Mai Mujuru is in trouble and if she thinks that
she will wriggle out with some stupid double talk; she has something else
coming.
"Hongu semunhu ndine zvitadzo, handingarambe.
Asi musandipawo zvandisina," [As a human being, I have weaknesses, but
people should not make false claims about me] Mujuru said at a party held in
Dotito to celebrate her attainment of a PhD qualification last month.
"Some people might hate me simply because
they dislike my face,” she continued. “It is not my fault that I might have an
ugly face, but God might be proud of me. I say, don't despise me because of how
I look, but [look at] what I can do."
Madam, please the people of Zimbabwe are paying
dearly for you and your fellow Zanu PF friends’ weaknesses – the country is in
an economic mess so much so that 300 000 or 80% of the children are out of
school, 16% or 2 million Zimbabweans are living in abject poverty, etc. - do
not rub hot chill in the nation’s eyes by insulting our collective intelligence.
We are here to find a way to end the tragic human suffering so that the some of
the 300 000 children can go back to school and the 2 million living in abject
poverty can have once decent meal a day, at least. We really do not care a cat’s
whiskers that you are ugly. Please stick to the point!
Grace Mugabe has accused you of “illicit
dealing in diamonds”. Corruption is the cancer that has crippled the Zimbabwe
economy after decades of this Zanu PF regime denying this is a problem. Grace
Mugabe is the first senior Zanu PF official to even admit for the first time
that there is corruption. So the nation ask you, Mai Mujuru, does your human
weakness – which you have admitted to – include “illicit dealing in diamonds”?
Corruption in the diamond industry is not a
trivial national issue; Chiadza and Marange diamond find was valued at a staggering
$800 billion back in 2009, a generous windfall that should have fuelled the
country’s economic transformation and yet so far only a few individuals have benefited
from this bonanza.
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess
because for the last 34 years the nation has not been given a chance to deal
with honestly with its problems, corruption was one such problem. The country’s
repressive political system has stifled all meaningful debate and competition
landing us in this mess and the nation is not getting out of this mess until we
end this repressive system.
Mai Mujuru, we want a straight answer from you
and none of your “I am ugly” feeble excuse, does your human weaknesses include Zanu
PF rigging elections, specifically rigging the 31 July 2013 elections?
Mai Mujuru the nation does not care about how
ugly you look; it is the corruption and vote rigging that we are concerned
about and are determined to put an end to. The people of Zimbabwe are going
have free, fair and credible elections, after 34 years of being denied this
basic right, and move out of this economic and political hell Zanu PF
tyrannical regime landed us.
19 comments:
Said the vice president: “Hongu semunhu ndine zvitadzo, handingarambe. Asi mu-sandipawo zvandisina”.
This is double talk! Madam, please just answer the questions and stop prevaricating. Do your weaknesses include "illicit dealing in diamonds" as Grace Mugabe charged and, more significantly, Zanu PF rigging elections? The issues of corruption and vote rigging are on the national agenda and any politician who think they can wish these issues away now are day-dreaming. We have 300 000 children out of school, 2 million living in abject poverty, 90% plus out of work, etc. and all these problems will only get worse; there is no time to be wasted now on day-dreaming!
@ Kaapstaad
Grace is only talking about Mujuru's corrupt past; that does not mean Grace and her husband are both squeaky clean.
Corruption and vote rigging are the two burning issues on the national agenda now. Anyone how is hoping to rule Zimbabwe must be innocent of these two serious crimes!
@ Rafique702
We must trust in the democratic process to produce quality leaders, she have never had a truly democratic process and already we want to dismiss it. Get a functioning democratic process and the chaff will soon be separated from the grain!
Mujuru cannot come out right and deny that she is corrupt because she knows and everyone knows that she is corrupt.
Corruption and vote rigging are the two burning issues on the national agenda; this nation is not getting out of the economic and political hell-hole until these two issues are addressed and resolved. Any political leader who is hoping to lead this nation must first proof that they are not guilty of one or both of these serious crimes!
@ Giribeti
Mai Mujuru throw herself under the bus by being corrupt. She is only trying to fool you be taking attention away from the fact that she is corrupt by focusing on her ugly face!
Grace, Mnangagwa, etc. will have their chance to answer whether they are not corrupt and have never had anything with rigging elections in the past! These two issues are on the national agenda and no one is going to fudge it!
Mujuru failed the corruption taste and she must fcuk off! The fact that she is not the only one is immaterial; let the nation sort that one not her!
@ Former Banket Farmer
They will have their chance to answer the two standard questions for themselves; whether or not they are corrupt and if they have ever rigged elections? The questions are not going anywhere until they are answered and they WILL be answered, trust me!
