Mugabe appointed
Shuvai Mahofa the new Masvingo provincial minister. She has admitted that she
does not have a clue what she will be doing there.
“I was shocked to
learn that I have been appointed the provincial minister, and I know nothing of
what is expected from me that’s why I could require guidance from Cde Hungwe
who has been there to show me the direction,” said Mahofa.
She will be in good
company; no one in Zanu PF, not even Mugabe himself, knows what they are doing.
Would the country would not be in such a political and economic mess they did?
Do not flatter
yourself Madam; you have been appointed minister not because you have and
talent or ability. You are just an empty drum that makes a lot of noise; that
is all you have ever done. You played a big part in the ousting of Mai Mujuru
and her supporters in last year’s Zanu PF rigged electoral process. You have
been appointed minister as your reward for your contribution.
Mai Mahofa stopping
corruption, what a sick joke! Who is Zanu PF is not corrupt? Can you swear that
you are not corrupt yourself? Corruption is rampant in the country precisely
because you the leaders are corrupt. The only way to end the scourge of
corruption and mismanagement at the very heart of the nation’s economic
meltdown is to implement all the democratic reforms and have free, fair and
credible elections because only then can the nation be assured to have quality
leaders who are accountable, through free elections, to the people.
Mugabe rigged the July
2013 national elections just as he rigged last year’s Zanu PF party elections
and past national elections. The nation is in this economic and political mess
because for the last 35 years it has been ruled by some of the most
incompetent, corrupt and tyrannical thugs in human history. The people have
failed to remove Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs from office because the tyrant
has yet to hold free, fair and credible elections.
After 35 years of
gross mismanagement and rampant corruption the national economy is now in total
meltdown. Unemployment has soared to Mount Everest height of 90% plus, nation
incomes have dropped to their lowest level in 60 years, life expectancy has
plummeted from 68 years in 1980 to 34 years in 2004, etc., etc. This is
socially and politically unsustainable.
“Corruption has
destroyed the province and the country at large; I will not tolerate such illness
to continue prevailing amongst our civil servants especially in the lands
ministry.
“This is a warning to
all those involved in illegal activities to stop it forthwith because I will
reign on them,” she said.
Corruption has become
so rampant and its ill effects so self-evident that even the mentally blind
like Shuvai Mahofa can see it. Even she can see that the situation cannot go
on.
Shuvai Mahofa is
offering to end corruption in Masvingo in much the same way Mugabe have offered
to end corruption nationwide and create 2.2 million new jobs. It is now one
year and half since the rigged July 2013 elections and the official launch of
his ZimAsset, economic recovery plan, are yet more companies have closed with
the loss of more jobs with none created. His appointment of someone as corrupt
and incompetent as Shuvai Mahofa provincial minister says it all – he has given
up on ending mismanagement and corruption and thus ending the economic
meltdown.
18 comments:
Mugabe was forced to name Mnangagwa VP last year because he could not dump Mujuru without his help. Now that he has successful purged Mujuru he is going back to deal with the crocodile. At best Mnangagwa will find he is not even on the starting line up on this race. At worst he could find himself being dumped too. Mujuru was accused of "factionalism" guess who is the leader of the other faction?
@ Obert Gutu
A “common vision of freeing the country from the clutches of tyranny,” said Obert Gutu, MDC-T spokesperson!
Since when did you have that vision Mr Gutu? When you were in the GNU you certainly did not have any such notions, you had your snout in the feeding trough and you wasted the best chance the nation has ever had to end this Zanu PF tyranny. It is your desperate need to get back on the gravy train that has forced you to talk about freeing the people from Zanu PF, not that you know what to do. You are blundering from pillar to post when it comes to what must be done to end Zanu PF tyranny.
You really should do the people of Zimbabwe a big favour and stop confusing the matter and just fcuk off!
Corruption is rampant in Zimbabwe and it is so because Mugabe himself has been denying the problem for 35 years allowing it to grow and spread to what it is today. The only thing Mugabe has ever done about corruption is to diligently collect the details on each and every chef, dick and harry and prosecute those he did not like whilst blackmailing the rest.
When Mai Mujuru threatened his hold on power, out came her fill and she was accused of corruption and dealing in diamonds!
Mutasa has threatened to challenge Mugabe over the undemocratic conduct of last year's elections and his file is out and he is accused of the same thing corruption.
In a country whose ruling elite are running an illicit $800 billion diamond operation in which the nation has been completely shut out it is right to say that 99% of the leaders including Mugabe himself are cor-rupt to the core. The remaining 1% and not corrupt but are guilty of complacence, at the very least!
