“MAGUNJE - Traditional healer and community leader Sekuru Banda has urged Zimbabweans to unite behind President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Vision 2030 and the newly launched National Development Strategy 2 (NDS2), saying the country is on a transformative path,” reported Bulawayo 24.
“‘President Mnangagwa is Godly chosen to lead us at this time,’ Banda said, calling on citizens to support the administration's long‑term development agenda.”
SADC, AU and every other election observer team that observed Zimbabwe's 2023 elections with a reputation worth a spit condemned the election process as flawed and illegal.
“Conclusion 13.3
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 report.
Was Mnangagwa also “Godly chosen” to rig the 2023 elections?
Mnangagwa has been heavily involved in many, if not all, of Zimbabwe’s dark chapters since the country’s independence in 1980; the Gukurahundi massacres, the bloody 2008 Operation Mavhotera Papi electoral coup, 2017 military coup and all the vote rigging and looting. Was Mnangagwa “Godly chosen” to commit all these heinous and treasonous acts too?
Sekuru Banda should know that in 1980 Zimbabwe WAS an upper middle income nation with a GDP per capita of US$6 000 the decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption under this Zanu PF regime has resulted in Zimbabwe’s economic ruin and GDP per capita falling to US$2 000. We would not be aspiring for upper middle income status, vision 2030, we would be well on our way to become a developing nation, the South Korea of Africa.
The nation failed to stop Zanu PF drag the nation into this hell-on-earth economic and political mess because the regime rigged the elections and thus was not democratically accountable to the people. Mnangagwa has just rigged the 2023 elections highlighting the problem of rigged elections and bad governance are still the number one issue that has dogged the nation ever since our independence in 1980. The number one issue the nation has failed to resolve and has paid dearly for it.
2030 is four years away and yet there is not a single sign of economic recovery. Zimbabwe’s roads and other basic infrastructure are in a sorry state, basic services such as education, health care and supply of clean running water have all but collapsed and 80% plus of thriving 1980 companies and industries that employed hundreds of thousands of workers have down sized or closed.
Is Zimbabwe going to be the only upper middle income country with 80% of the labour force working in the informal sector, 60% of the population still living in mud huts, etc.?
Vision 2030 is a mirage.
Zanu PF has resisted demands for democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections under the pretext that democracy undermined national unity and slowed down development. Just idly bulls***t to justify denying the people their right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country.
The right to free, fair and credible elections is more than just a right; it is the essence of good governance.
Zimbabwe is a failed state; with its economy in ruins, a dysfunctional political system, with millions of our people living in abject poverty and millions scattered all over the world as economic and/or political refugees. All because we have failed to stop Zanu PF rigging elections, failed to stop the regime usurping the people right and power to hold those in public office accountable to the people.
Vision 2030 is a mirage and, in four years time, this will be confirmed as a historic fact.
The regime will not even offer an apology for lying to the nation about vision 2030. Of course, Sekuru Banda bubbling about Mnangagwa being “Godly chosen”. Why would God chose a corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thug to be the leader?
If the nation has done nothing to end the curse of rigged elections and bad governance will we be facing the prospect of Zanu PF rigging the next elections to extend its stay in office. We must denounce Mnangagwa for rigging 2023 elections. He and his government are illegitimate. We must ensure Zimbabweans do not participate in the flawed 2028 elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the dictatorship.
https://bulawayo24.com/index-id-news-sc-national-byo-260784.html
ReplyDeleteVision 2030 is a mirage and, in four years time, this will be confirmed as a historic fact.
The regime will not even offer an apology for lying to the nation about vision 2030. Of course, Sekuru Banda is bubbling about Mnangagwa being “Godly chosen”. Why would God chose a corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thug to be the leader?
If the nation has done nothing to end the curse of rigged elections and bad governance will we be facing the prospect of Zanu PF rigging the next elections to extend its stay in office. We must denounce Mnangagwa for rigging 2023 elections. He and his government are illegitimate. We must ensure Zimbabweans do not participate in the flawed 2028 elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the dictatorship.
@ Mununu
ReplyDelete“This sekuru Banda must just mobilise his family to support their 2030 because we majority citizens of this country we support what the constitution says. There is nothing godly about Chiwenga and ED's leadership as long as they are leading the country through fear and persecution of all the people that have different views from them, look they even failed thier colleagues of the G40, all of them are now living as political refugees is that constitutional? not at all. I am sure this sekuru was given a new car and he does not know what to say.”
