“The world is flat or round not because you or me say it is flat/round.
It is round because the mountain of supporting evidence say it is round,” my
Secondary School teacher used to say.
Zimbabwe is well and truly stuck in this economic and political mess. 43
years after independence and the country is economic ruins, the four decades of
Zanu PF gross mismanagement and rampant corruption have all but crippled the
country’s once promising economy. We are stuck with the corrupt and tyrannical
Zanu PF regime because the opposition, the men and women the nation had
entrusted the task of implementing the democratic reforms and end the Zanu PF
dictatorship have proven to be corrupt, hopelessly incompetent and thus utterly
useless.
Nelson Chamisa and his MDC/CCC friends live in their own cloud cuckoo land
in which evidence, facts, truth and reality count for nothing. What matters in
cloud cuckoo land is what Chamisa says!
“CONGRATULATIONS FELLOW CITIZENS…IN ONE YEAR, YOU HAVE EXCELLED. Change
Champions, you moved mountains. Because #Godisinit you Won 19/28 MPs, 89/149
Councillors in by elections. THANK YOU;
-For your solidarity & support.
-For believing and supporting us against all odds. #ANewGreatZimbabwe loading.
Thank you Our God in Heaven. You are so faithful!
We aim to #WinBig to seal the Presidency. 2/3 in Parly, & choose
both speaker of Parliament and President of Senate. We must attain a majority
in local authorities. Citizens, let’s do it again! Come, #Thistime let us make
it happen Big! #Onepeople,” said Chamisa in his latest Twitter.
CCC members call themselves “change champions” and Chamisa is “Change
Champion in Chief” and yet MDC/CCC has failed to bring about even one
democratic change in 23 years, 5 of which in the GNU. In cloud cuckoo land
historic facts count for nothing.
Chamisa keeps boasting about CCC as new political party when all he did
was rebrand MDC Alliance. Most of the leadership positions in CCC are filled by
same individuals from MDC A and the CCC candidates in the by-elections are the
winning MDC A candidates who were booted out of the Mwonzora led MDC A.
Most worrying of all is that Chamisa and company are hell bent on
participating in these 2023 elections oblivious is the political reality that
Zanu PF is rigging these elections. Yesterday, Justice Priscila Chigumba, ZEC
chairperson, admitted the commission has failed to produce a verified voters’
roll but the elections will go ahead regardless. CCC will participate in the
elections regardless of mountain of evidence the election process is flawed and
illegal. The party will win big because Chamisa said so!
By participating in these flawed elections CCC are giving SADC the
excuse to endorse the rigged elections and grant Zanu PF legitimacy.
It is all very well for Chamisa and his fellow CCC leaders, they after
the few gravy train seats Zanu PF gives away as bite. As MP one gets US$60k for
a car and very generous salary and allowances plus the recent addition of
US$40k for a house.
Chamisa will tell the supporters Zanu PF rigged the elections, something
he has insisted would not happen, the morning after the vote. And the
wildebeest herd and the nation at large will have to live with the consequences
of yet another five more years of Zanu PF corrupt and tyrannical rule.
I, for one, am hanging my head in shamed that 43 years after
independence we, in Zimbabwe, are still failing to hold free and fair elections.
Tyrants like Mnangagwa foam and froth about white colonial oppression and yet
are the ones denying their own fellow blacks the freedoms and human rights
decades after independence.
For anyone to participate in any election without something as basic as
a verified voters’ roll, in this day and age, is as foolish still believing the
world is flat!
Zanu PF is rigging the 2023 elections. CCC sold out by failing to implement
even one reform in 23 years and are selling out by participating in these
flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy. Even the village idiots prone to
believing every word Chamisa says must know these are the irrefutable facts!
Zimbabwe is a failed state and is not just Zanu PF and their CCC
acolytes who have landed us here; we the people in our naivety have played out
part. If we participate in these flawed elections and give Zanu PF legitimacy
then we deserve to suffer and die as Zimbabwe sinks deeper and deeper into the hell-on-earth
of our own making.
It is all very well living in cloud cuckoo land and believing this CCC’s
“winning in rigged elections” oxymoronic nonsense; it comes with a price tag to
it.
@ Dube
ReplyDelete“But if they want to continue receiving free political and economic stress relief sesssions through Nelson Chamisa's jokes and kindergarten games via political rallies, then they must keep clownish and clueless Chamisa as their President.
