“It pays in the end to get the best
in the beginning!” ran the Eric Davis advert. To those who do not know or have
forgotten; Eric Davis was a top-notch man’s clothing shop in First Street,
Harare. Yes, one paid top dollar for everything in Eric Davis from the hat to
the socks and designer shoes but, by Jove, it was worth every dollar!
Forget the classical advice, “You are
never fully dressed without a smile!” When you are wearing one of those Italian
design suits complete with shirt, tie and shoe; trust me, you are fully dressed!
You will be griming from ear to ear all day and a string in every step!
I have never thought of the corollary
to the Eric Davis advert until today. “You pay small change for crap but, in
the long run, you will pay dearly for it!”
As far as politicians go, Morgan
Tsvangirai and his MDC friends are crap in every sense of the word and after
nearly 20 years of them occupying centre stage it has just dawned on me how
dearly the nation has paid for having elected them in the first place. The
people of Zimbabwe risked life and limb electing MDC into power on the promise
they will bring about the democratic changes the nation was dying for. MDC have
not only failed to deliver even one democratic change in 20 years but, worst,
they are the ones blocking change with the blundering incompetence!
“The Military Assisted Transition
(MAT) took place in November last year. It is now six months into 2018 and
seven months since the MAT. How are we doing? Our world has certainly changed
and it is very noticeable. We have more freedom than at any time since the
Rhodesian government clamped down on the nationalists and detained most of them
in 1964,” wrote Eddie Cross, former MDC-T founder member and MP.
“The repressive laws adopted at that time were never dismantled by former President Robert Mugabe, who then used them to repress all opposition in his efforts to establish a one-party State.”
All efforts to educate Mr Cross and all his MDC friends that the people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb to elect them into power dismantle the de facto Zanu PF one-party dictatorship have accomplished nothing. SADC leaders did their best to remind MDC leaders to focus on implementing the raft of democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging elections, but they too were ignored.
“The repressive laws adopted at that time were never dismantled by former President Robert Mugabe, who then used them to repress all opposition in his efforts to establish a one-party State.”
All efforts to educate Mr Cross and all his MDC friends that the people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb to elect them into power dismantle the de facto Zanu PF one-party dictatorship have accomplished nothing. SADC leaders did their best to remind MDC leaders to focus on implementing the raft of democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging elections, but they too were ignored.
MDC leaders have wasted one golden
opportunity after another to end the Zanu PF dictatorship because they are
breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent. They are crap!
Mr Cross says, “We have more freedom than
at any time since 1964,” in one breath. But quickly adds, “None of these
repressive laws have been rescinded - they are just being ignored. … It's a
process that has not been formalised (and it's not permanent until it is), but
it's real.”
President Mnangagwa and his coup
junta know that their political legitimacy is hanging a spider thread, the
international community was not as easily fooled by all that military assisted
transition bull – this was a coup period! The junta is desperate to regard
political legitimacy hence the temporary truce on use of the repressive laws.
The junta has refused to give up all its other dictatorial powers such as
control of public media, ZEC, etc.
The very fact that President
Mnangagwa has stubbornly refused to implement even one democratic reforms had
alarm bells ringing like church bells in everybody with half a brain. The very
fact that no such alarm bell is ringing in Mr Cross’ head confirms what we
already know.
Ever since the last GNU Zanu PF has
never been under more pressure to hold free, fair and credible elections than
it is this year. It is very disappointing that the international community
especially SADC and the American are the ones demanding that Zanu PF deliver on
its promise and MDC are content with the truce on violence even though the
other vote rigging activities have continued.
“Still, this is Africa and we must
allow for a gradual assumption of such rights — after all, it took Britain 600
years to get there and we could argue that many older States are still not
there in all respects. The one thing that is true, is that we are in a much
better place to hold a reasonable election than at any time since 1964,”
concluded Mr Cross.
How patronizing! This is the 21st
century for Britain but for us in Africa we are 600 years behind.
