We read with despondence and alarm that the
country’s security chiefs have said “Zimbabwe can only be led by a Zanu PF politician
who not just participated in the liberation war against British Colonial rule,
but also attended the historic Lancaster House Conference in 1979, which paved
way for Independence,” according to The Telescope News and Buluwayo24
report.
"The top commanders of the military, have
made it clear that, Zimbabwe's next leader is one who not just participated
during the bush war against Ian Smith's regime, but must have also attended the
Lancaster House Conference," said a Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) public
relations officer in Harare who requested anonymity during a weekend telephonic
briefing with The Telescope.
"General Chiwenga has been clear about that, and many of us here are in support of his stance. This position has been communicated to the presidency, after being adopted last month at a Joint Operations Command (JOC) meeting outside the capital."
For the last 34 years ordinary Zimbabweans have
been denying a meaningful say in the governance of the country with the
disastrous economic and political consequences. Gross mismanagement, rampant corruption
and all-out looting in the last 15 years have destroyed the nation’s once
prosperous economy forcing millions into a life of abject poverty and despair.
Zanu PF has resorted to brutal political repression to establish and maintain
its de facto one-party dictatorship; millions have been intimidated, beaten and/or
raped and over 30 000 have been murdered for selfish political gain.
President Mugabe and Zanu PF have failed to
bring mass prosperity, “gutsa ruzhinji” as President Mugabe said, peace,
freedom and liberty. They have brought mass poverty human misery and endless
strive.
This nation is at a crossroad either to discard
this Zanu PF dictatorship that has brought so much suffering and despair to
millions and benefited only a few or to continue with the same failed system
and throw even more of people into new depths of suffering and despair. By
presuming to dictate who should rule the nation the security chiefs are opting
for the failed system. Of course that does not make any sense and is totally
unacceptable.
The only person to succeed Mugabe as president
of Zimbabwe will have to meet one criterion and one criterion only: he or she
must win the majority vote in a free, fair and credible election.
Please note that before the free, fair and
credible elections can be held Zimbabwe will need to implement ALL the democratic
reforms that should have been implemented during the GNU but were not
implemented because MDC leaders’ breath-taking incompetence. The reforms include
key national institutions like Police, Army,
Judiciary, public media, etc. to give them the democratic independence to carry
out their duties in a none partisan way.
Serving security chiefs and all office bearers in
the reformed institutions who will not subscribe to the new democratic dispensation
will, of course, be free to resign from their posts.
The Joint Operations Command and many such bodies that have
wielded a lot of political power but are neither properly constituted and
accountable nor relevant in a healthy democracy will be disbanded.
Zimbabwe has the chance to end the autocratic system of
government that has clearly failed the nation and it would be folly not to
seize on this opportunity just to appease a select few who are only concerned
about their selfish interest at the expense of the common and national
interests.
From now on, Zimbabwe will be ruled by law and with the
democratic will of a free people expressed in free, fair and credible elections
and never again ruled by the whims of a tyrant and his/her hard-line cronies. There
are some things people can talk and negotiate about; the free vote of a free
people will decide who will be president; that is not negotiable!
Signed: Wilbert Mukori
Secretary General
Zimbabwe Social Democrats
Source: http://www.bulawayo24.com/index-id-news-sc-national-byo-52460.html
11 comments:
@ Mr Popular
The fact that the people have put up with all these hardship for decades now should not be taken as proof that the people will never ever do anything! Sometime, still waters run deep!
@ Libido Chitsa
The blunder of failing to implement even one democratic reform in five years in the GNU is simply unforgivable and unforgettable, only first class village idiots would have done that! The international community and SADC leaders thrown in their towels after they literally begged the idiots not to take part in the elections but to no avail. They had to admit they were dealing with some real fruitcakes here!
What else should Tsvangirai and his fellow MDC idiots have done to finally convince these peo-ple that they are indeed incompetent? If someone cannot see this, even with the benefit of hindsight and over year to digest the information, then they will never see it; period!
Of course Zimbabweans are free to take Tsvangirai, Biti, Ncube and the rest of the MDC leaders as serious leadership material; no one is going to try to stop them. But Zimbabweans will be naive if they think anyone in SADC or the rest of the world will ever listen to those clowns.
The price Zimbabweans will have to pay for electing leaders who have already proven beyond doubt that they are fruitcakes is that SADC and the whole world will just ignore the fruitcakes and the Zimbabweans behind them. If we want the world to listen to us and help us solve our political and economic problems then we must prove to them that we are now serious by electing as competent leaders for a change and fruitcakes, particularly those who already proven that they are first class village idiots!
