MDC Vice President
Professor Welshman Ncube says the current Zimbabwean government is poised for
failure and anyone pinning their hopes on it will be disappointed.
"Is there still
anyone who still believes that Zimbabwe has a chance of being turned around by
this coup government when most of the country has no electricity supply from
4am to 10pm every day, no water in some cities for days, no fuel month after
month, no money unbuyable basics?"
Prof Ncube said.
Well that is very true,
there is no hope of this Zanu PF regime turning the Zimbabwe economy around.
None! What Professor Ncube should know is that there are many Zimbabweans who
are very angry with him and his MDC friends not because they are the bearers of
the bad news of economic meltdown and bad governance but because the country
would not be in this mess if they had not sold-out.
The people of Zimbabwe
have risked life and limb to elect Professor Ncube and his MDC friends into
power on the ticket they will bring about the democratic changes including free
and fair elections as their party name implied. MDC – Movement for Democratic
Change! Millions have been beaten and/or raped and over 500 were murdered by
Zanu PF thugs in the 2008 elections alone. Sadly, it was all for nothing.
MDC leaders have failed
to deliver even one democratic change in the nearly 20 years of the party occupying
centre political stage. During the 2008 to 2013 GNU MDC had the golden
opportunity to implement the raft of democratic reforms agreed in the Global
Political Agreement (GPA). The party had the majority in cabinet and parliament
and had the support of SADC leaders, who were the guarantor of the GPA. And yet
not even one reform was implemented in five years. Not one!
Mugabe bribe the MDC
leaders with the trappings of power; the ministerial limos, very generous
salaries and allowances, a former white-owned farm for Welshman Ncube, a $4
million Highlands mansion for Morgan Tsvangirai, etc., etc. With their snouts
in the feeding trough, MDC leaders forgot about implementing the reforms.
“Mazivanhu eMDC adzidza
kudya anyerere!” (MDC people have learnt to enjoy the gravy train spoils of
power!) Zanu PF cronies crowed when asked why MDC leaders were not implementing
the reforms.
MDC leaders did not
repent for selling out during the GNU but compounded their betrayal by participating
in the 2013 elections even when they knew Zanu PF was rigging the elections and
participating was giving credibility to a flawed and illegal process, as David
Coltart readily admitted.
“The electoral process
was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which
would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between
the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would
remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility,”
wrote Coltart. He was a Minister of Education in the GNU and a senior member of
the Ncube led MDC-N faction.
At their 2014 party
congress, the MDC-T faction resolved the party would never again participate in
future elections until reforms were implemented. “No reform! No election!” the
nation was told. The MDC-N and other opposition parties join the “No reform! No
Election!” bandwagon. They all abandoned this position as 2018 elections
approached; they all participated although not even one reform was implemented
for the
"Legitimacy is an
issue - last year's elections were illegal, and not free and fair. All
reasonable observers concede that," admitted David Coltart. Coltart and
Ncube have since merge with the other MDC factions to form the MDC Alliance of
which the two are Treasurer General and VP respectively.
To resolve the
legitimacy problem MDC A leaders are proposing that Zanu PF must agree to a new
power sharing arrangement, a Transition Authority (TA). The party claims that
it “has the key to end the country’s economic problems” but has never offered
any concrete policies because it has none.
The root cause of Zimbabwe’s
economic meltdown is that the country IS a pariah state ruled by corrupt,
incompetent and vote rigging thugs. No one, absolutely no one, in their right
mind wants to do business with thugs. The addition of Nelson Chamisa and one or
two other MDC A leaders to the Zanu PF regime will not change the fundamental
reality; Zimbabwe will still be a pariah state.
Worse still, the TA will
not implement the democratic reforms and thus end the curse of rigged elections
a pariah state. The TA is a watered down version of the 2008 GNU in that Zanu
PF will now has all the trump cards, majority in cabinet, 2/3 majority in
parliament and senate and there is no SADC leaders to supervise; why Zanu PF
would agree to see any reforms being implemented.
Besides, Zanu PF knows
from past experience MDC A will participate to win the bait gravy train seats
regardless how flawed and illegal the process got. Zanu PF is almost certain to
create the position of Official Opposition Leader and shadow cabinet complete
with the cabinet limo, salary and perks; just to spice up opposition bait!
If Zanu PF is still in
office in 2023; be it on its own or in the TA, it does not matter which; we can
be 100% certain the party will rig that year’s elections and thus retain the
pariah state and the economic and political mess.
No Mnangagwa is not
going to revive Zimbabwe’s comatose economy. His “Zimbabwe is open for business!”
mantra is dead and buried. He killed the mantra by blatantly rigging last year’s
elections and thus confirming Zimbabwe was still a pariah state. Chamisa and
his MDC friends have wasted many golden opportunities to deliver meaningful
democratic change. Chamisa does not have “the key to unlock economic recovery”;
he is lying.
