I would
like to welcome my brother Vince Musewe who, until now, was arguing that we
should continue to appease this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF regime. Now he
wants them kicked out of office!
“Continually
shouting at ZANU (PF) to change, as we are all doing now, may not result in the
change we want to see,” argued Musewe in February 2016.
“In my opinion, ZANU (PF), especially its leaders, fear to lose power through free and fair elections. Understandably so, because that loss of power may result in personal criminal persecution, loss of income and status. This fear is the same which is causing succession battles as Mugabe holds onto power. It is clear that the more we demand for political reforms, the more resistance to change we are getting.”
Musewe proposed
a political settlement of an interim administration to address the country’s
worsening economic situation. President Mugabe and his cronies will be allowed
to stay in power throughout the life of the interim administration and the
latter will not be tasked to implement any reforms of ZEC, the Police and all
the other state institutions leading to free and fair elections.
“We have
to be honest with each other and admit that it is really Mugabe's mentality of
"none but myself" that has got us where we are. Unless we address
that, there will be no change as long as he is around,” Musewe now argues in
his lasted article, Dictators never voluntarily leave office, Bulawayo 24 opinion.
“Societies
which are oppressed cannot expect to attain their freedom gradually or by
negotiation at the pleasure of the oppressor, there has to be some sort of
radical rapture from the past.”
So Musewe
is no longer interested in appeasing President Mugabe and his cronies but now
wants the tyrant booted out; great!
“Fourth,
the commissioner of police and its leadership must resign immediately and be
replaced by a safety and security commission made up a team of credible
individuals with legal and policing experience,” continued Musewe in his five
point plan.
“Fifth,
the ZEC must be disbanded and the current team dismissed including the
Registrar General. In its place an inclusive body representing political
parties and civic organisations must be established and given the mandate to
prepare the country for new elections by July 2018.”
Last time
Musewe was bending over backwards to assure Zanu PF thugs that ZEC, the Police,
Security Sectors, etc. will not be reformed and the dictatorship watered down;
now he wants these institutions disbanded!
I would
like to draw Mr Musewe’s attention to the fact that the disbanding of ZEC and
all the other corrupted state institutions is not a new and novel idea; this
was the essence of the democratic reforms proposed in the 2008 GPA. The reforms
Tendai Biti, Morgan Tsvangirai, Welshman Ncube and the other MDC leaders were
tasked to implementing but failed to get even one reform implemented in the
five years of GNU. Not even one reform!
Vince
Musewe is the Secretary for Finance and Economic Affairs of the People's
Democratic Party (PDP) a party led by none other than Tendai Biti, a senior GNU
MDC leader. Vince Musewe is on record praising Biti and the other corrupt and
incompetent MDC leaders who failed to get even one democratic reform
implemented during the GNU.
It has
clearly been a torturous political journey for Vince Musewe to move from blind
loyalty to Mugabe, appeasing the tyrant regardless to finally admitting the
tyrant must go; no if no but! It seems Musewe has yet to accept that it was not
only President Mugabe and his cronies who landed us in this mess others like
Biti and his equally corrupt and incompetent MDC friendly played their part too.
“The crux
of the matter is that Zimbabwe has been bankrupted by Mugabe and the Zanu (PF)
politburo and its thieving ministers. We have a failed state and those who
manufactured that failure cannot be architects of a new Zimbabwe. It our duty
to rebuild and reinvent our country without them,” wrote Musewe.
The crux
of the matter is that amateur political analysts like Musewe have taken forever
to see what has been there for the whole world to see. And even then, they only
see in monochrome, black and white, right and wrong, Zanu PF and MDC. Musewe
can only see Mugabe and his cronies as corrupt and incompetent but because he
must have MDC as the good guys to counter weigh the Zanu PF bad guys, he
filters out the reality that they are in fact corrupt and incompetent.
Leaders
like Biti have already proven beyond all doubt that they are corrupt and
incompetent a thousand times but none so convincingly than by failing to
implement even one reform in five years of the GNU. And yet Musewe has refused
to count MDC leaders amongst “those who manufacture that (Zimbabwe) failure
(and) cannot be architects of a new Zimbabwe”. He still wants them to be the
chief architects of his new Zimbabwe.
