“Zimbabwe is currently experiencing extreme hardships as a result of sanctions which were imposed at the instigation of some of Zimbabwean citizens. Zimbabwe Democratic Economic Recovery Act (ZIDERA) for example, was crafted with the help of Tendai Biti,” wrote Charles Mutema.
“The result of ZIDERA is common knowledge to the whole world and all Zimbabweans. Mr Biti travelled to the USA where he engaged some members of the US Senate to impose sanctions against Zimbabwe.
“Mr Biti participated in the crafting of the ZIDERA sanctions law against Zimbabwe. He had no authority from the State of Zimbabwe to act in the manner he did. The State of Zimbabwe is under siege from these types of people who claim to be its citizens and want to enjoy all the rights to their persons and property, while on the other hand exercising acts of enmity against the country.”
The trouble with the Zanu PF thugs and their apologists is they think they can have their cake and eat it too. Come elections they have dismissed MDC as puppets not fit to run anything much less government and portrayed themselves as the competent one fit to govern. Zanu PF has produced a manifesto promising to revive the economy, create new jobs and set the country on its way to become a middle-income nation by 2030.
The party has never ever said it would accomplish its goal if sanctions are lifted, it has never even acknowledged their existence.
Soon after the elections when it is clear the economy is sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss; it is then the regime admits there are sanctions. Worse still, the regime now admit that MDC puppets are now so powerful they not only influence US and Western foreign policy, they drafted the sanctions. What a track load of rubbish!
Tendai Biti and his MDC friends had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms which would have dismantled the Zanu PF dictatorship once and once for all. If Biti and company did not have the intellect to implement even one reform it is nonsense to suggest they had the intellect to draft ZIDERA.
Mnangagwa was given the opportunity to hold free, fair and credible elections and the Americans even spelt out what that entailed; allow every Zimbabwean the opportunity to vote, free public media, a transparent process, etc. He denied 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote and ZEC failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll, for Pete’s sake!
As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging thugs there will be no meaningful economic recovery.
The true purpose of the sanctions is to force Zanu PF to hold free, fair and credible elections and end the curse of rigged elections and pariah state. Holding free, fair and credible elections is the Holy Grail for this nation because nothing of any substance will ever be accomplished until we rid ourself of this curse. Sanctions will stay!
If Tendai Biti “participated” in crafting ZIDERA then it was the smartest thing he has ever done way out of character for one used to participating in flawed and illegal elections!
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Chamisa to throw a lifeline to the party bigwigs who lost after the recent congress.
Mnangagwa has put all Mugabe's cabinet, permanent secretaries, etc. out to pasture on their full salaries and allowances complete with their big farm(s) and other looted wealth. Chamisa is seeking to do the same with MDC's own deadwood. This is what the ruling elite do - look after each other at the expense of the masses!
Chasi has just taken delivery of his ultra-modern limo, he has his generous salary and allowances and will most likely have a farm plus many other gravy train benefits and loot.
The solution to Zimbabwe's economic meltdown is good governance. We must put an end to the present corrupt and incompetent tyrannical dictatorship. For the last 39 years we have been stuck with the dictatorship and year after year the regime has dragged us deeper and deeper into this hell-on-earth. It is madness to expect the regime to reform itself, stop its wasteful and tyrannical ways, end the vote rigging and dismantle pariah state and finally implement the sound policies the nation has been dying for.
Zanu PF is set in its way and you cannot teach an old dog new tricks. If we are serious about rescuing Zimbabwe from the economic and political mess the nation is in then we must take up the demand for Zanu PF to step down with the urgency the matter demands. It is no good enough to demand free, fair and credible elections, for example, and then chicken out of demanding the Zanu PF must step down when it is clear the regime rigged the elections.
So President Magufuli calls for the removal of sanctions against Zimbabwe but has nothing to say about 39 years of corruption, rigged elections and tyrannical rule by Zanu PF. By Mugabe's own admission Zimbabwe has lost $15 billion in just a few years due to corruption; whatever Zimbabwe has lost to corruption, it must be small change in comparison.
Zanu PF blatantly rigged last year's elections. The failure to hold free, fair and credible elections are at the very heart of Zimbabwe's economic and political crisis.
