A picture is worth a thousand words so indeed was a recent Zimbabwe Daily cartoon with Mt Pleasant residents family, the fat cows in Pharaoh’s dream, shouting “We want change! Ngaapinde hake mukomana!” on one side. And Mbare residents family, the thin cows, shouting “Zanu PF huchi! ED pfeee!” with the clinched fist.
The cartoon is six months after the 23 August 2023 elections which Zanu PF blatantly rigged and so one would think the Mbare family would be happy. The Zimbabwe economy has not recovered, if anything it is worse. The rate of inflation, for example, has soared 400% in six month. And it is the poor, who are at the bottom of the economic parking order, who suffer the worst.
“Zanu PF huchi (honey)!” the poor shouted before the elections. Zanu PF are wasps, they sting is extremely painful and for what, you certainly do not get any honey from that lot.
For the record, Zanu PF did rig the elections and so whether the poor freely supported the regime or where frogmarched is now academic what matters is the regime was not going to lose an elections it had carte blanche powers to rig. All the election observers including SADC, AU and even Zimbabwe’s own ZHRC condemned the elections process as flawed and illegal.
The cartoon was mocking the Mt Pleasant, the affluent, educated and professionals in Zimbabwe society.
The Mt Pleasant residents were conned by Chamisa and Fadzayi Mahere, CCC MP candidate, into participating in flawed 2023 elections, believing CCC would win big. Chamisa said he had plugged all the Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes. “God is in it!” he said repeatedly. And they, the country’s intelligentsia, creme de la creme, believe these lies. CCC have failed to secure even something as basic as a verified voters’ roll, for Pete’s sake!
Chamisa, Mahere and the rest of the CCC leaders knew with no reforms implemented Zanu PF would rig the elections and that the nation’s participation would only give the regime legitimacy. Still they were hell bent on participating because they also knew that Zanu PF was giving away a few gravy train seats as bait - bait they found irresistible.
Chamisa and company were lying about having all these winning in rigged elections strategies to hide their real reason for participating was greed.
It is bad enough Chamisa and company conning my aunt and nephew in the rural back waters, even them it is inexcusable given this has been going on for 23 years, not the affluent urbanites too. There is no excuse why urbanites should not know that MDC/CCC leaders are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless given the well documented account of their failure to implement even one token reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. The truth is many of them have no clue and hence the reason why they were easily conned by Chamisa and company.
It is only in the last decade or so that the Mt Pleasant residents have shown an interest in politics after decades of political indifference or, worse still, of actively supporting Zanu PF. The decades of Zanu PF misrule have seen the leafy suburb’s manicured lawns, tarred cycle tracks, etc. of the 1980s disappear. The roads are full of potholes, there is a chronic shortage of water to drink, the big houses are in varying stages of rot and decay. High inflation, unemployment and economic shortages affect everyone across the board.
The tide of economic poverty is reached everyone and spared none. Leafy Mt Pleasant is being transforming into just another Mbare ghetto. The overweight affluent busy bodies are losing more than their body weight and looking more like the gaunt and ill-dressed ghetto dwellers.
The regime change the affluent Zimbabweans are clamouring for will not happen easily because Zanu PF has captured state and public institutions to consolidate its iron grip on absolute power. If they had not wasted decades navel gazing they would know that CCC is Zanu PF team B in all but name, at least.
One only hopes that the economic and political reality in Zimbabwe will now force the country’s affluent to take the challenges of electing competent leaders with the seriousness and urgency the matter demands.
Zimbabwe's affluent clamoured for regime change in the 2023 elections, they did not get it nor did they deserve it. They have spend decades navel gazing or worse still joined Zanu PF and aided and abetted in the nation's economic collapse and creation of the dictatorship.
ReplyDeleteZanu PF is now deeply entrenched in power; it has captured state and public institutions including the CCC party, it is a Zanu PF team B in all but name.
Zimbabweans, especially the affluent who are creme de la creme, must take the responsibility of electing competent leaders who will implement the reforms and stop Zanu PF rigging the elections with the seriousness the matter demands.
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@ Tawanda Manjoni
ReplyDelete“President Emmerson Mnangagwa's main challenger in the August 23 presidential elections Nelson Chamisa might have quit his Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party, but the confusion engulfing the country's main opposition movement is never far from his doorstep.
Chamisa ditched the CCC last month citing alleged infiltration of the party by Zanu-PF after self-imposed secretary general Sengezo Tshabangu snatched the party from him.
