“It is my singular honour and
privilege to be with you at this timely breakfast prayer for our nation, even
as the Bible exhorts us in Thessalonians 5 verse 17 to pray without ceasing.
Constant interactions and prayer of this nature are positive and will help
foster continued dialogue between Government, the church and all stakeholders.
Such platforms under this anointing also help in uniting us as one people
towards a common vision and shared national destiny,” said Mnangagwa at the
recent church and political leaders’ prayer meeting.
"Let us therefore, continue to collectively
work together towards uniting Zimbabwe for peace, love, harmony and prosperity
to prevail in our nation. This platform further affords us the opportunity to
brief each other on pertinent national developmental issues and nurture a
common understanding of where we ought to go as a country and the steps we must
take to get there."
This is utterly hopeless! He
is a man who can quote chapter and verse of some of the less significant
doctrines in the Bible but completely ignores one of the pillars - rule of law
- repeated over and again in all the books of the Old and New Testament.
The Lord God instructed Moses
that when the children of Israel walked out of their slavery, freeman and a
free nation, they were to go to Mount Sinai where the Lord God were to give
them laws, the Ten Commandments, by which they were to live.
When Jesus was asked which was
the greatest Commandment. He replied “‘Love the Lord your God with all your
heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest
commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ All
the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22: 37 - 40.
Where is the loving of thou
neighbour when those in positions of power and authority abuse their power and
turn lose their security forces on innocent and defenceless people like wolves
in penned sheep. Zanu PF has systematically denied the people justice, their
basic freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful vote and even the
right to life itself.
No one who fears God would
take the Bible in their right hand and swear last July’s elections were free,
fair and credible. The authorities failed to release something as basic as a
verified voters’ roll although this is a requirement stipulated in our own
constitution.
The barbaric violence by the
security forces of 1st August 2018 and the two starting 14 January 2019 were
meant to cow the people into subservient silence. Zanu PF is silencing people
protesting the rigged elections, the worsening economic situation due to
decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption by the regime.
“Today, the church must remain
the voice that inculcates peace, building a better society, uniting families,
tribes and races. The church must forever be 'the salt of the earth and the
light of the world'. Yes, as the word of God says in Matthew 5 verse 13 to 16;
"You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how
can it be made salty again?” continued Mnangagwa.
“It is no longer good for
anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.”
If the truth be said, after 38
years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule; the party has lost its saltiness
and should have been thrown out decades again if the regime had not usurped the
people’s free vote.
Zanu PF rigged last July’s
elections to stay in power and the party is now using brutal force to subdue a
people desperate for meaningful change and a competent government. After 38
years of criminal waste of human and material resources through gross
mismanagement and rampant corruption, there can be no doubt that Zanu PF is
corrupt and incompetent.
What Zimbabwe needs and has
been dying for, for decades, is rule of law; more specifically, free, fair and
credible elections so the people can finally boot out the incompetent and
corrupt Zanu PF regime and replace it with an accountable one. We need rule of
law not endless dialogue and much less praying without ceasing.
God helps those who help
themselves; God has already gifted Zimbabwe with the land and climate to grow
crops and farm animals and with a great abundance of flora and fauna and
mineral wealth. What exactly will we be praying ceaseless for? Zimbabwe’s curse
is one of bad governance and all we need to cure that is the enforcement of the
rule of law and that no one is above the law.
Zanu PF rigged last July’s
elections, the party has no mandate to rule and therefore must step down. Why
we need to talk about it much less pray ceaseless smacks of a nation that would
do anything under than just to avoid dealing with the elephant in the room. After
38 years of Zanu PF corrupt and tyrannical rule and with the nation now
standing on the very edge of the abyss Zimbabwe cannot afford to waste one more
day of this misrule. Zanu PF must step down now!
@ Thabani Mnyama
ReplyDelete“Is the 'Croc' all talk and no bite?”
You are guilty is using the wrong metaphors; Mnangagwa is certainly not a croc with no bite! The man is a corrupt and ruthless tyrant who believes that those who dare challenge his rule are not human beings but puppets of foreigners seeking regime change and hence must be accorded to respect or justice and must be mercilessly dealt with.
“The first few weeks of the year in Zimbabwe have been quite eventful, for lack of a better word. We have gone through a national shutdown, where the country was temporarily sent back to the Stone Age, as Internet services were suspended,” as you have said so yourself.
“There was a wide and systematic violation of human rights, with several deaths being recorded during the shutdown. This comes after the commission of inquiry's report on the August 1, 2018 post-election violence was released.”
KENYAN academic Patrick Lumumba says Zimbabwe has to create a favourable political, economic and social environment conducive for investments in order to resuscitate the tanking economy.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking at a meeting on corporate governance in Harare on Friday, Lumumba said investors required guarantees that the environment where they were committing capital was conducive for them to work productively.
It seems this Lumumba is just like our Professor Mthuli Ncube; academics with lots and lots of bookworm learning but not any iota of common sense. Lumumba is wittering about the need for Zimbabwe to create an economic environment “conducive” for investors. Ncube has been blubbering about Cambridge University inspired transformative economic policies that have already created the conducive environment guaranteed to see Zimbabwe emerge out of the present poverty into a “upper middle income” nation in the regime’s Vision 2030.
Lumumba said the country did not lack the human resource to help resuscitate the economy, but the main challenge was a problem of how to manage corporate governance. It is the national political bad governance that must be sorted out first.
The truth is Zimbabwe will never ever achieve any meaningful economic recovery as long as the nation remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. After 38 years of corrupt and tyrannical rule it beggars belief that anyone should ever expect these corrupt and vote rigging Zanu PF thugs to transform Zimbabwe.
The common sense position is that this corrupt and vote rigging Zanu PF regime must step down as the pre-requisite to any hope of Zimbabwe’s economic recovery.