Tuesday 20 February 2018

"Mnangagwa compassionate politics good for the country," say Mangwana - nonsense.

Nick Mangwana, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is a corrupt, vote rigging, murderous tyrant whose insatiable greed and love for absolute power made him a willing tool in Mugabe’s dictatorial hands. Mnangagwa did not hesitate to stage a coup to stop Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC party getting into power after Mugabe and Zanu PF was soundly beaten in the March 2008 elections. When Mugabe tried to get rid of Mnangagwa and his cronies; they staged yet another coup and forced the aged dictator to resign.

Since the November 2017 coup Robert Mugabe and his family have been under house arrest, he was lucky. Those in the G40 faction (as contrast to the Lacoste faction of Mnangagwa) of Zanu PF have not been so lucky; many have been arrested, accused of corruption – ironically a crime that many Zanu PF members including Mnangagwa and his new VP Chiwenga are guilty of. Other G40 leaders are on the run, they know they will be meat for the vultures if Mnangagwa ever catch them.

A few weeks ago, someone managed to smuggle former VP Joice Mujuru to see the deposed dictator Robert Mugabe. Mnangagwa reaction was typical of the man; he was outraged and back was the language of intolerance and murder. “Pasi nemhandu!” (Death with traitors!) he thundered a few days later.

Only an apologist and sycophant like Nick Mnangagwa would want to falsify history and reality and describe Mnangagwa a compassionate man. There is not a single drop of compassionate blood in that man!

“What then guides us is our sense of right or wrong stemming from how we were raised, our religious beliefs or simply who we are. The attitude President Mnangagwa (affectionately known as ED) has brought to the office has made a clear message that it's not enough for Zimbabweans to survive but they can thrive. ED is normalising compassion in public. If this were to be the only thing that the new dispensation achieves it still would have achieved much. But then they are already performing well and beyond this,” wrote the sycophant in Bulawayo 24.

“We are moulded by our uniqueness and life experiences. We bring that to our work and into our judgments. An example is that ED decided to pay the tragically deceased Morgan Tsvangirai a visit to his house. Not only that but to pay for his medicals bills, give him back a diplomatic passport, pay him a gratuity and pension and now make the government pick the tab for his repatriation and burial. Anyone who has repatriated the remains of a loved one from a foreign country knows how expensive the cost is and how trying the process is. But the government took it upon itself to make it easy for the family.”

Tsvangirai had to travel to SA for treatment; like many, many other Zimbabwe including Robert Mugabe who has had to go to Singapore for something as simple as eye check-up as many as 12 time a year @ US$ 3 million a trip; because Zimbabwe’s health service has all but collapsed. Nick can praise Mnangagwa’s generosity in using public funds to pay for Tsvangirai and Mugabe’s health bills but what about the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans who cannot afford to travel outside the country. Hundreds if not thousands of new born babies are dying every month across the country for want of something as simple as an incubator. What compassion has Mnangagwa ever shown for them?

“It's not enough for Zimbabweans to survive but they can thrive,” the nincompoop Mnangagwa insist. For decades now this Zanu PF regime has wasted billions of dollars a year send the lucky few outside the country for their education or health needs starving the country’s own institutions of the funds and thus they collapse. Ever since he assumed power in November 2017, ED has continued with the criminal waste of the nation’s material and human resources. How can the people survive without even the most basic health service? How can the nation thrive when many of our University graduates can hardly write one sentence without making a syntax error much less make sense?

For the record, Nick Mangwana, ED is not being generous to the late MDC leader, Tsvangirai. ED is thanking MDC leaders for their generosity. It is no secret that if MDC leaders had implemented the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging elections during the GNU Zanu PF’s reign would have ended in 2013.

Then President Mugabe bribed the MDC leaders’ the trappings of high office including a former white-owned farm for Welshman Ncube and $4 million mansion for Tsvangirai. In return, the MDC leaders kicked the raft of democratic reforms agreed with SADC leaders in the 2008 Global Political Agreement that gave rise to the GNU.

“Zanu-PF is noticeably rebranding itself and its cadres and activists have to be rebranding in tune to it. Gone are the days where there was a need to play on the fears of others. The membership has to shift in tandem with the party shifts. The party has the incumbency and naturally it needs to protect power. But the best way of protecting power is to listen to the needs of Zimbabweans and deliver socio-economic outcomes for everyone not only partisan or sectarian interests. That takes compassion. It also takes compassion on all both sides of the political divide to ensure that there is no politics of fear and alarmism,” Mangwana argued.

