“The facilitation team is adamant that this time around, they have to come up with strong resolutions against Mugabe and his Zanu PF party. They will not be hoodwinked again,” said the highly-placed South African official, the Daily News reported.
It is pleasing to hear President Zuma’s team admitting “they will not be hoodwinked again” by Mugabe. After years of bending over backwards to appease Mugabe; granting his regime billions of Rands in soft loans, imposing a one-sided power sharing arrangement when the tyrant lost the elections, turning a blind-eye to the tyrant’s continued repression, veto UN resolutions designed to force Mugabe to end his brutal repression in Zimbabwe, etc. Instead of showing his appreciation for all SA was doing for him the tyrant had the audacity to insult President Zuma when the latter dared to remind the tyrant he had to implement some token changes at least.
“We are a sovereign and independent country,” Mugabe said. “We will not be lectured to.” There is the thanks from a super brat!
The insults had the one desirable effect; it forced President Zuma to take off the hoodwinks and the kid gloves – for few weeks at least!
The same paper also said Mugabe met President Zuma for three hours ahead of the SADC meeting; enough time for the tyrant to sweet talk Zuma, kiss and make up, I would say. Mugabe has the gift of the gab and President Zuma is a simpleton (Professor Jonathan Moyo, Mugabe’s chief propagandist said as much of Zuma) – Mugabe has hoodwinked Zuma thousands of times in the past (and Zuma’s team admit that themselves) and who is to say Mugabe can not do so again a million times!
Sunday, 12 June 2011
June 21 Public Sector strike must go ahead - why should they pay for the regime's incompetency and arrogance!
Mugabe’s attempt to blame Minister of Finance, Tendai Biti , for the country’s economic problems and the pittance pay of teachers and civil services is laughable. The dictator promised teachers a hefty pay increase for this month and the Minister Biti is saying there is no money. This situation epitomises what was wrong in Zimbabwe and the root cause of Zimbabwe’s economic collapse; i.e. that a single individual make a serious policy decision for selfish political gains without a plan or discussion with anyone and, quite often, contrary to dictate of common sense and damn the consequences. In the past it was Mugabe who made arbitrary decision and now, sadly, Minister of Finance has taken it upon himself to do the same much to the fury of the dictator!
Mugabe, like all dictators, thinks he is a cut above all other mortals and so if he says “a” is “b” then it is so regardless what the universal laws governing “a” and “b” say. For three decades he really believed he would create mass prosperity, “gutsa ruzhinji” in Shona, by spending recklessly and, when that failed to produce the desired results, by looting! Spending and looting are the sum total of Mugabe’s economic policies; “Mugonomics” some people called it.
Of course there is nothing special about Zimbabwe, the country is subject to the same universal laws of physics, economics, etc. No nation can prosper by being wasteful, that is basic economics. “Mugonomics” is a criminal waste of human and material resources and the nation has paid dearly for it as all the economic performance indicators showed. For decades the Zimbabwe economy struggled and went into total melt down after 2002 when the looting began in earnest. In the six years 2002 to 2008 the Zimbabwe economic shrunk by 84%, a world record, inflation soared to 500 billion percent, another world record, the Z$ - on par with US$ in 1980 - devalued to another world record Z$4 trillion to US$, etc.
Teachers’ wages fall to US$15 a month and banking restriction allowed them to withdraw a maximum of US$1 at a time. So the US$200 a month salary the teachers and other civil servants received after the GNU was a significant improvement. It is laughable if Mugabe thinks the teachers or anyone would want to see a return to his Mugonomics. Teachers have the memory of an elephant, they are known to remember your name and the childish pranks you played forty years ago; they will never forget nor forgive Mugabe for the human misery and deaths he brought upon the nation. Still that does not mean the teachers have no bone to chew with Minister Biti; they have.
After decades of Mugonomics, anyone with a bit common sense will be a genius compared to Mugabe. Minister of Finance Tendai Biti has definitely shown that he has some common sense but nothing more. The Teachers and the nation have good cause to expect a lot more than common sense from Minister Biti and his follow MDC leaders if the nation is ever to get out of the hell hole Mugabe landed us.
Full marks to Minister Biti for bringing government spending under some degree of control by resisting civil servant wage rises, for example. The Minister has to put his foot down on travel expenses especially Mugabe. But it is not enough to for the Minister to control the public sector without doing something all the other sectors. The Minister’s failure to institute similar controls in key government owned companies like Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) undermined whatever economic benefits the national economy got from the reduced the public sector burden. ZESA fat cats salaries have soared for example.
