Mugabe did not mince his words when he address the UN General
Assembly and once again blamed the “illegal sanctions” imposed on his regime by
the “evil West” for all Zimbabwe’s economic problems. The US hit right back and
told the tyrant, in no uncertain terms, that Zimbabwe’s economic woes are due
to his incompetence!
“Zimbabwe is a great
country with potential to build its own good future. It has the capability and
it has the primary drivers that are able to take the country to another level,
but the problem lies in the policy and decision makers,” UNITED States ambassador
to Zimbabwe, Bruce Wharton said.
The Ambassador is not telling us something many thinking
Zimbabweans do not already know and have not said a thousand times already but
when you live in a country where the only voices that are heard and count are
those of Mugabe and his cronies, saying the same thing a thousand times again
is all one can do. What else can one do when faced with the brick wall of totalitarian
autocracy!
There is a new voice, a new kid on the block, the economic
meltdown; Mugabe has turned a deaf ear to that voice but for how long?
The Zimbabwe economy is facing the most serious economic meltdown
because of the rampant corruption - ignored for decades and thus allowed the time
and cover to grow and spread and now the chickens in red-billed quelea numbers
have come home to roost - and the lack of the much needed foreign investment.
The economic meltdown will only get worse as long as this incompetent Zanu PF regime
remains in power.
The economic meltdown has its python coils wrapped round the
economy and it is squeezing tighter and tighter; companies have been closing
down and the python has taken up the slack depriving the remaining ones the
customers and suppliers – the oxygen – and thus forcing them to close in turn.
The economic meltdown is the one voice Mugabe will find
impossible to ignore because it is hitting everyone including the hard core
Zanu PF loyalists. Zanu PF grandees like the late Nathan Shamuyarira died a
pauper; if poverty was lord of the manor is his home poverty is worshipped like
a God by the rest!
A recent UNICEF report said 62% of Zimbabweans are poor and
16% or 2 million now live in abject poverty. Count hard core Zanu PF loyalists will
be amongst them. The situation is getting worse and the count is going up!
The only way out is for this Zanu PF regime to step down,
allow ALL the democratic reforms that should have been implemented during the
GNU to be implemented and the hold free, fair and credible elections. If this
has been said once, it has been said thousands of times and will be repeated a million
times again because it is the truth and is the only way out.
The Mugabe regime must step down now and not wait till 2018;
the nation cannot afford another day of this economic meltdown induce slow
death by strangulation.
“In the wake of 2013 elections, we remain concerned the
democratic process is still subject to political pressure. But at the same
time, we don’t want to wait five years for another election to sort of go
through this process again,” said the Ambassador.
Indeed if the nation does not implement the reforms before the
next elections be there in 2018 then the whole process will be a futile rerun
of the 2013 rigged elections!
Of course Mugabe can afford to ignore the economic meltdown.
When one has lived in the palatial comforts and luxuries for decades they
develop a disconnect from reality, the “let them eat cake” Marie Antoinette
disconnect. The 2 million and counting Zimbabweans living in abject poverty, on
the coal face of the economic meltdown, will be reminded of their miserable
existence every hour 24/7; hunger knows not day from night! They will be forced
sooner or later to tell Mugabe what they are going through, force him to reconnect
with reality and force him to go!
23 comments:
“The party reiterated its position that NO REFORMS NO ELECTIONS and will not participate in any election until the playing field is levelled," MDC Renewal tell us.
Well, who is going to implement the reforms now, may I ask?
You had parliamentary majority, the backing of SADC and five years to implement the reforms but failed to get even one reform implemented. Mugabe now has parliamentary majority a weak and feeble constitution, which MDC helped to get approved in the referendum, which calls for no more reforms to back his position. The tables have certainly been turned in Mugabe's favour and he is not the type to be easily bamboozled into giving up high ground. So I ask again how is MDC renewal going to get Mugabe to implement reforms now?
All MDC leaders have proven beyond doubt that they are corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent. All they are after now is a chance to get back on the gravy train, Zimbabweans must see them for the incompetent village idiots they are who will betray the nation just as readily as they have done during the GNU.
We would not be in this mess if MDC had implemented the same reforms the idiots are now asking for!
