We in the Zimbabwe
Social Democrats welcome MDC-Renewal’s call for SADC “provide curatorship towards economic reform and a roadmap to
free and fair elections”. Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown
demands the regional group’s serious attention. However, we believe SADC should
play a supporting role give that it’s GNU solution of 2008 to 2013 failed to
deliver the desired free and fair elections.
We dismiss with contempt
MDC-Renewal’s call for SADC to revisit the group’s Election Observer Mission’s
report on Zimbabwe’s July 2013 elections as futile exercise.
“We call upon progressive
members of SADC to do the right thing and come out in the open in condemning
the electoral farce that we saw in Zimbabwe on July 31,” said MDC-Renewal
document.
“We know that this
report has not been universally endorsed by all SADC member states and that
there were dissenting voices even in the Observer Mission itself.”
Whilst it is true that
the President Mugabe rigged the elections to review what happened during the
elections alone would, at best, paint half the picture. To get the full
picture, one has to look into why MDC failed to get even one democratic reform
implemented in their five years in the GNU.
If Mr Tendai Biti and Mr
Morgan Tsvangirai are serious about moving Zimbabwe forward then they must
explain to SADC, the world at large and most important of all to the people of
Zimbabwe why they failed to get even one reform implemented in their five years
in the GNU. Not one!
It was the breath-taking
incompetence of MDC leaders including Morgan Tsvangirai and Tendai Biti himself
who allowed President Mugabe to once again rig the elections landing the nation
in this political and economic mess. Both Zanu PF and MDC leaders are the
authors of Zimbabwe’s problems, they are the problem and per se they cannot be
the solution too!
We propose that SADC and
the international community should dwell on Mugabe to accept the solution to
Zimbabwe’s economic crisis is the holding of free, fair and credible elections.
He should step down to allow the formation of an interim administrative body
whose primary task will be to implement all the democratic reforms and oversee
the holding of free and fair elections.
The UN or some such
country like Norway or Netherlands with past experience in nation building can
facilitate the formation of the interim administration.
The people of Zimbabwe
have suffered greatly and they deserve to see the country’s political problem
of bad governance, which is the root cause of the economic crisi, finally
addressed robustly and decisively. After their breathtakingly incompetence of
the last five years no one can ever trust any of MDC leaders; all they after is
how to get back on the gravy train. Zimbabweans are sick and tired of leaders
who only care about their selfish interest at the expense of the very people to
claim to represent.
Signed: Wilbert Mukori
Secretary General
Zimbabwe Social Democrats
Source: http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-17354-Biti+urges+new+Zuma+%E2%80%98curatorship%E2%80%99+for+Zim/news.aspx
17 comments:
@ Wayfarer
If the "process was tilted in favour of Zanu PF" then Zanu PF did not win the elections "fair and square" which is what Biti had said.
The important point here is that the electoral process was massively loaded in favour of Zanu PF who then blatantly rigged the vote. This would NOT have happened if the MDC idiots had implemented the reforms. SADC, to be fair to them, had lobbied MDC not to take part in the elections without the reforms but the village idiots paid no heed.
The trouble with people like Tendai Biti and Morgan Tsvangirai and all their blind followers like you Wayfarer is that you are trying to pretend the reforms were not important but then get stuck when it comes to proposing the way forward. You agree the only way out is free and fair elections but cannot accept that we have to implementing the reforms first because you do not want to admit you failed to implement the reforms!
MDC failed to implement even one reform after five years in the GNU because they are breathtakingly incompetent, period. No nation can ever make progress with breathtakingly incompetent leaders in change; that is the reason Zimbabweans must bite the bullet and start searching for competent leaders now – not tomorrow, now!
@ Samex
Other countries have their problems too, that is true, but as for Zimbabwe's problem it is the fail-ure to hold free and fair elections. Mugabe thought he will rig the elections and sooner or later the nation will forget but that has not happened, has it.
Zimbabwe is not going to get out f the economic mess until we have free and fair elections. The economic meltdown will only get worse until we come back and deal with this problem!
@ el calbrito
What we have in this Mugabe regime is an illegitimate regime that has no political will to end corruption because the leaders are all corrupt and that no donor or investor can trust to work with. We need to get rid of this illegitimate regime to move forward. Forget next elections in 2018, this regime must go now!
@ Alba
No Zimbabweans do not "always get a raw deal". We have had many chances since independ-ence to end the Zanu PF dictatorship the best chance ever being during the GNU. All we had to do was implement the reforms which would have stopped Mugabe rigging the elections. Not even one reform was implemented in five years. Not one!
