Zimbabwe is a failed state.
Zimbabwe’s true liberation heroes and heroines know that we are a failed state and, per se, this is not the Zimbabwe they wanted. They would not join the Zanu PF thugs celebrating Heroes Day knowing the thugs hijack the revolution for their own personal gain and gratification. And, worst of all, the Zanu PF thugs falsely claiming that the nation’s struggle for freedom, justice and human dignity is done and dusted, Zanu PF delivered the coup de grace with the defeat of the white colonial rule in 1980. A liar!
In 1980 the nation swapped the white colonial oppressors for black ones.
If you believe the alpha and omega of the liberation struggle was to remove whites from power; then the very fact that Zimbabwe is a failed in which millions are living in abject poverty denied the basic freedoms and human rights - proof the tyranny and oppression has continued post indolence - is irrelevant.
Zimbabwe’s true national heroes are turning in their graves to see theZimbabwe they fought hard to free from white colonial oppression a failed state and millions of Zimbabweans suffering so. Of course, they would not join the Zanu PF thugs in the Heroes Day Celebration because there really is nothing for the nation to celebrate. If Mbuya Nehanda and Secure Kaguvi would not be seen dead in the company of thugs like Mnangagwa why would any thinking Zimbabwean want to keep the company of the thugs who have brought such despair, suffering and death to the nation.
olence is we must celebrate. But if you believe the fight was for much more - to secure the freedoms, human rights, justice, peace and economic prosperity for all Zimbabweans; then there really is nothing to celebrate. Nothing!
Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies disregarding all the values and principles of the revolution, to promote their selfish interest. In 1980, Mugabe and company made is clear that if Zanu PF did not win the 1980 elections, the bush war would continue. Of course the people voted to end the bush war and with that decision they lost forever their right to a meaning say in the governance of the country for decades thereafter.
SADC pressured Zanu PF to accept a number of changes making Zimbabwe’s March 2008 elections the nearest the nation has ever come to holding free, fair and credible elections. The people voted for regime change.
When it was clear Zanu PF had lost the election, Mnangagwa and Chiwenga stopped ZEC from declaring the results. They instigated a vote recount, blatantly cheating to give MDC just a marginal lead in parliament and whittle down Tsvangirai’s 73% votes, according to Mugabe’s Freudian slip, to 47%; enough to force a run off.
Zanu PF subjected the nation to the worst election related violence in the country’s history. The party carried out a military style Operation Mavhotera Papi whose purpose was to punish the people for rejecting Zanu PF in the March vote. Millions were internally displaced, hundreds of thousands had their properties destroyed, were beaten and/or rapped. Over 500 were murdered in cold blood.
“What was achieved by the bullet cannot be changed by the pen!” thundered Robert Mugabe. Egging on the party’s militia and war veterans, who were Operation Mavhotera Papi’s foot soldiers harassing and beating povo whilst the Army, Police, CIO and Prison Services personal carried out the heavy duty work of abducting and killing.
SADC and AU refuged to recognise Zanu PF regime’s legitimacy following the marred 2008 election process and forced Mugabe & co. to accept 2008 to 2013 GNU. The primary purpose of the GNU was to implement the democratic reforms to end the Zanu PF dictatorship and put the nation back on a democratic footing.
Mugabe bribed Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends with the trappings of high office and they failed to implement even one token reform. And so Zanu PF emerged out of the GNU with all its dictatorial powers intact with the bonus of having an opposition that would participate in elections regardless how flawed and illegal the process got for a few gravy train seats!
The ordinary people have been slow to realise that MDC/CCC leaders are Zanu PF team B in all but name, playing for team A to win and have legitimacy.
Chamisa lied to his brain dead followers that he plugging vote rigging loop holes and millions believed the idiotic lie and participated in the flawed 2023 elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the nation’s suffering. Chamisa is set to repeat the idiotic lie to con the naive and gullible millions to participate in flawed 2028 with the same tragic consequences.
Zimbabwe is a failed state, the text book pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs who rig elections to stay in power. Zanu PF has managed to rig elections and get away with it with the connivance of MDC/CCC leaders.
Ending white colonial rule was a necessary step to secure the freedoms and human rights and dignity we, the blacks, were denied by the whites. Ending white rule was as necessary as breaking the egg to make the omelette. After 45 years of Zanu PF blatantly rigging the elections, denying us the masses a meaningful vote it is clear that we got the empty egg shell and Zanu PF thugs have kept the omelette for themselves.
The people should have never given up their right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country back in 1980. Never ever! Not even when one was looking up the business end of an AK47, because, looking back the last 45 years, it is clear the nation did not secure the peace and has gone on to lose everything as the Zanu PF thugs have come back again and again to demand more and more.
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither the Liberty nor Safety.” advised Benjamin Franklin, one of America’s founding fathers and scientist. He was right.
Zimbabwe has become the by-word of failed state in which millions are suffering in dumb anguish and despair. There really is no cause to celebrate a failed state!