"The
people are very clear in all the provinces we have held provincial council
meetings so far. They are saying they support Chamisa in rejecting Mnangagwa's
offer for him to be drafted in his government. The grassroots masses are saying
Mnangagwa is illegitimate," said MDC Alliance organising secretary, Amos
Chibaya.
"He was not voted by majority of the people of Zimbabwe. Accordingly, he cannot try to window-dress his legitimacy crisis by an illegal offer to the people's favourite, our party leader Nelson Chamisa."
"He was not voted by majority of the people of Zimbabwe. Accordingly, he cannot try to window-dress his legitimacy crisis by an illegal offer to the people's favourite, our party leader Nelson Chamisa."
Chibaya
is right, Mnangagwa’s offer to create the position of “Opposition Leader”
complete with the ministerial salary and perks was meant to placate Chamisa and
gloss over the legitimacy crisis. Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF junta, rigged the
30 July 2018 elections and therefore the regime was illegitimate.
If
it was not the British who hatched the plan to bribe the opposition then they
certainly did their very best to promote the plan. The British could not
pretend the elections were free, fair and credible and hence the reason they
could not endorse Mnangagwa as the winner. They needed an excuse for endorsing
Mnangagwa and creating a coalition or unity government of some sort, even if
the MDC Alliance was just window-address, was the answer.
The
master of time is the master of all! Time was of the essence here. The British
were holding back on their condemnation of the elections so they would present
the emerging Zimbabwe government as a coalition of Zanu PF and MDC and
therefore the fact that Zanu PF had rigged the elections was now academic. By
the time the outgoing UK Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Ms Catriona Laing, met acting
President Mohadi two weeks ago the British knew they could not hold back
condemning the rigged elections an longer.
The
full import of the British accepting that the “political playing field was not
level” was accepting that the Zanu PF junta was illegitimate and, most
important of all, that the plan to present the regime as a coalition was off
the table. Now that it is clear the regime is illegitimate it would be obvious
the MDC Alliance would be brought in to legitimise the regime.
Ever
since the British declared their position, President Mnangagwa has said nothing
regarding pursuing the offer to Chamisa. One can only assume he knows that
other than silencing Chamisa there is nothing else to be gained, the
international community considers his regime illegitimate.
It
is clear that Chamisa and his supporters have clearly failed to understand the
significance of the British’s condemnation of the recent elections; he is still
expecting the bribe and believes he will get a lot more that “Leader of the
Opposition” position if he demanded more.
If
Chamisa, by hook or by crook, was declared president then I, Patrick Goredema
Guramatunhu, will sell everything to get the foolish decision nullified. A
President Chamisa with a Zanu PF 2/3 majority will be the most dysfunctional
government ever. It will accomplish nothing of substance. Zanu PF will blame
Chamisa for the mess and he will blame Zanu PF.
Zimbabwe
would rather have an illegitimate Mnangagwa government than a dysfunctional Chamisa
- Zanu PF hybrid! We would rather have no change than chaos disguised as
change!
The three Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) top executives arrested yesterday have appeared in court for their initial remand hearing on charges of criminal abuse of office involving over $35 million in underhand deals involving an Indian company, PME.
ReplyDeleteEngineer Joshua Chifamba, the group’s chief executive officer, Engineer Julian Chinembiri, the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution (ZETDC) managing director and his finance director Thokozani Dhliwayo— were not asked to plead to the charges when they appeared before Chief magistrate, Mr Mishrod Guvamombe.
What is sickening here is that there is a lot of pick and choose when it comes to dealing with corruption; the big fish and the big cases are not even on the a la carte menu!
“There were a lot of infiltrators whose mission was to create problems in the party and effectively so, they worked very hard to accomplish that. This is one of the problems that we had.”
ReplyDeleteMujuru was among 23 presidential candidates who participated in the July 30 elections, and was only able to walk away with 12 000 votes, Daily News reported
Anyone with eyes to see and a half a brain to comprehend would have told you that Mai Mujuru was a waste of time and space. She had reached dizzying heights of VP in Zanu PF but only because Mugabe wanted to surround himself with people he knew would never challenge him. But having been promoted way above their level of competency these individuals always assume air and, like Mugabe himself, they too start behaving as the Mr/Ms Know-It-All.
Look at President Mnangagwa he is just a blundering idiot but rigged the elections because he is so full of himself! It is was not for the dictatorial powers Mnangagwa too, like Mujuru, would have lost the elections and would be retiring from politics!
Most of Zimbabwe’s economic challenges, including a ballooning budget deficit, a huge trade deficit and crippling foreign currency shortages, can be traced back to how the southern African country handled land reform, a leading economist has said.
ReplyDeleteZimbabwe embarked on a land reform programme in 2000, but came under fire for the manner in which it was conducted.
The country was a self-sufficient food producer prior to its land reform programme, but now imports many of its goods.
Of the total imports for the six months to June 2018, crude soya bean oil accounted for $64.6m, rice for $62.2m, durum wheat for $49.3m, and maize for $42.2m.
The drop in productivity at farms has meant the government has sought credit for funding imports, as well as funding farmers who can’t borrow from banks as they lack collateral. This, in turn, has contributed to the country’s budget deficit.
Policies ‘didn’t respect property rights’
Speaking at a conference organised by The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe, themed Economic Trajectory Post-Election, economist John Robertson said the biggest problem with land reform was the nationalisation of land under the state.
“The country’s productive capacity was affected by the land reform policies, which did not respect property rights. Taking the land back was not entirely a bad idea; however, government had no need to take the land off the market.
“By destroying the collateral value of a vitally important national asset, government removed billions of dollars’ worth of collateral value from Zimbabwe’s economy,” said Robertson. “This inflicted enormous harm on the foundations upon which a large part of Zimbabwe’s productive sector had been built.”
Robertson is on record saying what attracted a wide range of manufacturing investors into Zimbabwe was that successful farmers could be relied upon to sustain steady deliveries of raw materials and export revenues.
But when agricultural land was disabled by government’s decision to cancel its collateral value, the flows of previously dependable raw materials slowed or stopped.
Robertson believes restoring property rights and private land ownership is the motivational force that is lacking for Zimbabwe to solve the bulk of its problems
Resolving the land issue is key to Zimbabwe’s economic recovery and long term prosperity. It is sad that the issue has now been so politicised that resolving it would require a really competent leader with vision and focus.
Zanu PF’s blundering in this area is a double edge sword cutting the nation both ways because not only is the nation spending billions of dollars on paying for imports, money that would otherwise be spend of other needs, but it has also lost billions earned from exporting agricultural produce!
"It is illegal to disconnect domestic taps!" True.
ReplyDeleteIn Zimbabwe the problem is a lot worse, there are no dams let alone the water tap because the money that should have been used to build the dams was wasted on chartered planes, cars and such like!
Ask the UN to do its own research and they will be shocked to find that Zimbabwe is the poorest country in Africa and yet it had the biggest number of delegates to the recent UNGA and paying the biggest bill!
Man is supposed to be a creature of reason how anyone can still believe that Mnangagwa or Chamisa can get the nation out of this mess beggars belief. The one is responsible for dragging us into this mess and the latter has held us there by failing to implement even one democratic reform designed to stop Zanu PF rigging elections.
ReplyDeleteAfter 38 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule and 20 years of MDC blundering from pillar to post one would think the people of Zimbabwe have seen enough to know these two parties are a waste of time and space. Sadly Zimbabweans are still stuck in their sloth-like mental slumber, even a common sense act is asking too much from this lot!