"Participating in this election is an act of foolish bravery,” warned Douglas Mwonzora.
"This election is stacked against the opposition; already, laws are being changed as the election process is going on.
"There is selective application of the law; some people are being arrested, some people are not being arrested.”
The irony of ironies; he is right but no one believes him!
Of course, it is foolish to participate in elections so flawed there is no verified voters' roll, election officials are bribed, etc., etc. Mwonzora's cursed question which he must answer to be believed is: all these things were true all along, you ignored them, so why are you only seeing them now?
MDC's two greatest failures were:
- failing to implement even one meaningful democratic reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU because of greed and breath-taking incompetence
- after the GNU debacle they have participated in the flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy for the same reasons they failed to implement reforms.
All the MDC leaders including Nelson Chamisa, Tendai Biti, David Coltart, Welshman Ncube Douglas Mwonzora and the party’s founding father, the late Morgan Tsvangirai were involved in all the above failures.
MDC membership, the wildebeest herd, has failed, even to this day with the benefit of hindsight, to understand what the reforms are much less how they were to be implemented. And so have failures to comprehend the two great failures and apposition blame.
Still, the herd knows the party has failed to deliver any meaningful change and have singled out Douglas Mwonzora and a few others around him and are blaming them for MDC’s failures. Mwonzora et al are the fall guys and Nelson Chamisa, Tendai Biti and the others who switched to join Chamisa are the innocent and infallible angels.
Poor Mwonzora he is now speaking the truth but has Cassandra’s curse, the King of Troy’s daughter in Greek mythology; who had the gift of foretelling the future and speaking the truth but no one believed her. Mwonzora is now speaking the truth because he is desperate to remain relevant now that he has been cast out. Like it or not he is now totally, totally irrelevant!
Name one thing Zanu PF with its rigged majority has failed to do because the opposition stop it? The opposition are participating in these flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy for the sake of the few gravy train seats and/or POLAD freebies. What Zimbabwe needs is to implement reforms and drain the Zimbabwe sewage pond political system masquerading as a democracy.
ReplyDelete@ Chitando
ReplyDelete“Mango Strategy yakashata varume nemadzimai maFirst Time voters ese aitakurwa nokutengerwa chikafu mazuva evoter registration haachadi kuva associated neOld people's home ... zvinombofamba seiko . Makasi akadya muchokochi gwendo guno!!!”
You know all CCC's winning in rigged elections strategies are just hot air. Zanu PF is rigging and winning these elections. All you care about is winning the senator seat; you are once again selling the nation's hope for reforms and free elections for 30 pieces of silver!
@ Wezhira Munya
ReplyDelete“Today, Bikita East Zanu-PF members severely assaulted a member of the Citizens Coalition for Change, Mr. Gordon Ndava.
[See attached picture of Mr. Ndava's injured head.]
Mr. Ndava, from Bikita East Ward 18, was assaulted at Mushuku Turn around 9:30 am.
"I was beaten by Zanu-PF members today at Mushuku Turn-off. They [Zanu-PF members] accused me of supporting President Nelson Chamisa." he said
This is the political reality that ordinary Zimbabweans are facing and how any one can ever say this is a free, fair and credible election beggars belief. The opposition are participating in these flawed elections because they do not care the elections are rigged nor the dire consequences of perpetuating the dictatorship and the failed state. All the care about is winning the few gravy train seats and/or the POLAD freebies Zanu PF is offering as bait.
The political challenge has moved from how to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections to how to stop the opposition selling out and giving vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy! Ever since the 2008 to 2013 GNU debacle, MDC/CCC have been running with the povo hare by day and hunting with the Zanu PF hounds by night. The challenge is are we, the people, smart enough to see the switch?
@ Walter
ReplyDeleteBut are not tired of rigged elections even after 43 years of rigged elections? Well I am sick and tired of rigged elections and will say so and not be silence by a howling monkey that does not know what rigged elections are!
So you can summon the rest of the troop and howl day and night, I will still say it: Zanu PF is rigging these elections and CCC and the rest in the opposition camp are participating out of greed. They are after the few gravy train seats and/or POLAD freebies Zanu PF is offering as bait! There, go ahead and howl!
@ Chinono
ReplyDelete9 233 PS have no election agents and its 5 days to polling day.
The failure to get election agents at every polling station is a mockery of all that huffing and puffing about protecting the vote. Having an election agent is the first line of protecting the vote! With no one there to oversee, Zanu PF operative will be free to post whatever result they want! This is a nightmare!
The tragedy is it is too late to stop the mess and by participating CCC has given Zanu PF legitimacy.
