Tshabangu team "don't care about the people", accused opposing CCC faction. Hypocrites, when have any of you ever cared! W Mukori

 The people of Zimbabwe should be talking about the 23 August 2023 elections, specifically the damning SADC election mission report and making sure the regional leaders do not sweep it under the carpet.  Instead of the Chamisa and his CCC friends playing a leading role in this, they are busy fighting amongst themselves. They could not care less!

The saga sparked by Sengezo Tshabangu’s, who is claiming to be the interim CCC Secretary General, letter to Speaker of Parliament and the Minister of Local Government, recalling some CCC MPs and councillors; is raging on.   

“Team Tshabangu Exposed” claimed a post on social media from Mutambara.

“1/ We have managed to expose the true identity of Tshabangu, a group of individuals who are betraying the struggle. They previously did this during President Morgan Tsvangirayi's era and are now repeating it under President Nelson Chamisa.

“4/ These individuals, including former MDC Alliance VPs (one based in Harare and one in Bulawayo), a former Harare mayor who is also a councillor for Hatcliffe Constituency, a sitting MP for Kuwadzana East Constituency…”

I found 5/ laughable and sickening!

“5/ Sources close to the matter have revealed that these individuals do not care about the people and their struggles following the rigged elections, as long as things go their way. They have been colluding with Zanu PF for a very long time.”

This is a case of an open fire pan calling an open fire pot, black. 

Most of the CCC leaders on each side of the two warring factions were in the 2008 to 2013 GNU and, as we know, they all failed to implemented even one token democratic reform in five years. And we know why. Mugabe bribed them with the trappings of high office and, with their snouts in the feeding trough, they forgot about the reforms. They certainly did “not care about the people and their struggles” precisely because “things were going  their way.”

These MDC/CCC leaders have been participating in these flawed elections since the GNU knowing fully well that Zanu PF was denying the people their fundamental right to a meaningful vote and that by participating the opposition would give Zanu PF legitimacy. They soldiered on and participated regardless because they also knew that Zanu PF was offering a few gravy train seats to entice their participation. What is more these leaders knew all these things!

“The (2013) electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility,” confessed David Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe. 

It is therefore an insult to every thinking Zimbabwean out there to hear anyone of these sell out CCC leaders wagging the accusing finger at another MDC/CCC leaders and pontificating about “these individuals do not care about the people and their struggles following the rigged elections, as long as things go their way.”

It is the height of hypocrisy when the devil not only quotes the teaching of Bible but has chutzpah to claim to it as his own them. No CCC leader should dare to claim the moral high ground and accuse anyone of “not caring about the people and their struggles following the rigged elections, as long as things go their way.” Don’t even dare go there!

Zimbabwe is stuck with this corrupt, tyrannical and vote rigging Zanu PF dictatorship precisely because ALL the MDC/CCC are corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent.  Not some but all of them! 

When we should be concentrating on making sure this Zanu PF regime is declared illegal so we can have a National Transition Authority and implement the democratic reforms; CCC is once again proving to be a serious distraction. SADC leaders may well use the infighting in CCC as an excuse for sweeping the damning SADC election report under the carpet! 

"Chamisa disown fake (Tshabangu) SG" It pays to get the best in the beginning - we got the worst! W Mukori

 “Chamisa Disowns Fake Party SG!” read Zimeye headlines.

“The opposition CCC has disowned Sengezo Tshabangu, who claims to be the interim Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Secretary General, who has written to the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing, Winston Chitando, purporting to recall several CCC MPs and councillors,” said the report.

“In the letter dated 03 October 2023, Tshabangu said the elected officials have ceased to be members of CCC.

“Tshabangu is a former MDC-T and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) official believed to have signed letters that produced CCC double candidates in the 23 August 2023 Harmonised Elections.”

So if Tshabangu is not CCC’s SG, who is?

I will bet my bottom dollar, that Nelson Chamisa himself does not know who is the interim SG! It is all part and parcel of his infamous “strategic ambiguity” master plan! 

