Sunday 11 January 2015

Mugabe imposed provincial leaders to stop Mujuru becoming VP but that started fires he cannot put out!


When Mugabe carried out his staged-managed vote-of-no-confidence in provincial leaders to rig Zanu PF’s party elections which Mai Mujuru was set to win he achieved his primary objective of stealing electoral victory but created a problem of insubordination at provincial level and below which threatening to get out of control.    

At the beginning of August 2013, four months before the party’s elective December 2013 congress, Mai Mujuru’s supporters were in the majority in eight out of the ten provinces plus the Youth League. The other faction led by now VP Mnangagwa had two provinces and the Women’s League. Each of the provinces and two Leagues were entitled to nominate a portion of congress delegate members and central committee members who then constituted the election college to elect the three individuals who would be the two Vice Presidents and the chairperson of the party. It was a mathematical certainty that Mai Mujuru would retain her post as one of the two VP. Mugabe and Mnangagwa did not want her as VP and so had to do something quick smart!

The plan to unseat Mujuru was simple enough; accuse her of “factionalism” and plotting to assassinate Mugabe. All the senior party members like Rugare Gumbo and Didymus Mutasa who had supported her bid for VP position were either haunted out of the party or haunted into silence. The provincial leaders, especially the chairperson position, were forced out of power through stage-managed vote-of-no-confidence by members bussed in for the purpose. New interim provincial executives were then appointed to replace the elected Mujuru supportive executives.

It was the new provincial executives which then nominated congress delegate and supervised the election of central committee members. Known Mujuru supporters included Mai Mujuru herself and then cabinet ministers were barred from putting their names forward for these nominated or elected positions.

Just in case the move to keep Mujuru supporters away from the congress did not succeed, Mugabe and Mnangagwa had a plan B. They changed the party’s constitution taking away congress’s power to elect the two VP positions; it was now the party’s first secretary who also becomes national President who would appoint whoever he/she placed.

The replacement of the provincial leadership with an imposed one delivered the immediate objective of ensuring congress, the central committee and the politburo – composed of members selected by Mugabe alone from the central committee pool – will have no Mujuru loyalists. No doubt Mugabe and Mnangagwa must have expected some murmuring after breaking the rules so blatantly to get what they wanted; the party is notorious for its disregard of the law and riding roughshod over other people’s basic rights and freedoms, still many of the Zanu PF members who founded themselves or the receiving end of a rigged electoral process never thought Mugabe would ever play such dirty tricks on them. They got a lot more than a few murmurings!

Whilst many of the purged leaders started running scared immediately others like Rugare Gumbo and Didymus Mutasa have decided they will not gone down quietly. Their fight back has had no meaningful impact because they tried to take the moral high ground and attach Mugabe’s undemocratic tactics and failed economic policies. The Zimbabwe public dismissed them as hypocrites for seeing these faults now that they have lost their positions in the Zanu PF dictatorship but never said a word about all the corruption, vote rigging and political violence and murders until now.

It is the fear of the disloyalty of the party members below the provincial level who have cause to feel cheated since they are the ones who were denied any meaningful say in those who now represent them at central committee level. Mugabe has since moved quickly and decisively to dismiss most known Mujuru loyalist from cabinet but has been powerless to act against MPs and Senators since these are elected positions. The last thing Mugabe wants is to have these MPs or Senators forming a parallel political power base challenging his imposed leadership.

So how to pull the political rag, of grass-root membership support at district and cell level, from under the remaining Mujuru loyalists without appearing to be doing so? That is the big worry for Mugabe and, it seems, he has no solution.

Ever since the imposed provincial leadership the party members in one province at least, Mashonaland East, have pointedly rejected the provincial leadership imposed on them just before last year’s congress. The party’s Political Commissar, Minister Kasukuwere, has been forced to sack on mass the imposed provincial leadership and appoint another 15-member interim committee.

Speaking during the meeting Kasukuwere said the province should come up with new structures, adding that a new substantive provincial executive should be in place by April.
If Mai Mujuru had grass-root support, it seems that she did, then how is Mugabe going to rig that, is the million dollar question?

