tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post1337418294177745494..comments2024-03-28T17:40:46.908-07:00Comments on Zimbabwe Social Democrats: "There will alway be corrupt leaders," argue Maphosa - compare bruise to severed head, detail matters W MukoriNomusa Garikaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04964205157943684601noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-19174227551317649282018-06-08T06:28:33.655-07:002018-06-08T06:28:33.655-07:00@ Elkan Mncube
"Sometimes the educated peopl...@ Elkan Mncube<br /><br />"Sometimes the educated people are the most dull people Mukori ranks among the top ten I called you Judas some time ago but now I have seen kuti hudofo," you say.<br /><br />I am tempted to call you Judas and dofo (stupid) but will not do so because I also know that stupid people are stubborn in their stupidity. "Hupenzi (hudofo) inyama yegakava!" as my late mother never tired of reminding us, her children, when we were being foolish! <br /><br />Albert Einstein famously said, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result!" <br /><br />So, it is not some much the doing of something once, twice or even a few times and getting a different result from the one expected that makes insane, a fool or stupid. It is doing it over again and again, failing to stop and realise the sheer futility of carrying on, the stubbornness of refusing to listen to sound advice, that confirms your insanity. <br /><br />The corollary is equally valid; before you call someone a fool first show them the futility of what they are doing and that they have done the same foolish thing repeatedly. <br /><br />Yes, I do remember you calling me Judas and now you are calling me stupid. I do not remember you explaining what was it that I had done wrong much less that I had make the same mistake repeatedly. You have done neither on this occasion too! <br /><br />In other words, you are the one who made the mistake of calling me a fool but failed to provide an evidence to substantiate your statement. You have repeated the same mistake here. I leave you and the reader to draw your own conclusion which to which one, you, Mncube, or me is the stupid one! <br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-91152561472356378192018-06-08T05:46:05.788-07:002018-06-08T05:46:05.788-07:00It is a pity that SA has not played a more constru...It is a pity that SA has not played a more constructive and active role in helping Zimbabwe end the de facto one-party dictatorship. It was President Ian Khama of Botswana who stood firm and refused to rubber stamp Zanu PF's rigged 2013 elections whilst SA and the rest of the SADC leaders did just that! <br /><br />Whilst other nations, notably America, Canada and EU, have been very clear that they want to see President Mnangagwa and his junta keep their promise to hold free, fair and credible elections this year; there has been deafening silence from SADC on the matter. Many had expected SA's new President, Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa, to stamp his own authority on this serial region crisis after taking over from the corrupt and inapt Jacob Zuma; they have been deeply disappointed. <br /><br />SA's leading cartoonist and social commentator, Zapiro, has depicted President Ramaphosa, renamed Rama Panther, dressed up as all-action Black Panther. Zapiro underlined the message that there will be no action from Rama Panther by giving the six-pack up body spindly legs! <br /><br />Zimbabweans will have to brace themselves for the battle to have these flawed elections declared null and void; we can be certain that Rama Panther would happily rubber stamp another Zanu PF rigged elections! <br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-81641940445423049012018-06-07T14:24:01.047-07:002018-06-07T14:24:01.047-07:00@ Mukwirivindi
But it is not only the Americans w...@ Mukwirivindi<br /><br />But it is not only the Americans who are demanding free, fair and credible elections there are millions of ordinary Zimbabweans who have been crying for democratic change these last 20 years, at least. Zanu PF has not bothered to even acknowledge their cry!<br /><br />Forget the Americans, address the ordinary Zimbabweans whom Mnangagwa and his junta have ridden roughshod over and murdered over 30 000 others to establish and retain this de facto one-party dictatorship. We demand free, fair and credible elections and we refused to be ignored! <br /><br />Free, fair and credible elections are not about the American but about us, the 90% plus Zimbabwean out of work, the ¾ of the population now living on US$1.00 a day or less, the filthy poor. It is us against the filthy rich living in mansions, with multiple farms and multi-million dollar business empires and are robbing the nation blind to bankroll their vote rigging schemes and shenanigans. <br /><br />"Check your (Americans) hands, they dripping with blood of Palestinians people. Shame on you. Look, whether you are there or not, to us you are irrelevant, hence you will never ever affect the decisions made by ED. You are what we call "sunk costs" in Financial engineering. Foolish." You say.<br /><br />How ironic that you are hot in the collar about Americans hands "dripping with blood of Palestinians" but has never said a word to condemn Zanu PF's murder of the over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans! <br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-30933641447648042052018-06-07T13:50:00.848-07:002018-06-07T13:50:00.848-07:00Zimbabwe is NOT yet open for business! It is fooli...Zimbabwe is NOT yet open for business! It is foolish to think otherwise. Just because Mnangagwa and his vote rigging and murderous thugs gang up to boot out their old boss does not mean Zimbabwe was transformed from a pariah state to a democratic nation. Just because President Mnangagwa and his junta say so does not make it so! <br /><br />By stubbornly refusing to give up Zanu PF's carte blanche dictatorial powers including the powers to rig elections, President Mnangagwa has just confirmed that Zimbabwe is still a pariah state ruled by thugs!