The is no question that Mugabe rigged the 2013 elections
but to protest now eight months after the results were declared and their own
MDC President had accepted the result shows what a confused lot MDC leaders and
supporters alike are!
MDC supporters should ask themselves why Mugabe was able
to blatantly rig the elections the party had so confidently said it would win
regardless of all Mugabe did to rig. Mugabe rigged the elections with the
greatest of ease!
Tsvangirai is an incompetent leader just as Mugabe is a
corrupt and murderous tyrant and both have used the fact that Zimbabweans,
especially the youth, are shallow, naïve and gullible as pawns in their own
high stakes political game. Over 300 000 Zimbabwean lives were lost in the war
of independence only for Mugabe to highjack the revolution to create this de
facto one party dictatorship which has denied all Zimbabweans the basic rights and
dignities including the right to a free vote and even the right to life.
Tsvangirai has used the people’s suffering to launch his
own claim to join Mugabe on the gravy train; when he secured his seat, he
immediately forgot about the democratic reforms he promised the people who had
voted for him.
Since Mugabe rigged the elections, Tsvangirai has been
kicked off the gravy train and now he is once again keen to exploit the nation’s
suffering to propel him back on the gravy train. The only way to end the
criminal waste of human and material resources in Zimbabwe is by ending this
corrupt and oppressive system of government and that demands the implementation
of all the democratic reforms as agreed in the GPA.
Before all these MDC youths take to the streets at the behest
of Tsvangirai that must demand of their leader to explain why Mugabe was able
to rig the 2013 elections with ease? They must also demand from him why he
failed to implement not even one democratic reform in the five years he was in
the GNU and what assurance he will give them that he will implement the reforms this time?
Mugabe
has already threatened to use force to end all protest against his rule. This
is a ruthless tyrant who has “degrees in violence,” as he has admitted in the
past.
“At 90
years old, Mr. Mugabe warned, his fist still packs 90 tonnes of force if cornered,”
reported Irwin Chifera of VOA Zimbabwe.
Make no
mistake about it, Mugabe is cornered; he knows that the economic melt-down is
it impossible for him to hold on to power. He has been seating on the boiling
pot for all these years and the heat outside and the pressure inside are
becoming unbearable. And yet fear of the explosion and the heat is forcing him
to grip tighter than ever. Mugabe is cornered already.
The
nation on its part has no choice but to demand an end to this criminal waste of
the nation’s material resources by a few corrupt ruling elite and the tragic
human misery and death it has caused. So on the one hand the economic melt-down
demands urgent action whilst, on the other hand, past experience demands that
the nation must proceed with caution careful of leaders who promise heaven on
earth today only to deliver hell as soon as they are in power.
Tsvangirai
and Mugabe are both such failed leaders and each is dragging the nation deeper
and deeper into the abyss in their own way. Mugabe will use brute force to stay
in power regardless the fact that he is the one who landed the nation in this
mess and has no plan to get us out. As for Tsvangirai, it was his failure to
implement the reforms that allowed Mugabe to rig the elections and thus stay in
power and now he seeks to use the suffering masses to pressure Mugabe to allow
him back on the gravy train.
If MDC
youths are foolish enough to follow Tsvangirai blindly like sheep to the slaughter,
let them! They will know what a 90-tonne fist punch feels like! This one-sided
punch up will be a distraction the nation can ill afford. What the nation wants
is a reasoned plan of action and not yet another ill-conceived and chaotic
course of action that will only make a bad situation even worse!
3 comments:
If anyone thinks it was because the opposition was not united that they "lost" the 2013 elections, 2008 elections, etc. etc. then they clearly have not understood what has been going on here.
The two MDC factions constituted the majority in parliament and the cabinet and yet they failed to get even one of the raft of democratic reform agreed in the GPA implemented. Not even one! And yet here we are being total that a "grand coalition" composed of the same incompetent and blundering politicians and their equally incompetent civic leaders who have cheered them along all these years is the answer.
Instead of accepting that the current crop of leaders have failed we propose bringing them together to form a "grand coalition" as if that would address all their fundamental weakness. Even before independence, there were calls for Zanu and Zapu to be united. The two did that in 1987 but only made things worse and not better because Mugabe had the last piece he needed to built his one party dictatorship.
Zimbabwe is in this political and economic mess because we are obsessed with quantity when it should be quality we should be insist on.
Tinongokuvirira zvose mavhu namarara! Ngatirenge kunyangadza kuchema magwana todya sadza rizere mavhu namarara!
People get the government they deserve and we should complain when we have a tyrant Mugabe or an incompetent idiot like Tsvangirai running our affairs - we elected them!
@ Chimbwido
Power is slipping out of Mugabe's hands. Whether I ever go back to Zimbabwe or not is of no real consequence but is at issue here is that the madness of this tyrannical Zanu PF rule must end and bring an end to the human suffering it brought. That is going to happen and is happening now; there is nothing you or Mugabe can do to stop the change! Nothing!
Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe Secretary General, Raymond Majongwe was de-nied a new passport reportedly because he was blacklisted by the Mugabe regime. He was only issued with one after his lawyers threatened to sue the Registrar General, Tobaiwa Mud-ede. This is indeed an interesting story.
So we have a regime that has been mourning for years against the supposed "injustice" of sanctions and travel ban imposed by the West on the tyrant Mugabe and a select few in his inner circle. And now we learn that the regime has compiled its own list of innocent Zimba-bweans who are to be denied travel documents and no doubt have been subjected to harass-ment, beating and even summary execution at the hands of the notorious CIO!
"But Mudede felt he could not just issue the burly trade unionist with a passport without summoning him to his office presumably for a free lecture on patriotism," summarized the New Zimbabwe Staff Reporter.
Here is the man, Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede, who has been at the very heart of all Mugabe's vote rigging schemes for the last 34 years; his role in the tampering of the voters roll in 2013 and the regime's stubborn refusal to release it is so prominent that the Americans have awarded him the Congressional honour by adding him of USA sanctions list. It is ironic therefore that the same idiot should have the audacity to lecture anyone else on patriotism.
We sure have everything upside down, what is wrong is now right and right is wrong and what is just is unjust. Is it any wonder we are in this mess. We allowed Mugabe and his cronies to takeover and corrupt the Police, the Judiciary, Media, the Administration and every other state institutions and justice and common decency have been denied us all.
Having enjoyed absolute power for 34 years it is no surprise that Mugabe and his cronies have brought the whole nation to ruin. By that as it may, we would be very naïve to think Mugabe and his cronies will accept they failed and give up power. Power is addictive and absolute power excessed for decades, as is the case here, giving it up is simply unthinkable!
We cannot let this Mugabe tyrannical rule that has brought so much human suffering continue; we must end this madness. However ending the dictatorship is not going to be a walk in the park; that must be understood!
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