"Mnangagwa must not waste time meeting losing presidential candidates who only voted for themselves," said Arthur Mutambara.
"…The nature of the dialogue is important. You can't invite 20 elements and bring them to State house and say 'we are going to dialogue'. Dialogue of who, with who, without MDC Alliance.
Mutambara has no clue what he is talking about because if he did then he would know that the country’s worsening economic crisis is because Mnangagwa’s ow “Zimbabwe is open for business!” call has failed to attract any investors and lenders. Who would want to do business in pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs!
By blatantly rigging last July’s elections Mnangagwa slammed the door shut to all hopes of economic recovery.
If last year’s elections were free, fair and credible and restored confidence in Zimbabwe as a stable country with rule of law the country will be a hire of economic activity. Zanu PF would not need to hold these inter-party talks. There would be no need “to brainstorm on how they could remedy a deepening political and economic crisis threatening to plunge the country back to its bitter past.”
We have a political and economic crisis because Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF junta rigged last July’s elections. The regime is illegitimate.
Chamisa’s claim that he “holds the key to Mnangagwa’s legitimacy and economic recovery” is just the usual political posturing and grandstanding. It is only the people of Zimbabwe, in a free, fair and credible elections, who can grant someone the political mandate to govern the country.
On the economic front, investors will never be fooled into believing the inclusion of Chamisa in a Zanu PF led government will ever transform the regime from the pariah into a democratic one. They will remember the utterly useless 2008 to 2013 GNU which was just a Zanu PF government in all but name.
Chamisa is but the proverbial boastful frog who claimed he could put out the forest fire with his punny fart!
"…The nature of the dialogue is important. You can't invite 20 elements and bring them to State house and say 'we are going to dialogue'. Dialogue of who, with who, without MDC Alliance,” continued Mutambara.
"If Zanu-PF and the government are serious about dialogue, there must dialogue with the MDC Alliance.”
Anybody who is anybody has condemned last July’s elections as flawed and illegitimate.
“The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability,” stated the EU Zimbabwe Election Observer Mission final report.
“Finally, the restrictions on political freedoms, the excessive use of force by security forces and abuses of human rights in the post-election period undermined the corresponding positive aspects during the pre-election campaign. As such, many aspects of the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe failed to meet international standards.”
How can a flawed and illegal election process produce a legitimate result? The only serious dialogue the nation must hold now is how to end this illegitimate regime and end the curse of rigged elections and pariah state. The nation prepare and hold free, fair and credible elections and bring back the nation to democratic legitimacy.
The fight against cancer requires more interventions after revelations that only one out of five radiotherapy machines in the country is functional.
ReplyDeleteThe other four machines, two at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals and two at Mpilo Central Hospital are lying idle due to minor maintenance issues or are still to be installed.
Despite the growing cancer burden, the disease continues to receive a relatively low public health priority in the country, largely due to limited resources and other pressing public health problems.
These big hospitals have often cancelled minor surgery because they did not have something as basic as pain killers. The situation is even worse in rural hospitals and clinics. Zimbabwe’s health care services has all but collapsed and hence the reason the ruling elite have been going outside the country for all their health needs.
"On the charge that I am weak, I am not weak. I was jailed for fighting one-party state by the ZANU PF government. I was in COPAC and was mandated to bring about a democratic people driven constitution and I delivered," Mwonzora said.
ReplyDeleteIf Zimbabwe’s new constitution was a democratic one, then why has it failed to deliver its primary objective – free, fair and credible elections? Paul Mangwana, the Zanu PF co-chairperson on COPAC, boasted soon after the 2013 referendum that Mugabe dictated the new constitution and only a fool who deny that!
The people of Zimbabwe must think carefully what went wrong in the past if the country is ever to get out of this political and economic mess. One of these careful reflections is accepting that MDC has already proven to be corrupt and incompetent and to look for competent leaders. People like Chamisa and Mwonzora are a complete waste of time because they will never bring about any meaningful change. All they care about is power and feathering their own nests!
The actions and policies of these persons continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the United States. For this reason, the national emergency declared on March 6, 2003, and the measures adopted on that date, on November 22, 2005, and on July 25, 2008, to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond March 6, 2019. Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13288.
