Dear Knowledge Hakata
“Dictatorship is a political system characterized by a single ruler, the dictator, or a group of governors (e.g. a party, a junta or a family) whose power is unlimited. Unlike democracy, a dictator does not justify his claim to rule (literally: the right to gain power) by free elections. The condition of the notion dictatorship is its illegitimacy,” you said.
You are spot on there and in characterising Mnangagwa as one such dictator and Zanu PF as a dictatorship. Sadly you took the wrong turn in the next paragraph!
“The only way left to kick out this anti human and evil system called Zanu PF is through massive and sleepless demonstrations country wide, without that Zanu PF will continue taking a ride on us until we all die either of hunger or common diseases such as cholera and typhoid,” you continued.
“The only way left to kick out this anti human and evil system called Zanu PF is through massive and sleepless demonstrations country wide, without that Zanu PF will continue taking a ride on us until we all die either of hunger or common diseases such as cholera and typhoid,” you continued.
Massive country wide demonstrations is certainly one way of kicking the Zanu PF dictatorship out of office but it is not the only way. One can escalate the civilian uprising into a fully-fledged armed struggle. After all it was the armed struggle that force Ian Smith and his white minority colonial regime to give up power.
Needless to same it was none other than the late Robert Mugabe, Emmerson Mnangagwa and the rest of the Zanu PF entourage who waged the war of liberation against colonial oppression and exploitation who have become today’s dictator and the dictatorship.
Yesterday’s liberating heroes have transformed into today’s ruthless oppressors! This is indeed the curse of Zimbabwe and, must say, many other African nations.
In other words, even if your call for mass demonstrations was answered and Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF dictatorship were finally booted out of office, after 40 years of corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical rule. What guarantee is there the next government will not be an equally corrupt and incompetent mediocre regime, at best, or yet another dictatorship!
Indeed, since the people of Zimbabwe has clearly failed to learn from the past and therefore have yet to understand why yesterday’s heroes have metamorphosed into dictators. It is a certainty Zimbabwe’s next government will be a mediocre regime or a dictatorship.
“There is a very primitive narrative and mob psychology in Zanu PF that says we will not reform ourselves out of power,” you said.
You can call it what you please but the narrative that Zanu PF would never reform itself out of office is common sense. The real surprise is just how many Zimbabweans out there still, even to this day with all the benefit of hindsight, expected Zanu PF to implement the democratic reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU.
“The late Morgan Tsvangirai was bruised left, right and centre, all in the quest for democracy while thousands of MDC supporters lost their lives for denouncing Robert Mugabe in the ballot box but with all said and done elections have failed to bring a desired government in Zimbabwe and preparing for future elections will be a serious waste of time and resources.”
Let us just say you where getting carried away there!
Whatever bruising Tsvangirai and his fellow MDC leaders received before the 2008 they certainly received none throughout the GNU. When Tsvangirai and friends were sworn in as Prime Minister, Ministers, Deputy Ministers, etc. they were transformed from the champions fighting for democratic change into Zanu PF acolytes.
Mugabe saw to it that MDC leaders enjoyed the trappings of high office; the ministerial limos, the generous salaries, a US$4 million mansion for Tsvangirai, etc. And in return MDC kick democratic reforms out of the window.
“Mazivanhu eMDC adzidza kudya anyerere!” (MDC leaders have learned to enjoy the gravy train highlife, they will never rock the boat!) Zanu PF cronies boasted, when asked why MDC leaders were no implementing any reforms during the GNU!
Ever since the 2008 GNU MDC leaders have participated in Zimbabwe’s flawed and illegal elections knowing fully well that Zanu PF was rigging the elections for the sake of a few gravy train seats Zanu PF was giving away as bait. MDC leaders have been running with the hare, kept up the pretence the party is still fighting for free and fair elections, but hunting with the hounds, share the spoils of the rigged elections with Zanu PF.
There are Zimbabweans out there who are refusing to acknowledge the political reality that MDC leaders have already gone through their metamorphic transformation, the same that transformed Mnangagwa from a hero into a dictator per excellence!
“The late Morgan Tsvangirai was bruised left, right and centre!” Sure! And the US$ 4 million mansion knocked him out cold! Just as the Blue Roof palatial mansion, the 13 farmers, the extravagant highflier lifestyle, etc., knocked the late liberation war hero, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, out cold too!
Knowledge, you need to wake-up from this nationwide 40-year sloth-like slumber. Unless we break the cycle of yesterday’s liberator becoming today’s dictator, Zimbabwe is not going to get out of this economic and political hell-on-earth Zanu PF and MDC have landed us into.
Of course, the people of Zimbabwe welcome the Chinese health experts. But they will not forget that it is China that has prop up this Zanu PF dictatorship that has brought so much suffering and chaos to the nation!
ReplyDeleteZimbabwe would not be needing the Chinese help if the country's vast diamond wealth was not being looted and pocketed by the few ruling elite. China is playing a part in this wholesale looting.
