Having triggered the recall of the 21
MDC – Renewal MPs and Senators, MDC-T have confirmed they will not try to win
back the 14 seats to be contested in the by-elections but reallocate the 7
seats the party got from the proportional representative system.
The decision has left MDC-T divided
with one camp led by Mwonzora, Gutu and Theresa Makoni, who all lost their
seats in the July 2013 rigged elections keen as mustard to ditch the party’s
October 2014 resolution to boycott elections until reforms are implemented.
They were all eyeing the vacated seats as their chance to get back into
parliament and the gravy train.
Nelson Chamisa, who won his seat in
the July 2013, led the group demanding that the party should stick to its
resolution to boycott elections. Chamisa lost the contest for party’s secretary
general post to Mwonzora last year. Some people believe Chamisa is having his
back because having taken part in the July 2013 elections MDC-T has no rational
reason to boycott any elections. None!
It is nonsensical for an of the MDC
factions to boycott elections because they want reform to be implemented first
when it was them who should have implemented the reforms, had five years to do
so, but failed to get even one reform implemented. They took part in the July
2013 elections, knowing that no reforms had been implemented; so why the big
fuss now?
Now there is no pressure to implement
any reforms because the GPA expired with the end of the GNU and Zanu PF has
more than the two-thirds majority in parliament already, winning the 14
contested seats will boost their majority even more. Mugabe is not going to
implement any reforms just because MDC made a blunder and failed to implement
the reforms when they should have done so and it took the rigged July 2013 to
open their eyes!
Zimbabwe had a golden opportunity to
implement the reforms and thus dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship; MDC wasted
the chance because they were corrupt and incompetent. Now the nation is paying dearly for that
blunder and will continue to do so for, possibly, years to come. If Zanu PF is
going to be forced to implement the reforms it would have to be something else
that forces them to and because the MDC village idiots who wasted the golden
chance to implement reforms are boycotting elections to force Zanu PF to
implement the same reforms!
Besides Zanu PF knows that all the
MDC factions are using the demand for reforms as an excuse for boycotting elections,
the real reason for the boycott is that they are broke. All MDC’s donors
deserted just before the 2013 elections; they were disappointed by the
unparalleled level corruption and incompetence by MDC leaders throughout the
GNU. MDC’s taking part in the July 2013 elections against advice not to without
the reforms was the last straw as far as the donors were concerned.
Elections cost money and if you have
no money you are certain to lose elections. Given that Zanu PF can also rig the
elections because no reforms were implemented turns the “certain to lose” into
definite; no wonder MDC are not keen to contest an elections right now!
The other political parties are not going to join in the election boycott and rightly so too. If we are going to boycott the elections then let it be for the right reasons; to do so because MDC are broke is no reason.
The other political parties are not going to join in the election boycott and rightly so too. If we are going to boycott the elections then let it be for the right reasons; to do so because MDC are broke is no reason.
Most of the MDC politicians who lost
their seats in the rigged July 2013 elections have certainly missed the good
life of the GNU years, with party funding drying up, many of them have hit hard
economic times. Tsvangirai lost to Mugabe in the presidential race and he has
hit hard times; it is hard to keep up the good living appearance of one living
in a $4 million mansion - his bribe for making sure no reforms were implemented
during the GNU - on zero income!
7 of the former MDC-renewal seats will be uncontested in the bye-election and all the MDC-T leaders like Mwonzora, Gutu, etc. will be fighting to these seats. Tsvangirai would, no doubt, want his name put in the hat too! They are all dying to get back into parliament and the gravy train. Whoever of them are lucky to get these seats, they will be surprised to find the gravy train lifestyle in not the pampered one of the GNU years!
7 of the former MDC-renewal seats will be uncontested in the bye-election and all the MDC-T leaders like Mwonzora, Gutu, etc. will be fighting to these seats. Tsvangirai would, no doubt, want his name put in the hat too! They are all dying to get back into parliament and the gravy train. Whoever of them are lucky to get these seats, they will be surprised to find the gravy train lifestyle in not the pampered one of the GNU years!
