POLAD met at Mnangagwa's farm "for serious business talks" - Yeah right! Name one accomplishment P Guramatunhu

Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) members meet at Mnangagwa’s Sherwood farm, near Kwekwe. The grouping will never come up with any solution to the nation’s many teething problems!

“It was a request made by POLAD members. The programme is very simple, a couple of hours of business and then another couple of hours touring the farm. So it is almost like a farmers’ field day after the serious business of talks,” explained George Charamba.

“It does clinch the notion of productivity which has been the President’s watchword that we should work, work and work for our economy to grow.”

Charamba is Mnangagwa’s spokesperson and spin doctors. He is never short of an explanation, often irrational as is the case here. 

Zimbabwe is a banana republic complete with Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland type institutions and characters. 

Here is what we know about POLAD; it is a gathering of individuals, exact number is unknown, mostly presidential candidates in last year’s rigged elections. All who join are required to public affirm the elections were free, fair and credible and that one Emerson Mnangagwa is the legitimate President of the banana republic. 

POLAD is a talk-shop with not rules, no minutes are taken, no quorum, no power to call anyone to appear before gathering and no one is expected to tell the truth or talk sense. Most important of all, Mnangagwa, the chairperson of POLAD by virtue of being the founder and funder, will, as a rule of thumb, ignore everything said in the talk-shop. 

This compares very favourably with Lewis Carroll’s fairytale.

“Alice and the other animals are still wet, prompting the Dodo to suggest a Caucus race. The Dodo marks out a course, sets everyone in place, and yells “go.” explained sparknotes.

“The animals run around haphazardly until the Dodo declares half an hour later that the race is over. The Dodo says that all of them have won the Caucus race and elects Alice to confer prizes. 

“Alice passes mints to all the animals, leaving herself without a prize. Finding a thimble, she hands it to the Dodo, who in turn presents it back to her as her prize. Alice solemnly accepts the thimble but cannot help feeling that the gesture is absurd.”

Zimbabwe is a country in serious, serious economic trouble. Unemployment has been 80% plus for the last two decades now. 34% of the population are now living in extreme poverty, according to a recent WB report. The country’s health care has all but completely collapsed, hundreds are dying everyday of easily treatable ailments. If the country is ever going to get out of this mess and end the tragic human suffering and deaths, it needs a forum where there is going to be serious debate.

The root cause of the country’s economic meltdown is the failure by key state institutions like parliament and cabinet to come up with solutions to the nations many problems. The Zanu PF dictatorship has usurped the people’s power to elect competent MPs and parliament is now full of party loyalists whose primary concern is to please and appease the dictator. There is no quality debate in parliament. Cabinet is not any better! 

Whatever little parliamentary and cabinet debates there was still, it is all going as POLAD, the talk-shop, takes over as the supreme policy and decision making body in the land.

“It is almost like a farmers’ field day after the serious business of talks!” Yeah, right! Name one “serious business” POLAD has accomplished; one year after it was launched and with millions of taxpayers’ money spent on its talk-shops?

If Zimbabwe is to ever get out of the economic and political mess, four decades of Zanu PF dictatorship have landed the nation in; we  must end the curse of rigged elections, the foundation on which the dictatorship stands, and restore good governance. 

POLAD seeks to stifle all meaningful debate and democratic discourse under the pretext of unity. It is just another foolish “caucus race” from the Dodo Mnangagwa at a time the country is desperate for a way out of this man-made hell-on-earth.

Mnangagwa wants Chamisa in POLAD dictatorship tent pissing out, on democracy P Guramatunhu

"I told (President) Mbeki that we have a platform for political dialogue which is Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD). It is the only one that we will use. If anyone wants to join including the MDC led by chamisa, they are welcome to do so,” said President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

This reminded me of You Tube video of this little girl who asked for Ice Bucket Challenge. When some one obliged and emptied an bucket of ice cold water on her, the response was heartfelt swearing. Hilarious! 

To see the video, go to Little Girl Ice Bucket Challenge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgWN3PDUoxE

Last week UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was beside himself with joy for winning the British elections with a “thumping majority”. The Conservatives won 365 seats in a 650 seats House of Commons; that is 39 seats past the 326 for a clear majority. 

