The Zanu PF factional
war is escalating by the day and now the big guns are trading blows. Professor
Jonathan Moyo, a known G40 faction leader, took centre stage at a recent Zanu
PF politburo meeting.
“Higher and Tertiary
Education minister Jonathan Moyo told the Zanu PF politburo that Vice-President
Emmerson Mnangagwa was allegedly behind the torture of a rival suitor, who was
left disabled, a video presented at the crunch meeting has revealed,” reported
Zimeye.
“A fortnight ago, Moyo
was given the platform by Mugabe to prove his allegations that Mnangagwa was
plotting against the 93-year-old ruler.”
Moyo allegedly charged
that “a person that is known for threats and intimidation and forcing a man to
choose between jumping from the third floor of a building or sitting on a hot
stove does not represent the nature and character of our party, Zanu PF.”
Mnangagwa was reportedly
very dismissive of Moyo’s whole presentation. This was just tit for tat stinking
of the hypocrisy of the pot calling the pan black!
How does the ill
treatment of Manjonga, three decades ago, translate into a plot against Mugabe
today?
If Professor Moyo
thought that revealing Mnangagwa’s serious human rights violation and abuse of
office proves the latter is unsuitable to hold high public office, then he is
right. But what the nation will demand to know from the “Nutty” Professor is
why he had not revealed the details of the abuse until now and, more
significantly, what other incriminating information on not just Mnangagwa but
anyone else is he holding back?
Professor Moyo is
spilling the beans on what Mnangagwa did to Manjonga is in retaliation for all
the leaked information on the $400 000 Moyo looted. Professor Moyo and
President Mugabe himself should know that Mnangagwa has a truck-load of dirty
on the two, a lot more damaging than the looted $400 000, and that is why he
was not even bothered about the Manjonga story.
Unlike the naïve, incompetent
and corrupt simpleton Joice Mujuru who was “baby dumped” in the party’s
factional war in 2014; Mnangagwa will not be an ease push-over.
Many, many horrible
things have happened in Zimbabwe, ranging from the serial looting of the nation’s
resources, the vote rigging and the murder of over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans to
establish and retain the de facto one-party dictatorship. The regime’s leaders
including President Mugabe, Mnangagwa and even Professor Moyo have all played
their part in all these high treason crimes against the nation. And one of
these fine days, they will be held to account for it.
The people of Zimbabwe
are not naïve and stupid, Professor Moyo; we know you are being very selective
in your tell-tale. We want the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth
not just from you Professor on Mnangagwa but on everybody else, the truth from
Mnangagwa on you and everybody, etc.
We know as long as
Zanu PF remains in power the whole truth will remain a mirage, this is why we
want the democratic reforms implemented followed by the country’s first free,
fair and credible elections.
The only positive this
about escalating factional war in Zanu PF is heralding the beginning of the
end. The drip-drip leaks of the truth of a few years ago have now turned into a
steady flow and soon to become an unstoppable flood. Zanu PF is rotten to the
core, the centre cannot hold and the party is imploding.
Morgan Tsvangirai
betrayed the nation by failing to implement the democratic reforms during the GNU;
Zanu PF imploding is presenting the nation with another golden opportunity to
get the reforms finally implemented. Regime change is now as certain as the sun
rising tomorrow!
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“At one point I received calls from people within the party who wanted us to go into the streets and demonstrate against Mnangagwa because they were not happy with him,” said Grace Mugabe.
Well, the gloves are off and this is a serious bare knuckle fist fight alright. She is giving no quarter and, no doubt, her opponents will be returning the favour.
The one thing Grace Mugabe will soon learn is that Mnangagwa is not going to be an easy push-over like Joice Mujuru. Grace is only in this fight as long as Mugabe is still alive and the longer this tussle continues the stronger Mnangagwa will get. The day Mugabe kicks the bucket, Grace will know it is payback time!
Of all the rank stupid things our corrupt and incompetent opposition have ever done, contesting flawed elections is one of the dumbest. Why the people themselves have failed to see they are being short changed again and again is itself another mystery.
Our inability to learn from the past is one of our greatest weakness as a people.