@ Madziwa
That is rich coming from someone who has shed the blood of innocent Zimbabweans to stay in power! You are died against every Zimbabweans exercising their democratic right to a free vote because you fear regime change and that you will have to earn your keep and not live off others like a tick! And worst of all, have to account for the blood on your hands!
Well the game is up! There is no going back now; Mugabe and Zanu PF are finished! Every Zimbabwe-an is going to enjoy their freedom, liberty and human dignity!
@dabrotherfrom USA
You Zanu PF have never wanted the truth to be told; it makes you restless to hear it. Well get used to it because as soon as there is regime change The Herald and ZBC will say nothing else.
The winds of change are blowing and they are blowing away the despair and fear of the past and blow the fresh air of hope and justice.
Like it or not change is here and it is here to stay!
What makes me so sure that this will not be another false hope as in 1980 with Mugabe or 2008 with Tsvangirai; you might ask? Well I know this is it because as long as I have breath in my lungs I will fight to ensure that this time the nation is not betrayed! And to be doubly sure of that, I will hunt down all the rats like you myself - I cannot trust anyone else to ensure that this it done properly. Watch out!
@ Giant Gonzalez
Who is stopping you having a good education and health? What has made these basic necessities of life a pipe's dream for us all is that we have a government whose economic policies have failed to generate the wealth to finance the cost of these services. In a normal democracy the people are able to elect new gov-ernment but not in Zimbabwe. Mugabe has engineering a political system to ensure there is no regime change.
The biggest problem we have had in Zimbabwe is having an electorate who were so naive to even believe they could have a competent government that had usurped their power to hold the rulers accountable to them.
Free, fair and credible elections are a pre-requisite of good and accountable government. Nothing of any value or meaning can ever be accomplished until we implement the democratic reforms that have allowed Mugabe to rig elections in the past. It is my fervent hope that Zimbabweans have learnt this important lesson and will from now on guard the right to free, fair and credible elections with their very lives because their very lives and those of posterity all depend in this right!
@ Gary WekuZviyemba
Regime change is the essence of a democratic elections, is a simple truth that Mugabe has turned into a crime; he would have you lynched if he heard you say that! The tragedy is most people consider it their duty to co-operate with this diabolical scheme! People like Makarau pretend not to know what is going on when the electoral process is being corrupted before their own eyes!
We need to implement all the democratic reforms so that every democratic institution is independent and is accountable to the nation. By the time we hold the next elections this must all be in place.
Having the right to a free and meaningful vote guaranteed is important; it will be us finally getting off first base! It has taken 34 years but we will finally have made it.
@ Qawe LaMaqawe
Having free and meaningful elections that include regime change is a basic right and idiots like Mugabe and his cronies on this site should never be allowed to think it is a privilege the tyrant can grant or deny as his whim dictates!
Mugabe rigged the last elections; there will be a full judiciary inquiry to establish the facts and those re-sponsible will be punished! That is the only sure way to drum it into some thick heads that when we say something is a right we mean it! Until they say someone thrown in jail or hanged for vote rigging some people will never believe that vote rigging is treason; they are the “doubting Thomas” but just as Jesus asked Thomas to push his finger through the nail-hole we have to string a few thugs for the rest to believe! We have the hangman in Zimbabwe, he will be called upon to do his duty!
@ Zuda Madhala
What you have to realise is that Mugabe has created a political system that does not allow a viable alterna-tive leader to emerge within his own party, Zanu PF, by promoting deadwood like Muzenda, Mai Mujuru, Mnangagwa, etc. Other members like the late Edson Zvobgo who had shown some originally he systemat-ically shunted into dead end jobs.
As you the opposition Mugabe has seen to it that they are squeezed out and deny space to operate.
One of the "must have" in our democratic constitution is official recognition of the opposition granting them full access to all government reports and policy documents. If there should be regime change following the elections, it will be a smooth transfer of power and operations because the new administration will already know what gear the last government was in.
@ Rwendo
If Zanu PF saw its future in being able to rig elections, then yes Mugabe was their man. I agree with you that once the party had allowed itself to be led down this de facto one-party dictatorship path past the point of no-return (which was soon after independence) then the party need a ruthless tyrant as leader to ruthless murder all those PF Zapu supporters in the mid 1980s and to follow this through thereafter. Again Mugabe fitted the bill so why change him.