PM Theresa May, Boris’ successor in the famous 10 Downing Street, had 318 and was compelled to go into a coalition arrangement with the Northern Ireland’s DUP with its 10 MPs just to give her government the 2 parliamentary votes for a simple majority. Even then, the DUP did not always vote with the Conservatives hence the reason her Brexit proposals were rejected again and again. Theresa May was hamstrung! 

With 39 seats past the simple majority, PM Boris Johnson, knows his government can govern without reference to an other political support. 

With his more that 2/3 majority in parliament President Mnangagwa  had comfortably carryout all his day to day business which require a simple majority vote. He can also carryout the more demanding tasks such as changing the constitution where he must get 2/3 majority to pass. 

Indeed, Mnangagwa has already started abusing his 2/3 parliamentary majority to change the constitution in ways designed to consolidate his presidential powers at the expense of the other democratic institutions such as the judiciary and parliament. 

So why President Mnangagwa is going out of his way to woo all the country’s opposition parties, even parties with not even one council seat much less an MP, with this POLAD is, at first sight, hilarious. Is he like the little girl asking for the ice bucket challenge; is he negotiating with these not aware he does not their support to govern!

A closer examination of the facts reveals the sinister intentions behind Mnangagwa to corral all Zimbabwe’s opposition into POLAD. It is now nearly a year and a half since Mnangagwa was sworn in as president of Zimbabwe and all the confidence and novelty of the new broom sweeping clean has worn off. 

His “Zimbabwe is open for business!” mantra which he was so cocksure will open the floodgate of investors has failed to attract any one. 

By failing to stamp out corruption and blatantly rigging last year’s elections Mnangagwa has confirmed that Zimbabwe is still a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging thugs; same as the Mugabe days, nothing has changed. Investors do not do business with thugs, Mnangagwa should have known that from his days as Mugabe’s henchman. 

There are two reasons Mnangagwa is determined to get Nelson Chamisa to join POLAD:

1. Whilst PM Boris Johnson knows exactly what he has to do to “Get Brexit done!”, for example; the same cannot be said of President Mnangagwa. Of course, Mnangagwa would like to end Zimbabwe’s worsening economic meltdown, he has no clue how to do it. He knows that, if he does not do something to stop the economic rot, his strangle hold on power is becoming increasingly tenuous. 

Mnangagwa is hoping against hope that the opposition leaders in POLAD will come up with the solutions to the country’s serious economic problems, especial Chamisa who has said he has the key to getting the sanctions lifted and economic recovery.

2. Given Zimbabwe will remain a pariah state with or without POLAD, it is almost certain there will be no meaning economic recovery. Mnangagwa’s plan B is to use POLAD to silence the opposition voices and to keep the threatened public demonstration off the streets. 

"It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in,” said USA President Lyndon Johnson in 1971 of a dangerous rival. 

Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because the country has been stuck with the same corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs for the last 39 years; they rigged the elections and thus deny the people the chance to remove them from power. POLAD is Mnangagwa’s insurance that he remains in office until 2023, that no meaningful reforms are implemented and Zanu PF will once again rig the elections.

Mnangagwa has no clue what to do to revive the nation’s ruined economy but we must not underestimate his resolve to retain political power regardless. Zanu PF has rigged elections for the last 39 years and got away with it, the real challenge, ice bucket challenge, is to make sure Zanu PF does not get away with it this time. 

If Mnangagwa has his POLAD then he would certainly get away with yet another rigged elections; he would be throwing a bucket of acid, not icy water, on us! It will be sheer folly on our part to let him do that!

Socrates was wisest, never pretended to know all - we ruled by ignoramus insisting are Mr Know-It-All W Mukori

Here is a tale loaded with lessons for our time! 

“After his service in the war (Athens against Sparta 431BC Peloponnesian war), Socrates devoted himself to his favorite pastime: the pursuit of truth,” wrote pbs.org/empires/thegreeks.

“His reputation as a philosopher, literally meaning 'a lover of wisdom', soon spread all over Athens and beyond. When told that the Oracle of Delphi had revealed to one of his friends that Socrates was the wisest man in Athens, he responded not by boasting or celebrating, but by trying to prove the Oracle wrong.