The Greeks devised democracy a system of government 2 500 years ago many other nation have adopted it and refined it to suit and have prospered. We talk of wanting democracy but do not even appreciate even the most basic requirements of what constitute free and fair election. Every time we take two steps forward we immediately take even more steps backward but are too stupid to even realise that the sum effect was a negative one, we make a big song and dance of the progress we have made not aware that we regressed. We are stuck in autocracy and tyrannical rule!
Eddie Cross, MDC MP, who fought against the constitutional amendment said: ‘I despair of sanity in this mental Institution where the inmates seem to be in charge’.
If the truth is to be told – it must be told – then MP Cross should know that the real big lunatics are in Harvest House, MDC party HQ. If MP Cross and his follow MDC leaders had not sold-out during the GNU and implemented the democratic reforms the nation will not be in this political mess with Zanu PF still in government and making our lives hell-on-earth!
MDC leaders were advised by SADC leaders not to contest the July 2013 elections with no reforms in place, they did not listen. After the rigged election, MDC promised not to contest any future elections until reforms are implemented. Why is MDC discarding its own “No reforms, no election!” pledge to contest next year’s flawed elections again?
It was greed that made MDC leader disregard SADC’s warning, the same reason, MDC are violating their own party congress resolution, as David Coltart has admitted.
“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,” explained Senator Coltart.
“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.”
MDC leaders are corrupt and incompetent and their hypocrisy sickens me!
The deputy sheriff on Friday pounced on the opposition party’s office and attached property over a $108 000 debt owed to a former MDC-T employee.
MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai had to call off a meeting he was addressing and allowed party activists to co-operate with the deputy sheriff as riot police kept a close watch on the developments anticipating violence.
Party spokesperson, Obert Gutu said their programmes would not be affected at all in any way.
“The MDC is a very resilient political party. We have been through thick and thin since the formation of the party in September 1999. We are going to emerge even stronger from this minor setback,” he said.
This is just nonsense, the attachment only confirm that the party is broke! Ever since the party was deserted by donors, following its failure to get even one reform implemented during the GNU and the party contesting the flawed 2013 elections, the party has struggled to fund its activities. A few months ago the party has had to sell two of its party vehicles to pay off Tsvangirai’s debt.
“Kwava kupona nehwaku mukwaku se guguvo!” (Party is surviving by hopping around like a crow!) as one would say in Shona.
The party is insisting in contesting next year’s elections even thou not even one reform was implemented since the rigged July 2013 elections in violation of the party’s own “NO REFORM, NO ELECTION!” resolution. Anyone with any eyes to see know this is just madness fuelled by greed. MDC leaders are so desperate to get back into power they are selling out on the nation’s struggle to get the reforms implemented.
“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,” explained Senator Coltart.
“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.”
Of course, Coltart was right about the 2013 election and it is the same greed that is making MDC contest next year’s flawed election.
After next year’s election have been rigged, one hopes that even the most naïve and gullible MDC supporters will finally be forced to admit that the party is a waste of space. The sooner these MDC sell-outs are flushed out of our political system the soon the nation can start to have competent leaders elected!
Zimbabweans have to wake up to the reality that they are being short changed, there is no way the elections will be free, fair and credible with no reforms in place. We have seen Zanu PF blatantly rig July 2013 elections and we are being foolish to think the regime will not do the same again.
MDC leaders are contesting the flawed elections for the sake of the few gravy train seats Zanu PF gives away to entice them to contest as David Coltart has admitted in his recent book.
“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,” explained Senator Coltart.
“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.”
If the people are so blind not to see what is going on here even after 37 years of rig elections then they deserve to suffer and suffering they are and will! Hell is a bottomless pit, Zimbabweans are determined to get to the bottom of it and who is going to stop them!
“The African Diaspora Forum (ADF) strongly condemns the recent reckless remarks by the Deputy-Minister of Police, Hon. Bongani Mkongi and the Executive Mayor of the city of Johannesburg, Clr. Herman Mashaba addressed to the public a few days ago.
“Mr. Mkongi on Friday 14th July during a press conference at Hillbrow police station, alleged that foreign nationals are currently occupying 80% of Hillbrow and its surrounding areas. It would have been better and smarter of him to provide the public with his source(s) of statistics. We are advising him to go and check the official figures of the last census. The African Diaspora Forum (ADF) is prepared to provide him with the correct figures in case he doesn’t find them.”
