"We are ready to govern" boast Chamisa - when failed to implement even one reform in 22 years P Guramatunhu

 

"We are ready to govern, we are ready to provide leadership, we are ready to create jobs and arrest inflation. Our government unlike that of Emmerson Mnangagwa is going to deliver joy and happiness to every Zimbabwean. ED cannot win this country's election because we have a superior team compared to his," boasted Nelson Chamisa, President of MDC Alliance, recently.

The problem with Nelson Chamisa is he is just a big-headed clown full of himself and so he does not see the obvious or listen to sound advice. Zanu PF is rigging these elections and MDC is not doing the nation any favours by ignoring this reality!

MDC leaders had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms and end the Zanu PF’s dictatorial powers once and for all during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. They failed to implement even one meaningful reform in five years. Not even one.

SADC leaders who had helped force Mugabe and Zanu PF to agree to the implementation of the reforms at the start of the GNU, begged MDC leaders not to take part in the 2013 elections until reforms were implemented. Their begging fall on deaf ears. MDC have been participating in these flawed and illegal elections since 2013 for the sake of the few gravy train seats Zanu PF has been giving away as bait.

By participating in the flawed elections the opposition have given legitimacy to the vote rigging Zanu PF.  

MDC leaders are asking the people participate in elections with no verified voters roll, where 3 million in diaspora are denied the vote or 37% of the electorate, etc., etc. We are to believe they have devised “Winning In Rigged Elections Strategies (WIRES)” guaranteed to deliver the democratic changes without implementing and reforms.

Of course, none of these WIRES have worked as Zanu PF has blatantly rigged the elections. And after 41 years of rigged election it is insane to keep hoping against reason for a different result.

Indeed, MDC leaders even have the chutzpah to blame SADC leaders – for GNU’s failure to deliver free elections when it was MDC leaders who failed to implement even one reform, the ordinary Zimbabweans – for failing to turnout in numbers to vote although 73% for Tsvangirai in 2008 was not good enough, and of course blame Zanu PF for rigging the elections – the very thing they insisted WIRES would stop!   

Without doubt, the 2008 to 2013 represents the best chance Zimbabwe has ever had in the last 41 years to implement the democratic reforms and thus dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship once and once for all and replace it with a healthy and functioning democratic system of government. It was our get out of jail card. The tragedy is Robert Mugabe bribed Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends with the trappings of high office and they forgot about the reforms.

“Mazivanhu eMDC adzidza kudya anyerere!” (MDC leaders have learned to enjoy the gravy-train good life, they will not rock the boat!) Zanu PF cronies boasted during the GNU when asked why MDC were not implementing the reforms.

Morgan Tsvangirai and company were busy enjoying the gravy-train good life the forgot to implement even one meaningful democratic reform; they failed to use the get out of jail card. Worse still, for a share of the spoils of power, MDC leaders are the ones insisting we do not need reforms and free and fair elections.

"We are ready to govern, we are ready to provide leadership!” Yeah right! How cynical! So, MDC is ready to govern if Zanu PF can be made to step aside; MDC will not use the electoral mandate given by the people to implement the reforms and will stop anyone else forcing Zanu PF to implement the reforms by participating in flawed elections to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy.

Chamisa and his MDC friends’ promise to provide good leadership in the post Zanu PF era is as meaningless and cynical as Moses promising good leadership to the Children of Israel once they reach The Promised Land. The number one problem of the Israelites was how to get out of Egypt and in Zimbabwe’s case our Moses will not perform any of the wonders to force Zanu PF to implement the reforms because MDC leaders are enjoying a share of spoils of power from the Zanu PF dictatorship!

If Zimbabweans are serious about ending the Zanu PF dictatorship and the curse of bad governance it has brought with it; then they must accept the political reality that MDC leaders are not going to implement any democratic reforms now or ever and search for competent men and women to carry out this key task. MDC leaders’ failure to get even one reform implemented in 22 years was not a mistake; Chamisa and company are corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent.

ZACC boast of "great strides in stamping out corruption" for seizing US$700m - super slow applaud, 6% gold looted in one decade alone! W Mukori

 

“The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) said it had seized property worth over $700 million,” reported Zimeye.

“The anti-corruption body has also filed 18 unexplained wealth order case files with the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).”

