VP's divorcee demand $13k per month "to sustain accustomed lifestyle" - unsustainable ruling elite addiction N Garikai

“A divorce wrangle pitting Mohadi and his former wife Tambudzani has helped to lift the lid on the VPs' benefits with a payslip attached to a court application revealing the veteran politician from Beitbridge earns $7 000 in basic salary and a similar amount in allowances,” reported Bulawayo 24.

“Tambudzani is demanding a $13 394 monthly maintenance from Mohadi, whom she says earns "quite a substantial amount" including dividends from businesses that he operates.”

"During the subsistence of the marriage, we always maintained a high standard of living due to our high-earning capacity," Tambudzani said.

"However, my monthly income is insufficient to pay for all my monthly expenses and sustain the lifestyle I am accustomed to. As such, it is the legal duty of the respondent to contribute maintenance for my monthly expenses until I die or remarry."

Zanu PF leaders, their families, friends and cronies have enjoyed absolute power and the influence and vast economic benefits it brought for the last 39 years. They are now addicted to the power, influence economic luxuries giving it up is simply unthinkable. Yes they can see the sorry, sorry state of the country’s economy, the decay and rot and the tragic human suffering it has brought to the overwhelming majority of the people. What they have refused to see is the connection between their insatiable greed for loot and power and the country’s economic meltdown.   

Formers Mrs Mohadi, her former husband and the rest of the Zanu PF extended filthy rich ruling elite family will never ever give up Zanu PF’s dictatorial powers, how else would they secure and guarantee their absolute power, the influence and the fabulous wealth it brought and to which they are now addicted.

The country’s economic meltdown has been a rising tide that caught first povo, then the low ranking Zanu PF members and has moved up the ranking. Stories of Zanu PF grandees like the late Nathan Shamuyarira and Enos Nkala dying paupers have left everyone in the party worried about holding on to their position. But as the economy sunk deeper and deeper and the national cake to shrink smaller and smaller, the fight for a piece has become more vicious and claimed more Zanu PF bigwig scalps.

In 2014 Zanu PF booted Joice Mujuru and a number of her supporters out of the party. Load-shedding! Within a few months of losing their privileged party positions, Didymus Mutasa and many others were coughing blood, they could not sustain the extravagant lifestyles of their party days and soon had stress related health problems.

In 2017 there was yet another load-shedding with many Generation 40 (G40) faction members being haunted out of the party following the November 2017 military coup. Although Mugabe and his wife, the G40 faction leaders, were spared the humiliation and death, still their looted wealth taps were turned off. Mugabe’s business empire is falling apart, last week the former dictator auctioning his farming plant and equipment.

Mnangagwa and his Lacoste faction who stage the November 2017 coup knew if G40 had won the day they are the ones who would have joined Mujuru et al in singing the blues. Having risked life and limb to wrestle power from Mugabe the Lacoste gangsters were not going to risk losing it again in a free, fair and credible elections and hence the reason Zanu PF rigged last year’s elections. Mnangagwa promised to end corruptions but that too fall by the way side- how could he turn off the looted wealth knowing his Zanu PF cronies, their families, small-house and everyone in the ruling elite exclusive family are all addicted to the extravagant lifestyles!

Still, as long as Zimbabwe remain a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs there will be no meaningful economic recovery. Investors and lenders do not do business in pariah states, period.

Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown is causing serious economic hardships many people are now dying for want of food, US$5 per month medicine, clean water, etc. The economic situation is politically, morally and socially unsustainable. And since Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies are cannot implement the necessary democratic reforms to end the corruption and vote rigging the regime must step down to create the political space to appoint an interim administration that will implement the reforms. 

"Fascist Mthwakazi are denying people a voice" - we must remove dictators and stop fascists W Mukori

“A Republic of Matabeleland or Bloodshed: my reply," wrote Nomazulu Thata. 

