“In a strongly worded response, Mahere reminded Coltart of the abductions, murder, recalls and physical attacks on opposition MPs and their supporters prior to her resignation.
"Nobody who is being true to the chronology of events would suggest that we resigned “of our own accord”. That’s the bit that’s not factual. In fact, it’s disingenuous.
"Have you already forgotten the events that led to the resignation? Are you forgetting that whole blocs of MPs were illegally recalled? Are you forgetting that after being illegally recalled, their by-election campaigns were attacked by violent thugs? Are you forgetting that campaign team members were abducted and murdered with zero accountability? Are you forgetting that sitting MPs were abducted and tortured while the perpetrators who were caught on video were never brought to book?
"Are you forgetting that our members were banned from contesting for no reason? Are you forgetting that ZANU PF gold mafia members were then handed seats uncontested? Are you forgetting how the will of the people was desecrated in Bulawayo?"
Mehere reminded Coltart how CCC MPs were violently thrown out of Parliament for disagreeing with their Zanu PF counterparts.”
The 2023 election process was judged to be flawed and illegal by SADC and AU and Mahere, Coltart and the rest took up their gravy train seats, knowing fully well doing so would give Zanu PF legitimacy. Still they went ahead regardless out of greed. The process was flawed and so the CCC leaders were illegitimate and to suggest the recall by Tshabangu made any difference on the matter is nonsense.
Mahere and Markham resigned because they must have figured they were going to be recalled anyway. Coltart and those who did not resign must have figured they would never be recalled. To pretend there was virtue in ether position is just as meaningless as pretend there is virtue in today being Sunday and not Monday!
What matters here is that these CCC leaders participated in the flawed 2023 elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuating the suffering of the masses out of greed. And, worst of all, they knew this!
“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.
@ Semper
ReplyDelete“Chamisa is not just an idea, but has grown into an institution of hope.”
Please name just one thing to justify why he is an institution of hope. Just one thing!
Chamisa is not only a mere fallible mortal but one with a proven track record as corrupt and incompetent. This statement is born out of the personality cult, the great leader, mentality. No wonder Zimbabwe is a failed state, we have too many braindead people and, to crown it all they have very loud voices and the vote!
Chamisa is guilty of conning millions of Zimbabweans into participating in flawed and illegal elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy in 2018 and then again in 2023. How anyone can be blind to these realities only goes to show we are not ready to be a healthy and functioning democracy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FETJJ_LM3Hg
ReplyDeleteZimbabwe has the worst of both world - corrupt and incompetent leaders with no vision and so has no functioning state institutions of Rwanda or Kenya overlaid with the mismanagement and corruption uniquely Zimbabwean! We are not getting out of this hell-hole, not without ending the now deeply entrenched dictatorship.
@ Chisa
ReplyDelete“Was it only CCC that participated.”
You still do not get it and never will! Why would you participate in a flawed election to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuating your own suffering just because other political parties are do ing the same!
It really is a crying shame that we have some of our people who are so shallow, thick and slow. It really is shocking that anyone can be that stupid but there it is. The greatest misfortune for Zimbabwe is that people like you have the vote and are the ones are, unwittingly, keeping the buffoons in power!
No one is disputing that Zanu PF thugs are ruthless. The question here is why Zimbabweans have wasted the many opportunities to end the dictatorship especially during the 2008 to 2013 GNU?
ReplyDelete@ SFB
ReplyDelete"It's obvious that you have a disdain for Zimbabweans and don't respect their decisions."
Zanu PF has rigged elections these last 44 years, what decision have the people had in that?
@ Sfb
ReplyDelete“It’s obvious that you have a disdain for Zimbabweans and don't respect their decisions.
When people around the world vote dictators and mass murderers into office, no one questions why or blames them. But among Africans, we must find psychological fault with ourselves to account for these "bad" decisions. We are not allowed to blame anyone but ourselves.
Such thinking is the result of systemic colonization and indoctrination. It does not mean that we are not responsible for our decisions and actions. It means that we are not responsible for other people's decisions and actions.
It is not our responsibility to decide and act to make sure others accept or support our decisions and actions. That's their responsibility, not ours! We must decide what is best for us, and if others don't accept our decisions, then they are not with us! It's that simple!
Those who are with us, do not sanction, threaten, beat, or try to manipulate us to do what they want us to do. Those who are with us, support us in doing what we want to do. And if they don't, that's their fault, not ours! It's that simple
As other humans are granted the right to decide, even poorly, so must Africans as is our right to do so like every other people. If our decisions are truly wrong, the responsibility lies on us to correct poor decisions, not on others to force us. This is the difference between friendly and hostile states.”
