“Common diarrhoea claims over 300 countrywide,” screamed
the headlines in the New Zimbabwe.
The death happened all over Zimbabwe in the last five
months and they are attributed to unclean water. Most have no choice but to use
untreated water after the collapse of the water supply system, one of the many
things and services that have collapsed.
.
For 34 years Zimbabweans have allowed this corrupt and
murderous Mugabe regime run amok and now the nation is paying the heavy price.
Whilst the nation is being haunted by diarrhoea for lack of clean drinking
water, because there is no money to buy the chemicals; meanwhile the
tyrant has been splashing $1 million of a birthday party and $10 million
on his daughter's wedding! And the people have said nothing about this
criminal extravagance waste and misappropriation of resources; it was all
water off a duck's back!
This is a wakeup call, things are set to get a hell-lot
worse; the people of Zimbabwe must now pay serious attention on how the task on
hand - how to remove this Zanu PF dictatorship.
Those looking to Tsvangirai and his now estranged MDC
colleagues as the answer must be dismissed and asked to go and skin the goat -
kundovhiya mbudzi - in the true Shona tradition.
Tsvangirai, Biti and the rest should have implemented the
reforms which would have stopped Mugabe blatantly rigging the elections. They
had everything in their favour and five years to do this. The only reason they
failed to get even one reform implemented is because they got distracted by the
trappings of power, the gravy train treaties Mugabe knew they would find impossible
to resist, plus the fact that they are breathtakingly incompetent.
The MDC leaders have proven beyond all doubt that they
are corruptible and incompetent it is folly for the nation to grant these same
failed individuals yet another chance to prove something we already know. Those
who think we should go and do what those with no useful thing to say do -go and
skin the goat!
Zimbabwe
is looking over the edge of the precipice beyond awaits serious outbreak of diseases,
economic melt-down, rioting and even civil war. Are we going to blunder over
the edge just as we have blundered along in the past?
5 comments:
@ Tshe Tshule
True but if the people expect these tyrants doing as they please then they are naïve and there is a price to be paid for being naive - you live in filth and die miserable deaths.
The real tragedy here is that Zimbabweans have failed to learn the lesson that since independence in 1980, they are masters of their own destiny and hence have al-lowed Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs to do as they pleased on the hope that someone will stop these tyrants.
@ Yvonne Horak
I agree with you there instead of getting rid of corrupt leaders ANC is making the rat-nest bigger, but there is hope for SA because it is a very healthy and functioning democracy. 20 years after independence and the country was able to run free, fair and credible elections; that is a milestone to be proud of. It shows that the democratic seeds Mandela planted have taken root and are thriving.
As long as a nation has a healthy and functioning democracy it has hope. It will wonder off course but democracy will stir it back on course. ANC is corrupt and inapt, that there can be no doubt; and it is not surprising that its power base is already showing signs of weaken. What SA needs now is a competent opposition. But once again democracy will come to the rescue; it will allow a competent opposition to emerge!
@ aubtery
You are just one of those individual sold on the idea of the struggle is a process and not an event a rat race with no beginning and no end where the ruling elite are the winners and everyone else always end up losing even the little they had.
Look at SA they have just held another free, fair and credible elections because they implemented the necessary institutional changes that enabled Nelson Mandela to say with confidence and finality on 10 May 1994 that was a free nation, the struggle for basic human rights and human dignity was over and declare SA "The Rainbow nation!"
18 April 1980 should have marked the end of our struggle to have basic human rights and freedoms like freedom of expression, the right to vote and even the right to life. Alas, it was not to be and Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs had other ideas.
The GNU offered the best chances so far of ending the Mugabe dictatorship and to grant every Zimbabwean their basic rights and freedoms, the rights and freedoms others the world over take for granted. The last elections should have marked the end of this struggle. Again alas that was not to be become of the breath-taking in-competence of Tsvangirai who failed to implement the reforms.
You still praise Tsvangirai and the rest of his MDC friends and new foes only be-cause you have completely failed to understand what the reforms were about and the grave consequences of failing to implement them. It is not your fault that you failed to understand; it is not for me to apportion blame. Besides, there is yet hope (hope against hope, but there it is) that the penny may drop.
