President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Special Anti-Corruption Unit requested the 2016 Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA) forensic audit which exposed massive rot in the country’s roads administration department amid reports that fresh corruption investigations are underway, the Zimbabwe Morning Post can exclusively reveal. Highly placed sources also said the crack team has already summoned Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa, for an interview in connection with allegations he raised against a fellow legislator Dexterv Nduna which also implicated the speaker of parliament Jacob Mudenda. “It is very clear that he (Hon Nduna) was given 13 million Rand and 8 million US dollars to fix various VID depots, Victoria Falls, Sanyati road and he didn’t do anything and the auditor general’s report is very clear that he should be investigated,” said Mliswa. After reading such report it is clear that corruption in Zimbabwe has been rampant for a long time. Only an idiot would still deny that corruption, not sanctions, are Zimbabwe's greatest threat to economic prosperity!
“President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s unfortunate comments are deeply troubling and unwarranted. Coming off the heels of Amnesty International’s expose of a systematic targeting of dissent during the national ‘stay-away’ period, they affirm that his government used security forces, including military personnel, to brutalize people who were protesting. This latest threat is a sinister hint that the situation could become even worse.
“If his government wants to build an inclusive country that is based on respect for human rights, President Mnangagwa should accommodate differing views, whether they please his government or not.”
Amnesty International recently released a briefing that documented a systematic crackdown on dissent during the national stay-away between 14 and 16 January.
In it, the organization exposes a crackdown on the right to freedom of peaceful assembly as the authorities sought to crush protests against fuel price hikes. In the process numerous serious human rights violations were perpetrated including killings and torture.
Zanu PF is a party of violence and its modus operandi is simply to blatantly do whatever the party feels it must do to secure its strangle hold on absolute power be it to rig elections and use brute force to silence protesters, etc. Once the party’s iron grip on power, the party will give the usual promises of punishing all those responsible for human rights violation and quietly forget all about.
Zanu PF crossed the Rubicon River a long, long time ago, fully armed; some people are ignoring this fact because they do not want to deal with the consequence of the crossing – that Zanu PF declared war on the nation.
Zanu PF rigged last July's elections, it has no mandate to govern, it is illegitimate. This is the elephant in the room and we cannot avoid dealing with is anymore
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has retired for top army generals and re-assigned them to diplomatic service. Douglas Nyikayaramba and Anselen Sanyatwe are two of the four Major Generals to be re-assigned.
Is there such a thing as retirement amongst Zanu PF ruling elite??? Most of the former cabinet members, permanent secretaries and other senior Zanu PF members were retired and re-assigned do-nothing positions in the party on their previous salary scale and allowances. The four Major Generals are too being re-assigned, no doubt they too will be on very lucrative conditions of service, to make up for the brown envelops payments from the Army's diamond mining activities, etc.
The European Union has announced that it has removed former Police Chief Augustine Chihuri and former Spy Boss Happyton Bonyongwe from the sanctions list.
EU said the two are no longer in government service.
Former President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace and Zimbabwe Defence Industries remain on sanctions . Sanctions on General Chiwenga, Perence Shiri and Valerio Sibanda were suspended. If this is true then this will be very disappointing news indeed. The EU has publicly acknowledged that Zanu PF rigged last July's elections and has since used brute force to silence those protesting the rigged elections and the soaring cost of living. Instead of punishing those behind the rigged elections and the wanton violence the EU rewards the thugs by taken a few of them off the sanctions list.
The economic situation in Zimbabwe is so, so bad 75% of the people are living on US$30 per month or less, way below the poverty datum line of US$650 per month. People are dying because even one single decent meal a month is a luxury, life-saving medicine are a luxury too! Until something is done to end the curse of rigged elections; there is no hope of ending Zimbabwe's economic meltdown. None!
If the EU have done nothing to punish these Zanu PF thugs then shame on you all in the EU! What else do these Zanu PF thugs have to do before you will finally act!!!!!
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, briefing journalists, said: "This decision was taken in light of our objective which is to encourage commitment to uphold the rule of law and human rights as set out in Zimbabwe's constitution.
"We have seen a crackdown on demonstrations in January as well as disproportionate use of force by the authorities and that called into question this commitment. Now the key question is to understand whether the old system [of Mugabe] has been dismantled definitely or if it remains in place under different leadership."
Of the most irrational argument one has ever heard from a brain-dead bureaucrat that sure takes the biscuit! The EU had 140 Election Observers in Zimbabwe and they produced a detailed report that could not have been more clearer that the elections were rigged. And those given the power and authority to act on the report’s finding decide, in their collective wisdom, to reward the vote rigging thugs by taking the few still on the list off the list! That is really foolish!
