Sunday 4 October 2015

Vince, Zim is a mess not for lack of self-belief but because of we punch-drunk of it!


Vince it is not so much that “we are caught in a spider’s web of lies about our history, our potential and our future as a country.” But rather that we have spin these lies of super heroes and the nation’s greatness that when things started to go pear-shape we refused to believe the facts. Even today with the nation in a real mess there are some people who still refuse to believe we messed up and need to embrace change; they want us to stay the course confident we can still have the free, just and prosperous Zimbabwe we are all after.

 

"The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside,” wrote Vince Musewe, quoting Allan David Bloom the American economist.

 

Allan Bloom was spot in his assessment it is your interpretation, Vince, which is wrong. on but if we are to apply his observation to our case then it is important to understand that Mugabe has very successful dragged us into this hell-on-earth these last 35 years by convincing us that we were on the right path and we will pull through if we remain united and focused. We have not looked for other ways or possibilities because we were convinced we were on the right path already.

 

“The archaic paradigm of victimhood which accepts that we as Zimbabweans are incapable of creating our own prosperity and cannot create self-sustaining economy despite the fact that we have all the necessary knowledge base spread all over the world and the necessary resources to do so must be rejected and expunged from our minds,” you are argued.

 

This is exactly what Mugabe has been saying all these years; are you sure you did not up lift this rhetoric from one of Mugabe’s UN speeches. You blame our failure to create the prosperous Zimbabwe on Mugabe and he blames the “sanctions imposed by evil British imperialists and their allies”.

 

In his recent speech to the UN a few days ago Mugabe said Africa did not need hand-outs from donors or the West in its development quest and Zimbabwe would have achieved her development goals if it was not for the “illegal sanctions imposed by the West”!

 

Of course it is not because of the sanctions that we are in this economic mess just as it is nonsense to blame the West’s hand-outs for Africa’s backwardness. We are in this mess because we have created this lie that we can do anything only if we believe we can. When you hold such a strong view, over compensating for the years of being made to feel we are inferior to the whites, you back yourself into a corner.

 

Zimbabwe is in this economic mess because of three and half decades of mismanagement and corruption we have instinctive recoiled from acknowledging this because to do so was tantamount to acknowledging that we are fallible and thus inferior.

 

It is this absolutism that is behind Mugabe’s imposition of this de facto one-party state and his unshaking determination to remain president for life – he believes he alone KNOWS what is best for the country absolutely no question. So imposing a one-party state becomes natural in the circumstances.

 

Tsvangirai has already proven to be corrupt and incompetent but that has not done nothing to shake his own belief in his own capabilities and infallibility hence the reason why he has disregarded the party’s own constitution to extend his stay as MDC leader beyond the fixed maximum of two terms.

 

“We must now create a paradigm that says that our country Zimbabwe has all it requires to create trillion dollar economy within 30 years at the most. We must also believe that we can shape a self-sustaining inclusive economy with full employment without relying aid on the West, or the East for that matter, to determine what we can become. We must stop being slaves to the self-serving political rhetoric or to international capital. We can control our destiny as a country if only we believe,” you with the absolutism of a tyrant who know-all the answers.

 

We are in this political and economic mess not because people have been “blinded by the unceasing rhetoric and propaganda of the Zanu-PF machinery” into believing there is no future beyond the present the party is offering.

 

“The Zimbabwe we wish to build is grand and in my opinion, we continue to be limited only by our imagination and belief.  That must change,” argued Vince.


If there is one thing this nation have never lacked for the last 35 years it is imagination and self-belief; especial our national leaders they have been punch-drunk.

 

Even with the national economy in the doldrums caused economic mismanagement and corruption and the country up to its eyes in debt because of decades misrule under his leadership; that did not stop Mugabe producing his 2013 $ 27 billion ZimAsset economic recovery plan with promises to create 2.2 million new jobs. It should be remembered that the regime was not getting any financial assistances from anyone at the time, not even from its “all-weather friend” the Chinese, because it had failed to service it $10 billion foreign debt. Still the regime was confident it would raise the necessary funds.

 

Of course Mugabe failed to raise the money for ZimAsset and the regime has failed to create any new job but has been losing jobs instead as more and more companies have closed. Even now with ZimAsset dead in the water Mugabe still talks of the plan beaming with confidence as if he only has to snap his fingers and the plan will be back on track!

 

As if not to be out done Morgan Tsvangirai and the laid-back Joice Mujuru have each produced their economic blue-prints for Zimbabwe’s economic recovery and prosperity called JUICE and BUILD respectively. The two release their plans accompanied by some prolonged chest drumming normally associated with silver-back gorillas to underline their self-confidence and self-belief.

 

Tsvangirai would have done better is he had listened to all those, including SADC Heads of State, who advised him to implemented the democratic reforms agreed in the GPA; at least the nation would have had its first free, fair and credible elections in July 2013. He did not listen; a silver-back in the middle of its macho display does not listen to chattering monkeys.