Tshabangu's CCC has reverted to the 2019 MDC structures and appointed Welshman Ncube, Tendai Biti and Lynette Karenyi-Kore as acting presidents of the party on a 90-day rotational basis.
Another CCC camp led by Jameson Timba has also gone on a separate journey. As if the chaos were not enough, Tshabangu says they are now moving to the courts to assert their rights to use Chamisa's face as the party symbol, recover party assets and donated funds.
Chamisa has not yet announced his next move after he left CCC.
But his close allies led by Amos Chibaya and Gift Siziba are mobilising supporters across the country for a new political institution dubbed the "blue movement.”
CCC was an autocratic and lawless party, those who have often called it “wapusa wapusa” after the church in which church members were encourage to have affairs in a free for all, were not far off the mark. Sengezo Tshabangu exploited this lawlessness and free for all spirit to declare himself the SG of the party.
By initiating the newly recalls of elected leaders in the August 2023 elections, Tshabangu pushed the self-destruct button of the party and being a lawless organisation there is no law so there is no reset button.
Zimbabwe’s MDC opposition has always been weak and feeble dating back to the Tsvangirai days hence the reason why the party failed to implement even one reform during the GNU. Now that it is in this self-destruct mode, it is utterly useless and Zanu PF is cashing in.
@ Grace Ruredzo
ReplyDelete“As long as you mention anyone akaenda kuhondo pano; I am afraid you are wasting your time. They deserve every benefit; all our ancestors knows them one by one. They deserve to be respected. If you are seeking for some changes to other areas. It is nos your duty to help them. I am talking from bottom of my heart. Hondo yanga iri ye kubisa Smith; zvimwe zvese izvo; wakungozhamba. Good Night 😴😘 Wilbert.”
43 years after independence and yet Zanu PF has continued to systematically denied our people their basic freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country. We are yet to hold free, fair and credible elections. Decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption have left the country’s economy in ruins, millions of our people are living in abject poverty.
Zimbabwe is a failed state, a damning testimonial to our failure to govern ourselves. It is shocking, that anyone, anyone with even an iota of common sense and decency, would still defend the foolish notion that the purpose of the war of independence was to end white colonial rule and it has been fulfilled.
No wonder Zimbabwe is a failed state, we really have some have more than our fair share of citizens whose intellectual ability is shockingly low. Indeed, it would have been totally against the grain if Zimbabwe had been anything else other than a pariah state weighed down by the criminal waste of the nation’s human and material resources.
One of the reasons why many African countries are poor is because the export their resources with very little value added, unprocessed. Zimbabwe is exporting nearly US$10 billion worth of unprocessed resources. The country has seen many of our big industries scale down production or close completely and so the country's value added exports compared to the US$10 billion no value added exports must be staging.
ReplyDeleteNot many investors would want to start up business in a pariah state where basic services such as clean water, electricity supply and decent roads are a luxury. And where corruption is so rampant one has to grease many hands all the time.
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ReplyDeleteThe urbanites, especially those in the leafy suburb, and Zimbabweans in the diaspora constitute a significant, if not the majority of Chamisa's supporters. Most of these people are affluent, well educated and presumably well informed.
ReplyDeleteHow then is it possible that Chamisa has conned these people into believing such idiotic nonsense as "I have plugged all Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes. God is in it!" beggars belief. Zimbabwe's creme de la creme conned by a corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless again and again.
No wonder Zimbabwe is a failed state. Our creme de la creme is nothing but scum! There, I have said it!
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There are rumours that some African leader in Namibia urged Mnangagwa to step down following the rigged 2023 elections. In the light of Chamisa has since resigned from CCC and the party has imploded in his face one can only imagine the chaos in the country today if CCC had emerged as the governing party last August!
ReplyDeleteProfessor Ibbo Mandaza once said that Chamisa did not have more 10 competent men and women in CCC to form a government, events have proven him right!
It would have been very foolish of SADC to deny vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy only to replace it with CCC so thoroughly infiltrated by Zanu PF rendering the CCC governance a nightmare.
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@ WaMwari
ReplyDelete“You have been pressing hard. What now ? Should we launch Zem. You become president.”
Go ahead and launch ZEM and I am sure you will find many competent men and women who will take up the various posts. Just remember that ZEM will be held to democratic account and that is not negotiable. I will see to that!
