It is heartening to notice there is a noticeable shift is
Zimbabwe politics; the old naïve, gullible ask-no-question mentality is being
replace by the sober and savvy realism.
"Africa must have a new record of having credible
elections, where blood is not shed on the basis of contestation. Zambian
elections are a positive indicator of a new Africa and smooth transitions and
institutions strong enough to bring change. Gone are the days where big men
entered a new dispensation of ideas,” Nelson Chamisa told Newsday.
"What we are seeing now is a new federation of democracy, citizen
participation in defining the destiny of nations. It started in Malawi and
swept into Zambia and now we can smell the sweet scent here in Zimbabwe. It is
coming."
"There is utterly no connection between the Zambian and
Zimbabwean political situation. It is just euphoria. Zimbabwe has complex
electoral challenges which are not being encountered in Zambia," came the
reply from analyst Alexander Rusero.
"In Zambia, the army demonstrated that it could adhere
to its constitutional mandate of serving the people and performing the security
duties impartially without aligning itself to any political party. In Zimbabwe,
it is difficult to distinguish between an army officer and a politician. For us
to be like Zambia, we need mechanisms, and a political infrastructure to
enhance smooth transfer of power," he said.
Zimbabwe’s 2008 elections is the benchmark of just how much
influence Zanu PF has over the country’s state institutions such as the ZEC and
the securocrats, Army, Police, CIO and Prison Services. When it became clear
that Zanu PF was losing to MDC in the March 2008 vote, Mnangagwa, by his own
admission, ordered ZEC not to declare the result. He took over ZEC’s responsibilities
and ZEC cooperated fully!
It took six weeks to announce the results of 5 million
votes! Of course, Zanu PF cooked the figures. Morgan Tsvangirai had garnered
73% of the votes, according to Mugabe’s own Freudian slip, and what was
announce after the six weeks was 47%, just enough to force the run-off.
For the run-off, Zanu PF mounted a military style campaign,
Operation “Mavhotera papi!” (Whom did you vote for!), whose principle purpose
was to punish the Zimbabwe electorate for having rejected Mugabe and Zanu PF in
the March vote. The party used the war veterans and the party’s youths as the
foot soldiers to destroy property, harass, beat and rape. The high lifting of abductions
and killing was carried out by securocrats personal.
“What was won by the bullet cannot be changed by the ballot!”
thundered Robert Mugabe as he egged the wanton violence sweeping the country.
Mugabe won the run-off with a staggering 84%!
Nothing, absolutely nothing, has been done to end Zanu PF’s
totally control of the country’s state institutions such as ZEC, Army, etc.
Zimbabwe had the golden opportunity to implement a raft of democratic reforms designed
to end the Zanu PF dictatorship during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. The task of
implemented the reforms fell to Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends.
Mugabe bribed the MDC leaders with the trappings of high
office and for five years of the GNU MDC leaders had their snouts in the
feeding trough and forgot about the reforms.
SADC leaders who had engineered the agreement leading to GNU
and were the guarantor of the agreement tried they best to remind MDC leader to
implement the reforms but were ignored. In sheer desperation the regional
leaders, literally, begged MDC leaders not to participate in the 2013 elections
without first implementing the reforms. “If
you go into elections next month, you are going to lose; the elections are done!”
they warned.
Zanu PF’s Acting National Political Commissar, Patrick
Chinamasa, announced that Zanu PF was not going to fulfil Mnangagwa’s September
2018 promise to allow the 3 million plus Zimbabweans in the diaspora to vote. The
party will not grant the diaspora vote as long as Zanu PF leaders are not free
to travel because of the sanctions imposed on them by the West, explained
Chinamasa. A feeble excuse!
Why should any Zimbabweans be punished because Zanu PF leaders
and West have quarrelled! In any case, at least 2 million plus Zimbabweans in
the diaspora are in SADC and other countries with no sanctions against Zanu PF
leaders; why are they being denied the vote?
How can the 2023 elections be legal, free, fair and credible
when Zanu PF can arbitrarily, for there is no legal basis, deny 3 million plus potential
voters the right to vote? It should be remembered that Mnangagwa win the 2018
presidency with 2.4 million votes or 50.8% of the cast vote.
