It is great to be a dictator; you can say whatever you like, make all manner of promises knowing fully well you will never ever be held to democratic account for it!
“Zimbabwe has set an ambitious objective of reducing carbon emissions by 40% per capita by 2030. The removal of illegal sanctions which have been imposed on my country will go a long way in helping to enable the achievement of this target,” announced President Emmerson Mnangagwa in his speech to the on-going UN conference on Climate Change in Glasgow, UK.
Just as well, President Mnangagwa was addressing empty chairs because he would have struggled to be heard above the hum of suppressed laughter! He announced very bold and ambitious carbon emission reduction targets indeed, not that anyone believed him. Still, they wanted to hear how Zimbabwe would meet those targets.
Instead of hearing the explanation of how Zimbabwe will reduce its green house gas emission by 40% in nine years time; the President went on to give an excuse, not just an excuse but a feeble excuse, why will not deliver on its emission promise - sanctions!
It is impossible not to laugh!
2030 is a big year for Zimbabwe, Zanu PF’s Zimbabwe to be exact; the party has promised the nation will attain “upper middle income” status that year; vision 2030. The President, Minister of Finance Professor Mthuli Ncube and the rest of the Zanu PF leaders insist the nation is on course to attain this goal.
All the economic indicators for meaningful economic recovery increased investment, better infrastructure, increased trade, strengthening local currency, increasing employment opportunity and better wages, etc. are not there.
Indeed, the economic recovery that Mnangagwa promised with his much heralded “Zimbabwe is open for business!” mantra when he toke over following the 2017 military coup has not materialised. The mantra was dead in the water even as the regime was going around on the no expense spare to promote it.
“Zimbabwe is open for business!” was premised on the idea that the November 2017 military coup had transformed Zimbabwe from the Banana Republic, a pariah state, ruling by corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging thugs into a “democratic new dispensation, a Second Republic,” as Mnangagwa went to great pain to point out.
The truth there for all to see; Zimbabwe was still a pariah state; the military coup was just a meaningless musical chairs booting out some thugs to promote others. The failure to hold free, fair and credible elections in July 2018, confirmed nothing had changed.
As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state, there will be no meaningful economic recovery, vision 2030 will remain a mirage. President Mnangagwa’s promise to reduce Zimbabwe’s greenhouse gases in just another mirage.
If anything, Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown, a result of 41 years and counting of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption under Zanu PF rule, has accelerated the cutting down of trees for firewood and land degradation. The country’s worsening economic situation will only mean the greenhouse gases emissions and land degradation will get worse!
This Zanu PF regime had the detailed plans for Batoka Gorge Hydro when the country gained her independence in 1980 and has done nothing about it to this day. How many trees would have been spared the axe if this second Kariba Dam had been built, to say nothing of the other economic benefits!
It is hoped that many developed nation will honour their pledge to give US$100 billion to help developing nations cope with the challenges brought by global climate changes. It is almost certain Zimbabwe will not get its fair share of the assistance because of the country’s reputation of being corrupt and wasteful.
A Zimbabwe government audit report showed that 90% of the aid the country received following the Ida Cyclone two years ago was either wasted or looted. 90%!
It is interesting to note that last week, when President Mnangagwa was polishing up his Glasgow speech, the UN Special rapporteur, Ms Alena Douhan, told him Zimbabwe address its underlying problems and stop using sanctions as an excuse for its failures.
“Time is ripe for the sanctioning states and key national stakeholders to engage in a meaningful structured dialogue on political reform, human rights and the rule of law and abandon rhetoric on sanctions as an advocacy tool,” said Ms Douhan.
“Zimbabwe will reduce greenhouse gases by 40% by 2030!” From a regime that has failed to deliver free election in 41 years!
Massive crowds turned out on Thursday at the Robert Mugabe International Airport to welcome President Emmerson Mnangagwa from a COP 26 Summit in Glasgow, United Kingdom.
ReplyDeletePresident Mnangagwa personally invited Prince Charles to Zimbabwe, 41 years after the Prince ceremoniously lowered the Union Jack, paving the way to Zimbabwe's Independence.
Some people say the huge crowd was bused in from far and wide; in all probability, this is true. Zimbabweans are aware of their economic plight and hopelessness and they would have voted Zanu PF out of office decades ago if they had a free, fair and credible vote. They don’t and never did.
Zanu PF has rigged elections from the word go! Zanu PF operatives on the ground told the people that if the party did not win the 1980 elections, the bush war will continue. The people voted to end the war; it is most unwise to argue when you are looking up the business end of an AK47 rifle!
Zimbabwe had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms and take away Zanu PF’s carte blanche powers to rig elections during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Sadly MDC leaders, who were entrusted with this sacred task, sold out and failed to get even one reform implemented.
The MDC dimwits have compounded the situation by insisting in participating in flawed elections; they told their braindead followers the party has devised winning in rigged elections (wire) strategies. All the MDC is doing is give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy and frustrating efforts to implement reforms.
The Zanu PF buffoons are rigging the 2023 elections and the MDC dimwits are providing the legitimacy cover! This is insane, of course it is insane!
