"Fellow South Africans, we
cannot adopt quiet diplomacy when it comes to Zimbabwe. Reports are such that
over 2 million Zim citizens went to bed hungry last night and every other. The
country is fast becoming a failed state, acts of violence on the rise therefore
South Africa must intervene," said Mmusi Maimane, the leader of SA
Democratic Alliance party.
With unemployment a nauseating 90%,
basic services such as health care all but collapsed, inflation now into four-digit
figures, etc. there is no doubt that Zimbabwe is a failed state. We, in
Zimbabwe, therefore welcome Maimane’s offer to help us get out of this mess.
The number one thing South Africans
can do to help Zimbabwe is pressure President Cyril Ramaphosa and the SA government
to accept the political reality that Zimbabwe is a pariah state ruled by
corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs.
The root cause of Zimbabwe’s economic
meltdown is the 39 years of criminal waste of human and material resources
through gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. No nation could sustain let
alone thrive given such waste. The people of Zimbabwe could not stop the waste
or remove from office those behind the misrule because Zanu PF rig elections.
When Mnangagwa stage the military
coup to remove Mugabe, he promised to hold free, fair and credible elections.
He never fulfilled that promise as he went on to blatantly rig the elections.
The greatest disservice SA and the rest of the SADC countries did to Zimbabwe
was to endorse the sham elections.
“The elections went well!” said
President Ramaphosa. He lied!
Zimbabwe is a pariah state ruled by
incompetent, corrupt, vote rigging and murderous thugs. The country’s economy
is in a serious mess because it is near impossible to do business with these
thugs. As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state there will be no meaningful
economic recovery.
Zimbabwe’s last year elections were a
sham, Zanu PF does not have the mandate of the people to govern and should step
down. The way out of this mess is for the country to appoint an interim
administration that will be tasked to implement the democratic reforms to
ensure free, fair and credible elections in future.
The greatest help DA and the people
of SA can give Zimbabwe today is for SA to acknowledge that Zimbabwe’s last
elections were not free, fair and credible that alone will go a long way to
pressure Zanu PF to step down to allow reforms to be implemented and thus end
the curse of rigged elections and pariah state.
The claim that sanctions are causing the country's economic meltdown is as empty as the claim that the world is flat! The only reason Zanu PF is still playing this sanctions drum is the party has nothing else to play!
ReplyDeleteThe claim that sanctions are causing the country's economic meltdown is as empty as the claim that the world is flat! The only reason Zanu PF is still playing this sanctions drum is the party has nothing else to play!
ReplyDelete@ Chamisa
ReplyDeleteThe irony is on why an African should be Afrophobic. True, we need to solve the challenges in fellow African countries that have led to many leaving their own countries but the irony remains that Africans would feel unwelcome both in Europe as well as in a fellow African State. If Africans are unsafe in Africa, where else should they go?
Well it must be said that you, Comrade Nelson Chamisa, and your fellow MDC friends have played your part in making Zimbabweans “unwelcome” in Zimbabwe. The people have risked life and limb to elect you lot into power on the understanding you would bring about the much-needed democratic changes the country has been dying for, as your party’s name implied. You lot have failed to bring about even one change in nearly 20 years. Not one!
Right now MDC is fighting to legitimise this illegitimate Zanu PF regime if Mnangagwa appoints you, Chamisa, and others into his cabinet. This new GNU will not deliver any changes just as the last one did. The only reason you want it is so you can get back on the gravy-train.
Just stop pontificating about victims of xenophobia attacks in SA or anywhere else including those suffering in Zimbabwe; you are a sell-out and do not care about ending their suffering! Just because MDC supporters have no clue how they are been sold-out does not mean everyone else is blind to what you lot are doing!
Zimbabwe is a failed state because the nation has been stuck with a corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical regime for 39 years. The people cannot remove the regime from office because it rigs the elections.This is all self-evident but not so to African leaders like President Ramaphosa; Mnangagwa rigged the elections and he says the elections "went well!" How stupid is that!
ReplyDeleteIf the DA and its supporters are serious about helping Zimbabwe recover, then they must demand that SA reconsiders its position on Zimbabwe's last elections. If SA was demand this illegitimate Zanu PF regime stepped down the rest of SADC and AU will follow its lead.
I believe that SA would have benefited a lot more from a stable and prosperous Zimbabwe it did from Zimbabwe, a failed state.
Mnangagwa, addressing Zimbabwean nationals in Cape Town, said the attacks on foreigners can only be contained by punitive measures.
ReplyDelete"I have no doubt that the authorities here will not fold hands, they must bring sanity and to do so they must apply a bit of force," said Mnangagwa.
Nothing will please Mnangagwa more than to see SA use force regardless of the circumstance because the use of such force would validate his own barbarism.
Some people have argued that SA has done nothing to stop the violence precisely because it is not its own people who are being terrorised and killed. In other words Ramaphosa is loathed to use even “a bit of force” to stop South Africans terrorising and killing foreigners!
The contrast between Ramaphosa and Mnangagwa could not be more pronounce, when it comes to his own people Ramaphosa will not use force to stop them behaving like thugs. On the other hand, Mnangagwa is the thug and he will not hesitate to use brute force to silence his own people complaining about rigged elections and economic hardship brought about by the decades of Zanu PF misrule.