If next year's Zimbabwe elections are rigged then there will be a new wave of Zimbabwean economic and political refugees. This is a reality ADF has, so far, failed to address. Surely ADF has an even greater obligation to telling Zimbabwe's corrupt and incompetent politicians to stop messing around and get the Zimbabwe economy back on track than telling South African leaders how to govern themselves.
“So, we vigorously say no to hate speech and xenophobic statements that tend to jeopardise lives of non-nationals who found refuge in the Republic of South Africa,” concluded ADF.
If ADF had been so half awake and vigorous then the Forum would know that MDC leaders failed to implement the reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging the 2013 elections. And, which is of immediate concern, the country is set to have yet another rigged election as no reforms were implement after the last elections.
Even if Zimbabwe voted 100% for Rita Makarau to be fire and President Mugabe was forced to fire her this will only bring the satisfaction to those people that she was fired with no guarantee the elections will be free, fair and credible. President Mugabe can appoint another Zanu PF loyalist who would do as he/she is directed.
Even if the public were to appoint whoever they wished to replace Rita, this will still not deliver the free, fair and credible elections because President Mugabe has many other ways to rig the vote such as making sure ZEC does not have enough resources to carry out its duties, the rest of ZEC staff are Zanu PF operatives, etc.
NERA people have been calling for Makarau to be fired for months if not years; we must just ignore them because they clearly have clue what is required to get free and fair elections.
Besides, even if everything one would ever want from ZEC was done, the commission alone will never deliver free and fair election; the Police, Public media, Judiciary, etc. must all play their independent role too. This is why, we must implement all the democratic reforms fully to ensure free and fair elections.
Let us do all that we need to do to ensure free and fair elections and not burden future generation with having to worry about reforms, realigning laws, etc. just to stop someone rigging the vote. This is an event and NOT a process as Zanu PF cronies who created the corrupt system or opposition apologists who failed to get the reforms implemented would want us to believe.
When Zanu PF members fight each other they are like cobras; they wrestle each other, each trying to pin the other down, they do not bite. With Mai Mjuru, she and her supporters were no match against Mnangagwa, Jonathan Moyo, Grace Mugabe and President Mugabe himself in terms of mental and physical agility. The latter had a lot more dirty on her than she on them. Mai Mujuru was given one of those Undertaker tomb-stone before she even got into the ring and was out cold.
The G40 faction vs Lacoste faction is clearly a clash of the well-matched Titans. They have traded body blows and neither has shown any willingness to back down; there is just too much at stake – everything for the winner and poverty for the loser. They can see how the likes of Mutasa have aged 20 years in the last 3 years since he was booted out of the party. Debts and stress are weighing him down more than Atlas carrying the world. Either side want that to happen to them.
The longer the wrestling has lasted the more G40 have started to worry because they know with President Mugabe out of the way they will be no match for the Mnangagwa faction. Grace Mugabe is demanding that her husband delivers a knock-out punch, kick, tomb-stone or whatever but sadly for her his blows are now so feeble he is running out of steam.
Mnangagwa is running around and let Mugabe wear himself out with his wild swings. Poor Mugabe he is now even frightened of getting back to his corner, he getting more abuse than advice!
I agree, we are moving from the hissing at each other with the $400 000 looting revelation countered by the Majonga scandal. This is a fight to the death and each will strike if only it can strike and hold the victim’s head down until it is cocksure the other is dead.
The G40 faction have to dispatch Mnangagwa and five or so others, a very tall-order particularly when they can regroup and fight back as soon as President Mugabe is out of the way. Lacoste faction are in no hurry to deliver the KO, they know the opponent will not last the 12 rounds and so why take an unnecessary risk! Time is doing all the fighting for the Lacoste faction and their opponents are in a real panic!
My money is on Mnangagwa faction prevailing even if Grace Mugabe was to take the crown now, she will lose it the day Mugabe dies. G40 has no one of substance in the party and the masses hate Grace more than they hate Mnangagwa because whilst he will probably bring about some economic recovery from the present she is certain to make matters worse.
