This Zanu PF regime blatantly rigging the corona virus statistics with disastrous consequences to us all!
“The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability,” stated the EU Zimbabwe 2018 Election Observer Mission final report.
“(In the period 9 June to 25 July
2020) We have recorded 8 deaths out of 60 patents who were admitted in the red
zone,” a source at Parirenyatwa Hospital told New Zimbabwe.
“Of the bodies that were brought
in dead, 13 tested positive for Covid-19.”
So, Parirenyatwa Hospital alone (not counting the covid-19 deaths from any of the other hospitals in Harare such as Harare Hospital, Avenues Clinic, Chitungwiza Hospital, Wilkins Hospital, etc.) had 21 deaths.
And yet as of today Tuesday 28th July 2020 Zimbabwe had a total of 40 corona virus related deaths, according to the Ministry of Health and Child Care. The breakdown by Province was as follows:
Harare Province 10
Bulawayo Province 17
Manicaland Province 4
Midlands Province 3
Matabeleland North Province 2
Mashonaland Central Province 1
Mashonaland East Province 1
Mashonaland West Province 1
Matabeleland South Province 1
Masvingo Province 0
Total 40
So, the official death toll of Harare Province is less than half the death toll of Parerinyatwa Hospital alone!
We know that most hospitals and clinics up and down the country have not been testing aggressively all those with covid-19 like symptoms and, as we can see with the Parerinyatwa Hospital, not all their reported covid-19 confirmed cases and deaths have been included in the national total. In short, Zimbabwe’s covid-19 reports, just like the July 2018 election results, are full of errors.
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has been under reporting the covid-19 confirmed cases and deaths.
Zanu PF blatantly rigged the July 2018 elections for the sole purpose of securing election victory. Zanu PF won the commanding 2/3 majority in parliament and Senate plus the party’s candidate, Emmerson Mnangagwa, won the presidency.
The consequence of rigging the elections was to confirm the country as a pariah state ruled by corrupt and lawless thugs and to drive away investors and lenders away. No one wants to do business with thugs, period. And so the economic meltdown, which had started in earnest following the violence seizure of the white-owned farms and the money printing crazy that fuelled inflation to soar to 500 billion per cent, has continued.
Zanu PF is under reporting the corona virus cases in the country for the sole purpose of hiding the regime’s blundering incompetence in the handling of the virus and how hopeless ill-prepared the country is to deal with the pandemic.
South Africa whose population is 4 times that of Zimbabwe has raced ahead with 471 128 confirmed corona virus cases and 7 497 deaths compared to Zimbabwe’s 2 817 confirmed cases and 40 deaths.
If the Zimbabwe government had been testing, tracing and tracking as aggressively as it should then the country’s covid-19 figures would be ¼ of those of SA, at the very best. SA is certainly better equipped to deal with the corona virus pandemic than Zimbabwe. SA’s economy and its health care service are strong compared to those of Zimbabwe which have all but collapse before the covid-19 outbreak.
By under reporting the corona virus cases by a factor of over 40 times makes good reading but it also engenders a false sense of security amongst the populous, who would carry on with their lives without taking even the most basic precaution on the mistaken believe there is no virus. Meanwhile the virus would be spreading far and wide.
Zimbabwe is a very secretive society, most health institutions, media houses, etc. are aware government is under reporting of covid-19 cases and, fearful of Zanu PF reprisal, are saying nothing. And so Zanu PF will get away with the lie the country had a few thousand covid-19 deaths when true figure is hundreds of times that!
Zanu PF blatantly rigged the July 2018 elections and now the party is blatantly under stating the seriousness of the corona virus in Zimbabwe. Under stating the seriousness of the virus is going to cost many, many lives; the party must be held to account for this!
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@ Kasukuwere
It is with great disappointment that I learnt RBZ and some former executives of Fiscorp under which we were allocated farm equipment have professed ignorance on there being any payment on my part with respect to the items given to me.
I have previously stated that I indeed made a payment, and if anything were left outstanding, I would be happy to receive the relevant invoice and settle the payment. However, nothing has been done except for public shaming of my person.
