"Toxicity forces Biti into early political exit". Go! Good riddance. You are a sell out! W Mukori

 Toxicity forces Biti into early political exit

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Firebrand opposition activist and former Finance Minister Tendai Biti has called it a day in opposition politics marking an end to a dramatic two decades in the trenches fighting for political change in Zimbabwe.

Biti waltzed into opposition politics as a fierce human rights lawyer and became Member of Parliament in 2000 before he assumed the powerful Secretary General of the MDC-T in 2005. 

He was to be a vital cog for the MDC-T led by the late former opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, as the chief negotiator leading the pack to a historic inclusive government dubbed the Government of National Unity (GNU) in 2008 to 2013 where he served as the Finance Minister.

Despite holding a colourful record in the "struggle", the toxicity in the opposition camp has finally pushed him into quitting.

“It’s embarrassing,” Biti told a local media outlet. “Particularly for people like me who have been in the trenches for a long time, who bear the scars of fighting.”

He accused some in the opposition camp of joining the feeding trough. 

“All of us, all of them are now waiting to receive vehicles, to get a call to go and see Victor. And that’s not good enough,” Biti said, in apparent reference to  a popular but infamous call by businessman Wicknell Chivayo in his vehicle donation crusade.

MDC leaders lost themselves during the GNU when Mugabe bribed them with the trappings of high office and the forgot about implementing reforms - the number one task the party was launched to do. As minister in the GNU Biti got a E-Class Mercedes Benz. 

Since the GNU debacle, he has participated in the flawed elections knowing that doing soo will give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the nation’s suffering. He did not care about that. He knew Zanu PF was giving away a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition to participate and that he could not resist!

Of course, Tendai Biti is a sell out. Zanu PF is still in power today because he and his fellow MDC/CCC leaders sold out on reforms and have been participating in flawed elections to perpetuate the dictatorship. History will know him for betraying the nation boy failing to implement any democratic reforms in 25 years including 5 GNU years. He and his fellow MDC/CCC sell outs can fcuk off the political stage. Go and good riddance!  

Why are millions refusing to accept Chamisa lied to con them to participate in flawed elections? WHY? W Mukori

  Chamisa lied about plugging vote rigging loop hole to con people to participate in the flawed elections. He knew Zanu PF was rigging and that participating would give the regime legitimacy. 

The people themselves have been warned repeatedly of the sheer folly of participating in the flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate their own suffering. They heard the warning but clearly did not understanding it. It is not all who hear who understand! 

2 million Zimbabweans heard and believed Chamisa’s idiotic lie and participated in the flawed 2023 elections. Mnangagwa and Zanu PF blatantly rigged the elections and the rest is history.

It is now 2 years since the rigged 2023 elections, the 2028 elections are 3 years away, and we are still failing to get the millions of Chamisa chete chete brigade to accept that Chamisa lied to them and they, in turn, were foolish to believe the idiotic lie! If we cannot get them to accept this simple truth then the warning of the folly of participating in flawed 2028 election will once again be heard but not understood. 

“Chiri muruoko, unorasiswa. Chawadya, unorutsiswa. Chiri mumusoro, unofa nacho!” so goes a Shona adage. 

Meaning: If it (what is wrong with you) is in your hand, you can be forced to throw it away. If it is in your stomach, you can be forced to vomit. If it is in your head, it will kill you!

Zimbabwe is a failed state because the nation is stuck with a corrupt, incompetent and murderous Zanu PF dictatorship for 45 years and counting. Zanu PF has blatantly rigged elections to stay in power although it must be said the regime would not have done so these last 25 years without the connivance of the corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless MDC/CCC. 

What is killing the nation is the millions of Zimbabweans out there who have yet to figure out the sheer folly of participating in flawed elections. They cannot comprehend the simple truth that Chamisa lied about plugging vote rigging loop holes because Zanu PF blatantly rigged 2023 elections - the very thing Chamisa said they would not do! If a simple statement of fact like that is incomprehensible what hope is there these people will comprehend the complexities of democratic reform, that the 2008 to 2013 was the golden opportunity to implement the reforms.

Man is a creature of reason but not all are capable of reasoning. In Zimbabwe millions are incapable of rational thought because a significant portion of their brain has ossified into fat tissue, for whatever reasons. They cannot think. “Chiri mumusoro unofa nacho!”