Mutasa should not listen to Mugabe’s threats; he should just go ahead and submit the court challenge. The only reason why he has not done so is because he is scared stiff of Mugabe.
Of course Mutasa is corrupt but it turns out that is not even the half of it; he is incompetent, a political tyrant and a political coward to boot!
Mugabe has used all manner of dirty tricks to stay in power, he has accusing his opponents of plotting to murder him to justify why he was descending on them like a tonne of bricks. But in the last two year he has had a real tough opponent; one he could not bribe, bamboozle or accuse of plotting to do anything – the economic meltdown.
The Zimbabwe economy is in serious trouble; unemployment is a nauseating 90% plus, 76% of the population is living on less than $200 a month, government itself is failing to pay the civil servant wages and is now talking of cutting their pay, etc. As long as Mugabe and Zanu PF re-mains in power the situation is set to get worse because the regime is doing nothing is address the underlying causes of the economic meltdown.
Mugabe’s ZimAsset economic recovery plan is dead in the water; he asked for $27 billion to fi-nance the plan and only got $7 billion in post-dated cheques for projects and not a dollar for budgetary support. Mugabe gave his usual televised interview on his birthday, the equivalent of the State of the Union presidential address in the USA, and he wittered on about trivia but said nothing about the two most important issues affecting millions of Zimbabweans wherever they are in the world today – the need to implement the democratic reforms necessary for free and fair elections and the ticket out of the political mess and, of course, the economic meltdown.
The reality is the economic meltdown is so serious now the situation is morally, socially and polit-ically unsustainable. Since Mugabe and Zanu PF have run out of ideas what to do the only way out is for him to step down or be forced out the Gaddafi way!
@ Murete
Well if anything is going to force Mugabe out of power it is the country's economic meltdown. The irony is this will be one assassin of his own making after decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corrup-tion the chicken are here to roost and they are in their millions like red-billed quelea!
Mugabe has failed to rig economic recovery and now he must go! And go he will!
@ Think about it
Yes but until now we were counting on the opposition to deliver change, now there is a new kid on the block called economic meltdown. Mugabe cannot bribe, cheat, bamboozle, accuse of plotting to kill him, etc. this new kid and it has him in its python like coils and is squeezing hard and harder.
Zimbabwe's economic situation is morally, socially and politically unsustainable. Since Mugabe has no clue how to end the economic meltdown he will have to step down or he will be forced to the Gaddafi style!
We failed to end Mugabe’s rule by implementing the democratic reforms because we failed to see the chance. The economic meltdown is presenting us with another chance but once again we are failing to see it – such is the story of a nation that spends more hours snoozing than a sloth!
@ Sloop JB
All the country's commercial farms must be given to whoever is best able to use them productively regardless of whether they are black or white, male or female. Who cares about the colour or gender of the cat as long as it catches mice!
@Patrick
Our confidence was not based on anything other than wishful thinking; there was clear evidence that Mugabe wanted absolute power and would kill to get it. With such a tyrant in power the nation had no hope for peace, justice, freedom, human rights and economic prosperity. None!
@Entryis
“A free and fair election is a myth that only exists in a ''perfect'' world for dreamers of democ-racy, which in itself is not a ''democratic'' process when you interrogate it. It has never hap-pened,” you say.
If one is to use you whopped logic then God Himself should have never bother giving man-kind the Ten Commandments since murder, adultery, etc. did not stop and continued to happen to this day!
Mugabe blatantly rigged the July 2013 elections and if those MDC idiots had implemented the democratic reforms as they should have done then the rigging would not have been such an outrageous spectacle!
@Obert Gutu
“Mba enenzara ndiyo inovhima!” goes the Shona adage. (A hungry dog will hunt best!) Nowhere is this more true that in Zimbabwe politics today. Ever since the surprising and unceremonious exit out of parliament and the gravy train by Obert Gutu, Morgan Tsvangirai and many others in the MDC (same is true with Rugare Gumbo and Mutasa when they were kicked out of Zanu PF) one could not wish for more attentive politicians. Everything they say these days in prefixed by “the suffering masses”, “a democratic and justice society”, etc. To a new comer, they are every-thing one would ever wish for in a political leader and champion for a just and democratic Zimba-bwe.
To those of us who know them and their checked past of corruption and breath-taking incompe-tence and have heard them make all these promises before only to forget them all as soon as they are in power know they are not to be trusted. As a hunting dog people like Gutu are the type that would eat whatever they catch, lick their choppers clean and pretending it got away!
