Full list of 2020 Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Farm Mechanisation looting scheme - one of many such looting schemes

 BREAKING : FULL LIST OF RBZ LOOTERS FINALLY RELEASED .

20/07/2020.

 Murewa: The Zanu families

The Nyabadza family  US$72,574.00. Simba Nyabadza  US$99,718.00  Simon Nyabadza got US$76,139. Takudzwa Nyabadza US$20,900  Michael Nyabadza US$125,633.00. Father Nyabadza listed as a priest  US$72,574.00. None of the Nyabadzas paid back their loans. 

The Mugabes  Leo Mugabe,  at US$100,885.00. , Sabina Mugabe got US$66,680  sister, Bridget Mugabe received US$42,720.00. Former head of ZINARA and Mugabe’s nephew, Albert Mugabe US$64,792.00. Nephew Patrick Zhuwao  US$93,000, Robert Zhuwao  US$50,120; a Kaitano Mutandwa Mugabe with US$63,251 and a Constancia Mugabe with US$44,879.00.

Matibiri family . Innocent Matibiri, who was a senior police officer  US$403,825. Maseline Matibiri US$15,976; Silence Matibiri US$117,176.00; Plaxedes Matibiri US$27,514.00; Malvern Matibiri US$44,879.00 and John Masese Matibiri US$31,167.00. 

Albert Nyakuedzwa of Folkington Farm who was awarded a loan of US$286,853.00 while Nobert Nyakuedzwa got US$59,300.00. 

Mombeshoras are  Dr Douglas Mombeshora,  US$312,528.00. His wife, Millicent Mombeshora,  “Sekuru Mombeshora”  US$98,539.00; Lucy Mombeshora US$78,145.00; Gideon Mombeshora   US$91,953.00 and Augustine Mombeshora US$60,118.00. None of the Mombeshora family members repaid their loans.

Christine Sophia Tsvakwi US$405,967.00 while Ray Tanyaradzwa Tsvakwi i US$177,799.00. Rephias Tsvakwi  US$34,318.00. None of the Tsvakwis repaid their loans.   Dakarayi Mapuranga US$52,943.00,

[07/18, 19:12] Murewa: LIST OF PEOPLE WHO OWED RBZ LOANS AND NEVER PAID BACK. 

They got the loans during Gono's time. It ws a Farm machination scheme. The debt ws transferred to the gvt. Meaning it's our taxes tht pay the debt to RBZ. Thy got the farms, and free loans. Surely #zanupfMustGo. 

President Robert Mugabe’s=  US$2,239,109.00. 

President Emmerson Mngangwagwa’s debt  US$411,728.00 for his farm. late former Vice President Joseph Msika US$678,867.00. Former Vice President, Joice Mujuru got a loan of US$131,200.00.  “Mujuru Project” worth US$311,868.00. Former Vice President, Phelekezela Mphoko US$40,664.00.  Obert Moses Mpofu,  US$383,796.00.Walter Chidhakwa US$400,267.00. Patrick Chinamasa US$350,463.00. Martin Dinha US$378,122.00 Nicholas Goche  US$305,608.00. Olivia Muchena US$376,470.00.  commissar, Late Elliot Manyika who  US$312,500.00. Mike Madiro  US$319,727.00 loan. Simbarashe Mumbengegwi  US$312,979.00. Bright Matonga US$359,420.00 Edna Madzongwe US$325,368.00. Webster Shamhu US$302,715.00, Sydney Sekeramayi US$331,222.00 and US$335,181.00.  Didymus Mutasa’s  US$203,797.00,  Oppah Muchinguri  US$383,131.00 . Rugare Gumbo  US$316,767.00; Flora Bhuka had US$331,972.00, Francis Nhema US$129,035.00. , Ignatius Chombo US$248,601.00. Christopher Mushowe  Hills  US$289,565.00 and US$48,574.00 for a total of US$338,139.00. Nyasha Chikwinya got US$151,143.00  Governor Ray Kaukonde  debt of US$231,139.00. 

