If the truth be told, it must, there was no excuse for allowing Zanu PF to play any part into the 2008 GNU. The party had blatantly rigged those elections and even boasted about it.
"What was accomplished by the bullet cannot be undone by the ballot!" said Robert Mugabe as he unleashed the Zanu PF party thugs, the rogue war veterans, the Army, Police and CIO to harass, beat and even murder innocent and defenceless civilians. It was punishment for having rejected the party in the earlier March vote and to make sure the people voted for Mugabe in the run-off.
SADC leaders, in their infantile wisdom, decide to allow Mugabe and Zanu PF into the GNU to give the tyrant and his cronies a soft landing. Mugabe and his cronies had rigged the elections in a desperate effort to hang on to power after all the years of enjoying absolute power. Instead of booting Mugabe and his Zanu PF out of office, allowing them to share power in the GNU was to save them the public humiliation of being called cheats.
It is clear that Zanu PF did not learn the lesson because they have gone on to blatantly rig the 2013 elections and then doing the same yet again this year.
Zimbabwe is in deep trouble right now because the country has no legitimate and competent government. Zanu PF rigged the elections; the regime is illegitimate.
There is no doubt that the economic situation in Zimbabwe is now so desperate there is a real danger of the country sliding into social and political chaos. The illegitimate Zanu PF regime cannot be allowed to remain in power and drag the nation into the abyss.
Whatever interim government arrangement that comes out cannot included Zanu PF; the regime does not deserve yet another soft landing, it must go.
The arrangement cannot include MDC leaders either, they failed to implement the reforms last time out of selfish greed. There is no doubt they are as keen as mustard to be included in the new GNU for the sake of gravy train benefit; the nation has other priorities!
Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services deputy minister Energy Mutodi has rubbished claims by Nelson Chamisa that he met with President Cyril Ramaphosa last week to seek help from SA to break Zimbabwe's political and economic impasse.
SADC leaders would be very foolish to let Zimbabwe become a failed state under the illegal Zanu PF regime. The economic situation in the country is dire and cannot be allowed to go on. SADC must step in now before Zimbabwe becomes socially and political unstable and drag the whole region down into the abyss with it. Time is running out for SADC to act!
“Was it that simple, I don't believe so, what I remember there was so much debate on security sector reform & Zanu PF refused to budge even an inch. To make matters Mugabe wouldn't have signed what he didn't like. Food for thought,” you say.
Actually the process to implement the reforms was as Patrick has stated above. What you must do (which MDC leaders failed to do in reply to Minister Chinamasa’s statement above) is give us an example of one reform proposal MDC submitted in parliament.
As for “Mugabe wouldn’t have signed what he didn’t like”. Well we know he did not like sharing power with MDC and would have never signed the Global Political Agreement forcing him to do so. The Agreement also called for the implementation of the raft of democratic reforms and signing off proposed reforms was part of honouring that agreement. It was not MDC leaders’ business to save Mugabe being held to account for failing to honour the GPA by making sure there was no proposal for him to refuse to sign!
The real food for thought here is that even with the benefit of hindsight there are Zimbabweans who still refuse to accept that MDC leaders sold-out on reforms during the GNU. A healthy and functional democracy demands a vigilant and well informed electorate ready and willing to hold leaders to account. A naive and gullible electorate always ready to follow leaders blindly like sheep to the slaughter is a curse to the nation!
“In as much as we, indeed, should pray for our nation and our leaders – it is completely different when we are used as political puppets, under the guise of ‘subjecting ourselves to authority’, and ‘having hope for our country’.
Religion has become the opium of the people and this is very true in Zimbabwe. It is pleasing that there a few people who are beginning to see the evil side of how churches have been co-opted into the country’s corrupt and oppressive political system. Instead of Church leaders speaking against corruption, rigged elections, etc. they are falling over each other in singing the praises of the same corrupt and incompetent political leaders.
Indeed, it is now fashionable for corrupt and incompetent politicians to become active church members and even church leaders!