@ Pinkk
It is not in the DNA of a tyrant to give up power regardless the circumstance and a hardened tyrant like Mugabe is the last person who would break that rule regardless how persuasive the case presented to him.
"In 2011, I got a report with details of what ministers got in terms of double-dipping when claim-ing allowances, in terms of getting vehicles from parastatals and in money in terms of travel al-lowances and the issue was published in a South African newspaper," former MDC State Enter-prises and Parastatals (SEPs) minister Gorden Moyo said yesterday
"When Mugabe got hold of the newspaper, he did not like it and former deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara told me that I was in trouble."
Moyo claimed he then briefed Mugabe and former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai who both said the issue of corruption should never be "a newspaper thing".
"They said it was an executive issue because I was not a super minister. The president was go-ing to deal with the 11 ministers and the PM with the four," he said.
Mugabe has always kept a tight control of the country’s media because he did not want the na-tion to know the sickening extend of mismanagement, corruption and brutal oppression in his government. None of these evils were not to be “a newspaper thing”! Sadly these cancerous evils were allowed to grow and spread and today the national economy is in ICU waiting for a life-saving surgery to remove these tennis ball size cancerous tumours.
Mugabe cannot carry out the operation because he is not just the daddy of them all these tu-mours but the Medusa Head from which they sprouted. Cutting off one of these tumours will induce the Medusa Head to produce ten more in its place. Zimbabwe’s cancerous tumour of mismanagement and corruption can only be effectively dealt with by removing Mugabe and Zanu PF, the Medusa Head, from office!
The nation must have free and fair elections to stop Mugabe rigging the elections as he has done countless times; it is Athena’s reflective shield to stop Medusa Head turning all those who gaze at Medusa being turned into stone!
"The police are there to ensure there is peace and they will deal with anyone hell-bent on creating mayhem and despondency," Gumbo said in response to MDC threats to unfurl demonstrations.
The worsening economic hardship will force ordinary Zimbabweans to demand change. If the regime this economic meltdown is going away; it is not and it is getting worse. If the regime thinks the people will continue to suffer in silence ad infinitum; they are in for a surprise.
What Rugare Gumbo is forgetting is that the rank and file Police and Soldiers are themselves suffering the economic hardship the same as the rest of us. How many Police Officers have no running water and no electricity today? The majority of the soldiers are affected by the forced two week leave every month; does Rugare Gumbo really believe these soldiers are too stupid not to see that this is not sustainable and therefore see the need for change themselves?
Zanu PF is making too many assumptions; first that the economic meltdown will go away although the evidence on the ground says it is getting worse. Second that Zimbabweans have “unmatched and unparalleled resilience”, as Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi said, to suffer all economic hardships without ever complaining. Tyrants like Colonel Gaddafi said the same thing, where is he now!
Economist John Robertson said it would require a strong leader to reverse the current contrac-tion in the economy by implementing good policies that are investor friendly and encourages growth.
"What we have seen from these warring factions is their urge for political office without any clear economic policies to take the country forward," Robertson told the Daily News.
In its 2014 first half economic analysis, economic think-tank Econometer Global Capital, said Zimbabwe's economic growth averaged just 1,8 percent and it was due to worsen in the second half of the year.
"An average of two medium-sized corporates, five small enterprises and 0,5 large corporates close shop every month in Zimbabwe with smaller towns the most affected by de-industrialisation," the Econometer's report says. - See more at: http://www.bulawayo24.com/index-id-news-sc-national-byo-52509.html#sthash.lQh0K1Ur.dpuf
Some of us have said Mugabe rigged the elections but if he cannot rig economic recovery as well, then he will wish he never rigged the elections in the first place. Rigging economic recovery was totally dependent on him getting the funding for his ZimAsset economic recovery blue print. After a year since the rigged July 2013 elections of the almost fanatical begging the regime has failed to raise even one dollar out of $27 billion target.
The mockingly empty ZimAsset begging is doing Mugabe’s head in.
Mugabe has earning the nickname wary fox by the way he has bamboozled, cheated and out-foxed his political critics and opponents alike. The Zimbabwe economy represented by the empty ZimAsset begging bowl has completely outfoxed the fox!
“Kariga n’ombe azorigwa nedemhe!” (Artful bull wrestler has been floored by the begging bowl!)
@ Noel Ngangira
You state from the onset that “Zanu PF is the ruling party with the mandate to bring about economic growth” and, not surprising, all your subsequent arguments and solutions are built round this immovable object, Zanu PF. You even go to the extent of selecting who in Zanu PF will be able to implement your solutions.
