If President Mnangagwa has been looking for a
chief of propaganda of the likes of Professor Jonathan Moyo, he need not look
any further, Hopewell Chinono fits the bill. He has hit the ground running, his
recent articles have praised ED to the high heavens. Cross examines the
articles, and it becomes obvious that this is just propaganda being peddled as
distilled wisdom.
Zanu PF is a party of corrupt, incompetent ruthless
thugs whose misrule has dragged this nation from being one of the richest
country in Africa with the potential to have been the South Korea of Africa to
be the poorest country in Africa. The party itself has been tearing itself
apart in the last decade as the party members fought each other over the ever-dwelling
wealth and for power like a pack of hyenas.
For Chinono to be showering ED and his Lacoste
faction with praise, as if anyone can glean anything pure, clean and wholesome from
corrupt and murderous thugs is plain nonsense.
“So, whilst G40 accentuated it's political
rhetoric against Emmerson Mnangagwa in 2017, his team started to imagine a time
when they would be in government,” writes Chinono.
“They started working on a plan of what would happen when they took over, Edwin Manikai was so confident of this reality such that his parting shot became, "ED is the only game in town."”
“They started working on a plan of what would happen when they took over, Edwin Manikai was so confident of this reality such that his parting shot became, "ED is the only game in town."”
The only reason ED was the only game in town is
that the 38 years of Zanu PF vote rigging and murderous oppression has stifled
all debate and democratic competition it has become impossible for quality
leaders to emerge in the opposition and even within Zanu PF itself. 50%, at
least, of the leaders in Zanu PF itself are the same ugly and stupid faces from
1980. Indeed, if it had not been for death and the recent dog-eat-dog in
fighting in the party, 95% plus of the same corrupt, incompetent and murderous
thugs from 1980s will be in power today.
ED is a corrupt, vote rigging and murderous
thugs whose political track record speaks for itself. The only reason he is in
power is because Zanu PF imposed on the nation this stiflingly oppressive
political system that allowed scum like him to remain in power for all these
years.
To accept that “ED is the only game in town”
without asking why is clearly a sign of one devoid of any intellectual merit of
any kind.
Is ED the only game in town because he has proven
himself the brightest and visionary leader to get the nation out of the hell-on-earth
Zanu PF has landed us in? Let us overlook, his role in the Zanu PF governments
of the last 37 years which landed us here and just focus of the way forward. The
answer is a resounding no!
ED is the only game in town by default! Zanu PF
created such an oppressive political system that corrupt, incompetent and
rotten to the core as the party might be it still remained the only game in
town. The competition for power has been between G40 and Lacoste, Grace Mugabe
and Emmerson Mnangagwa, Tweedle Dee against Tweedle Dum!
Of course, it is foolish to accept Tweedle Dum
as leader because one has to reject the system that is so restrictive the
choice is black or while in world full of all the colours of the rainbow.
Ever since assuming the office of President of
the Republic of Zimbabwe, nearly 100 days ago, President Mnangagwa, has
promised to hold free, fair and credible elections. His one chance to prove he
was not Tweedle Dum hand-picked by his fellow Joint Operation Command, the Zanu
PF Junta that has ruled the country all these years, but has the people’s
democratic mandate.
Yet he has done nothing to implement the
democratic reforms agreed by all parties the 2008 Global Political Agreement;
Mnangagwa, of people knows, there cannot be free, fair and credible elections
without first implementing the reforms designed to end the suffocating and
tyrannical political environment Zanu PF has created.
The only Zanu PF government ED and his Junta
friends want is one in which they continue to enjoy absolute power including
the carte blanche powers to rig elections. They view “ED is the only game in
town!” only in the strict context of their no-regime-change mantra.
If the coming elections are NOT free, fair and credible the
whole process will be declared null and void. The only legitimate validation of
“ED is the only game in town!” is free, fair and credible elections anything
else is just hot air!
One of the top ten reasons Zimbabweans are the poorest people in Africa must be because we have no respect for the truth, facts, detail, logic and reality. Investors have shied away from Zimbabwe all these years because the country has been a lawless nation ruled by thugs. For President Mnangagwa to be claiming that the country was ready to do business just because he booted out Mugabe in a coup and scrapped one or two of the tyrant’s offensive laws is being naïve, to say the least. Of course, it takes a lot more than that to change the regime’s pariah status!