The only trouble with the dictatorship, they should have known but clearly they did not stop to think through (Zanu PF is certain not a party with any thinkers), it was doom to fail because it inherently stifled debate and competition. It is no surprise that mismanagement and corruption have become the byword of Zanu PF on economic matters; stifle competition and that is what you get guaranteed.
After 34 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption the national economy has collapsed una-ble to bear the burden of the criminal waste of human and material resources. The economic meltdown that we are seeing is the system saying "Enough, I cannot go on!"
As long as Zanu PF remain in power one thing is certain the economy will continue on its present trajectory of economic collapse. Whoever is in power they will want the Zanu PF dictatorship retained because they power is dependent of maintaining the autocracy so it really does not who is at the helm be it Mugabe himself, Mai Mujuru, Mnangagwa, it is immaterial none of them will have the will power to end the corruption. So the economic collapse will continue regardless who is in charge.
At one point or other the nation will finally realise that the economic is doomed because of failed Zanu PF policy. The nation will have no choice but to abandon Zanu PF.
Implement the democratic reforms and Zanu PF will be buried because Mugabe has done a great job of making is such a corrupt and murderous party it is now unelectable.
@datbrotherfromUSA
I am stating the situation as it is on the ground. Mugabe has failed to rig economic recovery and now he has two simple choices step down now and allow a democratically elected government to address the teething problems or hang on to power and let millions more people be pushed into abject poverty until the nation finally decide enough is bloody enough and force him out of power, by then things will have reached the point where they will have to get rid of him Gaddafi style!
The economic meltdown has Mugabe well beaten; I do not need to have a plan to do anything here. I will be very careful to stay away at this stage because he is like a snake squashed in half; it is dying but not died, nothing will please it more than to take you with it.
After Mugabe has stepped down or killed, my plan is for the nation to implement ALL the democratic reforms that those MDC village idiots should have implemented during the GNU and then hold free, fair and credible elections. A simple, elegant, sweet and yet most effective plan; an ingenious plan to get rid of the tyrant and his thugs for good guaranteed (Zanu PF will never win a free, fair and credible elections, we all know that), you have to agree!
Nonsense I you telling me that Zimbabwe's economy is doomed if we cannot trade with the US?
If Mugabe can afford to hold $1 million birthday party, $5 million wedding party, live in a palace worth $20 million (at the very least), etc. then it is nonsense to say there were any sanctions on him. What else did he have to do to show that sanctions were water off a duck's back for him? What else, you tell me?
You are wittering about the sanctions because Mugabe said they affected the economy without ever looking at the facts on the ground. He and his cronies have become multi-millionaires whilst the rest of the populous have sunk into a life of abject poverty. Why?
The explanation is obvious they have grown filth rich because corruption and looting have become rampant. The rampant corruption has sucked all the nations resources and wealth to benefit the tyrant and cronies leaving nothing for the rest of us.
Of course Mugabe has pointed refuse to acknowledge there is corruption just as the tyrant has pointedly refused to release the voters roll, the smoking gun in last year's rigged elections. He has blame the economic collapse on sanctions confident people like you will never see this is nonsense, he was right as you have so clearly proven. Highly educated, University Degree or is it another PHD, but as stupid as a duck!
@ Nick Mangwana
This is nonsense, the kind one would expect from someone like you stuck in the typical Mugabe and Zanu PF mentally where the people and opposition can do anything as long as it does not expose the regime’s incompetence let alone seek regime change.
“A good opposition should be able to articulate in detail how things could be done differently to produce a better outcome,” you write. “Their role is NOT to ensure that government policies fail at all cost. That is the role of saboteurs. The attention seeking protests planned by the opposition and their acolytes fall in the latter category.”
The government of the day is responsible for coming up with its own policies and implementing them. The purpose of the opposition and the nation at large is not to hold to account the government to account for everything in public life not to formulate policies for them. Only a regime that enjoys being in power but will not want to take ownership of what happens during its watch would accuse it critics of being “saboteurs” who are ensuring “that government policies fail at all cost”.