It is ok for Chamisa, he will get his leader of the opposition position plus all the perks that will go with it. It is the ordinary Zimbabweans who must now face the prospect another five years of this failed state!
@ Seal4
ReplyDelete“U wrong this is opposite to what Mr Mukori is talking about CCC withdrawal. If there had been no elections how would this been exposed🤔
We know rigging happening because participating actually exposes the corrupt systems. U & Mr Mukori are refusing to inspect a lorry at the border ku customs because you know there is smuggling you want laws changed first. We saying lets open up the containers & see for ourselves because its impossible to change the laws while at the border crossing🔥. 2008 Mogidza withdrew 2 days before second round did it stop Bob & ED🤷🏽♂️. U like doing the same thing thats been tried many times before learn from history instead you spinning.”
Nonsense! The 2008 elections were the watershed elections in that both SADC and AU could no longer pretend the Zimbabwe elections were free and fair. SADC forced Zanu PF to sign the 2008 Global Political Agreement, agreeing to the need to implement the democratic reforms to end the cheating and wanton violence. Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends failed to implement even one reform in five years of the GNU.
SADC leaders tried to get the 2013 elections postponed to allow for reforms by again MDC ignored the warning.
To use your warped logic, MDC failed to implement even one reform and has been participating in flawed elections so that Zanu PF can be given more chances to rig elections! “If there had been no elections how would this been exposed!” you said.
The more rational argument is the 2008 rigged elections show us what Zanu PF can do, we do not need to see it again and again. What we need is to implement the reforms and stop this nightmare! But then we are not all rational beings, are we? We have some nincompoops amongst us and they would like to see more and more rigged elections even after 43 years of rigged elections!
@ Chris
ReplyDeleteCCC supporters dancing to “Handichakuda nhamo!”
Mnangagwa would lose these 2023 elections to a donkey if it was the only alternative and the elections were free, fair and credible. This underline just how desperate for change the nation is.
So the most important challenge here for any rational opposition is to ensure the elections are free and fair.
If CCC lost these elections next week it will prove two key points:
1) that the elections were rigged (again for the umpteenth time).
2) that CCC leaders are corrupt, incompetent and devoid of any common sense (again for the umpteenth time and the reason why the nation is stuck in this hell hole!)
If you do not know how Zanu PF has been rigging elections then you should read the EU 2018 Election Observer Mission report. If you have read it and still have no clue then there is nothing I can for you!
ReplyDelete@ Big Fish
ReplyDelete“Iwe inonetsa semombe yehumai, do you find sense in whatever you waffle, Reforms ,reforms kudii, SADC yach ne AU were the referees of the same game which they approved a fixed match, what makes you think they were going to approve anything brought forward by the opposition?”
You are just a village idiot and like all village idiots you think you know and yet knows f****k all!
MDC leaders failed to implement even one meaningful reform in five years of the GNU. Most of the MDC leaders have retained stone silence over the issue because they know the f****k up big time. The few who have dared to speak have admitted the slept on the job.
And you, you nincompoop with no more brain than a flea, want to tell us MDC leaders did not implement even one reform SADC were not “going to approve anything brought forward by the opposition”! It was not for SADC to approve or disapprove any reforms so stop talking nonsense!
Zimbabwe is a failed state and millions are today living in abject poverty. The need to resolve the problem of rigged elections and bad governance is the most serious matter of this generation. If you have nothing to say shut the f***k up!
@ Walter
ReplyDeleteThe rules of civil debate are simple, you comment on the issues and not pick on the speaker much less try to drown him/her out with monkey noises. You and your friends have decided on making the monkey noises to drown out anybody critical of CCC. You behave like a monkey and you will be treated like a monkey.
Holding those in public office to democratic account is the duty of every citizen and those trying to deny others this right will not be tolerated. That is not negotiable!
For once Mwonzora is right, it is indeed foolish participating in these flawed 2023 elections; but after decades of treasonous betrayal no one believes him!
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@ Godfrey
ReplyDelete“There was commotion at Zaka Police Station today as members received some postal ballots. The officer in charge, Chief Inspector Chigoriwa instructed all members to vote for ZANU PF and in his presence. There was a stand off after members refused to vote in the presence of Chigoriwa.”
If the regime can intimidate Police officers, what more my aunt and uncle in the rural back waters! What is infuriating here is we all knew this would happen and had said nothing. Even after 43 years of rigged elections, we still say nothing.
Worse still some people have taken upon themselves to silence any who dared to ask why this madness is being allowed to continue. To ask why reforms were not implemented even when the nation had the golden opportunity to do so.
