Birrell asks whether Blair's proposal to force Mugabe out was "a bad idea" in hindsight! Yes, it is a rotten idea!

According to former SA President, Thambo Mbeki, the British Prime Minister Tony Blair wanted to use military force to remove Mugabe from power; with hindsight, was this a good idea?

 “But given subsequent events, it is worth asking – if only in the interests of counter-factual history – whether it would really have been such a bad idea?” asks Ian Birrell.

 If his analysis had started at the beginning, before independence, and not in the post-independence era; then he would not have called Mugabe a “war hero” or suggested there was any merit in a military action to remove Mugabe and Zanu PF by the British or anyone else.

 Zimbabwe was not the first country to tackle the problem of how to end white colonial exploitation and oppression. The whole of Africa and many other countries the world over had had to deal with the same problem. Mugabe and his fellow nationalist decide to use arms to force the white colonialist to give up power. It achieved the set objective of forcing Ian Smith’s Rhodesia Front to give up power, yes; but at what cost!

 All the nation succeeded in doing is remove an oppressive white regime with an even more oppressive and corrupt black regime.

The national aspiration before independence was for freedom, liberty and a fair share in the nation’s wealth and riches. Aspirations Mugabe and his cronies have shown they did not care about.

The nation considered Mugabe a national hero only because they believed Mugabe’s rhetoric that he the whites so that all blacks could enjoy all the human rights and live in dignity. The reality of Mugabe’s rule has dispelled all that showing Mugabe is nothing but a corrupt and ruthless tyrant. How can anyone call a ruthless tyrant who has murdered over 30 000 innocent civilians for his own selfish political gains a national hero? That is nonsense!

Mahatma Gandhi dismissed the use of force to end British rule of India for one good reason- “What kind of leaders would the armed struggle throw up?” he asked. He knew the answer to that one and so does the people of Zimbabwe. “Are those the kind of men and women I would want to rule India?” Gandhi concluded. Zimbabwe’s armed struggle throw up the worst kind of leaders and we have 33 years of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption, an all-out looting spree in the last 13 years, vote rigging and over 30 000 political murders victims to prove it!

A violent overthrow of Mugabe and Zanu PF, regardless of whether it is inspired or led by the British, can never be a good idea because it too fails to answer the fundamental question; what kind of leaders will it throw up? The fact that anyone should have thought of a military solution shows they have learnt nothing from history.

The 5P+1 agree with Iran on nuclear enreachment and lifting of sanctions - Israel says it will not honour the deal!

“Iran and six world powers reached a breakthrough agreement in Geneva to curb Tehran's atomic ambitions in exchange for limited sanctions relief, in a first step towards resolving a dangerous decade-old standoff,” reported Aljazeera.

 

The Israel Prime Minister has rejected the deal saying Israel cannot allow Iran to develop a nuclear bomb capability. Whilst I readily admit that I have not read the details of the deal Iran and the 5P + 1 have concluded to judge whether the deal is watertight to achieve its intended objective of stopping Iran developing nuclear weapons now and in the future. I am not an expert in Middle East affairs to say whether Iran can be trusted or not. What lives a bitter taste in my mouth is how Israel is taking upon itself the roll, not of the peace-maker but, the world-leader in the export of chaos and mayhem to other countries!

 I am saying this from bitter experience on a matter I do know about and care passionately of!

 Zimbabwe held its parliamentary elections in July this year. Mugabe and Zanu PF, who have ruled the country for the last 33 years with an iron fist, blatantly rigged the elections to stay in power. It has now turned out that they did so with the help of an Israel company, Nikuv, who corrupted the voters roll so that nearly a million voters were denied the vote. Meanwhile Mugabe supporters were allowed to vote multiple times and each time cast as many as 10 to 20 votes; a report by the MDC, the main contestant in the election said.

It is widely believed that Nikuv International Project, is owned by former Mussad agents, Israel Secret Service Agent. It is inconceivable that Mussad and the government of Israel were not aware of Nikuv's activities. After all Israel's diamond industry has thrive from the trade in Zimbabwe's "bloody" diamonds and Nikuv was paid a princely sum of $ 13 million for its Judas kiss!