You cannot imagine the abuse I have received from both Zanu PF and MDC/CCC leaders and supporters alike - they all proclaim to be democrats but do not believe they should ever be held to account. No doubt I will be abused by ZEM leaders and supporters too and the thick skin developed over the years will help!
@ Cool Breeze
ReplyDelete"So whats the way forward nekuti nyika iri kuwondomoka . Zvogadziriswa sei."
As long as Zanu PF retains the carte blanche powers to rig elections the regime will remain in power and the country's economic and political turmoil will continue. The solution is to implement the necessary democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections.
MDC/CCC leaders have failed to get even one token reform implemented in 23 years including 5 years in the GNU because they are corrupt and incompetent. The nation must elect competent men and women who will implement the reforms.
This has not happened these last 23 years because the people themselves have been super slow to realise MDC/CCC leaders are useless. The people must be educated!
So the first step in getting Zimbabwe out of the hell-hole we find ourselves in is educating the people. Democracy - government of the people, for the people by the people - only works if the people are educate, informed on the issues of the day and are diligent to hold those in power to account.
Zimbabweans are an ignorant and naive lot and hence the reason even a corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless upstart like Chamisa is able to con them into believing he is an infallible demigod with a direct line to God Almighty. #Godisinit! How anyone can believe such bull beggars belief!
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ReplyDelete@ Mbofana
“Over the past few years, I have never ceased being perplexed as to whatever happened to true Pan-Africanism.
How did we move from a concept that was so beautiful - to something that is now being abused by ruthless African dictators to justify oppressing their own citizens?
If ever I had encountered any paradox in my life, then this is the most outstanding of them all.
I have a life-long passion for history.
One of the most fascinating to study was the ideals of Pan-Africanism.
These were espoused and propagated by such luminaries as Marcus Garvey, William Edward Burghardt (WED) Du Bois, and so many others.
Their desire was for all peoples of African descent from across the globe to stand together as one united people.
This was more important in the face of slavery and colonialism - as Africans needed to free themselves in order to finally enjoy the dignity and prosperity they deserved.
Such a spirit is what inspired many Africans into fighting for our independence.
Who would not admire and want that?
However, as we attained our independence from colonial rule, the concept of Pan-Africanism took on a more disturbing terrifying face.
It became clear that our post-independence leaders were never genuinely Pan-African but were only after serving their own selfish interests.
In typical Animal Farm fashion, suddenly ‘all Africans were equal, but some Africans were more equal than others’.
Our former liberators had swiftly morphed into our new oppressors.
In all this, they still hid behind the facade of Pan-Africanism.
They gave the impression that their tyrannical ways were all for the good of the citizens, who needed to be protected from neo-imperialists who sought to undo the gains of independence.
As such, anyone who dared oppose or criticize or stand up against the post-independence ruling elite was brutally clamped down upon – under the guise of Pan-Africanism and fighting neo-imperialists.
Those in power could then freely loot national resources and carry out corruption with impunity, knowing fully well that any resistance from the citizenry would be crushed.
Does this not remind us of the pigs in Animal Farm?
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ReplyDeleteDoes this not remind us of the pigs in Animal Farm?
Surely, what was so Pan-Africanist about the late Zimbabwe dictator Robert Gabriel Mugabe?
As a matter of fact, what is Pan-African about his successor Mnangagwa?
What gives him the audacity to even mention that Pan-Africanism was still alive?
Alive where?
What is Pan-Africanist about Mugabe savagely massacring tens of thousands of innocent unarmed fellow Africans?
To make matters worse, this was barely two years into independence and the horrendous atrocities based purely on the victims’ language and tribe.
You are spot on there, incompetent, corrupt and vote rigging buffoon like Mnangagwa have found solace and comfort in the paraphrased George Orwell notion “All African are equal but some are more equal than others!”
What I have found equally frustrating as the buffoon’s hypocrisy is how the people, especially the country intellectuals who are supposed to be the creme de la creme, have allowed the political madness to go unchallenged.
Indeed, neither Mnangagwa nor Mugabe before him have had any problems recruiting intellectual to sanitise their corrupt and tyrannical rule. The men and women who should be leading in holding the regime to democratic account are instead brainwashing the people with misinformation and propaganda. All for the love of power and the wealth it brings.
As Zimbabwe sunk deeper and deeper into this hell-on-earth many of the intellectuals have switched their support from Zanu PF to MDC/CCC but not out of ideological or the realisation the country needs good governance. The switch is out of political opportunism; they consider their chance of getting into power are better with CCC than Zanu PF.
