War Vet thug Sibanda threatens Mugabe over indigenisation "compromises" - the toad has a point!

Jabulani Sibanda, leader of the war veterans, told The Zimbabwean  that the Mugabe government should not tone down in any way Zanu PF’s flagship indigenisation and empowerment policies. He threatened unspecified action against the government, saying the policies were a product of Zanu (PF), and government must get its hands off.

“If time comes when government makes compromises, against the objectives of the liberation struggle, then you would see how people react,” Sibanda said

What people like Jabulani Sibanda have failed to get their heads round is that it is not just the Zanu PF ruling elite and his brand of the brainwashed war veterans (for there are many other war vets who have never approved of Sibanda his lot and Mugabe and his cronies’ blatant betrayal of the people and the noble cause of freedom and liberty to all Zimbabweans and not to only the powerful few) who have a say on how the country should be governed and its wealth and resources shared. The people too have right to a meaningful say.

Still, the toad has a point; Mugabe cannot willy-nilly discard what was clearly in the party’s election manifesto!  

For 34 years now the people have been denied a meaningful say by stifling freedom of expression and ensuring there was no free media in the country. The Zanu PF ruling elite with the help of thugs like Jabulani Sibanda have beaten and raped millions of our people and murdered over 30 000 to establish and maintain this de facto one-party Zanu PF dictatorship.

Millions of Zimbabweans know Jabulani Sibanda as one of the war vets who has publicly threatened and carried out acts of violence against ordinary Zimbabweans as part of the Zanu PF plan to establish and retain its iron grip on political power. This time he is threatening his party masters and their quarrel does not concern the ordinary people. Still, the nation would sleep soundly if the thug and his hothead friends were beaten up and thrown prison for their pains. 

The only quarrel that matters and is taxing the nation is with both the Zanu PF ruling elite and their thuggery war vets foot soldiers and it concerns one issue: that the people too have a right to a meaningful say in the governance of Zimbabwe and it is intolerable that for the last 34 years they have been denied this basic and fundamental right.

The root cause of Zimbabwe’s seemingly intractable political and economic problems is the political system that has allowed a corrupt and tyrannical few absolute political power to do as they pleased leaving the majority powerless and helpless. This must end and end now! 

By rigging the July 2013 elections, as it has done countless times in the past, Mugabe and Zanu PF underlined that the people have no right to a meaningful say. Many Zimbabweans have rejected the rigged results premised, as it does, on the notion that only Zanu PF has a say. This Mugabe regime is illegitimate and it does not have the mandate from the people of Zimbabwe or legal authority to implement any of its manifesto policies.

Since the rigged 2013 elections it has becoming increasingly clear to Mugabe and others in the Zanu PF leadership that they cannot rig the economic recovery too. And that the only way to get the national economy back on track was for them to abandon many of the party’s ill-conceived economic policies including its flagship indigenisation and black-empowerment policies. The penny has not yet dropped for party’s feeble-minded toads like Jabulani Sibanda, they cannot see the economic melt-down and that the looting cannot continue when there is nothing left to loot.

Still the anuran has a point; Mugabe claims that he won the elections – we will put aside who voted for him - on the basis of election manifesto of indigenisation then he cannot disregard the election manifesto willy-nilly.

So from the stand point of ordinary Zimbabweans, Zimbabwe must hold fresh elections because they were denied a meaningful say in the rigged July 2013 elections. And from the stand point of anurans war vets and Zanu PF thugs who help Mugabe rigged the elections, the country must hold fresh elections because Mugabe discarding the cornerstone manifesto pledges on which their support of the tyrant was based. If Mugabe is to renege on his pledge to them and does not represent the ordinary people then what other constituency is there left the tyrant can claim to represent?!  

There is no two ways about it, only logical way out of this political conundrum for Mugabe and the nation is him to resign so that fresh elections can be held. In the new elections parties can present their manifesto, Mugabe can have a revised manifesto in which the indigenisation policies are toned down or scrapped. Everybody, this time, will have a meaningful say in a free, fair and credible election. Whoever wins the election will have the people’s mandate to rule and implement their election manifesto and will have the respect and confidence of the international community and foreign investors.