What matters to the nation is right now is that Zanu PF rigged last year's elections because MDC leaders failed to implement the democratic reforms when they had the chance to do so. As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and lawless thugs the economic meltdown will only get worse.
What the nation needs is for Zanu PF to step down, the regime is illegitimate, to allow the appointment of a interim administration that will implement the reforms designed to dismantle the de facto one-party dictatorship and replace it with a healthy democratic system of government.
Zanu PF rigged last year's elections, all election observers with any credible democratic credentials have said so. SADC leaders themselves said just, before the 2013 elections, that unless the democratic reforms are implemented Zanu PF would rig the elections. We all know that not even one reform has been implemented since then and so why SADC leaders are now backing a vote rigging and therefore per se illegitimate regime beggars belief!
SADC leaders have made some foolish decision in the past and this is one they will live to regret as Zimbabwe sinks deeper and deeper into economic chaos and political instability and drag the rest of the region with her!
Zimbabweans will have to take on the Zanu PF dictatorship together with its SADC backers in our fight for meaningful change. We must get Zanu PF to step down a.s.a.p. If Mnangagwa is still in power come the 2023 elections then we have failed ourselves because he will rig those elections and extend his rule by another five years!
Mnangagwa is of the view that as long as he talks peace he can do as he pleases! He promised to hold free, fair and credible elections and yet continued to implement the vote rigging and vote buying schemes that the party had lined up. He maintained the elections were free and fair although no one else did. The regime failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters' roll!
Zanu PF has rigged elections for the last 38 years and got away with it and now the thugs believe they have the right to rig elections and to get away with it. Zimbabwe must cure itself of the curse of rigged elections and the only known cure is to make sure that those who have rigged elections do NOT getting with it.
Zanu PF rigged last July's elections, they are illegitimate and they must step down, period.
“Well, he is not in Government, but it is up to him to say whatever he wants to say,” said Professor Mthuli Ncube. “He is free to comment and say anything.
“He is a member of the opposition so that is always welcome. It keeps us on our toes, but we have policies, we will do it when we are ready. But we have a game plan, a roadmap and we will do it when the conditions are right.”
We all know Zimbabwe's greatest challenge is not one of economic policy but one of bad governance born out of the curse of rigged elections. Economic policies do not work in a vacuum this is way we must end the pariah state because no matter how sound the economic policies are they will not deliver economic prosperity in a pariah state ruled by corrupt and lawless thugs.
Everyone in power says they have a plan and that it will work. Zimbabwe has sunk into the abyss and for the last 38 years Zanu PF has insisted the party will bring economic prosperity to all. The people have the right to ask “What if your plan does not work?”
The political struggle in Zimbabwe today is to about rejecting the Zanu PF dictatorship in which the people have been denied a meaningful say in the governance of the country. The people should have a meaningful say in the who governs, what policies they follow and, at the end of the day, judge them on their performance. This is what Zimbabwe has lacked for the last 398 years.
We all know Zanu PF rigged last year’s elections and people like you Professor Ncube know it but pretend not to for selfish reasons. Dictators have never had a problem recruiting people to work for them, there are sell-outs galore, dangle the thirty pieces of silver and they will come.
When the SADC leaders literally begged Tsvangirai and company not to go into the 2013 elections without first implementing the reforms, they certainly knew what they were talking about. Zanu PF did go on to blatantly rig that year’s elections. Mnangagwa has gone on to repeat the same thing in 2018.
When Mnangagwa promised to hold free and fair elections he was reminded that he needed to implement the democratic reforms but flatly refused to do so. SADC leaders are being totally dishonest in pretending last July’s elections were freed and fair.
SADC can side with Mnangagwa just as they have often sided with Mugabe in the past, the would be investors are not so easily fooled. Investors and lender like the IMF and WB have shied away from Zimbabwe because they know it is near impossible to do business in a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. Investors have stayed away and the economic meltdown is getting worse. SADC leaders are not going to save Zimbabwe from the economic meltdown and, worse still, as Zimbabwe sinks into the abyss, it is dragging the whole region down with it!
The people in the SADC countries themselves must wake up and start looking for quality leaders and not the village idiots now in power! Only a village idiot would fail to see that corrupt and not sanctions is the economic cancer killing Zimbabwe! How such a village idiot can now be deciding the destiny of a nation only serves to underline why we are in this mess!
