Chamisa is incapable of making a rational argument.
“He (Chamisa) said President Emmerson Mnangagwa is punishing the nation for not voting for him on July 30,” reported the Daily News.
“Chamisa said this in light of the deteriorating situation in the country which Mnangagwa said should be endured as it is a process leading to better days.
"We have witnessed some developing trends on the political environment, clearly government is at war with the people and they are being punished for rejecting the government on July 30.
"When all else ceases government knows one thing, that they did not win the election, they did not win the mandate of the people and this is why they have behaved in a bizarre fashion," he said.
Only a village idiot would believe that President Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF would have carefully plotted to have the foreign currency shortage, the financial chaos brought on by the Bond Notes value going up and down like a yoyo, the shortage of bread, fuel, medicine, etc.
There is no doubt that the one thing President Mnangagwa had wished for more than anything since seizing power nearly a year ago was to see a flood of investors and lenders pouring into the country in response to his “Zimbabwe is open for business!” carrion call. It was not to be, investors and lenders have continued to shy away from investing in Zimbabwe.
The country’s worsening economic situation is a result of President Mnangagwa’s failure to get the fundamentals right such as holding free, fair and credible elections, ending corruption, stop the waste of resources on new cars for chefs and on chartered planes, etc. and not just talk about it. Zimbabwe cannot be open for business when it remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. Investors do not do business this thugs because of the hustle and the risk of being mugged!
There is no doubt that Mnangagwa understood the need end Zanu PF’s reputation as a party of thugs hence the reason for all that talk of “new Zimbabwe and new dispensation”. He was hoping that talking about holding free, fair and credible elections would suffice. The prospect of implementing the democratic reforms and giving up all Zanu PF’s dictatorial powers to rig the elections was a bridge to far for him and his junta cronies.
Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown are a result of Mnangagwa and his junta’s refusal to accept the reality that Zimbabwe will never achieve any meaningful economic recovery as long as the country remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. Chamisa’s suggestion the regime is causing the economic meltdown to punish the people is nonsense. The nonsensical narrative we have learnt to expect from corrupt and incompetent opposition leaders who claim to have the answers to all the nation’s problems but will only disappoint because they have no clue!
Chamisa and his MDC friends have the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections during the 2008 GNU, for example. They failed to get even one reform implemented in five years.
Chamisa is taking advantage of the economic meltdown gripping the nation to push MDC Alliance agenda for the nation to have another GNU. He claims to have “the key to unlock economic recovery”. He and his MDC friends will be no more than puddles in the Zanu PF dominated government. No one will be fooled into believe the regime is anything else other than a pariah state.
The only way out of this hell-hole Zanu PF has landed us in is for the party to step down to allow for the appointment of a interim administration that will implement the democratic reforms and then hold free, fair and credible elections.
Zimbabwe’s economic recovery is impossible whilst the country remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs!
“Chamisa added that the country needs a national transitional authority to lay the framework to resolve the national economic crisis adding that the MDC is ready for discussion,” continued the Daily News.
The country would not be needed this transitional authority if MDC had implemented the reforms during the 2008 GNU. Yes, the country needs a transition arrangement but neither Zanu PF nor MDC leaders involved in the 2008 GNU should play any part in the new arrangement. They have already proven beyond all doubt that they are corrupt and incompetent, the nation must look for select competent men and women and no more recycled deadwood!
“The Zimbabwe Republic Police, having noted that activities by illegal foreign currency dealers were posing a serious security and economic threat to the country, embarked on a countrywide operation meant to enforce Statutory Instrument 122A of 2017, Exchange Control (Amendment) Regulations, 2017 (No.5), which criminalises the illegal trading in foreign currency.
ReplyDeleteThis is nonsense; Zimbabwe uses Bond Notes, US$, British £, SA Rand, Botswana Pula, etc. as legal tender. To suggest that the people should not trade one currency for another is just nonsense, especially when the so called legal dealers, the Bank will accept deposits in any of these currency but will, more often than not pay all withdrawals in Bond Notes only!
There are people whose whole livelihood depends on having forex and they have a grime choice of dealing in forex and be arrested or starve. I know what i would do!
It is criminal that the regime should be criminalising innocent people to cover for its own failure to revive the economy!
Zanu PF can rubbish Chamisa all they want but this is just a case of the kettle calling the pot black; both are rubbish!
ReplyDelete"Zimbabwe does not need a transitional Government. Transiting to where? This country is governed through the Constitution which was adopted by more than 90 percent of Zimbabweans in 2013 and the same Constitution says a country can only have a so-called transitional Government if there is no Government," said Zanu PF secretary for legal affairs, Paul Mangwana.
