With the deadline of January 2014 for foreigners to handover 51%
of their shares looming; the looters were getting as excited as hyenas at the
smell of blood. So Minister Nhema has been forced to step in and hold back the
hyenas. So the Minister told the concerned foreign business owners that they
should not entertain individuals who seek partnerships or takeovers without going
through the National Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Board (Nieeb).
“We are a business community, which should follow proper
business procedures and maintain sanity in our country,” the Minister said.
Minister Nhema what you are doing is called looting. No business
school will teach you that anyone could ever prosper from reaping where they
did not sow. So what “proper business procedures” are you wittering about!
Unemployment is seating at a nauseating 85% plus, the Zimbabwe economy
is in dare straits and the Zimbabwe government is broke following the reckless
spending by Mugabe to pay for the vote rigging operations. Zimbabwe should be
bending over backwards to keep the few businesses still operating in the
country, to attract new investors and to attract financial help. Instead Mugabe
and Zanu PF are kissing goodbye to any chance of economic recovery by
continuing to pursue the country’s looting policies in the thin disguise of
indigenisation.
Zimbabwe
is in a deep hole. When you are in a hole; stop digging! None of the foreign
business owners and would-be investors and financers will be assured the
appointment of NIEEB, a board to supervise the looting.
50 comments:
@ whichfool
It was MDC's failure to get the democratic reforms implemented that got us into this mess. And it was all because of their breath-taking incompetence tampered with greed.
It would be an insult to the suffering masses of Zimbabwe if Germany and/or Australia were to grant Makuvise or Zwambila asylum and reward MDC for being incompetent and corrupt. They must go back to Zimbabwe and face the music they helped compose.
@ Yepec
What is at issue here is that the GPA, for all its many shortcomings, still provided many opportunities to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. Opportunities that were all wasted because of Tsvangirai and MDC's breath-taking incompetence tampered with greed. If it was not for idiots like you Yepec who cheered Tsvangirai all the way the nation could have avoided this mess by rejecting the rubbish Copac constitution in the referendum for example.
You have failed to see Tsvangirai for the blundering buffoon he is, even now with all the overwhelming evidence before you, because you have your head buried in Tsvangirai's backside. As a nation we can not move on whilst idiots like you keep distracting the people bubbling endlessly about nonsense. It is therefore imperative that someone kicks you in the backside just to shut you up.
You post your nonsense on this site and I will expose you for the moron you are; that is my promise to you!
I must admit I am one of the millions across the globe who have been disappointed by Aung San Suu Kyi's indifference to the plight of the Rohingya people.
"People forget that even as an opposition leader I am the leader of 44 MPs in a legislature of over 600, and yet they expect me to be able to do the things that only government really has the right or authority to do," was her excuse for doing nothing. What a feeble excuse!
If she really believes in democracy, she awarded the Nobel Price because the world believed she is a champion for democracy and human rights, then she should also know that one does not need to wait until they are president to up against serious human rights violations. Her party has 44 MPs - 44 voices in parliament - and yet they have been as quite as a grave on the chaos and murders being visited onto the Rohingya people!
Aung San Suu Kyi is nothing but a typical fair-weather liberation idealist who loudly condemned the injustice of the king whilst they are outside the palace with the masses but as soon as they are admitted into the palace, and have the chance to push for meaningful change, they have nothing but praise for the king and the status quo!
Myanmar's Military Junta and the thugs who have been terrorizing the Rohingya people will have nothing to fear from the election of Aung San Suu Kyi as president. She is talking of restoring the rule of law but it is just that talk - she does not have the political will to carry that through!
@ ACasey
It is the Buddhist who form A S S Kyi's political base; the very people who are committing all these serious human rights violations against the Rohingya people. If it had been the other way round, of course, she would have come out with all guns blazing! She is a political opportunist and a hypocrite.
@ Tendekayi
As long as you are not trying to stifle debate in the name of unity then I am behind you 100%.
On this site, you will find many CIO agents trying their best to brainwash everybody; someone has to tell them they are nothing but sell-outs who would sell their own mothers for a price and be proud they had a mother to sell.
You will also find MDC supporters who still support Tsvangirai blindly even in the face of all the evidence of his blundering incompetence. Some one has to tell them that they are morons because only a moron is incapable of learning from their past mistakes.
Of course, you are free to consider calling a sell-out a sell-out or a moron a moron name calling. I would say that is calling a spade a spade because calling it something else is, frankly, being naïve. And it is because we have been very naïve that led us to having a tyrant and an idiot for national leaders and landing us in this political and economic mess.
We have a lot of political sell-outs and morons out there; we must deal with them or the nation will remain stuck in this hell-hole!
That may well be so but these two, Makuvise and Zwambila, are certainly not fearing for their lives other than that after five years of unparalleled luxuries on the gravy train they are scarred they will not be able to cope with the economic hardships of no water, no electricity, collapsed health service, etc.
With unemployment seating at a nauseating 85%, they know they will be returning home to join the army of the unemployed!
If MDC leaders had not taken their eyes off the ball and implemented the democratic reforms Zimbabwe would be a totally different place. These MDC leaders landed us in this mess and it would be wrong for Germany or Australia to provide these corrupt politicians a bolt hole whilst the victims of their incompetence are left to suffer the consequences alone!
