tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post2034490113305573059..comments2024-03-28T06:47:36.066-07:00Comments on Zimbabwe Social Democrats: Msipa, the 1987 Zanu PF Unity Accord was a curse and not a blessing to the nation. By Nomusa GarikaiNomusa Garikaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04964205157943684601noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-15365309082206558392016-08-12T11:29:40.926-07:002016-08-12T11:29:40.926-07:00Age of enlightenment; I wish!Age of enlightenment; I wish!Nomusa Garikaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04964205157943684601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-25700008803905557852016-08-12T11:25:28.015-07:002016-08-12T11:25:28.015-07:00The tragedy of our nation; we take one step forwar...The tragedy of our nation; we take one step forward and then take three or four steps backward and 36 years later we still celebrating the one step forward and have not even noticed the three steps backward! Msipa will go to his grave still think the Unity Accord was a good thing!Nomusa Garikaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04964205157943684601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-59875115319041544462016-08-11T08:58:19.174-07:002016-08-11T08:58:19.174-07:00People like Cephas Msipa have their hearts in the ...People like Cephas Msipa have their hearts in the right place but sadly they have never had much brain. They had a head but it is empty. They have never understook what democracy, freedom and human rights were all about and so a cunning fox like President Mugabe has ran circles round them. <br /><br />Both Zanu PF and PF Zapu have each wanted to impose a one-party state in Zimbabwe; each was dead against the other imposing it but saw nothing wrong with it if it is them who impose it. All the previous attempts to unify these two parties were with one set objective - so the unified party can then impose a one-party state. So when the two parties finally singed the Unity Accord in 1987 followed by all the members in the new party behaving as if Zimbabwe was a de facto one-party state came very naturally to all of them. <br /><br />No intellectual worth his salt can never deny the inherent contradiction of one-party state and upholding the individual right to a meaningful and free one-man-one-vote. People like Msipa have always tried to justify the blatant denial of the individual freedoms and rights on the grounds of promoting national unity have been hollow because the two are not mutually ex-clusive but the opposite they complement each other. <br />In a country were individual freedoms, liberties and human rights are held in high regard and guarded jealously there too are the people at peace and united. In other words President Mu-gabe conned PF Zapu, his own Zanu PF members and the nation at large into accepting the 1987 Unity Accord as a positive thing and slow minded people like Comrade Msipa swal-lowed the hook, line and sinker! <br />The Zanu PF dictatorship have been a total failure, the evidence is there for all to see; yet poor Msipa still continue to defend it convinced it brought unity!<br />Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03002527980821483437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-47956469827899383942016-08-10T16:20:45.747-07:002016-08-10T16:20:45.747-07:00Ghana’s President, John Mahama, “is expected to co...Ghana’s President, John Mahama, “is expected to confer on Africa’s longest serving President, the Millennium Life Time Achievement award for his role in Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle from British colonial rule,” the report said.<br /><br />Ghana cannot honour Mugabe knowing fully well he is a corrupt, vote rigging and murderous tyrant. They can do so but not without spitting in the faces of the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans who have suffered all these years because of his misrule! The people of Zimbabwe will not forget or forgive the insult in a hurry.<br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-75095407957925238312016-08-10T16:08:20.637-07:002016-08-10T16:08:20.637-07:00Zimbabwe’s economy is in total meltdown; unemploym...Zimbabwe’s economy is in total meltdown; unemployment has soared to 90% plus, 76% of the people now live in abject poverty, basic services like health and education have all but collapsed, etc. The economic situation is socially and politically unsustainable and the only hope of an economic recovery is for the country to have meaningful political reforms leading to free and fair elections. <br /><br />Sadly regime change is the one thing Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies are determine to resist to the bitter. The party should have completely imploded and vanished by now if it was not for their fear of regime change resulting in them losing even the little loot they have and, worst of all, being forced to finally account for their dirty past. The regime murdered over 30 000 innocent people in its 36 years reign of terror and many of the leaders’ hands are red with blood. <br /><br />Even many of the Zanu PF leaders who are not as clever as Mugabe know that the regime is falling apart, regime change is as certain as the sun rising tomorrow, still they will continue to resist to the bitter end because their end is a very bitter one! When you know the end is a bitter one only thing you can do is delay the end for as long as you can.<br /><br />So considering where he would be going the day he is finally forced out of State House; Mugabe will consider the 12 months still in power to be a bonus!<br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-13757086955039824452016-08-10T14:05:06.374-07:002016-08-10T14:05:06.374-07:00You are spot on there, Mugabe has used the excuse ...You are spot on there, Mugabe has used the excuse of promoting unity to justify the ruthless imposition of this Zanu PF dictatorship. You criticize the regime for being corrupt, mismanagement or whatever and the regime will accuse you of being a puppet threatening national unity. <br /><br />Although many people have reached the conclusion that the Zanu PF dictatorship had failed the nation some years ago they have struggled to accept that the party should be ditched because they considered that to be too divisive. If Gukurahundi had never happened and PF Zapu had continued to exist as a separate political party, a real challenge to Zanu PF then its election into government would have been more acceptable for many people especially the rogue war veterans whom Mugabe has since brainwashed into believing all war veterans outside Zanu PF lose their war credential! <br /><br />The realization that Zimbabweans can have serious public debate and a very competitive democratic system without anyone being beaten, raped or shot will come as liberating shock to many of our people. It will free many of them to think freely without having to fear being called a rebel who is threatening national unity. <br /><br />If the people embrace the freedom of expression and free media and competitive spirit multi-party democracy freed of the enslaving chains of Mugabe's Unity Accord or the nonsense of opposition uniting to form coalition; this could be the beginning of Zimbabwe's age of enlightenment! Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.com