Obert
Gutu tells VOA Zimbabwe is at a political stand still whilst MDC pressures Zanu
PF to implement the electoral reforms.
“What
we are simply doing as the MDC is to exert pressure from the illegitimate Zanu
PF administration to ensure that at the end of the day, they will carry out
electoral reforms that will even up the playing field,” said Gutu.
There
is no end to MDC’s foolishness; MDC is in no position to pressure Zanu PF on any
matter, particularly on reforms!
MDC was supposed to have
implemented the reforms they keep talking about now during the GNU; they failed
to get even one reform implemented. SADC and others reminded Morgan Tsvangirai,
Tendai Biti, Ncube and the other MDC leaders about the reforms but they paid no
heed. So at the end of the GNU not even one reform was implemented.
Mugabe paid MDC leaders
to do nothing on the reforms and they took the bribes. MDC sold out, period!
It was only after the
July 2013 elections that the penny finally dropped in the MDC leaders' heads
that they needed the reforms but it was too late, the horse had bolted.
Since the rigged July
2013 elections MDC has called for elections boycott until Zanu PF implement
some reforms, they have made it clear throughout their campaign that it is Zanu
PF’s fault the reforms were not implemented before the elections. A clever move
but it will fool only their naive and gullible MDC followers and no one else
especially Zanu PF. Zanu PF paid bribes for MDC to do nothing about reforms and
so there is no reopening the reform deal - a deal is a deal!
Tendai Biti apologized
for the opposition’s “collective foolishness” and failing to implement the reforms
is, without doubt, the most foolish thing MDC leaders have ever done. But with
fools like Tsvangirai, a fool is work is clearly never done; his attempt to
blame Zanu PF for MDC’s foolishness does not diminish the folly but rather
compound it.
“How can you now talk of reforms
when almost the similar conditions that prevailed in 2013, when they were
trounced in the elections, they participated under the same circumstances,”
rightly asked Morris Ngwenya.
He added Zanu PF is under no
pressure as the status quo remains and the ruling party is working on the
economy under its economic empowerment program, ZimAsset.
Ngwenya is wrong on the
economy; the only real pressure on Zanu PF to implement all the democratic
reforms is coming from the economic meltdown. Like it or not ZimAsset is dead;
Mugabe has failed to get any donor to bank roll the $27 billion plan.
Unemployment has been
80% for decades now and it is getting worse, the 2,2 million new jobs Mugabe
promised have not materialized. Millions are sinking into abject poverty and
hopeless despair. The present economic situation cannot be allowed to continue
for much longer, it is not social or politically sustainable.
5 comments:
@ Vince
“In my opinion ALL opposition parties (MPs and Councillors included) should disengage from participating in this government and advocate for a free and fair election administered by a truly independent body-anything else short of that is foolish compromise. Sadly individuals involved will resist this because they want that car or that stand-that is the tragedy. It is about them and not about democracy,” you said.
I agree with you analysis and that, in an ideal world, the solution would be for all the opposition to resign in mass and demand free and fair elections. But as you yourself has just admitted you will never get ALL the opposition to agree.
Zanu PF as it has already done in the 2013 elections knows it is not in its political interest to have a clean sweep of all the seats and it is these scraps that the opposition will fight for. It should be noted that there are some opposition parties that have no ambition to form the next government and are therefore are quite content with whatever seats they can secure as the opposition. MDC, for example, were only too keen to form a coalition government with Zanu PF in 2008 even though the MDC had won the March 2008 elections.
So if asking ALL opposition parties to boycott the election is not going to work then we need to come up with another plan.
@ Patrick
The immediate threat to life in Zimbabwe is starvation because of last season's poor harvest. According to Cathy Buckle some people will be needing food aid by the end of this month, June.
Mugabe has destroyed the country's agricultural sector with his chaotic white farm invasions to achieve his own selfish political agenda and for 15 years the nation has done nothing to put an end to all this madness. During all these years the donors have stepped in to feed the nation; one of these years the donors are not going to help and millions will starve!
The economic meltdown is a man-made problem; Mugabe dug us into this hell-hole. For 35 years we have allowed him to do this and now we are paying dearly for it.
Destroying the economy was ease, even an idiot can spend; it is rebuilding the economy that is really tough. We have the rich resources but still it is not going to be a walk in the park. However if we do not do something to end this criminal waste of resources, it is possible the nation will go beyond the point of no return!
ZimAsset is dead in the water; even the $4 billion and $3 billion the Chinese and Russians had promised last year has not materialized. The Chinese had promised the money on condition that Zimbabwe served all its other outstanding loans with that country which we have failed to do. The Russians are having a serious economic hardship of their own following the West's imposed sanctions to protest the Russian aggression in Ukraine; they will not be investing any money in Zimbabwe for a long while.
The $7 billion from the Chinese and Russians was supposed to be a lure, sadly no one fall for it. Poor Simon Khaya-Moyo has been landed with the task of staring at that empty ZimAsset beg-ging bowl.
Until Mugabe got the post-dated and unsigned cheques from the Chinese and Russians that begging bowl was doing his head in! still, the economic meltdown is now taking such a firm hold on the nation that it is a matter of time before Mugabe himself will have to be told there is no money to pay for his endless overseas trips and other luxuries!
"Simon Khaya-Moyo, the minister of Economic Planning and Investment Promotion is having a torrid time in an effort to ensure that ZimAsset succeeds," you said. After 34 years of doing nothing these Zanu PF ministers are used to spending their time in their posh offices doing absolutely nothing!
@ John Mukumbo
Mutasa is now telling the whole world that Zanu PF has been rigging the elections contrary to the party line that it has always held free and fair elections that is why everything Mutasa says these days is hot news!
The people have known that Zanu PF was rigging elections and Mutasa is filling in the gaps. Yes Mutasa has been a chameleon all his life but was he has gone through since his purge from Zanu PF has opened his eyes; he is now telling the truth and nothing but the truth!
You people in Zanu PF are getting increasing unease with what Mutasa is saying, further proof that he is telling the truth because you lot have never liked to hear the truth! Well you will have to get used to the truth about Zanu PF coming out because now that Mutasa has started soon the flood gates will be thrown wide open!
@Patrick
In the end Mugabe will be forced to go the only question is will he do so quietly or like many other tyrants before him will have to be kicked out of office as happened with Gaddafi! Whilst it is true that Libya has sunk into a deeper mess than it was in during Gaddafi, time the fact still remains that before the various factions turns their guns on each other they did a thorough job of destroying Gaddafi and all his cronies.
Those Zanu PF hardliners will have a chance of surviving and even some of their looted wealth if there is an orderly dismantling of the Zanu PF dictatorship than if there is a disorderly one. Those who continue to prop up the dictatorship must know they are per se opting to go down with it.
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