"Why does Zanu PF keep winning election?" Good and relevant question! W Mukori.

 @ Zimbabwe Citizens Unite

“Why ZANU-PF Keeps Winning & What We Need To Do To Change That 

Fellow opposition supporters and activists, we need to have a serious conversation. We are up against a well-oiled machine in ZANU-PF, and whether we like it or not, they continue to out maneuver us. It’s not because they have better ideas or because the people love them—it’s because they are better organized and more disciplined in executing their strategy.

 1. ZANU-PF Organizes Around a Common Purpose 

ZANU-PF is clear on what it stands for: power retention at all costs. Every structure within the party, from the grassroots to the top, operates with one mission—to keep control of the state. They mobilize their people, train their cadres, and ensure everyone is aligned with the party’s agenda.

Meanwhile, in the opposition, we spend too much time fighting each other, debating who is more revolutionary, and failing to coordinate our efforts. We have brilliant minds and dedicated activists, but we are scattered. We lack unity of purpose, and this is why ZANU-PF keeps out maneuvering us.

 2. They Build Structures, We Build Moments 

ZANU-PF has solid party structures that allow them to mobilize efficiently—cells, district committees, war veterans, youth leagues, and social media teams. These structures allow them to control narratives, influence communities, and manipulate elections.

On the other hand, we rely on social media moments, hashtags, and spontaneous protests. While these are powerful tools, they cannot replace strong political structures on the ground. If we do not build organized structures that outlast elections, we will always be reacting to ZANU-PF instead of setting the agenda.

 3. They Invest in Their Supporters, We Neglect Ours 

ZANU-PF knows the power of rewarding loyalty. Their supporters get land, tenders, jobs, and access to resources—even if it is corrupt. This keeps their people motivated and willing to fight for the party.

In the opposition, many supporters give their time, resources, and energy—but what do they get in return? There’s no proper support system, no recognition of sacrifices, and no investment in building a sustainable movement. If we want to compete, we must take care of our own.

 4. We Must Organize Like a Government in Waiting 

If we are serious about removing ZANU-PF, we must start behaving like a government in waiting. 

That means:

▪️Unifying around a common purpose—winning power and governing better.

▪️Building strong party structures—not just Twitter campaigns.

▪️Investing in our activists and supporters—not just asking them to protest and vote.

▪️Developing a clear alternative vision—not just criticizing ZANU-PF but showing how we will govern differently.

 Time to Stop Complaining & Start Organizing 

ZANU-PF thrives because we let them. Every time we fail to organize ourselves properly, we make their job easier. Our enemy is not just ZANU-PF, it is disorganization.

Now is the time to change how we operate. Enough talk—let’s build a movement that can actually win.”

Zanu PF leaders are just a bunch of corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs. 

Zimbabwe is a failed state performing way below expectation. We should be the South Korea or Singapore of Africa but have instead become the text book failed state plagued with gross mismanagement, rampant corruption, chaos and confusion - proof we have brain dead buffoons ruling the roost. 

Zanu PF has managed to stay in power for 46 years and counting for four reasons:

1. 1) Zanu PF had the great fortune of have a very resourced nation and Mugabe and now Mnangagwa have used this wealth to buy votes and loyalty. Mugabe inherited a robust economy from Smith, the Biblical seven fat cows and seven fat ears of corn, by the late 1990s the wealth was nearly spent. Mugabe seized the land, the only other asset left, to give to his ever demanding and wasteful followers. The farm seizure and the money printing crazy fuelled the country’s world record hyperinflation which soared to 500 billion by end of 2008. Mugabe lost the March 2008 elections because he no longer had the wealth with which to bribe those around him and keep them loyal to him. Mnangagwa and Chiwenga stepped in to launch Operation Mavhotera Papi to wrestle power from the opposition and to punish the people for having dared to reject Zanu PF - see 2) below. Mnangagwa inherited one skin and borne cow from Mugabe in 2017 and so he had to dig deep to find enough wealth to bribe those around him. Corruption under Mugabe was bad but it went into overdrive under Mnangagwa.

