ZANU-PF's Secretary and deputy minister for Defence and War Veterans,
Victor Matemadanda, said money from forex dealers should be forfeited to the
State and Government should come up with a law that empowers it to do so.
"These are tough times and they need tough measures. We
cannot be suffering yet there is so much rot going on around us.
"These osiphatheleni (forex dealers) are found with forex on a daily basis and are arrested and later released.
"The money found on them should be forfeited to the State as punishment for illegally dealing in forex," he said.
"These osiphatheleni (forex dealers) are found with forex on a daily basis and are arrested and later released.
"The money found on them should be forfeited to the State as punishment for illegally dealing in forex," he said.
And how much do you think you will recover from the forex
dealers? So the village idiot has never heard of the $15 billion Mugabe
admitted was being swindled from the diamond mining? The swindling is still
going on. Only this week the crooks employment to manage this industry unveiled
a fleet of new posh vehicles for bosses. The country has been begging for money
to buy cholera drugs, fuel, food and other basic essentials but has money to
buy cars, charter planes, etc.
Donors are now sick and tired of seeing these Zanu PF thugs driving
to their offices in the very latest models of limos to beg for money.
Zimbabwe is in this economic mess because of decades of corrupt
and incompetent Zanu PF rule. After 38 years of rigging elections, the party
has just rigged the July 2013 elections to extend its ruinous rule!
“The electoral commission lacked full independence and appeared
to not always act in an impartial manner,” wrote EU Election Observer Mission
in their final report.
“The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission
contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and
verifiability. Finally, the restrictions on political freedoms, the excessive
use of force by security forces and abuses of human rights in the post-election
period undermined the corresponding positive aspects during the pre-election
campaign. As such, many aspects of the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe failed to
meet international standards.”
Go on, Comrade Matemadanda, show us the verified voters' roll for
Gokwe Central constituency which you now claim to be the dually elected MP? How
many of rural voters were frog marched to attend Zanu PF rallies and then vote
for you because they feared being denies food aid or worse!
How many people have you; Comrade Matemadanda, as leader of rogue
war veterans; had harassed, beaten and murdered, especially in 2008 and 2013
when the rogue war veterans were Zanu PF’s foot troopers?
You have said you and your fellow rogue war veterans are “the
stockholders of Zimbabwe and the rest of us are merely stakeholders”. Whilst
the ordinary Zimbabwean has the vote, you and Zanu PF have the veto. You alone
decide who rules Zimbabwe and hence the reason Zanu PF has rigged elections
again and again.
There are many, many ordinary men and women who have fought for
freedom and human rights and dignity of all Zimbabweans, many have sacrificed
their very lives, paid the ultimate price. It is heart breaking that instead of
all Zimbabweans living in peace, justice and liberty after independence the
nation has been locked in yet another struggle to end oppression. Yesteryear's
liberators have become today's oppressors.
Still, we must fight to end black on black oppression because to
allow this madness to continue will be to betray all those who fought and died
to end tyranny, to betray ourselves and posterity. We owe it to our
forefathers, to ourselves and to our children to secure freedom, human rights
and dignity for all!
We must not allow ourselves to be bamboozles by village idiots
like Matemadanda and Mnangagwa into wasting time talking about illegal foreign
currency dealers when we should be talking about the illegal and illegitimate
Zanu PF regime which is the root cause of all economic problems and human misery
and deaths!
Zimbabwe is in this economic mess of serious economic meltdown
and political paralysis borne of having a corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging
ruling party and equally corrupt and incompetent opposition because the country
is stuck with the oppressive autocratic dictatorship. Zanu PF thugs are the
real enemy holding back this nation.
“State must punish osiphatheleni illegally dealing in forex!”
Who elected you and your fellow Zanu PF thugs? You too are illegal and
illegitimate and the nation must punish you. You must all step down!
These Zanu PF thugs are the hyenas killing domestic animals and
humans alike, the osiphatheleni are no more that ticks on the hyena’s back. Get
rid of the hyenas and the ticks, the fleas, the foul smell and God knows will go
with them!
For all his very high impressive CV Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has been a great disappointment with all his blundering about scrapping the Bond Notes and then about letting the Bond Notes float only to reverve both decisions within a few days!
ReplyDeleteWhilst Zimbabwe remains a pariah state it is inconceivable to see how the country can ever have any meaningful economic recovery. It is very disappointing that someone of Minister Ncube's calibre has completely failed to grasp this reality. It goes to show how the power clouds over common sense!