The European Union delegation in Zimbabwe has mocked the state owned Chronicle over its story which suggested that the Western bloc had supported Zimbabwe’s re-engagement plan saying the story smacks of creative journalism.
Posting on Twitter yesterday, EU in Zimbabwe said their statement raised grave concerns over the recent violence in Zimbabwe and not what the Chronicle reported.
This “creative journalism” by the regime’s propaganda machine is a clear sign the regime is desperate for some good news, especially on the economy. Finance Minister, Mthuli Ncube, has been everywhere begging for a financial bailout and the Paris Club, IMF, WB, etc. have all told him go fly a kite! No wonder the Chronicle is coming up with fake news, the regime is desperate for some answers to the challenge of the worsen economic meltdown!
The only solution is for Zanu PF to step down - unpalatable as that might be to a regime that has rigged elections for the last 38 years and got away with it. The regime was hoping to get away with rigging last July’s elections only to be told in no uncertain terms - NO!
The government through the Ministry of Sport, Arts and Recreation gave thumbs up to the initiative to establish a regional sports museum in the country.
“We’re very excited for the bid for the regional museum. I think we’ve got a pretty big space that you (the AUSC chairman) will be visiting tomorrow, and I’m very excited about this,” said Minister Coventry.
Poor Kirsty, she is a first class athlete but does not have much working brain. In a country with 90% unemployment rate, where basic services such as clean running water and health care have all but collapsed, etc. it is nonsensical to build a state of the art sports museum next to a dilapidated hospital, school, etc.
Minister Coventry, how many schools have a working swimming pool? How many students do not have even one decent meal a day? And you think having a swimming pool will be more important to them and the nation than securing at least one decent meal a day?
Zimbabwe is facing a very serious economic and political challenge after decades of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule. If the regime thought inviting the likes of Minister Ncube and Coventry would help it has been proven wrong; these are just individual with large ego but brain dead. If they had any brain at all then they would have never accepted the ministerial appointments in the first place. Zimbabwe is a pariah state and until that is put right it is nonsense to expect an meaningful economic recovery.
What matters to the nation is right now is that Zanu PF rigged last year's elections because MDC leaders failed to implement the democratic reforms when they had the chance to do so. As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and lawless thugs the economic meltdown will only get worse.
ReplyDeleteWhat the nation needs is for Zanu PF to step down, the regime is illegitimate, to allow the appointment of a interim administration that will implement the reforms designed to dismantle the de facto one-party dictatorship and replace it with a healthy democratic system of government.
Zanu PF rigged last year's elections, all election observers with any credible democratic credentials have said so. SADC leaders themselves said just, before the 2013 elections, that unless the democratic reforms are implemented Zanu PF would rig the elections. We all know that not even one reform has been implemented since then and so why SADC leaders are now backing a vote rigging and therefore per se illegitimate regime beggars belief!
ReplyDeleteSADC leaders have made some foolish decision in the past and this is one they will live to regret as Zimbabwe sinks deeper and deeper into economic chaos and political instability and drag the rest of the region with her!
Zimbabweans will have to take on the Zanu PF dictatorship together with its SADC backers in our fight for meaningful change. We must get Zanu PF to step down a.s.a.p. If Mnangagwa is still in power come the 2023 elections then we have failed ourselves because he will rig those elections and extend his rule by another five years!
Mnangagwa is of the view that as long as he talks peace he can do as he pleases! He promised to hold free, fair and credible elections and yet continued to implement the vote rigging and vote buying schemes that the party had lined up. He maintained the elections were free and fair although no one else did. The regime failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters' roll!
ReplyDeleteZanu PF has rigged elections for the last 38 years and got away with it and now the thugs believe they have the right to rig elections and to get away with it. Zimbabwe must cure itself of the curse of rigged elections and the only known cure is to make sure that those who have rigged elections do NOT getting with it.
Zanu PF rigged last July's elections, they are illegitimate and they must step down, period.
“Well, he is not in Government, but it is up to him to say whatever he wants to say,” said Professor Mthuli Ncube. “He is free to comment and say anything.
ReplyDelete“He is a member of the opposition so that is always welcome. It keeps us on our toes, but we have policies, we will do it when we are ready. But we have a game plan, a roadmap and we will do it when the conditions are right.”