A short time in the rough Zimbabwe political arena has exposed Chamisa as a clueless charlatan, pathological liar, Shona supremacist, corrupt and lily livered leader who has a huge appetite for absolute power and dictatorship.
Unlike Job Sikhala, Tendai Biti and the late President of MDC, Morgan Tsvangirai, he commands little to zero international support. This fundamental constituency cannot be swayed by school-boy lies. They are not like poor peasants somewhere in Murewa who would clap hands and ululate at every word of deception that comes out of Chamisa's mouth. It digs deeper than CCC. That is, charisma, character and colour, to check consistency, capacity as well as reliability, qualities which Chamisa lacks.”
I total y agree with you Chamisa is clueless clown. Still, you too have no clue what you are talking about if you think Job Sihkala, Tendai Biti or any of the MDC/CCC leaders who have been in the party these last 23 years and yet have failed to implement even one meaningful change and have been participating in these flawed elections only to give Zanu PF legitimacy.
Zanu PF is rigging the 2023 elections and Chamisa and his CCC friends continue to ignore this reality convinced the party will win big. We all know that the morning after the elections they will be complaining that Zanu PF rigged the elections - as if they are only aware of that possibility.
ReplyDeleteIt is insane that 43 years after independence and we are still failing to hold free and fair elections! Zanu PF is rigging and CCC pretend they will win rigged elections only to flip and admit the elections were rigged when it is too late. We really need to stop this insanity here and now!
LOCAL non governmental organisation Higher Life Foundation in conjunction with Global intercessors has started a 90-day prayer session for Africa with focus being drawn on the upcoming general elections in Zimbabwe.
ReplyDeleteThe Lift up Africa campaign – an initiative that began in 2021 mainly localised in Zimbabwe – has been rolled out to all African countries in the hope of summoning divine intervention on problems be-deviling the continent.”
What is be-devilling Zimbabwe is gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and lawlessness. All these are man-made problems born of greed and the failure to think. Decades of mental inactivity have turned most of our people’s brain into useless fat.
So these buffoons should be putting their thinking caps on instead of wasting time calling for divine intervention. What do the want God to do with those too lazy to think!
@ TG
ReplyDelete“Chamisa knows very well that no rigging happens during elections.”
Actually, one minute Chamisa says the elections are free and fair and he is going to win. The next minute he says Zanu PF is rigging but he has “winning in rigged elections (WIRE) strategies”. Either way, he is winning big.
The morning after the voting, one of Chamisa’s lieutenants will announce Chamisa landslide victory. The official result will show Chamisa lost kicking off the claims of Zanu PF stealing the elections. The idiots now pretend they never boasted about the WIRE strategies.
The important thing here is that even the village idiots will know this time that CCC are participating in these elections out of greed, they have no political credibility. An opposition with zero political credibility will not give the election process zero credibility and the winner, Zanu PF zero legitimacy.
Nelson Chamisa is just another Abel Muzorewa, as you know, he failed to give Ian Smith legitimacy in 1979. Watch this space!
In his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe, David Coltart confessed four key points regarding MDC’s continued participation in flawed 2013 elections:
ReplyDelete1) The elections were so flawed the only rational thing to do was to boycott them
2) They participated because they could not agree on forming a coalition
3) That participating gave SADC the excuse to grant Zanu PF legitimacy
4) They participated out of greed
5) Coltart did not even mention in his book, MDC leaders failed to implement even one reform during the five years of GNU because of greed. It was no surprising therefore that greed got the better of them in the post GNU era.
The failure to form a coalition was just a feeble excuse for failing to do the obvious thing, boycott the flawed elections. This was an individual decision and not one would expect a unanimous consensus. Besides four of the main MDC factions did form a coalition in 2018 and still they participated in that year’s elections without even discussing the boycott. Greed got the better of them again.
Mnangagwa’s failure to revive the economy have left the people desperate for change and he knows that he has to pull all the vote rigging stops to win. The 2023 elections are more flawed and illegal than ever and the rational to boycott more obvious and urgent than ever. Chamisa and company are hell bent on participating because for them greed trumps over reason any day.
The challenge is to make sure “even the village idiots”, as you said, know Zanu PF is rigging these elections and CCC are participating out of greed. This will make it very difficult for SADC leaders to endorse the elections and grant Zanu PF legitimacy. This is a difficult task but not mission impossible!