@ myekeleni
The sanctions are there because Mugabe rigged the elections. You should not confuse the vote rigging with MDC officials applying for asylum.
Mugabe rigged the elections, that is a fact. If he did not then why has he failed to release the voters roll, it is now six months late! We all know it is the smoking gun that will prove beyond doubt that Mugabe rigged the elections.
Zimbabwe is going nowhere until the nation has a democratically elected government and those who thought otherwise are once again being proven wrong. Mugabe rigged the elections, he is therefore illegitimate and he must go so that the country can finally hold democratic elections.
As for the MDC leaders, they are the ones who, through their breath-taking incompetence tampered by greed, failed to implement the reforms necessary for free and fair democratic elections. They must all go back to Zimbabwe and share in the suffering their incompetence has brought on the nation.
@bodo-kwete
Who is not corrupt in Zimbabwe? If you have the evidence of Tsvangirai "stashing wealth" then you must also have of evidence of the wealth Mugabe, Gono, etc. have stolen over the years. Whatever Tsvangirai has stolen it is a mole hill compared to mountain range Zanu PF leaders have stolen.
People like me are sick to the back-teeth to hear some one blubbering about a mole-hill but saying nothing of the mountain before them.
@ VaMugabe Chipo
So that is all a paid CIO sell-out has to say on the matter! I am please this Zanu PF dictatorship is on its last legs and the nation can finally do the spring-cleaning postponed these last 33 years - starting with these murderous CIOs.
You must know that you will not be able to hide behind the stupid name VaMugabe Chipo Chamwari. We only have to catch one CIO agent and he will the names of his/her fellow agents, their pen-names, what they have been up to, who paid them, everything down to who murdered who when and where. It is in the nature of rats to drag all the other rats with it when it is in trouble. Mugabe himself will disown you when the going gets tough!
Zanu PF is imploding the centre can no longer hold but like the idiot you are, you can not see it. It is me who should be telling you "Please use your brain!" And I have been doing just that but of course when it comes to brain, you have certainly do not much of that!
Mugabe chipo chaMwari! Which God? How can a murderous tyrant be a gift of the Living God! Stop this blasphemy!
@ Chimbwido
Yepec is brain dead, poor fellow! Well we cannot afford to let morons like him led the nation astray with their nonsense. So, yes, I will be kicking him the backside METAPHORICALLY.
As for Zanu PF being "unstoppable"; we both know that is wishful thinking on your part. The dictatorship is imploding. To be sure he "won" the elections Mugabe throw all caution to the wind; the vote rigging was blatant and, worse still, he bankrupted the nation to pay for the vote rigging operations. Which part of bankrupt do you not understand!
Of course, Mugabe understands that the nation is bankrupt. The only reason he will let this drag own is firstly, because he does not care about the suffering he is inflicting on the nation. Second, it is not in the nature of a tyrant to save but to destroy. He would be much happier if Zimbabwe was reduced to warring factions and everything reduced to rubble as happened in Libya, Syria, etc.
All those seeking to appease Mugabe are only giving him more time and space to dig in and consolidate his plans to turn Zimbabwe into a North Korea of Africa. That must not be allowed to happen. Mugabe must be told firmly and decisively that he rigged the elections and he is per se illegitimate. He must allow free and fair elections now; that is not negotiable!
As for you Chimbwido, once Mugabe is gone you will know the game is up! You will have to account for all those people you kicked in the teeth until the bled profusely! I will be hear to see to it that you face justice.
@ Tendekayi
Well I agree with everything you have said but add that the real world we live in has sell-outs and morons and you have to learn to deal with them or else you will remain where you are - stuck in the rut!
Why do you think Mugabe and Zanu PF have spend all their energy and money stifling all debate within the party and at national level, for example? If you think the tyrant is just going to roll over and let you destroy everything he has worked for all his life then you are being naïve!
If we want democratic change in Zimbabwe then we must work for it. Dismantling a well established dictatorship is NOT going to be a walk in the park; there are many people who have grown fat and other with blood on their hands who are determined to keep the status quo.
@ Diva
All MDC had to do was implement the agreed democratic reforms and we would be talking of a totally different Zimbabwe right now.
It was MDC's failure to implement the reforms that made it easy for Mugabe to rig the elections.
It is now clear that Mugabe, a conman by his own right, was in fact conned by Nikuv. Whatever Nikuv did to the voters roll, it sure was not rocket science; a couple of high school dropouts could have done it in a few weeks. This is the reason why Mugabe has decided he is not going to release the voters roll and let the whole world know he had been conned by Nikuv!
The voters roll is the "smoking gun" to prove beyond all doubt that Mugabe rigged the July 2013 elections.
Mugabe paid Nikuv $ 13 million for nothing!
Mugabe has a simple choice; he must produce the voters roll or else accept that he rigged the elections.
Doing nothing, hoping the nation will soon forget about the rigged elections has not worked. Even those who wanted to appease him by pretending they saw nothing and heard nothing of the vote rigging have run out of excuses why the voters roll has not been release for public scrutiny!
Mugabe is not going to get away with vote rigging; not this time!
