We must
address this problem with the urgency and scientific objective realism the
matter demands. There is no objective realism in our continued denial that we
had the best chance ever to end the Zanuphobia during the GNU; all MDC had to
do was implement the raft of democratic reforms agreed in the GPA. After five
years of the GNU, not even one reform was implemented.
Many
people are still in denial that MDC leaders sold-out to Mugabe; MDC leaders
kicked the reforms into the tall grass in return for the gravy train
all-your-heart-desired good life. Tsvangirai got the $4 million Highlands
mansion as a bonus!
When
notable Zimbabweans like Thomas Mapfumo accuse Tsvangirai and other MDC leaders
of selling –out and joining the “cash brigade”; the usual suspects of blind and
mindless political supporters were up in arms defending Tsvangirai’s honour.
And yet none of these MDC supporters have ever come up with a rational
explanation why MDC failed to get even one reform implemented.
What
the rest of the rational Zimbabwean populous has to now realize and confront
head-on is this significant mass of our people who would still unwittingly
follow sell-out leaders like Tsvangirai. Man is a creature of reason but these
zealous MDC supporters have given up thinking for themselves and would follow
blindly leaders who have already sold them and the nation’s cause for ending
the Zanu PF dictatorship.
Anyone
who thinks that the latest MDC-T “No reform no elections” offer will add up to
anything is not being realistic and objective. MDC- T’s eight elections reforms
demands will not deliver the democratic reforms which are the key to ending
this deeply entrenched Zanu PF dictatorship for various reasons including the
following:
- The GPA called for a raft of democratic reforms including ZEC, security sector and judiciary services to restore the independence of these public institutions. Mugabe power to appoint party loyalists in the Police, CIO and judiciary has compromised these bodies so much they might just as well be departments of the Zanu PF dictatorship. It is the Police and Courts’ failure to deal with Zanu PF’s thuggery that is behind Zimbabwe’s culture of politically motive violence. MDC-T’s current reforms leaves out security sector, judiciary and many other areas.
- Where MDC-T has called for reforms these are superficial and therefore will achieve nothing. MDC-T has demanded that no serving or ex-security sector people should be appointed in ZES, for example; this will be no guarantee the ZEC will not have highly partisan personal since Mugabe can still appoint Zanu PF hardliners from other sections of society. Besides it is not just the individuals who have made ZEC ineffective to commission has lacked the political independence too.
- The fact that MDC-T is expecting the Zanu PF regime to ever meaningfully implement any let alone all the democratic reforms smacks of dangerous political naivety. Of course this is one task Zanu PF will never ever carryout which is way it fell to MDC to implement the reforms during the GNU. Now that excellent opportunity to implement the reforms during the GNU has been carelessly squandered we need to pressure Zanu PF to accept the formation of a new national body that will have the power and authority to formulate and implement all the democratic reforms.
- Germany has offered to takeover Zimbabwe’s $10 billion national debt and thus freeing the country from this heavy financial burden whilst the nation carries out the economic restructuring after the three and half decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. Germany’s offer is on condition that Zimbabwe carries out the necessary political and economic reforms. No one in their right mind would count MDC-T’s electoral reforms as the serious political reforms called for here!
Zimbabwe’s
political and economic problems are not insurmountable, far from it. Yes,
decades of Zanu PF misrule has turned this country from the breadbasket of the
region into a food aid-dependent nation. Zimbabwe can reclaim is breadbasket
badge back because the land is still there and we still have good rains and the
same hard working people too.
On the
political front there have been many opportunities to end the corrupt and oppressive
Zanu PF dictatorship with the best chance coming during the GNU. The crippling
economic meltdown will force the tyrannical to accept the need for change
because the economic situation is not economically or politically sustainable.
When the next chance for real change comes this time we must not waste it by
following dreamers and sell-outs!
10 comments:
"The value of shares traded on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange fell by 22,2 percent in the first quarter of this year compared to the same quarter last year as liquidity tightened."
Excellent reading for our globe-trotting President! If by wasting millions of taxpayers money running away from the economic mess he has created he thought the economic meltdown would somehow fizzle and die this is the kind of news that will make is crystal clear the economic meltdown is getting worse by the day!
“The issues raised… do not only affect Meikles, but all the entities listed on the stock ex-change who expect impartiality, integrity and professionalism the institutions… to regulate their activities,” the maverick businessman said, adding the manner in which “statutory regulators conducted themselves in the business sphere tended to directly affect Zimbabwe’s ability to attract foreign investment”.
“It is, therefore, imperative that these institutions… retain at all times the highest stand-ards of integrity in… decisions that they are empowered to take in order to bolster investor confidence in the country.”
This is the same Meikles boss who paid Zanu PF millions of dollars before the July 2013 elections. The nation will one of these fine days know the full details of that transaction! Stick around John Moxon, you have some really interesting questions the nation would want asked!
Zimbabwe experience a total black out as Hwange and Kariba Dam drop out!