 

What chance does a poor country like Zimbabwe have of ending tyrannical rule if the tyrants have the backing of powerful nations like Israel? Trading with a tyrannical regime has left a bitter taste in our mouth. But for a nation to go out of its way to undermine the oppressed people's struggle for freedom, human dignity and life itself is moral and legally unacceptable.
 
Is Israel rejecting the deal the 5P+1 have made with Iran because it does not want Iran to develop and prosper just as it has already decided that it does not want Zimbabwe to end the Zanu PF dictatorship?

Zimbabwe's economic and political mess is getting worse not better - continued Zanu PF rule is unthinkable!

Tsvangirai and MDC's breath-taking and blundering incompetence is a matter of historic record. Only the blind MDC supporters will deny or defend that record.

Mugabe rigged the July 2013 elections, that too is a historic record which cannot be denied or defended. Mugabe is stubbornly refusing to release the voters roll for scrutiny because he knows it will only add to the mountain of evidence of the vote rigging.

You can deny the vote rigging; that will not change a thing. What is of paramount importance now is to ensure Mugabe does not get away with the vote rigging, not this time.

Mugabe had hoped that whole world would forget he rigged the elections soon after Tsvangirai withdraw the court challenge. And yet here we are, three months after the elections it is still a hot issue. He is shrewd enough to know the vote rigging is not going away but is helpless to do anything else. He is not in control of events, events and others are!

Minister Chinamasa has postponed producing the November national budget because in spending over $3 billion rigged the elections, Mugabe also inadvertently bankrupted the nation. The Ministry of Higher Education received $50 000 out of its annual budget allocation of $ 380 million these last year. That is less than 0.002%! How can the nation survive without money.

The proposal for Mugabe and Zanu PF to rule until the next elections in 2018 offers no hope in ending the country’s economic and political crisis in the short term or long term. Anyone who thinks Zanu PF will implement any meaningful democratic reforms now, without the pressure of the GPA, is being naïve and fallacious. The proposition must be disregarded with the contempt it rightly deserves!

There are plans afoot already to uncover even more evidence of how Mugabe rigged the elections, force him to release the voters roll, etc. The plan is to make it impossible for anyone to continue this political charade that Mugabe is anything else other than illegitimate.

The July 2013 election results must be set aside; have all the GPA democratic reforms implemented and carryout the necessary institutional reforms; throw away the rubbish Copac constitution and write a democratic one; produce a clean voters roll; etc. and then hold fresh free, fair and credible elections. That is the way, the only way, out of Zimbabwe’s political and economic mess!

Moyo tells Mujuru and Mnangagwa they are "ideologically bankrupt" as if Mugabe is not!

“The time has come for all of us to understand that this whole talk of succession is a political disease from which we need to be cured by simply understanding and following the constitutional and democratic process for attaining power,” weighed in Jonathan Moyo in the on-going fight for political dominance of Zanu PF by the Mai Mujuru and Mnangagwa factions. The two are lining themselves to take over after Mugabe.

 

“Following the constitutional and democratic process for attaining power;” I had to read it again to make sure I got that right! Since when has Zanu PF cared about following the constitution and democratic processes?

 

“What we have on the ground are not ideological factions driven by ideas or policy substance, but we have some kind of mini-personality cults; factions based on support for individuals and not support for the party, that are content-free and that are ideologically bankrupt,” Moyo said.    

What is Jonathan Moyo wittering about; what moral much less ideological standing does Mugabe have!?

 

Mugabe has just blatantly rigged the elections, denying nearly a million Zimbabweans their basic and fundamental right to vote, bussing his supporters from one polling station to the next so that they could cast ten to twenty votes each time, etc.

 

The election results showed that 27 out of the 210 constituencies had an impossible 100% plus voter turnout if one added the cast votes and those refused the vote. In Chipinge  East the cast votes alone constituted 141% of the registered voters!

 

Mugabe employed the Israel company, Nikuv, to corrupt the voters roll so real voters would be denied the vote whilst Zanu PF supporters cast hundred or more votes each. Mugabe paid Nikuv a princely sum of $13 million for their "Judas kiss!"

 

All in all, Mugabe must have squandered at least $ 3 billion in rigging the July 2013 elections.

