During the 2008 to 2013 GNU, Morgan Tsvangirai shameless used
his political position as Prime Minister to promote his selfish interests at
the expense of the commonwealth. Nelson Chamisa is doing the same thing today!
“Things are moving from bad to worse for Nelson Chamisa after
more MDC legislators defied his decree to withdraw their services from
Parliament,” reported Bulawayo 24.
“The 3 parliamentarians elected on the MDC-Alliance ticket
yesterday defied a boycott and attended a sitting of the Portfolio Committee on
Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement. The three are Ms Virginia
Mafuta (Proportional Representative), David Tekeshe (Makoni Central) and Ms
Joyce Makonya (Proportional Representative).”
Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew MDC leaders from attending cabinet
meetings, the first and last time he ever did this, to pressure Mugabe to let
Tsvangirai stay in Zimbabwe House. Tsvangirai relented after he was given the
US$4 million Highlands mansion. He was so content, he and his MDC friends never
lifted a finger to implement the democratic reforms, the primary purpose of the
GNU.
MDC leaders knew implementing the reforms were the key to ending
the curse of rigged elections and good governance; the thing the nation was
dying for. They also knew that Mugabe did not want to lose his dictatorial
powers and so they throw all reforms out of the window to please the dictator.
MDC MPs, senators and councillors should have never taken their
seats following the July 2018 elections because the whole election process was
a farce. Zanu PF blatantly rigged those elections.
Indeed, MDC and the rest of the opposition candidates should
have never participated in July 2018 elections without first implementing the
reforms to ensure the elections were free, fair and credible. They participated
out of greed; they knew Zanu PF would give away a few gravy-train seats as
bait.
What is more shocking is that the opposition candidates knew that
by participating in the flawed and illegal elections they will give credibility
to the process and thus give some modicum of legitimacy to the result as David
Coltart readily admitted in his book.
In his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in
Zimbabwe, David Coltart, former MDC – Ncube Senator and Minister of
Education in the 2008 GNU, gave details of how Zanu PF was flouting the
electoral rules in the upcoming 2013 elections. It was clear the elections
would not be free, fair and credible.
“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,”
wrote 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.”
So, Nelson Chamisa and his MDC friends participated in the July
2018 elections knowing fully well that doing so gave the rigged elections
credibility and Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF regime legitimacy. The MDC winning
candidates took up the allotted seats and Chamisa banked the MDC’s share of the
Political Party Finance (Act) pay out.
Chamisa did not care that the elections were rigged denying the
ordinary Zimbabweans their right to a meaningful say in the governance of the
country and, most important of all, denying them any hope of having a competent
government that will address their worsening economic situation.
However, when the Supreme Court confirmed the High Court
judgement that Chamisa’s seizure of power following Tsvangirai’s death had
indeed violated the MDC’s own constitution; all hell broke loose. Chamisa’s
hold on power is being threatened and now he wanted maximum pressure brought to
bear on Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF regime. Now Mnangagwa and his regime are
illegitimate and MDC MPs, senators, councillors, ambassadors, everybody must
stop engaging with the regime!
Chamisa knows that what he did in seizing power was
unconstitutional just as he has known all along that participating in these
flawed and illegal elections gave the process credibility and Zanu PF
legitimacy. He is angry that Mnangagwa did not instruct Supreme Court to
overlook his transgression, in a quid pro quo. If the judiciary was instructed
to judge the November 2017 military coup “justified, legal and constitutional”;
this was nothing!
So, Chamisa is calling for a belated boycott of the Zanu PF
regime to underline its illegitimacy as a tit for tat!
How ironic that Morgan Tsvangirai did not hesitate piling the
pressure on Mugabe to get his US$4 million mansion but could not be even
bothered to lift a finger to implemented the reforms to end Zanu PF
dictatorship.
Similarly, Chamisa participated in flawed and illegal elections
to give the vote rigging and per se illegitimate Zanu PF regime legitimacy but
only now wants to boycott participating in government because Mnangagwa would
grant legitimacy to Chamisa’s unconstitutional seizure of MDC leadership.
