“The world is flat or round not because you or me say it is flat/round.
It is round because the mountain of supporting evidence say it is round,” my
Secondary School teacher used to say.
Zimbabwe is well and truly stuck in this economic and political mess. 43
years after independence and the country is economic ruins, the four decades of
Zanu PF gross mismanagement and rampant corruption have all but crippled the
country’s once promising economy. We are stuck with the corrupt and tyrannical
Zanu PF regime because the opposition, the men and women the nation had
entrusted the task of implementing the democratic reforms and end the Zanu PF
dictatorship have proven to be corrupt, hopelessly incompetent and thus utterly
useless.
Nelson Chamisa and his MDC/CCC friends live in their own cloud cuckoo land
in which evidence, facts, truth and reality count for nothing. What matters in
cloud cuckoo land is what Chamisa says!
“CONGRATULATIONS FELLOW CITIZENS…IN ONE YEAR, YOU HAVE EXCELLED. Change
Champions, you moved mountains. Because #Godisinit you Won 19/28 MPs, 89/149
Councillors in by elections. THANK YOU;
-For your solidarity & support.
-For believing and supporting us against all odds. #ANewGreatZimbabwe loading.
Thank you Our God in Heaven. You are so faithful!
We aim to #WinBig to seal the Presidency. 2/3 in Parly, & choose
both speaker of Parliament and President of Senate. We must attain a majority
in local authorities. Citizens, let’s do it again! Come, #Thistime let us make
it happen Big! #Onepeople,” said Chamisa in his latest Twitter.
CCC members call themselves “change champions” and Chamisa is “Change
Champion in Chief” and yet MDC/CCC has failed to bring about even one
democratic change in 23 years, 5 of which in the GNU. In cloud cuckoo land
historic facts count for nothing.
Chamisa keeps boasting about CCC as new political party when all he did
was rebrand MDC Alliance. Most of the leadership positions in CCC are filled by
same individuals from MDC A and the CCC candidates in the by-elections are the
winning MDC A candidates who were booted out of the Mwonzora led MDC A.
Most worrying of all is that Chamisa and company are hell bent on
participating in these 2023 elections oblivious is the political reality that
Zanu PF is rigging these elections. Yesterday, Justice Priscila Chigumba, ZEC
chairperson, admitted the commission has failed to produce a verified voters’
roll but the elections will go ahead regardless. CCC will participate in the
elections regardless of mountain of evidence the election process is flawed and
illegal. The party will win big because Chamisa said so!
By participating in these flawed elections CCC are giving SADC the
excuse to endorse the rigged elections and grant Zanu PF legitimacy.
It is all very well for Chamisa and his fellow CCC leaders, they after
the few gravy train seats Zanu PF gives away as bite. As MP one gets US$60k for
a car and very generous salary and allowances plus the recent addition of
US$40k for a house.
Chamisa will tell the supporters Zanu PF rigged the elections, something
he has insisted would not happen, the morning after the vote. And the
wildebeest herd and the nation at large will have to live with the consequences
of yet another five more years of Zanu PF corrupt and tyrannical rule.
I, for one, am hanging my head in shamed that 43 years after
independence we, in Zimbabwe, are still failing to hold free and fair elections.
Tyrants like Mnangagwa foam and froth about white colonial oppression and yet
are the ones denying their own fellow blacks the freedoms and human rights
decades after independence.
For anyone to participate in any election without something as basic as
a verified voters’ roll, in this day and age, is as foolish still believing the
world is flat!
Zanu PF is rigging the 2023 elections. CCC sold out by failing to implement
even one reform in 23 years and are selling out by participating in these
flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy. Even the village idiots prone to
believing every word Chamisa says must know these are the irrefutable facts!
Zimbabwe is a failed state and is not just Zanu PF and their CCC
acolytes who have landed us here; we the people in our naivety have played out
part. If we participate in these flawed elections and give Zanu PF legitimacy
then we deserve to suffer and die as Zimbabwe sinks deeper and deeper into the hell-on-earth
of our own making.
