At
the end of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Masvingo Star Rally, Nelson Chamisa,
the party President, called on his party followers to make Wednesday 22 March
2022 a “National Day of Prayer for Peace!”
“Wherever
you are, we are praying for:
·
Peace in Zimbabwe
·
A true revelation of the will of God
·
God’s presence in our national processes
·
Healing and restoration
·
Revival, repentance and readiness (preparedness)
“If
my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and
seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14.” Announced
a poster circulating on social media.
Judging
from the activity on social media, many Zimbabweans heeded Chamisa’s call to prayer,
adhan, azan.
But
what, exactly, is Chamisa asking Zimbabweans to pray for?
It
cannot be praying for peaceful, free, fair and credible elections because
Chamisa and his MDC friends have had 22 years, 5 of which in the 2008 to 2013
GNU, to implement the democratic reforms necessary for peaceful and free
elections. They have not only failed to get even one meaningful reform
implemented but worse still have compounded the problem by insisting on
participating in flawed elections to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy.
Of
course, it is nonsensical to pray for peaceful and free elections when one has
wasted many golden opportunities to end the curse of rigged elections and is
the one perpetuating the Zanu PF dictatorship.
Chamisa
is not praying for peaceful and free elections but rather putting God to the
test – testing if God will deliver peaceful and free elections regardless of MDC/CCC’s
repeated failure to implement reforms necessary for such elections!
Indeed,
we already know that without reforms Zanu PF is rigging these elections. The
party has already denied 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote insisting
the West must lift the sanctions imposed of a select few in the party. A feeble
excuse since the Zimbabweans in the diaspora have no say in the matter!
There
is no peace1 Two CCC supporters were hacked to death with dozens other
seriously injured by machete welding Zanu PF thugs early this month. There will
be more wanton violence as the 2023 nationwide elections kick-in.
Chamisa
is summoning the nation to pray for peaceful, free, fair and credible elections
knowing fully well he and his MDC/CCC friends have undermine every opportunity
the nation had to make such elections possible. This is not a prayer for peace but
a poly to test God!
Jesus
replied, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the
test.’ ” Matthew 4:7
If we are serious about ending the curse of rigged elections
and bad governance all we should do is implemented the democratic reforms. The
fact that Chamisa and company have turned out to be corrupt and breathtakingly
incompetent and failed to implement even one reform in 22 years does not mean
no other mortals can. I for one, subscribe to the view that God does not do for
man what man can do for himself!
If the truth be told, Trevor Ncube was very naïve to “give Mnangagwa a chance” especially when he knew Mnangagwa had been Mugabe’s henchman responsible for the corruption, vote rigging and politically motivated murderers by the regime.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with Ncube’s assessment that neither the ruling party nor the many opposition parties in Zimbabwe offer a way out of the present political and economic mess because they neither have the vision nor the political will to change anything.
“He has no belief Zanu-PF can self-correct or that there is any opposition political formation that does not cling to the notion of ‘it's our time to eat', should the political reins change hands.
Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends failed to implement even one reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU because having secured a seat on the gravy train, they did not want to rock the boat.
South Africa has played a very significant role is Zimbabwe’s economic and political demise by consistently endorsing Zimbabwe’s rigged elections as “substantially free and fair” or some such nonsense when they knew that was a lie. Zanu PF is rigging the 2023 elections, as usual, and one sincerely hopes that this time SA will make the correct and honest call!