This is one battle President Mugabe should not have allowed his wife drag him into – he knows he doomed to lose the fight! All his decades of cheating, trickery and murder are counting for nothing – not even he can cheat aging, ill health and death!
@Juice Card
Zanu PF sponsored donors will bankroll MDC-T and other opposition parties, I am sure NIKUV can come up with as many such donors complete with phony bank accounts, etc. As long as NIKUV get a cut of the donors' fee, a cut of the opposition fund and their usual generous fees for making all this happen and hiding all the evidence; no problem!
No genuine western donor will want to waste their money on Tsvangirai and MDC; not after the blundering incompetence they showed during the GNU!
Benjamin you need to get your facts rights my friend. You say Zimbabwe's opposition are "agitating for change". Are you sure of that?
It was SADC leaders who spend the GNU years "agitating" MDC leaders to implement the reforms only to be ignored. In a last-minute bid to save the day SADC leaders literally begged Tsvangirai and company not to contest the 2013 elections until the reforms are implemented but once again their begging fell on deaf ears.
It if the same Zimbabwe opposition politicians who are agitating to contest next year's elections even though not even one reform has been implemented. Tsvangirai and company are disregarding their own "No reform, no election!" pledge. Please explain how agitating to contest a flawed election is agitating for change????
The MDC-T Youth Assembly on Saturday launched the Bereka Mwana campaign at Mataga growth point in Mberengwa as part of the party's drive to drum up voter registration hype among the young people. The campaign is aimed at ensuring that at least 2 million youths register to vote ahead of the 2018 watershed elections.
Did MDC lose the 2013 elections because people did not try to register to vote or was it that they tried and many failed. Those who did register they were still denied the vote because the regime posted the details in the wrong constituent voters' roll or some such dirty trick?
Zanu PF rigged the 2013 elections as Tsvangirai himself readily admitted by noon of the voting day, 31 July 2013, before the voting was over! MDC have failed to get even one reform implemented to stop the vote rigging. They are throwing all the time and resources on voter education, voter registration, etc. because these are the easy task they can do.
Right now Zanu PF is dragging its feet on voter registration so it will carry out the exercise is such a mad dash many people will once again fail to register. And many of those who do register will, once again, find their details posted in wrong constituency voters roll; the regime is making sure there will be no time to check and get this put right. Deja vu!
People do not need to be lectured on how to vote they know how to vote already. They do not need to be lectured on why they should register to vote when all manner of obstacles are going to be put in their way to make it as difficult as possible for them to do so, etc.
Why are these opposition politicians helping the people solve minor or imaginary problems people can deal with on their own but are all shying away from the real big political problems the people are facing?
SADC have already said if Zanu PF are refusing to implement the reforms to make sure the elections are free and fair and thus solve the big political problem people are facing, the opposition and the people should not contest the flawed elections. It is the opposition politicians who are insisting on contesting the flawed elections!
@ Grace Jones
I am not desperate to get Mnangagwa or anyone in Zanu PF or MDC for that matter. I am desperate to end the present de facto one party dictatorship so the country can have free, fair and credible elections.
Since the ongoing dog-eat-dog fight in Zanu PF is weakening the dictatorship, that is a good thing. Once we have regime change, we will have a thorough investigation into what has happened in the last 37 years of Zanu PF rule. We will follow wherever the evidence lead. If Mnangagwa or Moyo or anyone is found guilty then they will face justice if anyone in found innocent then they will go free.
I am not interested in Zanu PF's factional war other than sweeping the thugs into the dust bin of history.
Linda Masarira wrote out 2 hours ago saying, “twenty minutes ago there were violent clashes between soldiers in uniform and police in Harare CBD along Robert Mugabe Road. Police was beaten up and ran into Central Police Station. The public smiled and laughed.
“Yesterday police threw spikes to a truck belonging to soldiers and the provoked soldiers today came armed with sjamboks and sticks now.”
If those entrusted to keep law and order are themselves becoming lawless thugs taking the law into their own hands, what hope is there of keeping law and order?
Grace is desperate to be appointed Mugabe's successor and is so desperate to this happen she has thrown all caution to the wind. Grace and her G40 faction have no real political power and influence other than that wielded by her husband. Take him off the stage and she and the faction are feather weights blowing in the breeze.
