The mocking reality of that
empty $27 billion ZimAsset begging bowl and the worsen economic situation is finally
getting at Mugabe and his cronies. It is now all hands on deck ; they have
launched a charm offensive to get foreign investment.
It is clear Mugabe,
Chinamasa, now Mai Mujuru and every other senior Zanu PF leader are doing
nothing else but retract on the party's infamous indigenisation policy. They
are desperate to attract foreign investors and donors to give the urgently
require shot in the arm to the comatose Zimbabwe economy. The empty ZimAsset
begging bowl is certainly driving Mugabe nuts!
Minister Chinamasa was once
again reassuring would be investors that they will not be expected to sell 51%
shareholding any more. In the past such a contradiction to the Zanu PF indigenisation
flagship would have earned him a public reprimand from every Mujimba and
Chimbwido in the party including Mugabe himself. This time even the
say-nothing, hear-nothing and do-nothing Mai Mujuru was doing something for
once to support the cause.
“Some say, ‘How can a lawyer
be the Finance Minister?” Mai Mujuru told a rally in Marondera in support of
Chinamasa. “(President) Mugabe is only taking his cronies’. What I can tell you
today is we are fully behind him and we will support him.”
The regime has spent the last
15 years convincing the whole world that it has nothing but contempt for the
rule of law; the only law that mattered in Zimbabwe was what Mugabe and Zanu PF
wanted. Now the regime has realised that they can not rig economic recovery as
easily as they rigged the elections; they want the world to believe the
regime will uphold property rights and to disregard everything else they have
said and done on this issue.
Mugabe was able to bamboozle
Tsvangirai and MDC into believing he had had his "Saul on the road to
Damascus" transformation. The tyrant is naïve if he really thinks he can
do the same with the rest of the world.
Mr. Mugabe you can talk about
how you now respect property rights until the bull has a calf no one will
believe you. The mockingly empty ZimAsset begging bowl will remain empty and
the national economy will continue to shrink faster and faster.
The only way to restore
confidence that Zimbabwe respects the rule of law is for you to acknowledge you
rigged the last elections, step down so the democratic reforms can be implemented
and free and fair elections held. The whole world wants to see a legitimate government
first before anyone would have confidence in the government of the day
upholding their rights and investments.
7 comments:
The Mugabe dictatorship is falling apart already. Mugabe's blatant rigging of the elections did hit the people of Zimbabwe whom he so contemptuous cheated and denied their right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country but his treasonous act has boomeranged back to hit him.
By brazenly and openly rigging the elections Mugabe demonstrated that he really has no respect of the rights and dignity of others and the rule of law. This was not President Richard Nixon and a handful of fellow Watergate conspirators seeking to undermine the democratic process.
Mugabe’s vote rigging was a massive operation involving government institutions as well as out siders who really had no business to stick their noses in Zimbabwe’s affairs much less commit treason. We have ZEC Officials who have failed to explain how the elections could be credible when something as basic as a voters roll was never released. The Judiciary have played their part by pretending the voters roll was not important when they should have ordered its immediate release.
Outsiders like Nikuv who worked on the vote rigging plan for over a year and was paid a princely sum of $13 million and PR companies in UK and USA who too were paid millions of dollar to spruce up Mugabe’s image.
There is the issue of the hundreds of thousands of Zanu PF youths who were bussed from one polling station to the next to cast multiple votes. The Police saw the bussed voters and they never investigate the matter.
The sheer scale of Mugabe’s vote rigging operation showed the whole world that here is a tyrant who would stop at nothing to get what he wants. The would-be investors certainly sat up and paid attention and have acted decisively – they would never invest a penny in a country like that.
There have been no takers to Mugabe’s post elections economic recovery plan, the $27 billion ZimAsset; not even his traditional allay the Chinese contributed. Mugabe blatantly rigged the elections and now he finds he cannot rig economic recovery.
Zimbabwe’s economic recovery is dependent on one thing and one thing above all else – restoration of the rule of law and, more specifically, property rights.
Mugabe and his entire government have been on an all-out charm offensive to woo foreign investors. The regime has even public dismissed its indigenisation policy as “nonsense” in its effort to assure would-be investors that their investment and property rights safe. But none of the investors believe the regime and for good reason too; how can an illegitimate regime that has no regard of the rule of law one day be the guarantor of law and legitimacy the next?
No my friend I do not need to sue Mugabe for rigging the elections, at least not yet, he is being grilled already. The mockingly empty ZimAsset begging bowl is his accuser, and who would have believed such an innate object would make the tyrant sweat so!
As for your laughing; just be very careful not to do so in Mugabe's presence, he will never believe you are laughing at the empty begging bowl and not at the one it is mocking!
The ZRP disrupted those matching to press for press freedom in Zimbabwe. Minister Jonathan Moyo jumped to the matchers’ defence, there is a surprise!
