“The implosion of ZPF marks the death of my
dream,” lamented Professor Ken Mufuka in the Fingaz.
“Without an alternative to ZANU-PF, the economy will continue on its predatory path; serving only the chefs.”
He then went on to give details of how Zanu PF has rigged elections in the past.
“Only a madman would consider standing for election under these conditions,” he continued.
“Similarly, no party in power ever gave up power voluntarily. To play and abide by rules written and refereed by one’s opponent and arbitrated by a judge chosen by that opponent is futile.
“We are in the same situation we were in 1965 when the late Ian Smith refused to negotiate.
“My dream is dead,” he concluded sorrowfully.
It was a very well written article and one would
be hard pushed to disagree with except for one glaring fault. Professor Mufuka very
naïve to have placed his hopes and dreams of a better Zimbabwe on likes of
Joice Mujuru and her ZimPF friends. These guys have 34 years of proven track
records of being corrupt and incompetent already, for Pete’s sake. What else
did he expect from them other than to prove once again that they are
incompetent – this time by imploding!
No one should be surprised that ZimPF imploded;
here was a group corrupt and incompetent political desperados, with no ideology
or values to hold them together. The only one thing they have in common is
their desperate desire to get back on Zimbabwe’s gravy train for the ruling
elite a.s.a.p. Unlike Mugabe who had a lot of loot to give away until recently
when he too ran out of loot and Zanu PF imploded; Mujuru had nothing to give
away from the word go. ZimPF members were very hungry hyenas who would fight
over nothing and they did!
I beg to differ with the Professor, we are NOT
in “in the same situation we were in 1965 when the late Ian Smith refused to
negotiate,” he said.
During the GNU, we had the opportunity to
implement the democratic reforms that would have stopped Zanu PF rigging
elections. It was Tsvangirai and his MDC friends fault that not even one reform
was implemented; they sold-out!
We can still force implementation of the reforms
by boycotting the flawed elections.
“The worst aspect for me about the failure to
agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious – withdraw
from the elections,” admitted former MDC-N Senator David Coltart in his Book: The Struggle Continues
50 years of tyranny in Zimbabwe.
“The electoral process was so flawed, so
illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to
hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N
that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the
elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility.”
Senator Coltart was commenting on the 2013
elections. If anything; the need to boycott the 2018 elections is even more
obvious.
We should not waste time and energy arguing Zanu
PF to implement the reforms; the regime will never do it, I agree with
Professor Mufuka on that point. We need to be more subtle; the sell-out opposition
politicians who, by participating in the flawed elections for the sake of the
few seats Zanu PF throws away as bait, are giving the elections the veneer of
democratic credibility. We must pressure these sell-out to stop contesting the
elections.
Some opposition parties like the MDC factions
have outstanding party resolutions of “No reform, no elections!” We must force
them to honour these resolutions.
By contesting these flawed elections these opposition
parties are in fact helping Zanu PF stay in power. So, they are no long with
the people, they are with Zanu PF. They are now part and parcel of the beast;
the soft under belly of the monster, at that.
All we, the people, have to fight this Zanu PF monster
are wooden sticks. We should not aim for the back or some such areas where the
skin is several inches thick. We must aim for the soft under belly, the
sell-out opposition politicians!
Our dream of a free, democratic, just and
prosperous Zimbabwe is only dead if we, the people, allow Mugabe and these
selfish opposition politicians carry on playing this mockery of democratic
elections one more time in which they share the spoils of power whilst the
nation continues to sink into hopelessness and despair!
8 comments:
If Mugabe dies, Grace said, “We can field his corpse to participate in elections.”
The madness comes very early in some people's lives and the excessive love of power is one of the most common signs of the madness!
The tough reality is Zanu PF’s vote rigging machine is so well-funded and there will be enough hired voters to cast multiple votes to secure a landslide victory for the corpse. Why the opposition politicians continue to participate for the sake of the scraps in these flawed elections is what beggars belief!
It is the people of Zimbabwe, the ordinary man and woman in the street and in the village, who must wake up and finally realise that people like Tsvangirai, Biti, Ncube and all these other opposition politicians are sell-outs; they do not care about the suffering and deaths of the common man, all they care about is that they secure the few seats on the gravy train Zanu PF gives away during elections. As long as Zanu PF continue to dangle the few gravy train seats, Tsvangirai & co. will never stop contesting elections no matter how flawed and no matter how many people die in street protests or wanton political violence.
