“President Mugabe is not
going anywhere,” said minister Kasukuwere.
“He is a veteran
nationalist and God given leader. Mukuru mukuru hanga haigare pfunde. Please
let President Mugabe do his work. That’s what we agreed on the 6th
People Congress.”
People’s congress, my
a***e! Mugabe rigged the party’s own electoral process just as he rigged the
national elections in 2013! The one thing he has clearly failed to rig is the
economic recovery.
His “mega deals” with
the Chinese to kick start his ZimAsset recovery plan are falling apart already.
The Chinese have come back demanding that the Chinese personal should be appointed
in the key government department and parastatal handling the projects they are
financing to “stop revenue leakages” according to a Mail and Guardian report.
They know about Zimbabwe’s economic waste of money and wealth through mismanagement
and corruption and they are clearly developing cold feet over their promise to invest
$4 billion in such a leaky system.
The Russians are facing serious
economic problems of their own. Last month they went cap in hand to beg for US$
4 billion to prop up the Russian Ruble which had been falling like a stone
compared to other currency. Last week Russian government bonds were downgraded
to junk value with a corresponding fall in value of 74%! Obvious the Russians
will not be starting the platinum mining project their signed with Mugabe for a
long time. They have taken up the offer, the sweeter to the platinum deal, to
join in the looting of Zimbabwe’s diamonds in Marange – just another big leak
in which Zimbabwe is the poorer for it.
Like it or not, unless
Mugabe can rig economic recovery; so far he has failed to do so and now he has clearly
run out of options; then he will be forced to step down because the economic
meltdown is set to get worse as long as Mugabe and/or Zanu PF remain in power.
The people of Zimbabwe
have suffered great economic hardships and there is a limit to what even they
with their “legendary resilience”, Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi boasted of,
can take. That limit cannot be far off now and once reached the social unrest,
after all the decades of bottled up frustration and anger, that result could be
a tsunami that no one can stop. Mugabe and his tyrannical thugs will be sweep
away like palm leaves in a surf. And the death and destruction it will cause
will shock us all and set back the nation for a generation. Surely, that is not
what we want!
For the last 35 years it
has been Mugabe and Zanu PF alone who have decided who ruled Zimbabwe with all
the rest of the people denied any meaningful say. What Mugabe and his cronies
like Kasukewere have failed to see is the political system they were imposing
on the nation was corrupt and wasteful and therefore doomed to fail. And 35
years it has finally failed; they are just too drunk on power and their egotistic
sense of invisibility to notice the game is up.
Yes Minister Kasukuwere,
Mugabe reign of terror is over; he is leaving State House whether he likes it
or not because the cup is full to overflowing, his time is up!
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Gutu says the national convergence will be guided by eminent opinion leaders drawn from churches, business community and student movements who are leading in the planning stages.
If anyone is serious about finding a way out of Zimbabwe’s present economic and political mo-rose then they will have to think careful about inviting parties like the MDC factions given the leaders’ reputation as breathtakingly incompetent individuals much less allow them to play any leading role.
We all know MDC leaders are desperate to get back on the gravy train, so desperate they will once again sell the struggle to end the Zanu PF dictatorship just as they did during the GNU years. MDC are just too breathtakingly incompetent to be trust with power much less for them to play the leading role! The need to have ALL the democratic reforms is too important to be have MDC messing around with it. That is one luxury Zimbabwe cannot afford right now!
There are reports that Mutasa is making the final preparation of his legal challenge of illegal con-duct of the 2014 Zanu PF elections.
If Mutasa was to go through with the legal challenge and pursue it with the vigour and resolve the matter demands then, in my book, he would have earned himself the last minute reprieve equivalent to that the thief and murderer on the cross got for refusing to join the mob mocking Jesus. It would be the only honourable thing Mutasa has ever done in his corrupt,murderous and worthless wasted life!
"We have got to invoke discipline in the party,” said Kasukuwere.
What is he talking about, Zanu PF is a party of corrupt and murderous thugs who invoke discipline when it suits them and discard discipline when it does not fit them. The party has got away with this lawlessness because the victims of the system so far have been outsiders. This time the party has a real fight in its hands because senior party members are the victim.
The whole nation is hoping that Mutasa will have the courage to challenge this lawlessness in court be-cause that is the only way to restore the rule of law in the country! We want the rule of law restored.
“Discipline” according to Zanu PF has always meant what the party want is the law; enough of that bulls***t!
@ Patrick
The GNU presented the nation with the chance to end the Zanu PF dictatorship without the need for any street protest let alone an armed struggle. We missed that chance because MDC leaders, in the first in-stance, were too corrupt and incompetent to seize on this historic opportunity and implement the democratic reforms. The people themselves are to blame too for MDC’s failure and betrayal in that they were incompetent to have elected the village idiots to start with and then the people were fast asleep throughout the five GNU years and hence failed to notice that MDC were not implementing the reforms.
There is no doubt there will be many chances to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship going forward but the chances will also be wasted because the Zimbabwe electorate is not smart enough recognise them and make the most of them. I have said it before and will repeat it again a healthy and functional democracy demands an informed and thinking electorate, not one that follows blindly like sheep. The majority of Zimbabwe’s electorate still behave like sheep.
If the truth be told, the war of independence was ill advised it that the nation never considered peaceful means. The use of force must only be considered when all other means have failed for two reasons;
a) Wars cause untold human suffering and deaths and therefore per se must not be avoided if at all possible.
b) What to do with the conquering heroes could present an even bigger problem than that the armed struggle was set to solve. There was a standing Roman law that returning armies must disband be-fore crossing the Rubicon River. They knew and understood just how easy and tempting it is for those with the military power to impose their will on the rest of the community.
