“It’s embarrassing and selfish for political elites
to destroy our public hospitals then seek health care abroad, destroy our
airlines then hire private jets for themselves, destroy our farms then import
grain,” you said.
“The standoff between Zanu’s G40 and Lacoste
factions is a red herring. The real issue is that Zanu PF in whatever form is
happy to use public funds to live lavishly while people’s lives deteriorate.
Sad to see public funds used for all this largesse while people are hungry and
poor.”
Poor Fadzayi, ever since you made you bid to join
Zimbabwe’s ruling elite and failed you have been bitter. You are furious to see
all the public funds used pay for the ruling elite’s health care needs,
largesse, imported cars, generous salaries and allowances, palatial mansions,
etc., etc. whilst you still have to make do with your meagre lawyer’s wage and
all the daily trials and tribulation that comes with being counted together
with the ordinary people. You do not care about the masses never did.
If you really cared about the masses, then you
would have listened to the warning against participating in last year’s
elections when it was clear Zanu PF was going to rig the elections. ZEC failed
to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll; for Pete’s sake.
You and the whole brigade of other opposition
candidates were warned participating in the flawed and illegal elections would
give Zanu PF some modicum of credibility. You all knew that Zanu PF was going
to give away a few gravy-train seats and these were what you were after. You
did not care that you were giving Zanu PF the smoke screen to rig the elections
and extend its corrupt and tyrannical rule.
“The standoff between Zanu’s G40 and Lacoste
factions is a red herring!” The relationship between Zanu PF and MDC is even
closer than many would care to admit which explains why the later never
implemented even one reform during the last GNU. MDC not only provided Zanu PF
with the modicum of credibility for rigged elections, the party is offering
Mnangagwa full “legitimacy” in return for cabinet positions.
If Fadzai Mahere had won the Mount Pleasant MP seat
last year, she would have loved being seen sitting together with Tendai Biti,
Job Sikhala and Nelson Chamisa in the Blue Roof! She is complaining of the ruling
elite wasting a fortune of largesse whilst the poor starve but only to win the
people’s vote. Last year, in her haste to join the ruling elite, she did not even
have the common sense to demand a verified voters’ roll!
Of course Fadzayi Mahere knew last year's elections were not going to be free, fair and credible and she did not care. She, like eveyone else in the opposition, knew Zanu PF was giving away a few seats as bait to the opposition and these were they were all after. By participating she gave the flawed and illegal process legitimacy. She is complaining now only to enhance her chance of winning the bait seats next time.
ReplyDeleteZimbabwe needs to overhaul the country's dysfunctional and oppressive political system but will never get this job done as long as the nation entrust these corrupt and incompetent opposition politicians to do it. MDC leaders will never ever dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship because they are incapable of resisting the temptation of gravy train power and remain focused on the task of restoring the freedoms and rights of all.
@ Obey WekwaDzafunwa
ReplyDeleteThis author is out of topic.. You are mixing 2 different issues here..nyaya ndeye kungoti madhara agadzirise mahospitals let alone Mahere s political failures...I don’t see what’s wrong with saying that...Even if she was MT pleasant MP she would still say it....
Lastly even if MDC had participated or not Zanu PF would still be in power...Hapana chaichinja apa.
Tsvangirai and the other MDC leaders never complained about Mugabe and other Zanu PF cronies sending their children out of Zimbabwe for their education and seeking all their health care need out of Zimbabwe because the MDC leaders were doing the same thing themselves. How many MDC leaders complained that Tsvangirai died in a hospital in SA?
Good governance and free, fair and credible elections are two sides of the same coin. Indeed, one can even say you cannot have good governance without free elections. We are stuck, have been these last 39 years, with this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF regime because it rigged elections. It is nonsense to complain of bad governance when you are the one, by participating in flawed elections, giving the regime the excuse to get away with rigged elections.
Zimbabwe is stuck because it has a dysfunctional political system and with a naïve and gullible electorate incapable of seeing further than the tip of their noses, it the prospects of any meaningful change are zero!
The British sometimes sneered. At Lancaster House in London, amid talk of independence and elections, the British foreign secretary found him "reptilian", "not human".
ReplyDeleteI do not about Mugabe himself but he certainly did not consider his fellow Zimbabweans as humans, he certainly never showed any sympathy for their suffering and deaths. Even when the country's hospitals were running out of something as basic as pain killers, he continued to spend millions of dollars on his overseas health trips, holidays, birthday parties, etc. Even in death he is still demanding a mausoleum to be build in his honour when 5 million are facing starvation!
@ Fungai Chiganangana
ReplyDelete“Nhai VaMukori, handiti afa anaka here. Chiregai zve kuti nan'a na'na naye.”
Well with that kind of mentality it is no wonder the country is up to her eyes is the s***t! Has is ever occurred to you that Mugabe is dead but the nation will take two generations at least to recover to where we were in 1980.
Worse still, your naivety is not going to help end the Zanu PF dictatorship which is alive and thriving! You accept the dictator and you accept the dictatorship he helped to create.
“Afa anaka!” (The dead a good!) What a stupid thing to say of a corrupt and murderous dictator who has left the country in ruins, over 30 000 murdered and millions suffering in abject poverty!
The government has shown no urgency at all in addressing the doctors' grievances.
ReplyDeleteInstead the authorities responded by tabling plans to introduce a draconian law, which if passed, will see doctors being banned from going on strike.
The reasons given by doctors for going on strike are genuine and they need to be attended to by government as a matter of urgency
Back to reality! This is a regime that is spending millions of dollars in foreign currency to build a mausoleum to a corrupt and murderous dictator but say it has no money to pay doctors and nurses attending to the living a living wage! So Mugabe died is still more valuable that millions of ordinary Zimbabweans to whom life is hell-on-earth.
This Zanu PF dictatorship, just like the dead dictator, does not give a damn about the suffering and dying of ordinary people; all it cares about is holding on to power and the extravagant lifestyles of the filthy rich ruling elite. If Zimbabweans want change then they must step up their demands for free, fair and credible elections! Mnangagwa and company do not care even if the skeleton health care service too disappeared, they are getting their health care needs outside Zimbabwe. Mugabe died in a hospital in Singapore after five months. VP Chiwenga is in China.