“Zanu PF now has the two thirds majority it craved in parliament after the party won all six by-elections held Saturday, triggered by the recalls on CCC MPs by Sengezo Tshabangu. Zanu PF needed to win just 3. It now has 190 seats in 280-member National Assembly,” is the news the nation had dreaded to hear but knew was coming.
Chamisa and company participated in the 2023 elections knowing fully well that Zanu PF was rigging the process and that participating would give the regime legitimacy. They participated regardless because they also knew that regime would give away a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition to participate and thus maintain the facade Zimbabwe is a healthy multi-party democracy. Chamisa and company went to town to deny they were participating out of greed.
Chamisa claimed CCC would win big because he had “plugged all the Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes!”
Zanu PF won the majority of the seats in parliament and the presidency. All the election observers including SADC, AU and even Zimbabwe’s own ZHRC condemned the 23 August 2023 elections as flawed and illegal. This did not stop CCC members claiming their seats and thus defying SADC and AU to give the process legitimacy.
“CCC has stopped Zanu PF getting 2/3 majority!” was the party’s excuse for participating in the flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy.
Now Zanu PF has achieved the 2/3 majority thanks to the dog-eat-dog factional fighting in CCC. What will be the party’s excuse for participating in these flawed and illegal elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy?
The dog-eat-dog CCC factional war has now gone into overdrive following Nelson Chamisa’s resignation as party president on 24 January; there will be CCC MPs, senators and councillors will resign/recalled. Zanu PF will end up with a super majority in parliament and senate. God only knows what mischief the regime will do with the super majority! What feeble excuses will the opposition offer for getting the nation into this mess!
One thing is now certain, there will be no meaningful democratic reforms implemented in the coming four years and so the 2028 elections will be a repeat of the 2023 elections. Zanu PF will blatantly rig the elections and the CCC faction(s) will participate to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. What a nightmare!
12 comments:
@ Arthur Mntungwa
“Wilbert Mukori is the best foot forward!!”
For once, I have to agree with you. Just getting you to accepting that Chamisa or any one of the other MDC/CCC leaders are NOT the best foot forward for Zimbabwe because they have proven to be corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent a great achievement.
Any one who has had the common sense to realise that MDC leaders are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless is certainly qualified to lead the country. I am one of the few Zimbabweans who have not only realised that MDC leaders are not to the task during the GNU but have had the courage to face the hostility of Zimbabwe mob to say it.
Nelson Chamisa insisted on participating in the flawed 2023 elections claiming CCC would win big because he "had plugged all Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes." He was lying!
The elections was so flawed and illegal SADC. AU and even Zimbabwe's own election observers ZHRC condemned the process as a farce. CCC's spin doctors said CCC participated "to stop Zanu PF getting 2/3 majority". Now we know the regime has managed to get the 2/3 majority and may go on to get a super majority. What will the spin doctors say now?????
@ Wezhira Munya
“Tshabangu, Biti and Ncube's CCC gives Zanu-PF two-thirds parliamentary majority.”
How naive! Was it not Chamisa who insisted in participating in these flawed elections claiming CCC will win big because he "had plugged Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes"? Now it turns out that he was not only lying about stopping Zanu PF rigging but had failed to flush out Zanu PF agents within his own party. CCC is imploding and you blame everyone else except Chamisa - Chamisa is infallible and per se incapable of doing anything wrong.
Chamisa is not only a fallible mortal but one who has already proven to be corrupt and incompetent. You can continue to bury your head in the sand that will not change the reality.
Even after MDC/CCC leaders failing to implement even one reform in 23 years, 5 in the GNU; the penny has to dropped that they are not up to the task of implementing reforms. With such naive and gullible voters it is no wonder the country is a failed state!
@ Sellaz
“Iye Chamisa anoti iye chete ndiye anodiwa naMwari munyika ino.”
Chamisa is taking advantage of the fact Zimbabweans are some of the most naive, ignorant and gullible people on earth. They believe anything even some of the most oxymoronic nonsense!
God does not do what man can do for himself. To ask God to help CCC win rigged elections is an extreme oxymoronic case of putting God to the test! The very fact that many Zimbabwe have believed Chamisa’s “God is in it!” claims again and again goes to show just how shallow, thick and slow Zimbabweans are!