@ Silungisani Ndlovu
ReplyDelete"Patrick Guramatunhu you are a Political Rookie. ..how many years you still barking in Streets of London? ...you Lumpen. .what ever did you change in the Government of ZANU-PF? ... You will die in bushes of UK. ..you are Celebrating the suffering of Zimbabweans. .. You economic saboteur. .." you said.
This is very strong authoritarian language isn't?
There are three good reasons why every thinking person out there would condemn you Ndlovu and not Patrick:
1) Patrick has his arguments with supporting reasons (if he did not then you only had to ask). You have not said what it is Patrick said you disagreed with much less why you disagreed.
2) Zanu PF is the government of the day and has been for the last 38 years. Zimbabwe is in a real economic mess and most of would blame the government and not the powerless individual like Patrick whom the regime has routinely denied the vote! And for anyone to then accuse a private individual of celebrating the people's economic suffering and being an economic saboteur and not provide one piece of evidence is totally acceptable.
3) Zanu PF and its apologists have stifled all meaningful debate and democratic competition, an integral part of the regime's de facto one party dictators strategy to retaining absolute power by ignorance and fear. The country is in this mess precisely because Zanu PF has implemented some really idiotic policies which would have never happened if the country had an open and democratic system of government.
Indeed your whole comment above is vintage Zanu PF propaganda stuff of accusing the party's critics of causing all the nation's problems. Patrick is right these Zanu PF thugs rigged the elections and they are, per se, illegitimate and have no mandate to govern the country. They must go.
The so called foreign currency dealers are not the problem the nation must address as a matter of survival, removing these corrupt and vote rigging Zanu PF thugs is the immediate challenge. Arresting every forex dealer will not get Zimbabwe out of the economic and political hell-hole the nation has been stuck in all these last 38 years. What we need to do is dismantle this Zanu PF dictatorship.
A hyena clan preying on domestic animals and humans alike is a serious and immediate danger than a tick on its back!
This is typical Zanu PF mentality; the party has no clue what to do to fix the country's worsening economic situation and so it goes after scapegoats. The Zimbabwe economy has not been performing for decades and it is not surprising that the country is running out of foreign currency.
ReplyDeleteWe import more than we can pay with the little foreign currency we earn from export. The solution is to increase local production so we do not import as much and increase exports and earn more foreign currency. Zanu PF has failed to do either and hence is looking for others to blame for its own failures.
The hyena clan has been killing domestic animals and humans alike and is blaming the ticks on its back of killing and devouring the animals. I agree, we should just focus on getting rid of the hyenas and if the hyenas have brought the ticks then we will get rid of them too.
There is no hope of any meaningful economic recovery as long as the Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt, vote rigging thugs who are always looking for scapegoats to cover for their failures!
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has said Zimbabwe is looking to clear its $2 billion arrears with the World Bank and African Development Bank in the next 12 months.
ReplyDeleteThis is just wishful thinking, the regime is having to borrow money to buy basic essentials like drugs and fuel. We are failing to live on the little we produce how are we going to save to pay off debts?
Minister Ncube has turned out to be highly qualified professor with no common sense! What the country needs is leaders with common sense to admit the economic fundamentals are not there for economic recovery. Zimbabwe will never attract the much needed investors and lenders as long as the country remain a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs!
This is a nightmare; we have a regime that will never acknowledge that it has failed. It has the dictatorial powers to rig elections and some the nation is stuck with the regime. Now having rigged the elections to stay in power the regime is going ahead with its voodoo economic policies and programs.
ReplyDeleteWhat the nation needs desperately to revive its comatose economy is an inject of foreign and local investment. By rigging the recent elections and thus confirming Zimbabwe is still a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs; the regime has effectively scarred away all would be investors and lenders. No one wants to do business in a pariah state, it is too risky.
Instead of facing up to the problem meaning political reform necessary to end the country's pariah state curse, the regime is ignoring the elephant in the room. The regime is now taxing the poorest of the poor to feed its insatiable extravagant spending habit and insisting this would also revive the economy. That is just nonsense and, unless we force this illegitimate regime to step down, we are stuck with it!"
@ Silungisani Ndlovu
ReplyDelete"Wilbert Mukori ..As A Zimbabwean the problem i see through your actions against ZANU-PF is that you dine with ZANU-PF enemies trying to counter the Liberation Movement. .
Wilbert Mukori l see you a foolish Zimbabwean being used by the CIA campaigning to overthrow the Liberator ZANU-PF Government. ..
If i am a Zimbabwean I was to push a motion in the House of Assembly for people like to be banned in your Country because you are busy pushing the Super Power to impose illegal Sanctions on Zimbabweans. ..Wilbert Mukori a Lumpen. ..rubbish yemunu iyi.."
