MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa wants any talks with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to yield electoral reforms and an economic rescue package for the country.
“On 29 August 2018, the national council met in Harare at Morgan Tsvangirai House, to review the situation and consider its position and way forward,” wrote Chamisa.
“The president is broadly mandated to engage all stakeholders, local and international, in dialogue with the scope of dealing with the current impasse arising from a stolen election and to resolve related governance issues.”
“Instituting reforms that allow for the holding of truly free, fair and credible elections in Zimbabwe. The reforms must include electoral reforms, political reforms, and constitutional and legal reforms,” said Chamisa.
This is just the usual political posturing and grandstanding the nation has come to expect from these corrupt and MDC leaders. Chamisa is now talking of implementing the reforms and yet MDC failed to get even one reform implemented in five years of the 2008 to 2013 GNU when it had the golden opportunity to do so. Worse still, the party compounded its earlier betrayal by participating in the 2013 and then this year’s elections against all advice not to.
“MDC has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections!” Chamisa insisted.
He did not even have the common sense not to participate in the elections when ZEC failed to produce a clean and verified voters’ roll! Of course, Zanu Pf blatantly rigged the elections and he has been complaining ever since of Zanu PF “stealing the elections”.
Zimbabwe’s political problem of bad governance is a double barrel shot-gun; there is the main problem of the corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF but, just as deadly to our struggle for democratic change, is the corrupt and incompetent MDC. If the MDC leaders had implemented the reforms, instead of selling-out, during the last GNU, for example, we would not be talking of Zanu PF still rigging elections.
Zimbabweans must stop following failed MDC leaders blindly like sheep to the slaughter. This has given failed leaders like Chamisa the time and space to grandstand and blunder from pillar to post. Zanu PF was typically dismissive of MDC’s calls for reforms.
“Who does he (Chamisa) think he is? He is a citizen of Zimbabwe and President Emmerson Mnangagwa is willing to talk to any progressive citizen without pre-conditions,” charged Munyadzi Pau Mangwana, Zanu PF Secretary for Legal Affairs, according to a report in The Standard.
“Who does he (Chamisa) think he is? He is a citizen of Zimbabwe and President Emmerson Mnangagwa is willing to talk to any progressive citizen without pre-conditions,” charged Munyadzi Pau Mangwana, Zanu PF Secretary for Legal Affairs, according to a report in The Standard.
“He [Mnangagwa] has the mandate of the people to govern this country and not from Chamisa.”
If we, the people, do not take up the challenge of implementing upon ourselves with the seriousness the matter demands this country will remain stuck with the vote rigging Zanu PF in power for decades to come. Chamisa or whoever happens to be the next MDC leader will still be paying lip-service to reforms and drag the nation time and time again into flawed and illegal elections only to complain afterwards of stolen elections.
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"We can confirm that British ambassador Catriona Laing had a useful meeting with Nelson Chamisa this week. At that meeting, Mr Chamisa gave his own assessment of the current situation in Zimbabwe following the elections," the embassy said in response.
It added that its government was goading Mnangagwa to recognise Chamisa as well.
"As our minister for Africa, Harriett Baldwin indicated at the weekend, (that) the UK [United Kingdom] has called on President Mnangagwa to reach out to those who did not support him or his party and to work to build their confidence and trust. We have also called on the opposition to play their part in healing processes," the spokesperson said.
British MP, Kate Hoey, who was in Zimbabwe to observe the elections has made it very clear that the elections were rigged, she called President Mnangagwa "mark 2 Mugabe" whom the international community must not support. She has also made it very clear that the British should play the leading role is making sure that Zanu PF dictatorship is held to democratic account for rigging these election.
It is therefore very disappointing that the British government is instead playing the leading role in sanitizing the this Zanu PF regime. The British want Zanu PF to bring in MDC in the regime just for window dressing because the latter will be utterly useless.
Zimbabwe is in serious economic and political trouble today because for the last 38 years the nation has allowed Zanu PF thugs to rig elections and o ride roughshod over the people's hopes and dreams. The only way the nation will ever stop this is by demanding the holding of free, fair and credible elections and refuse to settle for nothing less than that. What the British are doing here is giving a feeble excuse why the nation and the international community should allow Zanu PF off the hook after failing to hold free and fair elections!
We want a solution to help up get out of this hell-hole, what the British are offering is not helping us get out, only a promise to get out for the naive and gullible foolish enough to believe Zanu PF will change.
Mr-Know-It-All Nelson Chamisa ignored all those calling for the reforms to be implemented BEFORE elections because MDC had devised ways to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections. "MDC has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections!" he said.