I could not hear myself think from the super slow thunderous applauding; no one with half a brain would not feel insulted by this!

In 2016 Robert Mugabe revealed that the country was “swindled out of US$15 billion in diamond revenue alone”! He never arrested one diamond swindler or recover one dollar of the swindled bounty.

We all know the looting has continued because the then Minister of Finance, Patrick Chinamasa, told parliament in 2017 that government was only receiving 1/6 of the expected revenue from diamond mining.

When Mnangagwa took over from Mugabe following the military coup of November 2017, he promised “zero tolerance to corruption!” Over four years later, he too is yet to arrest one swindler and/or recover one swindled dollar.

We know the swindlers have extended their looting activities to other areas such as gold smuggling, fuel procurement and even donated aid to help corona virus victims has been looted. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor, Dr John Mungudya, said Zimbabwe was losing US$1.2 billion per year to gold smugglers.  

So the US$700 million ZACC has recovered is 0.6% of what the gold smugglers loot in just one year or 0.05% of what Mugabe admitted back in 2016 was being swindled in diamonds alone!

the looted gold  Speaking at the commemoration of the International Anti-Corruption Day in Harare on Thursday, the Commission’s chairperson, Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo, said ZACC was on course in its mission to eradicate corruption in the country. She said:

“It is with great pride that I pronounce that Zimbabwe has made great strides in ensuring maximum cooperation is given to state parties during Mutual Legal Assistance Requests” ZACC chairperson, Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo, announced at the commemoration of the International Anti-Corruption Day in Harare.

“The fight against corruption is real and it takes tireless efforts and undivided dedication for us to totally weed out corruption.”

ZACC has recovered US$700 million constituting 6% of the gold smuggled in one out of four decades of Zanu PF misrule! And we, the people, millions of whom are now living in abject poverty because of the wholesale looting of the nation’s wealth, are expected to applaud ZACC for the “great strides” in stamping out corruption!

I have said it once and will say it again; Zanu PF ruling elite appointed ZACC officials and the same ruling elite are the Godfathers of all the corruption and wholesale looting of the nation’s wealth.

It is no secret that each of the country’s security arms; the Police, Army, CIO and Prison Services; have a diamond mining concession in Marange and Chiadzwa. The concession allows the holder to mine for diamonds without having to declare the quality and quantity of diamonds, to whom they are sold and for how much and who benefited from the sell; as revealed in a 2012 parliamentary report chaired by the late Zanu PF MP, Edward Chindori Chininga. In short, the mining concession are a licence to loot!

A Canadian based NGO specialising in diamonds reported that Robert Mugabe earned US$2 billion plus in 2012 alone! All the Zanu PF bigwigs are benefiting from the looting of Zimbabwe’s resources.

Other countries like many of the Arab States have built beautiful new cities out of the dessert and have investment portfolios worth hundreds of trillion dollars from their oil bonanza. We, in Zimbabwe, have absolutely nothing to show for our diamonds, gold, etc. Nothing!

Indeed, our diamonds, gold, etc. have become a real curse to the nation. Zanu PF ruling elite and their foreign and local backers will never ever risk losing political power by allowing the country to hold free, fair and credible elections. They will stand to lose the fresh loot if corruption was stamped out, to lose their amassed loot and, in many cases, they dread their murderous past being dragged out into the open.

If we are serious about stamping out corruption then we must first be serious about implementing the democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections. As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and incompetent thugs who continue to use the vast looted wealth to bankroll their vote rigging juggernaut to secure their iron grip on power; nothing will change. 

The pressure for a competent and accountable government is greater now than ever given the extra health and economic hardships brought by the corona virus. The global changes brought by climate changes will bring new challenges. 

Zimbabwe cannot afford yet another rigged and meaningless elections in 2023. If reforms are not implemented before the elections then the process must be declared null and void! Zimbabwe cannot afford another one of MDC A's foolishness of participating in the flawed elections to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy.  

Omicron push covid-19 cases soaring 5 000% in a week - with it pressure to ensure 2023 elections are free N Garikai

 As of 6 December 2021, Zimbabwe had 141 601 cumulated covid-19 cases, 2 555 new cases up from the 50 or less per day of last week.

The country has vaccinated 3.8 million and 2.8 million with the first and second jab respectively. As recent as July this year the Zanu PF government was promising to have the 10 million herd immunity double jabbed by the end of the year. The soaring number of cases would be worrying if had some line of defence; it is sickening when we have none.

