"Congratulations @CyrilRamaphosa on your election victory. We wish you success as you build a strong and prosperous South Africa, and look forward to working closely together as we further strengthen the relationship between our two nations," said Emmerson Mnangagwa.
He was commenting on SA’s election results in which ANC won 57.5% of the vote. Poor Mnangagwa how it must have pained him to hear that South Africa had a verified voters roll and the elections were free, fair and credible and so the 57.5% votes ANC garnered were all from real people and they voted freely. He could never say the same for Zimbabwe elections.
Fearful that Zanu PF would not be able to coerce and/or cheat the 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora out of their vote the party connived to deny them the vote. When Mnangagwa was in New York for the UN General Assembly in September 2018, just two months after the elections, he said Zimbabweans in the diaspora will be allowed to vote next time. In other words, the regime had deliberately denied them the vote in the July 2018 elections.
In the end under 5 million voted in the July 2018 elections, no one who the voters were, how many cast multiple votes, etc. because the regime failed to produce a verified voters’ roll. The whole election process was full of irregularities, flaws and illegalities.
“The electoral commission lacked full independence and appeared to not always act in an impartial manner. The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability,” wrote the EU Election Mission in its final report.
“Finally, the restrictions on political freedoms, the excessive use of force by security forces and abuses of human rights in the post-election period undermined the corresponding positive aspects during the pre-election campaign. As such, many aspects of the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe failed to meet international standards.”
The numerous errors in the vote tallies, ZEC ended up with three different results which they failed to explain, was to be expected given some of the V11 forms, summary of the vote count at the Polling Station, were never released and so ZEC officials cooked up the figure and then revised the figure again and again to secure Mnangagwa’s victory.
After all the vote rigging shenanigans ZEC only manage to secure 50.8% or 2.4 million vote election victory for Mnangagwa. It should be noted this was less than the 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora who were denied the vote. No wonder Mnangagwa in green with envy at Cyril Ramaphosa’s genuine democratic mandate.
By blatantly rigging last year’s elections Mnangagwa confirmed that Zimbabwe was still a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging thugs. The ramification of this is Zimbabwe’s worsening economic meltdown because investors and lenders have continued to shy away from Zimbabwe. No one wants to do business in a pariah state plagued by economic chaos and political instability. No one!
If President Cyril Ramaphosa plays his cards right, so far he has failed to impress with his blundering incompetency, he has a chance of building a strong and prosperous SA. The same cannot be said of poor Mnangagwa; as long as he and his regime remain in power Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown is set to get worse!
Zimbabwe’s only hope of economic recovery is for Mnangagwa to step down and thus lift the curse of having an illegitimate government. More significantly, by stepping down, Zanu PF will create the political space for the appointment of the interim administration which can then be entrusted to implement the democratic reforms necessary for free, fair and credible elections.
If Zanu PF is allowed to remain in office until 2023 then we can be 100% certain that the regime will rig that year’s elections too and extend it corrupt and tyrannical rule. That is one evil we must not let befall this nation; Mnangagwa must be forced to step down a.s.ap. and BEFORE 2023!
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Poor Mnangagwa he must be gutted to hear Ramaphosa had 57.5% of the vote and the elections were free, fair and credible whilst he had pull all the vote rigging stops just to get his wafer thin 50.8% only to discover he cannot rig economic recovery. He is now sweating like a pig as the economic meltdown get worse and worse.
Yes SA has a chance of a strong and prosperous economy but not Zimbabwe, as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by thugs the economic meltdown will only get get worse!
Zimbabwe is in this political and economic mess because of 39 years of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and tyrannical Zanu PF rule that has seen the regime remain in power regardless of the the people's wishes for meaningful political change. Whilst 3/4 of the population are now living in abject poverty on US$30 or less per month the filthy rich ruling elite are resisting all pressure to end the economic meltdown on the pretext they are now used to their extravagant lifestyles they cannot give it up.
What we have here is a fight by the impoverished millions for the rights to freedom, human rights including the right to a meaning say in the governance of the country and a fair share of the nation's wealth. They are fighting the filthy rich ruling elite who claim it is their right to oppress the majority and deny them their freedoms, rights and human dignity.
It is very say and tragic that the nation risked life and limb to end white colonial oppression and exploitation only to see it replaced by black oppression and criminal waste of the nation's material and human resources! We must fight to end this nightmare, it is a pity that we allowed the situation to develop but unforgivable to continue to do nothing to end it.
It is a great pity that there are millions out there who have yet to lift a finger to end the Zanu PF corrupt and tyrannical rule, even when they too have paid dearly for their folly! We are our own worst enemy in that we are our own liberators content to do nothing.
