Dear Gideon Chitanga
“The consequent illegitimacy facing President Mnangagwa after the rejection of his election victory by Chamisa has triggered political and economic uncertainty which has blighted his government’s efforts of reengagement with the international community and prospects of financial support from International Financial Institutions(IFIs), multilateral and bilateral aid from Western countries, which imposed sanctions on ZANU PF elites, resulting in concerning socio-economic meltdown, nudging sub-regional leaders to push for dialogue," you said in Zimeye.
"The United Nations has already indicated that Zimbabwe is at the mercy of a disastrous man-made disaster as the country faces drought which may worsen emigration into already economically pressed neighbours, especially South Africa."
This is just nonsense devoid of logic!
President Mnangagwa is not illegitimate because Chamisa “rejected his election victory”. Mnagagwa is illegitimate because the July 2018 elections were flawed and illegal and therefore null and void. A null and void elections process cannot produce a legitimate result and government. What Chamisa said and did is as inconsequential as me commanding the sun to rise tomorrow - it will rise regardless.
The Americans, the EU, the Commonwealth and many other international nations and organisations were in Zimbabwe and had first hand witness accounts of how Zanu PF had blatantly rigged the July 2018 elections.
“The electoral commission lacked full independence and appeared to not always act in an impartial manner. The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability,” stated the EU Election Mission final report.
“As such, many aspects of the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe failed to meet international standards.”
So you think the EU, the Americans, etc. were going to rewrite their reports just because Chamisa accept the flawed and illegal process.
Indeed, Chamisa is the one taking advantage of the West’s condemnation of the elections to push his own selfish agenda. He claim to have the key to unlock the economy; it is just grandstanding, he has no keys to change the reality of Zimbabwe being a pariah state.
Zimbabwe is a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging thugs. No investors wants to do business with these crooks! As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state, there will be no meaningful economic recovery.
The UN is spot on, Zimbabwe's seemingly intractable economic and political crisis is "a man-made disaster". The root cause of the crisis is the failure to hold free, fair and democratic elections - Zanu PF is responsible for that bit.
The second bit, is allowing Zanu PF to get away with rigged elections - MDC leaders, the ordinary Zimbabweans and, to a lesser extend, SADC leaders are responsible for this. All this talk of dialogue with Zanu PF is just another way of avoiding telling Zanu PF thugs the truth - that they rigged the elections - and holding them to account!
The key, the only key, to end Zimbabwe’s pariah state is for everyone to acknowledge the July 2018 elections were flawed and illegal and the country has no legitimate government. We need an interim government to implement the reforms necessary for free, fair and credible elections! Nothing else will suffice!
The solution to Zimbabwe's man-made crisis must address the elephant in the room or it is just a waste of time! Given the seriousness of the mess in Zimbabwe today; the country does not have time to waste.
Best regards
Nomusa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken a three week break, his spokesperson George Charamba has said.
ReplyDeleteCharamba said Mnangagwa will be back in office at the end of January.
He said in Mnangagwa's absence, his deputies Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi will rotate as acting President.
The economic meltdown will continue him being in the office and not will make no difference! Zimbabwe is a failed state and as long as Zanu PF remains in power that fundamental reality will not change and so too will the reality of the economic meltdown!
There are some people who have believed the nonsense that if Chamisa accepted and shook Mnangagwa's hand as the winner of the 2018 elections, then the country would be enjoying unparalleled economic recovery.
ReplyDeleteInternational and local investors have shied away from doing business in Zimbabwe for the last two decades, at least, because Zimbabwe was a pariah state. When Mnangagwa took over from Mugabe in November 2017 he told the world “Zimbabwe was open for business!” There was no increased investor confidence between November 2017 and July 2018 before Chamisa reject the result of the elections because Mnangagwa had done nothing to convince the investors that Zimbabwe was no longer a pariah state.
By blatantly rigging the elections he underlined the political reality that Zimbabwe was indeed still a pariah state.
I totally agree, Chamisa is only trying to seize more spoils of power from Mnangagwa by pretending there will be no meaningful economic recovery without his blessing. Shaking Mnangagwa’s hand will not changed the reality of Zanu PF blatant vote rigging the 2018 elections nor the pariah state status.
The failure to grasp details of a given situation is a serious problem in Zimbabwe because it has made it easy for politicians to tell all manner of fibs and get away with it. There are still many people who still believe that the country’s economic meltdown was caused by sanctions and not corruption, for example.
A healthy and functioning democracy is impossible with out a diligent and alert electorate.
@ Brian Mutambara
ReplyDeleteYour inferiority complex comes through every time you open your mouth! Why is it that you cannot talk about Zimbabwe's problems without bringing in the whites?
So you cannot judge for yourself whether the July 2018 were free, fair and credible?
Yes, by rigging the elections Zanu PF was defying the American and the west who have been asking for free, fair and credible elections. But surely holding free, fair and credible elections would have been of great benefit to the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans and the nation at large.
If the price of defying the West is denying fellow Zimbabweans their basic freedoms and rights and bad governance then only a village idiot would think defying the West is a good thing.
Tyrants like Mugabe and now Mnangagwa have exploited your blind hatred of the whites to frighten you into believing they are doing your a great favour by denying you your freedom, rights and human dignity.
Zanu PF blatantly rig the July 2018 elections and only a village idiot would deny that!
@ Mechavio
ReplyDelete“Zimbabwe was a pariah state all thanks to MDC sanctions aimed at protecting white colonialist settler farmers interests ahead of our own interests Wilbert. You cannot launder that truth into something else.It remains the truth.”
Well, so you acknowledge that Zimbabwe is indeed a pariah state, ruled by corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs. Coming from a nincompoop like you; that is progress.
