Zimbabwe is a failed state.
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A failed state is a state that has lost its ability to fulfill fundamental security and development functions, lacking effective control over its territory and borders. Common characteristics of a failed state include a government incapable of tax collection, law enforcement, security assurance, territorial control, political or civil office staffing, and infrastructure maintenance. When this happens, widespread corruption and criminality, the intervention of state and non-state actors, the appearance of refugees and the involuntary movement of populations, sharp economic decline, and military intervention from both within and outside the state are much more likely to occur.
@ Potera
ReplyDelete“The msg is clear : Yakauya neropa haitogwi ne pen 🖊
Anyone who believes that Zimbabwe Fake Elections will change Zimbabwe to the better, that person is the number foe of this country, a friend of Zanu-PF and an accomplice in all our national woes.
Morgan Tsvangirai won the election overwhelmingly in 2008. Where is he today, and did he lead Zimbabwe?
As long as we think that the Prayer will bring miracles, then let's embrace for more years of nhamo to come
The fake elections in Zimbabwe have become the only way to keep Zanu-PF, and its opposition aids in power illegally but legitimised by job seekers from the left.
A Potera”
Nonsense! Zimbabwe’s political history does not start and end in 2008! Yes Tsvangirai did win the March 2008 elections and Mnangagwa, Chiwenga and company conducted an electoral coup. Credit where credit is due, bothy SADC and AU denied Zanu PF political legitimacy and reformed the party to go into the 2008 to 2013 GNU.
Tsvangirai and his MDC fiends had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms and dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship once and for all. They failed to implement even one token reform because Mugabe bribed them with the trappings of high office and they throw reforms out of the window.
Ever since the GNU debacle MDC/CCC leaders have given up implementing reforms and have participated in flawed elections out of greed. They have conned their brain-dead followers to participate in the flawed elections on the basis of idiotic lies of winning rigged elections.
“The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious - withdraw from the (2023) elections. The 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.
“The msg is clear : Yakauya neropa haitogwi ne pen 🖊!” Yeah right! Let’s deal with the facts and not some cloud cuckoo land nonsense!
@ Baba T
ReplyDeleteExactly. Spending the US$3 million buying medicine will be for the common good, Mnangagwa’s priority is his own person glory. The glory of Caesar trumps the good of Rome!
During the event, President Mnangagwa lauded Zimbabwean women for their resilience amid economic challenges, illegal sanctions, and the effects of climate change. He highlighted government efforts to invest in women's personal growth and development as a means of fostering sustainable community prosperity and national development.
ReplyDeleteThe launch of the Women's Empowerment Fund forms part of a broader government initiative to support women economically, socially, and intellectually, reinforcing their role as drivers of transformation in households and communities across Zimbabwe.
How many women out there are teachers and nurses? Ask them and they will tell you they are poor today because of the decades of slave wages and not sanctions or the effects of climate change!
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1BdGYZzDzAZJX
ReplyDeleteWhere is Mnangagwa getting the money to buy all these cars and to bankroll all these funding schemes?
Answer: his share from all the wholesale looting taking place in the country.
There are four main reasons why the looting is curse and not an empowering blessing for Zimbabwe:
1) first and foremost Zimbabwe will be collecting much, much more money if all this economic activities was above board and all those involved paid tax, the finding was subjected to the parliament and Auditor General scrutiny. Mnangagwa is sitting at the apex as godfather of the looting schemes he certainly does not get the lion’s share of the looted wealth, as the Al Jazeera Gold Mafia showed.
2) Mnangagwa collects the money and so he spends it to suit his personal interests and not the nation’s best interests and yet what is being looted are national treasures and not his own personal resources. There is criminal waste of the nation’s material and human resources.
3) the fleet of cars and funds are handed over with great fun fare, singing and dancing to make many believe there are benefit from loots.
4) The worst thing is Mnangagwa uses the bulk of his looted wealth to bankroll his vote buying and vote rigging activities. He must have squandered a staggering US$5 billions in the 2023 elections from buying chicken and chips to the hired crowd to the “housing loans” paid to MPs, judges, ministers, etc. US$40k, 400k and 500k @ respectively. Mnangagwa and Zanu PF have become filthy rich and all manner of officials including the opposition leaders are now in their deep pockets making meaningful political change that much more difficult!
@ Shelton
ReplyDelete“Today I met Lindiwe Zulu, who was President Jacob Zuma’s point person on Zimbabwe. She was so direct and tough with all GNU parties that Robert Mugabe lost his cool and insulted her for refusing to fold after his rants.
I asked her whether South Africa and President Zuma had advised Zimbabwe’s opposition not to participate in the 2013 election. Her answer was unequivocal — she said YES, they did.
She added that she told them to only participate once the conditions that had led to the Unity Government had been met.
The rest of the discussion was off record as she explained to me the full story.”
It is no secret that SADC leaders called a special SADC meeting in Maputo in June 2013 and they advised MDC leaders not to participate in the 2013 elections without first implementing the democratic reforms to ensure free and fair elections.
When Zanu PF pointed out to everyone that MDC leaders had not submitted even one token reform in five years, SADC leaders gave up on demanding reforms before elections. The real big surprise here is that millions of Zimbabweans have not understood that historic fact even to this day! Chamisa & co. have exploited this weakness to con millions to participate in flawed elections on the basis on idiotic lies of the opposition winning rigged elections.
There is a real danger that millions still do not know that MDC/CCC have been Zanu PFG team B in all but name, playing for team A to win and to have legitimacy. We cannot rule out that Chamisa will con millions to participate in flawed 2028 elections on the basis of the idiotic lies of the opposition winning rigged elections.