We in
the Zimbabwe Social Democrats welcome MDC-T’s belated call for the implementation
of the democratic and holding of elections as the only meaningful way out of Zimbabwe’s
current economic mess.
"Our
call for national dialogue has been spurned by Zanu-PF. The executive resolved
to withdraw that call for dialogue...but to now demand the implementation of
agreed reforms that will ensure a free, fair and credible poll," said
Tsvangirai.
The
question the nation has to ask here is why did MDC fail to implement the
reforms when the party had the majority in parliament and the five years of the
GNU? SADC Heads of State reminded MDC leaders to implement the reforms
countless times during the GNU and literally begged them not to take part in
the elections without the reforms but no one listened.
The
only two reasons why MDC leaders failed to get even one reform implemented was
that they are corrupt. As SADC Heads let said, MDC leaders “were too busy
enjoying being in government and forgot why they were there.”
The
second reason is that MDC leaders should have realised that implementing the reforms
was the nation’s get out of jail card and their failure to comprehend such a
critical issue showed that they are breathtakingly incompetent; there is no
other logical explanation for it.
Many
Zimbabweans where shocked at the ease with which Mugabe blatantly rigged the
July 2013 elections. The truth is if they had been following events closely,
which they should have been doing, then they would have forced MDC to implement
the reforms timeously much less be surprised at the vote rigging.
The
Zimbabwe electorate was naïve and gullible to have so readily believed
Tsvangirai’s repeated assurance that the elections would be free, fair and
credible. By God, has the nation paid dearly for this folly!
Now
that we know the elections were NOT free, fair and credible; the least the
nation should and must do now is ensure that it is never again guilt of being
naïve and gullible. Tsvangirai and his MDC friends have already proven to be
breathtakingly incompetent but, with the benefit of hindsight and a year for
this to sink in, there should be so many Zimbabweans who still follow
Tsvangirai as if nothing has happened is disappointing.
The
quality of the government and opposition is intrinsically linked to the quality
of the electorate. So far Zimbabwe has had a corrupt and murderous tyrant for
president and an incompetent village idiot for leader of the opposition because
the nation’s electorate is naïve and gullible.
Tsvangirai’s
belated call for the implementation of the reforms does not add anything new to
the debate. All he is doing is trying to draw attention to himself and thus somehow
remain relevant. He has not thought of how the reforms will be implemented now
that the best chance to do so was lost.
MDC’s
belated call for the reforms to be implemented is an attention seeking gimmick.
It is no more that someone lighting a candle in broad daylight, it will not
shed any useful light but will be a distraction especially to a naïve and
gullible electorate.
Zimbabwe
is facing some difficult and serious economic and political challenges right
now and must expend all her attention of these problems. These attention
seeking gimmick by Tsvangirai and his MDC friends are a distraction we can do
without!
Signed: Wilbert Mukori
Secretary General
Zimbabwe Social Democrats
Source:
http://www.bulawayo24.com/index-id-news-sc-national-byo-52764.html
17 comments:
I grew up in the rural areas and I can honestly say I had a wonderful childhood. My of the many things I loved as a child was hunting; the holy-grail was to kill two birds with one stone. I have shot down a handful of birds in my whole life and never ever killed two with one stone. I never stopped me trying, of course, and probably contributed to my missing even more often otherwise.
The memories of my childhood came flooding back when I read your suggestion that Nathaniel Manheru should write “honest articles to open the closed eyes of President Mugabe”. As jokes go that would have counted as killing two birds with one stone in bird hunting days!
First, Manheru writing even one honest article; that is like asking the skunk not to smell, it would not be a skunk then!
Second, there have been a flood of honest articles written by many other individuals over the years which should have opened Mugabe’s intellectual eyes. They all failed to do so because one cannot open something that is not there. Mugabe, for all his pretentions of intellectual statesmanship is as mentally blind as the mole is physically.
You can shine the brightest light right the face of a mole it will not make the slightest bit of difference to him, it might just as well be the darkest blackness of hell itself for him. Greed has killed Mugabe’s brain so that neither reason nor human compassion can reach him now. If there is a hell after life, then there is a man whose heart is so blackened with his evil deeds he is destined for the deepest recesses of hell that not even Dante could imagine!
Parents in Gokwe are being threatened with seize of their cattle to pay outstanding school fees.
