Mr Kuzuyuke Nakane, a
special envoy of the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, has delivered a
special message to President Robert Mugabe inviting him to a state visit to his
country in October.
According to the ZBC
report, Mr Nakane explained that the Japanese Prime Minister “is impressed with
President Mugabe's statesmanship and his leadership of the African Union (AU)”?
The Japanese government is
looking for business opportunities in Zimbabwe and Africa and why not. As a
nation the people of Zimbabwe have had no quarrel with Japan; all our business
relations have been above board and clean unlike some other nations in Japan’s
backyard.
Whilst everyone would
expect Mr Nakane to be courteous and diplomatic still no one expected him to
insult our intelligent by telling a blatant lie. Zimbabwe is the basket case of
a failed state where everything is in varying stages of rot and decay because
of the years of failed leadership.
Even Mugabe must have,
inwardly at least, blushed at hearing that the Japanese PM was impressed by the
tyrant’s “statesmanship”. Mugabe was thrown into the GNU political sin-bin by
his own fellow Africans leaders in 2008 following one of the worse violent and
vote rigging elections even by Africa’s own undemocratic election standards. He
came out of the GNU only to blatantly rig the 2013 elections but with the
assistance of Zimbabwe’s corrupt and incompetent opposition party, MDC, who
failed to get even one reform implemented.
Still
how can someone who has systematically denied his people their basic freedoms
and human rights including the right to free, fair and credible elections and
even the right to life be considered a “statesman”. Over 30 000 innocent
Zimbabweans have been murdered during Mugabe’s 35 years in power!
7 comments:
@ Vince
It is very heartening to see there are people like you Vince who clearly appreciate the serious-ness and urgency of the nation's political and economic situation and are working flat out to find a way out. Thank you. Please do not give up!
I agree that we need to meet and discuss the way out of this hell.
I also agree that Zanu PF can be invited on the clear understanding that they are just participants like everyone else. Rather than waste time reminding them of this, my gut instinct would be to leave them out. Zanu PF will only want to attend for the sole purpose of maintaining the status quo!
I do not agree that Tsvangirai and/or Joice Mujuru should be asked to lead. If they are invited then they will be just participants like everyone else. Rather than waste time reminding them of this my gut instinct is to leave them out too.
We have not made any meaningful progress digging ourselves out of this political and economic mess these last two years since the rigged July 2013 elections because we have failed to make the first decisive step of accepting that MDC leaders betrayed us and therefore we must discard them and look for new leaders. There is a mountain of evidence proving people like Tsvangirai sold-out it beggars belief that anyone should still consider someone like him leadership material.
I can understand my Auntie in the rural backwaters still believing that Tsvangirai is the best thing since sliced bread but I am not expecting her to play any role in this national convergence. If anyone is going to play any meaningful role in charting the country's future then surely they must the common sense to understand simple facts put before them.
If the delegates to this national convergence cannot agree of something as simple as individuals like Tsvangirai and Mai Mujuru sold-out then the gathering will be just another talk-shop that will achieve nothing.
You talk of the people being "sick and tired of the (Zanu PF) status quo". That is true but they are also sick and tired is being promised democratic changes, free and fair elections, etc. and then not even one reform in implemented, the elections are rigged again, etc.
You talk of the challenge being one of "crossing the river" (presumably River Jordan). Are you sure this is River Jordan and not the crocodile infested Nile! Given that Comrades Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangira have been leading the struggle these last 35 years and we all know how democratic, competent and incorruptible the two gentlemen are.
If you do not know where you are then you will not know where you are going. After 35 years of wondering around like the albatross you really need to be 100% sure you know where you are and where you are going and not take the people on some wild Sahara Desert tour – our people deserve that consideration after all these years of suffering and betrayals!
@ Patrick
Well our Zanu PF friends will have to take the rat poison or else face the judge because regime change is now a certainty.
Mugabe may be giving people like Mnangagwa and Mphoko more and more opportunities to defend the regime not knowing they are annoying the public even more with their lies. The more the public hate Mnangagwa and any of the other leaders the less pressure on Mugabe himself. So Mugabe is giving the fools more rope with which to hang themselves!
@ Patrick
I wish I could be so positive!
