Change
is part of life, we are told but there are some things that are as constant and
fixed as the Northern Star! Zanu PF’s commitment to the idea that its alone is
the party that must rule Zimbabwe come rain come sunshine, is one such unchangeable
fixture of in Zimbabwe politics.
Robert
Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs wanted post independent Zimbabwe to be a
one-party, Zanu PF, state. (Unknown to his naïve fellow comrades, Mugabe wanted
a one-man, Mugabe, dictatorship for life. He added “to be succeeded by wife
Grace”, in the last five years.) When Mugabe and his Zanu PF delegates realised
the British were going to impose a multi-party constitution on Zimbabwe during
the Lancaster House talks in 1979, they found this totally unacceptable, they
walked out. It was a phone call from President Samora Machel of Mozambique
warning them that if they walked away, they will not be allowed to wage their
gorilla war from his country. They signed on to the multi-party constitution
but determined to impose a one-party state at the next opportune moment.
The
quarrel with Dr Joshua Nkomo and his PF Zapu, Mugabe and Zanu PF’s big obstacle
to their one-party state ambition, just a few years after independence was the
opportune moment Mugabe had been waiting for. Mugabe’s response to the dissident
threat posed by military elements in PF Zapu was aimed at not just crashing the
rebel elements but at crashing PF Zapu itself. In the end Dr Nkomo was forced
to sign the 1987 unity accord with Mugabe in which PF Zapu was to seize to
exist as a party and join Zanu PF and Mugabe was named in the accord as the
First Secretary and leader of the unified party.
Zanu
PF has ruthlessly crashed any opposition parties that have emerged since 1987
under the pretext they were a threat to the nation’s new found unity and peace.
Mugabe had got what he wanted, a de facto one-party dictatorship. He has
systematically undermined the country’s democratic institution turning them
into Zanu PF departments in all but name, all committed to no-regime-change
mantra.
It
is true that Mugabe was passionately interested in seeing Zimbabwe prosper; his
drive to have Zimbabweans educated and his ruckus “Gutsva ruzhinji!” (mass
prosperity!) call were all heartfelt. None of his economic ambition came to
much, as we can see with the country in to total economic meltdown with 72.3%
living on US$1.00 or less a day. The contrast between the filthy poor majority
and the filthy rich Zanu PF ruling elite few is shocking.
VP
Constantino Chiwenga, just one of the ruling elite, who until the November coup
was the ZDF commander, has an impressive asset portfolio comprising properties,
farms, companies, lives in mansion, a fleet of cars, 40 gold watches, etc.,
etc. Mugabe himself has 14 farms, lives in a US$4 billion mansion, has been
going to Singapore for health needs as often as 12 times a year @ US$3 million plus
a trip. There reports he has offered to return US$ 5 billion, small change, new
found generosity since his forced resignation in November.
Gutsva
ruzhinji was doom to fail because it was subordinate to Mugabe’s first and only
true love absolute power. To ensure unwavering loyalty to him Mugabe devised a
patronage system in which he rewarded loyalty to him and his iron grip on power
at all cost. He promoted simpletons whom he gave fancy titles but never gave
them any real power and authority to do anything in case they should outperform
him. It is little wonder his reign has been characterized by the gross
mismanagement and rampant corruption. The national economy collapse under this
criminal waste of human and material resources and so did gutsva ruzhinji.
Mugabe
has kept Emmerson Mnangagwa close to him throughout his 37 years as Zimbabwe’s
top dog because of the latter’s ruthless determination to ensure Zanu PF
remains in power at all cost. Early in his rule Mugabe establish the Joint
Operation Command (JOC), the shadowy Junta comprising the top brass in the security
services headed by Mugabe himself and assisted by Mnangagwa, the enforce. It was
Tendai Biti, then Minister of Finance in the GNU, who described JOC as a
parallel government complete with its own funding that governed the country. He
was right!
JOC
made all the important decision which parliament rubber stamped and
implemented. The discovery of diamonds in Marange gave the Junta its very own
resource of wealth to finance the ruling elite’s extravagant lifestyles and
bankroll Zanu PF’s expensive vote rigging schemes and thuggery that have kept
the party in power.
“Zanu
PF ichatonga! Igotonga! Imi muchingo hukura! Muchi hukura!” (Zanu PF will rule!
