“Elections have become a problem that has sunk us into vicious violence,
unreformed state institutions, political and economic strife.
Let us do away with them for 10 years and focus on reconstruction,”
argued Hopewell Chin’ono.
The country is in this economic and political mess precisely because
Zanu PF has blatantly rigged the elections so the regime is no longer
democratically accountable to the people. For the last 39 years Zanu PF has
rigged elections and stayed in power to do as the regime pleased. Our biggest
mistake was to allow the regime to get away with this. The greatest challenge
before us all today, tomorrow and everyday until victory is to demand the
restoration of the people’s freedoms and rights including the right to a
meaningful vote and the right to life.
It is therefore shocking that anyone with a working brain would suggest
we give up the fight and grant the political thugs a bonus of 10 years for
having rigged elections and denied the people the vote for the last 39 years.
The one thing from the Lancaster House Constitution that Zanu PF has
failed to take away from the ordinary Zimbabwean is the regime’s obligation to
hold regular elections. The elections should be regular free, fair and
credible. The people have never had free, fair and credible elections and that
is what we should be fighting for. The argument that because we have been
denied free, fair and credible elections we should just give up the right to
regular elections too is foolish, to say the least.
If the nation has sunk “into vicious violence, unreformed state
institutions, etc., etc.” when these politicians feared that the nation may
hold them to democratic account what hope is there that they will do anything
of value when they know they have the licence to do as they please. Indeed, who
will stop them extending the 10 years with no elections to 20 years or do away
with elections altogether,
Zimbabwe has had the great misfortune of having many intellectuals, professors, leaders, etc., all otherwise very successful individuals in their own right but alas devoid of common sense.
ReplyDeleteLook at Professor Mthuli Ncube, he has an impressive CV but has made a complete ass of himself as Minister of Finance mainly because he would not accept the simple reality that Zanu PF ruling elite are corrupt and vote rigging thugs. The idiot has been trying to achieve economic recovery regardless of the country remaining a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. He is trying to make a silk purse out of sower’s ear!
The tragedy is that it is the millions of ordinary people that are paying dearly for his “austerity for future prosperity”. The austerity is here already and is here to stay because prosperity will never ever come!
Hopewell Chinono is another intellectual who has thrown out of the window any common sense he has ever had in pursuit of a chance to impress Mnangagwa in the hope of reward.
"Elections have become a problem that has sunk us into vicious violence, unreformed state institutions, political and economic strife.
Let us do away with them for 10 years and focus on reconstruction," argued Hopewell Chin'ono.
Only a first class idiot would say such nonsense. He acknowledges that Zanu PF has failed to deliver its constitutional obligation of holding free, fair and credible elections and is suggesting give the regime carte blanche power not to hold elections for 10 years as reward for rigging elections. What a moron!!!