“We believe that the president should anoint a successor. As Harare province, we are going to mobilise supporters, we will also encourage other provinces to follow suit. The person who will be anointed can then be confirmed by the conference or congress,” said Shadreck Mashayamombe.
Who is Shadreck in the Zanu PF kraal but a mere calf among full grown heavy weight bulls fighting to the death for dominancy and mating rights!
So even if Grace was appointed successor now everyone will know that Mnangagwa and his friends will only have to wait for Mugabe to go and they will seize power.
Grace played a king role in stopping Mujuru getting power she should have accepted whatever Mnangagwa was going to give her as her share of the spoils. In the last three years she would have built on that with the support of her husband. Instead she wanted it all and her reckless gamble has got her enemies and very dangerous ones who are now waiting for her husband to go and they will kick her backside raw!
@ Grace Jones
I agree with you 100% that Tsvangirai is a waste of space, he is corrupt and incompetent and will never add up to much. I also agree with you 100% that with no reforms in place Zanu PF will rig the vote. I agree with you too that a Mnangagwa led government will be far better than the one we have today and a Grace led government will be far worse than the present.
What concerns me is comparing comparing a Mnangagwa dictatorship to a democratic Zimbabwe. The Mugabe dictatorship has crippled the nation physically, mentally and financially. The best Mnangagwa can do is reduce the disability instead of two broken legs we will have one broken leg, etc. What a democratic Zimbabwe offers is to restore everyone's freedoms, human rights and open the door for the nation to live to its full potential.
Of course, if the only choice is to either have one leg broken or have two broken only a fool would choose the latter. Democracy says no one should ever have to make that painful choice; we are all born into this world with two legs and have a God given right to the use of both legs to the day we die.
A Mnangagwa dictatorship will never ever implement the democratic reforms and hold free and fair elections because he and his cronies will never want to give up their absolute power and be held to account for what the regime has been doing.
Yes Zanu PF will rig next year's election but will find holding on to power a lot more difficult this time. Everyone can see the whole election process is a sham, the opposition has been totally discredited. The opposition know Zanu PF will rig the vote but continue to take part only for the few gravy train seats Zanu PF gives away.
Tsvangirai and his MDC-T are corrupt and incompetent, everyone knows that; which is why donors have deserted them. MDC-T is broke and Zanu PF is right now exploring ways of funding Tsvangirai otherwise Tsvangirai will have no money to pay his deposit with his nomination papers.
SADC knows that another Zanu PF rigged election is a given but they also know that is going to be a disaster for Zimbabwe and the region. SADC is not going to accept Zanu PF's victory. No one in Zanu PF has stopped to think about that one but they will be forced to accept that reality as they were forced to in 2008! This time it will not be another GNU but something much worse!
As a media black-out continues over Morgan Tsvangirai’s latest moves in which he is bringing back Welshman Ncube, Tendai Biti and Elton Mangoma, reports reaching ZimEye reveal that the MDC leader is now set to allay fears by assuring his aides nothing will happen to their present positions of power.
The real acid test of the grand coalition was always going to be over who in the MDC-T will be force to stand aside to allow coalition partners to contest the gravy train seat, especially the winnable ones in the urban centres. Ncube, Biti and all the other small parties will happily let Tsvangirai have the honour of being defeated as the coalition presidential candidate!
Biti and his PDP have already let it be known that they will not accept 8 reserved seats; that is not enough!
The grand coalition is going to be launched this Saturday before the real big issues are settled. This is like marrying someone you have not even seen and pretend it was love at first sight! Apart the worst the two could do was shout at each other and bring them together will only give them a chance to beat the living day out of each other!
Some marriages are made in heaven other in hell; this is a political grand coalition made not out of love but out of greed, a marriage made in hell!
Zimbabweans have a chance to end the de facto one- party dictatorship once and once for all but that will not happen if we accept the notion of "better the devil you know than an angel you do not know!" Free and fair elections will end the dictatorship and bring a human being we can hold to account and not the tyrant who rules over us with an iron fist!
