Eddie Cross defying SADC and insist Mnangagwa won 2023 elections. America sussed out MDC leaders were "flawed" back in 2007. W Mukori

 Mr Eddie Cross, former MDC MP and confidant of MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai reiterated his claim on Denny J Show that Mnangagwa won the 2018 and 2023 Zimbabwe elections. This is an outrage!

Comrade Cross and his MDC/CCC friends were elected by the people to implement the democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections, as their party name implied - Movement for Democratic Change. Mnangagwa was able to blatantly rig the 2023 elections and get away with it precisely because MDC/CCC leaders have failed to implement even one token reform in 24 years including 5 years in the 2008 to 2013 GNU. And ever since the GNU debacle, they have participated in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. They know it and have admitted it!

“Look, you can't keep on participating in flawed electoral processes that serve to give big benefits to dictators such as Robert Mugabe. Mugabe has perfected the art of winning elections. So it will be very foolish for the opposition to continue legitimizing these sham elections which don't deliver. This country will go through a serious economic crisis in 2020 caused by Zanu PF. And yet, this is the only country where a government doesn't perform, it is encouraged by a super majority in parliament,” admitted Tendai Biti in a 2015 interview with Isaac Mugabi.

“So you can't continue subjecting Zimbabweans to processes where their hopes just get crushed.”

David Coltart went one step further and admitted why MDC/CCC have been participating in the flawed elections knowing fully well doing so would give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the dictatorship.

“The (2013) electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility,” confessed  Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe. 

Of course, it is very disappointing that Mr Cross and his MDC/CCC colleagues double crossed the people of Zimbabwe who have risked livelihoods, limbs and even their very lives to elect them into power on the understanding they would implement the democratic reforms and end the Zanu PF Dictatorship. They not only failed to implement even one token reform but have conned the people to participate in flawed elections to PERPETUATE the dictatorship. 

What is shocking here is that many Zimbabweans are still unaware that MDC/CCC leaders have sold out even after 24 years, including 5 in the GNU, and not even one token reform implemented.  The Americans sussed it all out way back in 2007 that Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends were corrupt, incompetent and would be a disaster for the nation. 

“Tsvangirai is also a flawed figure, not readily open to advice, indecisive and with questionable judgment in selecting those around him. He is the indispensable element for opposition success, but possibly an albatross around their necks once in power,” wrote USA Ambassador Chris Dell in one of the quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. The cable was dated 2007 - 07 - 13.

Tsvangirai and company did get into power, in the 2008 to 2013 GNU, and they had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reform. They failed to implement even one token reform. Mugabe bribed them with the trappings of high office; the E-Class Mercedes Benz ministerial limos, very generous salaries and allowances, a US$ 4 million mansion for Tsvangirai, etc., etc. And, in return, MDC leaders forgot about the reforms. 

Last year SADC and AU election observers joined the rest of the free world in condemning Zimbabwe’s 2023 elections as flawed and illegal. Chamisa and his CCC friends insisted in participating knowing fully well the process was flawed and went on to take up the few gravy train seats they won even after the damning SADC and AU reports! In insisting that Mnangagwa won the 2023 elections, Eddie Cross is only reiterating what his former CCC colleagues had done in defying SADC and AU to take up their elected seats.

The real shock here is that it has taken Zimbabweans 24 years, including 5 in the GNU, to finally realise that MDC/CCC leaders have been running with the povo hare and hunting with the Zanu PF hounds. Indeed, even with the mountain of evidence of MDC/CCC selling out, millions of Zimbabweans still refuse to believe their own eyes! 

If millions of Zimbabweans are conned to participating in the flawed 2028 because they believed yet another idiotic lie about winning rigged elections, as happened in the past, then we have only ourselves to blame. The danger Chamisa supporters will participate in flawed 2028 elections in their millions is real.

After 44 years of rigged elections do we still lack the common sense to realise we have the right to free, fair and credible elections and that it is, indeed, very foolish of us to give up the right for idiotic promise of winning rigged elections. It is insane that we have allowed this to happen and with all the tragic human suffering that entailed!

Mnangagwa and Chamisa are con men selling Mutapa Fund and winning rigged elections, Brooklyn Bridge. W Mukori

Emmerson Mnangagwa is a con man, he has sold the nation the notion that Mutapa Fund, funded from public funds, will take over the running and funding of the nation’s key institutions such as ZESA, NRZ, NASA, ZISCO, etc., etc., and revive them. All these parastatals have all but collapsed due to decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. So what is it exactly that the Mutapa Fund will do differently to revive these parastatals?