We have had many chances to end the corruption and tyrannical rule of Mugabe but failed to make the most of all those chances because we have become masters at shooting ourselves in the foot! People get the government they deserve and we certainly deserve this tyrannical one!
@ gerro
Shush yourself!
You are worried for the first time you will have to earn an honest living for the first time when the corruption is stopped and you have the looted wealth taken away. For once you are right, because that is exactly what is going to happen! Welcome to the real world!
The trouble with tyrannical regimes is that the leaders are myopic and have a blinkered vision. North Korea had hoped against hope that Zimbabwe would be a North Korea of Africa. That has not happened, there were many times when the country was being pushed hard in that direction. The signs on the ground now is that the Mugabe dictatorship is crumpling and fast.
Years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption have taken their heavy toll on the Zimbabwe economy. Grinding poverty is no longer confined to the politically enervated masses but has permeated to reach the inner most circle of the Zanu PF ruling elite.
The late Nathan Shamuyarira, a grandee of Zanu PF, lived in abject poverty and died a pauper. He was so poor his wife could not even afford the bus fare to visit him on his deathbed. The day he died Zanu PF, in its Animal Farm cynicism, painted his house to hide the years of neglect, rot and decay. No doubt they did not paint the back!
Most of the farms that Mugabe is now dishing out to foreigners including North Korea were initially given to Zanu PF party loyalists who are now abandoning them in droves having failed to maintain anything near the productivity of the last white farm owners.
What North Korea is failing to see is that the Mugabe regime is collapsing and after wait-ing for 34 years to see the back of the tyrannical regime the nation will only be too eager to sweep the house clean. Zimbabweans will want to see the regime and all its friends out of their lives!
Whatever agreement North Korea signs with Mugabe; the agreement will not be honoured by the new government after regime change in Zimbabwe! Just because there has not been regime change in North Korea does not mean there is not going to be one in Zimbabwe too.
It is rich of the Zanu PF deputy director of information and publicity Psychology Maziwisa to be accusing Tendai Biti of committing “political suicide”. If he even knew the meaning of that phrase then he would know that it was Mugabe who committed suicide by rigging the July 2013 elections. By rigging the elections Mugabe made it impossible for him to address the core problem of corruption at the heart of Zimbabwe’s lethargic economic performance.
Decades of misrule have taken a toll on the Zimbabwe economy and Mugabe has clearly failed to achieve any meaningful change as is exemplified by the empty ZimAsset begging bowl after a year of frantic begging. Zimbabwe economy is only going one way – down and it is taking Mugabe with it!
Rigging elections is bad enough but to blatantly rig the elections and then profoundly fail to deliver is simply unforgivable. It is political suicide!
@ Wayfarer
Not even an Albert Einstein of politics will change Zimbabwe as long as the nation has people who would rather follow a village idiot like Tsvangirai than stop to think for themselves.
Zimbabwe will be better off with a thinking electorate and average leaders than it is now with the wildebeest herd for electorate and 100 geniuses. What value will the geniuses be to the nation if come elections the herd will elect a village idiot guaranteed!
The trouble with having village idiots in positions of power is the nation no choice but to follow them. The basis of forming the GNU was so that reforms can be implemented to pave the way for free, fair and credible elections. It fall on MDC leaders including Nelson Chamisa to imple-ment the reforms.
After five years in the GNU not even one reform was implemented. Not one.
Now that the opportunity to have free and fair elections was lost who else but Nelson Chamisa and his fellow breathtakingly incompetent MDC village idiots are telling us we need free and fair elections. Zimbabweans have only themselves to blame for having elected these idiots but it is an outrage to allow the idiots to lecture us much less let them hold any position of trust in the future!
@ Moses Chamboko
Mugabe and Zanu PF have lied about the real causes of the country’s economic meltdown claiming it was the sanctions imposed by the West just as they have lied about everything else including elections claiming they were free and fair when the blatantly rig the vote. Whilst they have managed to get away with vote rigging and everything else they have since discovered economic meltdown and the economic hardships it is causes are impossible to hide.
After a year of frantic begging Mugabe has failed to raise even a single dollar to finance his ZimAsset economic recovery plan, not even his old ally the Chinese would give him a single Yu-an with which to rattle his begging bowl. The empty ZimAsset begging bowl has mocked Muga-be for over a year and with each passing day his failure grows; it is doing his head in.
With each report of a company closing and sending more workers on the mountain of unem-ployed; the ZimAsset bowl rings out to remind him that it is empty and it is the underlying cause. The nation is so poor that it is depending on the generosity of donors for 98% of the nation’s medicine requirements: another session of loud ringing of the begging bowl. Each time the bowl will ring louder and longer; no wonder Mugabe doses off at the drop of a hat, that ringing bowl in keeping him awake at night! There is no rest for the wicked!