The truth is he does not have a plan he is just blundering from pillar to post. The tragedy is there are many foolish enough to follow him blindly. And so instead of MDC/CCC implementing the necessary democratic reforms to end the Zanu PF dictatorship they are the ones keeping Zanu PF in power and thus dragging the nation deeper and deeper into this hell-on-earth.

Most of the problems dogging the MDC/CCC are of their own making. “Kurumwa nechokuchera!” as one would say in Shona.

When Chamisa staged a palace coup following Tsvangirai's death in 2018 the MDC A was token to pieces in the ensuing struggle that followed. Chamisa’s failure to hold a party congress and elect substantive office bearers has ignited a forest fire that bound to cause death and destruction and, most of all, rendering CCC utterly useless as the opposition party. 

What is infuriating here is that this is all happening at a time the nation should be dealing with the vexing question of the rigged 23 August 2023 elections. This chaos and distraction will only give those elements in SADC who want to sweep the damning SADC election report under the carpet. "Who are we going to work with in the opposition?" they will argue!

It pays in the end to get the best in the beginning! In terms of electing the men and women tasked to implement the democratic reforms and end the Zanu PF dictatorship, we in Zimbabwe elected the most corrupt, incompetent and utterly use men and and women and, boy-oh-boy, we have paid and will continue to pay dearly for our folly!

Flea with no legs cannot hear, is a fallacy. So too is Chamisa did us a favour participating in 2023! W Mukori

 To claim that Nelson Chamisa and his CCC friends have done the people of Zimbabwe a great favour by participating in the flawed 2023 elections is a fallacy. 

“If CCC had boycotted the elections, the remaining small parties like Mwonzora’s MDC and Madhuku’s NCA would not have been a serious political threat to force Zanu PF to rig the elections. And so SADC and AU would have found no flaws and illegalities to condemn!” the proponents of the fallacy argue.

By definition: a contradictory premises fallacy occurs when someone presents a conclusion that cannot be accurate based on the premises set forth. 

There was a morbid scientist who trained a flea to jump at his command. He then proceeded to remove the poor creature’s limbs one by one. With the loss of each limb the insect moved at the command or be it not as far as with all its legs. After the last leg, the insect did not budge!

“A flea without legs cannot hear!” concluded our morbid scientist! 

Of course, the claim that CCC did the nation a great service by participating in the flawed and illegal 23 August 2023 elections is a contradictory premises fallacy. For one thing, if the party did us a great favour this year then it must have also done us a great favour during the 2008 to 2013 GNU when Morgan Tsvangirai and company had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms and thus ended Zanu PF’s carte blanche powers to rig elections. 

With all the democratic reforms implemented Zimbabwe would have held its first ever free, fair and credible elections in 2013 and from henceforth have been a healthy and functioning democratic nation. Think of the economic and political benefits the last ten years would have brought. 

These 23 August 2023 elections would have been free, fair and credible consolidating Zimbabwe’s position as a bastion of peace, freedom and liberty; free at last from the clutches of corrupt and tyrannical vote rigging thugs!

“Yeah! But the nation would be very disappointed that SADC and AU election reports would have found no flaws and illegalities to report about!” our morbid CCC leader would argue!

The truth is CCC leaders participated in this 2023 elections knowing fully well that Zanu PF was rigging the elections and that participating would give Zanu PF legitimacy. They still participated regardless because they also knew that Zanu PF was offering a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition to participate no matter how flawed and illegal the process got. 

Zanu PF knew the party could never win free, fair and credible elections even against the small parties like MDC and NCA, at least the party would be foolish to make such a gabble. Zanu PF knew the party would get away with blatantly rigged elections as long as the opposition participated in the flawed elections on mass. 

After 2018 elections, Mnangagwa created the POLAD grouping to reward the losers of the presidential rat race. Lovemore Madhuku was one of the beneficiaries of the POLAD freebies and, no doubt, he and many others had their beady eyes on POLAD freebies this time too.