It has to be opportunism otherwise why would they believe such foolish notions as Chamisa plugging all the vote rigging loop holes. They knew Chamisa was lying and why he was lying - to hide the real reason why CCC was hell bent on participating in flawed elections. GREED!
Yes Zimbabwe is a failed state for the same reasons Animal Farm was a failed rebellion.
Zimbabwe is a failed state made in the image of George Orwell's Animal Farm complete with the self-righteous ruling buffoons, wittering the Pan Africanism nonsense, and the brainwashed povo.
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I have nothing against unity it is just that in Zimbabwe it has been used to silence dissent and stifle debate and democratic competition and to create the oppressive and tyrannical one party dictatorship.
ReplyDeleteEven the opposition has adopted this tyrannical mentality under the pretext of unity. Those of us who have dare to point out that MDC/CCC have betrayed the nation by failing to implement the democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections have been ostracised and even compared to Nyati in Chimoi!
It is true that Chamisa and company have sold out and that without reforms the nation will remain stuck in this hell-hole, is relevant! And to ignore these realities in the name of unity is the most idiotic things one can do. Unity is fine but let it be unity of purpose and based on democratic values of freedom of speech, association, democratic accountability, etc.
Indeed, I would venture to say what has held us back in Zimbabwe is not the lack of unity but rather the failure to have defined values and principles such as the rule of law, justice, etc. and live up to them. Zimbabwe is a failed state because we have failed to hold free, fair and credible elections. Zanu PF has even been rigging elections under the guise of promoting unity.
@ Chris
ReplyDelete“You can't do your politics and mention Chamisa? He is not in government. But I know he's the only currency around.”
When he was in government during the GNU he failed to implement even one reform! And ever since the GNU debacle Chamisa and company have conned the nation into participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy. They must and will be held to account for it - something his ardent supporters have failed to understand.
To the CCC wildebeest herd, Chamisa is an infallible demigod who must NOT be held to account. The truth is Chamisa is not only a mere mortal but a corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless one. How any one can consider the upstart a demigod beggars belief.
Zimbabwe is a failed state not only because we have murderous dictators and useless upstarts as leaders but, more significantly, we have some of the most ignorant and naive electorate in the world who are keeping the buffoons in power. Giving these village idiots the vote is comparable to giving a monkey a loaded gun!
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF ropes in security agents as factional wars escalate
ReplyDeleteIf Mnangagwa did not have the looted wealth to buy the loyalty of the party leaders and supporters he too would have cut-throat factional wars. No doubt he would be accusing the white colonialists and CCC for infiltrating Zanu PF and, with a bit of lucky, he too would have woken up in the small hours looking up the business end of a gun. He has a thick skin, crocodiles have thick skins, and would have toughed it out unlike some one, no names zvinemuto ndozvineyi, who would resign from the party in a huff!
Still, the rising tide of poverty is causing all to panic and he does not have enough loot to keep everyone quiet. The masses are restless and desperate for change. The cup is full and overflowing.
The danger of street protest and/or another coup have been contained and bottled up for along time they cannot be contained for much longer. The dam is busting and will release a wall of water that will sweep the dictator and all his cronies aside.
African leaders have been blaming white colonial rules for the continent's failures. It is tragic that the people themselves have been so ignorant, naive and gullible they have believed the bulls***t.
ReplyDeleteAs much as I do not expect my aunt and nephew in the rural back waters to understand the complexities of sanctions imposed by the West on Zimbabwe. Still i expect them to understand that Zanu PF cannot claim it held free, fair and credible elections when they were frog marched to vote for the regime. Why have they failed to demand their right to a meaningful vote?
@ Kayaman
ReplyDelete“Kooo iwe waka itei pauka ona kuti election rabiwa nembavha.”
I have warned idiots like you of folly of participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and now I am holding Chamisa and company to account for conning the nation into participating out of greed.
A healthy and functioning democracy demands that those in power must be held to account and it is the duty of ALL the citizens to do so. I am now public enemy number one for daring to hold Chamisa to account!
What have you yourself ever done besides trying to silence all those holding Chamisa to account. You think he is a demigod who must never be held to account. How anyone in this day and age can consider a corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless upstart like Chamisa a demigod beggars belief. But then Zimbabwe has more than her fair share of some really how ignorant and stupid people and hence the reason the country is a failed state!