Under the Mupata Fund, the Fund’s board together with the relevant parastatal’s board and managers are now freed to conduct their business activities without parliamentary oversight, freed from public procurement rules and not be compelled to produced audited financial reports nor Auditor General oversight. What!

These parastatals have collapsed precisely because the Zanu PF government has again and again failed to act on the Auditor General’s damning on corruption and mismanagement. It is naive, to say the least, to believe that stopping parliament, Auditor General, etc. oversight will, somehow stamp out the corruption and mismanagement. 

If anyone believes that the Mupata Fund will stamp out corruption and mismanagement by removing all the check and balances and demands for transparency and accountability then “I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell to you!” as George Parker, renowned New York City con man who sold gullible immigrants a century ago, would say

Nelson Chamisa and his MDC/CCC friends have failed to implement even one token democratic reform in the last 24 years including the 5 GNU years when they had the opportunity to do so. Ever since the GNU Chamisa and company have participated in flawed elections knowing fully well that doing so would give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy. They soldiered on regardless because they also knew that Zanu PF would give away a few gravy train seats.

Chamisa has conned his followers to participate in these flawed elections again and again on the basis he had devised winning in RIGGED elections strategies. Last year he told them the idiotic lie that he had plugged all vote rigging loop holes, when he could not even deliver a verified voters’ roll or deploy election agents at all the Polling Stations. Two million of his supporters believed the lie and participated in the flawed elections giving Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuating the dictatorship. 

Just as the Zanu PF supporters believe in Mutapa Fund reviving ZESA, NRZ, etc. Chamisa supporters believe they will win RIGGED elections. No wonder Zimbabwe is a failed state, we have some of the most gullible people on planet earth; so easily conned!

We been warned about the wholesale looting of our resources and are doing nothing to stop it at our own peril. W Mukori

 @ Farai Maguhu 

The relationship between Chinese-owned extractive companies and local communities in Zimbabwe has deteriorated, marked by growing mistrust, suspicion, and a series of reported abuses. A recent report by the Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG), titled "Investments or Plunder: An Assessment of the Impacts of Chinese Investments in Zimbabwe's Extractive Sector," sheds light on the troubling dynamics surrounding these investments, revealing severe consequences for local populations.

Launched last Friday in Harare, the report presents compelling evidence of the disregard Chinese investors have shown for the cultural sensitivities of host communities. It outlines shocking accounts of environmental degradation, health hazards, violations of labor rights, and instances of sexual abuse, particularly affecting women working in homes associated with Chinese companies.

According to the report, which assessed the environmental, social, cultural, and economic impacts of Chinese investments, local communities have consistently raised alarms over the destructive practices employed by these companies. Farai Maguwu, the director of CNRG, noted the incessant distress calls received from mining communities where Chinese operations are prevalent.

"Every day, we are receiving distress calls from different mining communities where Chinese are blasting mountains," Maguwu stated. "Our goal is to defend the communities affected by the extractive industry, and the current model being pursued by our friends from the East is not pleasing."

Despite China being Zimbabwe's largest trading partner and controlling approximately 90% of the country's mining sector, the report highlights an alarming trend of exploitation. Maguwu criticized the lack of value addition to the country's vast mineral resources, which include over 4,000 gold deposits, platinum, chrome, lithium, coal, and diamonds. He pointed out that minerals are being exported to China for processing, leaving local communities impoverished.

The report also raised concerns over the impact of pollution on local water sources, with many communities reporting contamination from harmful chemicals like mercury. Maguwu emphasized that this issue is not merely the concern of CNRG but of all Zimbabweans, as communities see their natural resources exploited with little regard for their well-being.

As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs who have rigged elections these last 44 years to stay in power, or be it the last 24 years is with the connivance of the corrupt and incompetent MDC/CCC leaders, nothing will ever change. The criminal waste of the country’s human and material resources will continue. 

It is within our power to end this madness by implementing the democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections. We are paying and will continue to pay dearly for our failure to deal with the curse of rigged elections and bad governance. 

