"As I stated in my recent declaration of a nationwide state of disaster due to the drought last week, our Zanu-PF government will not let anyone starve," Mnangagwa said.
"Our government is capable of handling this situation.”
The bottomline is Zanu PF has made many, many promises which it failed to keep and there was damn well nothing anyone could do about it. The regime is not democratically accountable to the people and so it will do as it damn well please.
One of the advantages of being a dictatorship is that you can promise the moon on a silver platter and deliver hell and get away with it again and again.
Ever since Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980 Zanu PF has promised the people of Zimbabwe freedom, peace, justice, economic development and prosperity. Three years after independence in 1983 Zanu PF launched its Gukurahundi massacre aimed at forcing PF Zapu, the party’s main political challenger, to give up its independence and join Zanu PF. Dr Nkomo relented in 1987, after 20 000 civilians murdered, and signed the unity accord opening the door to the imposition of the de facto one party state we have to this day.
The regime has murdered another 20 000 plus since the Unity Accord to maintain its strangle hold on absolute power.
When Mnangagwa seized power in the 2017 military coup he promised to stamp out corruption and most important of all to hold free, fair and credible elections. He promised the latter to placate the world at large following his military coup but did not bother to implement even one reform. Only the very naive believed he would keep his promise of holding free elections. He ignore the promise to stamp out corruption because no one was going to hold him to account.
Mnangagwa blatantly rigged the 2023 elections, both SADC and AU election observers condemned the elections and, per se, this regime is illegitimate. It is naive to think the nation will hold Mnangagwa and company to democratic account if they failed to keep their promise. What has changed, one might as well ask!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfgU8S_zJcE
ReplyDelete"No one will starve!" Mnangagwa promised. He can promise anything because he knows no one will ever hold him to democratic account! HE BLATANTLY RIGGED THE 2023 ELECTIONS OR BE IT WITH THE HELP OF HIS CORRUPT AND INCOMPETENT CCC SIDE-KICK!
If we do not implement the reforms a.s.a.p. Zanu PF will rig 2028 elections to extend the dictatorship for another five more years. We need to elect competent opposition who will implement the reforms and end this madness!
The reality in Zimbabwe is different, this were better yesterday than they are today. There was electricity, running water, schools and hospitals, etc. and these are all in varying stages of rot and decay. The boy is looking at the photo of his grand father. He has inherited the beg, somewhere to put the ZiG!
ReplyDeleteThe Second Republic will argue, he is an upper middle income child living in a ZiG world! Vakafa vakazorora!
@ Seke Mhofu
ReplyDelete"Why are you always blaming others especially Nero. What have you done iwewe to change the world."
Plenty!
1) I have never taken advantage of the ignorance and the stupidity of others promising them I will deliver democratic changes only to sell out to Zanu PF for ministerial limo, generous salary and allowances, US$ 4 million mansion.
2) I have never participated in a flawed elections knowing Zanu PF was rigging and that participating will give Zanu PF legitimacy but do it regardless out of greed.
3) Thank God, I have never ever allowed myself to be led by the nose like a bull at the market unlike some people whose brain has all but ossified into fat who were conned into believing such bullshit as Chamisa plugging all vote rigging loop holes.
4) I have done my best to warn Zimbabweans of the folly of participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and CCC leaders the few gravy train seats.
5) You can bet you bottom dollar I will be kicking arse of village idiots like you who have their heads stuck in leaders’ backsides and continue to follow corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless leaders like Chamisa. He is a mere mortal, not an infallible demigod, for Pete’s sake!
Knowing this Zanu PF regime as I do there will be One Zillion ZiG note very soon (if they do not cheap by surreptitiously pruning off zeroes or dropping off ZiG for yet another structured currency or name).
