"State must punish illegal forex dealer" argue Zanu PF - ED et al are illegitimate, who elected them P Guramatunhu

ZANU-PF's Secretary and deputy minister for Defence and War Veterans, Victor Matemadanda, said money from forex dealers should be forfeited to the State and Government should come up with a law that empowers it to do so. 

"These are tough times and they need tough measures. We cannot be suffering yet there is so much rot going on around us.

"These osiphatheleni (forex dealers) are found with forex on a daily basis and are arrested and later released.

"The money found on them should be forfeited to the State as punishment for illegally dealing in forex," he said. 

And how much do you think you will recover from the forex dealers? So the village idiot has never heard of the $15 billion Mugabe admitted was being swindled from the diamond mining? The swindling is still going on. Only this week the crooks employment to manage this industry unveiled a fleet of new posh vehicles for bosses. The country has been begging for money to buy cholera drugs, fuel, food and other basic essentials but has money to buy cars, charter planes, etc.

Donors are now sick and tired of seeing these Zanu PF thugs driving to their offices in the very latest models of limos to beg for money.  

Zimbabwe is in this economic mess because of decades of corrupt and incompetent Zanu PF rule. After 38 years of rigging elections, the party has just rigged the July 2013 elections to extend its ruinous rule!

“The electoral commission lacked full independence and appeared to not always act in an impartial manner,” wrote EU Election Observer Mission in their final report.

“The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability. 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.”

Go on, Comrade Matemadanda, show us the verified voters' roll for Gokwe Central constituency which you now claim to be the dually elected MP? How many of rural voters were frog marched to attend Zanu PF rallies and then vote for you because they feared being denies food aid or worse!

How many people have you; Comrade Matemadanda, as leader of rogue war veterans; had harassed, beaten and murdered, especially in 2008 and 2013 when the rogue war veterans were Zanu PF’s foot troopers?

You have said you and your fellow rogue war veterans are “the stockholders of Zimbabwe and the rest of us are merely stakeholders”. Whilst the ordinary Zimbabwean has the vote, you and Zanu PF have the veto. You alone decide who rules Zimbabwe and hence the reason Zanu PF has rigged elections again and again.

There are many, many ordinary men and women who have fought for freedom and human rights and dignity of all Zimbabweans, many have sacrificed their very lives, paid the ultimate price. It is heart breaking that instead of all Zimbabweans living in peace, justice and liberty after independence the nation has been locked in yet another struggle to end oppression. Yesteryear's liberators have become today's oppressors. 

Still, we must fight to end black on black oppression because to allow this madness to continue will be to betray all those who fought and died to end tyranny, to betray ourselves and posterity. We owe it to our forefathers, to ourselves and to our children to secure freedom, human rights and dignity for all!

We must not allow ourselves to be bamboozles by village idiots like Matemadanda and Mnangagwa into wasting time talking about illegal foreign currency dealers when we should be talking about the illegal and illegitimate Zanu PF regime which is the root cause of all economic problems and human misery and deaths!

Zimbabwe is in this economic mess of serious economic meltdown and political paralysis borne of having a corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging ruling party and equally corrupt and incompetent opposition because the country is stuck with the oppressive autocratic dictatorship. Zanu PF thugs are the real enemy holding back this nation.

“State must punish osiphatheleni illegally dealing in forex!” Who elected you and your fellow Zanu PF thugs? You too are illegal and illegitimate and the nation must punish you. You must all step down!

These Zanu PF thugs are the hyenas killing domestic animals and humans alike, the osiphatheleni are no more that ticks on the hyena’s back. Get rid of the hyenas and the ticks, the fleas, the foul smell and God knows will go with them!

"POSA is unconstitutional" say Con-Court - so, ED already has Section 209 of New Constitution W Mukori

Public Order and Security Act (POSA) was one of the many obnoxious pieces of legislations on the Zimbabwe statute books that this Zanu PF dictatorship has relied on to deny the people of Zimbabwe their basic right to freedom of assembly and to hold peaceful demonstration. So many people were thrilled that the country’s Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has finally seen it fit to have the offending section of this legislation struck off the statute.

“Temporary prohibition of holding public demonstrations within particular police districts can be made if a regulating authority for any area believes on reasonable grounds that there might be public disorder,” reads section 27 of POSA.

The law stipulated that the regulating authority, the Zimbabwe Republic Police, must be informed of any public gathering of demonstrations and it has become the norm for the Police to evoke POSA and deny all anti-establishment gatherings.

“In addition to failing to pass the test on fairness, necessity and reasonableness, there is another feature of section 27 of POSA that I find disturbing. It has no time frame or limitation as to the number of times the regulating authority can invoke the powers granted to him or her under the section,” said Justice Makarau sitting as Con-Court Judge.

“Thus, a despotic regulating authority could lawfully invoke these powers without end. This could be achieved by publishing notices prohibiting demonstrations back-to-back as long as each time the period of the ban is for one month or less. It, thus, has the potential of negating or nullifying the rights not only completely, but perpetually.

“On the basis of the foregoing, it is my finding that section 27 of the Public Order and Security Act (Chapter 11:17) is unconstitutional.”

Which is exactly what has happened all these years!

However, before anyone start celebrating the death of POSA, the effect of the judgement has been suspected for six months to give the authorities to come up with a replacement legation. The regime may still be able to willy-nilly deny the people their right to hold peaceful demonstration using provisions in the new 2013 Constitution.

Section 209 National Security Council

(1) There is a National Security Council consisting of the President as chairperson, the Vice- Presidents and such Ministers and members of the security services and other persons as may be determined in an Act of Parliament.

(2) The functions of the national security Council are:

(a) to develop the national security policy for Zimbabwe.