Christopher Mutsvangwa  US$80,699.00. Mutsvangwa  Paul Munyaradzi Mangwana  US$58,956.00  Victor Matemadanda  US$25,534.00,  former Chief Magistrate, Mishrod Guvamombe US$107,848.00. Justice Paddington Garwe  US$92,986.00. Justice Alfas Muvavarigwa Chitakunye US$92,685.00. Justice Tadios Karwi got a loan of US$95,732.00 with Justice Tendai Phanuel Uchena at US$89,382.00. Justice Lavender Makoni got US$87,984.00 while current Deputy Chief Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza got US$62,534.00. Justice Cheda - US$69,729.00. Another current Supreme Court judge, Justice Antonia Guvava is listed as owing US$68,380.00

Other judges  include Justice Ben Hlatshwayo - US$49,801.00; Justice Charles Hungwe - US$46,640.00; Justice Tawanda Chitapi - US$44,817.00; Justice Susan Mavangira US$33,695.00; Justice Vernanda Ziyambi - US$33.695.00; Custom Kachambwa, a former senior magistrate at US$42,947. There is an Ennie Marie Gowora  US$48,600, , Morgan Nemadire  US$1,299.00 at Nemadzime Village.   

Tomana  US$63,583.00  Another senior member of the Attorney General’s Office, Florence Ziyambi  US$63,982.00  

The current Attorney General, Advocate Prince Machaya  US$46,752.00

ZEC in 2007/08  Brigadier General Douglas Nyikayaramba. US$169,972.00, Chief Elections Officer, Lovemore Sekeramayi  US$46,858.00. Tobaiwa Mudede, US$250,896. 

Gabriel Chaibva,  vocal ZANU PF apologist now a commissioner of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC),  US$88,623.00 

Bingu wa Mutharika, the late former President of Malawi. He is listed as having been given a loan of US$124,111.00 in 2007 under the Farm Mechanisation Scheme. Apparently, Wa Mutharika was married to a Zimbabwean and had a farm in Zimbabwe

Gerald Mlotshwa, a lawyer and son-in-law of President Mnangagwa  US$59,605.00  

Joseph Chinotimba,  US$163,401.00 . Pupurai Togarepi  US$72,547.00 .  

Obediah Moyo  US$130,963.00  Tariro J. Mupfumira who is listed twice - US$112,581.00 (Mash West) and US$59,499 (Masvingo) for a total of US$172,080.00. Tariro, who is the son of former Minister Prisca Mupfumira, did not repay his loan. 

ZEC  worth US$197,244.00

Chen Chimutengwende - US$98,780.00

Lazarus Dokora - US$82,719.00

Sithembiso Nyoni - US$7,097.00 

Sylvester Nguni - US$53,600.00 

Joel Biggie Matiza - US$46,949.00

Apollonia Munzverengi - US$59,662.00

Ambrose Mutinhiri - US$68,321.00

Michael Bimha -  US$73,877.00

David Chapfika - US$79,936.00

Kagonye Petronella - US$94,761.00; 

David Parirenyatwa (Tambawakaguta Farm) - US$88,631

Mandi Chimene (Tasendekerapano Farm) - US$37,520.00

Samuel Undenge - US$70,935.00 

Jaison Machaya - US$49,700.00

Josiah Hungwe - US$99,511.00 

Joram Gumbo - US$39,869.00

July Moyo - US$42,450.00 

Owen Mudha Ncube -  US$38,000.00

Frederick Shava - US$62,217.00

David Marapira - US$54,293.00

Makhosini Hlongwane -  US$108,767.00 

Kindness Paradza - US$118,485.00

Peter Haritatos - US$38,000

Temba Mliswa.-US$462,999.00

Wicknell Chivhayo US$48,315.00.

