“Zviripapi, CCC yangova chechi yavaWisiri!” (CCC is now church building of the Wesley!) answered my cousin after attending Nelson Chamisa’s Mkoba, Gweru, rally on Sunday.
In my rural village “Chechi yavaWisiri” became the byword for something that is not fit for the purpose and failure.
The Wesley church members in my home area were allocated a piece of land on which to build their church. I remember a structure going up every few years only to be abandoned before it was complete. And after a few years work will start again on a new structure. Work will once again stop because the members had run out of ideas, money or something.
On one occasion, the structure build out of fired mud-bricks had gone up nearly roof level when there the rain season set in. It was not a particularly wet season. After a few weeks, cracks started appear on the wall. The walls were plastered to cover the cracks. To cut the long story short, the building was abandoned yet again before it was complete; no amount of mud plaster was ever going to hold up that mud-brick leaning tower of Pisa!
My cousin is a shrewd political activist and not to be confused with the brain dead political supporters, from both sides of the political divide, who follow the political leaders blindly, no questioned asked, like sheep to the slaughter. He joined the MDC soon after the party was launched in 1999 but his enthusiasm and zeal did not last. “We have too much dead wood, starting with Morgan Tsvangirai himself!” he explained to me at the time. Time has proven him right again and again.
Lest people forget, the people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb (Zanu PF thugs have been ruthless with their political opponents and their supporters) to elect MDC (now rebranded as CCC) leaders into power on the promise the party will implement the necessary democratic changes to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. After 23 years, 5 of which in the GNU, MDC/CCC has not implemented even one token democratic reform. Worse still, the party has been participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed.
It was my cousin who brought David Coltart’s book to my attention, more specifically the confession on the futility of participating in flawed elections.
“The (2013) 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,” confessed David Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe. could h where plaster e
My cousin tried his best to talk the likes of David Coltart, Tendai Biti and one or two others “with some grey stuff between their ears” to do the only rational thing - stop participating in flawed 2018 elections to perpetuate the dictatorship. The gravitation pull of greed, the call of the wild, was overwhelming; particularly now that Mugabe had nurtured and cultivated it during the GNU years.
“If there was any pretence of the party seeking democratic changes before the 2008 and 2013 GNU, the pretence died of neglect during the GNU,” explained my cousin.”Soon after the GNU the fight for reform and democratic changes was buried.
“Chamisa and company are now convinced they can win “rigged” elections and political power. At least, this is what they tell the wildebeest herd; cover for why they insist on participating in flawed elections.
“Zimbabwe is a failed state and the need to implement the democratic reforms and end the curse of rigged elections and bad governance is more urgent now that ever. Chamisa and his CCC friends are talking of regime change, that is the change they are now promising not reforms and free elections.
“So MDC/CCC has failed to deliver even one token reform in these last 23 years nor is it ever likely to do so in the future because the party has never had the quality leaders to understand the reforms much less the vision to implement them. MDC/CCC was never ever fit for purpose! Chechi yavaWisiri!”
My cousin had not bothered to register to vote for the 2018 elections when it became clear to him that MDC leaders were participating to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. He is not going to vote next month and has been doing his best to explain the sheer futility of doing so to perpetuate the Zanu PF dictatorship and prop up corrupt and utterly useless CCC!
@ Muchewu
ReplyDelete“Eish. This is why I think you have whiteman licking syndrome. Unotorine problem ye lack of self belief. Only white systems works for you. As long as we stay in line.
Seriously if blacks were like you during the war nothing would have been achieved with your likes. I’m ashamed of your journalism if indeed yoh are. You see everything through a white barometer.”
You have not said anything wrong about what I said. Most African countries including Zimbabwe are failed states and I refused to be brainwashed by Zanu PF propaganda. This whole notion that you must deny what you can see with your own eyes to be patriotic on in the name of pan-Africanism is all bulls***t!
What achievements has this Zanu PF regime or ANC in South Africa accomplished?
Zanu PF puts more meat of its plan to frogmarch voters and if there should be a runoff then those not on the party cell register are warned "it would better to commit suicide!"
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU5IT6CSUIg
@ Temba Mliswa
ReplyDeleteThe fact still remains that Zanu PF is rigging these elections to secure Zanu PF majority and the presidency. The party knows that the days of de facto one-party state are over and so it has allowed a few opposition members to win seats to maintain the multi-party democracy facade.
People like Mliswa and Tendai Biti would like the people to believe the present system is working but the truth is it not working. As long as Zanu PF is able to rig the elections it has always done as it damn well pleased. The bull of Norton did not stop the looting of our diamonds, gold, etc. He did not stop the passing of obnoxious laws like the Patriotic Bill.
“Look, you can't keep on participating in flawed electoral processes that serve to give big benefits to dictators such as Robert Mugabe. Mugabe has perfected the art of winning elections. So it will be very foolish for the opposition to continue legitimizing these sham elections which don't deliver. This country will go through a serious economic crisis in 2020 caused by Zanu PF. And yet, this is the only country where a government doesn't perform, it is encouraged by a super majority in parliament,” said Tendai Biti in a 2015 interview with Isaac Mugabi.
“So you can't continue subjecting Zimbabweans to processes where their hopes just get crushed.”
Mliswa, Biti and all the other opposition parties and individuals participating in these flawed elections are giving Zanu PF legitimacy for the sake of the few gravy train seat on offer as bait. If we are serious about end this failed state then we must also be serious about reforms before elections and not allowed ourselves to be fooled by these keeping Zanu PF in power for 30 pieces of silver!
@ J Chitando
ReplyDelete“Mnangagwa knows that the economy is campaigning heavily against him. He is sure that his 5 years in office has no achievement so it is convincing voters to do the right thing...vote him out. Mnangagwa has no Manifesto nor message to the people of Zimbabwe that's why he has resorted to these kindergarten jokes.His 2023 campaign message is empty, uninspiring and hopeless!!”
Of course, Mnangagwa knows that the Zimbabwe economy is in total meltdown and the people would vote him and Zanu PF out of office, they would have done so decades ago, if these elections were free, fair and credible. They are not, Zanu PF is rigging these elections. The party has rigged elections ever since the country’s independence in 1980!
