"This is a regime which is increasingly paranoid and unhinged. It has dug itself into a deep hole. In seeking to exculpate itself from the crimes against humanity it is alleged to have committed in recent months, which systematic disappearances by the State are, it has spun a propaganda yarn which is increasingly untenable and deeply embarrassing to Mr Mnangagwa who will have to face the international media in New York if this goes horribly awry with South African doctors levelling serious allegations against his government," wrote Senator David Coltart in Zimeye.
"What is worrying however is the report this evening that Dr Magombeyi may have been poisoned and that he needs urgent medical attention for this. Equally troubling is the report that critical evidence of what may have been injected into his system may be lost if there is any further delay. So both medically and forensically it is critically important that he be allowed to travel to South Africa."
There is no doubt that Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF regime are criminals and the regime was behind the abduction and torture of Dr Peter Magombeyi.
What most people would find frustrating in this Magombeyi and many, many other tragic stories is that they could have been prevented if Coltart and his MDC friends had implemented the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. MDC leaders had their best chances to implement the reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU and the wasted them.
Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies rigged last year’s elections as the EU and all the other democratic observers readily agreed. The regime should have been put under immediate pressure to step down because it is illegitimate. Sadly the sting of the pressure was taken out by the participation of the MDC in the elections knowing fully well that Zanu PF was rigging the elections and that participating would give the process some credibility, as Coltart readily admitted in his book.
“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 elections,” explained Senator Coltart.
“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.”
It is none other than Senator Coltart and his his MDC friends’ doing that Mnangagwa and his illegitimate regime are still in office today!
We cannot deny that in the last 39 years, we have had many golden opportunities to end the Zanu PF dictatorship and we have wasted them all. What is more, we waste the chances and continue as if nothing has happened! No sign of remorse or regret and a concerted effort to make the most of the next opportunity!
Indeed, it is none other than Coltart and his MDC friends who are undermining the international community to pressure Zanu PF to embrace meaningful democratic changes. By imposing sanctions, refusing to do business with this Zanu PF regime, speaking out against the regime’s tyrannical rule, etc. the international community is piling up the pressure on regime to implement democratic change. MDC have the sanctions lifted and the regime accepted into the family of nation if Mnangagwa appointed a few MDC leaders ministers; that is all they care about!
“Mr Mnangagwa himself must be left in no doubt about the severe consequences of this barbaric conduct demonstrated by his government today. In short the international community must speak out to compel the Mnangagwa regime to allow Dr Magombeyi to seek urgent medical treatment in South Africa.”
How naive!
Zanu PF rigged last year's elections, the party has no democratic mandate to govern and is per se illegitimate and beyond the pale. The only way forward is for the regime to step down to allow the appointment of an interim administration to implement the democratic reforms to guarantee free, fair and credible elections. The people blocking this are none other than you, Senator Coltart and your MDC friends with your foolish proposal for a power sharing arrangement with the illegitimate Zanu PF regime!
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Thank you Senator Coltart for your concern but you are the one who is keeping Zanu PF in power.
MDC had the golden chance to implement the reforms during the GNU; you lot failed to get even one reform implemented in five years.
With no reforms in place you know Zanu PF will rig the elections and you guys have participated in flawed and illegal elections, regardless, out of greed as you yourself admitted in your book.
“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 elections,” you wrote.
“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.”
What is the point of asking the international community to punish Zanu PF when you are the one keeping the dictatorship in power with your foolishness and greed!
I watched him, he said nothing of substance. We are stuck with corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless leaders like Mnangagwa because they rig elections and stay in power. We really must do something to implement the reforms and end this curse of rigged elections. We real cannot afford to have useless leaders like Mugabe and Mnangagwa!
"I am honoured to be representing my country at the UN, and I am strengthened by the warm wishes from the people of Zimbabwe," said Mnangagwa.
"Tonight I will be addressing the UN General Assembly and updating the world on our progress.
"You can watch on ZimEye.com at 1am (Zim time)."
The country is sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss and you call that "progress"!
