MDC-T’s Gorden Moyo,
who was minister for state enterprises in the unity administration: “We raised
these issues when they came out but nothing happened. They are known. The
President (Mugabe) was aware." He was responding to the many stories of
top managers in government owned institution like ZBC and Council earning huge
salaries whilst the ordinary workers were not being paid their pittance wages
for months on end.
When Mugabe did nothing,
what did MDC do about it, that is what the nation would like to know. Nothing!
“The President is a principled leader. I do
not think he could have heard such cases of corruption and fail to act,” Mutasa
said. What a lot of bull!
The whole world knows Mugabe, his wife and family have as many as 13 farms - farms seized from white farmers in an orgy of violence supposedly to be redistributed to the landless peasants. Where were his principles then?
Mugabe has never held free and fair elections ever since he got into power. For the last five years the tyrant has sucked the little wealth the nation had to finance his vote rigging operations of the July 2013 elections bankrupting the nation in the process. Again where were his principles then?
Mugabe is a corrupt and murderous tyrant who have robbed the people of their freedom, liberty, humanity and hope. Didymus Mutasa is just another Zanu PF parrot singing praises of the tyrant to earn his share of the loot - he too has a looted farm and has enjoyed the privileges of ministerial office for 34 years!
MDC were in the GNU to bring about meaningful democratic change. When they got on the gravy train they too forget they were there to destroy it. Ever since Tsvangirai got his $4 million mansion he saw no evil, heard none and said absolutely nothing - "Vhara muromo!" as we say in Shona.
Zimbabweans have to wake up to the political reality that unless they take a real active interest in bringing about real democratic change in the country then they will have no future!
The whole world knows Mugabe, his wife and family have as many as 13 farms - farms seized from white farmers in an orgy of violence supposedly to be redistributed to the landless peasants. Where were his principles then?
Mugabe has never held free and fair elections ever since he got into power. For the last five years the tyrant has sucked the little wealth the nation had to finance his vote rigging operations of the July 2013 elections bankrupting the nation in the process. Again where were his principles then?
Mugabe is a corrupt and murderous tyrant who have robbed the people of their freedom, liberty, humanity and hope. Didymus Mutasa is just another Zanu PF parrot singing praises of the tyrant to earn his share of the loot - he too has a looted farm and has enjoyed the privileges of ministerial office for 34 years!
MDC were in the GNU to bring about meaningful democratic change. When they got on the gravy train they too forget they were there to destroy it. Ever since Tsvangirai got his $4 million mansion he saw no evil, heard none and said absolutely nothing - "Vhara muromo!" as we say in Shona.
Zimbabweans have to wake up to the political reality that unless they take a real active interest in bringing about real democratic change in the country then they will have no future!
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The AU met in Ethiopia and elected the Zimbabwe dictator its first vice chairman. The continental body has also resolved that none of the other African heads of State and government should attend the EU-Africa summit in April unless Mugabe is allowed to attend.
This story only serves to illustrate why Africa is considered the "dark continent, incapable of self-rule".
We have a situation here where Mugabe has blatantly rigging the election and the West, notably US, Canada, Australia and the EU, have condemned Mugabe for this. Even the AU election observers have criticized Mugabe for failing to produce the all important voters' roll in time. At least one month before the election, the observer team said in their report.
Mugabe failed to produce the voters' roll and elections were held without one. Nearly a million potential voters were denied the right to vote because their names were not on the roll although they had registered to vote. They constituted 33% of the 3 million cast votes and therefore would have made a difference to the result considering Mugabe's winning margin was less than a million.
The reason why so many people's names were missing on elections-day was that their names had been posted in a different ward than the one they expected it to be. If the voters' roll had been made public then people would have gone to the right ward if they could. It is hard to see how the posting of names in wrong ward and then the failure to produce a voters’ roll in time were all accidents!
Mugabe has stubbornly refused to release the voters roll for the various court challenges of some of the elections results.
The voters' roll is the smoking gun to Mugabe's vote rigging.