It is a crying shame that religion has been corrupted to the point of being utterly useless!
Note: Acts marked with an asterisk (*) were purportedly aligned to the Constitution by the General Laws Amendment Act, 2016 (No. 3 of 2016) or by the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Amendment Act, 2016 (No. 2 of 2016). The extent of their alignment was only partial at best, as the following list shows.
1. Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act [Chapter 10:27]* The Act should be repealed or, at the very least amended: • To guarantee and facilitate access to information; some sections unnecessarily restrict access to information. “Excluded information”, to which access cannot be obtained, includes: o information about how the President exercised his discretionary powers (section 4 and First Schedule to the Act); o parliamentary records protected by parliamentary privilege (ditto); Also, individuals who are neither citizens nor permanently resident, and unregistered media organisations, have no right to information under the Act (section 5(3)). • To remove the restrictions on foreigners participating in the production of local newspapers and other media. Under section 65 of the Act, foreigners cannot be mass media owners in Zimbabwe, and under section 79(3) journalists cannot be accredited, save for short periods, unless they are citizens or permanent residents of Zimbabwe. The restrictions stifle investment in the media and violate freedom of expression – a right which is enjoyed by foreigners as well as Zimbabweans. • To remove the restrictions on the activities of journalists who are not accredited under the Act. Under sections 78(4) and 79(7) of the Act unaccredited journalists cannot be employed on a full-time basis by media publishers and news agencies, and this unjustifiably restricts the scope of their work, thereby violating their own freedom of expression and that of their employers. • To abolish the criminal offence of abuse of journalistic privilege (section 80). At the very least, journalists charged under the section should be given a defence of “reasonable publication” if they rely in good faith on information provided by sources which they have no real reason to believe to be unreliable. The defence should be available if it was reasonable for a person in the position of the defendant journalist to have published the material in the manner and form he or she did.
2. Acquisition of Farm Equipment or Material Act [Chapter 18:23] The Act should be amended to ensure that “fair and adequate” compensation is paid for farm equipment seized under the Act, as provided in section 71(3)(c)(ii) of the Constitution. The Act merely provides for farm equipment to be valued by government valuers, without laying down any criteria whatever for their valuation (section 5) and states that if the acquisition or proposed compensation is contested the Administrative Court may fix any compensation it deems reasonable in the circumstances (section 8(4)).
What Veritas are saying here is spot on, the realignment has been done in accordance with the new Constitution but still leaves a lot to be desire precisely because the new constitution itself is weak and/or the relevant law or institution should have been reformed in parallel with the writing of the new constitution.
A few weeks ago the Con-Court, Justice Rita Makarau, ruled that POSA was unconstitutional for example. The government was given six months to replace it with another law. The government does not have to come with another law as the State President has the same power contained in POSA given him under section 209!
“But wasn't the new constitution meant to bring in the much needed reforms. If the constitution was silent on those reforms then why did the MDC campaign for the people to vote yes. Remember it was MDC which campaigned loudly for people to vote yes, i don't remember them telling us that the new draft constitution was no good. In fact, if my memory saves me well, it was Zanu which used to say negative sentiments against the draft constitution only to turn pro at the eleventh hour.”
You are spot on there. MDC assured the nation that the 2013 elections would be free, fair and credible thanks to the new constitution, “an MDC child” Tsvangirai called it.
This year MDC Alliance told the nation another story. “MDC has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging elections!” Chamisa said.
MDC leaders are corrupt and incompetent and they sold-out on the implementing of reforms alright.
We need a new GNU to implement the reforms but both Zanu PF and MDC leaders must be excluded from the new arrangement! They messed up last time and we do not need them to throw the spanner in the works!
What is so disappointing here is that the nation is stuck with a corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. It obvious to everyone else with half a working brain that the regime has managed to stay in power because it rigged elections. None of the 90% unemployed or 75% living on US$1.00 a day would vote for the party in a free, fair and credible election because they would not want to be unemployed, etc.