Zanu PF has rigged elections these last 44 years, what decision have the people had in that?
You want the people to support Zanu PF’s corrupt and tyrannical rule under the pretext that anyone who does not is under the influence of the West.
You want to justify Zanu PF rigging the elections and denying the people their fundamental right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country in the name of its “our decision”. It is the corrupt and murderous thugs’ decision and NOT the people of Zimbabwe’s decision.
“If our decisions are truly wrong, the responsibility lies on us to correct poor decisions, not on others to force us.” How exactly are povo to correct any poor decision since they are denied a meaningful vote? Each time the protest against the oppression the regime attributes the protestations to “others” as if blacks are totally incapable of speaking about their own suffering!
The whites treated blacks as inferiors beings who could never be trusted to say or do anything important hence the reason they were denied the vote. Nothing has changed, Zanu PF thugs and their apologists still ill treats the ordinary people just as the white had done.
@ Darlington
ReplyDelete“There was nothing happening during the GNU because there was nothing unifying about it as it was a way of keeping Mugabe who had lost elections in power and then decimate the opposition. The agenda has not changed since then.”
So the opposition went into the GNU to be “decimated”? How foolish is that!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_GT2lrICpQ
ReplyDeleteMahere and Markham "are the finest parliamentarians is Zimbabwe", said David Coltart. What a truck load of bull! These individuals, including Coltart himself, participated in flawed elections "so flawed, so illegal the only logical step was to withdraw". They did not withdraw out of greed. So greed makes them the "finest!
Zimbabwe is a failed state and all because we have failed to hold free, fair and credible elections. MDC/CCC has failed to implement even one token reform to stop Zanu PF rigging elections these last 23 years including 5 in the GNU because of greed. How ironic that the sellouts are now claiming themselves to be the finest parliamentarians in the land!
Zimbabwe must elect opposition leaders who will implement the blood reforms and cure ourselves of the curse of rigged elections. It is an outrage that 44 years after independence, in this day and age, and we are still failing to hold free and fair elections!
@ Reentech
ReplyDelete"Coltart is 100% correct .. even if Fadzi uses angelic language to defend herself the simple truth remains that she and Asina mabvi handed over the seats to Zanu pf on a silver platter and thats the highest level of disingenuity ! Already the electorate had braved and weathered the storm and voted them into Parly and for them thanks to selfish reasons deciding to let that victory go into the drain after the battles had been won is the highest level it can ever get of disingenuity!.
You missed the point! The 2023 elections were flawed and illegal and CCC participated to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. All these who participated are sellouts. We cannot keep complaining of Zanu PF rigging elections when we are the ones knowing participating in the flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wwLoRhG0_I
ReplyDeleteIllegitimate Zanu PF in talks with equally illegitimate CCC will still produce an illegitimate regime. The talks are a waste of time! Zimbabwe cannot afford yet another rigged election and illegitimate government in 2028!
If Zimbabwe does not implement democratic reforms before 2028 then people must NOT participate in the flawed elections. We are tired of opposition complaining of rigged elections and yet they continue to participate to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed!
@ Chisa
ReplyDelete“What else did you want him to do after he was defied?”
Acknowledge that he was lying that CCC was going to win 2023 elections and that he had plugged the vote rigging loop holes. Confess that all the claims that God was in it and quoting of Bible verses was for the purpose of deceiving the ignorant, naive and gullible public. And most important of all, admit to the people of Zimbabwe that MDC/CCC leaders are sell outs, Zimbabwe would be a healthy and functioning democracy by now if they had implemented the democratic reforms when they had the golden opportunity to do so during the 2008 to 2013 GNU!
Like it or not the truth that MDC/CCC leaders are sell out will not remain hidden for long. After 24 years with not even a token reform implemented even the dimwitted party supporters are growing unease. This MDC/CCC charade is drawing to a close. “Rinemanyanga hariputirwi, machewe!”
God is not in any of these idiotic hare brain schemes. And only an idiot would sit back whilst Chamisa and company continue to connive with Zanu PF dragging the nation deeper and deeper into the abyss.
ReplyDelete@ Lee
ReplyDelete“But mkoma mkori, why the needless attacks and flogging of a dead horse in Chamisa? I believe you still have plenty plus options from those at the helm of CCC and other outfits. Why are you not demanding those at the helm of the Political parties to carry the cross President Chamisa's dismally failed to carry? You mow preaching to the converted with these broken records and rhetoric of Chamisa's failures. He acknowledged and stepped aside.”
You clearly have not been following the history of Zimbabwe. All those individuals were in the MDC that failed to implement even one reform during the GNU. Trying them one by one will not change anything just as trying Mnangagwa has not changed anything, he was a key player in Mugabe’s rule and proved that he was corrupt and incompetent then.
