Today Mugabe
and Zanu PF are celebrating marking the day, a year ago, they rigged the
elections. This nation owes it to itself and posterity to thoroughly
investigate how the elections were rigged and punished those responsible. In
future the nation must mark 31st July in remembrance of all the
weakness in our society that allowed Zanu PF to rig the elections so that the
curse of rigged elections is banished for all time.
National
Constitutional Assembly spokesperson Madock Chivasa said July 31 reminded him
of the day Zanu PF and the two MDCs put to the test a flawed constitution
that ricocheted straight into the faces of the former coalition partners to
Zanu PF.
On the
surface, yes the two MDC factions were the apparent loser of the rigged elections.
Indeed one can even say the likes of Dr Morgan Tsvangirai did not lose much really
since he has managed to hold on to the $ 4 million mansion, his bribe price from
Mugabe for MDC not implementing the reforms. Dig below the surface and without doubt the
greatest losers on that fateful day of 31st July 2013 were the
ordinary Zimbabweans. It is easy to blame MDC’s their great misfortune by the
people have only themselves for being so naïve and gullible as to allow
themselves to be so easily misled by someone as corrupt and incompetent as
Tsvangirai in the first place!
The
Zimbabweans played their role in approving the flawed Copac constitution by a
whopping 95% in the March 2013 referendum, for example.
Zimbabweans
prefer farming the plateau with its sandy soil which is easier to turnover with
the hoe and the weeds do not grow vigorously to farming the valley with their
rich and deep clay where the elephant grass grows. When it comes to the mental
effort they definitely prefer to farm the desert where nothing grows!
Zimbabweans
accepted the flawed Copac constitution on the strength of what Tsvangirai told them
– that is was an “MDC child” guaranteed to deliver free and fair elections. The
constitution was in fact “dictated by Mugabe” as MP Paul Mangwana, the Zanu PF
co-chairperson on the parliamentary committee who wrote the document, boasted.
Of course the new constitution failed to deliver free and fair elections as the
events of the dreadful day of 31st July 2013 confirmed.
The point is,
with a little effort, there is no doubt that the Zimbabwean electorate would
have realized that the Copac constitution was indeed flawed and demand a better
constitution and thus saved the nation the consequences of another rigged
elections. Just as there is price for farming the sandy soil – poor harvest –
there is price for approving a flawed constitution – rigged elections and
having the same corrupt and oppressive Zanu PF government.
"Yes, there are
challenges. Of course there are. But today, we are assured of a more focused,
partisan-free government that will do anything to make sure national interest
triumphs ahead of partisan interests." Was what Zanu
PF Deputy Director of Information, Psychology Maziwisa had to say about 31st
July 2013. It is to be expected from a party that has always put party interest
above national interests.
Of course Zanu
PF rigged the vote and has been careful to hide all the evidence including the
voters roll. Nikuv was paid a princely sum of $13 million to corrupt the voters
roll but did such a con-job the regime has refused to release the voters roll
so the nation does not see how the vote was rigged.
Mugabe and
Zanu PF can be assured of one thing – there will be a though investigation of
how the 31st July 2013 elections were rigged. All those involved in
the vote rigging will be punished. The nation will commemorate 31st
July in remembrance of the dangers of absolute power in the hands of a corrupt
and murderous dictatorship, the dangers of a corrupt and incompetent opposition
and the dangers of a naïve and gullible electorate.
31st
July is to be called “Nikuv Day” or “Rigged Elections Day” in memory of the
con-Jewish company that helped Mugabe rig the 31st July 2013
elections and since in Zimbabwe Nikuv has become synonymous with cheating or rigging.
“Nikuv Day” or “Rigged Elections Day” will be a solemn
and sober day of remembrance. The nation will not drink wine or beer and will
not eat a hot meal in memory of the millions of Zimbabweans whose lives Mugabe
and Zanu PF have made a totally misery from the day of the rigged 31st
July 2013 elections to the day the regime will finally be forced out of power
following free, fair and credible elections. Above all the nation must remember
to never again allow this curse of rigged elections happen!
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Zimbabwe’s war vet in Masvingo say they will continue with their violent land invasions. Last time a black farmer was axed and another had his property destroyed.
All of these war vets are living in abject poverty just like the rest of us and they are fighting a losing battle if they believe Zanu PF will ever deliver mass prosperity - in this case war vet prosperity! When Zanu PF grandees like the late Nathan Shamuyarira die in abject poverty that say it all. If the war vets think there is enough loot for them when there is nothing for the party grandees then they clearly are daydreamers.
What these war vets have completely failed to see is that the Zanu PF economic model was always doomed to fail. What these war vets must now accept is that they are not above the law as they have been made to believe by their Zanu PF handlers. If they have a bone to chew with their handlers they must take that up with the party and not pick innocent people. They continued lawlessness is not going to be tolerated!
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday threatened to expose senior Zanu PF officials whom he claimed were burning the midnight oil holding clandestine meetings, applying “dirty tricks” and splashing “dirty money” to influence the outcome of the party’s elective congress in December.
Mugabe has remained in the top job without holding any midnight meetings and without ever having any ambitions? What a load of bull!
How many innocent Zimbabweans have lost their lives for his one-party dictatorship? Did he not burn any midnight oil planning last year’s vote rigging? What does he call the $13 million he paid to Nikuv to corrupt the voters roll if that is not “dirty money”?
Mugabe has rule the nation with an iron fist and has ruled Zanu PF with two iron fists! He has treated everyone in the party as if they are all naughty primary kids and he was the headmaster's word was law!
Margaret Dongo was right, when she said everyone in Zanu PF "vakadzi waMugabe!" (are Mugabe women) in the most demeaning sense.
It is little wonder the nation is in this economic and political mess; the nation has been subject to the whim of one tyrant whose cabinet is there to rubber stamp everything he says.
Thank God the regime is on its last legs, it is collapsing under its own weight after decades of misrule.
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai met yesterday with Britain’s Minister for Africa Mark Simmonds in London to try to push forward an internationally-brokered initiative to resolve the deepening economic crisis in Zimbabwe.
Both Mugabe and Tsvangirai are part of the problem; the former by hanging on to power and the latter by trying to come back into power! How can they ever be part of the solution.
The cash-strapped government has moved to militarise mining operations, a move it hopes will plug leakages of minerals while also improving revenue accruing to government, in a desperate attempt to raise cash.
The regime has failed to rig economic recovery and now all the regime is doing is damage limitation. Kiya kiya is not the way to run a nation!
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