Of course everyone wants to be the leader but in a country where holding public office has become the only route to wealth and influence the fight for power has been fierce. The country’s worsening economic situation in which being in power is the only way to escape abject poverty; the fight for power has become a dog-eat-dog affair. The infighting in Zanu PF is at all levels is set to get worse, much worse and, it seems, there is little Mugabe can do about it.

“Kasukuwere is on a nationwide tour aimed at extinguishing the party’s never-ending fires at national, provincial and district levels — following on-going votes of no confidence that have led to the controversial suspension of scores of party bigwigs on account of their perceived support for Mujuru, and that camp’s alleged plot to illegally oust President Robert Mugabe from power,” reported the Daily News.

The report is spot-on the infighting in Zanu PF constitute “never-ending fires”. The country’s worsening economic situation fuelling those fires! 

26 comments:

Zimbabwe Light said...

Mugabe has set 27 March 2015 as the date for by-elections in Mount Darwin West and Chirumanzu-Zibagwe constituencies left vacant following the appointing of Joice Mujuru and Emmerson Mnangagwa VP.

Mugabe can afford to lose a few bye-elections and so he will not go all out to rig these bye-elections. Mu-gabe would prefer to have all Mujuru supporters in parliament and senate fired but can ill afford to lose the bye-elections to follow. He would be forced to roll out the vote rigging machinery. In the 2013 elections he refused to release the voters roll then but would find it impossible to do so again, The voters roll was the smoking gun in the rigged elections and releasing one now presents the danger of it being used as evidence of the vote rigging back then! He cannot afford to have that can of worms opened!

Zimbabwe Light said...

@ Martin Ganda

“The post-1980 education policy created one of the most educated countries in Africa, with an estimated 91% literacy rate. But a protracted exodus of skilled Zimbabweans has depleted the nation of the human capital necessary for economic growth and national development,” you said. I do not agree with you there.

Much has been said about Zimbabweans’ high literacy rate when the evidence on the grounds should that we have been wasting our time and resources chasing a mirage. Our education system has been totally focused on teaching people to read, write and arithmetic at the expense of teaching people the common sense stuff that help them survive.

What good is it that 91% are literate if they do not have the common sense to dig a well so that they drink clean water? Do we really need someone from Europe or America to tell us we should not drink from the river or shal-low well? I would rather have a nation with 91% drinking clean water because they appreciate the importance of clean water than one with 91% literacy rates but would piss in the water they are drinking like a cow!

Zimbabwe has had Mugabe as president for 35 years now and he boosts of having no fewer than seven University degrees, the upper crust of literacy, and yet the country is in total ruins. For decades the country has pursued economic policies that defy common sense. Not even seven University degrees were able to drive the village idiot mentality out of that moron!

If you put so much value to the 91% literacy rates which you appear to in the first sentence then you are clearly contradicting yourself in the next sentence. Why should those who have left the country stop the country devel-oping if 91% of those left in the country are literate. Right now Zimbabwe has skilled people still in the country who are unemployed or underemployed. So why talk of skills drain when you are failing to use what you have already?

Zimbabwe is in this political and economic mess because as a people we have lost sight of what really matters in life. We have allowed morons like Mugabe take us one step forward and we have made a big song and dance about that and failed to acknowledge that the tyrant has meanwhile taken us twenty steps backwards. What good is it to us as a nation that we have 91% literacy rate and yet fail to see the negative impact of plus one and minus twenty!

Zimbabwe Light said...

“Zanu PF has not changed and violence continues to be part of their DNA. We urge the police to ar-rest the real perpetrators of violence and to release our innocent members immediately,” said an MDC-T member. Following the outbreak of violence in Budiriro in which Zanu PF youths attached MDC-T youths. Some MDC-T youths were hospitalised whilst others were arrested by the Police.

Of course Zanu PF has not changed you useless piece of shit! MDC was supposed to implement the democratic reforms that would have forced the Police, the Courts and all the other democratic institu-tions to end their political bias and carry out their duties without fear or favour. The MDC-T moron now calling on the Police to arrest the Zanu PF youths has accepted that it was ok that party leaders like Tsvangirai traded implementing the reform for his $4 million Highlands mansion. And yet he still expects the Police reforms to have been carried out.