Wilson Manase  US$297,015.00.

ZESA appointee, Dr Sydney Zikuzo Gata, Executive Chairman  US$50,600.00

Reuben Barwe. US$79,607.00 

Judith Makwanya  US$35,984.00. Current Zimpapers CEO, Pikirai Deketeke US$44,860  George Chisoko US$340,616.00. 

George Charamba  US$127,723.00 

Gershem Pasi,  US$70,099.00. 

Former Clerk of Parliament Austin Zvoma  US$75,807.00, ex-head of the ZBC, Happison Muchechetere US$82,476.00. 

Clegy

Archbishop Ezekiel Guti  US$116,693.00; Nolbert Kunonga  loan of US$98,661.00.  Agatha Kunonga who is listed as having received US$58,318.00. Rutendo Wutawunashe US$18,200.00. Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi was  two loans of US$271,000.00 and US$315,600.00 for a grand total of US$586,600.00   

Chamisa's repeated participation in flawed elections "is his undoing". He is backed by 2m voters who believe blue sky is green! W Mukori.

 “Has it ver dawned on him (Chamisa) that what he is doing: repeating the same mistakes of taking part in flawed elections without reforms is his undoing?” asked Nomazulu Thata in he latest article in Bulawayo 24. 

My dear sister, you have hit the nail on the head there. If we assume that his primary intention in participating in the flawed elections, let us assume for a moment that the much touted “plugged all Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes #Godisinit” were not lies, was to win and be president. Chamisa has failed to win the rigged elections. 

If the truth be said, and it must be said now, Chamisa and his MDC/CCC friends had no choice but to keep participating in flawed elections knowing fully well that with no reforms implemented the process was “so flawed, so illegal, the only logical step was to withdraw” as David Coltart confessed in his book. In the book Coltart says they did not withdraw 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. 

Greed was not even the half of it! 

When SADC leaders realised that no meaningful democratic reform were implemented during the 2008 to 2013 GNU and without the reforms the upcoming Zimbabwe elections would be a repeat of the 2008 marred elections. They called a special SADC Summit in June 2013, in Maputo Mozambique; they wanted the elections postponed until reforms were implemented. 

“If you participate in the elections, you will lose. The elections are done!” SADC leaders warned Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC fiends to their faces at the Summit! 

Zanu PF did not want the elections postponed, naturally. The party argued there were no outstanding reforms to be implemented. 

It turned out, MDC leaders had not submitted even one reform proposal in 5 years of the GNU.Not even one! 

SADC leaders could not demand the elections to be postponed when there were no reforms to implement. 

MDC leaders could boycott the elections demanding reforms before elections when they are the one who had failed to submit even one reform proposal in 5 years of the GNU. And so they adopted the new line - that the opposition has strategies to win in rigged elections. All lies, as we have seen!

It is a crying shame that the Chamisa chete chete supporters have continued to believe in these idiotic winning rigged elections lies and participated in the flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the nation’s suffering. Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown and political oppression have cause heart breaking human suffering. 

The prospect of Chamisa conning his followers to participate in flawed 2028 elections to perpetuate the dictatorship and the tragic human suffering and deaths is real. The followers are refusing to see Chamisa for whom he is - corrupt, incompetent and a liar and not the infallible demigod they want him to be. 

What can one do when some one insists the blue sky is green! What is more, they have the vote and there are 2 million of them out there!

Is Zimbabwe going to have yet another rigged elections in 2028, as happened in 2023? Alas! Yes! W mukori

 “Is Zimbabwe heading for yet another rigged elections in 2028?”

That is a very good and relevant question.

“Yes!” Is the simple and honest answer. 

Mnangagwa and Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 2023 elections. All the election observers including SADC and AU have condemned Zimbabwe’s 2023 election process as “flawed and illegal”. 

