“Demonstrations are planned and must be planned, how do you demonstrate without prior due diligence!” argued Nomazulu Thata in her recent article in Bulawayo 24.
Many, many things went wrong in the recent street protests that swept Zimbabwe and most notably the large numbers of people beaten and many killed by the repressive regime’s agents. These could and should have been avoided if those who called the stay-away and the ordinary Zimbabweans themselves had taken time off to think through what the stay away was about. Where the country is going and how we intend to get there.
Zanu PF has no clue how to fix the economy and so it is pointless demanding jobs from the regime and that it must pays civil servant a living wage. How will it accomplish any of these things if it cannot even do the obvious like rein in the rampant corruption! ZCTU leaders and the ordinary Zimbabweans should, instead, be demanding the full restoration of the freedoms and basic human rights including the right to a meaningful vote. To revive the economy we must first have meaningful political change to enable us to elect a competent and accountable government.
President Mnangagwa rigged last July’s elections and thus confirmed that Zimbabwe was still a pariah state ruled by corrupt and lawless thugs. The economic recovery we are all hoping for will never ever happen because the foreign investors and lenders do not do business with thugs! Every Zimbabwean should know that by now!
“Surely it cannot go on like this, the workers cannot be told to sacrifice and yet the top servant in the land: President Mnangagwa is not in a position to do the same sacrifice. They are travelling with expensive private jets begging for money in countries whose presidents cannot afford such a luxury of a private jet they fly around with. We need to think and imagine how that money; about 25 million US dollars, could have been used in the civil service if the President did not make those unreasonable journeys to Eurasia,” commented Nomazulu.
The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner jet is luxury personified alright and with a hiring price tag to match at US$74 000 per hour. Of the many foolish things Mnangagwa has done hiring the jet to go begging takes the biscuit. Imagine a beggar turning up at your door wearing the most exquisite and expensive designer brands from head to toe. You will not get a penny from me, that’s for sure!
Crooks like President Putin of Russia and the Chinese are not interested in helping Zimbabwe but in helping themselves. Both the Russians and Chinese have in the thick of the wholesale looting of Zimbabwe diamonds in Marange and Chiadzwa and on the lookout for new looting opportunities.
One expected Professor Mthuli Ncube, Zimbabwe’s Minister of Finance, the man who will pay the bill for the hired luxury jet, to stop Mnangagwa hiring the jet. On contrary, the minister approved and is one of the select few travelling in style and, no doubt, enjoying every minute of it.
“What is worrying most is the lack of empathy on the part of the ruling elite towards the citizenry, Minister Mthuli Ncube included. Beating, shooting maiming, raping the people electorate the way they did is barbaric but last,” lamented Nomazulu.
“This should actually scare the likes of our overly educated Mthuli Ncube. That CNN interview at Davos with Quest is regrettable. It is inconceivable to understand the thought processes of a smart and educated bootlicker.”
The Zanu PF dictatorship would have never taken root in Zimbabwe much less survive all these last 38 years and cause so havoc was it not for Zimbabwe brigade of “smart and very well educated bootlickers”! Professor Mthuli Ncube, Kirsty Coventry, Professor Jonathan Moyo, the late Bernard Chidzero, David Coltart, Tendai Biti, etc., etc.; all turned a blind eye to Zanu PF corruption and treasonous betrayal of the nation to prop up the regime. They have each received the usual Judas Iscariot’s thirty pieces of silver payment.
38 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF misrule have taken a heavy toll on the nation and the country is standing on the edge of a precipice. And yet even now there is a real danger that the recent stay-away cum street protests will bring about no meaningful change. The nation is certain to remove one corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical regime only to replace it with yet another equally corrupt and incompetent one as has happened so many times in the past. And all because we, people, have failed plan for change with due diligence!
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"People have died. Bystanders have been shot senselessly, homes have been raided and the entire country is on lockdown. According to the border officials, there was a single day in January when over 130 000 people crossed the border to South Africa."
DA's Spokesperson on Immigration, Jacques Julius on Wednesday conducted an oversight inspection at the Beitbridge border post between South Africa and Zimbabwe to assess conditions following unrest and violence in the country.
"The crisis in Zimbabwe will no doubt worsened what is already a broken South African immigration system which is failing to offer efficient and effective immigration services." Julius said.
"During the oversight, it was clear that President Cyril Ramaphosa's assertion that all is well in Zimbabwe and that economic sanctions should be lifted is not only untrue but also deeply irresponsible.”
