The advantage of being a
dictator is that you set the agenda and have the means to force everyone else
to accept it, even to the extent of presenting of false image of the truth and
reality. Mugabe has been very good at playing the dictator’s game but has yet
to learn that sooner or later one has to cut open the apple and then no amount
of propaganda can conceal the reality of an apple that is rotten to the core.
"That nonsensical
approach of 'I will remove this and leave that' does not have any meaning to us
at all and it's high time this stupidity was dropped.
"We don't
understand the sense of it anyway and as Zimbabwe, sanctions or no sanctions,
we shall continue," said Mugabe; the seasoned dictator!
Here is a tyrant who wanted
Zimbabwe to be a one-party state and never believed in one-man one-vote and multi-party
democracy. He knew the people of Zimbabwe would want a political system that
gave them a meaningful say in the governance of the country and grant them all
the other freedoms and human rights if they were giving a chance to choose
freely. He never gave them that chance.
The people of Zimbabwe
were under no illusion that if Mugabe and Nkomo did not win the 1980 elections
the civil war would not stop. And so instead of the election being a joyous
occasion the people had hoped it to be where they at last have a meaningful say
in the governance of the country they faced a grim reality of “voting to end
the war” as Professor Jonathan Moyo aptly
put it in his book “Voting for Democracy”. As soon as Mugabe got into power he
set about to systematically undermine and destroy all the country’s democratic
institutions and building in their place those that would serve his Zanu PF one-party
dictatorship.
In 1990 Mugabe tries to
have Zimbabwe’s constitution calling for regular multi-party elections changed to
make the country a constitutional one-party state but the nation resisted the
move. With falling popularity Mugabe has resorted to more and more underhand
means to remain in power. The people of Zimbabwe have been forced to accept the
stupid and nonsensical position where they are allowed to vote as long as the
result does not end with regime change.
The West imposed the
sanction on the tyrant in protest against this repeated nonsensical process of
holding elections in which the electorate are systematically denied a meaningful
vote to produce the predetermined Mugabe and Zanu PF election victory. A
position Mugabe has always dismissed as “nonsensical and stupid”, “a regime
change western agenda” because he was able to silence the voices of the
oppressed masses in the country. Their views and their rights counted not at
all!
Mugabe was lucky to have
such political opponents as Joshua Nkomo or Morgan Tsvangirai whom he was able
to bribe or bamboozle with bull. There has not been anyone to count Mugabe’s
propaganda and lies and giving the propaganda and lies greater mileage and
credibility than they deserved.
The Western government
value their own economic interest above the human rights of outsiders but occasionally
their consciences have had the better of them and forced them to raise human
rights issues. If Mugabe had confined his barbarism to his fellow blacks and
not touched any whites as had happened until 2000, the Western would have
continued to turn a blind eye to his tyrannical excesses. When Mugabe started
his violence white farm seizures he knew the West would protest. Indeed he
wanted them to protest because he needed that as the fig-leaf behind which to
hide his real agenda of riding rough-shod over the blacks in the country.
When the West imposed
the sanctions on Mugabe and his cronies back in 2002 they did so only as a
gesture; their hearts and minds were not in it as events have shown. Belgium
has managed to get the EU to lift most of the sanctions, for example, with
regardless of fact Mugabe had just blatantly rigging the July 2013.
Of course Mugabe was
shrewd enough to know of the West’s hypocrisy and has exploited this all along.
He knew the West did not have their hearts and spirit in the sanctions and so
he called their bluff and won!
Mugabe allowed mismanagement
and corruption to take root and thrive because he appointed party loyalists to
key positions and allowed them loot; it is a reward system for all those who have
helped him establish and retain the Zanu PF dictatorship. He has refused to see
the corrosive effect the system has had on the national economy. His well-oiled
propaganda machine has been going into overdrive; denying mismanagement and
corruption were the root causes of the country’s economic melt-down. The regime
has blamed the sanctions for that.
By burying its head in
the sand the regime has allowed mismanagement and corruption to fester and
spread. In the last few months there has been one story after another of how
one government institution after another has been eaten from within rendering
them all not fit for purpose.
“The veteran leader had no kind words either for his cabinet ministers
he accused of failing to adequately supervise public firms which fall under
their ministries resulting in the company bosses taking home hundreds of
thousands in terms of salaries.”
The scale of the corruption is a thousand times what the country
has seen in the past and the cases are breaking out at a time when the nation
is running on empty. And no amount of “words” kind or otherwise is going to get
the nation out of the economic mess Mugabe has landed us in.
Mugabe can fire all the cabinet ministers – which he will never do
of course because they constitute his own political base, the base on which he is
standing; but let us just suppose that he could – still that will do nothing to
turn an apple rotten to the core back into a good one.
Mugabe has been described
as a cunning fox able to outwit his opponents and to stick up his middle finger
to those more powerful than himself and get away with it. Well the years of
corruption and misrule have caused collimated in the multiple failure of every
conceivable sector of the national economy. His pathetic attempts to ignore the
problem have not worked and now he thinks his empty words will put things to
right! He can sticking out his middle finger to the whole world all he wants
but that is not going to get the nation out of this mess; not this time.
The only way Zimbabwe is going to address
the problems of chronic mismanagement and rampant corruption is by first removing
Mugabe and Zanu PF from office; nothing, absolutely nothing can ever be
achieved as long as the tyrant remains in office. We need regime change – the dreaded
phrase for Mugabe and Zanu PF – and only then will the country have meaningful
economic and political change.
