"Zanu PF ndeye ropa!" (Zanu PF is a party of blood!) And if there is one Zanu PF leader who believes that whole heartedly it is Mnangagwa it is therefore not surprising that whenever Mugabe has had to shed innocent blood for selfish political reasons he has turned to Mnangagwa and no one else to have the dirty work done.
When Mnangagwa promised to hold free, fair and credible elections following the November 2017 coup those of us who know the man dismissed the promise as a gimmick.
Mugabe, Mnangagwa and many other Zanu PF leaders have never believed in giving the ordinary people their freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful vote. The longer they have enjoyed absolute power they more they have hardened their position never to share it. The instinct to use brute force to secure absolute power is second nature to Zanu PF; the suffering and even deaths of others do not mean anything to these brutes.
Zanu PF rigged last year's elections, the regime is illegitimate and the only rational position is to stand up to the brutes and tell them they must step down. Period! Those people call for dialogue are rying to appease the thugs by offering them an legitimacy bolthole - they are wasting time because Zanu PF will use that platform to consolidate its strangle hold on power.
Build Zimbabwe Alliance leader Noah Manyika has this time completely snubbed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s on-going dialogue with opposition parties indicating that he will not attend the meeting for as long as MDC leader Nelson Chamisa does not attend.
This is just grandstanding of the hen calling after the chick snatching-eagle to come back and fight!
The real principle stand by the opposition was not to take part in the elections knowing the whole electoral process was flawed and illegal. ZEC did not even both to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll, a legal requirement and still Noah Manyika and company ploughed on regardless.
By participating in the flawed and illegal elections the opposition gave the process and Mnangagwa some modicum of legitimacy.
It is hard to see what Chamisa and Manyika are hoping to accomplish now by refusing to attend Mnangagwa’s talks! It is not as if the talks are a legal and constitutional requirement. The two opposition leaders’ participation in last July’s rigged elections did more to validate Mnangagwa’s illegitimate regime and presidency than their attending these nonsensical dialogues could ever do.
The very fact that Mnangagwa is calling for these talks means he is rattled. The economic meltdown is getting worse and worse and all these claims by Chamisa and his party that they are the ones throwing the sand into everything and that the hold the key to economic recovery has Mnangagwa panicking. By rigging the elections Mnangagwa delivered the killer blow to all hope of meaningful economic recovery, Chamisa is taking full advantage of his discomfort by pretending he is the one causing it all.
As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and lawless thugs Zimbabwe’s economy will never recover whether Chamisa is added or not to the pariah state that will not change anything on the economic front!
She has nothing better to do! In a country with no clean running water, where health care has all but collapsed, etc. and we are going to waste millions of dollars messaging Coventry's ego with her sports Indaba!
Zimbabwe’s central bank announced on Wednesday it would scrap the official 1:1 peg between its quasi-currency bond note and the U.S. dollar, launching a new currency known as RTGS dollars.
The central bank began selling U.S. dollars to banks on Friday morning at a rate of 2.5 RTGS to the greenback according to sources.
We have heard all heard Eddie Cross praise Minister Ncube and how the economic was now going to take-off. In one of his article Eddie said the country would be stable by March 2019. This was all hot air as Zimbabwe's economy continue to sink deeper and deeper into the abyss.
For the umpteenth time Mr Cross, there will be no meaningful economic recovery in Zimbabwe as long as the country remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs! What you and Mthuli Ncube have been trying to do is try to get the economic recovery without dealing with the corrupt and hitherto untouchable ruling elite. The poorest of the poor are the ones how are paying, with not only treasure but with their very lives, for your foolish voodoo economic experiments. This madness must stop!
The idea that the EU must have decided not to impose sanction on the Zanu PF leaders and those propping up the regime for selfish gain because the EU was impressed by “President Mnangagwa's sincerity to better the lives of locals” is laughable. The EU Foreign Ministers who made the decision would have read the EU Zimbabwe Election Mission’s report and also the EU parliament’s resolution gave the minister the ask of reviewing the sanction. The parliament resolution given even more examples of how the Zanu PF regime has again and again blatantly violated the basic human rights of the locals.
Of course the Foreign Ministers ignored the facts on the ground proving that if the EU cared about free, fair and credible elections and helping the long suffering Zimbabweans end this nightmare of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule then they would have imposed the sanctions without a moment’s hesitation.