 

The spokesperson for the Ministry of Higher education told parliament the Ministry received only $50 000 out of its annual budgeted allocation of $ 380 million - that is less than 0.002%. It is not the only Ministry starved of funds, the problem is everywhere. .

 

So Mugabe not only rigs the elections but even sells the nation's treasures to do it; starving it of even the bear essential of life. The tyrant is not just ideologically bankrupt and morally bankrupt too.
 

Jonathan Moyo is Mugabe's self-appointed Chief Propagandist. His job is to portray Mugabe as a rational leader with very high moral and ideological standards. Who selfless sacrifice has served Zimbabwe from many terrible things these last 33 years.

 

The reality is that Mugabe is a corrupt and ruthless tyrant who destroyed the country's economy and murdered over 30 000 to gratify his love for power and wealth. As far cry from the Mugabe Moyo and his fellow propagandists say Mugabe is but that is why it is called propaganda.

 

Of course Jonathan Moyo knows that neither Mai Mujuru or Mnangagwa have any moral standing much less an ideological one. Moyo is flagging it now to remind the two that they too, like Mugabe, will therefore need the services of propagandists.

And who is the seasoned propagandists in Zimbabwe than Jonathan Moyo himself! This is a shameless self-promotion by the propagandist.

 

The Zanu PF dictatorship is on its last legs; Mujuru and Mnangagwa are fighting over a morally and ideologically bankrupt and degenerate political party. Zanu PF is in power because they rigged the elections; they party has got away with rigging elections in the past but not this time.

 

So what is Mujuru and Mnangagwa fighting over; to be the next illegitimate president!? And Moyo wants to be her/his Chief Propagandist.

 

Jonathan Moyo, like Josef Gobbles, the Nazis Chief Propagandist before him who talked of Nazis victory even with the Russian Army inside Berlin City gates; Moyo talks of Zanu PF as if the party can ever be revived from the self-destruct path it has followed these last 33 years.

Mugabe sets aside party election results because of vote rigging - July results too must be set aside because he too rigged!

“Zanu PF is the Government and the Government is not a province. Government is not driven by provincial elections but by a promise coming out of an election manifesto supported by the 61 percent mandate given to President Mugabe and two-thirds majority given to Zanu PF and we want this to define the dynamics of our national politics," Zimbabwe's answer to Josef Goebbels, Jonathan Moyo says.

Mugabe has set aside the Zanu PF elections results because the whole election process was marred by "allegations of rigging and a host of other irregularities". Rigging and irregularities even the chief propagandist did not try to deny.

Mugabe himself is not denying there was rigging and other irregularities. Of course the vote rigging was even more blatant in the July national elections and with far reaching consequences too.

Mugabe has accepted there was vote rigging in his own party elections and set aside the results because "no one could override what Mugabe says" Zanu PF deputy chief whip, Mandy Chimene said. But since it was Mugabe who organized and benefited from the rigging of the national elections he, naturally denied the elections were rigged, and the whole nation is expected to accept that.

Josef Goebbels is wittering about Mugabe winning 61% of the popular vote The whole world knows the tyrant cheated and fudged the victory, but who will dare say Mugabe rigged!

Well, for once Mugabe must be told the truth: "You rigged the elections and you are not going to get away with it!"

Bona finally graduate after donkeys years studying in the Far East at the cost of $ billion, death of Zimbabwe's education and lost generation!

Bona Mugabe has finally graduated after donkeys years studying in the Far East.

How many billions of dollars has Zimbabwe paid in University fees, accommodation and food not say nothing of the $3 million in transport each time Mugabe visited her over the what - over seven years Bona has been studying  in the Far East. In 2012 the Ministry of Education got $5 million in the national budge to run 300 000 schools - not students but school - although six months in that year the Minister of Education, David Coltart, complained that he had only received 6% of that.

“A few have been coming here sponsored by the government (in Singapore), but are very few. But now we are going to sponsor ourselves, going to sponsor some students especially to Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS) to do management," said Mugabe after the Bona’s graduation.

Yes Mr Mugabe we know exactly what you mean: even more national wealth will be used to pay the ruling elite’s luxury lifestyles and the education of their children whilst the poor will be forced to sink even deeper into poverty and despair. As for the few of the poor’s children luck enough to still able to do “O” Levers; 82% of them did not pass five subjects or more last year.

