tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post4294126837939196485..comments2024-03-18T13:53:37.728-07:00Comments on Zimbabwe Social Democrats: Zanu PF align 159 laws including NERA - Tsvangirai has no excuse but guarantee free elections by Wilbert MukoriNomusa Garikaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04964205157943684601noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-66716211339895347182016-06-20T04:14:04.416-07:002016-06-20T04:14:04.416-07:00I think Zimbabwe would be better off today if the ...I think Zimbabwe would be better off today if the vote was not granted to every Jokoniya and Tambudzai; at least not without explaining to them the duties and obligations that comes with this right and the dangers that can befall the whole nation if the right to vote is abused. <br /><br />We have unscrupulous politicians like Mugabe, Tsvangirai, etc. who have built their political careers on the knowledge that the country has a large pool of naive and gullible voters and have set out to exploit this. There have been few occasions when Zanu PF and MDC have cooperated and worked as one and one of these occasions is keeping the electorate naive and gullible. <br /><br />Ever since the country attained its independence Zanu PF has moved swiftly to ensure its had total control of the media and the people were kept ignorant and free flow of information and ideas were a no, no! <br /><br />People thought the formation of the GNU in 2008 would change that and free the media, sadly that was not to be. MDC has turned out to be secretive as Zanu PF for the same reasons, if you are corrupt and incompetent you do not want a free press. <br /><br />Of course, you have pointed out what is wrong with the new constitution a thousand times and so has many others; you can do so again a million times and there will still be millions of voters out there with no clue what you are talking about. They did not have a clue what the new constitution was about when they voted to approve it in the March 2013 referendum they still do not have a clue what it is about today and therefore cannot judge whether it is good or bad. <br /><br />If they do not know what free and fair elections are how then can they say whether the new constitution has been able to deliver free and fair elections? Everything is a mystery to Jokoniya and Tambudzai and corrupt and incompetent politicians like Tsvangirai are cashing in because they will never tire of telling Jokoniya and Tanbudzai the new constitution is a master piece and offer a multitude of other feeble excuses why Zanu PF continues to blatantly rig elections - the naive and gullible electorate will swallow the excuses regardless how feeble because they know nothing!<br />Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03002527980821483437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-63157464738651966452016-06-19T05:57:01.464-07:002016-06-19T05:57:01.464-07:00If anyone had bothered to pay attention, it was cl...If anyone had bothered to pay attention, it was clear that the new constitution was too weak and feeble to deliver free and fair elections and therefore the nation should have just rejected it in the March 2013 referendum. After Mugabe blatantly rigged the 2013 elections alarm bells should have started ringing in the heads of all those who had foolishly believe MDC's claim that the elections would not be rigged. <br /><br />Only a dimwit would believe MDC again that whatever twitting Mnangagwa has done to the existing laws would be enough to stop Zanu PF rigging the next elections. Mnangagwa, of all people, will know Zanu PF will never win free and fair elections and you have to be really naive to believe, that he would knowingly change the law so that he loses the next elections! This is really pushing it, only a first class idiot would believe such a supposition! Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-51169417911780536632016-06-19T05:35:43.253-07:002016-06-19T05:35:43.253-07:00@dabrother
I am sure MDC will be here, blundering...@dabrother<br /><br />I am sure MDC will be here, blundering from pillar to post, even if Tsvangirai was to drop dead today as he will as we all will since we are all mortals. By the same token Zanu PF will still be here looting, rigging elections and terrorizing the nation even if Mugabe dropped dead today as he too will. <br /><br />Grace Mugabe she has now got so used to the extravagant lifestyle of flying to the Far East at the drop of hat to do her shopping, her health checks, delivery of her grandson, etc.; at the cost of $3 million a trip, she knows she will be forced to forgo all that if she was no longer First Lady. Hence the reason she has fought hard to succeed her husband. When the door was slammed shut in her face now she wants him to rule from behind the grave! The poor woman is hallucinating of course.<br /><br />Zimbabwe will have free, fair and credible elections which we all know Mugabe can never win. As for him ruling from behind the grave that will not happen even if Zanu PF rigs the next elections!Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-79382194557662505302016-06-19T05:14:09.241-07:002016-06-19T05:14:09.241-07:00@ Milton
I have pointed out in great detail what ...@ Milton<br /><br />I have pointed out in great detail what is wrong with the new constitution thousands of times; you can search for my past articles on this site and many other Zimbabwean internet site. You can also go to zimbabwelight.blogspot.co.uk or zimbabawesocialdemocrats.blogspot.co.uk where you will find even more articles. <br /><br />Since you have asked, I will tell you one area where the new constitution is weak and feeble. The new constitution allows the state president alone to hire and fire the top brass in the Police, CIO, Army, ZEC, etc. It does not matter how incompetent and corrupt the Police Commission or ZEC Officials should turn out to be parliament or any other body cannot demand an explanation from Chihuri or Makarau much less have them dismissed. <br /><br />In other words the new constitutions grants the state president excessive dictatorial powers with none of the checks and balances. There is no democratic constitution in the world that does that!<br /><br />Tsvangirai and his MDC friends campaigned for a yes vote in the March 2013 referendum on the new constitution on the basis and promise that it would deliver free, fair and credible elections. Some of us pointed out that the new constitution would not deliver free and fair elections because it is weak and that is why we demanded the implementation of the democratic reforms agreed in the GPA.<br /> <br />Long behold Mugabe did rig the July 2013 as anyone with any brain had predicted. MDC said the elections were rigged not because the new constitution is weak but because Zanu PF did not align the electoral laws before the July 2013 elections. Well Zanu PF has now aligned existing laws to the new constitution. <br /><br />Let me tell you here and now that the next elections will still not be free, fair and credible because aligning the existing laws to a weak and feeble constitution does not change the fundamental that it is weak and feeble. The new constitution failed to stop Zanu PF rigging the 2013 elections because it is weak and feeble it will not stop Zanu PF rigging the 2018 elections for the same reason. MDC’s explanation that the existing laws needed aligning is just a weak and feeble excuse.<br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-49921808049452544892016-06-18T12:58:36.368-07:002016-06-18T12:58:36.368-07:00As the nation sinks deeper and deeper into the eco...As the nation sinks deeper and deeper into the economic and political hell-on-earth Mugabe has dragged us into it will start to sink in even in the most dimwit MDC supporters what a heavy price the nation has had to pay for MDC's sell-out. We would not be in this hell is MDC leaders had implemented the reforms. Until the reforms are finally implemented and we are out of the hell people will always remember who sold-out. <br /><br />Morgan Tsvangirai has kept the $4 million Highlands mansion, the most valuable piece in his bribe price from President Mugabe but even he will soon start regretting whether the long suffering of millions of fellow Zimbabwe and, no doubt thousands will lose their lives in the coming years as a result of the misrule by this tyrannical regime, was really worth bribe. <br /><br />The alignments VP Mnangagwa has done will not change anything substantive but it is good to put Tsvangirai on the cosh, let us hear from him whether the alignments are all he was ask-ing for and if not what else does he want. If the new constitution is indeed as strong as he says it is then it must now finally deliver the free and fair elections. <br /><br />Of course Tsvangirai is "a flawed and indecisive character" as USA Ambassador Chris Dell pointed out way back in 2004; the people of Zimbabwe have been slow to see this but the suffering they are going through is forcing many to open their eyes and see the real Tsvangirai!<br />Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03002527980821483437noreply@blogger.com