Propaganda is the art of presenting what you want people to believe is the truth and the reality, repeating it over and over again, and totally disregard the facts and mountain of evidence to the contrary. Indeed, should even acknowledge the mountain of evidence, twist and distort it if necessary, and insist it proves your case!
It must be said Zanu PF has certainly mastered the art of propaganda. twist and distort the reality before you regardless of the Party secretary for information and publicity Simon Khaya Moyo said it was disheartening that no clear programmes have been made to celebrate the important day.
"Unity is the glue to any stability, development and prosperity in political, economic and social terms. The Unity Accord of 22 December 1987 which brought together erstwhile liberation movements of Zanu (PF) and PF Zapu into Zanu-PF and whose respective liberation armies before Independence were Zanla and Zipra, cannot be wished away," said Party secretary for information and publicity Simon Khaya Moyo.
Zimbabwe today is a country with a nauseating unemployment rate of 90%; a WB report said 90% of the population are poor with 34% classified as living in extreme poverty; the country public health has all but collapsed for lack of doctors, nurses, medicine, equipment, power cuts, no running water, etc.
Before independence the country used to be the breadbasket of the region but ever since Zanu PF seized the white farms to give them to party loyalists, mostly, the country has relied on imported food aid. We are starving in a land which, for all intent and purposes, is the Biblical Garden of Eden. Damning testimonial to the country’s failure to govern itself.
Corrupt is rampant in Zimbabwe. In 2016 the then President Robert Mugabe admitted the country was being “swindled out of US$15 billion in diamond revenue alone!” He never arrested any swindler nor have his successor, Mnangagwa, although he had promised “zero tolerance on corruption”.
Zanu PF blatantly rigged last year’s elections, but, of course, it insists the elections were free, fair and credible. The regime denied 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote, a very significant number considering Mnangagwa “won” with 2.4 million votes. The authorities failed to produce something even as basic as a verified voters’ roll!
Zimbabwe is a failed banana republic in every sense of the word. There is rot , decay and hopelessness and death; the country is standing on the edge of a precipice the threat of the country descend into the chaos and instability of the likes of Libya and Syria is real. And yet, true to his task as the party’s chief of propaganda, Khaya-Moyo sees stability, development and prosperity!
Khaya-Moyo is Zimbabwe’s answer to Saddam Hussein’s Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, who announced daily that Iraq was “punishing the American invaders and winning the 2003 war” even when American tanks where inside Baghdad city gates!
"My information was correct, but my interpretations were not," Saeed al-Sahaf admitted later.
Well in the case of Khaya-Moyo it must be said here and now that his information on the Zanu PF and PF Zapu Unity Accord is WRONG and his interpretations were damned lies.
Gukurahundi was a deliberate and calculated genocidal war to destroy PF Zapu, the country’s only other political party with clout to threaten Zanu PF’s hold on power, and create the de facto one-party dictatorship that has ruled the country ever since.
The dictatorship was born out of brute violence and much bloodshed, over 20 000 innocent civilians were murdered in the Gukurahundi “madness’, as Mugabe later admitted.
The dictatorship has survive and thrived through brute force and shedding of more innocent blood, over 10 000 more Zimbabweans have been murdered since the signing of the 1987 Unity Accord. 7 were shot dead on 1st August 2018 for protesting another rigged elections and 17 more were gunned down for protesting the soaring cost of living.
With the usual arrogance and contemptuous disregard for the reality on the ground, Zanu PF has declared 22 December a public holiday to commemorate the signing of the Unity Accord.
"It is most disheartening to note that although December 22 is a public holiday in honour of the Unity Accord there are no visible activities across the country depicting such a political milestone,” complained Khaya Moyo.
The people are poor, they are starving, they are sitting in the dark , have no running water, they suffering and dying of easily curable diseases, etc. What is there to celebrate!
The signed of the Unity Accord was a disastrous day for Zimbabwe, it marked the death of multiparty democracy and all hope of good governance, and the advent of the corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical de facto one-party, Zanu PF, dictatorship.
The best chance to breaking the dictatorship’s iron grip on power was during the 2008 to 2013 GNU when Zanu PF was forced to agree to the implementation of democratic reforms designed to dismantle the dictatorship. The late Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends was tasked to implement the reforms. Sadly they took their eyes off the ball and the opportunity was lost.