Parliament was adjourned last week,
earlier than expected, and resume 5 May, but with a distinct possibility of
being postponed to a later date, because government has run out of money. Most
hotels in Harare are refusing to accommodate MPs and have parliament pay their
bills because government has not been paying the bills. Government has been
struggling to pay not only civil servant wages but MP salaries and allowances.
So those MDC - T leaders who had
campaigned to have the 21 MDC –Renewal politicians recalled as their own chance
to get back in parliament will be disappointed the party has effectively
donated 14 of these seats to Zanu PF and there will be no significant financial
gain for the 7 who will get back on the gravy train whose wheels are coming
off. Of the many political blunders Morgan Tsvangirai has made, God knows he is
blundering man, recalling the 21 MPs and then boycott the subsequent
by-elections is one of his self-inflicted blunders.
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There reports that local traditional leaders in Tsholotsho have been instructed to force villagers to vote for Zanu PF in the coming by-elections. Minister Jonathan Moyo is the Zanu PF candidate.
There real pity is Zimbabweans will read this and shrug their shoulders as if it is water off a duck's back. This is just another case of how Zanu PF has systematically denied us our basic right to a meaningful vote and we now accept is a normal!
In the long run, people will always get the government they deserve. We sure deserve this Zanu PF dicta-torship and a useless MDC opposition!
@ Moses Chamboko
In the long run, people will always get the government they deserve. We sure deserve this Zanu PF dicta-torship and its accompanying moons of a useless and incompetent factional MDC opposition! If we want get out of this nightmare then people have to make the effort and understand what has gone wrong and then put it right.
Our political discourse has been at such superficial level it is no wonder we are up to our eyes in this shit of our own making. There are Zimbabweans still out there who still believe that the country's economic problems are caused by the sanctions and will not see all the mountain of evidence of mismanagement and corruption. Just as there are Zimbabweans who still think MDC will deliver any meaningful democratic changes even when they failed to do so when they had the best chance during the GNU. As long as we have such a naive and gullible electorate this nation will never ever get out of this mess. Never ever!
@ Patrick
The devil is in the detail, how are we going to end this madness given that we are dealing with people who prefer to bury their heads in the sand and will not think! Anyone who continues to support Zanu PF or MDC given the two parties' track record shows they are brain-dead!
@ Patrick
The is a very strong case for boycotting elections until the reforms are implemented because without the reforms the people will continue to be denied their basic right to a meaningful and free vote. But to put that case in the context of blaming Zanu PF for the fact that no reforms were implemented makes the case lose its sting because MDC is to blame for failing to implement the reforms. To have MDC leading the call for the boycott and pretending it is all Zanu PF's fault makes it worse; anyone who support the boycott is seen as supporting MDC, the village idiots!
@ Ngamula
Zimbabwe is not going to get out of this political and economic mess until we have free, fair and credible elections and to have such elections we must first implement all the democratic reforms agreed in the GPA in 2008. MDC should have implemented all these reforms during the GNU but failed to do so. Even the MDC village idiots have now come round to accepting that the reforms are important hence they boycotting the elections until the reforms are implemented.
It is obvious you did not appreciate the importance of the reforms during the GNU, you still do not appreciate their importance now and, worse still, you do not even realize your MDC heroes have themselves made a complete u-turn on the subject. No you are the intellectual dwarf Ngamula; you are totally incapable of understanding anything even after it is explained to you a thousand times.
What is disappointing about idiots like you Ngamula is that Zimbabwe has more than its fair share of idiots just like you. As long as unscrupulous individuals like Mugabe, Tsvangirai, Ncube, Mutasa, etc. know there are plenty of naive and gullible voters like you they know they will al-ways promise the nation the moon in a silver platter get away with hell on earth! They know they can always count on your vote Ngamula regardless what they do!
@ Patrick
Exactly! When everyone told MDC to implement the reforms they did nothing; when people told do not take part in the elections without the reforms they went ahead and took part. And now MDC first decide they will not take part in any more elections until the reforms are implemented, the penny had finally dropped; but true to form they then recall the MDC - Renewal politicians so Zanu PF can have more MPs and increase its political footprint in MDC strongholds! There is just no limit to MDC's blundering incom-petence.