@ Adam Chinaiwa
ReplyDelete“He did that's why the whole world knows that Zanu pf rigged the elections.”
How naive!
The world has known that Zanu PF has been rigging elections all along and hence the reason why they have been calling for reforms to be implemented. SADC tried to get the reforms implemented during the 2008 to 2013 GNU but MDC leaders sold out. Chamisa and company were hell bent on participating in these flawed elections out of greed. CCC leaders themselves admit 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 can pretend all you like that CCC leaders DID the nation a great favour by participated in the flawed, the reality is they participated out of selfishness and greed. And your stupidity is only helping to keep Chamisa and company in power so that can con the nation again into participating to give Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuating the regime’s reign of corruption and terror!
One of Zimbabwe’s many curses is that the right to vote was given to village idiots and it is like giving a monkey a loaded gun! One cannot reason with people like you, your brain has ossified into fat after decades of being brainwashed and idle existence!
@ Nicholas
ReplyDelete“Why only Chamisa????
Idiots are those who sit and watch from the terraces and run like mad dogs 🐕 in the pitch when the goal is scored
You don't participate but make unnecessary noises
If you want to know what an idiotic loser looks like, kindly visit yr mirror.”
You can tell the lion has been here from the huge paw-prints! You can tell you are dealing with an idiot from the stupid question he poses.
“Why only Chamisa?” With 44% of the vote he was Mnangagwa’s main political challenger with 52% and remaining nine candidates sharing the remaining 6%. So it makes sense to talk of Chamisa as the opposition leader whose participation gave Zanu PF legitimacy.
No the idiot here is the one who is refusing to accept that he was conned into participating flawed elections because he was foolish enough to believe the blatant lie that Chamisa had plugged all the vote rigging loop holes.
The idiot is the one who thinks a corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless upstart like Chamisa is an infallible demigod who must not be held to account. You can bet your bottom dollar, he will be held to account - by me!
@ Nicholas
ReplyDelete“You are nothing but a hypocrisy, a devil dresser
You hardly say anything about mnangagwa and Zanu pf
Kwavo kunatsa here
My brother @Wilbert Mukori I think you are blinded by ignorance.”
Mbofana is talking about Mnangagwa’s hypocrisy and my comment about is referring to the same.
“Zimbabwe is a failed state made in the image of George Orwell's Animal Farm complete with the self-righteous ruling buffoons, wittering the Pan Africanism nonsense, and the brainwashed povo,” I said.
There was no mention of Chamisa, it is all in your head. And your knee jerk reaction is to defend your infallible demigod, Nelson Chamisa. How anyone in this day and age can ever consider a mere mortal an infallible demigod, especially an upstart like Chamisa with a well documented track record as corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless, beggars belief.
Zimbabwe is a failed state because we have village idiots stuck in their personality cult, Chamisa Chete Chete, mentality. Worst of all, the idiots have a vote!
At the center of the Gold Mafia according to Al Jazeera, is Simon Rudland.
ReplyDeleteHe works with ZANUPF officials to break the law.
Simon’s in law, Ewan Macmillan who makes US$13.2 million a week says he is smaller than Simon in the smuggling business.
***Simon Rudland's father was a minister in Ian Smith's Rhodesian government. Mnangagwa, as it is apparent, the Rudland family are his partners. The key question is: When did Mnangagwa start working with this ultra-Rhodesian Rudland family ? Was it during the Liberation War? If so, was Mnangagwa a Rhodesian mole? These questions are important because a number of tragic incidents took place during the war but remain a mystery to this day.
Oh, were we not told the Rudland family controls 90 % of the coup government?
The beauty of the Al Jazeera Gold Mafia documentary is that it lifted the veil of secrecy that is normally associated with corruption; people know corruption is rampant but little else. The documentary gave the details of the individuals involved and how they operate.
It is sad but not surprising that the people of Zimbabwe listen to the documentary and a few days later they had forgotten about it. The wholesale looting of the nation’s resources did not stir the nation into action, it was all water off a duck’s back.
Nations get the government they deserve and we, in Zimbabwe, certainly deserve the corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous Zanu PF thugs complete with the entourage of corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless opposition. The nation has paid dearly for our folly in failing to ensure we have a competent government and will continue to suffer and die until we learn.