It is all very well living in cloud cuckoo land and believing this CCC’s
“winning in rigged elections” oxymoronic nonsense; it comes with a price tag to
it.
24 comments:
@ Dube
“But if they want to continue receiving free political and economic stress relief sesssions through Nelson Chamisa's jokes and kindergarten games via political rallies, then they must keep clownish and clueless Chamisa as their President.
A short time in the rough Zimbabwe political arena has exposed Chamisa as a clueless charlatan, pathological liar, Shona supremacist, corrupt and lily livered leader who has a huge appetite for absolute power and dictatorship.
Unlike Job Sikhala, Tendai Biti and the late President of MDC, Morgan Tsvangirai, he commands little to zero international support. This fundamental constituency cannot be swayed by school-boy lies. They are not like poor peasants somewhere in Murewa who would clap hands and ululate at every word of deception that comes out of Chamisa's mouth. It digs deeper than CCC. That is, charisma, character and colour, to check consistency, capacity as well as reliability, qualities which Chamisa lacks.”
I total y agree with you Chamisa is clueless clown. Still, you too have no clue what you are talking about if you think Job Sihkala, Tendai Biti or any of the MDC/CCC leaders who have been in the party these last 23 years and yet have failed to implement even one meaningful change and have been participating in these flawed elections only to give Zanu PF legitimacy.
Zanu PF is rigging the 2023 elections and Chamisa and his CCC friends continue to ignore this reality convinced the party will win big. We all know that the morning after the elections they will be complaining that Zanu PF rigged the elections - as if they are only aware of that possibility.
It is insane that 43 years after independence and we are still failing to hold free and fair elections! Zanu PF is rigging and CCC pretend they will win rigged elections only to flip and admit the elections were rigged when it is too late. We really need to stop this insanity here and now!
LOCAL non governmental organisation Higher Life Foundation in conjunction with Global intercessors has started a 90-day prayer session for Africa with focus being drawn on the upcoming general elections in Zimbabwe.
The Lift up Africa campaign – an initiative that began in 2021 mainly localised in Zimbabwe – has been rolled out to all African countries in the hope of summoning divine intervention on problems be-deviling the continent.”
What is be-devilling Zimbabwe is gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and lawlessness. All these are man-made problems born of greed and the failure to think. Decades of mental inactivity have turned most of our people’s brain into useless fat.
So these buffoons should be putting their thinking caps on instead of wasting time calling for divine intervention. What do the want God to do with those too lazy to think!
@ TG
“Chamisa knows very well that no rigging happens during elections.”
Actually, one minute Chamisa says the elections are free and fair and he is going to win. The next minute he says Zanu PF is rigging but he has “winning in rigged elections (WIRE) strategies”. Either way, he is winning big.
The morning after the voting, one of Chamisa’s lieutenants will announce Chamisa landslide victory. The official result will show Chamisa lost kicking off the claims of Zanu PF stealing the elections. The idiots now pretend they never boasted about the WIRE strategies.
The important thing here is that even the village idiots will know this time that CCC are participating in these elections out of greed, they have no political credibility. An opposition with zero political credibility will not give the election process zero credibility and the winner, Zanu PF zero legitimacy.
Nelson Chamisa is just another Abel Muzorewa, as you know, he failed to give Ian Smith legitimacy in 1979. Watch this space!
In his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe, David Coltart confessed four key points regarding MDC’s continued participation in flawed 2013 elections:
1) The elections were so flawed the only rational thing to do was to boycott them
2) They participated because they could not agree on forming a coalition
3) That participating gave SADC the excuse to grant Zanu PF legitimacy
4) They participated out of greed
5) Coltart did not even mention in his book, MDC leaders failed to implement even one reform during the five years of GNU because of greed. It was no surprising therefore that greed got the better of them in the post GNU era.
The failure to form a coalition was just a feeble excuse for failing to do the obvious thing, boycott the flawed elections. This was an individual decision and not one would expect a unanimous consensus. Besides four of the main MDC factions did form a coalition in 2018 and still they participated in that year’s elections without even discussing the boycott. Greed got the better of them again.
