When it comes to Zimbabwe’s rigged elections - it takes three to tango. The ruling party Zanu PF, the MDC opposition and the ordinary Zimbabweans have all played a part in historic fact that Zimbabwe has never ever held free, fair and credible elections. Never ever, so far!
“One man, one vote!” was the blacks’ rallying call in the fight to end white colonial oppression and exploitation.
Every black Rhodesian, as the country was called then, understood why they needed a vote; blacks were third class citizens whose economic and social needs were considered last after those of the first and second class citizens. As third class citizens, blacks had no political rights, notably no vote and thus no meaningful say in the governance of the country.
The blacks were the native of Rhodesia, not the white colonialists; this was the blacks’ ancestral land. How can they then be denying a meaningful say in the governance of their own ancestral land!
“One man, one vote!” was notion that was both simple and logical it is no surprise that it was universally embraced by all blacks in Zimbabwe and, indeed, all blacks in Africa.
“Seek ye first the political kingdom and all else will follow.” said one of Africa’s most illustrious Black Nationalist and philosopher, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first President.
It is now 41 years after Zimbabwe gained her independence, marking the end of white colonial rule, and yet the country is yet to hold its first free, fair and credible elections. After 41 years, “One man, one vote!” and the right to having a meaningful say in the governance of the country still remains an aspiration. Why?
By the time Zimbabwe held her first elections where blacks were allowed to vote, Robert Mugabe and his fellow Zanu PF nationalists, had already decided they wanted independent Zimbabwe to be a one-party, Zanu PF, state. Zanu PF’s campaign message in the 1980 elections was that if the party did not win the elections, the bush war would continue.
Of course, the people voted to end the war. And, of course, that was the very antithesis of a free, fair and credible elections and a meaningful say in the governance of the country.
Mugabe launched the 1983 to 1987 Gukurahundi massacre whose primary purpose was to force the late Dr Joshua Nkomo and his PF Zapu party to join Zanu PF and thus setting the stage for the imposing of the de facto one-party dictatorship. On paper, the country was a multi-party democracy and so Zanu PF was obliged to hold regular elections, which the party rigged and won.
The 2008 elections have become a land make elections in that Zanu PF had to resort to blatant cheating and wanton violence, the worst the country had ever seen, to retain power.
“What was won by the gun cannot be undone by the ballot!” thundered Robert Mugabe, as the war veterans, the party militia and the thousands of Army, Police and CIO personal behind the wanton violence ran amok.
Robert Mugabe and now Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies have always viewed Zimbabwe as their country by conquest and they and they alone have the divine right to govern the country as they see fit. They could therefore never uphold “One man, one vote!” and its sanctimonious and uncompromising demand for “meaningful say” because it conflicted with their cherished goal of one-party state and no regime change!
By the late 1990s, it was clear to most Zimbabweans that as long as Zanu PF continues to enjoy the carte blanche dictatorial powers to rig elections, they, the ordinary people, will never have a meaningful say in the governance of the country. The national consensus was that the nation needed to implement democratic changes to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. The nation needed to restore “One man, one vote!”
Morgan Tsvangirai and his friends launched their political party in 1999 to ride on the popular demand for democratic change and it was no surprised they called the party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). The people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb to elect MDC leaders into power on the understanding the party will deliver democratic change.
After 22 years, 5 of which in the 2008 to 2013 Government of National Unity (GNU), MDC has failed to implement even one token democratic change. Mugabe bribed Tsvangirai and company to forget the reforms during the GNU, when the country had its best chance ever to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship.
Ever since the 2008 to 2013 GNU MDC debacle and sell-out, the party has all but abandoned all hope of implementing any democratic reforms and deliver the long awaited “One man, one vote!” Chamisa and company cannot call for the implementation of democratic reforms without having to answer why they failed to implement even one reform when they had the golden chance to do so during the GNU.