Those who have supported participating in the flawed elections will be complaining that the elections were rigged - crying buckets of crocodile tears - as they claim their 30 pieces of silver reward from the regime. They don’t care about the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans who are living in abject poverty and are desperate to see any end to the dictatorship and failed state. This is sickening and must be stopped!
“August 17th, 2023
ReplyDeleteBy Wezhira Munya
Today, August 17th, 2023, ZANU-PF members severely assaulted four members of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) in Bikita East.
The victims have reported the case to the Bikita Police Station with reference numbers RRB 5666717 and RRB 5666718.”
How many people must be beaten, raped and murdered before Chamisa and his fellow travellers in the opposition camp finally admit that democratic reforms are necessary and not worth the few gravy train seats and/or the POLAD freebies they get from the regime as a reward for participating and giving Zanu PF legitimacy.
We must never forget the reported cases of rigging and wanton violence are but the ears of the hippo!
Zimbabwe will never ever have free, fair and credible elections as long as we have the opposition leaders who are willing to participate in the flawed elections for 30 pieces of silver. And as long as there are people naive enough to believe the winning in rigged elections bull!
SADC and Commonwealth election observer teams have arrived in Zimbabwe today 17 August five days before voting day!
ReplyDeleteWar Vet Arnold Nyikadzawamba intimidating election agents in Makoni East.
ReplyDeleteThere is the problem of ZEC failing to inform the opposition the true number of Polling Stations, lack of funds to train and deploy agents and then the problem of agents being threatened. In the end Zanu PF will have a number of PS with no opposition election agents and the regime will post whatever results they want!
This is a nightmare that could have been easily avoided if MDC/CCC had implemented the reform or refused to participate in the elections without reforms. As it happens they are hell bent on participating no matter what!
How long are we going to allow the country to be held to ransom be both Zanu PF, who rig the elections, and CCC who are giving Zanu PF legitimacy be participating out of greed!
Addressing election observers yesterday, the chairperson of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission Justice Priscilla Chigumba said ZEC gave local authority candidates copies of the ward voters roll, National Assembly candidates were given copies of the constituency voters roll, and presidential candidates were given copies of the national voters roll.
ReplyDeleteBut section 20(4a) of the Electoral Act clearly provides that:
The Commission may prepare and maintain, in printed or electronic form, a consolidated NATIONAL VOTERS ROLL and a consolidated VOTERS ROLL for any CONSTITUENCY or WARD, but such rolls SHALL NOT BE USED FOR THE PURPOSES OF POLLING IN ANY ELECTION.
Therefore, it is clear that by electoral law the ward, constituency and national voters rolls are useless for the purposes of polling in any election.
Why then did ZEC give candidates useless voters rolls, which are not prescribed for the purposes of polling in any election? A useful voters roll is by definition one that is used for the purposes of polling, and nothing else.
In the circumstances, and for the avoidance of doubt, the only useful voters roll for the purposes of polling in any election is the polling station voters roll!
If a registered voter wants to check whether his or her name is on the voters roll, they check the polling station voters roll and no other voters roll!
So ZEC gave the opposition candidates "useless voters' rolls" and the idiots did not even notice!
There is no doubt that the ruling party's candidates got the right voters' roll, they always do. The ruling party candidate’s voters’ roll will have the voter’s name, address, polling station and even mobile number! Last time voters were surprised to get text messages from Zanu PF candidates reminding them to go and vote!
Zanu PF is rigging these elections and CCC and the rest of the opposition know and don’t care as long as they win the few gravy train seats and/or the POLAD freebies Zanu PF is offering as bait. Chamisa is campaigning for Leader of the Opposition post with all the ministerial perks that comes with it!
The people of Zimbabwe must wake up to the reality that CCC have given up the fight for reforms and free elections and settled for giving Zanu PF legitimacy for a share of the spoils of power.
Before the 2008 to 2013 GNU MDC/CCC leaders were running with the povo hare during the day and hunting with the Zanu PF hounds at night that is why they never implemented even one democratic reform. Since the GNU debacle, they have been hunting with the Zanu PF hounds day and night under the pretext they have winning in rigged election strategies! All hot air!
So ZEC gave the opposition candidates "useless voters' rolls" and the idiots did not even notice!
ReplyDeleteZanu PF is rigging these elections and CCC and the rest of the opposition know and don’t care as long as they win the few gravy train seats and/or the POLAD freebies Zanu PF is offering as bait. Chamisa is campaigning for Leader of the Opposition post with all the ministerial perks that comes with it!
https://bulawayo24.com/index-id-opinion-sc-columnist-byo-234536.html
@ Chitando
ReplyDelete"Jehovah anoti ava vaIjipita vamuri kuona hamuchazovaona zveee mirai muone simba raMwari !! Pepepe zvinopera zveZanuPF zvinopera !! 23 August the end of trial and tribulation under ZanuPF. Tiri kuyambuka Jorodhani coz #GodIsInIt !!! “
You and your follow CCC leaders are participating in these flawed elections out of greed and you all know it.
