is fading and the wall itself is falling down. What the Dickens are the MDC leaders doing!!
It is worrying that MDC leaders and the MDC wildebeest herd are going to participate in these flawed and illegal elections and once again give legitimacy to the vote rigging Zanu PF! You lot need to look in the mirror to see who is insane!
@ Mandlenkosi Fungai Dube
ReplyDelete“So since the majority voted yes, is it going to affect countries that voted no......please explain to me my brother i am failing to understand.”
Good question! I do not know for certain but since some of the countries that voted no were China and Russia; my guess is the resolution cannot be evoked without Security Council authorisation, giving China and Russia the opportunity to veto it.