Ever since the GNU Nelson Chamisa and his MDC friends have participated in flawed and illegal elections, knowing fully well that Zanu PF was rigging the elections, for the sake of the few gravy train seats Zanu PF was giving away to entice the opposition to participate. By participating the opposition is giving credibility to the flawed process and, by extension, give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy.
The people themselves have been their own worst enemy in that they have never taken the trouble to understand what it would take to guarantee “One man, one vote!” Ever since the national consensus on the need for democratic change; the people have repeated the MDC slogans calling for change without ever what the changes are much less how they would be implemented.
Of course, if the people knew what the democratic changes were, etc. then they would know the GNU was a golden opportunity to end the Zanu PF dictatorship and thus comprehend the full import of MDC’s betrayal. They would also understand the sheer folly of participating in these flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy.
As it is, the people have, at best, inkling the 2023 elections are not going to be free, fair and credible and still their are as keen as mustard to participate. They have bought into Nelson Chamisa and MDC A lie that the opposition has devised Winning In Rigged Elections (WIRE) strategies. All attempts to show these WIRE strategies are nothing but recycled arguments that have been tried and failed, have been dismissed with impatience and even hostility!
“All you ever talk about is rigged elections and the need to implement reforms! Talk about something different!” If I have heard that said once, I have heard it said a hundred thousand times!
An illustrative example straight out of children story of the buffoon who would not clean his ears. When he was stone-deaf and still he insisted there must be another cause and not ear wax although he had by then a mushroom stock sticking out of each ear like a tortoise emerging out of its shell!
You cannot have free, fair and credible elections, “One man, one vote!” and meaningful say in the governance of the country and still allow Zanu PF carte blanche dictatorial powers to rig the elections. The children’s story buffoon will never hear a sound as long as the tortoise wax dwell in his ears.
Free elections go with good governance as rigged elections go with bad governance and the two concepts are mutual exclusive!
Zimbabwe had failed to hold free, fair and credible elections because all the three key players in Zimbabwe politics; the ruling party Zanu PF, opposition MDC and the ordinary Zimbabweans themselves; have, disregarded “One man, one vote!” for selfish reason or have failed to fulfil its demands. All three have been found wanting for Zimbabwe to be a healthy and functioning democracy able to hold free, fair and credible elections.
From 1980 to 2008, Zimbabwe is de facto one party dictatorship. From 2013 to present it is still a de facto one party dictatorship masquerading as a multi-party democracy thanks to the opposition whose participation in flawed elections is giving the dictatorship democratic legitimacy. Both Zanu PF and MDC are benefiting from this marriage of convenience.
It is for the ordinary Zimbabweans to open their eyes, remove the tortoise wax out of their ears and learn what “One man, one vote!” means and what it will take to become a reality in Zimbabwe. Free elections, democracy and good governance demand an informed and diligent electorate not a naive and gullible one particularly when it was has to dismantle a ruthless autocracy like this Zanu PF dictatorship.
GOVERNMENT allegedly splurged over US$200 000 on Finance minister Mthuli Ncube (pictured)'s accommodation after his lengthy stay at a five-star hotel in the capital before he relocated to a plush home in the capital.
ReplyDeleteThis shocking expenditure of taxpayers' money comes at a time Zimbabwe is in the throes of a debilitating economic crisis — high cost of living and poor infrastructure.
Since his appointment, Ncube's crusade at the helm of the Treasury has been marked by policy pronouncements to rein in public expenditure, inflation and currency volatility.
Ncube, who has rolled out a range of austerity measures to contain the intractable economic crisis, allegedly lived at the magnificent Meikles Hotel for over two years where an executive room costs US$200 per night.
He reportedly checked out in June this year.
Zimbabwe’s ruling elite live in their own world far divorced from the real Zimbabwe of the ordinary povo. Here is the man who imposed 2% transaction tax just to make sure the street vendors who were not paying income tax were taxed!