The nation is once again facing the horrors of political violence because MDC choices to trade in the opportunity to end the violence for the Highlands mansion and the other trappings of power Mugabe offered Tsvangirai and other MDC leaders. These MDC morons followed the corrupt and incompetent MDC leaders who betrayed the whole nation and they still continue to follow the idiots like sheep to the slaughter even now with all the evidence of the betrayal there for all to see.

“Zanu PF has not changed!” Of course they have not change; that was the price Tsvangirai paid for his Highlands mansion, you moron!

Zimbabwe Light said...

@Meva Ogagu

The economic meltdown is serious and Zanu PF cannot ignore it for much longer. Yes I believe Zanu PF will soon be seeking some way out. What we must not allow yet another political fudge after the last GNU which is what will happen if Tsvangirai's proposal is followed. Zanu PF will want to keep a firm hold on all the levers of power and so a solution that does not include any political reforms will suit them to the T.

Parliament is a feeble and useless body; it is Joint Operations Commandant that has real political power.

Zimbabwe Light said...

@Chokwadi

Zimbabwe needs the democratic reforms implemented and until they are implemented the country is going nowhere. You have had your idee fixe party, MDC, for 15 years now what did it accomplish other than Tsvangirai selling the nation's chance to end the Zanu PF dictatorship for the $4 million Highlands mansion.

You inability to see Tsvangirai for the incompetent village idiot he is, even now with the benefit of hind-sight, is truly astonishing! Who would believe anyone can be so shallow, thick and slow!

Zimbabwe Light said...

"That Chihuri, who has a complicated history in Zanu-PF, is under pressure is not a secret, which is unfortunate as he is actually a nice, God-fearing and competent man who concentrates on his job rather than petty party squabbles.

"His sole crime is that party hardliners perceive him and other service chiefs to be very close to Amai Mujuru and thus want him sacked, as he holds a very important position in the running of the country.

"The suggestion is thus that when president Mugabe next re-organises his Cabinet on his return from his holiday, Chihuri and others (service chiefs) will also be cut loose," the source said.

Chihuri “is actually a nice, God-fearing and competent man who concentrates on his job rather than petty party squabbles”? The trouble with some of these sources is that they only see everything through the tinted Mugabe and the Zanu PF glasses.

Chihuri himself said he did not want to be involved in petty party squabbles when he was called upon to investigate corruption charges against Mai Mujuru. Corruption is one of the most serious crimes behind the nation’s economic meltdown that has millions into a life of abject poverty and despair. So how can corruption now be a “petty” crime? Of course he did not want to investigate because Zanu PF cronies are above the law.

Many people have suffered under the hands of Zanu PF thugs, thugs Chihuri pointedly refused to arrest and thus confirming the notion that Zanu PF thugs are above the law!

Chihuri a “God-fearing and competent man”! This is the kind of nonsense the nation has been subjected to for all these years and this idiotic source repeat the nonsense without even thinking about it!

There is no question about Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri being part and parcel of this tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship so if some of those in the dictatorship should turn on him like hyenas turning on a fellow hyena then he is getting his just deserve.

Zimbabwe Light said...

“Mnangagwa were sincere about reform, he would have pushed for the implementation of the Constitution in his capacity as minister of Justice and leader of government business in Parliament. Any leader who is keen on genuine reform would have prioritised the implementation of the people’s charter endorsed by Zimbabweans in a referendum,” said Tsvangirai.

The man is truly an imbecile because only an imbecile would be wittering all this nonsense.

At the time of the referendum Tsvangirai claimed the new constitution was an “MDC child” and repeatedly assured the nation that it would deliver free, fair and credible elections. He was warned that it was too weak and feeble to do any such thing and of course he would not listen.

The constitution was “dictated by Mugabe” as MP Paul Mangwana, the Zanu PF member in the committee tasked to write the new constitution, later boasted.

