“It will not be the start or the end of the world if Zambia’s President Haikainde Hichilema does not attend tomorrow’s inauguration,” stated Professor Jonathan Moyo in his recent article.
“Whether President Hakainde Hichilema attends the inauguration tomorrow is entirely up to him, no big deal. The proposition that the inauguration will have no legitimacy if he does not attend is wholly absurd and preposterous.
“The Zambian President is only that, the President of the Republic of Zambia. He is not the President of SADC, not even the President of SADC's Organ Troika on Politics, Defence and Security, but only the current Chairperson of the Organ.
Yes, of course, it will not be the start or end of the world if President Hichilema do or does not attend President Mnangagwa’s swearing-in ceremony. Only a fool would suggest otherwise.
Indeed, it will not matter one bit if all or none of the other SADC leaders attend the ceremony.
“It's now an open public secret that, as the Chairperson of the Organ, President Hichilema appointed Dr Nevers Mumba in bad faith to head the SADC Election Observation Mission [SEOM] which made an outrageous Preliminary Statement on Zimbabwe's 2023 harmonised general election which is full of untested hearsay, has an inconclusive conclusion, which is not supported by the statement's hearsay narrative, and makes recommendations that are not in any way related to its scurrilous conclusion,” continued Professor Moyo, finally getting to the meat of his bitterness against President Hichilema.
Professor Jonathan Moyo has been fuming and frothing about the SEOM’s report ever since its release. The report state obvious things like the failure by ZEC to produce something even as basic as a verified voters’ roll, the widespread intimidation, etc.
SADC had known about all these flaws and illegalities all along and hence the reason why the regional body wanted Zimbabwe’s 2013 elections postponed until the reforms addressing these concerns were implemented. Sadly, Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC leaders ignored the warning and participated in the 2013 elections with no reforms.
Zanu PF went on to rig the 2013 elections and SADC, in sheer despair, went on to grant the vote rigging Zanu PF political legitimacy.
Initially, Tsvangirai and company vowed they would not participate in future elections without first implementing the reforms. Greed got the better of them and they participated in the 2018 elections with not even a token reform in place. SADC, once again turned a blind eye to all the glaring flaws and illegalities and granted Zanu PF legitimacy.
Nelson Chamisa and his CCC friend and the rest of the opposition decided to participate in these 2023 elections knowing fully well the process is flawed, “so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw”, as David Coltart, CCC Treasurer General and soon to be crowned Mayor of Bulawayo, admitted in his book. They also knew participating would give Zanu PF legitimacy. And still they soldiered on for the same reasons they had failed to implement even one reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU - greed and breath-taking incompetence.
Professor Jonathan Moyo, President Mnangagwa and many in the SADC region including Chamisa and his CCC friends, expected Dr Nevers Mumba and his fellow SEOM members to follow the now well trodden path of seeing no evil, hearing no evil and saying no evil and thus endorse the 2023 as “substantially free and fair”.
SEOM condemned the elections as flawed and illegal and, per se, cannot produce a legitimate government was totally unexpected. Everyone knew the process is flawed and illegal and SEOM was supposed to ignore it!
Well the die has been cast, the gene is out of the bottle, SADC’s own election team has admitted the elections were flawed and illegal; the truth is out and it cannot be denied or put back in the bottle. Many wanted Zanu PF to continue rigging the elections and granted legitimacy regardless for their own selfish reasons.
For Zanu PF rigging the elections was the only sure way for the regime to retain its iron grip on power. After 43 years of enjoying absolute power and all the benefits that brings Mnangagwa and company are addicted to power, giving it up has become unthinkable.
For Nelson Chamisa and his MDC/CCC friends they failed to implement even one reform during the GNU. They have since given up on reforms and settled for participating in flawed elections for whatever spoils of power they can force from Zanu PF. Zanu PF has had to given up some gravy train seats to entice the opposition to participate for the sake of getting some political legitimacy.
SA’s ANC ruling party vowed to grant vote rigging Zanu PF political legitimacy to ensure there is no regime change in Zimbabwe. ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula, like Professor Jonathan Moyo have accused President Hichilema and those seeking free, fair and credible elections in Zimbabwe of seeking regime change for the purpose of removing Zanu PF and all liberation war founded party from office. Of course this is nonsense.