The 2013 Zimbabwe voters roll is a important historic document which must be recovered and preserved for posterity! The nation must know Mugabe for the tyrant and conman who was conned he is!
@ Rafique702
I would like to think that there are many Zimbabweans out there who voted for Tsvangirai and MDC, not because they did not see him for the blundering buffoon he has turned out to be, but because they were desperate for change. Desperate people do desperate things.
Sadly, I have to admit, that there are many who held Tsvangirai in high regard and, worse still some still do!
It is my advent hope that Zimbabweans will from now on never ever lose their heads no matter what!
@ Chipochashe
I would like to think that there are many Zimbabweans out there who voted for Tsvangirai and MDC, not because they did not see him for the blundering buffoon he has turned out to be, but because they were desperate for change. Desperate people do desperate things.
Sadly, I have to admit, that there are many who held Tsvangirai in high regard and, worse still some still do!
It is my advent hope that Zimbabweans will from now on never ever lose their heads no matter what!
@ Its ma1
Zimbabwe is in a real mess and I would not wish it upon anyone to live there if they have a choice. Over four million Zimbabweans have left the country and hundreds are leaving every month - QED.
But what we are talking about here are two MDC leaders whose incompetence have contributed to this mess trying to escape from the hell-on-earth they helped to build. There is no escape for the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans so why should they be allowed to escape!? No they must go back to Zimbabwe and face the music!
@ Its ma1
You should not let your search for virtue blind you to the reality that whilst the like of Zwambila and Makuvise are granted asylum millions of ordinary Zimbabweans they betrayed will be facing the hardships the two created.
As long as tyrants like Mugabe know they can loot all they like and always escape to some safe heaven far from the hell they created there will be no end to the looting, corruption and political repression. We would like the West at least to stop these thugs and greed leaders thinking they have a bolt-hole!
@ Chipochashe
Well you should get you facts right before you get carried away. MDC did not even try to get even one democratic reform implemented. How many times did SADC leaders remind Tsvangirai to follow the road map and implement the reforms? President Ian Khama stacked out his neck and asked Zimbabweans to reject the COPAC constitution in the March 2013 referendum but no one listened.
So where did this "SADC was very hostile" bulls**t come from?
It was MDC's breath-taking incompetence first and foremost that landed us in this hell-hole. It is for this reason that the two MDC Ambassadors should not be granted asylum and reward them for being incompetent and corrupt!
@ Chipochashe
What has she ever said about getting MDC to implement the reforms or about the rubbish copac constitution? Those are the real burning issues that would have change Zimbabwe for the better.
All she ever did was complain her own creature comforts and taking off her dress if she did not have her way!
Millions of Zimbabweans have gone to bed hungry, with not water, no electricity, with sickness in the house, etc. They have lost hope that tomorrow will be any better. Indeed these hardship have lasted for decades now and things are getting worse all the time.
All Ambassador Zwambila has ever complained about is her own creature comforts and taking off her dress if she did not have her way!
For you to say "no woman who has been denigrated like her," of Ms Zwambila smacks of an arrogant prick! Well she should go back to Zimbabwe and learn what being denigrated really means!
@ Its ma1
They will be poverty-stricken within a matter of months if not minutes as soon as they set foot back in Zimbabwe; that I can assure you of!
For a start, as of Wednesday 1 st January 2014 they two will be unemployed. The prospect of getting any job is very slim for the two. MDC is broke and has hundreds of thousands of other party leaders fighting tooth and nail to get back on the gravy train including Tsvangirai himself!
If these two had imagined they would be where they are today - being thrown out like garbage; trust me they would have been on the phone everyday telling Tsvangirai and others to implement the reforms. Like Tsvangirai and the rest Ms Zwambila and Makuvise were too busy enjoying being on the gravy train they never thought they might be kicked off the train some day!
Well now they have been kicked off the gravy train; poverty welcomes them with open arms!
@ Chipochashe
They will be poverty-stricken within a matter of months if not minutes as soon as they set foot back in Zimbabwe; that I can assure you of!
For a start, as of Wednesday 1 st January 2014 they two will be unemployed. The prospect of getting any job is very slim for the two. MDC is broke and has hundreds of thousands of other party leaders fighting tooth and nail to get back on the gravy train including Tsvangirai himself!
If these two had imagined they would be where they are today - being thrown out like garbage; trust me they would have been on the phone everyday telling Tsvangirai and others to implement the reforms. Like Tsvangirai and the rest Ms Zwambila and Makuvise were too busy enjoying being on the gravy train they never thought they might be kicked off the train some day!
Well now they have been kicked off the gravy train; poverty welcomes them with open arms!
@ Tanonoka
“We should not allow any further abuse by these people,” I can see you are saying just to cheer us all up. Right?
“Our parliamentarians must understand their roles and be there for the people instead of representing themselves,” you say.
Well that proves it, you are just saying it. These Zanu PF MPs are certainly not “our parliamentari-ans” because none of us voted for them. After 33 years of representing themselves these Zanu PF MPs are not going to start representing the people now. You know what they say; “You cannot teach old dogs new tricks!”
Zimbabweans are making the big mistake if they think Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs are ever going to change. If Mugabe and his cronies are allowed to stay in power until the 2018 elections then the nation is in for a big surprise.