2. 2) Zanu PF has always wield the large stick with which to whip its critics and opponents into silence and died silence if need be. “Zanu PF has degrees in violence!” Mugabe has often boasted and the nation has seen a lot of violence and blood shed in last 46 years - proof Zanu PF thugs are trigger happy. 

3. 3) There have been many time when Zanu PF have come close to losing the party’s struggle hold on power notably during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. The party emerged from the GNU even stronger than ever not so much because Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies are smart - they are brain dead buffoons as noted above - but because the MDC leaders turned out to be breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent. 

4. 4) If the intellectual ability of Zanu PF leaders compared to mankind today is comparing space age man to cave man. Mugabe compared to Tsvangirai, cave man compared to his great, great father. The ease with which both Zanu PF and MDC/CCC leaders have lied and conned their followers to do stupid things like participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the nation’s suffering; the followers are Homo Erectus, 1 million years ago! 

"Zimbabwe's economy grew by 8.3% in 2025" Finance Minister Ncube. Capture State of filthy rich, yes! Wilbert Mukori.

 

@ Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube

“Zimbabwe's economy grew by 8.3% in 2025, while foreign direct investment increased from US$597 million in 2024 to US$965 million in 2025. The tourism sector alone attracted more than US$1 billion in investments during the NDS 2021–2025 period and the momentum is continuing.

As such, tourism investment increased from approximately US$190.5 million in 2024 to US$194.5 million in 2025, and in the first half of 2026 alone, Zimbabwe recorded approximately US$132 million in tourism investments.

In the first quarter of 2026, tourism investment increased by an extraordinary 438 percent. This remarkable progress is an affirmation of the able and capable leadership of President ED Mnangagwa.”

Zimbabwe is a failed state in which the few filthy rich are getting richer and richer whilst the filthy poor are getting poorer and poorer and their numbers are growing exponentially. 

Minister Ncube talks of the economy growing by 8.3%, the only growth many people can testify of is in the mining sector. The number of small-scale miners, “makorokoza” as they are known locally, has increased by leaps and bounds (for many it is either one becomes a mukorokoza, a street vendor or leave the country).  The other growth in the mining sector is at the top end by mainly Chinese. Mountains sides are disappearing and shipped out Beira in convoys of heavy duty lorries. 

It is laughable that Finance Minister should be wittering about the booming mining sector when most of the mineral wealth extracted is not declared as the Al Jazeera Gold Mafia documentary revealed. 80% of the US$2 billion per year gold extraction was being smuggled, the documentary revealed. 

The Al Jazeera documentary came out in 2023 and to date none on the those involved in the smuggling have been arrested. For the record Mnangagwa, Chiwenga and many other Zanu PF leaders were named in the documentary. 

When those in the highest offices in the land are themselves the Mafia Godfathers, you have state capture, the Mafia is the State and the State is the Mafia. It is near impossible to uproot corruption! 

Our hospitals have no medicines and schools have no teachers because many have left to escape the slave wages. Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has no money to allocate to health and education and yet he knows that Dr Kudakwashe Tagwirei squandered a staggering US$40 million on his son’s wedding alone. Dr Tagwirei is one of the filthy rich few whose wealth says one thing and tax return says the opposite; the Ministers knows that and has never dared to investigate. UNTOUCHABLE!   

“In the first quarter of 2026, tourism investment increased by an extraordinary 438 percent.” How so?

Last week, one MPs announced in parliament that it took him 15 hours to drive 364 km from Bulawayo to Hwange. How is it possible that tourism is booming regardless of the reality the tourists cannot get to their destinations because of the sorry state of Zimbabwe’s roads!

Is Coltart rejecting CAB3 extension of his mayoral term to ingratiate himself ready to con them again? W Mukori.

