"Animal Farm" has but one brain-dead Boxer, the horse. Zimbabwe has millions of Chamisa chete chete members. W Mukori

 If I ever have a say in Zimbabwe’s education system then Animal Farm will be compulsory reading at primary school level, secondary school and high school. 

One of the reason why Zimbabwe is a failed state is the personality cult mentality. 

By the late 1990s the people of Zimbabwe realised that Mugabe and Zanu PF cronies were corrupt, incompetent and murderous thug dragging the nation deeper and deeper into the abyss. It was clear that as long as Zanu PF continued to enjoy dictatorial powers including powers to rig elections the regime will continue to drag the nation deeper and deeper into the abyss. 

The solution: the nation must elect opposition leaders who will implement the democratic reforms to end Zanu PF’s dictatorial power and end the curse of rigged elections. 

In 1999 Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends launched their party promising to deliver the democratic changes the nation was dying for. They even named the party Movement for Democratic Change to underline their primary purpose was to deliver democratic changes to end the Zanu PF dictatorship.

Today, 26 years since MDC/CCC leaders appeared on the national political stage, Zanu PF continues to blatantly rig elections and is more powerful than ever because not even one token reform was implemented in the 26 years. Not even one! WHY? 

MDC/CCC leaders have had many opportunities to implement the democratic reforms, the best being during the 2008 to 2013 GNU; they wasted the all. Mugabe bribed Morgan Tsvangirai & co. with the trappings of high office and, with the snouts in the feeding trough, they forgot about the reforms. And ever since the GNU debacle, MDC/CCC leaders have participated in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. 

It is not as if the MDC/CCC leaders do not know this, they do!

“The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious - withdraw from the (2013) elections. The 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.

Chamisa lied about plugging all Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes and millions of his Chamisa chete chete brigade members believed the lie and participate in the flawed 2023 elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy. This was NOT the first time Chamisa conned his follows to do stupid things. 

MDC/CCC leaders are Zanu PF team B in all but name; playing for team A to win and have legitimacy. 

The MDC/CCC leaders have failed to implement even one token democratic change in 26 years and the people have never ever asked why! The answer to that takes us back to Animal Farm, to one animal in particular - Boxer the horse. 

Boxer had the personality cult mentality, he believed Napoleon was a demigod who could do no wrong. “Napoleon is always right!” was his motto!

“Chamisa is always right!” is the unspoken motto of the Chamisa chete chete brigade members. Understand that and you understand why Chamisa has conned millions to participate in flawed elections; so flawed, so illegal, Zanu PF victory is guaranteed and participating guarantees the regime legitimacy and perpetuates the nation’s suffering. The brigade members have participated in their millions again and again because Chamisa asked them to participate and Chamisa isn always, ALWAYS right”!  

Animal farm had one Boxer with a personality cult mentality Zimbabwe has millions of Chamisa chete chete brigade members and they are loud, very loud, full of sh***t  and they have a vote! They are holding the nation to ransom.

Zimbabwe is a failed state and the A1 reason this is so is Zimbabweans do not THINK! W Mukori

 “Africa suffers from a lack of citizens who THINK!”

You can play this video to Zimbabweans and you will be luck if 5% of them and stop to think. The rest will hear it and comprehend nothing, it just be water off a duck’s back. 

Chamisa lied about plugging Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes to con millions to participate in flawed 2023 elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the nation’s suffering. Day after the voting he complained that Zanu PF rigged the elections - the very thing he said would not happen. The millions have failed to connect the dots. 

They have failed to realise that they participated in the flawed elections because they believed Chamisa’s lie of plugging all the vote rigging loop holes. They have yet to realise that their participating in the flawed elections in their millions had consequences. 

They gave Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuated their own suffering. To realise that Chamisa lied to them, etc. is the mental process called THINKING - something many are incapable of. 

Indeed, many have become public enemies for calling Chamisa corrupt, incompetent, a liar and a conman. The mountain of evidence proving Chamisa is corrupt, etc. means nothing to the Chamisa chete chete brigade members, it is water off a duck’s back!

Mnangagwa's vision 2030 is a mirage. He can dismiss those saying so but that does not change the reality. W Mukori.

 President Emmerson Mnangagwa has dismissed political discourse on social media as detached from electoral realities, telling Zanu PF's top leadership that while critics remain active online, the ruling party is focused on winning support at grassroots level.

Addressing the party's Central Committee at Zanu PF headquarters in Harare on Thursday, Mnangagwa contrasted what he described as the "wilderness of social media" with the party's mobilisation efforts in communities across the country.

"Detractors spend their time in the wilderness of social media, with its illusionary false community," Mnangagwa said.