“Health and childcare minister and vice President Constantino Chiwenga has confirmed that the new Omicron variant was already in the country in what could spoil Christmas festivities as the country is likely to announce tight lockdown measures to curb the further spread of the deadly disease,” reported Zimeye.

This is rich giving VP Chiwenga had assured the nation the country had measures in place to stop the Omicron variant getting into the country; the buffoon was just talking nonsense, as usual. Zimbabwe has not been testing for the virus nowhere near as vigorously as it should ever since the outbreak. Of course, if you do not test the number of cases and deaths will be low but at the price of not tracking and containing the virus.

No doubt, the 2 555 reported cases is but the ears of the hippo the rest of the beast is hiding in the muddy water and we are just blundering along hoping against hope that the variant will not be deadly.

The covid-19 pandemic has hit the whole world but those nations whose economy was a mess and health care services in shambles have suffered the most. There is no deny that Zimbabwe is one of those countries who economy was a mess and health care services had largely collapsed after 41 years and counting of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship.

Corona virus must help focus the nation’s mind; Zimbabwe must implement the democratic reforms to ensure the 2023 elections are free, fair and credible – the only sure way to end the curse of bad governance. As things stand not even one token reform was implemented since the 2018 rigged elections; the 2023 elections are set to be a repeat of the 2018, 2013, 2008, etc.

MDC leaders had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. They wasted the opportunity and failed to get even one reform implemented in five years. Not even one reform!

MDC leaders and the other opposition opportunists have insisted in participating in the flawed elections giving vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy. Zanu PF has offered the opposition a few gravy train seats to entice them to participate.

If Zimbabwe has under pressure to double our efforts to end the curse of given the country’s economic and political mess two years ago; the corona virus pandemic has made our situation even worse, we must redouble our efforts to make sure there is real political change in 2023.

Since it is too late for any meaningful democratic reforms to be implement before the 2023 elections. And there is no stopping Zanu PF holding the flawed and illegal elections. There signs are MDC and the usual opposition suspects will participate in the flawed elections. We must make sure the flawed election process is condemned and no legitimate government emerge of it.

If the 2023 elections go ahead with no reforms in place then it would be better for Zimbabwe to have no legitimate government and have an interim administration setup whose primary task will be to finally implement the democratic reforms and break the vicious cycle of rigged elections and bad governance Zanu PF dictatorship has fostered on the nation.

"Vote for donkey just to be rid of Mnangagwa" - knee-jerk doomed to fail in 2023 as in 2008 N Garikai

 It was Professor Jonathan Moyo who said in 2008 that, “If Zimbabweans were given the choice between voting for Robert Mugabe or a donkey. They would vote for the donkey!”

The allegory illustrated four key points:

1. the nation was so desperate to be rid of Mugabe they did not care whom they were voting for to replace him

2. of course, the nation is in this untenable position precisely because we were not as diligent and through and hence the reason we ended up stuck with this corrupt, incompetent, murderous and to crown it all, vote rigging Zanu PF dictatorship. 

3. in the 2008 election, it was self-evident we had not learned the about be diligent and through in electing our leaders; for in our desperation we did, for all intent and purpose, vote for a donkey in the March 2008 vote, the only free vote we have ever had.

4. As a nation, we really need to sit up and pay attention because we are not getting out of this man-made hell-on-earth Zanu PF has landed us into, until we stop panicking, implement the democratic reforms to ensure free and fair elections and elect competent leaders.

Points 1) and 2) above are self-evident and need no further explaining and so will focus on the remaining two points.

The March 2008 vote is the nearest Zimbabwe has ever got to holding free, fair and credible elections, SADC leaders had pressured Zanu PF to accept a number of democratic reforms. 

However when Emmerson Mnangagwa and his fellow Joint Operation Command Junta released that Zanu was heading for a resounding defeat, they stopped ZEC declaring the results. 

The Junta ordered a recount that lasted six weeks, counting five million votes. Morgan Tsvangirai’s 73%, by Mugabe’s Freudian slip, vote count was whittled down to 47% to justify the run-off. 

The Zanu PF vote rigging machine swung back into operation for the 2008 run-off and has remained back in service ever since. For Zanu the run-off was about punishing the voters for having rejected the party in the March vote. And punish they did; Zimbabwe witnessed the worst wanton election violence. 