“The ZCTU has released a document which shows that executives in parastatals earn $11,000, in manufacturing over $9,000, those in insurance $6,000 and the average executive at a non-governmental organisation earns $10,000” S W Radio Africa reported. “But currently the average wage across all sectors for workers is $200, and comes down to $150 after deductions.”
ZESA bills have soared to pay the fat cats salaries. Domestic consumers’ electricity bill is typically US$400 a month making a mockery of the US$ 200 monthly paid to civil servant. Private companies like Sable Chemicals and Zimbabwe Alloys major electricity users have closed citing huge ZESA bills has a contributory factor. Power cuts have remained, of course.
Whilst it is true that reducing Zimbabwe’s bloated public sector is vital for economic recovery it is equally true that on its own is not enough. The teachers and the civil servants are being asked to take the bitter medicine for no real national gain because of poor planning on the part of the Minister. Of course the medicine will have to be taken all over again, at double the dosage and double the period. Of course the teachers have good reasons to be angry with Minister Biti; they are just the guinea pigs in a macabre experience!
The whole nation has good reason to be angry with Minister Biti, Prime Minister Tsvangirai and the whole MDC leaders; where is the democratic change they promised us? In this case, MDC should have commissioned a through economic study whose findings would be made public and from which the party formulated its own economic roadmap which the Minister would present in parliament and be subjected to public scrutiny and debate. Public affairs are just that, public affairs. Zimbabwe’s national economic policies affect us all and must not be decided by a Minister alone much less be subject to the whim of a tyrant like Mugabe.
Like Mugabe MDC has the same contemptuous disregard of the Zimbabwe public. Zanu PF and MDC have been engaged in endless political negotiations whilst they have disagreed or failed to honour their word they on many issues they have been one when it comes to keeping the Zimbabwe public in the dark on what they talked about. MDC’s chief negotiator on these interparty talks is none other than Minister Tendai Biti.
The Teachers and Civil Servants threaten to go on strike 21 June 2011 if the salary increases Mugabe promised them do not materialise.
Mugabe fearful of the mass protests similar to those in the Arab Spring has given Minister Biti an ultimatum to pay the salary increases, according to Independent Newspaper report. This could well be the public protest that will deliver the regime change the nation has been waiting for and Mugabe dreads. The dictator is reported livid with Minister Biti accusing the minister of “usurping” presidential power and exercising them himself.
As for Minister Biti he has said there was no money to meet the hefty salary increases and awarding them regardless will throw the country back on the slippery days of hyperinflation, etc. Minister Biti’s name will be mud if that happened.
So the battle lines Mugabe has his guns pointing at Finance Minister Biti but has the Riot Police ready to ruthless stop all public protest. The Minister is fighting back both Mugabe and the Civil Servants with the simple fact that there is no money to meet the salary increase. The Civil Servants have the formidable arsenal against both Mugabe and Minister Biti if the country’s affairs were competently managed they would be paid a living wage. How long are they expected to suffer for the regime’s incompetency and arrogance?
Mugabe, like all dictators, thinks he is a cut above all other mortals and so if he says “a” is “b” then it is so regardless what the universal laws governing “a” and “b” say. For three decades he really believed he would create mass prosperity, “gutsa ruzhinji” in Shona, by spending recklessly and, when that failed to produce the desired results, by looting! Spending and looting are the sum total of Mugabe’s economic policies; “Mugonomics” some people called it.
Of course there is nothing special about Zimbabwe, the country is subject to the same universal laws of physics, economics, etc. No nation can prosper by being wasteful, that is basic economics. “Mugonomics” is a criminal waste of human and material resources and the nation has paid dearly for it as all the economic performance indicators showed. For decades the Zimbabwe economy struggled and went into total melt down after 2002 when the looting began in earnest. In the six years 2002 to 2008 the Zimbabwe economic shrunk by 84%, a world record, inflation soared to 500 billion percent, another world record, the Z$ - on par with US$ in 1980 - devalued to another world record Z$4 trillion to US$, etc.