For all you condescending and white
supremacist attitude, I would like to remind you that Zimbabwe is not being
asked to reinvent democracy and the rules to ensure free, fair and credible
elections; these are already there. We are being asked to apply them, that is
not a tall order. By the way there are countries like Botswana and South
Africa, to name just those two, which have successful held free, fair and
credible elections. Why should Zimbabweans have to wait 600 years to do the
same?
It is the incompetent, corrupt and
tyrannical Zanu PF thugs who have dragged the nation into this political and
economic hell-hole but it is corrupt and incompetent MDC village idiots who
have held us prisoner in this hole for the last 20 years. Nations get the
government they deserve, by being so reckless in the selection of our political
leaders, we certain deserve these Zanu PF thugs complete with the entourage of
the MDC and opposition crap!
Mr Cross is not running for public
office in these elections. Good bye and good riddance! Please, please spare us
your patronizing crap. We have certainly paid dearly for having elected crap
like these MDC leaders into power in the first place.
10 comments:
How patronizing! This is the 21st century for Britain but for us in Africa we are 600 years behind.
For all you condescending and white supremacist attitude, I would like to remind you that Zimbabwe is not being asked to reinvent democracy and the rules to ensure free, fair and credible elections; these are already there. We are being asked to apply them, that is not a tall order. By the way there are countries like Botswana and South Africa, to name just those two, which have successful held free, fair and credible elections. Why should Zimbabweans have to wait 600 years to do the same?
The people of Zimbabwe risked life and limb to elect you and your MDC friends into power so you can implement the democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections. You lot sold out and instead of apologising you have chutzpah to patronise us with your foolish nonsense.
If President Mnangagwa fails to hold free and fair elections then he and his junta must step aside to allow the appointment of an interim administration that will implement the reforms and hold free and fair elections.
Goodbye MR Cross and good riddance! You and your your MDC friends have been a curse to the nation and we have paid dearly for having elected you lot into power in the first place!
Any international election observer who gives these elections a thumbs up will have some real serious explaining to do. These is no doubt that Zanu PF is blatantly rigging these elections, how can these elections be free and fair when something as basic as a verified voters' roll is missing?
"Let me put the law into perspective, first thing to take note is once the President has proclaimed the election date, there is nothing short of an earthquake that can stop the election," said Justice Chigumba.
That statement only serves to underline President Mnangagwa's single minded determination to rig these elections, only an earthquake will stop him rigging these elections!
President Mnangagwa may have had his differences with Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace as to who should takeover from Mugabe but as for the need for Zanu PF to rig the elections and stay in power they were united. This is why there have been only a few hitches in the operations of the vote rigging juggernaut as power transferred from Mugabe to Mnangagwa. The only notable hitch is that the Police have been noticeably quite.
Police Commissioner Chihuri was a G40 supporter and he and a number of others Police top brass were roughed up after the coup. The junta has been very careful to leave the Police and CIO out of its vote rigging activities.
Rita Makarau lost her job at ZEC because she was close to Mugabe and could not be trusted to serve the new dispensation with the same blind devotion! Other than that, it has been business as usual, the vote rigging juggernaut is in overdrive. Only an earthquake will stop it now!
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, ZEC's CEO Major Utoile Slaigwana is criminal who withheld the 2008 presidential election results, an analyst has said.
Dr Pedzisayi Ruhanya wrote on Twitter Tuesday in bold caps saying, "WHY SHOULD ZIMBABWEANS TRUST ZEC acting CEO Major Utoile Slaigwana after what he did with the late ZEC CEO Lovemore Sekeramayi and High Court Judge President Justice Chiweshe former ZEC Chair in 2008; withholding Presidential election results for 6 weeks after ZANU defeat?"
Only by implementing the democratic reforms fully would something like this have been flushed judiciously as the reformed ZEC was being set up. The unreformed ZEC is bound to be rotten to the core.
For the umpteenth time, these elections should have not gone ahead without implementing the reforms first!
According to Community Tolerance Reconciliation and Development (COTRAD) peace committee members in Zaka District, ward 33 traditional leaders last week forced villagers to attend Mnangagwa' s rally in Masvingo.
