Renemanyanga hariputirwi!” (The one whose defects stick out
like horns cannot hide them forever. They will stick out!) so goes the Shona
saying.
Nelson Chamisa and his CCC friends are corrupt and
breathtakingly incompetent. For the last 22 years, they have portrayed
themselves as the democrats; “Change Champion in Chief”, as his supporters have
given to calling Chamisa; who will deliver the democratic changes to end the
Zanu PF dictatorship. The democratic façade, mask, is falling off to reveal the
corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless up starts!
MDC leaders lost political credibility in 2013 when they
failed to implement even one meaningful reform in the five years of the 2008 to
2013 GNU. SADC leaders who had forced Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party to
agree to the raft of democratic reforms were so disappointed by MDC leaders’
pathetic performance during the GNU the regional body reverted to endorsing
Zanu PF rigged elections in disgust. Many of the MDC’s western backers followed
SADC and deserted the party in droves.
MDC continued to enjoy the support of ordinary Zimbabweans
because they did not know what the GNU was about implementing the democratic
reforms. Indeed, many did not know what the reforms are much less how they were
going to be implemented, even now, with benefit of hindsight. And so, they
never realised MDC leaders had sold out big time. How could they blame MDC
leaders of failing to do something they still do understand!
The recent story that CCC and MDC A MPs were joining their
Zanu PF colleagues in getting US$40 000 loans over and above MP’s generous
salary and many equally generous allowances including the US$60 000 loan for a
car; has forced the people to sit up!
“MPs work very hard and deserve to be rewarded. Beside by
paying them well, this will stop them becoming corrupt!” some people have
argued. This has worked in the past but not this time.
If the MPs worked hard and they number one task is to craft
the necessary laws to guarantee the freedoms and rights of all the citizens,
justice, peace, rule of law and to buttress the country’s economic prosperity.
Then why is Zimbabwe a failed state, a pariah state, plagued by gross
mismanagement, rampant corruption, and lawlessness?
The people of Zimbabwe risked life and limb to elect MDC
leaders on the ticket the party will implement the democratic reforms to stop Zanu
PF rigging the elections and thus end the pariah state, the mismanagement, etc.,
etc. These problems are still there because MDC leaders have joined Zanu PF in
the lawlessness and looting.
Of course, the US$40 000 loan to the MPs was a bribe, one of
the many bribes the MPs received from the Zanu PF regime to buy the lawmakers’
blind loyalty allowing the lawlessness and looting to continue unchecked. Nelson
Chamisa was forced to agree, the loan was a bribe.
"To call it a loan is to be very nice; this is a bribe disguised as a
loan, a donkey is a donkey, you cannot call a lion a cat," Chamisa
admitted on twitter. He argued his CCC MPs not to accept the bribe.
A livid CCC legislator yesterday dismissed Mr Chamisa's threats as empty thunder,
"because he is receiving donations from well-wishers every day, but the
money is not accounted for because there is no accountability in the party,"
said a report in Bulawayo 24.
The truth is Chamisa is a hypocrite! He is pontificating about
this loan being a bribe when he knows this is not only the first bribes these
MPs have received but, worst of all, he is recipient of many such bribes himself.
It was the very generous salaries and allowances, limos, the US$ 4 million
mansion for Tsvangirai, etc., etc. from Mugabe that made the MDC leaders forget
implementing reforms for the five years of the GNU. Not even the constant
nagging by SADC leaders to implement reforms got MDC leaders to move an inch!
Ever since the GNU debacle MDC/CCC leaders have participated
in the flawed elections knowing fully well that doing so will only give SADC
the excuse to grant Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuating the Zanu PF
dictatorship. Still, they have participated because they also knew that Zanu PF
was giving away a few gravy train seats as bait.
It is nonsensical therefore that Chamisa should now ask the
few CCC leaders who won the few gravy train seats to the US$40 000 loan, one of
the benefits of being on the gravy train, now that many ordinary Zimbabweans
have are finally wake up to the reality MDC/CCC leaders are corrupt and
incompetent.
Now that the people of Zimbabwe are sitting up and paying
attention, Chamisa will not only have to explain this US$ 40 000 bribe but more
significantly why MDC failed to implement even one reform in 22 years and why
the party is participating in these flawed elections.
The US$ 40 000 loan has led to the unravelling of many things MDC/CCC did not want to come out. And now the people can finally see Chamisa and company for the corrupt, breathtakingly incompetent and sell outs they are. Renemanyanga hariputirwi!
The story goes that it was the MPs who pressured Mnangagwa to give them the US$40 000 loan after they learned he was giving ministers and deputy ministers US$500 000 and 350 000 respectively. It is one thing being the benevolent dictator when there is plenty of loot to doll out another when there is nothing.
ReplyDeleteThis act of generosity by Mnangagwa has costed him US$14 million. And now everyone else will be looking for a golden egg from Father Christmas and with elections round the corner he will not dare to disappoint! This will only drag the nation into even deeper financial trouble.
The ordinary people can see the extravagant lifestyles of the ruling elite and they are rightly disgusted. Mnangagwa knows that his vote rigging machine will be tested like never been to secure him another victory in a few months time!
