Mugabe puts on a brave face over renewd sanctions following his blatantly rigging the elections!

"Zimbabwe will never fall. Yes, they (sanctions) can be an impediment but we will find ways to make progress. We have friends who want to work with us," Mugabe said.

Mr Mugabe, you can continue shouting the same old nonsense about sanctions hurting Zimbabwe but the true is no one believes you. The people of Zimbabwe stopped believing in you and any of your usual nonsense.

Throughout these elections you did not even bother to produce manifestos much less sell it to the electorate because you knew the people would have dismissed it all with the usual, “We have heard it all before!” You promised the people “gutsa ruzhinji”, mass prosperity after independence and in ten years’ time, 1990, it was evident the national economy was in serious trouble and hence the need for Zanu PF to adopt the five-year Economic Structural Adjustment Program (ESAP).

The rot continued and forcing Zanu PF to adopt another five-year ESAP program.

Still the rot continued and by 2000 the country was up to its eyes in debt so much so that the World Bank and IMF had decided to stop throwing more good money into this black-hole called the Zimbabwe economy!

The targeted sanctions were only imposed on the cabal’s thugs after Zanu PF rigged the 2002 elections by then the country was already in a serious economic mess. How can the sanction have caused the economic mess that was already well established?

The root causes of Zimbabwe’s economic mess are 33 years of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and an all-out looting spree of the last 12 years. The people of Zimbabwe may be confused about many things but they are clear about one thing; they know the only way to end the mismanagement, corruption and looting is by getting rid of this oppressive Zanu PF dictatorship.

Yes Mugabe and Zanu PF were able to rig the 31^st July 2013 elections to get back into power, thanks to the breath-taking incompetence of Tsvangirai and MDC. That has only delayed the demise of the Zanu PF dictatorship because the people of Zimbabwe have suffered long enough, this cannot, must not, be allowed to continue much longer. The Zanu PF dictatorship must end and imposing targeted sanctions of the tyrant and his cronies for rigging the 31^st July 2013 elections is just one of the many pressure points that must be applied.

Zimbabwe will not fall but the Zanu PF dictatorship’s reign of terror, corruption and looting will be brought crashing down like so many other tyrannical regimes in history!

Mugabe does not care about the people, they knew, hence the need to rig the election; his new cabinet care even less!

Mugabe does not give a damn about the suffering masses and he has now appointed equally hard-nosed Zanu PF loyalists who too do not give a damn about the people. Frankly, who in Zanu PF gives a damn about the people; it is a party of ruthless thugs!  

 

By rigging the elections Mugabe and Zanu PF imposed themselves on the people of Zimbabwe. Mugabe knows he and his party have nothing to offer the people of Zimbabwe and, frankly, they gave up trying years ago.

 

Mugabe has known that he can either save himself and his cronies and ditch the people or serve the people and have democracy, free elections, etc. and by now the people would have ditched him too. He decided to ditch the people and the party has now devised a better way of staying in power without beating, raping or murdering as many people as in 2008. He will be working on refining the system.

 

This new cabinet's main task is to consolidate Zanu PF's hold on power by undermining all attempt to restore the people's democratic voice in who rules in Zimbabwe. The party had clearly made a big mistake in 2008 in allowing the people some modicum of free vote, that must not be allowed to happen ever again!

 

The people of Zimbabwe hate Mugabe and Zanu PF with a passion. Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs know that and since they have no intention of giving the people a free vote, not ever, he does not care about the people either. Tit for tat!

 

 Mugabe has appointed a cabinet that understand what Zanu PF has to do to survive and none of the members in this cabinet have any delusion about democracy, human rights, alleviating the suffering masses or any of that nonsense. These are all hard-nosed selfish tyrants in their own right who would sell their own mother for a piece of calico cloth and a handful of shiny beads and be proud they had a mother to sell!

 

Those who are talking about how this new cabinet would help revive the national economic; this is academic self-indulgence. They know Mugabe is not going to revive the economy but have to keep the pretense that he might surprise us all! At the end of the five years they will go through the motion of marking the regime's performance and then award it an F! Any five years wasted waiting to be told what we have known all along!

