“Vice President, Emmerson
Mnangagwa, is going to finish off President Robert Mugabe’s term in office,
amid top secret disclosures that, a cross-section of International players are
reportedly embracing and endorsing Mnangagwa, behind the curtains to bring economic
stimulus to Harare,” Spotlight Zimbabwe reported.
No thinking man or woman
will have any problem with Mnangagwa taking over from Mugabe to the 2018 finish
line. The takeover will be good for the country, if for nothing else, in that
it will end the dangerous and very destabilizing factional war that has raging on
and on in Zanu PF for the last two years.
What Mnangagwa’s backers
must understand, however, is his takeover to 2018 is one thing going beyond
that is another matter. The people of
Zimbabwe cannot afford to have yet another rigged elections; we must have the
democratic reforms and the free and fair elections. Mnangagwa will never implement
the reforms and deliver the free and fair elections because he is unelectable,
not even a guaranteed Chinese style two digit economic growth rate can ever
change that. Since Mnangagwa cannot win free and fair elections and the 2018
election MUST be free and fair, it follows that he cannot be president after
2018.
President Mnangagwa will
scrap the indigenisation law and a basketful of Mugabe’s many other misguided
and unworkable laws and policies, he will rein in some of the looting and
plunder that have sucked the life-blood out of the nation, etc. There is no
doubt he will impress the IMF and many of the other international players who
have been itching to return and invest in Zimbabwe.
Given Zimbabwe’s present rock-bottom
economic position, it is very possible to record noticeable economic recover
after a few months. The economy showed the new growth after the formation of
the GNU and the electorate was bowled over, it is not inconceivable to achieve
the spring growth and bowl the people over once more.
The big question President
Mnangagwa and his backers will have to answer is: Will the signs of economic recovery,
no matter how impressive they happen to be, ever be enough to make Mnangagwa believe he can ever win free and
fair elections?
What Mnangagwa and his
backers must understand is that there are many Zimbabweans who totally believe
that it is in the short, medium and long term interest Zimbabwe to dismantle
the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship a.s.a.p. and replace it with a
healthy and functional democracy complete with the guarantee of free, fair and
credible elections. The 2018 elections must be free, fair and credible that
objective is not negotiable!
So to rephrase the above
question: Will Mnangagwa ever have the confidence, between now and 2018, to implement
the democratic reforms necessary to ensure 2018 elections are free and fair? If
President Mnangagwa’s challenge was delivering economic recovery alone, then he
would have a fighting chance; sadly he such a dirty past that not even the most
skilful spin-doctors can ever conceal it.
36 years of gross
mismanagement, rampant corruption and looting and murderous political oppression
by Mugabe and Zanu PF have taken a heavy toll on the nation; the people do not only
mistruth
the regime they hate the tyrant and his cronies with a burning passion. When Joice
Mujuru and her supporters were booted out of Zanu PF; they thought all they
needed to do was denounce Zanu PF and rebrand themselves as a caring people
orientated outfit and povo will embrace them once again as their liberators as
happened in 1980. Wrong!
Joice Mujuru has found
herself being bombarded with hard-hitting questions about her Zanu PF past. “My
hands are clean!” she screamed like a startled fork-tailed drongo, when she was
quizzed on corruption.
Mugabe admitted recently
that the regime has looted $15 billion worth of diamonds in the last 7 years. The
true amount must be $150 billion, at least; given Mugabe alone pocketed $2
billion in 2012, according to Allan Martin of Partnership Africa Canada,
a respected research organization fighting the trade in “blood” diamond. Everyone
knows that the Mujurus have amassed a big fortune, she is a simpleton with no
known talents; she was the second highest ranking member in the regime whilst
all this wholesale looting of diamonds was going on. She is on record denying
there was no corruption in Zimbabwe!
Even if one was to accept the drongo’s “clean
hands” denial she should have known about the looting and stopped it; if anyone
loot billions under her very nose without her knowing then surely she is just
too incompetent to be president.
Mai Mujuru, Didymus Mutasa and the rest of
the ZPF leaders are having a real tough time shaking-off their rotten Zanu PF
past and they were considered the doves in Zanu PF compared to the blood-thirsty
hawks like Emmerson Mnangagwa.
The people of Zimbabwe
hate Mnangagwa and for very good reasons too. Zanu PF has been unelectable for
donkey years but has nonetheless managed to stay in power regardless because
Mugabe resorted to all manner of dirty trickery including vote rigging and
wanton use of violence to stay in power. Through it all Mugabe has had
Mnangagwa as his right-hand man, his most trusted henchman.
