ED argued to deliver future diaspora vote - what folly, so vote rigging ED is now legitimate P Guramatunhu

Zimbabweans’ self-indulgence knows no bounds! The latest expression of this foolishness is the willingness to let this Zanu PF regime to remain in power regardless of the fact that the regime rigged the recent elections and is therefore illegitimate!

Zanu PF has stubbornly undermine the country’s constitution and democratic institutions to blatantly deny the people there freedoms and basic human rights including the right to free, fair and credible elections and even the right to life.

People have demanded free, fair and credible elections but time and time again for the last 38 years Zanu PF has ignored the demands and blatantly rigged the elections. Each time the people have done nothing about this other than wring their fingers like helpless children and Zanu PF thugs, for their part have grown more bold and arrogant.

Zanu PF thugs now regard rigging elections as their God given right. “We are the stockholders of Zimbabwe and everyone else is a stakeholder.” rogue war veterans and hard-line Zanu PF supporter have boasted. Meaning when it comes to deciding who ruled the country, everyone else has the vote and they wield the deciding veto!

If the people of Zimbabwe are serious about putting an end to this Zanu PF vote rigging culture, a pre-requisite for meaningful economic recovery, then the people must demand free, fair and credible elections and mean it! What better way of demonstrating that they mean it than refusing to recognise winners of rigged elections!

Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 30 July 2018 and, per se, the regime does not have the people’s mandate to govern, it is illegitimate and must be treated accordingly!

“Respected political analyst Dr Pedzisai Ruhanya has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa’ s government to amend electoral laws to enable Zimbabweans in the diaspora to vote in future polls,” we hear.

This is just another self-indulgence foolishness whose primary purpose is to let Mnangagwa off the illegitimate hook. Only fools would give President Mnangagwa’s recent utterance to looking into the logistics to ensure those in the diaspora will vote next time. Why did he not do so for the 30^th July 2018  elections?

Mnangagwa’s promised to hold free, fair and credible election soon after last November’s military coup. He stubbornly refused to implement even one democratic reforms to make it possible. The regime failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll, for Pete’s sake! And the election results with the evidence of multiple voting and other vote rigging shenanigans showed why the regime did not want the voters’ roll released, it was the smoking gun!

President Mnangagwa, just like Robert Mugabe before him, will promise you anything you ask of him knowing fully well he has no intention of honouring that promise. His promise to give the people in the diaspora the vote is as worthless as his promise to hold free, fair and credible elections.

But even if one could look into the crystal ball and have the rock-solid assurance that Zanu PF will grant all in the diaspora the vote and will hold free, fair and credible elections in 2023; are we then saying that Zanu PF should be forgiven for having denied those in the diaspora the vote and rigging the elections because the party will do the right thing in 2023?

After 38 years of Zanu PF rigging and promising never to do that again we still want to carry on with this self-indulgence wishful thinking?

Mnangagwa is a corrupt, vote rigging and murderous thug who is given to staging military coups to get what he wants as the 2008 and last November coups to stop MDC getting into power and to remove Mugabe respectively showed. All those who thought the November coup had changed the man have just had a wake-up call after Zanu PF blatantly rigged these elections.

Mnangagwa are his junta regime rigged the 30^th July 2018 elections making the regime illegitimate. We must now focus on getting the regime to step down and stop wasting time on foolish wishful thinking of allowing the regime to remain in office hoping it will have a Damascene transformative moment!  

Zanu PF is a party of corrupt and ruthless thugs who have already shown that they will stop at nothing including blatant vote rigging and even murder to establish and retain absolute power. They have enjoyed absolute power and the influence and wealth it brought for decades now, they have dug in and have no intentions of giving it up.

Mnangagwa and the junta have just rigged the recent elections and had seven people shot dead to quill all dissent – proof, to all doubters, that the thugs’ appetite for power and willingness to shed fresh blood to secure it has no diminished. After 38 years of corrupt, vote rigging and tyrannical rule those who expect Zanu PF change, give up the dictatorial powers, give up absolute power and the wealth, etc. for the sake of keeping a promise to hold free and fair elections are downright fools who live in cloud-cuckoo-land.

Those with their foot in the real world must know that the only way to stop Zanu PF rigging the next elections in 2023 is by making sure the regime is not let off the illegitimate hook. Zanu PF must be forced to step down and not allowed to organise the 2023 elections; they will rig the elections!