When President Mugabe promised to buy the Chiefs the twin cab trucks he known it was a bribe so they will play their usual role of campaigning for Zanu PF and threatening povo with expulsion from their homes if they supported the opposition. Chief Fortune Charumbira, who is the Chief's leader, promised Mugabe is reply that Chiefs will indeed campaign for Zanu PF.
The rural areas are considered Zanu PF "strong-holds" for no other reason than that there are no go areas for the opposition because between the traditional leaders and the Zanu PF thugs they have made life very difficult for the rural people who have dared support the opposition.
President Mnangagwa has honoured Mugabe's promise to bribe the Chiefs because he knows that he too has to grease the palms of many party loyalists, sell-outs, foreigners like the NIKUV crowd; the Chiefs are just one of these many; to successfully rig the elections.
Robert Mugabe must have laughed, probably for the first time ever since the 15 th November 2017 military coup, when he heard President Mnangagwa promise the nation "free, fair and credible elections". The tyrant knew that was one circle Mnangagwa would never sell as a square. Ever since last week, when President Mnangagwa, delivered the first batch of the new trucks to the Chiefs the regime has made complete fools of themselves trying to justify this blatant vote buying move in the light of the, supposedly, new democratic dispensation.
President Mnangagwa has honoured Mugabe's promise to bribe the Chiefs because he knows that he too has to grease the palms of many party loyalists, sell-outs, foreigners like the NIKUV crowd; the Chiefs are just one of these many; to successfully rig the elections.
Robert Mugabe must have laughed, probably for the first time ever since the 15 th November 2017 military coup, when he heard President Mnangagwa promise the nation "free, fair and credible elections". The tyrant knew that was one circle Mnangagwa would never sell as a square. Ever since last week, when President Mnangagwa, delivered the first batch of the new trucks to the Chiefs the regime has made complete fools of themselves trying to justify this blatant vote buying move in the light of the, supposedly, new democratic dispensation.
“Contrary to popular belief that we were given the cars for free, we actually bought them with our own money. People are just ignorant about this whole thing. The cars were purchased with the money we have been contributing towards the Chiefs’ Vehicle Scheme since 2004. We did not get them for free,” Chief Charumbira told the state media.
Could not help but join Mugabe in laughing there! Since 2004! Where was that money hidden because every other account, including those of the private sector forced to hold their foreign currency account with the RBZ were cleaned out!
“It’s you who designed the new Constitution, the same document which states that chiefs should be dignified and exemplary. Now we are given cars, you question why it is done,” continue the Chief.
Of course, we want our Chiefs to be dignified but why should the Chief’s dignity in driving a truck be more important than the life of new born babies dying up and down the country for the lack of something as basic as an incubator? Besides the constitution clearly states that the Chiefs must be “apolitical” and yet you lot have not only campaigned for Zanu PF but have threatened and even punished those in your tribal areas who have dared support the opposition. The trucks are a bribe for you to continue campaigning for Zanu PF. Where is the Chiefs’ dignity is being so blatant corrupt and betraying povo!
“If a politician gets a car you do not question, but a chief, you start saying a lot of things. What is the difference? After all a politician only lasts for a short period of time, yet a chief is there for life,” continued the Chief.
So, you too Chief “got” the trucks you did not buy them with your own money! That is the thing about these corrupt and utterly useless people like Chief Charumbira, keep him talking for five minutes and he will contradict himself.
President Mnangagwa and his Finance Minister, Patrick Chinamasa, have too chipped in and tried to justify why the Chiefs were being bribed; their hen’s teeth tales did not make any sense, as expected. The bottom line is bribing Chiefs has always been one of the Zanu PF’s key vote rigging activities and it is simply unthinkable for the party to drop this. So any attempt to sell the bribe as anything else other than what it is – a bribe – was always going to leave one looking very foolish!
President Mnangagwa has remained faithful to Zanu PF’s vote rigging plans including bribing key players like Chiefs the party needs to execute its plans. However, what the regime is failing to do is explain how it can still claim the elections are free and fair in the face of such blatant vote rigging activities.
