“A reliable source in the MDC standing committee who spoke to us on condition of anonymity revealed to us that the meeting between Ramaphosa and Chamisa was one of the series of meetings that have been held behind the scenes,” reported Bulawayo 24
"The meeting that the President had with Ramaphosa was not the first one. The President has met with him before and a number of African leaders. A deal was struck that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his team should retire from running the country and a transitional authority takes over. The Authority will include president Chamisa at its helm and a few of progressive ZANU PF officials,” the source said.
"SADC and African Union had underwritten the deal and said President Mnangagwa must bring an exit package of the table. The problem arose when Mnangagwa brought in about 50 families that he says are his dependents. The American government which had indicated that they will pay the exit package for Mnangagwa and his team said the demands are too much.”
If this story is true, then the suggestion that “Nelson Chamisa and a few of progressive Zanu PF officials” would form the transitional authority is the most idiotic idea the people of Zimbabwe have ever heard. MDC leaders and the progressive Zanu PF members were all in the 2008 to 2013 GNU; they failed to get even one democratic reform implemented in five years. NOT EVEN ONE REFORM!
Since the 30 July 2018 rigged elections, Chamisa has talked about the need to implement political and economic reforms but has never said what those reforms were much less why the reforms were not implemented during the last GNU. It is rich to assume that Chamisa now knows what the democratic reforms the nation has been dying for are and how they will be implemented.
Besides, even if someone was to give Chamisa and the moderate Zanu PF leaders a full lecture on what the reforms are, how they are to be implemented, etc., etc. there is still no guarantee they will fully implement all the reforms. Removing Mnangagwa and the other Zanu PF hardliners from the political stage will only make Chamisa and his MDC Alliance complacent about the reforms.
With no one in Zanu PF cunning enough to rig the elections MDC leaders will not even bother to implement the reforms. MDC leaders are not concerned that the elections are flawed and illegal as long as they win!
What Zimbabwe needs after all the last 38 years of rigged elections is some one with the vision and common sense to appreciate the need for the country to implement all the democratic reforms fully and end this curse of rigged elections once and once for all.
Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF junta rigged last year’s elections; all the international election observers with any democratic credentials of note have condemn the elections as “unfair and not to acceptable international standards”. Zanu PF does not have the people’s mandate to govern the country. The regime is illegitimate and must step down without any further ado.
Every day this Zanu PF remains in office should be seen for what it is - the regime is holding the nation to ransom.
Nelson Chamisa’s claim to power is founded on this foolish notion that the elections are free, fair and credible if he is given a senior post on the gravy train or is declared the winner. Of course, Chamisa and his MDC friends sold out during the 2008 GNU by failing to get even one reform implemented. The thought of granting Chamisa a seat on the next GNU is as repulsive as declaring Judas Iscariot a saint, a bonus on the thirty pieces of silver.
Entrust Chamisa and “progressive” Zanu PF leaders to implement the democratic reforms. Yeah right! This can only come from one with the kind of intellectual fixation with the past justifying the recycling of the same deadwood even after 38 years of blundering incompetence and failure!
There are many Zimbabweans out there who know exactly what Zimbabwe needs to do to move the country forward. If we implement the democratic reforms and end the autocratic environment that has stifled all debate and democratic competition; quality leaders will emerge of that we can be 100% certain!
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There is no SADC leader who can honestly say they did not know that MDC leaders sold-out big time during the GNU because SADC leaders were the one who nagged Morgan Tsvangirai, Chamisa and the rest of the MDC leaders on the need to implement the democratic reforms. "Follow the Global Political Agreement (GPA) roadmap!" they kept saying. MDC leaders ignored the nagging.
SADC leaders tried to get the 2013 elections postponed until the reforms were in place. "If you take part in the elections next month; you will lose. The elections are done!" they warned MDC leaders. Once again MDC leaders ignored the warning.
"MDC leaders were too busy enjoying themselves during the GNU and the forgot why they were there!" One SADC leader remarked soon after Zanu PF had rigged the 2013 elections, in sheer exasperation at the MDC leaders' incompetence and betrayal.
Chamisa and his MDC Alliance showed all just how stupid and naive they are by agreeing to contest last year's elections even when ZEC had failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters' roll. "I will not make the same stupid mistake Tsvangirai made by participating in the elections without verified voters' roll!" Chamisa boasted at one point.
The people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb, over 500 were murdered by Zanu PF and hundreds of thousands had their limbs broken in the 2008 elections alone; on the ticket MDC would bring about democratic change. MDC have failed to bring about even one meaningful democratic change in 19 years.
Of all the people, SADC leaders KNOW that MDC leaders are breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent. SADC leaders should also know how much ordinary Zimbabweans have suffered these last 38 years and therefore how desperate the people are for meaningful political change. It would therefore be unforgivable if the regional leaders should conspire to deny the people of Zimbabwe another chance to bring about meaningful political change by imposing another ineffective MDC Alliance and Zanu PF GNU.
@ Francis Maposa
“During that GNU the MDC had no chance please give this MDC chance they won't disappoint’” you have argued.
