Julius Malema, the leader of SA’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party is a demagogue and, like all demagogues, one cannot reason with him. He does not have the intellectual incapable of comprehending simplest facts!
Malema has failed to understand that Zanu PF not just rigs elections but that the process has become so flawed and illegal the only rational solution is to stop participating.
In 2008 Morgan Tsvangirai garnered 73% and that was not good enough to get him the keys to State House. ZEC has failed to produce a verified voters’ roll and Team Pachedu has since uncovered so many glaring and deliberate mistakes in the voters’ roll it is immediately clear why the regime did not want the roll properly audited. The regime has plans to frogmarch rural voters; etc., etc.
There is a mountain of evidence already that Zanu PF is rigging these elections and that participating will only serve to give SADC the excuse to grant Zanu PF political legitimacy. And yet Malema still insists that Zimbabweans must participate.
"We call on all Zimbabweans who are here in South Africa to go back home and vote. If it means coming back, they can come back, they are more than welcome, but they must do the right thing and go and vote,” he said few weeks ago.
Well the demagogues has since put his money where his mouth is. EFF help pay for 500 buses to transport Zimbabweans travelling back to Zimbabwe to vote!
Now that Malema has gone the extra mile and offered to pay for 50 000 (assuming 100 voters in @ bus), he will probably assume that 20 times that number will make their own way and so over 1 million of the 3 million Zimbabweans in SA alone will be voting to remove Mnangagwa.
Many of those who do travel to Zimbabwe to vote will be denied the vote because their name is not in the Polling Station voters’ roll the expected it to be or has been deleted or some such reason as many in Zimbabwe will find out on voting day. But of course, Julius Malema will take another Zanu PF landslide victory as proof Zimbabweans are not fighting to end the Zanu PF dictatorship.
The accusation that Zimbabweans were in SA because they are cowards who would not confront the Zanu PF dictatorship was the caucus celebre to justify the xenophobia attacks of Zimbabweans.
Credit where credit is due, Julius Malema and his EFF have condemned the xenophobia attacks. His language has changed, there is a razor sharp edge to it.
"No-one is going to fight for these Zimbabweans who are loitering the streets here. They are their own liberators. For once, they must take responsibility and get into buses and go home and vote."
Julius Malema and his EFF cronies are renowned for their flip flops. Will another Zanu PF landslide victory; Malema will not care that the elections were rigged, he does not care about details especially when they are way above his head; force Juju to perform one of his notorious flip flops.
If Zanu PF rigs and wins the 23 August elections, all signs are they will, then there will be new wave of Zimbabwean economic and/or political refugees. Those going to SA will be shocked to find increased anti-Zimbabwean vibes and the next xenophobia violence will be even worse than ever!
Again, credit where credit is due, SA’s Minister Lindiwe Zulu did push Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends to implement the democratic reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. If the reforms were implemented Zimbabwe would have cured herself once and once for all this curse of rigged elections and bad governance.
Sadly, all her effort was wasted, the MDC leaders turned out to be (and still are) corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent. They failed to implement even one token reform in five years.
SADC leaders made one last minute attempt to have the 2013 Zimbabwe elections postponed until reforms were implemented. “If you take part in these elections, you will lose. The elections are done!” the regional leaders told Tsvangirai and company to their faces at the June 2013 SADC Summit in Maputo, Mozambique.
But again MDC leaders paid no heed to the warning. Zanu PF went on to rig the 2013 elections, as SADC leaders had warned and they did a volte-face of their own by granting vote rigging Zanu PF political legitimacy. And granted vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy yet again in 2018.
At its party congress SA’s ruling party, ANC, resolved that they would not allow regime change in Zimbabwe. This is most alarming because this suggests that SA will use it dominance in SADC to once again grant vote rigging Zanu PF political legitimacy in these 2023 elections regardless of the evidence these elections a flawed and illegal.
It is infuriate that both EFF and ANC are completely ignoring the political reality that Zanu PF is blatantly rigging these elections, and are conniving in granting vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuating the dictatorship and yet have the chutzpah to blame the ordinary Zimbabwean economic and political refugee escaping the consequences the failed state they are nurturing!
@ Munyoro
ReplyDeleteStop pretending that it is only me that has said that participating in the flawed elections is an exercise in futility. SADC and more recently EU have said the same thing. David Coltart has gone one step further and explained why the opposition are participating in these flawed elections.
“The (2013) electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility,” confessed David Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe.
You are hell bent on participating in these elections for whatever reasons just don’t lie that you did not know that it was insane to do so!