“The SEOM (SADC Election Observer Mission) noted that, as detailed in sections 6 and 7 of this report, some aspects of the Harmonised Elections fell short of the requirements of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, the Electoral Act, and the SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections (2021),” stated the SEOM 2023 report.

Alas! Zimbabwe has not implemented even one token democratic reform since the 2023 elections and there is very little hope of any reforms being implemented before the 2028 elections. The election ground rules have not change and there is nothing to suggest three main protagonists in this national political drama will behave any differently than they did in 2023 elections.

Mnangagwa and Zanu PF

Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies’s hunger for absolute political power and the looted wealth it has brought them these last 45 years, is insatiable. Zimbabwe is a failed state, 45 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption have left the country in economic ruins. All talk of economic revival, much less the Vision 2030, is just that - talk, hot air. Everyone in Zanu PF knows free, fair and credible elections is a luxury they cannot afford.

Zanu PF will never implement any democratic reforms to ensure 2028 elections are free, fair and credible. Never!

Nelson Chamisa and his fellow opposition sellouts

Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC colleagues had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms and thus end the Zanu PF dictatorship during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Mugabe bribed them with the trappings of high office and in return they forgot about the reforms. And ever since the GNU debacle the MDC/CCC sell outs have participated in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. And they have know this to be so all along!

“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.

Millions of brain-dead opposition supporters

MDC/CCCC leaders have sold out on implementing reforms and got away with it because the party had the great fortune in having millions of party supporters who have no clue what the opposition leaders were elected to do. They did not know what the democratic changes, reforms, the nation was dying for were much less that the 2008 to 2013 GNU offered the best opportune to get the reform implemented. And so they have never understood that MDC/CCC leaders sold out in failing to implement even one token reform during the GNU. 

Chamisa & co. have likewise taken advantage of their supporters’ ignorance and naivety to con them to participate in flawed and illegal elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy, opposition leaders a few gravy train seats whilst perpetuating the dictatorship and the nation’s suffering. 

Chamisa & co. have conned the supporters with idiotic lies of having winning in rigged elections strategies (wires). These supporters have believed this lies even after 45 years of Zanu PF rigging elections; they are more than insane, they are brain-dead. 

Chamisa took a sabbatical leave from politics last January and has just returned to active politics. It is as clear as day that millions of his Chamisa chete chete brigade members will believe his next idiotic wires lies and participate in the flawed 2028 elections. 

Conclusion

Zimbabwe is a failed state, stuck with this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF regime and its equally corrupt and useless MDC/CCC opposition side-kick for 45 years and counting. And all because we have failed to define what constitute free and fair elections in this day and age. Of course, we deserve to suffer and, until we learn, we will suffer.

Mankind has the intellectual potential to move from primeval "dominate or be dominated" civilised coexistence W Mukori

 

“Love is the missing essential,” claim Chamisa’s latest WIRES. How does love stop Zanu PF rigging elections? W Mukori

 Zimbabwe is a failed state blundering from pillar to post. Why? Well, one of the reasons for the blundering from pillar to post is our failure to pay attention to detail. We blunder from pillar to post very often repeating the same mistakes over and over again because we did not learn from the past. 

Detail matters! Detail is everything!

The people of Zimbabwe have risked livelihoods, limbs and even lives to elect MDC/CCC leaders into power these last 25 years on the understanding these leaders would implement the required democratic changes, reforms, to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. The MDC leaders had the best chance to do this during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. 

Anyone paying attention to detail KNEW then that the 2008 to 2013 GNU offered the best opportunity ever for Zimbabwe to implement the democratic reforms the nation had been dying for. Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends, the banded mongooses, failed to implement even one token reform in five years of the GNU. Not even one!

Robert Mugabe bribed the mongooses with the trapping of high office; E-Class Mercedes Benz for all the deputy Ministers, Ministers, deputy Prime Ministers and Prime Minister Tsvangirai, generous salaries and allowances all round, a mUS$4 m mansion for Tsvangirai himself, etc., etc. In return the MDC leaders throw the reforms out of the window. 