Millions of Zimbabwean children are having no meaningful education. They are a lost generation.  
This is one of those cases of just how grotesquely obscene and unjust the nation's wealth and resources have been allocated to the ruling elite whilst the masses suffer and die in anguish and despair.

MDC vote rigging challenge on halt because ZEC computer has "broken down" - MDC does not need electronic voters roll!

“The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s (ZEC) on-going failure to provide an electronic copy of the voters roll has halted an electoral challenge by the MDC-T’s Jameson Timba,” reported S W Radio Africa.

 

Timba is challenging the results of the parliamentary of the July vote on the grounds that there were many irregularities. The whole case has halted because the MDC candidate asked ZEC to issue electronic copy of the voters roll as a basis of their case. ZEC says it cannot produce a copy because their computer has broken down.

 

ZEC will never produce the electronic copy and stall the case because the regime; ZEC, Judges like Bhunu and many others are all in Mugabe’s pocket; does not want the truth on the vote rigging to ever come out.

 

“Thus, before the Applicant’s application in this respect can succeed, he needs to show that the suspensive condition relating to the non-functionality of the electronic equipment has been fulfilled. In the absence of such fulfilment, the application cannot succeed,” ruled Justice Chinembiri Mbunu, who is handling the case.

 

Why does Timba and his lawyers insisting on getting the electronic copy of the voters roll? They are shooting themselves in the leg, as usual.

 

Yes it may be easier for the MDC legal team to check or whatever else they want to do the electronic copy of the voters roll. But they can still use the hard copy to do all these things. Indeed a hard copy of the voters roll used on election-day itself is what is required here.

 

Each Polling Station in each constituency had a hard copy of the voters roll of all those registered to vote in that constituency. So one box from one Polling Station from each of the 270 or so constituencies was opened, under proper supervision, to recover the voters roll then these will constitute the master copy of the voters roll for Zimbabwe's 31 st July 2013 harmonized elections.

 

A master copy of voters roll from whatever ZEC says as on this computer will not necessarily be identical to the hard copy used on election-day.

 

There were simply too many serious irregularities in the July 2013 elections and these must be properly and vigorously investigated. This is not being done and may well never be done on the shaky grounds that ZEC cannot issue an electronic copy of the voters roll is pathetic!

Timba and his legal team should stop insisting on getting an electronic copy of the voters roll and give Mugabe a bolt hole. Mugabe must be held to account for rigging the elections!

Mugabe is spending $36 m buying new cars for 300 MPs in one years - more than he has spent on education and health for 13 m in two years!

20 Toyota Prado VXL vehicles and 250 Isuzu double cab vehicles at a cost of $16 million. In July Mugabe bought each Zanu PF parliamentary candidate a new pick-truck, at a cost of $20 million, to use in their campaigning and three months later the same individuals are getting yet another new vehicle!

 

No wonder politicians of all parties were fighting like wild cats to be elected and why none of the Zanu PF candidates were even bothered at the blatant vote rigging that took place. Indeed many of them, if not all, even played a very active role in the vote rigging.

 

Just to put this new expenditure into its national context; the country’s health and education services have completely collapsed for lack of funding. The country is spending $ 36 million on cars for less than 300 politicians for this year alone which more than it has spent in education and health for the whole nation of 13 million in the last two financial years!

 

2.2 million Zimbabweans are facing starvation in the next few months and they will have to depend on donors or starve because the regime says it has no money!

 

They all wanted to be on the gravy train and we can see way it is called the gravy train - a guaranteed life of unparalleled luxuries for the next five years.

Zimbabwean Economist say Zimbabwe is Least Developed Country and should accept that reality - only Mugabe's ego is standing in the way!

A Zimbabwe economist with the Labour and Economic Development Research Institute of Zimbabwe (LEDRIZ), Prosper Chitambara, is arguing that Zimbabwe should accept the country has fallen into the category of Least Developed Country (LDC) and thus benefit from help nation so classified get. All the country’s economic benchmarks; low GDP per capita, substandard health and education services, etc.; shows Zimbabwe is an LDC.

 

Accepting the LDC label will mean the country will get most of her $12 billion foreign debt written off and the country will be granted favourable trade term in some markets like the EU.