The only way to stop Zanu PF rigging elections and staying in power against the democratic wishes of the people would be to ensure the elections are free, fair and credible. One would have thought in this day and age we would all know what constitutes free, fair and credible elections. Sadly that is not the case.
We have people like Timothy Thorton either genuinely have no clue what constitute free and fair elections or they pretend not to know. Either way the result is the same the nation is stuck. The nation is facing the possibility of total economic collapse triggering social and political instability and instead of discuss what the nation should do to stop the collapse we are still discussing what constitute a rigged election!
In this day and age, 38 years after our own independence and we still have people who do not know Zanu PF rigged the 2018 elections! It is nauseating that anyone could be that shallow, thick and slow. Yet here is one such character, Timothy Thorton, and, which is worse, there are hundreds of thousands other like him! SAD, VERY SAD!
The first big lesson is the power of Unity across all sectors. The proletariat cannot afford to fight from silos when we really know the mighty of the state. The State will work around the clock to keep the working class divided. Sections of the working class are made to feel more superior compared to others through preferential treatment and material rewards. The state media also consistently churn out highly divisive propaganda messages.
At this point citizens should unite across sectors by any means necessary. The peasants should spend more time in planning meetings with the workers. The unemployed should also come in fully appreciating that the coming revolution will guarantee employment opportunities for the unemployed and protect them from exploitation at the workplace.
This is a time for new heroes. Heroes who can unite the people into a solid unit to fight and defeat austerity.
The second lesson is the imperative of engaging in nonviolent action. The Sate commands institutions of brutal force, it will be naïve to engage in stone throwing in a bid to avert the looming catastrophe. We should never give them a reason to shoot at our defenceless citizens. The morality of our struggle will be judged by how much we can resist provocation and remain loyal the principal cardinal of nonviolent action.
Thirdly we should make use of social media to counter the propaganda of the State. We can only win the battle of the hearts of the people if we keep the people fully informed of the true nature of our struggle and our broader goal. The young women and men of our generation should take the lead on social media countering state propaganda and conveying the truths to our people.
Lastly we should all assume the role of mobilisers.” Mobilise or die!” We have to traverse the length and breadth of this country and engage the populace to bring them on board the revolutionary train. Let’s meet at the workplaces, in the villages, in commuter omnibuses and collectively strategize on how we can avert the impending catastrophe.
Our immediate task is to get rid of the worst enemy of the people Professor Mthuli Ncube. Mthuli is the face of austerity in Zimbabwe. To that end we invite all citizens to Professor Mthuli’s office on 07 January 2019 at 0900hrs. We will spend the whole day demanding either an end to austerity or Mthuli’s resignation. Out of courtesy we will notify the police.
Our immediate task is to get rid of the worst enemy of the people Professor Mthuli Ncube. Mthuli is the face of austerity in Zimbabwe. To that end we invite all citizens to Professor Mthuli’s office on 07 January 2019 at 0900hrs. We will spend the whole day demanding either an end to austerity or Mthuli’s resignation. Out of courtesy we will notify the police.
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Could not agree with you more, on the need for Zimbabweans to wake up to the reality that we are all in this together. Like it or not everyone of us; teachers, doctors, the vendor eking a living by selling air time and trinkets, everyone even the so called ruling elite; is suffering one way or the other from the shortage of fuel, drugs, etc. No Zimbabwean has gained anything, in the long run, from destroying the Zimbabwe economy.
Whilst the ruling elite would not want to give up power regardless of the mountain of evidence that they have failed to govern and it is their failure that is the root cause of the economic mess we now find ourselves stuck in. Still there is no reason why the rest of us, the teacher, doctor, vendor, etc. should fail to unite is our fight to end the misrule.
It is very disappointing that even this late into this Zanu PF dictatorship so many people still fail to see that the root cause of the country’s economic mess is the failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. Teachers, doctors, etc. going on strike to demand better wages are securing the stable door long after the horse has bolted. As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs there will never be an meaningful economic recovery. The people of Zimbabwe should be united in their demand for an end to the curse of rigged elections and pariah state.