And rule! Whilst the opposition bark! And bark!) Was the first thing Emmerson
Mnangagwa told the Zanu PF faithful on his return from the short exile in
November last year after Mugabe was toppled in the coup.
The
coup plotters dubbed the coup “Operation Restore Legacy”; they all knew exactly
what that legacy is – that Zimbabwe is a one-party state and they, as the
divinely appointed leaders of the party, are they only people who will rule the
country come rain come hell brimstone. Mnangagwa, who was to be given Mugabe’s
crown, stood up to assure them all that this was his life time mission from
which he will never ever wave one bit.
President
Mnangagwa has already shown that he has a lot more economic common sense than
his predecessor, Robert Mugabe, and will go a long way to bring about some
economic recovery. Like Mugabe’s ruckus gutsva ruzhinji, Mnangagwa’s economic
recovery is also doomed to fail because it too is hostage to the cursed Zanu PF
legacy.
Since
his swearing in President Mnangagwa has had to dish out patronage jobs to his
fellow coup plotters and promote many of the JOC members out of the shadowy Junta
into formal political office. Their succession in everyday politics has been
agreed. VP Chiwenga is to take over from President Mnangagwa, for example. Whatever
President Mnangagwa says or does to revive the economy it must NOT compromise
in any way the Zanu PF legacy.
President
Mnangagwa knows that Zimbabwe’s economic recovery will never happen until the
country bites the bullet and end its lawlessness, implement the democratic
reforms and hold its first free, fair and credible elections. Zanu PF’s iron
grip on power is totally dependent on the party resisting all pressure to
implement reforms and hold free elections. Mnangagwa’s response has been to
make all the right noises on holding free elections whilst doing absolutely
nothing to undermine the legacy!
“When
we go to the elections you should not fight,” twittered President Mnangagwa. “When
people support their parties it’s their choice. We should work for the people
and not be selfish.
“There
should be justice and national reconciliation because we cannot progress when
communities are in conflict. God bless Zimbabwe”
This
was Mnangagwa’s reply to EU EU ambassador to Zimbabwe, Philippe van Damme’s,
twitter. “If really what he (Rugeje) said, needs public condemnation by @zanu_pfleadership! Intimidation incompatible with
commitment 2free& fair elections.”
The
ambassador was commenting on the story that Zanu PF’s Political Commissar, retired
Lt. General Engelbert Rugeje had reminded people in Masvingo that the
violence of 2008 would return if they did not vote for Zanu PF. Zanu PF had
launched Operation “Mavhotera papi!” (Whom did you vote for!) to push the
people for rejecting Mugabe in the earlier vote.
The nation witnessed its
worst cases of politically motived wanton violence that left over 500 dead and
hundreds of thousands beaten and raped. Rugeje headed the thuggery in Masvingo
Province and it was for that reason President Mnangagwa appointed him commissar.
Rugeje is only doing his job just like everyone else in the true spirit of
securing the Zanu PF legacy at all cost.
As far as President Mnangagwa
is concerned EU ambassador is just another manifestation of the opposition barking
for democratic reforms. Vacha huruka! Zanu PF ichigotonga!
“ED, you sure know how to
pickle!” must have been the twitter from #FirstLadyspotit, impressed by her
husband’s endless Machiavellian political intrigues, shenanigans and machismo!
Enough of all this ED double
talk! You, Mr President, have talked and twittered about free, fair and
credible elections and yet have continue to pursue your Zanu PF legacy, Zanu PF
must rule regardless of the democratic wishes of the people. Many of us have
barked about implementing the democratic reforms and you have ignored us with
you usual self-assured and insufferable arrogance. Enough is enough.
The issue of free, fair and
credible elections is the one issue holding back the nation’s economic recovery
today as it is the root cause why the country is in this economic mess in the
first place. The issue must be settled this year, 2018, once and once for all.
If Zanu PF does not implement
all the democratic reforms, all means ALL, to guarantee free, fair and credible
elections this year then the elections must be declared null and void. The
country must then appoint a body to implement the reforms and hold the country’s
first free, fair and credible democratic elections.
The right to free and
meaningful say in the governance of the country is not a privilege to be given
some and denied others. Zanu PF leaders led from the front in the struggle for
independence, the nation will always be grateful to all who contributed in this
struggle, but what the nation will not accept is for the nation to be held to
ransom be the very people claiming to be its liberators.
