tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post6367590048638506760..comments2024-03-28T19:06:22.665-07:00Comments on Zimbabwe Social Democrats: MDC-T embrace rogue war veterans like Mahiya out of mercenary political opportunism By Patrick GuramatunhuNomusa Garikaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04964205157943684601noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-7780870743477330152016-08-19T04:23:51.346-07:002016-08-19T04:23:51.346-07:00Minister Jonathan Moyo warns against Police brutal...Minister Jonathan Moyo warns against Police brutality.<br /><br />Since when has Zanu PF ever bothered about being "lawful"? What the regime is concerned about is that Police brutality has been splashed in the social media for the whole world to see. The regime is coming up with the new law designed to criminalize the use of the social media and thus stop the use of the smart phones capturing the evidence of Police brutality!<br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-42066926303169679622016-08-19T03:25:22.068-07:002016-08-19T03:25:22.068-07:00There are war veterans who fought for freedom, hum...There are war veterans who fought for freedom, human rights and justice for all and have never given to use their own position in society to deny anyone these things. Then there are those war veterans like Mahiya, Sibanda, etc. who have offered their services to tyrants like Mugabe to deny the people their freedoms and rights to impose the Zanu PF dictatorship in return for the share of the spoils of power. The first group are the genuine war veterans and the second are the rogues.<br /><br />MDC-T is giving the rogue war veterans a clean bill of health not because they do not know these men and women are thugs, they do know that only too well after all many opposition members including MDC members have been the victims of the thuggery. Tsvangirai and company are pretending the past serious human rights violations never took place because they want these thugs to continue using their dirty tactics but fighting in MDC-T's corner. <br /><br />Mai Mujuru and her ZimPF are too wooing the rogue war veterans for the same reason as MDC-T but that is not surprising after all Zim PF is Zanu PF in all but name. <br /><br />If anyone has ever doubted that both MDC-T and ZimPF cannot be trust to stick to the democratic agenda without selling-out at the next opportune moment they willingness to sell-out now should remove all lingering doubt. Both MDC-T and ZimPF have sold-out in the past; notably by failing to implement even one reform during the GNU and by playing their part in establishing the Zanu PF dictatorship for 34 years until Mugabe finally booted them out of party, respectively. <br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-89077439892207430502016-08-18T13:28:02.680-07:002016-08-18T13:28:02.680-07:00In an interview with Violet Gonda Mahiya refuse to...In an interview with Violet Gonda Mahiya refuse to discuss much less apologize for the war veterans years of human rights violations including harassment, beatings, rapes and even murders. He insisted discussing the past not being “progressive”! How ironic that Mahiya and his fellow rogue war veterans are accusing Mugabe of “dictatorial tendencies” – the very qualities they had done so much to help him excesses – and yet they are displaying the same dictatorial straits themselves by refusing to be held to account for their past. <br /><br />The only measure of progress we want in Zimbabwe is to see an end to the dictatorial rule and replacing it with democracy and the central tenet of democracy is that everyone is accountable, especially those guilty of the heinous human rights violations. <br /><br />Some people are asking Mahiya and his rogue war veterans to apologize, a poor substitute for holding these people to account. It is not surprising that both MDC-T and ZimPF are already treating these rogues as if they have never done anything wrong. “MDC has no regrets for showing solidarity with genuine war veterans,” declared Obert Gutu. <br /><br />When it comes to getting into power, there is no difference between Zanu PF, rogue war veterans, MDC-T and ZimPF; each will sell their own mother if that will get them into power! <br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-52817229905921087452016-08-18T11:18:44.194-07:002016-08-18T11:18:44.194-07:00@ Paradza