GOVERNMENT allegedly splurged over US$200 000 on Finance minister Mthuli Ncube (pictured)'s accommodation after his lengthy stay at a five-star hotel in the capital before he relocated to a plush home in the capital.
ReplyDeleteThis shocking expenditure of taxpayers' money comes at a time Zimbabwe is in the throes of a debilitating economic crisis — high cost of living and poor infrastructure.
Since his appointment, Ncube's crusade at the helm of the Treasury has been marked by policy pronouncements to rein in public expenditure, inflation and currency volatility.
Ncube, who has rolled out a range of austerity measures to contain the intractable economic crisis, allegedly lived at the magnificent Meikles Hotel for over two years where an executive room costs US$200 per night.
He reportedly checked out in June this year.
Zimbabwe’s ruling elite live in their own world far divorced from the real Zimbabwe of the ordinary povo. Here is the man who imposed 2% transaction tax just to make sure the street vendors who were not paying income tax to be taxed!
The vendors should have been on state welfare were being forced to pay more tax and yet the filthy rich ruling elite looting billions of dollars every year were left off scot free and the Minister himself was living in extravagant luxury! There is no sense nor justice in this!
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa, struggling to consolidate and maintain power at the volatile helm amid renewed internal Zanu-PF infighting and disintegration of the coalition which drove his ascendancy, is tenuously hanging onto his faltering position by his fingernails despite an aura of invincibility, top party officials say.
ReplyDeleteAn investigation by The NewsHawks shows Mnangagwa's biggest problem is that he is leading a divided party, which has an unresolved leadership issue, without a mandate from congress, the supreme decision-making body of the party.
"Legally, Mnangagwa has no mandate from congress to currently lead Zanu-PF," a senior party official said.
The primary reason for the November 2017 military coup was to save the country from a economic meltdown; Mnangagwa's "Zimbabwe is open for business!" was meant to address this very problem.We know his flagship mantra was dead in the water because Zimbabwe, post the coup, remained pariah state and no one wants to do business in a pariah state.
The failure to revive the economy has given Mnangagwa's political opponents the excuse to challenge his authority and he knows it.
SOUTH AFRICAN President Cyril Ramaphosa repeated his call to the United States and its allies to lift sanctions imposed against neighbouring Zimbabwe.
ReplyDeleteThe United States and the European Union (EU) have imposed sanctions on Zimbabwean officials, including President Emmerson Mnangagwa, and say certain human rights reforms are needed to lift them.
Zimbabwe was suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations and had its lines of credit at international financial institutions frozen.
This is rich coming from the only SADC leader who said Zimbabwe’s rigged 2018 elections “went well!”
The root cause of Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown is the gross mismanagement and rampant corruption; sanctions is only a scapegoat! We have been stuck for 41 years with this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship because Zanu PF rigged elections.
Sanctions are useful in that they are helping focus minds on the rigged elections and therefore calling for their removal is the wrong thing, to say the least!
@ Prisca Ncube
ReplyDelete“We are so sick of the same story-day in day out. Iz would appear you demand people to listen to what you write but you ate not prepared to listen to them when they say your repetition of the same accusations against mdc Chamisa is now a tired message. You have saying this the past 7 years. we are sick sick of the tired message dear wilbert. Kana kuti waakusvotesa those who say are sick of your articles. Tiri kuzosvotwa manje.”
Here we go! You are attacking the messenger and not the message!
Zimbabwe is in this mess because the politicians have been repeating the same foolish things. MDC leaders have not implement even one token reform in 22 years. The problem is the failure to implement the reforms and not that I am pointing out the problem.
I am not here to tell people what they want to hear but I believe they NEED to hear.
Of course, like everyone else I would like to be popular but will not trade my principles and values for cheap popularity.
I have said MDC leaders failed to implement even one democratic reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU, that is a lot more than “the last 7 years”, and I am not done yet. I say it not only because it is true and most significantly it is the root cause of our failure to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship.