Zanu PF’s ethos of one party
state is at odds with the one-man-one-vote rallying call that everyone had
subscribed to and cherished throughout the struggle for independence. Zanu PF’s
no-regime-change has allowed the few ruling elite to amass wealth and live in
luxury at the expense of the overwhelming majority who have wallowed is abject
poverty and despair.
The madness of greed and
inhuman indifference to fellow Zimbabweans’ suffering and deaths must stop.
Change in Zimbabwe is long overdue, real change and not the swapping of one
dictator for another we saw after the November coup. You, President Mnangagwa,
and your fellow Zanu PF thugs can accept orderly change or violent
revolutionary change; either way change is coming of that you can be certain!
@Muchena
ReplyDelete“They will observe the procedural forms of democratic government without real democratisation. Having tightened their grip on power, the military and ZANU PF will not relinquish it. It is naive to believe that they will voluntarily deliver reforms that will place themselves at risk of electoral defeat,” you said.
You are spot-on there. What the people of Zimbabwe have to wake up to is reality that President Mnangagwa will be holding the elections with no reforms implemented and thus confirming that the nation is stuck with the Zanu PF dictatorship just as it was throughout Mugabe’s presidency.
There is no point in talking about economic recovery and what policies the nation should pursue if the people cannot hold the government of the day to democratic account.
This year’s election is about fighting to have the democratic reforms implemented. If Zanu PF fails to implement the reforms, signs are that it will not, then the nation must spend all its time, energy and money in making sure the process is declared null and void.
Nothing of any substance will ever be achieved until we deal with this problem of free, fair and credible electiuons!
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade says it is shocked and dismayed by the statement attributed to the US President, Mr Donald Trump on the 11th of this month.
ReplyDeleteThe statement continued: “Zimbabwe, and we believe the majority of countries in the world, desire relations based on mutual acceptable and respect, values that serve and demonstrate the human family at its best. Bigotry and hate speech must find no place in the contemporary statecraft and diplomatic discourse.”
Interesting comment coming from a regime that was born out of a military coup. What is so respectable about that?
@ Magogo Nyati
ReplyDeleteWe made the first mistake of think thugs like Robert Mugabe and the rest of these Zanu PF thugs would fight for freedom, liberty, justice and the human dignity of everyone. Big mistake! These are thugs, ruthless mercenaries, who fight for a reward and not because they believe in a cause. They reward for liberating the country was that they must become the next oppressors and they had no qualms with that since they have never believed in ending oppression in the first place. Once in power, they dug in and made it more and more difficult to flush them out.
Mugabe had no sense of shame or guilt that the nation should be spend US$ 3 million sending him to Singapore for an eye check, sometimes he would make as many as 12 such overseas trip a month when new born babies in even big referral hospitals like Harare and Mpilo were dying because there were no incubators. The richer the thugs became the greater the appetite for more looted wealth became and the more determined they became to stay in power at all cost.
We, the people, did not do ourselves any favours by electing corrupt and incompetent opposition leaders and entrusted them with the important task of implementing the democratic reforms needed to end Zanu PF thugs’ corrupt and tyrannical reign of terror and destruction. Tsvangirai and his MDC friends had many golden opportunities to implement the reforms but have wasted them all.
The Zanu PF dictatorship can with this year’s elections if we can get the opposition to boycott the elections and thus finally force the implementation of the reforms. We cannot get even a few opposition politicians to do this because they are all eyeing the few gravy train seats Zanu PF throws away as bait to entice the opposition to participate in these elections regardless how flawed and illegal the process gets!
“President Emmerson Mnangagwa staked his political fate on a promise to revive the economy, and his failure to turn around the country, and his failure to turn around the country's finances so far is beginning to attract scorn from long-suffering Zimbabweans,” reported Bulawayo 24.
ReplyDeleteThis is the reality that President Mnangagwa feared and thus why he never allowed himself to be carried away and actively seek free and fair elections. He has promised free elections and even twittered about such elections but has been very careful not to implement even one reform.
Indeed, he has continued with the vote rigging agenda Mugabe initiated. The chaotic voter registration exercise has continued although Mnangagwa knows that it will never produce a verified voters’ roll – necessary for wide scale vote rigging shenanigans. On Saturday President dished the first lot of new Isuzu trucks Mugabe had promised the traditional Chiefs – a bribe for them to intimidate the rural folk and force them to vote for Zanu PF.