This is laughable! It was none other than Paul Mangwana who was the Zanu PF co-chairman of the parliamentary committee that drafted the new constitutions. He is the one boasted that Mugabe “dictated the document”! Mugabe, a ruthless tyrant, would never dictate a democratic constitution. 90% of the 90% who approved the new constitution did so without ever reading it; they relied on the assurance that it would deliver free and fair elections from the corrupt and incompetent MDC leaders. As we know, it has never delivered free and fair election!
Zimbabweans are sleep walking into another Libya or Syria. Unemployment did not soar to 90% over night nor did the 75% living on US$1.00 or less go to bed a rich man and woke up a poor man; the situation has unfolded for the last 38 years. The question every Zimbabwean must ask themselves is what have they ever done to save themselves, we are all suffering, to stop this madness. Better still, what can they do know to stop Mnangagwa making Zimbabwe the next Syria!
Of course, there are many things people can do. People can start by understanding HOW Zanu PF rigged the elections; knowledge is power, by understanding how the elections were rigged will motivate people to demand that Zanu PF steps down with greater vigour and focus.
It is shocking how many Zimbabweans out there still haven clue how the elections were rigged! Rigging elections is easy when the very people who should be concerned about what is happening have completely switched off!
@ Weston Mugocha
ReplyDelete“Whilst Chamisa is day-dreaming, the ZanuPf must steer the economy out of this abyss and NOW. The people of Zim have suffered enough. We would advocate an interim administration minus both ZanuPF and MDC in it if things don't change for the better. An administration whose mandate will be to establish ground for institutions free of corruption and high affinity to manipulation, leading to another election that would be run by that independent authority producing a result that will not be disputed by anyone, whoever wins. If both ZanuPf and Mdc are confident that they are what the people of Zimbabwe want, then both have nothing to fear. We cant be stuck with and held at ransom by two extremist parties.”
Zanu PF would have never go the country into this mess in the first place if they knew what they were doing. To think that the like of Mnangagwa and his command agriculture, wasting time hunting done innocent people accused of dealing in forex, etc. will get the nation out of this hell-hole is day dreaming!
Zimbabwe will never accomplish any meaningful economic recover whilst the country remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs!
"Less than a year after Mugabe was kicked out of power, Zanu PF has 2 new factions forming. We will deny this vehemently until one obliterates the other of course. One faction is captured by Queen Bee, the other is captured by legacy! Stay woke on these streets," Lumumba tweeted.
ReplyDeleteZanu PF is imploding and the factional fighting will not stop as long as there are more than one thug still standing! The real danger here is that Zimbabweans are doing nothing to decouple the party from the country. Just because Zanu PF is sinking into the abyss that does not mean Zimbabwe must sink with it!
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has finally given the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance the greenlight to hold its long-awaited 19th anniversary celebrations at Gwanzura Stadium in Harare this Saturday.
ReplyDeleteShowing pictures of Chamisa dressed up as president will certainly get into his soft head!
Mob ruled has never resulted in any progress! Violence is the only language Zanu PF speaks and understand and will impose its tyrannical will on the nation!
ReplyDeleteTHE government’s decision to strike off portions of Statutory Instrument 122 of 2017 to increase the flow of basic goods into the market ahead of the festive season and ease pressure on foreign currency demand on the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is a most welcome development.
ReplyDeleteThe three-tier pricing system we had just started witnessing is untenable. Perhaps, the next big thing to happen in the country is to ensure business or among them unscrupulous business operators desist from opportunism, whereby they now punish the consumer by pegging their goods too high for the ordinary citizen.
What is happening here is crisis management by a regime that clearly has no clue what the root causes of the economic meltdown are much less what to do about them! As long as Zimbabwe continues to import more than it is exporting the country’s current shortages of forex, fuel, food, medicine, etc. will only get worse and not better.
Zimbabwe needs a large injection of investments and cash to kick start the country’s comatose economy. Sadly no investor or lender will do business in a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. We need to end this curse of pariah state if we are serious about reviving the country’s economic fortunes.
As long as the country remains a pariah state there will never be an meaningful economic recovery!
EXCHANGE control measures recently introduced by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) are scaring away foreign investors who were considering investing in the country, Western diplomatic sources have said.
ReplyDeleteThe measures, which kicked in this week, give the government authority to retain up to 70% of foreign currency export earnings through the central bank.
The measures also allow third parties — such as retailers, technology groups and rival lenders, who are referred to as authorised dealers — access to customers’ accounts.
This government has no clue what it is doing and worst it has no mandate to govern since it rigged the elections. The sooner this illegitimate Zanu PF dictatorship is removed the sooner the nation can start the tough work of rebuilding the mess of ruinous Zanu PF misrule!