Confusion
in the Zimbabwe public over the political and economic reality in the country
is stopping Mugabe accept the political reality that he has failed and the need
for regime change.
"Instead
of focusing on ZimAsset and how to finance it for economic development and the
improvement of people's lives, Zanu-PF's focus now is on petty party positions
which do not benefit the people. This party does not know how to put people first,"
Dewa Mavhinga said. - See more at: http://www.bulawayo24.com/index-id-news-sc-national-byo-67894.html#sthash.N7oHv0XT.dpuf
Get
real Dewa!
Mugabe’s
ZimAsset plan was designed to throw lots and lots of cash, $27 billion to be
exact, on the economy with no attempt being made to address the mismanagement
and corruption behind the economic meltdown. The plan was to overwhelm these
wasteful practices with the cash so that cash left over then be put to
productive use resulting in the hoped for economic recovery.
No
donor, not even the Chinese, have been sold to this hare-brain scheme and hence
ZimAsset is now died because no one was prepared to bankroll the plan. No one
in Zanu PF itself still talk of ZimAsset, they know the plan is dead in the
water, and so they too must be surprised that someone like Dewa Mavhinga still
thinks so highly of the plan!
Even
the brain-dead Zanu PF hardliners have given up on ZimAsset and have been
forced to revisit the party’s time honoured “no regime change” stance and to
question how much longer the party can resist implementing the democratic
reforms which will spell its demise. The party has successfully rigged past
elections to achieve the “no regime change” objective and got away with it. The
country’s worsening economic situation is forcing everything to be reviewed.
There
is no doubt that the country is facing a serious economic meltdown, so serious
it is not socially and politically unsustainable. Since Zanu PF’s ZimAsset plan
is died in the water and the party has no plan B to deliver the economic
recovery and thus end the economic meltdown, the party has no choice but to
accept the implementation of the cursed democratic reforms.
Since
Zanu PF, at least as it is presently politically constituted, will never
deliver any economic reforms it is imperative that democratic reforms are
implemented and fresh free and fair elections held. The regime to emerge out of
these elections will have the democratic mandate to carryout far reaching
economic reforms and the confidence of donors and investors alike – the
pre-requisites for economic recovery.
12 comments:
@ Mother Teresa
The real cowards here are people like Mujuru, Mutasa, Gumbo, Biti, Ncube and all the members of Zanu PF and MDC and the public who will not talk about the substantive issues like corruption, human rights violations, sell-outs, etc. for years for fear of being called cowards or critics. In typical cowardly fashion they only talk about these issues when they are no longer in any position to do anything about them.
We are in this mess because of 35 years of Zanu PF misrule many in Zanu PF still refuse to ad-mit. We have failed get out of this mess because MDC wasted the best chance yet the nation had to do so because the party failed to implement even one reform.
You are angry with those who say Tsvangirai sold out not because you dispute that fact but be-cause you just do not want it said and dealt with. Dealing with it will take you out of your comfort zone; you want all substantive issues swept under the carpet so you can bury your head in the sand.
Yes Mugabe and Zanu PF are the bullies who have got us into this mess but if we are serious about getting out then we must first of all acknowledge that Tsvangirai and his MDC friends are corrupt and incompetent, they will never get us out of this mess. We must therefore invest the time and energy in understanding what these democratic reforms are and then elect competent leaders who will implement them.
It is the refusal to deal with substantive issues, burying our heads in the sand and then just be-fore the elections wake up to join the rat race that has landed us into this mess. And as long as we continue doing this we going to remain "Mugabe's bitches forever" guaranteed!
@ Patrick
It is now two years since the rigged elections, MDC leaders and supporters accept the elections were rigged but clearly many have still not figured out what happened. All calls for them to figure out what happened because that is they only way they can avoid the next elections being rigged again have all fallen on deaf ears. Just as SADC heads' warning to MDC leaders to implement the reforms fell on deaf ears. Such is the calibre of MDC supporters, they are hard wired to follow leaders without ever asking any questions; they are more like wildebeest than thinking human beings!
It took 15 to 20 years to convince the same wildebeest herd to see Mugabe for the corrupt and murderous tyrant he is. It will take the herd another 15 to 20 years for them to finally see Tsvangirai for the corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent idiot he is.
Mother Teresa has used all her mental power to figure out that Mugabe is a bully, she is now mentally exhausted she cannot accept that Tsvangirai is a sell-out. She cannot accept that both of them can be evil regardless what the evidence says!
There is no one more blind than him who refuse to see!
@Patrick
We are in this mess because, as a nation, we have sort the easy route to economic prosperity all we had to do was blindly follow tyrants and idiots like Mugabe and Tsvangirai. The national consensus at present is to follow Tsvangirai for a few more years and that is why there is this reluctance to accept Tsvangirai for the corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent idiot he is. It is easier of the mind to accept there is nothing wrong with Tsvangirai and thus the nation will not have to undertake the taxing challenge of finding competent leaders.
We have travelled down this path for the last 35 years with Mugabe as the self-imposed leader and 15 years with Tsvangirai as his challenger instead of things getting better they have got progressively worse. We need to rethink and not plough on blindly.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Wrote the Poet Robert Frost
We need to put on our thinking caps, to plough a different furrow and to stop following failed leaders blindly like sheep. Telling Mugabe that he is a corrupt and murderous tyrant and telling Tsvangirai that he is a corrupt and incompetent village idiot is not “cheap talk”; that is the very essence of independent thinking and holding leaders to account. It was the lack of this independent spirit that got us into this mess and it is its revival that will get us out of this mess.
