"Unilateral sanctions violate international law, sovereign equality, human rights & hurt the people. 13 yrs ago, China said NO for Zimbabwe. Today, we continue to call for complete & immediate lifting of all unilateral coercive measures. #RealDemocracy #ZimSanctionsMustGo," the Chinese embassy tweeted.
The most notable thing here is that China has never ever commented on Zimbabwe’s rampant corruption and gross mismanagement as the causes of the country’s economic and political meltdown. It is no secret that China is one of the major players in the wholesale looting in Marange and Chiadzwa and other areas.
China has promised to bankroll many “mega deal projects” in Zimbabwe but very few the project have ever come to fruition because China would only fund new projects on condition Zimbabwe paid its outstanding debts. This double shuffle infuriated the late Zanu PF dictator, Robert Mugabe, and he booted the Chinese out of Marange and Chiadzwa in 2016 - a big mistake.
It is common knowledge that China played a pivotal role in the success of the 2017 military coup that booted Mugabe out of office. Both Mnangagwa and Chiwenga are puppets and the puppeteer pulling the strings is none other than the Chinese.
Of course, the Chinese are happy to see sanctions blamed for Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown, anything to draw attention away from the real cause and those behind it - the wholesale looting and Zimbabwe’s new de facto colonial masters, the Chinese.
Zanu PF should accept peaceful change and we, the people, must do our best to make sure they do so; because the alternative to peaceful change is violent change. After 41 years of rigging elections to frustrate peaceful change, the window of opportunity for peaceful change is closing.
ReplyDeleteThe trouble with violent change is it will sweep away Mnangagwa and his cronies and go on to cause more death and destruction before it is finally done. Look at Libya and Sudan the fires of the violent change are still burning! We do not want Zimbabwe to become the next Libya or worse!
After 41 years of rigged elections with history set to repeat itself, the MDC leaders are determined to participate in the 2023 elections only to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy; Zimbabwe is sleep walking to become the Libya of Southern Africa just as we became the North Korea of Africa.
RIOT cops heavily descended on war veterans protesting their paltry monthly allowances in Harare Monday morning, arresting 30.
ReplyDeleteThe easily irritable ex-combatants once again took to the streets barely two months after they were chased away by baton wielding police officers for the same reason.
This time, they intended to submit a petition bearing a prolonged list of their grievances to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Munhumutapa offices.
Riot police trucks could be seen in the Harare Central Business District as early as 5am preparing to square up against the former freedom fighters.
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because the country is a de facto one party dictatorship, a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs who have rigged elections to stay in power. The war veterans have played their role in helping Mugabe establish and retain the one-part dictatorship.
As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state, there will be no meaningful economic recovery.
Teachers, nurses, civil servants and ordinary Zimbabweans have each been fighting government to address their economic and social challenges, in their own little corner. Each has not seen it as their business to demand the implementation of democratic reforms and thus end the curse of rigged elections.
Indeed, many of them have been very careful to make it clear they were fighting for their little corner and are not going to comment on anything that might be considered party politics.
The chicken are coming home to roost, the issue of free, fair and credible elections is everyone’s business because there will be no meaningful economic recovery as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by vote rigging thugs. There will be no living wage for teachers and nurses, no living pension for war veterans, no jobs for the millions unemployed, etc. as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state.
HOME AFFAIRS minister Kazembe Kazembe has been implicated in massive tender scandal after a company he has interests in won a lucrative tender under suspicious circumstances, it has emerged.
ReplyDeleteThe company, Learbridge Investments (Learbridge) was awarded the tender ahead of more reputable firms offering the service at lesser costs.
The tender, worth US$2,58 million, is for the supply and installation of a new and upgraded security system at the National Sports Stadium in Harare.
Even more curiously, documents seen by NewZimbabwe.com show, Learbridge's winning bid was inflated by a whooping US$258 000.
For every corruption case that is uncovered, how many go unreported?
As long as Zimbabwe remain a pariah state; corruption, economic meltdown, political instability, etc. will remain and only get worse.