“Mazivanhu eMDC adzidza kudya anyerere!” (MDC leaders have learned to enjoy the gravy train good life, [they will not rock the boat])! boasted Zanu PF cronies when asked why MDC leaders were not implementing the reforms during the GNU.

It is disappointing to note that many Zimbabweans out there had no clue what the democratic reforms were about much less that the primary purpose of the GNU was to implement the reforms. Even now, with the benefit of hindsight many still have no clue MDC leaders sold out big time by failing to implement even one toke reform during the GNU.

Ever since the GNU debacle MDC/CCC leaders have abandoned implementing reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections arguing they have devised Winning In Rigged Elections Strategies (WIRES). They have stubbornly refused to give details of what these strategies, arguing doing so would forewarn the vote rigging Zanu PF. 

The tragedy for Zimbabwe is that millions of Zimbabweans believed these idiotic WIRES and were conned again and again into participating in these flawed elections only to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the nation’s suffering. It is the failure to pay attention to detail that has made millions of Zimbabweans sitting ducks, conned into one foolish thing after another. 

Zimbabweans should have taken MDC leaders to task for failing to implement even one token reform during the GNU. They did not because they had no clue what the reforms are much less that the primary purpose of the GNU was to implement reforms. 

When MDC/CCC leaders abandoned implementing in favour of WIRES the people should have taken these leaders to task each time Zanu PF blatantly rigged the elections - proof the strategies had not worked. The MDC/CCC admitted Zanu PF rigged the elections but have never ever admitted to having lied about having strategies to stop Zanu PF rigging. 

Zimbabwe is a failed state and all because for 45 years and counting the nation has been stuck with this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. The regime has rigged elections to stay in power. The curse of rigged elections and bad governance is the number one problem on national agenda - nothing can ever be accomplished until we cure ourselves of this curse. 

Will yet another dose of WIRES end the curse of bad governance?

Here is Nelson Chamisa’s latest WIRES offering. "A new nation founded on love - Zimbabwe shall be a new and great nation governed by love, truth and justice, not hate, violence, lies, deceit and corruption," he said. "Love is the missing essential! Love is the foundation.”

The bottom line is Chamisa would want Zimbabweans to participate in the 2028 elections with not even one token democratic reform implemented confident Chamisa and his new political party will win the flawed elections because Chamisa will inject the essential ingredient we have lacked all along - LOVE. 

Detail matters and so one must ask Chamisa: How exactly is love going to stop Zanu PF rigging elections? Surely it is insane to participate in yet another election process, “so flawed, so illegal the only logical step is to withdraw,“ as David Coltart aptly put it. 

So, it has taken Chamisa 25 years before he realised the new Zimbabwe he was promising the nation up to now had no foundation! All these “#Godisinit!” were all lies because God would never ever be in a hare-brain scheme build a house with no foundation! 

Chamisa & Co.’s WIRES are just idiotic excuses to justify participating in flawed elections out of greed. They have got away with these idiotic lies only because the people themselves were not paying attention to detail. WIRES has not worked and will never ever work, we should have the common sense of finally acknowledge that and move on.

Zimbabweans must revert to the original and common sense solution of implementing the democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections. Just because MDC/CCC leaders have sold out on reforms does not mean we do not need reforms and/or that there is no one else competent to implement the reforms. 

The immediate task is to stop participating in flawed elections conned to do so by idiotic WIRES lies. If Zimbabweans do not participate in the flawed 2028 elections in their millions as in the past they will deny Zanu PF legitimacy and thus forcing the nation into a new GNU arrangement. This time an attentive populous will ensure all the democratic reforms are implemented. 

Zimbabwe is a failed state. So, who will care for carers when they are old? W Mukori

 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? "Who will guard the guards themselves?" or "Who will watch the watchmen?” Asked Roman poet Juvenal.