The irony is MDC had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms to secure diaspora vote. You lot failed to get even one reform implemented in 23 years including 5 in the GNU. ZEC like all other state institutions is captured and it is nonsense to blame them when you are the one who should have implemented the reforms to guarantee ZEC, Police, Judiciary, etc. independence.
ReplyDeleteMDC failed to implement even one reform during the GNU because you lot are corrupt and incompetent. You will never ever implement any reforms and thus deliver free and fair elections.
Why some people still still think Chamisa is the nation's saviour has more to do with the personality cult, Chamisa Chete Chete, mentality than with rational thinking. How can an upstart with a well documented track record of being corrupt and incompetent be the nation's saviour? The ongoing implosion in CCC has given Zanu PF the licence to do as the regime damn well pleases. The nation is in deep trouble thanks to Chamisa blundering incompetence, he conned the nation into participating in the 2023 elections with his lies of plugging all vote rigging loop holes. God is in it!
Chamisa and company have failed to implement even one token reform in 23 years thus allowing Zanu PF to rig elections. What more do they have to do to open some people’s eyes and make them see MDC leaders for who they really are - corrupt and incompetent leaders.
In deep, deep trouble and, worse still, with no clue why the nation landed in the mess much less how to get out. The very fact that many Zimbabweans out there continue to see Chamisa as the solution is very worrying indeed because, after 23 years with not even one token reform implemented, MDC/CCC are now part of the problem with Zanu PF - not the solution!
ReplyDelete@ Chris
ReplyDelete“Very stale argument indeed.”
The 10 Commandments are still a central pillar of Christianity and Judaism today and yet it is over 3 000 year since Moses brought them from the firefly Mount Sinai. Why? Because they are still relevant today as they were back then. MDC/CCC leaders have failed to implement even one reform in 23 years. If the reforms were relevant 23 years ago then why are they “stale” now, especially when none of them were implemented.
Zimbabwe will not get out of the hell-hole we are stuck in without implement the reforms and stopping Zanu PF rigging the elections - that is a fact. Sad that such simple realities like this are a complete mystery to millions of Zimbabweans.
They believe Chamisa has “winning in rigged election strategies” such as “green mango - green on the outside and yellow inside” or Chamisa “plugging all Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes” all delivered with the usual “God is in it!” guarantee. How any one let alone millions can be so thick, shallow and slow to believe such nauseating oxymoronic nonsense beggars belief.
“And during that time what have done? It’s not as if Chamisa is the only one to do reforms. Can you do them yourself so we can see your strength?”
Name one individual who have implement one reform these last 43 years? It is not for individuals to implement reforms or enact laws, that is the responsibility of elected public offices. The private individual's responsibility is to hold the official to account. It is disappointing that one has still to explain such things in this day and age!
“Step up to the plate and do it. You still waiting for Chamisa?”
An electorate that is braindead to be easily conned by an upstart with a proven track record of been corrupt and incompetent will not see a competent leader even if he was Albert Einstein himself. No competent leader is his/her right mind would even want to participate in an election process in which most of the voters are certified village idiots who minds are impermeable to reason and logic.
“Do not cast your pearls before swine!” Of course, the swine will trample them into the mud!
No one worth a spit would participate in Zimbabwe’s dysfunctional electoral process except to fight for reforms and/or educate the electorate.
@ Mura
ReplyDelete“Do you honestly think they could have pushed zanu into embracing the reforms you talk about?”
You have all the facts on what happened during the GNU. Is there any evidence that MDC leaders failed to implement even one reform because they could “push Zanu PF into embracing the reforms”? No there is no such evidence.
There is a mountain of evidence showing that Mugabe bribed the MDC leaders with the trapping of high office and the throw reforms out of the window.
“Mazivanhu eMDC adzidza kudya anyerere!” (MDC leaders have learned to enjoy the gravy train good life; they will never rock the boat!) boasted Zanu PF cronies when asked why MDC leaders were not implement the reforms during the GNU.
“As a collective political leadership, we should have taken time to apply our minds to the existential question:
“What next after the GNU?”
We did not address this matter.
This was suicidal.” confessed Professor Arthur Mutambara in his Book In
Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas & Solutions).
The truth is MDC/CCC leaders sold out of implementing the reforms and have been participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy. There many Zimbabweans who will never admit MDC/CCC leaders are corrupt and incompetent for two reason:
1) they have failed to understand what reforms are and so cannot accuse MDC/CCC leaders of selling out over something they do not know much less comprehend the seriousness of MDC leaders’ failure to implement the reforms.
