Douglas Mwonzora says
MDC-T is prepared to go it alone if the much talked about grand coalition of
the opposition parties does not materialise.
"When we talk about unity, we want genuine unity," he said.
"There are some who were backbiting just to spoil the unity of the people of Zimbabwe.
"There are some who were backbiting just to spoil the unity of the people of Zimbabwe.
(MDC-T leader) Morgan Tsvangirai wants unity of all people in
Zimbabwe and he has a place for every person, but there are those who don't
want and Tsvangirai is saying 'if you don't want, I can go it alone'.
MDC-T decided (no
doubt with the covert encouragement of Zanu PF double agents) to focus on
building a grand coalition and ignore the implementing of the reforms. The
party can claim all it wants that this is what the people wanted; it is a lie.
What the people really wanted is for the MDC to make good on its promise to bring
about democratic change and restore their freedoms and basic human rights
including the right to free and fair elections.
MDC have had many
opportunities to deliver changes with the best chance coming during the GNU when
the party was tasked to implement the democratic reforms agreed in the 2008
Global Political Agreement signed with Zanu PF and SADC as the guarantor. MDC leaders
sold-out. Mugabe bribed them to forget the reforms with the trappings of office
plus a $4 million mansion for Tsvangirai.
MDC
leaders know that with no reforms in place, Zanu PF will rig next year’s
elections just as easily as they rigged the July 2013 elections; coalition or
no coalition.
Tsvangirai
and his MDC-T have failed to get even one reform implement and now they cannot
even form the grand coalition. They are losing political credibility with each
passing day.
A discredited
opposition will make it very difficult, if not impossible, for Zanu PF to sell
the election as a credible electoral contest. Mugabe just managed to get away
with rigging the July 2013 elections. AU did not give his victory a ringing
endorsement as the official report noted the failure to produce a verifiable
voters’ roll as is required by law, for example. Contrary to the other SADC
countries, Botswana refused to endorse Mugabe’s victory demanding that there
should be an audit of the electoral process.
To
stay in power, Mugabe and Zanu PF have no choice but to once again rig the
vote. With the country’s economy in total meltdown and the regime seemingly
helpless to rein in the rampant corruption, etc.; there is no hope any meaningful
economy recovery as long as Zanu PF remains in power. The regime knows that it
will never win a free and fair election, so it has to rig the vote.
With
no reforms in place, the regime is free to use its vote rigging juggernaut; it
is well-fuelled with the billions of dollars looted from Marange and raring to
go. The contrast between Mugabe and his main political challengers, Morgan
Tsvangirai and Joice Mujuru, could not be more striking.
Mugabe
has cheated and bamboozles Tsvangirai and Mujuru with easy on numerous occasions
in past contests and what is glaringly obvious is that his advisories have
learned nothing. They are still the blundering idiots of yesterday with no clue
what they are doing. They have no clue where Mugabe gets his super human
ability to stay in power all these 37 years.
Mugabe
is like Biblical Samson, Samson got his power from his hair and Mugabe gets his
from rigging the vote, tampering with the constitution, corrupting key players,
etc. Cut Samson’s hair and he is as feeble and powerless as any other mortal.
Stop Mugabe rigging the vote, etc. and he will lose the elections to the
proverbial monkey.
So,
if Tsvangirai and Mujuru, were not as deaf, dumb, blind and stupid as they have
been in the past then they would focus all their time, energy and spend every
penny on implementing the democratic reforms designed to stop Mugabe rigging
the vote. But fools are fools because they never learn and so they busy chasing
the mythical five-legged hare in the form of the grand coalition, voter
mobilisation, etc.; unaware Mugabe is busy rigging the vote.
Last week,
I received a WhatApp text, announcing the leaked 2018 presidential results for
Uzumba Maramba Pfungwe (Zanu PF activists have already declared the area a
no-go area to the opposition)
· Richard Morgan Tsvangirai MDC 1 192
· Robert Gabriel Mugabe Zanu PF 38
234
· Joice Teurai Ropa Mujuru NPP 786
· Spoilt votes 31
· Voter turnout 120% (not unheard of in Mugabe’s
Zimbabwe)
The
joke is the results of the elections are already known long before the first
ballot vote is cast and late presidential entries like Dr Nkosana Moyo will
have to be added as a p/s.
· p/s Nkosana Donald Moyo APA 6
In
June 2013, a month before the July 2013 elections, SADC leaders warned
Tsvangirai and his MDC friend not to contest the coming elections because the
elections were rigged already.
“If
you go into elections next month, you are going to lose; the elections are done,”
SADC leaders warned, according to Dr Ibbo Mandaza who attended the SADC summit.