Zimbabwe is already one of the heavily militarized nations in Africa. Even at the time when the country was facing its worst economic hardships in 2008, Mugabe still continued to invest billions of dollars buying weapons. That year Zimbabwe received a whole ship load of weapons from China.
People should not underestimate the role the country’s highly partisan security sector, especially the highly secretive and murderous CIO, played in the vote rigging operations in the July 2013 elections. According to MDC’s report on the rigged elections it was security team headed by CIOs who managed the elections, not ZEC.
Mugabe has already committed $200 million for the building of a Spy University at a time when the Ministry of High School and Tertiary Education received $50 000 out of a budget of $380 million, for example. The regime has already passed laws designed to increase the State’s control and monitoring what people say on the internet and mobile phones.
Mugabe is turning Zimbabwe into a Police State; the North Korea of Africa. If we do not stop him now by 2018, it will be too late.
Mugabe has stubbornly refused to release the voters roll, even now six months when it should have been released, because it is the definitively smoking gun of vote rigging. We should give Mugabe a simple choice either he releases the voters roll for public scrutiny or he resigns.
Mugabe rigged the 2013 election, he is per se illegitimate. We must not Mugabe get away with yet another rigged election. He must go.
Mai Sekai Holland backing Ambassador Zwambila. well, well, well! Mai Holland is the classical example of a MDC leader, like Mwonzora and Obert Gutu; she have a large ego like a puff-mushroom. Mai Holland was one out of three co-Minister of Reconciliation during the GNU.
The Ministry of Reconciliation was set up to deal with political reconciliation but on the basis that no one did any wrong, it had no authority or power to interview anyone, etc. In short it was set up to deal with Zimbabwe's culture of political violence at such a superficial level it was a total waste of time. But of course Mai Holland with her bloated ego would not see that; to listen to Mai Holland one would be forgiven to think that the whole nation's destiny was in her hands.
Mugabe was able to create the impression that the GNU was transforming Zimbabwe from the dictatorship to a democracy when in reality the tyrant was consolidating his dictatorial powers because MDC had naïve leaders like Mai Holland, Ambassador Zwambila, right up to Tsvangirai himself.
Mai Holland jumping to defend Zwambila's application for asylum is not surprising; they are birds of a feather. If Mai Holland had failed to get a seat, it would not be surprising that she too would have applied for asylum just to escape the mess she helped to make!
@ moriarty
Do you know what your real problem is? You are one of those people whose intellect is so myopic they cannot see beyond the tip of their nose!
You admit that Mugabe was able to undo all that MDC had accomplished "in 4 months 5 years of work had been dashed". Well if you, and even more so Tsvangirai and his MDC friends, had not been so myopic surely they should have anticipated this and taken the necessary steps to ensure it did not happen.
"I don't think anyone, not even Putin, no one could have been prepared for the scale of rigging that occurred," you say.
Well, we have already established that you are myopic and therefore incapable of thinking but I will indulge you further. If MDC had carried out the democratic reforms as agreed then the vote rigging would not have occurred. That is the reason why everyone who is anyone was calling on MDC to implement the reasons.
If you cannot see the critical importance of the reforms, even now with hindsight, I think you will never see it. One can write volumes on the subject, you will be no wiser.
Blessed are those who see and perceive who hear and understand. You have eyes to see but nothing registers. You hear with one ear but it will goes straight out the other!
@ ChipoChashe
Why would I be angry or bitter about what you say? I am sorry and disappointed that anyone could be so shallow thick and slow; yes. Angry and bitter; no!
You cannot even make up your own mind whether the GNU was a "poison chalice" or good thing "because life in Zim was very tough before it."
"There was no way they could have forced Mugabe to implement any of those reforms," you say. Before we even get how anyone could have forced Mugabe to do anything let us agree that MDC did not put any reform proposal on the table for Mugabe to reject.
SADC, as the guarantor of the GPA, was there to ensure that the democratic reforms were implemented, they would have forced Mugabe to implemented them. The international community would have backed SADC on this.
There are three reasons why not even one democratic reform was proposed much implemented:
1) Zimbabwe had the great misfortune of having a naïve and gullible electorate who was so desperate they trusted MDC, a party of blundering idiots, to deliver democratic changed.
2) Tsvangirai and his MDC friends were too busy enjoying the bread crumbs of power and wealth Mugabe throw at them to think of anything else
3) worst of all, Tsvangirai, his fellow MDC leaders and supporter are not just corrupt and naïve, their incompetence takes one's breath away.
As for you ChipoChashe, you are no different from the many MDC supporters or Mugabe supporters out there; you have all spend so much time with your head buried in your respective leader's backside your brains, starved of oxygen, has turned into fat. You are incapable of thinking and seeing reason. I am not angry or bitter with you; I am heartbroken to see such a criminal waste of humanity!
It is disheartening that the call for peace in South Sudan should be coming from Uganda's Yoweri Museveni . Her is a tyrant who has denied the people of Uganda a meaningful say in the governance of the country and ruled the nation with an iron fist for three decades. The dictator has played his dirty role in destabilizing other countries in the region. What credentials does he to now pretend to play the role of the democrat and peace-maker?
