“MDC Leader Nelson Chamisa has revealed that he has tried in vain to
reach out to President Emmerson Mnangawa so that they may sit down and dialogue
towards finding a lasting solution to Zimbabwe's economic problems that are
worsening daily,” reported Bulawayo 24.
"I have written letters without a reply before and after elections.
I have met with potential mediators in the church." Chamisa said. "I
have engaged leaders in SADC and AU and made a public statement of invitation.
I have done everything doable including demonstrations."
Yes the country’s economic situation is getting worse by the day, that
is true. Still, Mr Chamisa has not convinced anyone that the dialogue with
Mnangagwa he is seeking so feverishly will resolve anything.
All the international election observers with democratic credential
worth a penny have condemned the recent Zimbabwe elections as “unfair and not
to acceptable international standards”. In short Zanu PF rigged the elections
and therefore the party has no democratic mandate to govern. The regime is
illegitimate.
Chamisa has claimed that he will help Mnangagwa “resolve the
legitimacy problem”. There is just political grandstanding. The whole election
process was flawed and illegal, so flawed it denied millions of Zimbabweans
their right to vote, no one knows who voted last July, etc. These are all very
serious matters it is disappointing that Mr Chamisa does not view them as such
and thinks he can just disregard them all and declare the illegitimate process
legitimate.
Given the root cause of the economic meltdown is the country’s failure
to attract the flood of local and foreign investors because the would-be
investors still see Zimbabwe as a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote
rigging thugs. Investors are a shrewd lot they are not going view Zimbabwe as a
democratic nation just because Nelson Chamisa is in the Zanu PF government.
Chamisa and his fellow MDC Alliance friends like Tendai Biti have been
hungering for the new GNU and secure ministerial seats back on the gravy train.
It is no secrete they wanted the life of the 2008 GNU extended; they were
disappointed when that did not happen. Following the November 2017 military
coup, they again called for the 2018 elections to be postponed in favour of a
GNU - anything to get them a ministerial seat back on the gravy train.
"It's not about individual positions. I am not interested in any.
My concern is about the wellbeing of Zimbabweans through a political
solution focusing on key economic and political reforms,” answered Chamisa.
Well that is rich! If you were so concerned about the wellbeing of
Zimbabweans then why did you fail to get even one reform implemented in the
five years of the 2008 GNU?
Last year’s elections should have never taken place, not without first
implementing the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging elections.
The very fact that you, Mr Chamisa, and your MDC Alliance friends participate
even when ZEC had failed to produced verified voters’ roll underlines your
resolve to take part regardless how flawed and illegal the process happened to
be.
You knew Zanu PF would give away a few gravy train seats as bait and
they are what you were after and did not care that millions of ordinary
Zimbabweans would be denied the vote, the consequences of yet another rigged elections,
etc.
Mnangagwa and his junta have committed high treason in rigging last
July’s elections and the party must step down from office to allow the nation
the political time and space to implement the democratic reforms and hold fresh
FREE, FAIR and CREDIBLE ELECTIONS.
MDC Alliance leaders participated in last year’s elections knowing the
process was flawed and illegal, thus giving the process some modicum of
credibility, out of selfish greed. The nation is asking you, Mr Chamisa, and
your MDC Alliance friends to step aside and shut up.
Whoever advised Mnangagwa to ditch Robert Mugabe and his wife over a year ago, gave him sound advice. Whoever advised him to ignore Nelson Chamisa, that too was sound advice. Adding the likes of Professor Mthuli Ncube and Kristy Coventry to spruce-up his illegitimate regime was a safer bet than inviting the totally discredited MDC Alliance leaders.
ReplyDeleteChamisa has claimed to end the economic meltdown and to end Mnangagwa's illegitimacy but has failed to say how. The investors have already voted with their feet, what was Chamisa going to offer them to bring them back. The international community had already realised their reports condemning the elections, they were not going to withdraw the reports because of what Chamisa said.
Indeed, the international election observers had completely ignored Chamisa throughout the elections, they did not want to waste their time with MDC Alliance's foolish antics. Chamisa's position to condemn the election if he lost was a foolish notion no one with any common sense would ever subscribe to.
Mnangagwa knows that he rigged the July 2018 elections and getting away with it now is proving to be a real challenge especially in the face of the growing economic meltdown. Still this is a fight he and his Zanu PF junta would rather fight alone than have Chamisa and his MDC Alliance mudding up the water. Chamisa will be nothing but a blood sucking tick to Mnangagwa, one carrying a deadly disease for that matter.
Chamisa and his MDC Alliance are of no value to the nation either, they will always be on the lookout for an opportunity to sell-out the nation just as they did during the 2008 GNU. The nation will be doing itself a big favour in finally ditching these sell-outs right now.
@ NewsDay
ReplyDelete“It is time that the MDC proves to the nation that indeed they are a government in-waiting and Zimbabweans should be able to see a better government through them.” You are sounding desperate and rightly so too.
