“The purpose of the facilities ($500 million credit) is to fund
the procurement of essential commodities including fuel, electricity, wheat and
raw materials for the manufacturing of cooking oil and packaging," said
RBZ governor John Mangudya.
Why is Zimbabwe borrowing $500 million and spending it on buying
food and other consumables when everyone knows the golden rule is never to spend
borrowed money on things that add no value or that will not help generate more
wealth? This is common sense.
It is sad that people like RBZ governor John Mangudya and
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube who, before they are appointed to high office,
seemed to be very rational individuals; but, as soon as they are appointed,
they lose their marbles. They know to keep their job they must do as they are
told - regardless how stupid and foolish that might be.
The two gentle know Zimbabwe is drowning in debt. They know most
of the borrowed money was wasted and yet they too are presiding over the same
folly without a care in the world on how the debt will be repaid.
The very fact that people like President Mnangagwa know they
will never be held to democratic account in a free, fair and credible elections
gives them the arrogance to do as they please. And it is not surprising that
unelected officials like Minister Ncube and the whole bloated civil service too
quickly learn to be arrogant and indifferent to the suffering their bad
decisions will cause to the ordinary people.
If we are serious about having good and competent government
then we must take the issue of free, fair and credible elections very seriously
because until we can hold the leaders to democratic account they will never
take any notice to our demands for good governance.
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because the
nation has been stuck with this incompetent, corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF
dictatorship for 38 years. There is no doubt that the party has been rigging
elections to stay in power against the democratic wishes of the people.
It must be noted that the people of Zimbabwe have made a
concerted effort to end Zanu PF’s rule by risking life and limb to elect Morgan
Tsvangirai and his MDC friends on the understanding they would bring about the
democratic changes the nation was dying for, which the MDC party name implied.
Sadly, it was never to be. MDC leaders have turned out to be breathtakingly
incompetent and corrupt; they have failed to get even one reform implemented in
five years of the GNU, when they had the golden opportunity to do so.
Zanu PF rigged the 2018 elections and if the regime is allowed
to stay in power until 2023, then we can be certain the party will rig those
elections too. Having created the de facto one-party dictatorship that has
enable the party leaders to rig elections and stay in power regardless of how
pathetic their performance in office; this is the one thing Zanu PF is not
going to give up without a fight.
If you rig elections, per se, you do not have the mandate to
rule, you are illegitimate. President Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF junta rigged
the 30 July 2018 elections, the regime is illegitimate and it is up to us the
people to force the regime to step down.
It is self-defeating for us to be calling for free, fair and
credible elections and then do nothing if someone blatantly rig the elections.
After 38 years of Zanu PF rigging elections and us doing nothing about it with
the disastrous political and economic consequences we can see all round
Zimbabwe today. The pressure for us to stand up and put an end to this curse of
rigged elections has never been greater than it is today.
Zanu PF has rigged elections for the last 38 years and got away
with it because, we the people, have lacked the political will, vision and
resolve to tell Mugabe and now Mnangagwa, he is illegitimate and must step down!
Come what may; come 2023, Mnangagwa and his junta must not still be in office to
rig those elections too.
“Are we men or are we mice!”
Making sure that the next elections in 2023 are free, fair and credible is the holy grail for Zimbabwe. After 38 years of Zanu PF rigging elections and getting away with it the pressure is now on stopping this insanity.
ReplyDeleteAfter 38 years of Zanu PF rigging elections and getting away with it with the tragic economic, political and social consequences we can no longer ignore; the matter of free, fair and credible elections is now the elephant in the room Zimbabweans must deal with.
It is not enough to demand free, fair and credible elections and then do nothing to those who blatantly break the rules. ED and his junta rigged the 30 July 2018 elections; it was not by accident, this was a deliberate and calculated act; it was not the first time, Zanu PF has rigged elections ever since it got into power in 1980.
If we are serious about wanting the rule of law then we must up hold the mother of all the laws: no one is above the law. By rigging the elections ED and the junta broke the law and they must be held to account, they must step down.
There is no doubt that Justice Chingumba and her colleagues knew three years more years ahead of time that ZEC would not be using the BVR kits for the 30 July 2018 elections. They made a big song and dance about buying the kits, when and where it was use in the field, etc., etc. just to give the naive and gullible opposition something to occupy their time. Come voting day, ZEC did not even bother to to use BVR kits or explain why.
ReplyDeleteA month before the 2013 SADC leaders warned Tsvangirai the election were already rigged. "If you take part in next month's elections, you will lose; the elections are done!" they warned.
SADC leaders were right, Zanu PF rigs elections well in advance.
If Zanu PF is allowed to stay in power and manage the next elections then we can be certain of one thing, the party will rig the 2023 elections.
It will take the interim administration three years or more to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship and prepare for free and fair elections. Zanu PF must be forced to step down by the end of 2019 if Zimbabwe is to have an chance of holding free, fair and credible elections in 2023!
He is not the first Zimbabwean politician to rig elections and get away with it but he may well be the last one to rig the elections only to discover the presidency is the albastros round his neck!
ReplyDelete@ bary
ReplyDeleteMnangagwa rigged the elections and now he must answer for it. No one is above the law!