Be that as it may, I would like to refresh the memory of those who no longer remember the terms under-which we were allocated equipment. On 19 November 2008, I signed a purchase agreement (attached hereto) with Fiscorp Private Limited wherein the following items were listed:
1. Tractor - T405-07
2. Harrow - 1625-06
Understanding the need for this equipment and my dedication to my farming operations, I made the payment the very next day, 20 November 2008 through a CFX electronic funds transfer in the sum of three trillion, three hundred and ninety billion, five hundred and thirty three million, two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars.
Comrade Kasukuwere please do not insult our intelligence! So, by producing this V11 form paying in full for the tractor and harrow you want us to believe you were above corruption. Well tell us then, where did you get the money to pay this bill?
Has it ever occurred to you that you were able to get equipment paid for in foreign currency when the individuals and companies who earned the foreign currency were being robbed blind of their own money?
Did you only receive a tractor and a harrow? If you received more, where are the V11 forms showing you paid for them? Surely you do not expect us to believe you are not corrupt just because you were not invoiced for the items?
A Pandemic is defined as an epidemic of infectious disease that is spreading through human populations across a large region such as a continent or worldwide. This is not a frequent phenomenon and often takes experts and governments by surprise and ill prepared for the swift responses required to save lives.
During Pandemics the man eats dog approach to news seizes to be the principal factor for determining the newsworthiness of a story. Such a crisis creates the ideal environment for governments, political actors, the private sector, civil society and the media to bury the hatchet and combine forces for the good of mankind. A pandemic may thus serve to mend relations between authorities and media players and drive the two forces away from the tom-foolery skirmishes that have tended to undermine the role of the media in modern day “democratic” societies.
Ever since the day Zanu PF got into power, 18th April 1980, the party has worked tirelessly to impose and consolidate the de facto one-party dictatorship the country has lived under all these last 40 years. One of those ways to secure absolute power is by denying the populous freedom of expression and stifle all free debate and media. Control what the people hear and brainwash them with propaganda and misinformation.
When the corona virus threatened, the number one priority of every thinking human being would be to do everything to stop the virus spreading and save human lives. Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies were under no illusion that the regime will be up to the task given its checked history of corruption and blundering incompetence. So, for him the challenge was not to save lives but to tighten the regime’s control of information on the virus.
Zanu PF cannot stop the spread of corona virus and, indeed, the decades of Zanu PF misrule will show just how wilfully ill-prepare the country is to deal with corona virus. The party’s strategy was to control the narrative; make a big song and dance about how the country had successfully lined up all its ducks ready to deal with the virus and then falsify the covid-19 cases to give the impression the regime has the virus under control.
By failing to test aggressively and letting the infected people know their status so that they could go into self-isolation, Zanu PF has forced people to spread the virus out of ignorance.
For 40 years and counting, Zanu PF has denied the people their freedoms and rights, causing the economic meltdown and the suffering and deaths of hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans for the selfish purpose of hanging on to absolute power and the trappings it brought. The corona virus outbreak has only serviced to underline the human tragedy such a selfish political system will cause.
Corona virus should have forced everyone to bury the hatchet and work to save lives; everyone with a working brain that is. The first thing Zanu PF did was pass a law designed to gag everyone – anyone reporting on the true corona virus situation in the country faces a 20-year jail sentence. The true cost of the Ministry of Health’s fake corona virus news is hundreds of thousands of lives lost to the virus; whether or not the regime gets away with the lies, just as it has got away with the rigged elections, corruption, etc., will not bring the dead back to life!
Ever since the day Zanu PF got into power, 18th April 1980, the party has worked tirelessly to impose and consolidate the de facto one-party dictatorship the country has lived under all these last 40 years. One of those ways to secure absolute power is by denying the populous freedom of expression and stifle all free debate and media. Control what the people hear and brainwash them with propaganda and misinformation.
When the corona virus threatened, the number one priority of every thinking human being would be to do everything to stop the virus spreading and save human lives. Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies were under no illusion that the regime will be up to the task given its checked history of corruption and blundering incompetence. So, for him the challenge was not to save lives but to tighten the regime’s control of information on the virus.