The only hope of
Zimbabwe getting out of the economic and political mess it for the country to
hold free, fair and credible elections and lift the curse of pariah state. Zanu
PF must step down to allow the appointment of an interim body tasked to
implement the democratic reforms, the pre-requisite for free and fair
elections. The economic situation is dire; both Zanu PF and MDC A should stop
wasting time with their gimmick solutions.
“Zanu PF is not going to
turn around the economy!” Professor Ncube must have been rubbing his hands gleefully
when he said that. He knows the worsening economic meltdown is put Mnangagwa
under ever increasing the pressure to agree to form the TA. And as VP of MDC A
and former minister in the last GNU, Professor Ncube is certain of a cabinet post
in the TA. He does not care that the country is still stuck in this economic
and political mess because he and his MDC friends are sell-out. He does not
care that the TA is just the latest MDC A sell-out; it will neither end the
economic meltdown nor end the scourge of rigged elections.
Is President Kagame suggesting Zimbabwe cannot failed to free, fair and credible elections because of the sanctions? Even before he said it, he must have known that did not make any sense.
ReplyDeleteWhy should the ordinary Zimbabwean be denied their basic and fundamental right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country just because the government is being punished, rightly or wrongly, by the West? What has that got to do with me, the citizen? One does not beat up one's wife and children just because he quarreled with his neighbour!
May people used to hold President Kagame in high regard, it is sad to note that his long stay in power has corrupted him too!
Crisis-stricken Zimbabwe may have landed a raft of major monetary-policy reforms that were dubbed by one analyst as a “Hail-Mary pass.”
ReplyDeleteNone of the economic fundamentals such as the need for printing money to finance expenditure to ensure economic stability have been sorted out. The government had already promised to review the nurses’ wages and the other civil servants’ wages too will need review. It is no secret that the Zimbabwe economy is shrinking given the up 19 hours power cuts and lack of investment. So the increased wage bill will have to be paid with printed money!
The other problems such as rampant corruption and reckless spending on hired luxury jets are still a serious problem.
As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging thugs the country will remain a crisis-stricken nation. “Hail-Mary pass!” Yeah right! If anyone catches that one they will break their neck in landing!
"POLAD will ensure economic turnaround," you say.
ReplyDeleteWhat is it does not?
Zanu PF is the government of the day and it has failed to turnaround the economy and we have failed to hold it to democratuc account because the party rigs elections. By participating in these flawed and illegal elections people like you, Obert Gutu, and the rest in the opposition camp have given the rigged elections some modicum of credibility. This POLAD is part and parcel of giving this illegitimate regime credibilty.
"Legitimacy is an issue - last year's elections were illegal, and not free and fair. All reasonable observers concede that," David Coltart, Treasurer General of MDC A, finally admitted.
You, Gutu, and the rest of the other opposition minions will too be forced to admit that last year's elections were rigged and that you are just helping Zanu PF get some undue credibility. In return, Mnangagwa is giving you meaningless role in this utterly useless body POLAD!
“We should all remain focused and be positive.
ReplyDelete“Our economy will be great again,” said Madzibaba Bond.
He urged people to remain prayerful adding that God never failed His people.
“God has never failed His people."
Which Bible is this idiot reading?
“You shall not tempt the Lord your God, as you tempted Him in Massah” Deuteronomy 6:16.
Zimbabwe is one of the most corrupt and wasteful nation on earth. Mugabe himself admitted to US$ 15 billion in diamond revenue being “swindled”. Not one swindler has ever been arrested and one dollar recovered. We know the swindling is still taking place because the swindlers are still living in their palatial mansions, driving their posh cars and living their extravagant lifestyles.
We have done nothing to end corruption and some idiot says we must pray for our economy to be great again! If that is not putting the Lord to the test, tell me what is.
Zimbabwe is a rich country with great potential but millions today live in abject poverty because we have allowed mismanagement and corruption to run riot in the country. This is a man-made problem and we are perfectly capable of sort it out if we get off our backsides. God does not do for mankind what mankind can easily do for himself!
"Zanu PF has no desire to change. No to rigged elections!"
ReplyDeleteChinono was a Mnangagwa apologist, what happened?
Professor Welshman Ncube is no doubt pleased that Zanu PF will not turn around the Zimbabwe economy because that will increase pressure on Mnangagwa to form the power sharing Transition Authority. Professor, as VP MDC A and former Minister during the 2008 GNU, is cocksure he will get a cabinet position. Not that MDC A will turn around the economy; they too have no idea what to do.
ReplyDeleteLosing Presidential candidate Dr Daniel Shumba said, "It's clear to all including the Zanu PF regime itself, that the centre can no longer hold. With a no plan and no vision, the Zanu PF regime will continue to run like a headless chicken. Constitutionalism, rule of law, corruption and cronyism are at the core of our challenges. Enough!"
ReplyDeleteShumba yaonda! Where was your constitutionalism, rule of law, etc., etc. when you participated in an elections without even something as basic as a verified voters’ roll? By participating you gave the flawed and illegal elections some modicum of credibility, you idiot!
