“The best way of thanking them (our heroes)
and showing appreciation is no longer to shed tears but to say we have the
country you fought for, we have the natural resources you fought for and we are
developing these currently,” Mugabe said.
Many people have been saying Mugabe has become
senile and for years I have refused to accept that, but now I have no choice
but to accept it; it is clear he has lost it.
What is he wittering about “we have the
country you fought for”? He is the one who dished out all the farms to his
family and his Zanu PF thugs. He knows that they have sat on these farms so
that millions of prime farms have been left unused turning a net exporter of
food, tobacco and other produces into a nation of beggars.
We are starving in the Garden of Eden!
Mugabe and a select few in his cabal are
benefiting from the $800 billion bounty of Marange diamonds; the nation has not
seen a single dollar in collected revenue from Marange. Only a certified stupid
idiot would construe the grand looting and plunder in Marange as
“development”!
It was Lord Acton, 1834 to 1902, who said
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men
are almost always bad men."
7 comments:
@ Themba
What stopped the nation kicking Mugabe out of State House in 2013 was not the Police, Army, State apparatus, etc.! It was the failure by Tsvangirai and his MDC friends to implement the democratic reforms necessary to end Zanu PF's abuse of the Police and all the other State Insti-tution. Getting Mugabe to agree to the reforms was not easy by he did agree to them in the 2008 GPA.
Getting Mugabe to agree to the reforms again now is not going to be easy but the people's failure to appreciate that it was MDC's fault that no reforms were implemented last time has not helped
Tsvangirai et al betrayed the nation and sold-out how can we still consider them competent to implement the reforms this time. Sticking with MDC shows the people have no clue what hap-pened last time and therefore have no clue what should happen now. Mugabe has taken full advantage of this to say to the world "Deal with me because I am the only game in town!"
If the people were to demonstrate that they now know what the reforms are about and they want them to be implemented fully Mugabe KNOW then that the game is up!
@ Themba
What we be calling for now is for Mugabe and his Zanu PF cabal to accept they have failed, step aside to allow all the 2008 GPA reforms to be implemented so that we have a truly democratic political system. Let the people then elect who the wanted in a free, fair and credible election process.
None of the corrupt and incompetent leaders you mentioned above will last the distance give the real competitive environment of a democratic debate and free media! Look what is happening in America or what happen in Kenya's last elections. How many questions do you think Mai Mujuru or Mnangagwa or Tsvangirai will be able to answer before they start contradicting themselves?
All we need to do is create the democratic environment and the competitive environment it brings will separate the goats from the sheep!
"Region has become the opium of the people" as Mao, once said. Well that is certain the case in Zimbabwe and no wonder all the nation's cheats, pimps and conman have become pastors and prophets!
Now that the national economy is in total meltdown there is very little pickings to be had even for the well-connected looters like Chiyangwa. So now he wants to be a pastor and why not, he is guaranteed to have hundreds of thousands of followers.
The poorer the nation has become the more the people have found solace in the promise of infinite riches in Heaven. Seasoned conman like Chiyangwa will have no problem showing these people all the short cuts to heavenly bliss all they have to do is give the pastor/prophet all they have in this world - they do not need it now!
@ Patrick
Patrick, I could not agree with you more; we know the country's economy is in total meltdown and instead of discussing how we are going to force Mugabe to step down - until he does there is nothing of substance that can be attained - we continue to wasting discuss what Mugabe should be doing as if we expect him to revive the economy.
We all know Mugabe rigged the 2013 elections but it is shocking how quickly the nation accepted this outrage with "What if he did not rig the elections!" The economy is in total meltdown his ZimAsset plan is now died in the water and even the regime itself has finally stopped pretending it is alive. Instead of dealing with this reality we are coming with yet another what if; "What if Mugabe can revive the economy!"
Yes people "What if the ostrich can fly?"
It is infuriating that the people coming with what if nonsensical propositions are supposed to political and/or economic experts. No wonder the nation is in this hell; where else given we have with expert nincompoops!
Grace Mugabe tells the people in Binga that it is sanctions that are causing the economic hardships.