One would have thought the AU would be the one pushing for free, fair and credible elections and thus good governance as the way to end Africa's backwardness. They would be pushing the West and the international community at large to isolate leaders like Mugabe and thus force them to restore the rule of law and good governance in their respective country. Instead the continental body is the one pushing for a cover up of tyrants like Mugabe's mismanagement, corruption and tyrannical rule.
I hope the West is going to stand firm against tyrants like Mugabe and give the ordinary people a chance to end this cycle of corruption and poverty. Only leaders elected by the people in free and fair elections will end the tyranny and corruption!
These stories of top managers being paid exorbitant salaries while the same body is failing to pay the pittance wages of the ordinary workers is a reflection of the sorry state in Zimbabwe today.
How can the publication of these stories spruce Zanu PF's image when the whole world knows all the top leaders themselves are the worst looters. Mai Mujuru has a fortune worth $3 billion not counting what she will inherit from her late husband's $9 billion pile! Mugabe has his 13 family farms plus a lot more beside. Only last week a story broke out of his $5 million house in Hong Kong; a property he denied in 2009 that he bought and claimed he only rented it foe Bona Mugabe.
Those who think these stories of corruption and looting are a result of factional fighting in Zanu PF are wrong too. It is inconceivable that only supporters of one faction would have occupied all the top posts in ZBC, for example. The drag net will catch Mnangagwa and Mujuru supporters alike.
Zanu PF was a party of thugs held together by the glue of looted wealth. Whilst the likes of Mai Mujuru would have been content to own a house in High Fields in 1980 her appetite has grown exponentially over the years; today she owns houses, farms, mines valued at $3 billion and still she wants more! The years of Zanu PF misrule has resulted in the economic melt-down and the shrinkage of the national cake and hence the serious in-fighting amongst themselves. The glue that has held them together is dissolving away!
The other reason these stories are coming out is that the standout like Mount Everest in the middle of the flat lands. How can these CEO be earning these vast salaries when the institutions are so broke they cannot pay the lowly paid workers' wages for months on end?
Zanu PF is imploding and there is nothing Mugabe or anyone can do to stop it! It is to be expected, it is a party of thugs; it was a matter of time before they turned on each other.
The Daily News has reported of more corruption in the Mugabe regime. The paper reported of people like Justice Paddington Garwe received $3.5 million, ex-mayor Macheka $7.8 million, and Sithembile Makamba $178 million from a fund to help farmers buy farming equipment but never paid back. Gideon Gono refused to give the full list of those who had benefited but admitted it contributed to the RBZ’s US$ 1 billion debt.
The Sunday Mail reported of how officials buying stuff for the ministry of health had inflated prices costing the nation as much as $ 5 million. The stories of corruption are pouring in!
Now we can see why Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs have been so paranoid about regime change; the depth and reach of the corruption is simply unbelievable. The truth, however, was bound to come out sooner or later and it is coming out now even thou the cabal are still in power. What we are seeing is the ears of the hippo the head and the rest of the body of the beast are still hidden in the muddy water.
What we need is for the water to drain away and we will see the ugly beast in its full na-kedness. The vote rigging by Mugabe has bankrupted the nation but highly destabilized the Zanu PF dictatorship itself, it is now leaking stories of corruption as if there is no tomorrow. Which in a way is true; the Zanu PF dictatorship is imploding there and for Mugabe and many of his cronies especially those who have shed innocent blood there is no tomorrow!
@ Black Aristocrat
To start with, Mugabe did not refuse anything. MDC who were in the GNU to bring about meaningful democratic changes did not propose any reforms. Not a sausage! So how can Mugabe "refuse" something that is not there and never existed?
Second, if you do not understand that not even one reform was implemented because of MDC and its leader Tsvangirai's breath-taking incompetence, even now with the benefit of hind sight; then you will never understand anything. You give me the impression that you believe MDC have done everything expected of them and there was absolutely nothing else they could and should have done to ensure the elections were not free and fair! When in fact the exact opposite is true!
You say "It was obvious to all but the blind optimists three months before the last election, he (Mugabe) would again use industrial scale rigging". I doubt if it was obvious to you then or now but you can prove it by answering these two simple questions. What was it that made the vote rigging obvious? What did you do or say about it?
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