One’s decisions must always be underpinned by
logic and not some foolish dogma.
“Respected political
analyst Dr Pedzisai Ruhanya has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to swallow
his pride and hand over power to a youthful leader,” reported Zimeye.
“The future of any
country belongs to the young generation; they are energetic, innovative,
entrepreneurial, hardworking and drivers and
manufacturers of ideas and products. The liberation generation in Zimbabwe has played its role and must leave the political dance floor,” tweeted Dr Ruhanya.
manufacturers of ideas and products. The liberation generation in Zimbabwe has played its role and must leave the political dance floor,” tweeted Dr Ruhanya.
President Mnangagwa
and his Zanu PF junta rigged the 30 July 2018 elections and the regime is, per
se, illegitimate and it is for this reason and no other that the regime must
step down.
Zimbabwe is in this
economic and political mess because the nation has been stuck for the last 38
years with a corrupt and incompetent Zanu PF regime that rigged the elections
to stay in power. The party has justified the blatant vote rigging and even the
use of wanton violence to stay in power on the grounds only Zanu PF would
retain the country’s independence and sovereignty.
“Opposition leaders
are puppets of the western powers seeking regime change and to reverse the
gains of our independence! Only leaders with liberation war credential are fit
to rule Zimbabwe.” We have heard Mugabe, Mnangagwa and other Zanu PF leaders
say again and again.
“We are the
stockholders of Zimbabwe and the rest are stakeholders who come and go!” said
rogue war veteran and now Zanu PF deputy Minister of Defence and War Veterans,
Victor Matemadanda.
As the stockholders
of Zimbabwe Zanu PF leaders had the veto whilst the rest of us had the devalued
vote. The party has used its veto to establish and retain the de facto
one-party dictatorship.
With their iron grip
on absolute power secured, Zanu PF leaders have heartlessly and shamelessly
looted the nation’s wealth and resources to feed their insatiable appetites for
riches and luxuries at the expense of the impoverished masses. Unemployment has
soared to dizzying heights of 90%, the country is in the middle of cholera
outbreak because there is no clean running water and yet the regime has been
wasting millions of dollars of new cars, chartered planes, etc.
Zimbabwe’s economic
meltdown is economically, socially, politically and morally unjustified and
unsustainable. Whilst the country remains under the Zanu PF dictatorship there
is no hope of any meaningful economic recover because no investors and lenders
would ever want to do business in a country where corruption and lawlessness
are the norm.
By rigging the
recent elections President Mnangagwa confirmed that Zimbabwe was still a pariah
state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. For the country to have an
meaningful economic recovery it is imperative that the country ends pariah
state and hence the need for the vote rigging regime to resign.
Any suggestion that
President Mnangagwa and his junta must resign because there are old and the “country
belongs to the young generation, etc.” is stupid and mischievous, to say the
least. The country is in this political and economic mess because it was stuck
with a corrupt and tyrannical regime for 38 years under the pretext that only
those with liberation war credential are fit to rule. The last thing we want is
ditch one foolish dogma only to take up another equally foolish dogma, that
only the young are fit to rule Zimbabwe.
38 years ago, Mnangagwa
37 years old, 3 years younger that Chamisa today, and so too were many of the
Zanu PF thugs; that did not stop them terrorising the nation and destroying the
nation’s economy. During the GNU Chamisa and his MDC friends had many the
golden opportunities to implement the democratic reforms that would have stopped
Zanu PF rigging elections and yet the failed to get even one reform
implemented. Proof, if any was needed, that one’s youth is no guarantee of good
leadership qualities.
A reformed and democratic
Zimbabwe will allow freedom of expression and healthy debate and competition. The
electorate must then elect future leaders on the basis of the ideas they have
offered and not on their liberation war credential, age, tribe, etc.
4 comments:
Right Honourable Minister of Finance, Mthuli Ncube, the British have said that the political playing field was not level.
1) Do you agree that the elections were rigged?
2) Now that the British are saying Zanu PF rigged the elections and have stopped giving the Zimbabwe government the help in securing the financial assistance from the IMF, WB, Paris Club, etc. where is Zanu PF going to get the money to bankroll the economic recovery?
TEACHERS have threatened industrial action if government does not adjust their salaries to $600 per month to cushion them against a wave of price increases and the central bank's 2% tax on all electronic transfers.
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has also rallied workers to take to the streets to protest the new tax regime that has sparked a wave of price increases of all basic commodities, consequently eroding ordinary workers' disposal income.
At the rate at which inflation is soaring workers will be advised to demand salary increments that are tied to the rate of inflation otherwise they will be asking for an increment every month, every week and every day! Now that the investors and lenders alike have decided they are not going to invest in a pariah state there is only direction for the Zimbabwe economy to go - down!
Invictus Energy Ltd (ASX:IVZ) managing director Scott Macmillan speaks to Proactive Investors about the oil and gas exploration company’s Cabora Bassa Project in northern Zimbabwe.
“It’s a fantastic asset that we’ve picked up – it was previously explored by Mobil over 30 years ago and it’s been sitting dormant, locked up for the past 25 years.
Very interesting. The tragedy is the discovery may have just come at a time when Zimbabwe was fighting for meaningful political change. This kind of news will only encourage the Zanu PF thugs to dig in just as they did in the 2008 period after the discovery of diamonds in Marange.
@ Dungani
"This country belongs to the young. Mnangagwa is at an age that we had wanted Mugabe to leave," you say.
"Nothing new will come from the old. The old value and stick to old traits."
Nothing good came out of Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF thugs 30 and 40 years ago, indeed that was the time Zanu PF murdered more innocent Zimbabweans to establish the de facto one party state. Would you have voted them into power back then regardless of their murderous record just because they were young?
It is foolish to elect leaders on the basis of their youth just as it was foolish to elect leaders on the basis of their liberation war credentials.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people," said Eleanor Roosevelt.
She was right, we are stuck in this hell-hole because we cannot rise above petty person straits like age, gender, race, etc. in our election of leaders! After 38 years blundering from pillar to post because only leaders with liberation war credentials were considered fit to rule now we are obsessed about age as if Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF thugs performed miracles in their youth!
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