“So Socrates decided he would try and find out if anyone knew what was truly worthwhile in life, because anyone who knew that would surely be wiser than him. He set about questioning everyone he could find, but no one could give him a satisfactory answer. Instead they all pretended to know something they clearly did not.

“Finally he realized the Oracle might be right after all. He was the wisest man in Athens because he alone was prepared to admit his own ignorance rather than pretend to know something he did not.”

Zimbabwe is well and truly stuck in this economic and political mess because for 39 years and counting the country has been ruled by men and women who claimed to know best but knew nothing. And, worst of all, they have rigged elections so the nation has been stuck with them all these years! 

The curse of “The bombastic Misstra Know-It-All”, as brother Stevie Wonder would say; is that he will never ever admit to failure, ignorance, etc. ever in the face of Mount Everest of evidence!

When the nation finally prised Robert Mugabe at gun point from  state house after 37 years, needed boiling water to take off the binnacle; he was kicking and screaming, “I am the only one competent to rule Zimbabwe!” 

Zimbabwe was a banana republic in every derogatory sense of that phrase! Unemployment had soared to nauseating heights of 90% and so too had poverty. 

Before Mugabe took over the country was the breadbasket of the region. He seized the farms and gave them to his cronies, mostly, and ever since the country has relied of food aid, so impoverish we could not ever pay for it! We are starving in what is for all intent and purposes is the Biblical Garden of Eden. A damning testimonial one insisting he is Misstra Know-It-All!

Mugabe was booted out of office by Mnangagwa and his fellow coup plotters ZDF commander Constantino Chiwenga, Air Marshall Perence Shiri, Major General Sibusiso Moyo and others; supposedly to rescue the country from the economic and political rot and decay. The irony is that these gentlemen were the bulwark of the Zanu PF dictatorship that had kept Mugabe in power against the democratic wishes of the people of Zimbabwe. 

So, whilst many people had expected things to get better after the November 2017 coup, they have since realised it was al wishful thinking. 

That is not to say, Mnangagwa himself had any doubt that he was going to succeed with flying colours where Mugabe had failed. 

“Zimbabwe is open for business!” announced Mnangagwa. He promised “zero tolerance on corruption” and more important of all he promised to hold free, fair and credible elections. He failed to keep any of his promises and thus confirmed Zimbabwe was still a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs. No one wants to do business with thugs! 

Zimbabwe’s economic situation is dire; unemployment is still a nauseating 90%; 34% of the population now lives in extreme poverty. Millions are suffering and hundreds are dying everyday of easily curable ailments because there are no doctors, no nurses, no medicine, no equipment, no electricity, no clean water, no everything. The situation cannot go on like this!

There is talk of yet another coup!

“Military tactician, Vice President Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, has reportedly set the stage for President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s removal from power in 2020,” reported Spotlight Zimbabwe. 

“Senior army officers linked to the VP’s faction and sources inside the presidency, this week revealed that Chiwenga is allegedly going to boot out Mnangagwa from office “at all costs”, following the latter’s attempt to secure a life presidency, and reneging on a gentlemen’s agreement with the former to only rule for one presidential term, amid indications from the just ended ruling Zanu PF 18th annual people’s conference in Goromonzi, that Mnangagwa wants to run unchallenged as Zanu PF candidate in the 2023 presidential elections and beyond.”

Deja vu! 

Mnangagwa came into power on the back of military coup and a rigged elections so, just Mugabe, he is illegitimate. His “Zimbabwe is open for business!” has failed to revive the Zimbabwe economy and the economy has continued with its nose dive. And, just like, Mugabe he is not only refusing to acknowledge his failure but is supergluing himself into state house. It will take another coup or bloody street protests to get this binnacle off!

If Chiwenga was as smart as he now claims to be then why did he, as one of the senior members of the vote rigging Zanu PF junta, impose first Mugabe and now Mnangagwa on the nation all these last 39 years. He is cocksure, just like Mugabe and Mnangagwa, that he will reboot the Zimbabwe economy in no time. In short, he is just another Misstra Know-It-All!

The secret to Socrates’ wisdom was the humility to accept, that regardless how knowledgable he was on a subject, there was always a possibility in one single grain of sand wrong or missing in his vast Sahara Desert of knowledge. Hence the reason why he cross examined everyone and everything in his relentless search for truth and knowledge. 

