“The people's Free
Zimbabwe peaceful march will be held on Friday 16 August 2019, in line with
Section 59 of our national Constitution that guarantees all citizens of
Zimbabwe the unconditional right to demonstrate and petition peacefully,” reads
the statement from Daniel Molokele, MDC national spokesperson.
“In this regard, no stone
has been left unturned in strict measures to ensure that the people's Free
Zimbabwe march is going to be most peaceful one ever witnessed in the country. particular, hundreds of peace marshals will be
deployed. Further, digital cameras will be used to film the entire march to
ensure that any violent planted elements trying to disrupt the peaceful march
will be fully recorded.”
It is pleasing to note
that MDC is taking some precautions to ensure the march is peaceful and the
Zanu PF regime is not given an excuse to use violence.
However, it must be stated
here and now that MDC is just exploiting the people’s suffering for its own
selfish political gain.
Zanu PF rigged last year’s
elections this makes the party illegitimate and per se illegal. The suggestion
that MDC can grant Zanu PF legitimacy in return for a few gravy train cabinet
positions is an outrage because MDC has no such power to do so.
But most important of all,
MDC has promised that the new power sharing arrangement will implement “comprehensive
democratic reforms” to ensure future elections are free, fair and credible.
This is just wishful thinking because the last 2008 to 2013 GNU failed to get
even one reform implemented.
MDC had the majority in
that parliament and cabinet plus the backing of SADC leaders who had forced
Zanu PF to agree to the reforms. Still MDC failed to get even one reform
implemented
“We got in the inclusive
government and just sat there, spent five years in there. We came out without
doing anything,” Nelson Chamisa admitted last month.
“We went into the GNU with
no plan!” He added. He was lying, there a plan.
SADC leaders help draft
the 2008 Global Political Agreement, which in implementing the raft of
democratic reforms was the primary task of the GNU, and SADC, as the guarantor
of the agreement, got Mugabe to sign on to.
MDC leaders failed to get
even one reform implemented because “were busy enjoying themselves being in the
GNU, they forgot why they were there!” as one SADC leader remarked in sheer
exasperation. Zimbabwe simply cannot afford to waste this opportunity to
finally implement the reforms and get the nation out of this mess.
Zanu PF rigged last year’s
elections, everyone except Zimbabwe’s corrupt, incompetent and compromised
opposition, agrees. The most logic solution is to appoint an independent interim
body to implement the reforms and not the same individuals who failed to get
the task done ten years ago.
MDC knows that the power
sharing arrangement with Zanu PF will legitimacy the regime and help it to stay
in power and block the implementation of reforms. MDC leaders also know most
Zimbabweans still do not know MDC sold-out big time during the last GNU and
have no clue the party is set to do the same again. If these people knew the
new GNU would never bring about meaningful changes they would never join these
MDC street protests, naturally.
The foolish MDC power
sharing arrangement will get the illegitimate Zanu PF regime get off the hook.
Chamisa and company must know, they will be ones on hook and, this time, they
will be held to account. If, a year from now, no reforms are not implemented,
they name is mud.
MDC leaders have learned
Zanu PF’s dirty habits of betraying the nation in pursuit of selfish personal
gain; this must now be stopped. Both Zanu PF and MDC leaders must and will be
held to full account for their treasonous acts. Enough is enough!
There is really no excuse why many Zimbabweans out there still have no clue what the 2008 to 2013 GNU was about and that MDC leaders sold-out big time. Particularly for a nation that boasts of being the most literate nation in Africa. We are in the 21 first century with its information revolution started by Johannes Gutenberg in 15 th century with his printing press invention. Both Zanu PF and MDC have taken full advantage to push their selfish agenda at the expense of the common good.
ReplyDeleteLast year Zanu PF denied 3 million or so Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote; this was one of the many blatant vote rigging violation MDC ignored; the diasporeans themselves hardly noticed! Many of them still continue to support MDC regardless!
Yes, it was SADC leaders who wanted Mugabe and Zanu PF to be in the 2008 GNU to give the tyrant a soft landing. They thought MDC leaders would have the good sense to implement the reforms. But after the failure of that GNU to implement even one reform, no SADC leader or anyone else with half a brain would want to give Zanu PF yet another soft landing.