Whatever economic recovery President Mnangagwa could have achieved by some of the common sense changes he adopted since taking over from Mugabe will never be realized because he has failed to back them up with concrete action to show he was ready to democratic change. Povo believed everything Mnangagwa promise in his inauguration speech the international community, whose foreign backing he needs, was not so gullible.
Whatever popularity brownie points President Mnangagwa and his regime got for removing Mugabe he will going to lose them as people realise his regime is just as corrupt and incompetent as Mugabe’s regime before it. He is going to resort to the same vote rigging dirty tricks he himself had employed during his days with Mugabe. Of course, people will see this and hate him for it just as much as they had hated Mugabe.
Zanu PF activists in Mutare South have threatened violence on villagers if they vote against the ruling party in this year's election.
ReplyDeleteZimbabwe Peace Project reported in its latest report that a political meeting was held at Berzeley Bridge, in Mutare South.
ZPP said the targeted audience of the meeting were the Zanu PF executive, headmen, kraal heads, churches and Chief Marange who were told to list names of opposition supporters.
Without implementing the democratic reforms, we all know these events are the norm! For the umpteenth time we ask: what will it take the opposition for them to accept it is insane to contest flawed and illegal elections?
We cannot keep putting the ordinary people’s livelihoods and even their very lives at risk by contesting elections process we know are a mockery of democratic elections! It is greed, the off chance that they may win the gravy train seat that is motivating all those opposition candidates to contest the elections regardless how flawed the process and how great the dangers the ordinary voters and put under.
Occasionally, opposition candidates are beaten up as happened in the Bikita by-election last year. A few more such incidence may help beat some sense into these greedy opposition opportunists!
You are an empty drum and you are doing what an empty drum does best – make a lot of noise, say a lot of nonsense.
ReplyDeleteThere are no restrictions on how long an article must be, that the writer must not comment on replies, etc. You are imposing these restrictions just to stifle debate and silence points of view you disagree with. How you must wish you could turn Bulawayo 24 into another Herald or Chronicle!
One of these fine days the Herald, Chronicle, ZBC and all the public media houses will be freed from the shackles that have turned them into the enemies of the people, freedom of expression and democracy. If they had not been willing tools in the tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship they would have never allowed the incompetent, corrupt and tyrannical regime get away with all the foolishness and treason it has committed all these last 38 years.
One of these fine days the Herald, Chronicle, etc. will be freed and Zimbabwe will be free!
@ Ngara
ReplyDelete“Just tell me this Wilbert--who according to you is the blameless messiah, without any faults and who doesn’t make any mistakes who will lead this country? I think your whole take on politics is unrealistic. The person that you are waiting for is a saint and saints don’t do politics--only ordinary people who make mistakes--apparently you are a saint yourself because every other Zimbabwean is a thug one way or another--you are a very dangerous person to democracy if you start preaching about perfect politicians--very dangerous and unstable mentality--it means if whoever you prefer comes to power you are going to write long letters about that person being perfect and therein lies the danger and instability of mind. Life is not perfect like you want to fool some idiots here--life is like a sandwich which has fallen on a sandy beach--you chew but don’t make your teeth quite meet--it will still fill your belly!!” You write!
I have told you before and I will tell you again, you are an idiot who think he is clever and keeps coming up with all manner of foolishness you then paddle as logic.
Democracy and free, fair and credible elections are not about electing “a blameless messiah” for a leader. The system acknowledges that both the candidate and the voters are fallible, ordinary mortals who will lie, cheat, make mistake, etc. This is why voters are encouraged to listen careful to what each candidate has to say of any given issue and that they also listen careful to other sources – hence the need for freedom of expression and free media – and only then cast the vote on the candidate they believe will serve the public interest best. The job is not done yet, the electorate must monitor the candidate’s performance every step of the way and hold him/her to account.
What you are proposing in your stupidity is to stifle debate and democratic competition and not bother having a selection process because we will never find someone who does not make mistakes. Have elected a leader we are stuck with him/her because no one is a saint!
What we want is an end to the present autocracy that has stifle debate and democratic competition and replace it with democratic system of government. We want free, fair and credible elections so the voters can boot out the corrupt and vote rigging Zanu PF thugs. The 72.3% of the populous living on US$1.00 or less a day will not vote for a thug who has been robbing them blind to build his mansion, buy a fleet of cars, buy 40 gold watches, etc., etc. They are not stupid!
