“ED will surprise Chamisa with a prosperous 2019,” Dr Mavaza argued in
Bulawayo 24.
Why wait! Why did ED fail to surprise the whole nation with a prosperous
2018?
Mnangagwa was a senior member of Zanu PF for the last 38 years, it is
nonsense to pretend that he did not play his role in the mismanagement,
corruption and the lawlessness that caused the economic ruin. He certainly
played the biggest role, second to Mugabe himself, in the blatant rigging of
elections and use of brute force to establish and retain the de facto one
party’s state.
Mnangagwa promised to hold free, fair and credible elections last July.
He failed to keep his promised and blatantly rigged the elections. Mnangagwa
and his junta have no democratic mandate to govern, they are illegitimate, and
they must therefore step down.
Yes, since the country gained her independence in 1980, Zanu PF has
rigged the elections to stay in power. The people of Zimbabwe have turned a
blind eye to the rigging for fear of the regime’s angry reaction if they did
otherwise. This, as we can now see, was a foolish mistake because 38 years of
Zanu PF misrule has left the nation in economic ruins.
Zanu PF rigged the 30 July 2018 elections are the party must step down;
we must not repeat the mistake of the last 38 years of rewarding those who rig
elections by allowing them to rule.
“Insanity,” said the great Physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Albert
Einstein, “is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different
result!”
For the last 38 years we have allowed ourselves to be ruled by a corrupt
and vote rigging regime in the hope that it will deliver economic prosperity,
“Gutsva ruzhinji!” (Mass prosperity!), as Mugabe never tired of telling the
nation. All Zanu PF has ever brought is mass poverty!
The simple most important lesson we should have learned from the folly
of the last four decades is: that it pays in the end to elect a competent and
democratically accountable government in the beginning. Our insanity was to expect
a vote rigging and hence illegitimate regime to delivery economic prosperity!
People like Dr Mavaza are Zanu PF apologists, probably paid and paid
well; that is the excuse for their insanity. What excuse do the rest of us have
to be insane, especially the millions now living in abject poverty, the real
victims of the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship!
"We must work, you work hard, you are resilient, you are disciplined so what can stop us from achieving our goals. Nothing….we are still on the right track we started with speed and we must continue with that speed but paying attention to detail. Kanyemba has been given national project status and will remain like that up to completion.
ReplyDelete"We are giving all areas that were marginalised such treatment, in Mat North we have Bulawayo Kraal. We will also do that in Maphisa where we are growing agriculture crops and in Gwanda we have Zhowe area where we want to develop citrus," said Vice President Chiwenga
Zimbabwe was a middle income nation in 1980 when we attained our independence. After 25 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule the country fell from its perch to become the poorest nation in Africa. The country’s corrupt and oppressive ruling elite have decided to call the heart-breaking suffering of the millions now living on US$1.00 or less a day “resilience”; it does not prick their conscience!
Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown is getting worse. Mnangagwa’s “Zimbabwe is open for business!” has failed to attract the flood of investors because Zanu PF rigged the recent elections and thus confirming the country was still a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. Investors do not do business in pariah states.
There will never be any meaningful economic recovery as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state. Chiwenga is talking of vision 2030 this is a mirage to distract the naive and gullible! In the 1980s the people were asked to think of 2000, then 2020 and now 2030 and meanwhile the economic situation has got progressive worse!
Vision 2030 is on track, says Chiwenga! What does he know or care!
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's surprise intervention yesterday into the crisis in the health sector failed to end the strike by junior doctors, which has dragged on for the past 35 days.
ReplyDeleteMnangagwa met representatives from the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) at State House in the morning to try and break the impasse, with the two parties later issuing contradictory statements after the meeting.
ZHDA secretary-general Mthabisi Bhebhe yesterday said the strike for better salaries would continue until the doctors' demands were met.
If the Doctors are being paid $385 a month and the poverty datum line is US$650 this means government has to double their wages just to them back on the datum line! The situation is even more complex because the wages are paid in Bond Notes not US$ and the current exchange rate is 3:1 and so government must increase the wage six fold! In short the government will never do this, not this government given it has failed to revive the economy.
The truth is we have a regime that has dragged us into this mess but, like all tyrannical regime, it will not admit it failed much less allow the people to find their way out of the mess. Zanu PF is holding this nation to ransom.
Zanu PF rigged the recent elections and therefore has no mandate to govern the country. Now it is clear the regime cannot rig economic recovery and this time it must deliver economic recovery, meet the striking doctors’ demands, etc. or else step down.
Election officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have delayed publishing the results of last Sunday's presidential vote, despite growing calls for the outcome to be announced.
ReplyDeleteThe electoral commission said the result would be revealed "next week".
Earlier this week the influential Catholic Church, which fielded thousands of election observers, said there was a clear winner.
It called for the result to be made public to avoid political unrest.
This drew an angry response from the coalition in power which said the church was "doing something illegal" and accused it of "preparing the population for insurrection".
The Church had been vocal in its opposition to the extension of President Joseph Kabila's rule.
This is the trouble with many African countries we cannot even hold free, fair and credible elections! Each new coming government promises to end corrupt and hold free, fair and credible elections but as soon as they get their feet under the desk they immediately forget about their promise as they partake in the orgy of corruption. They also forget the promise to holding free and fair elections in a bide to extend their own stay in power to feather their own nests with all the looted wealth.