“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.
You Chitando are eyeing one of the Masvingo senatorial seats. Why are you dragging the the Lord God into your treasonous betrayal!
In 2018, following the arrest and subsequent arraignment of the violent protesters, Nelson Chamisa publicly referred to these demonstrators as "STUPID." His assessment was, in fact, very accurate.
ReplyDeleteChamisa promised that MDC A had stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the 2018 elections. People believed him and we all know that Zanu PF went on to rig those elections.
This year, Chamisa said he had plugged all Zanu PF vote rigging loopholes. The is overwhelming evidence already that he is lying. Still many people have chosen to believe him again regardless even after 43 years of the Zanu PF mafiosi rigging elections. Of course these people are insane.
Nations get the government they deserve, we certainly deserve this Zanu PF dictatorship complete with the corrupt and incompetent MDC/CCC leaders who are helping to keep the regime in power!
The tragedy for Zimbabwe is that people have figured it out that Zanu PF is rigging the elections but continue to participate because they have been conned into believing Chamisa has plugged all the Zanu PF rigging loopholes! And so they believe in a big win for CCC next Wednesday even after 43 years of Zanu PF mafiosi rigging elections! Of course it is insane!
ReplyDeleteChina and Russia are doing their best to keep Africa's buffoons in power and they have profited from it. The one country that has interfered the most in Zimbabwe's elections these last 43 years is China and now that they have put down their roots getting them out will not be a walk in the park. Zimbabwe is a failed state and no one is more pleased about that than the Chinese!
ReplyDelete@ Shamu
ReplyDelete“Zvekupenga izvi!U widen the goal post mobvisa keeper moisa bhora padhuze nenet moti Mnangagwa chigowesa anoramba pakadaro here?Vanhu vari kubuda dikita ava.They were even warning mukomana he might collapse anytime ari kurara musango and fatigue is kicking in kuita up to 6 rallies.Zvasiyana nemumwe akwegura zvake but ari kurova whiskey nemazondo ari muhelicopter.”
You have been participating in flawed elections these last 43 years and all you have ever done is give Zanu PF legitimacy. Even after 43 years of rigged elections you still think these are free, fair and credible elections or think you can win rigged elections.
The irony is that Mnangagwa would lose these elections to a donkey if the elections were free and fair and the donkey was the only alternative. The tragedy for Zimbabwe is we have an electorate that is so thick, shallow and slow they have yet to know the difference between free and fair elections and rigged elections. They have been conned into trading in their right to free, fair and credible elections because they believed Chamisa has winning in rigged election strategies! Trade in gold for fool’s gold.
How anyone can still believe in that oxymoronic nonsense even after 43 years of Zanu PF mafiosi rigging elections and with a mountain of evidence the party is rigging these elections beggars belief! Fcuk me!
It is not by accident that Zimbabwe is a failed state; we have more than our fair share of naive and gullible people and it is them who are doing their bit to keep the corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging Zanu PF buffoons in power complete with the entourage of corrupt and utterly useless CCC sell outs!
If you are told there are crocodiles in the river, it is obvious you should not swim. If you are told by participating in these flawed elections you will only give Zanu PF legitimacy; it is obvious you should not participate. I have given solutions just because you lack the intellect to comprehend even the obvious is not my fault!
ReplyDelete@ Tandoro
ReplyDelete“As you know Zanu will blocks any means to Reforms coz once Reforms are implemented they are Automatically out of and this the only way to keep the Throne.”
Now explain why MDC leaders failed to implement even one reform during the GNU when they had the golden opportunity to do so?
@ Seal4
ReplyDelete“That will not stop anything it will give Zanu pf reason to declare one party state coz no opposition means we all in agreement.”
Zanu PF did not declare a one party state after the 2008 elections?
Zanu PF needs the opposition to participate in these elections to give the process legitimacy and that is why the party is giving away a few gravy train seats and the POLAD freebies! The days of the de facto one-party state are over, Zanu PF has moved on even if you have not!
Zimbabwe is a failed state already thanks to your participation and keeping Zanu PF in power!
ReplyDelete@ Taona
ReplyDelete“Wilbert, it doesn't matter . During GNU, opposition failed to implement reforms. This doesn't mean opposition can't win because of this. Neither does it benefit to boycott elections. Please, don't always be negative. Let's wait & see the outcome of the elections.”
