Zimbabwe’s Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Emmerson Mnangagwa bulldozed the electoral bill through parliament without taking into consideration the concerned raised by the opposition and civic society.
“Parliament was elected to make laws for the people. It is not for the people to do the work of Parliament,” said Minister Mnangagwa.
The Minister is right on, it is the prerogative of parliament to make the law what is at issue here is who elected these MPs who are writing these laws which we the people are expected to obey? It should the people who elect MPs and the State President and we know Zimbabwe is yet to hold free and fair elections in which the people have a meaningful say on who govern them. The July 2013 elections were blatantly rigged; Minister Mnangagwa knows that better than anyone else for he is a member of the Joint Operations Command which masterminded the vote rigging.
If this parliament truly represent the will of the people of Zimbabwe and was sure it has the people’s mandate to rule then its first task after the 31 July 2013 elections should have been to clear the air and order a through independent judiciary investigation into all vote rigging allegations. This parliament has failed to even order the release of the voters roll it is now a year since it should have been made public.
The voters roll is the smoking gun in the rigged 2013 elections.
Many of MPs seating in parliament today are the beneficiaries of the rigged July 2013 elections. The illegitimacy of Mugabe and his regime is not in doubt and it is only the poor judgement of people like Tsvangirai who have even tried to accept the regime as a “political reality”. Any monkey can steal and wear the crown but no only a fool would pay homage to it as king; Mnangagwa knows that and we all know it!
The passing of this electoral law confined what some of us have said all along that we will need to implement wide ranging reforms first if the next elections in Zimbabwe are going to be free and fair. This illegitimate Mugabe regime cannot be trusted to implement any meaningful reforms, Mnangagwa has just confined that!
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Police Commission Augustine Chihuri collapse during the pass out parade of new Police recruits 651 of them!
Are all these new recruits really necessary given the nation has one of the most bloated civil service in the world. The regime is already spending 96% of the revenue collected in wages and still it continues to recruit; particularly in the army, CIO and Police!
The Chinese have already started building a $200 million Spy University in Harare.
The economy is in serious melt-down and Mugabe continues with his project of beefing up the state repression machinery and turn the country into the North Korea Police state of Africa. This is one abomination he should not be allowed to accomplish!
Experts claim that the country has missed out on over $7 billion worth of lines of credit from international banks due to uncertainty posed by the country’s indigenisation programme, which Zanu PF used as its campaign trump card during last year’s general elections.
The policy somersault will allow investors to realise their initial capital investment, get appropriate return on investment and recover operational costs.
Yes it is true that in the last two or three months the Mugabe regime has gone through what some people have describe as “a major climb down”, other said it was “a volte face” and yet other said “a somersault” when it comes to its indigenisation and black empowerment flagship polices all in an effort to woo back foreign inves-tors. Even if the regime was to perform a triple somersault with a double twist from a standing-still position and land on its feet – gymnasts will that is impossible – it will have no effect.
The regime can scrap its indigenisation and empowerment policies – they were stu-pid anywhere – exempt them from all duty payments on their plant and equipment, offer them the most generous cooperate tax concession in the world, everything and have all these enacted into law written in blood; still there will be no foreign investors queuing to come into Zimbabwe. The regime has signed trade agreement with friendly nations like SA – forget those its signed with the “imperialist West“ – and when it suited Mugabe’s political agent the tyrant has blatantly violated the agreement. So why would anyone believe that the regime will honour the agreements it signs this time!
The regime is illegitimate and is not even ashamed of this. It is now clear that the voters roll is the smoking gun to the rigged elections and the regime has stubbornly refused to release the roll knowing that tantamount admission of guilt. People have pointed out to the regime that the obvious consequences of the admission is that Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies have committed the very serious crime of treason against the people of Zimbabwe and that, per se, renders the regime illegitimate! Mugabe and his crony’s response so far has been the middle finger salute.
If the regime can show such contemptuously indifference to the nation’s constitution and rule of law what is there to stop the regime violating the property rights of an individually especially one from the hated imperialist West?
The only way to restore confidence that Zimbabwe has finally drawn the line in the sand and restored the rule of law is for the nation to hold free and fair elections in which the elected government had in its manifesto the scrapping of the stupid in-digenisation and black empowerment policies and a commitment to returned the country to rule of law. Anything else Mugabe tries to do will be seen as a trick to lure the investors only for the tyrant to perform a surprise volte face and devoured the investor, the investment and, as happened with the white farmers, their family!
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