It is not the first time that European selfish economic or political interest have trumped reason, justice and even the right to life itself when it is black Africans paying the price. This is the case here.
Of course Mnangagwa and his cronies were very pleased with the EU decision, he will now step up his brutal repression and do nothing to ensure next elections are free, fair and credible knowing that China, Russia and now the EU will see nothing wrong.
During the slave trade it was not the white man who hunted the blacks slaves; it was fellow blacks who did that and sold their own kith and kin for a fistful of beads and a piece of calico cloth! These blacks selling fellow blacks were very disappointed when slavery was abolished just as Mnangagwa and his cronies will be furious if the curse of rigged elections was dismantled!
But Daniel Shumba's United Democratic Alliance (UDA) withdrew from the second meeting because they were "insincere, choreographed, and a highly compromised process”
This is just grandstanding! Whatever Mnangagwa does in these talks the process can never be worse than the flaws and illegalities in the conduct of last year’s elections. Daniel Shumba was warned about the flaws and illegalities in the election process and yet he and the rest participated in the elections regardless. For these idiots to now boycott these inter party talks to chaired by an illegitimate regime is comical.
Chamisa’s position is equally nonsensical. By participating in last year’s elections he per se accept the power and authority of ZEC regardless of the flaws and illegalities in the conduct of the elections. For him to then refuse to accept the power and authority of the Con-Court is foolish because he should have known they are just as corrupt and incompetent as ZEC.
Let me say here and now, these inter party dialogues are a waste of time. Last year’s elections were flawed and illegal and therefore could never produce a legal outcome. We need an interim administration to prepare for fresh elections and restoration of legality! This Zanu PF regime is illegitimate and all this talk that Chamisa can somehow change that by ‘recognising Mnangagwa as the legitimate president” is all nonsense. If the process is illegal the outcome can only be illegitimate no one individual can change that!
Chamisa was stopped in his tracks when he tried to influence the Party's National Council to pass a resolution that would see him side step an Extra-Ordinary Congress. This bold move to shake Chamisa back to reality has shown that Chamisa is fast losing grip of the MDC. Chamisa was reminded that the Constitution stipulates that a Congress be held within 12months of the passing of a sitting President. It is because Chamisa now faces serious legitimate issues such that his rhetoric about ED's legitimacy becomes ironical. Considering that Morgan Tsvangirai passed away on 14 February 2017 it then follows that a Congress be held anytime from now and not in October as has been touted by Chamisa
Kutungana kwambudzi! Did Tsvangirai respect the constitution when he changed it to extend his own stay in power beyond the maximum two terms?
MDC leaders have alredy shown that they are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless! MDC has failed to implement even one reform in five years in the last GNU because they had sold out. The only reason these idiots are still on the political stage is because MDC followers are sheep who follow blindly.
It was Tendai Biti, when he was Minister of Finance in the GNU government, who once said there are two parallel governments in Zimbabwe. There is the formal government headed by the president, cabinet, parliament , judiciary, etc., etc. Then there is the Joint Operation Command (JOC), shadowy Mafia type junta, composed of the top brass in the security services headed, at the time of Tendai Biti, by Robert Mugabe assisted by Mnangagwa.
JOC’s primary function was to ensure Zanu PF had a firm grip on power it commandeered all the human and material resources it required to ensure to delivered on its mandate without failure. The junta made all the key decision and the subservient formal government structure implemented them, no questions asked.
Tendai Biti complained that JOC had its own source of funds, to supplement the resources allocated by the Minister of Finance in the formal way. Biti was right, JOC controlled the wholesale looting of diamonds in Marange and Chidzwa. The junta has always controlled the country’s hugely profitable black market. They would get the USD from the RBZ at the official exchange rate and sell it on the black market with the disparity between the exchange rate could be a hundred thousand fold or more!
JOC members and their associates have become incredible rich and powerful at the expense of the ordinary people who have become miserably poor and totally helpless. All attempts by successive Ministers of Finance to revive Zimbabwe’s crumpling economy have failed because they have confined their activities to those areas under the formal government only. They pretended not to know the junta and its activities hence the reason why Minister Ncube’s “crafted reform programmes” say nothing about the looting of Marange diamonds, has not raised a single dollar in taxing the filthy rich, etc.
It is nonsensical that the poorest of the poor are being squeezed for a few more dollar with this 2% electronic transaction tax so the money can be used to bankroll the filthy rich’s extravagant life styles. Only a first class moron would ever justify paying US$74 000 per hour for the hired 787-8 Dreamliner jet for a ten day jaunt using money paid by those living on US$ 30 per month!