The challenge for Africa is NOT to unite but to deliver peace and prosperity to all within the 1884 Berlin Conference borders. W Mukori

 The Berlin Conference happened  in 1884 - 1885; during the life time of my great grand father and his his generation. They were not invited to the conference nor were they in any way informed much less consulted on the consequences of the General Act of Berlin outcome. They had no say in the scramble for Africa in which the white colonial powers commandeered and looted from Africa without so much as by your leave!

It is a historic fact that the white man’s colonial occupation of Africa caused a lot of suffering and deaths and very little good, if any. This is not surprising since the relationship between the coloniser and the colonised was never one of equals.

The colonisers’ number priority was to exploit the colonised nations’ human and material resources to fuel Europe and North America’s industrial growth. The Berlin Conference was to ensure the free for all scramble for Africa’s resources orderly and amicable amongst the competing colonial powers. What each colonial power did in its colony was its own affair!

Some colonial nations did bring civilising influences and economic developments to their African colonies. Others were not so generous. 

My great grand father’s generation’s number one priority was to survive the colonial storm as best as they could. Some wage wars to drive out the white invaders out of the country with very little success, as history shows. 

However the continued ill treatment and exploitation of the Africans by the whites, was cause for biter racial hatred. Africans were third class citizens with no meaningful economic wealth and no political rights. The desire to end white colonial rule a.s.a.p. was a slow burning fire that never went out and was passed down from one generation to the next. 

The first and second World War distracted the colonial powers but, more significantly, it opened up the Africans the bigger world beyond that of mother Africa and the colonising nations. The whispered calls for independence after the 2WW grew louder and louder. China and Russia supplied the Africans with the diplomatic support in the quest for independence and, more importantly, with weapons with which to fight the white colonisers. And as each African country gained its independence the pressure to end colonial rule became an unstoppable tide!

The last African country to end white colonial rule was South Africa in 1994 one hundred and ten years since the 1884 Berlin Conference. 

Attaining independence was cause for great pride and joy for the oppressed and exploited Africans. Sadly the joy never last long for the overwhelming majority of Africans because their aspiration for freedom, justice, peace and economic prosperity were dashed. Most post-independence African rulers have turned out to be corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs who care more about enriching themselves at the expense of the common good. 

A democracy index for Africa says it all; other than a few countries notably Mauritius scoring 8.14 out of 10, Botswana 7.73, SA 7.05 the overwhelming major are authoritarian states scoring 3 points or less. 

Some people have argued that African leaders had focused on ending white colonial rule and took their eyes off what was to happen the day-after. That is just a feeble excuse to justify the continent’s reputation of failing to govern ourselves. 

The repeated calls by some people for Africa to unite should be dismiss with the contempt it rightly deserve. Unity is not the panacea for the curse of rigged elections, corruption and breathtaking incompetence. If a leader like President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe has clearly failed to govern that country, for example, it is naive to think he would do a much better job governing SADC much less the whole of Africa! 

The one of the things founding fathers of Organisation for African Unity, the forerunner of African Union, got right was that Africans must not waste time, sweat and blood fighting over country borders. We must accept the borders we inherited from the hated Berlin Conference. We have more pressing issues to deal with than borders - delivering freedom, justice, peace and economic prosperity to all our people. 

The Berlin Conference country borders will melt away if there is peace and prosperity from Cape to Cairo and from Cape Verde in the west to the tip of the rhinoceros horn in Somalia. 

The scramble for Africa a walk in the park for the colonial powers because my great grand father and his generation of Africans had lagged behind the invading white hordes in terms of intellectually development. 

If we, in Africa, want to sit at the table as equal with anyone else on earth then we must earn that right by proving that we are just as competent in every field of human endeavour as anybody else out there. The tragic reality in most African countries today has white supremacists boasting they were right,  Africans are incapable of self-governing. We should be striving to do much, much more than prove the white supremacists wrong. 

 

“Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
……..
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are,
we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Freeman Chari "Zanu PF invests in power retention - they play the long game" Compare and contrast with village idiot! W Mukori

 Feeeman on X

22 Aug 2025

When ZEC released the first delimitation maps, they did not delete the metadata on the file, so we cld see who touched the maps. There were about 200 pple. We profiled them and 8 had PhDs and about 25 masters in GIS related work. Non were ZEC employees, most were at UZ or Govt depts. We looked at what each one was adding to the maps and you cld tell it was a fully orchestrated operation. 