Albert Einstein said insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. I do not think he would have thought it humanly possible that a whole nation would be so insane to participate in flawed elections for 43 years and counting expecting a different result!
Indeed, some of the insane would be bleating sheepishly “Please, don't always be negative. Let's wait & see the outcome of the elections!”
Wait for what? I can already see there is no verified voters’ roll, there is wanton violence and intimidation, the regime has squandered US$5 billion buying votes and bribing officials from buying chicken and chips for povo to paying judges US$400 000 housing loans, etc., etc. There is enough evidence to condemn these elections as flawed and illegal.
The trouble with some people is they have no clue what constitute free, fair and credible elections and hence believe in such oxymoronic nonsense as winning rigged elections. They work backwards, as long as the result is what they wanted then the elections were free, fair and credible.
MDC/CCC leaders failed to implement even one democratic reform during the GNU because they believed they were so popular they would win the 2013 elections no matter what. They have since given up on reforms and free elections and are now participating no matter what for the few gravy train seats Zanu PF gives away as bait!
@ Seal4
ReplyDelete“Muromo ndi actor🥶🥶
We not on the ground we run away ages ago.
We armchair pundits but CCC are heros deep inside the furnace of regime🦖 in Zim🔥. I will go by whatever decisions they make ndovari ku front line we not even on terraces but listen on radio football commentary sa Evans Mambara commentary asi ma elections 2023 iwayo.”
You are now begging to sound like Chris Mutsvangwa and his “we fought in the liberation war and know best!” mentality.
The people of Zimbabwe elected MDC/CCC leaders into office for the primary purpose of bring about democratic changes, as the party’s original name promised. It is now 23 years, including 5 years in the GNU, the must account for not only failing to implement even one reform but participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed.
So you think that MDC leaders failed to implement even one reform during the GNU because they were “inside the furnace”? How naive, to say the least!
Politics has become one of the career paths where one is guaranteed to get filthy rich at public expense and the higher you climb up the greasy pole the richer you will become. It helps if the said public is so naive and gullible they believe the politician is not only infallible but is doing the public a great favour robbing them blind!
If you aspire or hold public office then you must and will be held to democratic account by the public whether they are on the terraces or listening on the radio; that is not negotiable.
@ Bvanyangu
ReplyDeleteStop arguing in circles, starting in one direction and then end saying the exact opposite.
If the elections process is so flawed and illegal, you know you cannot change the result then there is no point in participating especially when you also know that your participation will only serve to give legitimacy to the vote rigging Zanu PF. Zimbabwean elections are THAT flawed!
If there was ever any doubt that Zimbabwe’s elections are so flawed it is futile participating that doubt evaporated after the watershed 2008 elections. The blatant cheating and wanton violence were such that not even SADC and AU could pretend this was a free, fair and credible elections. The primary purpose of the 2008 to 2013 GNU was to implement the democratic reforms.
It is nice to hear you acknowledge that it was a golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms but there are two key points you have failed to address:
why did MDC leaders fail to implement even one reform in five years? FIVE YEARS!
why did they agree to participate in the 2013 and subsequent elections with no reforms in place?
The answer to the two questions is because they were and still are corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent. In his book David Coltart admits to the greed but says nothing about the latter.
“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 2008 elections forced Zanu PF to realise that it cannot rig elections and get away with it. Ever since the GNU the party has rigged the elections but always with an eye to make sure the opposition participated in numbers to give the process “credibility”, as Coltart called it. Zanu PF has offered the opposition to win a few gravy train seats and/or POLAD freebies as bait.
CCC as with all the other opposition parties have participated in these elections out of greed, period. Your wittering about CCC participating to stop “Musoro bangu” doing it alone is just nonsense since they are all doing it out of greed. The principled position would be to boycott because it is the only rational thing to do, as is indeed the case here.
You, like many other Zimbabweans, are hell bent on participating in these elections because you believe CCC has winning in rigged election strategies even after 43 years of rigged elections and can see with your own eyes that Zanu PF is once again rigging these elections.
Zimbabwe is a failed state for one big reason: we have some of the most naive and gullible voters on earth foolish enough to elect buffoons and sell outs into power and to stubbornly keep them there. By participating in these flawed elections Zimbabweans are giving Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuating the failed state and their own suffering!
What you should be fighting for is reforms and free and fair elections and not fighting to win rigged elections!
ReplyDeleteAfter 43 years of rigged elections Zimbabweans still do not know the difference between free and fair elections and rigged elections.