Zanu PF rigged the elections to confirm the situation of Zimbabwe as a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state the country will never develop. Mnangagwa's legitimacy is the only issue on the table.
The revolutionary party "won" the elections but has clearly failed to win the fight for economic recovery as the economic meltdown is clearly getting worse. Mnangagwa was super-confident his "Zimbabwe is open for business!" would open the flood gate of investors. It did not!
Indeed, Zanu PF has "won" elections for the last 38 years and the national economy has sunk deeper and deeper into this hell-hole throughout the same period.
All you care about is Zanu PF remaining in power regardless of the economic misery the party has brought to millions of ordinary people. It is great that there are other Zimbabweans out there who see the bigger picture.
“The absence of a verified voters roll alone is enough to question the legitimacy of the election. On top of that the ZEC admitted it made errors in counting the vote then made more obvious errors when they tried to correct it. Either they were really stupid or just didn't care how it looked. And wasn't it convenient that ED got barely enough votes to avoid a run-off. They could only steal as many votes they needed or even the criminal SADC and AU would have to question endorsing the results,” you said.
Could not agree with you more. SADC leaders wanted the 2013 elections postponed because they knew without first implementing the reforms Zanu PF will rig the elections. No reforms were ever been implemented and Zanu PF rigged the 2013 and 2018 elections. Why SADC would now be endorsing these elections as free and fair beggars belief!
Professor Ncube keeps up the pretence that Zimbabwe is on the path of economic recovery and is set for the "Upper Middle Income by 2030" and yet everything on the grounds points to an economy that continues to sink like a stone!
If Zimbabwe is now "cash positive" then why are people still queuing for cash at the bank?
Why are we still experiencing serious foreign currency shortages which are the root causes of the fuel, medicine, wheat and all the other commodity shortages?
Professor Ncube wants us to believe that Zimbabwe can remain a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs and still achieve meaningful economic recovery. That is voodoo economics pure and simple!
"Zanu PF ndeye ropa!" (Zanu PF is a party of blood!) And if there is one Zanu PF leader who believes that whole heartedly it is Mnangagwa it is therefore not surprising that whenever Mugabe has had to shed innocent blood for selfish political reasons he has turned to Mnangagwa and no one else to have the dirty work done.
ReplyDeleteWhen Mnangagwa promised to hold free, fair and credible elections following the November 2017 coup those of us who know the man dismissed the promise as a gimmick.
Mugabe, Mnangagwa and many other Zanu PF leaders have never believed in giving the ordinary people their freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful vote. The longer they have enjoyed absolute power they more they have hardened their position never to share it. The instinct to use brute force to secure absolute power is second nature to Zanu PF; the suffering and even deaths of others do not mean anything to these brutes.
Zanu PF rigged last year's elections, the regime is illegitimate and the only rational position is to stand up to the brutes and tell them they must step down. Period! Those people call for dialogue are rying to appease the thugs by offering them an legitimacy bolthole - they are wasting time because Zanu PF will use that platform to consolidate its strangle hold on power.
Build Zimbabwe Alliance leader Noah Manyika has this time completely snubbed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s on-going dialogue with opposition parties indicating that he will not attend the meeting for as long as MDC leader Nelson Chamisa does not attend.
ReplyDeleteThis is just grandstanding of the hen calling after the chick snatching-eagle to come back and fight!
The real principle stand by the opposition was not to take part in the elections knowing the whole electoral process was flawed and illegal. ZEC did not even both to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll, a legal requirement and still Noah Manyika and company ploughed on regardless.
By participating in the flawed and illegal elections the opposition gave the process and Mnangagwa some modicum of legitimacy.
It is hard to see what Chamisa and Manyika are hoping to accomplish now by refusing to attend Mnangagwa’s talks! It is not as if the talks are a legal and constitutional requirement. The two opposition leaders’ participation in last July’s rigged elections did more to validate Mnangagwa’s illegitimate regime and presidency than their attending these nonsensical dialogues could ever do.
The very fact that Mnangagwa is calling for these talks means he is rattled. The economic meltdown is getting worse and worse and all these claims by Chamisa and his party that they are the ones throwing the sand into everything and that the hold the key to economic recovery has Mnangagwa panicking. By rigging the elections Mnangagwa delivered the killer blow to all hope of meaningful economic recovery, Chamisa is taking full advantage of his discomfort by pretending he is the one causing it all.