Peace protests are an acceptable way for the public to express their views in a democracy. No wonder no demonstration are ever approved in Zimbabwe given the sheer hostility of and contemptuous disregard for individual rights and freedoms Mugabe and Zanu PF have shown over the years.
Mugabe and Zanu Pf rigged last year’s elections and now it is clear the regime has failed to rig economic recovery. The regime’s economic recovery plan ZimAsset has barely managed to raise $5 billion out of the $27 billion and none of is budgetary support which is what the regime wanted above all. The plan is dead in the water and the economic meltdown has started in earnest.
For years the regime has blamed the “evil sanctions imposed by the evil imperialists West” for all the country’s economic ills. But since ZimAsset was formulated when the sanctions were already in place the regime cannot blame the plan’s failure on sanctions and hence the saboteurs. This is typical Mugabe smokes and mirror stupidity that has landed the nation into this mess.
The only way out of this economic mess is for Mugabe and Zanu PF to step down, so that ALL the demo-cratic reforms; those MDC village idiots should have implemented throughout the GNU years but failed to get even one reform implemented; can be finally implemented followed by free, fair and credible elections.
In short the only way to end the current economic crisis is for the nation to have regime change.
Mugabe rigged last year’s elections to avoid regime change but by failing to rig economic recovery he has been force to come full circle to the very thing he has tried all his political life to avoid – regime change. Unlike Tsvangirai and his MDC village idiots Mugabe will not be able to bribe or bamboozle the economic meltdown to avoid free, fair and credible elections and regime change. Not this time!
@ Mara
You are wrong, yes I can see that "the western based economy is sure dying" and so too does everybody including you. What no one else can see "the completely new and unique (economic system) rising from the ashes of Rhodesian economy like the legendary pheonix" that you are wittering about.
What we can all see is a filthy rich few who are crazy about the material goods produced from the West and cannot stop morning about how sanctions have stop them going West to do even more shopping. Their wealth is made on the backs of the millions they are grinding into the dust.
The people of Zimbabwe are sick and tired of Mugabe's lies and being treated as if they are stupid. So stupid they will believe his story of empowerment and prosperity when the lives is anything but a misery.
Mugabe will end up the same way all other tyrant end, being hunted down, cornered and shot as happened to Gaddafi! The longer he tries to hang the greater the people will hate him for the selfish rat he is!
We know why people like you cannot stop singing the tyrant's praise; you have loot to protect and/or have shed innocent blood for Mugabe and now fear losing the loot and/or having to account for the blood on your hands. There is absolutely nothing you or Mugabe can do now to stop regime change. It was long in coming but now it is here! And so too is lady justice!
You should not try foster stories where they do not fit, Mugabe is finished and he is not going to rise again out of the ashes!
@ Roving Eagle
It took the late Nathan Shamuyarira years of himself living in abject poverty before is finally dawned on him the Mugabe and Zanu PF were a total failure. Still the idiot did not have the courage to tell Mugabe himself but wanted Margaret Dongo to tell the world just how miserably poor he was. She is the one who told the world how Zanu PF was painting his house the day he died to hide the decade of neglect, decay and rot.
There is no doubt that of the 2 million Zimbabweans now living in abject poverty many of them would Zanu PF hard core supporters still in denial that the country is in a serious mess. They are still stuck in the them against us mentality that cannot accept that their party has failed and there is nothing wrong with admitting it and see if there is another party that can do better.
We all make mistakes the true measure of the person is how they response; the clever person will learn from the mistake and thus avoid making the same mistake ever again.
The fool, who mental capacity does not stretch far enough for them to realise the mistake will repeat the mistake and never learn.
The egotistic moron will know they have made a mistake but their misplaced ego will not allow them to admit to being fallible. At best they will try to avoid repeating the same mistake by correcting it but mak-ing it all appear as if it was all part of the careful plan. At worse the repeat the mistake and blame some-thing else for what has gone wrong. A typical example is Mugabe blaming the country's economic prob-lems on the sanctions whilst flatly deny the real causes such as mismanagement and corruption.
The worse curse that can befall a nation is that it should be ruled by egotistic morons. Zimbabwe has had that curse and their rule has lasted for 34 long years! Thank God the nightmare is finally coming to an end!