ReplyDeleteIndeed many people do not even believe there is such a thing as rigged elections much less that there is anything they can do about it.
In this country the people are participating in flawed elections so flawed the result is already predetermined and their participation is only to give legitimacy to the vote rigging Zanu PF and thus perpetuating the failed state and the people's own suffering. And the people are totally helpless to act to end the insanity out of ignorance!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcWSINK3OFU
@ Chris
ReplyDelete“Correct, but don't give Dictators any chance by boycotting. Chamisa winning this Presidential elections Come rain Come sunshine. Zanu knows this, they pooing in their pants right now. They still want to collapse the Elections handei mberi.... a lot is in the offing in the last few Days.”
You have been talking of CCC pulling a surprise rabbit out of the hat, but again and again nothing has happened. You claim to know a lot and yet again and again nothing has ever come out of your claim.
Zanu PF is rigging these elections and CCC are participating to give the regime legitimacy out of greed. Chamisa has been campaigning for the Leader of the Opposition and the perks that will go with it.
All the talk about plugging all the Zanu PF vote rigging loopholes are all just hot air. It is certain that CCC will not have election agents at all Polling Stations, the latest vote rigging opportunity for Zanu PF.
Zanu PF is rigging these elections and the prospect of another five more years of this failed state is real, thanks to MDC/CCC’s treasonous betrayal these last 23 years!
@ Munyoro Gijima
ReplyDeleteThere is overwhelming evidence already to show these elections are a farce.
Back in June 2013, SADC leaders were right in calling these elections to be postponed until reforms were implemented. “If you participate in the elections , you will lose. The elections are done!” they warned Morgan Tsvangirai and his cronies to their faces at the SADC Summit in June 2013 in Maputo.
Alas! Their advice fell on deaf MDC ears, just as their advice to implement reforms had fallen on deaf ears during the GNU. MDC participated with no reform in place and, as SADC leaders had warned, Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 2013 elections. SADC leaders flip-flopped and endorse the elections and granted Zanu PF legitimacy.
No meaningful democratic reforms have ever been implemented ever since SADC leaders warned MDC leaders that without reforms Zanu PF would rig the elections. There is evidence already that Zanu PF is rigging these elections; there is no verified voters’ roll, the regime has squandered US$5 billion in buying votes and bribing officials, there has been intimidation and wanton violence, etc., etc.
All we are asking of the SADC election observers is to judge these Zimbabwe elections on the evidence before then and stop punishing the whole nation for MDC leaders’ treasonous betrayal!
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. What could be more insane than participating is flawed elections so flawed there is not even a verified voters roll, registered 4% out of own 6 m target, etc., etc.; and yet still expect big win for CCC!!!!!
I have answered your question countless time; you do not participate in a flawed elections to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy. That is obvious but clearly not to you.
I am not the only one who has called for reforms before elections, SADC leaders literally begged MDC to postpone the 2013 elections until reforms are implemented. The EU judged the 2018 elections were not “to international standards” and made 23 reform recommendations. Not even one reform has been implemented. Not even one!
No one is stopping you participating in these flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuate the dictatorship and the failed state. No one!
Indeed, Zimbabwe is already a failed state and for good reason - we have more than our fair share of mentally challenged individuals who have elected buffoons and sell out into power and are doing a good job keeping them in power. They brains has ossified into fat, you cannot reason with them!
The election process is so flawed anyone with half a brain would be calling the whole process to be scrapped and the nation given the chance to implement the reforms and have a clean start. Only idiots would want the process to continue! No doubt the same idiots will be crying foul this time next week but no one will listen then.
Voter beware! Buyer beware! Caveat emptor!
@ Seal4
ReplyDelete“No one has disagreed with what you saying Sir. Its the solution that is not compatible with the efforts opposition parties have put into this current election in 4 days time. Cost benefits analysis yedu irikuti people should go 🚶♀️ out and vote in big numbers they will win then after we see results👍. That is where we are now.”
Vote in big numbers and as of 30 May CCC had only registered 1/4m of 4% of its own 6m target! It is already evident CCC will not have election agents at all PSs, etc. This is a flawed election process so flawed you cannot change the result but by participating you are giving legitimacy to vote rigging Zanu PF.
Only a fool would agree to soldier on particularly when it is clear that by participating or failing to denounce it is will be assumed one approved. Complaining after the event is a waste of time, if you must complain do so now. I am complaining here and now and loudly too!
@ Chris
ReplyDelete“Are you aware Chamisa and CCC winning these Elections? Soon your reform mantra will be irrelevant. Prepare for another argument. Rigging or no Rigging Zanu Rule coming to an end. Turning point coming soon.”