Instead of believing in these CCC winning in rigged elections strategies, any one with half a brain would be demanding to know why these nincompoops have failed to implement even one token reform these last 23 years, including 5 in the GNU!
@ Kuntakinte
"Panotangira kupererwa nemazano ndipo ipapa tsveee kuronga kuti toitasei kuti vana ve Zimbabwe vararame zvakanaka munyika basa kusvero kungoti chamisa that and that zvirikubatsira chiii izvozvo."
Chamisa did mislead the nation into participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy, that is a fact you do not want said. It5 must be said if we are ever going to stop this insanity! Chamisa is corrupt and incompetent and to pretend he is otherwise is what got us into this mess! This must be stopped here and now!
@ Kennedy
“But why they do not believe in you the most brilliant smartest and the cleverest of them all.”
Ask yourself what kind of person would believe a blatant lie like “I have plugged all the Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes” when they know Chamisa has failed to ensure there is something as basic as a verified voters’ roll? Would you expect such a nincompoop to do anything else but elect a village idiot!
CCC spin doctors justified the party's participation in the flawed and illegal 23 August 2023 elections on the grounds the party "stopped Zanu PF having 2/3 majority". Thanks to the dog-eat-dog factional war within the CCC party born out by the confusion of having no constitution, structure and elected officials, the party has since delivered the 2/3 majority to Zanu PF in a silver platter.
What the devil are we going to do now to stop Zanu PF rigging the 2028 elections?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i9-Lzxxzoo
@ J Moyo
Gift Ostallos Siziva and Amos Chibaya had a torrid time this afternoon in Manicaland when they were told off by a charged crowd; in their ill-fated push for Nelson Chamisa's latest solo campaign to form yet another structureless movement; after he ditched and ran away from his CCC in January.
In the ill-tempered meeting, Ostallos and Chibaya were told in no uncertain terms that its them who caused divisions in the province; and that the contamination [infiltration of CCC] that Chamisa complained about when he abruptly quit his CCC without notice last month, is in fact at the top, and not among the grassroots; and that the touted, yet another 'new', movement Chamisa wants to hurriedly form with no structures and no positions will have the same contaminated top that has left CCC with Chamisa!
One of the consequences of the failure to value facts, truth and reality is that individual(s) is destined to repeat the same mistakes and always blunder from pillar to post. Nelson Chamisa and his wildebeest herd followers have refused to accept that having a party with no constitution, structure and elected officials will create more problems for the party than it solved.
Indeed, the lack off constitution, structure and elected officials did not solve the A1 problem - stop infiltration - it was supposed to prevent. The recall of elected officials that has caused so much chaos and confusion in the party was caused by one Sengezo Tshabangu whom Chamisa and many in the party say is an imposter. The party failed to prove in a Court of Law that Tshabangu was indeed an imposter without a constitution, etc.
Chamisa insisted CCC was a democratic party and yet refused to build the basic democratic pillars on which the party was to stand. The party was NOT a democratic party and we should not be surprised it has all but collapsed.
It would be very foolish indeed for Zimbabweans to join Chamisa or anyone's political party without with no strong democratic foundations. It will show they have learned nothing from the collapse of CCC.
Sometime we arrive at the destination by the route we take to avoid it!
Mzembi writes:
"So many theories are being thrown around as to what may have led to Cde Chris Mutsvangwa's abrupt dismissal by President Mnangagwa. I proffer my own based on what led to his dismissal by Mugabe in 2016.
"It's simply that Chris is ungovernable and does not submit to the authority of anyone let alone the collectivity of cabinet and the President. He is an all knowing man of many words who does not know when to mute himself.
"On several occasions inside Cabinet in 2016 , he would take on Mugabe to an embarrassing point where Mnangagwa himself then Vice-President would be the only one able to silence him with the strongest rebuke and I quote his bellow: 'Chris, Chris I said shut up, shut up Chris, i am your commander Chris I order you to shut up!'
"At this point Chris would pack his cabinet file and leave in a huff! Mugabe believed in the superiority of ideas and would allow exhaustive debate on any item, but our brother Chris knowing it all, would roughshod over everyone at which point Mugabe would come in to exercise his authority as chairman to restore order & decorum and the Minister of War Veterans would refuse to recognise that authority. Disagreements were mainly around the agency he seemed to carry over Chinese Investments which would often blind his judgement.
