“The allowance increases follows shortly after the government in a similar move recently reviewed the funeral cover for the former freedom fighters from $800 to $2 000.”
Yeah right! The regime has been failing to pay the war veterans the present $200 per month allowance; the regime owes these guys over $36 million in unpaid pension and allowances. And yet, in typical Zanu PF style, the regime is offering to increase the allowance by 150% without a thought where it is going to find the money to pay for it all.
Zimbabwe
is in this economic hell-hole of serious economic meltdown with unemployment
soaring to 90% plus and forcing millions of our people into a life of abject
poverty because of decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption.
Zanu
PF has always believed that it can deliver mass economic prosperity by
spending, spending and spending. This is contrary to the laws of basic economics.
It
is not from reckless spending but prudent management of both human and material
resources that prosperity is assured.
Zanu
PF has imposed itself on the nation by running a tyrannical and vote rigging dictatorship.
From its unassailable position of absolute political power the regime has then practised
its voodoo-economic policies with disastrous economic consequences of the
economic meltdown.
Zanu
PF is a regime that has learned nothing; Zimbabwe is subject to the same laws
of thermodynamics, economics, etc. as every other nation out there. Decades of Zanu
PF misrule has dug the nation into hell-hole and when you are in a hole, stop
digging.
Zanu
PF’s generous offer to the war veterans is, at best, a variation of the regime’s
reckless spending; it will not help end the country’s economic meltdown. The
offer is in fact a bribe to the war veterans to buy their blind loyalty that
has help the regime impose its one-party dictatorship in the past.
Another
rigged election next year will only deepen the country’s economic crisis as a
Zanu PF victory will only confirm nothing is going to be done to address the mismanagement
and corruption, the root causes of the economic meltdown.
Zanu
PF has managed to bribe Tsvangirai and the rest in the opposition to contest
next year’s elections even thou it is clear that with no reforms in place the
regime will rig the vote. There is no doubt that many rogue war veterans will
won over with the bribe and they will be playing their usual role of
intimidating the electorate to vote for Zanu PF. The regime has all but won the
all but won the 2018 elections.
The
only two flies in Zanu PF’s ointment are the economic meltdown which will get even
worse because of all these vote rigging machinations. The second fly is SADC
and AU who will not be easily fooled or bribed into accept next year’s election
result as a free, fair and credible election. SADC are particularly concerned
about Zimbabwe’s worsening economic situation as it is now threatening the
political stability of the country and the region.
“The
pension you are getting is too little. We are advocating that it be increased
to at least $500 which will enable you to get a little more than you are
getting now. We know the $500 is also not enough but it will go a long way as
some of you are getting just over $100 each month,” said Minister of Welfare
Services for War Veterans, War Collaborators, Ex-Detainees and Restrictees,
Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube.
Grace Mugabe and her G40 faction have failed to secure her political ambition to succeed her husband as president. President Mugabe has done his best to boast her chances but with little success. Grace’s worse enemy is herself, she really has nothing to offer as a leader and her blundering from pillar to post have not helped her one bit. The attacking of the model in SA was one blunder too many, it is hard to see how she can recover from this one!
ReplyDelete@ Mbofana
ReplyDeleteI agreed with everything else you said expect blaming SADC for Zimbabwe's problems.
"As elections loom in Zimbabwe slated for 2018, and the majority of its citizens clamouring for electoral reforms – to avoid a repeat of the 2008 scenario – SADC conveniently, but foolishly and myopically, turns a deaf ear to this potentially dangerous situation," you said.
SADC leaders laboured to get Tsvangirai and company to implement the democratic reforms during the GNU but were ignored. What else did you want SADC to do?
What did you ever do yourself to get MDC to implement the reforms?
SADC leaders have warned of the futility of contesting elections with no reforms in place. Again MDC leaders ignored the warning and right now the opposition are preparing to contest next year's elections against their own "No reform, no elections!"
What have you ever said or done to stop this opposition madness?
All you have ever done is blame SADC for all Zimbabwe's problems. You are not helping Zimbabwe by burying your head in the sand and blaming everyone else for your own stupidity. We, Zimbabweans, are the ones who are blind and myopic not SADC leaders. First take the log from your own eye before you try to remove the speck from SADC leaders' eyes!
SADC leaders are “foolish and myopic!” You are a disgrace, you need to wash your foul mind with toilet bleach!
