Thousands of migrants are streaming back into Zimbabwe through the Beitbridge Border Post following South Africa's intensified enforcement of immigration laws, with many returnees arriving exhausted, destitute and uncertain about their future.
Mnangagwa promised to turn Zimbabwe into a upper middle income nation with a GPD per capita of US$6k up from the present US$2k by 2030, the so-called vision 2030. If there was ever an doubt that vision 2030 was a mirage; the doubt has turned into certainty. The hundreds of thousands destitute returning from SA are not only adding to the millions destitute already in the country; the returnees are making the situation in the country worse because many back in Zimbabwe have depended on direct or indirect diaspora help.
The truth is Mnangagwa did not have the intellectual ability to arrest Zimbabwe's economic decline that started soon after independence in 1980. He is a Zanu PF thug and a buffoon with an insatiable hunger for absolute power and the wealth it brings. He knew that he will never deliver vision 2030, he knows that it is just propaganda a smoke screen to hide his dictatorial schemes to secure absolute power at all cost!
Vision 2030 is not the first mirage the nation has been chasing, we have been chasing empty promises all our lives. Mugabe never tired of telling the nation of delivering "Gutsa ruzhinji!" Mass prosperity! It took nearing twenty before the penny finally dropped that he was delivering mass poverty. By the end of this year many people will begin to realise vision 2030 is indeed a mirage!
The tragedy is CAB3 has already been approved by parliament and will soon be signed into law. The nation will be forced to live with the consequences of CAB3 giving Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies even more dictatorial powers consolidating the regime's iron grip onm absolute power. Millions living in abject poverty will sink even deeper into poverty and hopelessness.
The lesson to be learned here is that Zimbabwe's economic and political mess is a man-made problem and as long as Zanu PF retains the dictatorial powers to rig elections and ride roughshod over us the nation will continue to sink into the abyss. We owe it to ourselves and posterity to end the curse of rigged elections and bad governance.
@ Chinono
ReplyDelete"A broad coalition of constitutional movements, churches, labour unions, civic organisations, war veterans and political groups on Friday launched Sungano yeVanhu/Ubumbano lomphakathi (The People’s Coalition) and unveiled a nationwide “Let the People Decide” campaign opposing Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3.
Launching the coalition in Harare, convenor Reverend Dr Kupa Mtata called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa not to sign the Bill into law, but instead to submit the proposed constitutional amendments to a national referendum, arguing that only Zimbabweans have the authority to approve fundamental changes to the Constitution."
We need to be realist here! When has Zanu PF ever allowed the ordinary people to have a meaningful say on anything.
The way forward has been to implement the democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging elections and thus restore the people's right to a meaningful say.
Tendai Biti, David Coltart, Chamisa and the rest of the MDC/CCC had the golden chance to implement the reforms. They sold out and have been participating in flawed processes out of greed. They have lied that they can win rigged elections to conned millions to participate too and to hide their betrayal and greed.
MDC/CCC leaders are Zanu PF team B in all but name, fighting for team A to win and have legitimacy.
CAB3 will soon be signed into law, Biti & co. know that. Sungano yavanhu is just another opportunity to con the people into believe Biti & co. are still fighting in povo's corner!
@ Benjamin Mono
ReplyDelete“You seem to be on a personal mission to discredit opposition parties and their leaders. What happened in your life?”
The concept that ALL LEADERS are accountable to the people is a bridge too far for some people. They readily accept that all those in public office must be accountable to the people as long as that does not include their leaders. Why is this so?
Well, we have individuals with a personality cult mentality. They hold THEIR leaders in such high regard, the leaders are demigods who cannot do any wrong. How anyone can regard a leader like Chamisa to be a demigod who can do no wrong given the mountain of evidence of Chamisa as a corrupt, incompetent, a liar and a conman; beggars belief!
Did Tendai Biti & co. fail to implement even one token reforms during the GNU and hence the reason why Zanu PF has been able to continue to rig elections?
If MDC/CCC leaders did indeed fail to implement the reforms; then I am not discrediting them, they discredited themselves. And you are defending them because you have a personality cult mentality.
If MDC/CCC leaders did implement the reforms; then explain why Zanu PF is still able to blatantly rig the elections!
After 46 years of rigged elections and with the nation in serious economic and political trouble one had hoped that simple truths like ALL LEADERS must be accountable to the people, that Chamisa is corrupt and incompetent, etc. are accepted by all. Alas! There are nincompoops amongst us who still believe Chamisa is a demigod! Fcuk me! No wonder we are a failed state!
@ Clothing
ReplyDeleteChakabaya chakachokere. The personality cult mentality is so deep rooted not even 46 years of repeating the same idiotic mistakes can reach them!!
@ Academia General
ReplyDeleteWhat a stupid question! So Chiwenga is the answer if I fail to name the alternative? Is it my job to name the alternative?
"Yes, you have the responsibility to name because you are a Zimbabwean. Why castigate our selections, if you are negative about our selection then you have to bring an alternative so that we have a good ground to critique. Why criticize others if you are scared of criticism. If not then put yourself as the candidate and see how we are going to tear off your feathers like a road runner. KKKKK."
DeleteThe concept that all leaders are accountable to the people is completely alien to some people especially those who have a personality cult mentality. The morons believe their leaders are demigods who can do no wrong. Hold the leaders to account and the morons will be up in arms regardless of the mountain of evidence proving the leaders are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless.
My job is to hold corrupt and incompetent leaders to account - that is NOT NEGOTIABLE!
Only a moron would insist on stifling public debate because he believes the leaders are demigods. How anyone can be this shallow, thick and slow beggars. No wonder we are a failed state!
Still, Zimbabwe must not allow the morons to continue to dictate the nation's destiny. God knows the morons have ruled the roost these last 46 years! Enough is enough!