Zanu PF rigged the 30 July 2018 elections, the regime is illegitimate, and it must step down. To get out of this economic mess the country needs a legitimate and competent government and not a corrupt and illegitimate one!
The problem of bad governance will never be resolves by removing one minister at a time. Zanu PF is illegitimate and the whole regime must step down.
38 years of criminal waste of the nation’s material and human resources! And here is one of the Zanu PF ruling elite dismissing it as a “difficult patch”!
Worse still, VP Chiwenga maintains “government is doing its best to turnaround the fortunes of our nations.” This is utter nonsense.
President Mnangagwa and VP Chiwenga, who took over power from Mugabe, promised to stamp out corruption. After over a year in power, they too have yet to arrest even one of the diamond swindlers and recover even one dollar.
There is no hope of any meaningful economic recovery as long as the nation remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs.
Zanu PF rigged the recent elections and the regime must be told in no uncertain terms that it must step down.
Acting President Constantino Chiwenga has reportedly reached an agreement with suspended doctors who are now expected to report to work immediately after it was agreed that 60% of their salaries will be paid in foreign currency.
If that is true, then it is a piece of good news for the doctors. Sadly, it will be a drop in the ocean that will change nothing, not even for the doctors themselves. Doctors were being paid a misery US$ 385 per month and paying the 60% of it in foreign currency will not take them to the US$650 per month living wage.
What is required here is for doctors, teachers, nurses, vendors, peasant and everybody with a working brain to realize that the root cause of Zimbabwe's economic meltdown is the country's failure to remove from office corrupt and incompetent leaders. Zanu PF rigged the recent elections and that is the number one problem that must be solved.
As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs then meaningful economic recovery will remain a pipe dream!
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If the truth be told, it must, there was no excuse for allowing Zanu PF to play any part into the 2008 GNU. The party had blatantly rigged those elections and even boasted about it.
"What was accomplished by the bullet cannot be undone by the ballot!" said Robert Mugabe as he unleashed the Zanu PF party thugs, the rogue war veterans, the Army, Police and CIO to harass, beat and even murder innocent and defenceless civilians. It was punishment for having rejected the party in the earlier March vote and to make sure the people voted for Mugabe in the run-off.
SADC leaders, in their infantile wisdom, decide to allow Mugabe and Zanu PF into the GNU to give the tyrant and his cronies a soft landing. Mugabe and his cronies had rigged the elections in a desperate effort to hang on to power after all the years of enjoying absolute power. Instead of booting Mugabe and his Zanu PF out of office, allowing them to share power in the GNU was to save them the public humiliation of being called cheats.
It is clear that Zanu PF did not learn the lesson because they have gone on to blatantly rig the 2013 elections and then doing the same yet again this year.
Zimbabwe is in deep trouble right now because the country has no legitimate and competent government. Zanu PF rigged the elections; the regime is illegitimate.
There is no doubt that the economic situation in Zimbabwe is now so desperate there is a real danger of the country sliding into social and political chaos. The illegitimate Zanu PF regime cannot be allowed to remain in power and drag the nation into the abyss.
Whatever interim government arrangement that comes out cannot included Zanu PF; the regime does not deserve yet another soft landing, it must go.
The arrangement cannot include MDC leaders either, they failed to implement the reforms last time out of selfish greed. There is no doubt they are as keen as mustard to be included in the new GNU for the sake of gravy train benefit; the nation has other priorities!
Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services deputy minister Energy Mutodi has rubbished claims by Nelson Chamisa that he met with President Cyril Ramaphosa last week to seek help from SA to break Zimbabwe's political and economic impasse.
SADC leaders would be very foolish to let Zimbabwe become a failed state under the illegal Zanu PF regime. The economic situation in the country is dire and cannot be allowed to go on. SADC must step in now before Zimbabwe becomes socially and political unstable and drag the whole region down into the abyss with it. Time is running out for SADC to act!