The truth is Mugabe and Zanu PF rigged last year’s elections, this is an illegitimate regime, the one that landed the nation into this mess and, more significantly, one no one, not even the Chinese, can trust to get the nation out of the mess. Only a government elected in free, fair and credible elections will have the mandate to implement the tough, bold and urgent reforms and policies the situation demands. There is no time to be wasted appeasing a corrupt and murderous tyrant or for half-hearted measures implemented by dusted up for the occasion nincompoops.
Mugabe and Zanu PF rigged the election but have since failed to rig the economic recovery; they must go, period.
After 34 years of flattery and appeasement it is high time Mugabe was told some simple home truths that he is a corrupt and murderous tyrant, the worst leader the nation has ever had, and it is time for him to go! And good riddance!
@Muverengi
One of the greatest weakness in Zimbabwe has been the lack of checks and balances in our governance.
Mugabe should not have power to appoint, retain and dismiss the Police Commissioner, for ex-ample, because that makes the later beholden to the president. The president should nominate, parliament review the suitability of the candidate and reject him/her if they are not suitable. Par-liament should call the Commissioner to explain if they are unhappy with his/her performance and have him/her removed.
There are other aspect like when should the Police Commissioner report to the President and when to the Minister, etc.
MDC was supposed to draft the proposed changes and have them passed in parliament and then send then to Mugabe to sign and the implement them. MDC had the majority in parliament so there was no reason why they would have problems getting these passed. If Mugabe refused to sign then MDC had to go to SADC who were the guarantor of the GPA.
Mugabe never refused to sign any passed by parliament and parliament never refuse to pass any proposed reforms because not even one reform proposal was tabled in parliament.
I have explain all this and many other issue on my blog zimbabwelight.blogspot.co.uk
MDC did not draft any proposed reforms because they were busy enjoying the trappings of power Mugabe had laid before them hence the charge of MDC leaders being corrupt.
MDC leaders did not appreciate the importance of the reforms to free and fair elections because they are breathtakingly incompetent village idiots.
You should have been following what was happening; every Zimbabwean should have done so. You should have picked what was happening the first time you read on the subject. For someone to be wittering about Tsvangirai as anything other than a village idiot shows just how breathtakingly incompetent they are.
I am concerned about people like that because they have a vote and they too decide who rules the country. Of course I do not want a village idiot to rule and ruin the country particular when they are to be voted in by people who are just too lazy to use their God given brains, people who have their heads stuck in village idiots like Tsvangirai's backside!
People have the right to vote but they must also know that they will be held accountable to how the use or abuse that right! That is how democracy works and rightly so too!
The number of Zimbabweans applying for passports has increased significantly. People are leaving the country in droves.
"There is a high demand for passports in Zimbabwe as people are leaving to escape the economic crisis the country is facing," Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudebe, who heads the passport department, told a parliamentary committee in July. His office is issuing as many as 3 000 passports a day!
Mugabe rigged the July 2013 elections and since he has cleared failed to rig economic reforms his continued rule is clearly out of the question.
Zimbabweans both inside and outside the country must redouble their efforts and get Mugabe to step down so the task of rebuilding the country can start in earnest. There is a limit to how many and how long other nations are going to continue welcoming Zimbabweans. And there will always be millions who will not be able to leave for whatever reason, we cannot abandon them to whatever hardships Mugabe dishes out to them!
@ Luke Tamborenyoka
Mugabe has also fired small fish in Zanu PF who have done bad things and so Tsvangirai firing Chitungwiza MDC councillors does not prove anything. We all know that corruption in Zimbabwe has become rampant and goes all the way to the very top with Minister, Prime Minister and the President himself.
“There was never such a discussion with Tsvangirai. Moyo never brought such a document to him," said Tamborenyoka. The reporter should have asked if this was what Tsvangirai told him or what Tamborenyoka himself thought. In other words Tamborenyoka is double guessing his boss rather than put his in a position where he would have to lie or else Tamborenyoka lying on his behalf!
Poor Tamborenyoka being the spokesman of a pathetic leader like Tsvangirai is not ease, you always end up looking pathetic yourself! Luke just go back to Domboshawa and grow tomatoes and stop making a complete ass of yourself. You and your boss have caused enough suffering with your breath-taking incompetent over the GNU years without insulting us with your continued presence!
Agreeing to work with a village idiot like Tsvangirai was a bad career move; are you sure you want to make a bad situation even worse by defending the indefensible? Telling the people there is no corruption when they know otherwise?
At least George Charamba has the decency not to answer his phone and insult the people by telling a lie (confirming Moyo’s story of institutionalised corruption would land him into serious trouble) over a matter everyone knows is true.
Mugabe off to China for State visit 24 to 28 August.
Here we go another session of grovelling and begging! Mugabe will have his kneeling pads otherwise his knees will grow a hardened skin pad like those of a goat!
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