We all know Zimbabwe's greatest challenge is not one of economic policy but one of bad governance born out of the curse of rigged elections. Economic policies do not work in a vacuum this is way we must end the pariah state because no matter how sound the economic policies are they will not deliver economic prosperity in a pariah state ruled by corrupt and lawless thugs.
Everyone in power says they have a plan and that it will work. Zimbabwe has sunk into the abyss and for the last 38 years Zanu PF has insisted the party will bring economic prosperity to all. The people have the right to ask “What if your plan does not work?”
The political struggle in Zimbabwe today is to about rejecting the Zanu PF dictatorship in which the people have been denied a meaningful say in the governance of the country. The people should have a meaningful say in the who governs, what policies they follow and, at the end of the day, judge them on their performance. This is what Zimbabwe has lacked for the last 398 years.
We all know Zanu PF rigged last year’s elections and people like you Professor Ncube know it but pretend not to for selfish reasons. Dictators have never had a problem recruiting people to work for them, there are sell-outs galore, dangle the thirty pieces of silver and they will come.
When the SADC leaders literally begged Tsvangirai and company not to go into the 2013 elections without first implementing the reforms, they certainly knew what they were talking about. Zanu PF did go on to blatantly rig that year’s elections. Mnangagwa has gone on to repeat the same thing in 2018.
ReplyDeleteWhen Mnangagwa promised to hold free and fair elections he was reminded that he needed to implement the democratic reforms but flatly refused to do so. SADC leaders are being totally dishonest in pretending last July’s elections were freed and fair.
SADC can side with Mnangagwa just as they have often sided with Mugabe in the past, the would be investors are not so easily fooled. Investors and lender like the IMF and WB have shied away from Zimbabwe because they know it is near impossible to do business in a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. Investors have stayed away and the economic meltdown is getting worse. SADC leaders are not going to save Zimbabwe from the economic meltdown and, worse still, as Zimbabwe sinks into the abyss, it is dragging the whole region down with it!
The people in the SADC countries themselves must wake up and start looking for quality leaders and not the village idiots now in power! Only a village idiot would fail to see that corrupt and not sanctions is the economic cancer killing Zimbabwe! How such a village idiot can now be deciding the destiny of a nation only serves to underline why we are in this mess!
The European Union delegation in Zimbabwe has mocked the state owned Chronicle over its story which suggested that the Western bloc had supported Zimbabwe’s re-engagement plan saying the story smacks of creative journalism.
ReplyDeletePosting on Twitter yesterday, EU in Zimbabwe said their statement raised grave concerns over the recent violence in Zimbabwe and not what the Chronicle reported.
This “creative journalism” by the regime’s propaganda machine is a clear sign the regime is desperate for some good news, especially on the economy. Finance Minister, Mthuli Ncube, has been everywhere begging for a financial bailout and the Paris Club, IMF, WB, etc. have all told him go fly a kite! No wonder the Chronicle is coming up with fake news, the regime is desperate for some answers to the challenge of the worsen economic meltdown!
The only solution is for Zanu PF to step down - unpalatable as that might be to a regime that has rigged elections for the last 38 years and got away with it. The regime was hoping to get away with rigging last July’s elections only to be told in no uncertain terms - NO!
The government through the Ministry of Sport, Arts and Recreation gave thumbs up to the initiative to establish a regional sports museum in the country.
ReplyDelete“We’re very excited for the bid for the regional museum. I think we’ve got a pretty big space that you (the AUSC chairman) will be visiting tomorrow, and I’m very excited about this,” said Minister Coventry.
Poor Kirsty, she is a first class athlete but does not have much working brain. In a country with 90% unemployment rate, where basic services such as clean running water and health care have all but collapsed, etc. it is nonsensical to build a state of the art sports museum next to a dilapidated hospital, school, etc.
Minister Coventry, how many schools have a working swimming pool? How many students do not have even one decent meal a day? And you think having a swimming pool will be more important to them and the nation than securing at least one decent meal a day?
Zimbabwe is facing a very serious economic and political challenge after decades of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule. If the regime thought inviting the likes of Minister Ncube and Coventry would help it has been proven wrong; these are just individual with large ego but brain dead. If they had any brain at all then they would have never accepted the ministerial appointments in the first place. Zimbabwe is a pariah state and until that is put right it is nonsense to expect an meaningful economic recovery.