Zimbabwe needs to end the Zanu PF dictatorship a.s.a.p. China has benefited from having the dictatorship and will fight hard to make sure that Zanu PF remains in office. It is no exaggeration to say China is more a curse to Zimbabwe ant not a blessing! We will pay dearly for all this Chinese covid-19 help we are getting.
Mnangagwa has to thank the Chinese for helping him rig the July 2018 elections and stay in power. The Chinese have since returned to Zimbabwe to kick up on the looting in Marange and Chiadzwa from where they left off after Mugabe booted them out!
ReplyDeleteZimbabwe will forever be stuck with the Zanu PF dictatorship as long as the Chinese are there to prop up the regime! The Chinese are a curse to the nation and not a blessing!
“Challenges pertaining to the quarantine facilities are on the quality of food being served and also compromised security.
ReplyDelete“The security is compromised and there are fears that some might have already escaped, and this invariably exposes our communities in a very big way.”
“Gweru Polytechnic Quarantine Centre is now full to its capacity of 118 following the arrival of 17 returning residents,” Mangwana wrote in twitter.
He added that government has responded to the situation by opening Mkoba Teachers College to house more returnees.
“Midlands taskforce opened Mkoba Teachers College another quarantine centre. It now has 20 returnees from South Africa. Mkoba Teachers College has a capacity to accommodate 500 people,” he said
Midlands Provincial Affairs Minister Larry Mavhima says the returnees were mostly coming from South Africa and Botswana.
The returnees are ferried by Zupco buses from Beitbridge and Plumtree Border Posts and are now under mandatory quarantine at the two centres in Midlands.
“Those that would have tested positive will be sent to isolation treatment centres while those who would have tested negative would be released.
“We are receiving returnees in the province from South Africa and Botswana.
“The returnees will be quarantined at Gweru Polytechnic for a stipulated period where they will undergo mandatory testing and ensure they are safe and do not spread the virus,” Mavhima said.
Quarantine centres where people have to share toilets and washing facilities are not good enough to stop covid-19 spreading amongst those at the centre if one of them should have the virus. As more Zimbabweans flood back into the country this is going to be a serious challenge; these centres will become covid-19 hotspots!
The failure to provide decent food will only be one more reason the returnees will not want to stay in these centres!
Whilst the fighting is raging on, it is often very difficult to distinguish a mercenary who is fighting for a reward from the hero fighting for the cause. In the case of Zimbabwe, long before the war of independence was over there were tell-tale signs that Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies were fighting to replace the white colonialists as the country’s new absolute rulers.
ReplyDeleteBoth Zanu PF and PF Zapu made no secret of the fact that they each wanted Zimbabwe to be a one-party dictatorship, a Zanu PF and PF Zapu one-party state respectively. They both ditched the “One man! One vote!” which had been the signature clarion call to mobilise the black majority.
Mugabe made no bones about the civil war would continue if Zanu PF did not win the 1980 elections. All those who thought this was just an empty bluff soon changed their minds when he unleashed the Gukurahundi massacre.
Mugabe’s plan was to either completely wipe out PF Zapu or force the party to join Zanu PF to create the de facto one-party dictatorship he wanted all along. After the murder of over 20 000 PF Zapu leaders, supporters and innocent civils Dr Joshua Nkomo and his fellow PF Zapu leaders dissolved their party and sign on the dotted line.
The subtle difference between Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies and Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC mongoose was that the former stayed the course and forced Smith to give up power before turning their AK 47 refiles on the masses to deny them their freedom and liberty. Tsvangirai and company cashed in the mercenary cheque before they had even managed to implement even one reform!
Tsvangirai et al were bruised by Zanu PF in the fight for democratic change but they quickly forgot about the reforms when Mugabe offered them ministerial limos, generous salaries, US$4 million mansion for Tsvangirai, etc. The US$4 million mansion floored Tsvangirai alright, ever since the day he got the keys to the mansion he never said anything critical of Robert Mugabe! Never!
Although Zanu PF has gone on to rig the post 2008 GNU elections and claim the lion’s share of the spoils of power, the party has allowed MDC leaders to win a few gravy train seats.
Anyone who still believes that MDC leaders are still fighting in the ordinary people’s corner for free, fair and credible elections, for a democratic Zimbabwe, is naïve and foolish, to say the least! Sadly, such individuals number in their hundreds of thousands hence the reason why the country is stuck in this mess.
The opposition MDC Alliance has severed ties with its members that were posted to diplomatic missions and are refusing to leave their posts as the party scales up its fight against President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
ReplyDeleteAmong those disowned by the MDC Alliance are former MPs James Maridadi and Hilda Suka-Mafudze who took up diplomatic posts.
Maridadi was appointed ambassador to Senegal last year.
Suka-Mafudze has been a diplomat since 2010 and was last year appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Malawi.
Before the latest appointment, she was Zimbabwe's Ambassador to Sudan.
The MDC led by Nelson Chamisa has indicated that it was not going to allow any of its senior party members to work in any capacity in President Mnangagwa's administration.