@ Chisa
ReplyDeleteHow would implementing the reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections "extend Zanu PF's tenure"? Your stupidity comes out in everything you say!
@ Chief Svosve
ReplyDelete“Why are you always more angry with President Chamisa than you are with ED? Why do you attack him more than you attack Mnagagwa? Why do you criticise the only hope of the people more than you critic the reason behind Zimbabwe’s failure - Zanu Pf and ED ? You are damn so obvious Wiribheti!”
I have explained to you and will say it again. The people of Zimbabwe have risked livelihood, limbs and many have lost their very lives in electing MDC/CCC leaders into power on the understanding that once in power they would implement the democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. Last year, 2023, Zanu PF once again blatantly rigged the elections and, worse still, got away with it. WHY?
MDC/CCC leaders have not only failed to implement even one token democratic reform in 23 years, including 5 in the GNU, but have been participating in flawed elections knowing fully well the elections are flawed and that participating would give Zanu PF legitimacy. Still they participated out of greed.
“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.
Chamisa and company have given up implementing reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging elections, they have been participating in flawed elections for a share of the spoils of power.
Like it or not the truth that MDC/CCC leaders are sell out will not remain hidden for long. After 24 years with not even a token reform implemented even the dimwitted party supporters are growing unease.
“Sahwira, Rinemanyanga hariputirwi!” This MDC/CCC charade is drawing to a close.
We have had rigged elections dated back to 1980 and today, 44 years after independence we still failing to hold free and fair elections. Millions are conned by an upstart like Chamisa into participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate our own suffering and guess what we continue participating. This is like our friend being dumped again and again in a sewage pond!
ReplyDelete@ Developer
ReplyDelete“@Wilbert Mukori
When we tell your friends not to participate in flawed elections since that is tantamount to legitimizing Zanu pf gvt, opposition followers insult, saying we want to disturb them to win the election.
So ndomene haichemedzi.”
A common enough mistake for the ignorant, naive and gullible MDC wildebeest herd to make! The truth is MDC leaders themselves are very happy with participating in flawed elections and giving Zanu Pf legitimacy because they are richly rewarded, those who won the few gravy train seats on offer are gloriously happy. Indeed, this is why the opposition have fought each other over the few gravy train seats with even greater brutality and resolve than they have ever fought to end the dictatorship itself. What do you think the Tshabangu recalls are all about!
The real losers are the herd and the nation at large, there is nothing for povo to gain from perpetuating the Zanu PF dictatorship and everything to lose.
@ D Chakona
ReplyDelete“It’s important to participate so that the world see the truth. Like what happened in 2024. Without participating, how will the international community make sense of our complains. They won't have evidence.
No blame game now. But all concerned citizens should put heads together for an improved way forward. There are always new lessons to learn in any failure.”
What's important is to ask: what are the lessons learned? How can we then impressive next time?
Then re-strategies.”
What is it that the world learned from the 2024 rigged elections that it did not know from the landmark 2008 elections?
SADC and AU condemned the 2008 elections for the blatant cheating and wanton violence, the worst electoral cheating and violence in the country’s history, and denied Zanu PF political legitimacy. SADC force Zanu PF to sign the 2008 Global Political Agreement whose primary task was to implement the democratic reforms to ensure the cheating and violence would never be repeated ever again. Alas! Not even one token reform was implemented by MDC leaders. Not even one!
If one was to take you argument above to its logical conclusion, MDC/CCC leaders have failed to implement even one token reform in 23 years and have participated in flawed elections so the world can have even more evidence that they got in 2008 of how Zanu PF rigs elections. Of course, that is far fetched especially we we know Mugabe bribed the MDC leaders to forget about implementing reforms.
The lesson that should have been learned is MDC/CCC leaders are sellout, they have failed to implement even one token reform in 23 years, including 5 years in the GNU; it is naive, to say the least, to trust them to do so now. The very fact that it has taken 23 years to learn the lesson is itself proof of the very serious intellectual deficiencies of the Zimbabwe electorate!
As long as the country continues to have an ignorant and naive electorate, easily conned to into participating in flawed elections there will be no meaningful change in Zimbabwe. Both Zanu PF and CCC will continue to con the public to extend their stay in power!
The joke is on us Zimbabweans. How is it possible that we have allowed those clowns to ride roughshod over us for 444 years and counting!
