When you
have naïve and gullible followers there are no limits to the nonsense you can
sell them and get away with Scott-free! Mugabe is a corrupt and murderous
tyrant with panache to distorting facts and reality so that what everyone would
ordinarily agree is wrong is seen as right and desirable.
When it
was announced that Zanu PF was going to hold its elective congress in December
2014 everyone focused their minds on what position in the party they would want
to hold and canvassing for support. How else would you expect to win an
election without canvassing for support?
Mugabe
himself had said every position in the party was up for grabs but no one had
been foolish enough to think Mugabe would tolerate anyone challenging his for
the top job of first secretary of the party and state president. So province
after province the party had dutifully endorsed him as their only preferred candidate
for the top post. Still Mugabe was not content with that.
He was not
happy with party members electing his deputies either. In the past he had
always managed to appoint all his deputies, the weaker the better. In 2004 he
had the party’s constitution change so that Mnangagwa, who had amassed support
from 6 out of the 10 provinces, failed to secure the VP post left by the death
of Simon Muzenda. Joice Mujuru was appointed VP on the party constitutional
amendment requiring that one of the four top party positions must be filled by
a woman.
How was it
possible that Mugabe was able to blatantly change the party’s constitution and
get away with it? With a naïve and gullible membership he could change anything
and get away with it. Indeed the more idiotic members even argued this was good
move to achieve gender balance.
In 2014
Mugabe faced a different problem the candidate who had garnered popular support
was a woman, Joice Mujuru, with backing from 8 out of 10 provinces. All these
years she had been VP but on the clear understanding that he, Robert Mugabe,
had done her the favour. If she was going to be VP on the back of popular party
membership support, she would want to exercise meaningful power and not be
treated as some overpaid office messenger.
For
example, none of Mugabe’s VPs had ever chaired any cabinet meeting in all the 35
years Mugabe has been in power. If he is not there to chair the cabinet meeting
then there will be no cabinet meeting, period! Mugabe is that kind of control
freak and there is no way an elected VP would brook that crass of abuse!
To stop
Mai Mujuru being elected VP, Mugabe accused her of causing division in the party,
factionalism, by getting 8 provinces to back her for the VP post. Her main
challenger, Emmerson Mnangagwa only managed to get the backing of two provinces
was never accused of factionalism. Of course the charge is absurd and
nonsensical.
Mugabe
went on to change the party’s constitution yet again without even bothering to
follow laid down procedure to grant himself the power to once again appoint who
would be VPs. He appointed two men and no woman. There was a deafening silence
from those who had been so vocal about gender balance back in 2004! There had
been no better than George Orwell’s sheep that having passionately supported
one sentiment were easily swayed to support the exact opposite just as
passionately!
The
origins of Zanu PF as a corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical party can be traced
to the party leadership, especially Mugabe’s, ruthless denial of other people’s
right to have a meaningful voice and say in the running of the party. He has
stifled all meaningful debate and competition in the party. He has done the
same thing at national level.
In theory
we started in 1980 with a multiparty democracy but that was quickly turned into
a de facto one-party, Zanu PF, dictatorship and in practice a one-man, Mugabe,
dictatorship. Party elections were rigged to stop factionalism just as national
elections were rigged to stop regime change. And it is amazing that so many
people have been so easily hoodwinked by this clever political repackaging not
to see they are being denied their basic and fundamental right to a meaningful democratic
vote.
I am not a
member of Zanu PF and if the party’s simpleton membership do not realized they are
being cheated out of their right to a meaningful vote for the dubious honour of
having “one centre of power”; it is their business.
Mugabe is not
going to fool the nation too into giving up our right to free, fair and
credible elections in exchange for his satanic “no regime change” mantra. No amount
of clever repackaging of this corrupt, vote rigging and tyrannical one party
dictatorship will fool us into believing this is the free, just and prosperous
nation we dreamt of and many died for.
12 comments:
@ Bob
Of course people like Mugabe and his apologist gerro here are racist; they hate whites but they still acknowledge whites as humans and even superior to them. Mugabe's hatred of whites is just a manifestation of his inferiority complex.
Mugabe and Gerro's inferiority complex does not stop with their hatred of whites, the hate blacks even more. They see themselves as the only blacks worthy being called humans the rest are trash!
Mugabe has never understood why anyone in the West has made a fuss about according basic human rights and freedom to Zimbabweans including the right to vote and even the right to life. How do they expect him to grant these freedoms and rights to subhumans? When black Zimbabweans have cried for these freedoms and rights he saw to it that we were punished for making so much noise. Mugabe has nothing but contempt for blacks.