"I am left wondering why the war v...@ Paradza<br /><br />"I am left wondering why the war veterans have made an about turn against Mugabe if they do not accept they had lost their way and had drifted away from the people," you said. <br /><br />You should not be wondering; the rogue war veterans fell out with Mugabe because the tyrant would not pay them their fair share of the spoils of power. When push came to shove and they had the opportunity to enrich themselves these war veterans throw the liberation war values of freedom and human rights for all out of the window and joined Mugabe, Mnangagwa, Mujuru and all the other Zanu PF thugs to secure their own selfish gain.<br /><br />People like Joice Mujuru, Dabengwa and Simba Makoni have given half-hearted apologies for their part in the Zanu PF dictatorship but only because they too fell out with Mugabe and they apologized as a way to win the public vote and get back into power. Only the very naive would believe they are being sincere much less that they had their Damascene moment! <br /><br />After spending decades as members of the corrupt and tyrannical regime, these people KNEW exactly what they were doing and were paid for their involvement. You apologize for a mistake; this was no mistake but a deliberate and calculated act of betrayal and treason.<br /><br />In a way, Mahiya and his fellow war veterans are being honest by refusing to apologize especially when they know they will do the same dirty work for Mnangagwa or whoever is prepared to hire their services! Mai Mujuru and Tsvangirai have both expressed their interests!<br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-47097425592970466272016-08-18T05:03:16.612-07:002016-08-18T05:03:16.612-07:00“This inability to imagine is understandable. In h... “This inability to imagine is understandable. In his view, the moral cost for being sympathetic to the war veterans' cause, let alone contemplating an alliance with them in the struggle against Mugabe's presidency, is unbearable. In his article, Ncube cites the war veterans' past history in which they have played a huge part in aiding Mugabe's regime by crushing dissent and the opposition,” you said.<br /><br />In all your wittering you have not denied the basic fact that these rogue war veterans have indeed been Mugabe’s storm troopers who have systematically denied the people their freedoms and basic human rights to impose the de facto one-party cum one-man dictatorship. You have also not denied the fact that these rogues have fallen out with Mugabe because the tyrant has failed to pay them their reward for doing his dirty work and not because they have realized that what they were doing was wrong.<br /><br />You are arguing the opposition to embrace the war veterans for one reason and one reason only – so they will do for the opposition what they have been doing all these years for Mugabe. In other words you want these war veteran thugs to continue denying the ordinary people their freedoms and basic human rights to impose their new found tyrant be it Mujuru, Tsvangirai or Mnangagwa. <br /><br />We are fighting to end the culture of denying people their freedoms and basic human rights to impose a party or individual forever and not to remove Mugabe and replace him with another tyrant, which is what you and other morons out there are proposing! We are going to have a healthy and functional democracy and not swap one dictator for another!<br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-49227180407535852632016-08-17T13:46:28.293-07:002016-08-17T13:46:28.293-07:00"The problems we face can never be solved at ..."The problems we face can never be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them" (Albert Einstein).<br /><br />You started very well my friend but your next line should have been an acknowledgement of the current crop of leaders’ failure and insist that they all resign from public life because they are the ones who created the problems we are facing today and, more significantly, they are incapable of an creative thinking. <br /><br />You, Musewe have failed to see these leaders for the failed leaders they are because you cannot think of anything else but securing a position of power for yourself. You keep talking about what you will do once in power but refuse to address the thorny problem of who to end the Zanu PF dictatorship, nothing will ever happen without figuring how to stop Zanu PF rigging elections first!<br />Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03002527980821483437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-60682135299716963162016-08-17T13:24:36.944-07:002016-08-17T13:24:36.944-07:00“It is only authoritarian regimes like, Zanu PF th...“It is only authoritarian regimes like, Zanu PF that fear the people,” wrote Jacob Mafume od PDP.<br /><br />“Zanu PF should know that social movements such as, #tajamuka, #thisFlag and #thisgown are not terrorist organisations. These social movements are not committing any crimes against the regime for speaking on behalf of every Zimbabwean. They are ordinary citizens who want to change and improve the lives of the people.”<br /><br />Yes you are right but how long have we known this? You lot should have implemented the reforms to stop this madness. It is nauseating to have to listen to you complaining now when all this could have been behind us!<br />Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03002527980821483437noreply@blogger.com