ReplyDelete@ Chisa
ReplyDeleteSo the 2 million MDC wildebeest herd participated in flawed elections because I did not implement reforms? What the hell have they been voting MDC/CCC leaders to do all these last 23 years? And by participating in flawed elections were they punishing me or themselves? As I have said, your stupidity is like your shadow it follows you everywhere.
@ Lee-Roy
ReplyDelete“That, you have made clear and public knowledge. Tiri kuti what's the way forward now? Flogging these dead horses or reminding us about the chronology of their failures is no use anymore.”
Did the 2m who voted for Chamisa know MDC/CCC leaders are breathtakingly corrupt and in incompetent? If they did then why were they so easily conned into participating in flawed elections only to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate they own suffering?
Could it be that they believed that Chamisa was the nation’s “best foot forward”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DQ_2TygRko
ReplyDeleteThe ZiG paper money will finally come into circulation tomorrow 3 April 2024.
US$ 1.00 = ZiG 13.73
Prediction: by 30 June 2024 US$ 1.00 = ZiG 100.00.
Zanu PF rigged 2023 elections and so the people had no say in Zanu PF ruling the country. And so even if the ZiG lost its value causing untold hardships the people will be helpless since the regime is NOT accountable to them.
After 44 years of rigged elections the A1 priority for Zimbabwe is to implement reforms and end the curse of rigged elections. Failure to do so then stop participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2Dvf00qahY
ReplyDelete"Why are you attacking Chamisa and not Mnangagwa?"
Let's be very clear here, Chamisa and company were elected to implement reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging the election; everyone with even half a brain knows that Zanu PF would never implement any reforms and reform themselves out of power. Chamisa & Co. are being held to account for failing to implement even one reform in 23 years. It is nonsense to try hold Mnangagwa to account for something we already know he would never do.
The greatest surp[rise here is that it has taken 23 years for the people to wake up to the reality that MDC/CCC have failed to deliver on the task the nation risked all to elect them to do! 23 years to realise CCC leaders are corrupt and incompetent!
Ian Smith tried that with Muzorewa and Sithole in 1978 and failed to get international recognition Zanu PF will suffer the same. This has been used as a feeble excuse for participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy to hide the real reason was greed!
ReplyDelete@ Chakona
ReplyDeleteSo what is your suggestion as a way forward to a better future.
One thing I find unamusing with your writing is the attack you center on opposition as if they are the ones who are wrong. You completely turn a blind eye on the evils of ZANU PF that has caused all this suffering.
ZANU is the elephant in the room.”
Yes Zanu PF is the elephant in the room if the room is mismanagement, corruption, rigging elections, etc. But if the room is IMPLEMENT REFORMS then the elephant in the room is MDC/CCC leaders. Zimbabweans have risked all to elect MDC/CCC leaders to implement reforms because they knew Zanu PF leaders would never reform themselves out of office.
It is shocking that after 23 years, including 5 in the GNU, MDC/CCC leaders not only failed to implement even one reform but worse still they have been conning the public to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. Worse still, Chamisa and his apologists have brainwashed some people into blaming Zanu PF for failure to implement reforms. So now Zanu PF are the elephant in the IMPLEMENT REFORMS room!
Why is it that holding MDC/CCC to account for failing to implement reforms is considered “attacking” Chamisa? Could it be this is just the classical manifestation of the great leaders mentality making Chamisa untouchable!
All those holding public office must be accountable to the people and we must snap out of this idiotic personality cult mentality. Chamisa is not only a mere mortal but one with a well documented track record as corrupt and incompetent. No need to bow your head in reverence devotion each time your mention his name!
The way forward is that the electorate must think for themselves and stop following leaders blindly like sheep to the slaughter! We want citizens who think and not sheep who are easily conned into doing corrupt leaders’ dirty bidding!
@ Prof JM
ReplyDelete“These are just baseless attacks. what is the purpose of positions (portfolios) without power. How many decisions were overruled or overlooked. How many parallel structures were created to circumvent and bypass Morgan, Chamisa and others.”
Make one reform proposal that was submitted by MDC leaders in parliament for debate and was “overruled and/or overlooked”?
Professor Arthur Mutambara has admitted that MDC leaders did take their eyes off the reform ball.
“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).
Some people are good at making noise. Kutaura kwausina kuswera!
I have consistently said MDC/CCC leaders solf out by failing to implement even one token reform in 23 years so what are you wittering about: "Show us the evidence that they actually tried to implement reforms and failed, or was it all political theatre?"
ReplyDelete@ Lee Roy
ReplyDeleteOf course you voted for Chamisa and will do so again; you are after all just one of the ignorant, naive and gullible voters. For a healthy and functioning democracy we need voters who are educated, knowledgeable and diligent!