Exactly! Zimbabwe's corrupt, incompetent and often murderous leaders been hiding their failures and evil behind the smoke screen of divine inspiration taking advantage of our people's spiritual weakness. It is no secret that religion has become the opium of the people!
@ Isaac Makomichi
ReplyDelete“Was Chiwemga defending he constitution and the nation when he and Mnangagwa launch the murderous 2008 Operation Mavhotera Papi electoral coup?”
We all know the historic facts about Chiwenga and his Zanu PF cronies. He has fallen out with his fellow Zanu PF thugs and has picked issues he knows Zimbabweans have been fighting against. Only an idiot would believe Chiwenga is agains corruption; every one knows that Chiwenga will never pass a lifestyle audit because he is just as corrupt as those he is accusing of being corrupt!
How any one can be so easily conned into believing Chiwenga is a democrat beggars belief. No wonder we are a failed state!
https://x.com/marcorubio/status/2007404924393697601/photo/1
ReplyDeleteZimbabwe too has an illegitimate government; even our our regional and continental election observers, SADC and AU, said so.
It is unlikely that the Americans will ever invade Zimbabwe still the removal of one illegitimate regime has send a shiver down the spines of other illegitimate regimes - they are reminded they are NOT as invincible as they thought!
@ Isaac Makomichi
ReplyDeletePublic support is earned through integrity, loyal to the constitution and standing with the masses. By Isaac Makomichi
Those who blame us for supporting Acting President Chiwenga should blame themselves for not being responsible leaders.The public backs a leader whose actions match his words. We cannot support politicians who point right but walk left.
If the constitution was voted for by the people, it cannot be altered by Members of Parliament who are bribed with money and benefits while citizens suffer. If the people want change, they must demonstrate it by voting for it. That is what “democracy of action” truly means.
VP Chiwenga represents democracy of action, not democracy of lip service. Public support cannot be bought with cash; it is earned through integrity, loyalty to the constitution, and standing with the masses.”
Was Chiwemga defending he constitution and the nation when he and Mnangagwa launch the murderous 2008 Operation Mavhotera Papi electoral coup?”
We all know the historic facts about Chiwenga and his Zanu PF cronies. He has fallen out with his fellow Zanu PF thugs and has picked issues he knows Zimbabweans have been fighting against. Only an idiot would believe Chiwenga is agains corruption; every one knows that Chiwenga will never pass a lifestyle audit because he is just as corrupt as those he is accusing of being corrupt!
How any one can be so easily conned into believing Chiwenga is a democrat beggars belief. No wonder we are a failed state!
Blacks will be walking on sewage and think it normal” Ian Smith predicted. He was right, we have been walking on political sewage for 45 years and counting!
@ Koja
ReplyDelete“Zvichibatsireiko kungoimba ikoko I am very concerned but parroting one and the same thing ndozvinotobhowa. Who is supposed to address your queries.”
At least I am raising the issue of rigged elections and bad governance and demanding that the nation must address it. You , being the nincompoop that you are you are silencing everyone and want the issue swept under the carpet. This is the stupidity that got us into this mess in the first place and will keep us there.
We should have never allowed universal suffrage especially given the predatory tendency of our ruling elite! The dysfunctional political system depends on the pool of nincompoop electorate and leaders like Mnangagwa and Chamisa want the nincompoops to have the vote but do not want them educated!
Now the nincompoop are overreaching themselves and are not only holding the nation to ransom by have chutzpah to call the few with common sense a parrots! Of course, we must put the nincompoops in their place and remind them they have the IQ of a garden slug. We cannot afford to let the twats to continue to hold the nation to ransom and drag the nation deeper and deeper into the abyss.
I am here to educate you so you are not conned to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the nation’s suffering. The message will be hammered home whether you are bored to hear it or not. I am not here to entertain you, you flatulent nincompoop!
The people risked all to elect him and his MDC fiends into power on the promise they will bring about democratic changes. What changes did he ever bring in his 18 years as MDC leader?
ReplyDeleteThe truth is Mugabe bribed him and his MDC leaders with the trappings of high office and they forgot about the reforms - assuming they knew what reforms!
The idiot was blaming the youth for doing nothing and yet he was the one elected into position on power and authority and still he did nothing!
You are a man of God and yet you lied about plugging vote rigging loop holes to con millions to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the nation’s suffering. “#Godisinit!” You even evoked the name of God!
ReplyDeleteYou just claim to be a man of God the truth is you are NOT a man of God!