Corrupt
and incompetent leaders, who are we kidding with all this frantic recycling of
deadwood in MDC, ZimPF, etc., will never build a strong democratic and
prosperous Zimbabwe we are looking for.
What we
need to do is to implement all the democratic reforms agreed in the 2008 GPA designed
to dismantle the Zanu PF autocracy that has stifled all meaningful debate and
democratic completion to create a political system in which corrupt and
incompetent leaders, scum, rise to the top. The reformed system will encourage
and nurture debate and democratic competition and allow competent and visionary
leaders, crème de crème, to rise to the top.
The nation has been fighting these last 36 years to end the Mugabe tyrannical rule and last thing is to replace it with another dictatorship whether that dictator be Grace of Emmerson the difference is academic. We do not want another dictator period!
ReplyDeletePeople like Mutsvangwa and Mnangagwa have shed innocent Zimbabwe to impose the dictator Mugabe and now they want to shed even more innocent blood to impose another dictator. The real freedom fighter fought for and many died for the freedom of ALL Zimbabweans and not for this Zanu PF gang of thugs to terrorize povo. If people have to fight for their freedom and dignity all over again then so be it but this time people like Mutsvangwa must be held to account and punished for making this fight necessary!
ACTING PRESIDENT Phelekezela Mphoko says it is “treasonous” for the war veterans to endorse Emmerson Mnangagwa as their preferred candidate to succeed Robert Mugabe while the president was still in office.
ReplyDeleteHe warned the war veterans to never “never ever deceive yourselves”, adding that they were “walking on a very dangerous course; you’re walking on the line of treason and subversion.”
What is VP Mpoko wittering about? When war veterans like Jabulani Sibanda terrorized the nation harassing, beating, raping and even murdering innocent Zimbabwe forcing them to attend Zanu PF rallies and to for Zanu PF that was not high treason. Now all they war vets have said is the support X and not Y it is high treason!
VP Mpoko means to sing for his supper but he should be careful he does not over play his hand! He must remember that putting aside all President Mugabe's political mechinationations; Zimbabwe is still a multi-party democracy and we the people are determined to restore the rule of law and we will do just that!
The trouble with our opposition political leaders is that they are corrupt and incompetent so corrupt and incompetent that everything they do and say is devoid of sincerity and substance be-cause they are doing and saying it for money and they do not believe in any of it themselves.
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to believe that Vince Musewe believed his proposals to put all democratic reforms on the back burner to appease President Mugabe and his Zanu PF hard liners was in the national interested. He never explained how such appeasement would help the masses because it did not and he knew it. He proposed it because it the masses did not know it was all a lie and would never hold him to account.
The politics of appeasement of President Mugabe was the politics of choice for the opposition politician in Zimbabwe because it was enough to please the naïve and gullible masses whilst being care not to throw too much dirty into President Mugabe’s face to make him angry. Making Mugabe angry was a no – no because the tyrant would make the individual’s life very uncomfortable.
Zimbabwean opposition politicians are the Alan Paton’s John Kumalo in Cry, the Beloved Country, they have the power bull-voice; they use the voice to stir people’s passion, enough to make them-selves popular but then hold back to ensure the people’s passion are not raised too high, to the point they will demand justice and get Kumalo into trouble with the authorities.
Musewe has never criticized Tendai Biti, Morgan Tsvangirai or any of the opposition leaders even seasoned ones like ZimPF leaders like Joice Mujuru because the John Kumalo political ethos he works under is the same Biti and others work under, hence the reason they did not implement even one reform during the GNU. As for ZimPF leaders, Musewe tolerates them because they may help his get on the gravy train; when all one cares about getting on the gravy train, he/she will have some really strange bed fellows.
The fact that Musewe has now made a complete volte-face on his policy of appeasement of Presi-dent Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies is further proof of his opportunistic politics. A new democratic, free and prosperous Zimbabwe will never be brought by corrupt, incompetent and opportunistic politicians like Musewe. We are in this political and economic mess because of narrow minded leaders like Musewe and Mugabe who see the rainbow as stripes of white and varying sheds of grey and black; great nations demand leaders who can see the splendor of the full spectrum!