You are right, Mugabe did not hollow out only Zanu PF but the whole nation, we have become a nation of punkah-wallahs alright!
Look at the MDC, their principle task in the 2008 GNU was to implement the democratic reforms so that the blatant cheating and wanton violence that took place in the 2008 elections would never be repeated ever again. "Follow the Global Political Agreement roadmap," SADC leaders reminded Tsvangirai and company again and again throughout the five years. MDC leaders did not listen and so not even one reform was implemented in five years.
It is no surprise that Zanu PF has been able to rig the 2013 and last year's elections. The party was spoilt for choice as to what dirty tactics to use! The party denied 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote. ZEC made a big song and dance about introducing the Biometric Voting System and over US$100 million was spent in buying the kits and installing it and yet come voting day it was back to the printed voters' roll. ZEC did not even both to explain why nor did any of the opposition contestant even notice the switch!
The opposition did not even have the common sense to demand that ZEC produce a verified voters' roll although this is a legal requirement.
The foreign elections observers had no choice but to dismiss the whole elections process as a farce because the ZEC results contained "numerous errors, could not be traced and verified".
The ordinary Zimbabweans themselves have too been hollowed out, their brains scoop out and replaced with mud. How else otherwise can only explain why many of them have failed to see opposition politicians for the corrupt, incompetent and sell-out they are even now with the benefit of hindsight.
People get the government they deserve; Zimbabweans certain deserve the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF thugs complete with the entourage of corrupt and incompetent opposition sell-outs. We are a nation of punkah-wallahs and it is no surprise that we have hollowed out punkah-wallahs leaders on both sides of the political divide.
We have another golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms and finally put the nation of a firm democratic footing but there is no hope of getting that task done if we appoint punkah-wallahs, even the same who failed to get even one reform, to do it. You would think that after 38 years we have learned not to repeat the same idiotic mistake. Alas, punkah-wallahs have no common sense and repeating the same mistake comes naturally to them.
“Another possible outcome is a Zanu-PF offer to the opposition of that increasingly common political animal, the wildebeest — a GNU. Governments of National Unity are fast becoming the stock consolation prize for African opposition parties cheated out of electoral victories. One was tried, with modest success, in Zimbabwe after the blood-doused elections of 2008. The opposition partner in that GNU, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), was ditched after one term and it may not fall for that trick again. In the meantime, Zimbabwe’s economy will spiral downwards, fuelled by gathering hyperinflation. But don’t waste your time waiting for Zanu-PF to be booted out at the ballot box. As Stalin was wont to say, it’s not who votes that counts, it’s who counts the votes. And previous electoral rigging by Zanu-PF has shown just that,”
The 2008 GNU was not “a modest success” it was a total disaster for Zimbabwe because it failed to get even one democratic reform implemented and this stop Zanu PF rigging elections. The new GNU comprising the same corrupt and incompetent Zanu PF and MDC leaders will not get all the democratic reforms implemented, if any at all.
I agree with you that the nation will be wasting “time waiting for Zanu-PF to be booted out at the ballot box!” All those calling for a new GNU and want Zanu PF and MDC to play an role in it clearly have no idea what they are talking about!
Zimbabwe's political and economic crisis stem from the country's repeated failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. President Ramaphosa's remark that last year's Zimbabwe elections "went well" when everyone else has said they were rigged is worse than foolish because he knows the elections were rigged.
The only solution to Zimbabwe's crisis is for Zanu PF to step down because the party rigged last year's elections. The days of appeasing Zanu PF are over we need to deal with the regime firmly and decisively. After his foolish remark, President Ramaphosa, has made it very difficult for him to be decisive!
"We simply wanted to get an understanding of what provoked this situation, to get a common understanding in that area on why we are where we are at the moment and moving on how the church and Government can collaborate so that we move beyond this situation towards the Zimbabwe we want," said Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference secretary-general Father Frederick Chiromba, after meeting VP Chiwenga and other senior government officials.