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIvO-7MUjZM
ReplyDelete44 years of Zanu PF gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and tyrannical oppression have resulted in the nation look back in the past with envy! In 1980 the nation inherited from the white colonial regime a robust economy with good infrastructure. We have failed to maintain what we got much less build on it, our schools, hospitals water supply, etc. are is an advance state
https://bulawayo24.com/index-id-opinion-sc-columnist-byo-241770.html
ReplyDelete"No one will starve in Zimbabwe!" said Mnangagwa. As if he care or would be accountable. Zanu PF never accounted for the 40 000 plus murdered to establish and retain the de facto one party dictatorship.
@ Mahupete
ReplyDelete"What was 'robust' about an economy forced to be saddled by legacy Ian Smith debts?! They finance Smith and his white gangsters to wage a war against freedom fighters. He loses the war and his funders pass on the debt to the freedom fighters. They give them more loans, thanks to their embedded agent Chidzero, to finance the debt. And this, to you, is a 'robust' inherited economy!!"
You are in denial and so you are not thinking straight; it is pointless debating with some one who is denying historic facts!
This is just nonsense! Chamisa resigned as party leader and his party has broken up in the ensuing implosion, everyone with half a brain in UN, SADC and AU can see that. Why would they bother holding fresh elections in which the only real contestant is vote rigging Zanu PF?
ReplyDeleteChamisa told Blessing Mhlanga Zanu PF would never destroy CCC.
ReplyDeleteHere is Chamisa saying Zanu PF will never destroy CCC and yet in recent tweet he was saying the exact opposite. “When all is said and done, all who are truthful and honest shall admit and acknowledge the repeated role of the State in the plot and engineered illegal MP recalls, political parties finance diversion and criminal takeover of the alternative in 2020 and 2023.” he said.
He even had the chutzpah to headline the tweet “Absolute truth!”
The truth is here is a corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless opposition leader who is so full of himself he thinks himself an infallible demigod!
@ Appliance expert
ReplyDelete"Where were you when he failed?.."
You can always tell what kind of people you are dealing with from the foolishness or otherwise of the questions they ask just as easily as one can tell whether it is a lion or mouse from the paw-print.
This is a stupid question? How does where you, me or anyone else out there were during the GNU affect why MDC leaders failed to implement even one token reform during the GNU? Mugabe bribed Morgan Tsvangirai and company with the trappings of high office and, in return they forgot all about the reforms.
You are so desperate to find someone else top blame for MDC leaders' betrayal you want to blame me for it. Your stupidity knows no bounds!
@ CLINT SHAMU
ReplyDelete“Unorwara nepfungwa iwewe!U grew up in Zimbabwe.Wakamboona Zanu yichifamba yichiuraya vanhu here?Usaite kunge dofo.People die at times but you have to be physically there kuri kuitwa mhirizhonga uko.Makunguwo zvaakatya akafa mangani?If there are demonstrations in town don't go to town everyone knows that.These politics of yours of putting 40000 dead people as your number is shameful.”
Just answer the answer you twat! HOW MANY INNOCENT ZIMBABWEANS DID ZANU PF MURDER TO ESTABLISH AND RETAIN THE DE FACTO ONE PARTY STATE? THESE WERE HUMAN BEINGS AND NOT DOGS OR BUGS AND MUST BE TREATED ACCORDINGLY!
@ Mutumwa Shava
ReplyDeleteIt is very worrying that even with all the evidence that Chamisa is corrupt, incompetent and "pathological" liar as you said there are millions who still believe him and follow him blindly! How anyone, let alone 2 million, believed the idiotic lie that Chamisa had plugged all the vote rigging loop holes beggars belief!
How can the nation ever hope to have a healthy and functioning democracy with such ignorant and gullible voters! No chance!
@ Clint Shamu
ReplyDelete“Signs of kudhunya uku.Unotuka vanhu nepaYou tube pese uchinyadzisa.Hapana zvazvinokubatsira izvi.Dont call people idiots even if they are your enemies and you are trying to appeal to your supporters.Show us proof yekuti Zanu PF gave people permits to go and murder opponents!Mention 1 person waunoziva iwe akanzi apondwe vanhu vakamhanya vakanomuponda and every Zanu person there was happy with it and they got away with it! One person you know personally!In systematic murders everybody would know someone.More people are struck by lightning than die of political violence on both sides in Zimbabwe.”