What is infuriating here is that the nation had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms and end the curse of rigged elections during the 2008 to 2013 GNU and you Chitando and your fellow MDC MPs, ministers and Prime Minister Tsvangirai wasted the opportunity. You lot failed to implement even one reform. You know Zanu PF is rigging these elections and that participating will only give the regime legitimacy. You are participating regardless out of greed.
You are selling out the nation’s hope to end the curse of rigged elections and bad governance for 30 pieces of silver! You are one of CCC’s candidates for Masvingo Province senators. You are nothing more than the modern day Judas Iscariot!
“Zanu-PF Gutu South Members on High-speed car Chase against CCC Aspiring Member of Parliament
ReplyDelete19th July 2023
By Wezhira Munya
Yesterday, at around 4 pm, Gutu South Zanu PF members chased Gutu South Citizens Coalition for Change [CCC] aspiring member of parliament, Mr. Hamandishe Gobvu.”
This madness will only be stopped by implementing the 23 reform recommendations in the 2018 EU Election Observer Mission report, which both Zanu PF and CCC have ignored. CCC’s so-called winning in rigged elections strategies are just hot air, a smoke screen to hide the real reason behind the party’s stubborn insistence in participating in these flawed elections. Greed!
“President Chamisa addresses three mega rallies today
ReplyDelete19 July 2023
Wezhira Munya
The youthful and energetic Citizens Coalition for Change [CCC] President Nelson Chamisa will address three rallies today.
Its Cyclone Chamisa's show today.”
This is the tragedy in Zimbabwe, the same idiot who posted the article about the high speed chase of CCC candidate and supporter in Gutu by Zanu PF thugs is boasting of “Cyclone Chamisa” down playing the sheer futility of CCC’s failure to stop the violence.
@ Cogito
ReplyDelete“The fact still remains that you're so educated and blinded that you can't notice that nobody is interested is hearing or listening to whatever the agenda you've been pushing for past few months.”
Those who follow leaders blindly, no questioned asked, are the blind. And those arguing that we must all follow the herd are themselves stupid and blind, they believe whatever the mob does must be right because they constitute the majority. Since when has majority been synonymous with right, truth and facts!
I am here to make sure that everyone of the wildebeest herd knows Zanu PF is rigging these elections, CCC are participating out of greed and that the herd is being taken for fools participating to give legitimacy to Zanu PF and perpetuating their own suffering! I am here to hammer that message home!
I am not concerned about what the herd “is interested to hear”. I am concerned about what the herd MUST hear! The difference is subtle but to a discerning mind it as clear as day and night.
Elisabeth Valerio, UZA President cleared to join the presidential rat race.
ReplyDeleteA prime POLAD candidate, all she has to do is publicly endorse the rigged election were "free, fair and credible and Mnangagwa is the legitimately elected." Do that and she will receive her own brand new US$40 000 plus twin cab truck plus many other POLAD freebies.
The nation can call her "POLAD" Elisabeth Valerio and, just to remind her who gave her the truck, it will be inscribed "POLAD" and in invisible ink "Just another opposition sell out!"
https://bulawayo24.com/index-id-news-sc-national-byo-233446.html
The 2008 elections were so flawed getting 73% of the votes was not good enough for Tsvangirai to get the keys into State House and the wanton violence during the runoff were so outrageous that anyone, anyone at all, with half a brain should have realised that this madness MUST be stopped. SADC leaders did their bit in forcing Mugabe and Zanu PF to agree on the need for democratic reforms. The GNU was tasked to implement the reforms.
ReplyDeleteMorgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends failed to implement even one token reform in five years. MDC/CCC have participated in these flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. If this is not high treason, then what is!
@ Development
ReplyDelete“What do you reckon is the best thing to do at the stage we're at now?”
This is a question CCC leaders and their fanatical wildebeest herd like to ask. Ever since the 2008 watershed elections they have been told again and again that they must implement the democratic reforms and stop Zanu PF rigging the elections, they have ignored that advice. The EU has even produced a list of 23 reform recommendations the country must implement to stop this madness of rigged elections. Once again CCC leaders have completely ignored the EU.
Chamisa and company were falling over each other on 21 June 2023, submitting the nomination papers knowing fully well that ZEC had failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll. Proof the opposition was hell bent on participating in these elections.
Now Chamisa and company are asking “We cannot implement reforms. We cannot postpone the election. We have no choice but to participate!” And are expecting us all to endorse that position. We must not fall into that trap. We must stand firm and remind Chamisa et all they have had 23 years, 5 of which in the GNU, to implement the democratic reforms; why have they wasted all these years?
As for the ordinary Zimbabwean, participating in these flawed elections will not change the predetermined Zanu PF victory, that is as clear as day; all it will do is give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the dictatorship. Of course, it is insane to participate.
If you have been warned the river is infested with crocodiles and you can the replies in the water for yourself. Only a fool will go ahead and take the plunge “because I have come this far, I might as well take a chance!”
When CCC submitted their nomination papers on 21 June they knew these elections are flawed but their greed had the better of them. As long as Chamisa and company are sure the few gravy train seats bait is still up for grabs and the wildebeest herd continue to believe the oxymoronic nonsense CCC has winning in rigged elections strategies they will never boycott the elections. Never!
ReplyDelete@ Seal4
ReplyDelete“Insanity👹is your problem! U keeping repeating same mistakes expecting a different outcome it doesn't work that way.
Mr Mukori is dealing with the root cause of Zimbabwe rigged elections. U focusing only on symptoms or putting plasters on wounds when person has h.i.v with skin bleeding rashes. Best way to deal with any problems is to go to the root of the problem address it from there.”
One of the reason why Zimbabwe is a failed state is we have more than our fair share of mentally challenged individual, you cannot reason with someone whose bran has ossified into fat.
If anyone with half a brain is warned that the elections are so flawed you cannot change the predetermined Zanu PF victory and that by participating you will give the regime legitimacy. It will be obvious that participating is foolish. In Zimbabwe many people would ask you, what they should do? And some are still participating even after you explained.
