Desperate people do
desperate things but there is nothing more irrational that doing the same thing
over and over again expecting a different result.
Everyone knows that
Zanu PF rigged these elections but instead of rejecting the result some people
are doing what they have always done after 38 years of rigged election – accept
the result and see how the nation can work with the Zanu PF government! It was
not worked hence the reason the nation is up to her eyes in this hell-on-earth
mess.
Zanu PF has just
rigged this year’s elections and the usual suspects are at it again – they are
looking for an excuse why the nation must accept the Zanu PF regime and work
with it!
“ZANU-PF has
effectively dashed people's hopes on the possibility of forming an inclusive
government by shutting its doors on any negotiations in the face of a crippling
economy, dilapidated public infrastructure and low investor confidence among
other factors that have negatively affected the country,” reported News Day
“The majority of Zimbabweans and interested stakeholders have been calling for a government of national unity (GNU), describing it as the best foot forward to rebuild the economy.
“Although Zanu-PF has the majority in Parliament and won the disputed presidency, most people thought it would be ideal to join forces and rescue the country from the doldrums.”
“The majority of Zimbabweans and interested stakeholders have been calling for a government of national unity (GNU), describing it as the best foot forward to rebuild the economy.
“Although Zanu-PF has the majority in Parliament and won the disputed presidency, most people thought it would be ideal to join forces and rescue the country from the doldrums.”
Ask anyone of the Zimbabweans
clamouring for the inclusive government to explain how having a few MDC
ministers in a Zanu PF led government will improve the country’s economic and
political fortunes. And it is lights out!
It is a historic
fact that all the MDC leaders; Chamisa, Biti, Coltart, etc. have already proven
to be breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent. They had the golden opportunity
to implement the democratic reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU, for example,
and they failed to get even one reform implemented. It is naïve to believe they
will do any better now.
“The MDC rubbish are
far better than these Zanu PF thugs!” some people have argued. True, but given
the Zanu PF thugs are the majority in this inclusive government, MDC leaders
will have very little influence.
The British are among
the few outsiders pushing both Zanu PF and MDC to form the inclusive government.
The British have their own agenda, a far cry from wanting Zimbabwe get out of
the mess we are in. The British know that Zanu PF thugs rigged these elections, they
cannot be seen to be dealing with the thugs without making some attempt to cleanse
the junta. The few MDC leaders in the new Zanu PF led government will, as far
as the British are concerned, be the equivalent of dousing the stinking vote-rigging
Mnangagwa skunk with Chanel 5 perfume.
The investors know
Zanu PF rigged these elections and they will not invest in a country whose next
regime change is another military assisted transition or violent street
protest. They know a skunk, even one soaked in Chanel 5, is not to be trusted!
The bottom line for
all thinking Zimbabweans out there is that an Zanu PF and MDC inclusive
government will not bring about any meaningful economic or political change.
After 38 years of rigged elections and letting Zanu PF stay in power just to
appease the thugs, we must surely now accept that the policy of appeasement has
not worked.
And today, with the
nation is dire economic and political trouble, with unemployment at 90%, most
basic services all but collapsed, ¾ of our people living on US$1.00 or less a
day, etc. surely it is high time we finally accepted that appeasing Zanu PF has
not worked. It is high time we finally accepted that we will not stop vote
rigging by rewarding those who rig elections by allowing them to stay in power.
If we are serious
about ending Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown and political paralysis then we must reject
the outcome of the recent elections because Zanu PF blatantly rigged the
elections. We must never ever again accept rigged elections. Never ever.
As a way out of the
present mess, we must demand the appointment of an interim administration that
will be tasked to implement the democratic reforms necessary for the holding of
free, fair and credible elections. Until we hold free, fair and credible
elections this country will remain stuck in this hell-on-earth Zanu PF landed
us in.
"The majority of Zimbabweans and interested stakeholders have been calling for a government of national unity (GNU), describing it as the best foot forward to rebuild the economy."
ReplyDeleteThis is just nonsense from people who are too lazy to think through anything. If the GNU was the best foot forward then why did the last GNU fail to implement even one democratic reform in five years?
These people do not want to deal with the political reality that Zanu PF has been rigging elections to stay in power with the disastrous economic and political consequences we can see today. The mistake we have made again and again was allow Zanu PF to stay in power after rigging the elections.
These people calling for a GNU now know Zanu PF rigged these elections and the regime will never fix the nation's problems. However, they do not have the guts to tell the Zanu PF thugs they are illegitimate and cannot form the next government. They are settling for a GNU as a half-way house of letting the Zanu PF thugs stay in power and have others, MDC, run the nation's affairs.
If we have free, fair and credible elections the people will elect competent men and women to govern. Such capable men and women are not to be found in both Zanu PF and MDC because the present political system stifles all meaningful debate and democratic competition.
The EU, one of Zimbabwe's biggest donors has suspended funding of a US$14 million conservancy project in Save Valley in Chiredzi because thousands of Zanu PF supporters illegally settled in the area are resisting eviction.