There is NO secret to Zimbabwe’s economic demise and political paralysis; the country has been stuck in a rut for decades. It was ruled by  corrupt, incompetent and murderous tyrants, without even the common sense to admit they have failed even with all the evidence of their failure piled mountain high before them.

If Zimbabwe is ever to escape from the hell-on-earth the country now finds itself, then we must do something to replace the dictatorship with a health and functioning democratic system of government. We must replace these Misstra Know-It-All tyrants with democrats, who embrace the right of the people to a meaningful say in the governance of the country as a pre-requisite to good governance reaffirmation that leaders are above all else mere mortal and thus fallible. 

"Unity brought development, must celebrate Unity Day!" - but where is the development, where is it N Garikai

Propaganda is the art of presenting what you want people to believe is the truth and the reality, repeating it over and over again, and totally disregard the facts and mountain of evidence to the contrary. Indeed, should even acknowledge the mountain of evidence, twist and distort it if necessary, and insist it proves your case! 

It must be said Zanu PF has certainly mastered the art of propaganda. twist and distort the reality before you  regardless of the Party secretary for information and publicity Simon Khaya Moyo said it was disheartening that no clear programmes have been made to celebrate the important day.

"Unity is the glue to any stability, development and prosperity in political, economic and social terms. The Unity Accord of 22 December 1987 which brought together erstwhile liberation movements of Zanu (PF) and PF Zapu into Zanu-PF and whose respective liberation armies before Independence were Zanla and Zipra, cannot be wished away," said Party secretary for information and publicity Simon Khaya Moyo.

Zimbabwe today is a country with a nauseating unemployment rate of 90%; a WB report said 90% of the population are poor with 34% classified as living in extreme poverty; the country public health has all but collapsed for lack of doctors, nurses, medicine, equipment, power cuts, no running water, etc.

Before independence the country used to be the breadbasket of the region but ever since Zanu PF seized the white farms to give them to party loyalists, mostly, the country has relied on imported food aid. We are starving in a land which, for all intent and purposes, is the Biblical Garden of Eden. Damning testimonial to the country’s failure to govern itself. 

Corrupt is rampant in Zimbabwe. In 2016 the then President Robert Mugabe admitted the country was being “swindled out of US$15 billion in diamond revenue alone!” He never arrested any swindler nor have his successor, Mnangagwa, although he had promised “zero tolerance on corruption”. 

Zanu PF blatantly rigged last year’s elections, but, of course, it insists the elections were free, fair and credible. The regime denied 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote, a very significant number considering Mnangagwa “won” with 2.4 million votes. The authorities failed to produce something even as basic as a verified voters’ roll! 

Zimbabwe is a failed banana republic in every sense of the word. There is rot , decay and hopelessness and death; the country is standing on the edge of a precipice the threat of the country descend into the chaos and instability of the likes of Libya and Syria is real. And yet, true to his task as the party’s chief of propaganda, Khaya-Moyo sees stability, development and prosperity!

Khaya-Moyo is Zimbabwe’s answer to Saddam Hussein’s Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, who announced daily that Iraq was “punishing the American invaders and winning the 2003 war” even when American tanks where inside Baghdad city gates!  

"My information was correct, but my interpretations were not," Saeed al-Sahaf admitted later. 

Well in the case of Khaya-Moyo it must be said here and now that his information on the Zanu PF and PF Zapu Unity Accord is WRONG and his interpretations were damned lies.  

Gukurahundi was a deliberate and calculated genocidal war to destroy PF Zapu, the country’s only other political party with clout to threaten Zanu PF’s hold on power, and create the de facto one-party dictatorship that has ruled the country ever since. 

The dictatorship was born out of brute violence and much bloodshed, over 20 000 innocent civilians were murdered in the Gukurahundi “madness’, as Mugabe later admitted. 

The dictatorship has survive and thrived through brute force and shedding of more innocent blood, over 10 000 more Zimbabweans have been murdered since the signing of the 1987 Unity Accord. 7 were shot dead on 1st August 2018 for protesting another rigged elections and 17 more were gunned down for protesting the soaring cost of living. 

With the usual arrogance and contemptuous disregard for the reality on the ground, Zanu PF has declared 22 December a public holiday to commemorate the signing of the Unity Accord.

