Obert Gutu is just an empty drum
making a lot of noise! He is just one of the MDC leaders who, having tasted the
good life of the political gravy train during the 2008 to 2013 GNU, has fought
tooth and nail to get back on the gravy train. And when you are an empty drum,
fighting tooth and nail means making lots, and lots of noise!
Last week Gutu wrote a long piece
arguing for the lifting of all sanctions against Mnangagwa and his fellow Zanu
PF cronies. Gutu did not acknowledge the sanctions would have been lifted if
Zanu PF had kept its promise to hold free, fair and credible elections, the
single most important issue on the matter.
Everyone knows that Zanu PF blatantly
rigged last year’s elections; the regime failed to produce something as basic
as a verified voters’ roll, a common sense and legal requirement. Gutu and his former
MDC Alliance colleagues Nelson Chamisa, Tendai Biti, David Coltart and all the
other opposition candidates and parties participated in the election regardless
of all the evidence the process was flawed and illegal.
Gutu and others in the opposition
camp all knew Zanu PF would blatantly rig the elections to secure the
presidency and 2/3 majority in parliament. They also knew that Zanu PF will
also give away a few gravy train seats, to entice the opposition to take part
in the elections. This has worked like a charm, there were 23 presidential
candidates in last year’s elections!
Obert Gutu and his fellow MDC-T members
led by Thokosani Khupe and he is her deputy, have already endorse the election
process, with all its glaring flaws and illegalities, free, fair and credible
and Mnangagwa duly elected and legitimate. MDC-T earned themselves a few
brownies points with Mnangagwa for that. The call to have sanctions against
Zanu PF lifted is yet another brownie point.
There is talk of another GNU in
response to the worsening economic situation; Obert Gutu is to cash-in the
brownies points in retain for a seat on the gravy train. Meanwhile Gutu is
coming up with all manner of nonsensical suggestions to earn himself and MDC-T a
few more brownie points!
"Zimbabweans should think about
creating jobs and desist from merely seeking employment!" twittered Gutu.
“Remember every dark cloud has a
silver lining!
“Remember, the darkest hour is before
dawn!”
In other words, the 90% unemployed Zimbabweans
out there have only themselves to blame for their plight; they should have
desisted looking for employment years ago and would have been very successful
entrepreneurs with thriving business by now.
By destroying the Zimbabwe economy;
Zanu PF has done the nation a great favour, it created the dark cloud and the
challenge is for us to find the silver lining.
For the last 39 years Zimbabwe has seen
nothing but stead economic decline, the country and blundered from pillar to
post. The few ruling elite has grown filthy rich but at the expense of the
overwhelming majority who now live in heart-breaking abject poverty.
For all his rhetorical claims of “Zimbabwe
is open for business!”, promise to end corruption, promise to hold free, fair
and credible elections, etc.; President Mnangagwa has done nothing address
these underlying economic problems. Zimbabwe was a detested pariah state under
Mugabe, that has not changed.
For the last 39 years the people have
been told “this is the darkest hour before dawn”, things have got progressively
worse and not better. As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt
and vote rigging thugs the country’s economic decline will continue.
After 39 years the nation must now
wake-up to the reality that the new dawn will only come from us doing something
to end the scourge of corruption and the curse of rigged elections. Mnangagwa,
his cronies and the sell-out opposition leaders like Gutu would like us to
believe we can have our cake and eat it too. Wake-up Zimbabwe!
Zimbabwe's economic environment is so
caustic that many, many companies have been forced out of business including
well established and well resources companies like Meikles, Kariba Batteries,
etc. Only a first class idiot like Obert Gutu would expect the impoverish
Zimbabweans, many of whom are earning as little as US$30 per month or less to
start their own company and thrive!
What the country needs and has been dying for these last 39 years is an economic environment is which existing and well establish companies can thrive alongside new companies. The caustic economic environment was created by the decades of corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship, a man-made problem.
What the country needs and has been dying for these last 39 years is an economic environment is which existing and well establish companies can thrive alongside new companies. The caustic economic environment was created by the decades of corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship, a man-made problem.
We have had many opportunities to end
the Zanu PF dictatorship with the best chances falling to Obert Gutu and his
fellow MDC friends during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. All MDC leaders had to do was
implement the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging the
elections. They failed to get even one reform implemented. Not one!
Ever since MDC leaders’ failure to
end the Zanu PF dictatorship they have abandoned all pretence of implementing
the reforms and ensuring free, fair and credible elections in favour of the
present status quo in which Zanu PF is allowed to blatant rig the elections as
long as the opposition get a few gravy train seats. Opposition leaders like
Obert Gutu, Nelson Chamisa, etc. have been hunting with the Zanu PF hounds and
running with the economically impoverish and politically powerless majority.