Zanu PF has all but rigged the 2023 elections. The 2023
elections are done, just as the 2013 and 2018 elections were done!
By participating in the 2023 elections Nelson Chamisa and
his fellow opposition opportunist are conniving with Zanu PF to deny the 3
million plus Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote and give the vote rigging
Zanu PF legitimacy.
The people of Zimbabwe must acknowledge that although Zambia’s
democratic political system is not perfect it is nonetheless functioning unlike
Zimbabwe’s corrupt and dysfunctional system. Zimbabweans must heed SADC leaders’
2013 advice, bite the bullet, and implementation of the raft of democratic and
stop the insanity of trying to win Zanu PF rigged elections!
“Sweet scent of democracy and citizen participation sweeping
Zambia in coming to Zimbabwe!” This is nauseating MDC foolishness and Zimbabwe
can ill afford this carryon!
ZAMBIAN youth activist and former African Union (AU) youth simulation forum president, Joseph Kalimbwe has urged Zimbabwean youths not to vote and leave polling stations, but stay until results have been announced to avoid rigging in the 2023 plebiscite.
ReplyDeleteOnly someone who has no clue what has been happening in Zimbabwe can say this nonsense! Zanu PF has just denied 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote, the rigging is already done and participating will only be to give Zanu PF legitimacy!
The political system in Zambia is not perfect but it is working compared to the corrupted and dysfunctional system in Zimbabwe. We need to implement the democratic reforms first and stop wasting time trying to win Zanu PF rigged elections! If Edgar Lungu was playing with a loaded dice Mnangagwa has a dice with 6 on all six sides and only a fool will bet against Mnangagwa failing to throw a 6!
UGANDA will take in 2,000 Afghan refugees fleeing the crisis in their country.
ReplyDeleteRefugees Minister Esther Anyakun told the BBC that President Yoweri Museveni agreed to take in the refugees at the request of the Americans.
What is happening in Afghanistan is truly tragic! This is what happens to a failed state where the citizens have lost all confidence in their fellow countryman to uphold the rule of law. This is the dangerous road Zimbabwe has traveled these last 41 years!
Lungu lost Thursday’s election by almost a million votes to President-elect Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party National Development (UPND) party.
ReplyDelete“l can’t wait to drive back to Zambia and at Chirundu Border Post where they almost killed me, l will dance like Micheal Jackson. My Congress Dance. I can’t wait,” Biti said.
What every thinking Zimbabwean is finding increasingly annoying is that Tendai Biti and his MDC friends not only failed to implement the reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging elections they have insisted in participating in the flawed elections cocksure MDC A will win.
“MDC A has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections!” said Chamisa before the 2018 elections.
Indeed, Biti and company were so cocky they participated in the 2018 elections even when ZEC had failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll! Tendai Biti led from the front in complaining the 2018 elections were rigged!
Worse still, Biti and company are gearing to participate in the 2023 elections with no reforms in place even though it is clear Zanu PF is rigging these elections.
We must implement the democratic reforms before the elections; just because MDC leaders were too corrupt and incompetent to implement even one reform does not mean no one else can much less that we do not need the reforms implemented. We need to end this MDC insanity of winning Zanu PF rigged elections. Zanu PF have a dice with 6 on all six sides it is insane to bet on the party failing to throw a 6!
It is ironic that Chamisa and his MDC A should be wittering about free and fair elections when they are ones who are helping Zanu PF rig elections and get away with it.
ReplyDeleteThe people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb to elect MDC leaders into power on the understanding the party will bring about the democratic changes the nation has been dying for ever since the country’s independence in 1980. The nation had its golden opportunity to get the reforms implemented during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Not only did MDC leaders sold-out by failing to implement even one reform during the GNU but worse still in their sheer stupidity and greed MDC leaders are the ones who are giving legitimacy to Zanu PF by participating in the flawed elections.
“Africa must have a new record of having credible elections!” says Chamisa. What hope is there of credible elections when you are the one who keeps participating in elections so flawed and illegal there is no something as basic as a verified voters’ roll.