@ PG Madziwa
After 34 years of totalitarian rule during which the opposing voices have been effectively silenced it is not surprising Mugabe and his gaggle of sycophants had settled down confident there was no other voice out there that will dare challenge what they say.
You are really shocked that anyone can dare call Mugabe a corrupt and murderous tyrant. Of course it is not nonsense because it is true.
As for who dared allow me the opportunity to such these truths; it is something called freedom of expression - completely new to you and Mugabe, I know. But you will all get used to it because it is being ex-tended to all Zimbabweans with the upcoming regime change!
@ PG Madziwa
The difference between you and me is that I am smart enough to admit the nation has fcuk up big time and am determined to put it right. You are the egotistic moron who thinks it better to pretend everything is fine because you cannot stand admitting Mugabe is a corrupt, neurotic tyrant! The fact that you have shed innocent blood for the tyrant makes things worse in that you egotistic pea size brain is thus stuck in reverse.
“I am not a foolish minister, I do not make reckless decisions. I would be reckless to introduce the local currency at this juncture,” he said at a breakfast meeting in Harare last week.
“The small change introduction is in no way a subtle reintroduction of our currency,” he said, adding that the “plan will be backed by a $50 million facility to buttress the multi-currency regime”.
Minister Chinamasa will live to eat those words because he is certainly one of the most foolish, confused and double talking Minister in a country that has produced a fair number of each!
They will be legal tender. Very soon Banks will start paying out withdrawals in US$ and a minimum of X of which is in Z$. The rich will start accumulating the US$ and the poor will be forced to use the Z$ forcing its value down. Then overnight the US$ and all the other foreign currencies will be scrapped and the Z$ will takeover followed by devaluation, inflation etc.
The people have too many things to worry about with this regime introducing this Z$ by the back door is just one more headache for the people. It is the poor living from hand to mouth who will be hit the hardest in all this.
Zanu PF has become a nightmare and the signs are the darkest hours are still ahead of us. With the Boers in SA, one could be sure that they will come to the negotiating table when they finally realised apartheid had reached a dead end. With tyrants like Mugabe there is no chance of that happening they can see the sign "Dead End" but instead of applying the brakes it is full steam ahead!
Mugabe would rather destroy Zimbabwe completely, make it ungovernable; than let someone else bring order, stability and hope to his chaos, misery and despair. He simply cannot bear to see Zimbabwe resume normal relations with the West and thus expose that threats from the West he has talked endless about all these years were in fact all lies.
If only MDC had implemented the democratic reforms when they the chance to do so, the nation would have been saved this nightmare. If only!
Mugabe and Zanu PF have failed to deliver on any of the pre-independence hopes and aspiration of the ordinary people of Zimbabwe both on the political and economic front. Yes Mugabe has been clever in creating a political system giving the impression that there was no other viable political party than Zanu PF and that he was the only leader of substance in that party. Those who have bought to this stupid notion have found themselves going back to Zanu PF and him for the way forward even when they readily admitted to his record of blundering failures.
Zimbabwe will never get out of this hell-hole Mugabe landed the country as long as Mugabe and Zanu PF remain in power. It is only when one has accepted that reality that one can begin to see that actually Zimbabwe has a population of 12 million from who can emerge a competent political party led by equally competent leaders.
"[Grace Mugabe] should be a person of honour and say, 'I did not study for this, please take it back, I made a mistake'."
Honour, Grace Mugabe a person of honour! That is a joke! Still even for as dishonourable person there is some things one should not do - she went too far this time! Being fast tracked to lead Zanu PF Women's league is one thing but being fast tracked to a PhD degree is pathetic! All those UZ officials involved in this nonsense must answer for it!
@ Joseph Whande
When Mugabe signed the so called "mega-deals" with China and Russia he made a big song and dance about it to give the impression that his ZimAsset economic recovery plan was back on track. The truth is Mugabe needed a lot more than the $5 billion China and Russia gave him, he needed $27 billion. But worse still Mugabe needs the budgetary support and none of the $5 billion he got covered that.
Zimbabwe's economic meltdown continues and will only get worse until Mugabe and Zanu PF step down.
Unlike Tsvangirai and his MDC village idiots Mugabe was able to bribe and bamboozle into doing nothing about implementing the democratic reforms; Mugabe cannot cheat or bribe or threaten or murder the economic meltdown. And the economic meltdown has its python coils round the economy and it going to squeeze until Mugabe steps down of the people force him out of office Mumar Gaddafi style!