In the 2013 and 2018 Zanu PF rigged the elections and MDC/CCC participated with the usual enthusiasm and SADC and AU election observers played along and turned a blind eye to the rigging. Of course both Zanu PF and CCC were surprise that SADC and AU observers had departed from the usual script and condemned the 2023 Zimbabwe elections!

For CCC leaders to now claim that party had deliberately failed to implement the reforms so that SADC and AU would have the flaws and illegalities to report about is nonsense! 

“The (2013) electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility,” confessed David Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe.

They should have implemented the reforms, then boycotting would have been irrelevant. However, when they had failed to implement the reforms, boycotting was the more rational option since the alternative was giving Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. 

CCC leaders’ greed was so strong that they ignored SADC and AU reports denounce the election as a sham to take up their gravy train seats. No doubt, Madhuku and others cannot wait for the dust to settle so they too can claim their POLAD freebies. 

For Chamisa and company to claim the fortuitous SADC and AU damning report of the 23 August 2023 as their doing; is an outrage that must be dismissed with the contempt it rightly deserves. 

Indeed, the nation is hoping that SADC leaders will do the honourable thing and uphold the SADC damning report and thus deny this Zanu PF regime complete with its surrogate CCC opposition political legitimacy. The country will then be compelled to devise a National Transition Authority (NTA) who primary task will be bio implement the democratic reforms and end the curse of rigged elections and bad governance. 

Both Zanu PF and CCC cannot be in the NTA. The former will never reform itself out of office and the latter, will no doubt, not want to implement the reforms to give future SADC and AU election observers have some flaws and illegalities to report on! Zimbabwe is a failed state and cannot afford to waste the chance this NTA has created to end the curse of rigged elections and bad governance! 

"CCC does not have capacity to run a government" Mandaza rightly warned. Alas! No alarm bells are ringing! W Mukori.

 

"Even if the opposition (CCC) were to be allowed to win and take power, they don't have a capacity to run a government,” predicted Professor Ibbo Mandaza when he gave his public lecture at O R Tambo School of leadership, SA last week. 

"I asked Chamisa very bluntly that if you won how many can be members of the cabinet in your group, he could not count 10."

MDC had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. The very fact that they failed to implement even one token reform spoke volumes of the party leaders’ greed and incompetence. The very fact that the party’s supporters, the wildebeest herd, have remained doggedly loyal to the leaders has itself also spoken volumes of the sheer ignorance and naivety of the herd.

Even now with the benefit of hindsight, most CCC faithful have no clue what the democratic reforms are. They have repeatedly called for change in their slogans without knowing what these changes are much less how they would be implemented. And so when MDC leaders sold out by failing to get even one token reform implemented these last 23 years, including the 5 years in the GNU; it was all water off a duck’s back for the herd. 

How can the herd be angry with MDC/CCC leaders for failing to implement reforms when the no one in the herd knew what the reforms are much less their critical importance in the nation’s fight to end the Zanu PF dictatorship and the failed state. 

The SADC and AU election observers have condemned Zimbabwe’s 23 August 2023 elections as a sham. This has created the opportunity for Zimbabwe to either have fresh elections, in three or six months supervised by SADC and UN. This is what Chamisa and his CCC friend have been calling for. The herd will always go with whatever the party leaders want. 

The herd can best be compare to Boxer, the horse in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, “Napoleon is always right!” motto. Boxer could not think for himself and so entrusted all the thinking to Napoleon. The herd’s Chamisa Chete! Chete! mentality means they will be pushing SADC for fresh elections.

Professor Ibbo Mandaza observation that Chamisa failed to name just 10 cabinet material from those around him, will have no effect on the herd.

Even if Chamisa could scrap the bottom of the barrow and find enough to appoint as ministers, this is only the half to it. The biggest problem with the nation rushing into holding fresh elections is that no meaningful reforms will be implemented. We will just be kicked the can down the street, whatever cause the curse of rigged elections will resurface again in the future. 

