If Zimbabweans allow Mugabe to rule till 2018 it not be diaspora vote but their very lives they will be crying about!

Zimbabweans are always way behind the curve, by the time they realize what is going on it is always too late! We had the chance to end the Zanu PF dictatorship but, sadly Tsvngirai and his MDC idiots were too stupid to recognize the chance and implement the necessary reforms. The people themselves were too naïve and dozy to see Tsvangirai for the blundering fool he is. They had their chance to force the issue of implementing the reform by rejecting the weak and feeble Copac constitution. They voted to accept the rubbish constitution by a staggering 95%!

 

Of course Copac did not deliver free and fair elections, Mugabe blatantly rigged the elections and the rest is history!  

 

Mugabe is spending as if there is no tomorrow on beefing up the country's security sector. The three main security sector branches, the Army ($368 m), Police ($364 m) and CIO ($206) are getting 25% of the imaginary 2014 budget allocation ($3.6 b). Imaginary; because even last year when the national economy was significantly stronger than it is today, the government failed to collect anywhere near $ 3 b in revenue. Still the three were the only public bodies that got their full allocations last year. Add on to that the three are the only ones who have diamond mining concessions in the secretive and very lucrative Marange and Chiadzwa diamonds.

 

It is no exaggeration to say, at current expenditure trends, Mugabe will have a fully-fledged Police State by 2018. Sadly it will be some years yet before the ordinary Zimbabweans realize what a Police State really means. They have example of what it is already but sill the penny has no dropped.

 

We have known of people being denied food and medical help - donated by foreigners and not from the state -, of people being driven from their homes because they are accused of being opposition party-supporters, etc. In the July 2013 elections teachers were instructed to say they could not read or write so Zanu PF officials could vote for them.

 

Mugabe is beefing up the CIO, Police and Army so that they will able to monitor everything people say and do 24/7.

 

Many Zimbabweans in the diaspora are still clamouring for “diaspora vote” after 2018 they will find they are public enemy number one. They will be quizzed the minute they arrive about their political affiliations all they have ever said on the internet, mobile phone will be read back to them. Wherever they go in Zimbabwe they will have people shadowing them. Whoever they meet will be noted and they will in turn be quizzed.  

 

The Zanu PF dictatorship plans to turn the economic melt-down to its own advantage in that the whole nation will now be totally dependent on the party for their very survival. The party will control every facet of human activity. Those loyal to the party get the little left after the ruling elite have had their lion's share whilst the majority will have nothing.  

 

The beefed up Police and CIO will turn Zimbabwe will turn into a black box – those inside will not be allowed out those outside will not be welcome in and fear will grip the nation so tight that millions will suffer and die in silence always fearful of who might be listening. If Mugabe and Zanu PF are allowed to stay in power till 2018, Zimbabwe will be a fully-fledged North Korea all talk of free and fair elections will be over people will be focused on one thing and one thing only – staying alive!

 

In 2013 Mugabe used the Police and CIO to rig elections and deny the people their right to a meaningful democratic. He is now beefing up these key security branches to make sure they are a permanent fixing of Zimbabwe. By the time of the 2018 elections; the Police State will be up and running; it will be too late to dismantle the dictatorship.

 

The same naïve people who said the 2013 elections would be free and fair even if not even one reform had been implemented and they assured the people the weak and feeble Copac constitution would deliver free and fair elections. Of course that was nonsense; Mugabe went on to blatantly rig the vote. The same idiots are asking the people to accept the “political reality” of Mugabe and Zanu PF rule and prepare for the 2018 elections. They banking on the economic melt-down to force Mugabe and Zanu PF to admit they failed and surrender power.

 

The economic disparity between North and South Korea could not be more pronounced; but that has never made the failed totalitarian regime in the North even think of giving up power. It is not in the nature of tyrants to give up power and those who think Zanu PF thugs will are whistling in the graveyard!

 

The only realistic chance of forcing Mugabe to give up power now is by forcing him to accept that he rigged the July 2013 elections and is per se illegitimate. He has no legitimate authority to rule Zimbabwe much less to turn it into a Police State. We must stop him turning the country into a Police State before he does it; it will be near impossible to do it after!