The Bulawayo City Council has announced that it is shutting down water for all residents of the City due to power outages experienced from Wednesday. The Council has advised residents to conserve water accordingly and ensure that taps remain turned off in-case of earlier re-supply.
ReplyDeleteThis is a sick joke! President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has just landed from the Glasgow Climate Change Conference where he announced that Zimbabwe was going to reduce its greenhouse gases emission by a staggering 40% in the next 9 years! He is welcomed back home with the reality that the country’s second biggest city has no running water because of power cuts, another one of Zimbabwe’s many problems.
How is a country that cannot even deliver some thing as basic as clean running water going to deliver on the more demanding challenges of climate change. The truth is Dambudzo is just a buffoon and, like all buffoons, he believes there is nothing under the sun that he cannot do. He keeps wittering about Zimbabwe becoming an upper middle income nation in 2030, vision 2030; a mirage, as the country continue to sink into the abyss.
Zimbabweans must now wake up and demand their right to a meaningful say in the governance of this country before these Zanu PF buffoons, cheered on by the MDC dimwits, drags us all beyond the point of no return.
He said this in an interview with journalists at the end of visit in Scotland yesterday.
ReplyDelete"I had an opportunity to chat with President Joe Biden and the spirit, which he has towards Zimbabwe is totally different from what we see from the US Embassy in Harare.
"In fact, he called a staffer and said ‘please make sure that I have a chat with the President (referring to President Mnangagwa)'," he said.
The US Embassy has been criticised by many rational Zimbabweans for behaving like an opposition party that always parrots opposition sentiments.
Secretary of State for the Holy See, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who is the top Catholic diplomat, told President Mnangagwa that the Vatican was unhappy with the sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe.
The President then asked him to convey a message to Pope Francis that he should condemn the illegal sanctions.
"I am pleased that the narratives that were misleading (about Zimbabwe) have been corrected. All the leaders that I spoke with were happy to grow relations with Zimbabwe.”
Now here is a man grovelling for attention and is even boasting about it as a great achievement. It is left to us to hang our heads in shame. Zimbabwe has become the textbook case of failed state, latching from one man-made crisis to another and seemingly incapable of doing anything right. And now a new addition to the textbook case, where the country’s buffoon leaders are so desperate to be noticed they make a complete nuisance of themselves!
Zimbabweans have been robbed of their wealth, future and even their very lives and now they are being rob of their self-respect too! It was bad enough Mnangagwa splashing US$ 1 million of a hired jet, taking a 100 strong entourage, spending a fortune on shopping spree, etc. Did he really have to grovel just to be noticed too!
We really must do something to end this curse of rigged elections and bad governance!
Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa was on Wednesday barred by citizens from attending his own business meeting in Glasgow.
ReplyDeleteMr Mnangagwa was advised by the police he should stay within specified areas.
Mnangagwa's shameless extravagance of splashing US$ 1 million on a hired jet was a great embarrassment to every thinking Zimbabwean. The man is a buffoon and it is right and proper that Zimbabweans should tell him so!
In an intrigue, the man who travelled with over a hundred delegates from Zimbabwe saw less than 45 people turn up for his investment showroom. The 44 who turned up included his own staff such as Mthuli Ncube and others, meaning the number of real investors, if any, falls far below the 40 marker.
ReplyDeleteThe Zimbabwe Presidential Investment Conference was a bid to unlock foreign direct investment (FDI) for Zimbabwe and had been confirmed by Ambassador to the UK, Christian Katsande.
When it eventually kicked in, Mnangagwa was told by the British govt authorities the only places he is allowed to visit are UN function premises, his hotel room, and lastly the airport for exiting the country, an impeccable source who declined being named, told ZimEye.
Mnangagwa's shameless extravagance of splashing US$ 1 million on a hired jet, a 100 strong entourage, etc. was a great embarrassment to every thinking Zimbabwean. The man is a buffoon and it is right and proper that Zimbabweans should tell him so!
Unless Zimbabweans reject the 2023 elections with not even a token reform in place as a farce, the nation will be stuck with this buffoon for another five years! If people participate in the elections then they have, per se, accepted the process as free, fair and credible and given Zanu PF legitimacy!
EVEN Zanu PF acknowledges that MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is the only person who can remove Zimbabwe from international isolation, the party’s deputy national spokesperson Ostalloz Siziba says.
ReplyDeleteThose who will not learn from the past are destined to repeat the same mistakes over and over again.
One of the reasons why Zimbabwe is stuck this economic and political mess is because the nation was naive to trust Robert Mugabe and his cronies as demigods who can do no wrong. By the time the nation started to wake up to its folly, in the late 1990s, the Zanu PF dictatorship was deeply entrenched in Zimbabwe society and hence the reason why it has been very difficult to dismantle the dictatorship.
Sadly, the nation has failed to learn from its failure to treat Zanu PF leaders as fallible mortals who must be accountable to people at all times because the nation is making the same foolish mistake with MDC leaders.
"Similarly, the MDC is throwing around vacuous phrases and "ngaapinde mukomana" (loosely translates to "the boy must get in") slogans, but I think it is only fair that the boy explains why he should be allowed to be the next president. This has been pointed out by several analysts, but the response that if he does, his enemies will steal his ideas is unacceptable," wrote Dr Mike Chipere in a recent article in Bulawayo 24.
