Eddie Cross defying SADC and insist Mnangagwa won 2023 elections. America sussed out MDC leaders were "flawed" back in 2007. W Mukori

 Mr Eddie Cross, former MDC MP and confidant of MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai reiterated his claim on Denny J Show that Mnangagwa won the 2018 and 2023 Zimbabwe elections. This is an outrage!

Comrade Cross and his MDC/CCC friends were elected by the people to implement the democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections, as their party name implied - Movement for Democratic Change. Mnangagwa was able to blatantly rig the 2023 elections and get away with it precisely because MDC/CCC leaders have failed to implement even one token reform in 24 years including 5 years in the 2008 to 2013 GNU. And ever since the GNU debacle, they have participated in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. They know it and have admitted it!

“Look, you can't keep on participating in flawed electoral processes that serve to give big benefits to dictators such as Robert Mugabe. Mugabe has perfected the art of winning elections. So it will be very foolish for the opposition to continue legitimizing these sham elections which don't deliver. This country will go through a serious economic crisis in 2020 caused by Zanu PF. And yet, this is the only country where a government doesn't perform, it is encouraged by a super majority in parliament,” admitted Tendai Biti in a 2015 interview with Isaac Mugabi.

“So you can't continue subjecting Zimbabweans to processes where their hopes just get crushed.”

David Coltart went one step further and admitted why MDC/CCC have been participating in the flawed elections knowing fully well doing so would give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the dictatorship.

“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  Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe. 

Of course, it is very disappointing that Mr Cross and his MDC/CCC colleagues double crossed the people of Zimbabwe who have risked livelihoods, limbs and even their very lives to elect them into power on the understanding they would implement the democratic reforms and end the Zanu PF Dictatorship. They not only failed to implement even one token reform but have conned the people to participate in flawed elections to PERPETUATE the dictatorship. 

What is shocking here is that many Zimbabweans are still unaware that MDC/CCC leaders have sold out even after 24 years, including 5 in the GNU, and not even one token reform implemented.  The Americans sussed it all out way back in 2007 that Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends were corrupt, incompetent and would be a disaster for the nation. 

“Tsvangirai is also a flawed figure, not readily open to advice, indecisive and with questionable judgment in selecting those around him. He is the indispensable element for opposition success, but possibly an albatross around their necks once in power,” wrote USA Ambassador Chris Dell in one of the quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. The cable was dated 2007 - 07 - 13.

Tsvangirai and company did get into power, in the 2008 to 2013 GNU, and they had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reform. They failed to implement even one token reform. Mugabe bribed them with the trappings of high office; the E-Class Mercedes Benz ministerial limos, very generous salaries and allowances, a US$ 4 million mansion for Tsvangirai, etc., etc. And, in return, MDC leaders forgot about the reforms. 

Last year SADC and AU election observers joined the rest of the free world in condemning Zimbabwe’s 2023 elections as flawed and illegal. Chamisa and his CCC friends insisted in participating knowing fully well the process was flawed and went on to take up the few gravy train seats they won even after the damning SADC and AU reports! In insisting that Mnangagwa won the 2023 elections, Eddie Cross is only reiterating what his former CCC colleagues had done in defying SADC and AU to take up their elected seats.

The real shock here is that it has taken Zimbabweans 24 years, including 5 in the GNU, to finally realise that MDC/CCC leaders have been running with the povo hare and hunting with the Zanu PF hounds. Indeed, even with the mountain of evidence of MDC/CCC selling out, millions of Zimbabweans still refuse to believe their own eyes! 

If millions of Zimbabweans are conned to participating in the flawed 2028 because they believed yet another idiotic lie about winning rigged elections, as happened in the past, then we have only ourselves to blame. The danger Chamisa supporters will participate in flawed 2028 elections in their millions is real.

After 44 years of rigged elections do we still lack the common sense to realise we have the right to free, fair and credible elections and that it is, indeed, very foolish of us to give up the right for idiotic promise of winning rigged elections. It is insane that we have allowed this to happen and with all the tragic human suffering that entailed!

Mnangagwa and Chamisa are con men selling Mutapa Fund and winning rigged elections, Brooklyn Bridge. W Mukori

Emmerson Mnangagwa is a con man, he has sold the nation the notion that Mutapa Fund, funded from public funds, will take over the running and funding of the nation’s key institutions such as ZESA, NRZ, NASA, ZISCO, etc., etc., and revive them. All these parastatals have all but collapsed due to decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. So what is it exactly that the Mutapa Fund will do differently to revive these parastatals?

Under the Mupata Fund, the Fund’s board together with the relevant parastatal’s board and managers are now freed to conduct their business activities without parliamentary oversight, freed from public procurement rules and not be compelled to produced audited financial reports nor Auditor General oversight. What!

These parastatals have collapsed precisely because the Zanu PF government has again and again failed to act on the Auditor General’s damning on corruption and mismanagement. It is naive, to say the least, to believe that stopping parliament, Auditor General, etc. oversight will, somehow stamp out the corruption and mismanagement. 

If anyone believes that the Mupata Fund will stamp out corruption and mismanagement by removing all the check and balances and demands for transparency and accountability then “I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell to you!” as George Parker, renowned New York City con man who sold gullible immigrants a century ago, would say

Nelson Chamisa and his MDC/CCC friends have failed to implement even one token democratic reform in the last 24 years including the 5 GNU years when they had the opportunity to do so. Ever since the GNU Chamisa and company have participated in flawed elections knowing fully well that doing so would give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy. They soldiered on regardless because they also knew that Zanu PF would give away a few gravy train seats.

Chamisa has conned his followers to participate in these flawed elections again and again on the basis he had devised winning in RIGGED elections strategies. Last year he told them the idiotic lie that he had plugged all vote rigging loop holes, when he could not even deliver a verified voters’ roll or deploy election agents at all the Polling Stations. Two million of his supporters believed the lie and participated in the flawed elections giving Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuating the dictatorship. 

Just as the Zanu PF supporters believe in Mutapa Fund reviving ZESA, NRZ, etc. Chamisa supporters believe they will win RIGGED elections. No wonder Zimbabwe is a failed state, we have some of the most gullible people on planet earth; so easily conned!