For 39 years and
counting it has been getting darker and darker because we have sinking deeper
and deeper into this hell-on-earth. As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state
then the country will continue to sink. Only an idiot would believe Zanu PF
would ever get us out of this mess after 39 years of dragging us into the mess.
“When I got home I was summoned to the Ministers Office and there I was given a transcript of my discussions with the Norwegian Secretary of State and I was given a severe warning from the Minister of State Security to 'never do that again, or else'. That was Mnangagwa,” said Cross.
ReplyDeleteNorway will be rightly ashamed of their role in this!
“I have been a Member of Parliament for ten years, during that time we have had many interchanges with Emmerson. He has a very sharp mind and a sense of humor but if you do take him on, expect no prisoners,” said Cross.
One does not need to do anything for Mnangagwa to go after you as we know only too well. He issued the shoot to kill order on 1 st August 2018 to subdue those protesting against yet another rigged elections and did the same again the last two weeks of January 2019 to subdue those protesting fuel price hikes. 6 and 17 unarmed civilians were shot dead in August and January, respectively.
Eddie Cross has had nothing but praise for Mnangagwa as president; one has to seriously question why anyone would consider someone with so much innocent blood on his hands suitable to hold the office of president! Eddie Cross has also hipped praise on Morgan Tsvangirai as a leader even when there was a mountain of evidence showing the latter was a corrupt, incompetent and a sell-out. To be frank, Eddie Cross himself has turned out to be incompetent and a poor judge of characters.
@ Mike Carter
ReplyDeleteThis is how the people of Zimbabwe demonstrate. Peacefully and full of joy! They were never asked whether they would support some crazy "military-assisted transition". Former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa was clear when just after the coup he said that the so-called "military-assisted transition" was an internal Zanu-PF affair and not a national issue.
The interesting thing about Cross's attempt to claim that peoples' demonstration confers legitimacy on the process of transition, is that it unconsciously opens the door to the same thing happening to Mnangagwa.
Cross also claims that Mnangagwa, like South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, is a minority leader within his ruling party; Generation 40 (G40) faction held 100 seats and were intent to remove him; but he survived the election by the skin of his teeth.
He now admits that 100 seats were won by G40. The implication of this is huge. There is a very large probability that voters who voted for a G40 candidate in Parliament would not have voted for Mnangagwa for the Presidency. Probably they would have voted for Chamisa.
The issue of political legitimacy cannot be dismissed as "water under the bridge". Without political legitimacy and using the fatally flawed judgment that the economy can recover without democracy, truth and justice in place, the Government of Zimbabwe is causing needless and avoidable suffering on Zimbabweans which will inevitably increase.
If Mnangagwa indeed did win the election, he had the opportunity during the Con-Court challenge to instruct Zec to produce all the results for everyone to see. This would have entrenched his legitimacy as president.
Could not agree with you more on this point; as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs, there will be no meaningful economic recovery.
"The main agenda of the workshop is to mobilise and capacitate civic organisations and individuals to stage purported effective demonstrations and disturbances to overthrow the Zanu-PF government". Mathema said his ministry will ensure that law and order prevail in the country.
ReplyDeleteThe ministry has since directed ZRP commissioner-general Godwin Matanga to put adequate security measures in place to deal with anyone who engages in any form of violence and disturbances.
"The police will thwart any civil disobedience or violent machinations by individuals, political parties and civic organisations under the guise of freedom of assembly and other hidden activities. Let me emphasise that no NGO can teach us about freedom of assembly and democracy," he said.
Mnangagwa has failed to revive the economy and now he thinks he can retain power by beating everyone into submission. The people os Zimbabwe and, indeed, the whole world knows that these are not empty threats, this is a regime desperate retain power and will not hesitate to use wanton violence.
Still, we can be certain that the people of Zimbabwe will cry out because humans are not sheep expected to suffer and die in silence! The worsening economic situation will force the people to cry out.
Said the Ministry, "Government has noted reports that Parirenyatwa and Mpilo Hospitals are failing to repair broken down radiotherapy machines due to forex challenges. The US$53 000 needed was availed last week, but the hospitals are failing to transact owing to sanctions restrictions on the banks they use.”
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a case of the Bank not having the foreign currency because there is a chronic shortage of forex in Zimbabwe. With the collapse of the country’s agricultural sector, commerce and industry the country has been importing 70% of the nation’s basic needs hence the skewed balance of payment. We are imported far more than we earn from exports and hence the chronic shortage of foreign currency.
The tragedy of Zimbabwe is we have people like Obert Gutu who are now focused on their own selfish interest at the expense of the common agenda of fighting for free, fair and credible elections. It is nonsensical that anyone, let alone an aspiring leader, would ever consider last year's elections free, fair and credible. And yet that is what all those in the opposition camp did!
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