I watched a documentary on meerkats. A family group came across an ostrich egg. A meerkat will easily crack the shell of most eggs but so with the ostrich egg. Meerkats get most of their food by digging and so one after another they moved the egg back and forth by digging round it or pushed it in a frantic effort to bite it. After a while the meerkats gave up and moved on.
Zimbabwe has an army political “meerkats” masquerading as political analysts who believe the solution to Zimbabwe’s economic and political crisis is first and foremost keeping Zanu PF and MDC leaders in power
no matter what!
"Given conditions in Zimbabwe, dialogue is the only sensible way forward, but both MDC factions need to be involved and the dialogue needs to be transparent and even-handed,” argue Professor Stephen Chan of University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.
"Having said that, formal talks might well be beneficially preceded by an informal meeting between the ‘Big Three' - Mnangagwa, Chamisa and Mwonzora - something like a Kariba Houseboat meeting of the sort once brokered by South Africa.
This is a foolish idea because the proposal has failed to acknowledge the reality that these Zanu PF and MDC leaders are the ones who not only landed the nation into this mess but, worse still, are the ones who created the mess. They are the problem; how then can they be the solution too!
The root cause of Zimbabwe’s crisis is the country’s failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. Guess who has been rigging elections all these last 40 years - Zanu PF leaders.
The nation had its golden opportunity to implement democratic reforms designed to end the vote rigging during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Guess who wasted the opportunity and failed to implement even one token reform in five years - MDC leaders.
Professor Chan and his fellow political meerkats’ insistence in allocating the key political roles to Zanu PF and MDC leaders is not only unworkable but must must be dismissed with contempt because it seeks to perpetuate the lie that both these parties are legitimate.
Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 2018 elections. ZEC failure to produce some thing as basic a verified voters’ roll, for Pete’s sake!
MDC leaders had no business participating in the 2018 elections knowing fully well Zanu PF was rigging the plebiscite. They participated because Zanu PF was giving away a few gravy train seats, bait they found irresistible. By participating the elections MDC gave credibility to the process and legitimacy to the result.
So, “the big three” are being allocated the principle political roles because they either blatantly rigged the elections or sold-out of the fight for reforms and free, fair and credible elections!
The real meerkats had the common sense to walk away from the ostrich egg when they realised they did not have the right tools or intelligence to crack the egg. After 40 years of corruption, breath-taking incompetence and murderous tyranny by Zanu PF thugs and their MDC acolytes, the political “meerkats” are more determined than ever to impose the same leaders as the answer to our problems. Of course, the political meerkats are insane!
Zanu PF and their MDC vote rigging conspiratorial partners are illegitimate and must step down to allow the nation to appoint a competent and independent body that will, at long last, implement the democratic reform. Zanu PF has held this nation to ransom for 40 years and counting; this must not be allowed to continue. Enough is enough!
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Mwonzora calls for national dialogue.
Any dialogue ending with Zanu PF and MDC leaders in charge of the way forward is a waste of time and resources. These leaders are the ones who have dragged us into this mess, they are the problem and so cannot be the solution too!
What Mwonzora is after is a new GNU and a cabinet post! We want a solution to the nation's problems not a gimmick to gratify some village idiot's insatiable greed!
People like Professor Chan are sold on the idea that Zanu PF is the only party fit to govern in Zimbabwe and so the way forward must led by Zanu PF. The very fact that Zanu PF has been in power for the last 40 years and all the regime has ever done was to drag the nation deeper and deeper into this hell is of no consequence. How an intellectual could have such a closed mentality beggars belief!
It was Professor Chan, be his own admission, who advised the British government to attend Mnangagwa's inauguration following the rigged July 2018 elections. Other people like MP Kate Hoey wanted the tyrant isolated and punished for rigging the elections. The British government should have listened to MP Hoey.
It is pleasing to note that one of the first things the British government has done since breaking away from the EU straitjacket was to impose sanctions of four Zanu PF thugs. One hopes they will follow this up with more decisive action.
Zimbabwe cannot afford another rigged elections in 2023; if that happened then this time Zanu PF must be punished. The regime must not be let off the hook and asked to implement reforms in the future. The elections must be declared null and void and others competent to implement the reforms appointed.
@ Ndaba Ndabezitha
Army Is Into Mining, Police Are Into Mining, Where Else In The World Has This Ever Happened?
Could not agree with you more.
All those involved in the wholesale looting of our resources, the Army, Police, CIO, Prison Service and a number of select individuals like Mnangagwa himself and their foreign partners such as the Chinese and Russians all know that if Zimbabwe was to hold free, fair and credible elections the party will probably lose the elections and their looting days will be over. This is the reason all these local looters and their foreign partners will bankroll Zanu PF's vote rigging juggernaut to make sure the party wins no matter what.
One of the five conditions Zimbabwe Social Democrats (ZSD) are demanding for free, fair and credible elections in an end to rampant corruption.
"Corruption is rampant in Zimbabwe and much of the looted wealth has been used to bankroll the election activities of those supportive of the looting, vote rigging and other criminal activities. Government must cancel all existing mining concessions or economic activities to go ahead without keeping any records of quantity and quality of the produce, to whom it was sold and for how much, etc. Everyone must keep records of their economic activities and must be subjected to the audited accounts and all the other checks and balances," states the ZSD statement.