The people did not need Chamisa to tell them the generous loan was a bribe and that his CCC MPs are just as greed and corrupt as the Zanu PF MPs. The fight over the gravy train seats is just as fierce in the opposition camp as it is in Zanu PF. There is talk of Chamisa boycotting the 2023 elections, he will have an open rebellion in his hands if he does!
Now that the gene is out of the bottle that MDC/CCC leaders are corrupt the people will now review the past with an open mind and they will have to admit MDC failed to implement even one reform during the GNU because Mugabe bribed them.
MDC/CC has lost political credibility and thus their participation in the flawed 2023 elections will not give the election process credibility nor give Zanu PF legitimacy. Mnangagwa’s problems have just become more complex than he ever imagined!
Posting on his Twitter account Tuesday, information ministry permanent secretary, Nick Mangwana said government was looking at measures to bring normalcy before he thanked citizens for being patient.
ReplyDelete"The power cuts are causing distress, inconveniences and cost to the citizenry and business. This is regrettable. The challenge is affecting part of our region.
Surprised that Nick Mangwana did not blame sanctions for the load shedding, it is standard procedure to blame sanctions for Zanu PF’s incompetence.
For 42 years and counting Zimbabwe has failed to invest in new power generation preferring to squander the nation’s wealth on sprawling mansions like Mugabe’s Blue Roof and luxuries such as cars, etc. The nation is paying dearly for it.
As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs who rig elections to stay in power; there will be no meaningful economic recovery. We need to implement reforms that is the only sure way to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. Food for thought for all Zimbabweans whilst they lay in the dark after yet another forced dinner by candle light!
Zimbabweans are being subjected to 19 hours of power cuts a day, because there is insufficient water in the Kariba dam to drive the nation's main hydropower plant.
ReplyDeleteThe worst outages since 2019 are wreaking havoc, causing snarl-ups in Harare, the capital, where most traffic lights are no longer working, and interrupting mobile phone services because batteries used to run base stations don't have time to recharge.
Supermarkets, restaurants and some other businesses rely on generators to keep operating, but they are unable to run them perpetually for an extended period.
"Kariba generates almost half of our power needs, which is why a reduction in its generation capacity immediately registers throughout our economy and in our lives," Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa wrote in his weekly column in state media on Sunday.
We should not be surprised by the 19 hour a day power cuts because we should have seen it all coming. For the last 42 years Zimbabwe has failed to build even one power generation plant whilst the load end has doubled and doubled again because it was more politically popular to do the later but not the former. Zimbabwe is paying dearly for four decades of short sighted policies and misrule.
He then launched an attack on Chamisa, which irked CCC legislators.
ReplyDelete"I would also want leaders of other political parties, especially Advocate Chamisa, to really understand - him being a lawyer - that MPs have a contract with Parliament; not with the party when they are here. I don't know why he gets involved," Mliswa said.
"He must not whip them (MPs) on contractual issues. He was once an MP. I expected him to stand for other MPs because he knows how we have suffered. We don't want such hypocrisy from any leader. Let him deal with putting out his structures at CCC while here in Parliament, we get our money," he added.
Zanu-PF and MDC Alliance legislators cheered Mliswa, but CCC MPs were not impressed.
Mliswa talks too much and most of the time nonsense. Zimbabwe’s economy is in totally meltdown precisely because our political leaders are the most corrupt and incompetent in the world! MPs are paid generous salaries and allowances including farms, US$60 000 car loans, etc. which they very rarely repay.
Mliswa should have mentioned the slave wages paid to teachers, nurses and many other professionals. Zimbabwe has suffered brain drain to escape the economic hardship.
We all know that this US$40 000 loan to MPs is just another free loan and part of the looting of the nation’s wealth by the ruling elite. Mnangagwa is buying the MPs’ blind loyalty just as Mugabe before him had done; to pretend otherwise is just nonsense!
As MDC-T President, Nelson Chamisa was MDC-A 2018 candidate. MDC-A won 63 Parly seats. In 2019 he became MDC-A President. In 2020 he lost MDC-T presidency in court; @DMwonzora recalled some MDC-A MPs & made his MDC-A. On 24 Jan 2022 Chamisa RENAMED his MDC-A to CCC!
ReplyDeleteThe March 2022 by-elections caught Chamisa napping: keen to dump MDC old guard and start 'The New' yet unsure how. The by-elections forced his hand when he was not ready. A fierce debate ensued in his MDC-A on whether to contest by-elections as MDC-A or under a new name.
MDC messed up big time by failing to implement even one democratic reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. SADC gave up on them and their western backer back-off in droves in disgust. What MDC leaders have done after that is nothing, the damage was done and could not be undone nor fixed!
I am surprised that Professor Jonathan Moyo has always dwelled on the trivial issues, MDC’s minor failures, but has never the serious matter of the GNU sell out. He was Mugabe’s principle strategist and no doubt played a major role in the whole dirty business and does not want to incriminate himself!
@ Prosper Mutseyami
ReplyDelete“We also discussed the much publicised US$40,000 loan granted to Members of Parliament.