Mnangagwa’s failure to revive the economy have left the people desperate for change and he knows that he has to pull all the vote rigging stops to win. The 2023 elections are more flawed and illegal than ever and the rational to boycott more obvious and urgent than ever. Chamisa and company are hell bent on participating because for them greed trumps over reason any day.
The challenge is to make sure “even the village idiots”, as you said, know Zanu PF is rigging these elections and CCC are participating out of greed. This will make it very difficult for SADC leaders to endorse the elections and grant Zanu PF legitimacy. This is a difficult task but not mission impossible!
@ Sheunopa Mutsikiwa
“Not participating in elections is not solving Zimbabwe's problems. This is a fact.”
Let’s start the beginning, a good place to start.
We start with “Elections must be free, fair and credible!” and then laid down the rules to make this possible. Who is eligible to vote, established the body tasked to produce the voters’ roll, etc., etc.
Now, let’s are consider the possibility that elections are rigged, indeed the whole purpose of laying down the rules was to stop this possibility. So, despite our best intentions, the elections are rigged. What then?
Well, there must be many options ranging from confronting the relevant officials responsible for the broken rules with the evidence and demanding an explanation. If the officials ignore you, you take it up with higher authority, the courts for example. If you have taken it to the highest authority in the land and still you get no joy, what then?
Surely it makes sense to stop participating in an election process so flawed and illegal not even getting 73% of the vote is good enough to win; more so when participating only gives the vote rigging party legitimacy!
Of course, boycotting the elections is one recourse in rigged elections and only a fool will take it off the table. If those rigging the elections know in advance that you will participate and give them legitimacy no matter how flawed the process got, why would they risk losing by adhering to the rules?
Zanu PF knows that CCC will participate in these flawed elections no matter how flawed the process gets because the know Chamisa and company are greed. Zanu PF is giving away a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition to participate, the winners get US$60k for a car, very generous salary and allowances and Mnangagwa has just added US$40 k for a house and for the losers there is the POLAD freebies.
Chamisa and company are participating in these flawed elections not because of some idiotic, “Not participating in elections is not solving Zimbabwe's problems!” notion. They are participating because greed has trumped reason! You don’t believe me! Then read David Coltart’s book for yourself (assuming you can read much less understand)!
Zanu PF has deregistered over 200 NGOs!
Zanu PF is rigging the 2023 elections and yet CCC still insist in participating claiming the party will win big! The truth is Zanu PF knows CCC will participate no matter what because Chamisa and company are after the few gravy train seats with the winners getting US$60k for a car, very generous salary and allowances and a recent addition of US$40 k for house. Mnangagwa is even paying the losers POLAD benefits.
Not only did MDC/CCC sell out by failing to implement even one reform in 23 years, they are the ones participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuating the dictatorship and the people’s suffering; all for 30 pieces of silver!
Like it or not MDC/CCC have stopped fighting for reforms, free elections and good governance. Ever since the GNU debacle, they has been fighting in Zanu PF’s corner for a share of the spoils of power. Chamisa and company are no longer the solution, they are now an additional variable compounding the problem.
Mutambara is right that the 2018 elections were not free, fair and credible but by participating in the flawed process the opposition and the people of Zimbabwe helped to sanitise the coup and give the regime legitimacy.
The EU, Commonwealth and other international observers dismissed the 2018 elections as a farce and produced a list of recommendations that should be implemented to ensure free and fair elections. Not even one of the reforms have been implemented. Not one! And yet we are once again being argued to participate in the flawed elections!
“We should register to vote!” Register with whom? ZEC has just announced the 2023 elections are going ahead without a verified voters’ roll because the regime does not want a verified voters’ roll. And we are being told to register with the same ZEC! Fcuk me, just how stupid and irrational is that!