Any one who holds public office must be accountable to the people this foolishness that Chamisa is untouchable must stop forthwith. The upstart has proven to be corrupt and incompetent and it is absurd that anyone should continue with this idiotic notion that he is "the best foot forward for Zimbabwe!"
ReplyDelete@ Tatenda
ReplyDelete“Tangoti formai yenyu party mukuru Chamisa nyange akadya mari yedu siyai akadero teverai vana madhuku nana monzora bvunzai monzora kutti mari yemaparty akaisepi yaakasiirwa paalliance naNero ,,musaona kuipa kwemunhu umwe nekuti wakamuvenga isu ED totomusapota because ndiye leader wenyika now but when it comes to the young with vision Nero tomuda akadero tine zvakawanda zvaitwa naED zvatoyemurawo but kunezvisiri kutiitira hatingosvore for the sake yekusvora bodo.”
You still do not get it, do you!
Whether I form a political party or not; it is irrelevant. Any one who holds public office MUST be accountable to the people. Chamisa has held public office, he and his colleagues were elected for the primary purpose of implementing the reforms and they must account for their blatant betrayal.
They have conned the public to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu app legitimacy for their selfish reasons. They must account for selling out the nation - that is not negotiable! You must get that into your thick head!
@ Itch Road
ReplyDelete“Nonsense Talk 🗣️ of a ZANUpf lingolocat or bomboclat…”
How naive and idiotic but it is to be expected from an idiot.
Zimbabwe is a failed state after 44 years of rigged elections. We must stop this nonsense! This is not about Chamisa but about Zimbabwe implementing the democratic reforms and curing ourselves of the curse of rigged elections.
Chamisa and company have failed to implement even one token reform and we must elect others who will. It is nonsensical to hang on to Chamisa's cocktail at the expense of the nation!
Zimbabwe’s central bank says its new Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) banknotes will hit the money market Monday and individuals will be allowed to withdraw only ZiG3,000 per week and companies ZiG30,000 per week.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the state-controlled Sunday Mail newspaper, Zimbabweans will start withdrawing cash and coins from their bank accounts on Tuesday.
In an interview with the newspaper, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mushayavanhu said all the necessary information about the distribution of the money and withdrawal limits has been relayed to commercial banks.
Schools, hospitals, clinics and local authorities will be allowed to withdraw up to ZiG250,000 per month and government ministries ZiG300,000.
There are no withdrawal limits of cash withdrawals for parliament, courts and international organizations.
Withdrawal limits for foreign currency, including United States of America dollars, remains unchanged.
Customers with a valid need to withdraw cash above the stipulated limit are expected to apply for permission to the RBZ’s Finance Intelligence Unit, which recently launched a clampdown on money changers in conjunction with the police.
So far, some suspected money changers have been arrested in Harare, Bulawayo and Masvingo for allegedly violating some provisions of the Exchange Control Act and Exchange Control Regulations.
Some of them are in custody.
Individuals and companies are crying foul over the withdrawal limits of the ZiG, which is selling at 20 per US dollar in the black market. In the official market, its trading at US$1:ZiG13,2889.
The new currency replaced the Zimbabwe bond, which collapsed due to hyperinflation. The ZiG is backed by gold, other minerals and foreign currencies.
Mushayavanhu indicated recently that the RBZ has US$100 million in foreign currency and 2,5 tons of gold worth US$185 million.”
This is just a nightmare. This withdrawal limits means the days of spending day after day after day on the queue to withdraw your money are back. This is just yet another opportunity for favouritism, abuse and corruption - the stuff that will only fuel inflation and black market trading!
Kiya kiya in the RBZ and in high office!
@ Mtutu
ReplyDelete“@Wilbert Mukori please spare us that rigging nonsense. You are well trained journalist and better off writing developmental news or you look for more fresh news even as predictably negative about Zim as it can be. This habit of overusing rigging is nauseating. U are now not any different from those who send porno. Be diverse and move with the times. Old times propaganda does not work in this digital world. Wean yourself from an entrenched propaganda stupor.”
Zimbabwe is a failed state because we have been stuck for 44 years and counting with a corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF regime that has been rigging elections to stay in power.
By the late 1990s the nation had woken up from its sloth like slumber and embraced the consensus that we needed to elect opposition members who would fight for the implementation of the democratic changes necessary to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections. Morgan Tsvangirai and his colleagues launched their party, even called it Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), on the promise they would deliver the changes the nation was dying for.
Alas! Mugabe bribed them with the trappings of high office and, as they say, the rest is history. MDC have failed to implement even one token reform in 23 years including 5 years in the 2008 to 2013 GNU.