44 years of whole nation participating in rigged elections expecting a different result is insanity of steroids! W Mukori

 The Illusion of Education: A Critical Look at Zimbabwe's Political Landscape*

*By TICHAONA MUPASIRI*

In a recent conversation on the platform "Rebuilding Zimbabwe," political analysts Tendai Mazenge and Wilbert Mukori laid bare a stark reality about the state of education and political engagement in Zimbabwe. Their incisive commentary invites us to reflect on a deeply troubling paradox: how can a nation with a reported 90% literacy rate be mired in poor governance and political turmoil?

Mazenge argues that the foundational flaw in Zimbabwe's education system lies in its inability to foster independent thinking among its populace. He asserts that Zimbabweans have been educated to memorize and regurgitate information for exams, rather than to critically analyze and engage with the world around them. This raises an essential question: what value does a high literacy rate hold if it does not translate into informed civic engagement? Mazenge provocatively characterizes the leaders, including Robert Mugabe and Emmerson Mnangagwa, as “daft, dull and uneducated,” suggesting that their academic qualifications are rendered meaningless when devoid of practical application and critical thinking.

Mukori echoes Mazenge's sentiments, lamenting the political naïveté that has persisted in Zimbabwe for over four decades. He points to the staggering reality that millions remain complicit in a political system characterized by rigged elections and authoritarian rule, driven by misplaced trust in opposition figures like Nelson Chamisa. The notion that educated individuals are falling prey to "idiotic lies" underscores a disheartening truth: literacy alone does not guarantee political acumen or the capacity to challenge oppressive regimes.

Both analysts highlight a crucial historical context: Zimbabwe's independence was not the result of military victory but rather a negotiated settlement. This fact complicates the narrative of heroism often celebrated in the country's war veterans, many of whom did not directly contribute to the liberation struggle. The implications are profound; if the architects of Zimbabwe's independence lacked a genuine mandate from the people, how can their successors claim legitimacy?

The conversation pivots on the assertion that Zimbabwe's leadership has prioritized power retention over meaningful governance. Mazenge's critique of Mugabe's multiple degrees as "useless" in the context of nation-building speaks to a broader issue: the disconnect between academic qualifications and effective leadership. This raises an urgent need for a re-evaluation of what constitutes education and success in governance. Are we content to allow those with formal qualifications but lacking in critical thinking to guide our nation?

As Zimbabwe grapples with economic instability, rampant corruption and social unrest, it is imperative that citizens demand more from their education and political systems. A literate populace must evolve into an informed and engaged citizenry, capable of scrutinizing their leaders and holding them accountable. The path forward requires not just education in a traditional sense, but a revolutionary approach to critical thinking that empowers individuals to question, analyze and act.

It is without doubt that the insights shared by Mazenge and Mukori serve as a clarion call for Zimbabweans to transcend the limitations of their educational experiences. If the nation is to break free from the cycle of oppression and misgovernance, it must cultivate a culture of critical thinking that empowers every citizen to participate meaningfully in shaping their future. The time for complacency has passed; it is time for Zimbabweans to reclaim their agency and demand a system that values informed dissent over blind loyalty.

_an extract from the conversation:_

Tendai Mazenge: *"Our greatest mistake was getting education that never taught us to think for ourselves but to study to pass exams. Zimbabweans are not educated, they have been to school only. Surely how can a nation with 90% literacy rate be ruled by daft, dull and uneducated people whose qualifications are just war participants. We have war veterans who did not even win the war. Zimbabwe's independence was a negotiated settlement. Zanu or ZAPU never win the war but had a dialogue with Ian Smith at Lancaster House in the UK. Mugabe was just a teacher with over 5 useless degrees. He never studied Economics, Engineering and Finance. He lacked critical thinking in developing a nation. He only studied politics and mastered the art of oppressing people and wanting Zimbabwe to be a one party state. Whatever Mugabe or Mnangagwa is doing, nothing makes economic sense but power retention at all costs."*

Wilbert Mukori: *"I agree with you 100%; Zimbabweans are literate in that they can read and write but are otherwise incapable of rational thinking. After 44 years of rigged elections, it is shocking that millions of Zimbabweans should be so easily conned into participating in flawed elections to perpetuate the dictatorship and our own suffering because they believed Chamisa’s idiotic lies. How can anyone be so foolish much less millions!"*

For more, contact Tichaona Mupasiri via email: tichaona.mupasiri@gmail.com or WhatsApp +263732231900.

Thank you. One of the hallmarks of rational thinking is the acceptance that none of us know everything there is to know any admission at the heart of the willingness to learn from the past, to embrace democratic accountability and the rule of law. 