Gutu and his friends had the best chances the nation ever had to end the Zanu PF dictatorship during the GNU and they wasted them all. They had all the trump cards then, now it is Zanu PF who has the trump cards. Yet they still promise to deliver democratic changes this time as if the task is even easier now than it was during the GNU. They will never say how they will accomplish the task because they have no intention of ever carrying out the task.
It was foolish to have trusted MDC to deliver democratic change during the GNU but now that we know they are nothing but a bunch of corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent politicians so hungry to get back on the gravy train they will promise anything it would folly to be conned by them ever again.
@UMDC
“We are now tired of being ruled with a heavy hand, without employment, food on the table and de-scent living standards,” MP Sipepa Nkomo said.
Does this mean that until now you were not tired of being ruled with a heavy hand and hence the rea-son you did not bother to implement not even one of the democratic reforms designed to end Muga-be’s dictatorship? Well it good to hear that you are at least now finally tired; we thought you were tired way back in 1999 when MDC was launched. Our mistake!
Still now that you are FINALLY tired of Mugabe’s rule; tell us how are you going to get all the demo-cratic reforms you failed to get implemented during the GNU implemented this time BEFORE the 2018 elections? For your information these must be implemented if we are to stop Zanu PF rigged those elections as they did in 2013.
You really have no idea how the reforms are going to be implemented do you? You are just making you usual empty promises. You are just an empty drum making a lot of noise!
´@ Patrick
The country is in the middle of a serious economic meltdown brought on be the 35 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption by this Mugabe regime. The meltdown is so serious it is morally, socially and politically unsustainable. Since Mugabe has no clue what to do to end the meltdown, his ZimAsset plan is dead in the water, he will have to step down or be forced out of office.
What we should be doing is making should that Mugabe step down now and not be forced out by street protests because by then the situation will have gone too far and the consequences of such mob rule are impossible to control and manage. Sadly this is not being done because most people out there have yet to see the storm; many of them will only see it when it have broken and then it would too late to close the windows and secure everything.
We are always caught unprepared even by events that have been creeping on us for a long time.
When unemployment has soared to 90% plus, 76% of the people are living on less than $200 a month, incomes have reached their lowest in 60 years, corruption and looting have been institu-tionalized to the extent of an$ 800 billion diamond mining project that is paying no tax, etc. com-mon sense will tell you the system is morally, socially and politically unsustainable.
Of course, the corrupt and murderous tyrants running and benefitting from the system refuse to see the stress signals and the writing on the wall. It is in their DNA never ever to give up power no matter what and so they will soldier on to the bitter end.
Since the system in not sustainable and those running it will never accept regime change the bitter end is now the only thing that is certain. The regime has dug in and will use brute force to defend what their see as their right to loot and deny the rest hope. The situation is pushing the masses to the point where they will risk it all and demand their right to life and human dignity. Once the dam wall has been broken, there will be no turning back and the tyrants and their guns will be crashed and their looted wealth taken away. Time will tell how bitter this end will be for the masses and the tyrants!
What is tragic about our situation is we could have avoided all this if only MDC had implemented the democratic reforms design to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship safely. If only Tsvangirai and his fellow MDC friend had not been so corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent and wasted that could well be the last chance to avoid a bitter end.
Zanu PF is not the party committed to the liberation values of one-man-one-vote, freedom and justice and human rights for all including the right to life that Mai Mujuru is now trying to paint. She has sat there like a cabbage all these years whilst Zanu PF rod roughshod over the people's rights and hopes and over 30 000 murdered and never said a word.
Zimbabwe is facing serious economic meltdown right now because of the rampant corruption. In Novem-ber 2013 she addressed a Zanu PF Women's league meeting where she denies the stories of rampant cor-ruption claiming they were all lies. She must explain the source of all her amassed wealth if it was not from corruption.
Zimbabwe is tittering on the edge of economic collapse and could slide into the political turmoil that is happening in other failed state like Egypt, Libya and Syria which too had years of tyranni-cal rule. You, Mai Mujuru you have played you part into dragging the nation to this danger point.
“My focus is on nation building,” my a****!