The lessons from this:

1.⁠ ⁠We were not dealing with a ragtag team but well funded team with academic resources 

2.⁠ ⁠ZANU PF invests in power retention

3.⁠ ⁠The first changes had happened 3 yrs prior to 2023 elections, especially in Epworth - They play the long game

On the other hand .....🤐🤐

https://x.com/freemanchari/status/1958875917188493576?t=hYLTH3DL1RBsZ99aLY6DTA&s=19

Compare and contrast with the village idiot who insisted he "plugged all the Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes. #Godisinit!"

Compare and contrast with the brain dead who not only believed the village idiot's idiotic lies but even no0w with the benefit of hindsight continue to accept that Chamisa is a liar. 

Democracy demands that the people must be educated, knowledgeable and objective if they are to carry out their primary duty of diligently holding the leaders to account. The 2 m Zimbabweans who have believed Chamisa's idiotic lies and conned to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the nation's suffering are a curse to the nation and our hope of creating a democratic Zimbabwe!

The number one step in changing Zimbabwe has to be in educating the 2m brain dead to think for themselves and stop the foolishness of personality cult mentality!

Leaked Varakashi4ED memo instruct to box Chamisa with kid gloves, "he is a weak leader helping Zanu PF stay in power". W Mukori

 Leaked Memo – Varakashi4ED Mash West

To: My Fellow Varakashi – Mash West

From: Chairman Levison Chambati

Subject: Strategy on Nelson Chamisa

Comrades,

I have been following your writings and I can see the passion and the deep dislike you have for Nelson Chamisa. However, I want to advise you: let us not be too hard on him with insults or unnecessary abuse.

The truth is, Chamisa has done more to keep ZANU PF in power than all our combined efforts. Let us look at the facts:

Where else can you find an opposition leader who strengthens the ruling party by boycotting by-elections, effectively pushing for a one-party state?

Where else can you find an opposition leader who keeps forming new parties, confusing his own supporters time and again?

Where else can you find an opposition leader who disappears after elections, going on sabbatical when his supporters need him most?

Where else can you find a leader who substitutes real politics with endless Bible verses, stringing his supporters along with false hope?

Where else can you find a leader who squanders donations, like the infamous $120,000, proving to his supporters that he is corrupt?

Where else can you find an opposition leader who destroys his own party structures just to crown himself absolute ruler — showing his dictatorial tendencies?

Where else can you find an opposition leader so weak and non-aggressive?

This is the Chamisa effect. He is, without doubt, ZANU PF’s biggest political asset.

Therefore, our strategy must be clear: let us continue to write negatively about him — but with precision. The more we attack him, the more his supporters will believe he is the “true opponent” of ZANU PF. This keeps them tied to a weak leader who is, in fact, helping us stay in power.

If Chamisa quits politics, Zimbabwe might end up with a stronger opposition leader — and that would be disastrous for us.

I trust you understand this directive and will adjust accordingly.

Yours in the Struggle,

Cde Levison Chambati

Chairman – Varakashi4ED Mash West.

There really is nothing to add here. 

Chambati is not the first Zanu PF leaders to acknowledge MDC/CCC are Zanu PF team B in all but name, Mnangagwa said the same thing at a public gathering attended by Zanu PF leaders and opposition leaders. “There is no friction between Zanu PF and the opposition. They are helping to keep Zanu PF in power whilst they stay in the opposition,” he boasted.

During the 2008 to 2013 GNU, Zanu PF cronies were asked why MDC leaders were not implementing any democratic reforms. “Mazivanhu eMDC adzidza kudya anyerere!” replied the cronies, drumming their chest with the self-adoration of the seasoned conman who has just pulled off his greatest conquest! 

MDC/CCC leaders have failed to implement even one token democratic reform in 25 years including the GNU years to dilute Zanu PF’s carte blanche dictatorial powers. And ever since the GNU debacle they have participated in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and to perpetuate the nation’s suffering out of greed. 

Chamisa lied about “plugging all the Zanu PF vote rigging loop hole. #Godisinit!” to con 2 million to participate in the flawed 2023 elections. He even evoked the name of God in his idiotic lies. The 2m were foolish enough to believe the idiotic lie! 

True! You can fool SOME people ALL the time. Can fool ALL SOME of the time. But you cannot fool ALL the people ALL the time. There are growing signs that Chamisa will not be as successful in conning as many Zimbabweans to participate in flawed 2028 elections. This is what Chambati it talking about and hence instructing his Varakashi4ED brigades to box Chamisa with kid gloves!   