 

The nation’s military success in the war of independence has left everyone beaming with self-confidence and self-believe especial Mugabe and his fellow war heroes and heroines; they really do not believe there is anything they cannot do. They won the war and ended white colonial exploitation and racial discrimination but at great price. We have become one of cockiest nation on earth because after defeating the whites we have become absolutely certain that there nothing we cannot do. Nothing!

 

We can talk about mismanagement and corruption being the cause of Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown until we are all blue in the face; Mugabe and many of his Zanu PF friends will never believe a word. They believe it is the “illegal sanctions imposed by the British imperialist and their Western allies” that has done all the damage. To spice up their story further still; Mugabe has said the sanctions were imposed to achieve regime change. What makes all these hen’s teeth stories “believable” is that Mugabe is a war hero who is so cocksure of himself and there is his war record to “prove” he is an extra-ordinary hero who can do anything!

 

India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru recognized the danger a cocky self-assured war hero can be to a nation. 

 

“What kind of leaders would an armed struggle throw up?” asked Nehru of his fellow Congress Party leaders when the question arose whether or not the party should abandon the Mahatma Gandhi’s none violence passive resistance route in favour of an armed struggle to end British rule of India. “Are they the kind of leaders we would want to rule our country?”

 

We in Zimbabwe throw caution to the wind and went for fully fledged and bloody armed struggle. We defeated the white colonialist but at a great price – the war throw up the cocky tyrants who believe they know best and consider being held to account in a free and democratic election an insult, the leaders Nehru warned about!

 

Even those who did not fight in the war of independence have copied Mugabe’s arrogant autocratic leadership style. Tsvangirai has changed his party’s constitution to extend his stay as leader beyond the original fixed two terms confident he is the only person competent to lead MDC. He following Mugabe’s example who has remained his party’s leader for 35 years and counting, he has rigged both national and Zanu PF elections because he believes he is the only person competent of leading the nation regardless of his track record of economic ruin and brutal oppression!

 

I too believe Zimbabwe has the potential to be a great nation and what has dragged us backwards into the Dark Ages for the last 35 years is not the lack of “imagination and self-belief”, as you think Vince. We have a political system that has allowed corrupt and incompetent tyrants to stay in power even when they have become so dopy they read the same speech twice. That is what is wrong here.

 

What we need to do is implement ALL the democratic reforms agreed in the 2008 GPA so that we have free, fair and credible elections. The lack of democratic accountability has made our current crop of leaders cocky and punch-drunk on absolute power; for the good of the nation, that must end.

 
Yes implement the same democratic reforms that Tsvangirai and his MDC friends failed to get even one reform implemented in five years in the GNU because they are corrupt and incompetent. The same Tsvangirai you have been doing you best to promote as a potential president of this nation! He is corrupt and incompetent and has already failed to get even one reform implemented; what part of corrupt and incompetent do you not understand Vince!?

7 comments:

Zimbabwe Light said...

George Charamba, you write some of the worse nonsense ever and consistently too. The coun-try is in a real economic and political mess because our legal system, like so many of our other institutions, has been rendered utterly useless by this corrupt and tyrannical Mugabe dictator-ship. Over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans have been murder by the regime and the regime is yet to hold free and fair elections and yet our Judges have pretended not to see all these serious cases of lawlessness and tyranny. And here you are applauded the toothless judges as if they are doing a great job!

Thank God the regime is imploding because the whole party is rotten to the core! Many of Adolf Hitler cronies committed suicide or escape to Argentina or some such places when the regime collapsed. What are you going to do Charamba? After writing all this truck load of bull, you know you will have a lot to answer for other than all your looted wealth that is!

Zimbabwe Light said...

Our leaders really behave as if they have a direct line to God and get free advice without even asking for it and so they know the answers to everything and to question them is to question the Lord Himself!

We have been very slow in telling the leaders that they are fallible mortals like the rest of us and that we will never ever tolerate anyone who is so presumptuous as to even suggest they are infallible. Because the leaders are as fallible as the rest of us they must therefore accept the reality that they will make mistakes and therefore they must be accountable to those they lead.

Humility is the single most important quality of a true democrat just as the Mister-Know-It-All arrogance is the forte of the tyrant! In the case of Mugabe he has bribed the top brass in the Army, Police, CIO, etc. to abandon their constitutional and professional duties to do his dirty bidding.

So the likes of Chihuri really thinks he is fighting to stop “regime change” not knowing he is fighting to defend the de facto one-party state dictatorship. He will have his day in court to explain all that nonsense because regime change is happening regardless all the regime’s des-perate efforts to stop it.

The agent of regime change is the economic meltdown and it is unstoppable!