It is easy to see why Mugabe was able to establish and retain this de facto one party state all these years; we, the people, have never aspired for anything better than crap and so when we got crap we never complained. Now we are used to crap we do not want anything else!
@ Denford
“Tsvangirai=Zimbabwe for Whites
Mnangagwa=Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans so who is better,” you say.
Is Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans when 90% are unemployed and 72.3% now live in poverty? Tsvangirai is a blundering fool, he will never make Zimbabwe good for anyone, white or black!
Both Tsvangirai and Mnangagwa have proven to be corrupt and incompetent in the past, you need to think outside the box and stop recycling the same failed leaders. We need to implement the democratic reforms designed to open our political system to new political talent.
@ Mugwiji
If the people of Zimbabwe are expecting democratic changes to happen just because "The Bible tells us that to everything there is a season" then they are setting themselves up for a lifetime of disappointments. It takes human effort to build a sand cattle and yet the laws of physics say for all the sand grains to be in the exact same position on their own is not an impossibility the probability of it happening is so low it is not even worth considering.
The Greeks gave the world democracy as a system of government, that was 2 500 years ago and yet we are still blundering from one tyrannical autocracy to the next. If we want democracy we will have to earn it by thinking through what qualities we need in good leaders and then going out to seek such leaders. Things like that do not happen on their own! We will wait another 2 500 years and still never have a competent government for even one day!
In life, chaos is the more certain state than order because everything does and it demands no effort to achieve it or maintain it, the least among of energy expended the better.
@ Mugwiji
If the people of Zimbabwe are expecting democratic changes to happen just because "The Bible tells us that to everything there is a season" then they are setting themselves up for a lifetime of disappointments. It takes human effort to build a sand cattle and yet the laws of physics say for all the sand grains to be in the exact same position on their own is not an impossibility the probability of it happening is so low it is not even worth considering.
The Greeks gave the world democracy as a system of government, that was 2 500 years ago and yet we are still blundering from one tyrannical autocracy to the next. If we want democracy we will have to earn it by thinking through what qualities we need in good leaders and then going out to seek such leaders. Things like that do not happen on their own! We will wait another 2 500 years and still never have a competent government for even one day!
In life, chaos is the more certain state than order because everything does and it demands no effort to achieve it or maintain it, the least among of energy expended or stored the better.
Entropy. The idea of entropy comes from a principle of thermodynamics dealing with energy. It usually refers to the idea that everything in the universe eventually moves from order to disorder, and entropy is the measurement of that change.
@ Grace Jones
I am not stopping Mugabe from going, I wanted him gone yesteryear. If you or Mnangagwa or anyone out there can make the tyrant go, be my guest.
What I will not do is lift a finger to remove Mugabe but only to replace him with another tyrant.
If Mnangagwa was to rig next year's elections I will do everything in my power to have the result declared null and void because we want free and fair elections. I will argue Zimbabweans to demand democratic change and not to compromise on that one. This one-legged democracy with a full tummy is a fool's paradise.
@ Grace
President Mugabe's corrupt and tyrannical dictatorship started as a democracy with the people's interest at heart but as soon as the regime tasted power they soon forgot povo. The one-legged democracy will turn into a full-fledged one party dictatorship within months of assuming power. VP Mnangagwa is corrupt, incompetent and a murderous thug; he is not a democratic, not even a one-legged one.
The nation has a chance of demanding the full implementation of the democratic reforms and end the dictatorship . It was this willingness to retain the Zanu PF dictatorship be it with some changes, that made MDC leaders fail to get the democratic reforms implemented during the GNU.
We have a real chance now to get the reforms implemented, we should get on with it and not allowed ourselves to be distracted by this one-legged democracy. It is just another excuse to allow Zanu PF to regroup, recharge and relaunch the dictatorship!
@ Grace
True the nation has Tsvangirai to thank for the mess we are in.
Zanu PF is set to rig next year's elections, I agree with you there too. But the very fact that everyone can see this is just a formality means the process has not gone unnoticed. Zanu PF did not get away with a rigged election in 2008 and it is not going to get away with it next year.
Zimbabwe's worsening economic situation is now a serious threat to the stability of Zimbabwe and the region. If anyone thinks that the whole region is going to sit and watch whilst some failed regime drag them into a mess then they are in for a big surprise.