 

In 1980 Zimbabwe was classified as a Medium Developed Country together with other countries such as Bolivia. We have fallen a long, long way in three decades. To accept the LDC label will be to acknowledge that fact and that is something Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies are not prepared to do. They would rather see millions of Zimbabwe suffer and die in abject poverty and despair than admit they failed.

 “It is politics and nothing more. It is pride that they do not want to be seen admitting the mighty have fallen and Zimbabwe’s economy is in the doldrums but that is the reality,” concluded Chitambara.

 

It should be noted, however, that accepting the LDC label and getting the current debt written off, etc. will provide some temporary relief nothing more. The LDC will be nothing but a pain relief to a patient with a broken leg. We need to have the broken leg attended to before gangrene set.

 

The root causes of Zimbabwe’s spectacular economic decline are the three decades of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and, in the last decade, an all –out looting spree. These have gone unchecked because we have a ruthlessly brutal de facto one-party dictatorship. Unless and until we end this corrupt and repressive political system accepting the LDC label will confirm we have fit rock bottom but will do nothing to get us out of this hell-hole!

MDC 54 page dossier on how Mugabe rigged the elections is out - it would be criminal to let tyrant get away with high treason!

Nehanda Radio has produced a three part serious of the MDC 54 page dossier of how Mugabe rigged the elections. The dossier gives details of when Mugabe first met Nikuv Project boss how much the latter was paid (a cool $13 million) and when, how many youths Zanu PF trained for the vote rigging, etc.

 

The ease with which Mugabe was able to carry out the whole operation speaks volumes of just how naïve and incompetent Tsvangirai and MDC were. How did fail to smell a rat when Mudede failed to issue such a key document like a voters roll until two days before the elections?

 

The lack of detail in this report shows once again just what a bunch of complete armatures MDC leaders are. The report talks of nearly a million voters being denied the vote but fails to even one specific example of X voters in constituency Y who were denied the vote because their names were in another ward other than where they expected.

 

The report should have uncover the name of a youth BB who was issued a new ID and a voter slip and whose name and details appear in wards W1, W2, W3, ... Wn - same name, same ID, etc. and the same youth, whose real name is N, confirmed he voted on election day n-times. 

 

Of course Mugabe will never admit it but rigging the 2013 elections must have been one of the easiest vote rigging operation in human history. It was like taking candy from a infant. Unless Zimbabweans take it upon themselves to challenge Mugabe over this blatant vote rigging the tyrant will get away with this treasonous act. Tsvangirai will never do anything, he is just too incompetent to do anything!

Blundering Tsvangirai now banking on another economic melt-down to floor Mugabe and propel him back into power!

Tsvangirai admits he failed to floor Mugabe in the “stolen elections” but he is confident that an economic collapse will floor the tyrant for him. Tsvangirai got into power on the cocktail of the Zimbabwe’s economic melt-down in which the economy shrunk by a staggering 84% in the six year period 2002 to 2008 alone. He is now banking on another economic melt-down or worse to propel him back into power.

 

Yes the economy is going to floor Mugabe but does Tsvangirai realize that in flooring Mugabe the economic will have buried alive millions of Zimbabweans too!

Two things happened after 2008 to stop the economic rot: one, the Z$ was scrapped and the second thing was all price controls were lifted. This was enough to allow shop to fill up with goods and end the shortages and to allow the most basic business activities to resume. These were not enough to allow long term confidence to return; for that it was necessary to end corruption and restore the rule of law. This is why there was a whole raft political reforms agreed in the GPA. It was Tsvangirai’s responsibility to ensure the reforms were implemented.  

Tsvangirai had five years to implement the reforms and failed to get even one reform implemented. Now he is placing his hopes on Mugabe totally destroying the nation economy and in the process destroy the Zanu PF dictatorship too.

 

If Tsvangirai had implemented the democratic reform then the July elections would have been free, fair and credible. The government that would have emerged would have been a totally different animal; not this blood sucking monster.

Tsvangirai did not implement the reforms because he was incompetent, first and far most. He was sure the little economic recovery; little because unemployment dropped from 90% to 80%, for example; was enough to get him re-elected regardless the dirty tricks Mugabe will play because of the lack of democratic reforms.