The violent demonstrations, which is part of the regime change agenda by opposition political parties and their foreign agents, saw at least 1 100 people being arrested.
What the church leaders must understand is that Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because the country has been stuck for 38 years with a corrupt and tyrannical regime that rigged elections to stay in power regardless of the people’s democratic wishes.
Zanu PF rigged last year’s elections, it is illegitimate, and, if we are serious about getting the country to move forward, the regime must step down. This is now an urgent matter and is none negotiable.
In case you have not noticed Zimbabwe is stuck and has been stuck in this rut for the last 38 years, same s***t of corruption, vote rigging, tyranny, economic hardships, fuel shortage, unemployment, etc., etc. The solution has not changed either, we still need to implement the democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging elections, etc.
As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state the country's problems and solutions will not change and since these is what I am talking about I do not see why I should change.
What coherent thing have you ever said in your whole life? Name just one! You have never said anything coherent yourself and yet has the chutzpah to judge other people's work!
I would rather hear the burning issues of corruption, vote rigging, tyrannical oppression, economic hardships, etc. affecting the nation discussed in "chilapalapa" than hear trivial matters or worse discussed in Shakespearean prose! What is more, I know the millions of out of work and living on US$ 1.00 a day and the hundreds of thousands beaten and raped last week do not care about the prose either!
Excuse me! What are you doing reading Zimeye then, you know the paper has articles from all sources regardless of their colour and shade of opinion, professional journalists, budding writers, the lot. If you are after Shakespeare's prose and sonnets you should be reading the Chronicle and the Herald and listen to ZBC radio or TV!
I get the feeling you cannot deny the vote rigging, the looting, the millions of Zimbabweans living in abject poverty, etc.; the substantive issues Zimbabweans are talking about. And so you raise the irrelevant issues of language the issues are been discussed as if that is more important than the millions whose lives is hell-on-earth. You Zanu PF apologists are getting desperate and it shows!
Zanu PF is imploding and regime change is coming and there is nothing anyone of you in Zanu PF can do to stop it!
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You are right, Mugabe did not hollow out only Zanu PF but the whole nation, we have become a nation of punkah-wallahs alright!
Look at the MDC, their principle task in the 2008 GNU was to implement the democratic reforms so that the blatant cheating and wanton violence that took place in the 2008 elections would never be repeated ever again. "Follow the Global Political Agreement roadmap," SADC leaders reminded Tsvangirai and company again and again throughout the five years. MDC leaders did not listen and so not even one reform was implemented in five years.
It is no surprise that Zanu PF has been able to rig the 2013 and last year's elections. The party was spoilt for choice as to what dirty tactics to use! The party denied 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote. ZEC made a big song and dance about introducing the Biometric Voting System and over US$100 million was spent in buying the kits and installing it and yet come voting day it was back to the printed voters' roll. ZEC did not even both to explain why nor did any of the opposition contestant even notice the switch!
The opposition did not even have the common sense to demand that ZEC produce a verified voters' roll although this is a legal requirement.
The foreign elections observers had no choice but to dismiss the whole elections process as a farce because the ZEC results contained "numerous errors, could not be traced and verified".
The ordinary Zimbabweans themselves have too been hollowed out, their brains scoop out and replaced with mud. How else otherwise can only explain why many of them have failed to see opposition politicians for the corrupt, incompetent and sell-out they are even now with the benefit of hindsight.
People get the government they deserve; Zimbabweans certain deserve the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF thugs complete with the entourage of corrupt and incompetent opposition sell-outs. We are a nation of punkah-wallahs and it is no surprise that we have hollowed out punkah-wallahs leaders on both sides of the political divide.
We have another golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms and finally put the nation of a firm democratic footing but there is no hope of getting that task done if we appoint punkah-wallahs, even the same who failed to get even one reform, to do it. You would think that after 38 years we have learned not to repeat the same idiotic mistake. Alas, punkah-wallahs have no common sense and repeating the same mistake comes naturally to them.