For 37 years Mugabe has lied to the nation that he was a great leader who cared about the people and they, in turn, loved him to bits and voted for him in droves. He agreed to step down when he was shown videos of the people celebrating his demise. They wanted to march into his Blue Roof mansion and he did not need anyone to tell him that they would have lynched him just as readily as Gaddafi was lynched.
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga and all the other Zanu PF thugs have learned nothing from Mugabe’s story because they are doing exactly what he has done; lie cheat, rig elections, loot, etc. The people of Zimbabwe are not stupid, they can see that the removal of Mugabe has changed nothing. The November coup removed Mugabe and the G40 members, that was one half of the Zanu PF dictatorship the other half is still there making mischief. The nation will have to remove the Lacoste faction for the country to get out of the mess this corrupt and tyrannical regime fostered on us all.
“Life is not perfect like you want to fool some idiots here--life is like a sandwich which has fallen on a sandy beach--you chew but don’t make your teeth quite meet--it will still fill your belly!!,” you say.
Yeah! You must try filling your belly living on US$1.00 or less a day!
Proportional representation MP, Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga (MDC) has given notice that she will move a motion that will, among other issues, require the invoking of section 140(3) of the Constitution to allow Mnangagwa to appear before the House to be asked on Mugabe's ouster.
ReplyDeleteParliament must demand clarification on what constitute a military coup and who is qualified to make that judgement call. No nation on earth can tolerate the confusion and dangerous precedence created by the November 2017 coup where the coup plotters unilaterally declared the treasonous coup was not coup. Who is there to stop other disgruntled or ambitious generals doing the same again and again!
I salute Ms Mushonga, this is certainly the first sensible thing I have ever heard coming out of her mouth. All she has often said is foul, people were calling her foul-mouthed and for good reason. It is a great pity she is waking up now and was fast asleep during the GNU when the MDC had the power and failed to get even one democratic reform implemented!
@ Ngara
ReplyDeleteYou have a bad habit of talking nonsense! Stop it!
Of course, we need to deal with this political problem of vote rigging, military coups and lawlessness or we will never get anywhere. The November 2017 coup was not the first coup staged by the same individuals, it was the second. The first coup was in 2008 when they stepped in to stop MDC taking power. We need to deal with this foolishness or we will have a third coup, then fourth one, etc.
@Dube
ReplyDelete“Let us not waste time discussing about Bob because 37 years is not a joke. Pr. Mnangagwa is in hurry as much as many of Zimbabweans. He is like Murtalla Mohammed of Nigeria. We are very much behind in terms of development,” you say.
Zimbabwe cannot address its economic problems without first addressing its obvious political problem of lawlessness. The economy is in a mess because many people have shied away from doing business with us. No one wants to do business in a country where there is no rule of law, elections are rigged, corruption is rife, there are military coups, etc. The November 2017 coup was the second in Zimbabwe, the first was in 2008 to stop MDC taking power.
President Mnangagwa is touring SADC nations right now trying to convince them he will hold free and fair elections, he is wasting time because no one will be fooled. Everyone knows Mnangagwa was Mugabe’s number two and all these years the two have been rigging elections and using barbaric wanton violence if need be to retain power.
It was Mnangagwa and his coup plotter friends who planned and executed the 2008 coup who carried out the November coup. They are the ones in his cabinet and hold other key security sector and other State institution positions. They are the ones who have carried out the dirty vote rigging, coup, etc. to make sure Zanu PF stayed in power at all cost. They are the ones now saying they will hold free and fair elections and yet refuse to implement any reforms to end their excessive undemocratic powers to rig elections, stage coups, etc.
No one, especial SADC leaders, is going to believe President Mnangagwa’s nonsensical proposition of holding free and fair elections without implementing the democratic reforms, coming as it does from the seasoned coup plotter and the one who stand to lose all by holding free elections!
@ Everfaithful
ReplyDeleteWhat is tragic here is the present political system is rotten to the core it is little wonder that 3/4 of our people are living on US$1.00 or less a day; there is no doubt the system must go. On the other side the system has made the few ruling elite so fabulously wealthy they will fight like demons to hang on to the status quo and their privileged lifestyle.
The rich’s wealth is made and retain on the back of corruption and exploitation of the poor based on their ability to exercise absolute power. Deny them the absolute power and their immediately start to wither and die like a cut tree in the sun. One has only to look at the likes of Mai Mujuru the day she lost her political influence was in deep trouble start away and yet she and her last husband are believed to have looted billions of dollar-worth of diamonds alone!