Chamisa & co. are Zanu PF team B fighting to keep team A in power. Zanu PF is smart enough to recognise how useful MDC/CCC have been to the regime and is offering Chamisa’s protection. “Chakanaka chakanaka mukaka haurungwi munyu!” as one would say in Shona!

Zimbabwe's lawyer dominated political leaders are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless. They created a sewage pond! W Mukori

 Most of Zimbabwe's leading politicians are lawyers. Nelson Chamisa, Tendai Biti, David Coltart, Welshman Ncube, and even President Emmerson Mnangagwa all come from legal backgrounds. The one prominent engineer who often comes to mind in politics is Elias Mudzuri, but even his presence in national debates has been overshadowed by factional squabbles with another lawyer, Douglas Mwonzora.

This dominance of legal minds in Zimbabwean politics is not without consequence. It may help explain why governance in the country relies heavily on statutory instruments - complex legal rules that regulate everyday life - rather than on tangible, large-scale projects that could drive development.

Dan Wang, a Chinese-born Canadian analyst, highlights this contrast vividly in his book Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future. He argues that China is run by engineers, while the United States is run by lawyers, and that this difference shapes their trajectories. Engineers focus on building - railways, factories, and power plants - while lawyers tend to emphasise processes, legal frameworks, and regulation.

Wang points out that in 2002, all nine members of China's Politburo Standing Committee had engineering backgrounds. This technocratic leadership prioritised construction on a massive scale, giving rise to bullet trains, world-class airports, and advanced manufacturing hubs. Meanwhile, in the US, where law degrees dominate political leadership, projects like California's high-speed rail have been bogged down in lawsuits, environmental reviews, and spiralling costs.

The same parallel resonates in Zimbabwe. Decades after independence, the country still struggles with crumbling infrastructure, power shortages, and stalled mega-projects. Yet, legal battles, constitutional wrangles, and endless political disputes dominate the headlines. Zimbabwean politics often appears trapped in the courtroom rather than the construction site.

Consider the contrast: China completed its Beijing–Shanghai bullet train in just three years at a cost of $36 billion, carrying more than a billion passengers in its first decade. Meanwhile, in Zimbabwe, flagship projects like the Batoka Gorge hydropower station or the expansion of Hwange Power Station are perpetually delayed, weighed down by financing problems, political disagreements, and governance challenges.

Of course, lawyers play a critical role in defending rights, upholding constitutionalism, and curbing authoritarian excesses. But Wang's thesis raises uncomfortable questions for countries like Zimbabwe: Has the overrepresentation of lawyers in politics tilted the nation towards endless legalism and away from the kind of hard engineering mindset required to rebuild a struggling economy?

China's rise demonstrates the power of an "engineering state" that prizes building over arguing. Zimbabwe, facing an infrastructure deficit and economic stagnation, might need more leaders who think like builders - literally. Until then, it risks remaining a nation of statutory instruments and policy pronouncements, without the highways, factories, and power grids to match.”

A good read to every thinking Zimbabwean out there!

What has made Zimbabwe’s situation even worse is that our lawyer politician are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless. Look at the country’s constitution for example, one would think the 2013 Constitution would be water tight in guaranteeing the individual freedoms and rights given it was written by brigades of lawyers in both Zanu PF and MDC. It has failed to deliver any freedoms and rights because it is a weak and feeble constitution.

“Mugabe dictated the new constitution,” boasted MP Paul Mangwana, the Zanu PF co-chair of the parliamentary committee tasked to draft the new constitution. Only a fool would expect a democratic constitution from the dictator!

If the people of Zimbabwe were to bite the bullet and demand democratic reforms designed to dismantle the dysfunctional dictatorship and put the nation back on a democratic footing the current crop of failed politicians will be weeded out. Zimbabwe’s present political system is but a sewage pond, you will never get quality fish there. We need to drain the swamp and fill it with clean water and quality fish will return and thrive!

Zimbabwe is a failed state - a damning testimonial to country's hijacked liberation struggle. What's there to celebrate! W Mukori

 Zimbabwe is a failed state.

Zimbabwe’s true liberation heroes and heroines know that we are a failed state and, per se, this is not the Zimbabwe they wanted. They would not join the Zanu PF thugs celebrating Heroes Day knowing the thugs hijack the revolution for their own personal gain and gratification. And, worst of all, the Zanu PF thugs falsely claiming that the nation’s struggle for freedom, justice and human dignity is done and dusted, Zanu PF delivered the coup de grace with the defeat of the white colonial rule in 1980. A liar!