IN THIS extract from his latest column published in the Opinion section of this site which debunks President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF’ party’s claim that western sanctions are responsible for Zimbabwe’s economic ruin, NewZimbabwe.com columnist Chiichiri Muzita explains how the ruling party cheated Zimbabweans out of US$4 billion in dia-mond revenues …
“If all of what I’ve highlighted above is not enough to make your blood boil with anger, then to add insult to injury, as soon as the sanctions were lifted on ZMDC, we heard the sad news that the diamonds were now depleted and that exports had suddenly dropped to US$187 million in 2013.
Oh sorry I forgot, sanctions are responsible for the sudden depletion of diamonds and subsequent fall of revenues. The truth of the matter is that the diamonds have not been depleted.
From the above I’ve highlighted the “semi-legal” inflows of diamond revenues; the exact amount from illegal exports is open to speculation, but is probably at about US$2 billion a year over the past 8 years as was first estimated.
So you see the figure of US$16 billion in total is not a farfetched guestimate. And what does the country in general have to show for it?”
Last week Information Minister, Jonathan Moyo, twitter that revenue from Marange dia-monds has “dramatically shrunk”. He is the man with his finger on the nation’s pulse, he just wanted the nation, especially the civil servants, to dramatically shrink their expecta-tion of their wages being paid on time. Indeed the regime is this week talking of cutting those wages.
The revenue from this $800 billion resource is now for the exclusive benefit of the ruling elite the rest of us can forgot there is such a place called Marange and Chiadzwa in Zim-babwe!
Zimbabwe is one of those nations that has been blessed with good soil and ideal climate, the potential to be the breadbasket of the region, and yet since 2000 it has had to rely on imported food to feed its own people. It was a great abundance of mineral wealth and other riches but you would not think so to look at the grinding poverty around you be-cause the nation’s treasures are being looted and plundered by foreigners working in ca-hoots with the corrupt few who are being paid pittance by the looters.
Yes Zimbabwe is one of those countries that have been generous endowed only for her endowment to be mindlessly given away or wasted by the insatiable greed of the few! The rest of us we are as much to blame because we have done nothing to end this criminal waste of resources and our future.
@Patrick
Patrick, you have admitted yourself that MDC had the best chance to implement the democratic reforms during the GNU and they did not get even one reform implemented because they are corrupt and incompetent. These are very serious shortcomings on the part of one holding public office because of the equally serious and far reaching consequences of their failure - ie the nation is stuck with this corrupt and oppressive Mugabe dictatorship and no one knows how and when it is all going to end.
In the countries with a healthy and functioning democracy politicians are forced to resign for person indiscretions like having an affair because they could easily be blackmail and forced to make serious compromises affecting national interest. Here MDC leaders betrayed the whole nation's future for the piece of calico cloth and a handful of beads and you do not think the must resign? If they should not resign over such serious matters then I fail to see when you think they should.
By demanding that MDC leaders resign because they failed to implement even one reform I am setting the benchmark for democratic accountability and thus end the present notion that politicians can be as corrupt, incompetent and even murderers they will never be held to account.
The reason the MDC supporters have never called on their leaders to resign is because the supporters themselves did not have a clue what the reforms are about back during the GNU and even today they still do not have a clue. How can they hold Tsvangirai to account over a matter they do not understand and never did!
As long as we have the majority of our electorate who are as blind as a mole and will follow blindly who-ever leader you placed before them, no questions asked, we do not have a healthy and functional democracy. These sheep will never hold even a simpleton like Tsvangirai to account much less a cunning tyrant like Mugabe.
@ Vince
“Mugabe is very good at reframing problem situations and blaming others. That is his talent. He has gotten away with it for far too long. Boris has fallen for it,” you said.
“It is rather comfortable and intellectually lazy to say that the economic meltdown and the emer-gence of a dictator like Mugabe in Zimbabwe was primarily caused by exogenous forces such as Tony Blair's refusal to fund land reform- that is untrue. The same applies to sanctions.”
You got that one right. In a country like Zimbabwe were Mugabe have the monopoly of the media and state resources to propagate no other option other than his biased misrepresentation it not surprising that most people have been so brainwashed they take his misinformation for historic facts. The Lord Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, exaggerated former PM Tony Blair’s role in Mugabe’s disastrous farm invasion for cheap political brownie points what he did not realise was how much Mugabe would lap it all up because it fits with his reframed narrative!
If the nation was to take into account all the direct and indirect subsidies in the form of unpaid soft loans and unpaid taxes these projects by the country's ruling elite are getting then it might be cheaper to ask Grace to stop the project and pay whatever she is getting cash. For every $1 she makes the nation may well be spending $3 or more; she is that incompetent and wasteful!
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