In a statement Tuesday,
the opposition MDC Renewal group said it “holds the government of Zimbabwe
responsible for the economic meltdown that has caused our people to look for
greener pastures elsewhere.”
“The Renewal Team is disturbed by the despicable acts of carnage that is being orchestrated against foreigners in South Africa,” said the group’s treasurer Elton Mangoma.
“The Renewal Team is disturbed by the despicable acts of carnage that is being orchestrated against foreigners in South Africa,” said the group’s treasurer Elton Mangoma.
This is the first time
Comrade Mangoma has spoken out since the recall of all the 21 MDC – Renewal MPs
and Senators. Just for the record, that was just a malicious act on the part of
MDC – T much more so since the later had already made a congress resolution not
to contest any by-elections. To therefore recall the 21 seats only to give the
14 contested seats to Zanu PF without even trying to win them back did not make
any sense.
Whatever differences
MDC-T and MDC –Renewal there are between the two factions surely those can
never ever be so great to justify one side siding with Zanu PF to the extent of
reducing the opposition footprint in parliament and increasing that of Zanu PF.
Until the next elections, for bad or worse, Zimbabweans are stuck with the MDC
MPs and Senators to voice their concerns; mediocre and incompetent as they all
are but there it is! To therefore deliberately weaken this opposition voice
further by donating 14 seats to Zanu PF is MDC –T throw hot chilli in not just
their former colleagues’ eyes but in the eyes of the Zimbabwe people too!
Comrade Tsvangirai is it
not bad enough that you betrayed the whole nation by failing to implement even
one democratic reform and thus allowed Zanu PF to rig the July 2013 elections
and get back into power? But not content with that you now give Zanu PF another
14 seats as an early Christmas gift!
Now that MDC – Renewal
has stopped feeling sorry for yourselves over recalled 21 members it is clear
you condemn Zanu PF for the country’s economic meltdown, etc. just to remain
relevant. It was MDC’s failure to implement the democratic reforms; everyone
had agreed in the Global Political Agreement were necessary for free, fair and
credible elections; that allowed Zanu PF to rig the elections and thus stay in
power. It is hard to believe you are being sincere in the condemnation of Zanu
PF.
Zimbabweans are being
bombarded by MDC (Ncube), MDC –T, your MDC –Renewal Simba Makoni and his
Mavambo, Dumiso Dabengwa and his Zapu and now this new kid-on-the-block Zanu PF
People First all pontificating to care about the people’s economic suffering
and all claiming to have the solutions to end the economic meltdown. What is
disappointing you all is that you were all in power five years and decades for
the likes of Didymus Mutasa and the other People First guys and you all achieved
nothing.
If you serious expect
the people of Zimbabwe to believe you will, this time, keep your promises and
deliver the democratic reforms and not betray them as you did last time during
the GNU then you must start by being honest with them and finally tell them why
MDC failed to implement even one reform during the GNU.
Last week Mr Morgan
Tsvangirai categorically denied that SADC did not warn MDC against taking part
in the rigged July 2013 elections without the reforms. Your fellow MDC –Renewal
member, Samuel Sipepa Nkomo, said the exact opposite. They cannot both be
right; can you tell us which one of them is telling the truth and who is lying.
Thomas Mapfumo said
Morgan Tsvangirai sold-out in failing to implement the reforms to join the
“cash-brigade”.
10 comments:
@ Rafique702
You are the stupid one who keeps arguing in circles.
First you say that it was not Tsvangirai alone who was there to implement the reforms as if to so because he was not the only one therefore he is not responsible. He is responsible because he was the leader and he also took his share of the bribes Mugabe offered.
The GPA was a unique opportunity to get the reforms implemented because for the first time is the country's history Mugabe was not going to have the final say in everything. If MDC had the reforms passed in parliament and Mugabe then refused to sign them so they could be implemented the SADC as the guarantor of the GPA were going to step in and force him to. SADC have never had to step in throughout the GNU because Mugabe never refused to sign anything. MDC did not have even one reform proposal for Mugabe to reject.
The way you keep wittering about "Mugabe could not be moved on anything, and is not stupid enough to accept any proposal that will oust him", shows you are just too thick to understand what the GPA was all about!
@ erizabeta
Adolf Hitler was a human being too but that did not stop him being the author of one of the darkest chapter in history. Mugabe is a murderous tyrant is a human being like Tsvangirai so are you going to let him off the hook too because is a "human after all"!
So you want Tsvangirai to be allowed to get away with selling-out during the GNU because he "helped put bread on your table". Well there are millions of others whose lives have been turned into a hell-on-earth because he sold-out. The village idiot will be held to account by me and all the millions he betrayed. Tsvangirai sold-out and he will be kicked out of the Highland mansion; you can keep a room for him at your house if you wish!
@ Tawanda Zhangazha
Africa is one of the richest if not the richest continents on earth in terms of resources and potential for economic prosperity and yet our people have remained the poorest on earth. Why, for example, would any one drink from a shallow well in this day and age. And yet millions in Africa still do. Do we really need someone from Europe or America to tell us to dig a well for our drinking water and dig a pity toilet and not s**t everywhere!
There are millions of Zimbabweans in SA alone, if it was not for the fact that Libya is very far away I am sure thousands of Zimbabweans would be amongst those flooding into Europe from Libya. Zimbabwe is certainly one of the richest countries in the world but you would not think so to look at the grinding poverty and hopelessness in the country.
Zimbabweans, wherever we are, must hang their heads in shame that a country's generously endowed should be so poor for no other reason than that it is the people themselves who have failed. Whereas other nationals have turned deserts into the Garden Eden we are starving in the country that is, with the bear minimum of effort, the Garden of Eden. Whereas they have a functioning brain ours is more fat than brain because myelination because of generations of idleness.