During the slave trade it was not the white man who hunted the black Africans, it was blacks who did that. Blacks hunted their own kith and kin like animals and sold them as slaves for a piece of calico cloth and a handful of beads.
Slavery was abolished 200 years ago but there are still blacks who are selling their own fellow blacks for a piece of calico cloth and a handful of beads today. Mugabe is selling the nation's diamonds and other resources for a song whilst millions of Zimbabweans are wallowing in abject poverty. If you dare point out these glaring injustices, if you are white you get called a pig if you are black you are called a puppet or worse!
As a black person in white ruled Rhodesia I was a third class citizen, at least the train of life was moving from A to B then. Now under black tyrannical run I still use the same third class wagon because that is all I can afford only everything in a dilapidated state and the train is going nowhere!
Black majority rule has allowed tyrants like Mugabe to resume their trade in human souls and he is very angry with all those objecting to his tyrannical rule, they are interfering in Zimbabwe’s internal affairs!
@ nekumba
Are you agreeing then than MDC sold out to Zanu PF?
You ask where I was when MDC was selling out; as a matter of fact I was one of the few Zimbabweans who tried their best to get MDC to implement the reforms. SADC leaders tried the same thing but MDC leaders had pocketed their thirty pieces of silver and so they listened to no one.
Go to zimbabwelight.blogspot.co.uk right now and there you will find a track record of my effort to get MDC to implement the reforms.
It is not enough to say you want democratic change you must be smart enough to realize that Tsvangirai and MDC are just too corrupt and incompetent to deliver that change. Of course Zanu PF would much rather have MDC as the country's opposition because Mugabe knows he has outwitted Tsvangirai before and can do it again and again.
So if one of us is a CIO then it must be you because you are fighting hard on MDC's corner deliberately sweeping their past record of failures and selling out because you want Zanu PF to stay in power.
I have said it a hundred times, the main objective of the Zimbabwe Social Democrats is to ensure Zimbabweans are informed about what the reforms are, about how MDC sold-out during the GNU and therefore cannot be trusted to implement any reforms, about CIO doing their best to promote MDC, etc.
We missed on getting the reforms implemented last time because the people did not know what was happening, next time they will be better informed! ZSD are doing a good job on that front and clearly both Zanu PF and MDC do not like that but that is to be expected from political parties who want the whole nation to follow them like sheep to the slaughter!
@ Sellassie
I second your suggestion that the corruption by Zanu PF chefs must be thoroughly investigated and no stone should be left unturned in the effort to recovery every penny of the loot.
I do not agree that there was nothing MDC could do to stop the looting, the political oppression, etc. By implementing the democratic reforms MDC would have dismantled the Zanu PF dictatorship brick by brick and build democratic institutions with the same bricks. If you have an independent Police, judiciary, etc. you can stamp out corruption, vote rigging and all the other evils in Zimbabwe society today.
To say there was nothing Biti and MDC could have done during the GNU shows that you really have not understood what the GNU was about! It is this lamentable failure to comprehend issues which has landed us in this mess and, unless we stop this dirty habit of burying our heads into the backsides of our leaders, we will never get out of the mess.
@ Nkomo
The past is very important just be careful you do not use Gukurahundi as the excuse for failing to move the nation forward just as Mugabe has used colonial oppression as the excuse for dragging the nation back into the dark ages!
MARONDERA: A local shoe manufacturing company has stopped production and is on the verge of collapse after the army, Airforce, police and prisons failed to service a combined $4 million debt they owe the company for combat boots.
So the new law will stop Eagle Shoe and Leather laying off the workers but will not stop the company going bankrupt. Indeed it is the regime itself that has a hand in the company's bankruptcy.
The new law was passed only the other day, the ink of Mugabe signing it into law has not dried yet, and yet the law is already proving to be totally useless!
“Leadership in all spheres of life is the critical factor that determines success or failure, progress or decline, freedom and dignity or suppression and control. In business, the world has been transformed by leaders who had a vision of what they might achieve and then single-mindedly pursued the vision with all their might,” wrote Eddie Cross.
Yes Eddie Cross we are very impressed to know that “leadership in all spheres of life is the critical factor” but why did you not think so during the GNU when, by implementing the reforms, you would have changed the course of our history for the better forever.
Eddie you were a senior member of MDC throughout the critical GNU years; why did you lot fail to get the all-important democratic reforms implemented. Zimbabwe would have had its first free, fair and credible elections and we would be well on our way out of this hell-hole Mugabe has dragged us into. MDC failed to get even one reform implemented. Not even one!