"Firstly, judging from past political manifestos and other public commentaries, there is no evidence that he has a credible plan and I dare his most ardent supporters to articulate it beyond his desire to be the next president of Zimbabwe. Secondly, if his enemies steal these mysterious ideas or strategies, what does it matter if they would be beneficial to the long-suffering people of Zimbabwe?"
Indeed MDC leaders were entrusted with the important task of implementing the democratic reforms and end the Zanu PF dictatorship. After 22 years in power, 5 of which in the GNU, MDC has failed to implement even one reform. It beggars belief therefore to hear someone call Chamisa; whose track record already shows him to be a corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless; the nation's saviour!
“My family was banished to Zambia when I was still in primary school for resisting the oppressive rule of the white minority regime in 1955. This action hardened my resolve for justice and black empowerment,” wrote Mnangagwa.
ReplyDeleteHow many Zimbabweans have you killed in cold-blood to further your de facto one-party dictatorship in 41 years of Zanu PF dictatorship? Over 35 000! How many millions of ordinary Zimbabweans have you banished to foreign lands to escape your corrupt and tyrannical rule!
It is ironic that a corrupt and murderous thug like Mnangagwa should still consider himself a national hero extraordinary even in the face of the tragic human reality we can see with our own eyes. It is unforgivable that we, ordinary Zimbabweans have allowed this tragedy to happen and have paid dearly for our folly! This is absolutely no excuse for letting this madness continue even for one more day. None!
DEFENCE and War Veterans Affairs Minister, Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has revealed liberation war veterans are set to receive end-of-year bonuses denominated in United States Dollars, a privilege not extended to civil servants.
ReplyDeleteThe move is widely seen as aimed at appeasing the restive and easily irritable veterans of the 1970s liberation war after they recently demonstrated against their measly allowances and picketed at Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's offices two weeks ago demanding an upward review.
They also remonstrated with police officers who blocked them from storming President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Munhumutapa offices in Harare where they sought to submit a petition.
Muchinguri-Kashiri, who was addressing the military top brass at a 2022 strategic planning workshop in Kariba, said Treasury had undertaken to pay war veterans in forex.
"Already, a commitment has been made by Treasury to pay war veterans bonuses this year, a part of which is likely to be in foreign currency. Measures are also being taken to further improve benefits of the veterans," Muchinguri-Kashiri said.
"The ministry also has obligations to administer the welfare services of veterans of the liberation struggle. And as we plan for 2022 and beyond, it is critical for us not to leave them behind. They are an important constituent of our society by virtue of the sacrifices towards Mother Zimbabwe from the jaws of colonial bondage," she said
Zimbabwe is a pariah state, a BananaRepublic, ruled by corrupt, incompetent and murderous tyrants who have been rigging elections to stay in power. As long as the country remains a pariah state, there will be no meaningful economic recovery.
Minister Mthuli Ncube has managed to stop the country sinking to the same economic depths of the 2008 era by throwing overboard the education, health care, social services and many other key services affecting the ordinary people. As you know teachers, nurses, war veterans, etc. have all been thrown overboard for the purpose of saving the ruling elite. But this has not been enough, the economy has continued to sink.
The promise to pay war veterans an allowance will solve nothing as long as the country remains a pariah state; the payment will kick the can down the road, at best, and at worse fuel inflation and drag the nation towards the 2008 era!
ZIMBABWE has been excluded from participating in a democracy summit in the United States next month where President Joseph Biden is expected to host more than 100 nations.
ReplyDeleteThis comes at a time when President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week claimed that he had a refreshing chat with Biden at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Scotland.
Mnangagwa claimed that Biden assigned one of his aides to look at ways of re-engaging Zimbabwe. The US has not responded to these claims.
Zanu PF will never ever implement any democratic reforms any risk losing its iron grip on political power especially when it is clear it does not need to do so. Zanu PF knows that Chamisa and company will participate in the elections regardless how flawed and illegal the process got. Mnangagwa is giving away a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition to participate.
People must not forget that MDC leaders failed to implement even one token reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU for the same reasons they have been participating in flawed 2013 and 2018 elections - they are breathtakingly incompetent and corrupt.
Of course, Chamisa and company will never admit they corrupt and incompetent and so they tell their naive and gullible supporter that Chamisa has a SOLID plan to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections. All bulls****t, of course.
The Americans and the rest of the West must wake-up to the reality that MDC leaders are now as much a hinderance to democratic change in Zimbabwe as Zanu PF thugs themselves!
MOVEMENT for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance vice president Tendai Biti says he, for a moment, felt as if he was at the heart of Taliban-ruled Afghani capital Kabul after escaping an alleged Monday night abduction attempt.
ReplyDeleteHe blames Zanu PF members for the dramatic attempt.
Tendai Biti and his MDC friends must remember that they had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms to end the Zanu PF dictatorship and they failed to implement even one token reform in 5 years of the GNU. We would not be in this mess still if MDC leaders had not sold-out big time!