If anyone in the MDC Chamisa camp believe the Justice Mushore judgement is going to go away then they are wrong. This matter is going to stay and drag on and on and on. The way Chamisa seized power last year was very foolish and undemocratic and now the party is paying for it.
MDC has been ineffective as the opposition and the fight with Dr Khupe over the leadership of the party will only make the party even more useless! The nation has serious matters like the economic meltdown the rigged 2018 elections, etc. that MDC A should be attending to and now the party will be wasting time on this trivial matter.
Zimbabwe has implemented 10-hour a day power cuts countrywide to avert the risk of running out of electricity within four months.
The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) said the water level at the Kariba Dam, which has been supplying the country with an average of 542 Megawatts through the hydropower station, has dwindled.
“We had very little in terms of rainfall influence into the lake and we have reached a point whereby the power generation has scaled down. If we do not scale down, we may have to shut down the entire situation around October because we won’t be having water,” said Zesa spokesman Fullard Gwasira.
Zimbabwe requires 2,100 Megawatts but can only produce 1,000 Megawatts. The balance is imported from Eskom in South Africa and Hydro Cahora Bassa of Mozambique because the coal-fired Hwange thermal power station, as well as three smaller plants, are fragile and dilapidated due to age.
This is just another example of Zimbabwe failing to make the hay whilst the sun was shining. Zimbabwe has failed to maintain the country’s power generating plant these last 39 years much less invested in additional power generation capacity and we are now paying dearly for it!
Zanu PF has been a curse to the nation these last 39 years and it beggars belief why the nation has failed to remove the regime from office to this day! Nation get the government they deserve we certainly deserve this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF regime complete with it entourage of corrupt and incompetent opposition parties, all 130 of them!
Mnangagwa and his Zananu PF junta blatantly rigged last year's elections just as the party has rigged past elections. Opposition leaders like Tendai Biti, Nelson Chamisa, David Coltart, Nkosana Moyo and many, many others one thought had some working grey stuff between their ears all participated in the elections knowing fully well the elections would be rigged. They all knew that Zanu PF would give away a few gravy train seats as bait during these elections and it was these give-away seats they are after.
“The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious – withdraw from the (2013) elections,” confessed David Coltart in his book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of tyranny in Zimbabwe.
“The electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility.”
Coltart was a Senator and MDC-N minister in the GNU that failed to implement even one democratic reform in five years. SADC leaders begged Tsvangirai and the other MDC leaders NOT to take part in the 2013 elections without first implementing the reforms and their warning fell on deaf ears because of greed, as Coltart confessed.
Mnangagwa blatantly rigged last year’s elections which is the reason why he is now stuck with a serious problem of economic meltdown. By rigging the elections he confirmed that Zimbabwe was still a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. No one wants to do business with lawless and corrupt thugs. The worsening economic meltdown is exerting a lot of pressure on Mnangagwa and his regime to step down. The pressure would be even more is the regime was told from the word go that it is illegitimate. By participating in the flawed and illegal elections MDC and the other opposition parties have given Zanu PF some modicum of political credibility!
In the last decade, the people of Zimbabwe have failed to make any meaningful progress in their endeavour to end the de facto one-party dictatorship and replace it with a healthy and functional democracy because MDC leaders, the people whom the nation has looked up to implement the democratic reforms, have sold-out. Instead of implementing the reforms MDC leaders have reached an understanding with Zanu PF – the later allows them to win a few gravy train seats in return for MDC leaders paying lip-service to implementing the reforms.
If Zimbabwe is ever going to have free, fair and credible elections the ordinary Zimbabweans have to fight on two fronts:
1) We must pressure Zanu PF to step down so the nation can appoint an interim administration that will be tasked to implement the democratic reforms leading to the holding of free and fair elections.
2) We must recognise MDC and the opposition for whom they really are, corrupt, incompetent and double-crossing sell-out who will happily retain the Zanu PF dictatorship as long as they the regime continue to feed them the scraps.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reportedly due to tender his resignation as the country’s leader in less than twelve months, to avoid a humiliating exit, after failing to resolve Zimbabwe’s economic crisis and suffering an alleged business fallout with a powerful military faction rooting for Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, to either take over or name a successor to finish off Mnangagwa’s term, Spotlight Zimbabwe, has exclusively been told
Mnangagwa is easily one of the richest man in Zimbabwe, according to Wikileaks cables written by a US envoy in 2001. The cables, however, do not provide an estimate of his wealth, but speculation is rife that his fortune could now be in the billion dollar club.