I would like to hear you or someone out there who thinks so, tell me I am wrong to blame MDC’s selling out of reforms. And, more significantly tell me how the nation is going to get out of this mess without implementing reforms.
I believe participating in the 2023 elections without reform is insane and if by repeating this a million time will force people, some people at least not everyone, to think twice then it is well worth my while repeating this a million million times!
Any Zimbabwean with half a brain should be ashamed that the country is in such a economic and political mess, that so many ordinary Zimbabweans have lost the lives and many more are set to suffer and die all because we have failed to govern ourselves these last 41 years.
It is within our power to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship and end the curse of rigged elections and bad governance. This is the holy grail of this generation!
Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi yesterday reiterated calls for the removal of the illegal sanctions against Zimbabwe in address to the 76th session of the UN General Assembly currently ongoing in New York.
ReplyDeleteThis comes ahead of the Zimbabwe anti-sanctions day to be commemorated on October 25 and follows similar calls by South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday.
He also said the Covid-19 pandemic had devastated economies of most developing countries and was a threat to targets set in the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals.
"Sanctions against Zimbabwe are a setback to stability in our region. Botswana therefore calls on the international community to end sanctions against Zimbabwe," President Masisi said.
He also said the Islamic insurgency in Mozambique was also a threat to regional stability.
Zimbabwe has been under the sanctions regime that was imposed by the US and her allies at the turn of the century as a response to the land reform programme adopted by Government to correct colonial imbalances.
Sadc has resolved to collectively call for the removal of the sanctions and has set October 25 as an anti-sanctions day were various activities are held across the region to raise awareness of the negative impact the sanctions have had on Zimbabwe and the region.
"Sanctions against Zimbabwe are a setback to stability in our region. Botswana therefore calls on the international community to end sanctions against Zimbabwe," President Masisi said.
This comes as sweet, sweet music to Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF colleagues’ ears.
There is a mountain of evidence to show that the economic and political turmoil in Zimbabwe is indeed a serious threat to the development and stability of the Southern Africa region. There is also a mountain of evidence to show the root causes of Zimbabwe’s economic and political mess are the four decades of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and rank lawlessness which have earned the nation the pariah state status.
Sanctions have been imposed a a select few Zanu PF leaders and their contribution to Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown has been exaggerated by Zanu PF officials fort propaganda reasons.
The nation has been stuck with the Zanu PF dictatorship all these years because the party has rigged elections.As long as Zanu PF retains its carte blanche powers to rig elections, Zimbabwe will remain a pariah state ruled by corrupt and murderous thugs and there will be no meaningful political change or economic recovery.
It is most disconcerting that President Masisi, speaking as the leader of Botswana and thus on behalf of the people of Botswana, should once again chose to ignore the mountain of evidence on the real causes of Zimbabwe’s problems and accept Zanu PF propaganda instead!
If SADC leader, or anyone for that matter, choose to comment of Zimbabwe’s problems; he or she must confine themselves to proven historic fact; if not then he/she must shut up. That is not too much to ask!
After 41 years of rigged elections, it is shocking that many Zimbabweans still have no clue what constitute free and fair election, what reforms are required to stop the curse of rigged elections and, much less, how the said reforms should be implemented. Understanding these things requires a little effort on the part of the individual, it is not rocket science.
ReplyDeleteThe Zimbabwean voters remain some of the most naive and gullible voters on earth and the country's sorry state of affairs says it all. As long as the nation remain a nation of naive and gullible voters, the nation will never recover from the mess Zanu PF landed us in.
Greediness has been watered by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's approach to politics. In a purported bid to bring national healing and cohesion, he has awakened the demons in ambitious people.
ReplyDeleteThe Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) platform, while noble, has been abused. Participating parties have been rewarded with vehicles and other trinkets.
It has become a feeding trough for the political wannabes.