SADC leaders saw through all Zanu PF's vote rigging moves before the 2013 elections that is why they warned MDC leaders not to contest without reforms. Of course, the SADC leaders can see what Zanu PF has been doing and know the 2018 elections have already been rigged.
SADC leaders allowed Zanu PF to get away with vote rigging in 2013, they are not going to allow that to happen again.
@ Grace
“You appear very naive. elections are rigged before voting day. From voter registration to constituency delimitation. How is SADC going to control that. You are living in cloud cuckooland. This election is already lost. The opposition knows it,” you said.
You are 100% right, the vote rigging is all but done and dusted. Zanu PF has dragged its feet over the decision to buy the biometric voter registration (BVR) kit, who to award the contract to buy the kit and we now have less than a year to voting and the voter registration has not even started, at least officially. The regime is doing all this for a reason; it wants to rash through the process so no one will have the chance to check what it is doing. We have seen the regime do this before and it works!
Where you are wrong is to think that SADC would not “control any of this vote rigging”. SADC do not need to control any of it, they know it is taking place and that is all they need to know. Just as SADC leaders knew Zanu PF was going to rig the 2013 elections in June, a month before the elections, they know it already for next year’s election.
SADC leaders allowed President Mugabe to get away with rigging the July 2013 elections because they were angry with MDC leaders for ignoring their warning. The regional leaders will not let Zanu PF get away with rigging yet another election because they know this time they will be punishing innocent people and the whole region.
@ Kerina
Zanu PF is one of those party is which promotion has absolutely nothing to do with the individual’s ability as you are proving in this article. You are telling use Grace Mugabe would not be leading the women’s league if she was “no brainer”.
“She cannot be Secretary of Women’s League if she was a “no brainer” as many are made to believe. In 2014 we saw Dr Amai’s entry into Politics those who thought they were simply going to use her for their agenda am sure were not prepared by her ascending on the throne as the Women’s League Secretary,” you argue.
And yet you clearly have no respect Mnangagwa whom you have called a coward who is not fit to be the next president. He is clearly “no brainer” and yet he has held even more senior positions in the party and government than Grace Mugabe!?
Putting your Zanu PF factional war to one side; what is clear is that Zanu PF is full of individuals with nothing to offer the country. It is the party that got us into this economic and political mess in the first place after 37 years of corrupt and tyrannical rule. Mnangagwa has played his part in the corruption, vote rigging and the tyranny and murders to establish and retain the Zanu PF dictatorship. He has a lot to answer for.
Mnangagwa will never win a free, fair and credible election. Never.
All Grace Mugabe care about is amassing wealth for herself and her family regardless of how much suffering and greed is causing to the ordinary people. She has blindly supported he husband regardless of him being the principle person of the corrupt and murderous regime that has cause all the suffering and misery and deaths. She has no clue what mess the country is in and no clue what to do to sort out the mess. She is a no brainer, alright.
Grace Mugabe will never ever win a free, fair and credible election. Never ever!
Even if Zanu PF uses its bullying tactics and drag the nation into yet another flawed and meaningless election process which the party will rig, as usual. Who is leading Zanu PF in that election; be it Robert Mugabe, Mnangagwa or Grace Mugabe; is academic. What matters here is that the international community will not refuse to accept the result as the true democratic wish of the people of Zimbabwe. SADC accepted the vote rigging in 2013 and they are not going to make the same mistake again.
Zanu PF is imploding and we are going to finally have the democratic reforms implemented followed by the holding of the country’s first free, fair and credible elections. Kerina Mujati, my dear, you are backing a dead horse!
@ Grace
What everyone in Zanu PF, be there from the Mujuru faction, Mnangagwa faction or this new kid on the block G40 faction, has failed to realise is that party leaders had betrayed the overwhelming majority of people of Zimbabwe, riding roughshod over their freedoms, human rights, hopes and dreams. In their selfish greed, they destroyed the country’s economy and cause untold human suffering and in their desperate effort to hang on to power they denied the people freedoms and rights including the right to free and fair elections and even the right to life.
