tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post7137779386351218293..comments2024-03-28T06:47:36.066-07:00Comments on Zimbabwe Social Democrats: How will Zimbabwe benefit from the "SMARTest" Manifesto if elections are rigged, yet again? W MukoriNomusa Garikaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04964205157943684601noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-90736370621788307952018-06-10T06:28:58.529-07:002018-06-10T06:28:58.529-07:00Chamisa will stop his minister flying out of the c...Chamisa will stop his minister flying out of the country for health needs by offering to fly in all the medical expertise at public expense! This is just a cheap gimmick. We know that MDC politicians joined in the looting of the nation's resources during the GNU with as much zeal as their Zanu PF counterparts. Indeed it was the gravy train lifestyle that seduced MDC politicians to forget implementing the reforms. <br /><br />The choice between Chamisa or Mnangagwa, MDC or Zanu PF, is comparable to having to choose to have one's leg or hand cut off! Of course, we do not want any limb cut off and so why are we accepting that the only choice of the next government is one led by corrupt and incompetent village idiots or one led by equally corrupt and incompetent murderous thugs! <br /><br />Worse still, Zanu PF is blatantly rigging these elections, so even those naive enough to think they have a vote are only kidding themselves.<br /><br />The best outcome of those flawed and illegal elections is for the whole process to be declared null and void and force the nation to revisit and finally implement the raft of democratic reforms agreed at the start of the 2008 GNU. This will allow us to reset our political system get rid of the deadwood rebuild the democratic systems and allow quality leaders to emerge! <br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-8009866028420313832018-06-10T06:02:21.327-07:002018-06-10T06:02:21.327-07:00Former MDC legislator for Bulilima East Norman Mpo...Former MDC legislator for Bulilima East Norman Mpofu has declared that he will this time contest for the seat as an independent candidate after his fall out with the main opposition party.<br /><br />"My fellow friends and Bulilima East electorate I wish to put it on record that I Norman Mpofu will contest the 2018 elections as an INDEPENDENT candidate in Bulilima East. The rumour ends here and now. Its true I am in," he said.<br /><br />This is the kind of news that MDC Alliance partners like Tendai Biti and Welshman Ncube have feared and, no doubt, they will be sick if only the close of the nomination day on 14 June they should discover there are many such independent MDC-T candidates crowding them out the few seats they were allocated! There is no doubt that many disgruntled MDC-T candidates will be targeting MDC Alliance partner seats!<br /><br />Mr Biti and Mr Ncube have a few days to buy a few packets of those rehydration kits, they will certainly need them after 14 June 2018 - they will have serious diarrhoea. Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-72844789560553845092018-06-10T05:43:50.213-07:002018-06-10T05:43:50.213-07:00@ Anthony Mkondo
"I admit it. I am a geek. I...@ Anthony Mkondo<br /><br />"I admit it. I am a geek. I am probably one of maybe ten Zimbabweans who actually read the manifestos from start to finish. Yes, to an extent manifesto writing is almost as much of a waste of time as reading them. We (and they) all know that the parties will never keep the promises, some of which are outrageously outlandish," you confessed.<br /><br />No, you are a lot worse than a geek, you a complete idiot; to say nothing of the MDC village idiots who wasted so man-months producing the document; because you have failed to understand that manifestos are irrelevant when elections are rigged. Those green Martian aliens who cast the veto in rigged elections make up their minds who the winner must be without ever reading any party's manifesto! After 38 years of rigged elections it is only a certified fool who still thinks manifestos are relevant!<br /><br /><br />Zanu PF produces a manifesto but only as part of the party's elaborate vote rigging schemes just as the party has been spending millions on producing opinion polls. The party has even been paying for opinion polls saying MDC will win. Zanu PF is rigging the elections but still it wants the opposition to play along right up to the last minutes, just to give the process credibility. <br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-66555643684614665592018-06-08T14:22:23.673-07:002018-06-08T14:22:23.673-07:00MDC-T, the biggest opposition party in the MDC All...MDC-T, the biggest opposition party in the MDC Alliance, has been hampered in its election campaign by lack of funding, in sharp contrast to the ruling Zanu PF which is riding on a massive war chest topping US$200 million after receiving money from China, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Equatorial Guinea.<br /><br />A threadbare budget has proved to be a big hurdle for the MDC-T ahead of the make-or-break polls set for July 30, as the opposition party is still trying to secure funds for marketing, recruiting polling agents, volunteers, posters, billboards, door-to-door fliers and rallies, among other campaign things.<br /><br />As soon as Chamisa seized power after Tsvangirai's death he took off before many of his own party members had had the time to take their seats. He has been hold three or four rallies a week and globe-trotting these last four months. Now it turns out, the party has no money left to carry on with even the most basic activities! <br /><br />Chamisa is nothing more than one of those showy runners who enters the marathon and sets off at such a blistering pace as if he is running 100 m. Lo behold, after a one mile is huffing and puffing and soon drop out altogether! Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.com