There is no limit to the antics Zimbabwe’s fallen corrupt and incompetent leaders will go to impress in a vain hope to be re-elected and secure the converted gravy train seat. They conveniently overlook that all the time they were in power, they accomplished nothing of note!
“Recalled MDC Alliance Chikanga Dangamvura Member of Parliament Prosper Mutseyami, Ward 17 Councillor John Nyamhoka and other party members harvest Beauty Chinobeta's field who is not feeling well yesterday,” reported Bulawayo 24.
“Beauty is an MDC Alliance Chairperson of a branch in Hobhouse 2 which is in ward 17 where Nyamhoka was a Councillor.”
MDC leaders are becoming more and more like Zanu PF thugs - adapt at doing for the people what the people can do for themselves, just to draw attention away from their repeated failures and betrayal of the people to restore their freedoms and rights and to economic empowerment.
The people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb to elect MDC leaders into power on the understanding the party will bring about the democratic changes to end the Zanu PF dictatorship, the end the nation has been dying. After 21 years, 5 of which in the GNU, MDC leaders have failed to bring about even one change! Not one!
MDC leaders have instead been doing all manner of things, condemning Zanu PF corruption, reminding the people how miserable they are, launching scholarship for poor students (a token number) and now helping with the harvest. Anything to steal some limelight and keep their name in the public eye in preparation for the next elections.
"I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude of appreciation to the team from ward 17 who spared all their personal responsibilities to come and help our branch chairperson Mai Sai to harvest her field,” said Mutseyami.
"This was heart warming extension of solidarity. I wish you grace of the Living Lord . May our Chairperson heal in the name of the lord. She is not well. I wish good in all the medical attention being rendered to her.”
No doubt, he was very pleased to help and thrilled to bits of the publicity he has received.
MDC leaders betrayed the nation by failing to implement the democratic reforms even when they had the golden opportunity to do so during the GNU. Worse still, they are the ones giving legitimacy to the vote rigging Zanu PF by participating in flawed and illegal elections.
MDC leaders are corrupt, incompetent and hypocrites preying on the ordinary people’s suffering and naivety just as the Zanu PF thugs are doing! The sooner the people of Zimbabwe wake-up to the duplicity of MDC leaders the sooner this nation can start the important task of looking for quality leaders and a way out of this hell-hole we find ourselves in.
One is reminded of Joice Mujuru, Simba Makoni, Professor Jonathan Moyo, Savour Kasukuwere and many, many other Zanu PF leaders’ scathing criticism of Zanu PF corruption and tyrannical rule. The scathing attacks were all made after the individual was booted out of the party and was desperate to relaunch their floundering political career.
“A pup does not open its eyes the day it is born!” was Joice Mujuru’s answer when asked why she had never criticised Zanu PF all the years she was in Cabinet and thus had the power and authority to make a difference.
It was all nonsense of course; how has ever heard of a pup that too 34 years to open its eye! If the pup does not open its eyes in 7 days or so, it is blind. Period!
It is intolerable that the only time Zanu PF and MDC leaders have said or done anything remotely useful or relevant is when they vying for public office but once elected they have pursued their own selfish interests at odds with those of the people had risked life and limb elect them!
It is high time the Zimbabwean people themselves opened their eyes and saw the country politicians on both side of the political divide for what they really are - corrupt, incompetent and, in the case of Zanu PF, vote rigging and murderous thugs (MDC leaders have the potential and have lacked the opportunity, so far).
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AS OF last week, only a total of 6 000 people had received Covid-19 vaccine jabs across Mashonaland West province which has an estimated population of 1.5 million people.
This was revealed by the provincial medical director, Gift Masoja who said the low uptake of the vaccines could be attributed to the negative publicity on social media platforms surrounding the safety and efficacy of the available vaccines.
The government doctor urged the public to ignore the negative publicity being peddled against the Chinese Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines, and instead embrace the inoculation exercise.
Whilst it is true that the efficacy of the vaccines available in Zimbabwe are yet to be confirmed. Some reports say the efficacy of the Sinopharm vaccine is 30% compared to the 70% plus of other vaccines; it is nonetheless better to have 30% protection than 0%.
The safety of the vaccines available is also an unknown factor still if the vaccine was deadly the data will be out in the public domain by now given there are now millions of people in China and beyond who have had the vaccine jab! The corona virus is certainly more deadly than the vaccine.
I for one would argue Zimbabweans to have the vaccine.
Meanwhile, government must pile the pressure on the Chinese to have its vaccines approved by WHO and to source vaccines that have been approved already.
Zimbabwe can afford to pay for the vaccines if only government can stamp out corruption. The country is losing US$1.2 billion per year to gold smugglers!