I can find it in me to believe everything else Mzembi has said here expect “Mugabe believed in the superiority of ideas and would allow exhaustive debate on any item!” That is surely a lie!
Mugabe has stifle public debate and democratic discourse and party and national levels because he was a little man whose inferiorities complex made him a control freak who feared any form of competition in case some one else should prove that they are better than him.
Indeed, it was a well known fact that Mugabe never allowed any of his cabinet members to have any meaningful control over any thing, he had to play a part in everything or nothing will happen. It is no exaggeration that to keep one’s job one had to “dial down”. Mugabe went out of his way to promote those loyal to him regardless who incompetent they happened to be - indeed being incompetent was an added advantage as far as Mugabe was concerned.
If Mugabe really believed in the superiority of ideas would he have promoted the likes of Simon Muzenda, Joice Mujuru and Emmerson Mnangagwa. He promoted the deadwood and then used them as the excuse for hanging on to power. “There is no one competent to take over if I step down!” he claimed!
@ Seal
“Who benefited from all this chaos those are the culprits🔥 decades of watching illuminati👉🏽 always follow the money trail. Who allowed it to happen Chamisa whether by design or not. Was he paid to step aside in a sophisticated way🤷🏽♂️. Remaining CCC are not hidden at least they shown their hand. Who is the biggest loser its the Electorate ordinary Zimbabweans who been denied choice no democracy. A fresh 3rd party is needed but the same greedy sellouts will rush to be part if it. One party state Zim, NK, China, Russia, Venezuela & Cuba. They all better than Somalia🤡 no government.”
Exactly! Who is to blame for the infighting in CCC is important to Chamisa and his friends but not to the ordinary Zimbabweans who have to face the tragic consequences of the continued Zanu PF failed state. The prospect of Zanu PF rigging the 2028 elections and thus perpetuating the dictatorship and the tragic human suffering is weighing down the nation like a tonne of bricks!
“Army should be part of the national dialogue!”
This is an analysis based on selecting historic facts and putting these facts in the wrong order to suit one's narrative.
It was not the Army that imposed itself on Zanu PF but rather it was Mugabe who coopted the Army to join the party. It was Mugabe who formed the Junta, the Joint Operation Command composed of the top brass in the Army, Police, CIO and Prison Services plus a few others headed by Mugabe himself and Mnangagwa was his deputy. The junta came to its on in wrestling political power from Tsvangirai in the 2008 elections. It was the Junta that carried out the heavy lifting in Operation Mavhotera Papi.
Mugabe rewarded the top brass in the Junta by granting them the licence to loop diamond mining concessions over and above the generous salaries and allowance they had always received ever since the country’s independence. Zimbabwe has always had a bloated security services and Mugabe has spared no expense to pamper the top brass.
Even then, it must be said that the Junta played no part in stopping Zanu PF and/or MDC implemented the democratic reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. The military coup of 2017 was a consequence of the failure to implement the reforms and break the corrupting influence of Zanu PF in the Army.
Some people have even argued that the Army, even the coup plotters, stopped the GNU implementing the democratic reforms - there is no evidence to support this.
Zimbabwe’s soldiers have been praised for their professionalism in the 1980s and 1990s before the rot of the Junta set in. Given a chance the professionalism can be restored! Other than the top brass in Junta the rest of the rank and file are not benefiting from the looting of resource and will welcome the return of law and order and political and economic stability.
Nelson Chamisa and his CCC friends have been participating in these flawed elections claiming they had winning in rigged elections strategies. "MDC A has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the 2018 elections,"said Chamisa. He did not say what those stringent measures were nor did he bother to apologise for misleading the voters when Zanu PF went on to blatantly rig the elections.
Last year, 2023, he made similar outrageous claims of CCC winning big because he had "plugged all Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes!" Zimbabwe did not even have something as basic as verified voters' roll and CCC failed to deploy election agents at all the polling stations even thou the party had received the funds for it!
Nelson Chamisa and his MDC/CCC friends have a proven track record as corrupt and incompetent going back to the 2008 to 2013 GNU. How anyone can still say Chamisa is the best foot forward for the nation beggars belief. With citizens this ignorant, and naive it is little wonder Zimbabwe is a failed state and, at this rate, has no hope of ever digging ourselves out of this hell-on-earth we have dragged ourselves into!
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