Which is worse, calling some one an idiot or murdering some one and then refuse to acknowledge it as if he/she was a stray dog whose life was worthless?
I think someone who treats other human being with such contemptuous disregard for human life is an idiot and deserve to be called an idiot! You are an idiot and deserve to be called an idiot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW6WussDBLs
ReplyDelete"THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH … When all is said and done, all who are truthful and honest shall admit and acknowledge the repeated role of the State in the plot and engineered illegal MP recalls, political parties finance diversion and criminal takeover of the alternative in 2020 and 2023." said Chamisa.
Before both the 2018 and 2023 Chamisa conned the people into participating in the flawed elections because he was cocksure MDC A and CCC, respectively, would win. He had winning in rigged election strategies, he insisted. "God is in it!" he said repeatedly. Now he is saying the exact opposite.
The truth is Chamisa is only a mere mortal but one with a proven track record as corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless. Our dysfunctional political system has allowed people like him, Tsvangirai, Mugabe and Mnangagwa to occupy very senior national leadership position and, without exception, they have all become big-headed to think themselves infallible demigod with tragic national consequences!
@ Clint Shamu
ReplyDelete“Who do u know personally that was murdered by Zanu? I was in Zim when some deaths u talk about happened. Most happened during demonstrations or bar brawls. Most normal people were always safe. Ukati handidzokere kumusha you are an asylum seeker and you have no money yekuendesa kumusha uchinoona nekugara pasi nehama dzako chete. You are poor living abroad and some are vagabonds vanoenda kuStrand kuZim Embassy vaye vachipihwa soup nechidya chehuku.”
So because you do not know anyone “personally” murdered for politically motivated reasons in Zimbabwe since independence, they regime murdered no one! I told you you are an idiot and with which comment you make you are proving just what an idiot you are!
I am one of those who have joined the demons outside Zimbabwe Embassy and I am very proud of that! Indeed, I wish I could do it more often and salute all those who have stood up to be counted!
@ Godfrey
ReplyDeleteIf someone does not know that MDC/CCC leaders are corrupt then they will never know because we have been over the same ground a thousand times.
@ Mahupete
ReplyDelete“Iwe Wiri, sometimes your posturing beggars belief. Mdc were under no illusion about implementing any form of relief because they experienced reality first hand once they set foot in Parliament.
However, let's draw a parallel with you. You pour forth vitriol against Zanupf, make preposterous threats against Zanupf and all in the comfort of a choice hiding place under a bed somewhere in Anglia. And why make all that brouhaha from so far away, cos you UNDERSTAND AND APPRECIATE the reality. Saka, bark at the moon without mocking those who at least thought they could make an impact at home.”
Just answer the question: did MDC leaders implement the reforms or not?
No private citizen could implement any reforms so why you are "drawing parallels" with me only goes to show you have no clue what the reforms are nor how they were to be implemented. You are defending Chamisa because you spend all your time with your head stuck up his backside.You cannot bear to hear Chamisa held to democratic account!
Answer this, you nincompoop: are all those holding public office accountable to the people? Is Chamisa accountable to the people for failing to implement even one reform?
No wonder Zimbabwe is a failed state; we just have too many nincompoops and, worst of all, they have the voice and a vote! Of course, you cannot reason with a nincompoop. He is adamant Chamisa is a demigod who has never ever done anything wrong!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQIvwa1wLZk
ReplyDeleteZimbabweans are more interested in looking at leak nudes than to sort out the serious problems of the doomed ZiG! No wonder we are a failed state and deserve to suffer for it!
What is tedious is some village idiot who have never contributed anything other than correct what others have said and done. Any village idiot can say “This is wrong!” One can always tell its the village idiot because he will never say WHY it is wrong!
ReplyDeleteThe idiot will asking for a solution! He will never provide any solution himself!
We have to share this world with some village idiots and that is the tragic reality.
Where is the gold? Where is the gold? What a foolish and rhetorical question!
