Vince Musewe is back making
his usual economic prosperity promise. “$100 billion economy in 15 years
possible at 7% per annum growth”, he promised in his latest Bulawayo 24 article.
He is part on the MDC Alliance economics team.
I thought you, Mr Musewe, had
finally came to your sense with the admission there can never be any meaning
political change without implementing the democratic reforms necessary for
free, fair and credible elections. The carrot of the few gravy train seats Zanu
PF has been daggling to entice the opposition to contest the flawed elections
has proven irresistible for you. You have changed your mind, you will contest
the flawed elections.
Flip! Flop! Flip! Flop!
“As far as I am concerned the
role of leadership is to define a compelling vision underpinned by a collective
value system,” argued Musewe.
“We tend to debate endlessly on the how and yet that is a creative process which can and must change in line with developments both internal and external.
“We tend to debate endlessly on the how and yet that is a creative process which can and must change in line with developments both internal and external.
(We know the promise of the
gravy train riches is irresistible, so spare us the Sermon!)
“Under the MDC Alliance we must shape a believable vision and put it out there. Citizens with their knowledge skills and competence can then pull together to make things happen. We have the skills and the resources.”
With not even one democratic
reform in place Zanu PF will rig next year’s elections just as readily as it
rigged the July 2013 elections. So, everything that is going to happen is
underpinned by Zanu PF’s licence to rig the vote.
An annual economic growth
rate of 15% plus per year (twice the 7% you are proposing) in the next 15 years
is achievable. But why even bother talk about your MDC Alliance’s
transformative and “believable vision”; it will never see the light of day,
just so many other opposition parties’ proposals.
MDC’s 2013 election manifesto
made a lot of economic sense compared to Zanu PF’s ZimAsset, for example. Anyone
with half a brain said ZimAsset would never delivery anything near the 2.2
million new jobs it promised. The nation has lost hundreds of jobs every year
pushing the unemployment figures into the nauseating heights of 90% plus.
But, as we all know, Zanu PF
won the July 2013 elections with a landslide. The party claims the people voted
for the party to show they approved its ZimAsset proposals but we know better.
The party rigged the vote, the electorate vote count for nothing in rigged
elections.
With not even one democratic reform
implemented since the rigged July 2013 elections, it is clear that Zanu PF will,
once again, rig next year’s elections. MDC Alliance’s elections manifesto will
ever see the light of day.
So, to what end and purpose
are you, Mr Musewe, and your MDC Alliance friends writing this detailed election
manifesto? Other than, to help create the impression the election is a normal
democratic process when we both know it is a sham.
SADC leaders warned the MDC
leaders, Tendai Biti, Morgan Tsvangirai, Welshman Ncube, etc. not to contest
the 2013 elections with no reforms in place.
“If you go into elections
next month, you are going to lose; the elections are done,” SADC leaders warned
at the Maputo summit in June 2013.
MDC leaders ignored the
warning and Zanu PF went on to blatantly rig the elections as SADC leaders had
rightly predicted.
SADC leaders’ warning is even
more relevant today because the country’s political stability is balancing on a
knife-edge and another rigged election may send it tumbling into the abyss with
tragic consequences.
DO NOT GO INTO NEXT YEAR’S ELECTION, YOU ARE
GOING TO LOSE: THE ELECTIONS ARE DONE!
Do not say you were not
warned.
If you ignore the warning, disregard
your own party resolution of “No reform, no elections!”, contest the flawed
elections and you lose; this time, you will be held to account!
“What matters is for us to
define clearly a collective and compelling vision and unleash our
collective skills and efforts in making it happen just as JF Kennedy
articulated Americas vision to land a man on the moon and the whole country and
it's experts made it a reality,” concluded Vince Musewe, with his characteristic
flourish.
“We can do same!”
“We can do same!”
America is a healthy and fulling
functioning democracy; Zimbabwe is ruled by corrupt and tyrannical
dictatorship. The nation’s efforts to dismantle the dictatorship is now being
frustrated by corrupt, incompetent and pretentious opposition opportunists who
continue to contest flawed elections giving the rigged elections the modicum of
credibility.
The next election must be free,
fair and credible; the nation cannot afford another rigged election. We must
implement the democratic reforms BEFORE elections; no if, no but.
7 comments:
You and me and the reader have been here before, this is a well-trodden path. We are back again covering the same ground for one reason and one reason only – you want to pretend the situation is different to justify why you are going to contest next year’s elections.
“As far as I am concerned the role of leadership is to define a compelling vision underpinned by a collective value system,” you argue.
“We tend to debate endlessly on the how and yet that is a creative process which can and must change in line with developments both internal and external.”
MDC Alliance’s “compelling vision” manifesto will only be implemented if the Alliance win the elections and that will depend on whether the elections are free, fair and credible. We agree the July 2013 elections were rigged. So, the only “internal and external developments” that matter here are those that will stop Zanu PF rigging next year’s elections. It is no secret that not even one reform was implemented since the last elections. Zanu PF will rig next year’s elections and MDC Alliance’s super-duper manifesto will never see the light of day.
The Alliance are contesting the flawed elections for few gravy train seats Zanu PF gives away as a bribe to stop the opposition boycotting the elections. You will never admit you are after the bribe and so are wasting your time and energy producing the manifesto to dupe the public into believing this is a normal election process.
A few months ago, Musewe, you admitted there will be no meaningful political change in Zimbabwe until something is done to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. The promise of a gravy train seat, Mugabe has daggled in your face has forced you to change your mind, you are contesting the flawed elections. We know you are corruptible; go and write the manifesto that will never see the light of day and spare us the feeble excuses for contesting the flawed elections.