"We have spoken on several occasions about the marginalisation of Mathebeleland and that we demand the reburial of mass-shallow graves in this region. We demanded too that those who lost lives and livelihoods should be compensated as such. We also demanded devolution and a referendum to determine the willingness of the peoples of this region if they really need a cessation from the mainland Zimbabwe. 

"It appears as if we the peoples of Mathebeleland are denied of the voice to say what we want. These Mthwakazi parties have the say on us. These are mostly men-dominated that will determine our future, fate and destiny behind our backs. Whether we want it or not, Mthwakazi will cessed from the mainland Zimbabwe. According to me that is fascism."

Zimbabwe is not the first country to have suffered from decades under an incompetent, corrupt and brutal dictatorship. And, I dare say, it will not be the last country to do so. Dictatorships, by their very nature are very wasteful and the Zanu PF dictatorship is renowned for its criminal waste of material and human resource. 

The waste of resources has resulted in poverty and Zimbabwe is today the poorest nation in Africa and, naturally, the people are unhappy with the regime. And to maintaining its strangle hold on power the regime has resorted to brutal oppression, fuelling the mistrust and resentment. 

It is this deep seated mistrust and resentment that has fuelled infighting and the break-up of nations post the fall of the dictatorship. Look at Yugoslavia post the Tito, Iraq post Saddam Hussein, Libya post Gaddafi, etc., etc. There is a real danger of Zimbabwe become another Iraq or Libya post Mugabe and Zanu PF. 

In a country where unemployment has soared to nauseating heights of 90%, where basic service such as supply of clean water and health care have all but collapsed, where 3/4 of the population are living on US$30 or less per month, etc., etc. the argument that one region has done better than the other is untrue. 

What the people of Zimbabwe should aim for post Mugabe and his Zanu PF dictatorship is to build a free, just, prosperous and democratic Zimbabwe. 

I agree with you Nomazulu, those now threatening to shed blood unless they get want they want - what they really want is absolute power and will kill and kill again until they get - are fascists. They are no different from Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs - they murdered over 20 000 innocent civilians during Gukurahundi to establish the de facto one-party dictatorship and have murdered over 10 000 since to retain it. 

In the last year alone Mnangagwa has  shot dead 7 in August 2018 and a further 17 in January 2019 for protesting the rigged elections and soaring cost of living respectively. Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF thugs rigged last year’s elections, they have no mandate to govern the country, they are illegitimate and they must step down. 

All our effort must now focus on forcing Zanu PF to step down so we can implement the democratic reforms designed to dismantle the dictatorship and replace it with a healthy and functional democracy. This is our last chance to achieve peaceful and orderly change. Violent street protests or worse will bring change but it could turn the country into another Libya!

If Zanu PF is allowed to stay in power until 2023 the party will rig those elections and extend its ruinous and tyrannical rule. We, the people, will have no one to blame but ourselves.

It will be a great tragedy if Zimbabwe should finally get rid of this incompetent, corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship only to have yet another incompetent, corrupt and tyrannical regime. We made a serious mistake of allow Mugabe to take us down this ruinous path we must not allow this to happen ever again. No, never!

Thank you very much Nomazulu for your courage and vision in standing against dictators, thugs, fascists, etc. in all their various disguises. We want peace, liberty and an end to the madness that has destroyed our nation and rob our people hope and self-respect. Appeasing dictators like Mugabe and Mnangagwa has not guaranteed peace and freedom as we can see and we will be very foolish indeed to make the same mistake again!

"Chamisa is leader as per 2.6 m votes" - focus, at issue is appointments P Guramatunhu

Too many cooks spoil the broth. MDC has certainly suffered the ill effects of having too many learned lawyers. One says one this the second says that and the third says something else that is neither this nor that and meanwhile the party has blundered from pillar to post as it is pulled in all direction in the ensuing confusion.

“I have just finished reading High Court judgement against the #MDC,” twittered MDC A Senator and lawyer David Coltart. “I am profoundly shocked by the reasoning of the learned Judge. The judgement is seriously flawed in numerous respects. The application should have been dismissed on several different grounds but wasn’t.”

The judgement is seriously flawed in numerous respects and yet you failed to name even one!