CCC are hell bent in participating in 2023 elections, sanitise and give Zanu PF legitimacy, just as they did in 2018 and 2013, because they are after the few gravy train seats Zanu PF is giving away. Indeed MDC leaders failed to implement even one reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU for the same reason – greed. Mutambara was deputy PM during the GNU and knows why they sold out then. Ask him!
Hupenzi inyama yegakava! Admit it was foolish participating in the 2018 elections in one breath and argue participating in the 2023 elections in the next!
The people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb to elect MDC/CCC leaders for the primary task of implementing the democratic reforms to end the curse of Zanu PF rigged elections. After 23 years, 5 of which in the GNU. the party has failed to implement even one reform. What is worse, the party has given up on reforms since the GNU debacle and has been participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy in return for a few gravy train seats.
Chamisa and company have total their naive and gullible supporters they have winning in rigged elections strategies, all hot air, to hide their greed.
After 43 years of rigged elections and with the nation in deep, deep economic and social trouble, Zimbabwe cannot afford another rigged elections followed by 5 more years of this pariah state! Zanu PF must be denied legitimacy at the end of the 2023 elections!
Zimbabwe’s repression of civil society organizations needs to stop, especially in light of the general election this year,” said Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz, deputy Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “The government needs to stop using the Private Voluntary Organization Act as a tool to silence the exercise of fundamental democratic rights.”
The Private Voluntary Organization Act is incompatible with international human rights law standards on freedom of association to which Zimbabwe is a party, such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
Paul Mavhima, the labour and social welfare minister, said that registration was withdrawn from some groups because they allegedly failed to submit audited accounts for money raised from donors, while in other cases the revocation was for national security reasons, or for allegedly straying from their mandate.
Zanu PF is rigging the 2023 elections and it has amassed many tools and strategies to get the job done. The 2008 elections caught the regime by surprise and it was forced to reveal the full extend of its vote rigging arsenal.
SADC leaders were right in tasking the 2008 to 2013 GNU to implement the democratic reforms designed to dismantle the Zanu PF vote rigging juggernaut. It is a great pity that not even one reform was implemented in five years. Mugabe bribe the corrupt and incompetent Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends and the rest is history.
Worst of all, MDC/CCC have participated in these flawed elections out of greed giving Zanu PF legitimacy. They have told their simpleton followers they have winning in rigged elections strategies, all hot air, to hide their greed.
Zimbabwe will never ever have free, fair and credible elections without first implementing the democratic reforms to take away the regime’s vast carte blanche powers.
Zanu PF has passed this VO bill knowing it will be an afront to freedom of association, useful tool in rigging the elections. The regime also knew it will get away with it because MDC/CCC will participate in the elections regardless giving the regime legitimacy.
It is ironic that MDC/CCC are now the biggest impediment to democratic change; the people have risked life and limb to elect them into power on the ticket they will deliver the democratic changes the nation was dying for!
@ Moyo
“You don’t even know what it is yourself. No one else does anyway. It’s of no use to Africa. It has brought more poverty and unnecessary strive. We don’t need it at all.”
Whatever system of government we have in Zimbabwe, it is NOT democracy. It is therefore idiotic to blame democracy for the poverty and strive!
You admit that you don't know what democracy is but are quick to blame it for Zimbabwe's problems. But then, this is to be expected from you, you are quick to judge on matters you have no clue what you are talking about!
The tragedy for Zimbabwe is that it is people like yourself Moyo who wrestled power from the whites and have ruled the country with the disastrous consequences we see today. You blame democracy, the West, anyone else but yourselves.
Madhuku and company are attention seekers and they are fighting for relevance. Ignore them!
ZEC voter registration blitz coming soon be prepared to ÷1) Register to vote for change in order to help build a new great Zimbabwe 2) Voter inspection to correct any mistakes in the voter roll.
How do you there has been a mistake in the voters' roll when ZEC has stubbornly refused to produce the roll?
In the past these last-minute voter registration blitz have worked for Zanu PF especially when the regime knows they will be no voters’ roll verification.