If this was a war then MDC is guaranteed to lose the fight because with a general like Tsvangirai you know he will move his army so they give up all advantages they had and half of his men will be killed by friendly cross-fire.
With someone as incompetent as Tsvangirai leading the opposition cheered along by his sheepish followers like Mbiti we will never see any democratic changes in the country!
@ Hacha
Zimbabwe Social Democrats called for the implementation of the democratic reforms throughout the GNU but no one listened. We called for the people to reject the Copac constitution because it was weak and feeble and was never going to delivery free and fair elections. We also called for the no vote because that was the last opportunity for the people to force the implementation of the reforms. But once again the people fail to listen. You can confirm this for yourself if you go to zimbabwelight.blogspot.co.uk.
Of course Mugabe rigged the July 2013 elections because MDC allowed him to by failing to implement even one reform. As long as no reforms are implemented Zanu PF will continue to rig elections. We in the ZSD are not going to take part in any elections until all the democratic reforms are implemented. We are working on this.
We have to start by explaining to those MDC village idiots and their supporters that the reforms are im-portant. Trust me it is not easy given that they are all as thick as bricks; never thought the country had so many brain-dead people!
You want ZSD to “contest these seats instead of mourning that the MDC has boycotted.” Well that is the kind of stupidity we hear from these MDC morons! It was MDC that took the decision not to implement any reforms and thus landing the nation into this shit and now you want the nation to cheer and applauded that you village idiots have finally seen the need for the reforms to be implemented when it is too late?
The village idiots decide they will boycott elections then the recall the MDC- Renewal seats; how stupid is that!
@ Patrick
ZSD's position on the Copac constitution was that it was a weak and feeble constitution that would never deliver free, fair and credible elections. We campaigned for a no vote in the March 2013 referendum and passionately argued that the people should at least read it before they voted.
Judged from the number of copies published, the time allocated to review and the type of com-ments from the public it was evident less than 10% of the people had bothered to read the constitution. MDC leaders assured the nation the new constitution would deliver free and fair elections plus all the other freedoms and rights and the people them. The nation approved the constitution by a staggering 95% in the March 2013 referendum.
Of course the July 2013 elections were not free and fair; the new constitution failed to deliver free and fair elections. The electorate had proven that they are just naïve and gullible and that they years of a corrupt and tyrannical rule by Zanu PF had taught them nothing. How anyone could vote for something as important as the constitution without even making an effort to understand what it said showed just irresponsible the voters are.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that top class leaders rarely ever emerge out of societies with naïve, gullible and totally irresponsible voters. Leaders are a reflection of the society from which they emerge just as cream comes from milk and scum from sewage!
Zimbabwe has not suffered because of the lack of political parties, 28 contested the July 2013 elections, it has been noticeably lacking is the quality. Only an idiot would take part in an elec-tions knowing fully well that the elections would be rigged, particularly after wasting a golden chance to ensure they were not rigged.
We in the ZSD have decided that we would never take part in any elections until the democratic reforms are implemented and we have helped open the electorate’s eyes so they can think for themselves and stop following leaders like sheep to the slaughter. This is a big challenge but not any impossible one.
@ Patrick
Now that Tsvangirai has tasted power he is more determined than ever that he should be Zimba-bwe's only opposition leader regardless of his poor past performance.
It will take a decade or more to explain to MDC supporters what is going on for them to finally accept Tsvangirai is a village idiot and until then he will point to these mindless wildebeest as proof of his popularity. Tsvangirai will never deliver any democratic changes because he has no clue what these are although he will never ever admit that. Tsvangirai is nothing but a castrated ox; the mental desire is there but lacks the physical material although in Tsvangirai’s case he lacks both the mental power and physical prowess and hence this tendency to blunder from pillar to post.
His main motivation in getting MDC- renewal MPs recalled was in case they should accomplish something in parliament whilst his own MPs achieve nothing.