The application should have been dismissed on several different grounds and again he failed to name one such ground.  

”For the avoidance of doubt the leader of the Democratic Movement is Advocate Chamisa. This a de facto and de jure fact .Two point six million Zimbabweans agreed with that position on 30 July 2018. A court of law can never be an electoral college,” commented Tendai Biti, an MDC A MP and lawyer.

“Of all forms of pervasion judicial Capture is most corrosive. The judiciary is at the center of upholding the rule of law, enforcing justice to avoid self redress. Where the judiciary puts itself in a position of ridicule, issues orders that are brutum fulmen, it undermines itself.”

The case was about the legality or otherwise of appointment of Nelson Chamisa and Elias Mudziri as MDC VPs and the ascension of the former to acting president following Morgan Tsvangirai’s death.

"The appointments of the second and third respondents (Chamisa and Mudzuri) as deputy presidents of the MDC party were unconstitutional and, therefore, null and void. The appointment of second respondent (Chamisa) as acting president, and president of the MDC party were unconstitutional and, therefore, null and void,” said High Court Justice Edith Mushore.

Judge Mushore could not have been more explicit what she was talking about and had nothing to do with the national elections that followed months later!

Anyone remotely familiar with Zimbabwe’s judiciary would agree are judiciary is not independent. One example “judiciary capture” was Justice George Chiweshe’s ruling that the 15 November 2017 military coup was “legal, justified and constitutional” to clear the way for swearing in of Emmerson Mnangagwa as new president.

To insinuate that the this case is another example of judiciary bias is laughable because Chamisa did NOT follow MDC’s own constitution in his hurry to seize power.

People like Tendai Biti and David Coltart should stop crying foul just because they do not like a court decision regardless of the facts. Chamisa was crowned president of MDC and the other to VPs, Mudziri and Khupe, were never given a chance to contest in a free, fair and credible elections.

If MDC cannot be trusted to hold free, fair and credible elections in house what more with outsiders.

Millions of Zimbabweans have suffered all manner of harassment, beating and rape and tens of thousands have lost their very lives in our fight for freedom and human rights including the right to free, fair and credible elections. Their suffering and the lost lives would all for nothing if all we do is remove corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous Zanu PF thugs and replace them with equally corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging MDC thugs.

"I have key to unlock Mnangagwa's illegitimacy" boasted Chamisa - yet cannot unlock his own N Garikai

"The appointments of the second and third respondents (Chamisa and Mudzuri) as deputy presidents of the MDC party were unconstitutional and, therefore, null and void. The appointment of second respondent (Chamisa) as acting president, and president of the MDC party were unconstitutional and, therefore, null and void,” said High Court Justice Edith Mushore.

"All appointments and/or reassignments and all actions of the second respondent in his purported capacity as deputy/acting or incumbent president were unconstitutional and,

therefore, null and void."

This is a mess of MDC’s own making because even those with one drop of democratic blood in the veins raised their eye-brows at the blatant disregard of common decency and decorum shown by Chamisa is seizing power after Tsvangirai’s death. The chickens have come home to root. 

"Plainly speaking, therefore, … the duty to call (for) the extra-ordinary congress for such an election would have been that of the fourth respondent (Khupe). The constitution is specific about this requirement …," said Justice Mushore. She ruled that the said extra-ordinary congress should be called with in a month. 

Nelson Chamisa’s reaction to the Court judgement has been confusion, to say the least. He has vowed that the party congress organised by him and not Khupe as stipulated in the judgement above will go ahead and thus is defying the Court ruling. He has also said he will appeal the Court ruling and thus suggesting he is recognising the power and authority of the Court. He clearly cannot made up his own mind! This is typical MDC blundering incompetency. 

By participating in last year’s elections, knowing fully well that with no meaningful reforms in place Zanu PF will rig the elections, MDC and the rest of the opposition entourage gave the flawed and illegal process some credibility as David Coltart readily admitted in his book. 