POLAD is just an extension of what was happening during the 2008 to 2013 GNU where Mugabe pampered Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends with the trappings of high office in return for the MDC leaders forgetting about implementing the democratic reforms. During the GNU it was the Tsvangirai led MDC-T faction and the Mutambara led MDC - M faction who were pampered, Mnangagwa was extended the pampering to include all the parties that fielded a presidential candidate and will publicly endorse Mnangagwa as the legitimate president.
The creation of POLAD was a very strategic move on Mnangagwa’s part because it is clear there will be many more participating in the 2023 elections than in 2018. We all know the 2023 will be flawed and illegal, Zanu PF will rig the elections, but this will not matter as long as many participate and thus give Zanu PF legitimacy!
@ Arthur Mntungwa
ReplyDelete“Wilbert Mukori Im also not here to tell you what you want to hear. I tell you what you need to hear, and keep avoiding. ZANU and MDC, including you cannot impose straight jacket solutions to our country. Mthwakazi people have suffered Shona tribalism in Zimbabwe. Shonas suffered nothing of the sort; but instead had their culture and language glorified beyond the levels they were in Rhodesia. Every Shona politician and commentator avoids this subject of Shona tribalism. Why? We are not Nehanda people. We are Mthwakazi people. We believe in unity in diversity, not unity through assimilation.”
You should look in the mirror to see who is the tribalist! You have elected to cast what Mugabe and Zanu PF did especially during Gukurahundi as a tribal act when it was Mugabe and Zanu PF seeking domination. It suits your tribal agenda to confuse Mugabe and Zanu PF with Shonas.
Zanu PF misrule has destroyed Zimbabwe’s economy leaving the whole country in a real mess. You for your own tribal agenda insist some regions have been neglected whilst other have prospered.
Whilst some of us a fighting to end the Zanu PF dictatorship so we can rebuild a democratic, free and prosperous Zimbabwe. You see the demise of Zanu PF as the opportunity to settle old tribal scores under the pretext of fighting some foolish nonsense like “unity through assimilation”!
Among several African countries with large deposits of coal, it is heavily dependent on China after it had sanctions imposed on it by the United States and some European countries because of former president Robert Mugabe's human rights abuses and policy of seizing land from white farmers.
ReplyDeleteIt was planning to build several coal-fired power plants costing a total of US$15 billion, with Chinese lenders initially committed to them. Private funding was not forthcoming, partly because of growing opposition from environmental campaigners.
But on Tuesday, in a pre-recorded speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Xi sounded a death knell for several coal projects, including in Zimbabwe, for which Chinese lenders were expected to provide financing.
Chinese cash funds African coal plants despite environmental concerns
The southern African nation's demand for power exceeds its supply, causing it to seek to build more plants. Its electricity shortage means it cannot attract power-intensive manufacturing companies.
Xi's pledge could halt dozens of coal power projects in Africa, although there had already been a notable slowdown in new financing since Xi last year announced a target for net-zero emissions by 2060.
Zimbabwe had the feasibility reports for Hwange Stage 7 and 8 and Batoka Gorge Hydro done and dusted when the country attained her independence in 1980. The only reason these projects were never started even to this day, 41 years later, is proof of just how corrupt and incompetent the Zanu PF regime is.
@ Cedric Steele
ReplyDeleteIn trying to distance himself from all the intimidation, arbitrary arrests, disappearances, beatings and murders of perceived opponents of the late ex-President Robert Mugabe's regime, he is behaving like Joseph Goebbels who feigned ignorance of Nazi atrocities.
The Public Order and Security Act (Posa) was introduced in 2002 by Zanu-PF and amended in 2007 with Moyo being its chief architect. The law gave considerable powers to the police and was used against any conceived opposition to the government. Posa replaced to the Law and Order Maintenance Act (Loma), which was enacted by the brutal Rhodesian government in the 1960s and used extensively to control the civil unrest taking place in the country at that time. Loma in turn borrowed heavily from a similar law in South Africa which was a logical step since Rhodesia could accurately be described as "apartheid lite" in all but name.