SA President Cyril Ramaphosa is on record saying last July’s Zimbabwe elections “went well” although every other election observer with an democratic record worth talking about said the elections were “unfair, the playing field was not level and the process failed to meet acceptable international standards”.
President Ramaphosa is also on record blaming sanctions as the cause of Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown although everyone is aware that rampant corruption is the cancer killing the economy.
President Ramaphosa’s idiotic statement is music to the illegitimate Zanu PF regime as it encourages it to dig deep and hold on to power even at the cost of the worsening economic meltdown and increased brutal oppression. 130 000 crossing into SA in just one day, that is worrying. There has been tension between South Africans and black foreign nationals in the past leading to the xenophobia attacks. This new influx will increase the tension and not reduce it!
It is unforgivable that someone like President Ramaphosa had the opportunity to set Zimbabwe on the path to political stability and economic recovery by being honest regarding the elections and sanctions chose to do the exact opposite by falsifying the record. How tragic!
Exiled former ZANU PF Politiburo members has confessed that his agenda of reforming ZANU PF from within backfired and the party was about to change him instead.
Professor Moyo is on the record saying, "the best way to reform Zanu-PF is from within."
"I tell my father (in the book that he is writing) that I regret I understood better after the damage had been done that by joining ZanuPF to change it; I risked having ZanuPF changing me." Moyo says. "I assure him I'm done with ZanuPF and that my family will disown me if I ever again rejoin it in any disguise, shape or form."
Social media users pressed Prof. Moyo to reveal any sign that during his days in ZANU PF he tried to reform it.
"Oh! Is that why Pres Mugabe labeled me the devil incarnate and accused me of smuggling MDC editors into the state media?" Responded Moyo. "And when Mnangagwa, Chiwenga and Warvets repeatedly accused me of being a CIA and destroying ZANU PF from within, they were lauding me for improving their dictatorship?”
You joined Zanu PF for the same reason many others before you and after, like Professor Mthuli Ncube, Kirsty Coventry, etc. others like Tendai Biti and David Coltart did not join Zanu PF but still cooperated with the regime knowing this was a corrupt and tyrannical regime for the sake of the gravy train lifestyle the party offered.
Only the politically naive and gullible ever believed all that bull about destroying Zanu PF from within or to rebuild Zimbabwe. You do not destroy the dictatorship by making it stronger with your dirty tactics helping it to remain in power. You do not build Zimbabwe by propping up the dictatorship at the expense of undermining democratic change.
Zanu PF is a party of ruthless thugs who would use every trick in the book to justify using violence and, as we have seen, have used the looting and burning of tyres to justify using brute force including live ammunition to harass, beat and even kill the nation into submission. What did the organizers of the stay-away do to stop the looters and the other unruly elements taking over the protest? There is nothing to suggest they even considered that happening.
In future those who call for peaceful demos must take the extra precaution of appointing stewards appropriately attired and equip to monitor and deal with all trouble makers. If ZCTU wanted its members to stay at home they should have said so and came out to denounce all those on the street as having nothing to do with them.
MDC, NGO, etc. leaders should have came out with clear instructions what they wanted their members to do.
Everyone should know by now that we have a regime that loves using violence and the best counter move is make sure the regime has no excuse to use violence.
It is clear that the security forces arrested many people in their homes but how many of those can prove they never left their homes and were not involved in any of the street violence?
We have a regime that will use violence at the drop of a hat we just have to learn how we can still exercise our right to protest without giving the regime the excuse to use violence. Stay-away should mean staying off the streets!
Zimbabwe faces a new wave of unrest as the group representing government workers announced on Wednesday that civil servants across the country will go on strike after salary negotiations failed.
David Dzatsunga, secretary of the Civil Service Apex Council, said the strike will begin on Friday as the southern African nation's economic collapse deepens and frustration with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government grows
One only hopes that those calling for this strike will give their member very clear instruction what they are being asked to do when and where. If it is a stay-away then all members must be told they are not to leave their homes all day and night. Members should take the extra precaution to ensure their relatives and friends stay off the streets too. DO NOT give the regime any excuse for using violence.
There will be some unruly elements in society and it will not be the first time the regime supplied its own agent provocateurs to loot and burn and thus provide the regime with the excuse to use brute force to cause mayhem.
Workers have a just cause, the wages you are being paid is a slave wage. Do not undermine your cause by engaging the regime in a street fight with you throwing stones and the regime armed with baton sticks and guns. Why fight a battle you are destined to lose.
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