In his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of tyranny in Zimbabwe, former MDC – Ncube Senator and Minister of Education in the GNU, David Coltart, gave details of how Zanu PF flouted the electoral rules, it clear the upcoming 2013 elections would not be free and fair. Meanwhile talks of uniting the two MDC factions to fight the elections as one were going nowhere.

“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 elections,” explained Senator Coltart.

“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.”

All the election observers worth their salt have condemned Zimbabwe’s July 2018 elections. 

“The electoral commission lacked full independence and appeared to not always act in an impartial manner. The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability,” reported the EU Zimbabwe Election Mission final report. 

“Finally, the restrictions on political freedoms, the excessive use of force by security forces and abuses of human rights in the post-election period undermined the corresponding positive aspects during the pre-election campaign. As such, many aspects of the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe failed to meet international standards.”

ZEC had failed to produce a verified voters’ roll, something as essential to elections as water is to fish. 

The election process was full of irregularities and illegalities, the opposition parties and candidate to the man and woman should have all, unanimously, condemned the elections. Sadly, blinded by greed and incompetency, the opposition have unanimously endorsed the fraudulent elections and declared Mnangagwa legitimate; all that is, except Chamisa.  

Chamisa has ignored all the flaws and illegalities noted by everyone else and picked one the one, he claims ZEC's vote counts for Mnangagwa and himself are wrong in giving the former more votes than himself. Elections are judge on the basis of the process, in this case given it “contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability”, as the EU Mission report state; the elections have been rightly condemned. Chamisa want the elections to be judged on result; if he is declared the winner the elections were free, fair and credible and otherwise if Mnangagwa is the winner. No one in their right mind would ever subscribe to such nonsense! 

If all the opposition parties and candidates had joined everyone else in condemning last July’s elections as rigged elections, this have would focused pressure on Zanu PF to step down. The focused political pressure plus the economic pressure due to the worsening economic situation would have gone a long way by now in forcing Zanu PF to step down. 

By participating in the flawed and illegal elections the opposition parties have given the process some modicum of credibility and by failing to condemn the process even in the face of the overwhelming evidence the process was flawed the opposition have mudded the political waters. Mnangagwa and his junta have benefited from the opposition's blundering incompetency and greed. The mess created by Justice Mushore's judgement will only distract MDC and the nation from the problems of problems of worsening economic situation and Zanu PF's illegitimacy. 

Chamisa has declared Mnangagwa illegitimate but only as a negotiating tactic to get the latter to grant him a gravy train seat. “I have the key to unlock Mnangagwa’s illegitimacy!” Chamisa has often boated. Now that Chamisa is himself illegitimate, he has to unlock his own illegitimacy first. 

MDC should sort out the leadership mess once and once for all the nation has the pressing matter of implementing the democratic reforms before 2023 to stop Zanu PF rigging those elections too. Given the confused stance of defying the Court ruling and honouring the Court's power by appealing the judgement this mess will not be sorted in a hurry. Time is the one commodity Zimbabwe can ill afford to waste! 

If Zanu PF is still in power come the 2023 elections we can be 100% certain the party will blatantly rig that year’s elections extending the regime's corrupt and tyrannical rule. We must stop this happening and the only sure way to do so is for the nation to acknowledge that Chamisa and his MDC friends are no longer championing the common cause of implementing the democratic reforms. They are now part and parcel of the problem whose blundering incompetency and greed are undermining our efforts to bring about meaningful democratic change. 

As much as some people will not want to admit it the truth is Nelson Chamisa and his MDC friends are corrupt and incompetent political thugs no different from the Zanu PF thugs they are trying to remove from office. Yes of course, Mnangagwa is illegitimate but then is Chamisa and Mnangagwa knows it and will never remind Chamisa of this at every turn. 

If we are serious about removing Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF thugs from office then we must some other people to do it not Chamisa et al. Chamisa and his friends sold-out big time during the GNU and continue to do so to this day. Chamis is not only illegitimate as leader of MDC he is also corrupt, incompetent and a sell-out. As long as Chamisa and his MDC friends continue to spearhead our fight for democratic change Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies will know their continued rule is secure. Fact!