Parents are being forced to pay an arm and leg for a substandard education service that has left millions who have gone through it with no jobs so they can at least earn a living! What a rotten deal!
@ tatenda Kunaka
The crass stupidity of Nathaniel Manheru knows no bounds, he down marks President Barack Obama, a A+ student, whilst heaping praise on Mugabe, a corrupt and murderous tyrant with the blood of tens of thousands of innocent Zimbabweans on his hands.
Thank God the Zanu PF regime is collapsing because it is rotten to the core. Years of greed and waste have destroyed the country’s economy throwing millions into a life of abject poverty. The economic meltdown has been so far reaching that even the ruling elite too are languishing in abject poverty. Zanu PF grandees like the late Nathan Shamuyarira, are living in abject poverty. He died a pauper; Zanu PF, in the most cynical Animal Farm style, painted his house the day he died to hide the years of neglect, decay and rot.
The Zanu PF economic system was doomed to fail because it was geared to reward those who did no work and the expense of those who did the donkey work. Its doom’s day is now upon us. 34 years of unrelenting mismanagement and corruptions have taken a heavy toll of the national economy and it is on its death bed and the regime does not have the foggiest idea what to do to revive it.
The regime is not even saving its own fellow ruling elite much less its foot soldiers. The rank and file soldiers are being forced to take two weeks leave every month just to save on the food bill! The regime’s days in power are certainly numbered!
After regime change, the people of Zimbabwe will want to recover some of the loot Nathaniel Manheru has collected over the years, his reward for from Mugabe for his stupidity. After all both the stupid articles and the loot were at public expense!
“Joint Operations Command (JOC), has reportedly already told Mugabe to publicly state his departure, at the most appropriate political time,” reported The Telescope News.
The JOC buffoons have successful rigged the 2008 elections and then last year elections too; they are no doubt gloriously happy with themselves. Sadly for them it is the end of the road for them.
34 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption has totally crippled the Zimbabwe economy. It has thrown millions of Zimbabweans into a life of abject poverty, the economic melt-down has been so severe and far reaching that even Zanu PF grandees like the late Nathan Shamuyarira he not been spared. He died a pauper. He was so poor his wife could not even afford the bus fare to visit him on his death bed.
Zanu PF, the cynicism of George Orwell's Animal Farm, painted his house the day he died to hide the years of neglect, rot and decay.
If party grandees like Shamuyarira are as poor as a church mouse one can only imagine how poor the party's foot soldiers are. The regime is forcing rank and file soldiers to take two weeks every month leave just to save of the food bill. The ordinary Zimbabweans at the very bottom of the political food chain have literally been ground into the dust.
This Zanu PF economic system that rewarded those who did no work at the expense of those who did the donkey work was doomed to fail. It doomsday is now upon us!
These JOC buffoons know as much to do about ending the economic meltdown as the Jurassic dinosaurs knew about the meteorite strike that wiped them out!
All JOC's carefully laid down planes as to who will take over as president, what position must be reserved for Grace Mugabe, etc. will be irrelevant. The regime is collapsing, and that is all the nation cares about!
The very fact that JOC has continued with their devilish planning oblivious of the economic melt-down that is gripping the nation only shows that we are indeed dealing with real Jurassic political dinosaurs!
“Joint Operations Command (JOC), has reportedly already told Mugabe to publicly state his departure, at the most appropriate political time,” reported The Telescope News.
The JOC buffoons have successful rigged the 2008 elections and then last year elections too; they are no doubt gloriously happy with themselves. Sadly for them it is the end of the road for them.
34 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption has totally crippled the Zimbabwe economy. It has thrown millions of Zimbabweans into a life of abject poverty, the economic melt-down has been so severe and far reaching that even Zanu PF grandees like the late Nathan Shamuyarira he not been spared. He died a pauper. He was so poor his wife could not even afford the bus fare to visit him on his death bed.
Zanu PF, the cynicism of George Orwell's Animal Farm, painted his house the day he died to hide the years of neglect, rot and decay.
If party grandees like Shamuyarira are as poor as a church mouse one can only imagine how poor the party's foot soldiers are. The regime is forcing rank and file soldiers to take two weeks every month leave just to save of the food bill. The ordinary Zimbabweans at the very bottom of the political food chain have literally been ground into the dust.
This Zanu PF economic system that rewarded those who did no work at the expense of those who did the donkey work was doomed to fail. It doomsday is now upon us!