Now we know MDC did not have any thing to stop the vote rigging.
Indeed, Chamisa and company were so stupid they did not even have the common sense to insist on ZEC producing a verified voters' roll! How anyone could go into an election with someone like Zanu PF with the reputation of rigging elections without something as basic as a voters' roll, beggars belief!
The British want Zanu PF to bring in MDC Alliance to form a GNU. Both the British and Zanu PF know the Chamisa and company will only be there as window dressing. With Zanu PF in charge, Zimbabwe will remain a pariah state ruled by ruthless thugs.
The economic recovery will never happen because no one wants to invest in a pariah state. The British and now the Germans too can pretend that Zanu PF with a few MDC leaders as window dress is no longer a party of thugs but not many investors will be fooled.
Today Zimbabwe is running of life-saving medicines because there is no money to buy the drugs. President Mnangagwa has just spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying new cars for Zanu PF candidates in the elections, party leaders, Chief, rogue war veterans, etc., etc. Some start for the new regime!
@ Mhlolo Khehla
"You seem to be of the mistaken view that only MDC has support and ZANU PF doesn't have. That is the mentality that has cost the MDC over the years. They identify wrong reasons and in the process fail to address the really reasons why they lose."
Of course, Zanu PF has support from apologists like you and the millions of ghost voters who have been voting for the party to keep it in power all these years. Zanu PF rigged these elections and that is a fact that no one with half a brain would dare to deny.
Even President Mnangagwa is not that stupid not to see what the British are doing here. They have not congratulated him on his election victory because they know he rigged the election. All the British are doing is try to save the thug from the curse of being branded illegitimate by pretending this is not a Zanu PF government but a GNU including the MDC Alliance.
The real big losers here are the ordinary people of Zimbabwe; the British are ramming a corrupt and incompetent Zanu PF dictatorship down our throats. What we wanted to do is grasp the nettle and hold Zanu PF to account for failing to hold free, fair and credible elections. We have made the grave error of letting Zanu PF rig elections and get away with it, we needed to deal with this now once and once for all. The British, for their own selfish reasons, are the ones seeking to sweep the vote rigging under the carpet!
The ordinary people have nothing to gain from allowing Zanu PF to get away with another rigged elections but everything to lose. The economic will not recover and, worse still, in 2023 the nation will still be stuck with a vote rigging Zanu PF!
What a dog's breakfast you made of it too! You failed to ask for even one ballot box to be opened to establish which of ZEC's three different figure was correct, if any at all!
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's lead counsel in his electoral petition, Advocate Thabani Mpofu has dismissed reports that he received $500 000 in legal fees for handling the case. Mpofu said that he had taken on the case on a pro bono (no charge) basis because he believed in the case.
If Chamisa did not pay him for the fcuk up then someone else did!
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has delayed announcing his Cabinet to give talks with youthful MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa a chance, highly placed sources.
The President has out-stretched his arms to Chamisa, was not rushing to appoint his Cabinet.
President Mnangagwa knows that he rigged the elections and the over the top reaction by his regime to stop the street protest has only served to confirm the iron fist in the velvet glove. Including Chamisa and a few of his MDC Alliance friends in his regime will go a long way to sanitize his corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF regime. He knows that during the last GNU Mugabe had an easy time; the tyrant blamed MDC for everything that was wrong and glowed in the credit for all that went right! He will be a fool not to do the same again!
Nothing would please Chamisa more than to be called minister again, even if it be minister of nothing as happened with Tsvangirai.
Besides, some inclusive government is what his handlers, the British, want too!
Although ZANU-PF won five more seats above the two-thirds majority in the 210 elected seats, it only won 35 in the proportional representation seats to give it 180 seats in the 270 member lower house, exactly a two-thirds majority without any single seat to spare. Add the President plus 2 VP, 8 provincial minister, 80 senators and another 10 or so none-constituency minister and special advisers and we are already getting to 370!
Compare and contrast with Ian Smith's 70 MPs government in 1974 with a population of 7 million. We have 370 officials, more than 5 times as many chefs, and the population has only doubled to 14 million! All these chefs want new cars, posh houses, generous salaries and allowances and they all love globe-trotting!
The Army has grown from two brigades to five and there are more majors and commanders now, far in excess of the population doubling up. The same has happen in the Police, CIO, Judiciary and other state institutions.
The economy has shrunk but those depending on it has increased particularly those who are good at creaming off the wealth whilst generating very little or nothing!
We have bloated government, and with the economy in a sorry state, this is now an urgent matter we must deal with or economic recover will remain a pipe dream for many, many more generation if at all! We must start by load shedding our bloated gravy train!
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