"GNU is only solution to disputed elections" - elections were rigged, can't ever get that right P Guramatunhu

It has taken nearly 40 years for some people to formulate the outline root causes of the country’s economic meltdown and political paralysis - a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. And now the nation may have to wait for the outline to crystallise - it could take yet another 40 years or more - to judge from the blundering nonsense being offered as solution to the country's problems! 

“One thing is apparently undeniable about the Zimbabwean situation; the economic paralysis that began soon after the disputed presidential elections of July last year has morphed into a threatening crisis. It kicked off with slight fuel price increases, whose gradual progression led to a proportional hike in the costs of other goods,” wrote Learnmore Zuze.

The economic meltdown has forced many Zimbabweans to start paying attention to the country’s economic mess because they are feeling the tragic consequences of the meltdown. They, Zuze is a representative sample, have an inkling of what is wrong but that is all. 

It is nonsense to suggest Zimbabwe’s economic “paralysis began soon after the disputed elections”. Zimbabwe’s economic decline started soon after independence with Zanu PF’s voodoo economic notion of achieve prosperity by spending, spending, spending. The economy took a nose dive in late 1990s onwards with the payment of $50 000 gratuity to war veterans, the seizure of white farms, the madness of printing of Z$ fuelling the run-away inflation, etc. The economy collapsed and has never recovered. 

“Disputed elections!” is a phrase used by someone who has yet to be convinced one way or the other that the elections were indeed free, fair and credible. The trouble with such people is they have no clear cut understanding of what constitutes free, fair and credible elections and hence the reason why they cannot make up their minds even when presented with a mountain of evidence the election process was flawed and illegal, as was the case here. 

“It is unfathomable how, despite calls for dialogue by both leaders, there is nothing that really materialises in the direction of the much-hyped national talks. It is not misplaced to postulate that there isn't much commitment except political grandstanding towards serious national talks that would bring Zimbabwe out of its current political quagmire,” continued Zuze.

How typical, Zuze has not resolved the nature of the disputed elections and yet is foolishness to offer a solution!

There are two possible outcomes to the disputed elections. Either the elections were free, fair and credible and Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF friends won the elections and have the democratic mandate to govern the country. So why you are getting over heated about these political dialogue as if it is a legal requirement of the winning party with a clear cut 2/3 majority to form a coalition.

Or the elections were not free, fair and credible and therefore Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF thugs’ electoral victory claim is fraudulent, they have no mandate to govern and the regime is, per se, illegitimate. 

There is need for political dialogue to move the country out of the present political crisis of having no legitimate government. However, it will be very foolish to ask Mnangagwa play any leading role much less preside over the said political dialogue given his claim to the leading role is the root cause of the political crisis. 

Of course, Learnmore Zuze knows that Mnangagwa and Zanu PF blatantly rigged last year’s elections, he/she will never admit to that for fear having to then admit that the Zanu PF regime is illegitimate. The need to appease Zanu PF is so powerful and overwhelming people like Zuze are ignoring the evidence that the elections were rigged just to appease Zanu PF. They would rather accept the noncommittal “disputed elections” than deal with the truth. 

The equally noncommittal solution their are offering will not solve anything. By rigging last year’s elections Zanu PF confirmed Zimbabwe’s status as a pariah state. Adding Chamisa and a few other MDC A members to the Zanu PF regime will not change the reality on the ground. Zimbabwe will still be a pariah state, with or without the addition of Chamisa. 

If we are serious about ending Zimbabwe’s economic mess and political paralysis then we must be tough and decisive in our demand for free, fair and credible elections. Zanu PF must be told in no uncertain terms that it failed to hold free, fair and credible elections, that it is illegitimate and must step down. It is folly to let the regime stay in office under the pretext this was nothing worse than some ill-defined “disputed elections”. 