ReplyDeleteThe regime’s refusal to implementing the democratic reforms will be seen by all as proof Zanu PF is still a party of thugs. The next regime in Zimbabwe is going to be another coup or violent street protests. No investors would ever want to invest in such a country. Claiming that Zimbabwe was ready for business when the country cannot even keep its promise to hold free and fair elections is just a waste of time. How someone, seemingly smart like Chinono, has failed to see this beggars belief!
Africa’s intellectuals and intelligentsia has lost their credibility because they have rushed to tell leaders what the leaders want to hear regardless of the truth, logic, etc. What a pity!
It is amazing how easily people can be brainwashed with this supreme leader mentality. Of course, the people of North Korea will say President Kim Jong-un is “the only game in town” just as they said of his father and grandfather, before him. They did not dare say otherwise. It is only when they look at how well South Korea has done that they know how miserable they real are.
ReplyDeleteThe people of Zimbabwe know that the country is capable of doing a hell-lot better than what it has done these last 38 years. It is only those few who have benefited from the chaos, corruption and oppression of the majority who have anything good to say for the regime.
“ED is the only game in town!” Yeah right! And how many of the over 30 000 murdered innocent Zimbabweans has ED himself help kill to put him in that position? The regime will never ever implement the democratic reforms and allow every Zimbabwean the right to a free and meaningful say on who rules Zimbabwe.
@ Caleb Moyo
ReplyDeleteWhat has ED accomplished in the last 100 days, tell us?
What ED has accomplished in the last 37 years is there for everyone to see. Mugabe would have never lasted 37 years in power was it not for ED and his fellow Join Operation Command Junta thugs like VP Chiwenga, Minister P Shiri, who rigged the elections, committed all manner of violence including mass murder and even staged a coup in 2008 to stop MDC getting into power. The same thugs stage the November 2017 coup to remove Mugabe but only because the tyrant was getting rid of them.
ED got rid of Mugabe but the one thing he is determined to keep untouched is Zanu PF's draconian powers to rig elections. He is talking of holding free, fair and credible elections and yet he is doing absolutely nothing to implement the democratic reforms. "Atsika madziro pamarefomu!"
Free and fair elections are a fundamental right and the only basis for competent and accountable government. Without first implementing the reforms these elections will be utterly pointless. Of course, one does not expect a Zanu PF apologist to see the importance of free and fair elections, after all you are paid to brainwash povo with your nonsense.
The main reason investors have shied away from Zimbabwe for decades was because the country was a pariah state ruled by thugs. For the last tens years or so the thugs have been fighting each other over the little loot available and who will rule. Last November matters came to a head with the staging of the coup that saw the ouster of Mugabe and the G40 faction.
ReplyDeleteMnangagwa and his Lacoste faction mounted a charm offensive to woo back investors by calling the coup "a military assisted transition" and promising to hold free and fair elections. Most people were pleased to see the back of Mugabe and so they did not make a fuss about the coup. But for anyone to believe the regime was no longer a party og thugs they want to see more. The fact that ED has failed to implement even one reform let everyone in no doubt that Zanu PF is still a party of thugs.
No one, especially the savvy investors, was fooled by ED's charm offensive!
EU head of delegation Ambassador Phillipe Van Damme who paid a courtesy call on Vice President Retired General Dr Constantino Chiwenga said the two parties discussed the roadmap for the EU observer mission.
ReplyDeleteThe roadmap is there already, SADC leaders spelt out what Zimbabwe needed to do to ensure free, fair and credible elections in 2008 Global Political Agreement (GPA), following the blatant cheating and wanton violence of 2008 elections. Zimbabwe’s three political parties, Zanu PF and the two MDC factions, who formed the GNU were instructed to implement a raft of democratic reforms to ensure the barbarism of 2008 would never be repeated again.
Sadly, not even one reform was implemented. SADC called on the Zimbabwe leaders to postpone the 2013 elections to allow the reforms to be implemented, both Zanu PF and MDC leaders would not listen for selfish and foolish reasons.
The EU election observers must assess for themselves whether any reforms have been implemented; it is impossible to have free, fair and credible elections without first implementing the reforms; and their conclusion at the end of the day must reflect this fundamental reality!
If some can rig elections which means falsifying the result be it by denying some people the vote, allowing others to cast multiple votes, misrepresenting the vote count, etc. then surely issues and strategies count for nothing. The trouble with some of our intellectuals is that they lack common sense!
ReplyDeleteUnited States Congress Discusses Zimbabwe.
ReplyDeleteThe four witnesses have done a great job however they all missed the point that SADC has already asked that the country should implement democratic reforms before elections. None of the reforms have been implemented. These elections are NOT going to be free, fair and credible.