Teachers’ wages fall to US$15 a month and banking restriction allowed them to withdraw a maximum of US$1 at a time. So the US$200 a month salary the teachers and other civil servants received after the GNU was a significant improvement. It is laughable if Mugabe thinks the teachers or anyone would want to see a return to his Mugonomics. Teachers have the memory of an elephant, they are known to remember your name and the childish pranks you played forty years ago; they will never forget nor forgive Mugabe for the human misery and deaths he brought upon the nation. Still that does not mean the teachers have no bone to chew with Minister Biti; they have.
After decades of Mugonomics, anyone with a bit common sense will be a genius compared to Mugabe. Minister of Finance Tendai Biti has definitely shown that he has some common sense but nothing more. The Teachers and the nation have good cause to expect a lot more than common sense from Minister Biti and his follow MDC leaders if the nation is ever to get out of the hell hole Mugabe landed us.
Full marks to Minister Biti for bringing government spending under some degree of control by resisting civil servant wage rises, for example. The Minister has to put his foot down on travel expenses especially Mugabe. But it is not enough to for the Minister to control the public sector without doing something all the other sectors. The Minister’s failure to institute similar controls in key government owned companies like Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) undermined whatever economic benefits the national economy got from the reduced the public sector burden. ZESA fat cats salaries have soared for example.
“The ZCTU has released a document which shows that executives in parastatals earn $11,000, in manufacturing over $9,000, those in insurance $6,000 and the average executive at a non-governmental organisation earns $10,000” S W Radio Africa reported. “But currently the average wage across all sectors for workers is $200, and comes down to $150 after deductions.”
ZESA bills have soared to pay the fat cats salaries. Domestic consumers’ electricity bill is typically US$400 a month making a mockery of the US$ 200 monthly paid to civil servant. Private companies like Sable Chemicals and Zimbabwe Alloys major electricity users have closed citing huge ZESA bills has a contributory factor. Power cuts have remained, of course.
Whilst it is true that reducing Zimbabwe’s bloated public sector is vital for economic recovery it is equally true that on its own is not enough. The teachers and the civil servants are being asked to take the bitter medicine for no real national gain because of poor planning on the part of the Minister. Of course the medicine will have to be taken all over again, at double the dosage and double the period. Of course the teachers have good reasons to be angry with Minister Biti; they are just the guinea pigs in a macabre experience!
The whole nation has good reason to be angry with Minister Biti, Prime Minister Tsvangirai and the whole MDC leaders; where is the democratic change they promised us? In this case, MDC should have commissioned a through economic study whose findings would be made public and from which the party formulated its own economic roadmap which the Minister would present in parliament and be subjected to public scrutiny and debate. Public affairs are just that, public affairs. Zimbabwe’s national economic policies affect us all and must not be decided by a Minister alone much less be subject to the whim of a tyrant like Mugabe.
Like Mugabe MDC has the same contemptuous disregard of the Zimbabwe public. Zanu PF and MDC have been engaged in endless political negotiations whilst they have disagreed or failed to honour their word they on many issues they have been one when it comes to keeping the Zimbabwe public in the dark on what they talked about. MDC’s chief negotiator on these interparty talks is none other than Minister Tendai Biti.
The Teachers and Civil Servants threaten to go on strike 21 June 2011 if the salary increases Mugabe promised them do not materialise.
Mugabe fearful of the mass protests similar to those in the Arab Spring has given Minister Biti an ultimatum to pay the salary increases, according to Independent Newspaper report. This could well be the public protest that will deliver the regime change the nation has been waiting for and Mugabe dreads. The dictator is reported livid with Minister Biti accusing the minister of “usurping” presidential power and exercising them himself.
As for Minister Biti he has said there was no money to meet the hefty salary increases and awarding them regardless will throw the country back on the slippery days of hyperinflation, etc. Minister Biti’s name will be mud if that happened.
So the battle lines Mugabe has his guns pointing at Finance Minister Biti but has the Riot Police ready to ruthless stop all public protest. The Minister is fighting back both Mugabe and the Civil Servants with the simple fact that there is no money to meet the salary increase. The Civil Servants have the formidable arsenal against both Mugabe and Minister Biti if the country’s affairs were competently managed they would be paid a living wage. How long are they expected to suffer for the regime’s incompetency and arrogance?
Sunday, 5 June 2011
Mugabe will have his way on 10 June SADC meeting but it is Zuma will have the last laugh!