“If you go into elections next month, you are going to lose; the elections are done,” SADC leaders warned Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends before the July 2013 elections. Evidence is mounting to show Zanu PF is going to rig this year’s elections, it will not be long before one can say the same thing about them!
Many people did not President Mnangagwa’s hen’s teeth tale that the 15 November 2017 coup was not a coup but a “military assisted transition”. Even more people are dismissing his latest hen’s teeth tale that the new trucks he is buying for the Chiefs are not a bribe and an integral part of his vote rigging plan.
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President Mnangagwa is taking with him a whole plane load of his Zanu PF thugs to Davos on an all-out charm offensive to win the West over to the regime's "Zimbabwe is now open for business!" drive. What the regime is acknowledging, without saying so in words, is the country had been indeed been closed for business for decades because it had become a lawless nation ruled by Mafia type thugs. The world is to believe that the 15 November 2017 coup, which was not a coup, brought an end to the lawlessness.
The business people the regime is trying to woo are not as naïve and gullible as the Jokoniyas and Chimbwidos who swallowed the regime’s nonsense and trooped out on 18 November to celebrated the coup; they are hard nose people with fortunes to lose if they get it wrong. They will not be impressed by the inauspicious start of the new dispensation; how can the regime be committed to rule of law when it shamelessly dismisses something as serious as a coup as a lawful act. The regime has even got the country’s judiciary to endorse this foolish position.
The would be foreign investors will not be impressed by the regime’s double talk of promising free and fair elections whilst back in Zanu PF HQ it is all hands on the pump with the party’s usual vote rigging activities. Zanu PF’s failure to implement reforms shows the country is not yet ready for free, fair and credible elections.
There will be no Foreign Direct Investment flooding into Zimbabwe any time soon until the country sorts out its reputation as a lawlessness nation. Investors would like to invest in a country in which there will be a democratic change of government and not one in which change only comes at gun point!
“My message is simple – the new #Zimbabwe is open for business, looking to the future, and ready to retake its place in the family of nations,” says President Mnangagwa from Davos!
This is very simplistic and therefore nonsensical!
By saying Zimbabwe is open for business you are acknowledging, or be it tacitly, that it has been closed for business for decades and out in the cold as a pariah state. The important question then is; has Zimbabwe addressed those issued that had earned it the pariah status and forced business people to shy away? The simple and honest answer to this must be a NO!
Zimbabwe is still a lawless nation ruled by Mafia type thugs. It is a joke that President Mnangagwa and his coup cabinet should claim they restored the rule of law when they did so by staging a military coup – cannot think of a more inauspicious starting point. The regime has been publicly promising free, fair and credible elections and yet President Mnangagwa is spending huge fortunes bribing the Chiefs and now Morgan Tsvangirai – proof the vote rigging juggernaut is full steam ahead.
Mr President Foreign Direct Investors who you are in Davos to woo are hard-nose and shrewd people who will not be easily bowled over by your claim that Zimbabwe is ready to do business; they want to see concrete evidence that the country has indeed returned to rule of law. The evidence on the ground shows your promise of free, fair and credible elections is all hot air. Investors do not want to do business in a country in which the next regime change could well be decades away and will too have to be at gun point.
You can say what you want, President Mnangagwa, the truth is the 15 th November 2017 coup was an act of high treason and all it accomplished was remove one ruthless dictator with another, you. The same thugs who have kept Mugabe in power by rigging elections, using wanton violence and even staging military coup in 2008 are the same thugs in power today; Zimbabwe is still a lawlessness nation!
Reports reaching The Standard last week said many Zanu-PF legislators wanted elections postponed by at least three years.
The MPs were allegedly now mulling engaging Parliament to make amendments to the Constitution to postpone the plebiscite due in five months.
Zanu-PF legislators are said to be afraid of losing their seats to soldiers who have been given a blank cheque to contest in parliamentary elections under the Zanu-PF ticket.
This is said to be a move to reward the military for the successful operation that handed over power to the present administration.
Why am I not surprised!
The MPs can forget postponing elections to extend their worthless stay in parliament, that will never happen. If the nation was to allow that to happen then there will be no end to this chicanery as each set of MPs will all want to do the same thing making a mockery of the phrase “hold regular elections”. We may just as well remove it and put “do not bother holding elections”.
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