“We
must all be realistic… Whatever some may claim, there are no silver bullets or
quick fixes,” said President Mnangagwa on Monday calling on the people to brace
themselves for the economic hardships ahead caused by the soaring prices of
goods, services and government tax!
Mr
President, few would disagree there will be no quick fix economic recovery. It
will take years if not decades of hard work to bring down the nauseating 90%
unemployment rate to single digit figures. It will cost time and money to
restore the basic services such as clean running water and health care that have
all long collapsed after decades of neglect.
Still,
I beg to differ with you, sir, on the silver bullets. We have the silver
bullets to kill the werewolves that have been terrorizing the nation. What is
more, the difficult task of rebuilding the nation’s economy will only start
AFTER we have dealt with this werewolf menace. No one dares step outdoors to till
the land or take animals to pasture with these man-eaters on the loose!
President
Mnangagwa, just like Robert Mugabe before him, will never admit he is the one
who has dragged the nation into this economic mess. In this case Mnangagwa is
happy to blame Mugabe for the mess as if he was not even around when it all
happened. And, with the usual arrogance of the tyrant, Mnangagwa believes that
he KNOWS exactly what the nation needs to get out the mess. We are all expected
to do as we are told, no questions asked.
The
truth is Mnangagwa, just like Mugabe before him, is just an incompetent,
corrupt and murderous tyrant who loves absolute power and that is all he cares
about. He has no clue how to fix the country’s economic mess and we will be
foolish to follow him like sheep to the slaughter! Very, very foolish indeed!
Zimbabwe
is stuck in this economic and political mess because the nation has been stuck
with a corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship for the last 38 years. The
party blatantly rigged the elections making it impossible for the electorate to
remove it from power regardless how inapt, corrupt and oppressive the regime
had already proven to be.
President
Mnangagwa has just rigged this year’s elections, the first since the removal of
Mugabe after 37 years of his tyrannical rule, and thus dashing all hope of
Zimbabwe breaking with the tyrannical past. By rigging the elections Zanu PF
has just scared away would-be investors the regime was wooing with the “Zimbabwe
is open for business!” jingle!
Who
would ever want to invest in a country whose next regime change is decades
away, yet another military coup or worse?
By
rigging the elections, Zanu PF has brought on us all the curse of the pariah
state; in economic terms, the curse of the werewolf. The Zanu PF dictatorship
is the werewolf that is stalking the land and the silver bullet that will kill
it is holding free, fair and credible elections!
The
2008 to 2013 GNU was supposed to implement the raft of democratic reforms to
ensure the next elections were free, fair and credible. Sadly, not even one
reform saw the light of day. This illegitimate Zanu PF regime must step down to
allow the appointment of an interim administration that will implement the
reforms and manage the free and fair elections.
Any
economic hardships, commodity shortages, price hikes, tax hikes, etc. will
cause untold sufferings and even deaths but will never bring about any meaningful
economic recovery as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state.
@ AP
ReplyDelete"After ousting the repressive Robert Mugabe almost a year ago following more than three decades in power, and peacefully electing President Emmerson Mnangagwa in July, many hoped the country would emerge from turmoil and return to prosperity.
Instead, it appears to be imploding in the days since the new finance minister announced a "stabilization program." Over the weekend long lines for fuel reappeared, sometimes stretching for several kilometres," you write.
"Zimbabweans did not "elect President Mnangagwa"; how anyone with half a brain can ever say that beggars belief. Mnangagwa blatantly denied 2 to 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote for no better reason than that Zanu PF feared that most of them will not vote for the party. During his recent visit to the USA for the UNGA he promised to get the logistics to allow those in the diaspora to vote next time - proof the regime did not have the political will to allow them to do so this time."
The regime stubbornly refused to release a verified voters' roll although this is a legal requirement. The voting returns show that there was blatant multiple voting and, no doubt many, more vote rigging irregularities which would have been easily uncovered if there was a verified voters' roll.
The British tried to down play the blatant vote rigging but even they have been forced to admit "the playing field was not level!" The investors and lenders have shied away from Zimbabwe because no one wants to invest in a pariah state whose next regime change could take decades, be another military coup or come after a river of blood with the trigger-happy army shooting a lot more protestors this time!
Until Zimbabwe puts an end to this cursed culture of rigged elections the nation will remain a pariah state and with it comes the economic meltdown because there will never be any significant investment.
Even with the dodgy voters' roll Mnangagwa says he got 2.4 million votes which is less than 3 million in the diaspora he denied the vote and he has the chutzpah to claim victory. And worse, still some people agree with him! Only a village idiot, with no clue what constitute free and fair elections in this day and age, would agree with him!
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because for the last 38 years we have had one fundamental reality rammed down our throats that only Zanu PF was competent to govern the country. Everything President Mnangagwa has ever done and said ever since last November’s military coup have all left one in no doubt that we ordinary Zimbabweans can cry, vote or whatever else we wish as long as some basic reality remain untouched Zanu PF’s hold on power and whatever the party says goes!
ReplyDelete“We must all be realistic… Whatever some may claim, there are no silver bullets or quick fixes,” said President Mnangagwa.
What he really meant was “We must all be realistic it is only what I say and do that matters!”
And true enough, it is only he, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, who has a meaningful say in the governance of the country. Just as it was only Robert Gabriel Mugabe who, from April 1980 to November 2017, had a meaningful say in the governance of the country. Mugabe has never seen himself as having done anything wrong regardless of the economic mess, the tragic human suffering and deaths. It is frightening that we should once again find ourselves at the complete mercy of yet another arrogant tyrant.
The only big issue before this nation is the wrestling of the people’s fundamental freedoms and human rights including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country. If this illegitimate junta is allowed to stay in power to the end of the electoral cycle Zanu PF will rig those elections and thus extend the party’s rule.
“We must all be realistic Zanu PF will rule! And rule!” I can hear Mnangagwa telling his cronies!
First we had command agriculture; then came command military coup which was euphemistically renamed military assisted transition; then came the command vote rigging which the regime insist was free, fair and credible (must mean the vote rigging itself) and now we have command economic recovery which has just made things even worse because we have hit the panic button! And the President is tell us not to panic because things are going to get a lot worse which is true.
ReplyDeleteThe real big disappointment is the people of Zimbabwe did not vote for this regime, it rigged the elections to impose itself on the nation!
After 38 years of this corrupt and tyrannical dictatorship it is enough of this nonsense; no stone will be left unturned in forcing this regime to step down!
FORMER Agriculture minister, Dennis Norman, flew into the country from his retirement base in England to launch his autobiography - The Odd Man In: Mugabe's White Hand Man - which traces his life in the tumultuous Zimbabwean politics since the colonial era.
ReplyDeleteMnangagwa should retire to write his biography, after all he has so much stuff to write about given all the looting and murders he has been involved in!