"The reshuffle of cabinet actually promoted all those
deemed 'excess baggage' by certain sections of the media. The big boys whom the
majority called dead wood were actually reassigned to full time jobs in the
party and would pull the strings in the same way the Chinese and ANC modelled
its governance system," said Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions secretary
general Japhet Moyo.
"So where is the excitement about the so called
'dream team'? People and organisations fell on each other to congratulate the
new team not knowing that what actually is billed as the new cabinet would work
under direct orders of the same old people who have been in the management of
government programmes over the past thirty eight years. In reality we have two
layers of cabinet. Put in a different way, we have the biggest cabinet ever in
the history of this country."
What makes it worse is that this junta regime is NOT
accountable to the people and therefore the junta knows that even if it fails
there is absolute nothing the people can do about it. Nothing!
Zimbabwe is in this sorry economic state with 90% out of
work, cholera and typhoid killing people because there is no clean running water,
75% living on US$1.00 or less a day, etc. because for the last 38 years the
people have failed to remove Zanu PF from power even when it was clear they
have failed.
President Mnangagwa and his junta rigged the 30 July 2018
elections just as they have done in the past. If they are still in power come
the next elections they will rig those elections too.
"But the question that needs to be answered is what
would make the decision of the big boys working behind the scenes turn around
our fortunes as a country when all these years they presided over the rot in
all sectors of our economy? What different advise or instructions would they
give to the dream team that themselves failed to do during their time when
presiding over the same ministries" Moyo continued.
The only question worthy asking is: What will the nation do
it President Mnangagwa and his junta fail to get us out of the economic mess?
This is a rhetorical question because we all know the answer
is NOTHING, we will all be wringing out fingers like helpless children whilst
we wallow in poverty and hopelessness, because this is a political emasculated
nation.
The challenge before us is how to get the democratic reforms
designed to end Zanu PF’s carte blanche dictatorial power to rig elections and
deny us the people a meaningful say in the governance of the country. We have
avoiding dealing with this challenge for the last 38 years and look where it
has landed us!
If we are serious about getting out of the hell-on-earth
Zanu PF dictatorial rule has landed us in then we must focus on dismantling the
dictatorship and not waste another hour on how we can make the dictatorship
work. After 38 years of failure and with the country right at the edge of the
precipice it is irresponsible to still keep on trying to make the dictatorship
work.
By blatantly rigged the July elections President Mnangagwa
showed us all that Zanu PF has not changed; it is still the same party of
corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging thugs. This Zanu PF regime is
illegitimate and if we allow it to remain in power for the next five years we
can be certain of one thing – Zanu PF will rig the next elections because it
will never ever implement even one reform! NEVER EVER!
If Zanu PF is still in power in 2023 then the party will rig
those elections to secure yet another landslide victory regardless of how the
party will have performed. If Zanu PF is still in power in 2023 then we, the
people of Zimbabwe, would have once again failed in our set task of dismantling
the Zanu PF dictatorship and replacing it with a healthy and functional
democratic system of government for ourselves, our children and posterity!
Nations get the regime they deserve. After 38 years, we in
Zimbabwe certainly deserve this corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging Zanu PF
dictatorship complete with its coterie of corrupt and incompetent opposition parties.
I still cannot believe that the opposition parties participated in the last
elections even when ZEC had failed to produce something as basic as a verified
voters’ roll. How stupid is that!
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The British want a serious dialogue on paying off Zimbabwe's debt but they are not interested in a serious dialogue on the country's failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. Zimbabwe's economic recovery is totally dependent on the country achieving meaningful political transformation by dismantlng the dictatorship and replacing it with a healthy and functioning democratic system of government.
By rigging the elections President Mnangagwa has chased away would-be investors and lenders. The latter are a shrewd and savvy lot; they do not do business in pariah state where the next regime change is another military coup or widespread street protests. There are enough risks in business venture without adding those brought on by political instability.
The whole world but even more so every thinking Zimbabwean out there, is therefore perplexed by what the British expect to achieve by adopting the same failed strategy of appeasing the Zanu PF thugs.
Mnangagwa is "Mugabe mark 2" in that he cares more about consolidating his own hold on power than about running public service for the good of all. He has retired the deadwood on full ministerial salaries and privileges just as he has done to Mugabe and the late Morgan Tsvangirai. The nation is broke and yet he is spending $20 million on new ministerial cars just because he does not want to take away those issued to the retired deadwood who had them for 8 months!
By rigging the elections President Mnangagwa has just confirmed that Zimbabwe is still a pariah state ruled by ruthless thugs. Anyone who thinks that any investors will ever want to invest in such a country is naive, to say the least. The regime has just shot itself in the foot.
I agree the nation should not concern itself as to who, the deadwood cabinet or the dream team cabinet, to blame for the country's economic failures that are set to follow. As long as the next elections are not free, fair and credible, Zanu PF is set to win another landslide victory just as the party has done these last 38 years regardless of all its economic blunders and brutal oppression. The real challenge before us is how to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections.
If Zanu PF is still in power and is responsible to holding the next elections then the party will rig the elections and remain in power regardless how badly the junta has performed. After 38 years of the same bad performance and Zanu PF remaining in power regardless it is disappointing that some people still fail to see that the nation is stuck.
Real change will not come from Zanu PF shuffling deadwood, or replacing most of the deadwood with new faces. Real change will come from overhauling the political system itself; end the dictatorship in which the dictator's whim is all that matters and replace it with a democratic system where all public officials are accountable to the people.
Members of Parliament from the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) that is led by Nelson Chamisa heckled Mnangagwa when he started reading his speech before filing out.
Chamisa - who is not a member of parliament and lost a court challenge to Mnangagwa's win last month - maintains that he was cheated of victory by the electoral board and says the 76-year-old president lack legitimacy.
MDC leaders have been warned 100 000 times and 100 000 times again in the last six months alone not to participate in the elections without first implementing the reforms. They refused to listen.
"MDC has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections!" Chamisa boasted. So the MDC went into these elections cocksure they would win rigged elections.
Indeed, MDC leaders were so cocksure of elections victory they still participated in the elections even when ZEC failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters' roll!
The elections went ahead and, as expected, Zanu PF blatantly rigged the elections and now the MDC are complaining that the elections were rigged. How stupid is that when they were warned that would happen but refused to listen.
My greatest hope is that this MDC blunder has forced those many MDC supporters who have followed MDC leaders blindly like sheep to the slaughter to finally open their eyes and see Chamisa et al for what they really are - breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent village idiots who have sold-out on the common cause of bringing free, fair and credible elections.
By participating in these flawed and illegal elections MDC leaders gave the process some modicum of credibility. They walking out now is no more than closing the door of the stable long after the horse has bolted!
We now have an illegitimate Zanu PF junta in power and the nation must now find a way to force it to step aside before the next elections. The junta will never implement any reforms as long as it remains in power and with no reforms in place Zanu PF will rig the next elections! We must break this vicious cycle!
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