"The Herald Editor
Caesar Zvayi has assured Zanu PF that it will govern until donkeys grow horns
as the only opposition political party that claim to have massive support, the
MDC-T take detrimental decisions."
This is an expression of wishful thinking than a statement of
fact because the exact opposite is if fact true. As long as MDC-T or any
like-minded politicians remain the only political challengers to Zanu PF then,
yes, Zanu PF dictatorship will never be dismantled and thus the party's
continued hold on power is assured.
What Zvayi has failed to appreciate is the fact that Zanu PF has
completely lost the popular support of ordinary Zimbabweans because the party
has completely failed to deliver on its promise of mass prosperity and
delivered instead mass poverty. In a country where unemployment has soared to
Mount Everest heights of 90%, 16% of the population are now living in abject
poverty, incomes have dropped to their lowest in 60 years, life expectancy has
dropped from 68 years in 1980 to 34 years in 2004, etc., etc.; one does not
have to be a rocket scientist to realize that they are economically worse of
today than they were in the past.
What is worse, the Zimbabwe economy is set to get even worse not
better. Zanu PF’s own recovery plan, ZimAsset, is dead in the water for lack of
donors to bankroll it. For the first time since independence the regime has now
accepted the need to make savage cuts in its bloated civil servant and no doubt
similar savage cuts will happen in local government, parastatals and all the
other quasi - public institutions.
All those axed from their positions are destined for the
unemployed-mountain and abject poverty. Not that this sacrifice would result in
any meaningful economic recovery; it is too little too late. Yes the bloated
public sector has been a burden to the nation but so too has been mismanagement
and corruption. It is the gross mismanagement and rampant corruption that are
the main causes behind the country’s economic meltdown.
Mugabe and Zanu PF have pointedly refused to deal with
mismanagement and corruption all these last 35 years because they are at the
very heart of the party’s political patronage system that has kept Mugabe and
the party in power. So for 35 years mismanagement and corruption have been
allowed to grow and spread like cancerous cells. Today they are tumours the
size of tennis balls and they are everywhere!
Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown is now so serious the situation is
not socially and politically sustainable. Zanu PF is under ever increasing
pressure to accept regime change. What MDC has failed to deliver in 15 years
will now happen as the result of Zanu PF’s failure to rig economic recovery.
Still the need to get rid of the MDC party going forward is
important because the country still need to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship
regards what forced the regime to accept change.
By the end of Zimbabwe’s second
five-year Economic Structural Adjustment Programme, 1995 to 1999, it was clear
the nation’s economy was in serious trouble and Zanu PF regime had ran out of
ideas of what to do to fix it. From there on Zanu PF was unelectable the only
reason the party has still stayed in power to this day is simple; in Tsvangirai
and his MDC outfit Mugabe had the most corruptible – it did not take much to
bribe MDC leaders – and breathtakingly incompetent – MDC leaders actually
believed they would still win the 2013 elections even with not even one
democratic reform implemented.
As long as Zanu PF’s main political
opponents are corrupt and incompetent leaders like Morgan Tsvangirai and the
other MDC leaders then, yes, Zanu PF will misrule the country forever! Our
Herald Editor knows that and what he is doing is a bit of reverse psychology,
by warning MDC’s naïve and gullible supporters that Zanu PF will rule forever
if MDC breaks up the editor is scaring the supporters in a panic and thus
secure MDC’s continued opposition dominance.
“You seem to hate Tsvangirai and his
MDC friends more than you hate President Mugabe and Zanu PF,” wrote Patrick
Guramatunhu, commenting on my demand for MDC leaders to resign. “What you fail
to understand is for the majority of ordinary Zimbabweans it is the other way
round. Although you have condemned Zanu PF in the strongest language still when
you attach MDC and demand that the leaders resigned you might just as well ask
the people to hug Zanu PF. The people will not do that and hence the reason
most people agree with what you say but they will not follow you and stick to
MDC instead.”
Of course Patrick is right, Zimbabweans
hate Mugabe and Zanu PF with a burning passion so much so they “would vote for
a donkey rather than Robert Mugabe”, as Professor Jonathan Moyo once said. The
trouble with hatred, especially burning hatred, is that it can cloud the mind
making it impermeable to reason.
People hate Mugabe because he has
failed to deliver economic prosperity; they want an end to the grinding poverty
and despair. The only way that will happen is stopping Mugabe rig the elections
by implementing the democratic reforms, changes, designed to dismantle the Zanu
PF dictatorship. Tsvangirai has had many chances to deliver those all-important
democratic changes in the last 15 years with the best chances being during the
GNU. He has failed to get even one reform implemented in the five years of the
GNU because he and his fellow MDC village idiots are corrupt and incompetent.
If we want to end the Zanu PF
dictatorship we must get all the democratic reforms implemented, period. If
Tsvangirai and his MDC village idiots failed to get even one reform implemented
during the GNU when they had all the trump cards it is naïve to think they
would do so now when Zanu PF has all the trump cards; that is a fact.
Ever since Tsvangirai and MDC decided
to take part in rigged July 2013 elections against repeated advice from SADC
leaders, the party’s donors and millions of others not to do so without the
reforms; MDC have been deserted by all the above as a lost cause. All the MDC
factions are broke and they have struggled to remain politically relevant.