You and your fellow Zanu PF thugs and apologists have again and again dismissed MDC leaders as “puppets of the West”. Given how corrupt and incompetent MDC leaders have proven to be, very people would dispute the puppet label. But what you and your Zanu PF cronies cannot do is blame MDC leaders for the sanctions because a puppet cannot be blamed for what the puppeteer says or does!
Worse still, it is nonsense to justify denying the ordinary Zimbabweans their freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful vote and even the right to life itself on the grounds that sanctions must be lifted first. The ordinary Zimbabwean has nothing to do with MDC or the West; so why are they being punished?
It is really sad that we went to war against the white colonial regime for “One person, one vote!”, right to life, freedom of expression, etc. Today, 40 years after independence we are still fighting for the same freedoms and rights and our oppressors are none other than the men and women who claim to be the nation’s liberators from colonial oppression. Very tragic, indeed!
@ Ethan
ReplyDelete“Lungisani Ndlovu That is a cheap and warped argument. There aren't targeted sanctions. Companies have been out under sanctions do you say they employ targeted Zanu individuals. It's the ordinary people who get hurt once these companies close doors. Which Zanu targeted individual is suffering now? Why do you talk bollocks?”
No one has ever said that the targeted sanctions imposed on Zanu PF thugs has no effect on the ordinary people, given these thugs are very powerful individuals. When elephants fight it is the ants that suffer, they cannot get out of the way!
But if you looked at the sanctions as just two elephants fighting then you have missed the point completely. You have to look at why the Zanu PF thugs have become the elephant and the ordinary people have been reduced into helpless ants.
Zanu PF thugs enjoy absolute power derived from the de facto one-party state. The sanctions were imposed on the regime for denying the ordinary people their freedoms and basic rights and turning them into helpless ants.
Whatever hardships the ordinary people are facing because of sanctions, these are nothing compared to the hardship brought about by corruption and lawlessness that has made Zimbabwe a pariah state.
Zanu PF are thugs who gave us the ordinary people hell before the sanctions were imposed in 2001 and they are still giving us hell to this day or be it they now say they will stop giving us hell if the sanctions are lifted. Only a fool would buy that nonsense.
Those who focus on the hardships brought about by sanctions and ignore the hardships brought about by decades of corruption and bad governance are shortsighted and naive. The former are molehills compared to the later which is a mountain.
Even you, will have to admit that the last six months of 18 hours a day of power cuts have caused more economic damage to the companies than the sanctions caused in 20 years!
In any case why are you hot about forcing America’s foreign policy but have say fcuk all about stopping Zanu Pf rigging elections?
@ Munyaradzi
ReplyDelete“Very interesting analysis, however its is blind to the fact that the MDC had its observers. On the day of announcing the election results, the chief election observer of the Movement was shoved off stage, shouting that we are not in agreement with the outcome.
ZEC had to bring maMamonya to remove him off stage to announce the results (lack of transparency) so when you see these issues in the EU, USA etc observer reports, they were speaking about those things.
Observers observed elections and consulted/engaged the people involved. MDC as the biggest opposition lost it on not requesting a recount which was not going to work because most likely, the boxes were stuffed.
For as long as the local participants were happy, yes, things could have been different for HE.”
You do not go into an elections in which 3 million potential voters, Zimbabweans in the diaspora, have just been denied the vote. This is a very significant number given the total number of the votes cast was 5 million!
You do not participate in an election in which ZEC has failed to produce a verified voters’ roll. One can go on and on with the listing of the flaws and illegalities in the 2018 elections!
The only reason MDC and the rest in opposition camp did participate in the July 2018 elections knowing fully well Zanu PF was rigging the elections and that by participating they would give the process some modicum of credibility, was greed. David Coltart admitted it in his book although everyone else in MDC pretend this is not so.
The election was rigged long before the voting and counting of the votes! What good was served by “shouting that we are not in agreement with the outcome”? This was just bolding the stable door long after the horse has bolted.
Whilst many Zimbabweans believe Chamisa’s cock and bull claim that he has the key to Mnangagwa legitimacy and economic recovery. It is understandable, they have failed to get the heads round the more straight forward case of MDC selling-out during the GNU; they believe anything. The same cannot be said about the international community and the savvy local and foreign investors. They know Chamisa is full of cock and bull nonsense!
@Chihota
ReplyDelete"The electorate expects to hear hard hitting facts and possible solutions to the challenges that they face, but Chamisa in his lack of wisdom more often than not chooses to tell tales at his various and unending rallies."
This is very true, MDC has failed to produce "hard hitting facts and possible solutions" to the myriad of problems facing the nation. But if the truth is said, it must be said, so has Zanu PF! (If Zanu PF was so clever at coming up with solutions, the country would not be in such an economic and political mess!) And yet the later has "won" all the plebiscites without exception for the last 40 years!
Of course, Zanu PF has managed to stay in power all these years by rigging elections. Mnangagwa and his acolytes can deny the party did not rig the July 2018 elections but even they have failed to explain why ZEC failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll.
The question that has puzzled outsiders is why MDC and the crowded Zimbabwe opposition camp keep participating in flawed and illegal elections?
“The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious – withdraw from the elections,” David Coltart, MDC leader, answered in his book The Struggle Continues 50 years of tyranny in Zimbabwe.
“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.”
As for for you, Elijah Chihota, you are a Zanu PF apologist whose primary purpose is to gloss over Zanu PF’s blatant vote rigging whilst giving MDC useless advice to create the impression that if they listened to your advice, they will win the elections!
Enough of this foolishness; Zimbabwe is going to have free, fair and credible elections for a change. Zanu PF is going to be forced to step down so we can implement all the democratic reforms or my name is not Wilbert Mukori!