Tsvangirai was upbeat about winning the elections until noon on election-day. It was that then that he finally realized the extend of the vote rigging by Mugabe. He was not just floored by the tyrant, it was a technical knock-out!

Now Tsvangirai has his fingers, toes, arms and legs crossed hoping for another economic melt-down so that the Zimbabwean electorate in desperation will turn to him once again. He will have to stay in this position for a very long time, indeed.

To start whilst it is clear Mugabe will never implement any meaningful democratic reforms necessary for the return of long term economic confidence is not going to return to the same failed economic policies of the past either. Finance Minister has repeatedly said there are no plans to return to the Z$ soon, for example. Besides Mugabe has been selling the nation’s jewels to buy himself breathing spare.

Tsvangirai is being his usual naïve self to believe the Zimbabwean electorate are going to be so desperate for change that they will ignore his blundering incompetence of the last five years and once again turn to him.

Open letter to Prime Minister of Israel to call off his Jewish sell-outs, Nikuv!

Open letter to the Prime Minister of Israel
Leaders like Robert Mugabe has a fundamental weakness that can be traced back to the days of slave trade; they will happily sell their own kith and kin into slavery for a piece of calico cloth  and a handful of beads! The slave trade was abolished over a century ago, thank God. And yet millions in Africa continue to suffer and die in dumb anguish, denied their basic rights and human dignity by their fellow blacks just as happened during the dark days of slavery.

 For the last 33 years Zimbabweans have been fight to end the Mugabe dictatorship so they too can enjoy the fruit of democracy and good governance. It is wholly unacceptable that their hopes for a better future were once again ruthlessly dashed because Mugabe had help from an Israeli company Nikuv.

  

Nikuv corrupted the voters roll so that nearly one million voters were denied the right to vote on election-day. It is no exaggeration to say it was Nikuv who delivered election victory to Mugabe considering the tyrant's winning margin was one million.

  

What chance does the impoverish and politically enunciated ordinary Zimbabwean voter have against a tyrant like Mugabe with all the looted national wealth at his disposal and all the State institutions to back him. The David vs Goliath contest becomes an impossible one when companies like Nikuv throw their technical clout behind the tyrant.      

 

 This is not the first time an Israeli company has been involved in Zimbabwe's politics on the side of Mugabe. And it is not only the people of Zimbabwe that the Jews sold for thirty pieces of silver, they are doing brisk business with other tyrants in Sub-Sahara Africa. This is simply intolerable and it must stop!

 

 The Israeli government and people are always talking of Israel as an island of democracy in the middle of a troubled region. They are always condemning the other nation for their autocratic rule and threat they pose to Israel. Why is it then that Israel has no qualms when it comes to sponsoring and exporting the same autocracy to other countries including Zimbabwe?

 

It is inconceivable that the Israeli government and people are not aware of how Israeli companies like Nikuv have sold our nation's hopes for a democratic government for thirty pieces of silver. And yet both the Israeli government and people have said nothing and done nothing.

 

What Nikuv, the Israeli government and the people of Israel must know is that the people of Zimbabwe, the people of Africa and the whole world knows Zimbabwe and Africa has tyrants  who have sold the nation’s hopes and dreams for a piece of calico cloth. Zimbabweans and Africans also know that there are unscrupulous companies and nations who are propping up these tyrants. The victims of these tyrants are poor and have no political voice; still, they are not stupid. They know what is going on!

Civil Servant min wages up $540 from $ 297: Mugabe condemn low wages "of the last fiur years" - what a hypocrite!

Mugabe says the minimum wage for the civil servants should be increased from $297 to $540 per month.

 

"He (Mugabe) felt it was not good that civil servants be underpaid as has been the case in the last four years,” Rugare Gumbo said.

 

Mugabe must have very poor memory indeed if he cannot remember the real hardship of 2000 to 2008; the last four years were years of plenty in comparison. The country's runaway inflation was such that the civil servants got a 700%, for example, before the 2008 elections and within two months the highest paid civil servants were earning US$30 a month!  

 

Did Mugabe spare a thought for the 90% who are unemployed; many of them have looking for a job for ten years or more now! No doubt he did not; his memory cannot grasp anything more than four years old. They have lived below the poverty datum line for too long and sunk so deep Mugabe has completely forgotten they ever existed! 