The last time MDC leaders were in government as part of the GNU they were too busy enjoying the trappings of power they failed to implement even one democratic reform in five years. That speaks volumes of their competence as leaders. The trouble with some people is that you will not accept that MDC leaders are corrupt and incompetent and hence the reason you retain them as the government in-waiting when you should have ditched them a long time ago!
Ever since MDC’s pathetic performance in the 2008 GNU SADC leaders and most of the international community have ignored MDC leaders as a waste of time. Mnangagwa has decided to do the same - he knows Chamisa is full of hot air but will never accomplish anything of substance.
I agree that Mnangagwa ignoring Chamisa is probably the wisest thing Mnangagwa has ever done in his whole life. Chamisa is not going to make the illegitimate Mnangagwa legitimate - he claims that he will but that is all hot air. Chamisa is not going to end the economic meltdown; that too is just hot air.
ReplyDeleteAll those who believe a Zanu PF and MDC GNU will change anything are desperate for change and will try anything regardless how hopeless or idiotic. Zanu PF and MDC have already proven beyond doubt that they are corrupt and incompetent and therefore it is idiotic to keep trying the same thing expecting a different result.
Chamisa is desperate for a seat on the gravy train and that is all he is after!
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ReplyDelete"There is no other solution to get Zimbabwe ticking excerpt to have dialogue with this Mafia. They will not let go power, so I think he is being reasonable in trying to have dialogue."
This is just a vicious circle; if Zanu PF is not going to give up power or allow a situation where there are free, fair and credible elections then what is the purpose of the dialogue? Why is Chamisa talking of reforms if he knows and believes Zanu PF will never allow reforms to be implemented?
The truth is that the 2008 GNU did create an opportunity for reforms to be implemented. Not even one reform was implemented in five years but that was because MDC leaders sold-out. We need to pressure Zanu PF to step down to create the political space and time for an interim administration that will be tasked to implement the reforms.
It does not help when we have people who have never understood what the reforms are, how they would be implemented, what the golden opportunity the last GNU was to implement the reforms, etc. etc. and yet they only contribution to the debate is that it cannot be done! Zanu PF would never allow it to happen. Well Zanu PF did sign the 2008 Global Political Agreement that gave birth to the GNU.
Zanu PF thugs are not gods whose will is law. It is the feeble minded individuals out there who have foolishly put the thugs on these pedestals and will not stop grovelling before the thugs. Treat these thugs as gods and they will behave accordingly, flexing their new found powers at ever opportunity.
@ TSM
ReplyDeleteChamisa and his MDC friends have been on the political stage for 19 years now; name one democratic change they have brought in all those years? Yet they never tire of delivering change. "MDC the party of excellence!" they used to claim.
Now it is “Behold the New. Change that Delivers!” Although the reality is that there is absolutely nothing new and the party continues to disappoint.
“It’s A Farce!” Teachers Cry Foul As Gvnt Offers $30 Salary Increment!
ReplyDeleteThe teachers are being paid well below the poverty datum line already and their mearge salaries were cut to 1/3 because the Bond Notes (they are paid in) lost value against the US$ the currency all goods and services are priced as exchange moved from 1:1 to 3:1 to the US$. The $30 in Bond notes they are being offered does not even make up for the iflatiuonary loss.
Zanu PF has failed to produce stable currency and the people are the ones paying dearly for it.
The tragedy for Zimbabwe is that we have a regime that has presided over the country's economic decline for the last 38 years, the regime will never admit it has no clue what it is doing but worst of all it will never allow the nation to replace it because it rigs elections. The nation is stuck with a corrupt and tyrannical regime and the economic situation has now reached a morally and politically unacceptable and unsustainaly state.
Zimbabwe is facing a real danger of becoming unstable with serious social, economic and humanitarian consequences!
Forex is in high demand with various sectors sharing the little that the country is generating, noted Dr Chiwenga while imploring Zimbabweans to develop a culture of pulling in one direction to achieve set goals.
ReplyDeleteWas Zanu PF "pulling in one direction" when it blatantly rigged last year's elections? The root cause of Zimbabwe's policital stagnation and economic meltdown is the country' failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. We are stuck with a regime that has no clue what needs to be done to solve the country's economic challenges but is expert at rigging elections and staying in power regardless the democratic wishes of the people!
Zimbabwe's economic meltdown will only get worse not better as long as the country remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs!
Mnangagwa and company rigged last July's elections, they have no democratic mandate to govern. They must step down. These Zanu PF thugshave held the nation to ransom for the last 38 years. Enough is enough! They must go!
Finance minister, Mthuli Ncube has admitted to government failure to control the parallel market rates which despite falling last week have returned to the bullish mode and are now trading at around 300 percent.
ReplyDeleteThis is the nearest the nation will ever get the regime to admit failure. It will never admit rigging elections; that is a no, no!