I would join you in asking for Chamisa and company to be given a chance if you can explain to me why they failed to implement even one reform during the last GNU and why they have ignored the repeated warnings not to contest the 2013 and then 2018 elections with no reform in place?
Biti calls for an extra-ordinary SADC summit on Zimbabwe.
Tendai Biti has a very leaky memory but let as remind him. Mr Biti do remember SADC’s summit in Maputo in June 2013? Do you remember what SADC leaders advised you and your fellow MDC leaders?
"If you take part in the elections next month; you will lose. The elections are done!” SADC leaders warned. You and your fellow MDC leaders ignored the warning back then and did so again regarding last year’s elections.
Zimbabwe is in this mess because MDC leaders failed to implement even one reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. You are calling for a SADC summit to pressure Zanu PF to invite you into a new GNU. You are desperate for a seat back on the gravy train, that is all you and Chamisa are after.
The people of Zimbabwe are desperate for meaningful political change that is only possible from implementing the democratic reforms followed by democratic elections. We need a new GNU but one in which new players will be appointed to implement the reforms and not the same recycled corrupt and incompetent MDC and Zanu PF trash.
The only message for Mnangagwa and his vote rigging Zanu PF thugs is that the regime is illegitimate and it must step aside. MDC have given the flawed and illegal elections the modicum of credibility by participating in these elections. You did so out of selfish greed. Step aside.
Any effort by both Zanu PF and MDC to hang on to power will be seen for what it is - you are hold the nation to ransom.
The South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) is "confident that the measures being taken by the Zimbabwean government will resolve the situation" as protests over fuel prices continue.
Sure the same Dirco officials were “confident” the serious street protests were not going to happen in Zimbabwe; just as they were confident Zanu PF was going to hold its promise to hold free, fair and credible 2018 elections. As we know Zanu PF blatantly rigged last year’s elections and SADC leaders were foolish in pretending not to notice.
If SADC does not do something to end the worsening political crisis in Zimbabwe the economic and social instability will affect the whole region. The only way to end the crisis is by forcing Zanu PF to step down; we all know the party is illegitimate.
Contrary to claims by Constantino Chiwenga to ZimEye on Tuesday, Econet boss, Strive Masiyiwa has revealed that it is the government which has blocked all internet services across Zimbabwe.
It was clear from the word go that VP Chiwenga was lying; internet and social media services do not fail across all platforms just like that useless there is a major incident such as a nationwide power supply failure or the authority have ordered a blackout! What is so foolish about Chiwenga's denial is that he was naive and stupid enough to believe he could order the blackout, pretend he is totally innocent and get away with.
We are back to the calling a military coup "a military assisted transition!"
It is little wonder the nation is in a real mess, with such dimwits what else. How they have managed to stay in power all these 38 years is the greatest mystery of our time!
Zanu PF is a party of thugs and the only language they know and "speak" well is violence. They have failed to rig economic recovery and so they are out beating the people into submission to silence the criticism over worsening economic situation.
"We have always had cooperation in the field of defence and security with Russia," said Mnangagwa who is in Moscow on a three-day state visit.
"This we are not abandoning … Yes, at the moment we don't have much economic muscle to buy the things which we would want to buy from the Russian Federation, but down the line, as Zimbabwe becomes stronger in terms of its economic muscle, we should be able to buy the type of hardware, which we know the Russian Federation has and is the state-of-the-art type of equipment that they have, but we are not in a hurry.”
The country’s health care services, for example, has all but collapse. Doctors and nurses are on slave wages and the hospitals are so poorly equipped they have no drugs, no working basic equipment, etc. And instead of getting our health care services back on track all Mnangagwa is concerned about is buying more guns, more bullets and bombs!
Mnangagwa rigged last year’s elections. He does not have the people’s mandate to govern and is in government to serve his own selfish interests and is prepared to kill to impose his will. The sooner the nation force this Zanu PF regime to step down the sooner the nation can start the difficult task of rebuilding the country’s economy.
Zimbabwe has had many false starts in our search for a free just and prosperous nation we have only dreamt of. The most notable false starts were 18 April 1980 independence, the Zanu PF and PF Zapu unity accord in 1987, the 2008 GNU and the 2017 military coup that saw the booting out of Mugabe from office. Zimbabwe would not be in the economic and political mess if any of these events had delivered the democratic Zimbabwe in which the freedoms and rights of all were respected and guaranteed.
There has never been any serious debate and discussion to ascertain why Zimbabwe had wasted all these past opportunities to create the Zimbabwe we all want and have been dying for.
Those who do not learn from the past a destined to repeat the same mistake over and over again. The solution is staring us all in the face, it is not rocket science either.
“To stop another dictatorial regime emerging now and in the future, Zimbabwe must implement the democratic reforms designed to dismantle the dictatorial powers and control Zanu PF had accrued over the last four decades,” as you said.
“Zanu PF must step down to allow the nation the political space and time to appoint an interim administration that will be tasked to implement the democratic reforms above. The reforms should have been implemented during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Sadly not even one reform was ever implemented in five years of that GNU.”
There is nothing to suggest many Zimbabweans out there have given the matter of why the nation is in this mess any serious thought and therefore they are going to make the same mistakes that got us into the mess.
Cry the beloved country!
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