It is not surprising to hear Uganda has already deployed special forces in South Sudan "at the request of President Kiir," according to your report. No doubt the request was tampered by the fear that the special forces would be deployed anyway so it was better to have them on his side then have them fighting for the other side. Now that is making peace Museveni style!
Museveni is like the hyena calling for a peace-conference in the middle of the forest in the middle of the night. It is South Sudan's oil Museveni is after, just as it is blood the hyena is after, not peace!
@ Chrisrushlau
Well Museveni can employ NIkuv, the Israel company, that help Mugabe rig the Zimbabwe elections.
Nikuv corrupted the voters roll by moving voters from one voting ward to another. Nearly a million voters were denied the right to vote because their names were not where the expected it to be. Nikuv also inflated the number of voters so that Zimbabwe ended up with six million registered voters for a country with a population of 12 million. The inflated numbers allowed Mugabe to bus in his paid supporters to cast multiple votes.
Mugabe paid Nikuv $13 million for its dirty work. Not that there was anything special, a few high-school dropouts would have done the dirty work. Mugabe is a cunning devil but here he have conned into believing that what Nikuv was doing was rocket science.
Mugabe has since discovered that Nikuv conned him which is why he has stubbornly refused to release the voters roll because Nikuv's dirty work of corrupting the voters roll is self-evident.
You say it is "Israeli experts" who have come up with this "mythical King Baganda the First". Why do I get the felling that the so called Israeli experts are the same obnoxious Nikuv International Projects operatives who are softening Museveni up for another multi-million dollar rip-off!
Israel was the only democratic country that maintained its cozy relationship with the apartheid regime in South Africa right up to the bitter end. It is not a surprise that Israel is back in Africa this time paddling chaos and mayhem to all the tyrants who will pay the traditional thirty pieces of silver!
@ Ahmed
South Sudan broke away from the rest of Sudan; the latter is predominantly Islam whilst the former is Christian. The two warring factions here are both Christian, you nincompoop!
@ Adama
Ahmed must be one of those people who are totally consumed by hate, in his case the hatred of Muslims, their brain has gone into some form of seizure they can not think. You know the phrase love is blind well hatred is even more power than love, especially to those with a blackheart and no brain!
@ Yepec
Yepec, Whande has never advocated that Zimbabweans should take up arms; here or in any of his many contributions. Whande is one of the very few Zimbabweans who saw Tsvangirai and MDC for what they really are - a bunch of corrupt and blundering idiots led by a breathtakingly incompetent leader - and had the courage to say so.
If Zimbabweans were to take up arms now; then the first thing they must do is shoot you and Tsvangirai just to shut you up! Every time the nation tries to get a real meaningful conversation going the likes of you and Tsvangirai have done nothing but interrupt the flow of ideas with your mind-numbing nonsense. Shona tradition dictate that you, Yepec, and Tsvangirai should go and skin the goat but, hell, there would be no goats left in the whole world given that your motto is never to let a fly land on your mouth! Shooting you two is the only viable option.
Mugabe and his thugs murdered over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans and in all those murders they missed Zimbabwe's biggest blundering idiot of all time, Tsvangirai, and his ever faithful acolyte, you Yepec! Well that sure is rotten luck.
Mugabe and Zanu PF are still in power today because of Tsvangirai and MDC's blundering incompetence; when are you ever going to get that into your thick head! The people should take up arms indeed!
@ Azad
There has been a civil war in Sudan for the last 50 years, with the people in the now South Sudan fighting for independence. The West had nothing to do with it. Stop blaming the West for Africa's own failures to grasp the essence of self-governing which is the root cause of all the strive, chaos and meaningless suffering and blood shed.
In Zimbabwe people like you who talk nonsense are told to go and skin the goat!
@ Lion Heart
There has been a civil war in Sudan for the last 50 years, with the people in the now South Sudan fighting for independence. The West had nothing to do with it. Stop blaming the West for Africa's own failures to grasp the essence of self-governing which is the root cause of all the strive, chaos and meaningless suffering and blood shed.
In Zimbabwe people like you who talk nonsense are told to go and skin the goat!
@ Theuri
If what Lion Heart has said is true then Israel is the author of this humanitarian disaster. Just because Israel has the technical know-how to undermine other nations' effort at nation building does not give the Jewish state the right to do it - that is what is at issue here!
@ Ibrahim
We all know that Israel does not "give a hoot about these black monkeys, they can eat each other for all they care". We know Israel worked very hard to keep the apartheid regime in South Africa right up to the bitter end. We, in Zimbabwe, know that it was an Israeli company, Nikuv that helped Mugabe rig the July 2013 elections. The future for Zimbabwe is grim, thanks to the Israeli and Nikuv!
What we, the black monkeys, are asking is for Israel to leave us alone and stop interfering in our efforts at nation building and governance. Just because Israel has the technical know-how to help tyrants to rig elections for thirty pieces of silver does not give the Jewish State the right to do it!
One of these fine days the Israelis may find they have bitten more than they could chew. Mugabe will happily sell Iran, Israel's arch-enemy, all the uranium the Islamic regime could ever want to build a nuclear bomb! Justice does not always come through the front door or to the father who committed the crime, it may skip a generation or two. When the Israelis are living in fear of being wiped off the face of the earth they will no doubt remember they helped a tyrant rig the elections and this is the black monkey's way of saying "Thank you!"