It is clear that Mugabe will concede moving elections date from this year to early next year but that is about all he will give. President Zuma can forget about pushing any democratic reforms to ensure the elections are free and fair; that is NOT going to happen. Losing elections is a hard thing under the best of times but when you are a tyrant facing the life of pauper if the loot is taken away from you and all your cronies – which is a must if the country’s economic recovery is be assured – and, worse still, you will be have to account for the serious human rights violation including the murder of hundreds of thousands then losing an election is simply UNTHINKABLE!
Mugabe can not win free and fair elections and so he has to resort to using intimidation, rape and murder as happened in 2008. He has his terror machine oiled money from the sell of Marange diamonds and the party militia, Police, Soldiers and CIO who will do the dirty work have been deployed countrywide already.
Mugabe is well aware that using violence could land him in the sticky situation in which the international community judge his election victory “illegitimate” as happened after the 27 June 2008 presidential runoff. Tsvangirai got him off the hook by signing the GPA but even Tsvangirai will not be that stupid to do it again. But hai, what else can he do?
The only thing to stop Mugabe using violence is if SADC deployed the Police and Soldiers to enforce peace. SADC Police arresting ZRP and disarming ZNA, is something that even President Zuma would want to do.
President Zuma would have no choice but to let Mugabe have his violent elections. He will hit back by joining the international community in condemning the sham election and pronounce Mugabe’s victory, illegitimate. President Zuma can launch his pre-emptive strike by finally releasing the SA report on Zimbabwe’s 2002 now. The report will confirm the elections were not free and fair and thus underline the historic fact that Mugabe has repeatedly failed to hold free and fair elections.
Yes the 10 June President Zuma and Mugabe meeting is going to be a show down in which the Zimbabwe tyrant is bound to have his way but it is President Zuma who will have the last laugh.
Mugabe can not win free and fair elections and so he has to resort to using intimidation, rape and murder as happened in 2008. He has his terror machine oiled money from the sell of Marange diamonds and the party militia, Police, Soldiers and CIO who will do the dirty work have been deployed countrywide already.
Mugabe is well aware that using violence could land him in the sticky situation in which the international community judge his election victory “illegitimate” as happened after the 27 June 2008 presidential runoff. Tsvangirai got him off the hook by signing the GPA but even Tsvangirai will not be that stupid to do it again. But hai, what else can he do?
The only thing to stop Mugabe using violence is if SADC deployed the Police and Soldiers to enforce peace. SADC Police arresting ZRP and disarming ZNA, is something that even President Zuma would want to do.
President Zuma would have no choice but to let Mugabe have his violent elections. He will hit back by joining the international community in condemning the sham election and pronounce Mugabe’s victory, illegitimate. President Zuma can launch his pre-emptive strike by finally releasing the SA report on Zimbabwe’s 2002 now. The report will confirm the elections were not free and fair and thus underline the historic fact that Mugabe has repeatedly failed to hold free and fair elections.
Yes the 10 June President Zuma and Mugabe meeting is going to be a show down in which the Zimbabwe tyrant is bound to have his way but it is President Zuma who will have the last laugh.
Saturday, 4 June 2011
This time Mugabe's bacon is fried and President Zuma may yet drive the last nail in the tyrant's coffin!
The International community refused to recognise Mugabe as the legitimate head of Zimbabwe after the 27 June 2008 run-off not because Tsvangirai had withdrawn from the race but because what had happened to force him to withdraw. Mugabe will have no choice but to resort to the same intimidation, rape and murder tactics to win the next elections. The violence has already started. The international community will once again reject him from the commune of nations.
SADC and South Africa in particular played a major role in pressuring MDC to sign the power sharing agreement that got Mugabe off the hook last time. They wanted to give Mugabe’s fall from power a soft landing but instead of walking quietly into the sun set the tyrant decided to stay on by hook and by crook.
Mugabe’s arrogant behaviour towards President Zuma in the last few months has undermined the latter’s standing in SA and the world at large. President Zuma can hit back.
President Zuma has refused to release the report on Zimbabwe’s 2002 elections by high ranking SA Officials. Everyone knows the report will confirm what we already know, that the elections were not free or fair. The report would be the final nail in Mugabe’s coffin; it will confirm the tyrant has habitually failed to hold free and fair elections particularly if the violence of 2008 were repeated again. No nation would want to deal with him, not even some of his fellow dictators for fear of drawing adverse attention on their own tyrannical rule.
Mugabe is facing a no win situation; if Mugabe does not use violence he will lose the elections; if he does use violence, no nation will recognise him as legitimately elected. So what ever happens, one thing is certain Mugabe’s bacon is fried!