My main task is to point out to the folly of following failed leaders like Tsvangirai like sheep to the slaughter. My task is to expose the lie that our struggle for freedom, lib-erty and human dignity and hope is a rat-race but rather an event that can be marked by a year, month, day, hour and second! Zimbabweans too will have their day in the sun to enjoy from henceforth freedom, justice and liberty, the right to a free vote and the right to life. It shall be an event; an "As of this moment and from henceforward" definite moment in time and history.
The SA government that has routine renewed Zimbabweans’ work permit in SA has announced that is no longer going to do so. Zimbabweans are to renew their permit in Zimbabwe from now on.
“We wonder if we made a mistake to trust the government of South Africa,” fumed Rogers Mudarikwa, an MDC official in SA.
It is not a matter of trust; but accepting the reality that SA had been generous to al-low so many political and economic Zimbabwean refugees into the country. We should have implemented the reforms agreed in the GPA and we would be talking of a different Zimbabwe right now.
Samuel Sipepa Nkomo admitted the other day that SA government advised MDC to implement the reforms and then strongly advised them not to have elections without the reforms but they were ignored. MDC-T supporters in SA were reportedly endors-ing Tsvangirai’s leadership of the party the other day; in otherwise endorsing the mess he created but paying no heed to SADC warning. If Zimbabweans are happy with what MDC have been doing then we must also be happy to go back!
SA is sending back Zimbabweans at a time when the Zimbabwe’s economic situation is even worse than it was back in 2008. Millions of Zimbabweans relied on SA directly or indirectly and the future for them is grime. By failing to bring about meaningful change when we had the chance to do so, Zimbabweans have played a part in creating this nightmare. One can only hope that the SA government will not enforce the permit to work decision and thus force people back to the hell-on earth of the Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe.
Morgan Tsvangirai a "revered international statesman he is"! Poor Luke Tamborinyoka, you clearly wish you were the spokesperson of a revered international statesman only to find the reality is something else.
As the Prime Minister, Tsvangirai was thrust onto the international stage; with a few months of his being sworn in, he met US President Barack Obama and many Western Leaders. He had the opportunity to hear and learn from them and they listened to what he had to say. Sadly, he had nothing of note to say and he would not listen - a forte that was to spell his final downfall.
In June 2009, five months since his swearing in, Tsvangirai toured the major Western Capitals with the message that he had tamed Mugabe and Zimbabwe a democracy worthy of the international community's support. It was all nonsense of course; indeed whilst Tsvangirai was saying all this Mugabe's njambanja thugs who had earned their notoriety for the violent farm invasions continued with their work and the Police for their part did nothing to stop the madness as before. The Western leaders pointed this glaring reality to Tsvangirai but he was not one to change direction.
There was nothing the West could do about knocking sense into Tsvangirai but the one thing they would not do was to bankroll the corrupt and lawless Mugabe dictatorship. They sent Tsvangirai back home with not even a dollar in his begging bowl.
Tsvangirai's failure to implement the democratic reforms and then his decision to take part in the 2013 elections without any reforms in total disregard of repeated warning by SADC and the international community was the last straw. US Ambassador to Zimbabwe Chris Dell "004 to 2007 had described Tsvangirai as "a flawed and indecisive character". His failure to implement the reforms showed him in his full colours as a breathtakingly incompetent character.
It was Tsvangirai's failure to implement the reforms that allowed Mugabe to blatantly rig the 2013 elections and marked the end of his time on the international stage. When he started wittering about Mugabe rigging the elections, the whole world dis-missed him with contempt because they had warned him but he would not listen.
Even as PM, Tsvangirai had failed to impress and since his fall from office he has become a nobody; he was never a statesman much less a revered one.
Luke, as someone who has worked with Tsvangirai all these years you should know Tsvangirai is just a village idiot who was promoted way above his level of competence. If you cannot see that by now clearly you never will. I would like to believe that you know Tsvangirai is incompetent, breathtakingly so, but you see it as you job to build him up.
My sympathy to you, Luke, and the Tamborinyoka family and friends on the passing away of your grandmother!
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