SADC leaders refused to recognise Zanu PF as the legitimate government given the blatant cheating and wanton violence in the 2008 elections. SADC leaders forced Mugabe to agree to the implementation of a raft of democratic reforms designed to restore the individual freedoms and rights including the right to free elections. 

The task of implementing the reforms were left to Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends. They failed to implement even one reform in five years confirming why electing him and his party had been such a total disaster for the nation. 

It was USA ambassador to Zimbabwe 2004 to 2007, Chris Dell, who described Morgan Tsvangirai as “a flawed and indecisive character who will become an albatross round the nation’s neck if he ever got into power!” 

If USA Ambassador Chris Dell was able to see Morgan Tsvangirai for what he is, a flawed and indecisive character who would be a burden to the nation; the people of Zimbabwe should have come to the same conclusion too by 2008, if they had been diligent. 

Worse still, why are the people of Zimbabwe still following MDC leaders even now in 2021 given the evidence of MDC leaders’ corruption and breathtaking incompetence especially during the 2008 to 2013 GNU? 

The EU, the Commonwealth, the Americans and even SADC leaders have all advised that Zimbabwe should first implement the democratic reforms before going ahead with the elections. MDC leaders have insisting in participating in the elections with no reforms, first the 2013 then 2018 and now 2023 elections. 

Zanu PF has blatantly rigged the 2013, 2018 and is set to rig the 2023 elections too. All MDC leaders have done by participating in these flawed elections was to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy. The MDC have become the milestone dragging the nation into the crashing abyss and this must be stopped.

Unemployment has soared to 80% plus in 2006/7 during the hyperinflation years and dragging the economy down with it and has never recovered. Basic services such as education and health care have all but collapsed. A 2020 WB report showed that 49% of our people were living in extreme poverty. 

It is tempting to go for the usual knee-jerk reaction of “voting for the donkey just to be rid of Emmerson Mnangagwa.” This failed to get rid of Mugabe in 2008 and will similarly fail to get rid of Mnangagwa in the 2023 elections. 

Indeed, participating will give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy instead. After 41 years of rigged elections, this is insane and must stop.  

The 2023 elections will go ahead with no reform in place; there is very little the ordinary Zimbabwean can do to stop Zanu PF going ahead and MDC and the rest of Zimbabwe’s sell-out opposition participating. 

What the people can and should do is demand that there should be no elections without implementing the reforms and refuse to have anything to do with these flawed and illegal elections. Zimbabweans must demand that these flawed elections must be declared null and void in advance because the process in being rigged in advance.

Fire victim Munatsi "genuinely wanted Zimbabwe to succeed" - phoenix will never rise, not whilst corruption burns fiercely W Mukori

 “I am saddened to hear that Doug Munatsi has passed on in a fire tragedy.

“He was one of the few people around President Mnangagwa who genuinely wanted to see Zimbabwe succeed, and at many times felt let down by his bosses.

“We used to argue about politics but we remained cordial and respectful.” wrote journalist, Hopewell Chin’ono on his FaceBook account.

If he was "one of the few people around President Mnangagwa who genuinely wanted to see Zimbabwe succeed, and at many times felt let down by his bosses"! One can only say, this will explain why the country is in this mess - there have been too few people genuinely interested in see Zimbabwe rise from the ashes like the phoenix after the decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. 

Or to put it more bluntly; there is no rising from the ashes like the phoenix for Zimbabwe whilst Zanu PF remain in power because the  fires of gross mismanagement and rampant corruptions are burning just as fiercely now as ever. Those who still think Mnangagwa will bring about change are naive, to say the least. 

Zimbabwe’s political system is rotten to the core. It really is naive to expect Mnangagwa and his cronies; who risked all, during the war of independence, the 2017 military coup, etc. to  build of the de facto one party dictatorship and are its Godfathers and principal beneficiaries; to, of their own free will, give up absolute power and all the benefits and dismantle the dictatorship. That will never happen. 

And as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state, a Banana Republic, ruled by corrupt, incompetent and murderous tyrants who have to rig election to stay in power; there will be no meaningful change and economic recovery. None! 