What
my social media buddies are saying is Zanu PF’s vote rigging machinery is
running so smoothly this time the “elections are done” a year ahead of
schedule!
Mugabe
has cheated and bamboozled Tsvangirai and Mujuru many, many times in the past
and he is set to do so again next year. The tyrant fooled SADC and AU leaders
in 2013 and got away with it but even he must be worried they will not be so
easily fooled again.
“You
can fool some people sometimes,
But you can't fool all the people all the time.
So now we see the light (What you gonna do?)”
But you can't fool all the people all the time.
So now we see the light (What you gonna do?)”
Warned
Reggie legend, Bob Marley.
Mugabe
must know that with Tsvangirai losing political credibility by the hour the
more the world will know the coming elections are sham! Yes, he sees “the light”,
Bob Marley, but he is totally helpless to do anything about it. He has rigged
elections all his political life, he cannot stop now. He is as helpless as a
falling man, he knows it is dangerous but can do nothing to stop.
After the blatant vote rigging and wanton violence of the 2008
elections, SADC and AU refused to accept Mugabe’s electoral victory. The tyrant
was forced to accept the humiliation of sharing power with Tsvangirai under
SADC supervision. If SADC and AU refuse to accept his rigged election next year
as democratic wish of the people, Mugabe knows it will not be another GNU but
something a lot worse.
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With the 2018 elections fast approaching, this week the Daily News speaks to Rindai Chipfunde-Vava, the Director of Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) on a number of issues around this crucial vote, its preparation and short comings thus far.
Zesn was formed in 2000 and it is a coalition of 31 non-governmental organisations formed to co-ordinate activities pertaining to elections. The major focus of the Network is to promote democratic processes in general and free and fair elections in particular.
We have 31 NGOs dealing with electoral matters alone and yet 37 years after independence the country has yet to hold its first free, fair and credible elections. One has to ask what the fcuk have all these NGOs being doing!!!!
“Yes, Zesn has been observing elections since 2000 and we have noted a number of significant reforms aimed at improving electoral processes,” answered Rindai Chipfunde – Vava, Director of Zesn.
“For example, if you remember elections in the past were not held in a day and the ballot boxes were wooden; results were not posted outside the polling stations amongst other administrative improvements.”
No wonder the country’s in a mess with utterly useless people like this the ordinary Zimbabweans will never have a free vote this side of the present millennium!
PDP must be "going it alone" like MDC-T because there is no way MDC-T and NPP would agree to them fielding 100 candidates!
War veterans to launch their own opposition party.
War veterans still think they are special and would want the Zanu PF dictatorship to live on be it with a new name, they cannot accept a Zimbabwe where every Zimbabwean has freedom, liberty and one-vote and no one has a veto! As long as the war veterans think this way, they will never be anything else other than an abstraction they have been these last 15 years or so.
So, MDC-T has failed to get even one reform implemented during the GNU and they have failed to get even one of their watered down electoral reforms implemented since the July 2013 rigged elections. They promised the nation the grand coalition as the panacea to Zanu PF vote rigging (although they never said what exactly the united opposition would do to force ZEC to be professional, for example).
Now they admit they cannot deliver even this! Can these MDC clown now finally admit the futility of contesting a flawed election???
@ Shonhe
“On the surface, a coalition that combines groupings from the democratic contingent and the National People’s Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru grouping may provide the much-needed gravitas to deliver victory given the combined elements of democratic values and liberation credentials by the opposition,” you say.
This is just a pathetic attempt to reinvent the wheel and so coming up with a triangle!
Zanu PF rigs the vote, we all know that and have known it all these years. The solution is to implement the democratic reforms designed to stop the regime rigging the vote. Instead of getting on with the job Tsvangirai and company wasted five years of the GNU and failed to get even one reform implemented. You can never get the village idiots to say why they failed but it is easy to guess why. They have no clue what the reforms are and President Mugabe bribed them to do nothing, just to be absolutely certain no reforms were implemented.
SADC leaders advised MDC leaders not to contest the July 2013 elections with no reforms in place, that would have put pressure on Zanu PF to accept the reforms. MDC people do not listen and so Zanu PF rigged the elections to retain power and we forfeited the chance to get the reforms implemented. Contesting next year’s elections with no reforms is madness as it is certain to produce the same result as July 2013.
Whatever “gravitas” you expect an MDC-T and NPP coalition to have it will not stop Zanu PF rigging the elections. Instead of focusing on reforms we are no wasting time on coalition building, the triangle, to replace the reforms, circular wheel!
It is said there is a fine line between madness and genius but sometimes the difference, such as replacing a circular wheel with a triangle, is unmistakeable!