MDC-T shot themselves in the foot by
recalling the MDC-renewal MPs at a time when both factions have no money to
contest the by-elections. Forget the nonsense of not taking part because they
want reforms implemented, they have not said what reforms because they have no
clue what they are.
The political demise of MDC
is now a certainty, it has been painful slow in coming but we are finally
getting there. The hope is the demise of MDC will force the electorate to open
up their minds and be more receptive to reason. If the nation wants democratic
changes the people themselves must do their homework and understand what these
changes are because only then can they be sure to elect competent leaders who
understand the reforms and will get them implemented and not be so easily
bribed by Zanu PF tyrants.
6 comments:
Mutasa and Mliswa submit their court challenge of the parliament speaker’s decision to accept Zanu PF’s request to have the two recalled.
What is really intriguing about this case is that Mutasa and Mliswa are up in arms because Zanu PF's last year party's election process was rigged - which it was of course. What makes it intriguing is that Zanu PF has been rigging elections for decades and the two were at the very heart of the rigging but they have never complained because they were the beneficiaries of the cheating. Last year they were on the re-ceiving end of the rigging and now they see just how unjust it is!
Kugocha kunoda kwamai kwomwana kunodzima moto!
@ Tafa
Well that is simple enough Tafa because that is what I have been doing all along. The solution too is sim-ple enough; the electorate have to understand what the democratic changes stipulated in the GPA in 2008 are about; I mean understand them beyond the empty sloganeering of “Chinja maitiro!” It is only when the electorate understand what the changes are that they will demand their implementation and elect leaders competent to implement them.
Let me say straight away, the democratic changes we need are not rocket science, there are all common sense so everyone should have no problem understanding them. Take Police reforms for example, the re-forms will ensure the ZRP are freed to carry out their duty of maintaining law and order without fear or favour and end the current practice in which Zanu PF thugs who have beaten up people, raped or even murdered people have been allowed to go scot-free. The reforms will entail changing the country’s laws and the way the Police operate.
Zimbabwe has had many chances since independence to create a healthy and functional democratic system notable when the country attained her independence in 1980 and more recently during the GNU. All these opportunities were wasted. First and foremost by the political leaders themselves; by Mugabe and Zanu PF by establishing the Zanu PF dictatorship and by Tsvangirai and MDC by failing to implement the democratic reforms agreed in the GNU. Second, by the people themselves; the people did not have a clue was the nation needed to have a healthy and functional democracy. They would have forced the political leaders to have these systems in place if they did.
By educating the voters on what the nation needs to have a healthy and functional democracy we will make sure the people themselves will demand the reforms and see to it that they are implemented and are not tampered with for all times!
@ Mbiti is history
Of course Tsvangirai is to blame for the lawlessness and the rigged elections because he had failed to implement even one the reforms during the GNU which would have stopped the lawlessness, etc.
If the reforms were so “obvious” then why is MDC failing to spell them out in detail? Indeed it was MDC’s failure to appreciate what the reforms were about that explain why they did not implement even one reform. They still do not do so now which is why they are asking for reforms that make no sense will never deliver the free and fair elections. If we have going to have free and fair elections then the electorate must do their homework and understand the reforms because that is the only way we are going to stop MDC taking us for yet another wild goose chase.
Idiots like you should stop going around with your heads stuck in your backside and really do your homework for once and stop following corrupt and incompetent village idiots like Morgan Tsvangirai.
@ Mbiti is history
You have followed Tsvangirai these last 15 years and you are prepared to follow him still even now; what "way forward in terms of solutions, complete with action plans and time frames" did he offer you? Not only did he not offer you anything but worse still he failed to deliver any change although he had every opportunity to do so. You have completely failed to see the complete betrayal.
As long as Zimbabwe continue to have voters like you who are completely incapable of thinking for themselves then the country will never have any democratic changes. The destiny of a nation must never depend on a single individual, Wilbert Mukori, or a political party, Zimbabwe Social Democrats. There are 13 million Zimbabweans in the country and on the ground right now; if they cannot think themselves out of this mess then the country deserves to remain in the mess and it will!
Just remember that the right of every Zimbabwean to a meaningful vote, to free and fair elections must be the overriding issue here and not who won or lost. NCA must tell us whether the elections were free and fair because there is crying need to address this issue once and once for all!
@ Hamukundishe
I would agree with the proposition that not contesting will be better but only if the by-elections were not as a result of MDC-T's own doing. MDC-T caused this by-election by recalling the MDC-Renewal guys.
MDC-T congress made two resolutions a) to recall MDC- Renewal MPs and b) not to contest any elections until reforms are implemented.
It was for the leaders to realize that recalling the MPs too soon before the reforms could be implemented was self-defeating; that is what strategic thinking is all about, isn't it!
Now that MDC has recalled the MDC - Renewal MPs handing these seats to Zanu PF without even an attempt to get them back is dumb.
Tsvangirai and his friends have already proven that they are corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent par-ticularly by failing to get even one reform implemented in five years of the GNU. By making a total dog's breakfast of this MPs recall they are just giving more evidence of just how breathtakingly incompetent they really are!
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