“I am grateful to the Lord
that I am able to address you once again, despite the ever present but still
unlawful threats against my person,” started VP Mujuru in her press statement. The
whole statement continued and finished along the same vein of a sanctimonious
half-truths and damned lies! She would have never sign the statement as a sworn
statement to be produced in a court of law; yet she willingly evoked the name
of the Lord to bear witness to the half-truths and damn lies!
Madam, Zanu PF has systematically denied the people of
Zimbabwe their basic and fundamental freedoms and human rights including the
right to a meaningful vote and even the right to life itself but please, please
do not make the mistake of thinking that we are all stupid and blind.
We know it is Mugabe’s modus operandi to accuse all those he
consider a threat to his struggle hold on political power of all manner of
criminal activities ranging from petty crime to treason, for example. Rarely if
ever are the accused ever brought before a court of law and evidence produced
but rarer still is anyone ever convicted after transparent due process. However
having made the accusation, Mugabe uses this as cover for harassing,
intimidating, threating and deprive his opponent and his/her supporters their
basic human rights. He will do whatever it takes, including rigging the vote
and/or murder, to ensure he “win” the election and stay in power.
So Madam when you say “A
vociferous attempt has been made to portray me as "a traitor",
"murderer " and "sell out", yet not a single iota of
evidence has been produced to give credence to the allegations.” You are not
telling us anything new that we have not seen happen before.
You, as a very senior
member of this Zanu PF regime, must have been aware of the party’s dirty
political trickery. For the record, the regime has murdered over 30 000
innocent Zimbabweans for selfish political gain in its 34 years in power.
Throughout all these years and the shedding of blood of all these thousands,
you have never lifted a finger to stop this madness.
Are you doing it now
because you are now the victim of the Zanu PF political machination? Or is it
because you are human and those who lost their lives in the past are not quite
human beings!
Now that Mugabe has thrown
you out of Zanu PF, rightly or wrongly, justly or otherwise; you will have to
make-up your ‘simple mind’, as Mugabe called it. Is your loyalty still with
Mugabe, with the Zanu PF members who dared to support you and who too have been
purged or it is with the ordinary Zimbabweans whom Zanu PF betrayed in 1980 by
denying them their the basic human
rights and dignity?
If you loyalty is still to
Mugabe then all that “His Excellency President R. G Mugabe” is fine for one
given to decades of grovelling. To us Mugabe is a corrupt and murderous tyrant
who has systematically denied us, the masses, povo, our basic rights and
dignity. To us, all this “His Excellency” crap makes us want to puke.
The fact that you still
refuse to see Mugabe for the corrupt and tyrant he is even with the benefit of
what you have witnessed him doing to you and those who has supported and
followed (foolishly as it has turned out) you as their leaders show that Mugabe
was right in dismissing you as a simpleton, not fit to hold high office.
Why Mugabe promoted you to
be VP has to do with his own satanic desire to surround himself with simpletons
who pose no threat to his hold on power which is at odds with the national interest
of appointed the most competent person for every positions.
Madam if you should ever
want to win the sympathy of the ordinary people of Zimbabwe, then you must stop
treating them as if they are all stupid. You insult our intelligence when you
deny that you are corrupt.
However the greatest
public good you could do this nation at this critical time in our national
history is to tell the truth about last year’s rigged elections.
Zimbabwe is stuck in this
political limbo because everyone is refusing to deal with an illegitimate Zanu
PF regime. Even if Zanu PF finally scrapped the ill-advised indigenisation law,
for example, no one in the world will trust the regime not reactivate the law
or simply disregard the law because the regime has done just that so many times
in the past already.
Zimbabwe is going through
a total economic meltdown right now, 16% or 2 million Zimbabweans already live
in abject poverty, unemployment is 90% plus, etc. and yet as long as Zanu PF
remains in power the economic meltdown is set to get worse.
We need Zanu PF to accept
they rigged elections because only then will the regime accept the
implementation of ALL the democratic reforms (MDC should have implemented)
followed by fresh free, fair and credible elections. We need to remove the
stigma of illegitimacy that this Zanu PF regime is carrying which is making
donors and would-be investor shy away from Zimbabwe as if we are a nation of
lepers of Biblical days!
24 comments:
Mujuru and a number of Ministers included Dzikamai Mavhaire have been sacked. Zanu PF has hit the self-destruct button and there is no going back. Not that any of the sacked individual deserved to be in power since none of them won last year’s elections.