ReplyDeleteI will not be surprised that not even the 1.5 tonne gold that was in the RBZ vault two weeks ago will still be there. The Bank make a concerted effort to collect the gold for the photo opportunity for Mnangagwa. It was all looted soon thereafter!
You should watch the Al Jazeera Gold Mafia documentary; you will have the answer to your rhetorical question.
Zimbabwe is a Police State, ruled by ignorance, fear and, to back up the fear, brute force. Zanu PF has blatantly rigged elections using a cocktail of ignorance, fear, brute force and has bribed all those in positions of power to do the party’s dirty bidding. Even the opposition leaders have succumbed to the regime’s hypnotic influence.
MDC/CCC leaders were elected to implement reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. They have not only failed to implement even one token reform in 23 years, including 5 in the 2008 to 2013 GNU but worse still they have been participating in flawed elections to give vote rigging Zanu PF political legitimacy.
The truth, Zanu PF rigged the 2023 elections and now it can do as it damn well please. Zimbabweans will be forced to use the ZiG come 30 April 2024. The ZiG will lose its value, we all know that! The tide is rising, the ZiG is coming, this is just another Tsunami, and there is nowhere to run to!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQAojlQQqgs
ReplyDeleteZimbabwe is a failed state; unemployment is 80%, basic services such as education and healthcare have all but collapse, 49% of our people are living in abject poverty. Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 2023 elections, 44 years after independence and we cannot even hold free, fair and credible elections.
Zanu PF rigged the 2023 elections and now it is doing as it damn well please - imposing ZiG! It is doomed to devalue, we all know that but like it or not Zanu PF is ramming the ZiG down our throats!
Zimbabwe is a fail state, a pariah state, and a textbook case of a nation that has failed to govern itself. What is there to celebrate? 44 years of celebrating failure!!!! How nauseating!
@ Mwonzora
ReplyDelete“Talks of or attempts to postpone Zimbabwe's elections in 2028 are totally irresponsible and an attempt to extend term limits via the back door. The problem in Zimbabwe is not the election timetable. It is the unfree and unfair manner of conducting elections.”
True! But one has to ask why you are saying it now? You were senior leader in the MDC during the 2008 to 2013 GNU and you lot failed to implement even one democratic reform to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. Worse still, ever since the GNU you have participated in flawed elections to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed.
You are wittering about elections are not free and fair and yet you have done nothing to correct this even when you had the opportunity to do so. Are you saying it now because you have lost public support and are desperate for relevance! No doubt, you will once again forget about reforms if you ever got back on the gravy train!
You must think every Zimbabwean is an ignorant, naive and gullible village idiot!
We are poor because we want to be. How can we accept to be sanctioned by those who should be beggars of our resources? They generate funds from our resources and later lend us that money, and we repay the loans with interest🤷🏽♂️
ReplyDeleteThey treat us as monkeys while we treat them as gods. Africa isn't independent.
The question is who allows whites to continue siphoning our resources and if we resist, we have to be sanctioned 🤷🏽♂️ and we don't take action.”
The minute someone starts blaming sanctions for our economic and political problem you can be 100% certain you are talking to a village idiot!
The number one cause of Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown is not sanctions but corruption.
Zimbabwe have 1.5 tonnes of gold in the RBZ vault today because 80% of gold is smuggled out of the country. Most of the country’s roads are in a deplorable state because of the heavy lorries carrying lithium and other minerals out of the country. The wholesale looting has nothing to do with sanctions.
Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 2023 elections and hence the reason why the country is a pariah state, a failed state. And it was not the West who imposed the sanctions who help the regime rig the elections. It was the Chinese - they are the ones behind the wholesale looting of diamonds, lithium, gold, etc. They are the one determined to keep Zanu PF in power no matter what because they are the one profiting from the status quo!
Sanctions or sanctions, what right does Zanu PF have for denying the people of Zimbabwe their fundamental right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country? The right to a free vote is more than a right, it is the essence of good governance!