There is no doubt the National Security Council will, in its infinite wisdom decide “the temporary prohibition of holding public demonstrations within particular police districts can be made if a regulating authority for any area believes on reasonable grounds that there might be public disorder.” Taking us right back to POSA!

As far as I can see, there is nothing in the new Constitution saying the National Security Council must make its security policy public much less subjecting it to any of the usual democratic review, checks and balances. It could take our Con-Court decades, as happen with POSA, before our learned Judges finally realise the policy is once again being abused for the purposes of tyrannical oppression.

Lest we must not forget, the same Con-Court ruled that in Zimbabwe stage a military coup “is legal, constitutional and justified!”

The same Con-Court declared Mnangagwa the “dually elected President of the Republic of Zimbabwe” although the evidence brought before the Court left the Judges themselves in no doubt the whole process was flawed and illegal. ZEC’s own sworn affidavit showed the commission failed to produce verified voters’ roll and some of the V11 forms, showing vote count at each polling station, were never made public although these were legal requirements. ZEC’s figures could not be trace and verified; indeed the commission had three different results.

The judges ignored all the evidence that the election was rigged, a conclusion of all the election observer teams from democratic nations, on the grounds they would only consider primary source evidence from the seal ballot boxes. They had the power to order the boxes to be opened but chose not to exercise that power – somethings, it is best not know.

Why these corrupt Judges still expect the nation to still call them “Justice” beggars belief when that is the last thing they service!

The combined presidential powers in section 209 above plus his/her power to hire and fire everyone else in the National Security Council means the President has tyrannical powers to do as he/she damn well pleases!

Zanu PF MP, Paul Mangwana, who was the co-chairperson of the parliamentary committee that drafted the new 2013 Constitution, boasted soon after the March 2013 referendum that “Mugabe dictated the document”. It is clear to see why that is true – whilst the new Constitution gives the individual freedoms and rights in one part, make a big song and dance about it; they are whittled away in cleverly disguised small print.

Ncube begging USA to lift ZIDERA to unblock funding - not before ED steps down, he rigged elections N Garikai

A few weeks ago Zimbabwe’s Minister of Finance, Mthuli Ncube joined the IMF, WB, Paris Club, ADB, etc. meeting in Bail Indonesia. He told the nation all the world’s big financial institutions had “responded positively” to Zimbabwe’s request for financial assistance. Now we hear no such thing happened, it was just another Cinderella and Pumpkin carriage story!

“Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube will soon be headed for the United States of America to engage Washington on the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Amendment Act (Zidera) of 2018, the piece of legislation that appears to be the major hurdle blocking Harare's efforts to unlock international funding,” reported Business Weekly. 

“In as much as Government is leaving no stone unturned in implementing far reaching reforms to turn around the economy, it emerged the US law is holding back all the efforts as it directs American officials in key international financial institutions to block the extension of funding to Harare.”

If there was ever any confusion and misunderstanding over what Harare needed to have all ZIDERA sanctions lifted there was no such confusion run up to the 2018 Zimbabwe elections. Harare must hold free, fair and credible elections, the Americans explained over and over again. US Officials in Harare and two US Senators visited Zimbabwe to explain exactly what the Americans would be looking for; free public media, allow Zimbabweans in the diaspora to vote, etc.  

President Mnangagwa, himself, promised to hold free, fair and credible elections. Sadly he failed to keep his own promise as he and his Zanu PF junta went on to blatantly rig the elections. There was no free public media, the 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora were denied a vote; the regime failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll!

President Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF regime insist the elections were free, fair and credible; with arrogance and contemptuous indifference of a school bully crushing his victim’s toes! For 38 years Zanu PF has ridden roughshod over the people denying them their freedoms and basic rights including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country and ever the right to life.

Zanu PF has murdered over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans to establish and retain the de facto one-party dictatorship we see today. 

Zimbabweans are now the poorest nation in Africa. 38 years of Zanu PF gross mismanagement and rampant corruption have taken their heavy toll on the nation. 

Zimbabwe's economic meltdown started soon after independent in 1980 and the country is in this economic mess because of 38 years of corrupt and incompetent Zanu PF rule. The west imposed sanctions to pressure Zanu PF to hold free and afar elections in 2001 long after the economic meltdown has started. 

Zanu PF has often claimed that the sanctions are the root cause of the country's economic meltdown but that is just propaganda. The claim the country can have meaningful economic recovery without addressing the problems of mismanagement and corrupt inherent in a tyrannical dictatorship is another propaganda nonsense. 

Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because for the last 38 years Zanu PF has rigged elections and got away with it. The party rigged the 30 July 2018 elections and, this time, it must not be allowed to get away with it. All pressure must be brought upon the regime, including keeping ZIDERA sanctions in place, to force it to step down.

If Zanu PF is still in power come 2023 elections we can all be certain of one thing – the party will rig those elections too! After 38 years of rigged elections, of having the school bully’s big foot crushing one’s toes, the thought of this going on for even another day is unthinkable! 

Zanu PF rigged the elections and the party is therefore illegitimate. The party must be pressured to step down now to allow time for the preparatory work for free, fair and credible elections in 2023. 

Finance Minister is reportedly travelling to Washington in January to meet US government officials. No doubt, the Minister will make fresh promises that Zimbabwe’s next elections will be free, fair and credible and, in return, will be asking the American to lift ZIDERA sanctions. The sanctions were to be lifted on condition Harare held free, fair and credible elections and not on condition of yet another empty promise. 

The sanctions must stay until Zimbabwe holds free, fair and credible elections and the Zanu PF bully’s foot is off povo’s toes! Economic recovery and prosperity come out of good and accountable government and hence the reason we must insist of Zimbabwe holding free elections first before the sanctions are lifted.