@ Eddie Cross
ReplyDelete“The combined loss to Zimbabwe in terms of capital investment from these three projects (Diamond, ZISCO and Oil pipeline) runs to over $15 billion, the loss in terms of annual output or turnover is even greater, potential annual turnover is estimated at $17 billion. With the multiplier effect on GDP, this would have trebled the annual GDP of Zimbabwe from $14 billion to over $40 billion. Annual tax revenues of double the present level; all sacrificed on the altar of one man’s ego and his Parties greed,” wrote Eddie Cross.
“It is my conviction that Zanu PF is totally beyond redemption and only a change of government can turn things around in Zimbabwe today.”
You are 100% right there, Zanu PF is “totally beyond redemption”. What you should have admitted as the fourth greatest failure is MDC’s failure to get even one democratic reform implemented during the GNU. If MDC had done so, the nation would have been saved the nightmare of having Zanu PF lording over the nation!
The trouble is these MDC people have no idea what the reforms are they are demanding because they would know it is too late to be calling for reforms now.
ReplyDeleteThere will be no democratic reforms implemented and there is no doubt that with no reform the elections will NOT be free and fair. Instead of contest another flawed elections we should be making it clear that we will not waste time and resources taking part in an process we already know is rigged!
Somethings never change! Mugabe still thinks he can spend his way to economic prosperity and, sadly, there are still many naive and gullible enough to still believe him. There is no doubt that there still many among the rogue war veterans, people like Chinos, who will take the bribe and will be doing the tyrant's dirty bidding come the elections.
ReplyDeleteHowever, there are other war veterans like Matemadanda who have learnt half the lesson in that they will not trust Mugabe to keep his word but are still foolish enough to still want to keep the Zanu PF dictatorship. No doubt, they expect Mnangagwa to make them rich beyond their wildest dreams refusing to see the reality of the economic meltdown.
The Zanu PF dictatorship is the root cause of the gross mismanagement and rampant corruption behind the economic meltdown. Removing one dictator and replacing him with another will not end the criminal waste of resources. We need to dismantle the dictatorship itself if we are ever to end the economic meltdown.
I am disappointed by the number of ordinary Zimbabweans warming up to Matemadanda and other rogue war veterans’ promise to allow free and fair elections next year. These rogues are promising free and fair elections now because they need public support in their fight to remove Mugabe. Zimbabweans will be as foolish to trust Matemadanda to keep his promise as Chinos to trust Mugabe!
If Matemadanda and his rogue friends are sincere about wanting free, fair and credible elections then they must join in the demand to implement all the democratic reforms BEFORE the next elections. The nation will be very foolish to agree to holding elections with no reforms on the back of Matemadanda’s promise of free and fair elections.
Why should anyone, anyone at all, ever be granted the power to give or deny others such a basic and fundamental right as the right to a free vote; especially when the arbiter was the one yesteryear who took it upon himself to deny the same right!
Minister Tsunga Dube is concerned about the division in the war veterans which has seen some joining one faction or other of Zanu PF with some now backing Mai Mujuru. This is not the division that the nation is concerned about.
ReplyDeleteThe division in the war veteran camp that the nation in really concerned with happened when some rogue war veterans abandoned the true values of the liberation struggle such as the fight for freedom, liberty and justice for all Zimbabweans to promote and impose this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF regime. Mugabe and others in the party entices the rogues with promises of economic wealth and political power.
The Zimbabwe we have today in which the filthy rich few are riding roughshod of the freedoms and human rights of the majority denying them hope and human dignity is NOT the Zimbabwe that nation dreamt of before independence. It is a great shame that so many of those who had put their lives on the line to fight for independence have themselves become the new oppressors after independence.
What Mugabe and his corrupt and murderous thugs must now know is that the reign of terror is drawing to a close the dictatorship is imploding because the core is rotten and cannot hold. This country is going to dismantle the dictatorship and embrace the original values of freedom, liberty and justice the nation once held dear. The regime and the rogue war veterans will be held to account for what they have been doing these last 37 years!
In a BBC interview in 1980 President Mugabe promised that he would not practise racism or oppression. He has failed to keep the promise as he pursued absolute power.
ReplyDeleteThe decision to wage an armed struggle was ill advised because it allowed the those carrying the guns to believe might is right and to impose their will on the rest of the populous. The country is in a real mess because for the last 37 years we have been stuck with a corrupt and tyrannical regime that rigs elections and would even kill to retain power.