Zanu PF could not stop the spread of corona virus and, indeed, the decades of Zanu PF misrule showed just how wilfully ill-prepare the country was to deal with corona virus. The party’s strategy was to control the narrative; make a big song and dance about how the country had successfully lined up all its ducks ready to deal with the virus and then falsify the covid-19 cases to give the impression the regime has the virus under control.
By failing to test aggressively and letting the infected people know their status so that they could go into self-isolation, Zanu PF has forced people to spread the virus out of ignorance.
For 40 years and counting, Zanu PF has denied the people their freedoms and rights, causing the economic meltdown and the suffering and deaths of hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans for the selfish purpose of hanging on to absolute power and the trappings it brought. The corona virus outbreak has only serviced to underline the human tragedy such a selfish political system will cause.
The first thing Zanu PF did was pass a law designed to gag everyone – anyone reporting on the true corona virus situation in the country faces a 20-year jail sentence. The true cost of the Ministry of Health’s fake corona virus news is hundreds of thousands of lives lost to the virus; whether or not the regime gets away with the lies, just as it has got away with the rigged elections, corruption, etc., will not bring the dead back to life!
The real tragedy here is how easy Zanu PF has managed to brainwash the people into believing whatever nonsense the regime has dished out to them! There is a mental paralysis in Zimbabwe society and that is what is killing the nation!
The opposition MDC Alliance yesterday said the regime had failed to manage the pandemic, warning of more COVID-19 deaths that a disaster was looming if the situation did not improve.
"We are concerned with the regime's mismanagement of the pandemic," MDC Alliance vice-president Tendai Biti said.
"The first omission has been the failure to conduct adequate testing for our people. The regime has failed to isolate, to track and to quarantine victims of COVID-19.”
The fact that the country had a corrupt and incompetent government like this Zanu PF regime in power at such a time as now with the corona virus was a great tragedy. The situation has been made a lot worse by having an equally corrupt and incompetent opposition party. Zanu PF has been committing bloody murder, literally, and these MDC idiots have allowed Mnangagwa and company to get away with it!
Zimbabwe is desperate for real political change and, unless the people finally wake-up to the political reality that MDC leaders are running with the hare and hunting with the hounds, there will be no change.
Tendai Biti and his MDC friends are not going to bring about any meaningful change; they had their opportunity to do so during the 2008 to 2013 GNU and they wasted it. All this criticism of Zanu PF by Biti and company is for the sake of forcing Zanu PF to share the spoils of power in a new GNU. The 2008 GNU accomplished nothing and the new GNU will do no better!
"What is now happening is that the combination of COVID-19, the combination of a very cold winter, a hungry population that doesn't have jobs, food, you have seen the emergence in Zimbabwe of a slow genocide. Anyone who lives near a funeral yard you would have seen a massive increase in the number of people being buried."
It is true that this Zanu PF regime has been under stating the seriousness of the corona virus cases and deaths. And MDC have played their part in helping the regime hide the truth by saying nothing or worse still praising the regime “corona virus preparedness”!
According to the warrant, Mathuthu is organising and advocating for illegal 31 July demonstrations against the government.
“He is believed to be communicating with Zimbabweans through his cellular phone(s) and other various means, intending by the communication, to persuade or induce Zimbabweans to engage in public violence,” the warrant reads.
“Furthermore, he is believed to be manufacturing, storing and distributing to members of the public, some materials for use during the illegal demonstration on 31 July.”
Two weeks ago police arrested freelance journalist Hopewell Chin’ono on charges of inciting public violence ahead of this Friday’s demonstrations. Chin’ono is in remand prison after he was denied bail.
These are the same things that the Ian Smith regime used to do in a desperate effort to silence dissent. Zimbabwe has never had free, fair and credible elections and so, other than a change of a few individuals’ faces nothing much has changed. The ruthless repression has continued or be it the volume has now been turned up to full blast!
It is disappointing that we are once again being forced into yet another violent confrontation to force the regime to accept change! The last violent confrontation, the war of independence, failed to deliver democracy and stability, as we have seen these last 40 years, this violent confrontation is not going to do any better.