As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and lawless thugs Zimbabwe’s economy will never recover whether Chamisa is added or not to the pariah state that will not change anything on the economic front!
She has nothing better to do! In a country with no clean running water, where health care has all but collapsed, etc. and we are going to waste millions of dollars messaging Coventry's ego with her sports Indaba!
ReplyDeleteZimbabwe’s central bank announced on Wednesday it would scrap the official 1:1 peg between its quasi-currency bond note and the U.S. dollar, launching a new currency known as RTGS dollars.
ReplyDeleteThe central bank began selling U.S. dollars to banks on Friday morning at a rate of 2.5 RTGS to the greenback according to sources.
This is just chaos!
We have heard all heard Eddie Cross praise Minister Ncube and how the economic was now going to take-off. In one of his article Eddie said the country would be stable by March 2019. This was all hot air as Zimbabwe's economy continue to sink deeper and deeper into the abyss.
ReplyDeleteFor the umpteenth time Mr Cross, there will be no meaningful economic recovery in Zimbabwe as long as the country remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs! What you and Mthuli Ncube have been trying to do is try to get the economic recovery without dealing with the corrupt and hitherto untouchable ruling elite. The poorest of the poor are the ones how are paying, with not only treasure but with their very lives, for your foolish voodoo economic experiments. This madness must stop!
The idea that the EU must have decided not to impose sanction on the Zanu PF leaders and those propping up the regime for selfish gain because the EU was impressed by “President Mnangagwa's sincerity to better the lives of locals” is laughable. The EU Foreign Ministers who made the decision would have read the EU Zimbabwe Election Mission’s report and also the EU parliament’s resolution gave the minister the ask of reviewing the sanction. The parliament resolution given even more examples of how the Zanu PF regime has again and again blatantly violated the basic human rights of the locals.
ReplyDeleteOf course the Foreign Ministers ignored the facts on the ground proving that if the EU cared about free, fair and credible elections and helping the long suffering Zimbabweans end this nightmare of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule then they would have imposed the sanctions without a moment’s hesitation.
It is not the first time that European selfish economic or political interest have trumped reason, justice and even the right to life itself when it is black Africans paying the price. This is the case here.
Of course Mnangagwa and his cronies were very pleased with the EU decision, he will now step up his brutal repression and do nothing to ensure next elections are free, fair and credible knowing that China, Russia and now the EU will see nothing wrong.
During the slave trade it was not the white man who hunted the blacks slaves; it was fellow blacks who did that and sold their own kith and kin for a fistful of beads and a piece of calico cloth! These blacks selling fellow blacks were very disappointed when slavery was abolished just as Mnangagwa and his cronies will be furious if the curse of rigged elections was dismantled!
But Daniel Shumba's United Democratic Alliance (UDA) withdrew from the second meeting because they were "insincere, choreographed, and a highly compromised process”
ReplyDeleteThis is just grandstanding! Whatever Mnangagwa does in these talks the process can never be worse than the flaws and illegalities in the conduct of last year’s elections. Daniel Shumba was warned about the flaws and illegalities in the election process and yet he and the rest participated in the elections regardless. For these idiots to now boycott these inter party talks to chaired by an illegitimate regime is comical.
Chamisa’s position is equally nonsensical. By participating in last year’s elections he per se accept the power and authority of ZEC regardless of the flaws and illegalities in the conduct of the elections. For him to then refuse to accept the power and authority of the Con-Court is foolish because he should have known they are just as corrupt and incompetent as ZEC.
Let me say here and now, these inter party dialogues are a waste of time. Last year’s elections were flawed and illegal and therefore could never produce a legal outcome. We need an interim administration to prepare for fresh elections and restoration of legality! This Zanu PF regime is illegitimate and all this talk that Chamisa can somehow change that by ‘recognising Mnangagwa as the legitimate president” is all nonsense. If the process is illegal the outcome can only be illegitimate no one individual can change that!
Chamisa was stopped in his tracks when he tried to influence the Party's National Council to pass a resolution that would see him side step an Extra-Ordinary Congress. This bold move to shake Chamisa back to reality has shown that Chamisa is fast losing grip of the MDC. Chamisa was reminded that the Constitution stipulates that a Congress be held within 12months of the passing of a sitting President. It is because Chamisa now faces serious legitimate issues such that his rhetoric about ED's legitimacy becomes ironical. Considering that Morgan Tsvangirai passed away on 14 February 2017 it then follows that a Congress be held anytime from now and not in October as has been touted by Chamisa
ReplyDeleteKutungana kwambudzi! Did Tsvangirai respect the constitution when he changed it to extend his own stay in power beyond the maximum two terms?
