“… there is this lame argument
around bussing people he he he! Nonsense!” wrote the insufferable Nathaniel
Manheru. “Did we not see the Youth League executive addressing meetings in all
the country's 10 province? Do you reach 10 provinces to raise crowds for a
local rally? And were people supposed to come on foot from those provinces?
“How is it different on Election Day? Is there a law that stops bussing of voters seeking to reach a booth, assuming there will be some booths far away from the voting public? What is the point? Yes, people were bussed from all over the country, people today, voters tomorrow. And the difficulties by some in getting back to their home provinces. What does that tell?
“That resources for the million man
march were sparse, hard to come by. What was abundant was the zeal, the will to
march for a million. You can't argue that State resources were abused and still
find people stranded in Harare. Does that make sense? What is your day like,
dear critic?
“Zanu-PF will did it again! Zanu
Yedu/ Tinooidaaa Zanu Yedu tinoida/ Kunyangwe zvavo/ Kunyangwe zvavo vakachema,
vakarovera musoro padombo, mangopinda tinokunda.”
Such boastfulness even now with the
writing of Zanu PF’s demise on the wall is typical of tyrannical regimes who
have refused to accept change until it is too late to do so. Whilst they know
they are staring defeat in the face, they put on a brave face and pretend their
tyrannical rule will last until the donkey have horns!
No, Manheru, there is nothing wrong
with bussing people from one rally to the next and, come election day, bussing
the supporters to polling stations. However there is something wrong with bussing
people who do not live in one constituency to another to vote. There is
something wrong with increasing the number of polling stations from 2 000 to 9
000 just two days before polling day and then bussing supporters from one
polling station to the next to cast multiple votes.
It is a criminal offence for the
government of the day to refuse to release a voters roll although it is
required by law to do so a month before voting day. Up to this day Zanu PF has
refused to release the voters roll. They know the voters roll is one of the
smoking guns to the vote rigging of the 2013 elections.
It is interesting to note that a few
months ago the same Manheru, who is pretending today that the last elections
were free and fair, was reminding the then Minister Chris Mutsvangwa that he
should not be too boastful about him having the people’s mandate to govern when
his election victory was fixed!
There is no doubt that people like
you Manheru love Zanu PF “Zanu yedu tinoida!” you are chanting; why not you
have had your fair share of the looted wealth. From your PSMAS board membership
fees alone you have earned a cool $100 000 per year! You have shown any
sympathy for the civil servants, whose membership subscription you are looting,
who have been forced to do without the medical help because the doctors are
asking them to pay cash because PSMAS, looted by the top managers, is not
paying the doctors’ bills.
The poor civil servants, who earn as
little as $500 a month, cannot afford to pay PSMAS membership subscriptions and
then pay cash to the doctors are being forced to do without life- saving
medical help!
President Mugabe has been doing his
bit fleecing the Zimbabwe people. He has send his daughter overseas to study
staying in a $50 million mansion, had a $5 million wedding for her, has just
spent millions for her to have her baby in the Far East, etc. and yet the
hospitals the rest of us ordinary mortals are forced to use are so poorly
funded most of them do not have something as basic as an incubator!
Yes Comrade Manheru you, President
Mugabe and all the other Zanu PF cronies have been singing “Zanu yedu tinoida!”
for the last 36 years but even amongst yourselves there is discord. Where is
the likes of Mai Mujuru and her supporters? There are today two factions the
Mnangagwa and the G40 factions fighting it out. The one-million man march was a
G40 rally in all but name. Zanu PF is imploding and the country’s worsening
economic meltdown is fuelling the break up.
The Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda chaired a meeting during which Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr John Mangudya briefed heads of parastatals and some government officials on the recent measures taken by the central bank to deal with the cur-rent cash shortages facing the country due to externalisation and the hoarding of cash by some individuals and entities.
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The cash crunch is caused by Zimbabwe's huge trade deficit and it is irresponsible of the regime that has failed to create job opportunities forcing the nation to rely on imports that it should now try to blame ordinary people for its failures. No one would externalize their money so they can starve or hoarding cash if they did not fear that they will be forced to accept worthless bond notes!
The country’s economic meltdown will continue until there are meaningful political reforms!