ReplyDeleteThe EU project is meant to erect a fence around Save Valley Conservancy which is famed for the second largest black rhino population in Africa. The project is not only important for Zimbabwe's wildlife and tourism industry but is aimed at reducing people-wildlife conflicts that are a perennial problem in Chiredzi and parts of Bikita.
The Conservancies were invaded by landless Zimbabweans at the height of land invasions in 2002.
Both Chiredzi District Administrator (DA) Lovemore Chisema and Joseph Shoko, the chief environment officer in the Ministry of Environment confirmed the move by EU. They said they received directives to stop any further programs on the project.
"We received a directive from EU to stop any further programs regarding implementation of a project in Save Valley funded by EU. We have not been furnished with reasons," said Chisema.
Apart from erecting the fence, the Fund is meant to build schools, sink boreholes and build dams for people in the area.
It is stories like this that should make even the British think twice about supporting this vote rigging Zanu PF dictatorship. Zanu PF chefs are the ones who were settled on the seized former white-owned farms leaving the landless peasants with little choice but to settle anywhere else they could!
@ Mike Tawanda
ReplyDelete"Our President, the President of Zimbabwe, an equal amongst equals, a brother amongst brethren, in the midst of all the African leaders. The era of isolationism and spite to the outside world of Mugabe is finally over! And not only did Emmerson Mnangagwa lead us back in the midst of the family of nations, he did so with a straight back and proudly wearing the colours of our beautiful nation around his neck!"
The sheer hypocrisy of these post November 2017 Zanu PF zealots is sickening; to listen to them one would think they must have hated Mugabe with a passion and yet they are the ones who had kept the tyrant in power all these years. Was it not Emmerson Mnangagwa, Chiwenga and the rest of the junta who have rigged elections in the past to keep Zanu PF and Mugabe in power? Indeed the November 2017 coup was not the first coup in the country, the same thugs stage the coup to stop MDC getting into power in 2008!
The truth is Mnangagwa is a thug and he has not changed one bit and he has just confirmed this by rigging this year's elections. He is "Mugabe mark 2 and does not deserve any international support" as the British MP, Kate Hoey, has rightly said. And he is not getting any.
So Tawanda and all the Zanu PF spin-doctors can praise Mnangagwa all they want, he will still remain the corrupt and vote rigging thug he was during Mugabe's days and is to this day.
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
ReplyDelete― Frédéric Bastiat
There is a lot in true and wisdom in that! Sadly many weak societies have yet to come up with way to stop it and so the whole society has suffered to no end! Whilst everyone would readily agree that corruption is harmful to society whilst they are in no position to stop the corruption when they do get a chance to do they are always too busy plundering themselves hence nothing is ever done.
In Africa, the electorate have been brainwashed into believing they cannot do without the political leaders. The leaders have taken full advantage of our society's rigid and inflexible tradition where custom, hierarch and paternalistic rules and norms count for more than reason to turn party supporters into blind followers. Instead of the electorate hold the leaders to account it is considered rude to ever question the leader's decision.
ReplyDeleteThe system is self-perpetuating in that by not holding those above you to account you in turn are never held to account by those below you now or in the future.
It took the best party of 20 years for most Zimbabweans to finally believe that Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs were incompetent, corrupt and murderous thugs. Even with the economy in the gutter and stories galore of Mugabe murdering his political opponents and the mass Gukurahundi mass murders, still many people kept faith in the party.
Having finally switch their support to MDC it is proving equally hard for these people to believe MDC leaders are corrupt and incompetent even with all the evidence of the GNU failures. It will take so convincing to swear some people into dropping MDC leaders as failed leaders.
The GNU that includes Zanu PF and MDC appeals to many Zimbabweans. Deep down many people believe Zanu PF have the divine power to rule the country, four decades of being brainwashed, and so a Zimbabwe government with no Zanu PF leaders is unthinkable. The thing is MDC leaders believe this too as both Tsvangirai and now Chamisa have gone out of their way to woo former Zanu PF leaders and supporters to join MDC. So a government blending both Zanu PF and MDC is "the best foot forward" for them.
A healthy and functional democratic system will allow quality leaders to emerge and most if not all the deadwood currently crowding the political stage will fall be the way side within a year or two of the successful creation of a democratic Zimbabwe. The focus, agree, must be on getting the interim administration appointed as contrast to another Zanu PF and MDC useless GNU!
Progress of the country starts with conducive environment and creates room for citizens to participate in rebuilding of the nation. Most African countries should to learn from Rwanda on how to implement vision. Rwanda 2020 vision is a tactical vision with light to future generation.
ReplyDeleteRwanda has certainly done very well under President Kagame but by failing to create a stable and democratic system he left the country with a fatal weakness. Future leaders will too want to for many years with an iron fist. It will only take one bad leader to undo all the great achievements Kagame and others have made.