CAB3 will pass and Mnangagwa will have his wish to stay in office for a further two years. He and Zanu PF will pretend CAB3 was the people’s wish. That is a lie!
Mnangagwa and Zanu PF rigged the CAB3 process to impose their will on the nation just as they have done these last 46 years!
Ordinary Zimbabweans have known that Zanu PF was a total disaster to the nation for a very long time; they have done nothing about it only because they have been denied the opportunity to do so. Zanu PF has rigged elections for 46 years and counting!
The only time the nation came close to holding free, fair and credible elections was the March 2008 elections. When it was clear the people had rejected Zanu PF many of the party leaders including Mutasa and even Mugabe himself throw in the towel. Mnangagwa and Chiwenga did not.
They launched Operation Mavhotera Papi, an electoral coup, whose immediate purpose was to wrestle power from Tsvangirai and his MDC friends. The long term purpose was to punish the people for having dared to reject Zanu PF. The punishment was brutal and barbaric; millions were forced to go into hiding, hundreds of thousands had their properties destroyed, they were beaten and/or raped, thousands lost their limbs and over 500 were murdered.
The Operation Mavhotera Papi punishment meant to be a lesson that rejecting Zanu PF attracts severe consequences. In all elections since 2008, the party has increased its subtle vote rigging activities thus easing on the need for wanton violence.
Still the regime has often resorted to violence, such as 1st August 2018 shoot-to-kill, just to remind the nation Zanu PF will not hesitate to use force to retain its iron grip on power.
Mnangagwa entered State House riding on the coattail of the 2017 military coup; the ordinary people had no meaningful say in that. The people were conned to come out in support of the coup on the promise of democratic changes to force Mugabe to resign. As soon as Mugabe stepped down the promise of democratic changes was discarded.
Mnangagwa blatantly rigged the 2018 elections as the Constitutional Court challenge of the residential result revealed. There were 16 Polling Stations (PS) with identical results for Mnangagwa, Chamisa, spoilt votes, etc. In all 16 PS Mnangagwa was not only doing well but very well. It was obvious these were double entries of result to top up Mnangagwa’s votes.
Chamisa’s team should have demanded the the seal ballot boxes of the 16 PSs should be opened. One can double entry a result but cannot duplicate a PS complete with the sealed ballot box! It was within Chamisa’s right to demand the opening of the sealed PS boxes - indeed they are kept for this very purpose.
Chief Justice Malaba, who presided over the Court, asked Chamisa’s team “why rely on speculative information” when they should have requested that the boxes be opened. “We did not want to drink from a poisoned well!” The sheer stupidity of that reply has to be one most foolish statement in Zimbabwe’s legal history!
The foolish statement is itself proof of the political connivence of MDC/CCC leaders with Zanu PF. Chamisa & co. are Zanu PF team B, playing for team A to win and to have legitimacy for a share of the spoils of power.
Mnangagwa blatantly rigged 2023 elections too. Both SADC and AU elections observers condemned the election process as flawed and illegal.
It is nonsense to suggest that having imposed himself through a military coup and repeatedly rigged elections to stay in power Mnangagwa will for the first time ever allow the people of Zimbabwe to have a meaningful say on whether they want him to extend his illegitimate stay in State House beyond the stipulated maximum two term limit! Only an idiot would believe CAB3 was the democratic wish of the people of Zimbabwe.
Only the ignorant, naive and gullible believe for one moment that Mnangagwa will ever revive the Zimbabwe economy much less deliver the economic boom promised with vision 2030. Vision 2030 is just another mirage just as Mnangagwa’s 2017 “Zimbabwe is open for business!’ and Mugabe’s 1980s “Gutsa ruzhinji!” were mirages.
Mugabe and Mnangagwa’s voodoo economic policies are not the recipe for economic growth but the opposite. Corruption was bad under Mugabe but under Mnangagwa it has gone into overdrive and the criminal waste of the nation’s human and material resources is the number one reason Zimbabwe is a failed state.
CAB3 gives Mnangagwa and Zanu PF even more dictatorial powers and so corruption is set to soar into the stratosphere! Only those who are benefiting from the looting are pleased with the passing of CAB3!
Implementing the democratic reforms, after the wasted 2008 to 2013 GNU opportunity, was tough. It is even tougher now after the passing of CAB3! And yet the need to implement reforms and end the Zanu PF dictatorship is more urgent now than ever. With each passing day this regime remains in office, the nation will sink deeper and deeper into this hell-on-earth!
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