Raymond
Manjongwe, secretary general of Progressive Teacher Union of Zimbabwe, is reportedly
in Botswana to give a keynote address on that country’s Labour’s day
celebrations whose theme is “Unleashing a progressive labour agenda
through regime change.”
Botswana
is a democracy where the people have never been denied their vote unlike Zimbabwe
where Mugabe has repeatedly rigged elections. Unlike all the other SADC
countries, Botswana is the only country that has publically and repeatedly condemned the
Mugabe regime's failure to hold free, fair and credible elections.
So
what is Raymond Manjongwe doing in Botswana supporting a "regime
change" agenda?
Manjongwe
is the leader of the key group, PTUZ, that could and should have
played a pivotal role in bringing democratic change in Zimbabwe. Mugabe
was able to bamboozle the PTUZ just as easily as the tyrant bamboozled MDC and
all the other political and civic society groups because of the sheer
incompetence of those leading these bodies.
Manjongwe
should go back to Zimbabwe and teach his confused "regime change" to
his friends in Harvest House, so far they have clearly failed to understand it!
The
people and government of Botswana have been good friends to all the thinking
and peace loving people of Zimbabwe. We want things to stay that way!
8 comments:
@ Daniel 1610
Vakuru vakati rinemanyanga hariputirwi! Mugabe has rigged elections ever since he got into power 34 years ago, but even he must know that it will only take one mistake and the whole truth will come out in the open.
Mugabe has promised a lot before the 2013 elections but this time the regime abandoned the people in record time. Many people are now very bitter with Mugabe and it will take only one person who knows how Mugabe rigged the 2013 elections and Mugabe is toast!
The issue of rigged elections has remained nine months after the elections, the bye-elections will give the issue another shot in the arm much to the alarm of Mugabe who had hoped he issue had died within hours of the results being announced.
@ Muneyinazvo
Both MDC and Zanu PF turned the Zimbabwean electorate into nothing more than a blundering herd of wildebeest ruled by fear and ignorance and easily whip into a stampede. It is futile to appeal to the herd with reason especially when they have their tails up and full gallop.
It is not that the Zimbabwe electorate is stupid or incapable of seeing reason; they are as capable of seeing and comprehending, hearing and understanding as good as any other nation given a political system that encourages everyone to think for themselves and values freedom of expression.
Zimbabwe will get another chance to end this Zanu PF dictatorship; this time all the democratic reforms necessary for create a truly free and democratic nation will be fully implemented in word and spirit. This political system that has turned our people into nothing more than mindless wildebeest ruled by fear and ignorance will finally, after all the dithering and betrayal by MDC, be dismantled and destroyed. Take that as read; you have my word of honour!
@ Joemunda
If Botswana is a democracy and I am saying that it is and the people have the freedom in a free and fair election to change the government and they freely chose the government in power today then what regime change is Manjongwe talking about. In the case of Zimbabwe it is a relevant topic because the Zanu PF regime rigs elections!
Freedom of expression is not a blank government cheque issue to every citizen with constitu-tion guarantee so we one can fill the amount we wish and expect the nation to honour it. All these rights and freedoms are granted on the understanding that we will enjoy these rights responsibly, mindful we do not deny or infringe on rights of others. What go will the blank cheques be if the first person takes all the money in the national public account.
What good is you having freedom of expression if in my exercise of the same is to include telling you to shut up?
If Botswana has free and fair elections already then anyone with a regime change agenda must be because having failed to achieve it legally and democratically they now want to do so by other meaning, illegal and undemocratic. How can someone preaching anarchy and chaos be said to be exercising their democratic rights or freedoms.
Democracy is very liberal and tolerant but not that liberal and tolerant as to promote its own distraction anarchy.
@ Prof
As I said before and will say it again the MDC supporters and many ordinary Zimbabweans have been reduced into an unthinking herd of blundering wildebeest ruled by fear and/or ig-norance. Have another look at the blank faces of the herd outside Harvest House, none of them know what democratic reforms agreed in the GPA were about even now with the bene-fit of hindsight. Biti himself never ever mentioned the reforms or anything of substances. Of course they did not understand anything when he accused Tsvangirai of being incompetent.
What you and people like Tsvangirai must not the mistake of doing is assume the Zimbabwe electorate are stupid and therefore will always remain the blundering herd of wildebeest that we have seen at MDC and Zanu PF rallies. Give them a chance and explain what the reforms are and why they are important for meaningful democratic change; you will be surprise how quickly those vacant faces will be transformed and the sparkle, proof that their brains are fir-ing, will return in the eyes.
Tsvangirai and Mugabe's popularity is based on fear and/or ignorance in which the electorate is deliberately turned into this homogeneous mass of granting wildebeest hungu, hungu, hun-gu to everything the leader says or does. Man is a creature of reason and those who have tried to imprison the human mind have always failed in the end. Tsvangirai will fail just as Mugabe has done.
Mugabe failed because the herd moved to MDC it is my fervent hope that the this time the people are not cheated and get the democratic changes that will open their minds and put the sparkle back in their eyes!
Without the herd Tsvangirai will have no choice but to go back to herding goats in Buhera. Since goats have no votes, it will be safe to say his political career will be over! No thinking Zimbabwean would ever vote for someone as incompetent as Tsvangirai.
@Prosper Chinhamora
Mugabe's greatest worry is the bye-elections ending up shedding more light on last year's elections. A sudden drop in the number of voters on the new voters roll compare to last year would cause alarm. Reproducing the inflated number of registered voters when you know that this time the names will be subjected to the most forensic scrutiny ever will be to commit political suicide.
The last nine months have been real tough for Mugabe. Everything has gone wrong for him, old wounds have refused to heal and new ones have come up.