@ Dombo
ReplyDelete“For your own information what have you done to stop the Regime except criticising others? Do you have any solution in case it can help Zimbabwe next time?”
This is tried and tested tactic that George Orwell summed up in his Book Animal Farm with the sheep bleating “Four legs good! Two legs bad!” on clue to disrupt the debate.
Those who have held public office are accountable for what they have done or failed to do whilst in office. MDC/CCC where in office these last 23 years, including 5 in the GNU, the must account for the failure to implement even one public reform.
You clearly do not want them to be held to account and so you keep asking these idiotic questions. “What have you done to stop the Regime ….?” Why are you not asking those who were in parliament and were paid to hold the government to account? It is not that you are concerned that no one held Zanu PF to account, you just don’t want CCC held to account.
Well MDC/CCC leaders should have never held public office if they did not want to be held to account. The held public office and so they will be held to account. That is not negotiable and I, for one, will never allow a holding monkey to silence me with his idiotic questions!
Zimbabwe is a failed state and need to end this Zanu PF culture of stifling debate and democratic discourse. And it is bad enough we have had to deal with the Zanu PF Chris Mutsvangwa howling monkeys and now we have another troop called MDC/CCC howling monkeys!
I have seen the HC judgement and the judge himself admits the ZEC officials' statements that the received the papers before 4 pm are factual. The law does allow ZEC to process the paper of all candidate who were in the queue before 4 pm. The judge is saying otherwise for whatever stupid reasons.
ReplyDeleteI am sure the SC will over rule the HC's stupid judgement or they will be many more candidates other than those in Bulawayo disqualified because because what happed in Bulawayo happened in many other places.
What is annoying here is how the country have wasted time on one trivial matter like this after another when we should have been discussing key issues like how to end corruption, the curse of rigged elections, etc. No wonder the country is a failed state!
@Dombo
ReplyDelete“It’s my right to ask you iwe duzvi if you are failing to answer only these simple Questions how can you lead the mass to fight for change?”
Did the sheep have a right to bleat “Four legs good! Two legs bad!” at the behest of Napoleon in Animal Farm? Of course, not. They were bleating the nonsense for the sole purpose of stifling debate and democratic discourse. No nation aspiring to the law and rule of law can ever allow that.
If you were serious about finding out why not even one meaningful reform was not implemented during the GNU then you must ask the MDC leaders who were in power and had the golden opportunity to implement the reforms. Why are you insisting in asking me when I have explained to you that I was not an MP?
You are no different from Chris Mutsvangwa and all the other Zanu PF thugs, they have the advantage of the captured state media to amplify their howling. And now the regime has passed this obnoxious Patriotic Bill for the sole purpose of using the Police and Courts to justify silencing all critics. You and your CCC friends must be turning coal black with envy!
You can exercise your disruptive tactics at Change Radio and all the other CCC sites but not here. Here, howler monkeys will not be tolerated.
MDC/CCC had their golden opportunity to implement the reforms during the GNU and the wasted it. Any one who thinks that MDC/CCC will ever deliver change is naive and stupid. They have settled for participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy for a share of the spoils of power.
ReplyDeleteChamisa is content to be the leader of the opposition, especially now that Zanu PF is going to officially recognise the position and grant him more perks, whilst he waits for Zanu PF burn the country to ashes and/or fight each other and/or the people themselves fight for change. Meanwhile he will happily continue participating in flawed elections and preaching the lie he has winning in rigged elections to hide his greed. He does not care how long it takes for the dictatorship to burn itself out nor does he care about the heart breaking suffering of the ordinary people on the coal face of this failed state nightmare!
The people have risked life and limb to elect MDC/CCC into power for the purpose of implementing reforms and end the dictatorship. MDC/CCC leaders are now the ones propping up the dictatorship and frustrating all efforts to get the reforms implemented, claiming reforms are not necessary. Unfortunately for the nation, there is the CCC wildebeest herd who so naive and gullible they still believe in these winning in rigged elections nonsense even after 43 years of rigged elections.
Lumumba is right there and if EFF has invited him to speak, he should be allowed to speak. He is also right that Africa has often found itself talking about such issues as homosexuality when we should be talking about the many life and death issues affecting millions of of people.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, our autocratic leaders have often blown these side issues out of proportion to draw attention away from the burning national issues. Mugabe did the same thing with the same subject Museveni is now using in 1995! Sadly, the West took the bait then just as it has taken the bait in Uganda. And we the Zimbabweans and Ugandan have rallied behind the dictators and have talked about nothing else. I
t is one thing for the Washington and London to put the guy rights on the agenda, they have secured all the other rights and freedoms. We the African are the ones who should be taking our dictators to task about wasting parliamentary time debating guy rights when millions of our people have no food, medicine, running water and all the most basic needs in this day and age? We never learn!