@ Mazhongorizhwa
“Was it that simple, I don't believe so, what I remember there was so much debate on security sector reform & Zanu PF refused to budge even an inch. To make matters Mugabe wouldn't have signed what he didn't like. Food for thought,” you say.
Actually the process to implement the reforms was as Patrick has stated above. What you must do (which MDC leaders failed to do in reply to Minister Chinamasa’s statement above) is give us an example of one reform proposal MDC submitted in parliament.
As for “Mugabe wouldn’t have signed what he didn’t like”. Well we know he did not like sharing power with MDC and would have never signed the Global Political Agreement forcing him to do so. The Agreement also called for the implementation of the raft of democratic reforms and signing off proposed reforms was part of honouring that agreement. It was not MDC leaders’ business to save Mugabe being held to account for failing to honour the GPA by making sure there was no proposal for him to refuse to sign!
The real food for thought here is that even with the benefit of hindsight there are Zimbabweans who still refuse to accept that MDC leaders sold-out on reforms during the GNU. A healthy and functional democracy demands a vigilant and well informed electorate ready and willing to hold leaders to account. A naive and gullible electorate always ready to follow leaders blindly like sheep to the slaughter is a curse to the nation!
@ Mbofana
“In as much as we, indeed, should pray for our nation and our leaders – it is completely different when we are used as political puppets, under the guise of ‘subjecting ourselves to authority’, and ‘having hope for our country’.
Religion has become the opium of the people and this is very true in Zimbabwe. It is pleasing that there a few people who are beginning to see the evil side of how churches have been co-opted into the country’s corrupt and oppressive political system. Instead of Church leaders speaking against corruption, rigged elections, etc. they are falling over each other in singing the praises of the same corrupt and incompetent political leaders.
Indeed, it is now fashionable for corrupt and incompetent politicians to become active church members and even church leaders!
It is a crying shame that religion has been corrupted to the point of being utterly useless!
VERITAS
STATUTES REQUIRING CONSTITUTIONAL ALIGNMENT
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Note: Acts marked with an asterisk (*) were purportedly aligned to the Constitution by the General Laws Amendment Act, 2016 (No. 3 of 2016) or by the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Amendment Act, 2016 (No. 2 of 2016). The extent of their alignment was only partial at best, as the following list shows.
1. Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act [Chapter 10:27]*
The Act should be repealed or, at the very least amended:
• To guarantee and facilitate access to information; some sections unnecessarily restrict access to information. “Excluded information”, to which access cannot be obtained, includes:
o information about how the President exercised his discretionary powers (section 4 and First Schedule to the Act);
o parliamentary records protected by parliamentary privilege (ditto);
Also, individuals who are neither citizens nor permanently resident, and unregistered media organisations, have no right to information under the Act (section 5(3)).
• To remove the restrictions on foreigners participating in the production of local newspapers and other media. Under section 65 of the Act, foreigners cannot be mass media owners in Zimbabwe, and under section 79(3) journalists
cannot be accredited, save for short periods, unless they are citizens or permanent residents of Zimbabwe. The restrictions stifle investment in the media and violate freedom of expression – a right which is enjoyed by foreigners as well as Zimbabweans.
• To remove the restrictions on the activities of journalists who are not accredited under the Act. Under sections 78(4) and 79(7) of the Act unaccredited journalists cannot be employed on a full-time basis by media publishers and
news agencies, and this unjustifiably restricts the scope of their work, thereby violating their own freedom of expression and that of their employers.
• To abolish the criminal offence of abuse of journalistic privilege (section 80).
At the very least, journalists charged under the section should be given a defence of “reasonable publication” if they rely in good faith on information provided by sources which they have no real reason to believe to be unreliable.
The defence should be available if it was reasonable for a person in the position of the defendant journalist to have published the material in the manner and form he or she did.
