If you see a frog hopping
in the midday heat as if its very life depends on each hop; you can be certain
something far worse than heat-stroke is after it! Mutsvangwa is hopping mad, the
G40 faction is closing in for the kill, and in sheer panic and desperation the
rogue is seeking allays from victims of his yesterday thuggery.
“WAR veterans have
threatened to support a motion of no-confidence or impeachment against
President Robert Mugabe as the fall-out between the former fighters and the
veteran ruler worsens. Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans’ Association
chairman, Christopher Mutsvangwa yesterday told journalists in Harare that
Mugabe’s bid to establish a dynasty would be resisted,” reported Zimeye.
“When executive
authority is being abused, as is happening, a constitutional republic like
Zimbabwe can use impeachment, elections, or even votes of no-confidence against
the monarchists and oligarchists in the G40, who are pushing for a dynasty. We will
campaign and support such moves, if this mischief continues,” he said.
“The Constitution of the republic
is supreme and overrides even perverted party decision-making. President Mugabe
is gravitating towards dictatorial tendencies, including allowing his wife to
make illegal pronouncements on issues in the courts of law.”
The people of
Zimbabwe have known for decades now that President Mugabe is a corrupt, vote
rigging and murderous dictator. The people also know that it Zanu PF thugs like
Chris Mutsvangwa and many of his war veterans who helped Mugabe impose this
ruthless dictatorship on the nation. Mutsvangwa and company have refused to see
President Mugabe for the corrupt and murderous tyrant he is and the tragic
human suffering to has brought to the nation because, as long as they got a
share of the power and wealth, they did not care.
It was only in the
last three years when poverty started knocking at their doors that Zanu PF
members woken up to the realities and consequences of Mugabe’s “dictatorial tendencies”.
Mutsvangwa and
others are aware of the economic hardships the likes of Didymus Mutasa and
others booted out of Zanu PF only three years ago are now facing. They know that
a similar fate awaits them if G40 faction should prevail in the dog-eat-dog war
in the party. They are so shaken by the prospect Mutsvangwa is even contemplating
impeaching Mugabe and is out hunting for allays!
“Mutsvangwa said war
veterans, who have aligned themselves with Mnangagwa’s Team Lacoste faction,
had no problems with the opposition, including Zapu leader, Dumiso Dabengwa and
the MDCs,” continued the report.
“They are now behaving as
patriotic opposition. We will make sure there are free and fair elections.
Dumiso (Dabengwa) is our commander. The MDC joined us in the
constitution-making process. They may have their agenda, but we do not consider
them as enemies anymore,” he said.
Zanu PF thugs like Mutsvangwa
have always accept Zanu PF as the only party with the divine right to rule the
country and therefore all those threatening the party’s iron grip on power were
considered the enemy. The heat from the Zanu PF factional wars must be getting
real intense to force Mutsvangwa embrace people he has prosecuted as “regime
change agents” as “patriotic opposition”. Is this for real!
Mutsvangwa and
company have not changed one bit, they would not be offering to “make sure
there are free and fair elections”. When they agreed to be Mugabe’s storm troopers
harassing, beating, raping and even murdering of innocent people helping the
tyrant impose the dictatorship they were committing very serious crimes against
the nation. They should be held to account for their treasonous acts and not
made to feel as if they are doing the nation a great favour declaring a truce
on their lawlessness and thuggery.
It is the
responsibility the Police, ZEC, Judiciary and all the other state institutions,
and not some rogue thugs, to ensure free, fair and credible elections. What we
need is to have the democratic reforms implemented to end Zanu PF’s
undemocratic control over these state organs freeing them to carry out their
statutory duties without fear or favour.
Zanu PF is imploding
and the members must be allowed to tear each other to pieces. The nation’s
chances of implementing the democratic reforms designed to dismantle the Zanu
PF dictatorship are that much better the weaker the party is. There is still a
lot of fight still left in both the G40 and Lacoste factions, let them fight!
So, Chris Mutsvangwa
it is middle finger to your call for the nation to join Lacoste in the fight to
stop the imposition a Mugabe dynasty in return for war veterans making “sure
there are free and fair elections”. We know your agenda is to stop the Mugabe
dynasty so you can impose Mnangagwa. We do not want another Zanu PF
dictatorship, be it G40 or Lacoste. Whilst both factions remain strong, we
prefer to see you back in the ring fighting!
5 comments:
Both Lacoste and G40 people are Zanu PF through and through, they will fight each other to decide which faction rules but whatever brutality they show in their fight it is nothing compared to the brutality they will use on outsiders who dare stand in the way. Either faction will never implement any democratic reforms and allow free and fair elections; never!
