Mugabe
has remained as the leader of his Zanu PF party and head of government for the
last 35 years in spite his pathetic and ruinous economic performance and
tyrannical and murderous political record. One of the reasons why he has
managed to do so is he is a master of double talk; if he does not dazzle you
with brilliance he baffle you with bull.
He was clearly at his baffling- with-bull best at the party’s politburo meeting.
Addressing
journalists in Harare after a Zanu-PF politburo meeting, the party's national
spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo said Mugabe emphasised that internal party
disputes should be resolved internally.
“He (Mugabe)
said the party has principles, rules and values that are not subjected to
higher courts as some believe and if you are a party member, there are
structures you must use to get your concerns addressed, but not through the
High Court or other institutions outside the party,” Moyo added.
Private
parties are encourage to settle their disputes without recourse to the country’s
courts but if one of the parties should feel they will not get justice they
have a right to ask the courts to hear the dispute and to pronounce judgement. It
is totally unacceptable that one party should then unilaterally decide that the
nation’s courts have no jurisdiction over the matter and therefore they will
not appear before the courts.
“His
Excellency, the President, opened the meeting with a clear message that every
member of the politburo must be thoroughly familiar with the provisions of the
party constitution,” Moyo told the journalist.
It is
great Mugabe remembered there was something called the party’s constitution
and, better still, he directed every member of the politburo to be “thoroughly
familiar with the provisions of the party constitution”. But he would have done
best by quoting to all and sentry the exact provision(s) in the Zanu PF
constitution that said any internal disputes must be resolved internally and
NOT “through the High Court or other institutions outside the party”!
If there
is such a provision – there is none of course, it is just Mugabe baffling his
gullible and idiotic politburo members – but for the sake of completeness we
will say there is a provision in the Zanu PF constitution barring members from
seeking redress outside the party; then surely that provision violates the
country’s constitution and common sense which created the courts as the supreme
arbiter and dispenser of justice.
Of
course it is nonsensical that anyone should abrogate unto themselves the powers
to judge what matters the courts should and should not hear; that is bulls***t!
When
Mugabe returned on one of his many out of the country trip he asked the
rhetorical question “Whose Courts and whose judges?” Mutasa would be taking his
legal challenge. It was rhetorical
because everyone knows Zimbabwe’s judiciary system is in all but name just
another Zanu PF department; there to do Mugabe’s bidding. Still Mutasa should
take his case to the courts.
In the
2008 SADC and AU election observer teams for the first time ever, as far as I
know, refused to rubber stamp Zimbabwe’s 2008 elections free and fair although
they have given their thumbs up to some dodgy elections in Zimbabwe and other
countries before and since. The wanton violence in Zimbabwe’s 2008 elections
was out of this world, the teams had no choice but to condemn them. Mugabe must
be fearing that his court and his judges may be similarly compelled to
disregard his wishes and judge in Mutasa’s favour. The speed with which Mugabe
changed the party’s constitutional to give himself the power to appoint the two
party secretaries who would go on to be the two Vice Presidents in government,
for example, blatantly failed to allow for the consultative period called for
in the party’s constitution.
Is it not
bad enough that Mugabe has corrupted the country’s judiciary but his insistence
that his own Zanu PF disciplinary committee, kangaroo court, is now the supreme
court of the land must be dismissed with the contempt it rightly deserves. No
nation can ever allow that kind of tyrannical arrogance and absolutism.
There
is no doubt that the conduct of Zanu PF’s electoral process last year defied
all accepted norms in the conduct of democratic elections; this is something
Mugabe has become expert in given he has routinely rig national elections for
the last 35 years! Mutasa should not allow himself to be bamboozled by Mugabe’s
rhetorical bull into accepting that Zanu PF disciplinary committee is the
supreme arbiter in this matter and just take his case to the normal court!
11 comments:
Mugabe and Zanu PF can deny that Zimbabwe economic is in total meltdown and that their ZimAsset re-covery plan is dead in the water but that is never going to change the reality that these things are happen-ing. What Zimbabweans have to accept is that Mugabe and Zanu PF will never admit that they have failed much less accept they do not know what to do and step down; it is not in the DNA of tyrants to give up power, period.