@ Arthur Mntugwa
ReplyDelete“I find it really funny, and strange how you ALWAYS studiously avoid the subject of Shona tribalism that was nurtured and driven by ZANU, that Matebeleland continues to suffer from to this day since 1980. Nomazulu is clearly addressing ZANU's tribalism with respect to Dr Joshua Nkomo's advices. But you prefer to ignore that - yet its the main subject here.
You love to generalise ZANU's misgovernance, and avoid the regional specifics, as if accusations of tribalism against ZANU, are also against you. Clearly you are such a dishonest somebody, just like many Shona people out there, who daily attack ZANU's oppressive and undemocratic politics, including the MDC. Its like you are all saying the Ndebele people deserve it. Are you feeling guilty by tribal association, or what?”
All Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies have always wanted is absolute power and all the benefit it brings and they rod roughshod over the people denying them their freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country and even the right to life. The consequences of the 41 years of de facto Zanu PF one-party dictatorship is the economic ruins, political paralysis, tragic human suffering and over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans murdered in cold blood for political gain.
I have consistently condemned Zanu PF corruption and tyrannical rule and called for the implementation of democratic reforms to restore the freedoms and rights of all Zimbabweans regardless of tribe, gender, race, etc. I want to rebuild the nation from the ruins Zanu PF has left.
You are angry that I have refused to be drawn into your narrow regional and tribal agenda that is divisive! What is “dishonest” about attacking Zanu PF’s oppressive and undemocratic politics?
@ Abednico Mweembe Mweembe
ReplyDelete“If Zanu does not hand over power after we disarm it and confiscate power from it in 2023 then will be left with no choice but Muruu them out of this country.”
For the umpteenth time, if MDC A participate in the 2023 elections with no reforms then Zanu PF will blatantly rig and win that plebiscite just as it did in 2018, 2013, etc. and all MDC A will have done is give legitimacy to the flawed process. No doubt Chamisa will complain the elections were rigged but no one will listen because whilst everyone has called for reforms before elections MDC A is once again insisting on elections without reforms.
MDC A does not even have the common sense to see that by denying 3 million diaspora vote Zanu PF is cherrypicking the electorate, is rigging the elections!
It was USA ambassador to Zimbabwe 2004 to 2007, Chris Dell, who said in a leaked cable back to Washington that Morgan Tsvangirai “is a flawed and indecisive character who will be an albatross round the nation’s neck if he ever got into power!” Dell could have said that about the whole MDC leadership and, tragically, his prediction has become a reality. MDC are the ones giving vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuating the dictatorship.
@ Fadzai Hahere
ReplyDelete“Zimbabweans are converging for change – and they know their leaders.”
The idea that Zimbabwe rallying behind Nelson Chamisa and his fellow MDC A leaders “know” what they are doing is oxymoronic nonsense! Chamisa and his MDC friends not only sold out by failing to implementing even one democratic reform during the GNU but, make matters worse, have been participating in the flawed elections to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy.
It was USA ambassador to Zimbabwe 2004 to 2007, Chris Dell, who said in a leaked cable back to Washington that Morgan Tsvangirai “is a flawed and indecisive character who will be an albatross round the nation’s neck if he ever got into power!” What Dell said of Tsvangirai was true of the entire MDC leadership and, tragically, his prediction has become a reality.
MDC’s corrupt and incompetent leaders are now a milestone round the nation’s neck dragging us all into the crashing abyss. Of course, if the people of Zimbabwe knew MDC leaders sold-out and are dragging them into the crashing abyss they would stopped supporting the party a long, long time ago.
What took Ambassador Dell a few meeting with MDC leaders to figure out is taking Zimbabweans decades to do the same, even with the benefit of a mountain of hard historic facts! One is given to wonder whether the penny will ever drop!
The novel coronavirus has shown glaring flaws in the world's collective ability to respond to infectious disease outbreaks, with none more evident than wealthy countries' self-destructive unwillingness to cooperate on vaccine equity for the benefit of the entire global population.
ReplyDeleteSince the world's wealthiest countries have been the primary contributors to the great global disparity between the vaccine haves and have-nots - it's time that African leaders push G20 heads of state to address and rectify the life-threatening vaccine imbalance at the upcoming summit in Rome, Italy at the end of October.