@Muzukuru
Chinamasa is being naive, this presentation no substance would not impress my aunt in the rural areas let alone IMF and WB. They will not be impressed by the appointment of this presentation committee when they wanted one to collect money and pay the debt! They want their money back and not excuses!
@ nhamodzenyika
These committee is not set up to look at collecting money and to repay the debtors but to look at the options the country has to repay the debtor, cheque, bank certified cheque, moneygram, etc., etc. As the nation had all the money to repay all its debts it has not done so because it did not know these options!
The regime is fooling no one; the IMF and WB will not give the regime another cent until the country has paid back its outstanding debts!
@the Zimbabwean
It is no that the Zanu PF regime does not see the seriousness of Zimbabwe's economic and political crisis and the urgent need for a solution; Mugabe and many of those around him can see all these things. They know the only solution let on the table is for them to admit failure and that is the one thing they cannot do.
It is not in the DNA of any dictatorship to admit failure and give up power!
Hence the scene is set for Zanu PF confrontation with the people of Zimbabwe demanding changing all one can hope for is that it is not going to be bloody or protracted!
@ Ben
Your narrative of Zimbabwe's match into the economic and political abyss is accurate except for one important detail; it said nothing about the golden opportunity the country had to end this nightmare if only MDC had implemented the democratic reforms. SADC and other people reminded Tsvangirai and MDC to implement the reforms but no one listened and so the chance was lost.
Tsvangirai is a sell-out and therefore to call him “the grandfather of the Movement for Democratic Change” when it was his betrayal that costed the nation its best chance to deliver real democratic change is to falsify history and insult all those who would have suffered because he sold-out.
Tsvangirai is no more fit to be hero of democratic change than Mugabe is fit to be liberation hero because although both took in the struggle when they had the chance to deliver these things they sold-out to gratified their own selfish quest for power and wealth.
If we are serious in our search for the way out of this political mess then we must tell the truth about what happen in the past and deal with it honestly if we are to avoid making the same mistakes again and again.
Tsvangirai is a corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent village idiot we are fooling no one else but ourselves by making to be anything he is not!
Electoral fraud is the one thing Zanu PF has perfected over its 35 years in power.
Mukunda's allegations are not farfetched as this is the sort of electoral fraud that Zanu PF has been doing and worse for years. Mukunda's allegations help to highlight how wil-fully inadequate MDC-T's eight reform demands are. Even if all MDC-T's demands are implemented the fraud Mukunda is complaining about will still continue.
If we are going to demand reform then they must be the raft of reforms agreed in the GPA in 2008 and not some meaningless reforms.
THE supervisor of government accounts and financial controls, the Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG), has made a shocking revelation that President Robert Mugabe’s administration cannot account for $3,5 billion which was earmarked for civil servants’ salaries.
In a report for the period to December 2012 that was presented to the parliamentary portfolio committee on Public Accounts on Monday, CAG Mildred Chiri, revealed that transfers to the Paymaster General’s account amounting to billions of US dollars could not be accounted for.
- See more at: http://www.zimeye.com/35bn-govt-cash-disappears-in-mugabes-hands/#sthash.5tFKAkm2.dpuf
Who is going to give aid to a regime that is so wasteful?
In unusually frank comments, Jonathan Moyo, information minister, tweeted: “This May Day our triple challenge is we’ve workers without work, we’ve lost the sense of labour value & we lack a strategy to create wealth!
"The public health-care system in Zimbabwe is equally superior to Kenyan health services," you say.
I really do not know what the writer is trying to say here. What I do know is that I recently lost an aunt in Gweru. I understand she was supposed to go to Harare the following day because there was no dialysis machine in Gweru. Of course it is an outrage that Gweru Hospital, catering for the health needs of 3 to 4 million people in the Midlands Province should have something as basic as a dialysis machine.
If Kenya’s health service is even worse off that Zimbabwe’s as Mohamed Guleid claims then Kenya sure does have a problem. Still, I really do not see what Mohamed is driving at; I am supposed to feel better that my aunt who lost her life needlessly as do hundreds of thousands across the country because the situation is worse in Kenya? What is this some health beauty contest?
Zimbabwe has a president who is spending millions of dollars on endless overseas trips, how many dialysis machines would the country have if Mugabe cancelled half of these trips, I ask myself? If Mohamed Guleid has nothing to complain about on how Kenya is using her resource then well and good.
Mohamed’s comparing of Kenya to Zimbabwe saves no purpose other than to suggest that Zimbabweans should not aspire for what the country is capable of but should instead be content the country is comparable to Kenya. Indeed, Zimbabweans should even feel guilty that Guleid, the expert, has even placed Zimbabwe as better off than Kenya! How nauseating is that????!
Some of the nonsense we have had to put up with from these black Africans is sickening!
The other day some Nigerian guy was adamant he would rather have Mugabe for President than Goodlucky Jonathan. "Even though Mugabe has never held free and fair elections and Jonathan has," he insisted. This is just someone claiming he would rather be bitten by a cobra than a mosquito knowing that he will never face such a grim choice and to mock the victim of the snake bite!
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