Even if the herd can be talked into accepting the need for National Transition Authority (NTA) whose primary task will be to implement the reforms. The herd would want Chamisa and his CCC friends to play a significant role in the NTA. Zanu PF would be watching with the greatest interest because the party would demand a comparable role in the NTA for itself. 

The NTA must implement ALL the democratic reforms without failure. The presence of both CCC and Zanu PF leaders in the NTA will only be to undermine the chance of Authority delivering on its set task. Both Zanu PF and CCC leaders are blame for Zimbabwe’s failure to hold free, fair and credible elections these last 43 and 23 years respectively. They are the problem; not the solution. 

There is a mountain of evidence to prove Chamisa and his CCC friends are corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent. 

The nation does not need Professor Mandaza to remind us Chamisa “does not have the capacity to run a government.” They blundering incompetence with which CCC handled themselves in these August 2023 elections should have set alarm bells ringing in every Zimbabwean’s head. There are no alarm bells ringing! 

The A1 democratic reforms that competent and uncompromised NTA would implement a.s.a.p. would reforms to ensure freedom of expression and a free media. Even if the NTA was to deliver a healthy and functioning democratic system for the country, it would not survive for long as long as we have an ignorant and naive electorate.  

"GNU is not a local herb; exclude Zanu PF would bring spectre of instability." Damocles sword hanging over the nation. W Mukori

 “GNU is not a local herb!” wrote Jamanda2 in Bulawayo 24.

“The West also made sure there was no third party or parties with which to enter into a governing alliance that would exclude Zanu-PF from post-electoral settlement. Zanu-PF had to be in, to stabilise a post-election Zimbabwe! Such an option which excluded Zanu-PF would bring back the spectre of instability, which the West cannot brook in this highly mineralised teapot country of ours!

“The West's strategy against Zanu-PF and for a remade Zimbabwe subsists in a graduated electoral murder of the ruling Zanu-PF! As happened in post-Kabila DRC where the current President entered weak but became stronger once inside, and in the fullness of governing time.

“You understand that, then you reach political epiphany in respect of what was and remains planned for us by the West, both in the 2023 harmonised polls and electoral years to come. The notion of GNU is very much the West's thing; it is not the local medicine or herb to Zimbabwe's riven and polarised politics!”

The threat that Zanu PF will make Zimbabwe ungovernable if the party does not get its way has hang on the nation like the sword of Damocles since 1980! Zanu PF’s campaign strategy in 1980 was that if the party did not win the election the bush war would continue. The party had the guns and the manpower to carryout its threat and the nation knew that. The people voted to end the bush war not knowing they had lost their right to peace. 

In 1983, Zanu PF launched the now infamous Gukurahundi massacre for the sole purpose of coercing PF Zapu, the party’s main political challenger, to give up its independent identity and join Zanu PF. After fours years of relentless persecution and over 20 000 died PF Zapu relented and signed the December 1987 Unity Accord clearing the way for the imposition of the de facto one-party, Zanu PF, dictatorship that has ruled the nation with an iron fist to this day. 

The nearest, Zanu PF has ever come to losing its iron grip on power was during the 2008 to 2013 GNU when Mugabe and Zanu PF were forced to share power with the two MDC factions led by Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara. Mugabe was cunning enough to make sure the MDC leaders were afforded all the trappings of high office; the ministerial limos, the generous salaries and allowances, US$4 million mansion for Save himself, etc., etc. With their snouts in the feeding trough, the MDC leaders completely forgot that their primary purpose in the GNU was to implement the democratic reforms and dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship. 

MDC leaders failed to implement even one reform in five years of the GNU!Worst of all; Zanu PF contrived to allow the opposition to win a few gravy train seats so that post the 2013 GNU the de facto Zanu PF dictatorship was cloaked is a multi-party facade. The few gravy train seats was to entice the opposition to participate in the flawed elections no matter how flawed the process got. It worked like a charm!

“The (2013) electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility,” confessed David Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe. 