Was it part of the sanctions imposed by the West that Mugabe and his cronies should have all the prime farms and they sit on them whilst the nation starves?
None of the Western countries are involved in the grand looting and plunder of the nation's dia-monds in Marange.
Why is it that the sanctions have affected the ordinary people even more than they have affected those on the sanctions list?
The nation is in total economic meltdown because of 35 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. In the 2013 elections Zanu PF promised the nation 2.2 million jobs, the party knew about the sanctions back then. Now that the regime has failed to deliver any new jobs it is blaming its failure on sanctions. We are not all stupid.
We demand the implementation of all the 2008 GPA democratic reforms so that the next elections are free, fair and credible. Then let the people of Zimbabwe decide whether they believe in your cock and bull sanctions nonsense!
“President Robert Mugabe must quickly resolve the succession crisis, which is threatening to tear his Zanu PF party apart, as part of steps to bring back investor confidence and revive the country’s moribund economy.” S***t! Some people really live in their own cloud cuckoo land and not in the real world!
WHAT DO YOU MEAN "MUGABE MUST RESOLVE SUCCESSION ISSUE THAT IS THREAT-ENING TO TEAR HIS PARTY APART"?
HE SHOULD HAVE DONE THAT 20 YEARS AGO IF NOT LONG BEFORE THEN NOW THE HORSE HAS BOLTED AND IT IS TOO LATE. ZANU PF IS IMPLODING AND THERE IS NO GOING BACK ON THIS NOW!
@ Hovo
“President Robert Mugabe must quickly resolve the succession crisis, which is threatening to tear his Zanu PF party apart, as part of steps to bring back investor confidence and revive the country’s moribund economy,” wrote some expert analyst in the Daily News.
Just another expert telling us the ostrich can fly!
Mugabe should have accepted a democratic constitution for the nation in 1980 and never rigged any elections be they party or national elections. The horse bolted years ago and someone is now wittering about closing the stable door.
Zanu PF is imploding and there is nothing Mugabe can do now to stop the process. The national economy is in total meltdown for many reasons and it is naive to think that if Mugabe named his successor investors will flood back into the country and the economy will stage a miraculous re-covery.
We need to address our national problems with the sense of urgency and seriousness the situation demands. All these talks of Mugabe will fix the economy, Zanu PF, etc. only serve to show that we are not serious.
Mugabe is president but only because he rigged the last elections he neither have the political credibility, will or vision to fix the nation's myriad of problems nor the political legitimacy to be taken seriously by anyone. With his reputation as an incompetent, corrupt, vote rigging tyrant Mugabe has no political muscle to do anything; whatever power and authority he shows they are no more useful to him than the ostrich wing vestiges – he will never fly!
@ Clever Mayemu
There are two aspects many people like yourself who have taken it upon themselves to defend MDC for reasons they have not stated but are easy to see.
“MDC as a political party has done its duty. Blaming MDC will not take us anywhere as a nation,” you said. “What is needed now is for us the Zimbabwean people to stand on our own, talk about the problems that we have and find out ways to solve the problems. We as Zimbabwean individuals must know that (fortune favours the brave).”
So in your opinion what exactly was this “duty” that MDC has done?
If, like me you believe MDC’s duty in the GNU was to implement the democratic reforms; then Patrick is stating a fact in saying MDC failed to implement the reforms because they did not get even one reform implemented. Not one.
You say we need to “talk about the (nation’s) problem”; the need to implement the reforms is THE BIG ISSUE in Zimbabwe today. How you expect to talk about it without talking about the fact that MDC betrayed the nation in failing to implement the reforms during the GNU therefore beggars belief!
The second aspect is that people who accept that implementing the reforms is important and yet still hang on to the illusion that Tsvangirai and his MDC friends can be trusted to implement the reforms are in fact village idiots who are wasting the nation’s time. Tsvangirai et al have already failed to implement even one reform when it was easy for them to do so during the GNU; it is naïve to think they will do so now when Zanu PF has all the tramp cards.
Tsvangirai is just another political ostrich that has neither political credibility nor vision; he, like Mugabe, will never accomplish anything of substance, he will never fly!
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