@ Vince
Well that is very true that as a people, blacks have not done a good job when it comes to running our own affairs. What I would say is that many of us have started to learn how to govern and would have made some progress was it not for outsiders who have started interfering.
The Chinese have taken it upon themselves to prop up tyrannical regime as long as the latter allow them unfettered access to the country's resources, markets for cheap substandard Chinese products, etc. The Chinese have help tyrants rig elections but in subtle ways.
The only outsider I know that has blatantly helped tyrants rig elections is Israel. There is no doubt that it was the Israeli company Nikuv that help Mugabe rig the July 2013 elections to stay in power. The Israel government was warned of Nikuv's demonic activities but clearly did nothing to stop the activities.
Israel has condemned the people of Zimbabwe to years of tyrannical rule. What wrong had these people done to an Jew to deserve this? Given half a chance, Mugabe will thank Nikuv and all the people of Israel buy selling Iran all the Uranium. The viper you helped save has lived to torment Zimbabweans, yes; but he may live to torment Israel forever! However said there was no justice in this world!
@ Za2e
You can doubt all you like what I want is proof that Israel did not play a role. As I said it would not be the first time Israel has interfered in Africa's affairs for its own devilish reason.
"What do you think Israel would gain?" you ask. What a stupid question; thirty pieces of silver, of course!
@ Chimbwido
We all know you and Mugabe would prefer a military confrontation, as I rightly said above Zimbabwe is one of the heavily militarized nation in Africa.
I reject a military solution for three basic reasons:
1) a armed solution should only be considered when everything else has failed and in this case there are many options still left to get rid of this Zanu PF dictatorship. If MDC had implemented the reforms Mugabe would be history. In rigging the elections Mugabe shot himself in the leg by doing so blatantly and by spending reckless.
It was the blatant vote rigging that it impossible for the EU to accept the election result although they had initially said they would accept if SADC and the AU did.
The reckless spending has bankrupted Zimbabwe and desperate for financial assistance. If the EU does not soften up and bail the tyrant out the Zimbabwe economy will collapse.
The ordinary Zimbabweans are a hardy people they can survive without many of the creature comforts but not so with many of Mugabe's own spoilt cronies. The shortages of 2008 did not touch Mugabe's cronies they will be touched this time, particularly the rank and file who have been doing Mugabe's dirty work for little or no reward.
Zanu PF is set to implode. Why would any one want to fight a regime that is on its last legs anyway?
2) I would be concerned about what kind of leaders an armed struggle would throw. You only have to look at what kind of leaders the war produced in Zanu PF and do I have to say anything more!
3) An armed struggle against a ruthless tyrant like Mugabe will result in the shedding of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives that is always the case when fighting a tyrant who has lost everything already and has nothing of value left to lose. Not even the lives of all the Zanu PF top leadership is worth the life of one Zimbabwean; the former are all murderers who deserve to be hanged whilst the latter is an innocent soul.
You can call me a coward as many times as you want, I am not going to support an armed confrontation with Mugabe. In my humble option it takes a lot more courage to call Mugabe a murderous tyrant knowing fully when he has murderous thugs out there and one does not ever carry a knife!
@ Yepec
Israel, through Nikuv, helped Mugabe rig the 2013 elections; that is a historic fact. The Israeli government was warned at government level of Nikuv's satanic activities but it chose to do nothing. Israel's hatred of black Africans runs deep; it was the only government in the world that supported the apartheid regime in South Africa to the bitter end - another historic fact.
Mugabe needed help to rig the elections Nikuv provided him that help and Mugabe paid the princely sum of $13 million for it. Does that make Mugabe a buddy of Israel? Not a chance, your analysis could not be more wrong.
It is already clear that Nikuv conned Mugabe big time. What Nikuv did to corrupt the voters roll was not rocket science. Let's face it; moving voters' names from one ward to another and inflating the number of registered voters by duplicating names is not rocket science. A bunch of high-school dropout could have done that.
Mugabe has stubbornly refused to release the voters roll because he knows every would see what happened. Now Mugabe is stuck; he has run out of excuses why he has not released the voters roll and failure to do so is tantamount to admission that he rigged the elections.
The story of the Naked Emperor was a fairy tale, little did Mugabe know he, of all people, could be so easily conned and looking like a complete idiot.
Mugabe is a ruthless tyrant and if he can be ruthless with innocent people what more to those he has a score to settle. Mugabe will now be more determined than ever to sell Uranium to the Iranians and see them make a bomb just to hit back at Nikuv's dirty trickery. Food for thought for all the people of Israel!
@ Lizard
The next 12 months are going to be hell-on-earth for millions of Zimbabweans, the nation is just beginning to pay the consequences of the rigged 2013 elections. The economic melt-down will get worse and so too will the political repression.
Mugabe is totally focused on turning Zimbabwe into a Police State, he is already building a $200 million Spy-University; he does not care about anything else.
What the nation can hope for now is that the West will stand firm and not bail the tyrant out.