@ dan
ReplyDelete2 to 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora were denied the vote for "logistical reasons" ED himself has since admitted. A feeble excuse! As you can see the investors and lenders have shied away from Zimbabwe, they do not need "primary evidence" to confirm what is blatantly obvious!
Private Hospitals demand US$ cash payment for baby delivery.
ReplyDeleteThe more the regime pretends it is in control the more it is self-evident that things are falling apart!
South Africa’s Finance Minister has resigned after admitting meeting members of the Gupta family, who have been accused of corruption. He had denied meeting the family.
ReplyDeleteDisappointed it was not Zimbabwe's minister, after all his voodoo economic policies that are bound to hurt the poor with no hope of economic recovery at the end of the day!
MDC had five years during the GNU to implement the democratic reforms which would have ended Zanu PF rule but failed to get even one reform implemented. Tells us Mr Cross, did you see that coming too and took the 30 pieces of silver regardless!
ReplyDeleteBy rigging the elections, Mr President Mnangagwa, you have signalled to the investors that Zimbabwe is a pariah state. We must first sort out our corrupt and lawless political system if we are ever going to attract investors.
ReplyDeleteYou can continue shouting "Zimbabwe is open for business!" but whilst the country remains a pariah state no one will ever come!
The people of Zimbabwe are now the poorest in Africa and your new tax regime will only make life even tougher for those at the bottom. What is more, there will be a lot of pain but very little, if any, gain. Yes your government will have even more money to spend buying new cars, chartering planes and all the other luxuries for the ruling elite!
The sooner you, Mr President, will accept that you rigged the recent elections and step down the sooner this nation can finally lift the curse of the rigged elections and pariah state label.
Let me rest assure you sir, in the end you will be forced to go because the present economic situation is not sustainable. You can accept the need for change and go peacefully like Ian Smith in 1980 or you with be hunted down and killed like Gaddafi! But go you will because the game is up!
The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has given government a seventy two hour ultimatum to announce measures that will ensure adequate allocation of foreign currency from the central bank for drug procurement.
ReplyDeleteNo doubt our new Finance Minister, Mthuli Ncube, will have an answer to that problem – in his few weeks in office he has already given the impression he is Mr-Know-It-All!
Government has threatened to revoke operating licenses of retailers demanding hard cash upfront for groceries and for those who have hiked prices.
ReplyDeleteAddressing journalists in Harare this evening, Vice President Kembo Mohadi said foreign currency will be availed for the pharmaceutical sector.
Evoke the licenses, only a fool would agree to be pay in currency that is losing value by the minute!
This is crisis management at its worst! There is no doubt that the money being allocated for buying drugs will have gone a long way if the orders had been place on time. Now everything is “URGENT” and there is a prime price to be paid for that!
Zimbabwe needed the bridging financial assistance from the IMF, WB, Paris Club which the British were helping to negotiate until they were forced to admit that Mnangagwa rigged the recent elections. Investors and lenders are not going to do business with a vote rigging thugs!
The economic meltdown will only get worse and worse and the only way out is for the Zanu PF junta to accept it rigged the elections and step down!
“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."
ReplyDeleteWhat are you yapping about! If you really care about ending the suffering of povo then why did you not implement the democratic reforms which would have stopped Zanu PF rigging elections. You had five years during the GNU to do this and yet failed to get even one reform implemented. You were too busy singing Mugabe praises: "unflappable father of the nation, fountain of all wisdom, etc."
You are desperate to be appointed one of the MDC Alliance ministers; you are nothing but a jackal yapping at a clan of feeding hyenas!
@ Max Maposa
ReplyDelete"The so called Mukori is getting carried away with the little freedom he has left. You are walking on thin ice, this is treason you are pushing here. Lets me remind you there is Matapi prison just waiting for misguided MDC supporters without direction like you."
You have me shaking in my boots and that is the honest truth! I am not a brave man will not deny that the thought had occupied to me the many times I have been in Zimbabwe. Why then I have continued to say the things I have said above? Four reasons:
1) Because I believe the things I have said are all true
2) What kind of life does one forced to live on US$1.00 or less a day have compared to that in your Matapi Prison, no much of a difference.
3) Say nothing about the corrupt, vote rigging and tyrannical Zanu PF rule, which is what most Zimbabweans have elected to do for the last 38 years, has not helped end the criminal waste of the nation's material and human resources; it has made it worse!
4) Last but by far most important of all the thought of doing and saying nothing about where the country is going scares the hell out of me, a lot more that you could ever do to me in Matapi Prison. The suffering you can inflict on me, one person, is nothing compared to the suffering the regime is inflicting on the thousands of babies across the land because their parents cannot afford $5.00 worth of drugs. Hundreds of these babies are dying unnecessarily!
So, whilst I still have the voice to say Mnangagwa is an incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs; I will say it not only for myself but for all the millions who cannot say it because they are babies, are scared of Zanu PF thuggery, etc. And as for the Zanu PF threat, I give it, you and all your fellow Zanu PF thugs the middle finger salute!
You lot are not Gods and you deserve to serve time in prison more than I. You think I do not know that you have been rigging elections in a desperate bid to stop regime change because you fear being held to account for your evil past!