It is like warning someone that the river is infested with crocodiles, they can see the “logs” floating up stream towards them, and they still take the plunge “because I have come too far to turn back now!” I am speechless.
In a democracy it is the people's duty to hold those in positions of power and authority to account, that is what I am doing. I am aware that we have some village idiots who think leaders are demigods who must not be questioned much less held to account. I am here to remind the village idiots what democracy is about and to make sure they shut up!
ReplyDeleteZimbabweans have risked life and limb to elect MDC/CCC into power for one primary purpose to implement the democratic reforms and stop Zanu PF rigging elections. After 23 years the party has not only failed to implement even one reform but worse still they are so compromised they will never implement any reform.
ReplyDeleteMDC/CCC are not fit for purpose! A very bitter pill to swallow for many people out there but one the nation MUST swallow or there is no getting out of the mess we are in.
https://www.zimeye.net/2023/07/19/ccc-has-failed-to-implement-even-one-reform-in-23-years-and-never-will-yangova-chechi-yavawisiri/
One thing to be said about Tyson is that he has deep pockets - not as deep as Mnangagwa but still deep enough to bother Mnangagwa. Zanu PF members are a very fickle lot; the minute they realised Mugabe was a spend force the men and women he thought were as faithful to him as puppies were falling over each other to sign his impeachment papers.
ReplyDeleteThis Kasukuwere billboard advert right in the heart of the city is loud and bold. Too loud and too bold, some may say. The green bombers who have been tearing down cheap double A1 size CCC poster were dumbfounded when the saw the billboard with the 50 times larger than life image of Kasukuwere staring them down!
Mnangagwa is rigging these elections and the entry of Kasukuwere in this rat race has added a new challenge Mnangagwa has never dealt with before - some one who too does not play by the rules! Kasukuwere has his own dirty tactics but will happily reveal Mnangagwa’s shenanigans just to shame the tyrant.
It is tough enough to rig elections now Mnangagwa has to be doubly careful details of his rigging are not leaked out. Will these loud and bold billboard advert embolden some one in his own inner circle to switch sides and double cross him?
Mnangagwa has been worrying about the country’s worsening economic situation, about Chamisa and now he must add Kasukuwere to his headaches.
Forget my Aunt and Cousin in the rural backwaters, why are Zimbabwe's so called intellectuals and professions hell bent on participating in these flawed elections only to give Zanu PF legitimacy?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thAf3WSGxjk
President Chamisa Addresses More Than 40,000 CCC Members in Zvishavane
ReplyDelete20 July 2023
By Wezhira Munya
Yesterday, at 5 pm, the youthful and energetic Citizens Coalition for Change President, Nelson Chamisa, addressed his third and final rally in Zvishavane.
Approximately over 40,000 citizens attended this rally, as CCC's popularity increases.
[See CCC Zvishavane rally in the picture]
Earlier yesterday, President Chamisa had addressed highly subscribed rallies at Chachacha business centre at 10 am and then Mandamabwe Business Centre, Chivi, at 2 pm.
Zvishavane came to a standstill as Cyclone Chamisa swept through, with the mining town painted yellow.”
Zanu PF lost the people’s support decades ago but has remained in power because the party rigged the elections. The 2008 elections were a water shed in that the regime showed the world shocking depth of depravity the party would go to win the elections. SADC and AU refused to endorse Zanu PF’s election victory, for the first time ever, and the regional body forced Zanu PF to sign the 2008 Global Political Agreement, agreeing to the need for democratic reforms designed to restore the individual freedoms and rights and prevent a repeat of the 2008 election blatant cheating and wanton violence.
The primary task of 2008 to 2013 GNU was to implement the democratic reforms. Alas! Not even one token reform was implemented. Mugabe bribed the MDC leaders with the trappings of high office and the rest is history.
“Mazivanhu eMDC adzidza kudya anyerere!” (MDC leaders have learned to enjoy the gravy train good life; they will never rock the boat!) boasted the Zanu PF thugs when asked why MDC were not implementing the reforms.
MDC/CCC leaders have not only sold out by failing to implement reforms but are compounding the situation by insisting on participating in these flawed elections knowing fully well that doing so will give Zanu PF legitimacy.
Zimbabwe is a failed state; basic services like education and health care have collapsed and already 49% of our people are living in abject poverty. Another five more years of this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship is unthinkable and yet it is a certainty. Zanu PF is rigging these 2023 elections and CCC leaders know this but pretend the party will “win big” regardless.
How long are we going to allow this madness of rigged elections to continue whilst those entrusted to implement the reforms and end the curse pretend they have winning in rigged elections strategies? How anyone can still believe in these hot air strategies after 43 years of Zanu PF rigging elections, beggars belief!
Those who will not learn from history are destined to repeat the same mistakes over and over again. It is insane that even after 43 years of independence, in this day and age, we are still have no clue what constitute free, fair and credible elections. We really are doomed; there is no getting out of this hell-hole on the back of winning rigged elections!
@ Seal4
ReplyDelete“ED panicking making up rules along the way k constitution ke🤷🏽♂️ ED exposing himself that he is a dictator he is a china part 2🤮.
Free & fair elections not restrictions every inch of the way imagine changing rules during a football game🙈”
You are 100% right, E D is panicking but the key point is he is able to do something about it - the vote rigging juggernaut is in overdrive! People are being forced to attend Zanu PF cell meeting, at least once a week, where a register of attendees is kept. The same register will be used to mark off people as they go in to vote.
The worst result Zanu PF is projecting is Mnangagwa failing to win 50% plus one. The system will see to it that Chamisa does not win the 50% plus one. During the runoff, Zanu PF will simply target those who on the Polling Station voters’ roll minus those on the party’s own cell register who voted for the party. “It would be better for them to kill themselves!” the party has been warning.
@ Rushhour
ReplyDelete“Chamunofanirwa kuziva sabhuku ndechekuti Gudo hariramwirwe munda.”