<br /><br />Donovan Chimhandamba, chairman of the Diaspora Infrastructure Development Group (DIDG) - the company which won the $400 million tender to resuscitate the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ), said there is need for diasporans to address pertinent issues such as infrastructure, human capital development and good governance.<br /><br />If Mr Chimhandamba had any common sense then he would be appealing to President Mnangagwa and his junta to implement the democratic reforms and address the problem of good governance and not preaching to the diaporans. Until the problem of good governance is resolved, by implemented all the democratic reforms and thus replace this corrupt, vote rigging and oppressive dictatorship with a healthy and functional democracy Zimbabwe will never get out of the hell-hole it is stuck in! Never!<br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-61845817310834853462018-06-07T13:23:45.126-07:002018-06-07T13:23:45.126-07:00US Acting Assistant Secretary Bureau for African A...US Acting Assistant Secretary Bureau for African Affairs, Ambassador Harrington said, "Zimbabweans have not in the past been able to express their views or cast their votes freely due to intimidation and the economic environment has frightened away many potential investors with a predictable impact on the economy. So, the election on 30 July will be one important benchmark on whether the economic and political environment of the past has changed for the better."<br /><br />President Mnangagwa has promised free, fair and credible elections and; after 38 years of rigging elections to keep Mugabe and Zanu PF in power and, for good measure, boot out the tyrant himself in last November's coup; the nation and the world wants to see him keep his word. Signs are he cannot do it! <br /><br />President Mnangagwa and his junta have stubbornly refuse to implement even one of the raft of democratic reforms agreed at the onset of the 2008 GNU of which he has a senior member of Mugabe's team. As Minister of Justice until October last year, President Mnangagwa has known all along that ZEC's voter registration exercise was started very late it was impossible for the commission to register all the 7 million targeted voters, produce a verified voters' roll, etc. in time even with the best political will in the world.<br /><br />If he really wanted ZEC to do its job properly, give everyone a chance to register, produce a verified voters' roll, etc; then President Mnangagwa should have given ZEC more time to do its work. Delaying the election date by six months so that there is a verified voters' roll and elections are free, fair and credible is certainly better that holding election without something as basic as a verified voters' roll! <br /><br />The people of Zimbabwe have waited a lifetime for free, fair and credible elections if President Mnangagwa and his junta cannot deliver this fundament right and pre-requisite for good governance then they must step aside so the nation can appoint a team who will implement the reforms and hold free and fair elections. This is not negotiable; shape up or ship out!<br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-34285726646432868242018-06-07T12:38:01.742-07:002018-06-07T12:38:01.742-07:00"As we launch this document, we pledge to cre..."As we launch this document, we pledge to create a modern functional, responsive, inclusive and innovative state in respect of which opportunities for citizens abound. We will transform our rural areas, people shall have access to world class infrastructure, clean and fresh water, best schools and health facilities, and renewable and green sources of energy in the context of a green economy," said MDC Alliance.<br /><br />This is all very well but you are clearly forgetting that MDC has enjoyed the popular support of the people but has failed to turn that into electoral victory because Zanu PF rigged the elections. MDC has had many golden opportunities to stop Zanu PF rigging elections but has wasted them all. Now the party is flip-flopping between pretending the elections are free and fair; believing it can still force Zanu PF, even now with the voting date name, to implement reforms to ensure free and fair elections and, the third extreme, MDC can win rigged elections. <br /><br />Zimbabwe would be a healthy and functional democratic country right now was it not for MDC leaders' breath-taking blundering incompetence and their being corrupt to the core. They have failed to implement even one democratic reform during the GNU because they are corrupt, they sold-out. Mugabe offered Tsvangirai and the other MDC leaders ministerial limos, generous salaries and allowances, a $4 million mansion for Tsvangirai himself, etc. and they forgot about the reforms. <br /><br />The only reasons MDC leaders still continue to enjoy a political following is because the Zimbabwe electorate remain a very naïve, ill-informed and desperate lot. They have completely failed to understand what the GNU was about and how MDC leaders sold-out; all attempts to explain to them has been a waste of time, one might as well be explaining Einstein's theory of relativity to a grade one child! With such a dopey electorate it is easy to see why Mugabe and his cronies have had no problems dragging the nation this deep into this hell-on-earth. <br /><br />Even if the country was to wrestle power and end the Zanu PF dictatorship it will inconceivable that the country will ever have a competent government. One cannot expect Dopey and company to ever elect anyone with common sense and it will not be long before another corrupt and vote rigging gang of thugs impose themselves again on the nation! <br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.com