During the
constitution writing process there was a lot of talk of introducing the upper
age limit for president. The idea has grown on from there and now some Zanu PF
idiots think it is a selling point with this generation 40 (G40) faction. How
stupid is that!
The problem with
Mugabe and his cronies is not so much that they are old but rather that they
are corrupt and incompetent. And having tried to get rid of the tyrant and
failed for the last three decades, the nation was now so desperate we wanted it
written into the constitution just to block Mugabe from becoming president
again.
Mugabe was not always
a dotting 92 year old hair-dyeing egotistic tyrant; he was a spring chicken too
once upon a time. Back in 1980, Mugabe was 56 years old and Joice Mujuru was a
24 year old. Even back then, they were incompetent and corrupt; the seeds of
the gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and the murderous tyranny that have
cripple the nation today were sown way back in 1980s.
If you are sick you
seek a medical doctor. If the ailment is one requiring specialist knowledge you
would inquire about the doctor’s experience and expertise in the field because
that is more relevant to your needs than knowing their age, sex, race, etc.
Zimbabwe is in a serious
political and economic mess after decades of misrule by Mugabe and his cronies.
For years Mugabe has con the nation into electing him by promising us the moon
on a silver platter but has delivered hell-on-earth. We must learn to elect our
leaders with greater care and not to be so easily conned.
For Zimbabwe to get
out of the hell-hole Mugabe landed us in we need far reaching political reforms
to enable us to reform failed leaders as soon as we have found out they are
corrupt and incompetent. We need to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship that has
allowed Mugabe to rig elections and stay in power regardless of the wishes of
the electorate.
Our failure to
understand what the democratic changes we needed to end the Zanu PF
dictatorship, for example, has resulted in us being conned by Tsvangirai and
his MDC friends. Tsvangirai did not have a clue what the reforms required were
and so no reforms were implemented during the GNU. We are stuck with Zanu PF
today because we missed the opportunity to end the dictatorship.
If we do not implement
the democratic reforms necessary to ensure next elections are free, fair and
credible then we will be stuck with the Mujuru faction, Mnangagwa faction or
G40 faction; which faction wins the rigged elections will be a matter of
indifference, to me they are all Zanu PF through and through, three variants of
the same corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF. Still, if push came to
shove, one will have to say the G40 faction is the worst of the bad lot.
G40 faction has Minister
Kasukuwere and Minister Zhuwao, the two individuals who have done the most to
promote the obnoxious indigenisation law. As for Grace Mugabe, the faction’s
leader, she has shown that she is a foul-mouthed individual with no common sense.
President Grace Mugabe will be the nightmare scenario! Youth is on G40 faction’s
side but when it comes to competency they are the least competent because, as
stated above, age has nothing to do with one’s leadership qualities.
Those obsessed about
age are just too lazy to think of what they want the leader to do and judge
them on their ability to deliver and instead decide on the basis of something total
abstract and irrelevant! We are in this hell-hole because for the last 36 years
we have failed to elect competent leaders as long as we allow ourselves to be
distracted by trivial matters like age, sex, race, tribe, etc., we will never
get out of the hole!
And to think that those MDC leaders like Professor Ncube, Senator Coltart, Tendai Biti, etc. talked the nation into voting for the Copac constitution arguing it was a significant improvement on the Lancaster House constitution because it limited the president's stay in office to two terms, it had devolution, etc. Now with hindsight it is clear that these pretty useless things designed to catch the eye like the feather of a peacock. We were after a democratic constitution and were short changed.
ReplyDeleteWe were conned into voting for a constitution that allowed President Mugabe to have all his ex-cessive dictatorial powers so he could blatantly rig the elections which is exactly what he did. He has since removed, suspended or simply ignored all those trivial additives and, worst of all, he are still stuck with a dictatorship. We are nothing more than a starving tiger that had its best chance for a kill but ended up with a mouthful of beautiful feathers!
If the new constitution cannot deliver free and fair elections then it is a pretty useless constitution and those MDC leaders sold-out big time.
I have to agree with you the 2018 are set to be a repeated of the 2013 rigged elections. If that is so then the only contestants with a fighting chance would be the whichever Zanu PF faction (be it Mnangagwa or G40) with its hands on State machinery with all the diamond wealth, state resources and total control of the vote rigging machinery vs Mujuru and her ZimPF. Whichever side wins the nation will lose because the two are the two sides of the same coin.