My guess is Mugabe has given his last "ranting and raving" UN speech!
Are you sure it is Mugabe on the wheel? "Zimbabwe is like a bus hurtling out of control on a rocky road," I will agree with that bit. "With the driver nodding asleep at the wheel," impossible that drive would not be Mugabe. He love his comfort and that image would not fit that of the man who spends $3 million every time he has an eye check-up.
What you should have said is: "Zimbabwe is like a bus hurtling out of control on a rocky road, with a dummy driver that looks like Mugabe at the wheel. The real Mugabe driving the bus but remote control! He would not trust Mai Mujuru or Mnangagwa to seat on the driver seat, even if all the controls are remote; he cannot bear the thought of anyone thinking they were driving!
As a people we have been consumed by self-doubt, we never believed we are worth any-thing or can do anything and so that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. When someone s***t all over us we do not protest because deep down we believe we deserve to be so ill used. If we perform badly we do not say "I must do better than this!" but instead accept failure as if it would have been naive to expect any better.
In this competitive world there are those always on the look out to exploit others on the lookout for any weakness for them to take advantage of for personal gain. There are like lions looking for the one animal with even the slightest limp and they will zero in on that one.
The white colonialists were quick to notice that blacks were easily impressed and my-on-my they were to great lengths mystify everything! After independence the black nationalists leaders have gone to great length and expense to keep the masses ignorant. The masses have co-operated in this, as I said, content to follow because they would not understand what is happening anyway. Of course laziness has played a major role in this because none of the stuff is rocket science, at least none affecting their daily lives!
@ Djose
The late Solomon Mujuru is believed to have a fortune worth $ 9 billion when he died. He was not the cleverest kid on the block. God only knows how much he wasted on bad investments, on leisure and pleasure.
How much money did the nation lose in lost production because of the collapse of the agricultural sector? We lost over $40 billion in lost tobacco sales in one year alone.
The trouble with people like you is you do not have any common sense. You get easily confused and cannot tell the difference between important issues and trivial ones. The single most important issue here is the right of ordinary Zimbabweans to a meaningful vote.
Mugabe rigged the 2013 elections denying the people a free, fair and credible vote. He brought up the issue of sanctions to confuse idiots like you and as a smoke screen to justify and hide his vote rigging. By accusing MDC of bringing the sanctions he could demonize them and hence anything to stop demons being elected is justified.
Mugabe and his cronies have been robbing the nation blind in broad day light, riding roughshod of the people's aspiration of freedom, liberty and peace and you cannot even see it because you are busy chasing this imaginary foe called sanction. You have even come up with how much it has costed the nation!
What a stupid, stupid thwart!
The right of every Zimbabwean to a free and meaningful vote, together with all the other rights and freedoms, must be and will be secured and guaranteed this time and for all time that is not negotiable. The stupid sanctions have nothing whatsoever to do with it!
@ Hinds
Well here on earth we have laws too and no one should be above the law. When those in the positions of power and authority abuse their positions for selfish political gain to commit such heinous crimes as Mugabe and his cronies have committed the nation must not rest until these responsible are brought before the court of law and punished.
The good Lord can do as He pleases with the souls but before the meet Him they must explain to us mortals. The body, human body of these criminals belong to us mortals. Beside our courts have the power to send the murders to meet their maker in double quick time as the price in this case of sending so many innocent people to their untimely deaths!
If I hit a dog with my car I would stop to see if I can do anything to help and to explain to its owner. I would expect everybody else to do the same if they hit my dog. We are talking about human beings here not dogs and over 30 000 murdered by this murderous regime in its 34 years in power.
Jacob Mudenda is Speaker of the house of Parliament today, a reward for his co-operation during the Gukurahundi massacre, which he now pretending he condemned. But more significantly he is Speaker because this parliament is there to rubber stamp whatever Mugabe decrees; Mugabe knows he can count on him to ensure that parliament does just that!
Jacob Mudenda was no more fit to be governor back in the 1980s than he is fit to be Speaker of the house now! We do not need to wait for him to die for us to know that and to seek redress!
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