"Zanu PF, on the other hand, is on the ground, in villages and wards, winning the hearts and minds of the people."

The President's remarks come amid growing political debate on social media platforms, where speculation, commentary and rumours about developments within the ruling party have become increasingly common.

Mnangagwa, however, said political success is determined by electoral performance rather than online discussions.

He cited Zanu PF's recent victory in the Tsholotsho by-elections, where the party retained Wards 1, 10 and 21.

Zimbabwe’s economy is in a mess and millions are living in abject poverty. Mnangagwa pushed his ED2030 Agenda which morphed into CAB3 on the promise he would revive the Zimbabwe economy tripling the GDP from US$2k per capita to US$6k - the so called vision 2030. 

Mnangagwa has bullied and bamboozles the nation to get what he wants; CAB3 has been passed and now the nation awaits vision 2030. Alas! There is no sign of any meaningful economic recovery. None! 

As more and more Zimbabweans realise that vision 2030 is a mirage the political unrest will only get worse. Mnangagwa can dismiss the dissenting voices as “detractors spending their time in the wilderness of social media, with its illusionary false community”. But as long as the human suffering continues the demands for meaningful change will only grow louder. 

  

All Mnangagwa cares about is to secure absolute power and hold on to it at all costs. He does not care about the millions living in abject poverty, the consequences of the decades of Zanu PF misrule. History tell us that tyrannical regime will ultimately collapse under increasing mass pressure for change. This Zanu PF dictatorship will collapse, that much is clear.

Vision 2030 was a smoke screen to hide ED2030 Agenda and CAB3 now comes the consequences of post CAB3! W Mukori

 vThousands of migrants are streaming back into Zimbabwe through the Beitbridge Border Post following South Africa's intensified enforcement of immigration laws, with many returnees arriving exhausted, destitute and uncertain about their future.

Mnangagwa promised to turn Zimbabwe into a upper middle income nation with a GPD per capita of US$6k up from the present US$2k by 2030, the so-called vision 2030. If there was ever an doubt that vision 2030 was a mirage; the doubt has turned into certainty. The hundreds of thousands destitute returning from SA are not only adding to the millions destitute already in the country; the returnees are making the situation in the country worse because many back in Zimbabwe have depended on direct or indirect diaspora help.

The truth is Mnangagwa did not have the intellectual ability to arrest Zimbabwe's economic decline that started soon after independence in 1980. He is a Zanu PF thug and a buffoon with an insatiable hunger for absolute power and the wealth it brings. He knew that he will never deliver vision 2030, he knows that it is just propaganda a smoke screen to hide his dictatorial schemes to secure absolute power at all cost! 

Vision 2030 is not the first mirage the nation has been chasing, we have been chasing empty promises all our lives. Mugabe never tired of telling the nation of delivering "Gutsa ruzhinji!" Mass prosperity! It took nearing twenty before the penny finally dropped that he was delivering mass poverty. By the end of this year many people will begin to realise vision 2030 is indeed a mirage! 

The tragedy is CAB3 has already been approved by parliament and will soon be signed into law. The nation will be forced to live with the consequences of CAB3 giving Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies even more dictatorial powers consolidating the regime's iron grip onm absolute power. Millions living in abject poverty will sink even deeper into poverty and hopelessness. 

The lesson to be learned here is that Zimbabwe's economic and political mess is a man-made problem and as long as Zanu PF retains the dictatorial powers to rig elections and ride roughshod over us the nation will continue to sink into the abyss. We owe it to ourselves and posterity to end the curse of rigged elections and bad governance. 

In Zimbabwe the rural povo are kept poor, they are no more than medieval period serfs, for selfish political reasons. W Mukori

 Moving Beyond Paperwork: Why Africa’s ‘Resource Curse’ is a Crisis of Academic Inaction

By Akson Potera

As the continent prepares to mark Africa Day, I must state plainly: Africa’s persistent “poverty paradox” is not a failure of intellect, but a profound failure of execution.

For decades, African universities, think tanks, and policymakers have generated mountains of compelling research diagnosing the continent’s economic stagnation. Yet, despite being home to some of the world’s richest natural and physical resources, our local communities remain trapped in a cycle of severe unemployment. The root of this problem lies in institutional inertia. The academics who write the blueprints are failing to implement their own recommendations.

The knowledge is there. What we face is a stark theory-practice gap where vital research remains confined to lecture halls and policy briefs rather than being deployed on the ground. Traditional, top-down economic models have repeatedly failed to convert vast natural wealth into localised prosperity.