Zanu PF is rigging the 2023 elections and Nelson Chamisa are hell bent on participating in these flawed elections because they are after the few gravy train seats Zanu PF is offering as bait. They are keeping up the pretence they are going to win big regardless of the rigging just to hide the real reason they are participating – greed.
The morning after voting day, CCC will claim Zanu PF rigged the elections, as if they are now suddenly aware there was that possibility! It is a great pity that the people of Zimbabwe have been so naïve and, well, down right stupid to be conned into participating in flawed elections expecting a different result, even after 43 years of rigged elections. Of course, it is insane!
The army does not have the political power some people say it has! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8vnYWQYTPs
@ Chitando
"The army will never stop CCC President Nelson Chamisa to take over power if he wins this election. Those who cheat themselves that the army will stop power transfer which they also desperately need is naive. Regime change is an agenda in every sector of the society. The army is pinning hope on their newly slogan "DEFEND THE INDEPENDENCE THROUGH THE BARREL OF BALLPOINT PEN." Therefore it means the army knows voter registration is keep for power transfer nor the GUN" Jeffryson Chitando. Patriotic Papa JC speaks when things are not good for Citizens who want better change in Zimbabwe.”
Zanu PF is rigging these elections and you are lying that CCC’s mass voter registration strategy is going to overwhelm the rigging. You are hell bent on participating in these flawed elections out of greed and don’t care that your participation will give Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuate the dictatorship.
Is it not bad enough that MDC/CCC sold out by failing to implement even one reform in 23 years and now you lot are compound your treason by giving Zanu PF legitimacy. The whole nation is suffering and many will die unnecessarily because of your betrayal and greed. How I wish men and women like you had never been born!
There is no denying that SA under the successive ANC governments has dragged the nation deeper and deeper into the abyss. One positive for SA is that as long as the nation remains a democracy, holding free, fair and credible elections, they can remove corrupt and incompetent leaders. The same could not be said about Zimbabwe and hence the reason we are now up to our eyes sinking into the cesspit!
During their party congress last year ANC made a resolution “not to allow regime change in Zimbabwe”. We all know we have been stuck with this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship precisely because Zanu PF rigged elections. The very essence of free and fair elections is that the electorate hold those in power to account and, if they should so decide, remove them from office. And therefore the very notion of no regime change is an abomination making a complete mockery of democratic elections.
What right does ANC have not just interfering in Zimbabwe’s internal affairs but undermining the rule of law and the democratic will of the people of Zimbabwe. SA has successful held free and fair elections since the country’s independence in 1994 and yet is interfering to stop Zimbabwe having its first ever free, fair and credible elections. How mean is that!
The truth is ANC is preparing to impose a de facto one-party dictatorship in SA to stop the party being removed from office and is teaming up with Zanu PF, sing Zimbabwe as the template. ANC is hell bent on granting vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy in these 2023 elections and we must stop this!
@ Godfrey
“I think Chamisa is being tactical - he’s being wise here - alerting the international community that he’s going to participate under protest.
There is no international support guarantee after boycott.”
CCC is participating out of greed just as they failed to implement even one reform during the GNU - out of greed.
“MDC leaders were busy enjoying themselves during the GNU, they forgot why they were there!” one SADC diplomat told The Zimbabwe Independent soon after the rigged elections of 2013.
MDC/CCC leaders have down played their blatant betrayal in failing to implement even one reform in 23 years, indeed some even pretend they did nothing wrong. They have largely got away with it because most of the MDC wildebeest herd has no clue what the reforms are about much less how they were to be implemented. How can the herd hold the leaders to account over matters they (herd) has no clue!
The common mistake the wildebeest herd is making is to assume SADC and the international community is just as naïve and stupid as them.
If we are serious about getting SADC to stop rubber stamping rigged Zanu PF elections granting the regime legitimacy then we must show SADC and the international community that there are some Zimbabweans common sense to admit MDC sold out on reforms and to see the sheer futility of participating in flawed elections!
