After
37 years of one of the most corrupt oppressive and murderous regimes in modern
human history that has forced ¾ of the country’s population into a life of
hopelessness and despair. One would have thought that people of Zimbabwe will
clear and united in wanting the dictatorship to end. It is therefore very
disappointing that there are people like Victor Gore who believed “a lot has
changed” and list them in Zimeye as follows:
1) no
interface rallies
2) no abusing politicians by Grace Gucci
3) Road blocks are fewer
4) Bob’s face’s disappeared from the media
5) ministers now understand the word stress &unemployment
6) Grace Gucci has stopped it, hatichamunzwi.
7) Made MDC panic & fly to seek help from racist Donald Trump!
2) no abusing politicians by Grace Gucci
3) Road blocks are fewer
4) Bob’s face’s disappeared from the media
5) ministers now understand the word stress &unemployment
6) Grace Gucci has stopped it, hatichamunzwi.
7) Made MDC panic & fly to seek help from racist Donald Trump!
No
wonder dictators like Robert Mugabe have thrived in Zimbabwe. When you have a
people with such a shockingly low opinion of themselves, who have been crashed
and ground into the dust all their lives and yet think nothing of it; it is
easy to see why the corrupt, vote rigging and oppression will never stop.
The
Zanu PF ruling elite have enjoyed absolute power, amassed wealth and enjoy
lifestyles of unparalleled comfort and leisure. Last month’s coup, “Operation
Restore Legacy” as the coup plotters called it, was about restoring the
absolute power back in the hands of the Joint Operation Command, the Junta that
has ruled the country with an iron fist all these last 37 years.
Mugabe,
the leader of the Junta, had turned against the other thugs and wanted to hand over
power to his wife and her G40 supporters. The rest of the Junta members had no
choice but to point a gun at his temple and force the tyrant to resign. Other
than that nothing else had changed, the Zanu PF thugs are still in total
control and they have been flexing their muscle to punish the losing G40
leaders.
To
get the national economy back on track, Zimbabwe needs to do something to end
the endemic gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and to scrap all Mugabe’s
foolish policies. Mnangagwa has already scrapped some of the more obvious and
obnoxious laws such as the indigenisation law and has made a half-hearted go at
ending corruption – half-hearted because he has gone after the corrupt G40
members but has allowed his own faction members go free. Worst still he has
done absolutely nothing to implement the democratic reforms to end the country’s
culture of lawlessness, political violence and vote rigging.
Zimbabwe
is still a nation ruled by thugs, the removal of Mugabe alone did not transform
Zanu PF from a ruthless dictatorship into a law abiding democratic party. A
black mamba does not seize to be a deadly snake just because it has shed-off
its old skin.
Whatever
President Mnangagwa does on the economic front it will all come to naught as
long as he has done nothing to end Zimbabwe’s reputation as a lawless nation ruled
by thugs. He could not have had a more ominous start to his presidency – he is
the beneficiary of a military coup and his cabinet is stuffed to the rafters
with Zanu PF’s most cold-blooded thugs.
Indeed,
if Mnangagwa was to make any foolish attempt to implement democratic reforms to
ensure free and fair elections then one thing is certain Operation Restore
Legacy mark 2 in which he too will be forced to resign. The Zanu PF thugs have
just got taken their respective seats in the dictatorship and they are not
going to risk being booted out of power in a free election.
It
economic changes are the seed, it is great that President Mnangagwa is paying
attention to ensure we have good seed to plant. But by failing to restore the rule
of law and holding free and fair elections, he is failing to ensure he has good
soil to plant the seed. What good is it to have the best seed if you sow it in
rocky soil or in among the weeds and thorns?
Yes
Zimbabweans had dreamt of freedom, human rights and economic prosperity during
the fight to white colonial oppression but deep down in the hearts of hearts
they never believed that Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs would make that dream
come true. So when the tyrant turned their whole world upside down to deny them
their freedoms, rights and very humanity the people were disappointed but not
shocked, they half expected it to happen.
After
37 years of Zanu PF corrupt and tyrannical rule the people are very pleased Mugabe
has gone. They contend with Mugabe’s departure and do not dare ask who is
coming after him because they already know it will be another dictator, they do
not expect anyone else would be shocked if he/she was anything other than
another corrupt, incompetent and murderous thug.
“No
more interface rallies!” said Gore! Such a deplorable lack of ambition is
shocking from even one person but when this at national level one is left
speechless. Zimbabwe is in this hell-on-earth economic and political mess
because we have had the great misfortune of having corrupt and incompetent
leaders in both the ruling party and the opposition but all because we have one
of the naïve and ignorant electorate with zero ambition for themselves and the
nation.
7 comments:
SADC leaders lost all confidence in Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friend after the later failed to implement even one democratic reform in five years of the GNU. If Nick Mangwana thinks that President Khama has been fooled by the Zanu PF thugs into believing Zimbabwe is now a stable country ruled by law and capable of holding free and fair elections then NIck is talking nonsense, as usual.
SADC leaders wanted the 2013 elections postponed to allow democratic reforms to be implemented, of all the SADC leaders President Khama was clear on that point. That is still SADC’s position; 2018 elections must be postponed until the reforms are implemented. Only a first-class fool like Nick Mangwana would believe the reforms are no longer required just because Zanu PF jettisoned its old dictator Robert Mugabe.