@ Steven Motale
“Anyone who is seriously engaged in a struggle to remove a despot as ruthless and seasoned as Mugabe must be an exceptionally shrewd, courageous figure whose integrity is beyond question. Sadly, the MDC leader did not fit this mould. His image was tarnished by a litany of sex scandals, a weakness Mugabe exploited,” you said. I agree with you although I will hasten to add that Tsvangirai’s greatest weakness and one that destroyed him completely as a politician was not so much his “sex scandal” but rather his breath-taking political incompetence.
You are right to say Tsvangirai had no real political power in the GNU and yet he agreed to be Mugabe’s poodle. But even then, he could still have implemented the democratic reforms; he had the majority in parliament and five years to do it. He failed to implement even one reform; not one!
SADC and his international community supporters literally begged him not to take part in the elections without the reforms and he paid no heed, as MP Samuel Sipepa Nkomo has since admitted.
Without doubt Morgan Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti, Welshman Ncube and all the other MDC leaders are some of the most incompetent political leaders of our time!
@ Rovambira
For once I have to agree with you.
It is not just a matter of MDC-T "are not the only fish in the sea" which makes the opposition boycotting elections irrelevant but that in Zimbabwe's political sea there is no quality fish so one eats what one lands.
As far as the opposition is concerned MDC-T, MDC-Renewal, Zapu, Mavhambo, etc. they are all the same poor-man's political parties. One or two of them boycotting the elections will make no difference.
What the nation need is one or two quality opposition parties who will set the standard for they others to follow. Parties that will hit a home run every time they step up to bat and how fielding is so good the batting side has to aim for the moon for nothing short will do. There is a chance of one such quality parties to emerge!
Mugabe can no longer masquerade as a national hero to justify his extortionist mercenary rewards from the nation. He is now fishing for honours from SADC countries.
“We cannot be that ungrateful and something must be done and we will make sure of that,” he told SADC leaders.
Well if any SADC nation decide to honour Mugabe, that is their business. As far as Zimbabwe is concerned the only “honour” due to him is naming cemeteries after him, after all he did send millions of our people before their time!
Tsvangirai wrote to SADC Heads of State demanding that there be fresh elections in Zimbabwe because Mugabe rigged last year’s elections.
SADC Heads will just ignore him and rightly so too. How many times did they tell Tsvangirai to implement the reforms throughout the life of the GNU? Countless times and still he ignored they. They literally begging him not to take part in the elections without the reforms but again he paid no heed. The man is an idiot! It is right that they should now repay him with his own coins – ignore him!
Dr Uschi Eid, a former Parliament of Germany State Secretary says Mugabe should move on and not be “stuck” in colonial past. Easier said than do, madam!
Mugabe has no choice but to dwell in the pre-independence past where he was hero. To hear him talk one would be forgiven to think he defeated the white colonialists single handed, he goes on and on and on about it.
The reality is that ever since he got into power he has systematically denied the people the same rights, freedoms and liberties so many died for and he keeps wittering about. The Mugabe who has ruled the nation with an iron fist for the last 34 years is a far cry from the liberation hero; he a corrupt, vote rigging and murderous tyrant. Of course he is ashamed of the real Mugabe who has emerged behind the liberation hero colonial days Mugabe and hence will do everything in his power to make sure everyone remains stuck in the colonial past.
He is really scarred of losing power and control of the agenda and thus have someone turn the spotlight away from the past onto the present at last; to reveal the full details of his corruption, looting, vote rigging, murderers and how he has deceived the world all these years.
The past has been a mask behind which the real Mugabe, the devil’s child, has hidden for 34 years. The day Mugabe is forced out of office and the mask ripped away; the world and history will gasp in horror at what they will see!
@ Rovambira
You certainly have something to offer in that area. I have said this on this forum and many others that Zimbabwe has quality leaders but that it takes a quality electorate to separate the good from bad and the bad from the village idiots. So far the electorate has been going for the village idiots or tyrants like Tsvangirai and Mugabe!
@ Muverengi
If MDC was so powerless they could not even implement one reform then why did they agree to go into the GNU?
If MDC knew the new Copac constitution would never deliver free and fair elections then why did they campaign for a yes vote in the referendum?
The truth is MDC could have implemented all the reforms, they did not because they were side-tracked with the trappings of power Mugabe granted them and they did not dare upset the tyrant after that. But most important of all, they did not implement even one reform because they are incompetent.
The fact that you should still be apologising for MDC's incompetence now with the benefit of hindsight only goes to show just how naive and incompetent you are too!
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