Higher Life Foundation (HLF), a non-governmental organisation founded by telecommunication mogul, Strive Masiiwa and his wife has embarked on a 90 days of prayer for Zimbabwe’s elections.
The programme is being done jointly with Global Intercessors, a Christian organisation.
God does not do for man, what man can do for himself!
If we want development, then we must have good governance and that means free and fair elections. Zanu PF is rigging these elections, the regime has failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters' roll for Pete's sake!
So instead of demanding reforms and free elections, we are being asked to pray! Pray for what exactly? Pray that God implement the reforms for us or pray for Him to do the thinking for us because we are too lazy to think for ourselves?
@ Muzembe
Now that they sold out what’s the way forward my brother. The elephant is still in the room. What do you suggest is the way forward?
CCC are participating in these flawed elections out of greed and they are pretending they have winning in rigged elections strategies to hide their greed and con you into participating. By participating you will give Zanu PF legitimacy.
Of course, it is insane to keep participating expecting a different result especially after 43 years of rigged elections.
The way forward is obviously to stop the insanity of participating in an election process so flawed getting 73% was not good enough to win. SADC, EU, the Americans, etc. are on record advising MDC/CCC not to participate in the flawed elections without reforms.
It is not that Zimbabweans do know the way out of this mess, they do. What has been lacking is the common sense and the political will to do it! We are too lazy to think and must and are suffering and dying for our sins!
A Zanu-PF-affiliated organisation, Forever Associates Zimbabwe (FAZ), has deployed tens of its members in Masvingo province to collect personal voter information from each rural household, raising fears of violence and intimidation.
FAZ is a registered private voluntary organisation, whose mandate on registration was to help the needy. The organisation has been working closely with members of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO).
The organisation was formed as a counter to civil society organisations (CSOs) which fight for the human rights of Zimbabweans, the same CSOs whose operations are now being targeted by the introduction of the dreaded PVO Amendment Bill.
Zaka Rural District councillor for Ward 19 (Citizens' Coalition for Change) Peter Imbayarwo told The NewsHawks that members of FAZ are moving from village to village in the district asking people about their voter information. He said if villagers refuse, they are threatened with unspecified action.
There are so many stories to prove Zanu PF is rigging the 2023 elections. What is interesting is CCC and the rest in the opposition camp are totally indifferent to the mountain of evidence the elections are flawed. They know that Zanu PF is giving away a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition to participate for the sake of political legitimacy. It was the similar bribes during the GNU that stopped Morgan Tsvangirai and company implementing even one reform in five years.
The challenge is for the ordinary Zimbabweans to open their eyes and see for themselves that MDC/CCC have given up on reforms and free elections and have settled down giving Zanu PF legitimacy regardless how flawed the elections get in return for a share of the spoils of power. The penny has been slow in dropping even after 43 years of rigged elections!
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has started restricting operations of non-governmental organisations ahead of this year's elections as fears continue to grow that it will use amendments to the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Act to close the democratic space.
The PVO Amendment Bill was passed by the National Assembly last year despite heavy criticism by opposition legislators and it is now before the Senate.
Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum executive director Musa Kika said the operating environment for NGO has of late increasingly become difficult with the government demanding a memorandum of understanding (Mou) for NGOs to access certain districts.
"The issue of MOUs in particular, is illegal; no NGO is required to have an MOU for it to access a particular district.," Kika said.
"We have received several reports from NGOs operating in different parts of the country..
Let me say it again, Zanu PF is rigging these 2023 elections and the party has so, so many ways of rigging the election, it really is naïve for anyone to argue these will be free, fair and credible elections. What is shocking, to outsiders, is CCC and the rest in the opposition camp’s indifference to the mountain of evidence Zanu PF is rigging these elections. All those familiar with Zimbabwe politics are not at all shocked by CCC’s indifference to the certainly of yet another rigged election.