To break this gridlock, I and the Fastforward Community Development Centre (FCDC-SA) are championing a radical shift toward grassroots industrialisation through the Local Asset-Based Employment Creation and Community-Based Industrial Development (LABEC-CBID) framework. This model circumvents sluggish state bureaucracies by focusing entirely on self-reliance. Instead of waiting for foreign direct investment or distant state intervention, LABEC-CBID identifies and mobilises existing community assets—such as local skills, land, and raw materials—and converts them into immediate employment drivers.

Crucially, the strategy hinges on Community-Based Industrial Development (CBID). By establishing micro-manufacturing and small-scale industrial hubs directly within townships and rural areas, we ensure that wealth circulates locally rather than leaking out to multinational corporations.

Turning this philosophy into action requires a pragmatic, five-stage approach that I urge governments to adopt:

1. Strategic Planning and Mapping: Define clear local employment targets and audit community strengths.

2. Targeted Identification: Pinpoint high-unemployment zones and determine what specific industries those areas can realistically support.

3. Resource Mobilisation: Aggressively secure infrastructure, seed funding, and community-led partnerships.

4. Inclusive Skills Training: Provide practical, “second-chance” technical training to marginalised workers who lack formal academic qualifications, instantly making them employable.

5. Execution and Monitoring: Launch the local hubs with rigorous, ongoing monitoring to ensure long-term sustainability.

As Africa Day approaches, my message is clear: true liberation and economic sovereignty will not come from more academic papers. It will come when African communities transition from being passive consumers of external goods to active, self-sustaining producers and innovators.”

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In Zimbabwe many people have argued that rural folk must be given title deeds to the few acres of land on which their mud huts stand. This would give these people confidence to build decent houses and develop the land by planting fruit trees, digging wells for clean water, etc. 

Zanu PF, just like the white regime before it, has stubbornly refuse to give povo title deed. Giving blacks title deeds will give them the confidence to demand political rights next. Smith was not going to give blacks the right to vote, period. Zanu PF ruling elite are denying povo title deeds to land for the same selfish political reason! 

In Zimbabwe it is not the academic who is hold up progress, povo will do wonders to lift themselves out of poverty. It is the politicians who are holding povo and  the nation at large hostage! Zanu PF is dishing out title deeds to Chinese, foreigners, as if there is no tomorrow but will not give one acre to the rural blacks. Property rights are recognised for the ruling elite and foreigners but not povo!

The liberation war was fought over land first and foremost. Great liberation icons like the late Chief Rekayi Tangwena must be spinning in their grave to know that 46 years after independence millions continue to be denied the right to own even a postage stamp size piece of land!

Zimbabwe is a failed state, consequence of 46 years of blundering from pillar to post living the Zanu PF lie. W Mukori

 

Zimbabwe is a failed nation - fact!

Why is Zimbabwe a failed nation, a pariah state, blundering from pillar to post and sinking deeper and deeper into this man-made hell-on-earth Z anu PF has landed us in? Yes it is Zanu PF that dragged us into this hell-hole and has kept us there. How? By stifling all meaningful debate and democratic discourse on the one hand and sparing no expense on promoting lies, misinformation and propaganda to drown the truth.

For 46 years and counting the nation has been forced to follow a disastrous path . Many could see it is the wrong path but they either did not dare say so or heir voices were drowned by the regime or worse.

A nation that disregard the truth is like a man forced to run with a blindfold. Of course, he will blunder from pillar to post. Zanu PF thugs are the ones who have tied the blindfold on the nation for their own selfish reason - how else could they have retained their absolute power on the nation. We must fight to remove the blindfold or this nation is going to sink deeper and deeper into the abyss.

Temba Mliswa, you, Mnangagwa, Chiwenga, the war veterans, the army, Police, etc. were key pillars of the the First Republic. You all played your part in keeping Mugabe in power even to the extend of carrying out the barbarism of 2008 Operation Mavhotera Papi.

Mugabe had accepted defeat in the March 2008 vote and it was none other than Mnangagwa and Chiwenga who forced him to stay. The two orchestrated the 2017 military coup that ousted Mugabe.

You are clearly exaggerating the role of the war veterans played in the 2017 military coup and down playing that of the army. It was the army not war veterans who drove the tanks and it was soldiers not Victor Matemadanda & co. who stormed State House in the small hours of 15 th November 2017.

The so-called Second Republic has been but a continuation of the First Republic the promise to stamp out corruption , hold free, fair and credible elections, etc., etc. have not been honoured. Indeed, many believe the Second Republic is worse than the First! For one thing corruption, which was bad under Mugabe has gone into overdrive.