Still, the country must redouble its effort to end this curse of dictatorship, more so now with the nation’s stability and survival at stake. Zanu PF must be force to step down so we can finally implement the reforms. Zanu PF must not be allow to remain in office till 2023 because the party will stop meaningful reforms being implemented so it can go on to rig the 2023 elections. That must not be allowed to happen!
This is typical of these Zanu PF thugs, they imposed this Zanu PF dictatorship under the pretext it will bring development, prosperity and unity. It has failed to bring all these things and the regime is still insisting that it has and, worst of all, will not allow us to have a meaningful say in the matter!
ReplyDeleteBoth PF Zapu and Zanu PF wanted a one-party dictatorship in which each party was determined to emerge the dominant party. There were several attempts to get the two party to merge into one, the formation of the Patriotic Front, hence the PF addition to both parties, was the last attempt before independence. The two never trusted each other for the merge to work.
ReplyDeleteThere is no doubt that the surfacing of a disgruntled group in PF Zapu demanding more power for their party was the excuse Mugabe had been waiting for to crush PF Zapu, clear the deck of its greatest political rival.
After the signing of the Unity Accord both members of the unified Zanu PF worked hard to consolidated the party’s de facto one party state. Former PF Zapu Home Affairs ministers did not lift a finger to stop the partisan behaviour of the Police, for example, although they had objected to the same before.
The sheer barbarism of Gukurahundi was cow PF Zapu leaders and supporters into joining Zanu PF but also to cow the rest of the nation to rejecting the formation of another opposition party for fear of the repeat of the barbarism. Indeed, Zanu PF has always accused its political critics and opponents alike of threaten the peace that has prevailed in the country ever since the signing of the Unity Accord.
The reality is it Zanu PF has been the one behind almost all the wanton violence that have taken place in Zimbabwe for the last 39 years.
“What was accomplished by the gun cannot be undone with ballot!” boasted Robert Mugabe as he unleashed his party thugs, rogue war veterans and state security personal during the 2008 presidential run off. The nation witnessed some of the worst wanton election violence ever, the people were being punished for having rejected Mugabe in the earlier vote. They did not dare do so again or ever!
Zanu PF is asking the nation to celebrate the dictatorship in the guise that it brought peace, development and prosperity when it did no such things. The dictatorship has secured and guaranteed absolute power for the Zanu PF ruling elite and that is all they care about!
THE constitutional amendments approved by Cabinet that will see the President appointing and firing his vice-presidents is proof that Zimbabwe is morphing into a new autocracy under President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a political scientist has said.
ReplyDeleteCabinet on Tuesday approved Constitutional Amendment Bill 2019, which repeals section 92 of the Constitution dealing with running mates, giving the President power to hire and fire his deputies as well as appoint and promote judges.
The nation has been clamouring for democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections for decades and nothing has happened. But when it comes to reforms to consolidate the dictatorship - it is shocking how quickly they are drafted and passed.
President of the Alliance for People's Agenda Nkosana Moyo will on Saturday be engaging the citizens live on Facebook to discuss about the state of the nation.
ReplyDeleteMoyo announced through his official Facebook page that he will be engaging citizens on SONA between 6:30 and 7:30pm on Saturday.
Is there anything Moyo can do or say that could ever explain or justify the sheer stupidity of participating in last year’s flawed and illegal elections?
The answer has to be nothing! When it was clear that Zanu PF was denying 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote (remember Mnangagwa was the winner with 2.4 million), ZEC failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll, etc. No one, especially someone who is political astute as Dr Moyo, could ever say they did not know the elections were being rigged.
Like it or not, those of us who have clamoured that the elections were rigged had the thunder stolen away because Mnangagwa has been able to wave his hand and say, “If the elections were rigged then why did so many Zimbabweans contest the flawed elections? There were a staggering 23 presidential candidates alone!”
Of course, Dr Nkosana Moyo, Nelson Chamisa and the rest of the opposition candidates in last year’s elections gave credibility to the flawed and illegal elections. Of course, they knew the elections were being rigged, they were fighting for the few gravy train seats they knew Zanu PF was giving away as bait to entice the opposition to participate. Of course, they sold-out big time!
Whatever Dr Moyo will say tomorrow he will only be speaking as a sell-out. Zimbabweans will be very foolish indeed to trust a sell-out, especially one they KNOW is a sell-out!