Albert Einstein said insanity is repeating the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. We have participated in flawed elections for 44 years and counting expecting to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. 44 years, even Einstein would have never expected anyone to be that insane much less a whole nation!

Of all leaders, Mnangagwa begging for US$5.8 b food aid at UNGA; he has his beady eyes on "pound of flesh" cut for himself. W Mukori

 Of all the SADC leaders to be begging for food aid on behalf of SADC,  Emmerson Mnangagwa would be the last leader anyone would choose to do it!

“President Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken the urgent plea for assistance from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), seeking support to combat the devastating effects of the El Niño-induced drought that has left millions at risk of hunger. The SADC has launched an international humanitarian appeal amounting to US$5.8 billion to address the growing food security crisis in the region,” reported Bulawayo 24.

“Mnangagwa, who assumed the presidency of SADC during the bloc's summit in Harare, Zimbabwe, in August, was unable to attend the UNGA in New York for unspecified reasons. Instead, he was represented by Foreign Affairs Minister Frederick Shava, who delivered Zimbabwe's address on his behalf on Wednesday night.

According to reports, approximately 68 million people - about 17% of the total population across Southern Africa.”

Could not have picked a worse person to beg for food on behalf of the starving - Mnangagwa, THE fat cat, renowned for wasteful incompetence and looting! Who has not heard of how Zanu PF destroyed Zimbabwe’s once upon a time productive agricultural sector by seizing the farms from the whites to give to unproductive ruling elite and the cronies. There is wholesale looting in Zimbabwe and Mnangagwa and his cronies are the godfathers of it all! 

There are millions of Zimbabweans who are starving but that did not stop Mnangagwa squander US$5 billion plus in bribes from povo with chicken and chips, chiefs and church leaders with new cars right up to MPs, Judges and Ministers with US$ 40k, 400k and 500k housing “loans” respectively. 

Mnangagwa has his beady eyes set on winning 2028 elections to extend his rule beyond the constitution two term limit. And the new cycle of bribing key players has already kick off with chiefs receiving new trucks only last week.

Whatever the donor give, everyone knows that Mnangagwa and his cronies will have their “pound of flesh” one way or the other! 

For the period Mnangagwa remains SADC chairman, each individual country would be better off handling its own affairs even when collective regional action would be called for. Having Mnangagwa leading that collective action is a curse, given his notoriety. For one thing Mnangagwa is illegitimacy, SADC election observers condemned 2023 elections as flawed and illegal. 

The regional body did not take the next rational step of publicly denying Zanu PF political legitimacy because Nelson Chamisa and his CCC fiends (out of greed) and millions his brain dead supporters (out of sheer stupidity) had participated in the flawed elections. 

Ncube sheds buckets of crocodile tears over "disputed elections"! Disputed by whom; certainly not him! W Mukori

 When I was in High School; many, many moons ago; the high light of the year was a College Ball. The Master of Ceremony one year was X (real name withheld to protect the guilty as charged), a pompous guy. It was traditional to crown the day with a luck draw in which the three winners would drawn from the invited girls.

X called each winning number and rattled on about the young lady’s beauty to the accompaniment of Steve Wonder’s “Is she lovely” - a copycat from the Miss World Beauty contest. Rotten luck for X because all the three winners that year were not beautiful at all especially the last one who got the top prize.  

I repeat, this was NOT a beauty contest and the young lady was just lucky to win the gift humber, her looks, or rather lack there of, had nothing to do with it. Tell that to X! He was in the grove! The way he rattled on and on about about the young lady’s beautiful eyes, legs, curvy body, etc., etc.; all the things she did not have; had the whole assembly in stitches with laughter!

The moral of that tragic afternoon (none of three young ladies were impressed) it is better to say nothing than mock them with over the top flattery.

Professor Welshman Ncube’s, the acting president of CCC, recent speech in Tsholotsho reminded me of X’s comical High School performance. Whilst the latter evoked laughter there is precious little to laugh about the former’s cynical, dishonest and down right criminal betrayal of the nation by him and his fellow MDC/CCC leaders. 

“Addressing victory celebrations for Tsholotsho Ward 1 councillor Witness Khumalo over the weekend, Ncube condemned President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government, accusing it of selfish greed and a blatant disregard for democratic processes. He argued that electoral disputes, which have plagued Zimbabwe since 2000, are at the core of the nation's stagnation,” reported Bulawayo 24.

