tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post7171647554645955382..comments2024-03-27T15:39:01.087-07:00Comments on Zimbabwe Social Democrats: Tsvangirai, boycotting 2013 elections was obvious option, it is the ONLY option in 2018Nomusa Garikaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04964205157943684601noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-16592409609714805832017-01-22T04:01:28.506-08:002017-01-22T04:01:28.506-08:00“Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC-T are gearing up to...“Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC-T are gearing up to contest the 2018 national elections and so are the other MDC factions. What happened to "No reform, no elections"?” You rightly ask!<br /><br />With no reforms in place, boycotting Zimbabwe’s 2013 elections was the “obvious” thing to do and SADC leaders advised Tsvangirai and his MDC friends to do just that. Senator David Coltart, credit to him for seeing it as the obvious thing to do too or be it the penny dropped on the eleventh hour! But not even he could resist the temptation of another five years on the gravy train hence the reason he would not take his own council and joined the rest of his MDC friends in contesting the elections.<br /><br />The vote rigging by Mugabe was so blatant, in your face, that even the dim-witted Morgan Tsvangirai could see this was daylight robbery. By noon on voting day, there was no need to wait for voting to end or the results to be announced, he was telling the world Mugabe “stole the vote!” The world gave him the middle finger salute, because they had warned him this would happen and he ignored them.<br /><br />The MDC leaders decided to boycott future elections after the rigged 2013 elections was meant as the message to the world that they have now come to their senses and will do the right thing. No one should be surprised that they have since flip-flopped back to taking part in the coming 2018 election. <br /><br />These are men and women who have blundered from pillar to post all their lives because they are breathtakingly incompetent. Even on a matter that they should see as obvious and therefore be consistent they wave like branches of a willow tree. The promise of a seat of the gravy train has them whipping around like willow tree branches in gale force winds! Greed has their eyes are glassed over with visions of themselves as minister, Mugabe has all his ministers issued with the latest model of Mercedes Benzes plus many other luxuries; there is nothing anyone can say or do to stop taking part in the elections and claim the prize! <br /><br /> Granted they will complain the elections were rigged not that anyone will listen; it is tiring listening to fools.<br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-48367536989110180742017-01-20T11:16:32.284-08:002017-01-20T11:16:32.284-08:00“Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition is on record castiga...“Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition is on record castigating the Head of State and Government as well as senior Zanu PF officials for reckless statements that have the potential of fanning violence and hatred among Zimbabweans,” you tell us. <br /><br />After 37 years of voting rigging and violence and the situation has got worse not better with the passage of time; has it ever occurred to anyone, anyone at all in Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition that the organization should call for something more concrete to end the madness instead of the usual dribble and platitudes! <br /><br />The failure by CZC and other NGO to condemn Zanu PF for failing to hold free, fair and credible and demand the implementation of democratic reforms to end the madness and the failure condemn the opposition for taking part in fraudulent elections, thus giving them a modicum of credibility, all these years is inexcusable. <br /><br />If an organisation like CZC have no clue what constitute a free, fair and credible election then they have no business wasted donors' money masquerading as an NGO, monitoring elections and producing meaningless report on a subject matter they know nothing about!<br />Nomusa Garikaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04964205157943684601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-18301429310245084542017-01-20T10:52:55.938-08:002017-01-20T10:52:55.938-08:00We have had the great misfortune of a vote rigging...We have had the great misfortune of a vote rigging, corrupt and tyrannical ruling party Zanu PF whose tyrannical rule has been made easy and extended because we also had the great misfortune of having a corrupt and incompetent opposition who failed to implement even one democratic reform when they had the golden opportunity to do so. <br /><br />As if this was not back enough, we also have the civic society which does not know it’s right hand from its left; the failure by ZPP and other NGO to condemn Zanu PF for failing to hold free, fair and credible and condemn the opposition by giving such elections credibility by taking part is inexcusable. <br /><br />If an organisation like ZPP has no clue what constitute a free, fair and credible election then they have no business wasted donors' money masquerading as an NGO, monitoring elections and producing meaningless report on a subject matter they know nothing about!<br />Nomusa Garikaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04964205157943684601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-2426767403460931902017-01-20T10:25:13.601-08:002017-01-20T10:25:13.601-08:00"If boycotting elections was the obvious thin..."If boycotting elections was the obvious thing to do in 2013; boycotting the 2018 elections is now the ONLY logical thing to do." <br /> <br />With not even one democratic reform implemented and the vote rigging and violence already sweeping the land; it is sheer madness to think the 2018 elections will be free, fair and credible. The people of Zimbabwe have yarned for peace and to bask in the sunshine of freedom and liberty. They have never had a free vote for they were denied that by the white colonialists and, for the last 37 years, by their fellow blacks. <br /><br />The next elections must be free, fair and credible and if it is not possible to have free and fair elections in 2018, then we must boycott all elections until it is possible to hold free and fair elections. We refuse to go through even one more mockery of an election to please the Zanu PF thugs and the few opposition underlings who bless such processes for the sake of the scraps Zanu PF throws in their direction. <br />Nomusa Garikaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04964205157943684601noreply@blogger.com