Mnangagwa has always been at Mugabe's side from the Mozambique days and became the dictator's most trusted henchman. In the 2008 Operation Mavhotera Papi Mugabe did not have the leash on Mnangagwa and the latter demonstrated the depth of barbarism he would sink to!

Many people have died especially in the army and war veterans and considered to be VP Chiwenga allies. Mnangagwa and VP Chiwenga were allies in the fight to secure ,power from Mugabe but as soon as that was done, Mnangagwa started eyeing Chiwenga as his greatest enemy!

The Second Republic is a curse to Zimbabwe and no amount of propaganda can ever change that.

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Temba Mliswa stop insulting our intelligence with you lies and nonsense. Was it the war veterans who drove the tanks and stormed Mugabe's home in the small hours of 15 November 2017 or it was Army Soldiers? So the war veterans supported the Army and not the other way round as you claim!

Operation Restore Legacy and Second Republic are just a continuation of the First Republic. Indeed, if anything, things are much worse under Mnangagwa than they were under Mugabe; corruption has gone into overdrive and the fog of fear is thicker now than ever!

Zimbabwe is a failed state because the nation has never been allowed to have open and honest debate nor benefit from vigorous  democratic discourse and competition. CAB3 will only drag the nation even deeper into the abyss. This must end if the nation is ever going to get out of this hell-on-earth Zanu PF has landed us in.

CAB3 passed with 216 YES vs 42 NO. Real surprise is that millions ARE SURPRISED! W Mukori

 The controversial Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 3) Bill (CAB3) has cleared a major hurdle after securing the constitutionally required two-thirds majority in the National Assembly, moving it a step closer to becoming law.

The Bill sailed through Parliament on Thursday after 216 legislators voted in favour of the proposed constitutional changes while 42 voted against.

The real surprise here is that there are many out there who are surprised the bill passed! Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 2023 elections, a more complex process, it is therefore naive the even imagine the regime would have any problem rigging the constitutional amendment process, a process in which the regime can do as it damn well pleases! 

After 46 years of Zanu PF rigging elections one would have thought every Zimbabwean out there has finally token up to the reality of not only that Zanu PF was rigging the elections but also that nothing of substance can ever be accomplished until this curse is dealt with. So why are so many Zimbabweans surprised?

There is one fundamental reason why millions of Zimbabweans are surprised CAB3 is sailing through: IGNORANCE!

Yes, Zanu PF has been rigged elections for donkey years now and got away with it every time because whilst many people have realised there was something wrong with the electoral process very few have ever understood enough detail to comprehend what is going on. 

Election processes are not rocket science, that citizens should have a meaningful say in the governance of the country are not such abstract ideas in this day and age. The ancient Greeks figured this out 2 500 years ago; all others who have followed had only to embrace the ideas. 

Why we are strangling to comprehend what constitute free, fair and credible elections speaks volumes of our ignorance. 

Both Zanu PF and their corrupt and incompetent political side-kick, MDC/CCC, have taken advantage of the millions of Zimbabweans out there who have no clue what is going on to rig elections and/or con them to participate in flawed processes, “so flawed, so illegal, the only logical step is to withdraw. As long as there are millions of Zimbabweans out there who are so slow, shallow and thick they do not know what constitute free and fair elections; Zimbabwe will never escape out of the hell-hole we find ourselves in.  

The 42 participated in the flawed elections "so flawed, so illegal the only logical step was to withdraw." They did not withdraw and participated to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. They knew Zanu PF was offering a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition to participate no matter how flawed and illegal the process got. They found the bait irresistible! 

Ever since taking up the gravy train seats, Zanu PF has dished out more and more freebies cars, land to build houses, US$150 000 for development, etc., etc. They have had their moments in parliament and denounce the regime, CAB3, etc. 

These are the classical mother-hen moments making a big show of chasing the eagle that has just snatched her chick! The tragedy is how many people have fallen for empty show! The 42 are now national heroes when their participation in the flawed process GAVE the 2023 elections legitimacy and what else followed that was unavoidable. The damage was participating in the flawed process out of greed! 

42 CCC MPs voted NO to CAB3 and 35 voted YES!

A closer look at the two lists shows an interesting contradiction: many of those accused of being sellouts actually voted “No” to CAB3, while a number of those regarded as standing for the citizens voted “Yes.” It’s quite a surprising outcome.

The damage of giving Zanu PF legitimacy was done when these leaders decided to participate in the flawed elections knowing fully well that doing so would give Zanu PF legitimacy. They did this out of greed. Those CCC leaders who have made a big song and dance about criticising Zanu PF, CAB3, etc., are just playing to the gallery. Only the naive and gullible will fall for this!