It is, indeed, a shameful stain on the country's resume that a South African law, conceived for the sole purpose of oppressing Africans in that country could be reincarnated as Loma under Ian Smith, then Posa under Mugabe and now moonlighting as the Maintenance of Peace and Order (Mopa), under President Emmerson Mnangagwa. When the so-called liberators of a country not only fail to repeal oppressive laws but actually modify them to make them more effective against the people, you know that the struggle is not over.
The Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) was the other notable repressive piece of legislation introduced in 2002, again with Moyo's fingerprints all over it. Even late Justice minister Eddison Zvobgo, who was chairman of the Parliamentary Legal Committee at the time, said: "I can say without any equivocation that this Bill, in its original form, was the most calculated and determined assault on our liberties guaranteed by the Constitution in the 20 years I served as a Cabinet minister.”
In the general election of 2013, Moyo was defeated in Tsholotsho North by the MDC-T's Roseline Nkomo. Despite his loss, Mugabe appointed him Information minister that same year. Moyo would later recount his time as a ruling party exile by saying something to the effect that "it's cold outside Zanu-PF".
This is such a revealing statement as it is fitting testament to the sad situation in a country which is governed to benefit only the minority that is connected to the ruling party.
Zimbabwe is in this political and economic mess precisely because the country’s politicians, on both side of the political divide have all shown that they are corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent. Mugabe had no problem turning Zimbabwe into a corrupt and tyrannical dictatorship; he had thugs like Mnangagwa who were prepared to rig elections and even commit mass murder as long as they had a share of the spoils of power. Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends failed to implement even one reform in five years of the GNU because they had their snout in the feeding trough. Even someone of great intellectual ability like Professor Jonathan Moyo showed that he would sell his own mother if the price was right and he even boasted he had a mother to sell!
It is little wonder Zimbabwe is in a real mess, with nothing but corrupt and incompetent leaders there was no escape! Unless the people open their eyes and pay attention on the need to elect competent and quality leaders, this nation is doomed!
Like it or not, Chamisa and his MDC A friends would like to get into power, indeed they are really desperate to get back on the gravy train they would do anything. They number one problem is they have no clue how to get into power. None!
ReplyDeleteMDC had their greatest opportunity to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship by implementing the democratic reforms, take away Zanu PF's carte blanche dictatorial powers, and thus ensure free, fair and credible elections. There is no doubt that by the late 1990s the majority of Zimbabwe were convinced Zanu PF was corrupt and incompetent., the party would have lost an free and fair election. MDC leaders wasted the opportunity to end the Zanu PF dictatorship because they are corrupt and incompetent.
Beside the call for mass voter registration, mass voting and then the call to guard the vote; MDC A have no other plan. They know Zanu PF is rigging the elections they have no plan what to do to stop rigging and, worst of all, they cannot tame their own greed. Of course, Chamisa and company are participating in these flawed and illegal elections out of greed, Zanu PF knows that and hence the reason the party has been offering the few gravy train seats and now Mnangagwa has added POLAD perks.
Chamisa and company should boycott the elections to force Zanu PF to follow the law and hold free and fair elections. MDC A will never boycott the elections out of greed and Zanu PF, for its part, will never implement any reforms and risk losing the elections when Mnangagwa and company know MDC A will participate regardless how flawed and illegal the process got!
Such slogans as "ngaapinde Hake Mukomana!" is the sum total of MDC A's SOLID PLAN!
There is no doubt that Mnangagwa is inviting the UN Rapporteur for the sole purpose of making sure the country is seen as making significant strides in its re-engagement agenda. When it comes to image, Zanu PF has always splashed billions of dollars on PR. No doubt a PR company in US, UK or some such country has been paid millions of dollars to facilitate this meeting.
ReplyDeleteZanu PF has a plan! The party is going full steam ahead with its vote rigging juggernaut; the party has already denied 3 million plus Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote, the chiefs have been gifted the D-Max Isuzu trucks to play their part as political commissars, etc. Zanu PF is making sure MDC A and the rest of the opposition camp participate in these elections in droves!