“If truth be told, very few leaders in Zanu-PF are able to explain how the 2013 elections happened, how the landslide victory came about. Equally, very few in Zanu-PF can legit-imately claim that victory, much as it benefited them,” wrote Nathaniel Manheru cum George Charamba two weeks ago.
“Yes, it’s true that the two of us (including his deputy Mutezo) have been sacked. The letter was sent to me last night and I signed for it,” said former Minister Dzikamai Mavhaire without disclosing the contents of the letter. Not that he was surprised that he was sacked; Grace Mugabe told him he would be “unemployed” last time she was in Masvingo.
So none of these sanctimonious Zanu PF idiots were elected by the people last year and were in parliament and cabinet courtesy of Mugabe and Mnangagwa who masterminded the vote rigging. It is justice in their being fired out of the jobs they neither earned nor deserved!
Charamba is himself from the Mujuru camp and so he too is fearful of being purged. In-deed it was with the purge in mind that he admitted the elections were rigged. Until then he had led the bandwagon claiming the elections had been nothing but free, fair and credible, the reality of the purge helped lift the fog in his head. His admission is a warning to those wielding the axe to be careful because in chopping him down they may well find that they chopped down a lot more than they thought!
VP Mujuru and ten cabinet ministers have been sacked and there will be a lot more Mu-juru supporters and followers to be sacked. Now that the grim ripper has sharpened his axe and smoked the joint, there is no stopping him. Zanu PF is a party of ruthless thugs, it was ugly when they murdered innocent Zimbabweans up and down the country it is still ugly when their target is another thug!
I feel sorry for the poor postmen, it has become a high risk occupation; after a few sleepless night waiting for his “sacked” letter, who knows what a person like George Charamba would do – shoot the messenger!
@KKG
You are wrong, the demise of this tyrannical regime gives the nation another chance to build a democratic system. The GNU was the first chance but it was wasted because MDC failed to implement the democratic removes. We must make sure that we do so this time. Mugabe is helping to clear the deck, he in turn is going to be removed by the economic meltdown.
@ Concerned Christian
It is good that we should be a God fearing nation but we should also when we need God's help and when we do not. Zimbabwe's political and economic mess is not God's making but that of man; Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs to be precise. If the problem is man-made it is therefore within the power of any other mortal like you and me to find a solution.
I believed God have blessed Zimbabwe with good soil and excellent weather; no one should ever go hun-gry. Sadly millions are now dependent on food aid because we have failed to managed this key resource, land, for the good of us all. The same is true of our mineral wealth, etc.
Zimbabweans have become adapt to praying for a good harvest when we should be praying for good rains. There is a world of difference between the two.
Ever since Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden and the Lord shouted at the retreating fig-leaf clad lovers "In the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread!" Some price to pay for a quickie, true enough! Still ever since that day mankind has had to sweat to earn his bread.
Zimbabweans have been praying for a good harvest because they did not want the hard work; they clearly think they are still in the Garden of Eden. If the economic hardships brought on by decades of corruption and misrule by Mugabe does not wake this nation up to the reality that they are not in the Garden of Eden and therefore they too must sweat for a better life then nothing else will.
Meanwhile the nation must be prepared for even worse economic hardships, they have not fit rock bottom for suffering is a bottomless pit!
If you are going to pray, then pray that Zimbabweans should come to their sense and accept that they are not special and therefore they too must sweat for their bread. Those praying that Zimbabwe becomes the Garden of Eden are wasting their time; it will never happen!
Zanu PF is now its terminal self-destruct phase; everyone is fearful of being accused of belonging to the wrong faction; any wrong move and you will be the next kicked out. All this firing is affecting everyone in the civil service. For the first time ever everyone in the service is on time for work. The practise of leaving one's jacket on the chair and disappearing for hours on end during working hours or knocking off early are all gone.
As a rule civil servants have nothing or little to do but you have never seen anyone look so busy doing nothing!
These are the most stressful days ever being a Zanu PF loyalists - it bad enough keeping up with the blind loyalty but making the effort to show that loyalty and to the right person is adding to the stress.
When news filtered through of such people as Mujuru one may be forced to laugh when one could just as easily have cried. All round, these are miserable days.