No doubt Chiyangwa will want to answer the following two questions himself (Grace Mugabe, Robert Mugabe, Mnangagwa, etc. will all have the chance to answer the questions for themselves):
1) Have you ever been involved in any corruption?
2) Have you ever had anything to do with vote rigging in any elections in Zimbabwe or heard of any such activity; anything at all?
We all know that Mai Mujuru is corrupt and has failed to deny the allegation Grace made against her that she has been involved in “illicit dealing with diamonds”. Philip Chiyangwa is right is calling on her to resign and face justice. No doubt Mr Chiyangwa will himself be forthcoming in answering the two questions above and will also be amenable to facing justice himself if he should be found guilty of corruption and/or of the treasonous act of vote rigging.
Yes this is the end of the road for Mai Mujuru but it is the end of the road for a hell lot of others too!
By rigging last year’s elections this Zanu PF regime forfeited all legitimacy, the president and parliament can go through the motion of opening parliament etc.; that will change nothing – the regime is still illegitimate.
There is not one single Zanu PF MP who will swear on the Bible that last year’s elections were free, fair and credible. When MDC MPs tried to bring the issue of the rigged elections soon after the elections last year it was the Zanu PF MPs who disrupted the debate because they did not want to hear something they already knew – that Mugabe and Zanu PF had rigged the elections!
This regime’s failure to get international and local legitimacy is at the very heart of its failure to deal with the country’s political and economic problems. The country is facing a serious economic meltdown and as long as this illegitimate regime remains in office the situation will only get worse.
How much longer does Mugabe and Zanu PF think they can keep up this charade of a government?
In typical Mugabe style; he blundered in letting his ambitious wife lose but instead of taking re-sponsibility for her over the top attacks on VP Mujuru he blames outgoing Zanu PF Women’s League chairperson, Oppah Muchinguri, and ask her to rein in his unruly wife!
"You are the one who decided that you now want a new leader at the Women's League, now see, you should now put out the fires that you have started," Mugabe told a stone-faced Muchinguri
If Mugabe said that then that confirms what many of us have said that Grace has assumed the powers of the Supremo President that even Mugabe as President has never had. So the weak and enfeeble R G Mugabe has no power or authority over his own wife and has to rely on others to rein her in!
Grace said she “told the President that if you do not dump that faction leader we will dump her ourselves”.
Poor Mugabe he cannot dump Mujuru or rein in his power crazy wife. Ever since the rigged 2013 elections when the national economy took a definite turn for the worse his failure to fill the ZimAsset begging bowl has been a real nightmare for the tyrant and now the dog-eat-dog fighting in his own party and his own home is only help pile on the pressure.
There is nothing Muchinguri can do now to put out the Grace vs Mujuru fire; it is now a burning inferno all anyone can do now it wonder how long the fire will burn and what will be left, if any-thing at all, when it is finally done. Mugabe is right to fear that there will be nothing but ashes left of Zanu PF and himself at the end of the day.
It is not surprising that he should be asking Muchinguri to put out the fires she “started” as if Grace would have done this without his blessing. Even if one was to accept that Grace had as-sumed the Supremo Presidential power by then; what additional power would Muchinguri have over Grace if she ruled supremo over him. Mugabe has always sort scapegoats for all his blun-ders in the past; he is using Muchinguri as the scapegoat.
When Mugabe decided to create a de facto one-party dictatorship and stifle all debate and com-petition within the nation and within the party Zanu PF it was then that he condemned Zanu PF and his own rule to failure. It has taken 34 years for the whole edifice to crumble and collapse; the economic meltdown and the infighting in the party are just part and parcel of the crumbling and collapsing of the Zanu PF dictatorship.
“The hardships caused by [Western] sanctions are bad enough. Why would I add to the woes with my own sanctions? No! No! I will never be a traitor,” Mujuru said.
Well Grace Mugabe accused you Madam of being corrupt and being involved in "illicit diamond dealing". Are you denying that you are corrupt?
This Zanu PF dictatorship has vehemently denied that corruption is a problem. There is a youtube recording of Mai Mujuru doing just that, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F3Ow2CH1zI.
Mai Mujuru should just answer the question whether or not her human weaknesses include being corrupt. Let the people decide for themselves whether it is indeed the western sanctions that are causing the economic meltdown or the rampant corruption due to the human weaknesses of the country's leaders.
“We cannot continue talking about sanctions while we are folding hands. Something needs to be done now and by local people. Ian Smith ruled Rhodesia under sanctions but the economy did not collapse because he was innovative,” Rodgers Matsikidze, UZ Labour law Lecturer, said in an interview last week.
