The country is in serious trouble with unemployment a
nauseating 90%; basic services such sheath and education all but collapse;
facing fuel, cash and medicine shortages; 19-hour power cuts; 5.7 million people
needed food aid; etc. Instead of those in power coming up with solutions to the
many teething problems they are wasting time in their own macabre sabre-rattling
contest!
"We are a committed leadership that will give Zanu PF
headaches and [Amos] Chibaya was not lying or joking about the war and fight we
are going to take to the doorsteps of Emmerson Mnangagwa. We are going to
overthrow him before 2023 that is not a joke," said Job Sikhala, MDC Vice
Chairperson at a Rally in Bikita.
"When a person says they want to overthrow a
constitutionally-elected President, they are committing an offence and they are
threatening a coup, this will not be allowed in this
country. We love our peace and it will be protected,” came
the reply from the Zanu PF Youth League leader, Lewis Matutu.
The irony is that Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF regime are NOT
constitutionally elected because last year’s elections were NOT free and fair
as MDC leaders have readily admitted.
ZEC failed to produce something as basic as a verified
voters’ roll, for Pete’s sake! It is MDC who have given Zanu PF the modicum of
legitimacy by participating in the flawed and illegal elections. Even with all
the evidence that Zanu PF had indeed rigged the elections, MDC has nonetheless
remain ambivalent in their condemnation of the elections.
"Legitimacy is an issue - last year's elections were
illegal, and not free and fair. All reasonable observers concede that,”
commented David Coltart, MDC Treasurer General.
MDC has been calling for political dialogue to resolve the
legitimacy issue. The party is demand a power sharing transition authority (TA)
in which Nelson Chamisa and a few other MDC members are to be given cabinet
positions complete with the ministerial limo, generous salary, etc. MDC claim
the TA will revive the economy and implement the reforms to stop Zanu PF rigged
future elections. All nonsense, of course! MDC failed to get even one reform
implemented in the 2008 GNU when the party had the majority in cabinet and
parliament and the backing of SADC leaders. It is hard to see how the party can
achieve anything in this TA when Zanu PF hold all the trump cards.
MDC leaders are selling-out the cause for free, fair and
credible elections as the only basis for political legitimacy for selfish
person gain.
It is laughable that MDC sold-out to give the illegitimate
Zanu PF regime legitimacy is now talking of using violence to force the latter
to share the spoils of power. Whilst Zanu PF, for its part, blatantly rigged
the elections and will now use brute force to retain its corrupt and tyrannical
rule.
Meanwhile, Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown is getting worse and
worse and the nation is being pushed deeper and deeper into this hell-on-earth
we find ourselves in. The only way out is for this illegitimate Zanu PF regime
to step down so we can appoint an interim administration or transition
authority, call it what you wish, composed of individuals who can be trusted to
implemented the democratic reforms and thus end the curse of rigged elections.
@ Professor J Moyo
ReplyDelete#TBgate is a mega corruption scam through which billions in USDs were corruptly printed between 2013 and 2019 under a fictious 1:1 exchange rate to effectively line up the pockets of linked individuals for their personal benefit at the expense of the economy and the public good!
#TBgate is the most far reaching corruption scandal in Zimbabwe involving systematic and corrupt abuse of USD billions under: *Command agriculture *Fuel imports by cartels *Dark imports for unspecified and unauditable "operations", siphoned through Mobutu-style payments!
#TBgate has had a devastating impact on the economy and the livelihoods of ordinary people because of its link with other systemic corruption including but not only systematic theft of diamonds, never mind whether its quantum is USD 15 billion or whatever: the value is huge!
Paranthetically, the corrupt fight against corruption is exposed by the fact that absolutely nothing is being done or said by Matanda-Moyo, Zanu PF youth, ZRP, ZACC,NPA, SACU, the judiciary or state media about Zimbabwe's stolen diamonds and their actual value!
Related to stolen diamonds given #TBgate, is gold theft. Before the coup, machete-murders were rife in the Midlands over the control of the sale of Zim gold. Since then gold smuggling has become rampant. Gold smugglers now run the country, which they are also running down!
There's a link between #Tbgate and the plunder of the country's key resources, diamonds and gold, to corruptly benefit some individuals, their families and cronies. These are the individuals who unconstitutionally seized power by the threat and use of military force in Nov 2017!
Against this backdrop, it's disquieting that the new ZACC chairperson, Loice Matanda-Moyo, has assumed her post full of sound and furry signifying nothing about the fight against corruption. It seems her brief is to cover up the REAL corruption that has destroyed the economy!
Corruption can never be uprooted when those responsible for the corruption are in power and they and they alone decide which cases of corruption are dealt thing, when they know if anyone guilty of corruption are squeezed to hard they would implicate them to save themselves or make sure they do not suffer alone. Professor Moyo is spilling the beans now for these exact reasons!
The MDC is deeply worried about the escalating national crisis and to this end; the party will on Thursday this week launch the Roadmap to Economic Recovery, Legitimacy, Openness and Democracy (RELOAD) which is our blueprint to legitimacy and economic recovery in the country.
ReplyDeleteRELOAD does not in any way entail illegal and unconstitutional means of solving the national crisis.
Once again, the MDC wishes to state unequivocally that it has always submitted itself to the cardinal values of legality, constitutionalism and democracy. Any attempt to portray the MDC in any other way is disingenuous and unfortunate.
The root cause of Zimbabwe’s economic and political crisis is the nation’s failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. The country had its best opportunity yet to implement the reforms and end the vote rigging during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Sadly, MDC wasted the opportunity and failed to implement even one reform in five years. Ever since, MDC has participated in elections knowing fully well that Zanu PF would rig the elections out of the same greed behind the party’s failure to implement reforms during the GNU.
MDC admit last year’s elections were “illegal, and not free and fair” and yet the party is prepared to sweep this under the carpet and declare Mnangagwa and the Zanu PF regime legitimate if Mnangagwa agreed to sharing the spoils of the rigged elections with MDC. The party is selling out.
If MDC had not sold-out and joined the EU, Americans, Commonwealth and many other outsiders and locals in condemning last year’s rigged elections the pressure on Zanu PF to step down would have produced the desired result by now.
“MDC has always submitted itself to the cardinal values of legality, constitutionalism and democracy!” Was the party is selling-out in failing to implement reforms and granting legitimacy to an illegitimate regime is it still submitting itself to the cardinal values of legality, constitutionalism and democracy!
Mugabe and Zanu PF has never respected the rule of law, one-person one-vote and even the sanctity of human life in their pursuit of absolute power. The biggest mistake we have ever made was to let the regime have it all in the hope the thugs will ever come to their senses and see the madness of their oppression and futility of their greed. The truth is absolute power has corrupted them beyond the point of no-return giving up even an inch of their dictatorial powers and a single dollar of their looted wealth is simply unthinkable.
ReplyDeleteBy the late 1990s, many Zimbabweans have accepted the country was in deep trouble and needed to cut back Zanu PF’s dictatorial powers by implementing democratic changes. The nation risked life and limb to elect Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends into power on the ticket they would bring about the needed democratic changes. Sadly, MDC leaders turned out to be corrupt and incompetent; easily tricked and corrupted. Mugabe bribed MDC leaders and they have failed to implement even one democratic change in 20 years. Not one!
Zimbabwe could have easily become the South Korea of Africa, where all enjoyed freedom, justice and economic prosperity. It has become the North Korea of Africa, where corruption, fear and poverty rule supreme! We can still be the South Korea but we must first wrestle absolute power from Zanu PF – a challenge but not an impossible one!