8 comments:
@ Apolitical
Why have you no mentioned that Mugabe has destroyed the nation's economy forcing millions of Zimbabweans into a life of abject poverty and despair? Have you forgotten that he has shed the blood of over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans to establish and retain his Zanu PF dictatorship?
Why are you sweeping all these things under the carpet? Is it because you are one of those who have benefited from all the corruption and looting? Or worse still you are one of his goons whose hands are red with the blood of the innocent?
Well whoever you are know this; the Zanu PF dictatorship's days are numbered; the cup is full and the tide of change is upon us. There is nothing the tyrant or you or anyone can do to stop the regime change that is coming. Mugabe and all his acolyte will have to account for all the wealth you have and the blood on your hands!
“I feel as youthful and energetic as a boy of nine,” Mugabe said, before cutting his cake.
In a country where 100 children under the age of five are dying everyday from preventable diseases because the country's health delivery system has all but collapsed as a result of his 34 years of corrupt and tyrannical misrule. His boastfulness is more like arrogance indifference to the suffering and deaths he has brought upon the nation!
This is the kind opportunity that the Police, judiciary, etc. would want to show the whole world how tough and thorough they can be if they want. Indeed, the Police would go beyond the call of duty just to punish as many MDC supporters as they can.
Who would believe that only six months ago the same Police officers failed to investigate and arrest any one over the serious matter of voters being bussed from one polling station to the next! The bussed youths were helping Mugabe rigged the elections and the Police nothing wrong with that!
@ Black aristocrat
You are much too kind! You do not expect someone like Mai Mujuru, Obert Mpofu, Philip Chiyangwa or even Mugabe and his wife to hang on much longer to the billions or millions for long once the regime collapses, do you? Indeed this is why this announcement by Minister Made is a shock to all of these looters.
Regime change means no more fresh loot and their fortune will immediately start to disappear like morning mist under the African sun! None of these individuals earned a penny of the fortunes they have and the day the direct and indirect subsidies are cut they start sweating immediately!
Mark my word many of these Zanu PF millionaires are going to die as poor as a church-mouse!
@ Will B Free
It suited Mugabe to have the likes of Mutasa, Mujur, Muzenda etc., in power all these years be-cause he could outwit them. He did the same thing in every other sector of Zimbabwe society including the opposition. The move has kept Mugabe in power for 34 years but the price has been intolerably high - economic melt-down that have forced millions into abject poverty and over 30 000 murdered for political gain. As for Mugabe himself the nation is frustrated with him and have bottled their anger for decades and one of these days will burst out like a dam.
According to the Oxford English dictionary a hypocrite is someone “given to making false claims of virtue. That is Mugabe for you!
“So you can see the trained, disciplined and experienced youth yedu, their behaviour and contrasted with the behaviour of the hooligans that Tsvangirai is running and iye pachake ndiye akati kumayouth tsva! Varovei ogonyarara - ochema nevarikurohwa kuti ah tineurombo, tinehurombo iwe uriwe wavasaidzira,” said Mugabe, the hypocrite.
Here is the man whose party Zanu PF has terrorized our people from its formative years to this day. Here is the man who has planned and orchestrated the beating, rape and murder of over 30 000 innocent Zimbabwe for his selfish political gain speaking as if he was the very embodiment of Arete –the Greek Goddess of virtue herself! What a hypo-crite!
Three decades of exercising absolute power has corrupted Mugabe mentally he now lives in his own imaginary world completely at odd with the impoverished and miserable Zim-babwe he has bequeathed the rest of Zimbabweans.
It is going to be a Herculean task to dig the nation out of the hell-hole Mugabe landed the nation. By spending lavishly on stupid birthday and weddings this lunatic is the hole deeper and deeper and making the task of getting out that much more difficult. The race is on to get this lunatic and hypocrite out of State House as soon as possible – now!
@ Black aristocrat
The Hague has no death penalty, and that is the only reason I am not hot about ICC. I know the death penalty is barbaric but one has to admit that we are not dealing with civilized people here. I hate them all for forcing the whole nation to the barbaric level.
When you read posting by the likes of Chimbwido and many others you immediately realise that you are dealing with animals not human beings. Remember these thugs murdered over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans - over 30 000 in 34 years!
If hanging a few of them is the only way to get the message through to these animals that they must stop behaving like animals or they will be treated like animals then so be it.
If we shy away from the tough decision to drive the message home are we not storing up more trouble and blood shed for future generations? History has a habit of repeating itself!
I say allow Chimbwido a handful of his barbaric fiends their day in Court, take them out and hang them and then scrap the death penalty from the statute book! Agreed?
@ Chimbwido
Which farmers are you talking about, the Zanu PF looters? They the farms and everything on the farm for nothing and yet they still need government to buy the farming input, farming equipment, etc. Loans they never paid back most of which was the RBZ $1.2 billion debt. And these farmers still failed to produce enough to feed the nation.
No with no more help of course production will drop even more!
Do not talk as if the government had any choice in end the hand out; it did not. Zimbabwe is facing a serious economic melt-down the regime is broke, B R O K E - broke!
"Those farmers who are ill-equipped to deal with the changed circumstances will now leave the farms to pave way for others who did not make it last time," you say. Sure thing, those farmers will leave the farms and join the unemployed; right!
You are naïve and so are many of your Zanu PF fiends. The reality of the economic melt-down and the regime change that is to follow have not hit home yet; but is will!
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