“PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday held his inaugural meeting with the Presidential Advisory Council (Pac) recently appointed to assist in bringing in new ideas, policy proposals and solutions to Zimbabwe's myriad of problems,” wrote Dumisani Muleya, Editor of Zimbabwe Independent.
“Objectively speaking, the initiative is a breath of fresh air. It shows Mnangagwa is willing to listen. Well, on paper at least.
“Besides, it has distinguished people of great character, integrity and reputation. They are generally experts in their own fields. Each member should add to Pac's diversity of experience as a collective body.”
Editor Muleya, you have clearly missed a number of key points here:
- “Mnangagwa is willing to listen!” Are you mad! If Mnangagwa was willing to listen then why has denied the people of Zimbabwe the basic human right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country? Mnangagwa has been at the heart of Zanu PF’s vote rigging and brutal oppression for the last 38 years.
- The appointment of this 24 member PAC will not help find “solutions to Zimbabwe’s myriad of problems” because Mnangagwa has already been given sound advice on such key areas as ending corruption, holding free and fair elections to end Zimbabwe’s pariah state status, etc. He has ignored all such advice because following it risked Zanu PF losing its strangle hold on power.
- The appointment of PAC is in keeping with the time honoured Zanu PF mentality of substituting quality with quantity. Whilst Ian Smith had governed the country with less than 20 ministers and deputy ministers. At one point, Mugabe had 1 President, 2 VPs, 1 PM, 2 Deputy Prime Ministers, 30 Ministers, 10 Deputy Ministers, 10 Provisional Governors, God knows how many Executive Mayors, etc., etc. Mnangagwa has reduced the size of his cabinet but only by putting most of Mugabe’s cabinet members, permanent secretaries and other senior civil servants out to pasture on full cabinet member salary and allowance. This PAC is but a second tier cabinet in all but name!
- Each and everyone of the PAC member is an expert in their field but that does not necessarily mean they all have integrity too! Just because they are rich it is does not necessarily mean they are honest especially in a country were corruption is rampant. Each and everyone of these members know that Mnangagwa rigged last year’s elections and yet they all pretend the elections were free, fair and credible. Worse still, they know that as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs there is no chance of the country achieving any meaningful economic recovery. They have agreed to be appointed PAC members because they are paid well in cash and prestige to be a members; there in nothing honourable in that!
“Nonetheless, PAC deserves a chance. Granted it must be scrutinised and criticised, but given a try. Its members seem ready to hit the ground running, though they ought to understand very well they have a mountain to climb. They can make a difference, but then again it won't be easy. It's like trying to climb Mount Everest,” continue Muleya.
“Perhaps the PAC can also make its own piece of history.”
Nonsense, there is no climbing Mount Everest mystic or challenge about understanding corruption and holding free, fair and credible elections and understanding why they are the basis of good and competent governance and economic success. It is madness to argue that Zanu PF will finally deliver economic prosperity after 38 years of delivering poverty!
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,” said the great Physicist Albert Einstein.
Zanu PF has proven beyond all reasonable doubt that the party is corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs. The party rigged last July’s elections and therefore have no democratic mandate to govern. It is Zanu PF we a giving another chance to extend its corrupt and tyrannical rule on the feeble excuse that a corrupt and compromised PAC will achieve the miracle of the economic recovery regardless of the of the inherent wastefulness and inconsistencies of the pariah state.
We can differ on some things but there are others that are so basic and fundamental, it is pointless to argue. As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs there is no hope of any meaningful economic recovery much less achieving “Vision 2030 Upper Middle Income” status that Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube keeps wittering about! Zimbabwe is subject to the same laws of thermodynamics, of economics, etc. as everyone else.
We should concentrate on dismantling the Zanu PF dictatorship and laying a strong foundation for free and democratic Zimbabwe and stop day-dreaming PAC delivering economic recovery whilst Zimbabwe remains a pariah state.
Our first task in dismantling Zanu PF is to demand that the regime steps down! We have tried to avoid this task for the last 38 years and we are paying dearly for it and will continue to do so until we deal with this curse of rigged elections.
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Let me ask you something Dumisani. I take it we both agree that Mnangagwa rigged last year's elections and that corruption remains the number one problem in Zimbabwe. Do you think anyone of these advisors will ever tell Mnangagwa that corruption is a problem particularly when they know that Mnangagwa himself is the corrupt? As for advising Mnangagwa to step down because he has no mandate, that is the one thing they will never ever do. If being men and women of integrity includes telling the truth then every one of these PAC members is a sell-out!
