“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.
That is just it, Mangwana, the country does not have a legal government. Zanu PF rigged the July 2018 elections. ZEC has failed to produce any evidence to show were the 2.4 million votes attributed Mnangagwa came from.
“The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission (ZEC) contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability,” reads the EU Election Observer Mission final report.
“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.”
In short Zanu PF rigged the elections and, per se, the regime is illegitimate. Zimbabwe does not have a government because the one in office is illegitimate.
“Zimbabwe has a Government and is led by President Emerson Mnangagwa who was elected by people in terms of the Constitution and endorsed by the Constitutional Court. We cannot have a transitional Government in an independent sovereign authority,” continued Mangwana.
Yeah right, the same Con-Court that eight months earlier had said in Zimbabwe a military coup ‘is legal, constitutional and justified’!
President Mnangagwa and his junta know they rigged the elections, they are illegitimate and the most logical thing to do is to step down and allow the nation to peacefully organise the holding of fresh free, fair and credible elections.
Mnangagwa is refusing to step down preferring to hold on to power to the bitter end just as other tyrants like Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi of Libya and Bashar al-Assad of Syria have done. You too shall drink bitter wine!
As much as the nation would prefer a peaceful transition from a dictatorship to a democracy Mnangagwa will be very mistaken if he thinks the nation will not use force to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. Zanu PF is imploding and it is unacceptable that the party should hold the nation to ransom and drag the whole nation into the abyss with it!
"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.
ReplyDeleteThis 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!
@ David Dhivha
ReplyDelete“Nomsa uri kuukura do you have the evidence,” you ask.
You and your fellow Zanu PF apologists are getting pretty desperate, you know the elections were rigged but have to sell them as having been free, fair and credible. This is clearly proving to be mission impossible and so you are now asking stupid questions!
“The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission (ZEC) contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability,” reads the EU Election Observer Mission final report.
What the report is saying here is ZEC failed to produce the evidence of who voted for Mnangagwa, how they came up with the result, etc. because the was no verified voters’ roll, no V11 forms, etc. although all these were required by law! It is Zanu PF that has failed to produce the evidence that the 2.4 million who voted for Mnangagwa are real people and not ZEC generated voters!
“Where is the evidence?” What a foolish question to ask!
MDC leaders are always come up with some really stupid arguments and this is just one such case. There is nothing ED would want more than to see Zimbabwe's economy grow in leaps and bounces. He clearly does not have the intellect to come up with sound policies, programmes, etc. He has blundered from pillar to post as one after another of his policies, appointments, etc. have fallen flat on the faces. The spirit is willing but the brain is weak.
ReplyDeleteI agree, Mnangagwa rigged the elections (even here he made a dog's breakfast of it because anyone with eyes to see know the elections were rigged) but rigging economic recovery has clearly proven to be a bridge too far! The foreign currency, bread, fuel, medicine, etc. shortages are just a manifestation of the economic meltdown.
Chamisa's suggestion that Mnangagwa is somehow manufacturing these shortage to punish the people for rejecting Zanu PF in the last elections is nonsense. Chamisa is desperate to place himself as the country's messiah and hence the reason he is distorting reality to put himself at the centre of everything happen in Zimbabwe today.
Zimbabwe needs a transition government but neither Zanu PF nor MDC Alliance leaders should ever be included in that arrangement; they have had their golden opportunity to fix the country's problems and failed miserably because they are corrupt and incompetent. They certainly do not deserve another chance, the nation cannot afford another fcuk up!
@ Weston Mugoche
ReplyDelete“Very reasonable way to go, if not the only way to save our beautiful country, Nomusa. This needs a lot of advocacy, organisation and planning by 'free' Zimbabweans who are not aligned to any of these two evil political parties. Those that will be aligned to Zim, who will be able to wear anti-capture hats.”
Zimbabweans have sleep walked into this hell-on-earth the nation now finds itself in. If we do not snap out of this sloth-like slumber the country will soon reach the point of no return. Once the violent street protest start, for example, it will not be easy to stop them because the years of bottled anger will be produce a tsunami no one can contain that will sweep the country leaving death and destruction in its wake!
People are queuing to buy gas.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who thinks that Zimbabwe's economic problems will go away without meaningful political change is naive.
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition has revealed the various utterances and actions by senior army officials which they believe is not mere coincidence but proof that the army played a role in the murder of opposition activists in past elections.
ReplyDeleteThe army can deny involvement but it is a historic fact that this is so.
Why is CiZC bringing this up now particularly when we know Zanu PF rigged the 30 July 2018 elections and the nation’s attention should be focused on getting the regime to step down? Bringing up the old cases of Army involvement is not helping to force Zanu PF to step down.
Mr Chamisa insists that President Mnangagwa rigged the July 30 elections and was pushing for dialogue to end the political impasse, but the president said the opposition’s demands would not be entertained.
ReplyDeleteChamisa is right on two points:
• That ED rigged the elections: this is now an established and accepted fact. The EU confirmed the elections were rigged in their own final report. ED is hoping Zanu PF will get away with the rigged elections as has happened all these past 38 years, the truth is that is not going to happen, not this time.
• That there is need for political dialogue; Zanu PF’s plans to revive the economy have clearly not worked and the party is now blundering from pillar to post. ED’s Zimbabwe is open for business has failed to attract the flood of would-be investors and the idea of letting the economic chaos continue is unthinkable.
ED is right in dismissing Chamisa’s call of a Zanu PF and MDC Alliance transition government. This will be a total waste of time because no one will ever be fooled into believing the regime will be anything else other than Zanu PF by another name!
Zimbabwe’s economic recovery is totally dependent on the country shedding off its pariah state status. President Mnangagwa did not hold free and fair elections because the one thing this regime will not do is give up power.
The tough reality is we can either have a prosperous and democratic nation or Zanu PF and its pariah state. We cannot have both!
@ Max Maphosa
ReplyDelete“Wilbert Mukori ahhh ndimwi, how do you know rigging took place. Rigging is a myth. Losers of elections in developing countries use it carelessly. Imagine Jonathan and many others not telling us how they used to do it. Revolutionary parties don't lose elections and that is where your answer is ,not rigging. The work they did during the war ; gives them many advantages over Trade union , workers formed parties.”
“Matakadya kare haavaraidzi mwana!” (Tales of yesteryear’s feasting will not fill an empty belly!) so goes the Shona saying. The suggestion that people will vote for Zanu PF because of what the party did during the war of independence regardless of the death and destruction the party has brought on them these last 38 years is nonsense.
Only a first class village idiot would say Zanu PF would not cheat, harass, beat, rape and even murder innocent people to force them to vote for the party when that is exactly what the party has been doing.
Zanu PF rigged the 30 July 2018 elections and thus confirmed Zimbabwe is still a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs - that is fact.
Zimbabwe’s economy is in meltdown because the expected investment has not materialised because no one want to do business with thugs - another fact!
Combine the two above facts and the conclusion is obvious: for Zimbabwe to have any meaningful economic recovery the country must first end the pariah state curse. Sadly, Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF thugs have the mentality of Saddam Hussein and his Baath Party; they will not accept that they have failed and thus will hold on to power to the bitter end.
Of course Mnangagwa and his corrupt, vote rigging and murderous cronies are holding the nation to ransom. How best to wrestle power from them before they drag the nation over the edge as Saddam Hussein did is the challenge before this nation today! And time is fast running out!