Tsvangirai
calls another GNU as the way out of the country’s economic crisis. It is clear;
he learnt nothing from the first GNU.
Tsvangirai,
even now with the benefit of hindsight does not get it; yes Mugabe rigged the
elections but only because he had failed to implement not even one democratic reforms.
The
principle task for the GNU was to implement the reforms and held free, fair and
credible elections. This was not done!
To
be fair to SADC they did remind Tsvangirai and MDC countless times to
"follow the GPA road map" but it went in one ear and out the other.
Tsvangirai
has not said how the new GNU would implement the reforms this time. He did not
appreciate the importance of the reforms back in 2008 and he still does not
today. All he wants is for him and his friends to be back on the gravy train.
The
way forward is for Mugabe and Zanu PF to step aside so that the task of
implementing the reforms and then holding free and fair elections can start.
6 comments:
@ David Gore
"He (Tsvangirai) is also the lion that has been brave enough to send chills in the spines of Zanu PF’s machinery of suppression and repression, be it in the politburo, military, police or the intelligence services"! What are you wittering about?
Tsvangirai failed to get not even one democratic reforms implemented reforms that would have meant dismantling the Zanu PF dictatorship and it complete demise. Not that Tsvangirai did not have the time to implement the reform; he did. He had five years, had the majority in parliament and held numerous senior cabinet positions to boot.
He wasted the five years globe-trotting and chasing women of ill-repute and forgot about the GPA roadmap and the reforms (assuming he ever appreciated their critical importance).
In January 2013 Tsvangirai was drumming his chest like a silver-back gorilla confident the Copac constitution would deliver free, fair and credible elections. Mugabe, who had dictated the document, knew better and the tyrant went on to blatantly rig the elections.
That anyone should still consider Tsvangirai a competent leader who "gives Zanu PF sleepless nights and hallucinations" even with the benefit of hindsight of Tsvangirai's blundering incompetence only goes to show just how naïve and incompetent they are. You talk of the "democratic struggle" but do not have the foggiest idea what that entails. Because if you did then you would know that nothing absolutely nothing will never be achieved without first implemented the democratic reforms!
"Dr David Gore is founder and president of left leaning political think tank Global African Agenda based in Botswana." President of THINK TANK? No wonder we are in a serious mess!
Where Ian Smith had managed to run the country with a cabinet of 15 or so ministers and deputy ministers Mugabe’s cabinet has been 30 plus and that is not counting the governors, executive mayors, prime minister, deputy prime ministers, vice presidents, etc. The other branches of government and parastatals have too become bloated since independence. All this has happened because Mugabe want to accommodate and reward his party loyalists for their blind loyalty of ensuring he and Zanu PF retain political power at all cost.
This was to be at great cost to the nation which has suffered over the years the econom-ic cost of paying the bill for all this economic dead weight. None of these political ap-pointments ever produced any wealth but helped to consume it. Over the years the bloated civil service has grown whilst the wealth generator private sector has shrunk, squeezed out by the former.
Of course the IMF’s call on the Mugabe regime to retrench and cut the size of the civil service makes sense. Zimbabwe’s economic recovery is dependent on the recovery of the wealth creating private sector and not the wealth wasting public sector. The Zimba-bwe economy is on its knees because the wealth creating private sector is on its knees.
The private sector is no more than a donkey so weak if can barely stand up let carry any load. Of course lightening its load will give the animal a chance and encouragement to get back on its feet.
The Zimbabwe government through the then Minister of Finance, Tendai Biti, promised the IMF to reduce the since of the civil service in 2012. Last year the IMF discovered that the regime had in fact increased the size of the civil service by a massive 10 000 nearly to beef-up the Army and CIO.
"We cannot address the employment cost issue overnight. I have told them (IMF officials) that I will address this in the long term by growing the economy and improving GDP,” said clueless Chinamasa.
By growing the public sector ahead of the private sector; the minister is putting the cart before the horse. It will never work! Zimbabwe is governed by the same economic rules as the rest of the world and per se will continue to suffer economic melt-down until criminal waste of material and human resources behind creation of the bloated civil service to reward Mugabe loyalists is dismantled.
@ Gari
Joking aside, if you were one of the 80% plus unemployed you would be laughing but with tears running down your cheeks!
Kusura kuguta, machewe; akavata nayo nzara haasuri!
@ pebear
There are 12 m Zimbabweans still in the country for one reason or other whose brain activity is no worse than that of those who left.
I agree Mugabe has turned a once prosperous nation "into another 3rd world hell on earth". Still this tragic tale is half-narrated until you it is the people of Zimbabwe themselves who have allowed Mugabe to turn their beautiful country into a hell on earth by being lazy and naïve. And that, until the people stop burying their heads in the sand and take the responsibility of electing competent leaders with the serious-ness the tasks demands then the situation will only get worse and not better!
@ Mail and Guardian
MDC is a party full of deadwood just like Zanu PF; keeping such a party together is a task and a half.
Mugabe has had to dig deep with his system of patronage - appointed party loyalists way above their level of competency just to keep them all happy.
The price the nation has had to pay for the patronage was the gross mismanage-ment and the rampant corruption which have become the hallmarks of the Zanu PF regime. The twin sisters have destroyed the country and the economic melt-down that has resulted means there is now very little left for Mugabe and his cronies to loot. Mugabe has no glue left to hold the deadwood together and the party is break-ing up.
Tsvangirai has not had any such luck; there is very little wealth for him to give away, especially after MDC lost the GNU gravy train seats.
Tsvangirai's blundering incompetence is not something the like of Tendai Biti has only now discovered; he about it all these years. Tendai Biti, Roy Bennett, Nelson Chamisa and a few others in the MDC reportedly told the Americans years ago about their doubts in Tsvangirai's leadership according to WeakLeak reports. They did not do anything about this all these last ten years because Tsvangirai gave them ministerial post. He is complaining now because there are no ministerial posts and even the party's coffers have dried up.
“Nikuv International Projects, an Israeli company largely suspected to have assisted ZANU PF to rig the disputed 2013 elections, has resurfaced, this time around operating from the army head-quarters in Harare, a leading newspaper has claimed,” reported S W Radio Africa.
It is good that Nikuv is still in Zimbabwe, this is one company that is not going to get away with treason; rigging elections is high treason!
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