As of early October 2021, 3.6 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered globally, with 78% of those going to people in high- and upper-middle-income countries. Less than 7% of the 1.3 billion people on the African continent have received even one dose. The discrepancy is worse for people in low-income countries where less than 1% have gotten a shot.
It's no surprise that there are not enough doses to vaccinate our world when wealthy countries have secured enough vaccines to inoculate their populations as much as five times over, according to Duke University. Even though the world will have created 11 billion total doses by the end of this year, almost 9.9 billion of those have already been promised to wealthy nations.
The Covax initiative, while promising, was supposed to supply lower-income countries with sufficient vaccine doses. However, that mechanism clearly has fallen short of its initial goal to vaccinate 20% of recipient countries, which is still far too little when the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) states that a vaccination rate of 70% is required to protect the world.
This is truly tragic.
As a black African myself, it is tempting to add one's voice to the demand for a more equitable distribution of the covid-19 vaccine but in my heart know this is just another voice crying in the wilderness of the Sahara Desert! African leaders have not done themselves and the continent any favour by their failure to address the thousand and one problems of their own making such as corruption, mismanagement, human rights violations, etc.
I hang my head in shame every time I see an appeal for aid to "bring clear drinking water to Africa!" In this day and age, do we really need someone from Europe to tell us of the folly of drinking from a shallow well!
"I was deeply humbled by the welcome I received from villagers despite the fact that they will face unspecified treatment after my visit from Zanu PF members who have been trying to stop me from visiting rural areas in the country," Chamisa said.
ReplyDelete"It is sad that Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa is quiet about the violence being unleashed on our members and it clearly shows that he is a violent leader," Chamisa said.
Deja vu!
What makes Zimbabwe’s culture of political violence so, so tragic is
after 41 years of rigged elections and bad governance the nation is now in total economic ruins, basic services such as education and health care have collapse and millions of our people now live in abject poverty.
the nation has had many golden opportunities, the best being during the 2008 to 2013 GNU, to implement the democratic reforms, dismantle the dictatorship and replace with a healthy and function democracy. Sadly, all these opportunities have been wasted.
With 49% of the population already living in abject poverty the nation is desperate to end the dictatorship so desperate the people are blindly following MDC A not knowing the party leaders are the very people who betrayed them by failing to implement the reforms during the GNU and worse still are the ones keeping Zanu PF in power by insisting in participating in flawed elections when everyone else is calling for reforms before elections.
Zimbabweans have risked life and limb to elect MDC leaders into power on the understanding the MDC will implement the democratic changes the nation was dying for. Little did they know MDC leaders were corrupt, incompetent and sell-outs; it is sad that even now, with the benefit of hindsight, many people still do not know MDC leaders are sell-outs!
@ Muama Fidel Hosini
ReplyDelete“Turning to violence as an alternative for ZANU which lacks majority voters's support is a way of forcefully trying to get voter's hearts, but in our African standards of UBUNTU you don't force things to your way. Anyway what ZANU doesn't understands is that by doing violence behaviours, they help marketing MDC ALLIANCE's brand as a Party that ZANU fears most to whole country, to SADC region and world over.”
You clearly failed to understand what Zanu PF’s 2008 “Operation Mavhotera papi!” (Operation whom did you vote for!) was about because if you did you would know that the people were harassed, beaten, rape and over 500 murdered into submission. In the March vote Tsvangirai garnered 73% of the votes, by Mugabe’s own Freudian slip, and in the June vote Mugabe got 84% of the votes - proof violence wins votes!
The problem is not so much Zanu PF but MDC who are now stubbornly maintain the party has “SOLID PLANS” to win rigged elections. Everyone else is calling for reforms before elections; Chamisa and company want elections without reforms.
Sadly, many ordinary people believe these hare-brain MDC strategies and so participate in these flawed elections only to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy.
@ Abednico Mweembe Mweembe
ReplyDelete“The writing on the wall is fairly clear zanu is going come 2023. This is the way to go president Chamisa by uniting rural and urban voters victory is now certain. UNITED WE DEFEAT. Ngaanjile zwaakwe muloombe!!!!!!!”