The demagogues has yet to hear that Zanu PF is rigging these elections. Zanu PF would lose these elections if the process was free and fair even if not even one Zimbabwe outside the country was to vote! So why is Malema not concentrating on making sure elections are free and fair?
ReplyDeleteMalema is a demagogue who should not be trusted.
ReplyDeleteZanu PF would lose these elections if the process was free, fair and credible and voters were not frogmarch to vote for the party. So why is Juju not piling the pressure on Mnangagwa and SADC to make sure the elections are free and fair. It will cost EFF a hell lot less than what the party is spending sponsoring these 500 buses!
It is tragic when the nation's destiny is now in the hands of demagogues who cannot even think!
https://www.zimeye.net/2023/07/31/malema-providing-500-buses-for-zimbos-to-home-and-vote-they-are-welcome-back-juju-will-flip-flop-if-zanu-pf-rig-and-win/
Without implementing the democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections Zanu PF will always rig and win these flawed elections. Zanu PF has learned that to be granted political legitimacy, the party must entice the opposition to participate and thus maintain the facade the country is a healthy multi-party democracy and the elections were free, fair and credible.
ReplyDeleteOpposition leaders like Tendai Biti know it is insane participating in these flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy. But even he could not resist the bait. Others like Themba Mliswa, "The Bull of Norton", would want people to believe the system is working and he is delivering the changes to end the curse of failed state!
https://www.zimeye.net/2023/07/31/more-toilets-and-borehole-which-i-will-fund-promised-bull-mliswa-turning-norton-into-an-oasis-in-failed-state-desert/
@ John Jemwa
ReplyDelete“What crime have we committed to be put in prison by you. Hover 2 years saying one thing. Go and raise Tsvangirai and tell him that. Why do you behave like a mentally challenged. Please please we are tired. This group has lost its main purpose.”
So now it is only Tsvangirai who must be raised from the dead and asked to account why MDC failed to implement even one reform in 23 years? Why can’t Chamisa, Biti, etc. be asked to account for their role in this fiasco.
You stupidity never seize to amaze me! You are frothing and fuming because I have repeated the warning that Zanu PF is rigging these elections and CCC are participating to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. You are not even concerned that Zanu PF is indeed rigging the elections and thus perpetuating the failed state and all the tragic suffering it has brought to the whole nation. Well that is simply unbelievable! How anyone can be so shallow thick and slow.
I am concerned about end the insanity of participating in rigged elections to perpetuate the failed state. I really do not give a damn about your misplaced ego and idle stupidity!
True but that does not change the historic fact that it was SADC that proposed the 2008 to 2013 GNU, that it was a golden opportunity to implement the reforms and MDC wasted it. SADC leaders also proposed postponing the 2013 elections to allow for reforms and MDC ignored the advice! These are historic facts that not even you can deny and will be very foolish to pretend never happened!
ReplyDelete@ Chris
ReplyDelete“Tell him, tell him, tell him. He doesn't belong to CCC but anoda kutiudzira zvekuita isusu. He must boycott elections iye and leave those Idiots who want to participate like us alone. The best he can do now is to wait for results of the rigged elections then otaura. Mukori ngaambosuduruka tiite basa.”
You have the right to participate in these flawed elections and ignore the advice that it is foolish to do so. No right or freedom is absolute in that in exercising one’s right one must also consider the consequences. In exercising your right to participate in flawed elections you must consider the consequences that doing so gives Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuating the failed state.
Those who KNOW the futility of participating, indeed the insanity of it since we have had rigged elections for 43 years and counting, must voice their objection now and not wait for the election results. It is a common maxim that silence is consent.
@ Mutambara
ReplyDeleteHe had the golden opportune to make the biggest difference he could during the GNU and yet failed to implement even one token reform in five years. He is just talk no substance!
@ J Moyo
ReplyDelete“Exiled former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo says the current electoral situation in Zimbabwe never seen before in the country’s history.
He says a situation with over 135 nomination cases before the courts with just 26 days before elections has no precedence even in the region or continent as a whole.
Moyo says ZEC should not have gazetted the full list of nominated candidates before the finalisation of court challenges to the nomination outcome.
He adds that to now nullify the gazetted nomination of any candidate on technical grounds, 36 or more days after the fact and 26 or less days before the harmonised general election can no longer be in the interest of justice.”