One of the basic tenets of a good constitution is that it must be the supreme law of the land and that no one should be above the law. And yet here we are Tsvangirai is appealing to the whim of Mnangagwa to implement even the already compromised constitution giving him the licence to reinterpretation the constitution.

Zimbabwe Light said...

MDC guys are a confused lot! They were advised and begged not to take part in the elections without reforms and they ignored the warning and went on to take part. The boycott would have made sense then in that it would have put Mugabe under pressure to implement the reforms.

Now MDC have decided to boycott the by-elections when there is precious little to be gained from doing so! Mugabe will not be bothered even if Zanu PF was to lose both these seats and so it is almost certain that the tyrant will not resort to any of his dirty tricks. Mugabe is likely to produce a proper voters’ roll this time and comparing that roll to the 2013 copy could be very interesting.

MDC-T made a congress resolution that the party would not take part in future elections until the democratic reforms are implemented, a very commendable position given the party does not have a clue what these reforms were during the GNU since they are the ones who failed to get even one reform implemented. Listening to leaders like Tsvangirai it is clear they still do not have a clue what these reforms are.

Boycotting the by-election is a typical MDC blundering along move comparable to the 2005 decision to boycott the senate elections which resulted in some taking part and the split of the party. MDC are doing what they do best - bolt the stable door after the horse has bolted! Nothing MDC do make any sense because they are a confused lot!

Zimbabwe Light said...

This is typical MDC confusion when everyone who is anyone begged them first to implement the reforms and then, when that failed, not to take part in the elections; MDC ignored everyone and went ahead. We all know what happened next, Mugabe blatantly rigged the elections landing us in this hell.

And now MDC are calling for boycott in their usual confused fashion with some saying one thing and the others saying the exact opposite.

Frankly no one in MDC knew during the GNU what these reforms where about; there is no way they would have failed to get them implemented if they did. Now they still do not know what the reforms are much less how and when they must be implemented.

How this nation ever elected such incompetent leaders as Tsvangirai, Biti and Ncube beggars belief. How anyone can still follow these leaders even after they have proven beyond doubt just how corrupt and incompetent they are in not just sheer folly, it is tragic. It shows these people are incapable of learning from their own past mistakes and that is tragic because it means the nation is stuck in this hell!

Zimbabwe Light said...

Of all the stupid ideas extending the life of the GNU takes the biscuit. If the GNU could not implement the democratic reforms in five years what was there to suggest they would do so in nine years or whatever?

“Things are happening fast, but in an invisible manner,” said a former minister fired from cabinet for backing Mujuru. “We knew they would clampdown on us, but we are steps ahead. Amai Mujuru will soon be our new prime minister, if Tsvangirai becomes president, that is a deal long concluded. A shadow government is already in place.”

“It is not only Mnangagwa and Mugabe who are sophisticated when it comes to planning. We have our people all over, including their offices working for us. Just wait and see."

The Tsvangirai Mujuru ticket is the perfect example of the tweedle dee and tweedle dum and their lead balloon.

After waiting for 35 years for freedom, liberty, justice and a breath of fresh air the nation deserves better than a Mujuru Tsvangirai government!

Zimbabwe Light said...

"The only administration that has failed in Zimbabwe is the Zanu-PF regime that has contributed to the collapse of Zimbabwe's entire social service delivery, infrastructural decay and moral dec-adence,” said MDC-T statement.

Nonsense, yes Zanu PF has failed the nation but it is not “the only administration” to do so. MDC failed the nation by failing to implement the democratic reforms during the GNU which, implemented, would have stop Mugabe dead on his feet from rigging the 2013 elections. This move by Zanu PF to create a parallel administration in Mutare is just on the many consequences of MDC allowing Zanu PF to rig the 2013 elections!

MDC leaders have never apologised to the good people of Zimbabwe for selling their hopes and dreams to Mugabe for the $ 4 million Highlands Mansion for Tsvangirai and the trappings of power for the rest. All these stupid MDC statements in which the party is trying to distance itself from the tragic consequences of continued Zanu PF rule is only rubbing hot chills into the peo-ple’s eyes.