Zimbabwe is a failed state basic services such as education and health care have collapsed and already 49% of our people are living in abject poverty. Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies are rigging these elections so they can continue to loot and live in unparalleled luxury and comfort.
So, let me ask you, which of the two groups are the humans outwitting the baboons? Mnangagwa and the filthy rich few who are riding roughshod of povo denying them their freedoms, rights and human dignity? Or the down trodden povo?
The cunning Mugabe not only conned Morgan Tsvangirai and his fellow MDC leaders and the party’s wildebeest herd followers into doing nothing about reforms but, worse still, into completely abandoning reforms on the belief MDC/CCC can win rigged elections. To trade in your right to free and fair elections for something as frivolous as winning rigged elections is trading in gold for fool’s gold!
It is shocking that even after 43 years of rigged elections the penny has not dropped on the sheer futility of participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuating the failed state.
Zanu PF has refined its vote rigging tactics, the regime has allowed the opposition to win a few gravy train seats and Mnangagwa has spiced this up with the POLAD freebies. After each rigged elections, Zanu PF has deployed its double agents to spread the message that the opposition was very, very close to winning rigged elections. “Don’t give up!” “Gudo hariramwirwe munda!”
Fool’s gold is not gold!
@ Nigel
ReplyDeleteThere are village idiots in a democratic country and in a dictatorship. In Zimbabwe we have more than our fair share of village idiots because they are the ones propping up the dictatorship in the name of democracy! They have been participating in flawed elections, so flawed winning 73% is not good enough to get you into power, to give Zanu PF legitimacy. After 43 years of rigging elections they are hoping for a different result!
@ Alex
ReplyDeleteIf participating in these flawed elections is only giving Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuating the dictatorship, then it is obvious that one should not participate. If you are warned the river has crocodiles and you can see the "log" floating up stream towards you, it is foolish to ask: What should I do?
@ Mahupete
ReplyDelete“Wiri, you should minimise vacillating between fact and exaggeration. Which 49% are you on about? If this was true it would be evident on the streets of Zimbabwe.
If the generality of Zimbas want to participate in this 'flawed' election then why are you so intent on insulting them and screaming in the wilderness!! Yes, they are shameless idiots(by your definition) but it is their choice. That they are following, wildebeest fashion, their political leaders then so be it..
Iwe, as a one man band, ita plan. Go to Unity Square and market yourself and your vision. Zvako zve SADC, international community what what..is really passing yourself in a black suit. You get a warm feeling but nobody else notices.”
Everyone has a right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country but like all the other freedoms and rights we all have a duty of care to our fellow man to make sure in exercising our freedom or right we do not harm others.
If you keep participating in a flawed election, so flawed getting 73% of the votes was not good enough to get Tsvangirai into State House, knowing participating will only give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate your fellow country men’s suffering and you still participate. To start with if elections are rigged then, per se, many people are being denied their right to a meaningful vote.
So it is nonsensical to claim that you have the right to participating in flawed elections because in exercising that right you are giving legitimacy to vote rigging Zanu PF, perpetuating the dictatorship that is denying others their freedoms and rights.
If you are participating expecting a different result after 43 years of rigged elections that is insanity (village idiot = insane pick your pick, I am not interested in semantics). You continued right to a vote must be cross examined and challenged because no one in his/her right mind can allow the nation’s destiny to be define by the insane.
@ Big Fish
ReplyDelete“U beginning to sound like an old scratched CD.”
Your heart beats 60 times a minute, I have never heard you complain about that!
So it is not the repeat, per se, you should be complaining about but whether it is necessary and relevant. Repeating that Zanu PF is rigging these elections and the folly of participating to give the regime legitimacy is absolutely necessary and relevant because the nation cannot afford to let this madness continue.
What I find shocking here is how village idiots like you foam and froth about repeated warns of Zanu PF rigging the elections and yet are indifferent to the reality of yet another rigged elections and the tragic consequences to has brought to the nation! Fcuk me. How can anyone be so shallow, thick and slow!!!
@ Big Fish
ReplyDelete“Aiwawo sukha,ndimi moda kufurira opposition not to participate, so u think Zanu pf will listen to that Kak.. they will tell Sadcc to go and hang, then Zanu pf will simply have a walk over victory.u complain after duty if u want your case to hold water.”
CCC are participating in these flawed elections out of greed and not because they fear a Zanu PF walk over victory. Chamisa and company know that Zanu PF is winning these elections they are just after the few gravy train seats Zanu PF is offering as bait.
“The (2013) 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,” confessed David Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe.
Both SADC and Zanu PF know of MDC/CCC leaders’ greed and the later is taking full advantage of this weakness. You can witter all you want but that will not change history or reality! It only shows just how naive and stupid you are.
@ Mzilakawu
ReplyDelete“If these elections goes to extra time ndaona dark cloud covering us.”
You are right there. Zanu PF’s plan A is to frogmarch the voters to secure a victory for Mnangagwa in the first round. Plan B is to make sure Chamisa is denied the 50% plus one and force a runoff. During the runoff the party will simply target all those from each Polling Station who did not vote for Mnangagwa. They will know them from their own register of all those who voted on 23 August.
“Pakaita rerani hapachina kutaurirana. Ugona kufuma wakafa, ndokuti zvinhu svinake! Kana kuti yuzviuraya vasati vakusvikira. … Hatisi kukuchichidzirai. Tiri kutaura zvakarongwa” (If there is a runoff, there will no more talking. You will just wake up dead. Or just kill yourself before they get to you! We are not threatening you. We are telling you what has been planned.) A Zanu PF official is heard warning villagers.
Of corse, this is not an empty threat; this would be the 2008 Operation Mavhotera papi mark 2! Mnangagwa knows all about that campaign of terror because he was the one who initiated and conducted it.
The 2008 runoff lasted three months, Zanu PF’s plan B is already operational. Voting day is 23 August, presidential results will be declare 28 August, latest and runoff voting is 2 September. 2008 Operation Mavhotera papi took 3 months to execute Operation Mavhotera papi mark 2 will be done and dusted in less than 2 weeks because all the preparatory work is happening right now.