Replace guard with political leader and you can see why democratic accountability is a pre-requisite for good governance.

Zimbabwe is a failed state because we, as a nation have failed to answer the question: Who will guard the leaders (guardians) if they should become corrupt? Zimbabwe is a failed state because our corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical leaders have become the runaway freight train. 

Millions of Zimbabweans have left the country as economic and or political refugees. Many have accepted the low paying wages and are living from hand to mouth. We have become a nation living from hand to mouth. 

By failing to deal with the curse of rigged elections and bad governance we have created an even worse problem for ourselves - we live for the day like a fruit-fly.    

To paraphrase Juvenal; Quis curam habebit curatorum cum senes erunt? “Who will care for the carers when they are old?”

The problem of restoring the people’s power to hold leaders to democratic account is one Zimbabweans must address with the sense of urgency the matter demands. As long as the leaders retain their carte blanche power to rig elections and get away with it, Zimbabwe will remain a failed state sinking deeper and deeper into the economic and political abyss. 

Timba and Tshabangu is parliamentary caucus square-off - both are sell outs and, per se, irrelevant. W Mukori

 The official opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) parliamentary caucus held a formal briefing at Parliament yesterday, attended by 38 Members of Parliament, with 11 others sending apologies, bringing the total number of MPs affirming the caucus to 49. This is according to an attendance register released by the caucus leadership.

Several MPs who did not attend were reportedly deployed on legislative duties across various provinces, participating in at least three active parliamentary committees.

The official caucus meeting, convened under the CCC's recognized parliamentary leadership, appeared to rattle the Jameson Timba-led Citizen National Assembly (CNA) faction, which is widely seen as fronting the political interests of former party president Nelson Chamisa. In response, the CNA-aligned group hastily arranged a rival gathering at a private residence on Cheshire Road in Mount Pleasant, Harare.

This splinter group branded their meeting as a "progressive caucus," borrowing a term commonly used in South African opposition politics. However, there is no such structure officially recognized in Zimbabwe's Parliament, and no party formally registered under the name CNA.”

Chamisa and his CCC cronies participated in the 2023 elections knowing fully well that Zanu PF was rigging and that participating would give Zanu PF legitimacy. The went ahead regardless, out of greed. 

Even when both SADC and AU condemned the elections process as flawed and illegal the winning CCC members insisted on taking up their gravy train seats.SADC could not deny Zanu PF legitimacy given the CCC leaders’ reaction and the millions of Zimbabweans participated in the elections.

Some of the winning Chamisa backed CCC leaders lost their gravy train seats to the Sengezo Tshabangu CCC faction within weeks of taking the seats. The two factions have been fighting each other over dominance ever since. As to which faction wins it is a matter of indifference since they participated in the 2023 elections out of greed and their continued presence in government is giving this illegitimate regime some modicum of legitimacy.  

Both the Jameson Timba and Tshabangu led CCC factions are sell outs only those who have no clue what is going on here think one faction is better than the other. What matters is they have both played their part in participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy. And, worst of all, they are both set to continue selling out in future! 

Chamisa conned millions of the party's brain dead followers to participate telling them he "had plugged all the Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes. #Godisinit!” They believed the idiotic lie. Having an ignorant and gullible electorate that is so easily conned to do stupid things has been one of Zimbabwe’s curses!

This Zanu PF regime has not implemented even one token democratic reform since the rigged 2023 nor is it likely to implement any reform before the next elections in 2028. And so we are heading for yet another rigged elections with the usual opposition leaders participating to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. Our only hope of putting an end to this madness is making sure the brain dead opposition supporters are not conned again to participate. Easier said than done, give the followers are, indeed, brain dead!

"Zanu PF has captured all institutions" confessed Biti - most notably, captured MDC/CCC. W Mukori

Tendai Biti is 100% correct in highlighting the extensive capture of the nation’s institutions by Zanu-PF and attributing this as the root cause why Zimbabwe is a failed state.