General Chiwenga’s war of word with Professor Moyo is intensifying as the factional war heats up.
We will always have Zanu PF using the security sector to promote its selfish no-regime-change agenda and the sector, in turn, carving a role for itself in deciding who leads the party. The only way to end this madness is for the nation to implement the democratic reforms designed to severe the undemocratic influence Zanu PF has over the security sector.
Why MDC failed to implement the reforms during the GNU is a measure of the stupidity in the opposition camp!
British diplomats in Harare have privately expressed serious concerns over Zimbabwe’s plans to mortgage gold reserves to guarantee a syndicated long-term loan arranged by the African Export and Import Bank (Afreximbank) to clear its US$1,161 billion arrears to the World Bank, diplomatic sources have said.
This Zanu PF regime is going to leave the future generation up to its ears in debt and with no means to repay the debt. We are up to our ears in debt already because the regime is corrupt and incompetent with an insatiable appetite for wealth which it then squanders and is back asking for more! The country is facing a serious economic meltdown and the long Zanu PF remain in power the deep the regime will drag us all into this hell.
@ Zuze
“It, therefore, seriously defies logic, from where I stand, why and how the opposition expects victory when all these areas are crying for attention. Indeed, a coalition can be assembled — all agreed — but it is of no practical value confronted with a ruthless machinery that will crackdown on voters and instil fear in the hearts of the citizenry. What has the opposition done about this? What use is a coalition when its voters are disenfranchised and fail to vote? That Zanu PF cannot reform itself out of power is neither here nor there. There is no wisdom in plunging headlong into an election whose results any logical person can see already. Opposition leaders must not speak excitedly at the spur of the moment. The prospect of a Zanu PF victory next year are very real if the underlying causes of opposition failure in previous years are not taken into account,” you say.
“There is no point going into next year’s election under a crooked playing field. The opposition must rethink its position. It may be setting itself for heartache. The current playing field cannot deliver an opposition victory.”
MDC leaders were warned the July 2013 elections would be rigged they should not contest and they ignored the warning for the same reason they will ignore your very convincing warning above, greed. Ever since the rigged 2008 elections Zanu PF has since learned that as long as it allows the opposition to win a few seats, they will contest the elections no matter how flawed the process.
So it is the ordinary people you should be warning not just about Zanu PF’s vote rigging but more urgently against the opposition lies and betrayals. The opposition do not care that the ordinary people are frogmarch to vote for Zanu PF and are stuck with the corrupt regime as long as they get the few gravy train seats.
MDC-T will have to go it alone because NPP are already saying the end of July to conclude the coalition deadline was not of their making.
I agree the coalition is just a red herring to occupy the minds of the naive and gullible who are easily fooled. Whether the grand coalition is formed or not Zanu PF will rig the vote and win and that is all that matters. So why is nothing being done to stop the vote rigging?
It is now for the people themselves to wake up from their slumber and denounce these opportunistic opposition politicians who pretend to care about the people when all they are doing is helping Zanu PF to torment the people and destroy this nation for thirty pieces of silver.
What we need is free, fair and credible elections and should not be wasting time on building these stupid and useless coalitions!
If SADC and AU were to refuse to accept Zanu PF’s rigged elections as legitimate, that will be the game changer. Having contested in the flawed elections both Zanu PF and all the opposition riff raff who took part will have disqualified themselves from playing any major role in charting the way ahead opening the way for new and refresh minds. God knows the nation needs a clean start!
“The US’s Centre for Preventive Action (CPA) warned that political instability, violence, and further economic decline in Zimbabwe could see xenophobic violence directed against the country’s migrants in South Africa becoming worse if large numbers of refugees began fleeing the country,” reported Daily News last week.
SADC and AU representatives in Zimbabwe must know that CPA’s warning is not an empty one since they can see for themselves the growing economic poverty in Zimbabwe. If Zanu PF rigs next year’s elections many people would no end to their suffering and would want to vote with their feet and leave the country. The prospect of a new wave of economic and political refugees leaving Zimbabwe is something no one can ignore especially the SADC countries who will have to house and feed these refugees.
SADC leaders have judged it impossible to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections without implementing the reforms first. They said so themselves in the advice the gave MDC leaders in June 2013 and the election that followed proved them right. They know not even one token reforms was implemented since July 2013 and will know history will be repeating itself.
SADC leaders will hardly need convincing that Zanu PF rigs elections and they know how destabilizing the Zimbabwe crisis has been already. The leaders also know that the crisis will only get worse if they do not act; refusing to rubber stamped the rigged elections will be their opportunity to act!