Meanwhile the party is pulling all the stops to make sure the international community especially SADC see nothing amiss with the flawed and illegal elections. It would be rich for anyone to condemn the 2023 rigged elections when the Zimbabweans themselves have participated in these elections with such enthusiasm and panache!
@ Arthur Mntungwa
ReplyDelete“Wilbert Mukori; it's the tree that knows the pain, not the axe. We are the victims of Shona tribalism here, not you, or the Shona people.
Shona tribalism was and is still driven by ZANU. I will tell you what you don't want to hear.
There is no settling of scores here. We are talking of corrective action.
Go ahead and fight the ZANU you installed in power in 1980. Who is stopping you?”
You brought misery to our lives in Matebeleland. Rhodesia was certainly better for us.
The Zimbabwe economy is in ruins. Basic services such as education and health care have all but collapsed and 49% of our people now live in abject poverty. The country is in political paralysis thanks to the 41 years of stifled debate and suffocating tyranny. Over 30 000 innocent lives have been lost to create this de facto one-party dictatorship. There is no doubt the last 41 years have been hell for every Zimbabwean including the Zanu PF buffoons themselves and the sell-out opposition opportunists.
The challenge is to rebuild the nation from the Zanu PF ruins. Whilst many are focusing on rebuilding you are pushing your tribal agenda.
Citing the biblical concept of the Israelites entering God’s promised land, the vibrant leader assured citizens that the Zanu PF regime would be defeated in 2023.
ReplyDelete“POSSESSING THE PROMISED LAND… We have stayed long enough at this mountain.
We must now turn, break camp, advance, take our journey and go to Canaan.See, now our God has set the promised land before us and we must possess it.
Deut 1:5-8 Canaan here we come!#Ngatipindei #Asingeneni,” President Chamisa wrote on Twitter
The sheer stupidity and shallowness of it all is nauseating! Here is someone who lacks common sense and has no idea what he is doing. None!
The people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb to elect MDC leaders into power on the understanding that the party would bring about the democratic changes the nation needed to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections. After 22 years of MDC on the centre stage, 5 years of which in the GNU, MDC has not implemented even one token reform!
As long as Zanu PF retain the carte blanche powers to blatantly rig the elections there will be no entering the Promised Land, Canaan, for the people Zimbabwe. Instead of coming up with ways to force the reforms to be implemented all MDC A can think of is participating in flawed elections and give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy.
The people risked all to get MDC leaders into to stop Zanu Pf rigging the elections and instead MDC leaders are the ones now giving vote rigging Zanu PF thugs legitimacy. What a nightmare!
A few weeks ago, Tsitsi Dangarembga dismissed one of Chamisa’s twitters as “mambo jumbo!” Well, mambo jumbo is all the nation will ever get from Chamisa!
@ Arthur Mntungwa
ReplyDelete“Wilbert Mukori you are Shona tribalistic idiot. Our duty in Mthwakazi is to ensure the mistakes made by our elders in ZAPU are not repeated. We fought the war together. When the time to eat came, we were fed with new historical narratives about Zimbabwe a Shona country with a Shona name. This time around we won't have it. You voted ZANU in your numbers as Shona people. Stop your nonsense, now that you are suffering from the monster you created.”
@ Arthur Mntungwa
ReplyDelete“I stand here TALL, and urge ALL Mthwakazi Matebeleland people to UNAPOLOGETICALLY always ensure they pursue a TRIBAL AGENDA in all their engagements with Zimbabwe's socio-economic-politico discourse and Governance. Stop burying your heads in the sand in fear of the usual stupid and diversionary attacks of "tribalist and tribalism". There is no such a thing. A tribal agenda seeks to protect your rights as minorities in a tribalistically Shona-majority Centric Nation as Zimbabwe. Tribalism is all about discrimination. The two are mutually exclusive. They are not the same.”