Yes age was one of the bright feathers that caught the nation's eye in the new constitution and to this day some people still think it is important! A quick look at G40 should have made them throw the idea away quick smart! We are in serious trouble!
President Mugabe is NOT the "revered doyen" Japanese PM Abe thinks he is. Here is the leader who has stayed in power for 36 years because he blatantly rigged elections and committed wanton violence against the people only to destroy the nation's economy and loot and plunder its resources. What is to be revered in that!
ReplyDeleteJapan should be care not to make too close a friendship with a tyrant for the sake of short term business gains at the expense of the long suffering people of Zimbabwe because when the tyrant goes, and his number is up, the people will remember who propped up the tyrant at their expense.
The real tragedy here is that war vets like Mutsvangwa should still think they did the right thing in helping President Mugabe impose a one-party dictatorship by ruthlessly denying the people their freedoms and basic human rights including the rights to a meaningful vote. The nation is in this political and economic mess because we have a corrupt and tyrannical regime we cannot remove regardless is clear track record of failure and betrayal.
ReplyDeletePeople like Mutsvangwa should know that they are the owners and creators of a monster called Zanu PF dictatorship and the monster is killing this nation.
People like Mutsvangwa are not freedom fighters but rather mercenaries who found in the liberation war for a price - that they become the next oppressors. We have seen this happen again and again in Africa and else where were yesterday's liberators become today's oppressors. Mugabe hired Mutsvangwa and his follow rogue war vets to do his dirty work and the tyrant got tired of the thugs nand tear-gassed the lot. Served them right!
We need to get rid of the tyrant and his misguided war vet thugs like Mutsvangwa!
The power of the gun is not to be granted to soft headed idiots like Mutsvangwa ever since he came back as a freedom fighter he has thought himself a demigod we all must treat as infallible regardless what he does or say. You can explain to him until the cows come home that beating up people and forcing them to vote for Mugabe or anyone is contrary to what the nation fought for; he will never get it!
ReplyDeleteThe fact that he carried the gun has made him big headed!
@ Tafanana
ReplyDeleteYou have nailed it right there. Why did the person who interviewed Mutsvangwa fail to take the idiot to task on his narrow minded views. The media has not done the nation any favours by giving idiots like Mutsvangwa and Sibanda so much coverage so they can brainwash even more people!
@ Chiporonga
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to looting these morons will loot $15 billion from Marange and still steal a $10 PSMAS subs from poorly paid civil servants - they have taken TESCO's "every little helps" moto to heart!
Tsvangirai is a lot younger than Mugabe and yet the tyrant has outwitted the village idiot at every turn. Indeed, if the truth be told, Mugabe has stay in power for all these years by outwitting his political challengers like Joice Mujuru, Mnangagwa, even Professor Jonathan Moyo who is a cunning fox in his own right. They are all years his junior but clearly his mental capacity has out run their own. Mugabe has those older than him, like the late Simon Muzenda grovelling to him on their hands and knees!
ReplyDeleteMugabe has shown that is clever and age has nothing to do with it. The tragedy for the nation is that he is intrinsically an evil man, the devil incarnate, and by using his intellect to do evil he has caused untold suffering and misery to the nation! We are not out of the woods yet even if he was to drop dead in the next few months; the damage he has inflicted on the nation will take generations to put right, if at all.
Millions of Haitians and Filipinos are still stuck in abject poverty and hopeless despair decades after they got rid of their respective tyrannical dictators. Iraqis and Egyptians got rid of their tyrants but are now finding it very difficult to trust each other and to form a stable government. As for Syria their dictator is not going as long as there is still one useable building still standing, he wants everything reduced to rumble.
Mugabe has destroyed the Zimbabwe economy forcing millions into abject poverty and his tyrannical rule has destroyed all state institutions. Even if he walkout now this nation has a very difficult task of rebuilding democratic institutions and the economy. He has no intention of walkout as yet, he has some more destructive work still to do! I shudder to think what will be left when he finally goes! Meanwhile our nightmare continues; with the economy in total meltdown and his party imploding and he ignores them both as if it nothing, a lot worse is clearly yet to come!