These JOC buffoons know as much to do about ending the economic meltdown as the Jurassic dinosaurs knew about the meteorite strike that wiped them out!
All JOC's carefully laid down planes as to who will take over as president, what position must be reserved for Grace Mugabe, etc. will be irrelevant. The regime is collapsing, and that is all the nation cares about!
The very fact that JOC has continued with their devilish planning oblivious of the economic melt-down that is gripping the nation only shows that we are indeed dealing with real Jurassic political dinosaurs!
@ Mbish Ndlovini
Mugabe and Zanu PF must step down so an interim administration can be appointed whose pri-mary task will be to implement the democratic reforms the partners in GNU should have imple-mented but failed to do so.
The people of Zimbabwe are smart enough to judge for themselves who is best qualified to lead them and they must be granted that basic right. They will make mistake along the way but, in a free and democratic system, they will have the chance to learn from their mistakes.
The present system has denied the people any say and when the regime has got things wrong the nation has been forced to accept the consequences with as much as an apology from the tyrannical thugs. This has gone on for 34 years now and enough is enough!
Both Zanu PF and MDC can contest the elections and if one of them wins the free vote then they are welcome to govern. What I will object to strongly is anyone of their leaders playing a role in the interim administration. They had five years to implement the reforms and failed they must accept that the failed.
I am very disappointed with the Zimbabwean electorate’s defeatist attitude and the agonising slow sloth mentality. In 1980 when the nation attained its independence the people hoped they would enjoy the freedom, liberty, human rights and dignity the nation had been fighting for. But deep down they did not expect these things to happen which is why when Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs started riding over their hopes rough shod they hardly complained. It took many people 15 years at least before they finally accepted that Mugabe was a corrupt and murderous neurotic and that they will have to stand up and challenge or they will suffer forever amen.
When the people risked life and limb for democratic change, again the slow sloth mental thinking played havoc with them as they ended up electing an incompetent village idiot to champion their cause.
Whilst free and fair elections will offer the best start for the nation’s challenging economic and political recovery how quickly, indeed if at all, the nation recovers will depend on how quickly the electorate move from a defeatist and sloth mentality to a have-some-common-sense and can listen to reason mental state. This wildebeest mentality will mean the nation will blunder from pillar to post without ever making any progress.
It costed Mugabe US$ 4 billion, at the very least, to rig Zimbabwe's July 2013 elections. Ever since the rigged elections he has struggled to raise US$ 27 billion need to fund his ZimAsset recovery plan. A year's frantic begging has produced nothing and in that period a lot more things have gone bad that his revised budget has gone up by $4 billion. So the $4 billion he is going to get from the Chinese will be but a drop in the ocean for him.
Mugabe will have to rig economic recover now only the tsunami wave of the economic meltdown the country is facing right now will bury him and Zanu PF. So far, rigging the economic recovery has proven to be a bridge too far for Mugabe!
How ironic the man who have survive for 34 years by bribing, cheating and even killing is now to be defeated by the economic chaos he created to buy his way to the top!
Tyrants too are from God.
The good Lord has blessed Zimbabwe with the rich soil and good weather to grow all the food the nation needs with plenty left over for export, for example. For the last 15 years, since the chaotic land reforms, the nation has depended on food aid. Whom do you blame for that; God?
The factional wars in Zanu PF is intensifying with senior party leaders openly defying Mugabe and continue buying vote and campaign for vote in preparation for the party’s elective congress in December.
The collapse of Zanu PF itself is only symptomatic of a big collapse - the national economy. Mu-gabe tries to give the impression that Zanu PF was a party of ideology, Scientific Socialism, but within a few years after independence it was clear that this was just a myth. The party had no ideology or any sense of purpose as to where it was going. The only thing Mugabe and his cro-nies cared about was power and the influence and wealth it brought.
Mugabe has remained as the leader all these years because he proved that he was the one ruthless enough to do whatever was necessary to ensure Zanu PF had an iron grip on political power: ride roughshod over the people’s hopes and dreams for freedom, justice and basic human rights and dignity. He has presided over the murder of over 20 000 innocent Zimbabweans to establish and maintain this de facto one-party dictatorship; so, yes, he did delivery the absolute power.
