tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post1565488137472941670..comments2024-03-27T15:39:01.087-07:00Comments on Zimbabwe Social Democrats: Chamisa's USA $15 billion handout is a cynical crocodile sweet grass lure to wildebeest W MukoriNomusa Garikaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04964205157943684601noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-20398915265620781712018-02-01T08:13:18.829-08:002018-02-01T08:13:18.829-08:00@ Bhebhe
A USA official has since announced that ...@ Bhebhe<br /><br />A USA official has since announced that many business men and women are flying into Zimbabwe "to set shop". President Trump does not care whether Zimbabwe's elections are NOT free and fair and will work with the vote rigging ZAnu PF regime just to get some of the action that the Chinese and Russians are getting. Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-80608793625670365642018-01-31T21:06:46.499-08:002018-01-31T21:06:46.499-08:00US President Donald Trump's local envoy has an...US President Donald Trump's local envoy has announced a massive influx of US business men and women flying into Zimbabwe to set up business here.<br /><br />In a statement, the embassy said even top US government officials are headed for Zimbabwe.<br /><br />There is overwhelming evidence that President Mnangagwa will not implemented any reforms necessary for free, fair and credible elections. Elections are due in four or five months and the regime has not implemented even one reform. There is simply no time left for any reform to be implemented. The question then arises: Are the "massive influx of US business men and women flying into Zimbabwe to set up business" aware the country will NOT be holding free, fair and credible elections? <br /><br />It is hard to believe they are not aware. So, the only logical explanation will be that they do not care that Zanu PF is going to rig the elections. Americans and many in the West have wringed their hands in sheer frustration to watch the Chinese, Russians looting Zimbabwe's resources for a song; they could not join in because of the targeted sanctions the West had imposed on Zanu PF leaders. <br /><br />It is the people of Zimbabwe's own fault that we did not make the most of the window of opportunity to implement the reforms all these last 16 years when the sanctions were in place. Although no democratic reforms have been implemented in the sanctions years, the West are now going to lift the sanctions for selfish business interests. If America lifts the sanctions the rest of the West will follow. <br /><br />Am I surprised? Hell no! This is what one would expect with President Trump's America first! <br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-11669737728775277882018-01-31T20:39:36.323-08:002018-01-31T20:39:36.323-08:00"Please be informed that the Minister Lands, ..."Please be informed that the Minister Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement has directed that all remaining white commercial farmers be issued 99-year leases instead of the five-year leases as per the previous arrangement," reads the statement.<br /><br /><br />While the new administration has reiterated the need to compensate white former commercial farmers, it has also moved in to enforce a ban on new illegal farm occupations.<br /><br />Every thinking Zimbabwean welcome the end to the years of pure madness that caused so much suffering and hardship all round to please a greedy few! The white farms must seek out those who seized their farms and get compensation from them. The compensation bill must not be added on the overburdened and impoverish povo who gained nothing and suffered a lot from the farm seizures!<br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-45603361482844380802018-01-31T20:26:33.879-08:002018-01-31T20:26:33.879-08:00Jonathan Moyo did not deny that Mugabe had rigged ...Jonathan Moyo did not deny that Mugabe had rigged elections in the past he dodged addressing that issue by asking a question; "Does that justify the coup?" <br /><br />The lady should have also have asked Jonathan to confirm that Zanu PF staged a coup to stop Tsvangirai and MDC taking over power in 2008 following the March 2008 elections in which Tsvangirai had gunned 73% of the vote. Of course, he would not have dodged that issue by asking the same stupid question: "Does that justify the coup?" <br /><br />The honest answer to Moyo's question is when you rig elections, stage coups, etc. you have per se elected to disregard the peaceful and democratic way of effecting regime change. By rejecting peaceful and evolutionary change you have not stop change happening - change will always happen those who think otherwise are deluding themselves - what you have stopped is peaceful and evolutionary and opened the door to the only other change violent and revolutionary change. <br /><br />Mugabe can mourn and bitch about the coup the truth is he invited it upon himself. <br /><br />In 2013 SADC leaders said Zimbabwe should postpone that year's elections to allow the democratic reforms necessary to ensure the elections are free, fair and credible to be implemented. It was none other than Mugabe himself who refuse and even threatened to take Zimbabwe out of the regional body if they insisted that the elections must be postponed. <br /><br />"You can't expect us to reform ourselves out of power," answered Professor Moyo during his happier Zanu PF days when he was pressured about implemented the reforms to ensure free and fair elections. <br /><br />It is ironic that he and his former boss, Mugabe, should now be the ones furious that SADC leaders, the international community and the people of Zimbabwe did not condemn the November coup. The truth is the people condemned the coup but tolerated it as the lesser of the two evils - the evil of the tyrant Mugabe who was in power by rigging elections and staging coups!