You
can read through all the available Zimbabwe 2018 elections reports, none has
ever attributed Zanu PF’s landslide victory to slogan. NewsDay, is claiming MDC
A’s new slogan for the 2023 elections is a game-changer guaranteed to deliver
electoral victory for Chamisa!
“I
have always argued that in all its failures, Zanu-PF is excellent when it comes
to creating jingles, slogans and songs for elections. It knows how to connect
with people using jingles, songs and dance,” wrote NewsDay.
“The
slogan #GodIsInIt as a campaign slogan in 2018 was no match of the largely
infectious and well-thought-out #EDPfee.”
If
this was written as a piece of satirical humour; it turned out a satanical piece.
It is hard to find humour in Zimbabwe’s repeated failure to hold free, fair and
credible elections given the tragic human sufferings and deaths the failure has
brought. Especially when the piece was heaping praise on MDC A’s slogan for the
2023 elections!
“Those
who may not be aware of this slogan, must be living under a rock somewhere out
of Earth. Well, the phrase is “Ngaapinde Hake Mukomana” (NHM) (let the boy
enter), a slogan recently introduced by the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa,”
argued NewsDay.
“It has brought renewed hope, optimism to Zimbabweans across the political
divide. As Steve Biko would say: "People must not give in to hardships of
life, people must develop hope".
“I
have had discussions with people across the political divide about slogans. The
MDC Alliance supporters may not be ready to admit that their campaign slogan
for 2018 was a disaster; more so that it was in English. That did not make the
slogan any better. Politics is a game of understanding your audience. MDC
Alliance failed to understand its audience.”
Very
few people familiar with Zimbabwe party politics will doubt that the ordinary
Zimbabweans are a naïve and gullible lot easily moved by empty rhetoric and
meaningless slogans. Party meeting much more so rallies are about empty
rhetoric and meaningless slogans; nothing of substance is ever discussed.
Nothing!
This
is why most MDC members, both senior leaders and much worse the wildebeest
herd, cannot name even democratic change they want, for example; and yet they
consider themselves champions of democratic changes.
It
is no surprise that MDC leaders failed to implement even one reform during the
2008 to 2013 GNU when the nation had its best opportunity ever to implement
reforms. How can they implement something they do not know!
The
MDC herd, for their part, have remained as faithful to the party leaders as a
dog; they are suffering the consequences of the failure to implement the reform
in that we are still stuck with the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF. The herd do
not blame MDC leaders for the betrayal because they don’t know, even to this day,
what the reforms are much less the dire consequences of failing to implement
them.
Still,
it is utter nonsense and insulting to even suggest the people of Zimbabwe
ignored the economic reality of the total economic meltdown and voted for Zanu
PF because they were mesmerised by “the infectious and well-thought-out #EDPfee”
slogan. The people are naïve and gullible and ignorant but they are not stupid –
at least, not that stupid not to have realised by now that Zanu PF leaders are
corrupt, incompetent and the murderous tyrants who have landed the nation in
this economic and political mess.
The
people of Zimbabwe would have voted Zanu PF out of office decades ago; they
have not done so because the party rigged elections, denying the people a
meaningful free, fair and credible vote. The people have risked life and limb
to elect MDC leaders on the understanding the party would bring about the
democratic changes that will stop Zanu PF rigging elections. These people will
have understood what these changes are, was it for the country’s asinine
political system stuck in empty rhetoric and meaningless slogans.
If
Zimbabwe was implemented the democratic reforms and thus transform the asinine
political system into a robust free and dynamic political system, the country
will have an informed and diligent electorate. The people will know Chamisa and
company failed to implement even one reform in 22 years, 5 of which in the GNU.
They would never ever vote for such a bunch of sell-outs. Never!
With
not even a token reform implemented since the 2018 rigged elections; it is
obvious history will repeat itself, Zanu PF will blatantly rig the 2023
elections. To get legitimacy, Zanu PF needs the MDC A and the rest in the
opposition camp to participate in the 2023 elections.
Nelson
Chamisa and company know Zanu PF is rigging the elections and claimed to have
all manner of “winning in rigged elections strategies”. In the 2018 elections
Chamisa said “MDC A has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging elections!”
Of course, he was lying. The Zanu PF vote rigging juggernaut was not going to
be stopped by a few twigs barring its way.
Fast
forward to the morning after Voting Day; ZEC results will show the usual Zanu
PF landslide victory. Chamisa and company will be complaining that Zanu PF
rigged the elections; the very thing they are claiming to have strategies in
place to stop.
As
for the “Ngaapinde Hake Mukomana (NHM)!” slogan the results will prove it was
just another meaningless slogan. NewsDay will conveniently forgot they ever promoted
it as the game-changer!
Of
course, it is insane for anyone to participate in these 2023 elections on the
basis the meaningless slogan will stop the Zanu PF vote rigging juggernaut.
Participating will give Zanu PF legitimacy for the umpteenth time and thus
frustrating initiatives to implement reforms and end the curse of rigged
elections.
"In the circumstances and taking into account some concerns and advice I have received from some members of the public, I regret that I must step down from both offers that I made through your office and hereby advise that I am withdrawing them, against my better judgement. I do so with a heavy heart but with no hard feelings whatsoever.