Harare, the country's capital city with a population of 2 million plus, has no money to buy chemicals to treat drinking water. And yet the country's President has just flew to USA for the UN General Assembly with an entourage of 90. They will be in USA for a week and each is paid US$ 1 000 per diem plus the flight and accommodation. The principle purpose of the trip - to deliver a 15 minutes blast boasting of progress when the country is sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss; in the next breath admit the economic meltdown but blame it on sanctions when corruption is the main cause; promising to implement reforms 39 years after independence and the job is not done; etc.
Zimbabwe is caught in this political vortex called the Zanu PF dictatorship the only way the nation is going to escape is by making sure the party cannot rig elections and make the false claim of having the people's mandate to govern.
The corrupt and incompetent MDC has not done the nation any favours by failing to implement the reforms designed to stop the vote rigging when they had the golden opportunity to do so during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. And ever since the sell-out MDC have participated in flawed elections giving the process some modicum of credibility.
There are many ways of killing a rat, feeding it on imported Swiss cheese - read the palatial mansion; generous salaries and allowance; five-star health care, education, etc. outside Zimbabwe whilst povo have to make do with the collapsed services; etc. - is not going to work especially when our hospitals are without painkillers and bandages.
Nelson Chamisa and his MDC friends are participating in flawed elections for the sake of the few gravy train seats they know Zanu PF gives away as bait.
We will never ever have free, fair and credible elections and stop the curse of rigged elections as long as we have sell-out opposition leaders willing to prop up the Zanu PF dictatorship for the sake of scraps.
We should have been more careful in risking life and limb to elect the late Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends into power on the mistaken belief they are competent and honourable men and women who will fulfil their promise to deliver the democratic changes the nation was dying for. They are not competent nor honourable; they sold-out big time.
Now our task of getting the reforms implemented is even more complex: we still need to get the reforms implemented but have the added task of silencing the MDC, they men and women we elected to speak and act on our behalf on the matter, who are no long interested in implementing the reforms in pursuit of their own selfish interests.
@ Faith Gakanje
“Stop criticising leaders, just get on with developing the country. We tired of power hungry people who are literally doing nothing to save the situation of our country. Please be the change you want. Zanu PF is not stopping people to do things,” you said.
Bear with me and let us, you, me and the read, interrogate what you have just said.
You say you are tired of “power hungry people who (having got into power) are literally doing nothing to save the situation of our country”! I agree with you 100%. What we must establish is who are these “power hungry people”?
I put to you, that some one who would blatant cheat, intimidate, harass, beat, rape and even commit cold blooded murder of innocent people (over 30 000 in 39 years) for the sole purpose of establishing and retaining a de facto one-party dictatorship IS POWER HUNGRY!
I would also say some one who participates in a flawed electoral process knowing the process is flawed and that by participating they are giving the process the modicum of credibility - they participate for the sake of the bait being offered - IS POWER HUNGRY!
You are 100% correct that the power hungry get into power and then do nothing or, to put it more precisely, pursue their own selfish interest such as wasting resources, looting, etc.
Your assertion “be the change you want. Zanu PF is not stopping people to do things,” is a contradiction. Those with the power are the ones who do things including stopping those with no power doing anything.
This argument that we can let Zanu PF rig elections and stay in power and, somehow, work round the regime end the corruption, mismanagement, abuse of power, etc. is just a nonsense.
One cannot accept the Police have powers to arrest and detain citizens, for example, and yet encourage citizens to exercise the same powers of arrest and detain because the Police Force is corrupt, incompetent or whatever. The more rational course of action is to remove the corrupt Police Officers and replace them with honest and competent ones!
If anyone, anyone at all, think citizens can stop the wholesale looting of resources crippling the country, for example, whilst Zanu PF remains in power controlling the presidency, parliament, senate, Police, Army, CIO, Judiciary, etc., etc. then he/she is naive!
@ Faith Gakanje
“Stop criticising leaders, just get on with developing the country. We tired of power hungry people who are literally doing nothing to save the situation of our country. Please be the change you want. Zanu PF is not stopping people to do things,” you said.
Bear with me and let us, you, me and the read, interrogate what you have just said.