@ Nigel
ReplyDelete“I do not know. If it was so obvious Nero would be singing so at his rallies.”
Is a story like this one and many more like is today alone, proof the elections are free and fair?
CCC Aspiring Councilor Brutally Assaulted by Zanupf Thugs: Calls for Peace Ahead of August 23 Elections [See pictures]
By Mash Central Change Radio Correspondent
20 July 2023
"CCC aspiring councilor for Ward 6, Bindura North, Cllr Oliver Mukombwe, was brutally assaulted by four Zanupf thugs led by Regis Mondoka, a well-known Zanupf activist in Bindura. They attacked him with bottles and stones at around 22:30 on Tuesday, July 18.
This happened at Manyopora Nite Club. An eyewitness said, 'They attacked him with bottles and kicked him when he fell down.’
@ Gogo
ReplyDelete“Let them participate as nothing will ever change unless they are in power. We have to fight for the change because we cannot get it on a silver plate.”
They have been in power these last 23 years, 5 of which in the GNU and they have failed to implement even one democratic reform. Worse still, they are participating in these flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. Here read this for yourself!
“The (2013) 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,” confessed David Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe’s number two curse is we have buffoons and tyrants for leaders and the number one curse is we have morons who put these buffoons and tyrants in power and are keeping them there! You cannot reason with a moron!
No one, absolutely no one, has the right to participating in an election knowing the process flawed, so flawed winning 73% is not good enough, and that by participating you are giving legitimacy to Zanu PF and perpetuating the failed state.
ReplyDeleteIt is insane to participate in rig elections expecting a different result after 43 years of Zanu PF rigged elections. The insane do not have a right to define the destiny of a nation.
https://www.facebook.com/4415858595176450/videos/624011269713373
@ Evangelist
ReplyDeleteSo you think you are the one thinking about the future generation by participating in flawed elections, so flawed getting 73% of the votes was not good enough to get Tsvangirai into State House, only to give legitimacy to Zanu PF and thus perpetuating the dictatorship.
What Zanu PF has done is fooled MDC/CCC leaders into giving up implementing reforms and the right to free elections on the believe the party can win rigged elections. The CCC wildebeest herd has swallowed the bait, hook, line and sinker, as usual. At least Chamisa and company are getting the bait the herd is getting nothing but the pain of the hook ripping open the cheek.
“The (2013) 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,” confessed David Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe.
Zanu PF is rigging these elections and you are only participating to give the regime legitimacy!
@ Tanyah
ReplyDeleteNo right is an absolute right because whilst you enjoy it you have a duty of care to others. You should know that in participating in these flawed elections, so flawed getting 73% of the votes was not good enough to get Tsvangirai into State House, only you will do is give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the dictatorship.
Of course it is insane that after 43 years of Zanu PF rigging elections you are still expecting a different result. Don't expect me to shower you with praise for your insanity and recklessness!
Mnangagwa is a buffoon and he has been in power these last 43 years only because he rigs elections. The only clever thing Zanu PF did during the GNU was to outwit Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC banded mongoose to give up reform and free and fair elections. Outwitting a mongoose and its wildebeest herd followers was not exactly a challenge.
ReplyDeleteThe banded mongooses now know they are participating in these elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy for the sake of a few gravy train seats. Their wildebeest herd followers are participating because they believe the rubbish from the mongoose that they have winning in rigged election strategies. They still believe CCC will win big even after 43 years of Zanu PF rigging elections. The wake up call will come on 24 August - not that it will last, they will revert to their default setting.
Only a village idiot like Malema can argue that Zanu PF vote rigging can be overwhelmed if people voted in numbers. How?
ReplyDeleteZanu PF vote rigging includes capture of the rural voters. The party has made rural areas no - go areas for the opposition and will frogmarch the rural voters to vote for Zanu PF.
Forget the bull about your vote is your secret; not so in Zimbabwe and that is why the regime has increased the number of Polling Stations from 10 per constituency in 2008 to over 60 this year and the constituency voters’ roll was scrap to a Polling Station voters’ roll. The party will KNOW who did not vote for Zanu PF!
CCC promised to have 6 m new voters registered for 2023 but as of 30 May 2022 only 1/4 m had registered or 4% of the 6 m target. Stopping the opposition supporters registering is part and parcel of the vote rigging.
Zanu PF has denied 3 m Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote for no other reason than that they are not likely to vote for the party and the party will not have a chance to rig that vote.
In 2008 Tsvangirai got 73% of the votes but still failed to get the keys to State House. Is Malema suggesting 73% is NOT overwhelming enough? Given the challenges above alone, it is clear Zanu PF will have enough votes to reach 27% since that is the new threshold for a Zanu PF victory.
SADC leaders were right to task Zimbabwe’s 2008 to 2013 GNU to implement the democratic reforms as the way forward. Now we have dimwits like Malema telling us we can win rigged elections, so flawed 73% is not good enough! The price the nation has to pay for failing to sort its problems, now every the regime’s village idiots are giving their stupid advice!
Like all the other opposition candidates participating in these 2023 elections; it is either Valerio is ignorant and naive and so does not know the elections are flawed and that participating will only give Zanu PF legitimacy. Or she knows that and is participating regardless because she is after the few gravy train seats on offer as bait including the POLAD freebies.
ReplyDeleteIgnorance and greed are the qualities that we should all shun. They are bad enough in the ordinary people they are intolerable in a leader because once in power they will become sell out and tyrants causing the suffering and deaths of millions as we can see from MDC/CCC and Zanu PF.
“The (2013) 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,” confessed David Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe.
What Coltart said here is true and we do not need another rigged 2023 elections to tell us he was right.
In Zimbabwe the people were short changed first by Zanu PF by being denied a meaningful say in the governance of the country. Zanu PF has rigged elections ever since the country's independence in 1980.
ReplyDeleteThe people have risked life and limb to elect MDC/CCC leaders into power on the promise the party would deliver the democratic changes necessary to restore povo’s freedoms and rights. After 23 years, 5 of which in the GNU, Chamisa et al has not only sold out by failing to to implement even one token reform but are keeping Zanu PF in power and perpetuating the dictatorship by participating in flawed elections out of greed. What is more, they know it!