Zimbabwe is a hell-hole: made by blacks for blacks - no need for guards , we accepted it as our destiny!

No doubt many of the hundreds of thousands "employed" by Zanu PF to help it rig the elections are themselves now unemployed again and have re-joined the rest of us in the suffering brigade!  They had their chance to sell the fellow Zimbabweans for a piece of calico clothe and a handful of beads and the jumped at the opportunity.

Mugabe and his cronies are busy doing their own brisk trade in human misery for, once again, a piece of calico clothe and a handful of beads. The tyrant has soldiers with standing instructions to shoot to kill anyone who tries to enter the Marange and Chiwadza diamond fields. Only the Chinese and the Lebanese are allowed to benefit from the diamond bonanza

The soldiers guarding the diamond field are themselves housed in rough accommodation; hot as an oven in summer and cold in winter. The Chinese and Lebanese are accommodated is air conditions offices and lodgings. Back in the home countries, they will be living in palaces with all the life’s comforts.

 

The black guards are not allowed in the diamond fields; they cannot be trust not to steal. They are paid pittance and their miserable existence is not much different from the millions of fellow Zimbabweans whom they would gladly shoot to kill if they so much stray anywhere near the diamond fields!

They are guarding the Chinese and Lebanese so they can rob the nation blind in peace!

According to the late Chindori Chininga's parliamentary report, no one in the Zimbabwe government knows how many kilograms of diamonds the Chinese and Lebanese are shipping out of Marange every day. No one! They have built an airfield to fly the diamonds as fast as they can and, you can bet, they are working round the clock!

The last senior government official who gave the thumbs up to the mining in Marange was none other than former Prime Minister of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai. A few weeks after the visit the PM was on a Sea Cruise Liner with one of his floozies; living it and loving it. Tsvangirai did not pay for the cruise but we can guess who did.

 

As noted above, Chininga’s report, which came out a few months after the PM’s visit; told a totally different story about the goings on in Marange.  

 

Mugabe and his cronies are getting a tiny fraction of true value of the diamonds, they are luck if they get a million out of every billion - their calico clothe. A fortune, for the tyrant; and he used it to buy those who did his dirty work of rigging the elections.

 

Besides, granting the Chinese and Lebanese the looting concessions suits him to the T; he would rather see the nation's wealth shipped away by foreigners than in the hands of fellow Zimbabweans. He has maintained his struggle hold on power all these years by keeping the people frightened and poor and totally dependent on his vindictive and cupreous whim. 

The South African journalist, who descripted Zimbabwe as a hell-hole, was right. Zimbabwe is a hell-hole but one of black Zimbabweans' own making; guarded by black Zimbabweans, so that no one escapes. Not that it is the nature of many Zimbabweans to ask why they are being treated worse than the colonial oppressors ever treated them, denied of hope and spirit. They have simply resigned themselves to living in this hell-hole; it is their destiny!

Bloody Belgians at it again - they want ban in trade of Marange diamonds lifted regardless of Mugabe rigged the elections!

Belgium's colonial mentality and total disregard for suffering of the black Africans is a historic fact and, sadly, it is once again coming to the fore. Given half a chance, these bloody Belgians would want to turn Zimbabwe into "Belgian Zimbabwe" just as the had "Belgian Congo"!

Mugabe finance the vote rigging from the wealth generated from the sale of Marange diamonds and now he is building a $200 million Spy University to turn Zimbabwe into a super-duper Police State. Lifting all trade in the country's bloody diamond trade will only help Mugabe accelerate his repressive plans. That is the last thing the long suffering people of Zimbabwe want.

Whilst I will be the first person to acknowledge that Zimbabwe should not be in this mess if it has used the opportunity offered by the imposition of the sanction on Mugabe back in 2002. Sadly the nation had a complete "political amateur" in Morgan Tsvangirai for a leader and the many chances for real change went begging. Still, that is no excuse for the Belgians to start circling Zimbabwe like vultures!

When Belgium was overrun by the Germans during WW2, the rest of the world did not seek a pact with Hitler and share the spoils!

Former MDC MP admit the party behaved like amateurs - now how about firing incompetent Tsvangirai!