Having secured the absolute power Mugabe has then used his position as the absolute dictator to dole out jobs and wealth to party loyalist like sweets to children! His cronies loved him for it but came at the expense of the national economy that has suffered because of the criminal waste of human and material resources because of gross mismanagement and rampant corrupt the system spawned.
Mugabe knew just how important agriculture was to Zimbabwe’s economic wellbeing but he risked it all with the violent seizure of white owned farms to give to his undeserving cronies who have failed to keep up farm production. He needed loot to appease his cronies and he had nothing else left to give away.
The collapse of the agricultural sector was the final straw that broke the economy’s back and never to recover. The economic collapse has hit the nation hard sending unemployment soar-ing to 80% plus and basic services like health and education have all but collapse. Poverty has reached the ruling elite too; Zanu PF grandees like the late Nathan Shamuyarira died a pauper. Zanu PF, in a cynical move reminiscent of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, had his house painted the day he died to hide the years of the neglect, rot and decay.
Although Mugabe has managed to retain political power through thick and thin as characterised by the great escape in 2008 and then repeated last year what he has failed to do is keep up with the demand for those well-paying jobs and the loot. Being a Zanu PF grandee, minister for don-keys is one thing but what good is that if your wife cannot even afford bus fare to see you on your death bed as happened with the late Shamuyarira!
Zanu PF is falling apart because the economy is falling apart; Mugabe does not have the cushy jobs and loot, the super-glue – that have held the party together.
The warring Zanu PF factions are fighting for the presidency confident that they will dole out jobs and loot to their supporter just as Mugabe has done. They are not even aware that there are no cushy jobs and loot to dole out because the national economy is in total melt down. History will ask what kind of morons sat with Mugabe in cabinet all these 34 years and failed to stop the tyrant from completely destroying the nation’s economy. As for these Zanu PF thugs being morons there is no question and they are proving it to the bitter end – fighting to the death to inherit nothing and even now they still fail to see Mugabe has destroyed everything there is nothing left to fight for!
@ Super Mondo
Exactly! They are busy fighting over a party that is unelectable and is on its last legs! How is it possible that they do not see this is itself a measure of just how incompetent people like Mai Mujuru and Mnangagwa really are!
It is as well for President Xi Jinping to dwell in the past, at least he can call Mugabe "renowned leader of the African national liberation movement," with a straight face. The real Mugabe who has emerged since Zimbabwe attained her independence has been a totally different person; a corrupt, neurotic and murderous tyrant and that is how history will remember him!
Although Mugabe welcomed the praises from President Jinping both men know Mugabe did not come to hear the praises; this is strictly a begging mission. Zimbabwe is economically bankrupt; 34 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption have taken a heavy toll. Mugabe is in China to sell the nation’s last jewels for a song!
Of course whatever loans the Chinese grant him, everyone knows the money will be wasted away in no time. Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown will continue as long as Mugabe and Zanu PF remain in office. So President Xi Jinping knows Mugabe will soon be back begging for more money!
@ Afroboy
The Chinese are not that smart really, we should not forget that it was only in the last 20 years that they started grow economically after decades of being held back by successive tyrannical regimes.
On the political front the Chinese have no more voting rights than us!
One of the reasons why Mugabe is still a hero to the CCP is that he is a tyrant after their own mould!
The Chinese would want Mugabe to remain in power and Zimbabwe to remain under their spell but even they can see that the tyrant is beyond saving. They did advise Mugabe to change but he did not listen. Mugabe’s economic system is just too wasteful to survive!
@ Tichaona Zindonga
Let me be absolutely clear so there is no room for misunderstanding: Tsvangirai, in failing to implement the democratic reforms necessary for free, fair and credible elections, has proven beyond that he is breathtakingly incompetent. Ever since the rigged July 2013 elections, he has been fighting hard to stage a comeback and make himself relevant.
Any other idiot would have realised that the blunder of not implementing the reform is so serious there is no such thing as a political comeback. But Tsvangirai is a real first class village idiot, it has not dawned to him that he made the blunder much less appreciate its seriousness. The benefit of hindsight and more than a year for it all to sink in have made no difference to him comprehending the blunder; none.
Fortunately for him, and unfortunately for the nation, the penny has failed to drop in hundreds of thousands of his supporters and so he still enjoys a lot of popular support. It is unfortunate for the nation because a naïve and gullible electorate is a curse to the nation looking for quality leaders to move forward.