ReplyDelete"President in 2018 I took a stand, a very clear stand, and I openly and actively campaigned for you and campaigned against Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF. But the negative reaction to that approach by and from the MDC Alliance, in general, coupled with its negative reaction, in particular, to my offer to train MDC Alliance polling agents, and the unwillingness or inability of the MDC Alliance to openly clarify its position as a party, have made me realise that it's time to move on," he says in the letter.
"This has become necessary given that when secretary general Charlton Hwende asked me to draft a position paper on common values to define and ground the Citizens Convergence for Change initiative, whose draft you got me to revise and improve, the paper I did was put aside and without any further reference to me. Something else, very different, was published."
The MDC Alliance neither responded to his offers nor acknowledged where it had derived the now popular CCC initiative.
When Robert Mugabe lost the 2000 constitution referendum; there was panic in Zanu PF, everyone thought there was the beginning of the end. Mugabe turned to Professor Jonathan Moyo to come up with a rescue plan and he did. The plan centred on the seizure of the white owned farms and blame the British for it! A dirty plan from a dirty-minded person!
People have often said Jonathan Moyo would sell his own mother for a price and be proud he had a mother to sell! They are right. Only a fool will trust someone like Moyo. Mugabe was a cunning devil himself but in Jonathan Moyo he met more than his match. Mugabe called Moyo the devil-incarnate, in sheer exasperation at the man.
Jonathan Moyo would be in the driving seat from the word go if he was to work with MDC! If Moyo was able to chew through Mugabe with his hippo thick skin and concrete hard bones; he would have no problem munching through the MDC leaders’ potato skin and cartilage. No wonder some of the MDC leaders have chickened away at the prospect of having Moyo amongst them!
Moyo said Zimbabwe was engrossed in personality politics.
ReplyDelete"The one major reason why Zimbabweans, as a body politic, are ill-prepared to deal with the country's deteriorated political conditions is because they are balkanised by the politics of affection; driven by principals over principles, wherein personalities always trump up ideas!," Moyo tweeted.
"As a telling example of the toxic tragedy of Zimbabwe's politics of affection today, last week I found myself in the ire of cultic anger, after I dared challenge the wisdom of the US$120 000 GoFundMe for a VIP bulletproof car for @nelsonchamisa.
"Notably, the trolls did not offer much of an argument nor really want me to explain myself; all they were about was to demonise me, as a person. Objectively speaking, it's irrational for a party with no institutional capacity and in desperate need for administrative support, within the calendar cycle of a general election, to prioritise the purchase of a VIP bulletproof car for its leader."
Well Jonathan Moyo is right in saying Zimbabwe’s body politics is toxic, he is right that the political system is so toxic it has turned humans into “trolls”, tossers as I called them. Of course, it is impossible to have a meaningful discussion with trolls, they are not objective. Indeed, they are incapable of such niceties as being objective, rational thought and respect of the truth.
Zimbabwe’s asinine political system is like a sewage swap, you cannot expect quality fish from such a body of water. The country needs to implement the democratic reforms and drain the swamp and refill it with clean water and restock it with fish.
It was Professor Jonathan Moyo who once said if the choice was between Robert Mugabe for president and the donkey, the people of Zimbabwe would vote for a donkey. After decades of corruption and gross mismanagement that has forced millions of Zimbabweans into a life of abject poverty, of course the people would vote for a donkey!
ReplyDeleteIt beggars belief that Zimbabweans would be so enchanted by a slogan to switch and vote for Mnangagwa in the b2018 elections! Of course, the 2018 elections were rigged just as all elections since independence in 1980.
Newspapers are supposed to entertain and/or educate the people, especially the few so-called independent papers like News Day. Why News Day and other independent newspapers have continued to paddle the lie that Zimbabwe’s elections are free, fair and credible explains the reason why the nation is in such a mess. The people are naïve and gullible because they are being brainwashed by the public media as well as the private media.
A healthy and functioning democracy is impossible with a naïve and gullible electorate.
Zanu PF would like the opposition and the ordinary Zimbabweans to participate in these flawed elections to get legitimacy and what better way than selling the lie “Ngaapinde Hake Mukomana” is the game-changer. The brainwashed MDC wildebeest herd will believe the lie, they are so desperate for change, they believe anything.
Nick Mangwana, the government spokesperson, confirmed his return to active politics last week.
ReplyDelete“I hear JB (Cde Jabulani Sibanda) is back in active politics. Politics in Zimbabwe is only gonna get more interesting and even exciting,” posted Mangwana on his Twitter account.
Jabulani Sibanda earned notoriety as the ruthless Zanu PF thugs for hire especially in the after math of the wanton violence of the 2008 elections. Robert Mugabe wanted him by his side until JB joined the Mujuru faction, and his fallout with the Zanu PF dictator was complete when he accused Mugabe of sexually transmitting power to his wife.
Tsvangirai and Chamisa tried to woo the Zanu PF thug to join MDC, underlining the belief MDC leaders, just like Zanu PF, will use any trick, regardless how dirty it may be, to get into power.
So now Mnangagwa is after Jabulani Sibanda too! I don't know about "interesting", but it sure is going to get bloody - thugs like Jabulani know only one language - violence!