You say you are tired of “power hungry people who (having got into power) are literally doing nothing to save the situation of our country”! I agree with you 100%. What we must establish is who are these “power hungry people”?
I put to you, that some one who would blatant cheat, intimidate, harass, beat, rape and even commit cold blooded murder of innocent people (over 30 000 in 39 years) for the sole purpose of establishing and retaining a de facto one-party dictatorship IS POWER HUNGRY!
I would also say some one who participates in a flawed electoral process knowing the process is flawed and that by participating they are giving the process the modicum of credibility - they participate for the sake of the bait being offered - IS POWER HUNGRY!
You are 100% correct that the power hungry get into power and then do nothing or, to put it more precisely, pursue their own selfish interest such as wasting resources, looting, etc.
Your assertion “be the change you want. Zanu PF is not stopping people to do things,” is a contradiction. Those with the power are the ones who do things including stopping those with no power doing anything.
This argument that we can let Zanu PF rig elections and stay in power and, somehow, work round the regime end the corruption, mismanagement, abuse of power, etc. is just a nonsense.
One cannot accept the Police have powers to arrest and detain citizens, for example, and yet encourage citizens to exercise the same powers of arrest and detain because the Police Force is corrupt, incompetent or whatever. The more rational course of action is to remove the corrupt Police Officers and replace them with honest and competent ones!
If anyone, anyone at all, think citizens can stop the wholesale looting of resources crippling the country, for example, whilst Zanu PF remains in power controlling the presidency, parliament, senate, Police, Army, CIO, Judiciary, etc., etc. then he/she is naive!
World leaders appear to have boycotted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's address to the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday.
Two weeks ago Mnangagwa gave his “Founding father and great African icon!” eulogy at Mugabe’s funeral to an eerily empty National Stadium. The usual trick of bussed in crowd did not work.
Mnangagwa had travelled to America with a 90 strong entourage for a week each paid US$ 1 000 per diem and, other than a handful, most of them did not even bother to listen to the 15 minutes of ED blast. They had heard it all before “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing” delivered in a monotonous reptilian grant. But like all paid cheer-leaders, they were tripping over each other to praise his “powerful speech, delivered with such aplomb and received with rapturously applause (from the photoshopped fully house).
As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs, there will be no meaningful economic recovery. Period!
Zimbabwe is pariah state and the cure is for the vote rigging Zanu PF regime to step down; it is for the people themselves to make sure Zanu PF steps down. Mnangagwa and his cronies will never ever admit that they have failed and as long as they can rig the elections and get away with it, they will stay in power forever regardless how bad the economic situation gets.
It is not in the DNA of tyrants to admit failure much less to give up power because they feel sorry for the suffering and deaths of the masses!
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s advisor Shingi Munyeza has given a damning assessment of the Zimbabwean leader’s managerial competencies, likening the country to a train that was racing for crash.
Munyeza is among a group of 26 eminent individuals from business, the clergy and other specialities who were in January this year appointed into Mnangagwa’s esteemed Presidential Advisory Council (PAC) to assist in formulating key economic policies.
But the outspoken Harare businessman and preacher has not been caught up in the enjoyment of perks yet to a point of failing to speaking his mind.
“I am not a sadist or a prophet of doom but I can tell you the truth…we will crash at some point if we do not deal with this.
“We are at war, it is the war of reformer versus conservatives and hawks and let me tell you what is happening, the reformers are losing, the conservatives are losing, that is why the train is picking speed.
“We are getting closer to the next station where we can either change direction or cause a carnage, we need to cease fire, let us all come to the table engage and dialogue.
“There must be capacity and competence. We always assume those in leadership have capacity and competence, I stand to question all that now.”
People like Munyeza, Trevor Ncube, Professor Mthuli Ncube, Kirsty Coventry, etc. knew that Mnangagwa was an incompetent, corrupt and murderous tyrant who had once again rigged the elections to stay in power. They accepted the appointment to serve in the tyrant’s regime because they could not resist the prestigious position and generous salary and/or allowances on offer. They were blinded by greed.
The country’s worsening economic situation is there for all to see, even those blinded by greed can see it. The ship is sinking and the rats are abandoning ship!