If we want to save the nation from further economic hardships and worse, then we have to FORCE the dictatorship to resign. We the people, have to show Mugabe and Zanu PF that we want change, we want our full democratic say in the governance of this country and that we are not willing to tolerate the status quo any more.
When Mugabe said he was as "fit as a fiddle" he did not mean physically only but mentally too. And so when tripped and fell it was clear he was not as physically fit as he claimed. As for his mental fitness, the economic meltdown is getting worse than it has ever been since independence; everyone knows his ZimAsset recovery plan is dead in the water; proof that he lost his mental fitness a long time ago.
Physically Mugabe was helped back to his feet after the fall; sadly, mentally he is still on his knees and, judging from the economic reality, he is not going to get up ever again! Like it or not Mugabe is finished!
The economic meltdown is now like a python with its coils round the victim and each time they breathe out its takes the slack and squeeze. For the last two years more and more companies has laid off workers and never to take them back; more and more companies have closed and never to reopen. Any of the laid off workers by Zimpaper, Zupco, etc.; they will never be taken back or are they likely to find another job anywhere else!
Mugabe and Zanu PF are fooling themselves if they think this economic meltdown can go on forever be-cause as long as they remain in power it is set to get worse.
Chief Makoni said Mutasa was going around claiming he was Nyati or Makoni when he is not.
"Didymus Mutasa is not of pure royal descent. He is a nephew who wants to claim a legacy he is not entitled to. His great grandmother was a daughter of the Makonis called Marutse. Now he is dragging our name in the mud by claiming to be of royal blood. This has angered us into expos-ing his roots," said Chief Makoni.
The Makoni elders now disown Mutasa but when he murdered Christpower Maisiri and terrorized the na-tion as a Zanu PF thug they accepted him as one of their own. But now that Mutasa is doing the most sen-sibility thing he has ever done in his whole life by challenging Mugabe's lawlessness, the Makoni elders in their infantile wisdom disown him! How stupid is that?
Mugabe and Zanu PF have corrupted the nation's institutions from the state institutions like Police and judiciary to the traditional ones like chiefs and village heads. We have to either overhall all these institutions changing them and/or discard others.
@ Patrick
Most ordinary Zimbabweans look up to these CSO leaders and will follow them wherever. These same leaders cheered and applauded Tsvangirai throughout the blundering GNU years; one would have hoped that they learnt their lesson but clearly it was all water off a duck’s back. They are still at it cheering and applauding a blundering idiot!
The nation’s only real hope of getting out of the mess we are in for people themselves to think for themselves and desist this culture of following blindly whatever leader, be it MDC or CSO leader, placed before them.
This is tragic; we have become a nation of a tiny few who have everything and more whilst the overwhelming majority are forced to live in grinding abject poverty. Marange diamonds are to Zimbabwe what oil is to Saudi Arabia and if they had been used for the good of all Zimbabweans since they were discovered in 2006 the Zim-babwe economy will be well on its way to recovery. Sadly, Zimbabwe has become one of those countries with rich resources and great potential but because of rampant corruption and gross mismanagement is one of the poorest nations.
The World Bank, International Monetary Fund and all the other international donors have flatly refused to scrap Zimbabwe’s current $10 billion debt because they all agree that Zimbabwe is not a poor country; it is only poor because of the corruption and mismanagement and that is no excuse for declaring a nation bankrupt.
So not content with having the diamond riches reserved for the few now the regime wants to extend that gener-osity to the same few by giving them unfettered access to the platinum wealth too.
Within a matter of months after the launch of the constitution writing process it was clear the whole thing was a waste of time and money and the BBC documentary shows this. Zimbabwe had its best chances ever during the GNU to bring about meaningful democratic changes which would have ended Mugabe and Zanu PF tyrannical rule. All these chances were wasted because of MDC corruption and incompetence and today the nation is paying dearly for it and will do so for years to come.
Of course we, the Zimbabwean people, are to blame for what happened because it was us, the voters, who elected these blundering MDC idiots. What is worse, we really have not learned the lesson because there are millions of voters still following blundering idiots blindly.
