According to Stephen Sarkozy Chuma, MDC Alliance
Youth Assembly National Spokesperson, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has only
managed to carry out 5 out of the 237 electoral promises he pledged in
2018, the 5 only 2%!
“Never mind about his useless and senseless “huge progress”
rhetoric, Mnangagwa is failure personified!” commented Chuma in Zimeye.
“Among a plethora of lies that he promised, Mr 2% failed to
fulfil his 1,5 million housing program, 2000 new schools and employment
pledges.
“This is a wake-up call to all Zimbabweans that we should
elect servant leaders who honour their promises. A pro-people and God-fearing
leader in the mould Advocate Nelson Chamisa can surely do better if given a
chance.
“It’s time to reject Mr 2 % and all that he represents – failure!”
The people of Zimbabwe have known for decades that Zanu PF
had failed them. By the late 1980s the nation was painfully aware that Robert Mugabe’s
promise of mass prosperity, “Gutsa ruzhinji!” as he never seemed to tire of
saying it; was transforming into mass poverty as the country lost its lofty
position as a middle-income nation, the breadbasket of the region to become a
Banana Republic wallowing in abject poverty and now dependent on food aid.
By the late 1990s the nation finally wake-up to the
political reality that the country’s relentless economic decline will continue
as long as Zanu PF remain in power and the party will remain in power as long
as Mugabe and company continue to exercise their dictatorial powers to rig
elections. The nation needed democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging
elections or there will be no meaningful economic recovery. None!
Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends launched their party
in 1999; if elected into power, they promised to deliver the democratic changes
to end the curse of rigged elections the nation was dying for. The people of
Zimbabwe have risked life and limb, the price they have had to pay for
supporting any other political party other than Zanu PF, to elect MDC leaders
for the sake of meaningful democratic change and reform.
MDC leaders have been on the political centre stage for 21
years, 5 of which in the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Sadly, MDC leaders have failed to
bring about even one token democratic change in all those years. Not a sausage!
The 2008 to 2013 GNU was, without doubt, the best
opportunity the nation has ever had to implement the democratic reforms and
dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship once and for all. Mugabe bribed Tsvangirai
and company with the trapping of high office and with their snouts in the
feeding trough they forgot about the reforms for the five years of the GNU.
Worst of all, ever since their blatant betrayal during the
GNU, MDC leaders has all but abandon the cause of demanding reforms and free,
fair and credible elections; they have participated in flawed and illegal
elections giving the process credibility and the vote rigging Zanu PF
legitimacy all because they could not resist Zanu PF’s bribe of a few gravy
train seats for participating.
“The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both
MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious – withdraw from the elections,” confessed
David Coltart in his book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in
Zimbabwe. Mr Coltart was an MDC Minister in the 2008 to n2013 GNU and
is Treasurer General in the MDC A.
“The electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step
was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such
was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for
fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the
process credibility.”
Well, Mr 2% and his Zanu PF cronies are gearing for the 2023
elections and with not even one token democratic reform implemented, it is
certainty the party will blatantly rig the election to yet another landslide
victory. Indeed, the blatant rigging has already started with the party
announcing that it will continue to deny the 3 million Zimbabweans in the
diaspora the vote, another broken Mnangagwa promise. The diaspora vote is very
significant considering Mnangagwa won the 2018 elections with 2.4 million
votes!
The truth is Mr 2% and company did not want to risk losing
the 2023 elections by implementing even one reform because he KNEW Nelson
Chamisa and his MDC friends will participate in the elections regardless how
flawed and illegal the process happened to be as long as he offered them the
few gravy train seats bribe – which he is doing.
What are you, Chuma, wittering about, "This is a
wake-up call to all Zimbabweans that we should elect servant leaders!" The
people of Zimbabwe did not elect Mnangagwa and his cronies, they rigged the
elections and got away with it thanks to Chamisa and company who participated
giving the process credibility and Zanu PF regime legitimacy.
Right now, Mr 2% is gearing to blatantly rig the 2023
elections; confident Chamisa and company will participate to guarantee the vote
rigging Zanu PF regime legitimacy!
No, the real wake-up call for all Zimbabweans is to the
political reality that MDC leaders will never ever implement any meaningful
democratic changes and with no democratic reforms, the nation will never have
free and fair elections, will never ever end the curse of bad governance and
thus will never, never ever end the criminal waste of human and material
resources behind the country’s economic ruin.
@ Nomazulu
ReplyDelete“A new republic we are talking about is not renewing Zanu or does it mean placing our hope and aspirations on MDC-Alliance, currently the only viable opposition, as the hope for our future. In any misfortunes a golden opportunity can image and become solutions to countries north of South Africa. The recent spate of violent events in South Africa will repeat itself. We can honestly say we have not seen it yet what lies ahead in this region. Poverty, destitution, and staggering unemployment is crying out for attention: decades of social, economic, and political negligence remained unattended for decades by most African governments.”
You are right, no Zimbabwean in his or her right mind should even consider any of the MDC leaders as candidate who will get the nation out of the economic and political mess we are in. The tragic reality is that there are many who look to Chamisa and company as the nation’s saviours. MDC leaders have failed to implement even one reform in 21 years, 5 of which in the GNU. Worse still, ever since the 2013 elections, it is MDC leaders who have given the vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy by participating in flawed and illegal elections.
Indeed, right now Chamisa and company are gearing to participate in the 2023 elections although Zanu PF is set to rig the elections. Chamisa is not fighting for free and fair elections and good governance, which is what you are fighting for Nomazulu. Chamisa does not care that Zanu PF will remain in power, what he is fighting for is to win the few gravy train seats gives away and be the leader of Zimbabwe’s main opposition party.
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because the ordinary Zimbabweans have never taken up the duty of electing competent leaders with the seriousness and urgency the matter demands. And until they do, the country will remain stuck in this hell-on-earth, of our own making, we find ourselves stuck it.
You can take the cow to the river but you cannot make it drink; you can take the Zimbabweans to the fountain of knowledge but you cannot make them drink, especially since they consider themselves to be some of the smartest human beings on planet earth!