“ED will surprise Chamisa with a prosperous 2019,” Dr Mavaza argued in Bulawayo 24.
Why wait! Why did ED fail to surprise the whole nation with the a prosperous 2018?
Mnangagwa was a senior member of Zanu PF for the last 38 years, it is nonsense to pretend that he did not play his role in the mismanagement, corruption and the lawlessness that caused the economic ruin. He certainly played the biggest role, second to Mugabe himself, in the blatant rigging of elections and use of brute force to establish and retain the de facto one party’s state.
Mnangagwa promised to hold free, fair and credible elections last July. He failed to keep his promised and blatantly rigged the elections. Mnangagwa and his his junta have no democratic mandate to govern, they are illegitimate, and they must therefore step down.
Yes, since the country gained her independence in 1980, Zanu PF has rigged the elections to stay in power. The people of Zimbabwe have turned a blind eye to the rigging for fear of the regime’s angry reaction if they did otherwise. This, as we can now see, was a foolish mistake because 38 years of Zanu PF misrule has left the nation in economic ruins.
Zanu PF rigged the 30 July 2018 elections are the party must step down; we must not repeat the mistake of the last 38 years of rewarding those who rig elections by allowing them to rule.
“Insanity,” said the great Physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Albert Einstein, “is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different result!”
For the last 38 years we have allowed ourselves to be ruled by a corrupt and vote rigging regime in the hope that it will deliver economic prosperity, “Gutsva ruzhinji!” (Mass prosperity!), as Mugabe never tired of telling the nation. All Zanu PF has ever brought is mass poverty!
The simple most important lesson we should have learned from the folly of the last four decades is: that it pays in the end to elect a competent and democratically accountable government in the beginning. Our insanity was to expect a vote rigging and hence illegitimate regime to delivery economic prosperity!
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“Government has opened up 204 posts nationwide for junior doctors, for which it is seeking applications from students who have completed their five year programmes from either of the medical Universities in the country.”
The advert failed to say the junior doctors will be paid a misery $385 per month in Bond Notes paid into a local Bank account from which they will be able to withdraw a maximum of 50 Bond Notes a day. The government official exchange rate is 1:1 US$ to Bond Note but in practice it is 1:3, at best. The hospitals are so poorly funded most the buildings, equipment everything are in advance state of rot and decay and is there is a chronic shortage of even the most basic drugs!
Zimbabwe’s health care has all but collapse and the country’s filthy rich have stopped using the hospitals and only the filthy poor use the service because they are desperate. Only those who believe hospitals are hospice centres for even the most simple and curable diseases, need apply!
"We must work, you work hard, you are resilient, you are disciplined so what can stop us from achieving our goals. Nothing….we are still on the right track we started with speed and we must continue with that speed but paying attention to detail. Kanyemba has been given national project status and will remain like that up to completion.
"We are giving all areas that were marginalised such treatment, in Mat North we have Bulawayo Kraal. We will also do that in Maphisa where we are growing agriculture crops and in Gwanda we have Zhowe area where we want to develop citrus," said Vice President Chiwenga
Zimbabwe was a middle income nation in 1980 when we attained our independence. After 25 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule the country fell from its perch to become the poorest nation in Africa. The country’s corrupt and oppressive ruling elite have decided to call the heart-breaking suffering of the millions now living on US$1.00 or less a day “resilience”; it does not prick their conscience!
Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown is getting worse. Mnangagwa’s “Zimbabwe is open for business!” has failed to attract the flood of investors because Zanu PF rigged the recent elections and thus confirming the country was still a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. Investors do not do business in pariah states.
There will never be any meaningful economic recovery as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state. Chiwenga is talking of vision 2030 this is a mirage to distract the naive and gullible! In the 1980s the people were asked to think of 2000, then 2020 and now 2030 and meanwhile the economic situation has got progressive worse!
Vision 2030 is on track, says Chiwenga! What does he know or care!