@ Prof Mlambo
No the problem with Zimbabweans is not that "we don't appreciate people's effort" but that we do not know when we have been short changed!
Tsvangirai got a $4 million Highlands mansion plus five years of good living on the gravy train from Mugabe in return for doing nothing about the reforms. What else did he want the nation to give him for betraying them, for Pete's sake!?
He and his fellow MDC leaders are back asking for the people to vote for them again so that they can get back on the gravy train only because they know Zimbabwe are so stupid he can betrayed them again and again just as Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs have done before the penny finally dropped 15 years ago for the latter!
The main reason there is no real alternative to MDC right now is that many people are happy with MDC regardless of all their blundering incompetence.
People get the government and opposition they deserve; Zimbabweans deserve Zanu PF and MDC and the misery they the two have brought! We are too lazy to think!
The grim ripper sharpened his axe and smoked, his joint (may be two or even three for he had some big trees to cut down) and set off. A VP plus Eight ministers that is a week's work done in a day!
Since Zanu PF rigged last year's elections should we really prefix their names with MP or Senator?! I wonder how long they are going to remain in those august houses!?
Two of them are set to lose their seats if the rumour that they have been arrested and are already enjoying the luxury accommodation of Zimbabwe's prisons. Welcome comrades, to the real Zimbabwe you have been denying did not exist!
Speaker of the House, Jacob Mudenda, tells MPs to stop using sanction as the excuse for failing to revive the economy because Europe has lifted the sanction.
If Mudenda even believed for one minute that the root cause of Zimbabwe's economic meltdown was the sanctions then it only shows just how naive and incompetent our national leaders are. If he did not then why is he wasting time talking of a none existent problem when he should be address the real problems behind the economic meltdown.
The thing is the economic meltdown is real and it is going nowhere until the regime addresses the underlying problems or it steps down. Unlike Mai Mujuru who they bullied and cheated out of the way to get power, the economy will not be bribe, cheated, threatened, murdered or any of the usual dirty trickery Mugabe usually gets up to.
@ Whichfool
I want a Zimbabwe where all Zimbabweans enjoy freedom, justice, human rights and have hope in the future - all idiots like you and Mugabe ever think and care about power and "arriving at Harare airport to a hero's welcome". Mugabe had has a hero's welcome every time the tyrant leaves the country (and we know he is a glob-trotter) and after 34 years he still wants to remain president to get more hero's welcomes!.
Fcuk me, if I got a cent per person of all that money wasted by all those busy bodies going to the airport to welcome the tyrant I would be a multimillionaire! What a criminal waste of money.
Why has Ngwena not picked you, is it because you are a political idiot not worth purging? You are stupid, I must admit. Your friend, Nick Mangwana, he has gone into hiding or has the regime got him already. He could at least string two sentences together, you have never completed one simple sentence- check above for yourself!
@ Isu zvedu
MDC had the political power and opportunity to implement the democratic reforms and the only reason they failed to get even one reform implemented is because the leaders are corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent. You failure to get your head round these simple facts even with the benefit of hindsight only shows that you are mentally challenged.
Your are more comfortable following blindly like sheep just like all the other MDC members still following Tsvangirai, Biti or Ncube! If it is a question of numbers then you are still one in the wildebeest herd. If it is intellect then the IQ of the brightest in the herd is two or three points above that of an idiot at best!
Mugabe made a deal with the Chinese when he visited China in August. He was desperate for cash to bol-ster the country economy which is in total meltdown after decades of corruption and mismanagement. The Chinese finally agreed to spent $4 billion of long overdue infrastructure project on condition that he ap-pointed Mnangagwa, who they know will protect China's unfettered access to the country's wealth and riches.
Zanu PF had to rig last year's national elections to stay in power, with the help of the Chinese and an Israeli company, NIKUV. To get Mnangagwa to be VP, Mugabe has had to rig the party's own electoral process.
It does not matter how much Mugabe and Zanu PF try to sell Mnangagwa to the people of Zimbabwe, the people will never be fooled. Mnangagwa may be a black Zimbabwean but everything else about him has a "Zhōngguó zhìzào" (MADE IN CHINA) tag! The world over China is known for producing rubbish in Mnangagwa they have surpassed their well-earned notoriety for here is a product of the poorest quality and like all such products will not last!
