“If you have been
following the news long enough, and in recent weeks, you may have noted a
particular trend in which Tendai Biti and his People's Democratic Party have
been posturing as the biggest economic minds in the country,” was the opening attack
of the article, in Bulawayo 24.
One did not have to
read the whole article to know it source – The Herald (or one of the other Zanu
PF controlled media houses – as it was peppered through and through with denial
of the facts, cover up, propaganda, etc., etc.
“A fortnight ago, the
site screamed that Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa was a thief who ought to
be jailed,” The Herald claimed.
“That came from Biti who accused the Government of misusing depositor's funds hence, in his view, the present cash shortages.”
“That came from Biti who accused the Government of misusing depositor's funds hence, in his view, the present cash shortages.”
There is a serious
cash shortage in the country and the regime itself has acknowledged this. One
has only to look at the long bank queues, consequence of the $50 maximum per
day per customer, which are now a permanent fixture of life in Zimbabwe.
The regime has raided
depositor’s funds in the past and failed to pay back the money, this a fact too.
It is not beyond the realms of possibilities that the regime has done this
again and this, and many other misguided policies, are the root cause of the
country’s economic crisis including the cash shortage.
If the Zanu PF
apologist in Herald House had any humanity left in him/her, then he/she must
surely see the heart breaking human suffering in Zimbabwe today. Decades of
Zanu PF misrule have resulted in the serious economic meltdown and political
paralysis dragging the whole nation to the edge of the abyss. The red lights of
danger are flashing and the sirens are wailing; this is not the time for cheap point
scoring much less continuing to prop up a failed tyrannical regime.
Unemployment is a
nauseating 90%; most basic services such as health, education, supply of clean
drink water, etc. have all but collapsed; millions of our people now live in
abject poverty. Zimbabweans are the poorest in Africa. All this has happened because
of the decades of criminal waste of the nation’s vast material and human
resources by this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship.
The economic meltdown
induced human tragedy in Zimbabwe today is both serious and urgent. It is
morally, socially and economically unsustainable and, if nothing is done about
it quick smart, the country will into even deeper trouble with the outbreak of
violent street protests or worse.
It is not asking for
much for these Zanu PF apologists in Herald House and their colleagues working
for the Chronicle, ZBC and all the other Zanu PF controlled media houses to stop
playing the petty political games and propping up the failed dictatorship. They
must open their eyes and finally play the contractive role of informing the
people and save this nation from abyss.
Zimbabwe cannot afford
yet another meaningless election that will do nothing to end the economic
meltdown and the tragic human misery it is causing; stopping the flawed
elections will save the country from going over the edge into the abyss. This
is the grime political reality the nation is facing today and a reality that
even the apologists in Herald House must accept.
If Zanu PF apologist
in Herald House want to criticise Tendai Biti then he/she must castigate him
and all his fellow MDC leaders for failing to implement even one democratic
reform during the GNU. We would not be on the edge looking down the barrel of
the gun if they had done so!
MDC leaders were
warned not to contest the 2013 elections without implementing the reforms first
but they would not listen. Their eyes were glassed over and their minds were a
fog because of greed, as David Coltart confessed.
“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 (2013) elections,” explained 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.”
So, both factions
contested the flawed elections and gave the process even more legitimacy. Where
was the logic in that?
Coltart saw the folly
of contesting the flawed and illegal elections and yet even he could not bring
himself to “do the obvious – withdraw from the elections”; such the
overwhelming power of greed over these MDC politicians.
After the rigged July
2013 elections, MDC politicians vowed never again to contest any elections
until reforms were implemented. But once again the lure of even those few gravy
train seats Zanu PF gives away in once again proving too much to resist. Tendai
Biti, like David Coltart before the 2013 elections, has too acknowledged the
folly of contesting next year’s elections.
“Zanu PF cannot be
dislodged!” admitted Biti.
And yet Tendai Biti
has too continued his preparation to contest the 2018 elections regardless of
the certainty Zanu PF will rig the vote. Talk of the hypnotic effect of greed,
especial greed for absolute power and wealth associated with Zimbabwe’s corrupt
and tyrannical gravy train political system!
The best prospect of
stopping next year’s elections going ahead until the reforms are implemented is
by forcing the greedy opposition opportunists contesting the flawed and illegal
elections. Zanu PF will continue to rig elections and stay in power as long as
the opposition continue to contest the elections giving the flawed process the
modicum of legitimacy.
Stop the opposition
selling-out by contesting flawed elections and Zanu PF will be forced to face
up to the reality that it cannot blatantly rig elections and claim the elections
were free, fair and credible. It was only denying President Mugabe political
legitimacy following the rigged 2008 election that SADC was able to force him
to agree to the formation of the GNU and, better still, agree to the
implementation of the democratic reforms designed to dismantle the Zanu PF
dictatorship.
Force Tendai Biti and
his greedy opposition friends in the opposition camp to boycott the flawed and
illegal election next year and Zanu PF will once again be forced to accept the
need for reforms just as it was forced to do in 2008.
“This is the PDP of
Tendai Biti. Somehow they want to convince us that they are the best we
ever had and will ever have. That's laughable, isn't it?”
concluded the Zanu PF apologist in The Herald.
“Meanwhile, the whole opposition in Zimbabwe is just as pathetic. Which is why it has failed to unseat Zanu-PF since 2000 and face another grand defeat in 2018.”
“Meanwhile, the whole opposition in Zimbabwe is just as pathetic. Which is why it has failed to unseat Zanu-PF since 2000 and face another grand defeat in 2018.”
If next year’s
elections go ahead with no reforms in place it will be “another grand defeat”
but not just for the opposition but for the whole nation. The prospect of a
worsen economic meltdown under the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship
may well be the last push forcing the people to stage violent street protests
or worse and pushing the nation over the edge into the abyss of economic chaos
and social strive!
Zanu PF’s electoral
victory, such as it may be, will be short lived because the one street protest
will do is end the Zanu PF dictatorship even if it means burning the whole
country down! The people’s bottled anger against the regime, is that fierce!
When there is regime
change, our Zimbabwean tormentors in Herald House, etc. will be called upon to
account for their fanatical support of the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF
dictatorship over the years. And for their refusal to hear the nation’s cry for
justice and help even to this day with millions now living in abject poverty
and heart break hopelessness and despair.
With their shameless
continued support of the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship, The Herald
and other regime apologists are on the wrong side of history. In their
desperate attempt to prop the collapsing regime they should be aware that they
will be held to account for their action!
4 comments:
Herald is predicting "grand (opposition) defeat" but failing to forewarn Zanu PF that this is going to be a pyrrhic victory. The present economic situation in Zimbabwe of 90% unemployed, millions living in abject poverty, etc. is socially, morally and politically unsustainable. The country will be facing the danger of street protest or worse to force through meaningful change! So Zanu PF's electoral victory will not last!
There are reports of people with Ebola like symptoms in Hwange.
Ebola is the nightmare no nation would ever want but it is even worse for a country like Zimbabwe whose health service has all but collapsed!
This typical MDC nonsense; the party did not contest the Norton by-elections to press its demands for reforms before elections and now it is preparing to contest the national elections although no reforms have been implemented! How stupid is that?????
@ Sandura
You just do not want the truth to be said about the confusion in MDC. You have your head buried in the sand and that is why you continue to support this party of corrupt and incompetent leaders.
We are not going to get out of this hell-hole by following failed leaders no questions asked. Zimeye is one of the few Zimbabwean papers that has praised the opposition when they have done something right and criticized them when they have done something stupid!
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