If our Law Lecturer had his thinking cap on then he would know that Zimbabwe’s economic col-lapse has fcuk all to do with sanctions. The sanctions were imposed in 2002 when the economy was already is serious trouble; the two five-year ESAP of 1990 and 1995 had failed to revive the economy. We all know what was dragging the economy into the gutter – mismanagement and corruption.
The Zimbabwe economy shrunk a world record 84% in the six year period 2002 to 2008 in the same period the rich and powerful became multimillionaires literally overnight as they became the proud owners of the farms valued at millions of dollars seized from the white farmers. There was no accident that corruption reached its all-time high at the same time the economy suffered its worst performance; this was proof that corruption was the disease affecting the economy.
By denying that mismanagement and corruption were a problem this Zanu PF regimes has allowed these cancers to grow and spread. The Zimbabwe economy is now in ICU because the cancers have grown into tumours the size of tennis balls. The economy will never recover until these tumours are removed.
The suggestion that the economy could have thrived if the nation had been more innovative is preposterous no more preposterous as the suggestion a cancer patient will never suffer the ill effects of the disease long as they maintain a Herculean physical exercise regime. And now with the patient in their death bed still witter about the virtues of physical exercises!
@ Zimbabwe united
Vote rigging undermines the stability of the nation and that is why it is more than a crime it is treason. If we are serious about having free, fair and credible elections then we must uncover all the rats who have been rigging elections and dish out to them severe punishments.
@ Kupusa
The sanctions were imposed in 2002 when the economy was already in serious trouble.
I would accept the peasants in the rural areas to be fooled by this sanctions tale but not a University Lecturer too! It is no wonder we have lawyers like Douglas Mwonzora, Obert Gutu, Alex Magaisa, all UZ Law graduates but as thick as a brick. It is clear why, with lecturers like Matsikidze how could they be anything else but stupid!
@ Kupusa
It is refreshing to see there are at least some Zimbabweans with a working brain out there. Thank you!
It is very sad but true that as a nation we have more than our fair share of idiots, we are in this political and economic hell-hole precisely because we have so many idiots. What is more, we will not get out of this hell-hole until we wise up as a nation.
So what exactly is Mai Mujuru hoping to achieve by keeping up this charade that she is not corrupt and there is no corruption in Zimbabwe? Is she calling Mugabe’s bluff; daring him expose her corrupt activi-ties because that would open a can of worms that once opened will not be closed and it will soon ensnare a lot other Zanu PF leaders including Mugabe himself.
Of course she is being very naïve, she is assuming that the Police, given the green-light by Mugabe will do a thorough job and uncover ALL the corrupt in the country. The ZRP is one of the most corrupt police forces in the world; she of people should know that after all these years!
We would like to see new investment flowing back into Zimbabwe but this must not be done at the expense of the country doing nothing to end the mismanagement and corruption the cancers killing the economy. The people of Zimbabwe are capable of electing a government competent to remove these cancerous tumours only they have needed is the opportunity to do so in the form of free, fair and credible elections.
This British and EU re-engagement seeks to force the Zanu PF regime to scrap the indigenisation laws but get the regime off the hook on holding free, fair and credible elections.
Free, fair and credible elections are the basis of good government in Britain, Europe and the world over; that is all the ordinary Zimbabweans have been demanding from Mugabe. Surely that is not too much to ask, so why then are the British playing as if it is too much to ask!?
@ John West
Neither the Chinese nor Russians have ever made any direct foreign investment in Zimbabwe in which they were forced to sell any share let alone 51% to the blacks. They certainly did not do so in any of the mega-deals they signed recently. Mugabe did not even dare bring that up because the two nations would have told him to fcuk off.
All the British and EU are asking for here is that they be treated the same way! The British are willing to let Mugabe rig elections but they will not accept a situation where they are ripped off by these Zanu PF ticks in the name of indigenisation!
@Sol2soul77
You are "disregarding the current crop of politicians" and yet nothing can ever be achieved as long as they remain in power and Mugabe has the veto to overrule all out votes! Our problem lies in our accepting the absurd situation where only one individual, the tyrant, has a say and we have no choice but to follow. The answer is staring you in the face have one-man-one-vote and end this absurdity of one-tyrant-one-veto!
Jabulani Sibanda is known for his disregard of the rule of law and common justice. He was fallen out of favour with his handlers and now they are after him. The hunter has become the hunted and how ironic that for once Jabulani Sibanda should be the one complaining about the injustice of the system he helped create.
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