The CCC caucus has always put the citizens at the forefront in its quest to push for democratic change in Zimbabwe. At all material times it has advanced the agenda of citizen protection and that of holding the executive to account. Thus we have stood consistently on a platform that has placed citizens at the centre of our mandate.
Critical to the situation we find ourselves in is the important question of the role of parliament.
Parliament plays a critical role of making laws for the good order of Zimbabwe. However, as the third arm of the state, its most important function is that of holding the executive to account and more importantly demanding accountability over the use of Zimbabwe's resources.
Despite this important role, the executive has over decades systematically debased and weakened the role of parliament. Parliament has been underfunded and parliament has been treated as a constitutional inconvenience by an executive that is not accountable and is not prepared to be held to account.
Whilst parliament as an institution has been incapacitated through underfunding the whipping system, and constant recalls, the Member of Parliament has been incapacitated and devalued by a failure to put into place terms and conditions that allow him or her to properly execute their duties.”
MDC leaders were elected for the primary task of bringing about the democratic changes necessary to stop Zanu PF rigging elections, as the party’s name implies. MDC has failed to implement even one meaningful reform in 22 years, including the 5 years in the GNU.
Mugabe bribed the MDC leaders with the trappings of high office and the rest is history. And ever since the GNU debacle MDC leaders have participated in elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy in return for winning a few gravy train seats.
So, all Mutsenyami and his MDC/CCC friends are saying now about fighting for change and the common good is just hot air!
In October of 2022, MPs were made to sign binding loan application forms which they executed. In late November, parliament made partial disbursements of these loans. The loan in question is above board.
ReplyDeleteThe loan in question is no excuse for state failure or the deplorable state of public services. It is no excuse for 42 years of mismanagement and misallocation of public resources. And most certainly the loan cannot bribe or derail our cause.
We therefore reject the equalisation. We are not Zanu, have never been Zanu. We have remained principled and committed. We have remained unwavering in our quest for transformation and change in our country We have faced dictatorship and its billions of dollars weaponised against our people.
Prosper Mutseyami is the CCC MP for Dangamvura and the party's Chief Whip in parliament.
Mnangagwa needs the opposition to participated in these flawed and illegal elections to give the impression Zimbabwe is a healthy and functioning multi-party state. These generous salaries and allowances will guarantee the opposition will never ever boycott the elections.
Indeed Mnangagwa had even created POLAD to reward those who fail to get gravy train seats!
MDC/CCC sold out a long time ago and people like Mutseyami should not insult our intelligence with all this nonsense about being principled and committed. They are committed to having a share of the spoils of power!
Zimbabwe will never ever stop Zanu PF rigging the elections without first implementing the reforms. And MDC/CCC will never ever implement even one reform, they are content sharing the spoils of power. CCC are hell bent on participating in these flawed elections for their share of these free loans which even Chamisa could not deny are bribes!
@ Zipud
ReplyDeleteWhy do they keep insisting on calling them loans? How is someone who is claiming to be paid US$60 going to pay the installments needed for a US$40k, $350k and $500k loans? Both parties have used their privilege to pay themselves a bonus. Just like with the farm mechanisation programmes and probably many other instances. A guy like Mliswa who had US460K written off via the farm mechanisation programme now gets at least another US40k. Some politicians who drive lamborghini's, have homes in areas like Borrowdale Brook and own numerous businesses will also be getting this money.
Also isn't it funny that how all of a sudden politicians now compare their salaries to those in the region yet when health care workers do they same they are quickly vilified? Welcome to the 2nd republic.
Since the GNU debacle, the opposition has known Zanu PF is rigging these elections but has participated regardless for the sake of the few gravy train seats Zanu PF was giving away as bait. These loans are some of those gravy train benefit and therefore it would be nonsensical to turn down the bribe when it is the reason they participated against all advice not to.
@ Israeli
ReplyDeleteKeep putting your hope on politicians. Mel Brooks in his 1981 movie History of The World , Part 1, called politicians Stand-up Philosophers a.k.a. Bullshit Artists. I have never voted and never will. Enjoy the circus. If there are people who think change comes through politicians you need to wake up. Study history. A former Rhodesian white army official wrote that Henry Kissinger managed the transition from minority rule to what we call independence in 1980. He says the plan went on script and was off just by six months but it was all according to plan. You also see Henry Kissinger's hand in the transition process in South Africa. Stay clear of politics there is more to it than just what people see. I say this because it is sad to see people die for flawed men and women who are gullible much like the average person out there. Bayakapula oDonga. Stay clear of politics. Work to fend for your family and leave those who are to dabble with the venomous snake called politics.
If you live in Zimbabwe whether you vote or not it clearly does not matter because Zanu PF will always win with a majority – that is the advantage of having carte blanche powers to rig elections. And as long as Zanu PF remains in power it will continue to loot the nation’s wealth and make povo’s life hell on earth. If you are povo giving up and letting Zanu PF continue riding roughshod over you is an option you will take if you are an idiot!
Zanu PF thugs are not gods but mere mortals like the rest of us; so why should one allow another mortal rid roughshod over them? You always come up with idiotic ideas!