There is no denying that this is real mess. But then no one should be surprised, this is after all a failed state run by buffoons who have no clue what they are doing. After 43 years of corruption, chaos and confusion it is no surprise the country is in ruins and nothing works.
The root cause of this problem is the foolish Bulawayo HC judgement. Why it has taken so long to have it over ruled beggars belief! Whoever advised that judgement must be dismissed
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has denied allegations of vote buying at its campaign rallies where it has been dishing out goodies and cash ahead of next month's elections.
ReplyDeleteInstead, party spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa told journalists last week that the donations were a show of hospitality.
The party has held six star rallies across the country where it treated its supporters to some goodies.
Zanu-PF supporters have been served with bread, chicken pieces and fried chips, seed and regalia, among other items.
The party has been bribing anyone and everyone from the ordinary citizen with chicken pieces to those at the top of the pyramid like judges with US$400 000 housing loans. Yes it is all called hospitality!
All told Mnangagwa has spent over US$4 billion in these elections, a stupendous sum for a country whose education and health care have all but collapse after decades of being starved of funds. This is the sickening reality: the nation is now spending more on the glory of Caesar than the good of Rome.
Now that we know and are therefore wiser, the long over due democratic reforms which will, necessarily mean rewriting the weak and feeble constitution must demand transparency in the renumeration of all public officials, what state resources can be used by the incumbent during elections, declaration of political party donations, etc., etc.
The idea that what the President spends is not subject to audit must be scrapped, audited report can be circulated to a select body such as the parliamentary committe on State Security but it must be audited. The root cause of Zimbabwe’s mismanagement and corruption can be traced back to patronage system and the presidential powers to spend as he/she wished.
@ J Moyo
ReplyDelete"An election is a rule-bound process which is a legal event, and as such its result is at law presumed to be valid.
This presumption of the validity of an election is based on the expectation that an election is organised, run or conducted and its result determined in accordance with existing electoral law.
There are four sources of election law and rules: the Constitution; the Electoral Act [Chapter 2:13], as amended; Statutory Instrument 21 of 2005 (Electoral Regulations), as amended, and the ZEC Electoral Officers Manual, as modified.
Whereas political parties, election candidates, agents and observers are expected to understand that an election is a rule-bound political process which is a legal event, the fact is that most do not. This fact is – the ignorance of polling agents and election observers – is the zone of opportunity for rigging."
The opportunities to rig elections are simply too many to count and anyone who says they can stop the rigging by deploying election agents or some such measures is not being honest, particularly when you have to fight a whole system determined to rig as is the case in Zimbabwe. I had expected Professor Jonathan Moyo to be arguing that it is an exercise in futility to even think anyone can stop Zanu PF rigging the elections which implementing the democratic reforms.
After 43 years of rigged elections we should be united in calling for reforms and stop all this nonsense of trying to win rigged elections. The last five years since the 2018 elections have all been wasted talking about implementing the reforms to stop the elections being rigged again. Not even one reform was implemented so we all know already these 2023 elections are being rigged as we speak.
So the next five years will once again be spent arguing and cajoling the powers that be to implement reforms. The chances are, nothing will happen and so we will have yet another rigged elections. It is sicken.
Are we really that corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless that we have failed to hold free, fair and credible elections in this day and age! We cannot even produce a verified voters’ roll or see the need for it. Unbelievable! The have fact that we now have the opposition party leading the winning in rigged elections band wagon speaks volume of the rot in our society.
The fall out from the Bulawayo HC judgement barring the 12 CCC candidates participating in the 2023 rat race is proving more disastrous for President Mnangagwa than he never ever thought possible. The judgement was very foolish and should have been reversed immediately. It turns out as many as 150 other candidates had their nominations processed after the 16.00 hours closing time. And so ZEC could not print ballot papers with so many potential court cases.
ReplyDeleteThe day ballot papers should have been printed and send off for postal voters has passed. With 23 days to go to voting day there is now a real danger the ballots will not be ready!
Chavachipatapata nhaka yemkonzo! What a mess!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTgS3UOIXw0
The violence has continued after 1 st August and if people are stupid enough to participate in flawed elections, giving Zanu PF legitimacy, and think they can then remove the regime with street protests; they had learnt nothing from the past. History will repeat itself! This nightmare could have been avoided.
ReplyDeleteJulius Malema will stop supporting Zimbabweans in SA against xenophobia attacks from 24 August 2023 especially if Zanu PF rig and win the elections. He will blame them for not gong back home and vote Zanu PF out of office.
ReplyDeleteWhat does a demagogue like Juju know about rigged elections?
https://bulawayo24.com/index-id-opinion-sc-columnist-byo-234042.html