In a statement released yesterday COTRAD urged traditional leaders to desist from exercising their duties in a partisan manner.
"It is everyone's responsibility to guard against the culture of violence so that Zimbabwe remains a peaceful country.
And you think this is enough to stop these traditional leaders abusing their position from here on! It is breath-taking just to see how stupid and naïve some people are! For how many more years are you going to continue to bury your head in the sand and refuse to deal with this problem with the sense of urgency and seriousness the matter demands!
@ Alan Bester
We lost a golden opportunity to get the reforms implemented during the GNU and one has only to look at how naive, corrupt and incompetent MDC leaders are to know why. Robert Mugabe had no problem bribing this lot and keeping them out of his hair for five years! The MDC leaders were so cocksure they had the better of the tyrant and they would won the 2013 elections right up to the day of the vote. The vote rigging was so blatant by noon of voting day it was clear Zanu PF would win with a landslide.
If anyone thought these MDC village idiots had learnt their lesson after the rigged 2013 elections not to have elections without reforms; wrong, MDC VI had no clue what happened even with the benefit of hindsight and learnt nothing!
The dog-eat-dog fighting in Zanu PF culminating with last November's military coup that toppled Mugabe from office has left Zanu PF weak and susceptible to pressure to accept meaningful democratic change. The reason why the Police this year are not playing their usual pro Zanu PF partisan game is because they were on the G40 side in the factional war. Although President Mnangagwa has purged the Police of many of the top brass in the Police and the a few weeks following the coup the Army roughed up those who remained. Still, ED knew he would have to cleanse the Police even more before he could expect them to play their traditional partisan role again.
The opposition should be stepping up the pressure and demand reforms but are instead content that the Police is allowing them to hold their rallies as if that was all that mattered.
MDC VI costed the nation the golden opportunity to end the Zanu PF dictatorship during the GNU and now they are doing the same again. It is incumbent on every thinking Zimbabwean out there to make sure the international election observers are left in no doubt that there are Zimbabweans who know and understand what free, fair and credible elections are. Who know and understand that these elections are flawed, illegal and a mockery and must therefore be declared null and void.
The international observers must know that MDC VI lost all political credibility when they failed to get even one democratic reform implemented in five years of the GNU. These VI do not speak for the people of Zimbabwe and therefore must be ignored!
@ Tshetshe Ndlovu
A black South African friend of mine used to say, "I prefer the white Boer Afrikaners because one knows that they were white racists and hated blacks with a passion. The same cannot be said about the so called white liberals, they are racists too and are doing their best to defend the whites' privileges; they hide behind a smoke screen by publically condemning apartheid just to tamper the blacks' anger!
"The Boer and the white liberal are a team, one plays the bad cop and the other is the good cop. Blacks who have failed to understand that the white liberal are condescending, patronising and just as oppressive as the Afrikaner will never be truly free!"
Now I understand what he meant. White liberals like MP Cross are convinced that blacks are an inferior race who will never, not in another 600 years by him, understand what it takes to hold free, fair and credible elections. Whilst some of us were screaming and jumping up and down arguing MDC leaders to implement the reforms during the GNU. It is clear white liberals like Cross were telling Tsvangirai to ignore the demands convince Zimbabwe was not ready for free, fair and credible elections.
"Tell him Mr Mukori this brain dead white bully crap called Eddie Cross," you said.
I agree with you; MP Eddie Cross is "brain dead". As a white Rhodesian, he received five-star upbringing, five-star education, five-star everything all paid for on the backs of the blacks - the few blacks have been the lucky ones to get one-star anything. Sadly, it was all wasted on Mr Cross, he learnt nothing, he is just another MDC village idiot or be it he has never lived in a village.
It is incumbent on every thinking Zimbabwean out there to make sure that the international elections observers know that there are Zimbabweans who know and understand that these flawed and illegal elections should not be taking place. The elections must be declared null and void and Zanu PF must now step aside to allow the appointment of a new administration that will implement the reforms and hold free and fair elections.