A good advisor should tell you what you aught to hear and not what you want to hear especially when there is so much at stake such as the destiny of a whole nation. Mnangagwa is corrupt, incompetent and a murderous tyrant after 38 years of failed leadership the village idiot must be told in no uncertain terms that he has failed. It is totally dishonest of these PAC to pretend they do not know that Mnangagwa rigged last year's elections and pretend there is nothing wrong with his shoot to kill policy in his desperate effort to hang on to power.
Zimbabwe has many curses and among them is the curse of having more than her fair share of sell-outs and traitors. In Zimbabwe, Jesus Christ would have had no problem finding someone to play the role of Judas Iscariot any one of Mnangagwa's 24 PAC would do. Indeed the spirit of selling one's own mother for a price is so widespread in Zimbabwe there is no shame in selling-out. None of the 24 PAC members will ever take the Judas' quick drop and sudden stop exit - there is not enough hangman's rope for everyone in Zanu PF, in the opposition, in PAC, etc.
Still, when the country finally has regime change, it will be necessary to bring some of these politicians, advisors turned sell-out, etc. to account for their past and string a few if only to underline that the nation has run out of patience with these shameless Judas Iscariot.
"Trade co-operation between the two countries is at a high level to the extent that South African exports to Zimbabwe in 2018, amounted to approximately R30,8 billion (about US$2,1 billion), while imports from Zimbabwe amounted to approximately R3,6 billion (US$250 million), thus placing Zimbabwe among South Africa's top trading partners on the continent. South Africa and Zimbabwe have good bilateral political, economic and social relations underpinned by strong historical ties dating back from the years of the liberation struggle," said President Ramaphosa's spokesperson Ms Khusela Diko.
Some people have argued that SA has done nothing to stop Zimbabwe’s economic collapse because it benefited from the collapse with Zimbabwe becoming a market of South African goods and services. And as if that was not good enough, SA has used cheap Zimbabwe labour to produce the goods and services. Well with SA exporting nearly tens times as much as it imports from Zimbabwe, there is some logic in that argument.
Still the total collapse of Zimbabwe’s economy could ever be a positive thing for SA. SA could be selling even more stuff to Zimbabwe today if so many Zimbabweans were not so poor, with 90% unemployed the demand is there but only for free aid! A political unstable Zimbabwe has destabilised the whole SADC region.
Once upon a time SA was counted as one of the five countries with a fast growing economy, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). Let’s just say SA is now an honorary member, it economy has slowed down from a F1 car to that of a tractor! I am not an economist but would not be surprised if one of the contributory factors to SA’s economic misfortune was the poor economic performance of SADC nations. SA could not prosper whilst the countries in its own backyard sunk into the abyss!
What Zimbabwe needs is political reform to end the criminal waste of human and material resources through corruption and mismanagement. Without the political reforms the country will remain a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs with no hope of any meaningful economic recovery. Mnangagwa will never refuse free money, like Mugabe he too has the travel bug and likes to travel in style. These 787-8 Dreamliner Jets cost money and it will be very neighbourly of SA to buy the bill!
President Ramaphosa should know that, in bailing out Zimbabwe, he will be throwing good money into a blackhole never to see a penny of it. He will not be doing Zimbabwe any favours with his foolishness!
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has invited his Zanu-PF counterpart President Emmerson Mnangagwa for urgent ‘real talks' to rescue the country's sinking economy, saying the opposition had capacity to initiate the process on neutral ground.
Chamisa is just one confused village idiot no better than the man he is fighting to remove from office. Every one who is anyone has already said last year’s elections were flawed and illegal and therefore Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF junta have no mandate to govern the country.
It is bad enough that Chamisa and his fellow opposition sell-outs were foolish enough to participated in the flawed elections, particularly after they were warned the elections will be rigged. Now the village idiot is splitting the hairs in claiming the elections were rigged only in so far as ZEC declared Mnangagwa the winner of the presidential race.
ZEC failed to produce a verified voters’ roll and failed to release all the V11 forms with summary of vote counts although these are legal requirements. It was therefore impossible trace and verify ZEC’s results for both parliamentary and presidential races. Why Chamisa can claim that one result is valid and the other is not beggars belief. He is holding back in accepting Mnangagwa’s legitimacy because he wants a gravy train seat for himself.
Zimbabwe is in a serious economic and political mess because of 38 years of Zanu PF rigging elections and getting away with it. The country will only get out of this mess by ending this culture of rewarding those who rig elections by granting them absolute power. As much as the country is fighting hard to force Mnangagwa and his junta to step down the nation’s efforts are being undermined by Chamisa and his corrupt and incompetent village idiots keen as mustard to declare Mnangagwa “legitimate” for a seat on the gravy train.