Detail matters, indeed detail is everything, we must learn to respect detail! We are in this hell-hole because for the last 39 years we have not paid attention to the important details such as that it is our duty and responsibility as citizens to demand free, fair and credible elections. And when Zanu PF has systematically denied us this right that it is our duty and responsibility to demand the right and never compromised or rest until we have secured it! 

Zanu PF dismiss "sabre-rattling" UK invasion - not povo, they welcomed 2017 coup

The story of the British planning to invade Zimbabwe should be dismissed as far-fetched. 

The Sunday Times, citing a leaked National Security Document, said Williamson "ordered military chiefs to draw up plans for intervention by the armed forces in at least five African countries, including Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Kenya and Egypt."

"This sabre-rattling sacked British Defence Secretary thinks Africa is still a place where British invasions are acceptable ways of conducting international relations? It's an embarrassment to have someone with such imperialistic nostalgia so highly placed,” twittered Nick Mangwana.

I do not know about the other four African countries but I believe many Zimbabweans will be out in the streets to welcome the British soldiers in greater numbers as those who welcomed the 15 November 2017 military coup. The very fact that Zimbabweans should even welcome a coup is a measure of just how desperate the people are for meaningful democratic change. 

I, for one, did not support the 15 November 2017 coup because I never believed for a minute that any good could ever come out of the replacement of one dictator with another. What the country needed was the dismantling of the dictatorship, that entailed the implementing of the democratic reforms designed to strip Zanu PF of its carte blanche dictatorial powers, restructuring the country’s institutions and appointing clean people, etc. 

However, I would not have joined the mob welcoming the British soldiers but for a more subtle reason. I am sure that the British would have seen to the complete dismantling of the Zanu PF dictatorship. My worry would be how long the new system the British will leave behind last? 

I believe the country’s chaotic political system and the economic mess that it has caused have cause serious human suffering but out of all the tragic suffering and deaths the people were learning that they must be masters of their own destiny. 

In 1980, when the country attained her independence, the biggest mistake the people of Zimbabwe made was to let Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs deny them their freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful vote and even the right to life. The people should have fought for their freedoms and rights and never give an inch. They did not and have paid dearly for their folly. One hopes that the people were waking up out of the slumber and reclaiming their freedoms and rights. 

The British invasion would have helped secured their freedoms and rights but will the people not be tempted to let the regime that takes over when the British leave systematically rob them of their freedoms and rights once again just as happened in 1980? Will the people not be tempted to believe the British will invade the country again and rescue them?

If the people of Zimbabwe had foreseen the sorry state of rot and decay 39 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule has brought many would have refused independence. We are an independent nation now, we cannot turn back the clock, the challenge is for us to make independence work for all Zimbabweans and not just for the sabre-rattling filthy rich ruling elite few.

No single Zimbabwean with half a brain is proud that Zimbabwe has become the basket case of a failed state. Still, by invading the country the British will be sending out the message that the country is not just a failed state but one incapable of self-government beyond the pale. Not even one Zimbabwean with half a brain will accept that characterisation. 

I, for one, has no doubt that the country has competent men and women far endowed with common sense and humanity beyond the brain-dead Zanu PF thugs and MDC sell-outs who have ruled the country this far!

Chamisa still bitter about ED betrayal on GNU - hypocrites continue to betray masses W Mukori

Nelson Chamisa has once again reiterated the claim that Mnangagwa betrayed the promise he made to the late MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai to form a government of national unity following the November 2017 military coup. 

"It is tragic that some would choose to score very cheap political points after snatching power at Tsvangirai's funeral wake,” responded Nick Mangwana, jumping to the defence of Mnangagwa.

"There was never a discussion regarding a transitional authority and all conversations including television interviews were on getting the transition by the obtaining provisions of the Constitution.”

Poor Nick Mangwana he clearly did not think this one through! He is accusing Chamisa of snatching power from the dead Tsvangirai he must save the hottest hell for his boss, Mnangagwa who has snatched power from the living at gun point and worse still beaten, raped and even murdered the innocent to secure power. 

