“When Zanu PF rolled
over MDC in 2013 and gave Mr. Mugabe another 5 year term they could never have
anticipated the immediate consequences,” you said.
For umpteenth time, Eddie, Zanu PF did not care
about the consequences of their rigging the elections and getting back into
power. All Mugabe cared about is getting back into power so he and his cronies
can continue with the looting, which had, at best, slowed down during the GNU.
You, MP Cross, were certainly aware of the looting in Marange during the GNU
because you raise the subject yourself. Mugabe in March this year has shed some
light as to the extent of the looting when he told the nation that $15 billion
of Marange diamonds were looted between 2010 and 2015! So the nation has to
take you claim of local and international confidence in Zimbabwe with a pitch
of salt.
“After 4 years of
growth and recovery and rising confidence in local and international circles,
the country went into mourning and markets crashed. In six months $3,5 billion
dollars fled the economy and a third of all Banks closed their doors,” you
claimed. Nonsense!
The local and
international community expected MDC to implement the democratic reforms
designed to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship and watched with growing panic
and disbelief the five years of the GNU rolled by and no meaningful reforms
were implemented. Not even one reform in five years!
Indeed long before
the six months from elections day which saw “$3,5 billion dollars fled the
economy, etc.” SADC leaders and MDC’s donors had all deserted you lot before
the July 2013 elections according to former MDC Minister Samuel Sipepa Nkomo.
“We failed to secure critical reforms
before participating in the elections. The whole world advised us not to get
into the elections without reforms, and so in everything that we have been
saying we have failed to acknowledge that we also made a mistake,” Nkomo told
the Independent newspaper.
“It is common knowledge that Lindiwe Zulu
(President Jacob Zuma’s international relations adviser) advised us. Zuma also
advised us and even the Sadc Heads of State meeting in Maputo (Mozambique) also
advised not to participate in the elections without electoral, media and
security sector reforms, among others.
“We were ill-prepared. Zanu PF gave its
parliamentary candidates as much as US$15 000 each, a car, tee-shirts and
campaign posters. But we gave our own parliamentary candidates only US$700
each, the councillors US$100 — all of which simply demonstrated a lack of
seriousness. We were also misled by the numbers that came to our rallies
particularly in Bulawayo, and the cross-over rally in Harare where people were
told that (party leader Morgan) Tsvangirai would be crossing over into State
House.”
MDC had only $700 for its parliamentary
candidate because the party’s donors deserted the party and turned off the
funds in sheer exasperation at the breath-taking incompetence MDC leaders had
shown throughout the GNU years.
MP Cross do you realize that it is now two
years before the next elections in 2018 and still not even one meaningful
reform has been implemented? So it is clear that Zanu PF will once again rig
the elections and you will, no doubt, be writing more of your articles and
asking the same stupid question whether the party “anticipated the immediate consequences”
of another five years of Zanu PF in power; as if that is all that really
matters.
MP Cross do you
realize that it is MDC leaders like you, Morgan
Tsvangirai, etc. who have refused to accept that MDC made a serious mistake in
failing to implement the democratic reforms during the GNU who, by being in
denial, have stopped something being done to implement the reforms since the
rigged July 2013 elections and thus land us back in the same situation as in
2013 when it was certain Zanu PF will rig the elections!
“I am afraid that the
days of trying to whitewash this Leopard and to persuade it to change its ways
are over. We have no choice but to take matters into our own hands and effect
real change in our Country,” admitted MP Cross.
“The best solution
would be an internationally supervised election without a voters roll as soon
as possible. If this is not facilitated by the region, then the streets will
have to make the required decisions. We the citizens of this country, really
have no choice.”
So instead of
implementing the democratic reforms designed to dismantle the Zanu PF
dictatorship you wasted five years of the GNU trying to whitewashing it in the
vain hope that was enough to transform the dictator into a democrat. How naive
and characteristically MDC foolish was that!
The solution is for
the country to implement the democratic reforms that MDC failed to get even one
reform implemented in five years; the international community can assist in making
sure the task in completed and not another foolish attempt to whitewash to
leopard!
MP Cross please tell me because I really want to know; why are
you always writing about the economy, Zanu PF abuse of power, etc. but has
never ever written about the subject that really matters to every thinking
Zimbabwean out there – implementing the democratic reforms and deliver the
democratic change MDC promised but has never delivered ever
since its formation in 1999? Whose side are you on; it is certainly not that of
the long suffering povo because all of your actions so far have delayed the day
of their deliverance from this Zanu PF dictatorship although they all disguised
to give the impression you care about povo!
As long as we have a corrupt and incompetent opposition, we will never get out of this mess. I have now come to the conclusion that these MDC leaders have no clue what the country needs to do going forward. All they talk is just hot air!
ReplyDeleteLook at Tsvangirai, he has said he would boycott elections until reforms are implemented. A year later he changed saying he would contest 2018 elections because he would have forced Zanu PF to implement the reforms. He would not say what these reforms are except that they are "electoral law reforms". He would not say how he would force Zanu PF to implement the reforms, it was a secret.
Now two years before the elections, not even one reform has been implemented. One would think the opposition will be in panic mode with all hands on the wheel pushing for nothing else but implementing the reform. Instead MDC is wasting time on demos whilst Zim PF is holding rallies!
There will be no reforms implemented before 2018 and so the elections will be rigged again! This is so frustrating.
Having an electorate that does not know day from night has helped the opposition to get away with murder; Tsvangirai will no doubt tell the voters the 2018 will be free and fair and then say the exact opposite after the event. Until we have an electorate that is awake enough to know day from night we will never get out of this hell hole!