“How dare you speak against CAB4 and against Zimbabwe becoming a kingdom and having a king of our own?”
Zimbabwe is NOT a democratic republic. Zimbabwe has never ever held free, fair and credible elections - one of the key requirements in an healthy and functioning democracy. Never ever!
The nearest the nation has ever got to holding free, fair and credible elections was in the March 2008 elections. SADC had forced Zanu PF to accept a number of electoral reforms such as that vote counting was to take place at each Polling Station and the results, witnessed all present, posted for the public to see.
When Mnangagwa and Chiwenga realise that Zanu PF was heading for electoral defeat, they launched operation Mavhotera Papi to wrestle power from MDC and, more significantly, to punish the people for having dared to reject Zanu PF!
Zimbabwe is and has always been a de facto one party - Zanu PF - dictatorship.
Mugabe ruled from 1980 to 2017 because the regime rigged elections. Mnangagwa took over following the 2017 military coup, the ordinary people had no democratic say in that. Mnangagwa has rigged the 2018 and 2023 elections to extend his stay in office. He has rigged CAB3 to extend his rule beyond the 10 years maximum stipulated in the constitution.
CAB4 is meant to abolish all pretence Zimbabwe is a democratic republic, abolish the now meaningless ritual of rigged elections, and impose a kingdom and a king. Zimbabwe is a de facto one party dictatorship already CAB4 will make it a de jure one party dictatorship.
Zimbabwe has dictatorship and a dictator masquerading as a republic with and elected president; CAB4 will allow the dictatorship/dictator to transition to kingdom/king!
I am daring to oppose CAB4 publicly and proud of it because that is in Zimbabwe’s national interest. Zimbabwe is a failed state and the root cause of that because Zimbabwe is a de facto one party dictatorship. Ending the dictatorship and alleviating the people’s suffering and ending economic and political mess is the number one national priority.
Only an idiot would ignore the reality we have a dictatorship/dictator under the foolish delusion that calling Zimbabwe a kingdom with a king is panacea to all the problems brought on by the failed state!
Mnangagwa is a buffoon with a well documented track record as corrupt, incompetent and a murderous thug whose hunger for absolute power and looted wealth is insatiable he will do anything, rig elections and even kill. Only a village idiot would aid and abet a system designed to rob the people their fundamental rights and freedoms to help such a buffoon become king!
Even if the person who will be king is unknown still it would be foolish to rob the ordinary people their fundamental rights and freedoms including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country on the idiotic grounds that the ordinary person did not have any of those rights and freedoms in King Munhumutapa’s days and yet it was successful.
The very fact that the kingdom did collapse living behind such monuments as the Zimbabwe Ruins is proof the system had its strengths and weakness too. To make a big song and dance of its successes and say nothing about its weaknesses is dishonest and foolish.
This is the 21st century and our greatness as a nation will be defined by whether or not we devise a policy system that delivered peace, justice and economic prosperity to all Zimbabweans. And to back CAB4 knowing fully well it will turn Zimbabwe from a de facto one party dictatorship into a de jure, from the frying pan into the fire, is foolish. I am not a idiot are am daring to say so!
Mnangagwa believes CAB3 is done and dusted and so can move on to CAB4! CAB3 is not done and dusted. CAB3 is null and void. 2028 presidential and parliamentary elections must go ahead and, this time, they better be free, fair and credible!
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When all those advocating for CAB4 and against it, etc. are quiet the question that must be asked is whether any of their proposed changes will have any bearing on the bottom line - will the proposals change the lives of the 49.2% living in extreme poverty? I listened to arguments from most of the speakers and it was just noise from stupid people.
Zimbabwe has a lot of very stupid people.
Indeed it is not by accident that Zimbabwe is a failed state with 49.2% of our people living in poverty. We have travelled down this road for the last 46 years. Listening to the sheer stupidity of some of the speakers explains not only why we are a failed state but, more significantly, why we are doomed to remain a failed state for generations to come giving the depth of the stupidity!
God! We really have some stupid, stupid people out there!
Carlo Maria Cipolla was right about there being stupid people even where including amongst the well educated and professionals, most of the speakers in the above discussion were well educated and professionals but their stupidity was like hot chilli, nothing else mattered!