Mugabe to "accelerate the crackdown" against corruption after 34 years of denying it - he rigged the elections to do that?

 So Mugabe told the millions of Zimbabweans on Independence Day that his government would tighten control of mines to improve transparency and accelerate the crackdown on officials implicated in corruption and fraud.

 

It took him 34 years before he finally realized there was need for tighter control of the mines? The mining sector used to employ hundreds of thousands forming thriving communities. Today most of these mines have long turned into ghost towns and the mine workers have joining the unemployed.

 

Unemployment has been seating at the nauseating heights of 80% plus for over a decade now.

 

What are you talking about "accelerate the crackdown on officials implicated in corruption" as if you have ever done anything to end this scourge. And we all know why you have done nothing about corruption; because it is an integral part of your patronage system that has kept you and Zanu PF in power.

 

For the last 34 years you have denied there was no corruption and allowing this cancer to grow and spread and today it has destroyed the country.

 

You are public acknowledging there is rampant corruption now because there are just too many stories of corruption and looting involving staggering amounts of wealth and money for you to sweep under the carpet.

 

You allowed mismanagement and corruption to turn a few ruling elite; your ministers and other Zanu PF officials and yourself and all the relatives and friends to grow filthy rich at the expense of the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans who now languish in abject poverty and despair.

 

Mr. Mugabe, you did not rig last year's elections so you can tighten control of mines and end corruption did you? Of course not! You rigged the vote so that you can remain in power and to ensure you electoral victory you even allowed corruption to get completely out of hand. For it was you who authorized the spending of billions of dollars buying cars for Zanu PF officials, government officials and foreigners like Nikuv who helped corrupt the voters roll. It is the reckless spending of the last three years that was the last straw to break the camel's back and precipitate the economic melt-down.

 

You are making all these empty promises to do something to end the economic melt-down to justify why you should stay on in power although you are illegitimate since you rigged the elections. You want to stay on not to end the economic melt-down but to ensure no one takes away what the Zanu PF ruling elite have looted and indeed to allow them to continue looting to top up their fortunes!

 

The real question the people of Zimbabwe have to address, has been staring the nation in the face for decades and cannot be ignored any longer is how deep in the abyss are we going to allow Mugabe to drag the nation before we finally say enough is enough! For two things are certain; in the past we have done little to stop this madness on the mistaken belief that we had hit rock bottom; this hell is a bottomless pit! Second, it is not in the DNA of tyrants to admit they have failed and give up power; that is a fact.

Mugabe and the Zanu PF dictatorship have grown fat and powerful after 34 years of absolute power; they are not going to give it up now, especially now when they have so much loot to protect and so many skeletons to hide!