After 41 years and counting of rigged elections and Zanu PF misrule; the people of Zimbabwe must bite the bullet and demand the implementation of the democratic reforms, the prerequisite for free, fair and credible elections. Nothing of any substance can ever be accomplished in Zimbabwe as long as the country remains a pariah state. Absolutely nothing!

COSATU to engage SA government on behalf of Zimbabweans needing ZSP - stop kicking can down road P Guramatunhu

 “The Congress of South African Unions (Cosatu) has revealed plans to engage the government on behalf of Zimbabweans that are likely to be deported due to expiry of the Special Dispensation Permits (ZSP) on December 31 2022,” reported News Day.

“Around 300 000 Zimbabweans are in South Africa as holders of ZSP.”

Whilst one rightly join in expressing one's gratitude to COSATU for the assistance in this matter; the truth is we are just kicking the can down the road. We need to address the underlying causes of Zimbabwe's economic and political mass migration - rigged elections and bad governance. 

If the 2023 Zimbabwe elections are rigged; as is now 100% certain to happen, given there have not been any meaningful reforms implemented since the rigged 2018 elections; then there will be a new wave of Zimbabwean economic and/or political refugees. 

What Zimbabwe needs desperately is help to end the country’s curse of rigged elections and bad governance. 

Zanu PF rigged the 2018 elections and SADC leaders endorse the process as “substantially free and fair” and thus giving vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy. And yet it was public knowledge that ZEC had failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll, for example. The election process was a farce since nothing could be traced or verified. 

No South African in his/her right mind would accept the blatant rigging by Zanu PF happening in SA. And yet South Africans turned a blind eye when it happened in Zimbabwe.

For the 2023 elections, Zanu PF has already announced that the party will deny the three million plus Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote, “until the economic sanctions imposed by the West on Zanu PF leaders are lifted!” Mnangagwa had promised the vote after the 2018 elections but now has changed his mind. 

There are 2 million or more Zimbabweans in the SADC countries alone and none of these country have imposed any sanctions on Zanu PF leaders. So why are Zimbabweans in SADC countries being denied the vote too? This is just a feeble Zanu PF excuse and must be dismissed with the contempt it rightly deserve. 

President Mnangagwa was declared the winner of the 2018 elections with 2.4 million or 50.8% of the cast votes. The 3 million diaspora vote is clearly a very significant figure, 37% of the potential 8 million voters. 

How can the 2023 election but free, fair and credible when one contestant, Zanu PF, is allowed to cherry pick the electorate and deny 37% plus of the potential electorate the vote?

Admittedly, Zimbabweans have been our own worst enemy in our fight for free, fair and credible elections. There is no denying that Zimbabwe had its best ever golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms and dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Sadly the MDC leaders, who were tasked to carry out the task, sold out big time and failed to implement even one meaningful reform in five years. 

Whilst everyone else, including SADC leaders, have advised that Zimbabwe must postpone elections until meaningful reforms are implemented. It is really frustrating that it is none other than Zimbabwe’s opposition opportunists who have insisted in having the elections with no reforms.

By participating in these flawed and illegal elections, the corrupt and incompetent opposition have been giving vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy. 

"Right now we are trying to help comrades with the ZSP issue. It's not looking good, especially because the government has already made a declaration… but we'll try to see if there's a way to get an extension at least," said COSATU's International relations secretary Sonia Mabunda-Kaziboni.

What will help the people of Zimbabwe greatly is for COSATU to engage:

1. the SA government to meaningful address the problems of rigged elections and bad governance in Zimbabwe and stop glossing over the problem. It is inexcusable that SA, a country that has successfully held free, fair and credible elections since 1994, should endorse blatantly rigged elections as having “gone well!”

2. Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU), COSATU’s sister organisation in Zimbabwe, and ask them why they have continued to give their blind support to the MDC regardless of the overwhelming evidence of the party is now the one helping perpetuate the Zanu PF dictatorship. 

Yes Zimbabweans in SA need help with their ZSP issues but most important of all the whole nation needs help ending the nightmare of rigged elections and bad governance! Nothing of substance can be accomplished in Zimbabwe until we cure ourselves of the curse of rigged elections. Absolutely nothing!

Chamisa calling for dialogue following murder of MDC activist - implement reforms, you hypocrite N Garikai

 The sheer hypocrisy and duplicity of MDC leaders when it comes to dealing with the thorny issue of Zimbabwe’s political culture of violence, never seize to infuriate me!