 Coltart rejects extension Bulawayo mayoral term without free CAB3 referendum  - yet accepted without free elections!

Bulawayo mayor David Coltart has rejected any automatic extension of his tenure under the Constitutional Amendment (No. 3) Act of 2026 (CAA3), insisting that he will leave office in 2028 unless residents grant him a fresh mandate through a lawful, free and fair referendum.

Coltart, who has previously said he intends to step down at the end of his current term, said he would only consider remaining in office beyond 2028 if Bulawayo residents explicitly approved an extension through the ballot box.

"If there is a referendum, free and fair, a lawful referendum, and the majority of the people say we are happy to extend, in those circumstances, then I have a further mandate from the people," Coltart said in an interview.

"But without that mandate, it's two things – it's a breach of the constitution and it is also a breach of trust, because when I was elected, my contract with the people was five years.

"There was no talk about me having a seven-year term. In my view, it's a breach of trust.

"So I am not changing in that regard. If there's no lawful mandate from the people, my contract with the people has ended."

Coltart's position comes amid an ongoing national controversy over CAA3, which President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law in July.

The sheer hypocrisy of this stinks to the high heavens. 

So Mayor Coltart insists he will “leave office in 2028 unless residents grant him a fresh mandate through a lawful, free and fair referendum (on CAB3).” 

Ask him “Did you take up the mayoral office because residents granted you a mandate through lawful, free and fair 2023 elections?” Both SADC and AU election observers condemned the 2023 election process as flawed and illegal. And that did not stop Coltart taking up his seat. 

He knew that participating in the flawed elections process would give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the Zanu PF dictatorship. What is more, he and his fellow MDC/CCC leaders have known this since the 2013 elections!

“The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious - withdraw from the (2013) elections. The 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 David Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe.

Has David Coltart finally developed a conscience or is this him, joining the rats, abandoning the sinking MDC/CCC ship! Smart move!

He abandoned the white racist Rhodesia, at least, many blacks forgave him for his part in Ian Smith’s white supremacist Rhodesia and counted him as one of the “good” whites. No doubt he is expecting some people to consider him one of the “competent and incorruptible” MDC/CCC leaders! 

There was a father who had four sons. He asked the first son to do something for him. The son rudely reply that he would not do it. He latter reconsidered and carried out the task.

The second son assured the father he would do the requested task. He did not do the work.

The third nodded to his father and carried out the task with no fuss.

The fourth made a big fuss assuring his father he would carry out the task only to perform the task without much care and attention. Con his father into believing the task was carried out with due diligence and care.  "Masiya ndaita!" as one would say in Shona.

Which of the four sons would the father be least pleased with?

Which of the four sons would he be most pleased with?

Which of the remaining two sons would he be better pleased with? 

David Coltart has been participating in flawed elections, "so flawed, so illegal, the only logical step is to withdraw," as he readily confessed. He did not withdraw out of greed as he readily confessed too. He knew participating will give Zanu PF legitimacy and it did.

Of course, it is insulting to those suffering the consequences of what the tyrannical Zanu PF is doing to be reminded of their suffering by the individuals who gave Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. 

Should the nation be impressed with CCC leaders who participated in the flawed elections, gave Zanu PF legitimacy and then made a big song and dance about how they objected to CAB3. Of course these leaders are cynical and manipulative, so why should the nation be impressed? 

Is Coltart refusing the automatic term extension because he is only now seeing the evil of perpetuating the dictatorship or could it be that he can see the dictatorship is doomed and in ingratiating himself to the voters ready to con them again!

A rat that abandons a sinking ship is just a rat seeking to save its own life! For all we know it may well be the rat the directly or indirectly cause the events leading to the sinking of the ship!

The father will be least pleased with the son who should know better but acts out of cynicism, deceit and hypocrisy!