For the record; Zanu PF should have been removed from offices decades ago. It is no exaggeration that Zimbabweans have been so desperate to get rid of Zanu PF they would vote for a donkey is elections were free and fair just to get rid of Mnangagwa/Mugabe.
It therefore follows that MDC/CCC has failed to remove Zanu PF because they have failed to address the issue of stopping Zanu PF rigging elections. This underline the enormity of MDC’s failure to implement even one meaningful reform during the GNU when they had the chance.
MDC/CCC have had 23 years to implement the reforms and they real have nothing to show for it. They had the chance to build a solid building that would have lasted hundreds of years and all they have done is built a pole and mud hovel that will not last five years. How anyone can be over the moon about that beggars belief but if that is all you ever imagine, it is an achievement!
True! What makes our situation totally unacceptable is that we had the golden opportunity to end this culture of violence and MDC failed to get even one meaningful reform implemented in 23 years, five of which in the GNU. Worse still it is the opposition that is insisting on participating in flawed elections out of greed!
ReplyDelete@ Chris
ReplyDelete“CCC lives in your head rent free 24/7. Without CCC you lose relevance. What else can you talk about without mentioning Chamisa. Doesn't it borderline jealous of Him?”
Address the issues raised: it is true that as of 30 May 2022 ZEC had registered only 1/4 m new voters and even if we assumed they were all CCC supporters that is only 4% of the party's own target of 6 million! Mass voter registration and mass voting are dead in the water!
@ Cliff
ReplyDelete“It has not been easy as eating sadza. You know how this monster has been tightening screws for any meaningful reform. We don't have to demand seemingly impossible tasks under Mugabe. You want them to have gone on a war path? in order for you to be satisfied. All peaceful means were blocked and some were even killed for demanding reforms. This not time to demand and talk about yester year issues or GNU issues which you know very well was not easy thing then. We don't want you to sound like cry babies. CCC is where it is today because of individual sacrifices and perseverance....some have fled into diaspora because of heat back home. You know Zanupf never moves a square inch to create an environment for good governance … . independent electoral commission. Zanupf always says cannot implement reforms that undo them. So why are we bleating about GNU when you know that environment was not easy at all.”
Mankind is a creature of reason and intellect and we are where we are today as a species because of our collective ability to acquire knowledge and pass it on from one individual to other from one nation to another, from one generation to the next. Those individuals, nations, etc. that has embrace knowledge have done better than those who have been slow to acquire knowledge.
You want the nation to move on from the GNU years and yet you don’t even know why MDC leaders failed to implement even one reform during the GNU. As much as many would agree that Mugabe was a monster, still that was not the reason why MDC leaders failed to implement even one reform during the GNU. Name one thing Mugabe did to stop MDC leaders implementing the reforms for five years? Go ahead!
“CCC is where it is today because of individual sacrifices and perseverance.” How naive! Chamisa and company failed to implement even one reform and are participating in these flawed elections out of greed and breath-taking incompetence.
“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.
Some home truths to wake you up from your sloth like mental slumber - assuming you still have some useful brain cells left!
Just because MDC/CCC failed to implement the reforms does not mean the reforms are no longer necessary or that no one else can implement them. The reforms are the key to getting the country out of this political mess and the sooner we get on with it the sooner we will get out of the mess.
@ Boston
ReplyDelete“CCC is going in mass wangu to vote. If there's fowl play then zvowonekwa later. Do no distruct people with your negative energy wangu. Chamisas campaigns are historic . Anotopinda mu Our history books. Iwe you are a Zanu supporter and you encouraging CCC to boycott. You think CCC are fools and bite your bait?”
Chamisa said “MDC A has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging 2018 elections.” We soon learned that was just hot air.
This year he said “He has closed all Zanu PF vote rigging loopholes.” Clear that is not true given we have no verified voters’ roll, the intimidation and violence are rampant, etc. It is clear CCC does not have the funds to deploy election agents at all Polling Stations - a vote rigging bonus for Zanu PF.
I am highlighting the reality on the ground proving Zanu PF is rigging these elections and MDC/CCC should have implemented the democratic reforms and stop dragging the nation into these flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed!
@ Boston
ReplyDelete“@Wilbert Mukori kusekwa nedzimwe nyika kudai and you encouraging dzimwe CCC to boycott ma elections nonsense manhi.”
MDC/CCC have failed to implement reforms and then have been participated in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. How is that my fault? You mentality that any one who dares to criticise CCC must be a Zanu PF supporter is not going to stop me holding CCC to account for selling out!