Zanu PF rigged 2023 elections because MDC/CCC have not only failed to implement reforms but have been conning the public to participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF victory and legitimacy for the same of a few gravy train seats reward.
Today, with millions of our people living in abject poverty and the future grime, given the Zanu PF and CCC cosy relationship, the need for reforms and and an end to this curse of rigged elections is greater and more urgent than ever. Reforms are on the national agenda and there they will stay until we have free, fair and credible elections.
As for you Mtutu, you are just a village idiot with no clue what is going on here, you do not tell me what to do much less set the nation’s agenda! Just because we have buffoons and upstarts in power, their nincompoops supporters are getting boisterous. Kurasa muswe!
@ Mtutu
ReplyDelete“That’s politics man get over it. Proffer solutions than singing a tired song. Remember you and the likes of vana Violet Gonda were part of the Regime change agenda pushers from VOA and I feel for u because it seems you are not only bitter with ZANU PF but more with the opposition. Think fresh and be strategic than singing a song that has no takers.”
So it is acceptable for you that millions of Zimbabweans are living in abject poverty because the country’s resources are wasted by the few corrupt and incompetent ruling elite. “That’s politics man get over it!”
No wonder we are a failed state; with village idiots like you the country never had a chance to do anything else! Still, I am shocked that any one could be so shallow, thick and slow and be totally indifferent to their own suffering! But here we are, you are a living spaceman of black Zimbabwean nincompoop. And proud of it!
Giving village idiots like you the vote suited Mugabe and his cronies who always intended to give it with the right hand, make a big song and dance about it, only to take the vote away with the left hand. Zimbabwe has never ever held free, fair and credible elections; Zanu PF has rigged the elections and insisted they were free, fair and credible.
Easy to rig elections when you have the electorate that does not know what constitute free and fair elections. To the nincompoops it is all “That’s politics man get over it!”
Of course, I am not blaming you for being a nincompoop; you are who you are! Still, it is not a great honour having so many nincompoops especially since your stupidity helped to land us in this hell-hole!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzAsDv2zfCU
ReplyDeleteThe paper ZiG money was released today and no one expected the new currency to inspire confidence and it did not. Indeed, instead of hitting the ground running it fell flat on its face.
The public was told there would be limits to how much money one can withdraw from the Bank and guess what bundles of crisp ZiG were already readily available on the street - it is business as usual. The chaos, confusion and hardships brought on by Z$, Bond Notes are back with this new currency, the ZiG, and it is all like migrant headache, it does not matter how often one has suffered from it, you will feel every throb. You will never say you do not feel it because you are used to it! Never!
We owe it to ourselves to implement the democratic reform or, at least, stop participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuating the dictatorship. When will we finally learn!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_5pEIXyftg
ReplyDeleteZimbabwe's democratic experience was doomed from the word go, in 1980, because none of the key stakeholders, the Zanu PF ruling party, the MDC/CCC opposition and the citizens themselves, had a clue what democracy means much less their rights and obligations.
Zanu PF wanted a one-party state and has successfully imposed it. CCC have sold out or reforms and free elections for a share of the spoils of power. The two parties have taken advantage of the people's ignorance and naivety to usurp the people's freedom, rights and power and con them to participate in flawed elections to perpetuate the dictatorship.
Zimbabweans are not ready for a healthy and functioning democracy because they have learnt very little if anything at all. We are heading headlong for yet another rigged elections in 2028. The people will, once again, conned to participate to give Zanu PF legitimacy.
We do not even have the common sense to hold free, fair and credible elections 44 years after independence and in this day and age! It is a crying shame!
@ Chisa
ReplyDeleteSo that is why MDC/CCC failed to implement reforms and have been participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy. Was that why the 2 m have believed Chamisa's idiotic lies that he plugged vote rigging loop holes and participated in flawed elections to perpetuate the dictatorship? Or were there other reasons?
One can always tell the IQ of the individual from the sheer stupidity of his/her remarks!
@ Mura
ReplyDelete“They might not show it on their faces, but they will feel it 25/7. They felt the pinch when Morgan boycotted the rerun, remember? It has more results. Failure by opposition to do it tempts one to think they want to save zanu.”
If there is one thing that had Mugabe and Zanu PF worried in all his years in power it was being forced to sign the 2008 Global Political Agreement because both SADC and AU refused to grant him political legitimacy after the rigged 2008 elections.
Mugabe bribed MDC leaders to make sure they did not implement the dreaded democratic reforms throughout the GNU years. Since the GNU Zanu PF has been careful to make sure the opposition participated no matter how flawed the election process got to give Zanu PF legitimacy. Zanu PF has been giving away a few gravy train seat to entice the opposition to participate.