"Vakuru vakati hapana chisingaperi! (Everything comes to an end!) Mugabe and Zanu PF's reign of terror is drawing to an end!

Zimbabwe Light said...

@ Patrick

Yes Patrick Zhuwao is growing too big for his boots but who in the regime will dare stop him!

Zhuwao is taking full advantage of his family connections and of his uncle's old age and poor health induced somnolence to dictate to the rest of cabinet and make a name for himself. Finance Minister Chinamasa had his fingers burnt when he announced that civil servants will not receive their bonus pay cheque this year, there is no doubt this had been agreed with Mugabe but, of course, he might have dozed off.

At this rate Zhuwao will be boosting of how all the other government minister are consulting him and take down notes during the meeting just as Grace Mugabe is doing with the two VPs! Patrick Zhuwao and Grace Mugabe are just empty drums, they have no clue of the seriousness of the country’s economic and political problems and therefore they do not have a clue what to get us out of this mess. Their elevation to the very pinnacle of political power has filled their empty heads to overflow with the Mister-Know-It-All arrogance that has become the hall-mark of our political leaders notably Tsvangirai and Mugabe himself.

Zhuwao and Grace are gunning to be the kingmakers after Mugabe if not one of them becoming the next president!

Zimbabwe Light said...

“To assist the Presidency in the coordination of policies, programmes and any other socio-economic ventures of a cross-cutting nature that may be embarked on.”

With ZimAsset dead and buried there will no ventures of any nature of form and so Minister Khaya-Moyo can look forward to months of twiddling his thumbs!

Zimbabwe Light said...

@ Mudhara

Blasting Tsvangirai is a good starting point or I you saying Tsvangirai should not be blasted. Tsvangirai had five years to implement the reforms but failed to get even one reform implemented because he and his fellow MDC friends sold-out. Worse still Tsvangirai is now proposing to implement watered down reforms. You do not think the people of Zimbabwe should be warned against the dangers of following such a dangerous corrupt and incompetent village idiot?!!!

The way forward is for the nation to understand that nothing can ever be achieved until we implement the GPA reforms - not the Tsvangirai rubbish - and then demand their implementation.

This has not registered as a way forward to you, Mudhara, but that is because have a mental predisposition to accept whatever Tsvangirai says and to reject what anyone else says without questioning the valid of what was said. I am interested in finding the way out of the hell for Zimbabwe and could not care less about your intellectual shortcomings serious though they may be. I really do not care whether you see this as the way forward or not; I know implementing the GPA reforms IS the way forward and that is all that matters. You have your head in Tsvangirai’s backside; that is your choice; you smell of shit and can suffocate and die, that too is your problem not mine!

Zimbabwe Light said...

@ Warlord

Zimbabwe's economic and political mess has nothing to do with sanctions you moron.

You have dismissed MDC leaders as useless and yet when it comes to sanctions you still want the nation to believe he is the one who influenced West to impose the sanctions. Is Tsvangirai a puppet of the West or is he the puppeteer with the West gyrating to his Buhera Growth Point ballades? He cannot a puppet one minute and the puppeteer the next just to suit the spin in your propaganda story! You have to make up your mind which is which, you moron!

It is mismanagement and corruption that have caused Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown, not sanctions. And Tsvangirai has had nothing to do with the West imposing the sanctions; the West are far too smart to let their foreign policy to be dictated by a village idiot like Tsvangirai.

Zimbabwe Light said...

Very interesting Ian; I will get the book, it sounds like an interesting read.

My view is that democracy is like a wheel, whilst one can say a wheel for tractor will not be suitable on a Formula One Race car or a bicycle, there are nonetheless certain tenets that all wheels have in common. Democracy has not worked in Africa not because the system is not suitable for Africa but because we have made it so weak in that formate it would not work anywhere. In other words we have produced a square called it a wheel and expected it to perform like one!

Look at Zimbabwe constitution approved in March 2013; of course it is rubbish because we allow Mugabe to change it to suit his own tyrannical needs. Sadly MDC leaders were naive and incompetent to stop him.

First MDC leaders promised the new constitution would deliver free and fair elections; of course that did not happen as the July 2013 elections showed. MDC leaders, not ones to admit failure and always ready with a solution to every problem (even if they have no clue what the problem is), are now suggesting we need to “align the existing laws to the new constitution” then everything will work like clockwork. It is all nonsense of course because the constitution should be the supreme law of the land and therefore should not have to depend on supplementary laws to deliver the basic rights and freedoms of the individuals.

What we have in the 2013 Zimbabwe constitution is a bicycle with two triangles for wheels and idiots like Tsvangirai do not want to admit they made a mistake and so they suggest we keep the rims and change the tubes!

If we are serious about having a health and functioning democratic system then the starting point is adopting proven democratic systems there already, fine tune it to our needs but not change it. We must stop reinventing democracy just as we would not reinvent the wheel!