“Gone are the days where there was a need to play on the fears of others.” This is the closest a seasoned Zanu PF thug and apologist like Nick will ever come to admitting that Zanu PF is a party of ruthless thugs given to vote rigging, murder and coup to retain power at all cost.

Zanu PF is “rebranding itself,” as Nick rightly said. Rebranding is a far cry from democratic reforms the nation has been dying for. It is resisting all pressure to implement the reforms because “it needs to protect power”, as Nick readily admitted.

“A few days ago, Vice President Chiwenga said that all 84 registered parties in Zimbabwe will be invited to State House to discuss the forthcoming elections,” said Nick.

“This compassionate politics has moved us from the hate filled contestations of the past to a problem-solving collaborative politics of the new dispensation. Like said before those entrenched in the hate speech politics of yesteryear are struggling to redefine their roles in this new approach.”

Well some things in the old Zanu PF have been carried over to this compassionate new Zanu PF; opposition leaders are still getting preferential treatment being denied their supporters. Whilst party leaders enjoy food and drink at State House the ordinary Zimbabweans are being reminded that if Zanu PF lost the coming elections they will pay dearly for it.

It was none other than the “compassionate” ED himself who bought a new truck for each of the 282 Chiefs (there is no money to buy ambulance for even the District hospitals but there is $12 million for the trucks). The Chiefs are expected to frog march rural voters to attend Zanu PF rallies and then vote for the party.

The State House all party meeting will discuss everything the party leaders wish except democratic reforms, Zanu PF will not brook anything threatening its carte blanche powers to rig elections and stay in power.

Still after the November 2017 coup President Mnangagwa knows too well his regime is illegitimate and he has promised to hold free, fair and credible elections; not out of compassion for the long suffering and oppressed people of Zimbabwe but political necessity to regain legitimacy. He and his fellow Zanu PF thugs know only too well that they cannot hold on to power and hold free and fair elections. They have decided to hold on to power and hence the reason they are stubbornly refused to implement even one of 2008 GPA democratic reforms.

President Mnangagwa is on an all-out charm offensive with SADC, AU and the international community to promote Zanu PF as a new dispensation that accepts rule of law and will hold free and fair elections. Meanwhile do not implement even one reforms to make this possible but bribe the country’s corrupt and incompetent opposition leaders to contest the elections regardless how flawed and illegal the process happens to be.

With not even one meaningful reform in place the coming elections will NOT be free, fair and credible, of that we can be certain. SADC, AU and the international community is sick and tired of Zanu PF’s vote rigging, murders and coup especially SADC who know that another rigged election in Zimbabwe threatens to destabilise the country and the region. President Mnangagwa is banking all his hopes of getting away with yet another rigged election on the country’s opposition politicians cooperation with the regime – read opposition selling-out on free and fair elections just MDC leaders sold-out during the GNU.


“Mnangagwa’s compassionate politics good for the country!” Nick Mangwana tells us. Zimbabwe is in this hell-on-earth situation because corruption has ruled the nation for the last four decades. What Mnangagwa is doing is bribing the corrupt opposition politicians just as Mugabe has bribed Zanu PF and MDC leaders before him. This is not compassionate politics, but good old corruption politics and it is not good for the country! Only a confuse and idiotic apologist will mistake corruption for compassion.

12 comments:

Zimbabwe Light said...

@ Mavaza

"President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised that the elections will be free and fair in honour of Mr Tsvangirai. Mnangagwa has kept his promises so far and nothing can stop him from keeping this one," you say.

Stop being so naive and stupid! President Mnangagwa has not implemented even one democratic reform agreed in the 2008 GPA as necessary for free, fair and credible elections. He has appointed thugs like retired Major General Engelbert Rugeje Zanu PF Political Commissar, a well know Zanu PF with a reputation of violence and murder. ED has bought Chiefs new trucks, down payment for their usual role of intimidating rural voters and frog marching them to vote for Zanu PF, etc. Stop burying your head in the sand and see what is happening here!

Zanu PF is going full steam ahead with its plans to rig this year's elections as it has done all these last 38 years. Yes there are two things stopping ED keeping his promise to hold free, fair and credible elections the regime's insatiable greed for absolute power and wealth and the thugs' fear of the world knowing their evil past if they should lose power.

Zimbabwe is in serious economic and political trouble and cannot afford another rigged election. We demand the implementation of the reforms followed by the holding of free and fair elections. This nation cannot be held to ransom by the greed of a few and their fear to face justice.

Zimbabwe Light said...

"We are clearly saying no fighting or violence as the roadmap to harmonised elections begins. Our elections should be free, fair and credible. The electorate should be given an opportunity to vote for the candidates of their choice, be it councillor, MP or even President. No to violence, I repeat," said VP Chiwenga.