“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.
There is overwhelming historic evidence proving that MDC/CCC sold out on reforms is there but there are those who stubbornly refuse to open their eyes and minds to see it. Denying the truth is second nature especially to those whose brain has all but ossified into fat! The tragedy for Zimbabwe is that these brain dead village idiots number in their millions and, to crown it all, they have the vote!
@ Two mbira
ReplyDelete“Zanu election haidi zvachose.”
Zanu PF would have wanted to impose a de jure one-party dictatorship if Mugabe had his way in 1990 when he tried. He has had to accept the compromise of de facto one party state. To retain his iron grip on power he has rigged the elections.
The 2008 Global Political Agreement posed a serious threat to Zanu PF retaining the dictatorial powers to rig elections, that is why he was worried throughout the GNU. He successful bribed MDC leaders to forgot about implementing even one token reforms. Ever since the GNU Zanu PF has bribed the opposition to participate in flawed elections to give the regime legitimacy.
What is shocking here is that so many Zimbabweans have no clue what the GNU was about, even now with the benefit of hindsight. With such an ignorant and naive electorate, it is easy to see why MDC leaders sold out and got away with it! And to see why Zimbabwe is a failed state!
@ Chisa
ReplyDelete“There is a big difference between then n now. In 2008 it was widely believed Tsvangson had won e first round plus e level of violence was very open n unprecedented during the election period.”
Both SADC and AU condemned 2023 elections as flawed and illegal and would have denied Zanu PF legitimacy in the opposition have not participating conning 2 million CCC supporters to participate too! CCC officials took the oath of office and their gravy train seats even after SADC and AU election observers had condemned the elections. CCC leaders insisted the elections were free, fair and credible in “the liberated zones”.
All nonsense of course since the failure to produce a verified voters’ roll affected the whole country including the so called liberated zones.
SADC leaders accepted Zanu PF legitimacy regardless of the damning reports of the observers. Of course CCC leaders sold out and only the village idiots pretend nothing happened as usual.
In a move that has sparked widespread outrage, Zimbabwean banks have begun deducting millions of US dollars from clients’ accounts, citing the Intermediated Money Transfer Tax (IMTT) introduced by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube in 2020.
ReplyDeleteClients of banks such as CBZ Holdings and Nedbank Zimbabwe have reported waking up to find thousands of US dollars missing from their accounts without prior warning or clear communication from the banks.
Nedbank Zimbabwe, in a notice dated April 25, 2024, informed clients that they had commenced a “manual recovery exercise” to comply with the Finance Act No. 8 of 2020, which introduced the IMTT.
The notice stated: “Subsequent to an earlier Notice on the collection of Intermediated Money Transfer Tax (IMTT), in line with the Finance Act No. 8 of 2020, which was effective 1st of August 2020, stating that the transfer of funds from a nostro foreign currency account is subject to IMTT, we advise that we have. commenced the manual recovery exercise retrospectively, to comply with the Act.”
The notice went on to explain that clients who were not charged IMTT on MasterCard transactions from August 1, 2020, would be affected.
“For transactions up to the 31st of May 2023, an IMTT of 2% will be applied, and for those after the 1st of June 2023, an IMTT of 1% will be applied,” the bank said.
The regime is coming with the 2% IMTT today and soon it will take all the US$ and replacing them with ZiG!
It is obvious why Zimbabwe’s economy has been in decline for donkey years; it really is near impossible to do business in such a country where the economy is in a mess and there is no political stability! The country is latched from one economic and political crisis to the next!
Chamisa conned the people to participate in elections knowing Zanu PF was rigging and that participating would give Zanu PF legitimacy. Even after SADC and AU election observers had condemned the elections as flawed CCC went ahead and took up their gravy train seats insisting elections in "liberated zones were free and fair. Of course, it was nonsense, still SADC decided to do nothing to deny Zanu PF legitimacy.
ReplyDeleteOf course, Chamisa sold out in participating in flawed election to perpetuate the Zanu PF dictatorship. CCC was Zanu PF team B in all but name, playing to ensure team A wins and has legitimacy. No doubt is gearing to con the public to participate in yet another rigged elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy.
How anyone can still pretend Chamisa is fighting in povo’s corner beggars belief! This is either sickening case of personality cult or this is a Zanu PF double agent pretending to be a fanatical Chamisa supporter! Zimbabwe cannot afford yet another rigged elections and so these idiotic fools must be stopped taking the people for a ride once again.
Zimbabwe is buying weapons from Iran.
ReplyDeleteZimbabwe could have become the South Korea of Africa we turn left when we should have turned right and so are now the North Korea of Africa. Millions of our people are living in abject poverty and many will be facing serious food shortages. Only a country with North Korea mentality would be spending money to buy weapons instead of food for its people!