<br /><br />Professor Jonathan Moyo and his G40 friends are dreaming that one day they will return to power again in Zimbabwe; that is one dream that will never come truth. As much as the nation is grappling with the challenge of how to force Mnangagwa and his Lacoste thugs out of office the nation has no appetite to have the G40 take their place! <br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-72323705446809350242018-01-31T18:48:03.328-08:002018-01-31T18:48:03.328-08:00"Mwana asingachemi anofira mumbereko!" (..."Mwana asingachemi anofira mumbereko!" (The baby who does not cry will die on his mother's back!) so goes the Shona adage. The white farmers have never stopped crying ever since the farm invasions and now their cries have been heard and they will be fed. However, the suggestion that the impoverish povo of Zimbabwe should be the ones to pay the white farmers the compensation is certainly tantamount to collective punishment. The ordinary Zimbabwean is as much a victim of Mugabe and his Zanu PF's reign of terror and thuggery as the white farmers themselves. <br /><br />The chefs who benefited from the farm invasion and/or these who inherited the stolen farms are still living on the farm. The white farmers must go after the looters and no one else. <br /><br />Just because the ordinary Zimbabwean does not have a voice, never had, it is not right that she/he never pay for other people's sins. It is not a sin to have no voice and be the oppressed!<br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-90893063110879083062018-01-31T18:24:54.517-08:002018-01-31T18:24:54.517-08:00@ Ngara
President Mnangagwa has promised free, fa...@ Ngara<br /><br />President Mnangagwa has promised free, fair and credible elections; this is not a privilege but a fundament right which he has systematically denied millions of Zimbabweans these last 38 years. It is the duty of every thinking Zimbabwean out there to make sure that he delivers free and fair elections and does not get away with it if he fails! Right now, it is clear the thug is up to his usual vote rigging dirty tricks again. Read my lips: HE IS NOT GOING TO GET AWAY WITH IT!<br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-34273549999116515182018-01-31T18:14:19.545-08:002018-01-31T18:14:19.545-08:00@ kaitano
It is now clear that President Mnangagw...@ kaitano<br /><br />It is now clear that President Mnangagwa is not going to implement any democratic reforms and therefore these elections are not going to be free, fair and credible. Our focus must now be on drawing the whole world's attention on his failure to hold free and fair elections and making sure the whole process is declared null and void. <br /><br /><br />We must not dilute our message that the elections are not free and fair by including the failure to facilitate diaspora vote because not all nations have facilitated their nationals in every corner of the world to vote!<br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-29698369953433092012018-01-31T18:02:06.566-08:002018-01-31T18:02:06.566-08:00@ Nomazulu
"The politics of Zimbabwe today i...@ Nomazulu<br /><br />"The politics of Zimbabwe today is not those values and principles we held so high in Zapu during the liberation days in Zambia. Zimbabwe's politics is the politics of the stomach. The stomach determines what to do in any given opportunity arising." Once again you have hit the nail on the head! "Kubaya gudo mukanwa!" as one would say in Shona.<br /><br />It is the "politics of the stomach" that allowed mismanagement and corruption to run riot. If you cannot beat them, join them! This culture has resulted in the criminal waste of the country's material and human resources turning the country from its position as one of the top five richest nations in Africa in 1980 with potential to become the South Korea of Africa to become the poorest nation in Africa today. <br /><br />The root cause of dog-eat-dog in fighting in Zanu PF of these last ten years is the fear of the growing poverty, the country's economic collapse has not spared the ruling elite. The chefs are fighting over the ever-shrinking national cake. Those who fail to keep their position on the high table are in serious trouble. Look at the late Nathan Shamuyarira and Enos Nkala; they lived their last years in S**t Street. <br /><br />We welcome Comrade Didymus Mutasa a few years ago to S**t Street. The shine of decades of good living in Ease Street wears off very quickly, he was a changed man in no time! <br /><br />No among of bootlicking will save these politicians from poverty; as the economy shrinks Zanu PF will have to continue "baby dump", as Grace Mugabe would so aptly put it, more and more chefs. The November coup has allowed more and more in the Army to be more assertive and there is going to be so many "babies dumped". <br /><br />The irony is, it is the bootlicking and politics of the stomach has is the root cause why we are starving, instead of filling our stomachs we are all hungry. The likes of Perrance Shiri, VP Chiwenga and even President Mnangagwa himself are just village thugs who should have never been allowed to be anything beyond village head! Now they have tasted absolute power and the spoils it brings removing them from power is not going to be a walk in the park! The country's economic mess has produce hundreds of thousands of bootlickers, who will do anything to stay in power! For the country to register any meaningful economic recovery we must wrestle power from that lot! Boy oh boy, are we in trouble! <br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.com