“Look, you can't keep on participating in flawed electoral processes that serve to give big benefits to dictators such as Robert Mugabe. Mugabe has perfected the art of winning elections. So it will be very foolish for the opposition to continue legitimizing these sham elections which don't deliver. This country will go through a serious economic crisis in 2020 caused by Zanu PF. And yet, this is the only country where a government doesn't perform, it is encouraged by a super majority in parliament,” said Tendai Biti in a 2015 interview with Isaac Mugabi.
“So you can't continue subjecting Zimbabweans to processes where their hopes just get crushed.”
@ Chris
ReplyDelete"We can't be rigged - handidyike!" says Chamisa.
This is nauseating, it really is. Chamisa et al were elected on ticket to deliver democratic changes, as the original party name implied - Movement for Democratic Change. After 23 years, 5 of which in the GNU where they had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms, they have failed to implement even one reform. And so Zanu PF has retained all its tyrannical powers including the carte blanche powers to rig elections.
SADC leaders proposed the 2008 to 2013 GNU and its primary purpose was to implement reforms. When it was clear no meaning reforms had been implemented SDC leaders wanted the 2013 elections postposed and warned Morgan Tsvangirai and company the elections will be rigged without reforms. The warning fell on deaf ears.
The EU made 23 reform recommendations after the 2018 elections. Both Zanu PF and CCC have ignored the recommendations.
Even now, with all the evidence that Zanu PF is once again rigging these elections, here is some one stubbornly proclaiming that is going to defy the odds and win these elections. Whether he believes the elections are free and fair or that his so called winning in rigged elections strategies are working it is not clear. What matters is that Chamisa and his CCC are winning.
If Chamisa and company lost these elections and the process was free, fair and credible, then fair enough. If he loses these elections and the process is indeed flawed and, because of his foolishness and greed insisted in the elections going ahead and thus gave Zanu PF legitimacy once again then he and his CCC friends must know this is treasonous betrayal of the nation. Clearly a habit of both Chamisa and his colleagues and this time them must know that they will not get away with it!
"We can't be rigged!” You damn well be right this time!
@ Big Fish
ReplyDelete“Saka iwewe what are you doing so that the Elections are not rigged?”
Naming and shaming the sell out who not only sold out by failing to implement reforms but are selling out by participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy.
Educating the ordinary Zimbabweans who are being conned to believe Chamisa has winning in rigged elections to hide the real reason he and his friends are participating in these elections is greed.
Expose some of the village idiots who are calling for participating in these flawed elections for who they really are - VILLGE IDIOTS.
“The (2013) 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,” confessed David Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe.
Every one, even the village idiots, will know on 24 August that Coltart was right and the Chamisa and dimwits like you were lying! This political charade of Zanu PF rigging elections and CCC participating to give Zanu PF legitimacy for a share of the spoils of power is over! Mark my words and mark them well.
Zanu PF has plan and plan b lined up for these 2023 elections.
ReplyDeletePlan A:
Set up party cells and coerce people to attend by keeping attendance register. Use same register to mark off voters on voting day. The party must deliver Mnangagwa victory or at worst make sure there is a runoff
Plan B:
Use the Cell attendance register to pick those who did NOT vote for ED. Execute Operation Mavhotera Papi Mark 2 (Mark 1 took 3 months this one will take less than 2 weeks, it will be short, sharp but just as deadly. There will be blood shed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDSW3X8tocA
@Micoffee
ReplyDelete“Wilbert Mukori, I don't think you have a knowledge about how Zanu Pf government works. You really need to be educated about it. How do/did you expect MDC to do miracles which Zapu under Joshua Nkomo failed to do. Tekere failed as well. Once you get consumed into Zanu system, you are dead as a dodo. Look at Mwonzora, he will never wake up wherever he is sleeping. I want to applaud CCC, as they are the first party to pose a real threat to Zanu Pf, and I want to believe Chamisa learnt a lot during GNU. People will always talk, but Chamisa mastered Zanuism in a way that, they will forever be on the guessing bracket. Of which on my own opinion, it is the only equation that will defeat Zanuism.”
The problem in Zimbabwe is not just one of corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless leaders but that of the brain dead electorate who are keeping the buffoons in power. Even now with the benefit of hindsight you still has no clue what the GNU was about much less how the reforms were to be implemented.
Zimbabwe is a failed state and it shows. And worse still, with voters like you, we are stuck there!
@ Munyrdzi
ReplyDelete“Classified information or speculative information...lets hope its not true.This is black against black.”
You do not want to believe that Zanu PF is using cell-registers to separate the sheep from the goats because Chamisa has clearly failed to produce a winning in rigged election strategy to counter it.
Zanu PF is rigging these elections and CCC's participation will not change the result but will only serve to give Zanu PF legitimacy - that is a fact! You can bury your head in the sand as you have always done, that will not change reality and facts.
@ The Testimony
ReplyDelete“Tell me sir ,maybe I'm missing something, how is Chamisa greed by going into election bcz there is nothing he gains materially.”
Here is what Tendai Biti and David Coltart said on the matter of participating in these flawed elections.
“Look, you can't keep on participating in flawed electoral processes that serve to give big benefits to dictators such as Robert Mugabe. Mugabe has perfected the art of winning elections. So it will be very foolish for the opposition to continue legitimizing these sham elections which don't deliver. This country will go through a serious economic crisis in 2020 caused by Zanu PF. And yet, this is the only country where a government doesn't perform, it is encouraged by a super majority in parliament,” said Tendai Biti in a 2015 interview with Isaac Mugabi.
“So you can't continue subjecting Zimbabweans to processes where their hopes just get crushed.”
“The (2013) 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,” confessed David Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe.
It is shocking that even now after 43 years of rigged elections the simple reality that you cannot win Zanu PF rigged elections has not sunk in, that it is insane to trade reform and free elections for the frivolous winning in rigged election strategies. It is really tragic that some people can be so shallow, thick and slow!
