A slave who can think might be in chains but rarely for long.
A free man who cannot think, might as well be in chains.
Man is a creature of reason.
A man who cannot think is but as clawless and toothless lion!
The 23 August 2023 Zimbabwe elections were condemned by AU, SADC and even our own ZHRC as flawed and illegal. So 43 years after independence, in this day and age, we in Zimbabwe are still incapable of holding free, fair and credible elections, incapable of self governing.
Zimbabwe is a failed state, whose economy is a mess and in political paralysis as no one is offering a way out of the mess, precisely because for 43 years and counting the nation has been stuck with this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. The regime has rigged elections denying the people their basic right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country.
The irrational buffoons who have ruled the land with an iron fist insist elections are free and fair. The opposition, the ruling party’s side kicks, have conned the people into giving up the birthright to free, fair and credible elections for the oxymoronic promise of winning rigged elections.
So 2023 has left all thinking Zimbabweans hanging their heads in shame - there is no pride in acknowledging the national failure to hold free, fair and credible elections; especially after 43 years of rigged elections and the heart breaking human suffering the failed state has brought to the nation! Enough is enough.
My New Year, 2024, wish is for Zimbabweans to having their thinking caps on this year. We need to accept some basic home truths that the nightmare of rigged elections and bad governance is home made in that we are the ones who have allowed Zanu PF and their CCC side-kick to rigged elections and get away with it. And, more significantly, that by rational thinking we can put an end to this curse of rigged elections.
2024 has started on a low note - hanging our heads in shame for 43 years of rigged elections - but must end on a high note - by making sure we have laid the solid foundation to end the curse of rigged elections and bad governance. The curse of rigged elections would have never lasted 43 years if we had our thinking caps. Think about!
Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 2023 elections thanks to MDC/CCC leaders’ failure to implement even one democratic reform in 23 years and by participating in flawed elections out of greed.
ReplyDeleteUnless Zimbabweans starting thinking outside the box, Zanu PF will be rigging the 2028 elections. Thinking is not one of our strong points but after 43 years of rigged elections it must be.
We, the ordinary Zimbabweans, have 5 years to stop Zanu PF rigging 2028 elections and stop CCC selling out by participating under the false pretext Chamisa has plugged all the vote rigging loop holes.
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@ George
ReplyDelete“We heard you loud and clear from August up to now still saying the same things, don’t you have any content? Because it seems like you have same news everyday, it’s annoying and boring.”
You heard my warning about Zanu PF rigging the 2023 elections but chose not only to ignore the warning but you actively dismissed it as rubbish. Zanu PF rigged the 2023 elections and you and your kind do not even have the common sense to realise that you were wrong.
Zanu PF has rigged the elections for 43 years and counting and has lied that elections are free, fair and credible. Chamisa and company have wasted many golden opportunities to stop Zanu PF rigging elections these last 23 years and they too have lied about the opposition winning big. Why is that you have yet to express your annoyance with either party when the consequences of their betrayals have caused tragic suffering to millions of Zimbabweans?
Your blind loyalty to Chamisa is not based on anything substantive as policy or something he accomplished, you do not have the mental intellect to comprehend anything beyond the trivial. By the same token your rejection of anything I say is not for no better reason than that I said it.
In a political system in which volume matters more than substance, trivial matters over truth and facts; it is little wonder the demagogues hold swear and nation has blundered from pillar to post.
What matters for Zimbabwe is that we stop Zanu PF rigging the 2028 elections by exposing the lie that Chamisa and company will win rigged elections. I know, you do not want that truth to be said. I am here to say what MUST be said even if that drives the demagogues into one of their howling monkey frenzies.
As long as the the threat of Zanu PF rigging the 2028 elections remains I will continue to give the warning. You can howl 24/7 the rest of 2024 and beyond, I will continue to giving the warning. I listen to reason and logic and, per se, will never be silenced by prattle from demagogues and howling monkeys!
ReplyDelete@ Sir Wilta
Zanu PF did rig the 2023 elections and Zimbabwe is, per se, a pariah state with all the economic and political consequences that follow that reality. You can dismiss it as high sounding nothing all you want that will not change the reality on the ground! Zimbabwe is a failed state and millions are living in abject poverty.
Still one has to accept that it is not all who see, who perceive; not all who hear, who understand. When you have perceived nothing and understood nothing, everything washed off like water off a duck’s back, everything is bound to be “a high sounding nothing!”
We do not have a quality electorate and to build a healthy and functioning democracy with the ignorant and naive electorate is as futile as building a solid building with mud bricks! It cannot be done.