The reason why MDC leaders have participated in elections in the past and will continue to do the same in 2023, regardless of all the looting and vote rigging, is they were after the few gravy train seats and a cut of the Political Party Finance Act payout Zanu PF offers as bait!
MDC Alliance vice chairperson Hon Job Sikhala has boldly declared that he will not surrender until the people of Zimbabwe are free from oppression.
Hon Sikhala has also revealed how Emmerson Mnangagwa’s agents are tormenting his family.
Below is Hon Sikhala’s full statement.
MDC has been on the political stage for over 20 years now and no one in their right mind can deny the party had many opportunities to free the people of Zimbabwe but failed to do so. What Job Sikhala should do is ask why the party has failed in this task. Issuing more and more bold statements whilst repeating the same foolish mistakes is not what the country wants!
MDC leaders have been participating in elections knowing the process in flawed and illegal. This must stop!
It is most infuriating for Job Sikhala to keep making these foolish statement of freeing the people and meanwhile participating in the elections giving the vote rigging Zanu PF regime legitimacy. We really are sick and tired of all this double Dutch - saying one thing and doing the exact opposite!
Are you going to participate in the 2023 elections with no reforms, just as you did in the 2018, or not? Just answer the question and stop all this political posturing like a silver-back gorilla!
Hon Sikhala was granted ZWL $ 25 000 bail on Monday.
According to Hon Sikhala, the persecution of Emmerson Mnangagwa’s critics is not the solution to the deepening economic crisis.
The resilient MDC Alliance official denounced the calculated harassment of perceived government opponents.
“Hello Zimbabwe Flag of Zimbabwe my love. Chikurubi hardens the warriors. Fix the rot. Persecution of critics is not a solution.
The business of arresting opponents on non- existent laws should come to an end. We demand our freedom,” Hon Sikhala wrote on Twitter.
Decades of prison did not harden Zanu PF warriors none did the decades of the bush war, at least harden them as warriors for freedom and liberty. Zanu PF thugs were yesteryear’s liberators and today’s oppressors.
MDC leaders had the golden opportunity to implement the reforms and thus end the Zanu PF dictatorship; they wasted the opportunity. Every thinking Zimbabwean is rightly worried about you “fixing the rot” in Zanu PF but seemingly incapable of seeing the rot in your own MDC party!
MDC-T spokesperson, Witness Dube in a statement on Thursday said the party's National Standing Committee held its virtual meeting and condemned the sanctions and ruled that they are hurting the common man on the street, among other reservations.
"The party reiterated its position that the continued international isolation was hurting the common man and woman. It therefore calls for the total and equal re-engagement of Zimbabwe with the international community," Dube said.
"The party reiterated that it stands for the unity of all progressive forces to fight for the betterment of the lives of the Zimbabwean people," he said.
It was USA ambassador to Zimbabwe 2004 to 200, Chris Dell, who said Morgan Tsvangirai was “a flawed and indecisive character who, if he ever got into power, would be an albatross round the nation’s neck”! The ambassador was proven right!
MDC leaders failed to implement even one democratic reform to end Zanu PF dictatorship when they had the golden opportunity to do so during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Worse still, they have since not only given up the fight for free and fair elections but are now actively involved in keeping Zanu PF in power.
By participating in flawed and illegal elections, knowing fully well that Zanu PF was rigging them, MDC leaders are giving the vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy.
We should not be surprised at all that the MDC sell-outs are now campaigning for the sanctions imposed on Zanu PF thugs to pressure the latter to restore basic human freedoms and rights. MDC leaders are nothing more than Zanu PF thugs’ acolytes and an albatross round the nation’s neck!
There is real case for the sanctions imposed on the Zanu PF being extended to the MDC acolytes!
@ Daily News
They only need to look at our history and take notes from the Unity Accord and the Global Political Agreement which resulted in government of national unity (GNU) - events ample proof of the effectiveness of honest dialogue and its capability to unlock Zimbabwe's much-vaunted potential.
The country is dying for leaders who are prepared to take the bull by the horns for the sake of the country. Whatever differences the politicians may have should be settled amicably. It's now time to demonstrate decisive leadership by being prepared to make difficult decisions.
If the Unity Accord and the GNU were such resounding success then why is Zimbabwe is such a mess? The Unity Accord ushered in the de facto one-party dictatorship. The GNU was supposed to dismantle the dictatorship by implementing the democratic reforms. Sadly MDC leaders sold-out and failed to implement even one reform.
The political dialogue you are proposing is to bring the same corrupt and incompetent politicians who dragged us into this mess and kept us there all those years. How anyone can think that is “taking the bull by the horns” beggars belief!
Zanu PF rigged the 2018 elections, the regime is illegitimate and it must step down and allow the nation to move forward. Only the village idiots would want to appease Zanu PF by keeping the thugs in power!
ARTUZ notes with shock the irresponsible insinuation uttered by one Jamwanda whom we understand is George Charamba to the effect that teachers are responsible for some dismal Grade 7 results in some schools across the country.
The fact that Mr Charamba does not understand the dynamics, ins and outs, intimacies and intricacies of education does not surprise us. His consistent uneducated utterances over the years have left everyone in no doubt whatsoever that he is dead from the neck upwards. The fact that the administration chooses such an airhead for speaking for the President says all about the calibre of the same administration.
Zanu PF has all but destroyed the country’s education service by starving it of resources and instead of admitting it, the regime is blaming the victims, the teachers. The biggest victims in all this are the children whose lives are blighted for the rest of their lives!
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