The truth is there are millions out there who have no clue they are their own worst enemy by participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy. You can explain it to them a million times they will never understand. Their brain has ossified into fat and is impermeable to reason and reality!
@ Chitando
ReplyDelete“ZanuPF Stop Disrupting Our Rallies In Masvingo Central!!!!
Handinzwisisi ZanuPF zvachose hangu. Why ichida kubvonyongora rally dzeCCC imi muchiti haina vanhu? Please kana CCC isina vanhu siyaka yakadaro ingoshaya vanhu parally pavo. You disturbed Masvingo Central Ward 16 police cleared rally at Muchemwa. You disturbed CCC rally Masvingo Central Rupike ward 23.Tohwa mashura kuti you want to disturb Muchakata Rally cleared by police. Asi muzviitereiko?”
What are you complaining about? You were an MP during the 2008 to 2013 GNU and your fellow MDC leaders failed to implement even one meaningful reform when you had the golden opportunity to do so because you believed you can win rigged elections.
The 2018 EU Election Observer Mission listed 23 reform recommendations so that you lot could not say you did not know what reforms were required to ensure free and fair elections. You did not even look at the reform recommendations.
Without reforms Zanu PF will disrupt CCC rallies, faire to produce a verified voters’ roll, intimidate, beat and even kill. Chamisa said he has winning in rigged elections strategies and so what are you complaining about? Zanu PF is rigging the elections let’s see your counter strategies!
“Handinzwisisi ZanuPF zvachose hangu.” You are being brutally honest for a change. Still don’t be too harsh with yourself Chitando, you are corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent, that is clear. You should find some comfort is knowing that you are not the only CCC leader whose brain has ossified into fat!
“Chiredzi South Zanu PF Members Burn CCC Members' Houses
ReplyDelete22 July 2023
By Wezhira Munya
Violence and intimidation against Citizens Coalition for Change [CCC] members escalate as the 23rd August 2023 harmonized elections draw nearer.
This year, the CCC party has broken a 43-year history in Chiredzi South after it managed to field aspiring councillors in all wards and a member of parliament to participate in the forthcoming harmonized elections.”
Instead of addressing the key issue of what CCC is doing to stop this madness of intimidation and violence you are wittering about how CCC “broken a 43-year history in Chiredzi South after it managed to field aspiring councillors in all wards and a member of parliament”!
Zimbabweans must now wake up to the reality that CCC has given up on implementing reforms and ensuring free, fair and credible elections. Chamisa’s claim to have winning in rigged election strategies (WIRES), is just hot air to hide the true reason CCC is insisting in participating in these flawed elections is greed.
To give up the right to free and fair elections for the frivolous WIRES is trading gold for fool’s gold. When are we ever going to end this insanity!!!!!
That is desperation and desperate people do desperate things! Participating in flawed elections, so flawed that winning 73% is not good enough, and expect a different result especially after 43 years of rigged elections, is desperation on steroids! Insanity!
ReplyDelete@ Chngmire Dombo
ReplyDelete“Past is past now it's CCC not MDC T.”
So it was folly to participate in flawed elections when it was MDC T or MDC A but it is now ok for CCC to do the same! The sheer stupidity of some people is shocking. No wonder Zimbabwe is a failed state, when a country has so many mentally challenged citizens that country is DOOMED!
@ The Testimony
ReplyDelete“Thank you but what did Chamisa benefit which you said they go for elections to fill their pockets? Does he gain anything from Zanu by going for elections, bcz last time I heard he refused money.”
Chamisa was one of the ministers in the GNU and he took the ministerial limo and all the other trappings of power like everyone else. So I do not know where you getting that nonsense he did not benefit.
Coltart refused to accept the ministerial limo during the GNU but don’t be fooled with that because he accepted all the other benefit including the generous salary and allowance. During one of his globe-trotting trips as minister he was even singing Mugabe’s praises, no wonder he too did not submit even one reform proposal.
As losing presidential candidate Chamisa refused to join POLAD for the freebies but only because he did not want to be put on par with the other losing candidate. He took his 20% or so paid to party leaders from the annual national budget allocation for Political parties finance act plus whatever else the leader get from the party’s other resources.
So if you think Chamisa is not benefiting from being leader of CCC, you are wrong! What do you think the internal coup of 2018 was about?
@ Water
ReplyDelete“His main agenda is against Advocate Nelson Chamisa. Wakatadza nei kupindawo ne political party yake for your own pockets?”
I am against all those participating in these flawed elections, so flawed that winning 73% was not good enough to give Tsvangirai the keys to State House, to give Zanu PF legitimacy because they are after the few gravy train seats and POLAD freebies offered as bait.
It is obvious that forming my own party and joining the rat race will not stop the rat race but only help perpetuate the dictatorship and the fail state. But then what is obvious to some one with common sense is a complete mystery to many Zimbabweans out there.
Zimbabwe is a failed state for a very good reason - we have more than our fair share of mentally challenged citizens! Citizens who think participating the rat race is the solution to the country’s bad governance even after 43 years of rigged elections.
Indeed, anyone who has dared to question the sheer futility of participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy for 30 pieces of silver has become public enemy number one! If Zanu PF thugs will not lynch you, CCC’s wildebeest herd will be honoured to do it!
@ Liberty
ReplyDelete“Do not try to take away our cinstitutional right to vote. Iwe kana usingadi rega.”
If elections are so flawed that 73% was got good enough to get Tsvangirai into State House that is proof that your vote does not count. I am just telling you the consequences of participating in the flawed elections is giving Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuating the dictatorship and the fail state!
Zanu PF is only taking advantage of your stupidity - you are so dumb that after 43 years of rigged elections you are still participating expecting a different result. Of course you are insane!
@ Liberty
ReplyDelete“Zanu will not go away by boycotting elections. It will be removed thru the ballot. You will die boycotting.”
Tsvangirai got 73% of the votes and that was NOT good enough to remove Zanu PF. The ballot is only meaningful if elections are free, fair and credible. Your winning in rigged election strategies is an oxymoron, that only morons would fall for even after 43 years of rigged elections.