We need to implement the reforms and end the double curse of rigged elections and bad governance. We did have the opportunity to end the dictatorship during the GNU and we wasted it and now we are regretting it.
The weapons are to silence the people. Zimbabwe is a Police State!
ReplyDelete@ Evangelist
ReplyDelete“Chero vakatenga azvingamise nguva yamwari kana yakwana yakwana.”
There has been no meaningful change in Zimbabwe for 44 years and counting and it is nonsense to even suggest that was God’s will. People were conned by Chamisa to participate in last August 2023 election in contemptuous disregard of the warning that doing so would give legitimacy to vote rigging Zanu PF. Chamisa and his CCC friends did it out of greed, they were after the few gravy train seats on offer as bait.
It is you the voters who, in your foolishness, are perpetuating the Zanu PF dictatorship; God has nothing to do with your foolishness. God does not do for mankind what mankind can easily do for himself! Certainly God does not help those so stupid they believe the such hare-brain nonsense as winning rigged elections because Chamisa has plugged all vote rigging loop hole when the upstart did not even secure a verified voters’ roll.
Nations get the government they deserve, we in Zimbabwe, certainly deserve Zanu PF complete with the corrupt CCC side-kick because we have the most ignorant and naive electorate in the world. How is it possible that anyone can be so shallow, thick and slow they cannot see something is wrong even after 44 years of rigged elections the last 23 wasted by MDC who failed to implement even one reform!!
@ Daniel
ReplyDelete“Chamisa is tired now. He tried his best but all was in fiasco. Zanu PF closed all his political leads and his political life as a leader of the opposition is now closed, undetected being the political filing reference U/D 01/2024.”
How naive, dumb and stupid! Chamisa conned the people into participating in the 2023 elections knowing fully well that Zanu PF was rigging and that participating would give the regime political legitimacy. He and his CCC friends soldiered on regardless out of greed. They were after the few gravy train seats Zanu PF was dangling as bait. How anyone can call greed “tried his best”, only goes to show how foolish they are.
Chamisa and company sold out and have been doing so those 23 years including 5 in the GNU. Why is it so difficult for such simple truth to sink in your empty head.
Even if Chamisa has retired (which is not true because he is reloading ready to con the ignorant and gullible) as long as we have such ignorant voters there will be many willing to exploit them. Zanu PF will continue dangling the gravy train seats bait!
@ Chief Ndiweni
ReplyDeleteChamisa and company have sold out big time. Zimbabwe is in this mess because they failed to implement even one reform in 23 years to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. How anyone can be brainwashed they cannot see this is a mystery of mysteries!
@ Smash Boss
ReplyDelete"Chero nyaya yeZiG inozongoperera kumaElectoral reforms."
Yes it does! Anyone who thinks Zimbabwe will see any meaningful economic recovery much less prosperity without first ending the double curse of rigged elections and bad governance is day dreaming.
"Seek you first the political kingdom and the rest will be given unto you," said Kwame Nkrumah. He was spot on!
Madzibaba Ishmael In Court Again, For Impregnating Five Minors
ReplyDeleteIshmael Chokurongerwa, popularly known as Madzibaba Ishmael, the leader of the Johanne Masowe Penyera Nyika sect, was slapped with fresh charges when he appeared again at the Norton Magistrates’ Court.
Chokurongerwa (54) was arrested several weeks ago together with other seven members of his sect. They were charged with violating the Burial and Children’s Act, respectively.
He is now facing five counts of “having sexual intercourse with a minor”. Prosecutors allege that Chokurongerwa engaged in sexual relations with 5 minors between 2018 and 2024.
This is just another manifestation of the personality cult, great leader, mentality where people are so thoroughly brainwashed they cannot think for themselves. They accept the leaders so blindly they will not question anything the leaders say or do.
Over two million Zimbabweans participated in the 2023 elections because the believed Chamisa’s claim of plugging all the Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes. Of course Chamisa was lying, the upstart did not even secure verified voters’ roll and come voting day he failed to deploy election agents at all polling stations even thou he had the funding for it.
Chamisa & Co. were Zanu PF team B in all but name, they were playing to make sure team A win and has legitimacy. Zanu PF rigged 2023 elections and got away with it thanks to the regime’s CCC side-kick! But no amount of sell out evidence would change the blind devotion of the CCC wildebeest herd. Chamisa is still their demigod.
How a whole nation can be so shallow, thick and slow is a mystery of mysteries! Mankind is supposed to be a creature of reason but clearly not so in Zimbabwe!