SADC, EU, Americans, everyone even the UN Special rapporteur the other day called for political reforms before elections. It is none other than MDC and company who are adamant they can win rigged elections and so they want elections with no reforms.
MDC leaders and their wildebeest followers are always cocksure of winning the elections, “the writing is on the wall” (from wildebeest who cannot read), only to complain the day after the election that Zanu PF rigged the vote.
“Ngaanjile zwaakwe muloombe!!!!!!!” Yeah right! Slogans are not going to stop Zanu PF rigging the election, only reforms will do that!
MDC Alliance Mashonaland West wrote on Twitter: “Magunje Violence, Zanu Pf militias have stoned several cars in Magunje as they tried to block @nelsonchamisa citizens engagements. Several people have been injured. This violence continues to with impunity.”
ReplyDelete“The people’s President, Adv @nelsonchamisa continues his citizen conversation tour. This week he is in Mash West province. Zanu PF thugs have barricaded the highway & are continuing with their violent, lawless tactics. We are unshaken. Nobody can stop an idea whose time has come,” MDC Alliance said in a statement on Twitter.
If these thugs are attacking Chamisa and his entourage in bold day light knowing fully well the incident will be splashed live on the social media; what worse the ordinary opposition member who will face these thugs away from social media coverage. It is nonsense to even pretend this circus could ever be judge a free, fair and credible election process.
The real problem in Zimbabwe is not just Zanu PF but the opposition too has moved from offering the solution to being part of the problem. MDC leaders not only sold out in failing to implement the democratic reforms but by participating in flawed elections they are giving vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy!
Zanu PF violence will not stop as long as the party knows that it can use the violence to secure votes and get away with it because MDC leaders will participate in the elections no matter what as long as Zanu PF continues to dangle a few gravy train seats!
SADC chairman and Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has issued a statement demanding the removal of US and EU imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe.
ReplyDeleteIn the statement to mark the regional anti-sanctions day against Zimbabwe, Chakwera said sanctions were choking Harare.
“Abandon rhetoric on sanctions as an advocacy tool!” said Alena Douhan, the UN Special rapporteur appointed to investigate Zimbabwe’s repeated claim that the sanctions imposed by the West were responsible for the country’s economic meltdown. Even Zanu PF’s spin doctors have been struck dumb by the rebuke!
"If they are being harassed, beaten or threatened, they should report such cases to the police. The police is there to investigate if they receive those reports. But if they bring the reports to us as a party, we will of course report to the police to investigate," Bimha said in a telephone interview.
ReplyDeleteThis is nonsense! How many times have the opposition reported Zanu PF instigated violence and nothing came out of it. Indeed, there are many cases when the victims of the violence have ended up being arrested, accused of causing the violence.
"If they are being harassed, beaten or threatened, they should report such cases to the police. The police is there to investigate if they receive those reports. But if they bring the reports to us as a party, we will of course report to the police to investigate," Bimha said in a telephone interview.
ReplyDelete"They have not come to me, or my security department to report such cases. As a party, we have no policy of beating up people. It is not our policy; why should we beat up people? We are an organised organisation."
MDC Alliance deputy spokesperson Gift Ostallos said acts of violence by Zanu PF supporters betrayed Mnangagwa's promise to depart from the late Robert Mugabe's politics of violence.
"There is also the conflation of Zanu PF and State apparatus where (Zanu PF) people can torture (MDC Officials) officials with impunity. It's a very dangerous precedent, a very serious culture which bastardises the very idea of Zanu PF that wanted to preach the politics of a new dispensation and no-violence," Ostallos said.
Mnangagwa on Thursday admitted that intra-party violence was also tearing the party apart during his address to the Zanu PF central committee. The party's restructuring exercise has been marred by violence, resulting in provincial elections being called off.
"Violence, political chicanery and divisive elements have no place in our colossal party structures. Under the Second Republic, we will scale up programmes that enhance dialogue, social cohesion and national unity," Mnangagwa said in his address.