@ Tendai Chimunda
ReplyDeleteInsiders further observed that the MDC is a movement as the name suggests. It is an omnibus of political ideologies, and suffers a critical dearth of ideological coherence. Among its motley crew are leftists, who argue that the indecision over what course to take is the result of the capture of the MDC by the elite. This group argues that trying to cause people to strike in demand of the USD (US$) is nonsensical, since poor people hardly ever see the USD. The US$ is for the middle class and the elite, i.e. the top class lawyers and car dealers in the MDC.
The MDC has a lot of thinking and internal consensus building to do. The lack of consensus on protests explains why the MDC is using the feeble and gullible #Tajamuka and the slightly more potent ZCTU as guinea pigs. If the guinea pigs fail, the MDC would escape the resultant embarrassment. In the event that the protests become chaotic, the MDC would emerge blameless as it would not be visibly behind the protests. However, if they succeed the MDC would promptly endorse them and hijack the protests before throwing the guinea pigs into the second-class compartment of the revolution.
The economic situation has been getting decidedly worse and worse, not better. Millions of Zimbabweans would have gone into the street to protest their hardships if they thought for one minute that doing so would help end their suffering. They have not done so because they do not see the point.
MDC have been calling for street protest but only to push the party’s selfish agenda of force Zanu PF into the Transition Authority power sharing arrangement. Tendai Biti is as keen as mustard to be Minister of Finance. Chamisa, Coltart, W Ncube and others are all itching for seat on the gravy train. What is also equal true is that MDC A will not help end the economic meltdown; they are just posturing with no solution to offer.
Many people are painfully aware that without a well-articulated vision and plan street protests will be chaotic and accomplish very little. They are not too keen on that and rightly so too!
All MDC A leaders are after is a seat on the gravy train, if they had not sold-out on implementing the democratic reforms this country will be a healthy and fully functional democracy by now. They keep talking of implementing the reforms and holding free and fair elections and yet they are the ones selling that cause at every opportunity. It is no surprise that many ordinary Zimbabwe have already lost faith in the country's ability to hold free elections.
ReplyDeleteMany people have lost confidence in this Mnangagwa regime's ability to deliver economic recovery. Some people still believe Chamisa "has the key to revive the economy" but more out of desperation than anything else.
The economic recovery Zimbabwe witness after the 2008 GNU will not be repeated this time because the are not that many and significant economic blunders as in 2008 such as the 500 billion % inflation rate to give a knock recovery. The political reforms that could are required will not take place, Zanu PF will block them.
I agree the only way Zimbabwe to get out of this mess is for Zanu PF to step down! MDC leaders' blundering is not helping the cause as they are giving the thugs hope they can but legitimacy!
ZANU PF members will soon run bakeries in every ward to deal with the increasing price of bread and the shortages of wheat affecting the nation.
ReplyDeleteZANU PF has announced that Members of Parliament will launch bread making training in their constituencies, targeting 5 people per ward.
This is a regime that has really run out of ideas, it is not government to be organising and running people’s lives to the smallest detail of who bakes bread for every ward, who buys it and at what price. This is made worse when it turns out that people are not able to do these things because government has failed in its duty to make sure there is the economic infrastructure and stability for economic activity and prosperity. This is a government that has failed to govern and is instead interfering in people’s lives because it is obsessed about control.
This is just one of the regime’s many initiatives that will get nowhere. The nation will still have no bread and no money to buy it with even when it is available!
What is all this anti-west hysteria about! Does this woman even know that Zimbabwe was using the SA Rand and Botswana Pula and not just the US$ and British £?
ReplyDeleteI am sick and tired of these Africans who fall for cheap propaganda from Mugabe and Mnangagwa and will not listen to the people of Zimbabwe who have to pay dearly for the folly. The people of Zimbabwe would rather use stable foreign currency than the local currency that is valueless! The nation has gone through a decade of hyperinflation and the people are fearful of going through it all over again.
People like Dr Mumbi should not wish economic chaos on others to promote their own anti-west image at other people's expense.
MDC leaders insist they will get Zanu PF to implement the democratic reforms, necessary for ensuring next elections are free, fair and credible, as one of their five-point plan. This is just nonsense. MDC failed to get even one reform implemented during the last GNU in which they had the majority in parliament and cabinet and Zanu PF had its hands tied behind its back after signing the agreement to implement the reforms. It is naive to believe any reforms will be implemented this time when Zanu PF has 2/3 majority in parliament, senate and cabinet and there is no commitment to implementing any reforms.
ReplyDeleteThe prospect of yet another rigged election in 2023 is unthinkable! We must focus on getting Zanu PF to step down as the only sure way of making sure the reforms are implemented. MDC leaders do not care that last year's elections were rigged and they do not care if 2023 elections are rigged too as long as they get to share the spoils of power!