"His Excellency, before it is too long, we are going to be meeting with all political parties and can you imagine we are now 84, I don't know who are serious, but we are going to meet and the President has agreed that we meet at State House."

The people of Zimbabwe must reject all this hypocrisy by Zanu PF leaders. The country has failed to hold free and fair elections for the last 38 years and it is Zanu PF leaders, led by none other than President Mnangagwa and VP Chiwenga who has executed the party's vote rigging and acts of violence. Today they want to be seen as the champions of free and fair elections and yet they are the ones refusing to implement the democratic reforms.

The proposed meeting at State House is just another time-wasting talk-shop. We already know what the democratic reforms required are, the same agreed in the 2008 GPA. So, what is the meeting going to uncover that we do not already know!!!!

Patrick said...

@ Mavaza
“Zimbabwe has grown from a violent nation to a tolerant nation in three months. Every person who saw the hands of the diverse political parties during Tsvangirai’s funeral has praised the political maturity among leaders across the political divide,” you write.

“The nation saw for the first time the absence of the continued use of abusive language among a section of politicians. All what could be seen was genuine grief. It should be noted that though the politicians have diverse opinions and thoughts, they have learnt to embrace tolerance and made Zimbabwe proud.
“Tsvangirai’s death has made politicians across the political divide to exercise maturity and tolerance for the sake of developing the country.”
This is the kind of political naivety that has stifled serious political discourse result in the nation making decision that turnout to be ill-advised. Zanu PF has always shown great political maturity and tolerance with its political opponents as soon as they seize to be a threat to the party’s political ambition. Look at what happened to Dr Joshua Nkomo and his PF Zapu, as soon as he capitulated and joined Zanu PF to form the de facto one-party dictatorship the Gukurahundi madness stopped.
As soon as Morgan Tsvangirai got the $4 million Highlands mansion during the GNU, MDC and Zanu PF have worked together very well indeed. You may cherry pick, but it was former President Mugabe who has allowed Tsvangirai to keep the mansion rent free. And the tyrant paid Tsvangirai $70 000 for his medical expenses.
The only real test to see if this Zanu PF regime is now truly committed to democracy is for it to implement the democratic reforms everyone with any brain agree are necessary for free, fair and credible elections. The regime has stubbornly refused to implement any. Elections are due in four or five months’ time and anyone who understand what is going on here would be alarmed that no reforms have been implemented. You clearly do not have the foggiest idea what is happening otherwise you would not be praising this regime for doing nothing!

Patrick said...

“We are clearly saying no fighting or violence as the roadmap to harmonised elections begins. Our elections should be free, fair and credible. The electorate should be given an opportunity to vote for the candidates of their choice, be it councillor, MP or even President. No to violence, I repeat,” said VP Chiwenga.
You are clearly saying no to fighting and violence! Over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans have been murdered by Zanu PF in the last 38 years. How many, may I dare to ask, Zanu PF thugs have the regime arrested and punished for the heinous crime?

If Zanu PF is serious about stopping all politically motivated violence then the regime must implement the democratic reforms to give back the Police, the Judiciary and all the other State bodies the power and confidence to arrest and punish all political thugs regardless which party they belong to. Without the reforms, everyone knows that Zanu PF is saying no to violence by day but continues to promote violence by night. Everyone knows that should the party feels its hold on power is being seriously threatened it will unleash is political thugs and they will have the backing of the Army, Police, CIO and all the other state institutions.

It is naive and inadequate to describe Zimbabwe's political violence as simple interparty violence; it a lot more than that, it is institutionalised violence in that State Institutions are involved in turning a blind eye, at best, or by taking an active part. It is therefore foolish to even an interparty meeting will address the problem. Those opposition politicians who attend the proposed State House meeting will only be showing the world how naive they are!

Nomusa Garikai said...

The people of Zimbabwe have a knack for making a big song and dance about an event, proclaiming it the silver bullet of all the nation's ills only for time to prove them wrong! "Kupembedza n'anga neino pumha mai uroyi!" as one would say in Shona.

The Zanu PF under Mnangagwa's leadership is the same corrupt and tyrannical party as that under Mugabe. Except for a few individuals including Mugabe himself the row-call of thugs is still the same so why should anyone expect the corruption and tyranny to end.

Indeed, things are much worse under this Mnangagwa new dispensation as the ringleaders in the Joint Operation Command, the shadowy Junta that has run the country all along, were kept on the leash before and are now out of the shadows and dictating from on high. Mnangagwa's regime is dominated by Junta thugs and it is naive to even think they care about free, fair and credible elections. These are men who are united in their love of absolute power and, constituting an even stronger bond, they have all shed innocent blood and have no intention of ever being held to account for that! The only way they can be certain they are never held to account is for them to retain power at all cost!

