“I have got absolutely no apology to
make to anyone for loving my country, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is currently facing
serious political & socio-economic challenges but these challenges aren’t
insurmountable. It’s my patriotic calling to positively impact on my country’s
development,” twittered Obert Gutu.
Actually, you Mr Obert Gutu and your
fellow political leaders on both sides of the political divide owe the people
of Zimbabwe an apology and a hell lot more! You are right, “Zimbabwe is
currently facing serious political & socio-economic challenges!” Most of
these challenges are man-made, deliberate, calculated and born out of selfish
greed; surely those guilty of such evil owe the nation an apology.
Before independence and for the first
20 years after independence Zimbabwe produced enough food to feed her people
with plenty left over to be the breadbasket of Southern Africa. The country
also earned a fortune selling cash crops like tobacco and cut flowers. All this
changed at the turn of the century when Robert Mugabe started to seize mainly
white-own farms to give to his cronies and party loyalist mainly to bolster his
party’s sinking political popularity. Agricultural production plummeted and so
too did the national economy.
Ever since the farm seizures, more
often than not, Zimbabwe has failed to produce enough to feed her own people and
had to rely on imported food aid. In the day and age when mankind ingenuity has
turned deserts into green pastures and blooming orchards; we, living in a
country that is for all practical purposes the Garden of Eden, are starving! Such
is the damning testimonial of Zimbabwe’s failed Zanu PF leadership!
Credit where credit is due, by the
late 1990s many Zimbabweans finally came to the conclusion that Robert Mugabe
and his Zanu PF thugs were dragging the nation deeper and deeper into economic
hell-on-earth. The people had failed to remove Zanu PF from office because the
regime rigged the elections. What the nation needed was to implement democratic
reforms designed to dismantle the de facto one-party state and to stop Zanu PF
rigging elections.
The people risked life and limb to
elect Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends including the unapologetic Obert
Gutut into power on the promise the party will implement the democratic changes
the country was dying for. MDC had their best opportunities ever to implement
the reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Sadly, MDC leaders sold-out and failed
to implement even one reform.
It is now clear that MDC leaders have
since forgotten the need for reforms and free, fair and credible elections as
the basis for good governance. These leaders have been participating in elections
knowing that Zanu PF would rig them. They also knew that Zanu PF would give
away a few gravy-train seats to entice the opposition to participated; it was
these the opposition politicians have been after.
The failure to stop Zanu PF rigging
elections all these last 39 years is the root cause of Zimbabwe’s economic and
political mess.
The country is facing serious
economic meltdown and that has not stopped you, President Mnangagwa and
president Mugabe before him and many others, drumming your chest like a
silver-back gorilla and boast about the development you brought.
Zimbabwe is still groaning under the
corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. You, Mr
Obert Gutu, insist Zimbabwe is a “multi-party democracy” to ingratiate yourself
to the dictatorship.
“It’s my patriotic calling to
positively impact on my country’s development!” Name one positive thing you
have achieved and I will name twenty negative things you have caused!
As for apologising, you do not have
the intellect to comprehend the enormity of your betray to the nation by
failing to implement even one reform during the GNU. How can you apologise for
something you have clearly failed to comprehend, even with the benefit of
hindsight!
“But when the king came in to look at
the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. And he said to him, ‘Friend,
how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. Then
the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the
outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ For
many are called, but few are chosen.” Matthew 22:11 to 14.
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US disappointment with Zimbabwe’s government keeps growing amid the heavy-handed response of authorities to any form of opposition, a senior State Department official said on Monday following a crackdown last week against protesters.
“The disappointment just keeps getting worse and worse, unfortunately,” said the official, speaking on background to reporters. “The government seems to be getting even more violent in their response to any form of opposition.”
Zimbabwe has suffered the ill effect of corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical rule for 39 years. Zanu PF has rigged elections to stay in office and the nation done its best to work with the dictatorship but without much success. The country must now bite the bullet and confront the regime and force it to step down to allow the nation to end the curse of rigged elections and bad governance.
The nation is ready to deal with the problem of Zanu PF misrule it is being held back by MDC whose leaders are fighting to keep Zanu PF in office in return for a few gravy-train seats! For the last 10 years MDC leaders have been running with the hare and hunting with the hound and our failure to see this has allowed Zanu PF to remain in power.
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