Mnangagwa talking of making economic progress and yet the country's economy is sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss. What we have is a tyrant who will never admit that he has failed, he is corrupt and incompetent and worst of all a ruthless murderer. It is up to us, the people to tell him that and make sure he steps down now before he drags the nation beyond the point of no return as other dictators like Gaddafi of Libya and Bashar al-Assad of Syria have done.
Mnangagwa rigged last year’s elections and should have been pressured to step down straight away; this was not so because MDC participated in the flawed elections giving the process some modicum of credibility!
Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF regime should be pressured to step down a.s.a.p.; with each passing day the regime remains in power, the nation is getting closer to the dreaded point of no return. Chamisa and company should be told in no uncertain terms to stop monkeying around!
We Are Moving In Right Direction: Mnangagwa.
The Zimbabwe economic is in total meltdown and the situation is getting worse and worse and the man in charge maintains we are moving in the right direction! Zimbabwe has been going in the wrong direction for the last 39 years and Mnangagwa was a senior member of the failed regime although he now wants to give the impression he had nothing to do with what happened whilst Mugabe was the leader. If he was unhappy with what Mugabe was doing then he should have resigned; he did no such thing.
Indeed, he was a key player in the establishing and retaining of the Zanu PF dictatorship and keeping Mugabe in power. By his own admission, Mnangagwa played a pivotal role in the blatant cheating and wanton violence of the 2008 elections - the most blatant cheating and violent elections ever.
The truth is all Mnangagwa and his cronies care about is absolute power, they will not give up power even though it is clear they are corrupt and incompetent and their misrule is the root cause of the country’s economic meltdown and the resultant tragic human suffering and deaths.
Mnangagwa and his cronies risked life and limb in wrestling power from Mugabe. “Operation restore legacy!” as they called the coup was about restoring absolute power it their hands. Whilst they have all the state institutions in their power they will use every dirty trick in the book to make sure they retain absolute power at all cost.
They would rather see the country burnt to ashes than have anyone else rule it; this is how much power means to Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies. If we are ever going to wrestle power from these thugs before they reduce the country to ruins; we will need Spartan discipline and resolve.
The late Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends had many golden opportunities to end the Zanu PF dictatorship but failed to implement even one reform, dismantle even one brick on the Chinese Wall size Zanu PF edifice, because MDC leaders were breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent.
Acknowledging that MDC will never deliver any meaningful democratic change is key to dismantling Zanu PF. It is no surprise therefore that Zanu PF has spend millions of dollars propping up MDC and spreading the propaganda that the party would win rigged elections. Zanu PF would be worried sick the day the party MDC was losing political credibility and the call to boycott elections until reforms were implemented was gaining traction. The party would know the day marked the beginning of the end of its grip on power.
Zimbabwe has had many opportunities to end the Zanu PF dictatorship but has wasted them all. MDC, as the country's main opposition party, has had many of these opportunities. The people's failure to recognise the opportunities and MDC's pathetic failures has not only encouraged the failures in the past but, worse still, will make more wasted opportunities in future a certainty.
Indeed, the condemnation of Zimbabwe's last year elections as a farce by the EU, Americans, Commonwealth and every other nation, organisation and individual with an democratic credential worth a spit, opened the opportunity to pressure Zanu PF to step down since the party rigged the elections and therefore has no democratic mandate to govern. The opportunity has been seriously undermined by MDC who by participating gave the farcical elections some modicum of credibility. Still the credibility was not enough to obliterate the pariah state tag.
The root cause of Zimbabwe's economic meltdown is the country's pariah state tag; the country has been starved of meaningful local and foreign investment for the last 20 years because no one wants to do business in a pariah state.
The worsening economic meltdown is piling up the pressure on Zanu PF to step down as this is only logical way to end the pariah state. But here again, MDC is interfering and helping Zanu PF off the ropes by offering "to unlock economic recovery", as Chamisa claimed, if Mnangagwa agreed to a power sharing arrangement with MDC.