@ Nyakasikana
Mugabe has hit the self-destruct button; Zanu PF is tiring itself apart the national economy is in total meltdown. There is nothing even a seasoned crocodile can do about those realities. Mnangagwa has just inherited the Titanic after it has hit the iceberg!
@myself
The stupid argument of "I was following orders!" has been discounted as nonsense after the WW2. If Mnangagwa has no self-conviction to see the barbarism of murdering unarmed civilians in their tens of thousands then he surely is not suitable to hold the highest office in the land, period!
Mugabe and Mnangagwa can ignore the economy all they like, appointing deadwood back into power shows they are not serious about getting the economy back on track, what matters here is that the economic meltdown will continue relentlessly. The two will soon know that rigging the national elections last year and party elections this year were the easy part rigging the economic recovery is the real challenge - unless they do it then their hold on power in is as tenuous as hang on to a red hot metal rod!
@Ben
Having failed to get even one democratic reform implemented, MDC were desperate to be seen as having done something and so the approved a weak and feeble constitution insisting it was an "MDC's child". Paul Mangwana the Zanu PF member on Copac boosted later that Mugabe "dictated" the new constitution.
We need to implement all the democratic reforms and the new constitution needs serious revision if not just scrap it all together and draft a new democratic constitution.
MDC leaders have shown that they are corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent. Zimbabwe had a real chance to end the Zanu PF dictatorship during the GNU sadly the chance was wasted.
What the people of Zimbabwe have to realise now is that MDC betrayed them and the sooner they accept that the sooner the nation can start the serious business of finding competent leaders to get us out of this hell-hole. All MDC leaders are fighting for is a chance to get back on the gravy train.
@Magomazi
But he has just given you an alternative; scrap the undemocratic sections and clauses!
The people of Zimbabwe approved the Copac constitution in the March 2013 referendum on the advice of MDC who insisted it was a democratic constitution and that it would delivery free and fair elections. It failed to deliver free and fair election; there can be no question about that.
You are not going to risk a hernia by wearing a shoe two sizes too small just because you paid for it! So why should we be stuck with a constitution that is not fit for purpose just because a corrupt and incompetent Tsvangirai told us to vote for it and we foolishly listened to the idiot!
Mugabe is a control freak!
“The two vice-presidents have no real big function except that they are my deputies. I can give them work to do,” he said.
For 34 years he has been head State, commander-in-chief of the army, chancellor of all the Universities in the country, patron of this institution and patron of that body. Whenever he is away, cabinet meetings are cancelled. Not that his leadership quality are outstanding, he is in fact a toad. Zimbabwe would not be in this political and economic mess if he has the super Mario he thinks he is!
Mugabe is just an incompetent and inept toad with a large ego, he has to control everyone and everything or else his ego will sink so low he will wet his bed!
Mugabe has hit the self-destruct button and now there is no stopping him and if he thinks all those he has just kicked in the teeth for no good reason at all are all going to go quietly to lick their wounds and die he is wrong. Many of his victims are going to hit back and they will want to hit him hard!
This is not over not by a long shot; Mugabe started this fight and other will finish it and finish him. Mugabe is used to doing as he please and damn the consequences but on this occasion will not be saying that for long because he will find himself at the receiving end of the said consequences!
A LIFE of bliss, State assigned drivers, security details, guarded homes, several servants, countless overseas travels and many other benefits, yesterday came to an abrupt end for Vice-President Joice Mujuru and eight other ministers.
All these Ministers have heard of the economic meltdown, the high unemployment, the abject poverty, etc. It went in one ear and straight out the other. This time they will not hear about these things but experience them first hand. “Kuzvivonere panhino sefodya!” as one would say in Shona. This time they will know what it means to be unemployed, to go to bed hungry, etc.
After all those years of sleeping in beds with silk bed sheets, of worrying about putting on weight, etc. It will take some getting used to sleep on the hard floor with blankets that are as rough as sandpaper and listen to your empty rumbling tummy for a change. These people will have to adapt very quickly or they will be meeting their maker a lot sooner than they would have if they had kept the cushy ministerial job!
Povo, from Kariba to Beit Bridge, from Mutare in the East to Plumtree in the West are desperate for real change and an end to the corruption and brutal political repression. Povo will therefore receive Mnangagwa’s comments with anger and tearful despair; if the corruption and murderous tyranny is indeed the “correct line” and the man to take-over from Mugabe has vowed to “remain loyal and committed” to this line and he has learnt all there is to know in the art of brutal repression and vote rigging then, comrades go ahead and cry.