Whilst people like Tsvangirai continue to enjoy the benefits of his Highlands mansion and other bribes and are actively fighting to get back on the gravy train their speeches about the suffering masses will be as hollow as an empty tortoise shell.


It is not right for the burly and overweight to speak at the funeral of one who died of starvation, especially when the former’s great fortune and the latter’s great misfortune are intrinsically linked; because regardless what is said the underlying message of mocking the dead is unmistakable!

Zimbabwe Light said...

@ Obert Gutu

"If Zec is going to make sure that all our concerns are addressed, then we are ready to partici-pate and win the elections as we have always done. But without that, we will not take part in the circus," said motor mouth Obert Gutu.

It was within MDC’s power to implement all the democratic reforms that would have addressed all the nation’s concerns for free, fair and credible elections not just for the 2013 elections but for all time! You MDC leaders decided to take the bribes Mugabe offered, $4 million Highlands mansion for Tsvangirai and all the trappings of power for the rest, and you all forgot about implementing the reforms. And now you want ZEC to address all the concerns for free, fair and credible elections?

Just how do you expect ZEC to ensure the Police carryout their duties of keeping law and order without fear or favour, for example? Zimbabwe’s culture of politically motivated violence is a serious threat to free, fair and credible elections and this problem is still out there as confirm by the reports of MDC youths being attached by Zanu PF youths in Budiriro last weekend.

MDC had the best chance ever to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship once and once for all dur-ing the GNU and wasted that opportunity and now the party is asking a body, ZEC, run by known Zanu PF loyalists to implement the reforms. How stupid is that and yet how typical of MDC?

Zimbabwe Light said...

@ Dr Magaisa

““The lizard that jumped from the high iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no one else did”.

“These are the famous words of the great Chinua Achebe, in Things Fall Apart, drawing from the wisdom of his Igbo ancestors.

“News that President Mugabe has finally called by-elections in two constituencies whose seats became vacant by operation of law has prompted me to invoke the great story-teller’s words.” That was the MDC-T chief legal advisor, Dr Alex Magaisa blowing his own trumpet for all his worth!
The idiot was supposed to advise MDC to implement the democratic reforms and he did not and now he is blowing his own trumpet over some stupid advise which is of no consequence to the nation! The nation is facing the nightmare of a corrupt and tyrannical regime and who cares whether the tyrant’s assistant is an MP and VP as well?
As it happens now that Mai Mujuru is no longer VP so why should there be a by-election for her seat.
Well Dr Magaisa is one lizard the people of Zimbabwe will wish had jumped from the high iroko tree straight into the fire. Is this idiot still a lecturer; fcuk me, I really do not see how anyone can be expected to listen to such nauseating stupidity!

Zimbabwe Light said...

@ Tsvangirai

"If Mnangagwa were sincere about reform, he would have pushed for the implementation of the Constitution in his capacity as minister of Justice and leader of government business in Parliament," said Tsvangirai.

Look who is talking! Were you "sincere about reforms" yourself given you failed to implement even one reform in all your five years in the GNU? Ever since the day you got the keys to the $4 million Highlands mansion you kicked reforms into the tall grass and did nothing to get even one reform implemented. Not one!

Please do not insult our intelligence with you wittering about reforms as if you cared! All you care about is getting back on the gravy train so you can afford the luxuries befitting some one living in a $4 million mansion.

Let me tell you here and now you are corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent and I will fight hard to ensure that men and women like you are never ever elected into high office. Never!

Zimbabwe Light said...

@ Kashi Mani


Not exactly, I think Zimbabweans are waking up to the reality of corrupt and incompetent leaders like these MDC clowns who promised them everything but deliver fcuk all! MDC were never part of the solution but rather part of the problem in that as long as we had an electorate that is so easily fooled to see MDC as the answer then we were in serious trouble.

We are getting round this problem now; the electorate are rejecting MDC and will now start looking for quality leaders! Mark my words!

Zimbabwe Light said...

@ Dr Gucci

First things first, do you agree that MDC should and could have implemented the reforms during the GNU? And do you also agreed that they failed to get even one reform implemented because they are cor-rupt and breathtakingly incompetent?