ZIMBABWE’S confirmed Covid-19 cases stood at 2 879 Wednesday after 62 more people tested positive on the day including 50 locals, the Health Ministry said.
One more death was recorded on the day, bringing the number of fatalities to 41.
“Sixty two cases tested positive for Covid-19 today (Wednesday). These include 50 local cases and 22 returnees from South Africa who are isolated,” the Health Ministry said in its daily Covid-19 update.
“Today (Wednesday) we regret to report one facility death from Manicaland province. The death is of a female aged 32. As at 29 July 2020, Zimbabwe had 2 879 confirmed cases, including 887 recoveries and 41 deaths.”
Last week, Parerinyatwa Hospital managers were asking government to make covid-19 test at the hospital mandatory. It beggars belief why this has not been done!
Zimbabwe has not been testing, tracing and tracking as aggressively as it should. The reason why the number of new cases has remained relatively low, nothing near the soaring figures we see in SA and other nations, is because the country has not ramped up the number of daily tests. The Ministry of Health used to give a running total of the number of tests carried out but has stopped doing so.
It is already as clear as day that when it comes to corona virus, Zanu PF is determined to under state the seriousness of the virus in the country for no other purpose than to give the false impression that the regime has done exceptionally well in containing the virus. This is criminal negligence at its worse because this has only helped the virus spread far and wide.
@ basira
On the contrary, there are many covid-19 deaths out there which are not being included in the official record as such but only because the government not been testing all suspect cases as it should. Many more people in Zimbabwe will die of covid-19 but only because the regime has deliberately kept them ignorant of the seriousness of the virus! This is criminal!
"This measure has been taken after 11 members of staff tested positive to the virus. The 11 members were subjected to the Rapid Diagnostic Test and we await the results of the PCR tests. The affected members are being attended to in line with the WHO and the Ministry of Health and Child Care guidelines."
The closure of the ZIMSEC Head Office and Harare Region Branch is Wednesday 29 July 2020 to Monday 3 August 2020. Normal business activity is expected to resume on Tuesday 4 August 2020.
For months the government has focused all its testing on returnees for the sole purpose of creating the impression that there are no local virus cases. Even when there have been local cases reported, the regime has deliberately left them out of the official reports. This has been foolish because there were local covid-19 cases and ignoring that reality only helped the virus spread. The chickens have come home to roost!
It is a crying shame that thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans will die of covid-19 but only because they were deliberately kept ignorant of the virus until it was too late! In this case not only has the government kept the people ignorant it took steps to gag everyone else with the treat of a 20-year jail term for reporting anything other than government’s own fake news!
Police are aware of various attempts to incite the public through the social media with one group calling itself 31 July Peaceful Demonstrations threatening to burn a service Station in Mvuma on 31st July 2020, and barricade the Harare Masvingo highway and all roads leading to police stations.
The group is led by group administrator with the cell number +27653302446 and has 249 group members with some claiming to be in possession of firearms. These will be regarded as terrorists.
The security services are also aware of these groups that they are Spreading fake news that the security services are in support of the 31st July 2020, illegal demonstrations. These are blatant lies, meant to confuse the public, cause alarm and despondency in the security services.
The security services remain resolute in defense of the country's security and the safety of all Zimbabweans.
By blatantly rigging the elections, Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies have blocked the option of peaceful and democratic change and so the only option left for change is using violence. Mnangagwa must know that, ultimately, he and his cronies are responsible for push the nation into a corner and are, therefore, responsible for all the death and destruction that will ensue!
What makes this sorry situation worse is that the street protests are not the answer because violent change has very rarely, if at all, ever delivered peace and democracy, which is what the nation is yarning for.
@ Abednico Mwembe
“Wilbert Mukori Problem with you is you have no common sense and you want pple to think like you. Read again what I said. I am talking about paying back that is all where are you getting complications here?”
So you think Kasukuwere is not corrupt because he paid back the loan at the official bank exchange rate knowing fully well the ordinary Zimbabweans would have paid the bill at the black-market exchange rate? No wonder the country is in a mess- with village idiots like you, what else!
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