The greatest tragedy of these coming elections is that the nation has to be subject to the 2008 intimidation, rapes and murders or worse before Mugabe is finally forced out of office all because the idiot Tsvangirai signed the GPA and got Mugabe off the hook!
777
Yesterday the verbal abuse and physical threats were directed at DA candidates and their supporters today it is at all those from his own party challenging Malema to be leader. For those of us coming from Zimbabwe this is a familiar path, a well trodden Mugabe path. Parties and nation will only benefit from having quality and there is no better way of differentiating the good, the bad and the ugly than by good old fashioned competition. What Julius Malema is doing by going into this torrent of verbal abuse and threats to use violence is kill all meaningful debate and competition.
The ANC Youth members and the party must ask Malema to produce the evidence and not let him get away with making outrageous innuendoes.
9999
The Chinese Communist Party remembers the 3 June 1989 democracy protests in Tiananmen Square by arresting would be protesters.
China's economic boom since the Tiananmen Square protest in 1989 has definitely taken the sting out of those demanding democratic reforms, but did not kill the wasp.
The economic boom has allowed even millions of Chinese people to escape the life of abject poverty which was, until 1989, was their lot. The boom has also allowed these people to look beyond the boarders of China and see the economic and political riches democracy offers compared to the precious little communisms offers. The next time the Chinese economy falters Tiananmen Square will have millions of protesters not the solitary protester barring the advance of the regime’s tanks.
SADC and South Africa in particular played a major role in pressuring MDC to sign the power sharing agreement that got Mugabe off the hook last time. They wanted to give Mugabe’s fall from power a soft landing but instead of walking quietly into the sun set the tyrant decided to stay on by hook and by crook.
Mugabe’s arrogant behaviour towards President Zuma in the last few months has undermined the latter’s standing in SA and the world at large. President Zuma can hit back.
President Zuma has refused to release the report on Zimbabwe’s 2002 elections by high ranking SA Officials. Everyone knows the report will confirm what we already know, that the elections were not free or fair. The report would be the final nail in Mugabe’s coffin; it will confirm the tyrant has habitually failed to hold free and fair elections particularly if the violence of 2008 were repeated again. No nation would want to deal with him, not even some of his fellow dictators for fear of drawing adverse attention on their own tyrannical rule.
Mugabe is facing a no win situation; if Mugabe does not use violence he will lose the elections; if he does use violence, no nation will recognise him as legitimately elected. So what ever happens, one thing is certain Mugabe’s bacon is fried!
The greatest tragedy of these coming elections is that the nation has to be subject to the 2008 intimidation, rapes and murders or worse before Mugabe is finally forced out of office all because the idiot Tsvangirai signed the GPA and got Mugabe off the hook!
777
Yesterday the verbal abuse and physical threats were directed at DA candidates and their supporters today it is at all those from his own party challenging Malema to be leader. For those of us coming from Zimbabwe this is a familiar path, a well trodden Mugabe path. Parties and nation will only benefit from having quality and there is no better way of differentiating the good, the bad and the ugly than by good old fashioned competition. What Julius Malema is doing by going into this torrent of verbal abuse and threats to use violence is kill all meaningful debate and competition.
The ANC Youth members and the party must ask Malema to produce the evidence and not let him get away with making outrageous innuendoes.
9999
The Chinese Communist Party remembers the 3 June 1989 democracy protests in Tiananmen Square by arresting would be protesters.
China's economic boom since the Tiananmen Square protest in 1989 has definitely taken the sting out of those demanding democratic reforms, but did not kill the wasp.
The economic boom has allowed even millions of Chinese people to escape the life of abject poverty which was, until 1989, was their lot. The boom has also allowed these people to look beyond the boarders of China and see the economic and political riches democracy offers compared to the precious little communisms offers. The next time the Chinese economy falters Tiananmen Square will have millions of protesters not the solitary protester barring the advance of the regime’s tanks.
To realise its full potential Zimbabweans get rid of Mugabe and get visionary leaders to replace him!
“Once the politics are not on the way of economic development, Zimbabwe will need not more than seven years to stand alone without foreign aid. Zimbabwe has a mixture of advantages that range from good mineral deposits to the educated human resources and in 10 years Zimbabwe will be supporting other African countries,” said the outgoing Germany Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Albrecht Conze.