What right does Mnangagwa have in rigging elections and for his MDC/CCC side-kick in participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed? Sanctions are just a feeble excuse for rigging elections and bad governance!
Both Chamisa and Mwonzora were in the GNU that failed to implement even one reform only a fool will pretend there is difference between a black mamba and a cobra especially when are a mouse!
ReplyDelete@ Nigel
ReplyDeleteSo 44 years after independence and we cannot even hold free, fair and credible elections and you think that is progress! No wonder Zimbabwe is a failed state!
@ Mataranyika
ReplyDelete“Mukoma mukori wht are possible reforms that we must advocate for so that tiite free and fair elections , ko sei ma opposition political parties akanyarara asurikuita or kutaura about reforms, chii chinofanirwa Kunatso it was kuti ma reform aitwe.”
MDC/CCC leaders sold out on reforms especially during the 2008 to 2013 GNU when they had the golden opportunity to implement the reforms. They have given up and have been participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy for a share of the spoils of power.
You can read the 2018 Zimbabwe Election EU Election Observer Mission final report complete with 23 reform recommendation at https://zsdemocrats.blogspot.com/2018/10/eu-election-observer-mission-final.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUQuKMPNgpc
ReplyDeleteThe ZiG is here to stay, says Mnangagwa. That is rich given the ZiG is doomed to fail and, most significantly, he rigged the 2023 elections. He is illegitimate and imposing his dictatorial will on a nation desperate for change. 44 years of this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF have left millions living in abject poverty.
How long will this nightmare last!!!!
PDI(Power Distance Index)
ReplyDelete-From time immemorial Zimbabweans have been accustomed to a certain level idol worship where it's leaders are immortalized and regarded as gods.
During and after political independence we all have cozied ourselves to the casual use of two terms;
- Povo and Shef
This led to the 1990s term MURUNGU
And we often use these three self-inflicted subservient terms as if they mean nothing. In the process we surrender our ability to stand up for what is right.
In other countries in the SADC like Zambia, and South Afrika their POWER DISTANCE INDEX is very different. People loved Nelson Mandela yet when he did something wrong they kept him in check, despite his national and international gravitas.
Totally agree with you! Our default position is to regard anyone in leadership position as a infallible demigod who must never be questions muchness held to account by mere mortals. The leaders themselves has cultivated this adoration actively promoting the hero worshiping culture by surrounding themselves with yes-man.
Indeed, in this patronage driven system where merit is viewed as a threat, one is compelled to tone down to survive! Those who dare question the chef are regarded as disloyal and a threat to the chef!
Zimbabwe is a Police State in which the number one priority of the securocrats is to hunt down those disloyal to the regime. When Didymus Mutasa was Minister of State Security he once boasted that the regime known everything about everyone. It was not an empty boast! The opposition have their own militia mob who are given to abusing all those who dares to question Chamisa.
The competition is not in doing the right thing but in flattering the chef!
The truth is this chef, personality cult, mentality is the very antithesis of what is demanded of a citizen in a healthy and functioning democracy. Democracy demands that the citizen must be educated, knowledgeable and diligent in questioning and holding those in public office to account.
@ Godfrey Matadi
ReplyDelete44th Independence Zimbabwe
We have nothing to celebrate for our 44th Independence Day as a country. Our Politics and economics are in shambles. The country is divided and our communities are broken. Our Education, health, housing, transport, energy and welfare systems are non-functional.
Our Freedoms, dignity and rights are continuously being violated. In a country where there is no rule of law and corruption is on the lead.
Our children have no jobs, pension eroded, we have a currency that we cannot use to buy fuel and pay customs duty and we call our self’s independent NO…
As long as the issues raised above are not corrected, we have no reason to celebrate.
The reality that Zimbabwe is, indeed, a failed state; far from ever attaining the upper middle income status by 2030. Vision 2030 is just the revised version of the "Gutsa ruzhinji!" mirage the nation has been chasing since independence! After 44 years of chasing a mirage, the penny is finally dropping that Zimbabwe is sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss. We need to change course or we will only sink deeper and deeper into the abyss.