You are right, Mutsvangwa is getting jumpy; he knows that President Mugabe is running out of time and he may make his decisive check mate move any time and Lacoste faction must be prepared to counter with an equally decisive move or they are done for! Impeaching Mugabe will certainly be a bold and decisive move!
I agree, Zimbabweans must let the Zanu PF factional war continue, let the regime exhaust itself. The people will have to fight whichever faction win the day to get the reforms implemented and that is going to be a real tough fight.
@Grace Jones
You are spot on there my sister, "opposition is not getting presidency in 2018". So even if the opposition team up with Lacoste faction to stop President Mugabe imposing G40 faction all the nation will get is war veterans imposing Mnangagwa. Only a Mnangagwa supporter would see that as progress the ordinary Zimbabwean will not.
What you are failing to to appreciate is that after 37 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule the nation is determined to end dictatorial rule and not settle for anything else. These transitional dictatorship always end up lasting decades.
Indeed, after 37 years of Zanu PF tyranny even one day longer is one day too many!
Your offer of Lacoste faction as the less of the two evil is not acceptable; why should we settle for an evil when we can have a good and competent government!
The argument that Zanu PF will never accept the implementation of the reform before the next elections is a valid one but if the truth be said, the party will never agree to reforms now or ever. So we might just as well fight for reforms now and not put this off to some later date in the future.
Frankly fighting Zanu PF now makes better sense because the party is at its weakest after all these factional wars. Allow the party the time to regroup and the fight will be even tougher.
“The parties agreed to work together in campaigning for electoral reforms to ensure that the next elections are held under free and fair conditions,” Luke Tamborinyoka announced.
This is just a waste of time because no electoral reforms of any substance will be agreed, drafted and implemented this late in the game. The leaders know that it is foolish to contest the elections with no reforms in place because Zanu PF will rig the vote as they have done in the past. The leaders are ashamed to admit they are being foolish to contest flawed elections and so have kept reforms on the agenda so they can hide their foolishness.
“The parties agreed to form a non-compete pre-election alliance and a post election Coalition Government by selecting one Presidential candidate in President Tsvangirai and one Parliamentary and local government candidate per contested seat distributed amongst the parties on the basis of electoral strength,” continued Luke.
Yes, they have agreed on one candidate of the presidential candidate, that is the easy one. Agreeing on “seat distribution amongst the parties on the basis of electoral strength” is going to be the tough one. The only reason all those small parties are interested in joining the alliance is to benefit from this non-compete and they will be asking for winnable seats too. The biggest loser is all this is the big opposition parties in the alliance and this is why the MDC-T Bulawayo group has already said they are not interested.
This MDC Alliance is going nowhere because the partners will never agree on who should contest and who should stand aside.
The Zimbabwean government has approved a $800-million (about R10.77-billion) grant for the construction of the Robert Mugabe University, Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Jonathan Moyo said on Wednesday.
The country has 20 University already but they are all so poorly funded that those who can afford it are sending their children out of the country. This regime is obsessed with quantity and has completely forgotten about quality! Who are we fooling here!
“Control your children first. Grace a failed mum; her sons unruly rogues failing only with two boys, can’t mother 14 million,” reads the message on the T-shirt that Matemadanda proudly wore.
Well, well! The war veterans are certainly going for the jugular!
Many of the war veterans are already living in abject poverty and they know that even the little assistance they are getting from the regime will dry up completely if G40 win this factional war. G40 members too that the economic situation will be no better than that of the Mujuru members who were booted out of the party three years ago.
Grace Mugabe herself knows that all the amassed wealth will be taken away from her and her family one farm, one mansion, one bank account, etc. at a time. It is no wonder she is fighting like a wild cat to succeed her husband.
Zanu PF is imploding and it is nothing the country's economic meltdown that is fuelling the dog-eat-dog fight in the party as members fight to escape poverty knocking at their doors. For most Zimbabweans poverty is not knocking at their; poverty is knocked, came in, saw and conquered. Zimbabweans are now the poorest people in Africa. In Zimbabwe, poverty is Czar and he has brought along his accompanying emissaries, disease and death!
Whilst Zanu PF members fight over the scraps like hyenas; we, the people, will have to fight to end the regime’s dictatorial rule. We need the democratic reforms implemented so we can finally have free, fair and credible elections the prerequisite for a competent and democratic regime. Only a competent government will end the economic meltdown.
One thing is clear, as long as Zanu PF, which faction wins the present war is academic, remains in power Zimbabwe will end the economic meltdown. It is the regime’s breath taking incompetence and insatiable greed that caused the economic meltdown in the first place. And if they had any common sense at all then they would have never allowed the situation to get this bad!
As long as nothing is done to end the economic meltdown, Czar Poverty will build his empire centred on Zimbabwe.
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