2) these people have failed to understand what reforms are because they are simpleton and they believe and trust in Chamisa out of blind allegiance. Their “Chamisa Chete Chete!” much the same as Boxer, the horse in Animal’s, “Napoleon is always right!” One cannot reason with one that does not have the intellect to comprehend even the simple issues such as reforms, evidence CCC leaders sold out, etc. They do not even want to hear any of these things!
As much as SADC would have wanted to deny Zanu PF political legitimacy after rigging the August elections, they could not go ahead after CCC accepted their gravy train seats and thus endorsing the election were free and fair. When CCC imploded following the recall of elected leaders that left SADC with no opposition partner to work with, denying Zanu PF legitimacy was out of the question.
ReplyDeleteIf it was Zimbabwe's turn to be SADC head, the group can deny him this time; the question how many times can they do this without looking silly!
" Magumise
ReplyDelete“To be honest with you Wilbert you hate Chamisa. You sound as if these reforms were to secure Zimbabwe from some colonial rule or something foreign yet ZPF is equally responsible.”
You do not know what the reforms are much less the dire consequences of failing to implement them, even now with all the benefit of hindsight. If you did then you would know that Zanu PF was never ever going to implement any reforms.
Zanu PF has continued to blatantly rigged elections these last 23 years precisely because MDC/CCC have not only failed to implement even token reform because they are corrupt and incompetent. Of course MDC/CCC must be held to account for this treasonous betrayal of the nation. You no clue about the selling out and so, to you, holding the sellouts to account is tantamount to hating them.
It is the sacred duty of every citizen in a healthy and functioning democracy to hold leaders to account, especial for clear cut cases of corruption and incompetence. This is not so if you have no clue what is going on and your blind loyalty to the leaders regard them as infallible demigods.
How anyone can still regard Chamisa as a demigod with all the evidence of being corrupt and incompetent beggars belief. Worst of all the blind nincompoops are coercing everyone to see Chamisa as “the best foot forward for Zimbabwe”! Ever after 43 years of rigged elections we are still being dragged down this dead end and there is no reasoning with a nincompoop!
You are a nincompoop; you asked me to be honest and I am being honest! And it is a curse to the nation that nincompoops like you have the vote!
A year ago, Al Jazeera aired the Gold Mafia documentary, affording many us to have a look at the scale of the looting of Zimbabwe's resources. The documentary is well worth a new revisiting.
ReplyDeleteIn my last video I said Zimbabwe was exporting much more than the nearly US$10, the Al Jazeera documentary proves me right. The documentary reveals that Zimbabwe was exporting US$2 billion in gold per year and 80% of that is smuggled out of the country. So Zimbabwe is losing US1.6 billion in gold alone to the looters. What more for other sectors such as diamond, lithium and other minerals!
One of the Gold Mafia operatives said Mnangagwa had a US$240 million election war chest. Chamisa has resigned from CCC complained that Zanu PF had infiltrated the party. With so much money it is no surprise at all that Zanu PF has everyone including the opposition in their pockets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IADGJgF4zYs
Is Zimbabwe punching above its belt?
ReplyDeleteby Leonard Koni
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Once a bread basket of Africa, Zimbabwe is now a case of the continent. A once-promising country is now mired with challenges like election rigging, economic collapse, high inflation and abuse of state apparatus and democracy.
Previously the country started at a very good note in all sectors of the economy especially in manufacturing mining and agriculture during the early 80s.
It was known as the breadbasket of Africa until 2000, exporting wheat, tobacco, and maize to the wider world, especially to other African nations. However today, Zimbabwe, is a net importer of foodstuffs from the Western World.
We have become a basket case of a failed state and so those white supremacists have been able to say “I told you, blacks are incapable of self government!” It pains me to have to grudgingly admit they were right!
43 years after independence and we are still failing to hold free, fair and credible elections and millions of our own people are now living in abject poverty, all because we do not even have the common sense to say to ourselves, not some one else ourselves, that the system of government we have practised these last 43 years has failed and change it.
It the late 1990s the nation came to the right conclusion that Zanu PF’s misrule was dragging the nation deeper and deeper into this hell-on-earth of its own making and that the situation would only get worse as long as the regime retained the carte blanche powers to rig elections and stay in power. The solution was to elect opposition leader who would implement the democratic reforms design to stop Zanu PF rigging elections.
