tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937946029621043741.post3736607715377222076..comments2024-03-28T06:47:08.000-07:00Comments on Zimbabwe Light: Desperation is no excuse for electing failed leaders - we must learn from the past. By Nomusa GarikaiZimbabwe Lighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937946029621043741.post-60930117423299220822016-10-07T05:54:49.022-07:002016-10-07T05:54:49.022-07:00@ Bigboy
Get real my friend! Mugabe has been in p...@ Bigboy<br /><br />Get real my friend! Mugabe has been in power for the last 36 years who has stopped him showing that he is committed to "good governance"? All he has done in those 36 years is undermine the institutions we need for good governance to create this de facto one-party cum one-man dictatorship. <br /><br />At the core of the dictatorship is the ethos that the dictator is the only one to be trusted to lead. We are in this economic and political mess because of 36 years of misrule by none other than Mugabe but when it comes to how should lead us out of the mess, Mugabe has Bigboy's vote. <br /><br />At the core of democratic rule is the ethos that no one has the monopoly of knowledge and therefore the right to rule; the people, in a free, fair and credible election should decide who will govern. <br /><br />Mugabe's no-regime-change mantra can only be achieved by denying the people their basic freedoms and rights including the right to a free and meaningful vote. Mugabe has claimed that all Zimbabwe's past elections were free and fair that is a nonsense because it is impossible to impose his no-regime-change mantra and still have free and fair elections. <br /><br />The democratic reforms are designed to dismantle the dictatorship and thus end the no-regime-change setting. Mugabe can throw his hat in the next elections and you Bigboy can give him your vote if you so wish but the rest of the people must be free to vote whosoever they wish. <br /><br />In other words the fight is not to stop Mugabe contesting in future elections but to stop him rigging future elections to impose his no-regime-change mantra! Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937946029621043741.post-91706345672120504472016-10-07T05:18:06.006-07:002016-10-07T05:18:06.006-07:00The people of Zimbabwe are in a truly intolerable ...The people of Zimbabwe are in a truly intolerable situation here caught as they are between Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs whose misrule have left millions desperately poor and yet powerless to extricate themselves out of the situation because Mugabe has commandeered the vast diamond wealth to bankroll his satanic scheme to stay in power at all cost. The situation has become so intolerable that the people are seeing Tsvangirai and Mujuru as their saviours when all the two care about is how to get back on the gravy train. They do not care about the suffering masses and have never cared.<br /><br />It is tempting to see Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs as the people's public enemy number one are they are but that does not make Tsvangirai and Mujuru the people's friends. The later are the people's public enemy number two. Mugabe is nothing more than the hyena aggressively digging one end of the rabbit's burrow as posing immediate danger to rabbit. Tsvangirai and Mujuru are the wolves guarding the rabbit's bolt-holes, only a naive baby rabbit that has never encountered the wolf would see the wolf as a friend. <br /><br />The people of Zimbabwe know Tsvangirai and Mujuru are corrupt and incompetent that any Zimbabwean should even be an MDC or Zim PF member only goes to show just how naive and gullible the people of Zimbabwe are. We are in this economic and political mess because all along the people have proven to be naive and gullible. We will never ever get out of this mess as long as the people are naive and gullible. <br /><br />How can anyone with any working brain elect a corrupt and incompetent leader, knowing fully well that the individual is indeed corrupt and incompetent, and expect the village idiot to be the nation's saviour! What could be more foolish and insane than that!<br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937946029621043741.post-27387173917892023632016-10-06T15:18:51.326-07:002016-10-06T15:18:51.326-07:00The people who ranked Zimbabwe so highly must be t...The people who ranked Zimbabwe so highly must be talking of a different Zimbabwe from that I know. After years of denying that corruption was not a problem, Mugabe admitted in February this year that $15 billion in diamond revenue was "swindled". No was ever arrested. Last month the country's Minister of Finance confirmed the diamond production is only one million carat out of the expected output of six million carat, proof the looting has not stop! <br /><br />How a country with such institutionalised looting can be said to have good governance beggars belief! Has the bar been brought down so low that anything is now being seen as a significant improvement! How patronising!Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.com