“That’s an issue of impunity and fertilises the breakdown of security of the person and security of the citizen," said Nelson Chamisa.

"We have so many cases of so many people, who have been attacked like this over the past years and how do you kill  somebody like a fly like that?"

"There is no shame or sense of accountability on the part of those responsible.

"This is one of many cases we face as opposition and human rights defenders who continue to be treated in such a manner.”

Chamisa was speaking of the murder of a Gutu MDC activist, Nyasha Mawere, by Zanu PF thugs. Nyasha was attended by his assailants for attend a rally address by Chamisa. The names of the three assailants were given to the Police but, as usual, there have been no arrests. 

During the 2008 elections, over 500 innocent Zimbabweans were murdered and hundreds of thousands were beaten and/or raped and millions were subjected to all manner of harassment and abuse. The elections was a watershed in that the nation witnessed some of the worst wanton violence in the country’s history.

The heinous crimes were committed by Zanu PF youths and war veterans, as the foot soldiers, backed up by the Police, Army, CIO and Prison Services personal who carried out the heavy duty stuff of abducting and killing. This was a Zanu PF instigated “Operation Mavhotera ani!” (Operation Whom did you vote for!) to punish the people for daring to vote for the MDC in the earlier, March 2008 vote. 

Of course, none of the perpetrators of the wanton 2008 violence were ever arrested and faced justice. The Police, Army, etc. were and still are to this day captured by Zanu PF; the Police, Army, etc. are nothing but a department of Zanu PF there to serve the party’s selfish interest of no regime change. 

So Nelson Chamisa is right to moan about the culture of impunity and no sense of shame on the part of those responsible for upholding the rule of law and protecting the sanctity of human life. 

Nelson Chamisa and his MDC friends are shameless hypocrites for three reasons:

1. MDC had the golden opportunity during the 2008 to 2013 GNU to implement the democratic reforms which would have dismantled the Zanu PF dictatorship, end the party’s strangle hold on the Police, Army and all the other state institutions and restore the individual freedoms and rights including the right to free elections and the right to life. They failed to implement even one reform in five years because Mugabe bribe them. They forgot about the reforms because they had their snouts in the feeding trough.

2. Everyone has argued that Zimbabwe must implement the reforms first before holding elections. It is none other than MDC leaders who have stubbornly insisted on having elections with no reforms. Zanu PF has been offering a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition to participate and MDC and company have found the bait irresistible. Mnangagwa has increases the bait by creating POLAD, a superfluous political body to reward all presidential candidates who endorsed him as the legitimate winner of the rigged 2018 elections.  

3. By participating in these flawed and illegal elections, MDC and company are giving legitimacy to the vote rigging Zanu PF. Of course it is an outrage that the country’s fight to end the Zanu PF dictatorship and the corse of bad governance is now being frustrated by MDC who then have the chutzpah to pontificate over suffering and deaths of the victims of their blatant betrayals.

Yes, Zanu PF have created and ruthlessly retained this de facto one party dictatorship. However, we cannot deny that the 2008 to 2013 GNU was our get out of jail card which Morgan Tsvangirai and his mates failed to use by implementing the raft of democratic reforms to dismantle the dictatorship. 

We can evoke the get out of jail card by demanding the implementation of the reforms before elections and it is MDC leaders who are refusing to do so under the pretext they have “winning in rigged elections strategies!” All nonsense of course because none of these strategies have worked and after 41 years of rigged elections the insanity must be stopped. 

"There is the concept of always sitting  around a fireplace as a family to look at issues and if that fails, we always invite a neighbour,” continued Chamisa.

It was SADC who facilitated the 2008 to 2013 GNU and MDC failed to implement even one reform in five years because MDC leaders are corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent. Another GNU will accomplish nothing, not as long as the same corrupt and incompetent Zanu PF and MDC leaders are allowed to play leading roles.  

Zimbabwe cannot afford yet another meaningless election process just to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy and another five more years in power. We have the get out of jail card, we must evoke it by demanding reforms before elections. 

Just because MDC and Zanu PF leaders have proven to be corrupt and incompetent beyond the pale does not mean no one else can implement the reforms. We just need competent men and women to implement the reforms and not these hypocrites; the reforms themselves are not rocket science.