The idea that Zanu PF in Zimbabwe or ANC in SA, etc. have a divine right to rig elections to guarantee their stay in right is what is “wholly absurd and preposterous”! The people of Zimbabwe’s right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country is the supreme right here that must never ever be compromised or curtailed.
The right thing for President Hichilema, the rest of the SADC leaders and Zimbabwe’s own corrupt and incompetent opposition to do is stand up for the rule of law and the common people’s right to free and fair elections and refuse to attend Mnangagwa’s inauguration. Even if President Hichilema and a few others leaders attend the ceremony, the Mnangagwa presidency is still illegitimate!
Zimbabwe is a failed state, after 43 years of being stuck with this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF regime complete with its entourage of corrupt and utterly useless opposition parties, the country is desperate for a way out of this hell-hole. Stopping Zanu PF rigging the elections is the key to getting out of this hell.
Dr Mumba’s report has forced SADC to face up the reality that Zanu PF has stayed in power these last 43 years by rigging elections. Denying Zanu PF legitimacy following the rigged 23 August elections will force Zimbabwe into a new GNU so the democratic reforms, which should have been implemented in the 2008 to 2013 GNU, can finally be implemented.
How can implementing the reforms to guarantee free, fair and credible and thus cure ourselves of the curse of rigged elections and bad governance be a bad thing? Indeed, defending Dr Nevers Mumba’s SEOM report is the only thing worth dying for right now!
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Citizens in Namibia urge elected members of parliament and councilors in recent flawed elections to avert the temptation to defy the clarion call by the organic party to campaign for a fresh plebiscite. It is public knowledge that taking part in Parliament and Councils is tantamount to endorsing the illegitimate president who subverted the will of the citizenry.
CCC Namibia emphasizes that the pragmatic party is pro-poor hence the dire need to embrace social liberation policies. MPs and Councillors should speak audibly pronouncing the illegitimacy of Mr. Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa and his cabal. Citizens’ members of parliament must not accept a swearing-in ceremony administered by an unconstitutional president based on the scientific findings of the SADC Observer Mission, AU, Carter, EU, ZESN, ERC, etc. The various observer missions noted intimidation of voters by FAZ, suppression of the vote in Harare, Bulawayo, and Manicaland, abuse of the Constitution and the electoral law as well as the SADC principles and guidelines on democratic elections.
This is one call that will fall on deaf ears! These opposition candidate knew the election was flawed and that participating will give Zanu PF legitimacy and still they were hell bent to participate out of greed. Whilst those who failed to win the few gravy train seat are supporting the call for boycott and fresh elections those who did win the gravy train seats will not want to risk losing the seat!
CCC participated in these elections knowing the elections are flawed and illegal and that participating will give Zanu PF legitimacy. Still they participated out of greed, those who did win the few gravy train seats will never agree to boycotting and losing the seats. Never!
https://www.zimeye.net/2023/09/04/boycott-parliament-ccc-mps-told/
@ John Jemwa
“MDC failed ok. What are you doing yourself as a zimbabwean to implement those reforms except making noice on this group.”
A year ago many village idiots like you would not even admit MDC failed! That is progress! Now I have to hammer in the next bit, that CCC has failed! Educating the country's naive and gullible electorate is my greatest contribution to ending the nightmare of the failed state in Zimbabwe.
As long as the country has village idiots like you who think leaders are infallible and must not be held to account nothing will change in Zimbabwe.
Chamisa dragged the nation into these flawed elections insisting he had plugged the vote rigging holes and now it is clear he was lying. Instead of holding him to account you fuming at those who are doing so! This is the foolishness that is holding the nation back.
@ Zimbabwe +91 701 6229503
This is a well known Zanu PF tactic if you cannot address the message attack the messenger. In this case you are willing to make malicious accusation to blacken my name.
If I am a criminal then report me to the relevant authorities so they can investigate and establish the facts. You cannot be the accuser, investigator, judge and jury.
If I have been convicted of the crimes then let us have the evidence.