If you were able to answer the above then you will necessarily appreciate that Zanu PF does have the upper hand now especially is MDC has ever allowed to have a say in deciding the way forward - they are just too corrupt and incompetent to be trusted to do anything.

Zanu PF is reeling under the pressure of the economic meltdown and it is a matter of time before the dictatorship is forced to accept that it does not have the answers. The trick then will be to insist on getting the reforms implemented. Forget Tsvangirai's stupid suggestion of discussing the economy get the reform implemented.

The government elected after free and fair elections will start addressing the economic problems.

Zimbabwe Light said...

@Dr Gucci

At the last elections Zimbabwe had no fewer than 28 political parties and yet the country is still in this mess. We can have 280 come the next elections, if you want but I can tell you now the country will still be in this mess. It is not the quantity that matters but the quality.

As long as we have voters who think someone as corrupt and incompetent as Tsvangirai is fit to be presi-dent; you can have the Albert Einstein of a politician he or she will lose to the village idiot from Buhera! In other words we also need a pool of quality voters and we clearly do not have them.

So you see my friend the solution to Zimbabwe's nightmare is a lot more complex than you think.

I am secretary general of the Zimbabwe Social Democrats a small group of highly motivated and focused who are determined to see the reforms implemented. Our other task is to get Zimbabweans to think for themselves and stop following leaders like sheep. I believe we are doing a great job on both fronts.

To get the reforms implemented one does not need a full fledge political party that can come latter. If you want to know more about ZSD write to zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com and we will send you more details.

Zimbabwe Light said...

@ Chokwadi

The best chance to implement the reforms was during the GNU but not even one reform was implemented because neither Tsvangirai and his MDC friends understood what these reforms were nor did the Zimba-bwe electorate otherwise they would have never allowed MDC to get away without even one reform im-plemented.

You ask what my strategy for getting the reforms implemented is; I will tell you. Get the ordinary people to understand what these reforms are and why we need them and they will force Mugabe to have them implemented. This Zanu PF dictatorship build on the people's ignorance and her twin sister fear enlighten the people and the regime will collapse in a day!

No one has taken up the task of enlightening people because it is a tough job but that does not mean it cannot be done!

Zimbabwe Light said...

Conditions of service for judges improved significantly during the year under review par-ticularly with regards to provision of appropriate motor vehicles. Judges have been moti-vated and individual performance has shot up,” said Judge President George Chiweshe.

The judges have become part and parcel of the corrupt ruling elite and have always done what Mugabe asked them to do. If they had any sense of justice then they would have seen the injustice of pay and allowances compared to those of the people below them!

Zimbabwe Light said...

@ Stewart Murewa


Everything you said about Tsvangirai wittering is spot on until you came to this bit. “It is notable that while the MDC formations are competing to undermine Zim- Asset and derail economic reforms, SADC, the AU and the international community have, together with the local business community, joined hands with the Government to make Zim-Asset work,” you said.

No one in MDC is derailing the economic reforms. Name one thing they have done?

No one in SADC, AU, international community and local business has “joined hands with the government to make ZimAsset work” because anyone with any brains knows the plan will never work. Only the Chinese and Russians have put in $ 7 billion out of the $27 billion required because Mugabe offered them deals they could not refuse. But even then, the two pointedly refused to contribute even a dollar in budgetary support which is what Mugabe was after.

ZimAsset is dead in the water and you are fishing for someone to blame now that you are tired of blaming “the illegal sanctions imposed by the evil British and their allies” for all the country’s ills. Blame the incompetent MDC for Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown shows that Zanu PF is now desperate, really desperate!

Zimbabwe Light said...

@ Tawanda Majoni

“Our politicians, particularly from the long ruling Zanu (PF), just need to put their priorities straight and all our woes would be gone like the Zimdollar,” you said.

I think you have put your finger on the problem but misread it as the solution. All our woes will be gone and never ever to come back (unlike the Zimdollar the regime has already brought back by stealth) if we accepted that the long ruling Zanu PF HAVE their priorities right and that is to look after number one – them. For 35 years we have refused to accept that our politicians’ top and bottom priorities are them, their families and some friends, if resources permit – the public is not even on the list.