Minister Jonathan Moyo has never cared about press freedom or freedom of expression but he is smart enough to know that this time the winds of change are too strong to be stopped and they are going to bring real change. He is shedding crocodile tears in the hope people would be fooled into believing he has always wanted press freedom. He is a dangerous snake that the nation must watch very, very carefully!
@ Nofool
You can go back to all the promises anyone has ever made or said to Mugabe since 1980 and beyond; that will not change anything. What matters he here and now and to Mugabe that can all be summed up by one thing - that mockingly empty ZimAsset begging bowl.
Reminding Mugabe of promises of cash or aid by EU or whoever is not going to help the tyrant; he needs cash not words.
If you are going to tell Mugabe anything then remind Mugabe that he has been warned about his lawlessness and now the chickens have come home to roost.
Mugabe cannot rig economic recovery; that much the tyrant now admits. He needs those who have the cash and know-how to resuscitate the comatose economy; he accepts that. They will come on one condition – that their investment will be safe from the usual looters; Mugabe has grudgingly accepted that too and has recalled all his thugs and hot-heads. Of course none of the investors have been assured by that; they know only too well that he will release his thugs and hot-heads at the drop of a hat.
Mugabe is illegitimate; by rigging the elections he put himself outside the law. He cannot therefore be the fountain of law and legitimacy. Call Mugabe’s conundrum but I call it a quagmire of his own making. If Mugabe thinks he will wriggle out he is kidding himself because the longer he seats there with the mocking begging bowl the faster and deeper the economy will sink and him with it!
The only way to restore confidence that Zimbabwe is a law abiding nation is by having a legitimate government in Harare. Mugabe’s regime is illegitimate.
@ Grabmore
The whole Zanu PF team is out to woo investors but still there will be no takers; the Chinese are known for eating anything and everything they can lay their hands on but even they refused to invest in Mugabe's dodgy ZimAsset junk bonds! The empty ZimAsset begging bowl is driving Mugabe nuts!
The regime squandered $13 million for Nikuv to rig to elections now let us see if those Jews can rig economic recovery too so Mugabe can stay in power! Rigging the one but not the other is now proving to be a real nightmare for Mugabe!
@ No fool
Let me guess and it was the British who introduced Nikuv to Mugabe. So that the tyrant can remain in power and entertain the whole world with more of his anti-British and anti-West rhetoric. How considerate!
If it was the death of black Zimbabweans Nikuv was after, besides the thirty pieces of silver that is, then they must be pleased to know that as many as 100 children per day below the age of five are dying of preventable diseases. Whilst money that should be used to run hospitals and buy medicines is squandered by the tyrant, they helped rig elections, on luxuries such as his $20 million Blue Roof mansion, $ 1 million birthday party and $10 million wedding.
If Nikuv and Mugabe want my life too to add to their grim-reaper's toll then let them. I will not even bother to ask what crime I have committed because what crimes did any one of 100 (children per day)x9 (months since July 2013 rig elections) x 30 (days in month) children commit?!
@ Native commissioner
Well let it not be said I refused o see reason but do not ask me to see something that is not there.
I say MDC failed to implement the reforms because of all the parties is the GNU the onus was on MDC and Zanu PF to implement the reforms for the simple and obvious reason that the later did not want a democratic Zimbabwe.
Remember MDC was elected on a ticket to bring democratic change, do not tell me the party's leaders forgot that. But that is exactly what happened here because not even one proposed reform was ever tabled in parliament by the MDC throughout the five years of the GU.
Having established that Zanu PF did not want the reforms, it stands to reason the party would have done its best to resist their implementation; I admit that. But since MDC never submitted even one proposed reform it will be jumping the gun to then say Zanu PF resisted the reforms. How can Zanu PF resist something that has not been proposed yet?
@ hwayibetshu
MDC leaders made a serious f*** up; they failed to implement the reforms, they were by SADC not to take part in the elections but ignored the warned. Mugabe ended up rigging the elections and landing the nation in this mess.
Last week South Korea's PM resigned over the ferry accident although he was not even there. In Zimbabwe politicians make a real f**** up and nobody even no-tice. The public, the independent press, the intelligentsia, everybody says nothing. It is all water off a duck's back!
F**** me! What are we all; men or mice?
No wonder the country is in mess, we are a nation of morons totally incapable of self-governing. Because if someone can be so breathtakingly incompetent to fail to implement agreed reforms ignores warns and leads the nation into an election in which a tyrant rigs and claim victory and no one is outraged.
If what these MDC leaders did or rather failed to do and thus allowed Mugabe to waltz back into state house does not outrage you, then nothing will! What else, I cry, will anyone has to do for this nation to be finally snap out of our comatose and vegetative state?
Tsvangirai, Biti, Ncube and all the other MDC leaders who played a role in this na-tional electoral disaster because of the inexcusable incompetence, particularly after they had been warned against taking part, must apologise to the nation resign. By the egregious failures and betrayal of the whole nation these MDC leaders have shown that they are not to be trusted and are therefore not fit to hold public office or any position of responsibility.
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