Mugabe bribe MDC leaders with the gravy train lifestyles and you lot forgot all about the reforms.
Eddie Cross, Welshman Ncube and one or two other MDC leaders are what one would call first class leaders in theory, they are always in the paper expounding on some thesis or synthesis, but are the worst leaders ever in practise because they actions defy common sense. Failing to get even one reform implemented in five years is one of those historic facts that will be described as “so idiotic, it defies all logic!”
@ Stobart
MDC had the chance to implement the reforms and end the Zanu PF dictatorship whether that could have given Mugabe sleepless nights or send him to his early grave is irrelevant. We are talking of the destiny of not one or two people but a whole nation, 13 million and what is that compared to the loss of one tyrant!
MDC failed to deliver the democratic changes when they had all the chances to do so plus the backing of SADC they will not do so now.
The economic meltdown will probably force Zanu PF to give up some of its dictatorial powers and some compromise government may emerge in which MDC have a part. But if you think that will ever produce a democracy then you do not what a democracy is.
The Zimbabwe electorate is not one of the smartest, indeed if the truth be told they are one of the most naive and gullible lot on earth and the nation's present mess is enough testimony of that. So I would not be surprised if they elected another lot of corrupt and incompetent leaders or even go for the same village idiots of yesteryears.
It is highly probable that Zimbabwe will never ever a competent government, not as long as the voters remain such a naive and gullible lot. I personally will be very disappointed to see that hap-pen but I cannot at least say I did my best to make the people open their eyes.
If you will be pleased with an MDC type government then good for you! Your understanding of issue is shockingly shallow but the plus side is that you are easily pleased just as you are easily fooled.
An increasingly beleaguered President Robert Mugabe has gagged senior party officials from making public statements on issues he has already publicly spoken about.
Mugabe has always stifled all meaningful debate inside Zanu PF and the nation at large which is why the nation has adopted some really stupid policies with the disastrous consequences we see all around. Now with the nation in total economic meltdown and in need of serious debate to find the way out Mugabe's response is to stifle debate even more. How typical!
@ Mudhara
There have been many opportunities to end the Zanu PF dictatorship in the past with the best chances being during the GNU years, we have wasted all these chances because we failed to recognize them. There will be many more opportunities to end the dictatorship but once again they will all be wasted as long as we fail to produce the mental aptitude to see these opportunities.
This Zanu PF dictatorship will crumble within a few month if this nation had ten, people who knew what the democratic reforms were all about and had the courage to stand up and be counted; just ten. For the most part we have hundreds of thousands of individuals who do not have the foggiest idea what democracy is about taking advantage of the ignorance of the people to get into power and join the gravy train.
We are in this mess because for the last 35 years we have demonstrated again and again that we are incapable of defining our problem and thinking through a solution. A nation that will not think is doomed! Unless we pull up our socks, we are doomed!
@ Mudhara
There have been many opportunities to end the Zanu PF dictatorship in the past with the best chances being during the GNU years, we have wasted all these chances because we failed to recognize them. There will be many more opportunities to end the dictatorship but once again they will all be wasted as long as we fail to produce the mental aptitude to see these opportunities.
This Zanu PF dictatorship will crumble within a few month if this nation had ten, people who knew what the democratic reforms were all about and had the courage to stand up and be counted; just ten. For the most part we have hundreds of thousands of individuals who do not have the foggiest idea what democracy is about taking advantage of the ignorance of the people to get into power and join the gravy train.
We are in this mess because for the last 35 years we have demonstrated again and again that we are incapable of defining our problem and thinking through a solution. A nation that will not think is doomed! Unless we pull up our socks, we are doomed!
@ Patrick
You have that one right!
The trouble is we are always looking for the easy down-hill when there are no down-hill routes out of hell. The down-hill routes have only landed us even deeper into this hell. Of course tyrants and conman have had a field day offering just that the quick and no-sweat answers to economic prosperity.
An electorate that will not think and learn from their past mistakes will be con again and again!
@ Stewart Murewa
Mugabe knows that he has destroyed the country and the writing of the total collapse is every-where for all to see. You pretend not to see and still continue wittering about Mugabe's imaginary successes just like Josef Goebbels who continued to witter about Third Reich winning the war even with the Russian noose pulling tight.
"Long live President Mugabe for age comes with wisdom," you say. So not ever you can deny that the tyrant's days are numbered. Each time he doses off, which is very often, he looks died.
If wisdom comes with age, which is what I think you meant to say, then poor Mugabe has waiting for 91 years and the tyrant has never had any coherent idea in his empty head. All he has ever thought about and done is corruption, looting, cheating, vote rigging and murder!
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