"Chawawana batisisa, midzimu haipekaviri!" (One must make the most of each opportunity because one may not get another!) does the Shona adage. We had a golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms to completely dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship and replace it with a health and functional democracy. We have five years to complete the task. Sadly, MDC, who were tasked to implement the reforms failed to get even one reforms implemented. This wasted opportunity has come back to haunt us.
With no reforms in place, Zanu PF rigged the 2013. Today we still stuck with the corrupt and repressive regime and, worse still, we have no hope of dislodging it because its vote rigging powers are as strong as ever. We should have dismantled the dictatorship when we had the chance to do so and now we are well and truly stuck!
@ Vince
Here we go again, you love blubbering on and on about what a prosperous nation Zimbabwe would be post the Zanu PF dictatorship but shy away on how we are going to remove the dictatorship.
What good is all your clever ideas on rebuilding Zimbabwe after the dictatorship when we all know the dictatorship is not going away. Indeed you, by contesting the flawed and illegal elections next year, you are helping the dictatorship stay in power by giving the process credibility. Of course, Zanu PF will never ever implement any democratic reforms as long as it can bribe opposition members to contest the flawed elections and produce that as evidence the elections are free and fair.
You, for your part, you want to justify why you are contesting the flawed elections by telling everyone “Look at my clever ideas to turn Zimbabwe’s $10b economy into a $100b economy in 15 years!” What you and your fellow MDC Alliance friends are the few gravy train seats Zanu PF gives away as a bribe to entice you lot to contest the flawed elections.
“Predatory politics and the challenges of creating a developmental State in Zimbabwe is my unpublished work,” you said.
The book will be a worthless volume if it does not include chapters of how you and your fellow opposition politicians have joined forces with Zanu PF to prey on the people. You lot are incompetent, corrupt and greedy sell-outs just like President Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs.
@ Makonese
So, you think you can tell people there is no political violence and intimidation when, come elections, Zanu PF members from the village head right up to President Mugabe himself tells them "nothing accomplish by the bullet can be undone by the ballot!" You can continue talking of your utopia, a far cry from the real Zimbabwe the rest of us live in!
In calling for an armed struggle at the Gwelo congress; Eddison Zvobgo said: "Colonialism is aggression, aggression on a people and that aggression is violence, violence unleashed on a people and Zanu must, therefore, abandon peaceful methods and embark on an open policy of violence."
That was a very foolish and ill-advised call, not a heroic one. The armed struggle hastened the end of white colonial rule but at great material and human cost during the war and, worse still, after independence. The armed struggle allowed the hawks to assume leadership positions and they waged the liberation war with the barbaric zeal that showed these men and women had no common sense, no principles and not even the respect of human life. After independence, the liberation war heroes and heroines’ lust for shedding blood continued with the gratuitous murders of over 30 000 of our people to establish and retain the de facto one-party dictatorship and feed their insatiable hunger for absolute power and wealth.
We ended white colonial rule only to place ourselves under an even worse corrupt and tyrannical rule. We jumped from the frying pan straight into the fire! Of course, that was a very foolish thing to do and it all started with the fool who thought an armed struggle was the solution!
Even if Raila Odinga was given rock solid guarantees of winning the presidential rerun with no reforms in place and the same election officials, I would say he must still insist on the reforms being implemented and the corrupt officials fired. As a matter of principle and establishing a good precedence; if something is serious wrong with a system, you fix it immediately and if someone is found to be corrupt they must be punished there and then.
If Odinga was to contest the rerun with the same corrupt officials running the show and no reforms implemented, what excuse will he have for complaining that the process was rigged by the same corrupt officials using the same loop-holes. Even if he was cocksure of it but does not have the evidence, he will have no leg to stand on. He will only have himself to blame for having agreed to the contest going ahead without fixing known system problems first.
Margaret Dongo successfully challenged the 1995 Harare South parliamentary result on the basis there was widespread vote rigging. She did not ask for any far reaching democratic reforms and the firing of the corrupt officials involved Zimbabwe has seen similar vote rigging and worse happen again and again. Ms Dongo won the rerun in 1995 but lost all the other elections after that, no doubt a victim of the regime’s well-funded and sophisticated vote rigging machinery.
Dongo was concern with winning the rerun and nothing else beyond that. She did not ask for changes to end the vote rigging and left it to the regime to take the initiative and develop vote rigging tricks that are harder to detect. Morgan Tsvangirai is even worse that Dongo; he had the opportunity to implement the reforms and failed to do so.
Of course, Tsvangirai’s blundering incompetence has become the single biggest impediment in Zimbabwe’s search for democracy, the more so because many people still considers him the nation’s champion for the cause.
After his treasonous betrayal during the GNU, Zimbabweans should have deserted Tsvangirai in droves, the fact that they are many who still follow him is a measure of how many Zimbabweans still follow leaders blindly, no questions asked. With such a myopic and naïve electorate, it is little wonder the country is sinking in its own sewage. Unless these people snap out of their mental comatose, this nation is doomed!
Zimbabweans are refusing to think and, in their mental comatose state, they are going to sleep into another rigged election. It is madness contesting yet another flawed election and the consequences of another rigged elections are going to be horrendous!
Those who will not learn from the past are doomed to repeat the same mistake over and over again, pay the devil’s due with each repeat, until they learn or die. As the country’s economic meltdown gets worse and worse the devil’s due in human misery and human lives is bound to soar! Learn or die!
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