2. Acquisition of Farm Equipment or Material Act [Chapter 18:23] The Act should be amended to ensure that “fair and adequate” compensation is paid for farm equipment seized under the Act, as provided in section 71(3)(c)(ii) of the Constitution. The Act merely provides for farm equipment to be valued by government valuers, without laying down any criteria whatever for their valuation (section 5) and states that if the acquisition or proposed compensation is contested the Administrative Court may fix any compensation it deems reasonable in the circumstances (section 8(4)).
What Veritas are saying here is spot on, the realignment has been done in accordance with the new Constitution but still leaves a lot to be desire precisely because the new constitution itself is weak and/or the relevant law or institution should have been reformed in parallel with the writing of the new constitution.
A few weeks ago the Con-Court, Justice Rita Makarau, ruled that POSA was unconstitutional for example. The government was given six months to replace it with another law. The government does not have to come with another law as the State President has the same power contained in POSA given him under section 209!
@ Bhongabesabe
“But wasn't the new constitution meant to bring in the much needed reforms. If the constitution was silent on those reforms then why did the MDC campaign for the people to vote yes. Remember it was MDC which campaigned loudly for people to vote yes, i don't remember them telling us that the new draft constitution was no good. In fact, if my memory saves me well, it was Zanu which used to say negative sentiments against the draft constitution only to turn pro at the eleventh hour.”
You are spot on there. MDC assured the nation that the 2013 elections would be free, fair and credible thanks to the new constitution, “an MDC child” Tsvangirai called it.
This year MDC Alliance told the nation another story. “MDC has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging elections!” Chamisa said.
MDC leaders are corrupt and incompetent and they sold-out on the implementing of reforms alright.
We need a new GNU to implement the reforms but both Zanu PF and MDC leaders must be excluded from the new arrangement! They messed up last time and we do not need them to throw the spanner in the works!
What is so disappointing here is that the nation is stuck with a corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. It obvious to everyone else with half a working brain that the regime has managed to stay in power because it rigged elections. None of the 90% unemployed or 75% living on US$1.00 a day would vote for the party in a free, fair and credible election because they would not want to be unemployed, etc.
The only way to stop Zanu PF rigging elections and staying in power against the democratic wishes of the people would be to ensure the elections are free, fair and credible. One would have thought in this day and age we would all know what constitutes free, fair and credible elections. Sadly that is not the case.
We have people like Timothy Thorton either genuinely have no clue what constitute free and fair elections or they pretend not to know. Either way the result is the same the nation is stuck. The nation is facing the possibility of total economic collapse triggering social and political instability and instead of discuss what the nation should do to stop the collapse we are still discussing what constitute a rigged election!
In this day and age, 38 years after our own independence and we still have people who do not know Zanu PF rigged the 2018 elections! It is nauseating that anyone could be that shallow, thick and slow. Yet here is one such character, Timothy Thorton, and, which is worse, there are hundreds of thousands other like him! SAD, VERY SAD!
Part 1 of 2
@ Obert Masaraure
The first big lesson is the power of Unity across all sectors. The proletariat cannot afford to fight from silos when we really know the mighty of the state. The State will work around the clock to keep the working class divided. Sections of the working class are made to feel more superior compared to others through preferential treatment and material rewards. The state media also consistently churn out highly divisive propaganda messages.
At this point citizens should unite across sectors by any means necessary. The peasants should spend more time in planning meetings with the workers. The unemployed should also come in fully appreciating that the coming revolution will guarantee employment opportunities for the unemployed and protect them from exploitation at the workplace.
This is a time for new heroes. Heroes who can unite the people into a solid unit to fight and defeat austerity.
The second lesson is the imperative of engaging in nonviolent action. The Sate commands institutions of brutal force, it will be naïve to engage in stone throwing in a bid to avert the looming catastrophe. We should never give them a reason to shoot at our defenceless citizens. The morality of our struggle will be judged by how much we can resist provocation and remain loyal the principal cardinal of nonviolent action.
