“Brexit means Brexit!” said British Prime Minister Theresa May when she took over from David Cameron in 2016. After three years of blundering from pillar to post, she has failed to deliver Brexit and has bowed down to pressure for her to go. Now she is going! Good bye! Au revoir! Bon voyage!
Good riddance! Bon debarras! How many times in the last 40 years have Zimbabweans wanted to say that to the country’s only two leaders who have ruled the country with an iron fist! Mugabe promised the nation mass prosperity, “gutsa ruzhinji!” and for 37 years has dragged the nation into mass poverty and worse.
Mnangagwa took over on the promise to revive the nation’s economic fortune with his “Zimbabwe is open for business!” Eighteen months down the line, it is clear the country’s economic meltdown is even worse than ever and, sadly for Zimbabwe, Mnangagwa is working feverishly to consolidate his iron grip on power. He is not going anywhere, regardless his pathetic failure and the evidence he has no clue what he is doing.
PM May has resigned and by the end of July the UK will have another PM. Whoever he/she happen to be will be 7 th since 1980. In the same 40 years Zimbabwe has been hopelessly stuck with two leaders. Robert Mugabe came into power following Zanu PF’s rigging of the 1980 elections. He then used his position to undermine the country’s state institution and the constitution to establish a de facto one-party dictatorship that has ruled the country with an iron fist to this day.
Even when the people were convinced that Mugabe and Zanu PF were corrupt, incompetent and tyrants they were powerless to remove the regime from office because the party rigged the elections and, from time to time, supplemented the rigging with the use of wanton violence to ruthless crash all dissent against it rule.
After 37 years of corrupt, incompetent and murderous rule, Mugabe was only finally forced out of office at gun point. His erstwhile vote rigging and murderous Zanu PF thugs whom, it should be said, he had already started to boot out of the party, ganged up against him and booted him, his wife and the G40 faction he wanted to takeover, out of office. The coup leader was none other than Emmerson Mnangagwa, the man Mugabe had appointed his VP and had entrusted to carry out the regime’s dirtiest corruption, vote rigging and murderous acts.
Mnangagwa and his fellow coup gangsters promised to hold free, fair and credible elections and thus restore the people of Zimbabwe’s right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country. It is now clear they said that to win some brownie points following the coup; they blatantly rigged last year’s elections. The regime has been moving swiftly to consolidate its iron grip on power, particularly in the face of the worsening economic meltdown.
Mnangagwa came into power on promise to revive Zimbabwe’s comatose economy. “Zimbabwe is open for business!” became his trademark clarion call. By failing to hold free and fair elections and failing to end corruption Mnangagwa slammed the door shut to the very people he was hoping to attract into the country. Who, in his or her right mind, would ever want to do business in a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs!
Countries like Britain, USA and all the democratic nations the world over have enjoyed peace, freedom and economic prosperity not so much because they have never had bad leaders; they have all had corrupt and incompetent leaders and worse. The nation’s healthy and functioning democratic system have allowed the people to remove the failed leaders from office, more often than not, long before the failed leaders have inflicted lasting damage to the nation’s interests.
In Zimbabwe, with our de facto one party dictatorship, we have been stuck with for decades with corrupt, incompetent and murderous tyrants!
Make no mistake about it Theresa May did not want to give up her post as PM.
“Theresa May saved her tears for herself. If only she’d shown this humanity before,” commented Suzanne Moore, in the UK Guardian.
“Make no mistake, she has been an absolutely dreadful prime minister, impervious to reality, deeply unsympathetic, utterly tone deaf. Missing any chance to actually compromise. Anyone who has met her will tell you that she doesn’t really do human. I remember a miserable lunch with her years back and being mystified ever since that anyone ever thought that she could negotiate any kind of deal. A walk-in freezer has more warmth. Interesting necklaces do not make a personality. More importantly she doesn’t do dialogue, she simply repeats her lines and her mantras until people are so bored they possibly agree with her. Or she pretended they did.”
Well the UK’s democratic system has worked and save the nation from a dreadful PM. In Zimbabwe Mnangagwa has finally dropped his “Zimbabwe is open for business!” mantra. He still goes around wearing his multi-colour scarf regardless of the sweltering heat! He has reverted to Zanu PF’s most trusted, tried and tested way of consolidating power – use of brute force!
“We don’t want violence, so I said soldiers go and silence these people, they were silenced,” boasted Mnangagwa.’ Protestors were of ‘Legion’—a multitude of demons—and the government would ‘sort them out … We will crush our enemies, and they are being crushed.”
He was talking about his shoot to kill orders to crush civilians, whom he called “legion”, protesting the soaring cost of living in January 2019. 17 civilians were shot dead then to add to the 6 shot dead protesting the rigged elections in August 2018.
Theresa May was a dreadful PM and was finally forced out of office. She has shed tears for herself. Mnangagwa, just like Mugabe before, is an incompetent, corrupt and murderous thug who imposed himself on the nation by rigging elections. He is not going anywhere, we are well and truly stuck with the tyrant.
Mnangagwa’s nickname is “ngwena” (crocodile), he is as ruthless and cold blood as the reptile. Any tears Mnangagwa sheds can only be crocodile tears for the purpose of luring the victim to get closer for the deadly strike!