MDC/CCC leaders have been on the political stage for 23 years including 5 in the 2008 to 20013 GNU; they have failed to implement even one token reform although this was the primary task the nation elected them to do. Mugabe bribed them with the trapping of high office and they, in return, forgot about the reforms.
Worse still, the people themselves have been slow to realise MDC/CCC leaders would never implement the reforms because they were corrupt and incompetent - even after 23 years with not even a token reform in place they people still continue to trust the MDC/CCC leaders.
Zimbabwe is a failed state because all the three stakeholders who should ensure good governance, the ruling party, Zanu PF, the entourage of opposition parties led by MDC/CCC and the electorate themselves have all turned out to be corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless in carrying out their set tasks. Each stakeholder is blundering from pillar to post, the case of the blind leading the blind, it really is a hopeless situation.
@ Mbofana
ReplyDelete“For the past six years, the Zimbabwe government has made enormous noise over its 'upper middle-income economy' vision.
The country is supposed to attain this dream by the year 2030.
The Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa administration has sought to brand this dream as the panacea to the perennial economic challenges that have dogged ordinary Zimbabweans for over two decades.
In their talk, they paint an image of a country where no one will be suffering - with each and every citizen enjoying a relatively comfortable standard of living.”
As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs who have retained their iron grip on power by rigging the elections (or be it with the assistance of a corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless opposition) the country’s ruined economy will never recover. Never! The regime is spending a fortune in brainwashing the gullible public to see green shots of recovery where none exist.
Millions of Zimbabweans in urban centres are living in shacks with no water, toilets much less electricity. In the rural areas the situation is not any better other than that they are not as crowded as their urban counterparts.
Are we to believe that the regime will provide decent housing for over 70% of the nation’s 15 million population in the next six years (it has not even started yet) to meet its vision 2030 target. Or is Zimbabwe to attain upper middle income status with 70% of the people living in mud huts or plastic shacks and reliving themselves in the bush or gutter!
No doubt the regime will blame the sanctions imposed by West for failing to meet its target, the usual scapegoat, and set a new target date. Nothing new there, Zanu PF has always promised mass economic prosperity, “gusts ruzhinji” as the late dictator Mugabe never tired of saying it.
Of course, it is all a mirage! If you can rig elections, you can get away with anything.
Chris Mutsvangwa’s farm invaded and burnt down after clash with Mnangagwa.
ReplyDeleteWhat goes round comes round.
If these Zanu PF thugs can do this to one of their own, they will do a lot worse to any one deemed a critic or a threat to its rule. Zanu PF would rather see the whole country burnt to ashes than let any one else rule it regardless how badly they have governed!
And as long as they retains the carte blanche powers to rig elections Zanu PF will rule forever. The challenge is to elect opposition leader who will implement the reforms.
MDC/CCC leaders not only wasted the golden opportunity to implement the reforms but, worse still, they are participating in these flawed elections to perpetuate the dictatorship. why many Zimbabweans have failed to see this even after 23 years, including 5 in the GNU, and not even one token reform implemented, beggars belief.
We cannot be masters of our own destiny when we do not even have the common sense to admit to ourselves that MDC/CCC leaders are corrupt and incompetent, they will never deliver the reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. When we can be conned into participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy because we believed Chamisa had plugged all the vote rigging loop holes, when he could not even secure a verified voters’ roll.
Cyclone Chamisa sweeps through Masvingo Province
ReplyDeleteThis is just the personality cult, Chamisa Chete Chete, mentality in action. And the nation has and continues to pay dearly for the foolishness.
How many of these people know that Chamisa and his MDC/CCC friends failed to implement the democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections even when they had the golden opportunity to do so during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Mugabe bribed them with the trappings of high office and the rest is history! How is it possible that these Chamisa’s supporters have no clue he is corrupt and incompetent even now with the benefit of hindsight?
Zimbabwe IS a failed state because we have been stuck with a corrupt, incompetent and murderous ruling party, Zanu PF, those last 43 years. Chamisa and company HAD the golden opportunity to end the Zanu PF dictatorship and they wasted it.
And we, the people, do not even have the wit to realise CCC leaders have sold out on implementing reform and elect others who will. That so many Zimbabweans should be caught up in this personality cult madness at a time when they should be rational is tragic. That there are some people actively encouraging this madness is unforgivable.
Nation get the government they deserve. We in Zimbabwe certainly deserve this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship complete with its MDC/CCC acolyte!