MDC leaders have alredy shown that they are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless! MDC has failed to implement even one reform in five years in the last GNU because they had sold out. The only reason these idiots are still on the political stage is because MDC followers are sheep who follow blindly.
It was Tendai Biti, when he was Minister of Finance in the GNU government, who once said there are two parallel governments in Zimbabwe. There is the formal government headed by the president, cabinet, parliament , judiciary, etc., etc. Then there is the Joint Operation Command (JOC), shadowy Mafia type junta, composed of the top brass in the security services headed, at the time of Tendai Biti, by Robert Mugabe assisted by Mnangagwa.
ReplyDeleteJOC’s primary function was to ensure Zanu PF had a firm grip on power it commandeered all the human and material resources it required to ensure to delivered on its mandate without failure. The junta made all the key decision and the subservient formal government structure implemented them, no questions asked.
Tendai Biti complained that JOC had its own source of funds, to supplement the resources allocated by the Minister of Finance in the formal way. Biti was right, JOC controlled the wholesale looting of diamonds in Marange and Chidzwa. The junta has always controlled the country’s hugely profitable black market. They would get the USD from the RBZ at the official exchange rate and sell it on the black market with the disparity between the exchange rate could be a hundred thousand fold or more!
JOC members and their associates have become incredible rich and powerful at the expense of the ordinary people who have become miserably poor and totally helpless. All attempts by successive Ministers of Finance to revive Zimbabwe’s crumpling economy have failed because they have confined their activities to those areas under the formal government only. They pretended not to know the junta and its activities hence the reason why Minister Ncube’s “crafted reform programmes” say nothing about the looting of Marange diamonds, has not raised a single dollar in taxing the filthy rich, etc.
It is nonsensical that the poorest of the poor are being squeezed for a few more dollar with this 2% electronic transaction tax so the money can be used to bankroll the filthy rich’s extravagant life styles. Only a first class moron would ever justify paying US$74 000 per hour for the hired 787-8 Dreamliner jet for a ten day jaunt using money paid by those living on US$ 30 per month!
Zanu PF rigged the elections to confirm the situation of Zimbabwe as a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state the country will never develop. Mnangagwa's legitimacy is the only issue on the table.
ReplyDeleteS Ndlovu
ReplyDeleteThe revolutionary party "won" the elections but has clearly failed to win the fight for economic recovery as the economic meltdown is clearly getting worse. Mnangagwa was super-confident his "Zimbabwe is open for business!" would open the flood gate of investors. It did not!
Indeed, Zanu PF has "won" elections for the last 38 years and the national economy has sunk deeper and deeper into this hell-hole throughout the same period.
All you care about is Zanu PF remaining in power regardless of the economic misery the party has brought to millions of ordinary people. It is great that there are other Zimbabweans out there who see the bigger picture.
@ Andrew Noble
ReplyDelete“The absence of a verified voters roll alone is enough to question the legitimacy of the election. On top of that the ZEC admitted it made errors in counting the vote then made more obvious errors when they tried to correct it. Either they were really stupid or just didn't care how it looked. And wasn't it convenient that ED got barely enough votes to avoid a run-off. They could only steal as many votes they needed or even the criminal SADC and AU would have to question endorsing the results,” you said.
Could not agree with you more. SADC leaders wanted the 2013 elections postponed because they knew without first implementing the reforms Zanu PF will rig the elections. No reforms were ever been implemented and Zanu PF rigged the 2013 and 2018 elections. Why SADC would now be endorsing these elections as free and fair beggars belief!
Professor Ncube keeps up the pretence that Zimbabwe is on the path of economic recovery and is set for the "Upper Middle Income by 2030" and yet everything on the grounds points to an economy that continues to sink like a stone!
ReplyDeleteIf Zimbabwe is now "cash positive" then why are people still queuing for cash at the bank?
Why are we still experiencing serious foreign currency shortages which are the root causes of the fuel, medicine, wheat and all the other commodity shortages?
Professor Ncube wants us to believe that Zimbabwe can remain a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs and still achieve meaningful economic recovery. That is voodoo economics pure and simple!