It is us, the people, who have suffered a great deal these last 40 years and, until we dismantle this de facto one party dictatorship, there will moretears, gnashing of teeth and deaths. If Zanu PF is still in power come 2023 then the party will rig those elections and extend its corrupt and tyrannical rule. We will pay dearly for it and will only have no one but ourselves to blame – for we have been forewarned countless times.
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It would remain a matter of "deep regret" that she had been unable to deliver Brexit, she added.
But a new PM was "in the best interests of the country”.
There is no denying that Mrs May did not want to go but there was also no denying that she had clearly failed to deliver Brexit. Yes it is in the country’s best interest that she goes. In a country under a de facto dictatorship like Zimbabwe the leader will stay in power for 37 years as Mugabe did. When he was replace it was only after a coup and the putsch remove one dictator but only to replace him with another.
Zimbabwe is in this political and economic mess because for the last 39 years the country has been stuck with a corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical regime that rigged elections to stay in power. The country is crying, dying for meaningful political change and the only sure way of getting that change is for us to end the dictatorship.
This prompted Mawarire to reveal that, "The economic decline started when Chinamasa, a Lacoste factionalist, went on a sustained campaign among investors not to bring business to Zimbabwe as long as Robert Mugabe was President. Same is happening now, senior ZANU PF officials are telling investors not to invest after the ED 2023 Pfee lunacy.”
This is just a variation to the usual Zanu PF story of blaming sanctions, MDC “jecha”, etc. for the worsening economic meltdown.
This is just the usual nonsense coming from confused Zanu PF members and apologists. Investors and lenders stop investing in Zimbabwe a long time ago when it was clear the country was a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. The investors did not need Chinamasa or anyone else to tell them to do anything.
These Zanu PF village idiots will never admit the party has failed and so they have to come up with all manner of excuses and scapegoats to blame for their failure. As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and lawless thugs the country’s economic meltdown will only get worse!
Combative Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, and a hardline military faction backing his political doctrine and ambitions, are reportedly on the verge of booting President Emmerson Mnangagwa out of office at any moment now, through another subtle military intervention, allegedly called ‘Operation Restore Economy’.
There is no denying that the country’s economic is in serious trouble and the danger of the country becoming unstable is real. Still anyone who thinks that Chiwenga or anyone else from Zanu PF can rescue the economy and still keep the Zanu PF dictatorship is naive and down right foolish.
Mnangagwa came with his elaborate plan to deceive the world that Zimbabwe was a “new dispensation, a Second Republic” and people should return to the country and invest although he had not changed anything. By rigging last year’s elections he confirmed Zimbabwe was indeed still a pariah state.
As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thus there will be no meaningful economic recovery.
The only way out of this mess is for Zanu PF to step down and stop wasting time.
One of the reasons Zimbabwe is in this mess is that there are many Zimbabweans out there who have sold their very souls to the devil for thirty pieces of silver. Of course, Trevor Ncube knows that povo are the victims of this corrupt and vote rigging Zanu PF regime. He, just like Minister Mthuli Ncube, Kirsty Coventry and many others, is pretending that Zanu PF is the legitimate regime and is siding with the regime no matter what just because he has a seat on the gravy train.
Again and again we have wasted one golden opportunity to end the Zanu PF dictatorship because some people sold-out and sided with the regime. Blacks are the one race who have shown this weakness of selling their own mothers for a price and even boast they had a mother to sell. It is a serious problem this nation must address and decisively!
I agree, the people of Zimbabwe cannot continue to mourn about their suffering under the Zanu PF dictatorship and yet continue to sit and do nothing about it!
The international community have all been unanimous in their condemnation of last year's elections and, just to rub that in, the investors and lenders have all voted with their feet by avoiding investing in Zimbabwe. The international community will support the people's demand for Zanu PF to step down but it is the people themselves who must make the demand.
After 39 years of rigged elections, it should be as clear as day that Zanu PF rigged last year’s elections. It should also be as clear as day that the solution is to force Zanu PF to step down and end the madness of appeasing the regime by allowing it to remain in office regardless of having rigged the elections
If Zanu PF is still in power in 2023 then the people of Zimbabwe will have no one else but themselves to blame for it!
Zanu PF would not be in power today if MDC had implemented the democratic reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. They failed to implement even one token reform in five years. Not one! Tendai Biti, as a senior member of the MDC during the GNU should explain to the nation why, MDC failed to implement even one reform.
Zimbabweans must wake up to the reality that MDC is now hunting with the hounds and running with the hare.
Violence is not part of the Zimbabwe culture and its proponents must be condemned and rejected, President Mnangagwa has said.
Speaking during the commissioning parade of 149 officer cadets at the 35rd Commissioners’ Cadet Ceremony at the Zimbabwe Military Academy (ZMA) in Gweru yesterday, the President said Zimbabwe is a peace-loving nation.
This is nonsense! Zanu PF has murdered over 30 000 innocent civilians in its 40 years in power. The regime has so far got away with the murders because the country has yet to hold it to account. This must be done as a matter of necessity and, trust me, it will be held to account.
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