At least six people have been killed in street clashes between the police and civilians demonstrating against the Burundian president's bid for re-election for a third term, a spokesman for the Burundi Red Cross has said, as hundreds continued to gather in the streets of the capital despite a heavy military presence.
It is decades since independence and yet we in Africa are still fighting each other physically because we have still not worked a peaceful and reliable way to settle our differences. The Greeks figured that one out 3 000 years ago and bequeathed democracy to all mankind. All we have had to do is copy it and apply it for our own benefit and even that is proving to be a bridge too far! Sometimes one has to wonder whether we ever get anything right!
“As much as we have a problem that is alleged to be xenophobic, our sister countries contribute to this. Why are their citizens not in their countries and are in South Africa?” asked President Zuma.
Well the President has completely missed the point; if his government object to having any foreigner in SA then it is within its right to ask those people to leave. How can anyone consider themselves members of the human race after committing such heinous acts of barbarism as those seen in the recent xenophobia attacks in SA. The act burning some one alive or hacking them to death dehumanizes the victim but it dehumanizes those carrying out the act even more!
During the apartheid days blacks used to lynch fellow blacks for belonging to an opposing political group although both were fighting the same common enemy! It seems the madness of those bygone days is still running strong in some people!
@ Patrick
Could not agree with you more; the economic meltdown is now like the python with its coils round Mu-gabe and the regime and every time the regime breath it squeezes even harder. Last week Mugabe admitted to SA President Zuma that the Zimbabwe economy is in a "dismal state". It is just a matter of time before Mugabe throws in the towel and accepts democratic reforms.
My fervent hope is that Mugabe accepts reforms soonest because the longer he tries to hang on the deeper he will drag the nation into this hell and so the harder it will be to get out but worse still the greater the chance of social unrest to force him to accept change.
If there is social unrest there will be even more chaos and no one knows for sure how it might all end. But the one thing one can be certain of is the people will be angry and will want revenge against those who have done so much to deny them their very humanity. If there is social unrest then Mugabe may well up end the same mob-justice as happened to all the other tyrants like Gaddafi and Saddam Hus-sein!
“Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended,” said Saddam Hussein in acknowledgement that he had come to the end of his dictatorial supremacy.
We know Mugabe said there will be no regime change and intended to die in power and for Zanu PF to stay in power long after he is dead. He can either resign from office or be haunted out of office but one thing is as certain as the sun rise, there will be regime change!
Punga udzoke! Is a Shona maxi meaning one can run away from problem but that is childish because the problem will still be there awaiting their return!
It seems Mugabe has taken all these additional titles, President of Zimbabwe, Chairman of SADC and chairman of AU for one simple reason, to maximize on his overseas trips. The problems in his own par-ty plus the worsening economic situation for which he has no solutions are forcing him to travel just to escape from all these problems.
Staff in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are doing nothing else but hunting for overseas meetings, conferences, inaugurations, anything where he could be invited to attend.
The reality however is that each time he has returned he has found things were even worse than when he left especially on the economic front. The economic meltdown is now like a python with its coils round its prey, every time the prey breath out the python takes the slack and squeeze.
Tomorrow Mugabe will be told of the NRZ workers who are on nationwide strike because they have not been paid for donkeys months, which civil servants have not been paid because there is no money, which companies have since closed, etc., etc. He can continue his globe-trotting and the economic python will continue squeezing regardless. Punga udzoke!
@ Patrick
President Zuma will go down in South African history as just another mediocre leader. I am convinced that SA would have done a lot better economically and politically if President Nelson Mandela had stayed in power for another term.
As far as Zimbabwe is concerned President Mandela would have turned the screws on Mugabe, his patience was running out with the tyrant!
President Zuma has failed to deal with SA's myriad of internal problems and it is therefore not surprising that his handling of external problems has been equally pathetic. Mark my words President Zuma's failure to deal with the Zimbabwe crisis decisively when he had the chance will prove to be a costly one for Zimbabweans but also for many others in the region!
@ reporter
The economic meltdown is squeezing the regime and it would be great if the people themselves could apply pressure on the regime too by reminding Mugabe that he has failed and must accept change. But first the people must understand that the way forward is by demanding the implementation of ALL the democratic reforms agreed in the 2008 GPA and not the stupid list MDC -T are putting forward. If the people had understood this soon after the rigged July 2013 elections, for example, then Mugabe would have capitulated a long time ago.
As long as Mugabe can see the people do not know what they want he will hang on to power forever.
The action plan is for the people to do their home work and understand why we need all the reforms implemented. The last thing we need is to have another GNU which will deliver no real change again because there are leaders like Tsvangirai who will sell-out again given half a chance.
Street protest when people have no clue what they want will be exactly what confused village idiots like Tsvangirai would call for!
@ Clifford Mashiri
The EU's latest migrants' strategy and South Africa's xenophobic violence.
By Clifford Chitupa Mashiri, 27 April 2015
Here is why concerned global citizens and intellectuals have organised a conference on the latest EU's latest migrants' strategy and South Africa's xenophobic violence due on 30 May at King's College, Strand Campus from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m
The irony of all these tragic stories of Africans risking all to leave their own home country to go to an-other African country, in the case of blacks in SA, or to go to Europe is that Africa is one of the richest continents on earth in terms of resources and potential. All these people are being forced to leave their country because African leaders have failed to turn the rich resources into economic prosperity for their people.
The Conference is a wonderful idea and one hopes it will be well attended because we must find ways to end the human tragedy at play here!
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