@ Paradza ZUNDE calls on Nelson Chamisa to show his good faith as well as political maturity by ceasing his protests against the legitimacy of the President and accepting that he has to enter into meaningful discussions with Mnangagwa and his government. Does this mean that ZUNDE believe that last July's elections were free, fair and credible and Zanu PF won the elections fair and square? Does this mean that ZUNDE believes that all the flaws and illegalities that were noted such as the failure to produce a verified voters' roll and ZEC's failure to make public all the V11 forms, although these things were all a legal requirement, did not occur? Or does ZUNDE agree these things happened but they are not important ? And one last question: does ZUNDE really believe Zimbabwe can still have the Zanu PF dictatorship and a healthy democracy at the same time?
Bhebhe is the one who is being irrational here. The issue of whether or not last July's elections were free, fair and credible is at the very heart of Zimbabwe's seemingly never ending political and economic crisis. Those who think the nation can gloss over the issue and just accept the current position with Mnangagwa as the de facto president have learned nothing from history.
Zanu PF has never held free, fair and credible elections ever since the country gained her independence. The party has rigged the elections, claimed victory hold the swearing in ceremony and present the nation with a fait accompli. The nation has again and again accepted the regime as the ruling party and hoped the next elections will be free, fair and credible.
Zanu PF has always stepped up its use of brute force to cow the nation into submission each time there was any threat to its iron grip on power.
The 38 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule have been a complete disaster for the nation as the facts on the ground show. Zimbabwe was a middle income nation in 1980 but within 20 years or so of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule the nation was the poorest country in Africa. Today, 75% of our people live on US$30 per month in a country whose breadline is US$650 per month!
Allowing Zanu PF to get away with rigged elections has been a disaster for the nation and after 38 years with the nation so impoverished many are dying of want it is shocking that anyone would still be advocating this failed policy of appeasement.
“Why should you call for dialogue and put pre-conditions?” Bhebhe rightly asked of both Mnangagwa and Chamisa.
If Bhebhe and his MDC-T friends were sincere in wanting to resolve Zimbabwe’s political and economic mess then they should have never attended Mnangagwa’s meeting but his condition was the most obnoxious of the condition – accept me as the legitimately elected president.
If the truth be said, and it must be said, no opposition candidate should have ever taken part in last July’s elections because the whole election process was flawed and illegal. The opposition were warned that unless the democratic reforms were implemented first, Zanu PF will rig the elections. These who did contest did so out of greed, they were after the few gravy train seats they knew Zanu PF would give away as bait.
All the opposition parties who attended Mnangagwa’s invitation to hold talks regardless of his stated position that he is the elected president and that he will not brook any discussion on the matter did so out of the same motive that made them contest the July elections even when they knew the process was flawed and illegal – greed. The opposition parties are hoping the talks will lead to the formation of a new GNU and they too will get seats on the gravy train!
@ Paradza
ReplyDeleteZUNDE calls on Nelson Chamisa to show his good faith as well as political maturity by ceasing his protests against the legitimacy of the President and accepting that he has to enter into meaningful discussions with Mnangagwa and his government. Does this mean that ZUNDE believe that last July's elections were free, fair and credible and Zanu PF won the elections fair and square?
Does this mean that ZUNDE believes that all the flaws and illegalities that were noted such as the failure to produce a verified voters' roll and ZEC's failure to make public all the V11 forms, although these things were all a legal requirement, did not occur? Or does ZUNDE agree these things happened but they are not important ?
And one last question: does ZUNDE really believe Zimbabwe can still have the Zanu PF dictatorship and a healthy democracy at the same time?
Bhebhe is the one who is being irrational here. The issue of whether or not last July's elections were free, fair and credible is at the very heart of Zimbabwe's seemingly never ending political and economic crisis. Those who think the nation can gloss over the issue and just accept the current position with Mnangagwa as the de facto president have learned nothing from history.
ReplyDeleteZanu PF has never held free, fair and credible elections ever since the country gained her independence. The party has rigged the elections, claimed victory hold the swearing in ceremony and present the nation with a fait accompli. The nation has again and again accepted the regime as the ruling party and hoped the next elections will be free, fair and credible.
Zanu PF has always stepped up its use of brute force to cow the nation into submission each time there was any threat to its iron grip on power.
The 38 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule have been a complete disaster for the nation as the facts on the ground show. Zimbabwe was a middle income nation in 1980 but within 20 years or so of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule the nation was the poorest country in Africa. Today, 75% of our people live on US$30 per month in a country whose breadline is US$650 per month!
Allowing Zanu PF to get away with rigged elections has been a disaster for the nation and after 38 years with the nation so impoverished many are dying of want it is shocking that anyone would still be advocating this failed policy of appeasement.
“Why should you call for dialogue and put pre-conditions?” Bhebhe rightly asked of both Mnangagwa and Chamisa.
If Bhebhe and his MDC-T friends were sincere in wanting to resolve Zimbabwe’s political and economic mess then they should have never attended Mnangagwa’s meeting but his condition was the most obnoxious of the condition – accept me as the legitimately elected president.
If the truth be said, and it must be said, no opposition candidate should have ever taken part in last July’s elections because the whole election process was flawed and illegal. The opposition were warned that unless the democratic reforms were implemented first, Zanu PF will rig the elections. These who did contest did so out of greed, they were after the few gravy train seats they knew Zanu PF would give away as bait.
All the opposition parties who attended Mnangagwa’s invitation to hold talks regardless of his stated position that he is the elected president and that he will not brook any discussion on the matter did so out of the same motive that made them contest the July elections even when they knew the process was flawed and illegal – greed. The opposition parties are hoping the talks will lead to the formation of a new GNU and they too will get seats on the gravy train!