After the 2018 elections, Mnangagwa sweetened the opposition bait by introducing POLAD, a superfluous body of losing presidential candidates who are rewarded with US$ 60 000 twin cab truck and other freebies. All they have to do is publicly endorse the rigged elections as free, fair and credible and entice more to participate in future rat races. He had to introduce a US$ 20 000 nomination free for presidential candidates just to stop the flood of POLAD claimants! 

There were 11 presidential candidates in the 23 August 2023 rat race. The top two garnered 52.6% and 44% of the votes and the remaining 9 share 5.4%.

I dare say Zanu PF was taken completely by surprise by the SADC and AU election observer teams’ reports that condemned the 23 August 2023 election process as a farce. In the past the regional and continental bodies had taken the clue from Zimbabwe’s opposition parties’ enthusiastic participation as an excuse for rubber stamping the rigged elections. 

SADC is yet to decide what to do with Zimbabwe, the regional body knows that it cannot sweep the damning SADC and AU election reports under the carpet. Another GNU is on the offing and the regime is reminding us all of the sharp sword dangling precariously over the nation!

Zimbabwe is a failed state precisely because the nation has failed to hold free, fair and credible elections for the last 43 years and was stuck with the vote rigging Zanu PF de facto one party dictatorship. We had the opportunity to implement the democratic reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU and we wasted it. We have a second bite at the cherry, we must make this count. 

If Zanu PF is allowed to play a major role in the new GNU then we can be certain that most of the democratic reforms will never be implemented. Never!We must not allow Zanu PF hold the nation to ransom and waste this second chance!

"We (povo) lacked unity and strategic thinking to deliver change!" Grass fire passion will never deliver change. W Mukori

 The Zimbabwe electorate’s political activity is like a grass fire it will flare up but very quickly die down completely because there was not much to burn. Similarly there is not much in depth knowledge of any substantive issues for a sustained debate with the run of the mill Zimbabwean voter.

“We lacked unity of purpose and are divided in our thoughts. We were supposed to rebut and refute all elections. ZEC would have seen that its elections were a sham. We lack strategic thinking!” argued one in one of my whatsApp groups. 

The group used to have as many as fifty posted messages every hour as the political activity reach its peak with the voting and announcing of the results of 28 August 2023. 

No doubt the we in “we lacked unity and strategic thinking” is referring to CCC wildebeest herd and not the party leaders. The later have known all along that these elections were flawed and that participating would only be giving legitimacy to Zanu PF. 

Leaders like Tendai Biti and David Coltart admitted of the sheer futility of participating in these flawed elections and have, no doubt, tried to talk their colleagues into stopping this madness. But when they realised their advice was falling on deaf ears, they too decided to join in.

“The (2013) electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility,” confessed David Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe.

It should be noted here that CCC leaders still went on to stoically take their oath of office and their seats on the gravy train even when SADC and AU had condemned the 2023 elections as a sham. Of course, CCC leaders had all along the election process were sham and having this confirmed changed nothing; they were after the few gravy train seats Zanu PF was offering as bait, do not care the elections were a sham and a sell out of the national cause of ending the curse of rigged elections and bad governance.

In 2018 Mnangagwa created POLAD; a superfluous body of all the losing presidential candidates who publicly endorsed him as the legitimate winner; to increase the opposition bait. POLAD members were pampered with a US$60 000 twin cab truck each plus other freebies. 

Indeed, the POLAD freebies opened the flood gates of opposition wannabes Zanu PF increased the nomination fees for presidential candidates from US$ 1 000 to US$ 20 000 just to dampen the flow. There were 11 presidential candidates in this 2023 rat race. 

Mnangagwa and Chamisa garnered 52% and 44% of the votes respectively, according to ZEC, and the remaining 9 candidates shared the 4%. No doubt most, if not all the 9 losers, would happily endorse that the 2023 elections were free, fair and credible; contradicting the SADC, AU and all the other election observers’ reports; just to secure their POLAD freebies. 

Nelson Chamisa and his CCC friends and the rest who have been participating in these flawed elections are just the modern day Abel Muzorewa and Ndabaningi Sithole and their followers. The later participated in the 1978 Zimbabwe - Rhodesia elections knowing fully well that the arrangement rendered blacks second class citizens, at best, and that doing so would undermine the fight for independence and equality. They went ahead and participated regardless out of greed, just as Chamisa and doing now.