In 1980 the nation swapped the white colonial oppressors for black ones.

If you believe the alpha and omega of the liberation struggle was to remove whites from power; then the very fact that Zimbabwe is a failed in which millions are living in abject poverty denied the basic freedoms and human rights - proof the tyranny and oppression has continued post indolence - is irrelevant. 

Zimbabwe’s true national heroes are turning in their graves to see theZimbabwe they fought hard to free from white colonial oppression a failed state and millions of Zimbabweans suffering so. Of course, they would not join the Zanu PF thugs in the Heroes Day Celebration because there really is nothing for the nation to celebrate. If Mbuya Nehanda and Secure Kaguvi would not be seen dead in the company of thugs like Mnangagwa why would any thinking Zimbabwean want to keep the company of the thugs who have brought such despair, suffering and death to the nation.

olence  is we must celebrate. But if you believe the fight was for much more - to secure the freedoms, human rights, justice, peace and economic prosperity for all Zimbabweans; then there really is nothing to celebrate. Nothing!

Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies disregarding all the values and principles of the revolution, to promote their selfish interest. In 1980, Mugabe and company made is clear that if Zanu PF did not win the 1980 elections, the bush war would continue. Of course the people voted to end the bush war and with that decision they lost forever their right to a meaning say in the governance of the country for decades thereafter. 

SADC pressured Zanu PF to accept a number of changes making Zimbabwe’s March 2008 elections the nearest the nation has ever come to holding free, fair and credible elections. The people voted for regime change. 

When it was clear Zanu PF had lost the election, Mnangagwa and Chiwenga stopped ZEC from declaring the results. They instigated a vote recount, blatantly cheating to give MDC just a marginal lead in parliament and whittle down Tsvangirai’s 73% votes, according to Mugabe’s Freudian slip, to 47%; enough to force a run off. 

Zanu PF subjected the nation to the worst election related violence in the country’s history. The party carried out a military style Operation Mavhotera Papi whose purpose was to punish the people for rejecting Zanu PF in the March vote. Millions were internally displaced, hundreds of thousands had their properties destroyed, were beaten and/or rapped. Over 500 were murdered in cold blood. 

“What was achieved by the bullet cannot be changed by the pen!” thundered Robert Mugabe. Egging on the party’s militia and war veterans, who were Operation Mavhotera Papi’s foot soldiers harassing and beating povo whilst the Army, Police, CIO and Prison Services personal carried out the heavy duty work of abducting and killing.   

SADC and AU refuged to recognise Zanu PF regime’s legitimacy following the marred 2008 election process and forced Mugabe & co. to accept 2008 to 2013 GNU. The primary purpose of the GNU was to implement the democratic reforms to end the Zanu PF dictatorship and put the nation back on a democratic footing. 

Mugabe bribed Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends with the trappings of high office and they failed to implement even one token reform. And so Zanu PF emerged out of the GNU with all its dictatorial powers intact with the bonus of having an opposition that would participate in elections regardless how flawed and illegal the process got for a few gravy train seats! 

The ordinary people have been slow to realise that MDC/CCC leaders are Zanu PF team B in all but name, playing for team A to win and have legitimacy. 

Chamisa lied to his brain dead followers that he plugging vote rigging loop holes and millions believed the idiotic lie and participated in the flawed 2023 elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the nation’s suffering. Chamisa is set to repeat the idiotic lie to con the naive and gullible millions to participate in flawed 2028 with the same tragic consequences.

Zimbabwe is a failed state, the text book pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs who rig elections to stay in power. Zanu PF has managed to rig elections and get away with it with the connivance of MDC/CCC leaders. 

Ending white colonial rule was a necessary step to secure the freedoms and human rights and dignity we, the blacks, were denied by the whites. Ending white rule was as necessary as breaking the egg to make the omelette. After 45 years of Zanu PF blatantly rigging the elections, denying us the masses a meaningful vote it is clear that we got the empty egg shell and Zanu PF thugs have kept the omelette for themselves.

The people should have never given up their right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country back in 1980. Never ever! Not even when one was looking up the business end of an AK47, because, looking back the last 45 years, it is clear the nation did not secure the peace and has gone on to lose everything as the Zanu PF thugs have come back again and again to demand more and more.

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither the Liberty nor Safety.” advised Benjamin Franklin, one of America’s founding fathers and scientist. He was right.

Zimbabwe has become the by-word of failed state in which millions are suffering in dumb anguish and despair. There really is no cause to celebrate a failed state!