Zimbabwe will never ever have free, fair and credible elections without first implementing the democratic reforms. It really does not matter who “win” these flawed elections, even if CCC did, the new regime will never implement the reforms because it would be rigging to stay in power.
You cannot restore rule of law with out implementing the reforms to end the lawlessness. As long as Zimbabwe remains a lawless nation there will be no meaningful economic recovery because no serious investor would want to invest in a country where chaos rules the roost. All this should be obvious. Alas! It is not obvious!
@ The Testimony
ReplyDelete“Correct ,what did you achieve as a party ,why waste time blaming another when you have the right to form your own party which is better? Get a Party name and mobilize all the people not to vote if you have a better vision rather than try to persuade a few here.”
MDC/CCC have held public office for 23 years, 5 of which in the GNU, and have failed to implement even one democratic reform. I am holding them to account.
It is shocking that you are holding me and the party you are so sure I led to account when I have never held any public office for no other reason than for the purpose of silencing me for holding CCC to account. But such is the stupidity of the demagogues.
Zimbabwe is a failed state because we have more than our fair share of demagogues who will do anything to stifle debate and democratic competition. And they even think they are doing the nation a great service! We really are in trouble! Cry the beloved country!
@ Mus Vibe
ReplyDeleteIt is insane to participate in flawed elections , so flawed there is no verified voters’ roll and that getting 73% of the votes is not good enough, to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate one’s own suffering; especially after 43 years of rigged elections.
“We are a loving people. We believe and believe God is in it.” What feeble excuses for justifying insanity. Was God in the rigged 2018 elections too?
Is God in the chaos and mayhem that we are witnessing everyday? All because not even one token reform was implemented even when the nation had the golden opportunity to do so during the GNU.
These elections can never ever be judged free, fair and credible on the evidence of what has happened so far. The very fact that some people would want to soldier on regardless only services to underline that they have no clue what constitutes free, fair and credible elections. All this chaos, mayhem and violence is normal to them. All they care about is “winning“.
If you think there will be flood gate of investors coming into the country even if Chamisa was to win, think again. Investors will know CCC will not implement any reforms because they would too want ZEC, Police, etc. to help them rig the next elections. The cycle of rigged elections will rise and fall like ocean waves but will never die. Investors are a shrewd lot, they will know this and will shy away.
You think all this political turmoil is normal. You really have no clue what constitute free and fair elections even with the benefit of hindsight and in this day and age.
“We are forced to think you don't believe and believe God is in it but who are we to judge you.”
I am really dumbfounded!
@ Mus Vibe
ReplyDelete“While Mr Wilbert Mukonyo continues to cry about past mistakes we at the ground are ready even today.Your strategy to discourage us will surely fail.
We shall keep your strong words of discouragement in our gadget for use on the 24th, not to harm you, but to joke with you and remind you of your past mistakes like you are reminding others of theirs.We shall joke with you and celebrate with you. We will not harm you like what your sponsors do to others. We are a loving people.We believe and believe God is in it.
We are forced to think you don't believe and believe God is in it but who are we to judge you.”
It is insane to participate in flawed elections , so flawed there is no verified voters’ roll and that getting 73% of the votes is not good enough, to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate one’s own suffering; especially after 43 years of rigged elections.
“We are a loving people. We believe and believe God is in it.” What feeble excuses for justifying insanity. Was God in the rigged 2018 elections too?
Is God in the chaos and mayhem that we are witnessing everyday? All because not even one token reform was implemented even when the nation had the golden opportunity to do so during the GNU.
These elections can never ever be judged free, fair and credible on the evidence of what has happened so far. The very fact that some people would want to soldier on regardless only services to underline that they have no clue what constitutes free, fair and credible elections. All this chaos, mayhem and violence is normal to them. All they care about is “winning“.
If you think there will be flood gate of investors coming into the country even if Chamisa was to win, think again. Investors will know CCC will not implement any reforms because they would too want ZEC, Police, etc. to help them rig the next elections. The cycle of rigged elections will rise and fall like ocean waves but will never die. Investors are a shrewd lot, they will know this and will shy away.
You think all this political turmoil is normal. You really have no clue what constitute free and fair elections even with the benefit of hindsight and in this day and age.
“We are forced to think you don't believe and believe God is in it but who are we to judge you.”
I am really dumbfounded!
@ Coltart
ReplyDelete“Last night I was briefed by my law partner Josephat Tshuma who is part of the CCC legal team opposing the spurious application brought by Zanu-PF surrogates to set aside the nomination of the 12 CCC MP candidates for Bulawayo.
Zanu-PF's intention is threefold:
Zanu-PF knows it cannot win a single seat in Bulawayo where recent opinion polls show it has minimal support and is trying to win via the back door of the Courts.
2. In any event the case is designed to distract CCC in its stronghold and drain it of resources needed for campaigning.
3. Even if Zanu-PF loses the case it will then be able to tout that as evidence of a fair ZEC and independent courts, which it desperately needs to do for much bigger legal battles to come especially the Presidential elections, which it can only win through rigging on an unprecedented scale.”
“The (2013) 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,” confessed David Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe.
The price the nation must pay for Coltart and his friends’ greed in participating in the flawed elections and perpetuating the Zanu PF dictatorship is the deepening economic, social and political crisis making Zimbabwe a failed state.
Going forward Zimbabwe has four options:
continue the present status quo in Zanu PF rigs the elections, CCC participate for a share of the spoils of power and the nation continue to sink deeper and deeper into the abyss
the people make the extra human sacrifice against the Zanu PF onslaught and defy all the Zanu PF shenanigans to so that not even Zanu PF winning on an unprecedented scale can deliver a Mnangagwa victory in the first round. And hope that SADC will not grant Zanu PF after the inevitable wanton violence that will accompany the runoff.
the only other option for change is through violence, either street protests and or military coup. The 2017 military coup removed one dictator only to replace him with another.
The best option is for the nation to have a new GNU in which all effort must be made to implement all the democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections.
Neither one of the first three options is ever likely to produce a stable and democratic Zimbabwe because in all cases the temptation of the new regime to consolidate its own hold on power by not implementing reforms is irresistible.