My fervent hope is that the voters who elected each and every one of the Foreign Ministers must serious think if they real want to be represented by someone this incompetent. How many other mind numbed blunders has he/she made on their behalf? The voters must leave no stone unturned to vote the individual out!
"Every thinking Zimbabwean will welcome the EU sanctions in response to Zanu PF's failure to hold free and fair elections," you said.
Whilst the EU Election Observer Mission condemned Zimbabwe's elections as a farce and the EU parliament agreed and called for the renewal of sanctions it seem the EN Foreign Ministers who were tasked with the responsibility to decide on the sanctions have done the exact opposite. Instead of imposing the sanctions the Ministers decided to lift the sanction on the few srill on the list. I do not believe the EU has ever made a more idiotic decision of Zimbabwe than that decision.
Zanu PF rigs the elections and the EU itself agrees that is indeed the case. Zanu PF using brute force to stop protests against the rigged elections and against the soaring cost of live and EU agrees that is so too. But instead of punishing the thugs as the EU parliament had recommended the EU Foreign ministers decide to reward Zanu PF leaders be lifting the sanctions!
Would someone pinch me; I must be having a nightmare !
This is just foolish Zanu PF nonsense! Yo u are dismissing anyone who dares to differ with you as a western agent . Adress the point raised i.e. that corruption is the killer cancer to the Zimbabwe economic and not sanctions. Zimbabwe is losing as much as $2 billion a month to corruption and mismanagement. How much is the country losing to sanction?
“CANAAN IS ON THE HORIZON! We’re at Rephidim and the Amalekites are here. So Moses must go up the mountain with the staff of the Lord to pray with the aid of Aaron and Hur. Joshua goes into the battlefront to fight the opponent. History books being written as we plant new memorials, Ex 17,” wrote Chamisa on Twitter.
“Oh yes the signs are there and the evidence is upon us. We are almost there. All the sorrows of today we shall forget. See, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff!
There is a plan. God has a plan. We are that plan!”
There is something sickening in the blasphemous act of mere mortals claiming to know God’s mind.
“God has a plan. We are that plan!” Really! Was it God’s plan for MDC Alliance to take part in an election knowing Zanu PF will rig the elections? MDC Alliance leaders were so foolish they did not even have the common sense to demand that ZEC must release the verified voters’ roll, a legal requirement too. It should be remember that MDC failed to implement even one reform during the GNU because they are corrupt, incompetent and sell-outs. If God was involved in all MDC’s catalogue of blunders then it is unavoidable to conclude that God is corrupt, incompetent, a sell-out and foolish!
Chamisa is just a corrupt and incompetent politician who is hoping to prop up his otherwise sorry political career by evoking God has chosen him to lead Zimbabwe. It is insulting to the people of Zimbabwe that God would choose a blundering idiot to lead the nation into this hell-on-earth. It is an insult to God himself that He should even be associated with idiots!
f Moses had been an idiot like Chamisa, then the children of Israel would have never left Egypt! So Chamisa had his “burning bush” meeting with God when he went up the mountains in Murehwa! Chamisa you are not Moses and stop all this nonsense pretending that God has chosen you.
We have both Chamisa and Mnangagwa who really do not care about the rule of law and democracy but only pay lip service to both to suit their own selfish agenda. Mnangagwa promised to hold free, fair and credible elections when he seized power from Mugabe and yet from the word go did nothing to make that possible. He stubbornly refused to implement even one democratic reform to make this possible.
Mnangagwa blatantly rigged last July's elections, as Zanu PF has done repeatedly in the past. What the nation must do now is to demand that Zanu PF step down! Enough is enough!
Nelson Chamisa and his MDC friends had the golden opportunity to get the reforms implemented during the 2008 GNU and yet they did nothing about it. They had secured seats on the gravy train and with their snout in the feeding trough they forgot about the reforms.
"Mazivanhu eMDC adzidza kudya anyerere!" (MDC leaders are enjoying the gravy train lifestyles, they will never rock the boat!) Zanu PF cronies used to boast in reply to those asking why MDC leaders were not implementing the reforms.
Chamisa has been calling for political dialogue with Zanu PF, he is desperate for a seat back on the gravy train. He says the dialogue is to get the reforms implemented, he is only saying that because he cannot openly admit it is the gravy train seat he is after.
Zimbabwe is in serious economic and political trouble and the sooner the people realise that neither MDC nor Zanu PF will ever get them out of this mess the sooner the nation can start the search for a way out. The way out is for the nation to dismantle the corrupt and dysfunctional corrupt and autocracy Zanu PF imposed on the nation and replace it with a democratic system of government. Neither Zanu PF nor MDC can be trusted to implement the reforms to dismantle the autocracy.