Mnangagwa and the majority of the member in the Joint Operation Command, the Junta that has ruled the nation with an iron fist, were forced to stage the November coup to boot Mugabe out of office because the tyrant was booting them out of Zanu PF and power. “Operation Restore legacy”, as the coup plotters call the coup was about stop Mugabe giving State power to his wife and her G40 faction and returning it back to the Junta. Other than a change of the leader the Zanu PF dictatorship has otherwise not change one bit. Zanu PF is set to rig next year’s elections just as it was going to do before Mugabe was booted out.
President Khama would know the pivotal role President Mnangagwa and many of his fellow JOC members, now in his cabinet, played corrupt, tyranny and vote rigging that are a hallmark of Zanu PF rule. These thugs are now just as determined to rig the vote and stay in power as they were before the coup. Of all the SADC leaders, President Khama knows and understands that, without implementing the reforms, Zimbabwe will never ever hold free and fair elections.
For the last 20 years Zimbabweans has been calling for democratic change. We have even named the main opposition party Movement for Democratic Change, MDC, and the party had "Chinja"(Change!) as its rallying call and slogan. It is now clear that most people had no clue what it is exactly they wanted changed!
When Mugabe was forced to resign following the November 2017 coup, many people were beside themselves with joy. Some people heralded the day Mugabe resigned "Real Independence Day!" and they praised the coup plotters to the high heavens. And yet the coup had brought not even one democratic change because the Zanu PF dictatorship was still firmly in control.
The naive and gullible mob had already forgotten that it was none other than the coup plotters themselves who had imposed Mugabe and kept him in power against the democratic wishes of the same mob. All the Zanu PF thugs had done was replace the old tyrant with another one f their own liking, the ordinary Zimbabweans had no say in the matter.
The factional war in Zanu PF has torn the dictatorship apart, Zanu PF has never been weaker than it is today. This has created a golden opportunity for the ordinary people to demand the democratic changes the nation has been clamouring for these last 20 years. It is very sad and tragic that instead of pushing the reform agenda the people have been side tracked by the removal of Mugabe, mistaking it for democratic change!
"No more interface rallies!" celebrated Gore! No doubt President Mnangagwa will soon institute his own rallies just as he has introduced new Zanu PF regalia will his own face on it.
Instead of grabbing the opportunity to effect change we have wasted it on trivial matters! It is sad that we are a nation of the shallow, thick and slow!
@ Mavaza
This is just nonsense; you are not even comparing oranges with bananas but more like medicine and poison! The UK is a democracy were all these soldiers have to claim and convince the voters that they have something to offer the same cannot be said of the Junta that has ruled Zimbabwe all these last 37 years!
It was the military coup, not the people, that catapulted President Mnangagwa into power when Mugabe had booted him out. Many of the coup thugs are now in President Mnangagwa cabinet; not even one ordinary Zimbabwean had a say it that. Now that these thugs are in power, you can be sure that they will not risk losing power by holding free and fair elections. They will rig next year’s elections.
So, comparing Zimbabwe’s thugs to the UK’s democratically elected leaders is foolishness of the highest order. If you have nothing to say, just shut up!
Farmers here have expressed optimism at the new government’ s potential to revive agricultural activities in the country.
The farmers who spoke to ZimEye.com last week commended President Emmerson Mnangagwa’ s efforts to revive agricultural activities in the country.
Did any of these farmers “expressing optimism” understand what President Mnangagwa’s “Command Agriculture” means?
A word of warning to anyone out there who are tempted to believe that Zanu PF under President Mnangagwa is a different preposition to the Zanu PF under Mugabe, especially the white farmers who were driven off their farms by the Zanu PF thugs; the leader’s name has changed but his character and that of the party has not changed. The thugs who carried out “jambanja” (violent seizure of white owned farms) are still there and some of their leaders are even in President Mnangagwa’s cabinet!
Zimbabwe is not yet ready to do business, including reviving its agricultural sector; not until the country has implemented the democratic reforms, restored the rule of law, restored property rights and held free and fair elections.
What we have here is lack of ambition and self pride. Freedom and liberty does not mean the same things to some people as it does to the rest of mankind. People like Gore are like a wild animal that has lived in a cage for far too long you can open the cage it will never come out because the cage is the only world it knows. He is glorious happy that there will be no more interface rallies although he is not sure how long this will last before he is frog marched to some other rally! He will never think of demanding change to end the culture of political harassment, vote rigging, etc.
@ Zudzanyika
Given the sorry state the people of Zimbabwe are in today it is sicken that anyone who still believe that Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs "liberated" the nation! The nation has been crying to be liberated from these corrupt and murderous thugs!
@ ZimMatata
After Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends sold-out during the GNU, we should have jettisoned the lot. We have not done so because we, the electorate, are weak. We have been schooled to believe that we need political leaders regardless how corrupt and incompetent they are and hence the reason we were stuck with Zanu PF for decades before we switched to MDC and got stuck with them too.
You are asking for a coalition of the opposition we already know has corrupt and incompetent individuals. What good will coalition of mediocre be to the nation?
We, the electorate, if only we will have the courage to get out of our shells and think like other human beings, should be demanding democratic reforms and end the stifling dictatorship. The new democratic dispensation will allow debate and democratic competition from which quality leaders will emerge.
There are no quality leaders at present but that is because the dictatorship does not allow quality leaders to emerge. The solution to the country's teething problems is not with Zanu PF, MDC or any of the over 75 present political parties; we need to look for leaders outside the present political stage. If there was ever a time we need to think outside the box, it is now!
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