The economy is in a real mess and the chicken of mismanagement and corruption have come home to roost in their billions. Everyday his CIO agents are reporting a new story of a corruption story coming to public attention. All his efforts to keep a lid on these stories have clearly failed.
Of course he cannot do anything to stamp out the corruption it has spread to everyone including himself. The opulence $20 million Blue Roof mansion and extravagant $5 million wed-ding party for his daughter was a public declaration to all his Zanu PF cronies that was open season for looting and flouting one's loot! The response has been overwhelming.
The enfeebled national economic has all but collapse under this increased and vicious onslaught.
Mugabe had hoped donors will contribute to his $27 Billion ZimAsset fund set up to supply cash injection to the national economy now in IC unit. No one has made any contribution, not even the Chinese Mugabe was sure they would help. The empty ZimAsset begging bowl is mocking him!
The bye-elections will mean revisiting the issue of vote rigging again. He knew refusing to release the voters roll was a very clumsy way of closing the subject but he had no choice.
These Nikuv fixers had helped rig the elections and win but there was nothing special with their proposals. If he had released the voters roll the whole world will have the full details of how he had rigged the vote. He should have never accept their services, and to think he paid Nikuv $13 millions for what high school dropouts could have done in a week!
Of course no one ever believed all that nonsense that the computer holding voters roll data had broken down. But what else could he have said.
The complex web we weave when we cheat and lie, especially when there so many others involve in the weaving and maintaining of the web! People like Tobaiwa Mudede can probably take the pressure of having to lie but it is clear ZEC chairperson Makarau can not take an more pressure.
Makarau would want everything in the bye-elections to be above board and transparent and show the world there is nothing to hide. Mugabe's instinct is to control everything with the same military precision as last year; there are secretes of last year's vote rigging that is could still come out. So how hard can Mugabe push people like Judge Makarau and get away with it, that is the question tasking the tyrant and his most trusted inner most circle!
In many ways Mugabe has the most to lose if anything was to go wrong, one broken threat of that web of lies could result in the vote rigging secretes coming out and the regime will fall like a pack of cards.
It was only the lack of conclusive evidence that has stopped many nations calling the regime illegitimate, the bye-elections could supply the last grain of evidence to tip the scale.
As for me just knowing that Mugabe is sweating over this already is enough for me I am listening to "Bad Card" full watts "In a rub-a-dub style!"
@ Chimbwido
There is no doubt that Mugabe and Zanu PF would have tried they very best to resist an attempt at dismantling the Zanu PF dictatorship but let us deal with what HAPPENED and not what MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED.
“MDC-T tried their best to ensure the foolish reforms you always talk about were implemented but were met with stiff resistance” from Mugabe and Zanu PF, you claim. I do not know whether MDC –T failing to come up with even one reform proposal can ever be considered to be constitute “MDC-T tried their best” but that could be you mocking them. But saying to then say Mugabe and Zanu PF offered “stiff resistance” is pure nonsense. MDC did not produce not even one reform proposal so how could the tyrant have resisted something that was no there!
MDC never submitted any democratic reform proposals NOT EVEN ONE! That is a historic fact.
Mugabe was able to blatantly rig the 2013 elections because none of the reforms which would have ended the tyrant’s dictatorial control of the key institutions of government such as the Po-lice, ZEC, etc. had been implemented. That is a historic fact.
Mugabe thought he would get away with rigging the elections, since everyone blamed Tsvangirai and MDC’s breath-taking incompetence for not getting the reforms implemented. He has since learnt that was not going to happen, by rigging the elections he was not just cheating Tsvangirai but the people of Zimbabwe. He and his cohorts were committing high treason against the people of Zimbabwe.
Mugabe and his gang of criminals will be held to account for this serious crime which, by its very nature, threatens the stability of the whole nation and the lives of millions if the nation was to be dragged into a civil war. Rigging elections is not to be tolerated and we must make an example of Mugabe and his thugs that we take such treasonous crimes very, very seriously!
As soon as we have dealt with those guilty of vote rigging we will swiftly deal with those with blood of innocent Zimbabweans on their hands, which are people like you Chimbwido. I have not forgotten you so you not feel left out. I gave you my promise and, unlike people like Mugabe, I do keep my promises.
@ Slap Zanu
He supported the tyrant Mugabe and even shed innocent blood in Mbare and the prospect of the regime collapsing is frightening the daylight out of him. He has to write all this nonsense to prop himself up and restore the mistaken belief that Mugabe will rule forever and he and all the other thugs are above the law.
The wheels of justice turn slowly but they do turn! He knows the regime's days are numbered and he will be nabbed soon thereafter!
He thought of going back to Zimbabwe after the rigged July elections but the wife must have told him to f off!
He is "a complete idiot" alright. Well idiot or not he has earned his hangman's rope and he must now wear it! I will see to it that he does! For the sake of ensuring that this madness is never again repeated, I will see this through.
@ Chenhamo
So you think everyone is like Tsvangirai, get him a girlfriend and he will "leave Zanu alone for a bit". Well not me; I will never leave a tyrant given to mass murder and rigging elections alone not even "for a bit"! I know people like you with loot to keep and many with blood of innocent Zimbabweans on your hands too want Mugabe left alone because his fall is your fall. Well tough luck.
100 children below the age of five are dying every day of preventable diseases every day the tyrant remains in power, for example. That is why I cannot leave the tyrant alone, the misery and deaths must be brought to an end yesterday.
We should have ended it last year if not long before that if it was not for the blundering Tsvangirai. Still we are where we are; this time the job will be done and done properly!
Mugabe is finished! You do not want to hear that, I known but since it is the truth and there is no going back; you will have no choice but to get used to hearing it. Frankly, I do not really care what murderous thugs like you want. Mugabe's time is up and so too is yours!
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