It does not help if the ordinary Zimbabweans themselves have no clue what the democratic changes the nation is dying for are, much less how they were supposed to be implemented.
The Greeks were right to say democracy will only work when there is a well-educated and diligent electorate. Zimbabweans are a naïve and gullible lot and it is no surprise they have elected corrupt and incompetent leaders and that chaos reigns supreme.
@ Razi Emile
ReplyDelete“Why do you always rush to post unrevised headings Nomusa?
Do you suffer from a disease called ughedeghede?”
So, what heading would you give the article?
Zimbabwe is in a serious political and economic mess and millions are living in abject poverty and millions more will join them if nothing is done quick smart to end the curse of rigged elections and bad governance. Nomusa is focused on helping the nation understand why we are in this mess and, just as important, how to get out of the mess. And all you care about is syntax errors!
Just as well idiots are incapable of self-diagnosing, it be hard being you!
@ Abednico Mweembe Mweembe
ReplyDelete“This Nomsa who is Wilbert bcoz each time you comment on what Nomsa writes Wilbert answers is just same like one Masimba both of them just negative minds and write lot of rubbish. To always accuse MDC alliance of some foolish childish wishes that he or she want fulfilled by MDC alliance the party he hates so much is total barbaric. If mdc alliance is useless why do. you always talk about it? Why do waste your time on useless things like mdc alliance? Now you want to lie that many are questioning mdc alliance where do you get that nonsense. Why would any sane person question mdc alliance for what?”
You should compare yourself to Dr Mavaza because you two have one big in common – you have both elevated your respect party leaders to the pedals of demigods who can do no wrong. Of course, this is just foolishness because both Zanu PF and MDC A have blundered from pillar to post; proof, if any was required, that all politicians are fallible mortals and only infernal village idiots would believe otherwise.
It is a historic fact that MDC leaders failed to deliver even one meaningful change even when they had the golden opportunity to do so during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. The party has promised change for the last 21 years but has delivered nothing. Chamisa claims to have a “SOLID PLAN to bring real change”; all bullshit.
The MDC leaders and their fanatic supporters don’t want their corruption and breath-taking incompetent mentioned much less to be held to account. As a Zimbabwean citizen I consider it me sacred duty to hold public official to account regardless of the colour of their political party regalia. Indeed, I am colour blind to political party regalia!
@ Rhodesday Mangunda
ReplyDelete“Let Wilbert Mukori register as a Presidential candidate so he can sell his ideas to the electorate at this moment he sounds like a broken record I am fed up of his nonsense everyday.”
You are fed up of nonsense from me but are not fed up with the reality that Zimbabwe is sinking deeper and deeper into this man-made hell-on-earth?
I am telling you why the country is sinking into the abyss and you dismiss that as nonsense although, typical of the nincompoop you are, have never dare to dare any of the so-called nonsense!
If you think Nelson Chamisa is going to drag the nation into yet another utterly meaningless election process for the sake of a few gravy train seats and get away with it; you must think again and quick.
Enough of this winning rigged elections bullshit! SADC leaders literally begged MDC leaders not to participate in the 2013 elections without first implementing the democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. Tsvangirai and company ignored the sound advice because, in their infantile stupidity, they believed MDC would win rigged elections. Zimbabwe’s village idiots have had their opportunity to “strut and fret upon the stage” and it is time banished the lot!
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
Out, out, brief candle!
Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing
“Before flying out Mnangagwa receives the sharp bayonette from International Policewoman, Julie Askana, who queries what his mission is to the former colonial power’s country. Why is it wrong to conclude that just like you accuse Nelson Chamisa you are travelling to beg for sanctions?, she asks.
ReplyDeleteSoon after that, Julie finishes her golden-sports by blading him with a lethal giggle that only mortalises a crocodile.”
It is said that the dog hears every word we say but understands nothing. However, if you laugh at the dog it will know immediately that it is the bat of the joke even if you don’t laugh in its face!
It is true that crocodiles have a tough skin, still Julie Askana’s mocking laugh is slowly but surely penetrating the crocodile armour. Mnangagwa knows she is laughing at him, and he doesn’t like it one bit. What makes Julie’s barbs so effective is that there are simple truths fired from a water-gun!