Vince is talking about cross the River Jordan into the Promised Land, this is NOT the River Jordan!
If you face the setting sun with the River in front of you, then the water should be flowing from right to left, north to south. The water in this river is flowing left to right, south to north!
Just because Mai Mujuru sat in Mugabe's government for the last 34 years does not mean she knew where Mugabe was taking the nation. She was just a passenger.
Just because Tsvangirai has a herd of wildebeest who are programmed to follow blindly does not mean he "knows" where he is going!
Both Tsvangirai and Mai Mujuru are claiming that this is the River Jordan but they do not even have the common sense to understand that water does not flow uphill! How can any one believe and follow such leaders!
If Vince and Bishop Bakare are serious about doing something useful then they must invite participants to discuss how to get Zanu PF to step down so that the reforms necessary for free, fair and credible elections can finally be implemented.
There is no need to appoint anyone the leader of the national convergence because any such leader will bring their own agenda and baggage with them. The meeting will be doomed to failure if you allow failed leaders like Tsvangirai or Mujuru control the proceedings when they have an invested interest in covering up the fact that we are in this mess because they failed.
The national convergence should not be another excuse for another panic mass action taking us deeper into trouble. Yes we need to act but this time we must think through what we are going to do BEFORE we do it!
Zanu PF was always going to imploding; as long as there was loot for everyone Mugabe could hold the party together. Looters by nature are very wasteful so it was not going to take longer before loot started to run out. By the year 2000 the regime was running out of loot has the reason Mugabe invaded the white owned farms but still the fighting for loot continued.
By the time of the 2014 Zanu PF elective congress it was clear the war was on, it was a matter of kicking someone out of the party or be kicked out! Mujuru's faction got kicked out!
Mujuru and her faction are finished politically, they can dream of a comeback but that will never happen. The remaining faction will stay in power because they are able to rig elections, something Mujuru cannot do.
@ Tawanda
I think even Mugabe himself can deny that this is the beginning of the end. How he must be wishing if only he had left the stage a long time ago whilst he still enjoyed some respect.
His smoke and mirrors act fooled a lot of people and of course no one likes to be fooled. The smoke is clearing and more and more people can see the mirrors and how he has tricked them and the people's anger is growing by the day!
Longevity should be a blessing but, sometimes, it is a curse.
In Greek mythology Eos, the Goddess of dawn, asked Zeus, the king of the Gods, to make Tithonus, her human lover, immortal but forgot to ask for eternal youth. Tithonus did live forever but to be transformed by old age from the handsome Prince of Troy into a grasshopper. Eos locked him away in a darkened room “There he babbles endlessly, and no more has strength at all, such as once he had in his supple limbs” said Homer!
Mugabe has not transformed into a grasshopper but he has lived long to see the economic consequences of his incompetence and corrupt, his lies, vote rigging and political murders all uncovered. Now he will know the whole worlds that he is just a corrupt, incompetent and murderous tyrant. The longer he hangs on to life the greater the chance there may yet be another shocking surprise in store for him – as dramatic exit from this world as that of his fellow tyrants Muammar Gaddafi or Saddam Hussein!
@ brook
The key to getting out of this hell is by implementing the reforms, if anyone tells you something else they are conning you and the nation. Ncube, Tsvangirai and the rest of the MDC guys are conman who just want the people to vote them back on the gravy train, they will never bring anything. Someone must warn the nation about these sell-outs and I am doing it.
You have never understood what the reforms are about and probably never will. I do understand the reforms and will not rest until they are implemented. I also know that the MDC sell-outs will never implement the reforms and therefore I am here to see to it that they bare never elected into office! Try to stop me, if you think you can!
MDC will go down in Zimbabwe history as one of the most incompetently run parties in the nation's history. How Mugabe was able to hoodwink the MDC out of electoral victory in 2008 and then go on to bamboozle them into doing nothing about the reforms for five years defies all the laws of gravity and common sense!
Yes one or two leaders could be corrupt and incompetent but to have the whole party with their majority in parliament and cabinet to be this breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent is just too much.
After the rigged July 2013 elections the nation should have rounded up Tsvangirai et al and send them back to whatever mental institutions they had escaped from! This lot can dream of getting back into power but it would folly for the nation to let that happen!
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