It is therefore shocking that MDC should be the ones now seeking to give Zanu PF a soft landing with another GNU knowing fully well the no meaningful reforms will ever see the light of day.
Zimbabwe is a nation in deep, deep trouble because for the past 39 years the country has blundered from pillar to post and is now stuck with a corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and tyrannical Zanu PF regime. Whilst the nation has had many golden opportunities to end the Zanu PF dictatorship, they have all been wasted, mainly by the corrupt and incompetent MDC leaders.
By blatantly rigging last year’s election, Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF thugs have presented the nation with another chance to finally implement the reforms and end the curse of rigged elections. All the nation has to do is demand that the illegitimate Zanu PF regime must step down to allow the appointment of an interim administration that will implement the reforms.
It will be a great tragedy if the opportunity to implement the reforms is once again wasted and Zanu PF is allowed to stay in power till 2023. The party will go on to rig those elections. And all because MDC sold-out again in giving Zanu PF a new GNU soft landing.
The new Zanu PF and MDC GNU will be disastrous for Zimbabwe and we must resist is at all cost!
Zanu PF thugs have always used violence to impose their will on the nation. It is a great tragedy that after having to fight the white colonial regime for our freedom and human rights and dignity; we now find ourselves having to once again fight for all these things again only this time fight our fellow blacks!
ReplyDeleteAs much as we would not want to admit it the reality is black on black oppression is even worse than white colonial on black oppression. The Smith days now look like the golden age compared to the Zanu PF thuggery - a damning testimonial to how much our black majority rule has been a failure.
As much as the nation would like to avoid confrontation the reality is the economic chaos brought about by decades of Zanu PF misrule cannot be allowed to continue. Whenever basic freedoms and human rights have been denied, they are only restored after the people stand up and demand them.
In Mugabe and Mnangagwa's pariah state were ignorance and fear rule the roost, the regime's village idiots like Togarepi Pupurai and Energy Mutodi have the temerity to boast of Zanu PF's barbaric brutality as if it is something to be proud of. When the country finally achieve meaningful democratic change, people like Togarepi must be held to account for their role in the madness and tyranny the nation is facing today.
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has announced yet another increase to the price of fuels effective today. The latest price increase comes after the price of fuel went up twice last week.
ReplyDeleteDiesel has gone up by ZWL$0.21 (21 cents) to retail for ZWL$9.27 per litre up from ZW$9.06 per litre while the maximum price of petrol has gone up by ZWL$0.08 (8 cents) to ZWL$9.09 per litre from ZW$9.01 per litre.
The inflation gene is out of the bottle there is no putting it back! So fuel prices are increasing $0.21 from $9.06 or 2.3% twice a week! No doubt hyperinflation rate is now into four digits, chasing the record of 500 billion % of 2008! As we know in 2008 the shop shelves were empty, it was impossible to do business in an environment where prices were doubling by the hour just to keep up with hyperinflation.
Minister of Finance Professor Mthuli Ncube promised that inflation will be below 10% by the end of the year. He has stopped the release of official inflation rate calculations; he already knows that his fanciful Cambridge inspired forecast will be way off target.
"Let's restore our dignity!" you say. You and your MDC friends had the golden opportunity to do just that during the GNU when all you had to do was implement the democratic reforms.
ReplyDelete"We sat, ate and did nothing in five years of the inclusive government!" you admitted last month.
You are calling the nation to join you in the coming demos to press Mnangagwa to appoint you and a few other MDC leaders ministers in a new GNU. You know very well that the new GNU will not bring about any meaningful economic recovery much less implement the democratic reforms to end the curse of rigged elections and pariah state.
You are taking full advantage of the people's long suffering to advance your own selfish agenda of getting back on the gravy train at the expense of the people's agenda of getting the reforms finally implemented.
The only sure way of getting the reforms finally implemented is by demanding that Zanu PF steps down. The regime rigged last year's elections and therefore has no mandate to govern. MDC is offering the regime legitimacy, MDC contrived reprieve, in return for ministerial appointments. MDC is selling-out and it beggars belief how you think this will end the nation’s suffering and restore the people’s dignity!