Vision 20230, upper middle income status, whilst the nation continues to sink deeper and deeper into the economic abyss, is chasing a mirage. We have been chasing this mirage since independence it was called "gutsa ruzhinji", mass prosperity. After 44 years of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and tyrannical rule the country’s economy is in ruins and political turmoil. The mirage, visible by day has completely disappeared as the country has sunk deeper and deeper into the abyss.
ReplyDeleteVisio 2030 is a mirage by starlight!
After 44 years the penny has finally dropped that Zimbabwe is a failed nations and it is foolish to keep pretending things are getting better when, in fact, they are getting worse and worse. And, worst of all, the nation will continue to sink into the abyss unless we finally cure ourselves of the curse of rigged elections and bad governance!
@ Dr J Nkomo
ReplyDelete“The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.”
Too true. It is a common failing amongst those who have no clear idea what a free nation means; yesterday's liberators become today's oppressors and so the nation needs new liberators - what a nightmare!
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ReplyDeleteHH commissioning a hospital in copper belt.
"Mnangagwa is biz commissioning zvihborani in Glen View
Zvihborani mudhorobha, ooooh my God 🙆♂️🙆♂️
There is only so much one can "achieve" with propaganda. HH has accomplished much more for Zambia that ED has with his "Vision 2030" propaganda!
@ Changamire
ReplyDeleteOf course, you will celebrate, it does not matter how bad things get you will continue to celebrate because those who spend their lives with their heads buried in leaders' backsides see, hear and say nothing! Your celebrating does not change the reality that Zimbabwe is sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss.
@ Prof Ndarukwa
ReplyDeleteWell, well! And you are celebrating "towards vision 2030" a mirage by star-light! Mugabe's mass prosperity, "gutsa ruzhinji" a a mirage by day in that the country have the resources and potential for prosperity then because he inherited the Biblical seven fat cows. Mnangagwa inherited nothing from Mugabe and has stepped up the wholesale looting of the nation's resource. Only an idiot would believe the nonsense that Zimbabwe is recovering much less thriving!
49% of Zimbabweans are living in abject poverty, they know Vision 2030, is a lie and they are not joining you in celebrating a lie!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z-AAx37m1I
ReplyDeleteAfter 44 years of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and tyrannical oppression many Zimbabwe are waking up to the reality that this is NOT the Zimbabwe they had hoped for and many had died for. The mass prosperity, "gutsa ruzhinji" as Mugabe called it in the 1980 has turned into mass poverty.
Mnangagwa has failed to revive the nation's fortunes and by blatant rigging the the elections and doing nothing to stamp out corruptions he has proven that nothing has changed. And as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state the economic decline and political oppression will only get worse. His vision 2030 is a mirage.
Many Zimbabweans now KNOW Zanu PF will never deliver a free, just and prosperous Zimbabwe. The search for change and deliverance can now start in earnest!
LETEST :NEW ELECTION IS COMING WEATHER ZANU PF WANT OR NOT SADC IS DOING IT FOR THE PEOPLE OF ZIMBABWE.
ReplyDeleteThis is just nonsense! As much as SADC, AU and ZHRC election observers condemned the 2023 Zimbabwe elections as flawed and illegal to what end and purpose would SADC or anyone else step in and call for fresh elections?
Like it or not Zimbabweans did participate in the flawed elections in their millions, nearly two million voted for the opposition and the opposition leaders took up their gravy train seats even though they knew that SADC and AU had condemned the election process. Last but not least, the opposition has since imploded.
The worst criminal act Zanu PF has committed in Zimbabwe was to infiltrate the opposition rendering them corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless. The nation needs time and space to come to terms with the political reality that MDC/CCC has been running with the povo hare and hunting with the Zanu PF hounds. Ever since the 2008 GNU, MDC/CCC has been Zanu PF team B in all but name, playing for team A to win and get legitimacy.
So those calling for fresh elections would want Zanu PF to run against itself?