The electoral victory of the rigged elections
has been but a hollow pyrrhic victory for Mnangagwa.
Here is the man who had executed all Zanu PF’s
vote rigging activities and Mnangagwa knows better than anyone else that this
year’s elections have been very peaceful and the vote rigging very subtle
compared other elections he has managed for the party. If Mugabe and Zanu PF
had got away with those violent and messy elections; he simply cannot
understand why he is having such a tough time getting away with this year’s
rigged elections.
He was so cocksure the British would stand by
him but now even they are telling him the elections were rigged.
Without the British, his chance of getting any
funding from the IMF, WB, etc. have now just evaporated.
He was cocksure the Chinese would never treat
him the way they treated Mugabe. He expected them to bankroll his many
development projects. They have started to drag their feet on funding the mega
deal projects they signed with him. They are demanding that Zimbabwe must first
pay back the outstanding loans they advanced to Mugabe.
Pay back with what? The country is broke!
President Mnangagwa and his Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Sibusiso Moyo, turned on their charm offensive in their effort for
Zimbabwe to re-join the Commonwealth a.s.a.p. It was all for nothing as the
door has now been slammed the door in their faces, all because Zanu PF is
accused of rigging the recent elections.
Poor, poor Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa his instinct is to hang on to power but deep down he knows he is fighting a lost battle. The world has just lost patience with Zanu PF’s elections rigging shenanigans. He took over from Mugabe at a time when ordinary Zimbabweans have suffered so much for all these years the ill effects of serious economic meltdown cause by Zanu PF misrule; their patience too has been stretched to breaking point. Everyone wants real change and they do not even want to know his plea that he was to hang on because it is his turn to rule!
When Mnangagwa seized power after last November’s coup, he must have thought it was going to be plain sailing from there on. Now he can see Zanu PF’s days in power are numbered and so too are his days as President of Zimbabwe!
President Mnangagwa’s world is falling apart.
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;” W B
Yeats
@ Njero
ReplyDeleteED rigged the elections and you cannot even admit that without trying to blame some one else for your own fcuk up!
"Are we still a British colony?" Did ED rig the elections expecting the British to support him no matter what for fear Zanu PF would start calling them "British Imperialist" if they did not!
We are not a British colony but an independent nation that has to deal with the problem of vote rigging thugs who believe they have the divine right to rule the country. The thugs are now trying every trick in the book to take attention away from their vote rigging and decades of misrule just to justify they staying in power. If the thugs are not in power then the country will revert back to colonial rule, they will argue. All nonsense, of course!
The junta is illegitimate it must go and go it will!
@ Ziso rangu
ReplyDelete"Misleading headline. Same old story about rigging, elections are long time gone please dust yourself off and move on Cde rather than dwelling on the past. ED is the Manager of Zimbabwe we like it or not. We should rather unite bcz MDC betrayed the masses in the court. Editor plz give us good news not recycling old stories with (Kak )headlines," you say.
"Chinokangamwa edemo, muti wakatemwa haukangamwi!" (It is the axe that forgets, the tree it chopped will never forget!)
ED rigged the elections and thus confirming that Zimbabwe is still a pariah state ruled by thugs. Investors and lenders have noted that down and are staying away. The much hope for economic recovery is not going to happen.
90% of the working population are out of work, most basic services such as clean running water and health care have all but collapsed, 75% of our people are living on US$1.00 or less a day, etc. Do you really expect them all to just accept the rigged elections and the economic suffering it has brought just as fait accompli! And do that for what end and purpose? Because Zanu PF and its apologists have decreed that rigged elections is "old story". How naïve and foolish you are.
As long as Zimbabwe remains in this hell-on-earth situation because of Zanu PF misrule then the problem of rigged elections will remain on the national agenda since it is the root cause of the nation's problems.
Zanu PF rigged the elections and are, per se, illegitimate. The regime must step down to allow the nation to move on and step down it will!
Zanu PF secretary for legal affairs, Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana, said the ruling party stood ready to engage Chamisa's party in dialogue through such a platform, but on condition that he accepts the outcome of the July 30 harmonised elections.
ReplyDeleteWhat Zanu PF is failing to understand is that the party blatantly rigged the elections denying the people of Zimbabwe, and not just Nelson Chamisa and his MDC Alliance friends, a meaningful say in the governance of the country. The regime denied the 2 to 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora a vote, for example, for no better reason than that it feared most of them would not vote for Zanu PF.
This idea that Zanu PF can now sit down with MDC, bribe Chamisa, and share out the spoils of the gravy train and everything will be ok is an outrage. We know MDC leaders have sold-out in the past and will do so again now, if offered the right bribe. What MDC leaders must understand is that they do not have the power to give Zanu PF the mandate to rule the country. MDC cannot turn illegitimate Zanu PF into a legitimate regime!
The international community, including the investors and lenders, know MDC leaders are corrupt, incompetent and sell-outs, they will never be fooled into believing the country's pariah state status has changed just because Chamisa has been given a ministerial limo and a fancy title to match.
When the South Africans told Ian Smith they could not support him any more, he and his Rhodesia Front friends accepted the game was up. The British, who have stubbornly tried to prop up this Zanu PF junta since last November's coup, have finally told the regime that they cannot do so any more following the blatant vote rigging. ED must accept the game is up and not drag the nation deeper into the abyss!
Zanu PF has just blatantly rigged the elections what good will aligning the laws do? We have an illegitimate regime that has just scarred away all investors, we need to sort that mess and not bury our heads in the sand and talk about aligning laws to make sure future elections are free and fair!
ReplyDelete@ Conway
ReplyDelete"Anyway, whether people bring themselves to admit it or choose to be still in denial, the road repairs going on countrywide is another big indicator that Zimbabwe is, indeed, open for business, as the government has been saying. Anyone claiming credit for anything positive going on, has hitched a ride on that mantra whether intentionally or accidentally," you say.
You are the one in denial if you really think that a country that has just proven to the world that it is still a pariah state ruled by vote rigging thugs in "open for business"!
Zanu PF is repairing roads countrywide! Yeah right! The country was begging for money to fight cholera but has money to repair roads! If you had said ED has money to bribe Chiefs, charter planes for Grace Mugabe, etc.; no one would doubt that. Repair roads, fight cholera and anything else for the good of the nation, he has no money!
@ Max Maphosa
ReplyDelete"I thought he was going tell us about the rigging of elections, instead he is talking about China Britain blurblur. You are off topic. Talk if how the elections were rigged or shut up."
I do apologise, I thought you were following what was happening. The regime denied 2 to 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote for no other reason other than that Zanu PF feared that most of them would not vote for the party. Now, after the harm is done, President Mnangagwa is saying the regime will grant the diaspora vote; proof the denial was a deliberate and calculated move.
How can an election process in which so many people's voting rights are so carelessly and dismissively denied be free, fair and credible?
@ Gwede
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff.
Zimbabwe is in this political and economic mess because for the last 38 years we have foolishly allowed Zanu PF to ride roughshod over our freedoms and human rights hoping they will deliver the economic prosperity they kept promising.
"Seek ye first the political kingdom and all shall be added unto you," said Dr Kwame Nkrumah, independent Ghana's first president.
The second foolish mistake Zimbabweans have made the last 20 years is to fail to see that MDC was running with the hare and hunting with the hounds. We have had many opportunities to end the Zanu PF dictatorship but wasted them all because MDC leaders are sell-outs.