You Nelson Chamisa are corrupt, incompetent, a liar and a conman. You are just gearing to con the nation yet again to participate in flawed 2028 elections to perpetuate the nation’s suffering for the usual few gravy train seats and 30 pieces of silver. You are not a man of God!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwYJMhu39DQ
ReplyDeleteThe root cause of Zimbabwe's political stagnation since the 2008 to 2013 GNU is NOT Zanu PF but the MDC/CCC leaders' treasonous betrayal. First they have failed to implement even one token democratic change in 25 years including the 5 GNU years when they had the golden opportunity to so so. Second, ever since the GNU debacle they have conned the people to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the nation's suffering out of greed.
The people themselves have only themselves to blame for believing Chamisa & co.'s idiotic lies of winning rigged elections time and time again; especially when many of them have at least 11 years of formal education. They believe Chamisa is a demigod who can do no wrong much less lie! How is it possible that in the 21st Century any one can still be so shallow, thick and slow!
Worst of all, Chamisa, Mahere, etc. are gearing to con millions to participate in flawed 2028 elections! Little wonder we are a failed state and, alas, doomed!
@ Lionel
ReplyDelete“He is in your cross hairs.
If there was no Nelson you wouldn't have any content. You would be like Jah Prayzer anotemba one song kuma shows ake.”
The real tragedy is that Chamisa conned millions to participate in the flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the suffering of the whole nations including the millions who participated and millions who did not.
Millions of those who are paying dearly for Chamisa’s treasonous betrayal have no clue what “perpetuating the nation’s suffering” means. Ignorance and stupidity has its benefit!
Yes, Comrade, Chamisa is “in my cross-hair”! He would be in your cross-hairs and millions of others who are suffering the consequences of Zimbabwe continuing to be a failed state because Chamisa & co. failed to implement even one token reform even when they had the golden opportunity to do so!
Even now after 45 years of rigged elections you still have no clue what is going on. Granting universal suffrage was a big mistake the nincompoops, there are millions of them, have the vote and they are holding the whole nation to ransom.
https://x.com/WMukori/status/2008208120150175789
ReplyDeleteMany Venezuelans are celebrating the demise of Maduro but not with the blind foolishness of Zimbabweans in 2017. Why?
There are parallels between the dictatorship in Venezuela at its tragic economic and political consequences to the people and the Zanu PF dictatorship and its ill effects. But that is where the parallels must end.
The opposition in Venezuela and the ordinary people have always fought to end the dictatorship; the same cannot be said of Zimbabwe's opposition and Zimbabweans themselves. MDC/CCC leaders had the golden chance to end the dictatorship notably during the 2008 to 2013 GNU and the wasted it. The people themselves have continued to follow the opposition sell-outs blindly.
There is real hope that the demise of Maduro may bring about real change and hope in Venezuela. The 2017 military coup was greeted by the opposition and the populous in Zimbabwe with euphoria but was doomed to disappoint. And it did!
https://www.facebook.com/wilbert.mukori.5/videos/867658849084302
ReplyDelete"ARE WE LEAVING A LEGACY OF PROSPERITY OR ONE OF PLUNDER?" ASKED VP CHIWENGA.
After 45 years of corrupt and tyrannical rule that has left the country in economic ruins and political paralysis only a buffoon would ask such a foolish and rhetorical question.
The tragedy is the nation has been stuck with this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship these last 45 years only because the regime has rigged elections denying the ordinary people a meaningful say in the governance of the country. It must be said that the regime would not have survive the last 25 years without the connivence of the MDC/CCC leaders who have sold out on implementing the reform.
Still Chiwenga must be told in no uncertain terms that he and his Zanu PF thugs are the problem and NOT the solution. What Zimbabwe needs is the right of all Zimbabweans to a meaningful say in the governance of the country restored. No one has the divine right to rule the country. This is not negotiable!
@ Ambassador
ReplyDelete“So, in all your imaginative thinking, ever informed idealism and and spot on literal intellectualism. It's only YOU, and you who got it on highly cautioned insight as in foresight that you freely exonerate yourself from this massive nincompoops and doom thinking you always proclaim?”
I was not the only one who has spoken about the sheer folly of participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy. Many others including SADC leaders have said the same thing. Opposition leaders themselves, the likes of Tendai Biti and David Coltart have admitted it. In his book Coltart confesses that he and others have continued participating in flawed elections out of greed.
“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.
You and millions of others have been warned of the folly of participating in flawed elections but paid no heed because you failed to comprehend what was said. That is why you are a nincompoop!