This is just a time wasting gimmick by MDC because investors will not be fooled into believing the addition of a few MDC leaders to the illegitimate Zanu PF regime will change the nature of the regime.
Being able to see MDC for the corrupt and incompetent opposition they are is an essential first step to whether or not the nation will ever get out of this economic and political mess we are stuck in. There will be many opportunities to end the Zanu PF dictatorship but to see them, we must first open our eyes!
@ stop-a-thief
Wilbert may have his inferiority complex and lots of other problems beside - who does not! The fact still remains that he is spot on in saying Coltart and his MDC friends failed to implement even one meaningful democratic change in their 20 years on the political stage. If you think they have implemented one change and Wilbert, for whatever reasons, is lying then name one change they have implemented!
@ DM
There is no one more blind than one who will not open his/her eyes! Even with the benefit of hindsight you still refuse to accept the reality that MDC failed to implement the democratic reforms. For the record, MDC had more MPs in the GNU than Zanu PF. In any case, any one or group of MPs from any party could submit a reform proposal; there was not one proposal submitted in five years.
There are many Zanu PF operatives masquerading as MDC leaders/supporters, journalists, etc., etc. whose sole purpose is to confuse the people and create the impression that MDC is the best thing to happen to Zimbabwe and the party has never put one foot wrong. Each time people like Wilbert have pointed the truth about MDC leaders' serious shortcomings and provided the supporting evidence, these Zanu PF operatives have scramble to discredit him.
MDC leaders failed to implement even one democratic reforms during the GNU. MDC have continued to participate in flawed elections and thus giving the process some credibility, as Coltart himself admitted. These are all historic facts and you attempt to deny them and, worse still, to discredit Wilbert for say them will be dismissed with the contempt it rightly deserve!
There is a mountain of evidence showing that Mugabe was a corrupt, incompetent and ruthless tyrant and therefore any suggestion that he can still be called a hero is an outrage!
The trouble with some people is they are so desperate to judge Mugabe a hero and so they ignore all those historic facts that will make it impossible to reach that conclusion. There are so many filters here, this is not even a monochrome image but more like thermal image - what a snake would sense with its tongue - and yet still judge the person pretty!
Mugabe was a corrupt, incompetent and murderous dictator; no if, no but!
Norton member of parliament Temba Mliswa says Zimbabwe does not need the International Monetary fund for the economy to be revived because it has never prescribed better solutions for the country.
Mliswa was commenting on reports that the IMF had told the Zimbabwean government to stop paying money to companies linked to Oil Boss Kuda Tagwirei.
Said Mliswa, "IMF will never help any Parly or lead in the turnaround of a country. We don't actually need them as what's been achieved since ESAP? All we get from them are stringent conditions; no money. The IMF is for the West no matter the reforms here.”
Temba Mliswa is just one of these empty drums who, thanks to Zimbabwe’s dysfunctional political system, found himself in a position of power and authority and so, as one would expect from an empty drum, is making a lot of noise.
Yes Zimbabwe’s economy failed to recover after ESAP but that was because the Zanu PF government failed implemented all the agreed reforms. Only a fool like Mliswa would expect any meaningful economic recovery when one has failed to take the full doze of the medicine! And to then turn around and blame the doctor for one's folly is insane!
Annual inflation in Zimbabwe was 300 percent in August, according to new data released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). At that level, the troubled southern African nation's inflation rate is the highest in the world.
Annualised inflation in Zimbabwe was measured at 175.66 percent in June, up from 97.85 percent in May. In a statement released on Thursday, IMF head of delegation Gene Leon said Zimbabwe was experiencing what he described as severe economic difficulties.
Compare and contrast with the claim that Zimbabwe is making “progress” make by President Mnangagwa in his UN General Assembly speech!
@ stop-a-thief
The only rules/etiquette that matter here is: say something that is useful and relevant. It is the ideas that matters here and good ideas can come from anyone. Why is it so difficult for you to understand that! Your are obsessed about personalities and have nothing to say about what was said!
It explains why the country is in a real mess, we have more than our fair share brain-dead people . Even with the country in up to its eyes in trouble, we still have idiots who cannot see the trees from grass, forget the wood!
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