Yes the economic collapse has affected MDC but the really killer blow for MDC came as a result of the party's failure to implement even one democratic reform throughout the five years of the GNU.
MDC's breath-taking incompetence has allowed Mugabe and Zanu PF to avoid the final call by allowing the tyrannical thugs to rig the vote and thus stay in power. In a reversal of fortunes, it is the economy that has seen to Mugabe and Zanu PF's political demise.
Decades of mismanagement and corruption has taken its toll triggering the country's total economic col-lapse. Mugabe was able to rig the 2013 elections but rigging economic recovery has been a bridge to far even for the cunning fox Mugabe.
Mugabe's $27 billion ZimAsset economic recovery plan is dead in the water. No donor was prepared to bankroll the hare-brain scheme designed to throw lots and lots of good money at the wasteful system without addressing the underlying wasteful causes.
The economic meltdown is now like a python with its coils round the regime each passing day Minister Chinamasa announces another one of his kiya kiya scheme to save money. Last week parliament was ad-journed to save money. Today civil servant bonuses are cancelled. Each time the regime breathes out the economic meltdown squeezes tighter. How longer does Chinamasa think his kiya kiya scheme will last?
The only way out is for the regime to step down so the country can finally elect a new government that will have the political will to address the underlying cause of corrupt because they will not have the political baggage like Zanu PF.
The regime does not want to listen but it will listen! The breathing is now getting very shallow and soon the regime will start to fart, gasping for air from whatever source! The python will squeeze even tighter to make sure all the foul air is expelled!
Mafume everyone knows that MDC - renewal, like MDC -T and MDC (Ncube), is broke. So what safety net is the party providing with no money! No doubt Tendai Biti told you lot that he is going to fund raise for the party in America but do not hold your breath. MDC leaders have proven beyond all doubt that they are corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent and all the US donors know that; trust me they are not going to waste money funding someone like that!
Biti was lucky to get this position with a think tank - they will kick him out if he should come up with any of his usual stupid ideas!
Let us face it forming MDC-renewal knowing that the new constitution allowed parties to recall MPs who cross the floor was a stupid idea. So you thought you would have your cake and eat it too - you break away and yet somehow still remain MDC-T when it suited you! Well now you know it was a stupid idea just like failing to implement the reforms was a stupid idea!
Millions of Zimbabweans are in SA right now escaping from the economic hardships or political prosecution by Zanu PF what nonsense is Minister Moyo twittering about "And we differ with @MyANC_on blacks!". Both blacks and whites have been treated as shit by this tyrannical regime.
The regime likes to play the race card to appeal to the more naive and gullible sections of society who are easily fooled!
Mugabe has corrupted the Police, the Army, the Judiciary, ZEC and all the other national institu-tions including the war vets. It is fitting and proper that we implement all the democratic reforms and restore the independence and integrity of all our national institutions. It is also fitting and proper that the truth of what has happened in our country throughout the dark days in known and justice is allowed to take its course.
It is for the people themselves to ensure they are not so easily conned. Zimbabwe has become a hot bed of con politicians because we have some of the most naive and gullible voters in the whole world.
Jabulani Sibanda will only have to give some of his victims a piece of meat just as Mugabe did to the Zanu PF Youths last year and they forgot that they are unemployed and poor and spent the whole weekend singing Mugabe's praises. They are still unemployed and even poorer today and have forgotten what meat tastes like because they families cannot afford such luxuries. That is what I mean by naive and gullible voters!
Zanu PF has always had the self-destruct gene in it like all tyrannical regimes. It has been dormant all these years only to be triggered by the shrinking national cake and the dog-eat-dog that resulted. Now that the gene is activated there is no stopping it until the party is destroyed.
There nothing anyone can do to stop Zanu PF self-destruct; our best prayers are that the thugs do not drag the nation into the abyss with them! By hanging on to power like a binnacle to a rock Mugabe is making a peaceful transfer of power difficult, leaving the nation only one alternative – use brute force to remove him from power as happened with Gaddafi! He will be removed but the nation may take time to recover to law and order as has happened to Libya; that is my greatest fear!
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