“Zimbabwe has one of the highest literacy rates in Africa. It is a country of learned people - the former President Robert Mugabe had no less than seven degrees,” wrote barrister and former journalist Brian Hungwe in BBC/Bulawayo 24.
“But the education appears not to have filtered down to the one place where it is badly needed, the National Assembly - and the speaker of parliament, Jacob Mudenda, is worried.
“The South African, Ugandan, Nigerian and Somali parliaments are just some of those that have witnessed brawls.
“So it's not clear why Mr Mudenda wants more degrees in the house, when boxing gloves might be more useful.”
A very witty article Brian.
If you should ever stand for public office yourself; you will have my vote. But come to think of it, what good will that vote be to you in a country where elections are routinely rigged!
Whilst I would readily agree the quality of public policies, programmes and governance have all suffered because those entrusted to formulate such policies, etc. had no clue what they were doing. The public debates and discourse have been “sterile, bereft of research or reason”, as you rightly quoted the late Edson Zvobgo.
Still, Speaker Mudenda is wrong to blame Zimbabwe’s bad policies and failed governance on the country’s poor educated councillors and MPs. If the truth must be said, Zimbabwe has always had a generous number of very well educated MPs, Ministers, VPs right up to the President. Why have the well educated leaders to stop the rot?
Indeed, if anything, the well educated were the source of the rot! It was Professor Jonathan Moyo with his PhD and professorship and Robert Mugabe with his seven University degrees, etc. who formulated the plans and strategies to establish and retain the de facto Zanu PF one-party dictatorship. They then roped in the braindead Mnangagwa (he is not the only who is brain dead to hold a University Degree), Chiwenga, etc. to do the dirty work of implementing the plans.
Mugabe went the extra mile to surround himself with the mentally challenged whilst frustrating those with a working brain and hence the reason he appointed the like of Simon Muzenda, Joice Mujuru and Mnangagwa as VP whilst people like Zvobgo were appointed minister without portfolio.
Whilst the uneducated leaders joined in the looting of the nation’s wealth they often lack the sophistication to steal much compared to the educated leaders. Jacob Mudande knows exactly what I am talking about. Of the people convicted of wrong doing in the Willowvale Motor Scandal, for example, most of those who went to town, like him, were the very well educated!
What we need above all else to guarantee sound policies and good governance is to make sure there is freedom of expression, free media, free debate, democratic competition and free, fair and credible elections. It is nonsensical to blame the electorate for the current mediocre leaders when it is Zanu PF that has imposed these leaders on the nation by routinely rigging elections!
Other than the few seats Zanu PF gives away to the opposition to entice them to participate in the elections regardless how flawed and illegal, one has to be a Zanu PF thugs to hold public office in Zimbabwe. You, Mr Hungwe, you are not a Zanu PF thug so you will never hold public office as long as Zimbabwe remains a de facto one party dictatorship.
Besides, you are not Zanu PF material. You earned your educational qualification through honest hard work, none of the three months for PhD, and, worst of all, you have reputation as a professional journalist - those are qualities everyone in Zanu PF (and the opposition) despise. With that, you will be lucky to be elected a Zanu PF committee member at cell level; forget the much coveted position of rural councillor much less MP! No chance!
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday set up an inter-ministerial committee to lead political, electoral and legislative reforms in line with recommendations of the Motlanthe Commission of Inquiry into the August 1, 2018 post-election violence.
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said the 8-member inter-ministerial committee has been charged with carrying out the reforms that would provide legal backing to the country's economic and social opening.
Here we go! So Mnangagwa tried the inter-party dialogue and after two or three meeting with a number of the presidential race candidates he called off the talk-shop because it finally dawned on him the whole thing was a farce.
The elephant in the room was that Mnangagwa and Zanu PF rigged last year’s elections and therefore have no democratic mandate to govern. And yet he pre-emptied the dialogue by insisting there would be no discussion on Zanu PF’s legitimacy.
Now he has decided to have an in-house Zanu PF inter-ministerial committee implement the reforms. The reforms are meant to stop Zanu PF rigging elections and since the party insists elections are free, fair and credible one has to ask what reforms the committee will come up with then? This is just another waste of time!
“Actually, nothing has surprised me. Having worked at the African Development Bank, I knew the depths of the challenge of working with Zimbabwe and trying to turn it around. For me, what has probably surprised me is more on the positive side, which is that the Zimbabweans have been - I think there's a (unintelligible) with the economic reform agenda. I'm hopeful we will see this through. Zimbabwe will be normal again. We'll turn it around,” said Minister Ncube.
Professor Mthuli Ncube has turned out to be an arrogant and egotistic with lots of book knowledge but no common sense. He has bamboozled Mnangagwa and those around him with bull and in return Mnangagwa gave him a blank cheque and a licence to preach his bullshit with the authority of Zimbabwe’s Minister of Finance. Institutions like the IMF and WB have heard the blast of hot air and have now learned to ignore him!
Ncube has been told Zimbabwe will never achieve any meaningful economic recovery whilst the country remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. Ncube thinks he is so clever he can do it! It is the ordinary people who are paying dearly for his tomfoolery, he has his family out in Switzerland and will, no doubt, return there to escape the chaos and tragic human suffering taking place back in Zimbabwe.
Addressing mourners at the burial of the late Brigadier General Emilio Munemo at Heroes Acre in Harare Saturday afternoon, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said his door is wide open to those wishing to dialogue with him for whatever reason.
Mnangagwa implored Zimbabweans across all sectors that they were welcome to dialogue with him over anything that had an impact on the nation.
What Mnangagwa has failed to understand is that he has no mandate to be in State House. His so called door is wide open is not his door, he is a usurper. After 38 years of rigged elections and brutal and murderous oppression the only door he should call his is the Chikurubi Prison door!
There is nothing to “dialogue” with a corrupt and murderous thug who is holding the nation to ransom! Nothing!
In November 2018, His Excellency, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, boldly declared the open and unrelenting warfare against the evil of endemic corruption.
"In the Second Republic, we will not tolerate the culture of siphoning public funds through various nefarious activities for personal gain and enrichment.
"It is presently disheartening that the country continues to lose huge sums of money due to fraud, money laundering, procurement or tender manipulation, insider trading in stock and financial markets, among the ills in both the private and public sectors," he warned at an annual public sector audit conference and financial management awards ceremony in Harare on November 8 2018.
Corruption is still rampant. How many diamond looters has Mnangagwa arrested in his over one and half years in power? Not one!
Mnangagwa blatantly rigged last year’s elections and that is a fact. He denied 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora a vote, failed to produce a verified voters’ roll, etc. and yet still insist the election was free, fair and credible!
Zimbabwe is a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs and as long as the country remains a pariah state there will be no meaningful economic recovery, peace and political stability!
Second Republic, new dispensation, etc. these are all empty words and wishful thinking; the real world is governed by the universals laws of thermodynamics, facts and realities! Replacing one dictator with another is not enough to transformer a dictatorship into a democracy, into a new dispensation.
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