This is not only true with Zanu PF politicians alone but MDC too. When Tsvangirai agreed with Mugabe to kick reforms into the tall grass throughout the GNU in return for the $4 million Highlands mansion, he was looking after number one – Dr Richard Morgan Tsvangirai. Since the rigged 2013 elections he has been fighting to get back on the gravy train and been promising to solve all the nation's woes. Of course he will swear HE had the nation's priorities straight as the arrow during the GNU years and even more so now!

You and the rest of Zimbabwe can talk until the cows come home about politicians getting “their priorities” right and pretend the politician’s priorities and those of the rest of society overlap. The cold reality is the two groups’ priorities and interests have been drifting apart all these years and are now mutually exclusive. Grace Mugabe’s interests in Manzou Farm and those of the evicted families, for example, could not be more poles apart!

The only way we will force those holding public office to put the interests of the public above their own individual interests is by dismantling the current political system that has usurped the people’s power to hold politicians to account. We must fight to get ALL the democratic reforms, MDC should have implemented during the GNU, implemented. Until that is done we will see the cows come and go day in day out year after year and our woes get worse and worse!

Zimbabwe Light said...

@ Lady gaga

Banks provide a service to those with money to spare as a starting point, my dear. Banks do not thrive in a nation of vendors; kiya kiya people live from hand to mouth you put a bank between their hand and mouth and they are starving!

Zimbabwe Light said...

@ Rukudzo
You Zanu PF morons are always telling others what to do with their money, time, etc. Why are you not investing some of the generous CIO salary, allowance and looted money? You are running out of loot and so you want to loot even the little anyone has left.

Well the looting days are over the Zimbabwe economy is drying up and there is no coming back this time. Zanu PF will be forced to step down one way or the other!

Zimbabwe Light said...

"I cannot be used to solve their (Zanu-PF) rotten party. I am happy they have realised that the party is rotten, although late, it is better late than never," said Makoni.

Well let get something straight here, neither Mujuru, Dabengwa or Makoni himself got out of Zanu PF because they finally realised the party was rotten. You were all kicked out of the party!

Zimbabwe Light said...

This is the kind of spurious argument founded on fear and not reason which is what tyrant thrive on.

“In his recent utterances he goes all systems out in attempts to delegitimise the recently held Zanu-PF congress as well as the reconfigurations of the government of Zimbabwe. The threats contained in a very long statement, signed by him but obviously authored somewhere and fund-ed by those interested in destabilisation of the party of government Zanu-PF as a precursor to state destabilisation is not just a cheap shot by a bitter man but a serious statement of intent by a group that will not stop at anything to achieve their destabilisation agenda,” Moyo argues.

Should dismiss the dig at who authored the statement because it is really irrelevant who wrote it what is at issue here is whether or not the electoral process was indeed illegitimate.

If there is any possibility of election irregularities then Mutasa is within his democratic rights to have the Court look into it. Indeed it a health thing for the nation that any irregularities are doubly checked.

To argue that a challenge of an irregular process will destabilise the government is nonsense. Why should action designed to restore the rule of law be considered to be destabilising. If it should be found that there were election irregularities then those behind the irregularity are to blame for whatever happens next and not the victim of the irregularities.

To stop the legal challenge for fear it may destabilise government will not serve justice but only encourage the wrongdoers to disregard the law. We want a good government and that starts with a government that respects the rule of law and accepting a bad government out of fear is not a option.

Zimbabwe Light said...

@ Muchadura Dube

The panic and hysteria with which Zanu PF has greeted Mutasa’s challenge of the election process shows the regime is hiding its fear of being exposed as an election cheat behind threats of destabilising the regime. The rime is used to dealing with the cowardly Tsvangirai, afraid of his own shadow and would go out of his way to appease Mugabe. Mutasa is not the cleverest kid on the block however he is certainly not a coward.

Mugabe and Zanu PF are not above the law and it is high time the tyrant is reminded of this simple fact.