Mugabe rigged last year’s elections not because Tsvangirai said so but because that is a fact. Mugabe’s denial of that has been feeble because there were a whole raft of electoral irregulari-ties that the regime has failed to explain notably the bussed voters and the failure to release a voters roll.
There two reasons why this Zanu PF regime has failed to end the country’s economic meltdown: one because the regime does not have the political will to uproot corruption and, two, no donors and investors have any confidence in the regime upholding the rule of law. A party that would blatantly rig elections and commit treason cannot be trusted to uphold less laws such us property rights.
The second point is one of legitimacy; Zanu PF is illegitimate of course because it rigged the vote.
Zimbabwe’s economic recovery is now inseparably linked with the nation having a legitimate government. The economic meltdown will only get worse as long as Mugabe and Zanu PF re-main in power. So Mugabe must step down or he will be forced to by the people or by the situa-tion.
Whatever loan the Chinese give him it is only the painkiller and not the economic cure; and the next relapse will hit the nation very hard! I can tell you now; it is most unlikely that this Zanu PF regime last in power to the next elections in 2018!
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), or the central bank, said Monday that four of the 19 banks operating in the country are financially distressed and could fail to stay afloat if no measure comes out to improve liquidity.
Quick governor John Mangudya send a message to Mugabe and ask him to beg the Chi-nese for another $4 billion to help with this liquidity crisis. And tell Mugabe “P/S do not comeback without the money!”
This is crisis management at its worst, just how long Mugabe thinks he can stay in power doing this is the real big question now!
@ Djoser
Mugabe has been begging for his ZimAsset economic recovery plan for a year without getting even a dollar. After a year, he is now desperate and this is his finally throw of the dice. Mugabe went to China ready to beg and grovel because he is that desperate. Well if you are going to do that much grovelling then you need kneeling pad or your knees will be noticeably marked like a goat!
Oh and the RBZ has just announced that 4 Zimbabwe Banks will close if the cash problem is not address. Gvt officials have send Minister Chinamasa the following fax "Beg for another $4 billion from the Chinese. P/S tell the goat not to bother coming back without the money!"
@ Itai Dzamara
Itai your painting of Mugabe and Zanu PF as arrogance Mafia boss with his murderous thugs who did not have a clue what on what to do to fix the country's economic meltdown is spot on. I also agree with you that the solution is to implement the reforms and hold free, fair and credible elections.
I was really disappointed by you amateurish attempt to gloss over Tsvangirai and MDC role in this whole mess. It was their failure to get even one democratic reform implemented although SADC Leaders and other people had reminded them to do so repeatedly that allowed Mugabe to blatantly rig the elections. The only logic reasons why no reforms were implemented is be-cause they are corrupt and that they are breathtakingly incompetent.
For you to even suggest such incompetent individuals can still be trusted to "determine what comes out as a formula to solve the national crisis", speaks volumes of your own failure to comprehend the enormity of both Tsvangirai and his MDC friends' incompetence and of what is at issue here. How can anyone entrust the destiny of this whole nation at this critical formative stage to individuals who have just proven beyond all doubt that they are incompetent village idiots!
Zimbabwe currently produces an average of 1,300 megawatts of power against peak demand of 2,200 megawatts, resulting in daily rationing and blackouts that affect both domestic and commercial users and have paralysed mines and industry, according to the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries.
When Zimbabwe attained her independence in 1980, the country was already having to import electrical power to meet the nation’s demand because the 1 300 megawatts it generated was not enough. Now the demand is 2 200 megawatts and would have been considerably more if the nation’s economy had grown and not shrunk. After 34 years of this Zanu PF misrule no additional generation capacity has been added because of the usual mindless dithering, incompetence and corruption. Indeed the country has struggled even to maintain the infrastructure it inherit for such is the level of this regime’s ineptitude.
One only hopes that this $2 billion 600 megawatt Gwayi Power project to come on stream by 2017 will not suffer from the usual Zanu PF mindless dithering, incompetence and corruption.
At the rate companies are closing down, as long as this Mugabe and Zanu PF tyrannical regime remains in power the economic meltdown will continue that much is clear, there no need for this additional power. Zimbabwe will be a nation of informal sector workers, kiya kiya people do not need electricity, they cannot afford the ZESA bills, they use candles for lights and wood for all their cooking.
The need for Mugabe and Zanu PF to go and go now is more urgent than ever!
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