Chamisa and company know that Zanu PF is giving away a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition participate in the elections no matter how flawed the process got. Zanu PF has failed to govern and decades of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and tyrannical rule has reduced the country into a failed state whose economy is in total ruins. The party will never win free elections and so has resorted to worse and worse ruthless measures to retain power. And so far has managed to get away with rigged elections by making sure the opposition participated in the elections no matter how flawed the process got to maintain the illusion Zimbabwe is a healthy multiparty democracy. Zanu PF has given away the few gravy train seats to entice the opposition – a small price to pay for legitimacy.
The people have been slow to awake to the reality MDC/CCC sold out by failing to implement reforms and is selling out by participating in flawed elections. They need to be roused out of their slumber!
@ Muzembe
“So, you are saying they must boycott and leave Zanu PF to rule us without voicing. Are you aware prior to 2000 that was the status quo what did we achieve as a nation. In my opinion the state resources will be looted at a grand scale once we have that scenario. Zimbabwe will be like mini Russia that is what ED want. We would rather fight to have a voice.”
Elections are contest governed by rules, if one side, Zanu PF, is not playing by the rules then the other side, the people, has no choice but to stop playing especially when all they are doing by participating is give the flawed process legitimacy. The corollary is equally true, the side breaking the rules will only be encouraged to break the rules if it is certain there will be no consequences for doing so.
The situation in Zimbabwe is a bit more complex because we also have a third party, the opposition, who are ostensibly fighting on the people’s corner but have in fact stopped doing so during the GNU.
The people risked life and limb to elect MDC/CCC on the understanding once in power they would implement the democratic reforms and stop Zanu PF rigging the elections. Zanu PF bribed MDC to make sure the forgot about implementing the reforms and since the GNU to make sure they participated in the flawed elections.
Some people have refused to accept that MDC/CCC have sold out; that will not change the reality nor stop people like me speaking the truth! Zanu PF is rigging these elections, CCC are participating to give Zanu PF legitimacy in the elections out of greed and CCC supporters are participating to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of stupidity.
@ Richie
“Wilbert, is there need for you to call others names just because they have different opinions to yours. I think there is no need to be emotive over other who have different viewpoints. Let’s be mature and learn to respect divergent views.”
The consequences of our failure to hold free elections are real and so why should I call the foolishness of participating to perpetuate the dictatorship anything else other than the truth and reality and not a mere opinion.
When Albert Einstein, for example, said insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result; was he being emotive or saying the truth as he saw it?
I have called the people doing the same thing, participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy for 43 years and counting “shallow, thick and slow”. What is the difference?
The madness of participating in flawed elections must be stopped and to it requires looking the tyrants in the eyes and telling them they are tyrants, looking sell outs in the eyes and telling them they are sell outs and looking VIs in the eyes and them they are village idiots! And tell them why they are tyrants, sell outs, etc.
If anyone out there thinks I am the village idiot, they free to say me to my face. I will challenge them to say why or dismiss their comment with the contempt it rightly deserves.
I will be damned if Zimbabwe is going to continue in this idiotic path of rigged elections and bad governance all because we have failed to call a spade a spade to message each other’s misplace egos! I am not obsessed with syntax, etc. either!
Chamisa and company are sell outs, it is a historic fact and not an opinion! Who will dare anyone to prove me wrong!
@ Richie
“Is it enough for you to just be saying all this on social media. Why don’t u take that giant step and go to Zim and form an civic movement organisation (or go the Mawarire way) that will tell pple not go to vote. Talking in the comfort of your house in some first world country is not good enough and won’t change anything. Kungoita ruzha chete.”
That is certainly your opinion and you are welcome to it. Given MDC, CCC, etc. are political parties who have not only achieved fcuk-off but worse still are sell outs; there is very little to recommend forming a political party as a solution. You can go ahead and form your own party or join one of the 130 existing parties.
I have said participating in these flawed elections is a foolish idea and I don’t need a political party to say it. And so I will say it, from the comfort of my home. I don’t really care whether you like it or not. I don’t ask you where you live, it is none of my business.
What I will never tire of telling you is participating in these flawed elections or encouraging others to do so is foolishness personified! If you don’t like to hear the truth then get out of the political kitchen!
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