SADC leaders advised both Zanu PF and MDC to postpone the 2013 elections to allow the reforms to be implemented first. This is important and it is the only logic course of action.
Zanu PF leaders like Professor Jonathan Moyo and President Mnangagwa himself when he was still VP have openly admitted that the party will not implement any reforms. “You can’t expect us to reform ourselves out of power,” Moyo boasted.
The international community must prepare itself to declare the elections null and void and force the country to finally implement the reforms. Zimbabwe will never get out of this hell-hole as long as we continue to shy away from implementing the reforms.
Zimbabweans are today the poorest people on this planet. ¾ live on US$ 1.00 a day all because the nation has been stuck with a corrupt, incompetent and, most important of all, vote rigging regime. How many more years are the people expected to suffer just because those entrusted to say a rigged election is a rigged elections are too diplomatic to say so?
The people of Zimbabwe have been badly let down by their own leaders; MDC when the failed to implement even one reform during the GNU and, of course, Zanu PF who corrupt the country's democratic institutions for the sole purpose of denying people their freedoms and basic right. Today President Mnangagwa even has chutzpah to dismiss those calling for reform as barking dogs because he now believes Zanu PF has the right to oppress others.
The people of Zimbabwe are looking to the international community to help return the country to the rule of law by calling these elections as they would judge them in their own country. Surely, surely that is not too much to ask!
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ReplyDeletePresident Mnangagwa and his fellow coup junta ousted Mugabe and a number of the senior G40 members from office but what they were careful to do was to make sure the dictatorship itself, especially its ability to rig elections, remained untouched.
The junta government has promised free, fair and credible elections bu this was just double talk - something Mugabe was a master of. The regime has done nothing to implement the reforms and instead has carried on with its vote rigging activities as if the coup never happened. President Mnangagwa has bought and distributed new twin cab trucks to the country's 282 traditional Chiefs, that Mugabe had promised. The trucks are a down payment to the Chiefs who have always herded the rural voters to vote for Zanu PF.
One thing is already certain, these elections are NOT going to be free, fair and credible. All the people of Zimbabwe want from SADC and the international community is to judge the process honestly as they would want others to judge if the elections are in their own country. That is not too much to ask!
Zim and Africa “recede back to into total barbarism” without whites.
ReplyDeleteThe only logical way blacks can prove we are capable of self government is showing it on the ground and not waste time defending the corrupt and incompetent regimes that are there now!
@ Nyamavuvu
ReplyDeleteI hate being short changed. I fought in the liberation war for a free, just and prosperous Zimbabwe. I am angry to see the Zimbabwe I love being reduced to a pariah state in which 3/4 live on US$1.00 or less a day whilst a tiny minority are filthy rich. I am angry that 38 years after independence the country has yet to hold free, fair and crdible elections.
You are right that I called the late Morgan Tsvangirai and his fellow MDC friends breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent; what would you have me call them, given they failed to get even one democratic reform implemented in five years of the GNU!
President Mnangagwa has no intention of holding free, fair and credible elections; that is obvious to me. I will be damned if I am going to be silenced and not warn the nation of what is happening. I am not going to wait until the elections have been rigged to say what I can see is coming.
Who said Hopewell is not entitle to sell-out his very soul to the highest bidder? Others like the MDC leaders too have sold-out during the GNU and they are doing so now by taking part in elections they know a flawed and illegal. Having sold-out, these people must accept, they are sell-outs and not pretend to be intellectuals, patriotic politicians and/or Zanu PF apologist masquerade as some innocent idiot under some assumed name as Nyamavuvu!!
The fight for free, fair and credible elections is a serious matter and not to be trivialised by apologists like you! Nyamavuvu, my foot! Why did you not just call yourself Gukurahundi and be done with it!
@ Jameson "We are in the process of changing the evil regime. Let's work on electoral reform," you said.
ReplyDeleteMDC told us "No reform, no elections!" in their 2014 party congress resolution but they have since abandoned that position. They are not set on taking part in the elections even though not even one reform has been implemented. Not one!
SADC leaders have already said there should be no elections without reforms and given what Zanu PF did in 2008 there is really no point in taking part in a process you know is flawed and illegal.
Ever since the MDC leaders sold-out during the GNU by failing to implement even one reform the people should have accept the simple reality that they will never be the instrument of democratic change. ED is not going to implement even one reform, the elections will not be free and fair and he is banking on the opposition to participate in the flawed elections regardless!
If we are ever going to have any meaningful political change, it will have to come from the acceptance that the country's opposition is totally discredited!