Chamisa, get this in your thick head: Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF regime are illegitimate because last year’s elections were flawed and illegal and so could never be called free, fair and credible and therefore could never produce a legitimate result. It is only the people of Zimbabwe, in a free, fair and credible elections, who can give the winner the mandate to govern and not some big headed village idiot who now thinks he can trade legitimacy for a gravy train seat like mangoes in the market.
Enough of your “real dialogue” nonsense! There is nothing to talk about, Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF junta have no mandate to govern and they must step down. As for you Chamisa, you have sold-out many, many times and you should just shut the FCUK UP! The nation is facing a life and death crisis here and we do not have the time to waste on your foolish prattle!
Poor Arthur Mutambara, he was known as a firebrand student activist full of hot air and nothing has change.
He had his finest hour, five years, as Deputy Prime Minister, on the centre stage during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Sadly, he and his colleagues in the MDC failed to get even one reform implemented in five years. NOT ONE!
After the GNU he was cocksure he would win the Nobel Price for literature. Reading one chapter of the usual blast of hot air "full of sound and fury signifying nothing" was more than anyone foolish enough to have bought his book could bear.
Zimbabwe has a knack for recycling deadwood the prospect of Arthur Mutambara back on the political stage fill me with dread!
The Zimbabwe Amalgamated Council of Churches has petitioned the European Union, the United States of America and Britain to remove sanctions against Harare.
The council on Friday handed over petitions calling for the unconditional removal of sanctions on Zimbabwe to the United States and British embassies and the European Union Delegation to Zimbabwe, according to The Herald.The council is led by declared Zanu PF sympathiser Jimaya Muduvuri.
Zimbabwe has its fair share of dimwit and these church leaders are certainly some of the dimwit. It does not matter how much one explain to the like of Jimaya Muduvuri that it is not sanctions that are causing the economic meltdown but corruption, the message will go in one ear and straight out the other! Thank God, the penny has dropped because there is growing number of Zimbabweans who are now beginning to see the truth and can link free and fair elections to sanctions.
The government has revealed to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that the two per cent electronic transaction tax will realise over US$600 million this year.
Chicken feed! The IMF should know that Zimbabwe is losing as much as $2 billion a month due to corruption alone! The tragedy of Zimbabwe is that the country’s monolithic political system has never taken the regime to task on any burning matters. In a health and functioning democracy Finance Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube would have been taken to task over the sheer stupidity of targeting the poorest of the poor with this 2% tax whilst doing nothing to stop the haemorrhaging of the nation’s wealth through looting and gross mismanagement.
“David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, “As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this must die! He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity.”
“Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. I gave your master’s house to you, and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you all Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more.”
2 Samuel 12: 5 to 8
Zimbabwe is yearning for a Prophet Nathan type advisor who will speak truth to Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, a seasoned corrupt, incompetent and murderous tyrant, whose love of power has blinded him and his inhumanity to others is an affront to mortals and divine alike!
After 38 years of corrupt and tyrannical oppression Mnangagwa and his junta have long gone beyond the point of no return. They rigged last year’s elections and now they are shedding even more innocent blood in their desperate effort to hang on to power. The only advice one can give Mnangagwa and his junta is for them to step down and not drag the nation any deeper into the abyss. It is not for them to decide what should happen next. Just bugger off and let the nation be done with the lot!
It is naive to expect even one of the 24 strong PAC to tell Mnangagwa the truth - that he and his kind are a curse to the nation. Indeed, we would be better off starting by giving these good for nothing windbags masquerading as advisors their marching orders. Their presence is meant to deceive and not to solve the nation’s problem of how to end this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship.
PAC “has distinguished people of great character, integrity and reputation”! Yeah right! So extinguished they do even know what constitutes free, fair and credible elections!
So donors are being asked to donate the food aid and must also donate stationary such as bond paper to allow the donated food aid records to be kept. What is shocking is that the country is begging for food, medicine, stationary, etc., etc. but has money to buy cars for the chefs and its leaders fly around in 787-8 Dreamliner Jets costing a cool US$74 000 per hour!
"Zimbabwe is open for business!" and since that clarion call 55 companies have closed. This proves that the real world got one message over and above what Mnangagwa said ie that Zimbabwe was NOT open for business. By blatantly rigging the elections Mnangagwa told the world Zimbabwe was still a pariah state ruled by corrupt and murderous thugs!
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