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Zambian Minister of Health Dr. Chitalu Chilufya has reported that sic Zimbabwean truck drivers have tested positive to the deadly Coronavirus.
In a statement on Friday, the Minister revealed that 14 new COVID- 19 cases were recorded in Zambia from 161 Lusaka tests done on Thursday.
The tests revealed that 10 of the cases are truck drivers (4 Zambians, 6 Zimbabweans) coming via Chirundu.
Again, I ask: Is Zimbabwe testing for covid-19 or is it testing but not telling us the truth? Zanu PF can rig election vote count but not covid-19 case count because the virus will continue to spread and kill!
Zanu PF has not been testing as aggressively as it should and therefore the country has a false sense of security. We are now moving into the winter, flu season, covid-19 season and we will pay dearly for all the months of false data!
There is no denying that by participating in the elections with not even one meaningful reform in place Nelson Chamisa knew Mnangagwa would rig the elections and MDC’s participation would give the process credibility. Chamisa and company got their reward, the party won the lion’s share of the bait seats and with it a third of the Political Party Finance (Act) annual pay off. Chamisa should have been content with that but he was not.
When Chamisa realised the international community had all condemned the Zimbabwe elections as a farce, he decided to increase the price for his endorsement of the rigged election. “I have the key to Mnangagwa’s legitimacy!” he claimed.
Chamisa wanted Mnangagwa to agree to a power sharing arrangement in which he, Nelson Chamisa, and a few MDC leaders would be appointed ministers. Mnangagwa refuse to concede to Chamisa’s demands. Frankly there was nothing it in for Mnangagwa other than getting Chamisa to shut up; the international community who considered his regime a pariah regime was not going to be fooled by the addition of a few MDC manikins in cabinet.
I totally agree, Mnangagwa instructed Justice George Chiweshe to rule the November 2017 coup “legal, justified and constitutional” would have had no qualms tell the High Court to throw out the case challenging Chamisa’s seizure of the MDC presidency. It would have been a nice quid pro quo of one illegitimate leader to another!
If Chamisa had make new power sharing demands, Mnangagwa would have never thrown him under the bus. The Court case proves Chamisa would do anything for power and he participated in the flawed elections for exactly the same reason – greed.
Still, whatever credibility Mnangagwa had derived from Chamisa participating in the July 2018 elections has also been lost now that Chamisa has himself lost political credibility! Both Mnangagwa and Chamisa are politically irrelevant now, Zimbabwe is free to redefine its new political destiny.
There is no denying that by participating in the elections with not even one meaningful reform in place Nelson Chamisa knew Mnangagwa would rig the elections and MDC’s participation would give the process credibility. Chamisa and company got their reward, the party won the lion’s share of the bait seats and with it a third of the Political Party Finance (Act) annual pay off. Chamisa should have been content with that but he was not.
When Chamisa realised the international community had all condemned the Zimbabwe elections as a farce, he decided to increase the price for his endorsement of the rigged election. “I have the key to Mnangagwa’s legitimacy!” he claimed.
Chamisa wanted Mnangagwa to agree to a power sharing arrangement in which he, Nelson Chamisa, and a few MDC leaders would be appointed ministers. Mnangagwa refuse to concede to Chamisa’s demands. Frankly there was nothing it in for Mnangagwa other than getting Chamisa to shut up; the international community who considered his regime a pariah regime was not going to be fooled by the addition of a few MDC manikins in cabinet.
I totally agree, Mnangagwa instructed Justice George Chiweshe to rule the November 2017 coup “legal, justified and constitutional” would have had no qualms tell the High Court to throw out the case challenging Chamisa’s seizure of the MDC presidency. It would have been a nice quid pro quo of one illegitimate leader to another!
If Chamisa had make new power sharing demands, Mnangagwa would have never thrown him under the bus. The Court case proves Chamisa would do anything for power and he participated in the flawed elections for exactly the same reason – greed.