"It is most disheartening to note that although December 22 is a public holiday in honour of the Unity Accord there are no visible activities across the country depicting such a political milestone,” complained Khaya Moyo.

The people are poor, they are starving, they are sitting in the dark , have no running water, they suffering and dying of easily curable diseases, etc. What is there to celebrate! 

The signed of the Unity Accord was a disastrous day for Zimbabwe, it marked the death of multiparty democracy and all hope of good governance, and the advent of the corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical de facto one-party, Zanu PF, dictatorship. 

The best chance to breaking the dictatorship’s iron grip on power was during the 2008 to 2013 GNU when Zanu PF was forced to agree to the implementation of democratic reforms designed to dismantle the dictatorship. The late Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends was tasked to implement the reforms. Sadly they took their eyes off the ball and the opportunity was lost. 

Still, the country must redouble its effort to end this curse of dictatorship, more so now with the nation’s stability and survival at stake. Zanu PF must be force to step down so we can finally implement the reforms. Zanu PF must not be allow to remain in office till 2023 because the party will stop meaningful reforms being implemented so it can go on to rig the 2023 elections. That must not be allowed to happen!

Mnangagwa's POLAD, cloaked as unity, will kill democracy just as Mugabe's 1987 Unity Accord N Garikai

What is all this nonsense about people needing political dialogue, to unity, find each other, speak with one voice, etc., etc. In the 1980s Mugabe used the signing of the unity accord between Zanu PF and PF Zapu to not only justify the Gukurahundi massacre itself but the de facto one-party dictatorship that followed. 

Mugabe had always wanted a one-party state, Zanu PF naturally, and used the presence of the dissents to justify crushing the only other political party in the country that stood in his way, PF Zapu. The sheer savagery of the Gukurahundi was aimed at destroying PF Zapu by going after the party’s support base. 

By signing the 1987 unity accord, the late Dr Joshua Nkomo and his friends agreed to have, their party completely dissolved, and they join Zanu PF lock stock and darrel. So Mugabe got what he wanted - the de facto one-party state. He has been pretty ruthless in stopping any meaningful opposition emerging, accusing the political opponents of threatening the unity and peace of the 1987 unity accord.

In 1990, Mugabe tried to have the constitution changed so he could have a de jure; he gave up when there was public outcry against. 

As the main opposition party PF Zapu did a pretty good job of holding Mugabe and his Zanu PF to democratic account. This stopped with the outbreak of the Gukurahundi. Zanu PF used the ongoing military operations to strengthen its hold on power in the 1985 elections and to undermine the country’s democratic institutions and constitution. 

As much as the demise of PF Zapu suited Mugabe’s one-party dictatorship agenda it was a total disaster for the nation’s aspiration to build a democracy. 

The core reason Zimbabwe is in this economic mess; of total economic meltdown, collapse health care, etc.; and political paralysis; having a corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical ruling party on the one hand and on the other a corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless opposition; is because Zimbabwe is a one-party dictatorship. 

Zanu PF has rigged elections to stay in power and 39 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption have left the economy in ruins. And the lack of open debate and democratic space has made it impossible for quality leaders to emerge within the ruling party and the opposition resulting in the political paralysis.

Last year Emmerson Mnangagwa blatantly rigged last year’s elections in line with the de facto one-party state mentality. His claim that the elections were free, fair and credible has to wash especially given the damning reports by EU, Commonwealth and other reputable elections observer teams. Mnangagwa has looked rather foolish claiming election victory when the vote count could not be verified because the regime failed to produce something as basic as voters’ roll.

Mnangagwa has since abandoned his claim that the July 2018 elections were free, fair and credible; to promote his new initiative the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD), a grouping of all his political opponents to “talk and exchange ideas on how to take country forward”. 

He has already got most of the 22 opposition contestants in last year’s presidential race. He is particularly keen to see Nelson Chamisa, the leader of the MDC Alliance. With 1/3 of the MPs to Zanu PF’s 2/3, MDC A is the official opposition party. 

One does not need a degree in politics to see what Mnangagwa is doing with this POLAD, he does not want MDC A to hold him and his Zanu PF government to democratic account in parliament, as will be the norm in a healthy and functioning democracy. MDC A and all the other opposition politicians will air their concerns, criticism, etc. in the informal POLAD setting. 