.Ambassador Conze is right; the Zimbabwe economy has the potential to recover to its 1980 level in 10 years. But for that to happen, we need visionary, bold and decisive leaders. Leaders who will take back the farms, mines, etc looted by Mugabe and his cronies or given away to the Chinese in dodgy trade agreements. Leaders who will restore the rule of law and build strong democratic institutions; placing them beyond the reach of unscrupulous politicians like Mugabe for all time.
MDC does not the visionary leaders to achieve the growth rate of 20% plus to get GPD to its 1980 level in ten years. A few weeks ago Tsvangirai said an MDC government would deliver “about 10%” economic growth rate. With unemployment seating at a nauseating 80% it would not generate enough jobs for the new jobseekers let alone those still out of work.
Zimbabweans are totally focused on getting Mugabe out; still, we must also think of what we want after Mugabe is gone. It will be too late to consider this after MDC is in power; think how thick skinned MDC leaders have become. We would not be in this GPA mess if Tsvangirai had listened to the advice not to sign the one-sided agreement.
Zimbabweans have to learn to joggle two balls – getting rid of Mugabe and getting quality leaders after him – if the nation is live to its potential.
.Ambassador Conze is right; the Zimbabwe economy has the potential to recover to its 1980 level in 10 years. But for that to happen, we need visionary, bold and decisive leaders. Leaders who will take back the farms, mines, etc looted by Mugabe and his cronies or given away to the Chinese in dodgy trade agreements. Leaders who will restore the rule of law and build strong democratic institutions; placing them beyond the reach of unscrupulous politicians like Mugabe for all time.
MDC does not the visionary leaders to achieve the growth rate of 20% plus to get GPD to its 1980 level in ten years. A few weeks ago Tsvangirai said an MDC government would deliver “about 10%” economic growth rate. With unemployment seating at a nauseating 80% it would not generate enough jobs for the new jobseekers let alone those still out of work.
Zimbabweans are totally focused on getting Mugabe out; still, we must also think of what we want after Mugabe is gone. It will be too late to consider this after MDC is in power; think how thick skinned MDC leaders have become. We would not be in this GPA mess if Tsvangirai had listened to the advice not to sign the one-sided agreement.
Zimbabweans have to learn to joggle two balls – getting rid of Mugabe and getting quality leaders after him – if the nation is live to its potential.
Thursday, 2 June 2011
Zimbabwe is set for another election marred by violence: will the Police do Mugabe's dirty work?
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely and when that happens, the whole edifice will come crashing down. Leaders are like the rocks seating at the top of a great mountain power tends to makes them think they are more important than the rocks below them and on whose shoulders they stand.
Absolute power makes the leaders think they are diamonds and the ruled are nothing but dirty in comparison.
The ruled are not inert rocks and they know when they are being treated like dirty and respond by withdrawing their support. Ordinary people can express their disapproval of their leaders by voicing the views through the various media, by holding public protests and, ultimately by booting the leaders come elections. Absolute rulers have countered by making sure that there was no freedom of expression, that all public protests are brutally repressed and that elections are not free and fair.
But after thirty year of tyrannical rule that has left millions of people in abject poverty and despair the Zanu PF dictatorship is finding it near impossible to retain its strangle hold on power. It can no longer whip Zimbabweans back in line and continue to support the regime. Thirty years of mismanagement, corruption, looting and brutal repression has eroded public support of Mugabe and his cronies. They are still the diamonds seating at the apex of a high mountain but with no supporting base!
In the past Mugabe had used lot more subtle means to retain power in the last ten years the pressure for change has forced him to through all caution to the wind. In the past Mugabe allowed his loyal supporters to be corrupt, in the last tens years he has allowed them to loot. In the past the Police, CIO and judiciary had turned a blind eye to Zanu PF inspired lawlessness now the Police, CIO and Army are spear heading the lawlessness and political murders. It is a measure of just how desperate Mugabe and Zanu PF are to retain power.
In 2008 Mugabe was forced to some extreme level of political violence in which millions were subjected to some form of intimidation, thousands were raped and hundreds were murdered. The whole international community refused to recognise Mugabe as the legitimate head of state of Zimbabwe after the sham elections. It was only through the stupidity of Tsvangirai and MDC who let the dictator off the hook by signing a bogus power sharing agreement.
To “win” the next election Mugabe and Zanu PF no choice but to use violence and evidence on the ground shows that is exactly their game plan. Mugabe has used the last three years to reorganise his party and overhaul and retool his terror machine. Another sham election will only mean Mugabe be rejected again and this time not even the stupid Tsvangirai will dare let the tyrant off the hook. The whole Mugabe dictatorship is set to crumple!