Writing on Twitter Chamisa said, "It is leadership. This country has everything needed for prosperity and greatness. We have phenomenal goodwill globally upon fantastic human and natural resources locally. The turnaround will be quick and smart. We have low hanging fruits and easy wins. Lead we shall!"
ReplyDeleteYou were in the last GNU and failed to implement even one reform in five years. The country’s biggest problem is its political system that has allowed corrupt and incompetent individual in both sides of the political divide to stay in power way past their usefulness.
Zimbabwe has no legitimate government right now because last year’s elections were null and void, Zanu PF blatantly rigged the elections. What we need is an interim administration whose primary task will be to implement the raft of democratic reforms agreed at the on set of the last GNU to ensure future elections are free, fair and credible and the country has a healthy and functioning democratic system of government.
Deadwood like Chamisa, Mnangagwa, etc. will not survive for long in a healthy democracy.
A company linked to Zimbabwe's military establishment was involved in the looting of funds belonging to the National Social Security Authority (Nssa) the forensic audit report by BDO Zimbabwe Chartered Accountants on behalf of the Auditor General Mildred Chiri has revealed.
ReplyDeleteThe revelations puts Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chairperson Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo in an unenviable position given her husband and Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo is a director in the company called Fernhaven Investments
Chiri's report says Africom, a telecommunications company in which the army owns 51% through Fernhaven, borrowed US$15 million from AfrimexBank, but failed to service the loan.
Nssa, as a minority (4,5%) shareholder in Africom, became the sole guarantor of the loan in December 2013 despite misgivings from its board.
Fernhaven indemnified Nssa by providing security for the loan in the form of Longcheng Plaza shopping mall in Harare, which was built by Chinese firm Anhui Foreign Construction Corporation for an estimated US$200m.
Africom persistently defaulted on the loan and in 2015, Afrimex demanded money from Nssa, which made payments to the bank.
According to Chiri's report, however, Nssa should have demanded the money from Fernhaven, since the company had provided its property as surety.
"As per indemnity agreement, Nssa should have foreclosed on the Fernhaven-pledged Longcheng property in order to raise the money to settle the debt," the report said.
Allegations in Chiri's report, based on a three-year investigation by BDO Zimbabwe Chartered Accountants, have already led to the arrest of Mupfumira in relation to the plunder of Nssa during her tenure as Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister between 2014 and 2017. She will appear in court next week on fraud charges involving US$95m.
Former Nssa chairman Robin Vela, who is also implicated in fraud, has asked the High Court to set aside the Auditor-General's report, saying it is biased.
Is it any wonder the country is in a mess! With all this looting going on at a grant scale it is shocking that the regime managed to hoodwink some people into believing that sanctions were the root cause of the country’s economic meltdown. There is no one more blind than one who close their eyes and mind to the truth laid bare before them!
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is the biggest thief, says Thomas Mapfumo.
ReplyDeleteMapfumo, whose hard-hitting songs have become legendary for speaking truth to power, accuses politicians of sending money to foreign banks.
Mapfumo says Mnangagwa is the biggest thief and his juniors are emulating him which makes it difficult for Mnangagwa to reprimand his subject.
Mapfumo added that political elites were busy destroying the country's future by taking both the fruit and the branch from the tree yet they want to eat the fruit only.
Hear! Hear!
Indeed, Zanu PF thugs have again and again cut down the trees to create hungry and despair just so the populous are beholden to the regime. The regime has even committed mass murders and will cut down the remaining fruit trees and burn the lot just to make sure if the party cannot rule the country there will be nothing left for those who come after it.
If only Zimbabwe had only a few more people like Thomas Mapfumo willing to speak the truth to power the country would not be in the mess it is in today. What Zimbabwe has plenty of is sell-out like Professor Mthuli Ncube, Kirsty Coventry and many others who would not only speak truth to power but would distort the truth and/or work with the regime to prop it up for the sake of thirty pieces of silver!
A rate increase of 1000% in a country were unemployment is 90% is madness. Even the 10% who are employed will not afford this hike since their wages are not going up by anything near 1000%.
ReplyDeleteThe Minister of Finance, Professor Mthuli Ncube, has let the inflation gene out of the bottle and there is no putting it back. The hyperinflation of 2008 is back and so are the empty shop shelves and abject poverty and deaths!