“It is my singular honour and privilege to be with you at this timely breakfast prayer for our nation, even as the Bible exhorts us in Thessalonians 5 verse 17 to pray without ceasing. Constant interactions and prayer of this nature are positive and will help foster continued dialogue between Government, the church and all stakeholders. Such platforms under this anointing also help in uniting us as one people towards a common vision and shared national destiny,” said Mnangagwa at the recent church and political leaders prayer meeting.
"Let us therefore, continue to collectively work together towards uniting Zimbabwe for peace, love, harmony and prosperity to prevail in our nation. This platform further affords us the opportunity to brief each other on pertinent national developmental issues and nurture a common understanding of where we ought to go as a country and the steps we must take to get there."
This is utterly hopeless! He is a man who can quote chapter and verse of some of the less significant doctrines in the Bible but completely ignores one of the pillars - rule of law - repeated over and again in all the books of the Old and New Testament.
The Lord God instructed Moses that when the children of Israel walked out of their slavery, freeman and a free nation, they were to go to Mount Sinai where the Lord God were to give them laws, the Ten Commandments, by which they were to live.
When Jesus was asked which was the greatest Commandments. He replied “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22: 37 - 40.
Where is the loving of thou neighbour when those in positions of power and authority abuse their power and turn lose their security forces on innocent and defenceless people like wolves in penned sheep. Zanu PF has systematically denied the people justice, their basic freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful vote and even the right to life itself.
No one who fears God would take the Bible in their right hand and swear last July’s elections were free, fair and credible. The authorities failed to release something as basic as a verified voters’ roll although this is a requirement stipulated in our own constitution.
The barbaric violence by the security forces of 1st August 2018 and the two starting 14 January 2019 were meant to cow the people into subservient silence. Zanu PF is silencing people protesting the rigged elections, the worsening economic situation due to decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption by the regime.
“Today, the church must remain the voice that inculcates peace, building a better society, uniting families, tribes and races. The church must forever be 'the salt of the earth and the light of the world'. Yes, as the word of God says in Matthew 5 verse 13 to 16; "You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?” continued Mnangagwa.
“It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.”
If the truth be said, after 38 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule; the party has lost its saltiness and should have been thrown out decades again if the regime had not usurped the people’s free vote.
Mr Mnangagwa what Zimbabwe needs and has been dying for all these last 38 years is not a subservient people “praying without ceasing”. God helps those who help themselves; we can pray ceaselessly for economic prosperity but will never prosper whilst the criminal waste of human and material resources through mismanagement and corruption continues, for example. What Zimbabwe is dying for is the rule of law; the restoration of free and fair elections, the only guarantee for electing leaders with common sense, at least.
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson yesterday said the leader of the mainstream opposition MDC Nelson Chamisa “risked missing the bus” if he failed to pitch up for talks.
Mnangagwa rigged last July's elections, Zanu PF has no mandate to govern the country and should step down. All these people calling for dialogue have no clue what they are talking about. What dialogue does the house owner have with the thief who has robbed him! The dialogue becomes even more meaningles when the robber has chutzpah to demand that the talks must not question how he got to own what the house owner claim was stolen, we must all believe his story that he is the rightful owner, period.
The nation has allowed Zanu PF to rig elections in the past and to get away with it. The root cause of the economic and political problems are rooted in the decades of Zanu PF misrule. Bad governance is the elephant in the room that we have ignored for 38 years and have paid for dearly. We must now deal with this problem now and decisively too!
@ Thabani Mnyama
“Is the 'Croc' all talk and no bite?”
You are guilty is using the wrong metaphors; Mnangagwa is certainly not a croc with no bite! The man is a corrupt and ruthless tyrant who believes that those who dare challenge his rule are not human beings but puppets of foreigners seeking regime change and hence must be accorded to respect or justice and must be mercilessly dealt with.
“The first few weeks of the year in Zimbabwe have been quite eventful, for lack of a better word. We have gone through a national shutdown, where the country was temporarily sent back to the Stone Age, as Internet services were suspended,” as you have said so yourself.
“There was a wide and systematic violation of human rights, with several deaths being recorded during the shutdown. This comes after the commission of inquiry's report on the August 1, 2018 post-election violence was released.”
KENYAN academic Patrick Lumumba says Zimbabwe has to create a favourable political, economic and social environment conducive for investments in order to resuscitate the tanking economy.
Speaking at a meeting on corporate governance in Harare on Friday, Lumumba said investors required guarantees that the environment where they were committing capital was conducive for them to work productively.
It seems this Lumumba is just like our Professor Mthuli Ncube; academics with lots and lots of bookworm learning but not any iota of common sense. Lumumba is wittering about the need for Zimbabwe to create an economic environment “conducive” for investors. Ncube has been blubbering about Cambridge University inspired transformative economic policies that have already created the conducive environment guaranteed to see Zimbabwe emerge out of the present poverty into a “upper middle income” nation in the regime’s Vision 2030.
Lumumba said the country did not lack the human resource to help resuscitate the economy, but the main challenge was a problem of how to manage corporate governance. It is the national political bad governance that must be sorted out first.
The truth is Zimbabwe will never ever achieve any meaningful economic recovery as long as the nation remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. After 38 years of corrupt and tyrannical rule it beggars belief that anyone should ever expect these corrupt and vote rigging Zanu PF thugs to transform Zimbabwe.
The common sense position is that this corrupt and vote rigging Zanu PF regime must step down as the pre-requisite to any hope of Zimbabwe’s economic recovery.
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