tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post6571501951072817275..comments2024-03-27T15:39:01.087-07:00Comments on Zimbabwe Social Democrats: Msipa backs Mnangagwa succeeding Mugabe - what happened to one-man-one-vote. By Wilbert MukoriNomusa Garikaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04964205157943684601noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-71281482909191776222016-06-08T14:07:33.697-07:002016-06-08T14:07:33.697-07:00Zanu PF and PF Zapu's failure to produce somet...Zanu PF and PF Zapu's failure to produce something comparable to the Freedom Charter is at the very heart of Zimbabwe's failure to uphold the people's expectation of freedom, justice and good governance. Both parties suffered from having very autocratic leaders in the form of Mugabe and Nkomo surrounded by the most malleable and unimaginative pool of followers below them. Only a malleable and unimaginative pool of followers would have tolerated the way Mugabe and Nkomo managed the party as if it was their individual property and everyone else was no more than a grade one pupil to be told what to do at every turn. <br /><br />Mugabe and Nkomo was the headmaster and all the others below them were school prefects fol-lowed by povo who had no voice whatsoever. It is little wonder Nkomo remain leader of PF Zapu all his life and Mugabe has done the same; it is unthinkable that a grade one pupil can ever aspire to be the Headmaster!<br /><br />To think all the pungwe (all night) meetings before independence followed by all the rallies after independence and yet nothing substantive was ever discussed. If there was ever the best time to define where we are going as a nation and how we would get there, this was the best time to do so. It is depressing to think how many man-years each and every one of us wasted on slogans and singing! <br /><br />Trying to define where we are going now with the nation in a real mess and everyone sick and tired and old is not going to be easy and yet it must be done. <br /><br />We have to get Zanu PF grandees like Msipa, Mutsvangwa and his dzakutsaku war veterans to understand that the right to free, fair and credible elections is not negotiable. It will be a very bitter pill for them to swallow after all these years of believing they had the veto!<br /><br />We have to get the povo to believe they have a right to meaningful vote; after all the decades of being cheated many of them have given up and resigned to their subservient roll! The next level is to get them to understand the issues because as long as their understanding continues to be superficial they will continue to elect corrupt and incompetent leaders.<br /><br />There is tonnes and tonnes of work to do to revive the economy on the one hand and to build a healthy and functional democratic system; these will never be done with the corrupt and incompetent politicians we have at present. <br />Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03002527980821483437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-33358371502273731382016-06-08T03:44:11.648-07:002016-06-08T03:44:11.648-07:00There are three key points that Zanu PF thugs, har...There are three key points that Zanu PF thugs, hardliners, apologists right up to the tyrant, President Mugabe, himself must understand are:<br /><br />a) That the de facto one-party cum one-man dictatorship they have imposed on the nation these last 36 years is the root cause of the economic meltdown and the political chaos. The situation has reached a crisis point, the very survival of this nation is now under serious threat, the tyrannical system must end now. <br /><br />b) That being the nation’s liberation war heroes and heroines did not give these Zanu PF war veterans the right to ride roughshod over the masses denying them their freedoms and basic human rights including the right to a meaningful vote and the right to life itself. We must go back to one-man-one-vote as the essence of “The people shall govern!”<br /><br />c) The excuse that Zanu PF spear headed the liberation war and therefore per se are the “stockholders of Zimbabwe” with the veto of who will govern this land is archaic and barbaric because it leaves those, for whatever reason, who did not fight in that war with no choice but to fight those who did. We do not want this vicious circle were yesterday’s liberator become today’s oppressor and so each generation must fight the one before it for its basic freedoms and human dignity. People like Mutsvangwa, Msipa, Mnangagwa right up to the top dog himself, President Mugabe, must know that their selfish greed has pushed this nation into this hell-hole and therefore every dollar in treasure and drop of human blood lost in the fight to end this tyrannical dictatorship will be on their account and the sons and grandsons will pay for the sins of the fathers and grandfather to the seventh generation! <br /><br />Enough is bloody enough! <br />Nomusa Garikaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04964205157943684601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-8413420858474637462016-06-07T18:36:35.401-07:002016-06-07T18:36:35.401-07:00After a period of relative calm and stability that...After a period of relative calm and stability that obtained in the country during and just after the government of national unity era, desperate Zimbabweans are once again stampeding out of the country, mainly to South Africa, as the country's economic decline escalates.<br /><br />Mugabe has bamboozled and cheated his political opponents and rigged elections and even murdered the electorate to stay in power. The one thing he has failed to do was rig economic recovery and it is the country's worsening economic meltdown that is going to force the tyrant to accept regime change!<br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.com