““I don’t get pleasure from the suffering of our people.
For 38 years I have lived under ZANU madness. They stole the 2018 election. They
have a duty and an obligation to return the country to legitimacy. Ipai
Mukomana chinhu chake,” wrote Biti on Twitter.
True, Zanu PF stole the 2018 elections, but that is only half
the story. The other half is that by participating in these elections with no
reforms in place MDC Alliance made it easy for Zanu PF to rig the elections.
MDC Alliance leaders had many golden opportunities, especially during the 2008
to 2013 GNU, to implement the democratic reforms which would have end the Zanu
PF rule years ago.
It is rich for the likes of Tendai Biti should now be shedding
buckets of crocodile tears for “the suffering of our people” when all he has
ever done was sell-out to Zanu PF madness for thirty pieces of silver. Was it
not Tendai Biti who was calling Mugabe “unflappable father of the nation, the fountain
of wisdom” as recent as July 2012?
It is not the suffering of povo that has Biti salivating like a
hyena circling a pride of feeding lions. He is dying to be appointed a Minister
again even if Zanu PF remains firmly in control and thus the investors and
lenders are not impressed just as happened during the 2008 to 2013 GNU.
Creating a the post of Prime Minister for Chamisa and one or two
cabinet minister posts for Tendai Biti and a few other MDC Alliance leaders
will do nothing to lift Zimbabwe’s curse of pariah state ruled by corrupt and
vote rigging thugs. The curse will only be lifted by the country implementing
the democratic reforms and holding free, fair and credible elections.
President Mnangagwa and his junta rigged the elections and the
regime is, per se, illegitimate. It is wishful thinking on Chamisa and Biti’s
part to argue that the mere act of adding MDC Alliance members to the illegitimate
Zanu PF regime be enough to make the hybrid legitimate.
One thing we can be certain of is the Zanu PF dominated hybrid
will never agree to the implementation of reforms and so Zanu PF will rig the
2023 elections. We will be back in the same fix we are in today!
Even if the nation was to accept this Zanu PF – MDC Alliance
regime there is no guarantee the investors and lenders will be so easily
fooled.
The right course of action is to force Zanu PF to step down. The
junta broke the electoral laws and must not be allowed to get away with it. No
one, absolutely no one; even those with liberation war credential, no one; is
above the law. This will then allow for the appointment an interim administration
tasked to implement the democratic reforms, put the country back on a firm
democratic footing. The country will then hold its first free, fair and
credible elections.
We need to address the core problems behind Zimbabwe's economic meltdown and stop wasting time on these foolish proposals. Zimbabwe has done little, if anything at all, to restore farm production since the violence seizure of white-owned farms that started in 2000! We used ti be the breadbasket of the region and have been depending on imported food aid for the last decade! We are starving in the land which is for all intent and purposes the Garden of Eden.
ReplyDeleteScrapping the bond notes in favour of SA Rand will do nothing to increase produce on our farms by even one litre!
It does not matter what you say or do you will never provoke the yapping MDC jackals to discuss why they failed to get even one democratic reform implemented during the GNU. Never! I have tried on countless occasions for the last decade and has yet to get a single word from even one of them. They all know that they sold-out, even the real big village idiots among them like Nelson Chamisa, Douglas Mwonzora, Obert Gutu and the late Morgan Tsvangirai knew they sold-out.
ReplyDeleteJust before the 2013 elections, Patrick Chinamasa, who was then the Minister of Justice called a press conference to which all Zimbabwe's foreign diplomats and press were invited. He publicly challenged MDC leaders or anyone else to give just one example of a democratic reform MDC had proposed and Zanu PF had blocked in the five years of the GNU. No one took up the challenge and all talk of boycotting the elections because Zanu PF had blocked reforms died there and then!
Nothing would please Mnangagwa and his junta more than having Chamisa, Biti and the other MDC leaders joining him to form a government of national unity, a coalition, and interim administration, call it what you will. He knows that Chamisa and company are after the trappings of power, give them that and they will as malleable as mud! They will forget about implementing the reforms, the suffering povo, etc. as soon as they get the ministerial car keys!
