"We will reverse indigenisation laws and create empowerment
laws for the majority of the people of Zimbabwe," said Tsvangirai.
I thought MDC had spent the last three days deciding on the party’s
policies to put to the electorate in the coming elections. Instead of clear
policies we are back to semantics instead of Zanu PF’s “indigenisation” laws
the nation will have “empowerment” laws; the nation knows the former laws and
but do not have the foggiest idea what the latter laws say.
Last week MDC was talking of democratic “alignments” as contrast
to democratic reforms called for in the GPA. The party has yet to explain what
the difference is although they insist there is a difference.
Tsvangirai bemoaned "lack of transparency in the distribution
of wealth in Zimbabwe".
And yet he is the one who gave the Zanu PF Chiadzwa diamond
operations a clean bill of health and campaigned to have the ban to sell the
diamond lifted. The ban was imposed for human rights violations and for lack of
transparency in the mining operations.
Minister Biti is on record saying government is not getting any
revenue from the sale of Chiadzwa diamonds. And yet Mugabe and his cronies reported
earned $ 2 billion in 2012 alone. Worse still, the diamond wealth is certainly
going to be used to finance Zanu PF terror machine in the coming election!
Tsvangirai’s breath taking incompetence is the one thing that has saved
the Zanu PF dictatorship from being dismantled and now it is now flexing its
dictatorial muscles - harassing, arresting people right, left and centre. The
beatings, rapes and, God forbid, murders and yet to come!
6 comments:
@ Zvenyika
What I am doing right now is holding Tsvangirai to account and teaching the rest of Zimba-bweans to do the same. It is people like you whose blind loyalty to leaders regardless how incompetent or what neurotic tyrants they happen to be that landed the nation in this mess. Unless these people learn the lesson this nation will never get out of this hell-hole.
There are 29 political parties to challenge MDC this election but that will not change anything because as long as we have an electorate that cannot distinguish the difference between an incompetent leader from a competent one; vanongo kuvhirira zvose mavhu namarara, the country is going nowhere!
@ Makate
I agree and the electorate should learn to distinguish one from the other otherwise the nation will never ever get out of this mess.
A gullible electorate is worse for democracy and good governance than having a tyrant Mu-gabe or an incompetent and indecisive Tsvangirai is State House because with such an elec-torate one guaranteed they will elect a tyrant or an incompetent and having elected one they will struggle to get rid of him!
@ Yepec
I have said it before and will say it again, the reasons MDC are giving for delaying the elec-tions will not change the Copac constitution or anything else to because none of those chang-es will ever be implemented. The only meaningful security sector reforms, for example, will entail changing the just approved Copac constitution which is NOT going to happen.
We are not going to have free and fair elections contrary to what PM Tsvangirai said before the referendum. And so we may just as well get on with the elections and not waste time on one of PM Tsvangirai's stupid schemes that will deliver nothing!
You trouble Yepec is that you are thick. The same thing has to be repeated to you over and over again and still it does not sink in. Tsvangirai is an incompetent, flawed and indecisive character whose blundering incompetence has costed the nation the chance to bring about meaningful democratic change and thus good governance.
Dear Lord, I know there is no shame is being thick but did You have to make Yepec so thick that he destined to comprehend absolutely nothing!
@ Oscar
Is your confidence the same confidence the nation had in Mugabe in 1980 that he would lead the nation to greatness? The same confidence the nation had in PM Tsvangirai in 2008 when they voted for him in droves confident he would deliver democratic change. The nation displayed the same confidence in voting for the Copac constitution confident it would deliver ”free and fair elections and a new Zimbabwe” as PM Tsvangirai had promised. Because if that is the same confidence you too are talking about then it is otherwise called wishful thinking because it is not founded on reason.
An electorate susceptible to wishful thinking and not reason is a more serious threat to democracy and good governance than a tyrant because they are almost certain to elect a tyrant and, having elected one, are they are unequal to the task to remove him!
If the main argument why the voters registration exercise is to be started afresh is because the just finished registration was "arbitrary and patchy". I am not saying that it was not arbitrary and patchy; God knows, we all know why some people will have gone to great lengths to ensure that chaos reigned! But since it is the same body and same people who will be task to do this again; how is Senator Coltart going to ensure that it is done properly.
If the supervisors were there then why did they not do step in and do their bit and not leave it until the last minute.
If the just finish exercise had been done properly then sure everyone would accept that there call for it to be repeated again would be unreasonable. If the Copac constitution does stipulate a "mandatory 30-day registration" after the act is signed regardless of when the last registration was done, in this case with days. If it does then "If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience — by experience," as Charles Dickens might say.
The only valid reason why the elections should be delayed is for the voter registration to be done properly but since there is no guarantee this will ever happen (MDC should have implemented all the reforms for this to happen) then it is pointless delaying the elections! Giving MDC politicians another two or three months on the gravy train is not a valid reason for delaying the elections. They have been useless and they must go. Join the 90% unemployed!
@ Chimbwido
"Mugabe and his government is in control of the diamonds and uranium (commercial farms, houses, mines, everything) of Zimbabwe for now," you said. You are right there, it is Mugabe and his government or cronies and not the people of Zimbabwe who own everything in Zimbabwe. We both agree on something for once - that there is looting in Zimbabwe at a grant scale.
The $2 billion a year was from the sale of Marange diamonds alone and you are angry with me because the sum is so small, chicken feed. Well if one adds all the money being looted from the farms, mines, dodge contracts with the Chinese, etc., etc.; the money must add to hundreds if not thousands of billions of dollars!
But there lies the weakness of the beast; this level of looting is simply unsustainable. You are right Mugabe owns everything "for now"! Just as he has and you have escaped justice for all the blood of innocent Zimbabweans you lot have murdered over the 33 years "for now"!
One of these fine days; Zimbabwe’s wealth will be given back to its rightful owners – the people of Zimbabwe. And you Chimbwido will finally get to keep your date with the hangman! I gave you my word and I am not one to fail; not even for $2 billion!
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