The international observer must be left in no doubt that MDC village idiots like Mr Cross lost political credibility when they failed to get even one reform implemented during the GNU. They no longer speak for the people of Zimbabwe and must therefore be ignored!
Former First Lady Grace Mugabe flew out of the country to Singapore with her husband for his medicals.
Mugabe reportedly flew to Singapore for medical check-ups two weeks ago, with sources saying the 94-year-old ex-leader was rushed out after his health suddenly deteriorated.
This should remind the people of Zimbabwe the foolishness of Zanu PF for it is the party's 40 years of misrule that landed us into this mess with a totally collapsed health service. In 1980, when Zanu PF took over, the country had a number of hospital offering five-star health service. The challenge was to build on what we had and expend the service to reach even more of our people. Zanu PF has instead destroyed what the white left to the point the ruling elite, the only one who can afford, now have to go to SA, Singapore, etc. for even the most minor illnesses.
The foolishness of Zanu PF ruling elite is that they have completely failed to understand that they are the ones who have accelerated the collapse of country's health services. Mugabe's Singapore medical trips alone costed $3 million each and he once had no fewer than 12 such trips in one year. One does not need to be a rocket scientist to see that if the $36 million had been spent in equipping and staffing just one hospital it would be providing the same quality health service any Hospital in Singapore is offering. What is more, whilst Mugabe is not using the hospital's services other Zimbabweans would!
President Mnangagwa, with the same idiotic short-sightedness of Mugabe, has allowed utterly, utterly wasteful globe-trotting for health reasons by the filthy rich few to continue. How many millions of dollars will this two-week trip to Singapore by Mugabe, his wife and their usual entourage cost the nation?
President Mnangagwa is lucky to have the MDC as his political opponents in this elections race, they are so corrupt and incompetent they have failed to see the need for having the reforms implemented BEFORE the elections and thus allow Zanu PF to, once again, rig these elections.
The real challenge here is for the thinking Zimbabweans out there to demand that these flawed and illegal elections must be declared null and void. What Zimbabwe needs right now is to revisit the democratic reforms agreed at the onset of the 2008 GNU and make sure all the reforms are implemented and then hold fresh elections.
"We are still a virgin country which is yet to be discovered. The country offers limitless opportunities and God was waiting for President Mnangagwa so as to unlock his blessings," Muchinguri claimed.
"He (Mnangagwa) didn't campaign for the presidency. Leadership was handed down to him by God," she said.
This is an insult to every thinking Zimbabwean out there since it was none other than Mnangagwa who has done most of the looting and rigging elections, even committing mass murders, just to keep Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF in power for these last 38 years. Are we therefore to believe that God played a part in all this too?
Zanu PF is blatantly rigging these elections and will then claim God played a role in the party's victory just as the regime has done countless times. The challenge is to make sure Zanu PF does not get away with rigging this time. These flawed and illegal elections must be declared null and void!
Well, well! So our "datbrotherfromthestates" was G40. When Mnangagwa rigged the elections to keep Mugabe in power you praised him to the high heavens. When he turned the AK47 on Mugabe he became a usurper! After all the decades of singing Mugabe's praises you are not sure how Mnangagwa will treat you and so you have decided to stay put and throw insults at ED from a safe distance.
"Vakuru vakati chisinga peri chinoshura!" (Everything will come to an end!) Your Mugabe days are over and it is down hill from now on. If you are one of those who help shed innocent blood in the name of the Zanu PF dictatorship you must be worried sick because things could well turn even worse. You may find yourself having to account for the wealth you looted and the blood on your hands!
@ maita
The challenge here is not to let Zanu PF get away with another rigged election because they will claim that God helped them win.
These elections should not have gone ahead without first implementing the reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging the vote. With no free public media, no verified voters' roll, Zanu PF robbing the nation blind to bankroll its vote rigging schemes, etc., etc.; there is no way these elections can be free, fair and credible. We must make sure these elections are declare null and void and the nation revisit the reforms agreed at the onset of the 2008 GNU and make sure all the reforms are implemented this time!
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