Now that Mugabe is riding
into the sunset, Mnangagwa must also accept the spotlight and blame for the
regime’s treasonous crimes like the Gukurahundi massacres will shift from the tyrant
to him. Mnangagwa has since mounted a concerted effort to distance himself from
their shared past but to no avail. He has not only denied ever saying the cheap
popularity statements he made at the time, for example, but has even threatened
to sue former MDC Senator David Coltart for quoting the statements in his book.
The threats have opened the flood gates; even more articles about Mnangagwa and
the role he played in the massacre have come to light.
Gukurahundi is one of the
darkest chapters in Zimbabwe’s history; over 20 000 innocent people were
murdered in cold blood. It is no exaggeration to say Mnangagwa has GUKURAHUNDI
tattooed in florescent ink on his forehead. With such a cursed reputation,
there is no way he can ever win a free, fair and democratic election.
Mnangagwa's crocodile nickname
is well earned and Mugabe has rewarded him for doing the tyrant’s dirtiest jobs.
But if Mnangagwa ever thought the people of Zimbabwe will forget or forgive him
for all the human misery this tyrannical Zanu PF regime has inflicted on them
all these years, then he must be very naïve indeed. In a free and fair election
no one will vote for him because, given half a chance to end this dictatorship
forever, only a fool would waste it.
Mnangagwa; no freeman or
freewoman would ever want a crocodile for president! No one!
The fight for a democratic
Zimbabwe stalled after Tsvangirai and his MDC fiends betrayed the nation by
failing to implement even one democratic reform when they had the golden
opportunity to do so during the GNU. The fight stalled but it did not stop; the
need for meaningful change is more urgent now than ever. Zimbabwe cannot afford
to have another rigged elections and the fight to get all the GPA reforms
implemented before the 2018 elections will intensify.
Mnangagwa will never
implement any meaningful democratic reforms; he was stupid enough to do Mugabe’s
dirties jobs but he is smart enough to know he will never win free and fair elections.
If any of his handlers think he will implement and democratic reforms then they
are naïve. As for the people of Zimbabwe we are determined to have meaningful
democratic change because we now know that whatever economic recovery we
achieve without political reforms will be as short lived as the recovery during
the GNU years.
3 comments:
For the record Senator Coltart was very economic with the truth about how MDC had betrayed the nation by failing to implement meaningful reforms during the GNU.
Senator Coltart admits in his book that the new Copac constitution gives the office of the president excessive powers and has failed to provide democratic "checks and balances". How he can then still maintain that the new constitution was a good and democratic constitution beggars belief. Power MUST never ever invested into one sector be it the executive, parliament or the judiciary; having checks and balance is a fundamental requirement of a democracy. There is no democratic nation on earth in which this critical tenet is violated! None!
Of course MDC sold-out in recommending to the nation a undemocratic constitution.
"It was better than the existing constitution," Coltart argued at some point. The nation set out to draft a democratic constitution that would deliver the individual freedoms and rights including the right to free and fair elections, The new constitution clearly failed on both fronts and it delivery other trivial things is hardly a comfort to the nation.
We are still stuck with a Zanu PF dictatorship because it can still blatantly rig elections, as it did in the 2013 elections.
Joice Mujuru is corrupt and incompetent and Mugabe, on the other end, is a corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging tyrant. What some people are doing is picking the lesser of the two evil and by praising it to the heavens create the impression the two are in fact good vs evil.
Mujuru is corrupt and incompetent and she is not presidential material period! Her being unfairly accused and dismissed by Mugabe does not change the fundamental point that she is corrupt and incompetent.
Tsvangirai did visit Marange and he said everything was above board. A few weeks after his Marange visit he was on Sea Cruise Ship with some mistress living it up. He certainly could not afford the trip but we can guess who paid for it.
Yes Biti complained that government was not getting all the revenue from the diamonds but did nothing else because he did not want to risk annoying Mugabe, the "unflappable father of the nation", he called the tyrant.
Of course Tsvangirai, Biti and the rest of the MDC leaders could have stop the Zanu PF rot during the GNU but elected to do nothing. Of course, they sold-out! It is a great disappointment that there should be so many MDC apologists who still refuse to accept this simple political reality! They refuse to think because they have their heads stuck in leaders like Tsvangirai's backsides. But only helps to explain why we are in this mess and, worse still, are stuck with no chance of ever getting out.
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