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Special Anti-Corruption Unit requested the 2016 Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA) forensic audit which exposed massive rot in the country’s roads administration department amid reports that fresh corruption investigations are underway, the Zimbabwe Morning Post can exclusively reveal.
Highly placed sources also said the crack team has already summoned Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa, for an interview in connection with allegations he raised against a fellow legislator Dexterv Nduna which also implicated the speaker of parliament Jacob Mudenda.
“It is very clear that he (Hon Nduna) was given 13 million Rand and 8 million US dollars to fix various VID depots, Victoria Falls, Sanyati road and he didn’t do anything and the auditor general’s report is very clear that he should be investigated,” said Mliswa.
After reading such report it is clear that corruption in Zimbabwe has been rampant for a long time. Only an idiot would still deny that corruption, not sanctions, are Zimbabwe's greatest threat to economic prosperity!
“President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s unfortunate comments are deeply troubling and unwarranted. Coming off the heels of Amnesty International’s expose of a systematic targeting of dissent during the national ‘stay-away’ period, they affirm that his government used security forces, including military personnel, to brutalize people who were protesting. This latest threat is a sinister hint that the situation could become even worse.
“If his government wants to build an inclusive country that is based on respect for human rights, President Mnangagwa should accommodate differing views, whether they please his government or not.”
Amnesty International recently released a briefing that documented a systematic crackdown on dissent during the national stay-away between 14 and 16 January.
In it, the organization exposes a crackdown on the right to freedom of peaceful assembly as the authorities sought to crush protests against fuel price hikes. In the process numerous serious human rights violations were perpetrated including killings and torture.
Zanu PF is a party of violence and its modus operandi is simply to blatantly do whatever the party feels it must do to secure its strangle hold on absolute power be it to rig elections and use brute force to silence protesters, etc. Once the party’s iron grip on power, the party will give the usual promises of punishing all those responsible for human rights violation and quietly forget all about.
Zanu PF crossed the Rubicon River a long, long time ago, fully armed; some people are ignoring this fact because they do not want to deal with the consequence of the crossing – that Zanu PF declared war on the nation.
Zanu PF rigged last July's elections, it has no mandate to govern, it is illegitimate. This is the elephant in the room and we cannot avoid dealing with is anymore
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has retired for top army generals and re-assigned them to diplomatic service. Douglas Nyikayaramba and Anselen Sanyatwe are two of the four Major Generals to be re-assigned.
Is there such a thing as retirement amongst Zanu PF ruling elite??? Most of the former cabinet members, permanent secretaries and other senior Zanu PF members were retired and re-assigned do-nothing positions in the party on their previous salary scale and allowances. The four Major Generals are too being re-assigned, no doubt they too will be on very lucrative conditions of service, to make up for the brown envelops payments from the Army's diamond mining activities, etc.
The European Union has announced that it has removed former Police Chief Augustine Chihuri and former Spy Boss Happyton Bonyongwe from the sanctions list.
EU said the two are no longer in government service.
Former President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace and Zimbabwe Defence Industries remain on sanctions . Sanctions on General Chiwenga, Perence Shiri and Valerio Sibanda were suspended.
If this is true then this will be very disappointing news indeed. The EU has publicly acknowledged that Zanu PF rigged last July's elections and has since used brute force to silence those protesting the rigged elections and the soaring cost of living. Instead of punishing those behind the rigged elections and the wanton violence the EU rewards the thugs by taken a few of them off the sanctions list.
The economic situation in Zimbabwe is so, so bad 75% of the people are living on US$30 per month or less, way below the poverty datum line of US$650 per month. People are dying because even one single decent meal a month is a luxury, life-saving medicine are a luxury too! Until something is done to end the curse of rigged elections; there is no hope of ending Zimbabwe's economic meltdown. None!
If the EU have done nothing to punish these Zanu PF thugs then shame on you all in the EU! What else do these Zanu PF thugs have to do before you will finally act!!!!!
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, briefing journalists, said: "This decision was taken in light of our objective which is to encourage commitment to uphold the rule of law and human rights as set out in Zimbabwe's constitution.
"We have seen a crackdown on demonstrations in January as well as disproportionate use of force by the authorities and that called into question this commitment. Now the key question is to understand whether the old system [of Mugabe] has been dismantled definitely or if it remains in place under different leadership."
Of the most irrational argument one has ever heard from a brain-dead bureaucrat that sure takes the biscuit! The EU had 140 Election Observers in Zimbabwe and they produced a detailed report that could not have been more clearer that the elections were rigged. And those given the power and authority to act on the report’s finding decide, in their collective wisdom, to reward the vote rigging thugs by taking the few still on the list off the list! That is really foolish!