 

The 90% unemployed have admittedly forgotten Mugabe too; few of them would have voted for Mugabe. Of course Mugabe knew that hence the reason why nearly a million Zimbabweans were denied the vote whilst a few well paid party supporters were allowed multiple vote to ensure election victory for the tyrant!

 

The 100% wage increase for the civil servants will do nothing to save them from the grim reality of electricity and water shortages, collapsed education and health services, etc. One quarter of a million cannot be saved from poverty whilst the twelve million are allowed to drown - the majority will pull the rest the few down with them.

 

Zimbabwe needs a leader with a good memory and a matching good eye sight to see the bigger picture. Mugabe, his cronies and a handful of civil servants cannot thrive whilst millions live in abject poverty. Mugabe is not that leader and since he rigged the July elections the more reason the nation must reject him and have him replaced. 

 

The Israeli government, through Nikuv, is the greatest threat to democratic change in Zimbabwe!

Leaders like Robert Mugabe has a fundamental weakness that can be traced back to the days of slave trade; they will happily sell their own kith and kin into slavery for a piece of calico cloth  and a handful of beads! The slave trade was abolished over a century ago, thank God. And yet millions in Africa continue to suffer and die in dumb anguish, denied their basic rights and human dignity by their fellow blacks just as happened during the dark days of slavery.


For the last 33 years Zimbabweans have been fight to end the Mugabe dictatorship so they too can enjoy the fruit of democracy and good governance. It is wholly unacceptable that their hopes for a better future were once again ruthlessly dashed because Mugabe had help from an Israeli company Nikuv.


Nikuv corrupted the voters roll so that nearly one million voters were denied the right to vote on election-day. It is no exaggeration to say it was Nikuv who delivered election victory to Mugabe considering the tyrant's winning margin was one million.
 

What chance does the impoverish and politically enunciated ordinary Zimbabwean voter have against a tyrant like Mugabe with all the looted national wealth at his disposal and all the State institutions to back him. The David vs Goliath contest becomes an impossible one when companies like Nikuv throw their technical clout behind the tyrant.     


This is not the first time an Israeli company has been involved in Zimbabwe's politics on the side of Mugabe. This is simply intolerable and it must stop!

 
The Israeli government and people are always talking of Israel as an island of democracy in the middle of a troubled region. They are always condemning the other nation for their autocratic rule and threat they pose to Israel. Why is it then that Israel has no qualms when it comes to sponsoring and exporting the same autocracy to other countries including Zimbabwe?

 
It is inconceivable that the Israeli government and people are not aware of how Israeli companies like Nikuv have sold our national hopes for a democratic government for thirty pieces of silver. And yet both the Israeli government and people have said nothing. They would be up in arms if any other nation was involved in such criminal activities affecting them.


What Nikuv, the Israeli government and people must know is that the people of Zimbabwe know they have tyrants selling the nation’s hopes and dreams for a piece of calico cloth. They also know that there are unscrupulous companies and nations propping up these tyrants. The people are poor, powerless but they are not stupid!

Mugabe squandered $3 billion in a vote rigging operation and now 2.2 million Zimbabweans are starving!

Hardly three months after Mugabe squandered over $3 billion in a vote rigging operation the country is begging for money to buy food for 2,2 million Zimbabweans facing starvation! There are reports of villagers living on wild fruits and there is still another four months to go before the next harvest!

Mugabe had Tendai Biti and Patrick Chinamasa out begging for $100 million to pay for the writing of a new democratic constitution and the international community contributed. The money was wasted in inflated expenses for the ruling elite with nothing to show for it. The Copac constitution was rubbish as the July 2013 elections have since shown.

Mugabe tried to beg for more money for the referendum and then the elections themselves and not even the UN were taken in this time. The regime has billions of dollars coming in from the sale of Marange diamonds and only Mugabe and his cronies are benefiting. Begging is one thing but begging when you are filthy rich is simply intolerable!

Mugabe used some of the diamonds loot to finance the July vote rigging.

As long as Mugabe and his cronies continue to rack in billions of dollars from diamonds few people will want to assist the nation in any way. The 2.2 million Zimbabweans now facing starvation are just some of the victims of this.