“There is no thinking Zimbabwean out there
who would dispute that the country is in serious political and economic trouble,”
said Wilbert Mukori (Byo24 Opinion).
I would like to believe that there are
thinking Zimbabweans out there if that was true then how is it possible that a “THINKING”
people would allow themselves to sink this deep into the hell-hole? Unemployment
does not soar to the nauseating heights of 90% overnight, it took years to get
there and, worse still, it has been 80%
plus for the last 15 years, at least! Corrupt has been rampant in Zimbabwe but
the admission by President Mugabe that $15 billion – nearly 5 times what the
regime collects in revenue a year - of the diamond bounty was looted is a slap in
the face to the “thinking” but long suffering nation! And throughout all this,
our great thinkers have done absolutely nothing; it has all been water off the
duck’s back!
If Zimbabweans were a thinking people you
say they are then they would not have already wasted two and half years out the
five years allocated to implement the reforms necessary for free, fair and
credible elections; arguing about which reforms they should implement. Thinking
people do not waste time arguing about something that is self-evident!
We have a Police force that has turned a
blind eye to politically motived violence by Zanu PF thugs, war vets and other clandestine
officious elements in various State institutions, for example. The Zimbabwe
Republic Police has been coopted into defending Zanu PF’s no-regime-change
mantra as Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri has public admitted in his
doctorate thesis. Of course the Zanu PF vote rigging and violence are serious
crimes but since they are being committed to accomplish the no-regime-change
agenda the Police have done nothing to stop the criminals.
If we are serious about getting the Police
to carry out their democratic duties of keeping law and order, investigate and arrest
all those who engage in unlawful activities including politically motivated ones
without fear or favour then we need implement the far reaching reforms designed
to break President Mugabe’s undemocratic strangle hold of the Police. These are
the reforms proposed and agreed in the 2008 GPA.
Zanu PF’s undemocratic control is not
limited to the Police but extends to ZEC, Public Media, Judiciary, etc. If we
want free, fair and credible elections all these institutions too must be
reformed.
Aligning the existing laws with the 2013
new constitution, which is what the electoral law reforms are calling for, will
not break the Zanu PF’s totalitarian strangle hold on the Police, ZEC, etc. Veritas
is spot on in describing the electoral law reforms as “inadequate”. No one in MDC-T,
ZimPF or the other opposition parties who are pushing for electoral reforms
have explained how these reforms will stop politically motivated violence, for
example.
No thinking anybody out there can ever dispute
the fact that the electoral law reforms will NEVER deliver free, fair and credible
elections in Zimbabwe. Those advocating the implementing electoral law reforms
as a solution are just wasting the nation’s time.
It is very generous of you, Wilbert, to suggest
there “thinking Zimbabweans out there”; the tragic reality tells a different
story – there are NO thinking Zimbabweans in the country or outside the country
in the diaspora. If there were then we would not be in this political and
economic hell-hole with all its contrasting contradictions; we would not be starving
in the Garden of Eden; we got a $15 billion diamond bounty and yet we worse off
now than before the bounty; etc.
Large crowd attend Mujuru's ZimPF rally in Harare.
ReplyDeletePeople like Bhasikiti, Mutasa, Mujuru and the rest of the team in ZimPF are not different from their former colleagues still in Zanu PF including Mugabe himself; they risked their lives in the liberation war because they wanted to be the next rulers. Once they got into power they did not hesitate to harass or even kill to stay in power. These people have used the cover that they are the ones who did the donkey work in the liberation struggle and thus deserve the lion's share of the spoils of independence - the lion's share has meant everything but what of it.
The fight to end the Zanu PF dictatorship must not be left to people like Bhasikiti because they will be claiming the special privileges all over. This is a fight the people have to take part in and participate to the full.
Point taken; we do not have have the honour and luxury of having many thinking Zimbabweans hence the reason we are in this hell-hole. But, worse still, we are stuck in this hell-hole with no chance of ever getting out precisely because we do not have many thinking Zimbabwe. We are destined to blunder from pillar to post generation after generation to the end of time!
ReplyDeleteBy allowing President Mugabe to rig elections he has now filled parliament and the senator with bootlickers who are wasting time and money trying to out do one another is singing the tyrant's praises.
DeleteThere are reports of ZANU-PF Senator Tapera Machingaifa likening President Robert Mugabe to Jesus Christ. Mugabe is an incompetent, corrupt, vote rigging and murderous tyrant who has cause the deaths over of 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans for his selfish political gain. How can anyone consider such a tyrant a saint let alone a God!
By allowing Mugabe to rig elections we have allowed him to fill parliament and senate with brain-dead cronies. This have been going on for decades now and we have still done nothing to put an end to this madness. We can claim to be a thinking people but no thinking nation would allow a tyrant to rob them of all human dignity and hope!
I do agree with your argument Nomsa but would just like to fine tune it a little.
ReplyDeleteMaking mistakes, even the mistakes that have landed us in this hell-hole, is not per se proof of someone's or a nation's inability to think. Make a mistake and you raise people's suspension that you are incapable of thinking but it is when you make one mistake after another blundering from pillar to post, especially when you are making the same mistake over and over again, that you re-move all the doubt that you are incapable of thinking.
Many wise things have been said about making mistakes; “The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all—doing nothing,” according to Poor Richard Junior’s Philosophy.
There is making mistakes and there is insanity; two diametrical opposite thing!
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result,’ said Albert Ein-stein.
To be in this hell-hole, this deep; one has to question the sanity of our leaders and us the people who have followed them blindly this far!
For the last 20 years Zimbabweans have talked about the need for democratic change as the way out of the hell-hole we find ourselves in and yet when push comes to shove they have failed to secure the democratic changes even when the opportunity to do so is presented to them in a silver platter.
DeleteThey have again and again gone for the quick and easy downhill solution out of the hell-hole and expecting this to lead them out of the hole. Of course they have ended up going deeper and deeper into the hole. Yes this goes beyond the inability to think; this is insanity!
We have more than our fair share of the mentally challenged people but, worst of all, they are the ones running the show and determining the nation's destiny. Boy oh boy, are we in serious trouble!
Jestina Mukoko has taken Mutasa and a few other ministers and senior civil servants to court over her abduction and torture in 2008.
ReplyDeleteIn a lawless nation like Zimbabwe where the only law that seem to count is the whim of the dictator one is forgiven for concluding that the there is no justice in the land. It is therefore very refreshing to notice that even in a land where so many have been subjected to harassment, beatings, rape and over 30 000 murdered in cold blood the wheels of justice can be to turn even if it be just a few degrees!
Mugabe tells a poorly attended Bindura rally that will step down if that is what the war vets want. He promised to meet them next month.
ReplyDeleteIt is clear he really does not mean to step down even if they asked him because he was already talking of the party congress deciding that. The next elective congress is 2019!
Zanu PF's greatest challenge is the economy; the dog-eat-dog fighting in the party has taken centre stage and yet, compared to the worsening economic situation, it is a side show. Whichever faction emerges victorious will still have to deal with the economic meltdown and there will be no economic recovery without political reforms and free and fair elections. Zanu PF will never win free and fair elections!
ZANU-PF Senator Tapera Machingaifa caused a stir in the upper house this past week after he lik-ened President Robert Mugabe to Jesus Christ adding the veteran leader has, similarly, given himself to crucifixion
ReplyDeleteMugabe is a mere mortal, an incompetent, corrupt and murderous tyrant at that; only a moron would consider him a saint let alone compare him to God. With leaders like these it is little won-der the nation is a mess.
We need leaders who have the vision to tackle the nation's problems and not waste time trying to outdo each other is singing the praises of the tyrant.