My fervent hope is that the voters who elected each and every one of the Foreign Ministers must serious think if they real want to be represented by someone this incompetent. How many other mind numbed blunders has he/she made on their behalf? The voters must leave no stone unturned to vote the individual out!
"Every thinking Zimbabwean will welcome the EU sanctions in response to Zanu PF's failure to hold free and fair elections," you said.
Whilst the EU Election Observer Mission condemned Zimbabwe's elections as a farce and the EU parliament agreed and called for the renewal of sanctions it seem the EN Foreign Ministers who were tasked with the responsibility to decide on the sanctions have done the exact opposite. Instead of imposing the sanctions the Ministers decided to lift the sanction on the few srill on the list. I do not believe the EU has ever made a more idiotic decision of Zimbabwe than that decision.
Zanu PF rigs the elections and the EU itself agrees that is indeed the case. Zanu PF using brute force to stop protests against the rigged elections and against the soaring cost of live and EU agrees that is so too. But instead of punishing the thugs as the EU parliament had recommended the EU Foreign ministers decide to reward Zanu PF leaders be lifting the sanctions!
Would someone pinch me; I must be having a nightmare !
@ Mugwagwa
This is just foolish Zanu PF nonsense! Yo u are dismissing anyone who dares to differ with you as a western agent . Adress the point raised i.e. that corruption is the killer cancer to the Zimbabwe economic and not sanctions. Zimbabwe is losing as much as $2 billion a month to corruption and mismanagement. How much is the country losing to sanction?
“CANAAN IS ON THE HORIZON! We’re at Rephidim and the Amalekites are here. So Moses must go up the mountain with the staff of the Lord to pray with the aid of Aaron and Hur. Joshua goes into the battlefront to fight the opponent. History books being written as we plant new memorials, Ex 17,” wrote Chamisa on Twitter.
“Oh yes the signs are there and the evidence is upon us. We are almost there. All the sorrows of today we shall forget. See, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff!
There is a plan. God has a plan. We are that plan!”
There is something sickening in the blasphemous act of mere mortals claiming to know God’s mind.
“God has a plan. We are that plan!” Really! Was it God’s plan for MDC Alliance to take part in an election knowing Zanu PF will rig the elections? MDC Alliance leaders were so foolish they did not even have the common sense to demand that ZEC must release the verified voters’ roll, a legal requirement too. It should be remember that MDC failed to implement even one reform during the GNU because they are corrupt, incompetent and sell-outs. If God was involved in all MDC’s catalogue of blunders then it is unavoidable to conclude that God is corrupt, incompetent, a sell-out and foolish!
Chamisa is just a corrupt and incompetent politician who is hoping to prop up his otherwise sorry political career by evoking God has chosen him to lead Zimbabwe. It is insulting to the people of Zimbabwe that God would choose a blundering idiot to lead the nation into this hell-on-earth. It is an insult to God himself that He should even be associated with idiots!
f Moses had been an idiot like Chamisa, then the children of Israel would have never left Egypt! So Chamisa had his “burning bush” meeting with God when he went up the mountains in Murehwa! Chamisa you are not Moses and stop all this nonsense pretending that God has chosen you.
We have both Chamisa and Mnangagwa who really do not care about the rule of law and democracy but only pay lip service to both to suit their own selfish agenda. Mnangagwa promised to hold free, fair and credible elections when he seized power from Mugabe and yet from the word go did nothing to make that possible. He stubbornly refused to implement even one democratic reform to make this possible.
Mnangagwa blatantly rigged last July's elections, as Zanu PF has done repeatedly in the past. What the nation must do now is to demand that Zanu PF step down! Enough is enough!
Nelson Chamisa and his MDC friends had the golden opportunity to get the reforms implemented during the 2008 GNU and yet they did nothing about it. They had secured seats on the gravy train and with their snout in the feeding trough they forgot about the reforms.
"Mazivanhu eMDC adzidza kudya anyerere!" (MDC leaders are enjoying the gravy train lifestyles, they will never rock the boat!) Zanu PF cronies used to boast in reply to those asking why MDC leaders were not implementing the reforms.
Chamisa has been calling for political dialogue with Zanu PF, he is desperate for a seat back on the gravy train. He says the dialogue is to get the reforms implemented, he is only saying that because he cannot openly admit it is the gravy train seat he is after.
Zimbabwe is in serious economic and political trouble and the sooner the people realise that neither MDC nor Zanu PF will ever get them out of this mess the sooner the nation can start the search for a way out. The way out is for the nation to dismantle the corrupt and dysfunctional corrupt and autocracy Zanu PF imposed on the nation and replace it with a democratic system of government. Neither Zanu PF nor MDC can be trusted to implement the reforms to dismantle the autocracy.
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