Tomorrow, as Mnangagwa is sworn in, Zimbabweans everywhere must declare it a day on mourning because, like it or not, we are in deep, deep trouble with Ngwena on the throne. This is the nightmare scenario, we are truly – pardon my French for I am really and truly lost for a better word - fcuked!
@ Don
If you are going to tell us Solomon Mujuru is the "most decorated liberation struggle icon" then you must also tell us that he is one of the most corrupt Zimbabweans too because he was indeed a greedy and ruth-lessly corrupt man. People like Mnangagwa played their role in the liberation struggle, it may not have been as illustrious as that of Mujuru, but they are nonetheless using it to hide behind all the wrong they have done since 1980. If we allow Mujuru to sweep his evil deeds since 1980 because of what he did be-fore then then, to be consistent, we must allow everyone else to do the same.
Corrupt is the single greatest problem this nation is in this mess to therefore even suggest anyone is al-lowed to be corrupt is folly. Corruption is a cancer we must up root regardless of from what house it is coming from! Corruption is a ruthless disease and we must be equally ruthless to eradicate it! If you cannot stand the sight of blood then you should not be a cancer surgeon – go back to herding goats like Tsvangirai!
@ Messenger of God
Stop talking nonsense. Ngwena has been at the very heart of most of the evil things that have happened in Zimbabwe since he is a key member of the Joint Operation Command, the Junta that is ruling Zimbabwe. Are you suggesting God is in the Junta too because why would He be there to save Ngwena from assassi-nation but not there when Ngwena is planning mischief?
You are just a shallow minded idiot, a self-proclaimed Messenger of God, who is making a living from preying on the people's fears. The God I have read of in the Bible is a God of love and not one who would want the poor rob to pay for the pastor’s lavish lifestyle. Since when has God ever appointed an idiot like you for His messenger?
@ Mafirakureva
The only thing he is loyal to is "Trust no one and when you get a chance to stab someone in the back do it because they will do it to you! Eat or you will be eaten!" That is the time honour law of the jungle thugs have lived by since the beginning of time.
Ngwena is a chief of thugs and knows that law only too well, Wednesday's attempt on his life was a timely reminder. He will swear his loyalty to up hold Zimbabwe's constitution and loyalty to Mugabe and whatever else you put before him because the only law he cares about and has always honoured is the law of the jungle.
The worst thing that can befall a nation is that institutions of state should ever fall in the hands of thugs because there is nothing more frightful than institutionalised thuggery. Zimbabwe is in this hell-hole be-cause Mugabe and Zanu PF have corrupted every state institution, torn up the country's constitution and declared marshal-law in which the only law that counts is the whim of the dictator.
Mujuru was declared a traitor who plotted to kill Mugabe. Of course she had no chance of just trial, not when the accuser is the prosecutor, the judge, the jury and executioner all rolled into one! This is the sys-tem Mnangagwa believes is the correct revolutionary line and the one is pledging to defend! This is the nightmare scenario we are facing here.
@ Lila B
Whatever the Chinese pay in these projects in Zimbabwe we will repay ten or a hundred fold!
The Chinese were very pleased that Mugabe blatantly rigged last year's national elections and then rigged the party's own electoral process; the China's Communist party is doing its own un-democratic practises in Hong Kong and it is gratifying to know that it is not the only one!
@Chivhuna
You are using the word "better" in the sense it was never meant. Both Mujuru and Mnangagwa are bad so you should ask who is worse not better.
Zanu PF rigged last year's election and has committed a whole catalogue of evil things for which both Muguru and Mnangagwa had a hand; this is why both are bad.
Mnangagwa is a very active member of the Joint Operations Command, the Junta that has ruled Zimbabwe these last 15 years or so. It was the Junta that masterminded and executed last year’s vote rigging of the national elections and has done the same thing of the Zanu PF party elections. So of the two, Mujuru and Mnangagwa, the latter is worse.
Of the three, Mujuru, Mugabe and Mnangagwa, I would have to say it is bad, worse and worst in the order they are listed. I would justify making Mnangagwa worse than Mugabe on the grounds that the latter is old and dying whereas the former have years yet to make all our lives a living hell! Mark my words, Zimbabwe’s future under Mnangagwa is grim!
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