Former MDC Mazowe Central MP, Shepherd Mushonga told SW Radio Africa that MDC lost the 31 July 2013 elections because the MDC was a party of “amateurs”.

“ZANU PF’s win took everyone by surprise. But how could we as a party fail to see even a hint of the final result? ZANU PF used the referendum to do a dress rehearsal of how they were going to cheat,” said Mushonga.

He explained that the rigging involved bussing in people from outside their constituencies, allowing 60 percent of the voters to use fake registration slips to cast their ballots, as well as telling rural voters to ask for assistance during the voting.

In Mazowe Central alone he said more than 6,000 people were assisted to vote, including a deputy headmistress from Kanukanwe School who said she could not read and write.

 

I salute Mr Mushonga for admitting what has been obvious for years to the rest of the world but clearly not to anyone in MDC. Only idiots would have believed there could be free and fair elections without the democratic reforms, for example. Well it is a historic fact that Tsvangirai and the rest of his MDC friends clearly believed that would happen.

 

It is interesting to note that the penny has yet to drop as regards his breath-taking incompetence  even now with the benefit of hindsight - just to underline how irredeemably incompetent he really is. If Mushonga has had his "road to Damascus" eye-opener then he must now see that nothing can ever be accomplished as long as MDC still retains idiots like Tsvangirai as leaders!

Mugabe thugs step up the political retributions - we, the people deserve it and worse to come!

Zanu PF thugs have stepped up the intimidation and violence against MDC supporters since the 31 July 2013 vote. It is not surprising that the number of Zimbabweans leaving the country for economic reasons – only the very naïve have any confidence that there will be any meaningful economic recovery under Mugabe – as well as political reasons.

“We need support to manage these escalating numbers because now we have more than 8,000 Zimbabweans at the centre and most of them are sleeping in the open,” said Pastor Simon Sithole, a patron at Musina Compassion Refugee Centre.

People get the government they deserve and we certainly deserve this Mugabe tyrannical rule. We, the people, voted for a rubbish Copac constitution without even bothering to read the document. We, the people, have followed blindly like sheep to the slaughter the flawed and incompetent Morgan Tsvangirai and his equally incompetent MDC party for the last five years even when it was blatantly clear the idiot was leading the nation into a trap!

In this world, there is a heavy price to be paid for folly; we have a tough road ahead, the increased political violence is but the beginning and insignificant part of our troubles!

This is really sad. What chance do we have of convincing the nation next time that they can still vote without fear?

Mugabe castigate farmers for using stone-age farming methods and yet he is the one using the stone-age methods to rule!

Mugabe castigates Zimbabwean farmers for using old fashioned farming methods.

“Tinoda machengeterwo emombe akasiyana neaiitwa nanasekuru vedu (We want to rear cattle in a different way from what our ancestors used to do),” Mugabe said at the official opening of Harare’s Agricultural Show.

Mugabe, through mismanagement, corruption and looting has dragged the whole nation politically and economically into the stone-age. The only way the nation is ever going to recover is if he goes. He rigged the July elections so that he stays in power and the tyrant, somehow, expects the nation to prosper regardless. How naïve!

“Let’s change our methods, zvanezuro zvekuti dai agriculture yafondoka varungu vadzoke tozoratidza mhuri yeZimbabwe kuti hatigone pasina varungu ndezvezvibwasungata zvinoda kuramba zvichiyamwa mazamu anaMrs. Hatingarambe tichishandira bhunu ratisingazive kuti rakabva kupi. (What was happening in the recent past when some were saying agriculture should collapse in order to prove that blacks are not good farmers so as to bring back white farmers is a wishful thinking by sell-outs. We cannot continue working for the whites),” Mugabe said.

Zimbabwe is in this mess not because we have been working for the whites these last 33 years! It is because we have a political system that allows mismanagement, corruption and looting to rule the roast. The people realised this a long time ago but have failed to do anything to end it because of the cheating, vote rigging and brutal political repression.  Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs have murdered over 30 000 to retain the regime’s struggle hold on power.

Zimbabwe is not going to have modern farms or modern anything as long as the country continues to be ruled by a regime with stone-age mentality that would rig elections and even commit mass murder to stay in power!