"YW4ED fully supported CAB3!" The Animal Farm type personality cult mentality is the curse for democracy! W Mukori

 @ YW4ED

The ancient Greeks were right, democracy - government of the people, by the people and for the people - only works if the said people are diligent in holding the leaders to account, their sacred duty. The Greeks realised that for the people to be trusted to carry out this duty they must be educated, knowledgeable and objective.

The Greeks granted right to vote to only those who would diligently hold leaders to account - that is not negotiable.

Giving the vote to people with the personality cult mentality is the very antithesis of whom the ancient Greeks' diligent voters. In Boxer, the horse, George Orwell paints a portray of one with a personality cult mentality. Boxer adopts "Napoleon is always right!" as his personal motto. The sacred duty of diligently holding the leaders account is out of the window.

In Zimbabwe VaPositori4ED, Young Women4ED, etc., have all shown this personality cult mentality. The Zanu PF regime has encouraged this by bankrolling the activities of these groups. And the groups have in turn promoted the glory of ED at the expense of the good of Zimbabwe.

“Your Excellency, we remain a proud affiliate of ZANU PF and committed to contributing to the country’s development agenda. We have established Mukando Clubs across all provinces, creating platforms for savings, investment, empowerment and economic participation.

We sincerely appreciate the support of the ZANU PF Women’s League and the partnerships that have enabled communities and young women to benefit from our empowerment programs, including access to houses, vehicles and other economic opportunities.

We also extend our profound gratitude to our Patron and First Lady, Amai Dr. Auxillia Mnangagwa for her continued leadership and advocacy for the empowerment and prosperity of women and young people.

Your Excellency, YW4ED fully supported Constitutional Amendment Bill No.3 recognising its importance in creating a longer and more coherent development cycle for Zimbabwe.

Our country continues to transform under your leadership. Zimbabwe is becoming increasingly beautiful and prosperous because of your vision, leadership and commitment to national development.”

Here we go! Only some one with the personality cult mentality would fail to see that CAB3 is consolidating Mnangagwa and Zanu PF’s dictatorial powers at the expense of good governance.

Zanu PF's Land Tenure is giving title deeds to elite with 100s acres whilst denying povo one acre to build a decent house! W Mukori.

LAND TENURE: TURNING LAND INTO BANKABLE WEALTH

•  The Land Tenure Program is anchored in NDS1 and NDS2.

•  It supports Zimbabwe’s final push towards Vision 2030 of an upper middle income status.

•  Secure registered title deeds can turn agricultural land into bankable property and an economic asset.

•  The program involves communities and stakeholders and seeks to provide secure tenure, protection and economic opportunity.

•  Land reform and tenure security to broader national development priorities.

Everyone in this room is upper middle income, I declare because you all spend US$12 a day on whatever you are spending it on. That is the definition of upper middle income.

Professor Mthuli Ncube

Minister of Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion.

How many rural dwellers spend US$1 per day let alone US$12? Vision 2030 is a mirage Minister Mthuli Ncube knows that better than anybody else.

The fight for land before independence was the fight for economic and political empowerment. It is heart breaking that 46 years after independence 60% of our power continue to be denied title deeds to even one acre of land.

@ Dr. Kudakwashe Tagwirei

“Land tenure reform is not merely an administrative process but a transformative economic program designed to unlock the full productive potential of land. By restructuring land distribution and ownership, the reform is creating a new economic structure that promotes investment, productivity, empowerment and inclusive growth.”

This is just bulls***t! Over 60% of Zimbabweans leave in the rural areas and it is this Zanu PF regime has stubbornly refused to give these people title deeds to even one acre of land on which their mud hut stands. 

Ian Smith denied rural folk title deeds for fear the economic empowerment would embolden the the blacks to demand political empowerment next. He did not want to give blacks the vote. Zanu PF has denied rural povo title deeds for the same selfish political reasons. 

Zanu PF could not deny the rural blacks the vote, it was not practical. The party has denied povo title deed, economic empowerment, to keep them poor and politically powerless. The regime can frog match serfs to attend party rallies and to vote for the party not so with an economical independent individual!