“Thinking”, much less “strategic thinking”, is a luxury that the wildebeest herd does not have and never had. If they did then alarm bells would have started ringing when it became clear MDC/CCC leaders had not only sold out by failing to implement even one reform in 23 years, 5 of which in the GNU but had abandoned reforms out of greed.

Zimbabwe’s hope of ending the Zanu PF dictatorship is not in the hands of the corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent CCC nor in the naive and ignorant electorate. The nation’s salvation/ damnation is in the hands of SADC leaders.

The SADC and AU election observer teams’ damning reports are crystal clear, Zimbabwe’s 23 August 2023 election process was so flawed and illegal it could not produce a legitimate government. If SADC leaders up hold the reports and deny Zanu PF legitimacy, this will force the country to have a new GNU as happened in 2008 to 2013. 

One hopes the new GNU will implement all the democratic reforms, unlike the last one which failed to implement even one reform, and finally cure the nation of the curse of rigged elections and bad governance. 

However, if the SADC leaders should decide to water down the damning report, by reducing the report’s serious flaws and illegalities into mere “challenges” as President Cyril Ramaphosa has already done. Then Zanu PF would be let off the hook and granted political legitimacy. And Zimbabwe will be condemned to another five more years of this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship, the failed state and all else that entails. 

President Ramaphosa and his ANC friend passed a party congress resolution last November “not to allow regime change in Zimbabwe”. The ANC regime is clearly hell bent on granting Zanu PF legitimacy, even to the extend of doing so regardless of SADC’s own election observers having stated categorically  that Zanu PF rigged the 23 August 2023 elections! 

"SADC is consulting CCC for way forward." Together with Zanu PF, they are problem and, per se, can never be the solution too. W Mukori.

 “Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has claimed that leaders from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have been consulting with him to seek his opinions on how to resolve Zimbabwe's current political crisis following the contested general election,” reported Bulawayo 24.

“During a CCC provincial council meeting in Chinhoyi, Chamisa emphasized that he had won the presidential election despite intimidation tactics and alleged rigging by Zanu-PF-aligned Forever Associates of Zimbabwe (FAZ). He described the recent election as a "war" rather than a proper election.

“Chamisa revealed that he had recently participated in a lengthy video conference call with SADC officials who were seeking his proposals for resolving the political impasse in Zimbabwe, which has resulted from the widely criticised elections.”

The truth is Zimbabwe is in this political and economic mess because the nation has been stuck for 43 years with this corrupt , incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. The party has rigged elections to secure its stay in power. 

By the late 1990s the nation finally came to a consensus that for there to be any hope of putting an end to the dictatorship, the nation must implement the democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. The nation has risked all to elect MDC/CC leaders for the express purpose they implement the democratic reforms. 

After 23 years, including 5 in the GNU, MDC/CCC has failed to implement even one reform. Worse still, they have given up on reforms to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy in return for a share of the spoils of power.

Zimbabwe is a failed state because of the Zanu PF dictatorship and Chamisa and his CCC friends have played their part in keeping Zanu PF in power. Zanu PF and CCC are the reason Zimbabwe is in this mess, they are the problem and per se cannot be the solution too!

So what the devil is SADC doing “consulting Chamisa on the way forward”?

Both Zanu Pf and CCC were involved in the 2008 to 2013 GNU that failed to implement even one reform, SADC leaders know this. What hope is there that a new GNU with the same two political parties in power would do any better. 

What SADC leaders must do is convene the meeting and endorse the SADC election observer mission report condemning the 23 August 2023 elections were a sham and there is no legitimate government in Harare. SADC played the leading role in the 2008 to 2013 GNU which failed to implement even one reform. There is no shame in SADC acknowledging this fact and, more significantly reaching out to UN to ask for help. 

A joint body of UN and SADC must decide the way forward for Zimbabwe.