Ever since the emerging of MDC as the opposition party in 1999 Mugabe has tried all manner of dirty tricks to undermine the party’s effectiveness as an opposition party to his Zanu PF. Mnangagwa will be very pleased with himself the day Chamisa joins POLAD. Mnangagwa recruited former SA President Thabo Mbeki to talk to the MDC A leader on the matter. 

Whatever little contribution MDC A had made in holding Zanu PF to democratic account, it has not been much given the poor quality of the opposition politicians, will seize completely the day Chamisa join POLAD. Mnangagwa will consider it equivalent to Mugabe’s 1987 unity accord achievement. To ordinary Zimbabwe is will be the second time the hope of building a democracy has been snuffed out! Deja vu! 

Video: Zimbabwe politics, discussion with C Mubayiwa 17 December 2019

Zimbabwe politics: discussion with C Mubayiwa 17 December 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEAomXQhK2E

"Zimbabweans matter more than any other" Khupe claims - they didn't during GNU, only No 1 mattered then N Garikai

After meeting Mbeki, Former Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe said, “Our discussions with former President Thabo Mbeki were around how to move this country forward and we realise that we can only move the country forward by uniting as Zimbabweans and speaking with one voice.

“We want everyone to have a better life in this country and this can only come when people come together and start talking to one another. These are the issues we discussed with President Mbeki and we agreed that as political players in this country, let us come together, let us speak with one voice, let us move our country forward because the people of Zimbabwe matter (more) than any other person.”

Zimbabwe’s political players did come together, united and spoke with one voice during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Mai Khupe was deputy Prime Minister for Pete’s sake. Did that help move the country forward? Hell no! 

The primary purpose of the GNU was to implement the democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging elections and stop a repeat of the blatant cheating of March 2008 and the wanton violence during the run off that followed. No even one reform was implemented. 

“MDC leaders were busy enjoying themselves during the GNU, they forgot why they were there!” remarked one SADC diplomat is sheer exasperation at MDC’s failure to get even one reform implemented. 

It is remarkable that the same individuals from the last GNU are the ones clamouring for the formation of the new one. They know no meaningful reforms will ever be implement, given Zanu PF will keep its 2/3 majority in parliament. All these people want is a chance to get back on the gravy train so they can once again sing “The good times are here again!” 

“The people of Zimbabwe matter (more) than any other person.” That is a blatant lie Mai Khupe and you know it. If the people mattered, then you and your MDC friends would have implemented all the democratic reforms during the 2008 GNU when you had the golden opportunity to do so. You failed to get even one reform implemented because you were all busy looking after number one - your self, the people did not matter!

You, Mrs Khupe, and your fellow opposition politicians have participated in the 2013 and then 2018 elections not only knowing fully well that Zanu PF was rigging the elections but worse still, knowing that your participation was giving some modicum of credibility to a flawed, fraudulent and illegal process. 

“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,” confessed David Coltart in his book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of tyranny in Zimbabwe. 

“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.”

Zimbabwe’s opposition politicians have gone from hunting to sleeping with the enemy whilst continuing to run with the hare, the people. The new GNU you are proposing will legitimacy Zanu PF and you, your reward for selling out again, will get a share of the spoils of power. 

The power sharing arrangement you are clamouring for will not move the country one inch out of the mess we are stuck in because, just like the 2008 GNU, not meaningful democratic reforms will be implemented. 

The only way Zimbabwe is ever going to get out of this economic and political mess the country find itself stuck in, has been stuck now for the last 39 years and counting, is to get the democratic reforms implemented. Since Zanu PF cannot be trusted to implement the reforms, it will not reform itself out of office, then the party must be asked to step down so the country can appoint other players who will implement the reforms. 

Neither Zanu PF nor the MDC opposition leaders can take the country out of the mess, they are the ones who dragged the nation into this mess for selfish reasons and are keeping us captive for selfish reasons. If they truly cared about the people, they never tire of reminding us of that, they would have never dragged us into this mess in the first place!

Zimbabwe’s corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF thugs and their paid acolytes, the corrupt opposition sell-outs, must now all go.  Enough is enough.