“When we make projections of 66 %, we know what we are talking about,” said MDC-T spokesperson Witness Dube.
“We have a strategy to turn around the fortunes of the party from what we were in 2018.
“I may not be at liberty to dissect and go all exactly on how that strategy is going to play out. We are still a distance from the elections, it’s unwise to do so.”
MDC has always gone into every election super confident that the party will win but has always fallen short. The party has always ignored the problem of Zanu PF rigging the elections before the elections only to complain about stolen elections thereafter!
Ever since the disastrous betrayal of the people during the 2008 to 2013 GNU when MDC leaders failed to implement even one token reform in five years, MDC leaders have settled for the few gravy train seats Zanu PF gives away as bait to entice the opposition to continue participating in flawed and illegal elections. Mwonzora is projecting to win 66% of the 1/3 or so gravy train seat Zanu PF gives away so he will be the leader of the country’s main opposition.
Of course, he does not care that the elections are rigged to give Zanu PF’s 2/3 majority and the presidency. Worst of all, Mwonzora does not care that the nation will still be stuck with the corrupt and tyrannical regime.
Mwonzora and Chamisa are going to participate in the 2023 election knowing Zanu PF will rig the elections. What they are fighting over is the bragging rights which one of them will be the leader of the opposition.
The people of Zimbabwe have been fighting for democratic change leading to free, fair and credible elections, the prerequisite for good governance. We should not take our eyes off the ball by participating in these meaningless elections just to indulge Zanu PF and the sell-out MDC leaders!
SADC leaders wanted Zimbabwe’s 2013 elections postponed until reforms were implemented because they realised the sheer futility of participating in elections whose outcome is predetermined before the ballots are cast and therefore are not the people’s democratic wish.
“In 2013 the Maputo Summit, in June 2013, before the elections, the Maputo Summit was all about having the elections postponed – the SADC summit. I went there,” Dr Ibbo Mandaza told Journalist Violet Gonda.
“I was there at the Summit and Mugabe pretended to agree to a postponement of the elections. If you recall, the postponement was based on the need to reform at least electoral laws.
“And after that Summit, Morgan Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti, Welshman Ncube, all of them were called to a separate meeting by the Heads of State of SADC in the absence of Mugabe, that same evening. And they were told; I was sitting there outside the room with Mac Maharaj; they were told ‘if you go into elections next month, you are going to lose; the elections are done’.”
Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends paid no heed to the SADC leaders’ warning. The simple and concise message the ordinary Zimbabweans must send to the SADC leaders is that they totally agree that the 2023 elections must be postponed until the reforms and implemented. And to back their message, Zimbabweans must have nothing to do with the electoral farce Zanu PF and MDC leaders are staging.
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ReplyDelete“President Mnangagwa's wealth is estimated at US$500 million by the research company Africa Risk Consultancy (ARC). He heads its list of the wealthiest members of Zimbabwe's 'ruling political elite'.
ARC says Mnangagwa has 'substantive stakes in at least four national banks, several gold mines and equity interests in transport and agri-business companies'. It observes that his wealth contrasts grotesquely with the annual per capita income in Zimbabwe of about US$1,400.
The World Bank estimated this week that almost half of Zimbabweans are living in extreme poverty. It says good harvests offer some hope, with the biggest maize crop in almost four decades.
However agricultural experts say the actual yield in Zimbabwe will be 'dismal', with 1.4 tonnes per hectare compared with the 5.9 tonnes achieved in South Africa .”
The tragedy with amassing wealth through corruption is that it is a criminal waste of resources. Look at Mugabe’s flagship projects, the Gushungo Diary and Blue Roof mansion. The former was a bee-hive of activity whilst he was alive because of the millions of dollars pouring in as direct or indirect subsidies. When he died the subsidies dried up and everything ground to a halt. As for the sprawling palatial mansion, it costs US$ 100 000 per year, at least, to maintain and yet it is does not generate a single dollar. It is just another white elephant! What a criminal waste of money!
Zimbabwe’s looting elite have become rich and powerful the now own and control everything and everybody including Zanu PF and the opposition. The only hope of meaningful change in Zimbabwe is by making sure the democratic reforms agreed in the 2008 Global Political Agreement are implemented before elections. All elections without the reforms are a waste of time because the looting elite will see to it that their puppets retain power at all cost!