The opposition party failed to recognise Mnangagwa saying he is a beneficiary of vote rigging despite the Constitutional Court throwing out MDC's challenge to the results of 2018 Presidential elections.
No one will be fooled by that cock and bull story that MDC is refusing to work with the Zanu PF regime because “we don't recognise his legitimacy and we don't expect any of our senior party members to recognise him as the legitimate president.” The dispute arose from the July 2018 elections and all along the MDC has allowed its MPs, senators, diplomats, etc. to work with the Zanu PF regime until now.
The event that triggered this decision is not Mnangagwa’s vote rigging but the Supreme Court judgement that said Chamisa did not follow the MDC’s own constitution when he seized power after Tsvangirai’s death. Chamisa shot himself in the foot but does not want to admit it.
The party leaders are being totally dishonest and foolish, they are now lying about the reason why they are cutting relations with Zanu PF. So, now it is not only Chamisa who shot himself in the foot the whole MDC leadership must now follow his foolish example in some hara kiri ritual for the mentally challenged but cowardly (they will not disembowel themselves) cult members!
MDC has failed to implement even one reform, even when the party had the golden opportunity to do so during the 2008 GNU. The party has since become a serious distraction to the fight for democratic change. One only hopes that now the penny will finally drop in the minds of the naïve and gullible supporters who have continued to support the party to this day!
Zimbabwe's economic was in total economic meltdown, its health care had all but collapse and the country was even failing to supply clean running water to most of the country's towns and cities because of 40 years of bad governance.
ReplyDeleteThe Corona virus outbreak has caused havoc in the world's prosperous nations whose health care services and infrastructure were top class. It is therefore no surprise that the covid-19 pandemic has going to be a catastrophic disaster for a country like Zimbabwe that was already weak and feeble before the outbreak!
It was bad enough to have had a corrupt and incompetent government before corona virus; what the people must now deal with is the certainty the same corrupt and incompetent government blundering from pillar to post will make the situation worse and not better.
President Mnangagwa yesterday said he was under pressure to lift the national lockdown and re-open the country's economy but indicated that his priority is to save lives first before the economy.
ReplyDeleteThis is just stupid! No country has extended a nationwide lockdown when it has 4 new covid-19 cases in three weeks! It is either the regime is not telling the nation the truth or it is being stupid!
The annoying thing is the lockdown is affecting those in the informal sector, the poorest of the poor, whom government has promised to feed but has failed to do so. No one should ever have to face the grime choice of starving or risk the corona virus infection and yet this is exactly what these vendors are being forced to do. What makes the whole decision an outrage is that it is totally unnecessary and of no real effect in controlling the spread of the virus.
It is almost certain that infection rates will start to soar as we get into the cold weather, this is when a nationwide lockdown would made sense.
Zanu PF’s blundering incompetence is making the corona virus worse not better!
Zimbabwe on Thursday received 60,000kg (60 tonnes) in freshly-printed higher denomination bond notes, which the central bank says will go into circulation at the end of the month.
ReplyDeleteThe RBZ announced last week that Z$10 and Z$20 bond notes were being printed to complement the Z$2 and $5 notes which have become valueless as the inflation-hit currency continues its side.
It never rains but pours! The country’s economy was already in trouble before corona virus outbreak and it is no surprise that the pandemic is shifting the economic meltdown, the hyperinflation everything into overdrive!
Mudzuri says MDC has lost its direction.
ReplyDeleteRubbish! Mudzuri should name one genuine change MDC has delivered in its 20 years on the political stage! MDC lost direction years ago but most notably during the 2008 GNU when the party failed to implement even one reform!
Indeed, journalism is at its most useful to society when it is challenging and probing against all people in positions of authority. And this most certainly includes opposition leaders.
ReplyDeleteFor the avoidance of doubt, we at the Daily News firmly believe that our duty is to our country only - not to political parties and their leaders: which is why we always "tell it like it is", without any fear or favour.
To that extent, brawling and misbehaving MDC officials and their hired guns should stand guided that we will never be intimidated by them and their attack dogs, or yield to their dubious agendas.
Our work and history attests to this. Even Mugabe understood this by the time of his death.
You refusal to be bullied by political nincompoops from both sides of the political divide is certainly worthy of every thinking person regardless of their political affiliation.
Sadly, you at Daily News and other so-called independent newspapers have not always been faithful to your professed “duty” to the country. It is an outrage that your newspaper has often spoken of “disputed” elections as if you are did not have the evidence to prove beyond all doubt that the elections were blatantly rigged! ZEC failed to produce something as basic as verified voters’ roll, for example, for the obvious reason that if you want to rig you do not want anything to be traced and verifies.
@ Prisca Ncube
ReplyDeleteSadly those quick to condemn very rarely give an reasons why they are doing so because, more often than not, they have no such reason. They understanding of the subject matter is so shallow they have no reason for supporting Chamisa in the current matter of the Supreme Court judgement, for example, other than that they like him.
As much as we would like to build a democratic Zimbabwe, with such a shallow minded electorate that is simply a bridge too far!