@ Tribulation
The sad reality is that Mugabe and his cronies are committing the whole nation to a life of misery just so they can continue to enjoy absolute power and to loot.
Zimbabweans have to stand firm and force Mugabe to accept that he rigged the July 2013 elections and therefore the country must hold fresh elections. It is naïve to think that Mugabe is ever going to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship or change course of establishing a North Korea style Police State.
The economic melt-down provides an opportunity to pressure Mugabe to accept change. It is up to the people to seize this opportunity or it will be wasted like so many other such opportunities in the past.
@ Habibullah
The problem is tat elections n Africa are not free and fair and therefore elections are not able to resolve corruption, etc. As log as African countries fail to produce credible political systems that can produce meaningful political change then violence will remain the only way to produce change.
Until African countries take the business of creating political systems in which today's losers have confidence in that they can be tomorrow's winners and all the citizens have a meaningful say in the governance of the country and a fair share of its riches there will be no end to the political strife that has torn so many countries apart. The common position is that once a group and an individual within a group gets into power they burn all the ladders and block all the accesses to stop others getting to the top. The only way to get them off the peach is to shot them down and that is exactly what has happened again and again in Africa.
One is tempted to side with the President in Juba in this case but the bitter taste that he has no democratic credentials will not go away.
@ zezo
The people of South Sudan did not have a meaning say in the governance of the country and that is why they have been fighting for fifty years to break away. You have to blame the successive oppressive regimes in Khartoum for that.
Having successful gain its independence two and half years ago; what has gone wrong again in South Sudan, one might ask? Well one can not rule out the possibility of outsiders like Israel and regional players like Moseveni of Uganda and even more so Omar al-Bashir in Khartoum stirring things up for their own selfish gain. But all these outsiders would not have succeeded in planted chaos and strive in South Sudan if the ground had not been so fertile for discord.
Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) is led by individuals who cares more about power and enriching themselves than they do about granting the rest of the people their basic rights and freedoms including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country and the right to life itself. It is no secret that President Salva Kiir is an incompetent, corrupt and oppressive tyrant with no democratic credential.
President Salva Kiir is no different from most of the other tyrants ruling in Africa.
Of course, any political system that does not allow peaceful evolution change has per se accepted violence revolutionary change because change in nature. Tyrants spend a lot of resources and brute force to stifling debate and silencing their critics and opponents and delude themselves into believing they have secured for themselves a system to serve their selfish interests and impermeable to change.
By imposing their autocratic will on the people the tyrants have not stopped change but only delayed it. They are no more than some one holding down the lid of a pot to stop it from venting the pressure. As long as the people feel the yoke of oppression they will continue to seek justice; as long as the log fire continue to burn under the pot the water will continue to boil and the pressure inside the pot will continue to build up. Something will have to give; change will ultimately come.
The true value of democracy as a political system is not so much that it prevents the people electing the wrong leaders or elected governments from making mistakes - no political system run by fallible mortals can do that. No the true value of democracy is that it allows orderly change in mankind's, fallible mortal such as we ALL ARE, eternal search for the common good.
@ AH
Look at Syria, the West have not been involved and yet the killing has been going on and on and on with no end in sight. Libya and Egypt would have gone down the same route if the tyrants in those countries had not been toppled quickly.
Africa is full of ruthless tyrants like Mugabe who have completely destroyed the country forcing millions into a life of abject poverty and instead of admitting he messed up he blames the West for everything. He rigged the July 2013 elections and claimed that was a "blow to the British"! Only a real idiot would believe that; sadly many people did! With so many naive and gullible idiots around; is it any wonder that Zimbabwe and Africa is in a mess!
Name one African country that is a great success? It is now fifty years since the end of white colonial rule and most African country are worse off now than hey were before independence. Do you not get tired of the hypocrisy of blaming the West when it is the African tyrants who are to blame?
Is Simba Makoni trying to tell us that Zanu PF was squeaky clean whilst he was a senior member of that party? The seeds of mismanagement, corruption and brutal political repression were sow, germinated and, by the time the ex-Finance Minister and Zanu PF politburo member left the party to seek what he thought was better political fortunes, mismanagement and corruption were rampant and the regime had murdered over 20 000 in the Gukurahundi massacres alone!
It is therefore rich for Simba to start pontificating about corruption or any of the many devilish things Mugabe and Zanu PF are doing as if these are things are happening for the first time in Zimbabwe. These things have been happening for the last 33 years. Simba, as a very senior government official and party member had all the opportunity to stop them but he never even raise these things until now. Now when he is in the political wilderness and is hoping to revive his political fortune by pretending that he cares for the common man!
I am sick to the back teeth of opportunists like Simba Makoni, Dumiso Dabengwa, Morgan Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti and now add upstarts like former Ambassadors Makuvise and Zwambile who had the power, authority and opportunity to do something to stop the tragic human misery Mugabe has brought upon the nation. They did nothing and saw nothing because they had secured for themselves a seat of the gravy train and they were simply too busy enjoying themselves. It is only when they have been kicked off the gravy train that they seem to notice that Mugabe is a ruthless tyrant. Only they want is another chance to get back on the gravy train; and they think everyone is stupid not to see that!
Simba Makoni and the rest of these sell-out betrayed the people; the least they can do now is for them to shut up and f**** off!