We live in the space age but not so for Africa, we might just as well be living in the stone-age. Only last week the Americans were talking of their space craft, News Horizon, zipped past Ultima Thule, a small icy world 4 billion miles from the sun, travelling at 31 000 miles per hour. The spacecraft is but a speck of dust in the vast empty space and yet NASA are still able to communicate with it; they have just received detailed photo of Ultima Thule.
Meanwhile, we in Africa are yet grasp the novelty of having clean water to drink and working sewage system. We are still plagued by such diseases as Cholera and typhoid because we s**t everywhere like cows!
DRC is one of the wealthiest nation on earth in terms of natural resources and potential and yet the country remains one of the poorest in the world because the people are brain-dead. Like us, Congolese have yet to understand what constitute free, fair and credible elections and hence the reason the country has yet to elect competent leaders with some common sense to take advantage of the human civilisation for the good of the country. We do not need to reinvent the science of growing crops, medicine to cure the various diseases, democracy, etc.; all we need to do is apply the knowledge to drag our people out of the stone age!
One can understand why people are concerned about the delay in announcing the elections results; DRC is cooking the result just as Zanu PF did last July! DRC, just like Zimbabwe is stuck on first base, cannot hold free, fair and credible elections and so the nation is stuck with having corrupt and incompetent leaders!
BULAWAYO and Gweru city councils have scaled up the fight against waterborne diseases such as cholera and typhoid, following the onset of the rainy season.
ReplyDeleteBulawayo town clerk Christopher Dube said the local authority had started rolling out awareness campaigns to avert outbreaks of waterborne diseases, particularly against the background of sewer pipe bursts.
Try repairing and/or replacing the dumb pipes! You have raw sewage flowing everywhere and leave people with no other choice other than drinking contaminated water and you thing a cholera awareness campaign is the answer! How stupid is that!
Zimbabwe is in serious trouble and needs solutions to her problems and no more of these foolish false medicine!
Some people have said that First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa is a simpleton just like Joice Mujuru and Grace Mugabe who love the glare of the limelight that has come with being First Lady or VP but have no clue what is really going on. Whilst the three women will probably know very little is anything at all of the details of the vote rigging, looting and political murders that has been going on these last 38 years. Still none of them can deny that they did not know these things were happening.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, each of the three pompous busy bodies have cherished playing the role of caring mother of the nation in public whilst in private they have happily pocketed the lion's share of the power and looted wealth brought in by the de facto one party state.
Auxillia Mnangagwa is shedding rivers of crocodile tears over the economic hardship the striking junior doctors, "vana vangu" (my children) as she called them, are facing. She readily acknowledges that our health services has all but collapse for lack of even the most basic equipment, no medicine, etc. She knows that she and her fellow Zanu PF ruling elite are the ones who cause all these economic hardship through gross mismanagement and the wholesale looting of the nation's resources!
Zanu PF leaders have perfected the art of giving with one hand and make a big song and dance of the party's generosity and rob even more from you with the other hand! Mai Mnangagwa is making a big song and dance about the extra mile government is going to improve the wages of the junior doctors and to keep whatever is left of our sub substandard health service. And yet Zanu PF has just blatantly rigged the July 2018 elections to secure another five years in power so the regime can continue to loot and rig elections to perpetuity.
Zanu PF is a corrupt and tyrannical regime whose only care is to retain its iron grip on power at all cost. The party will never get the nation out of this mess because it would have never dragged us into the mess in the first place. We demand the full restoration of our freedoms and democratic rights including the right to a meaningful say to who rules Zimbabwe.
Zanu PF rigged the July 2018 elections, the party has no mandate to govern and it must step down. Forget telling your husband to pay the junior doctors a few more worthless Bond Notes tell him to give back the people of Zimbabwe their freedom, human rights, their humanity and pride and, most important of all, hope of a better and brighter future!
@ Tshetshe Ndlovu
ReplyDelete“We the people should stand up and uprise instead of writing good English doing nothing.”
I hear you but what is it we are demanding? I do not believe the ordinary people out there know exactly what they will be fighting for right now.
Are you asking people to go on the street and join the striking doctors and teachers in demanding an end to the economic hardships? Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies will claim that is exactly what they are doing with their “austerity to prosperity programmes”. I do not believe any of the programmes will bring about any meaningful economic recovery as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs.
Are you asking people to join Chamisa and his MDC Alliance in demanding that he and his friends must be asked to join Zanu PF in government. I do not believe Chamisa “has the key to unlock the economic recovery,” as he has often claimed. This will be a time wasting gimmick.
The only viable solution for Zimbabwe is for Zanu PF to step down, the regime is illegitimate because the part rigged the last elections, to allow the appointment of an interim administration whose primary task is to implement the democratic reforms necessary for free, fair and credible elections.
Since both Zanu PF and MDC leaders were involved in the 2008 to 2013 GNU that failed to get even one reform implemented, it is imperative that none of them play no part in the interim administration.
The case for an interim administration as the way out has been made but must be hammered in if there is any hope of succeeding this time. The people have risked life and limb in electing MDC leaders into office on the basis they will bring about democratic change, for example. After 19 years on the political stage, MDC has failed to bring about even one democratic change. The people had no idea what the democratic changes the nation wanted were much less how they were going to be accomplished. MDC leaders like Morgan Tsvangirai had no clue either but were quick sell-out to Mugabe on reforms.
This time as many people as possible should know what the democratic changes we want are, how they will be implemented, etc., etc. So as many articles as possible should be produced to cover every possible problem the interim administration will face, what kind of people should be appointed, how long should the administration last, etc., etc. Knowledge is power, my friend!