@ Evangelist
ReplyDelete“Satanyoko enemy of progress.”
The real enemy of progress is he who will not accept truth, facts, reality and reason because he has his head buried in some leader's backside who they have raised on pedestal and worship like a demigod.
In the first two decades of our independence Mugabe and his cronies were infallible Gods and one risked being lynched if one dared to question Mugabe. If something went horrible wrong it was his ministers’ fault and he could not even be blamed for promoted the said failed minister. It took 20 years for the nation to finally admit Mugabe was a corrupt and murderous megalomania.
Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends soon emerged as the nation’s new demigods. The people has risked life and limb to elect MDC leaders into power for one principle purpose - to implement democratic reforms and end the Zanu PF dictatorship. MDC/CCC leaders have have many golden opportunities to implement the reforms and they have wasted them all. And yet anyone who dares to point out this simple historic fact is declared public enemy number one!
CCC are participating in these elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuating the status quo for the sake of the few gravy train seats. How anyone can argue that is progress beggars belief.
We are village idiots who want to hide their lack of intellectual ability by praising everything leaders do and since they cannot defend the leaders’ failures they attack all those who dare question the myth of these infallible mortals. This is the idiotic mentality that is holding the nation back and it must and will be exorcised!
@ Godfrey
ReplyDeleteWell ignorance has its own advantages! Zanu PF is rigging these elections, he is happy and contented because he has no clue what is going on. He, even now after 43 years of rigged elections, has no idea what constitute free, fair and credible elections.
Yeah! He is happy living in the mud hovel. He was promised change in the past and it never happened and he continued to live happily in his hovel. Whatever happens next week the chances are he will still be stuck in his mud hovel for generations to come and guess what he will still be wearing the smug of pure contentment on his face.
When you have lived in a mud hovel all your life lets just say your expectations in life are rock bottom, a piece of chicken and chip is a feast to be savoured, and you even glow in your poverty!
@ Boston
ReplyDelete“Wilbert with you it's about criticizing CCC. You stay in your lane. How can a zanupf supporter want to become a CCC advisor. Your advices are toxic wangu. Stay in your lane and we stay in our lane. Share your strategy of rigging muma zanupf groups. People want change except varakashi.”
Stupid people have a knock to contradict themselves! I am telling CCC that the party’s so-called winning in rigged elections strategies are not working and explain why they are not working. I have said the mass voter registration, for example, is dead in the water because as of 30 May ZEC had registered 1/4m which is 4% of CCC’s own target of 6m. This is a historic fact and so why are you calling it toxic advice.
The trouble with village idiots like you is you like to bury your heads in the leaders’ backsides and follow blindly, no questions asked. And so each time exposes your foolishness in following blindly you lash out and accuse them of all manner of things.
I am advocating for the implementation of reforms so we can finally end the curse of rigged elections. You accuse me of being a Zanu PF supporter, since when has Zanu PF ever advocated for reforms and free and fair elections?
The voters’ roll ZEC released last month is an old one and does not have the new Polling Stations.
ReplyDeleteZEC should have produced a verified voters' roll at least one calendar month before nomination day. The opposition knew there was no verified voters' roll and they still submitted their nomination papers regardless. Of course, the opposition know that Zanu PF is rigging these elections and that by participating they will give Zanu PF legitimacy. They are doing it regardless because they also know that Zanu PF is giving away a few gravy train seats and the POLAD freebies as bait!
Zanu PF is rigging these elections and CCC are participating to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. It was greed that stopped MDC/CCC leaders implementing the reforms during the GNU when they had the golden opportunity to do so, we should not be surprise they are selling out again!
@ Seal4
ReplyDelete“U definitely don't represent poor people you scorn & laugh them trampling their rights to privacy! just look at the little girl pic you posted. Chamisa will hold such children and treat them like human beings.”
Was that why he and his MDC friends failed to implement even one democratic reform during the GNU? Where they busy holding the poor or they were busy feeding in the trough they forgot about reforms?
@ Chris
ReplyDelete“They don't want your advice and they will never listen to you why you can't get that is beyond me. Take your advice somewhere else, CCC we don't need it. Get this please and stop stressing yourself.”
What I am saying - that MDC/CCC sold out by failing to implement reforms and is selling out by participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed - is much more that advising them. It is educating the ordinary Zimbabweans who are been conned into believing CCC lies and, just as important, I am holding MDC/CCC to democratic account.
“CCC we don’t need your advice!” you say. What you really mean is “CCC we don’t want to be held to account!” Of course, you don’t after all the fcuk up you are desperate to airbrush the past and the present blunders. I am here to hold you lot to democratic account and that is not negotiable.