People get the governments they deserve and in Zimbabwe we certainly deserve Zanu PF and MDC. The country is not going to get out of this mess as long as the electorate remains naive and blind
“It is there for all to see and Tsvangirai cannot attack the system because he is benefit-ing. He is living in their house,” said Biti.
Of course Tendai Biti is right but what he is saying about Tsvangirai is equally true of him when he too was “benefiting” from the system as Minister of Finance. As late as July 2012, it was none other than Tendai Biti himself who was calling Mugabe “unflappable” and “father of the nation”. How could Biti in all honest “attack the system” built by the unflappable father of the nation by implementing the democratic reforms designed to dismantle it? So is five years of the GNU not even one reform was ever implemented. Not even one!
“While we will continue to explore and navigate ways of working with other like-minded pro-democracy advocates across the political divide, one thing we will not do is to rush blindly into coalitions of convenience,” said Moses.
I could not agree with you more, we have seen too many individuals compromise their principles and values to join up with deadwood and form political parties only to achieve nothing because they were swamped by the deadwood. The Zimbabwe electorate is gul-lible and would follow blindly a tyrant or a village idiot, as we have seen; it takes real character not to take advantage of such voters.
ZUNDE’s principled stance is now a constant thorn in Zanu PF, MDC-T, MDC-Renewal, MDC-N, Zapu, Mavambo, etc.’s side because ZUNDE has something they have all only talk about but when push came to shove they have all been found wanting – principles!
Mugabe has made a big song and dance about his war liberation heroics but his love for power and wealth turned him into one of the most corrupt and murderous tyrant in modern history. Zanu PF and Zapu members have played their part in establishing and retaining the Zanu PF dictatorship for their share of the loot! Tsvangirai and his MDC crowd promptly forgot about their promise to bring democratic changes as soon as Mu-gabe gave them the keys to the ministerial Mercedes Benz and other gravy train luxuries.
It is not that Mugabe, Tsvangirai and all their followers are men and women of low morals and principle; they never had any. They are mercenaries who never cared about the freedom, justice, liberty, human rights or even the sanctity human life – Mugabe would have never murdered over 30 000 -; of course, it was politically expedient to say they cared but they never did. What they really cared about is making sure they seized political power at the next opportune moment and at all cost including betraying all those morals and principles they pretended and prophesied to stand for. With the political power come the influence and the unfettered access to national wealth and resources.
Politicians like Mugabe and Tsvangirai did not sell-out on their morals and principles be-cause they never had any no more than prostitutes have chastity to sell!
Khaya Moyo can repeat it a million times and a million times again that will not change the fact that ZimAsset is dead in the water because no one has step up to bankroll it. The plan asked $27 billion but so far has managed to raise only $ 7 billion in post dated cheques.
Zanu PF wanted most of the funding in the form of budgetary support and so far it has failed to raise even one dollar for that. The Chinese told Mugabe they will not give a dollar for budgetary support because he "is a bad debtor". The Eu have resumed aid to Zimbabwe but not budgetary aid!
“The Zanu-PF-led Government of President Robert Mugabe is making remarkable pro-gress in its quest to accelerate the implementation of the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustain-able Socio-Economic Transformation and this is despite continued existence of sanctions and the futile attempts by the opposition and its ghost economic analysts to suggest otherwise,” said Cde Khaya Moyo.
Last year Khaya Moyo was wittering about Zanu PF ruling “until donkeys have horns”. He was cock sure he was going to be one of Vice President in the end he was lucky to retain any position and not to be purged. The next time is the complete demise of Zanu PF because his imaginary ZimAsset has failed to achieve the economic recovery.
@ Peta Thornycroft
The moral of the story is that it is a lot easier to destroy than to create.
In 2000 Mugabe had run out loot to give to his ever demanding but wasteful cronies and farm land was the only asset left and so he allowed the farm seizures to go ahead. It was the collapse of the agricultural sector plus the hyper-inflation fuelled by the reckless money printing crazy that pushed the national economy beyond the point of no return.
Zimbabweans will now learn that it will take 50 years of hard work, at least, to get the economy back to what it was in 1980. But giving the incompetence so far show in the nation at all levels it is highly proba-ble the nation will never ever recover.
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