@ Sheunopa Mutsikiwa
ReplyDelete“Not participating in elections is not solving Zimbabwe's problems. This is a fact.”
Let’s start the beginning, a good place to start.
We start with “Elections must be free, fair and credible!” and then laid down the rules to make this possible. Who is eligible to vote, established the body tasked to produce the voters’ roll, etc., etc.
Now, let’s are consider the possibility that elections are rigged, indeed the whole purpose of laying down the rules was to stop this possibility. So, despite our best intentions, the elections are rigged. What then?
Well, there must be many options ranging from confronting the relevant officials responsible for the broken rules with the evidence and demanding an explanation. If the officials ignore you, you take it up with higher authority, the courts for example. If you have taken it to the highest authority in the land and still you get no joy, what then?
Surely it makes sense to stop participating in an election process so flawed and illegal not even getting 73% of the vote is good enough to win; more so when participating only gives the vote rigging party legitimacy!
Of course, boycotting the elections is one recourse in rigged elections and only a fool will take it off the table. If those rigging the elections know in advance that you will participate and give them legitimacy no matter how flawed the process got, why would they risk losing by adhering to the rules?
Zanu PF knows that CCC will participate in these flawed elections no matter how flawed the process gets because the know Chamisa and company are greed. Zanu PF is giving away a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition to participate, the winners get US$60k for a car, very generous salary and allowances and Mnangagwa has just added US$40 k for a house and for the losers there is the POLAD freebies.
Chamisa and company are participating in these flawed elections not because of some idiotic, “Not participating in elections is not solving Zimbabwe's problems!” notion. They are participating because greed has trumped reason! You don’t believe me! Then read David Coltart’s book for yourself (assuming you can read much less understand)!
Zanu PF has deregistered over 200 NGOs!
ReplyDeleteZanu PF is rigging the 2023 elections and yet CCC still insist in participating claiming the party will win big! The truth is Zanu PF knows CCC will participate no matter what because Chamisa and company are after the few gravy train seats with the winners getting US$60k for a car, very generous salary and allowances and a recent addition of US$40 k for house. Mnangagwa is even paying the losers POLAD benefits.
Not only did MDC/CCC sell out by failing to implement even one reform in 23 years, they are the ones participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuating the dictatorship and the people’s suffering; all for 30 pieces of silver!
Like it or not MDC/CCC have stopped fighting for reforms, free elections and good governance. Ever since the GNU debacle, they has been fighting in Zanu PF’s corner for a share of the spoils of power. Chamisa and company are no longer the solution, they are now an additional variable compounding the problem.
Mutambara is right that the 2018 elections were not free, fair and credible but by participating in the flawed process the opposition and the people of Zimbabwe helped to sanitise the coup and give the regime legitimacy.
ReplyDeleteThe EU, Commonwealth and other international observers dismissed the 2018 elections as a farce and produced a list of recommendations that should be implemented to ensure free and fair elections. Not even one of the reforms have been implemented. Not one! And yet we are once again being argued to participate in the flawed elections!
“We should register to vote!” Register with whom? ZEC has just announced the 2023 elections are going ahead without a verified voters’ roll because the regime does not want a verified voters’ roll. And we are being told to register with the same ZEC! Fcuk me, just how stupid and irrational is that!
CCC are hell bent in participating in 2023 elections, sanitise and give Zanu PF legitimacy, just as they did in 2018 and 2013, because they are after the few gravy train seats Zanu PF is giving away. Indeed MDC leaders failed to implement even one reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU for the same reason – greed. Mutambara was deputy PM during the GNU and knows why they sold out then. Ask him!
Hupenzi inyama yegakava! Admit it was foolish participating in the 2018 elections in one breath and argue participating in the 2023 elections in the next!
The people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb to elect MDC/CCC leaders for the primary task of implementing the democratic reforms to end the curse of Zanu PF rigged elections. After 23 years, 5 of which in the GNU. the party has failed to implement even one reform. What is worse, the party has given up on reforms since the GNU debacle and has been participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy in return for a few gravy train seats.
ReplyDeleteChamisa and company have total their naive and gullible supporters they have winning in rigged elections strategies, all hot air, to hide their greed.
After 43 years of rigged elections and with the nation in deep, deep economic and social trouble, Zimbabwe cannot afford another rigged elections followed by 5 more years of this pariah state! Zanu PF must be denied legitimacy at the end of the 2023 elections!