MDC’s
organizing secretary has finally admitted that going to the July elections without
any of the democratic reforms being implemented was suicidal.
But as
if to reclaim the party’s coveted trough of being the most incompetent and
inapt political party in modern history Chamisa immediately followed the
admission with the assertion that the party will keep Tsvangirai as its leader.
“Every
struggle has its face. President Tsvangirai is the face of the struggle. Any other
shrill calls or comments for him to step down are just but voices in the wilderness,”
argued Chamisa.
“It’s
good to express oneself but looking at the circumstances, the challenges we
face, it’s not the time to change the commander. We are in the middle of a
mortal combat with challenges that are so clear in the country.”
Surly
it is when the task before you is tougher than ever; get the reforms
implemented now that Mugabe and his Zanu PF dictatorship have returned to power
with a stronger grip on power will not be a walk in the park; that the need for
a competent leadership is of paramount importance. Retaining the same leader
whose breath-taking incompetence caused the party and the nation at large to
commit suicide simply defies logic!
11 comments:
Is the AU saying African Leaders can not be impeached regardless how serious the crime and overwhelming the evidence against the individual? ICC has never charged anyone of a trivial crime but only the most serious crimes and never without a body of evidence to back the charge.
Africa's only legal system is corrupt if it functions at all and we all know tyrants like Mugabe will never be held to account by the country or the continent's own legal systems. If ICC can not hold tyrants like Mugabe to account then who will?
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation has awarded the African Leader award with a $5 million cash price to no one this year.
There really was no African leader who has shown any leadership qualities of note. Good decision.
I think the foundation should open up the field to African leaders of note, regardless of whether or not they have been head of state. Leaders like Archbishop D Tutu have played a key role in promoting good governance than many Heads of State ever will. Besides, it is not only heads of state who matter in our search for good governance!
Up to 1 200 Zimbabweans are leaving the country everyday according to Edwin Gandari,
chairperson of the Zimbabwe Cross Borders Transporters’ Association.
Zimbabweans know Mugabe rigged the elections and that he has nothing to offer the na-tion. Since the tyrant denied them a meaningful vote and so now they are voting with their feet by leaving the country in droves!
@ Wasu
What are you talking about; you saw how Mugabe bussed Zanu PF youth from one polling station to the next from one constituency to the next; how the number of polling stations shot from 2 000 two days before the elections to 9 000, how over a million voters were denied the right to vote, etc., etc. What did you expect the rural people to do?
Mugabe blatantly rigged the elections and if you are going to blame anyone for that then it must be Tsvangirai and his idiotic MDC friends. They did not implement even one democratic reforms although they had five years to do so. Blaming the rural people is a cheap shot coming from someone who was clearly not following the tragic drama in Zimbabwe!
@ Wasu
Well what did you expect them to do? What did you do? Nothing and yet now blame the victims of the vote rigging.
The drunken youth and your sekuru do not constitute the majority of Zimbabweans; that is the point. Mugabe rigged the elections and he therefore has no right to be in State House. He should be in Chikurumbi on high treason charges!
@ datbrother
I know it because that is the reality on the ground. What has Mugabe done to help economic recover since rigging the elections? Nothing.
On the looting front; he splash $20 million buying new posh cars for his ministers. Last week he was extending the same to all Police, Army and civil servants of assistant constable rank and above. Of course this was not budgeted for nor can the country afford it given millions of people in cities and towns do not have something as basic as running water.
You have nothing good to say about America and Mugabe can do no wrong. Why don't you go to Zimbabwe then, you hypocrite?
@ Nhamo
He will never go back to Zimbabwe; he is just one of those big mouth who would say all manner of rubbish about the West to please his Zanu PF paymasters.
Datbrother is just one of those idiots who 200 years ago would have sold his own kith and kin as slaves for a piece of calico cloth and a handful of beads! Today he is doing the same; selling the whole nation's hopes and dreams to a tyrant for thirty pieces of silver!
@ Gumbo
You should get your facts right; Mugabe and Zanu PF have done a lot of bad things, rigging these elections for a start, but they did not refuse to implement the reforms. MDC never came up with any details of proposed reforms; so how can Mugabe refuse something that was never put before him!?
Tsvangirai had five years to implement the reforms and yet not even one reform was implement. The only reason why this was so is that the idiot is breathtakingly incompetent; that is a historic fact!
@ Murairwa
90% of the people are unemployed right now; do you really they are all stupid not to see all those opportunities you keep wittering about? Why has Mugabe not "welcomed them with open arms"?
Those Zimbabweans who can leave the country have already left and wave upon wave of others are leaving because they too see that there is no future as long as the looting brigade is in power!
Why do you go back yourself? You cannot be in Zimbabwe because if you were the chances are you would be seating in the dark right now. You would not be talking all this nonsense!
@ Murairwa
What are you talking about? Did Mugabe acknowledge that he rigged the elections, that he looted and continues to loot the nation's wealth including Marange diamonds, that he has denied and continues to deny the people freedom of expression, etc., etc. How can the nation move on whilst the tyrant continues to loot and terrorise the nation?
@ Justice
This is not a numbers game! Zimbabwe has 28 political parties, counting only those who took party in the July 2013 elections and yet the country is in even deeper trouble than ever. I am not "whining days and night about Tsvangirai and MDC-T and Zanu PF," but about the need for the electorate to wake-up. Tsvangirai and Mugabe are just examples of idiots and or tyrants the people have supported in the past and thus proving the electorate is weak and feeble. As long as we continue to have an electorate that believes they only have to wake up to vote and then go back to sleep this country will continue to elect idiots and tyrants.
As long as we continue to have mediocre electorate we will continue to have a mediocre government. Of course you do not see that and hence your call, like millions others out there, for yet another political party. You are obsessed about quantity. Right now the nation has 28 political parties; all rubbish of course but you still want more.
Even if there was one average politician out there; this mediocre electorate will elect an idiot that I can bet 1 million to one!
I am whining about a lot bigger picture; the nation and not failed individuals like Mugabe or Tsvangirai who will be forgotten the day their are kicked out of office!
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