Dear Minister Mzembi
You are Zimbabwe's new Minister of Foreign Affairs, your attempt to rewrite the country's history is totally unacceptable. Stick to your brief!
Zanu PF members are fighting each other over which faction should succeed Mugabe like different clan hyenas fighting over prime hunting territory. But when it comes to elections, all Zanu PF members, across the faction divide, know that for the party to retain power it must rig next year’s elections, just as it has rigged past elections. On national elections all Zanu PF members sing the same verse and in perfect harmony; it is the hyenas, regardless of clan, teaming up to fight off the lions from the face of the earth, if they could!
“Let us not look forward to these organisations for guidance. Zimbabwe has the best expertise in conduction credible elections,” answered the newly appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, Walter Mzembi.
He was replying to the question whether Zimbabwe would allow foreign election observers to next year’s elections. If the MDC MP who asked the question thought expected to catch the new Minister off guard and reply, “Zimbabwe has nothing to hide and all those wishing to observe our elections are free to do so!” that was not to be.
Of course, every Zanu PF member knows that the party has managed to stay in power all these last 37 years because it has been rigging the vote. Indeed, the party has been doing it for so long now that party members regard it as their God given right.
“You can’t expect us to reform ourselves out of power,” boasted Professor Jonathan Moyo when he was pressured on the need to implement democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections.
Of course, if you are going to rig the elections; the last thing you want is have some smart Aleck telling the world you rigged the elections and producing the documentary evidence to prove it! It Minister Mzembi had blundered and said foreign observers from EU and the West would be allowed then he would have been sacked there and then!
What is disappointing here is how easily these MDC politicians are brush-off by Zanu PF ministers.
“Zimbabwe was forced to have the GNU in 2008 to 2013 precisely because no one, I repeat no one, not even the SADC and AU election observers known for approving dodgy elections, would accept the 2008 elections as credible. This is a historic fact! So, do we have here a Minister of Foreign Affairs or someone hell bend on falsifying Zimbabwe’s history?” One of those MDC MPs should have followed up is they were not such a corrupt, incompetent and useless lot.
“Given that not even one democratic reform, to stop a repeat of the blatant vote rigging and wanton violence of 2008, was ever implemented during the GNU or after; there is nothing to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections again. So, Mr Speaker, in a desperate bid for reassurance that next year’s elections will be free, fair and credible; the nation is asking whether foreign observers will be allowed to monitor the elections?
“If the regime is so cock sure about next year’s elections being “credible” then it has nothing to fear from foreigners saying the same thing!”
If the MDC leaders themselves were not such an utterly useless band of banded mongooses they would have implemented the democratic reforms during the GNU. We would not be messing around trying to get foreign election observers in the hope their presence will force Zanu PF to reduce the vote rigging activities.
The banded mongooses should not have contested the 2013 elections with no reforms in place. They were warned by SADC leaders that the elections would be rigged but, of course, they would not listen. After Zanu PF rigged the July 2013 elections one would think Morgan Tsvangirai and company had learned the lesson and would insist on implementing the reforms before the next elections.
Zimbabwe’s opposition banded mongooses, be there from the MDC faction or Zanu PF off shoots, have such a poor memory, they have all forgotten about Zanu PF’s vote rigging expertise and they all gearing to contest next year’s elections still with no reforms in place. Indeed, the MDC MP’s call for foreign election observers to be allowed is just another feeble attempt by the banded mongoose to justify why they are contesting the flawed elections.
“Zimbabwe has the best expertise in conduction credible elections!” Yeah right! Take it ease on the sauce Walter, you got the job! The sheer arrogance of these Zanu PF ministers is insufferable. Of course, they know the banded mongooses will never ever hold them to account for anything; still, they blatant disregard of even historic facts is truly unbearable!
Fearless defender of historic facts
Patrick Guramatunhu.
Zimbabwe is in a real economic and political mess because of two men, Robert Gabriel Mugabe and Morgan Richard Tsvangirai. The former because of his lust for power and wealth has dragged us into the mess and the latter because of he is breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent has kept us in stuck in the mess.
ReplyDeleteMugabe has shown again and again iron resolve and determination first to fight the white colonial regime and then to cheat, bamboozle and even kill to wrestle power his challengers with his party Zanu PF and outside. Once in power he has set about creating and retaining a de facto one-party, Zanu PF, cum one-man Robert Mugabe dictatorship riding roughshod over the ordinary people's freedoms and basic human rights including the right to free, fair and credible elections and even the right to life. His greed for absolute power and material wealth have been insatiable, the more he got the more he wanted. The nation has paid dearly for his greed.
The decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption has sucked the life out of the national economy forcing unemployment to soar to dizzying height of 90% plus, 72.3% of the population now live on US$ 1.00 or less a day, basic services such as running water, health, education, money in the bank have all but collapsed, etc. If he has noticed these things then he clearly does not care.
Even with the nation economy down in the gutter and millions living in heart-breaking misery, Mugabe continues to spend billions of dollars bankrolling his vote rigging schemes. He has turned on the violence to augment his vote rigging. In his 37 years in power he has murder over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans and millions have been beaten and/or raped to retain power.
There have been many golden opportunities to end Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF dictatorship in the last 37 years the best chances by far fall to Tsvangirai and his MDC friends during the GNU. All MDC had to do was implement the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections. The people have risked life and limb to elect MDC leaders into power on the promise they would bring about the democratic change the nation has been dying for all these years. MDC leaders have failed to get even one reform implemented after five years in the GNU.
The failure to take Minister Mzembi to task for telling a shameless lie that Zanu PF have the expertise in holding credible elections is typical of the mediocre performance the nation has come to expect from Tsvangirai and his friends.
People get the government they deserve and Zimbabweans certainly deserve this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship complete with its entourage of corrupt and incompetent opposition. After 37 years of rigged elections there is no excuse for any Zimbabweans taking part in next year's elections when they know the elections will be rigged. Only first class fools will belief MDC's nonsense that they have devised Winning In Rigged Election (WIRE) strategies.
Zimbabwe is in serious political and economic trouble and risk of the country descending into the abyss is real and another rigged elections may well send her over the edge. Only the certified insane would risk another rigged elections on the basis of Tsvangirai's WIRE strategies. I would believe in pigs flying before I would believe in MDC's WIRE strategies much less stake my life and that of the nation on such a foolish notion!