The Junta regime is portraying itself as compassionate regime determined to deliver free and fair elections, restore the rule of law, revive the economy and anything else the people want. The regime will deliver all this things if it can but will want to retain power even if it should fail. The regime is carrying over the no-regime-change mantra of the Zanu PF of Mugabe’s days.
The regime is not going to implement any democratic reforms because it needs the undemocratic system to guarantee its hold on power. If the people of Zimbabwe should ever decide that they want regime change, be it this year or in future; they will know immediately that the new Zanu PF, the new dispensation, the re-branded Zanu PF, the compassionate ED, etc. was nothing but a wolf in a sheep's coat.

For the last 20 years at least, the challenge before this nation has been to implement the democratic reforms and restore the freedoms and basic human rights of all Zimbabweans including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country. It will be unforgivable if we are to take our eyes off that goal because we have been fooled into believing that Zanu PF of yesteryears was transformed by the November coup, a treasonous act in its own right, into a compassionate party. And yet, tellingly, the compassionate party is not compassionate enough to accept the need to restore the individual freedoms and rights of the citizens.

Nomusa Garikai said...

@ slugisn
For the millions of Zimbabweans, especially those amongst the 90% unemployment, the 72.3% living on US$1.00 or less a day, etc. the corrupt and tyrannical rule of this Zanu PF regime is of greater and immediate importance than the tyranny of President Trump. They are more concerned about restoring their freedoms and human rights including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of this country which Zanu PF has eroded away for decades.
Let the Americans worry about President Trump; they elected him and they can remove him come next elections. Who elected President Mnangagwa, VP Chiwenga, Minister P Shiri, Minister S Moyo, etc.? Not even the Zanu PF members much less the people of Zimbabwe!
We demand free, fair and credible elections this year. If Zanu PF fails to deliver, signs are that they will fail, then the elections must be declared null and void and a new administration appointed that will implement the reforms and hold free and fair elections. This is not negotiable!

Nomusa Garikai said...

@ John Motsi
If Mnangagwa is such a good leaders then why is he refusing to implement the democratic reforms to restore all Zimbabweans' basic freedoms and human rights?
Why is he talking political parties meeting to agree not incite violence during elections and yet refuse to implement the reforms designed to give the Police and Judges the power and confidence to arrest and punish all those responsible for political violence?
It is good to hear you have the confidence to vote for Chamisa but there millions of others out there who fear the harassment of the Chiefs and the beating or worse from thugs like Engebert Rugeje. No Zimbabwean should ever have to suffer the indignity of being frog marched to attend a rally or vote for someone because they fear being harassed or worse!
The challenge here is not that some have a free and valid vote whilst others are denied the vote and the select few have the veto in that they are allowed to cast multiple votes. The challenge is that all Zimbabweans must have a meaningful vote and no one has the veto. This is why we must have all the democratic reforms implemented BEFORE the elections. If there are no reforms then we must all refuse to take part in the flawed and illegal elections!

Nomusa Garikai said...

@ Pidigori
The people of Zimbabwe have a chance to end the one-party dictatorship and it would be a pity if we wasted that chance because we believed that the November coup transformed the corrupt and murderous Zanu PF into a benevolent and compassionate party.
President Mnangagwa needs the opposition politicians to take part in the coming elections even thou he has not implemented even one democratic reform and hence the reason why he is bending over backwards to please MDC politicians. During the GNU President Mugabe needed MDC leaders cooperate with him so he too would not implement any reform and to be certain of that the tyrant denied the MDC leaders nothing. President Mnangagwa is doing the same.
If President Mnangagwa was as compassionate as his apologists would want us to believe then why is he refusing to restore the ordinary people’s freedoms and basic human rights? I hear Tsvangirai’s hospital bill is R2 million and Mnangagwa has already said the government will pay the bill plus all the other expenses. Implementing the democratic reforms will not cost the government a dollar and yet he refuses to budge one inch.
These elections are first and foremost about restoring the freedoms and basic human rights.
“Seek ye first the political kingdom and the rest shall follow,” said Ghana’s first President, Kwame Nkrumah.
An earthly pan on Jesus Christ’s “Seek you first the kingdom of God!”
Zimbabwe is in this political and economic mess today because for nearly four decades the country has been stuck with an incompetent, corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF regime. The people could not remove it from power because the thugs rigged the vote and used violence to impose themselves on the nation. Zanu PF stole away our right to a meaningful vote, we lost the political kingdom.
If the people remain focused on the task in hand, getting the democratic reforms implemented, this nation can finally wrestle back the people’s power to hold those holding public office to account not just this next election but for all time!