@ P Godwin
“Another possible outcome is a Zanu-PF offer to the opposition of that increasingly common political animal, the wildebeest — a GNU. Governments of National Unity are fast becoming the stock consolation prize for African opposition parties cheated out of electoral victories. One was tried, with modest success, in Zimbabwe after the blood-doused elections of 2008. The opposition partner in that GNU, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), was ditched after one term and it may not fall for that trick again. In the meantime, Zimbabwe’s economy will spiral downwards, fuelled by gathering hyperinflation. But don’t waste your time waiting for Zanu-PF to be booted out at the ballot box. As Stalin was wont to say, it’s not who votes that counts, it’s who counts the votes. And previous electoral rigging by Zanu-PF has shown just that,”
The 2008 GNU was not “a modest success” it was a total disaster for Zimbabwe because it failed to get even one democratic reform implemented and this stop Zanu PF rigging elections. The new GNU comprising the same corrupt and incompetent Zanu PF and MDC leaders will not get all the democratic reforms implemented, if any at all.
I agree with you that the nation will be wasting “time waiting for Zanu-PF to be booted out at the ballot box!” All those calling for a new GNU and want Zanu PF and MDC to play an role in it clearly have no idea what they are talking about!
Zimbabwe's political and economic crisis stem from the country's repeated failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. President Ramaphosa's remark that last year's Zimbabwe elections "went well" when everyone else has said they were rigged is worse than foolish because he knows the elections were rigged.
The only solution to Zimbabwe's crisis is for Zanu PF to step down because the party rigged last year's elections. The days of appeasing Zanu PF are over we need to deal with the regime firmly and decisively. After his foolish remark, President Ramaphosa, has made it very difficult for him to be decisive!
"We simply wanted to get an understanding of what provoked this situation, to get a common understanding in that area on why we are where we are at the moment and moving on how the church and Government can collaborate so that we move beyond this situation towards the Zimbabwe we want," said Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference secretary-general Father Frederick Chiromba, after meeting VP Chiwenga and other senior government officials.
The violent demonstrations, which is part of the regime change agenda by opposition political parties and their foreign agents, saw at least 1 100 people being arrested.
What the church leaders must understand is that Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because the country has been stuck for 38 years with a corrupt and tyrannical regime that rigged elections to stay in power regardless of the people’s democratic wishes.
Zanu PF rigged last year’s elections, it is illegitimate, and, if we are serious about getting the country to move forward, the regime must step down. This is now an urgent matter and is none negotiable.
@ Catch a thief
In case you have not noticed Zimbabwe is stuck and has been stuck in this rut for the last 38 years, same s***t of corruption, vote rigging, tyranny, economic hardships, fuel shortage, unemployment, etc., etc. The solution has not changed either, we still need to implement the democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging elections, etc.
As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state the country's problems and solutions will not change and since these is what I am talking about I do not see why I should change.
What coherent thing have you ever said in your whole life? Name just one! You have never said anything coherent yourself and yet has the chutzpah to judge other people's work!
@ Stix
I would rather hear the burning issues of corruption, vote rigging, tyrannical oppression, economic hardships, etc. affecting the nation discussed in "chilapalapa" than hear trivial matters or worse discussed in Shakespearean prose! What is more, I know the millions of out of work and living on US$ 1.00 a day and the hundreds of thousands beaten and raped last week do not care about the prose either!
@ stop-a-thief
Excuse me! What are you doing reading Zimeye then, you know the paper has articles from all sources regardless of their colour and shade of opinion, professional journalists, budding writers, the lot. If you are after Shakespeare's prose and sonnets you should be reading the Chronicle and the Herald and listen to ZBC radio or TV!
I get the feeling you cannot deny the vote rigging, the looting, the millions of Zimbabweans living in abject poverty, etc.; the substantive issues Zimbabweans are talking about. And so you raise the irrelevant issues of language the issues are been discussed as if that is more important than the millions whose lives is hell-on-earth. You Zanu PF apologists are getting desperate and it shows!
Zanu PF is imploding and regime change is coming and there is nothing anyone of you in Zanu PF can do to stop it!
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