Thirdly we should make use of social media to counter the propaganda of the State. We can only win the battle of the hearts of the people if we keep the people fully informed of the true nature of our struggle and our broader goal. The young women and men of our generation should take the lead on social media countering state propaganda and conveying the truths to our people.
Lastly we should all assume the role of mobilisers.” Mobilise or die!” We have to traverse the length and breadth of this country and engage the populace to bring them on board the revolutionary train. Let’s meet at the workplaces, in the villages, in commuter omnibuses and collectively strategize on how we can avert the impending catastrophe.
Our immediate task is to get rid of the worst enemy of the people Professor Mthuli Ncube. Mthuli is the face of austerity in Zimbabwe. To that end we invite all citizens to Professor Mthuli’s office on 07 January 2019 at 0900hrs. We will spend the whole day demanding either an end to austerity or Mthuli’s resignation. Out of courtesy we will notify the police.
Part 2 of 2
@ Obert Masaraure
Our immediate task is to get rid of the worst enemy of the people Professor Mthuli Ncube. Mthuli is the face of austerity in Zimbabwe. To that end we invite all citizens to Professor Mthuli’s office on 07 January 2019 at 0900hrs. We will spend the whole day demanding either an end to austerity or Mthuli’s resignation. Out of courtesy we will notify the police.
00
Could not agree with you more, on the need for Zimbabweans to wake up to the reality that we are all in this together. Like it or not everyone of us; teachers, doctors, the vendor eking a living by selling air time and trinkets, everyone even the so called ruling elite; is suffering one way or the other from the shortage of fuel, drugs, etc. No Zimbabwean has gained anything, in the long run, from destroying the Zimbabwe economy.
Whilst the ruling elite would not want to give up power regardless of the mountain of evidence that they have failed to govern and it is their failure that is the root cause of the economic mess we now find ourselves stuck in. Still there is no reason why the rest of us, the teacher, doctor, vendor, etc. should fail to unite is our fight to end the misrule.
It is very disappointing that even this late into this Zanu PF dictatorship so many people still fail to see that the root cause of the country’s economic mess is the failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. Teachers, doctors, etc. going on strike to demand better wages are securing the stable door long after the horse has bolted. As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs there will never be an meaningful economic recovery.
The people of Zimbabwe should be united in their demand for an end to the curse of rigged elections and pariah state.
Zanu PF rigged the 30 July 2018 elections, the regime is illegitimate, and it must step down. To get out of this economic mess the country needs a legitimate and competent government and not a corrupt and illegitimate one!
The problem of bad governance will never be resolves by removing one minister at a time. Zanu PF is illegitimate and the whole regime must step down.
38 years of criminal waste of the nation’s material and human resources! And here is one of the Zanu PF ruling elite dismissing it as a “difficult patch”!
Worse still, VP Chiwenga maintains “government is doing its best to turnaround the fortunes of our nations.” This is utter nonsense.
President Mnangagwa and VP Chiwenga, who took over power from Mugabe, promised to stamp out corruption. After over a year in power, they too have yet to arrest even one of the diamond swindlers and recover even one dollar.
There is no hope of any meaningful economic recovery as long as the nation remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs.
Zanu PF rigged the recent elections and the regime must be told in no uncertain terms that it must step down.
Acting President Constantino Chiwenga has reportedly reached an agreement with suspended doctors who are now expected to report to work immediately after it was agreed that 60% of their salaries will be paid in foreign currency.
If that is true, then it is a piece of good news for the doctors. Sadly, it will be a drop in the ocean that will change nothing, not even for the doctors themselves. Doctors were being paid a misery US$ 385 per month and paying the 60% of it in foreign currency will not take them to the US$650 per month living wage.
What is required here is for doctors, teachers, nurses, vendors, peasant and everybody with a working brain to realize that the root cause of Zimbabwe's economic meltdown is the country's failure to remove from office corrupt and incompetent leaders. Zanu PF rigged the recent elections and that is the number one problem that must be solved.
As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs then meaningful economic recovery will remain a pipe dream!
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