Still, whatever credibility Mnangagwa had derived from Chamisa participating in the July 2018 elections has also been lost now that Chamisa has himself lost political credibility! Both Mnangagwa and Chamisa are politically irrelevant now, Zimbabwe is free to redefine its new political destiny.
@ Nomazulu
“Is this the rogue government that begged funding for coronavirus from international donors just last month of April, asking for forgiveness from the western donors for their past actions and insulting manner against them: the UK was insulted most? The assault of Hon. Joanne Mamombe and other activists will not go unchallenged. I will send this article to government of Germany, EU-Human Rights Desk, Women's international bodies, the United Nations and Amnesty International. The folk tongued Zanu PF shenanigans regarding the economy and social degradation of this country with the hope of getting away with murder must be challenged with all disgust it deserves.”
We should not forget that whatever savagery the Zanu PF thugs inflict on the people in urban centre it is nothing compared to what the thugs are dishing out to the people in the rural areas where the regime knows can do as it please. The rural people have been subjected to all manner of abuse, intimidation, coercion, beat, rape and even murder; no one has ever heard their cry for help; and it is little wonder they are nothing but medieval serfs beholden to the overbearing Zanu PF landlords!
Zanu PF is a ruthless regime and 40 years of appeasing the thugs has brought nothing but more suffering; give the thugs an inch and they have taken a foot and came back to demand a yard, give them that they took a mile. It is time to put an end to this insanity!
Mnangagwa and his cronies blatantly rigged the July 2018 elections. They have no democratic mandate to govern, the regime is illegitimate and should step down.
Those who want to bring back Zanu PF in the National Transition Authority are doing so for no other reason than to appease the Zanu PF thugs. These thugs will never allow meaningful reforms to be implement so the country can finally have free, fair and credible elections. It is nonsensical that so many people should continue to be denied their basic freedoms and rights to appease illegitimate thugs!
Zanu PF is beyond the pale, it cannot be reformed, just because the party is doomed that does not mean it should be allowed to drag the whole nation into the abyss with it! Our demand to the international community must be clear and unambiguous Zanu PF rigged the July 2018 elections, it is illegitimate and it must step down!
@ Nomazulu
“Is this the rogue government that begged funding for coronavirus from international donors just last month of April, asking for forgiveness from the western donors for their past actions and insulting manner against them: the UK was insulted most? The assault of Hon. Joanne Mamombe and other activists will not go unchallenged. I will send this article to government of Germany, EU-Human Rights Desk, Women's international bodies, the United Nations and Amnesty International. The folk tongued Zanu PF shenanigans regarding the economy and social degradation of this country with the hope of getting away with murder must be challenged with all disgust it deserves.”
We should not forget that whatever savagery the Zanu PF thugs inflict on the people in urban centre it is nothing compared to what the thugs are dishing out to the people in the rural areas where the regime knows can do as it please. The rural people have been subjected to all manner of abuse, intimidation, coercion, beat, rape and even murder; no one has ever heard their cry for help; and it is little wonder they are nothing but medieval serfs beholden to the overbearing Zanu PF landlords!
Zanu PF is a ruthless regime and 40 years of appeasing the thugs has brought nothing but more suffering; give the thugs an inch and they have taken a foot and came back to demand a yard, give them that they took a mile. It is time to put an end to this insanity!
Mnangagwa and his cronies blatantly rigged the July 2018 elections. They have no democratic mandate to govern, the regime is illegitimate and should step down.
Those who want to bring back Zanu PF in the National Transition Authority are doing so for no other reason than to appease the Zanu PF thugs. These thugs will never allow meaningful reforms to be implement so the country can finally have free, fair and credible elections. It is nonsensical that so many people should continue to be denied their basic freedoms and rights to appease illegitimate thugs!
Zanu PF is beyond the pale, it cannot be reformed, just because the party is doomed that does not mean it should be allowed to drag the whole nation into the abyss with it! Our demand to the international community must be clear and unambiguous Zanu PF rigged the July 2018 elections, it is illegitimate and it must step down!
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