ReplyDeleteThis is great news, by blatantly rigging the 2018 elections Mnangagwa and his junta confirmed that Zimbabwe was still a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. They have just torpedoed the country’s hope for any meaningful economic recovery because no investor would want to do business in a pariah state. If America had lifted the sanctions it would have send the wrong message to these thugs, that they can rig elections.
The Americans should have extended their sanctions to include those individuals who continue to work with or for the pariah state for their own selfish reasons whilst pretending the regime is legitimate. One only hopes that the American will now serious consider including people like Minister Mthuli Ncube, Minister Kirsty Coventry, 24 members of the President Advisory Council, leading opposition leaders, etc. in the sanctions list.
I totally agree, the EU, Americans, Commonwealth and all the other nation with an democratic credentials worth talking about have all said that last year's elections were not free, fair and credible. It is not for these outsides to say what Zimbabwe should do next. If we want the illegitimate Zanu PF regime to remain in office or want it to go it is for us Zimbabweans to say.
ReplyDeleteWhy anyone with half a working brain would ever want to reward those who rig elections by granting them absolute power beggars belief!
@ Lameck Chimo
ReplyDeleteMugabe and Zanu PF were forced to step down following the blatant cheating and wanton violence of the 2008 elections. No one, not even SADC and AU would recognize the party's claim to have won those elections. The only legitimate government SADC would accept was a GNU.
Last July's elections were flawed and illegal and therefore the results as claimed by both Zanu PF and MDC Alliance are meaningless and illegal. Zimbabwe does NOT have a legitimate government right now because Zanu PF never got the people's mandate. The idea that Chamisa can grant Mnangagwa "legitimacy" is just political nonsense with no legal leg to stand on.
Whilst Zimbabwe remains a pariah state the country will have no chance of any economic recovery because no investor would want to do business with corrupt and vote rigging thugs. Thugs are not to be trusted!
So Zimbabwe is free to retain the status quo, remain a pariah state, but pay the price of the worsening economic meltdown!
The Alliance for the People's Agenda (APA), led by Nkosana Moyo- who contested for presidency with 22 other candidates in last year's elections – has withdrawn from the President Emmerson Mnangagwa- initiated national talks, accusing the president of insincerity.
ReplyDelete'We observed with dismay as he (President Mnangagwa) spoke in the most un-presidential manner. Amongst other things he bragged about having deployed the army that as we know killed people.
‘More worrisomely he openly threatened that anyone who, according to him, engaged in acts of disorderliness would have their life shortened."
"We do not feel it is appropriate for the president, or anyone to threaten anyone else with death"
Moyo says the withdrawal comes after realising that their proposal of inclusivity has not been taken seriously.
'APA proposed that national representation needed to include Commerce and Industry, The Churches, Labour and Civic Society Organisation. To date this proposal has been rejected,' read the statement
Many, many Zimbabweans, myself included, were very disappointed when Dr Nkosana Moyo decided to take part in last year’s elections even when it was clear the elections was going to be a farce.
When ZEC failed to produce something as basic to free, fair and credible elections as a verified voters’ roll many thought this was the triple red-lines even the most stupid of the opposition candidates would never cross. Surprise, surprise there was a stampede in the opposition camp to submit their nomination papers and join in the rat-race. Dr Moyo was there in the thick of the stampede and was one of the 23 presidential contestants.
It is rich that Dr Moyo should now be withdrawing his continued participation in this foolish rat race on grounds that Mnangagwa has failed to include civic groups in these talk-shop dialogues, phase two of the rat-race, although there is no constitution basis for the dialogue much less who should be included.
Dr Moyo is accusing Mnangagwa of being “insincere”! How naive! Did Moyo participate in last year’s elections because he believe Mnangagwa was being sincere in promising to hold free, fair and credible elections!
Many Zimbabweans are beginning to see just how corrupt and incompetent our opposition leaders are and this is just what Zimbabwe needs to get out of the political and economic mess we are in. Mnangagwa rigged last year's elections he does not have the mandate to govern the country and these inter-party talks are a waste of time and these idiotic opposition leaders who participated in last year's elections must be ignored with the contempt they rightly deserve.