In its single-minded pursuit for political power and wealth Zanu PF lost sight of what every government on earth needs to survive the support of the people. Zanu PF was doomed to fail and it is doing so now. The party is imploding because it is rotten to the core. Zanu PF is finished!
Zimbabwe is going to have the democratic reforms implemented, hold its first free and fair elections and have regime change!
Both Grace Jones and Kerina, as with their respective principles Mnangagwa and Grace Mugabe, are so desperate to see the gravy train good life go on they are refusing to see the tragic human the regime's corrupt and tyrannical rule has caused and therefore why it must implode and replaced. They do not understand that implementing the reform, holding free and fair elections and regime change is the right, logical and only sure route for the nation to take.
For the last 37 years this nation has blundered from pillar to post and have paid dearly for every wrong turn we made every wrong step we too. Here is the chance for the nation to set its course right complete with the accurate and up to date map, a working compass, planned route and a tried and tasted system – democracy – to check and cross check to ensure do not lose our way ever again.
Democracy was the one thing that gave the Greeks the edge and enabled them to excel in everything to take thing 2 500 years ago; the golden age of Greece. All nation since who have embraced democracy have prospered in leaps and bounce against all the odds. Well here is our chance to embrace democracy and set Zimbabwe on the path to individual liberty, freedom and national prosperity and happiness. We would be foolish not to take it and take it now while we can!
@ Grace Jones
Oh I agree that Tsvangirai will complain that the 2018 elections were "stolen" but no one will listen because he knows that already right now. He is contesting knowing the process is flawed for the sake of the few gravy train seat Zanu PF will give away to entice the opposition to take part.
So, Tsvangirai will only be complaining for the sake of pretence, play acting; he will never challenge the results in court even if he was given a mountain of evidence of vote rigging. His role is that of a supporting actor who is paid to lose the race. Mugabe has given him the $4 million mansion, is paying his $70 000 SA hospital bill and, no doubt, will get a very generous bonus cheque if Zanu PF manages to fool everyone that this was a serious race!
SADC and most people out there are not going to be fooled by Tsvangirai’s amateur theatricals; they can see the elections are a sham.
If anyone needs lucky, it is not me but Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs. Not even all the luck in China will stop SADC endorsing next year’s elections and with that the tyrant will well and truly "French Connection United Kingdom ed" for sure! This time he will not get the soft landing of GNU, that much I can tell you right now!
Regime change is coming and there is nothing Mugabe or anyone in Zanu PF can do about it!
@AK
"How can you force Zanu PF to have reforms when you cannot stop it from bringing bond notes?" you asked.
This is a logical question that deserve an answer. The answer to this question can only be understood if one understands its historic context and not just look at the present context alone. One must understand that there was a golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms during the GNU because Zanu PF did not have the power to refuse to implement the reforms then.
When SADC refused to accept President Mugabe's blatantly rigged 2008 elections, the tyrant lost legitimacy. To regain legitimacy, he was forced to Global Political Agreement (GPA) agreeing to the implementation of the raft of democratic reforms designed to dismantle his vote rigging machine and ensure future elections were free, fair and credible.
In the GNU, it is MDC's task to implement the reforms. Sadly, not even one reform was implemented during the five years of the GNU and it was not because Zanu PF refused to have the reforms but because MDC leaders sold-out. President Mugabe bribed Tsvangirai and company with the trappings of high office; ministerial limos, generous salaries and allowances, $4 m mansion for Tsvangirai, etc. With their snouts in the feeding trough 'MDC leaders forgot what they were in the GNU for', as SADC leaders rightly pointed out.
After Zanu PF was able to rig the July 2013 elections the regime had political legitimacy and so had the power and authority to resist all demands to get the reforms implemented.
The one way Zanu PF could have been forced to implement the reforms in 2013 was for the opposition to refuse to contest the elections without reforms. SADC leaders advised MDC leaders of this option but again MDC leaders paid no attention. MDC settled for the few seats Zanu PF gives away to entice the opposition to contest the flawed elections.
Boycott the elections still remains the best option on the table. The opposition are not boycotting the elections for the simple reason of greed. For the nation to keep contesting flawed elections and hoping against hope that Zanu PF will rig the vote and lose the elections is madness.
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