ED is not one of the cleverest person on the block but even he knows that Chamisa and company lost a lot of political credibility since they pathetic performance during the GNU. Offering these MDC deadwood ministerial perks is one thing but whether they will bring with them any democratic credibility to the regime is another matter.
Yes reaching out the hand of friendship to MDC Alliance will impress some Zimbabweans, especially the naïve and gullible MDC supporters; the international community and investors in particular are not so easily fooled by such gimmicks!
Poor Tendai Biti, the yapping jackal is absolutely desperate for a ministerial appointment but will not dare muscle in and steal a scrap from the hyenas! "I don't get pleasure from the suffering of our people!" Yeah right!
@ Pamhidzai Samuel
ReplyDelete"Yu also have a problem Zanu must implement reforms if they want the country to move forward Who on earth can make Zanu pf reform day dreaming."
That is music to Mnangagwa and every Zanu PF thug's ears! Of course, what you are saying is nonsense, these Zanu PF thugs are not Gods who everyone must fear.
You never bothered to understand what the 2008 to 2013 GNU was about and yet comment of the matter over which you have no clue. MDC leaders like Tendai Biti love idiots like you because they know you will never hold them to account for selling out during the GNU.
You have no clue what the democratic reforms are about just do everyone a big favour and shut up!
Former Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi appears to have hit hard times as the senator for Marondera is battling to settle some of his obligations.
ReplyDeleteZanu PF have done a great job in destroying the country's economy but as poverty spread it has not spared many of the party's members including the party's grandees. We all know of the late Nathan Shamuyarira, Enos Nkala, etc. who lived the last of the years this side of the grave in abject poverty. When Shamuyarira died Mugabe, in a cynical move to rival George Orwell's Animal Farm, had the pot holes in the road to his house repaired and ever had the front of the house painted to hide the decades of rot and decay. The tyrant did nothing gloss over the tragic human suffering of the late nor of those he left behind.
Sekeramayi is lucky to still have the senator salary and allowance others like Didymus Mutasa are not so lucky! It is the fear of being caught in the growing tide of poverty that has hardened the Zanu PF thugs making them fight each other like hyenas and commit all manner of violence to hang on to their position.
It is a great tragedy that this Zanu PF dictatorship has been allowed to exist for all these years and destroy so much. Rebuilding Zimbabwe will not be a walk in the park and the sooner we can dismantle the dictatorship the soon we can start the arduous task of rebuilding. Zanu PF thugs will fight like wild cats to hang on to power but we must not allow them to hold the nation to ransom!
Ncube admitted that the country's surrogate bond note is not equal to the United States dollar, contradicting earlier government pronouncements on the currency. He was addressing British think-tank Chatham House in London yesterday, where he admitted that market forces were dictating government policy.
ReplyDelete"The market is setting the pace. What is left for us is choreography and management of the economic fundamentals. The economy has dollarised. RTGS [real time gross settlement] balances are over $6 billion. The market is doing everything, we are going through a transition. The market has said these currencies [US dollar and bond notes] are not at par. I don't want to argue with the market. The bond notes will, at some point, have to be demonetised and I cannot tell you (when that will be)," Ncube said.
Government recognise concerns surrounding RTGS deposits, and we commit to preserve the value of these balances on the current rate of exchange of 1 to 1, in order to protect people's savings.
Well, well! So how many U-turns has Minister Ncube made so far and he has only been in the job for two months! We are just driving up and down, back and forth until we run out of gas.
He said Zimbabwe was going to scrap the bond notes and that cause panic. He reversed that decision. He then said government will let market forces decide the exchange rate to the US$ and that cause a new wave of panic. Now he has just reversed that. He has no clue how much financial lose and stress his two foolish decisions have caused!
There are other policy decision he has or will make and they will cause a lot of pain and no gain, of that we can be certain.
The minister may be a Professor with an impressive CV but hell, the man has no common sense. None! His failure to see this Zanu PF junta as a pariah state showed the man is so excited about his ministerial appointment, his mind is all a fog, he cannot see or think straight!