tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937946029621043741.post8322096269173474072..comments2024-03-28T20:57:42.460-07:00Comments on Zimbabwe Light: MDC-T has forgotten "No reform, no election!" after night sleep like the baboon. By N GarikaiZimbabwe Lighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937946029621043741.post-21773111792548102012017-02-08T16:56:59.291-08:002017-02-08T16:56:59.291-08:00The season of madness is early this time, usually ...The season of madness is early this time, usually the party members fight over seats and then after the elections when most of them have lost to Zanu PF the knives are out! <br /><br />ZimPF are a new party with hardly enough members to fill all the available contested parliamentary, senatorial and local government posts. <br /><br />Well the talk of opposition unity is a waste of time, I do not see Joice Mujuru and Rugare Gumbo kissing and making up some time soon; not after such a messy breakup. It is certainly messer than Tsvangirai vs Ncube, Tsvangirai vs Biti and Biti vs Mangoma! Nomusa Garikaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04964205157943684601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937946029621043741.post-21320401175033733462017-02-08T15:52:49.976-08:002017-02-08T15:52:49.976-08:00No amount of jazzing up this opposition coalition ...No amount of jazzing up this opposition coalition project will change the reality on the ground - as long as Zanu PF have the license to rig the elections. The party will engineer ways to stop opposition supporters voting or force them to vote for Zanu PF whilst rolling out the red carpet to Zanu PF supporters to ensure they vote and even cast multiple votes - that is what voting rigging means! <br /><br />Zimbabwe's opposition have known all along that Zanu PF has been rigging elections ever since they got into power soon after independence. Tsvangirai and his MDC friends Tendai Biti, Welshman Ncube, etc. had the best chance during the GNU to implement democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging future elections. Sadly they failed to get even one reform implemented because Mugabe bribed them with the trappings of power and a $4 million Highlands mansion for Tsvangirai. They, in turn, kicked all reforms into the tall grass to please their benefactor, Mugabe. <br /><br />SADC leaders tried their best to get the MDC leaders to implement the reforms but their advice fell on deaf ears. <br /><br />MDC leaders took part in the 2013 elections with no reform in place only because they were after the few seats they knew Zanu PF would give away to encourage opposition parties to contest elections. It is for the same reason that MDC and everyone else in the opposition are set to contest next year's elections. They know the elections will be rigged, they are making a big song and dance about forming a coalition just to stop the people asking why contest an election you know is flawed! <br /><br />So, Biti is going to join CODE tomorrow; big deal!Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937946029621043741.post-15131545748737696602017-02-08T02:47:31.414-08:002017-02-08T02:47:31.414-08:00Joice Mujuru has fire the following from ZimPF wit...Joice Mujuru has fire the following from ZimPF with immediate effect. <br /><br />1. Rugare Enock Ngidi Gumbo<br />2. Didymus N. E. Mutasa<br />3. Margaret Dongo<br />4. Kudakwashe Bhasikiti-Chuma<br />5. Luckson Kandemiri<br />6. Munacho Mutezo<br />7. Cloudious Makova<br /><br />There are more to follow, said the statement. <br /><br />She is not call Teura Ropa (Spill Blood) for her good looks alone! <br /><br />ZimPF is not even two years old and already it has started dividing like the amebae! Ah well, Gumbo and company are out in the cold again and can start another session of licking each other’s wounds!<br /><br />Mugabe has managed to hold Zanu PF together for 34 years but only because he had the country’s wealth to dish out to his cronies. After giving away the land, he had nothing left to give away and Zanu PF started to fall apart like a sand-castle in the drying midday heat! Other like Tsvangirai and now Mujuru were not so lucky, they did not have anything to give away and so keeping their unruly opportunists in line have been impossible, the complete lack of any leadership qualities in all three has made the break up a certainty! <br />Zimbabwe Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16660690160173744190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937946029621043741.post-12313543490394170792017-02-07T14:53:03.393-08:002017-02-07T14:53:03.393-08:00War veterans like Mahiya have completely failed to...War veterans like Mahiya have completely failed to grasp the idea of good and competent government as the only guarantee of economic prosperity for us all. War veterans have foolishly propped up a corrupt and tyrannical regime, denying the ordinary people their freedom and basic rights, for selfish gain. Well the economic reward they expected from President Mugabe has not materialised and never will. <br /><br />It is disheartening that instead of learning from their last mistake war veterans are off at a tangent again, this time supporting Mnangagwa, some Mujuru and others Tsvangirai! People like Mahiya did a good job fighting for independence but if the nation could turn back the clock this are some of the mercenaries one dreads letting them do anything for you because that is a debt impossible to pay back. The people of Zimbabwe have paid dearly for ruthless mercenaries like Hayiya, Mnangagwa, Mugabe, etc.!Nomusa Garikaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04964205157943684601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937946029621043741.post-36684511563843480492017-02-07T14:19:47.666-08:002017-02-07T14:19:47.666-08:00The economy has halved in size since 2000, when mi...The economy has halved in size since 2000, when militants backed by Mugabe seized white-owned farms, crippling agricultural output and exports. The government also deterred investment by enacting laws aimed at forcing some companies operating in the country to have majority black ownership and issuing conflicting messages on how they will be implemented.<br /><br />The Zimbabwe government was being foolish when it decided to issue bond notes because there was never any doubt them not to hold their value against the US$. The regime has tried to help the bond notes hold their value by making sure they were not readily available but the meant people continuing to queue for cash at the bank. Even if the regime stop printing bond notes the continued haemorrhaging of foreign currency to pay for imports will increase pressure on US$ to rise compared to bond notes. <br /><br />Bond notes experiment was doomed to end in tears whatever the regime tries to do!Nomusa Garikaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04964205157943684601noreply@blogger.com