If the people are serious about end this corrupt and tyrannical dictatorship, then it is for them to break the this cursed Zanu PF and opposition partnership in crime! The opposition keep making promises of winning the next elections just to string the populous along, they know they will never beat Zanu PF’s vote rigging machine but are content with the few seat the regime gives away!
@ MK
I see you point but are we not going round and round in circles here?
We supported a corrupt and murderous tyrant like Mugabe and his thugs "to dislodge" Ian Smith but only to find ourselves stuck with the tyrant. Now we are giving our political backing to Morgan Tsvangirai and Joice Mujuru, knowing fully well the two are corrupt and incompetent, to dislodge Zanu PF! The two are so incompetent the one has wasted many golden opportunities to dislodge Zanu PF already and the latter's party has already imploded, a year after it was launched.
We need quality leaders and, by settling for these village idiots, we are doing ourselves a big disservice! One would expect a great intellectual like Professor Ken Mufuka to lead by example in the search for quality leaders and not be the one leading from the front in the recycling of the same corrupt and incompetent idiots way past their use-by dates!
@ In Zimbabwe
I agree with the first bit about the war "not resolving anything". I do not agree with your praying; what exactly do you want God to do here? Remember, God does not help man what man can do for himself! Our Professor here, for example, set himself up for failure by electing leaders whom he should have known by now were corrupt and incompetent! What do you want God to in this case?
Zimbabwe's economic and political mess is man-made, President Mugabe and his thugs including Joice Mujuru and Mutasa (the very people the Professor was putting his trust in) made this mess. It is up to us to sort out the mess if we wish or suffer and die - it is that simple.
@ Mafira
We had the opportunity to implement the democratic reforms during the GNU that would have ended Zanu PF's dictatorship. Why did we waste that chance and failed to implement even one reform! Tsvangirai et al sold-out by failing to implement even one reform during the GNU and yet the people still have them as leaders.
There is a chance to implement the reforms but you are naive if you think the likes of Tsvangirai will ever do it.
You go to war as a last resort and not the first thing! The last war did not accomplish much other than install this corrupt and tyrannical regime we are stuck with today!
I used to read Vince Musewe's articles, they were good, thought provoking and he had a following. That was before he started hunting for a political party to join and get himself elected into power and join the infamous gravy train! He started praising the likes of Tendai Biti, Morgan Tsvangirai, Joice Mujuru anyone whom he thought would help him with a leg-up onto the gravy train.
Vince has pointed refused to admit that MDC leaders sold-out during the GNU by failing to implement the democratic reforms. This is a very important starting point because, admit it, and the reason why people like Tsvangirai, Ncube and Biti cannot be trust to hold public office becomes self-evident. He cannot admit this simple historic fact because these are the same individuals he has to praise to get the leg-up onto the gravy train.
I will bet my bottom dollar Vince Musewe will contest in next year's elections even though he says to do so with no reforms in place is suicide. How many of our sell-out opposition politicians have been contesting these flawed elections just to get those few seats Zanu PF throws away!
@MK
Zanu PF in beyond "morphing into a better creature" so do even go there. As for building up MDC and ZimPF, this is just a vicious circle of recycling rubbish and hoping some good will ever come out of it.
We are in this political and economic mess because we have failed to take on the responsibility of defining the qualities we want to see in a good and competent leader and then go out there and find such men and women. Out of sheer laziness we have welcome all sorts. "Kungoti makudo manazvere!"
People like Mai Mujuru have already proven beyond all doubt that they are utterly useless. It is madness to even given them any encouragement they can be leaders!
Brother Ken Mufuka many people in Zimbabwe value your opinion, myself included, because you are one of Zimbabwe's intellectuals worthy of that title. Perhaps you need to simplify your language just a touch more because in this article I and many others out there would believe you thought highly of Mai Mujuru and other in ZimPF - even if be as the outside pressure to force Zanu PF to change!
Would it not be better to entrust anything of importance to someone competent to carry out the task in the first place?
@ Hozhwa
Democracy is not just about numbers this is why elections must be free, fair and credible not just on the day of voting but at all times to ensure there is democratic competition amongst the candidates and free flow of information to the electorate on the issues and the candidate.
If the electorate are not well informed, as is the case in Zimbabwe, then quantity counts for nothing.
If elections are rigged, as Zanu PF has been doing, then the declared result have nothing to do with what the real people think and voted for!
So contesting elections knowing they will be rigged had nothing to do with democracy. It is pure madness on the part of people like Mai Mujuru and Tsvangirai in this case.
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