@yvkc
No political fish is too big to fry, as far as Mugabe is concerned and Jacqueline Zwambila is a nobody. I think she is more scarred at the prospect of the daily challenge of having no running water, no electricity, collapse health and education services, etc. and to crown it all being unemployed. After fours year on the gravy train; that will sure be a sock to the system.
The only reason I would like the Australian government to refuse her asylum is so that she can face the nightmare MDC condemned the whole nation to suffer by failing to implement the democratic reforms the party promised. MDC had five years to implement the reforms and not even one reforms was implemented. Not one!
Not one MDC leader deserves to be taken out of the hell-hole they created for the people of Zimbabwe. Not one!
@ N Nyabola
No political fish is too big to fry, as far as Mugabe is concerned and Jacqueline Zwambila is a nobody. I think she is more scarred at the prospect of the daily challenge of having no running water, no electricity, collapse health and education services, etc. and to crown it all being unemployed. After fours year on the gravy train; that will sure be a sock to the system.
The only reason I would like the Australian government to refuse her asylum is so that she can face the nightmare MDC condemned the whole nation to suffer by failing to implement the democratic reforms the party promised. MDC had five years to implement the reforms and not even one reforms was implemented. Not one!
Not one MDC leader deserves to be taken out of the hell-hole they created for the people of Zimbabwe. Not one!
@ Terrill
What are you, an English Language School Teacher? Yes the article is "brilliant piece" in terms of language - she has her verbs, nouns, etc. all in the right place and the piece flows. But look at the contents, the substance; the piece is saying a lot of nonsense!
There are many things serious wrong with Africa and the Western media is only reporting what there. Nanjala is in denial of what is happening in Africa; the fact that she is doing so in a flowery language does not change the basic fact that she is in denial.
The whole continent of Africa is in a real mess and we, as Africans, need to admit this reality and deal with it. Millions of our people have suffered and many have died. It is an insult to be told these things are happening or, worse, that there is nothing wrong!
If Nanjala is from Africa then she must be from the ruling elite; they have always maintained the Western media is misrepresenting Africa. They have always glossed over the tragic reality of corruption and misrule; their corruption and misrule.
I would much rather have a badly written piece saying something relevant that a Shakespeare master piece "full of sound and fury signifying nothing!"
@ Frogmaster
Why did he not do something to end the corruption when he had the power and opportunity to do so? That is the point at issue here, not how many people he insulted on his way out.
I am aware that there are some gullible people out there who so gullible they will believe anything. It took them 15 years to see Mugabe for the murderous tyrant he is. You would think they learnt they lesson; they went on the follow Tsvangirai blindly.
We are in this mess because of Tsvangirai's blundering incompetence, the idiot have five years to implement the democratic reforms agreed in the GPA. He did not get even one reform implemented. The people believed him when he told them the Copac constitution were deliver free and fair elections and that they should approve it in the referendum. They did by 95%! How gullible was that?!
Simba is aware of just how gullible and naïve Zimbabweans are and he too is cashing in! Tell the people what they want to hear, they are so gullible they will not even remember that you did nothing last time! Indeed some will even believe you are squeaky clean.
With such a naïve electorate, it is little wonder we are in this mess. Worse still, what hope do we have of ever getting out?
@ Matigimu
Are suggesting that Simba said nothing all these years in government because he feared for his life? Well, let us follow this to its logical conclusion. Why is he criticizing Mugabe now? Did he get a letter from Mugabe telling him that the political murders have stopped and the notorious CIO has been disbanded?
Mugabe is already spending $ 200 million building a Spy-University; the tyrant is beefing up the CIO. Mugabe is set on turning Zimbabwe into a Police State, the North Korea of Africa.
Simba Makoni is critical of Zanu PF now when is powerless to do anything because he desperate to get back on the gravy train.
@ Stephen Terrill
Well my point is that we should concern ourselves with the facts, the reality and the truth and if we did, it will be clear that who is saying the facts, etc. is irrelevant. I am a black African and I know tyrants like Mugabe have muzzled the Zimbabwe media to the point of distorting the truth. He has spend millions of dollars to two PR companies, one in UK the other in the USA, to give a positive spin on his failed rule to spruce-up his image.
The standard position for Africa's failed leaders and the main stay of Africa media is to flatly deny all the Western media say is wrong in Africa, which is exactly what Nanjala is saying here.
". . . given the choice between a person whose truth seems conditioned by race, and another whose truth is based on experience on the ground, I'm inclined to believe the latter," She said.
Typical, just typical; not only is she in denial but is hiding behind the race card.
Any black African who dares speak the truth about Africa's problems of corruption, political repressions, civil wars, starvation, etc. is labelled an "Uncle Tom" or worse.
What chance do we have of ever getting out of this mess if those in power are in denial of the mess and are doing their best to place the few blacks with something between their ears in straitjackets.
There is nothing special about Africa, the same laws of Physics, Thermodynamics, Economics, etc. that the rest of the world has lived by applies to Africa as well. Corruption is corruption and no amount of denial or spin is ever going to change it into something else. No nation in the world has ever prospered from rampant corruption; Africans should stop deluding themselves that they will buck the trend.
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