We should have never allowed the gap between the haves and have-nots to grow into this yawning chasm. The rich are frightened stiff of change because they fear of falling into the chasm and be one with the poor. They fear they will not survive the fall and many will not, that is true enough. But if the truth be told it is the ruling elite’s greed that starve the national economic the wealth resulting in its collapse and meltdown.
The quickest and surest way to achieve economic recovery will have to mean recovering the looted wealth in the filthy rich’s hands and use it to finance the rebuilding of the national economy. The reality of VP Chiwenga losing his mansion, 40 gold watches, etc. will leave him a broken man and yet many of them must, by right, be punished for committing such serious crimes murder and high treason for rigging elections and staging coups!
The greatest change the nation needs right now to the acceptance that the present political system is rotten and it must be changed. And the courage to grab the bull by the horn and change it!
Part 1 of 2
ReplyDeleteThe whole world knows that the people of Zimbabwe voted for MDC T in droves in the March 2008 elections. It was rogue war veterans like Jabulani Sibanda, Chinos, ZDF operatives like Mugeje and the whole Zanu PF terror machinery directed by none other than Mnangagwa, Chiwenga and the others November 2017 coup plotters forced the people beatings, rapes and even murders to vote for Mugabe in the fictitious run-off. Fictitious because Tsvangirai won 73% on the vote and therefore there was no need of a run-off.
Mnangagwa has promised free and fair elections this year and yet has stubbornly refused to implement any democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging the vote because the regime intends to rig the vote and will repeat the wanton violence of 2008 if need be.
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga and the others in this so called "new dispensation" think that getting rid of Mugabe and a number of G40 members is enough to allow the regime to continue with the vote rigging, corruption, tyranny, etc. as before for a few more decades, at least. I am not surprised that they think so. These men and women have already shown just how corrupt, incompetent and shallow minded they really are from the way they have allowed Mugabe to use and abuse them over the years.
Margaret Dongo, a former freedom fighter, CIO and then Zanu PF MP, once referred to Zanu PF leaders as “vakadzi vaMugabe” (Mugabe subservient concubines). Only a first-class subservient moron would do some of the stinking dirty jobs Mnangagwa, Chiwenga and the rest have done for Mugabe. In the end, the tyrant fire Mnangagwa and was in the process of doing the same with the rest when Mnangagwa and the other ganged up on him and stage the coup.
The coup, named Operation Restore Legacy, was about keeping the Joint Operation Command Junta; that has carried out the dirty work of vote rigging, looting, political violence and the military coups (November coup was the second, the first was in 2008 to stop MDC getting into power); in power. The shared the spoils of power after the coup but this was not just about holding powerful position in the Army, party, government, etc. it was about making sure the Junta had a firm grip on the wheels of power as the only guarantee the members’ dirty past remained secret.
In fact, it was the prospect of Mugabe booting them out of power and then making public the dirty things they have done for him that galvanized Mnangagwa, Chiwenga and the rest of the dirty Junta members to stage the coup to force Mugabe to step down. By the same token, it is the prospect of someone else getting into power and dig up their dirty past that is stopping President Mnangagwa implementing even one democratic reform and risk lose the elections.
Part 2 of 2
ReplyDeleteZimbabwe is in a real serious economic situation and needs free and fair elections as the stepping stone to effect meaning economic change. It is totally unacceptable that the nation should be held to ransom by these first-class morons who have failed to govern but fear regime change because they fear their past coming out. Mugabe never imagined that he would be forced to go, he did! Mnangagwa and company are as determined to hold on to power at all cost but they too will be forced to go.
The quickest and safest way to force Mnangagwa and his dirty Junta to go is declare this year’s elections, with no reforms implemented, null and void. Zimbabwe will then be forced to finally implement the democratic reforms and hold its first ever free, fair and credible elections. There is no excuse for SADC leaders to buy into President Mnangagwa’s story that he can hold free and fair elections given his track record of he and his Junta regime being the ones who masterminded all the vote rigging, political violence and staged the military coups including the November one and, to crown it all, they have stubbornly refused to implement even one reform.
SADC leaders can see that Zanu PF is rigging the elections already by bribing Chiefs with new trucks, failing to produce a verified voters’ roll, etc. How can they declare the process free, fair and credible without losing credibility themselves!