People like Brigadier-General Nyikayaramba, Police Commissioner Chihuri, ZDF commander Constantine Chiwenga and all the other high ranking Officers and Zanu PF leaders who are part and parcel of the dictatorship edifice are not going to abandon Mugabe; they will go down with the ship and captain!
It is the middle and lower ranking members of the Police, Army, CIO, etc who will have some tough decision to make in the coming months. The dictatorship would want they to play any increasing active role in the political violence. It will be infinitely better for them to be fired now than soil their hands with the blood of innocent people. All those found wanting in the carrying out of their duties as a Police Officer will never certainly lose their jobs after the collapse of the dictatorship. And those with blood on their hands will hang.
It is tragic that Zimbabwe has to go through yet another process in which the people have to demonstrate their resolve to rid the nation of this tyrannical dictatorship of Mugabe and the tyrant, for his part, has to resort to brute force to frustrate and deny the people their wish. The dictator will promise a lot to those ready to do its dirty work but whatever they get will be nothing compared with the punishment that will follow the fall of the dictatorship. The Mugabe dictatorship is doomed!
888
@Townsend
Tsvangirai is naive and sometimes down right stupid. Mugabe is a ruthless murderer. It is not a crime to be naive but it is to murder.
Mugabe has murdered hundreds of Zimbabweans and with the coming elections will murder even more just to stop them electing a naive leader! Is that what you think should be Mugabe’s line of defence?
Tsvangirai was stupid enough to get Mugabe off the hook after the sham 2008 elections. Even he is not that stupid to do it again. Mugabe can get you, Townsend, as his legal adviser in the trail!
Absolute power makes the leaders think they are diamonds and the ruled are nothing but dirty in comparison.
The ruled are not inert rocks and they know when they are being treated like dirty and respond by withdrawing their support. Ordinary people can express their disapproval of their leaders by voicing the views through the various media, by holding public protests and, ultimately by booting the leaders come elections. Absolute rulers have countered by making sure that there was no freedom of expression, that all public protests are brutally repressed and that elections are not free and fair.
But after thirty year of tyrannical rule that has left millions of people in abject poverty and despair the Zanu PF dictatorship is finding it near impossible to retain its strangle hold on power. It can no longer whip Zimbabweans back in line and continue to support the regime. Thirty years of mismanagement, corruption, looting and brutal repression has eroded public support of Mugabe and his cronies. They are still the diamonds seating at the apex of a high mountain but with no supporting base!
In the past Mugabe had used lot more subtle means to retain power in the last ten years the pressure for change has forced him to through all caution to the wind. In the past Mugabe allowed his loyal supporters to be corrupt, in the last tens years he has allowed them to loot. In the past the Police, CIO and judiciary had turned a blind eye to Zanu PF inspired lawlessness now the Police, CIO and Army are spear heading the lawlessness and political murders. It is a measure of just how desperate Mugabe and Zanu PF are to retain power.
In 2008 Mugabe was forced to some extreme level of political violence in which millions were subjected to some form of intimidation, thousands were raped and hundreds were murdered. The whole international community refused to recognise Mugabe as the legitimate head of state of Zimbabwe after the sham elections. It was only through the stupidity of Tsvangirai and MDC who let the dictator off the hook by signing a bogus power sharing agreement.
To “win” the next election Mugabe and Zanu PF no choice but to use violence and evidence on the ground shows that is exactly their game plan. Mugabe has used the last three years to reorganise his party and overhaul and retool his terror machine. Another sham election will only mean Mugabe be rejected again and this time not even the stupid Tsvangirai will dare let the tyrant off the hook. The whole Mugabe dictatorship is set to crumple!
People like Brigadier-General Nyikayaramba, Police Commissioner Chihuri, ZDF commander Constantine Chiwenga and all the other high ranking Officers and Zanu PF leaders who are part and parcel of the dictatorship edifice are not going to abandon Mugabe; they will go down with the ship and captain!
It is the middle and lower ranking members of the Police, Army, CIO, etc who will have some tough decision to make in the coming months. The dictatorship would want they to play any increasing active role in the political violence. It will be infinitely better for them to be fired now than soil their hands with the blood of innocent people. All those found wanting in the carrying out of their duties as a Police Officer will never certainly lose their jobs after the collapse of the dictatorship. And those with blood on their hands will hang.