Might is right; there is certainly no way those looking up the business end of the AK47 Rifle will argue and win against the people hold the butt end. Zimbabwe is in this political pickle because Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo crossed the Rubicon armed to the teeth!
If we were to have another armed struggle to end this corrupt and tyrannical dictatorship but with the same sheepish electorate then it is almost certain that the new liberators will in turn into the next tyrants. Turn the sheep into thinking humans; by education, reason and persuasion to counter ignorance and fear; and the nation will end this endless cycle of using force to end one tyrannical rule only to replace it with another.
@ Patrick
If the Zimbabwe Social Democrats (ZSD) stay the course and get ALL the democratic reforms implemented that would be a great achievement given that the nation has already wasted 35 years since independence and we are no were nearer holding our first free and fair elections. This is one of these tasks the nation could spend the next 35 years, 350 years, you name without ever achieving this goal.
If we did get the reforms implemented, one of the reforms is freedom of expression and a free media; I do not see why ZSD should fail to make a name for themselves very quickly because we want open debate and real competition. If some other party should beat us then that country will benefit from that.
We intent to step up our activities to promote the central idea of having All the democratic reforms implemented as the only way out of the current political and economic mess the nation is stuck in. The more people understand what the reforms are the more they will agree with us that nothing of any substance can ever be accomplished until establish a solid political foundation on which the nation can be built.
I would humble agree that ZSD have made a bigger splash for the better on Zimbabwe’s political stage than many other parties. But trust me on this; we need to implement ALL the democratic reforms first before we launch the political party.
@ Patrick
After defeating the whites in the battle field; the victorious nationalist believed there was absolutely noth-ing they would not do. To listen to people like Mugabe speak about the war would be forgiven to think that not one freedom fighter or civilian was injured or killed because of something wrong the freedom fighters or leaders did. Of course that is not so. The falsified narrative of the struggle is meant to create impression in the story teller and the listeners that the black nationalists were invincible in battle because they are infallible.
In a black ruled Zimbabwe one did not have to worry about one-man-one-vote, all the individual free-doms and rights. These freedoms and rights were only important in the context of white ruled Rhodesia because the whites could not be trusted not to abuse power and become oppressive. In a black ruled Zimbabwe the people trusted their invincible and infallible liberation heroes to do the right thing always. So yes the liberation leaders forgot all the freedoms, rights, etc. they promised the people before independence before with them in power all these things were guaranteed.
If both Zanu PF and PF Zapu had been allowed to do as they pleased Zimbabwe would have been a one-party dictatorship from the start; each party was convinced they alone knew what is right for the nation and therefore untitled to exercise absolute power. In the Lancaster House talks they grudgingly accepted the multi-party system proposed at independence.
As soon as Mugabe got into power in 1980 he started to systematically destroy the multi-party democracy to build the de facto one-party, Zanu PF, dictatorship.
After 35 years of a corrupt, vote rigging and murderous tyrannical rule; more often than not Mugabe and his fellow Zanu PF leaders refuse to even acknowledge the suffering and misery and deaths they have brought. The odd occasion they do acknowledge their failures it is only to blame others like the sanctions imposed by the west for the country’s economic collapse. The one thing Mugabe and his cronies will never ever accept is to grant everyone a meaningful vote and all the individual freedoms and rights because they still believe they are invincible and infallible and therefore the only ones who know what is best for the nation regardless what the evidence of the last 35 years says.
Of course it is a falsehood that Mugabe or any of his fellow nationalists is infallible, the country would not be in this economic mess with millions out of work, millions living in abject poverty, over 30 000 murdered in politically motivated violence alone, etc. By implementing ALL the democratic reforms the nation will be making all those aspiring or holding office accountable to the people on the simple principle that no one is infallible, especially those in positions of power and authority.
The fallacy of infallible leaders must be denounced, ridiculed, uprooted and destroyed!
@ Godfrey Moyo
If understood the damage the failure to implement the democratic reforms has done to the whole nation; not just a few individuals, the whole nation. We are stuck with this Zanu PF dictatorship because MDC failed to implement the reforms which would have stopped Zanu PF rigging the elections. If you under-stood that then you will know that it is me but MDC who should hang their heads in shame and apologize to the nation!
I do know that there are some simpletons like you who have really failed to understand what the reforms were about and why they were important for free, fair and credible elections. I do not blame you for being who you are - a simpleton – after all it is not your fault. My only regret is that the nation is not going to get out of this hell-hole as long as simpletons like you remain in the majority and always ready to follow village idiots like Tsvangirai.
The right to vote should be a blessing but in a nation with so many simpletons, whose brains are hermeti-cally trifoliate orange “damba” impermeable to reason, it has become a curse!
"We the political players must just be small players. We can’t lead this process because we have been leading for the past 15 years and we have led people to nowhere," admitted Biti.
Biti should have made the admission at the very start and shut up because all his proposals and Tsvangirai’s counter proposals are rubbish.
The 2008 to 2013 GNU had clear set goals and had a clearly defined legal framework and yet in the end it accomplished very little economically and nothing at all politically. NTTC Biti is proposing is just another GNU by another name expect that has no legal mandate and Biti expect crippled body to revive the economy and implement all the democratic reforms MDC failed to
implement. What a load of bull!
The solution is in the people themselves doing their homework and understand the democratic reforms first. When they do they can go out and demand their implementation followed by fresh free and fair elections. That is the only key out of this mess!
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