United Nations Security Council reports in 2002 and 2003, say Mnangagwa’s wealth was supplemented by his involvement as one of the illegal mineral exploiters in the Congo, through a company called Cosleg Private Limited. Cosleg is a joint venture company formed by a Democratic Republic of Congo-based entity Congo Comiex and the Zimbabwe Defence Forces’ company Operation Sovereign Legitimacy (OSLEG). The firm was established for the purpose of pursuing business opportunities in timber and minerals found in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Katanga Province.
It is clear that the Zanu PF regime is feeling the heat from the worsening economic meltdown. The regime rigged the July 2018 elections and was confident it would revive the economy; the latter has proven a bridge too far. Zimbabwe is a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs and as long as this remains the case there will be no meaningful economic recovery.
The regime is in a panic and it shows; replacing Mnangagwa with Chiwenga or anyone else will not change the fundamental reality of the pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging thugs!
The cure of the pariah state curse is for Zanu PF regime to step down; it is illegitimate because it rigged last year’s elections. There is no other way out, there is no dodging the bullet!
In the 1997-2007 period, living standards (as measured by real gross domestic product [GDP] per capita) fell by a stunning 38%. The episode, which peaked at an annual inflation rate of 89.7 sextillion percent—that is 89.7 followed by 20 zeros—in November of 2008, had robbed people of their savings and financial institutions of their capital through real (inflation-adjusted) interest rates that were actually negative.
It is ironic that ever since Zanu PF came into power in 1980 the regime spent the first decade promising the people mass prosperity and from 1990 onward when it adopted its first five-year Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) it has promised economic recovery. The truth is the people’s standard of living have been in decline for or the last 39 years with the worst nose-dive in 1997 to 2008 and have never recovered.
President Mnangagwa and his Finance Minister’s “austerity for prosperity” will drag the people into even greater depths of poverty without any gain. The country is a pariah state and as long as that remains the case it will never achieve any meaningful economic recovery. Never!
Norton Member of Parliament and former ZANU PF Central Committee member Temba Mliswa said Mthuli Ncube was incapacitated to deliver because he was not a member of Politburo and he has to report to ZANU PF structures.
This is nonsense, we have had other Ministers of Finance including the last one, Patrick Chinamasa, who were members of the Zanu PF Politburo but that did not stop the country going to the dogs. Zanu PF has failed to govern and that is a fact and the solution is for the party to step down.
Professor Mthuli Ncube agree to be Minister of Finance knowing fully well that Mnangagwa rigged last year's elections and the regime was illegitimate. He has gone after the poor, squeezing them hard from the meagre earnings, whilst doing nothing to end rampant corruption of the filthy rich ruling elite.
Now that the party refused to step down peacefully through free, fair and credible elections there is the frightful prospect of violence change! There is everything to gain from orderly and peaceful change and everything to lose from chaotic and violent change cursed are you who turn your back on peace in favour of violence.
The way Chamisa seized power after Tsvangirai's death was no democratic and anyone denying this is being dishonest. This political mess in MDC is one of their own making and what is tragic here is the nation's attention is once again being diverted and wasted on trivial matters at a time the nation should be concerned about the burning issues of the worsening economic situation and rigged elections.
MDC are no longer serving the people of Zimbabwe's cause of implementing the reforms necessary for free, fair and credible elections. It is a great pity that many Zimbabweans still continue to follow and support MDC leaders blindly, this is no helping the nation move forward.
Newly appointed energy minister hits the ground running says he is yet to sleep! Well that is an excuse for his doomed failure - he was sleeping on the job!
Anyone who thinks 40 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption behind the fuel shortages and power blackout can be reversed by anyone in a few weeks or months is naive! As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state the country will continue to sink deeper and deeper into the abyss!
Minister Chasi said even if the courts have exonerated the company and its director, Government needs the money recovered at all cost.
“We want our $5 million back,” he said.
How are you going to get the money back since it has been spent on the 350 pairs of designer shoes, holiday trips and other extravagant pursuits. Besides if anyone squeezed Wecknell Chivayo or the ZESA managers too hard they will spill the beans on Zanu PF bigwigs. Is Minister Chasi ready for that!!!!
Minister Chasi should know that corruption “is deep rooted” as Mnangagwa has himself admitted. If Mnangagwa has failed to up root corruption what makes Chasi think he can?
It looks like in Minister Chasi we have yet another naïve and boastful minister like Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube! Ncube want appointed he said he would get the investors, get IMF and WB to bankroll Zimbabwe’s development, etc. Now eight months later, now of these things have happened.
Zanu PF has failed and some of these Minister have very large ego, they think they can make the dictatorship achieve miracles, and have no common sense at all.
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