"Disputed elections have consistently led to the deterioration of our country," Ncube said, recalling the late Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai's warnings about the futility of participating in flawed elections. "Tsvangirai used to say, if you keep doing the same thing and expecting different results, that is the definition of insanity."

The sheer cynicism and dishonest in the statement is sickening for three reasons:

1. MDC/CCC leaders have failed to implement even one token reforms in 24 years, including 5 in the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Mugabe bribed them with the trappings of high office and they forgot about implementing reforms

2. Ever since the GNU debacle MDC/CCC leaders have participated in flawed elections; “so flawed, so illegal that the only logical step was to withdraw,” as David Coltart aptly put; and knowing fully well that participating would give Zanu PF legitimacy. Still they went ahead, indeed they have conned their brain dead followers to participate in the millions, because they also knew that Zanu PF was giving away a few gravy train seats reward for participating no matter how flawed the process. 

3. Yes, it is true that the root cause of Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown, tyrannical oppression and the tragic human suffering and deaths is the failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. Zanu PF has blatantly rigged elections for 44 years, the last 24 years of which with the connivance of MDC/CCC leaders. 

The people should not be fooled professor Ncube and his fellow MDC/CCC leaders’ buckets of crocodile tears over the repeated “disputed elections”. Disputed by who? Certainly not by them since they are the one who have not only failed to implement reforms but, worst of all, are participating in the flawed elections to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy. 

Professor Ncube is already on the campaign trail to con Zimbabweans into participating in flawed 2028 elections on the basis of the same idiotic lies that the opposition has devised winning in RIGGED elections strategies. As soon as he and his friends have secure the gravy train seats reward, they will cry foul. 

After 24 years of risking livelihoods, limbs and even lives to elect MDC/CCC leaders in to power and yet not even one token reform implemented; it is the people of Zimbabwe who must wake up to the reality Professor Ncube and company are taking them for fools.

It is insane for ordinary Zimbabweans to continue participating in rigged elections, for 44 years and counting, hoping to win but only to give Zanu PF legitimacy and to perpetuate their own suffering. Zimbabweans must stop participating in these flawed elections, “so flawed, so illegal that the only logical step was to withdraw,” as David Coltart aptly put.

SADC and AU election observers condemned 2023 Zimbabwe elections as flawed and illegal. SADC would have gone one step further and deny Zanu PF legitimacy, as they did in 2008; if millions Zimbabweans have not participated, nearly two million voted for CCC alone! 

The worst thing Zimbabweans can do is participate in flawed 2028 elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate our own suffering. We must stop shooting ourselves in the foot by participating in the flawed elections and then complain the elections were rigged!

Zimbabweans are their own worst enemy; in their ignorance, they have been participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate their own suffering. W Mukori

 @ Developer

A million dollar question..

By Akson Potera 

Will the 2023 election make any difference if the referee is also a player?

If indeed the opposition had been winning the election since 2000 to 2018 but failed  to take the reins of power, what will be the difference between the previous elections  and  that of 2023? 

Unless the opposition admits that they were lying that they had won  the past elections, I don’t think  the 2023 election will be different from other elections since the same deceivers are still on duty 24/7. 

 

The opposition must come clear: How will the very important vote be protected from theft?  

If it is true that the loser is always walking out of the race (as) the winner, then this is  a grim cause for concern.

Kana une mhinduro usa tsamwa pindura mubvunzo ti protecte vote yedu.”

The MDC/CCC leaders failed to implement even one token reforms when they had they best chance ever to do so during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Mugabe bribed them with the trappings of high office and the rest is history. Ever since the GNU debacle they have participated in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy for a share of the spoils of power. They have been Zanu PF team B in all but name. 

The tragedy for Zimbabwe is that the electorate, especially the Chamisa Chete Chete brigade are so ignorant and naive they have failed to realise that MDC/CCC leaders have been running with the povo hare and hunting with the Zanu PF hounds. And to crown it all we have universal suffrage, we have given the ignorant and naive the vote and the corrupt and incompetent politicians on both side of the political divide have exploited their ignorance and naivety to keep themselves in power. 

The ignorant electorate are their own worst enemy; they have participated in flawed elections to give Zanu PF thugs legitimacy, give the opposition a few gravy train seats and only to perpetuate their own suffering! Even after 44 years of rigged elections, the electorate still fail to see the sheer futility of participating in flawed elections because, in their ignorance, they have still have no clue what constitutes free and fair elections.