"We have had a policy and a polity pillared on the emasculation of State institutions. There is no institution in Zimbabwe that is independent. There is no institution in Zimbabwe that is not an extension of Zanu-PF's Politburo.”

I ask you to rewind back to the 1990s. By the late 1990s is was clear to the people of Zimbabwe that Zanu PF was NOT going to deliver mass prosperity, “Gutsa ruzhinji!” as Mugabe never tired of repeating it. The country’s economic was in decline and the nation was heading for mass poverty instead. 

More significantly, the nation also realised that as long as Zanu PF retained its carte blanche de facto one-party state (imposed after the signing of the 1987 Unity Accord) dictatorial powers, including the power to rig elections, the nation was stuck with the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF regime. 

The nation needed to elect opposition political leaders whose number one task was to bring about all the necessary democratic changes, reforms, to end Zanu PF’s dictatorial excesses. Morgan Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti, Nelson Chamisa, David Coltart and all the other MDC leaders and members launched the party in 1999 to answer the nation’s cry for democratic change. They even named the party Movement for Democratic Change. 

Back to the present. Mnangagwa and Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 2023 elections - proof MDC/CCC leaders have failed in their set number one task of delivering democratic changes, reforms, to end Zanu PF’s dictatorial powers. 

MDC/CCC leaders have failed to implement even one token democratic reform in 25 years, including the 2008 to 2013 GNU years when they had the golden opportunity to do so. Mugabe bribed Tsvangirai & Co. with the trappings of high office, the E-Class Mercedes Benz, generous salary and allowances, US$4 million mansion for Tsvangirai himself, etc. And in return, MDC leaders throw reforms out of the window!

Ever since the GNU debacle, MDC/CCC leaders have participating in flawed knowing fully well that would give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the nation’s suffering. They have conned millions of their brain dead followers to participate on the basis of idiotic lies of the opposition winning RIGGED elections. They have done all this for the same reason they failed to implement reforms during the GNU - greed 

"Every institution—including those I cannot mention because I am a practicing lawyer—every institution in Zimbabwe has been captured and captured thoroughly," confessed Tendai Biti.

Well the one institution that Zanu PF has “captured and captured thoroughly in the MDC/CCC! It is a great tragedy that MDC/CCC are Zanu PF team B in all but name, playing for team A to win and have legitimacy. 

After 25 years with not even one token reform to show for it, one would think that ALL Zimbabweans would now have finally awakened to the police reality the MDC/CCC too have been captured by Zanu PF. Alas! This is not so. There are millions especially the Chamisa chete chete brigade who consider Chamisa a demigod who can do no wrong. 

How is it possible that anyone can be so thoroughly brainwashed to think a mere mortal a demigod; especially the likes of Chamisa with a well documented track record as corrupt, incompetent and a liar! 

Tendai Biti was speaking at Dr Ibbo Mandaza SAPES platform calling for National Transition Authority (NTA) as a way out of this political crisis. 

"The sum collection of this is that we have a crisis that needs to be managed to avoid an implosion. That is where the NTA comes in. The NTA is an idea that is anchored on dialogue.

"The citizens of Zimbabwe must talk and dialogue, where the first process has to be a national conference. The convention must articulate issues that speak to Zimbabwe's fragility and vulnerability, and these issues must be put on the table," argued Tendai Biti.

The 2008 to 2013 GNU was the golden opportunity for Zimbabwe to reset its failed political system. Sadly the opportunity was wasted because the MDC/CCC leaders were Zanu PF team B, completed captured by Zanu PF. The tragic reality is these politicians ARE still captured by Zanu PF. 

The proposed NTA is expected to implement the democratic reforms the 2006 to 2013 GNU failed to implement. The NTA is doomed to Zanu PF thugs and their thoroughly captured side-kicks play key roles in the new arrangement.