tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post7373789414121841993..comments2024-03-27T15:39:01.087-07:00Comments on Zimbabwe Social Democrats: "What ifthere are no reforms in 2018?" asked Vince Musewe - sadly a wrong and misleading question. By P Guramatunhu Nomusa Garikaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04964205157943684601noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-9433371431345696082016-01-09T13:27:55.375-08:002016-01-09T13:27:55.375-08:00Someone said that Vince Musewe see the Tsvangirai ...Someone said that Vince Musewe see the Tsvangirai and Mujuru coalition as his ticket to get on the gravy train and his mind is so focus on that he now blind to reality and even reason; now I can see this is true.<br /><br />Musewe wants us to give up our demand for freedom, human rights including the right to a free vote and the right to life itself; for what? So that Vince can have his coalition and his chance to get on the gravy train.<br /><br />For 36 years we have allowed President Mugabe to have his way and year after year he has comeback and demanded even more. He is pocketing $2 billion from the looting in Marange at a time when most cities and towns have no clean running water and millions are sick and hungry. Musewe wants us to let him to have it all and no doubt demand even more. Of all the stupid ideas I have heard that really is dumb!<br /><br />Musewe is not in power and yet already he is scheming ways of selling out! He must be stopped by all democratic means possible!Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03002527980821483437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-92184337460256274882016-01-09T08:00:37.719-08:002016-01-09T08:00:37.719-08:00After 36 years of misery and criminal waste of res...After 36 years of misery and criminal waste of resources from all this mismanagement and corruption one would think everyone would have realized by now that the one-party dictatorship does not work and therefore will be pushing to end it. It is unbelievable that some people, especially respectable leaders like Mr Musewe, would be campaigning for more of the dictatorship!Nomusa Garikaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04964205157943684601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-71155869527977781352016-01-09T04:26:18.471-08:002016-01-09T04:26:18.471-08:00@ Mudhara
President Mugabe is smart enough to ens...@ Mudhara<br /><br />President Mugabe is smart enough to ensure the opposition wins a few seats in parliament and those opposition members are well looked after and given all the comforts of the gravy train. Come elections time he will have plenty of opposition candidates to give the elections an outside appearance this is a democratic contest. <br /><br />There are some opposition candidates who know that they will never win a free and fair elec-tion and so it makes sense for them to settle for the scraps the dictatorship throws at them. <br /><br />Even if we were to talk all genuine opposition not to contest, Zanu PF can fund an opposition party the same way it has Zanu PF sponsored Trade Unions, Government Organized NGOs (GONGO), etc. <br /><br />Fighting to restore the rights and dignity of all Zimbabwe is not going to be a walk in the park and it pays to know that obvious enemy is not always the only enemy; the hidden enemy amongst one's own ranks is sometimes the greatest enemy of all!<br /><br />The Zanu PF dictatorship is falling apart and we should seize the opportunity to demand real democratic change but first we have to deal with those who want to lure us into believing the system is fine except for the Al Capone type gangster operation, there is no institutionalized thuggery. Others accept the institutionalized thuggery and want us to just give up our free-doms and rights as a lost cause.<br /> <br /><br />If Zimbabweans had accepted this defeatist logic, Zimbabwe will still be under white colonial oppression! There are millions of Zimbabweans who have suffered and thousands have died because they believed that we are as human as anyone else and thus worthy of the freedoms, human rights and dignity others the world over take for granted but so blatantly denied us. To give up on our freedoms and rights would be to betray all those who have sacrificed so much for us to get here!<br />Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03002527980821483437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-42760412331882238062016-01-08T19:18:55.567-08:002016-01-08T19:18:55.567-08:00When the nation committed itself to the war of ind...When the nation committed itself to the war of independence we also committed ourselves one and all to make independence work for ourselves and posterity. That commitment included de-fending our basic freedoms and human rights if they should be threatened or denying. On 18 April 1980, whether we were ready or not for independence and to carry on the burden of making it work was ours. <br /><br />To have asked on 18 April 1980 or any another time thereafter "what if Mugabe deny us our freedoms and rights?" was to ask the wrong question because it was too late. Before independ-ence the answer would have been; if we are not ready to demand our freedoms and rights then we should not seek independence until we are ready. After 18 April 1980 there can only be one answer; fight for your freedoms and basic rights, with your very lives if need be! <br /><br />The reason why tyrants like Mugabe have found it easy to deny the people their freedoms, hu-man rights, hopes, dreams and the future is because the very people who should have been leading the charge to fight for these freedoms and rights have been the ones willing to allow Mugabe deny the people the freedoms as long as the tyrant gave them a share of th spoils of political power and the looted national treasures. <br /><br />If we, the people, are serious about getting the reforms implemented and have free, fair and credible elections; we only have to fight Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs to accept reforms but will have to fight Tsvangirai, Musewe and all the other opposition politicians who are disparate that we accept the Zanu PF dictatorship as fixture of Zimbabwe political landscape because they see the opportunity of establishing their own dictatorship now that Zanu PF is set to implode. <br /><br />Nothing would please Musewe more that for Zimbabweans to just give up on demanding free and fair elections right now that would make life much easier for his own Tsvangirai/Mujuru led coalition government. It is good that someone should for once stand up for the common man, woman and child’s freedoms and rights without selling-out! <br /><br />So if Mugabe does not implement the reforms necessary for free and fair elections by 2018 the fight to have the reforms implemented will go on until they are implemented! The struggle continues until final victory! Lluta continuou até a vitória final!<br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-9234429479396040982016-01-08T19:18:14.178-08:002016-01-08T19:18:14.178-08:00Thank Patrick, you have hit the nail on the head; ...Thank Patrick, you have hit the nail on the head; asking what if there are no reforms in 2018 is asking the wrong and misleading question. <br /><br />We all know what Vince Musewe wanted us all to say and do; if there are no reforms we should all accept as the political reality that there will never be free, fair and credible elections in Zimba-bwe, not as long as Mugabe or Zanu PF are in office because he will never commit political sui-cide and i implement the reform.<br /><br />We, the people know already that the Zanu PF dictatorship has been a complete disaster millions are out of work and millions are living in heartbreaking poverty and as long as the dictatorship remains in place things are set to get worse and not better. We all know that and so does Vince Musewe. He in his infinite wisdom is advising us to accept that as a political and economic reality, a fact of life we cannot change. <br /><br />Although Musewe ask about what if the reforms are not implemented in 2018; what he really meant is is for us to the reality that Mugabe has not implemented the reform as of now, July 2013 and so we should give up because he will not. <br /><br />Musewe has never ever question MDC why they failed to implement the reforms during the GNU; he has never accused them of betraying the nation. To him MDC did nothing wrong because Mugabe would have never wanted to commit political suicide by implementing the reforms. He is ignoring the fact Mugabe committed political suicide by signing the GPA committing himself to implementing the reforms. SADC Heads of State were keen to see the reforms implemented and egged MDC to do so. <br /><br />The only reason not even one reform was implemented was because MDC had sold-out; Muga-be bribe them to forget implementing any reforms and they took the bribes! <br /><br />Getting the GPA reforms implemented during the GNU was achievable if MDC had implemented the reforms. <br /><br />Getting the GPA reforms implemented post the GNU is also achievable because Mugabe is un-der pressure from the worsening economic situation and from pressure from the infighting within his own party.But of course he will never accept implementing any reforms if we the people have already accepted that the Zanu PF dictatorship is here to stay.<br /><br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.com