Mnangagwa snatched power from Mugabe in a military coup and eight months latter snatched it from the people of Zimbabwe by rigging the elections. When the people dared to protest yet another rigged elections, he set the murderous thugs on the people to harass, beat and even to shoot to kill!

The November 2017 military coup was not the first coup Mnangagwa has staged, the first coup was against none other than Tsvangirai and the MDC party to stop them assuming power after Zanu PF lost the March 2008 elections. Mnangagwa and his thugs forced ZEC to reduce Tsvangirai’s 73% vote count, according to Mugabe’s own Freudian slip, to 47% to force a run-off. During the run-off Zanu PF used wanton violence to force the people to vote for Mugabe. 

Indeed, Zanu PF has never held free, fair and credible elections ever since the party got into power in 1980. The party has denied the people of Zimbabwe the basic freedoms and rights including the right to meaningful say in the governance of the country and even the right to life itself. Zanu PF has murdered over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans to create and retain the de facto one-party dictatorship and its iron grip on power.

Of all the Zanu PF leaders, Mnangagwa has certainly played a major role in all the party’s corruption, vote rigging and political violence and thuggery. His hands are blight red with the shed blood of the innocent! It is shocking that Morgan Tsvangirai, Nelson Chamisa and the MDC leaders had no qualms shaking Mnangagwa’s blooded hands as long as they got a share of the spoils of power!

Mnangagwa and his coup gangsters insisted the November 2017 military coup was NOT a coup but rather a “military assisted transition”! Morgan Tsvangirai, Nelson Chamisa, MDC MPs and other leaders were first to express their support of the coup and we know why - they had cut a deal with Mnangagwa to share the spoils of power! 

There was no constitutional basis for calling off the elections in favour of a transitional government. None!

The military coup was illegal and Justice George Chiweshe’s ruling claiming the coup was “legal, justified and constitutional” was nonsense. Judge Chiweshe did not to quote the chapter and verse of the Zimbabwe constitution authorising a coup because there is no such chapter and verse! 

The people of Zimbabwe risked life and limb to elect MDC leaders into power on the understanding the party will bring about the democratic changes necessary to guarantee free, fair and credible elections. The party has had many golden opportunities, especially during the 2008 to 2013 GNU, to implement the democratic reforms to achieve this. Mugabe has bribed the MDC leaders with the trappings of the gravy train lifestyles and the forgot about the reforms. 

MDC leaders should have condemned the November coup and insisted on the need to implement all the democratic reforms before the holding of the 2018 elections. By participating in the flawed and illegal elections the MDC gave the process some modicum of credibility. Nelson Chamisa had hoped Mnangagwa would reward him with a gravy train position in the illegitimate Zanu PF regime. 

So Nick Mnangagwa can see the speck in Chamisa’s eye for snatching power from the dead but not yet buried Tsvangirai. The hypocrite does not see the logs in his boss Mnangagwa’s eyes who has ridden roughshod of the nation’s freedoms, human rights and dreams and has murdered over 30 000 Zimbabweans to be president. 

Meanwhile Nelson Chamisa was the audacity to accuse Mnangagwa of betrayal because the murderous thugs did not share the spoils of power in the November 2017 military coup and 2018 rigged elections with him! MDC betrayed the nation by failing to implement even one democratic reforms in all its 19 years on the political stage. What a hypocrite, he is fuming that Mnangagwa betrayed him by failing to form a GNU after the coup and after the rigged elections but ignores his betrayal of the nation by abandoning the demand for free, fair and credible elections.

Zimbabwe is in a serious political and economic mess because the nation has had the great misfortune to being ruled by hypocrites, on both sides of the political divide. What the people of Zimbabwe must now realise is that they cannot count on Zanu PF or MDC to get the nation out of the mess, the two parties are full of hypocrites who only care about securing power for themselves and do not care about truth, justice and the commonwealth. 

The people of Zimbabwe must find some other leaders, not Zanu PF and MDC, to implement the reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections or Zimbabwe will never get out of the mess the country is stuck in.