“There was a meeting this week by the Joint Operations Command, and one of the major issues was to call on President Mnangagwa to address the deteriorating economic situation in the country to avoid a security crisis. The demonstrations will be met with force from government.”
The regime can deploy the Police, Army and CIO to beat up the people into submission the one thing it cannot do is rig economic recovery. The economic meltdown is set to get worse and worse. Zimbabweans are already the poorest people in Africa and now we are competing against ourselves to see how deep we can sink.
After 38 years of Zanu PF gross mismanagement and rampant corruption that has left the country in a real economic mess. Until Zimbabweans wake up to the reality that those who got them in this mess are NOT going to get them out too there is no hope in ending their suffering.
The moral lesson of our 38 years of hell-on-earth is that economic prosperity comes from good and accountable government are good bed fellows just as mass poverty and dictatorship are good bed fellows. The idea we can have a de facto one-party state and still achieve mass prosperity is a a nonsense. We have had a Zanu PF dictatorship for 38 years and mass poverty, that is as one should expect.
@ Musarurwa
“Zanu PF is almost finished very early this year. This is the worst crisis ED and Chiwenga can never win. And the delay to reason with Chamisa while the nation burns has just made it HARD to negotiate with him. Doctors have snubbed all disciplinary hearings and remain vigilant...others are certainly joining. Soon the nation will inevitably and naturally join...even the police and army...except the Presidential guard soldiers. Its just that plain predictable. Who really advises Zanu PF? Or do they listen to any advice? Perhaps nobody can advise them because of the legitimacy crisis? We shall soon see as situations are about to unfold.”
I agree with you, all except the bit about reasoning with Chamisa. What good will that bring?
MDC had the golden opportunity to implement the reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging elections during the GNU but failed to get even one reform implemented, for example. Chamisa is now talking of reforms now; it is naive to believe he will get the reforms implemented now.
MDC has failed us too. We need to start thinking outside the box and the binary choice of Zanu PF or MDC the autocratic political system has fostered on the nation. We must acknowledge as a matter of course that there are no quality leaders on the political stage because the dictatorship encourage thugs to go into politics at the expense of competent individuals. We need to clean up the political system and quality leaders will emerge.
Yes, it is tragic that so many Zimbabweans are now out of work and living in abject poverty. But what makes the whole sad story so tragic is that this is a man-made tragedy which should not be happening in this day and age. It is heart-breaking that there are people like Dr Mavaza Mnangagwa and all the other Zanu PF apologists and thugs who are still peddling the autocracy as a system of government and, to make matters worse, they are millions of Zimbabweans who still continue to allow these thugs to rule.
History is full of example of how nations have prospers when they have system of government that allows a significant slice of the population to have a meaningful say in the governance of the country. History is also full of stories how the nations under tyrannical rule have suffered. Zimbabwe has suffered greatly these last last 38 years because the country has been ruled by corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous tyrants.
The people of Zimbabwe can disagree on everything under the sun but should be of one accord on the need to end the autocracy Zanu PF imposed on the nation and restore the freedoms and rights of all Zimbabweans including the right to free, fair and credible elections as pre-requisite to good governance. It is insane that anyone would still want to see the illegitimate Zanu PF remain in office for one more day!
It is not enough to keep talking of the right to free, fair and credible elections but then do nothing when one is denied the said right. It sheer madness to have rewarded Zanu PF with absolute power again and again each time the party rigged the elections! To continue to do so after 38 years and with millions of Zimbabweans destitute, is insane!
People get the government they deserve and we certainly deserve this Zanu PF dictatorship complete with its entourage of corrupt and incompetent opposition parties.
@ James Kazonga
Which one of the two is deluded and demented; the one who says Mnangagwa's "Zimbabwe is open for business!" call failed to attract the the flood on local and foreign investors? Or he who says that there was a flood of investors and that the country's economy is on the path to full recovery and ignore the cash, foex, fuel and other shortages that are getting worse and worse?
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