How is it possible that in 2013 the nation believed Tsvangirai and his MDC's friends' lie that the new constitution would deliver free, fair and credible elections so totally that they would have lynched you for expressing any doubt. And yet when the elections were blatantly rigged the same people who would have lynched you never bothered to find out what went wrong. It is this duplicity, the obvious display of deeply held views on the one hand and on the other the willingness to let those views go so readily with the slightest shake.
Did these people believe in Tsvangirai’s lies because they were desperate for something they can hold on to but never really understood what the constitution was and how it would deliver free and fair elections. They were disappointed when the elections were rigged but never asked what happened because they did not know where to start since they never understood what the constitution was about. Deep down, it seems, many never even believe there would be free and fair elections; it was too good to be true.
For next year’s elections Tsvangirai and company have absolutely nothing they can sell to even the most gullible voters to make them believe the elections will not be rigged. Nothing! So many Zimbabweans will not be going into the elections with any illusions of the opposition winning but rather resigned to the reality that Zanu PF will rig the vote.
Tsvangirai lost all political credibility with SADC and most of the international community when MDC failed to get even one reform implemented during the five years of the GNU. The ordinary people did not understand what really happened during the GNU and many still have no clue what happened. What they know is that Zanu PF rigged the elections and MDC failed to stop them. The people do not believe the MDC can do anything to stop Zanu PF rigging next year’s elections.
So, yes Tsvangirai and the opposition have lost political credibility with pretty much everyone except a handful of their hard-core followers. Zanu PF will do its best to jazz-up its rallies and the opposition’s rallies to create the impression there was a serious contest but few will be fooled. Yes, Zanu PF will be really relieved to get SADC and AU endorsement of the party’s victory!
@ Professor Xavier
If Tsvangirai had dared challenge the results of the rigged July 2013 elections, my guess is he would have exposed a lot of how the elections were rigged. He would not have overturned the result because the system is loaded against him. President Mugabe would have kicked out of the $4 million Highland mansion a long time ago, just to punish him.
President Mugabe was hoping that Tsvangirai would be considered a worthy opponent for next year's elections but the tyrant has been too thorough in belittling the MDC because they have really lost political credibility.
Next year's election is already rigged what now remains is everyone playing their assigned roles and for the mark-up artists and the special effects people to fill in the gaps and make is all as realistic as possible. We have two mice fighting and we are to believe we have two bull elephants fighting!
President Mugabe is grateful for Professor Moyo who is the only still fighting in the G40 corner. The other three Zhuwao, Kasukuwere and Grace Mugabe herself, do not the intellect and gravitas; they would have been flattened a long time ago if it was not for Moyo. President Mugabe has played his part in the background, saving both Moyo and Kasukuwere each time they have been ambushed and taken a bad thrashing.
As for President Mugabe habour damaging secrets; he has a dossier on everyone and many Zanu PF have a dossier on almost everyone else including Mugabe himself. Zanu PF is a party of ruthless thugs they have kept the peace out of the fear of mutual destruction. Whilst at least one Zanu PF faction remains in power the peace will hold, after that it is another ball game.
Regime change will force each one to offer to tell all in return for being let off the hook or tell all just for the hell of it and the rat comfort not to go down alone.
Zanu PF thugs are fighting each other like starving hyenas - fighting for your life and not territory because defeat means you are on the menu. Still when faced with the prospect of regime change they unite and fight the common enemy because they both know they will both hang!
Sources who attended yesterday's meeting said Mr Tsvangirai emphasised the need for coalition negotiations to be completed.
"The president spoke about the coalition, emphasising that coalition negotiations must now come to an end as time is running out. He said we can't spend all the time talking about a coalition yet there is groundwork that needs to be done. Meaning parties should complete the process," said the source
Tsvangirai lost political credibility when the opposition failed to get even one of the reforms designed to stop the vote rigging implemented. Although the grand coalition was not going to stop Zanu PF rigging the vote it was a finger to hide behind to justify why the party was abandoning its "No reform, no election!" pledge.
It is clear the grand coalition is dead in the water and Tsvangirai and his opposition friends have never looked more feeble and foolish than they do now. The opposition have a snowball in hell chance of dislodging Zanu PF, all they are contesting for next year is those few gravy train seats Zanu PF gives away as bribes to entice the corrupt opposition to contest the elections knowing the whole process is a sham!
Tsvangirai is contest for the sake of putting up a show, he will be booted out of the $4 million Highlands mansion if he failed to impress. Poor Tsvangirai, he is just a puppet on the string; there is only so much a puppet can do. He is expected to act human when he is only a puppet, everyone can see the strings and who is pulling them!
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