It is tragic that Zimbabwe has to go through yet another process in which the people have to demonstrate their resolve to rid the nation of this tyrannical dictatorship of Mugabe and the tyrant, for his part, has to resort to brute force to frustrate and deny the people their wish. The dictator will promise a lot to those ready to do its dirty work but whatever they get will be nothing compared with the punishment that will follow the fall of the dictatorship. The Mugabe dictatorship is doomed!
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@Townsend
Tsvangirai is naive and sometimes down right stupid. Mugabe is a ruthless murderer. It is not a crime to be naive but it is to murder.
Mugabe has murdered hundreds of Zimbabweans and with the coming elections will murder even more just to stop them electing a naive leader! Is that what you think should be Mugabe’s line of defence?
Tsvangirai was stupid enough to get Mugabe off the hook after the sham 2008 elections. Even he is not that stupid to do it again. Mugabe can get you, Townsend, as his legal adviser in the trail!
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
Zim Cop killed in a protest sending Zanu PF terror machine into overdrive!
A Zimbabwe Police Officer was killed during a protest in Glenview, Zimbabwe. The Police say MDC activists were responsible although the party deny it. Over 30 MDC activists have already been rounded up and, no doubt, worse is still to come.
Zanu PF does not need an excuse to unleash its campaign of intimidation, rape and murder but the beating or murder of one of its own will encourage its terror machine into overdrive.
When Tsvangirai signed the power sharing agreement with Mugabe he must have thought he would somehow get the tyrant to change. Many people told Tsvangirai the leopard can not change his spots but he would not listen. There is a school of thought who says Tsvangirai never stopped to think about such niceties as restoring the rule of law, creating a free public media and all the other things one would expect from a party promising democratic change. His head was full of grand visions of himself as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe; there was real no room for anything else. Like the cartoon character, Homer Simpson, who admits that every time he learns something new it pushes old stuff out of his head.
Of course, whether Tsvangirai even thought of stopping Mugabe’s tyrannical rule or not it is now academic. The end result is that he has completely failed to stop the tyrant. The nation is sleepwalking into lawlessness and violence as that seen in 2008 or worse!
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MDC are without doubt the main driving force behind the writing of the new constitution but because of poor planning on its part the long awaited new constitution will not be worth the paper it is written on!
A Voice Of America Studio 7 reporter was right to said the new constitution writing process was dogged with “disorganized and often over-budget”. It is scandalous that millions dollars have been wasted on a money-making scam given the nation’s dire economic condition. But worse still, Zanu PF hijacked the outreach meetings lying to rest all pretence the collected data a true reflection of the people’s wishes.
Since the new constitution will not be worthless, one hopes, Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friend Douglas Monzora will do the decent thing and fall on their own swords for their part in this criminal waste of money, time and opportunity!
Zanu PF does not need an excuse to unleash its campaign of intimidation, rape and murder but the beating or murder of one of its own will encourage its terror machine into overdrive.
When Tsvangirai signed the power sharing agreement with Mugabe he must have thought he would somehow get the tyrant to change. Many people told Tsvangirai the leopard can not change his spots but he would not listen. There is a school of thought who says Tsvangirai never stopped to think about such niceties as restoring the rule of law, creating a free public media and all the other things one would expect from a party promising democratic change. His head was full of grand visions of himself as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe; there was real no room for anything else. Like the cartoon character, Homer Simpson, who admits that every time he learns something new it pushes old stuff out of his head.
Of course, whether Tsvangirai even thought of stopping Mugabe’s tyrannical rule or not it is now academic. The end result is that he has completely failed to stop the tyrant. The nation is sleepwalking into lawlessness and violence as that seen in 2008 or worse!
6666
MDC are without doubt the main driving force behind the writing of the new constitution but because of poor planning on its part the long awaited new constitution will not be worth the paper it is written on!
A Voice Of America Studio 7 reporter was right to said the new constitution writing process was dogged with “disorganized and often over-budget”. It is scandalous that millions dollars have been wasted on a money-making scam given the nation’s dire economic condition. But worse still, Zanu PF hijacked the outreach meetings lying to rest all pretence the collected data a true reflection of the people’s wishes.
Since the new constitution will not be worthless, one hopes, Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friend Douglas Monzora will do the decent thing and fall on their own swords for their part in this criminal waste of money, time and opportunity!
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