The incident reported by the Heal Zimbabwe Trust (HZT) reportedly happened at Vuzhe BC where Bhema is quoted for saying that “Zanupf will monitor the BVR process.”
Well
there is a surprise, because HZT has been one of the NGOs that has invested a
lot of time, energy and treasure in assuring the nation its human right and
peace initiatives would heal Zimbabwe’s political wounds and deliver free, fair
and credible elections the nation has been dying for. The Trust has toured
across the length and breadth of the country holding football games and at the
end of each game participants held hands and pledged peaceful elections.
“The
country is heading for another round of national elections in 2018, HZT appeals
to political parties and all interested stakeholders to uphold peace, before,
during and after the election period,” said HZT in one of its recent report.
“The
organization further calls for a peaceful voter registration, campaign and
voting process that allows people to freely exercise their democratic right of
choosing leaders of their choice without being harassed or coerced. HZT is
currently rolling out a National Peace campaign: 13 Million Voices For
Peace which seeks to appeal to every Zimbabwean to pledge to uphold
peace as …Peace begins with me, Peace begins with you and Peace begins with
all of us…”
Heal
Zimbabwe Trust own the people of Zimbabwe an explanation of what has gone wrong
with its campaign in Gutu and, more significantly, assure the nation that will
not happen anywhere else in Zimbabwe. People want to know that the nation will
have free, fair and credible 2018 elections.
The
truth is Zimbabwe’s culture of vote rigging and political violence, as so
graphically brought home in the 2008 elections cannot be wished away by a
simple act playing a game of football and then after the game holding hands.
The problem is a lot more complex and deep rooted than that and thus demands an
equally complex and deep rooted solution.
The solution
to Zimbabwe’s failed political system is for us to implement all the democratic
reforms designed to dismantle the de facto one-party, Zanu PF, dictatorship. We
had our best chance to get this done during the 2008 to 2013 GNU when all
Tsvangirai and his MDC friends had to do was implement the democratic reforms
agreed in the Global Political Agreement (GPA). Sadly, MDC failed to get even
one reform implemented.
The
rigged 2013 elections marked the end of the GPA and the end of SADC leaders’
supervisory role in Zimbabwe’s political crisis. This is why, SADC leaders
themselves wanted the July 2013 elections postponed and hence advised
Tsvangirai and company not to take part in the elections.
If
we are serious about ending Zimbabwe’s de facto one party dictatorship and its
culture of vote rigging and political violence, which the regime needs to stay
in power, then we must grasp the thorny nettle and demand the implementation of
the democratic reforms. Organizations like HZT have no business raising the
nation’s hopes of ending the dictatorship with their ill-advised pious but empty
promises. Peace, free and fair elections, economic recovery, etc. will come
from implementing the democratic reforms designed to end the Zanu PF
dictatorship and not from burying our heads in the sand and hold hands in piety!
5 comments:
Can someone please tell me what the devil President Mugabe and his 70 strong entourage went to America to do!
The country is in a serious economic mess; unemployment has soared to nauseating height of 90% plus and a staggering 72.3% of the population is living on US$1.00 or less a day and all the man who has presided over the mess ever talks about is imperialism. 37 years after independence and we are still fighting the imperialists! What an insult to every thinking Zimbabwean this man is!
ZEC will never deliver free, fair and credible elections and that is why we need to implement the democratic reforms to free ZEC, Police, Public Media, etc. from Zanu PF control BEFORE elections. When will the penny final drop at Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition?
“Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) is concerned with the apparent incapacity of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to administer a Voter Registration exercise meant to create a new clean voters roll,” commented the organization.
Surely this has been obvious to everyone for donkey years now. CiZC should have come out of the closet a long time ago and demanded the implementation of the reforms and not waste time. Instead of helping solve the crisis in Zimbabwe these useless NGOs are fuelling the crisis with their dithering and stupidity!
Zanu PF has resisted regime change for many decades and some of them thought they would never have to give up power but even they are now worried. The winds of change are blowing hard and the writing in on the wall. As the country slides deeper and deeper into political and economic trouble everyone can see the situation cannot last, something must give!
Professor Jonathan Moyo know that his career and his days of being above the law will be over the day President Mugabe kicks the bucket or the day the world reject another sham Zanu PF election victory next year whichever comes first! Professor Moyo will have his day in court and, this time, justice will be done!
Organisations like Heal Zimbabwe Trust should have been a blessed to the nation, God knows the people need healing; but they have been a real curse instead. I can only imagine what they have been telling the people in the village around the country and the people, desperate for free, fair and credible elections, believed every word of what they heard. Now, as the elections fever hots up the learn HZT promises were all hot air.
I will be the first to admit that our people are very naïve; must be, to believe a Zanu PF thug will stop being a thug just because some idiot said a few pious words to him! Still those HZT people have no right in taking advantage of other people’s naivety.
People get the government they deserve and Zimbabweans must accept that they do deserve this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. When they are ready for change, they know what to do – implement the democratic reforms.
Mugabe has no choice but to rig next year's election because he will never win free, fair and credible elections; not with all his political baggage. It is not in his DNA, as a dictator to give up power, not without a fight. He will rig the elections and hope that SADC and the AU once again turn a blind eye to his wrong doing. It is almost certain that SADC, this time will refuse to rubber stamp the sham elections.
Zimbabwe's worsening economic meltdown has held back the country's economic development and another rigged election will make Zimbabwe very unstable and there is a real danger it will drag the rest of the region into the abyss with it. SADC leaders know they will be blamed for it especially if they have just made the mistake of allowing Mugabe rig another election.
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