If you are so sure of your allegation then reveal yourself. You cannot hide behind a social media assumed name and think you will get away with it. The mobile number belongs to a real person!
There are those hell bent on stifling debate and democratic discourse by hook or by crook. They are the real enemy of progress, wolves in sheep clothing, and they must and will be flushed out.
@ Chagamire Dombo +27 62719 9834
“Iwe imbonyarara dzepolitics tiudze kuti pawakabata chibharo uchishanda paZesa Sherwood yakapera sei.”
Again, I suggest you send the details to the relevant authorities and let them handle it. The trouble with thugs like you is have no respect of the rule of law. A person is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
You do not want Chamisa criticised and held to account and so you are hell bent to silence me by hook or by crook. Just remember blackmail and making false allegations to tannish some one’s name are very serious crimes!
Only 3 out of 16 SADC heads attended Mnangagwa's inauguration. The regional body cannot ignore the reality of its own election observer mission report. The report said the elections were flawed and illegal and could not, per se, produce a legal government.
This Mnangagwa government is illegitimate!
The nation now await to see if our corrupt and incompetent opposition will side with Mnangagwa and take up their seats in parliament! They participated in the flawed elections out of greed and now that SADC has condemned the process will Chamisa and company's greed force them to cross the red line SADC has drawn?
https://www.zimeye.net/2023/09/04/its-an-open-public-secret/
@ Brim Civl
You jumped the gun! MDC had the golden chance to implement the democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections during the GNU. Why did they fail to implement even one reform in five years?
Today 4 September 2023 Zimbabwe has just entered a dark nd uncertain period: we have no legitimate government.
SADC election observer mission said the 23 August 2023 elections were flawed and illegal and, per se, could not produce a legitimate government. This Mnangagwa regime is illegitimate and no wonder many SADC leaders boycotted the inauguration.
What next? The sell out corrupt and incompetent CCC must be pressured to ensure they do not dare cross the SADC and AU red line by taking their seats in parliament to give Zanu PF some modicum of legitimacy. CCC must not be allowed to sell out again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlbyTWzhAzY
@ Shumba Murambwi
“These MPs don’t owe CCC or Chamisa anything. They funded their own campaigns and it will be a shame if they dont take their seats in Parliament. Am sure they will defy Chamisa, SADC yacho and CCC and will be sworn.”
MDC/CCC leaders are corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent and their track record says it all. Zimbabwe would not still be in this mess if they had not sold out and implemented the democratic reforms during the GNU. They have been participating in these flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. They told their wildebeest herd followers they had winning in rigged elections strategies - all bull s***t to hide their greed.
The nation has never held MDC/CCC leaders to democratic account, this is about to change. Watch this space! These sell out don’t owe Chamisa anything but the owe the nation everything. The age of selling out and getting away with it is over!
@ Uncle Bee
“If CCC did not go into these elections how were all the rigging going to be exposed. I salute the CCC because without these elections there was going to be no SADC report. Thank you CCC for defying all the odds and went to these elections now we have the SADC report that has exposed the satanists.”
MDC/CCC leaders have failed to implement even one token reform in 23 years, including the 5 in the 2008 to 2013 GNU. After the GNU debacle they have participated in flawed elections knowing fully well that Zanu PF would rig and win and their participation will only give Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuating the dictatorship.
Still they soldiered on and participated because they also knew that Zanu PF was giving away a few gravy train seats plus the POLAD freebies to entice the opposition to participate no matter what.
Leaders like Biti and Coltart have tried to convince their fellow MDC/CCC friends on the sheer folly of participating in these flawed elections but no one would buy it. Greed had the better of the opposition leaders.
“The (2013) electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility,” confessed David Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe.
For anyone therefore to be wittering about MDC/CCC failing to implement the reforms and putting an end to this curse of rigged elections for 23 years so “they could participate in flawed elections to expose the rigging” only goes to show just how shallow, thick and slow they are!
So, to follow your logic, we are no longer interested in implementing reforms, free elections and ending the dictatorship but giving the dictatorship legitimacy so we can expose its vote rigging. How anyone can be so shallow, thick and slow beggars belief! No wonder Zimbabwe is a failed state!
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