tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post8565263958376935859..comments2024-03-28T20:57:54.874-07:00Comments on Zimbabwe Social Democrats: More Zims expect "better" next year than otherwise - just foolish eternal optimism W MukoriNomusa Garikaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04964205157943684601noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-64784798957322384002017-05-28T07:58:31.091-07:002017-05-28T07:58:31.091-07:00In the last 37 years, we have had many, many golde...In the last 37 years, we have had many, many golden opportunities to end this Zanu PF dictatorship but have wasted them all. The best chance to end the dictatorship, by a long mile, was during the GNU when all Tsvangirai and his MDC friends had to do was implement the democratic reforms already discussed and agreed in the 2008. MDC failed to implement even one reform in five years. <br /><br />Worse still, we the people failed to get MDC to do the only logical and critical task. Even now, with the benefit of hindsight, many Zimbabweans still continue to follow MDC blindly like sheep to the slaughter. Zimbabwe needs the democratic reforms implemented and we continue to put our trust to have this important task done on the same corrupt and incompetent MDC politicians. <br /><br />Instead of MDC finally making amends and push for democratic reforms they have once again sold-out. They have settled for the few seats Zanu PF is giving away, the bribes, to the opposition in return for giving the vote rigging democratic credibility by contesting flawed elections. <br /><br />We need free, fair and credible elections to get out of the economic and political mess we are in and it is none other than the corrupt and incompetent opposition who are stopping us getting there. It is ironic that the likes of Tsvangirai should continue to pretend they are fighting in the people’s corner when they are nothing more than double agents, fighting hard to keep the Zanu PF dictatorship. <br />Nomusa Garikaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04964205157943684601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-87700511128320499052017-05-25T13:03:40.863-07:002017-05-25T13:03:40.863-07:00When Zimbabwe attained her independence few people...When Zimbabwe attained her independence few people, if any at all, understood that they had the freedoms and human rights of citizens they had all dreamt of but, more significantly, they also had the duty to themselves and posterity to defend those freedoms and rights if they should be threatened. As soon as President Mugabe walked into office in 1980 he started to systematically erode the people’s freedoms and human rights to lay the foundation of his de facto one party dictatorship. No one protested! It was like taking wagon full of gold, diamonds and slaves in exchange for calico cloth and shiny beads! <br /><br />Even when it was clear that Zanu PF was dragging the whole nation into the gutter, people still did nothing to stop the madness for the stupid reason that they expected things to get better of their own accord! <br /><br />Even with the nation now in deep, deep trouble we still have people like Oliver Mtukudzi pretending he does not know what he gone wrong. “I am not a politician!” he said. <br /><br />After 37 years of this Zanu PF dictatorship we cannot say we did not have the chance to end the corrupt and tyrannical rule; we had many chance but wasted them all for many reasons. People get the government they deserve and we cannot say we do not deserve this one! <br /><br />Unless we wake up to our responsibility as citizen to reclaim our freedoms and human rights then we are not going to get out of this hell-hole we find ourselves in. That is a fact!<br />Nomusa Garikaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04964205157943684601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779437748296704455.post-8167841884468224212017-05-25T05:55:46.955-07:002017-05-25T05:55:46.955-07:00@ ZIPP
"While young voters in the past have ...@ ZIPP<br /><br />"While young voters in the past have been comfortable in apathy neglecting the importance of voting, they should realise that their voice is an important one because democracy doesn’t work without citizen participation. Their vote does matter, so much so because history has shown that a collective youth vote could actually sway an election." <br /><br />This is just nonsense based on nothing else other than guess work!<br /><br />Everyone with any common sense will telling you Zanu PF has been rigging elections and one of the ways it has done this is by denying the vote to those most likely to vote for change. Young people and those in the urban centres are certainly more likely to vote for the opposition and therefore would have been the targeted. To then say young people and urban dwellers have not been voting because of voter apathy is nonsense. <br /><br />We need to implement the democratic reforms and ensure free, fair and credible elections and not waste time on trivial matter such as voter mobilisation, building coalitions, etc. out of cowardice of not wanting to deal with Zanu PF!Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.com