You have still not addressed the central question here: Did Zanu PF rig the elections or not?
Everyone else worth his/her salt has said the elections were rigged. Now you tell me how does rigging the elections serve the ordinary Zimbabwean's interest? Remember Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because Zanu PF has been rigging elections making the country a pariah state. No investor or lender wants to invest in a pariah state because it is too risky!
It is not people like me who are the enemy of the people but corrupt and vote rigging tyrants like Mnangagwa and the acolytes cheering them and threatening all those who dare to question the regime.
Am I shivering in my boots because of threats from the regime and its apologists? Of course, I am scarred because I know these are not empty threats, the regime has murdered over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans in cold blood to establish and retain this de facto one-party dictatorship.
However, I also know that the regime's corrupt and tyrannical rule has caused even more heart-breaking human suffering and millions have died unnecessarily as result of the 38 years of Zanu PF misrule. So the maths alone says saying nothing about this tragic man-made nightmare of Zanu PF dictatorship is not an option!
In short, my reply to the regime and its acolytes' repeated threats (you are not the first one to threaten me nor will you be the last) is the middle finger salute! FCUK OFF!
Ziso Rangu Ungwarire
ReplyDeleteOur friend is just a village idiot repeating the usual foolish threats and, unfortunately for him he has now overstepped his mark. He thinks he can cloak his foolishness with reason and logic and it is a pleasure to show him that is an oxymoron only a first class nincompoop would ever dare proffer!
He should just confine himself to commenting on Zimpaper sites where such nonsense is the activily encouraged! Here, he will be firmly put in his place!
Reads the post by the ZANU PF leader:
ReplyDeleteAs we work towards improving and stabilising the flow of foreign exchange, we must equally ensure and enforce discipline in the market.
Everyone must play by the rules and respect the laws of the land.
As the past two weeks have shown, not everyone is currently playing by the rules.
Reports before me point to a network of currency speculators, mostly in high places, who are disturbing our economy through illicit currency deals in the black market.
Those hit hardest are the sick, the unemployed, the poor and the vulnerable, including our hard-pressed workforce.
Currently we have no legislation to deal with currency manipulators, and so we need urgent and robust measures to address this financial menace and show everyone that crime does not pay.
I have therefore instructed the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs to work with the Attorney-General as a matter of urgency to produce a new set of regulations which will be promulgated under temporary law-making powers.
The challenge before us requires unity of purpose from the executive, legislature and judiciary. We must work together to end this menace which now threatens the very fabric of our economy and society.
We will bring to book those who are fuelling instability in our economy.
Those who walk the straight and narrow need not fear.
This is laughable, so President Mnangagwa is accusing people of breaking laws that do not even exist!
This is rich coming from the man who has committed high treason and not for the first time either! You, Mr President broke several laws relating to holding free, fair and credible elections. You deliberately denied 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote. Your regime failed to produce verified voters' roll for the elections. The election results could not be traced or verified; etc. In short the elections were rigged and you, Sir, are illegitimate.
It is a historic fact that Zanu PF has rigged elections in the past notably the 2008 when no one, not even SADC and AU would accept the elections result because the whole process was flawed and illegal. It was none other than President Mnangagwa who was Mugabe's Chief Enforcer and carried out most of the cheating and wanton violence. A year ago the same Mnangagwa was behind the military coup that ousted Mugabe.
Vote rigging and staging military coups is high treason commanding greater national attention than breaking imaginary laws!
"Tendai Biti has something to say!" True but it is not always relevant and or useful. He had plenty to say during the GNU including praising Mugabe as "fountain of wisdom, father of the nation, etc." He failed to get even one reform implemented in five years because he was talking nonsense!
ReplyDeleteZanu PF is buying luxury cars worth a staggering $5 million for former Cabinet ministers recently deployed to the ruling party’s headquarters by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, it has been revealed.
ReplyDeleteMnangagwa appointed several former ministers that he did not accommodate in his new Cabinet to work for Zanu PF on a full time basis.
Last year, Zanu PF had a $19 million debt and membership card sales, its key revenue source, were down by a 75%.
The ruling party had a $1,2 million outstanding telephone bill and its companies were insolvent.
Besides that, the party is already preparing to hold its annual people’s conference slated for Matabeleland South with a budget of close to $7 million being worked on to finance the three day annual indaba.
This is how the regime will spend some of the money raised from taxing the poorest of the poor!
"Tendai Biti has something to say!" True but it is not always relevant and or useful. He had plenty to say during the GNU including praising Mugabe as "fountain of wisdom, father of the nation, etc." He failed to get even one reform implemented in five years because he was talking nonsense!
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