ZESA like all the other parastatals has had its own share of problems and they in turn have left a big footprint on the nation's poor economic performance. This is just one of many such muddy footprints!
One has to ask Dr Dabengwa whether the alignment he is seeking will stop politically motivated violence and all the other things that have made it impossible to have free, fair and credible elections? My guess is they would not because the only way we are going to stop the violence is by implementing all the reforms agreed in the 2008 GPA.
Dr Dabengwa is, like all the other already discredited old guard who were in power for donkey years but achieved nothing, keen to be noticed and hence the reason he mounted this court challenge.
We want free, fair and credible elections and not yet another fudge! If you are not going to join in the fight to get all the reforms implemented then do us a favour and fcuk off!
Zimbabwe prisons are running out of food, prisoners are being force to eat sadza with salt!
How can we hold our heads high among other nations when we allow such appalling things to happen our own fellow citizens!
@ Patrick
The mentality of tyrants like Gaddafi, Hussein and Mugabe is if they are not allowed to rule the country as they please then they will make the country ungovernable! Both Gaddafi and Hussein will be pleased to see their respective burn because makes their tyrannical rule look like the golden age of peace and tranquillity!
Mugabe has been buying guns and bombs as if the nation was at war; we are one of the most heavily armed nations in the world in terms of arms to the country’s GPD; second only to North Korea. Is our current economic situation continues and it results in street protests that could soon lead to gun fighting and civil war. Given the many weapons in the country, we will be in serious trouble!
@ Patrick
Our friend Holy Moyo is either an MDC supporter who is angry with himself that he has
followed a sell-out all these years and now he is being made to look the fool. Instead
of admitting he made a mistake and putting things rights he has decided to down play Tsvangirai’s selling out as if it is a small matter and of no consequence. Like the “small minded” person he is, as you have said, he is even lashing out anyone those who exposed Tsvangirai for the corrupt, breathtakingly incompetent and sell-out he is.
Or else he is himself a Zanu PF agent desperately trying to prop up Tsvangirai and MDC. Of
course won the jackpot when he management to stop Tsvangirai from implementing even one reform throughout the GNU. But Mugabe must now be regretting that he overplayed his hand in that Tsvangirai and MDC lost all political credibility.
By failing to implement even one reform MDC lost credibility with SADC leaders and the more savvy international community. When you lose credibility because you made a mistake there is a chance people will forgive you but when you lose it, as MDC have done here, because you sold-out there is no room for forgiving. None!
What Mugabe and his agents are trying to do is prop up Tsvangirai so he does not his credibility inside Zimbabwe as well.
Mugabe knows that he will have to seek some power sharing arrangement sooner or latter and he would like Tsvangirai as his preferred political partner but a totally discredited Tsvangirai would be no use because he will not attract the financial help he needs to get out of this mess!
CIO agent Moyo can try to prop up Tsvangirai but it is no use; more and more Zimbabweans now know he is a sell-out and they are deserting MDC in droves. MDC will soon have to resort to the Zanu PF trick of bussing supporters from far and wide to their rallies to bolster attendance figures!
“The majority of the people there (South Africa) say they would not want to come back even when transport is provided. Some are committing crimes like the Kalangas who are notorious for petty crimes because they are not educated,” said Mugabe.
There is no basis for this; Mugabe is saying this because he is the sort of person who likes to provoke other people to attract attention!
Mr Majongwe blasted the MDC-T and said both parties should take full responsibility.
"As civil servants we have serious problems with the way the MDC-T handled our issues, it cannot extricate itself from this mess," he said.
"It's not new that the MDC-T brought in their own people into Government. So, they are equally charged, guilty of inflating the civil service."
If Majongwe had been wide awake throughout the GNU and beyond then he would know that MDC did a lot worse than just swell up the number of civil servants. By failing to get even one reform implemented MDC thus allowed Mugabe to rig the July 2013 elections so we are stuck with this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship!
"I have been asked by quite a number of our cadres of our party why we are not persuading David Coltart to come back and work with others for the common good of our country," Sikhala posted. "Some of those who are keen to work with David Coltart know Coltart' s solid history for fighting for a free and democratic Zimbabwe. They know David as a young lawyer fighting and defending Joshua Nkomo when his party was under a genocide attack from Mugabe's regime."
Job Sikhala all that you have said is true but you must also remind the readers that the same David Coltart was an MDC minister in the GNU and thus together with the other MDC leaders they all con-spired to do nothing about implementing the democratic reforms every had agreed were necessary for free and fair elections.
These MDC leaders were reminded to implement the reforms but ignored the advice. They were warned not to take part in the July 2013 without reforms and they went ahead regardless. Of course the MDC leaders sold-out!
Mr Sikhala all your singing of Coltart's praises is as nonsensical as one calling for Judas Iscariot to be declared a saint because he was one of the 12 disciples. Judas sold-out just Coltart and the other MDC leaders sold-out! Judas at least repented which I have yet to hear Coltart and the others do!
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