President Magufuli is showing the common weakness, the common denominators, in African leaders, the weakness that has made Africa the dark continent; penny wise but pound foolish!
The sanctions are the cause of Zimbabwe's economic and political mess but a pressure point helping to force Zanu PF to accept democratic change. The sanctions must therefore stay and idiots who do not know what they are talking about on the matter must shut up!
USA destabilizing Zimbabwe says Dr Mumbi.
This is just nonsense, Zimbabwe is in economic ruins and has been dragged to the edge of the political precipice by 39 years of incompetent, corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF misrule. The idea of blaming USA or anyone else is black inferiority complex taken to its most sickening limit. The most common manifestation of black inferiority complex is the refusal by blacks to accept that blacks, especially black leaders, can make a mistake. By refusing to admit to making mistakes even in the face of a mountain of evidence proving the mistakes, blacks have repeated the same mistakes over and over again.
Zimbabwe has been an independent country for the last 39 years and to suggest that the country and its leaders are not responsible for the mess the country is in is pathetic. This is tantamount to admitting that Zimbabweans are so utterly helpless they cannot be blame for the mess the country is in. In other words black Zimbabweans are so foolish they cannot be blamed for the mess the country is in the same way one cannot blame a child for setting the house on fire!
Zimbabwe has become the arch-type failed state and many African countries, considering themselves wiser and superior to Zimbabweans have sudden become experts in Zimbabwe's affairs and are joining the Zanu PF thugs in blaming outsiders for all the country's ills. Zanu PF thugs are doing this to hide behind their fingers and the blacks joining them are doing this out of foolishness or to message their own egos. We are dealing with the Zanu PF thugs and as for the self-righteous blacks poking their noses in our business they should shut up and solve their own problems.
Anyone who even believed Mnangagwa's "Zimbabwe is open for business!" call would attract back a flood of investors, as Mnangagwa and his followers claimed, was naive. Investors walked away from Zimbabwe two decades ago when it was clear the country was a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. They were not going to flood back into the country just because the old dictator Mugabe and a handful of others were booted out especially when it was clear nothing much had changed. They were not going to be fooled into believing the removal of one dictator only to place him with another was enough to transform the pariah state into a democratic one.
Zanu PF propaganda machinery went into overdrive promoting the clarion call "Zimbabwe is open for business!" Today, eighteen months since Mnangagwa took over from Mugabe, it is clear the country has failed to attract new investors and lenders. Mnangagwa rigged last year's elections but now finds he cannot rig economic recovery.
"It is the economy, stupid" that will force Zanu PF to step down!
“The headline is a total distortion of what I said – in fact I said the complete opposite. In the interview I said that ZANU PF has no capacity to rectify the economy and that they have created such a mess that it will take hard work and time to undo their mess.
“I would not have agreed to stand for TG of the MDC if I didn’t have absolute faith in Nelson Chamisa to lead Zimbabwe to a new dawn,” said Coltart.
And yet not even Coltart can deny that MDC has failed to implement even one meaningful reform in its 19 years on the political stage. We would not still be talking of a “new dawn” in Zimbabwe, we would have settled this problem of rigged elections once and once for all if MDC had implemented the reforms.
There is nothing in what Chamisa and MDC A has said or done to give anyone the confidence he will finally implement the reforms. Indeed, what is clear is that MDC had accepted the present status quo of Zanu PF rigging the elections as long as it wins the few gravy train seats the regimes gives away as bait.
As long as Zanu PF continues to offer Zimbabwe’s corrupt and incompetent opposition a few gravy train seats they will continue to participate in the elections regardless how flawed and illegitimate the process gets. By participating the opposition are giving the illegitimate Zanu PF some modicum of credibility.
Coltart, Tendai Biti and a few other MDC A leaders are very pleased to be the winners of the few gravy train seats on offer last year. They are very pleased to be back on the gravy train and that is all they care about. Chamisa’s bone of contention with Mnangagwa is for an interim authority in which he too has a gravy train seat. Anyone who thinks MDC A will ever implement the democratic reforms necessary for free, fair and credible elections is naïve.
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