Nomusa Garikai said...

Zimbabwean ex-president Robert Mugabe’s nephew, Patrick Zhuwao, has reportedly reacted “angrily” after the African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat praised the Zimbabwean government for the country’s “peaceful political transition” last year.
Mahamat was on a three-day visit to Zimbabwe, where he met with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who according to the state-owned Herald newspaper “apprised him of measures being taken by his government to ensure free and fair elections”
President Mnangagwa hoodwinked the AU into believing that the November coup was “a peaceful political transition” but will come unstuck on free and fair elections. The regime has stubbornly refused to implement even one meaningful democratic reform out of the raft of reforms agreed at the start of the 2008 to 2013 GNU.
Indeed, Zanu PF is already rigging this year’s election. ZEC, by its own admission, has only register 5.3 million voters out of the expected 7 million. 1.7 million or 25% of the voters are already being denied a vote. ZEC is not going to produce a verified voters’ roll, a legal requirement that AU elections observers said must be address following the 2013 elections, opening the door to blatant vote rigging.
These elections are not going to be free and fair and the AU will have no choice but to declare this year’s elections null and void. This regime is illegitimate as it was born out of coup, a high treason act. It will be intolerable if the AU is going to grant it legitimacy out of rigged elections!

Nomusa Garikai said...

President Mnangagwa received the first batch of NRZ equipment from the $400 million diaspora investment initiative.
The fact still remains that President Mnangagwa was a senior member of the Mugabe regime of the last 37 years which presided over the total collapse of the country's economy. It is one thing for President Mnangagwa to come up with a long list of to do things why is he not doing what is already within his power to do right now - implement the democratic reforms and restore the freedoms and rights of all Zimbabweans. Is he refusing to do so because he does not want the people to hold him to account for his past failings and for failing to revive the economy tomorrow?
Mr President, the freedoms and basic human rights of all Zimbabweans are not yours or Zanu PF to give to some and deny to others. We demand that all the democratic reforms must be implemented BEFORE this year's elections and failure to do so will mean the election must be declared null and void.

Nomusa Garikai said...

“These 108 wagons, seven locomotives and eight passenger coaches represent more than just an upgrade to our transportation system; they represent a commitment by this government to change, progress and development,” said President Mnangagwa.

All new administrations always start full of confidence, convinced there is nothing they will not do. We have heard former President Mugabe talk to no end of “gutsva ruzhinji” (mass prosperity) but look where are today – mass poverty.

The country need never have sunk to the depths of depravity and despair it did; unemployment 90%, workers going for months or even years without pay, 72.3% of our people living on US$1.00 or less a day, etc.; if we had not lost our political power to remove Zanu PF from power when it became clear the regime was incompetent and corrupt. This is why the most important task before this nation today must be to wrestle back the people’s political power to hold the government of the day to account.

President Mnangagwa is labouring his government’s determination to revive the economy; we all applaud that. Still, we are now very seriously concerned that the regime has done nothing to implement the democratic reforms and restore the people’s freedoms and basic rights! We want all those powers to rig elections that Zanu PF assumed for itself removed NOW because we do not want to find ourselves or posterity stuck with an incompetent and corrupt regime as we have been these last 38 years!

Nomusa Garikai said...

@ vagodza

Mugabe promised "gutsva ruzhinji" (mass prosperity) and when he failed to deliver the nation could not remove him from power because he rigged the elections and used violence including mass murder to stay in power. If this nation has learned anything in the last 38 years then it must be the folly of having a government that the people cannot hold to account.

President Mnangagwa is trying his best to hold on to the Zanu PF dictatorial powers so he too can rig the vote and use violence to secure no-regime-change for himself. He knows that every Zimbabwean has the right, this is not a privilege, to a meaningful say in the governance of the country. What is more, the right to free and fair elections is the basis of good governance. God knows this country is dying for a good and competent government!

It is to be expected of tyrants to dismiss those demanding human freedoms, human rights and human dignity as barking dogs, "kuhukura!". Well the barking dogs will not be silenced. If President Mnangagwa fails to hold free, fair and credible elections then his regime will be illegitimate.

Mugabe thought he could rig elections and get away with it. Where is the tyrant now! Mnangagwa will go the same way! The world has tolerated his November coup because it helped to get rid of one tyrant but if he thinks he can rig the elections and claim another "military assisted electoral victory" he has something else coming!