Teachers are currently earning between $17 000 and $22 000, which they say is below the poverty datum line.
In March, government agreed to adjust its workers' salaries, offering a 70% staggered adjustment, which saw civil servants this month getting 25% of the offer.
Their unions told NewsDay yesterday that they had lost faith in the negotiations.
"We have negotiated enough and nobody seems to care. We are being considered as workers who do not deserve attention as if to mean we are a nuisance. The best we can say is that we are condemned employees. We have been neglected like mercenary prisoners of war and the only solution before us is to show that we are human beings worth surviving, like the members of Parliament who are demanding more than $72 000. We need to rise up and be counted," Zimbabwe National Teachers Union chief executive Manuel Nyawo said.
So if a teacher was to be elected MP he/she would see their earning shoot up from $22 000 to $72 000, not counting the allowances, US $75 000 car loan (repaid if recalled), etc. The economic gap between the rulers and the ruled has become a chasm are it is little wonder those in power are doing everything including cheating and even committing cold blooded murder just to stay in power at all cost!
The tragedy is Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown, the force fuelling the platonic drift between the filthy rich few and the majority damned to abject poverty, is getting worse. As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and incompetent thugs there will be no meaningful economic recovery. None!
However much MDC leaders would like to claim that the 2013 Constitution is a democratic one and an "MDC child!" the reality speaks volumes to the contrary. Paul Mangwana's boasting that Mugabe dictated the constitution is the one supported by the reality on the ground.
Mugabe pulled off two dirty tricks during the 2008 o 2013 GNU. One, he fooled MDC leaders into believing they were now members of the country's ruling elite just like Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies and so did not need to implement any democratic reforms and dismantle the system they too stood to benefit from.
If at all any of the MDC leaders were smart enough to know the new constitution was trash then Mugabe managed to trick them into believing the best option for MDC leaders was to pretend the new constitution was a democratic one or be exposed as having accomplished nothing. The Zimbabwe populous were stampeded into approving the rubbish constitution in the referendum. 80% of the people voted without seeing a copy of the constitution let alone read it.
Like it or not the 2013 Constitution is exactly what Mugabe wanted and with each amendment Mnangagwa has consolidated Zanu PF's iron grip on power. The only rational solution is to swallow our pride and accept Zanu PF has the upper hand. As for the way forward, we really need to take SADC leaders' June 2013 advice and stop participating in flawed and illegal elections.
MDC leaders have been participating out of greed, they are after the few gravy train seats Zanu PF offers as bait. We the people gain absolutely nothing from participating and it is high time we opened our eyes, used our heads and ended this madness.
This is a man-made mess and we only have ourselves to blame for having allowed the madness go on all these last 41 years.
There is no denying that SADC leaders could have done a lot more to make sure that the democratic reforms necessary for free, fair and credible elections were implemented during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Still, their advice to Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends in June 2013 not to participate in the elections until reforms were in place was very sound advice.
It was sound advice then and it is sound advice now. It is futile to keep participating in elections knowing Zanu PF was rigging and there is absolutely no hope of winning. Worse still, MDC leaders themselves have known that they had no hope of winning the elections and that their participation only served to give the flawed process credibility and the vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy.
The MDC leaders have participated in the flawed elections regardless out of greed. Mutsenyami and all the other recalled MDC A MPs participated in the 2018 elections knowing Zanu PF will rig the election and win with a landslide, they were after the few bait seats. They are all gearing for the 2023 elections knowing Zanu PF will once again rig and win; they don’t care the consequences of the perpetuating the dictatorship as long as they win the few bait seats!
The political challenge for us all is to demand there be no elections until reforms are implemented. SADC leaders were right, nothing of substance can ever be accomplished until we have free, fair and credible elections! Nothing!
The world over, politicians will do anything to be elected into office, in Zimbabwe our politicians have specialised in doing everything else expect what the voters asked them to do. It is shocking that Zimbabweans have risked life and limb to elect MDC leaders into power to bring about the democratic changes the nation has been dying for. After 21 years, 5 of which in the GNU, MDC has absolutely nothing to show for it.
Of course, Mutseyami, Biti, Chamisa, Mwonzora, Mahera, Coltart and all the opposition politicians who contested the July 2018 elections KNEW that with no reforms Zanu PF would rig the elections just as happened in 2013. The contested regardless because they were after the few gravy train seats and did not care their action was helping to keep Zanu PF in power and thus perpetuate the misrule and suffering of the ordinary people.
Even if none of the MDC A MPs and senators had been recalled, there is nothing they would have done to stop the Constitutional Amendment Bill No 2 sailing through, for example. Zanu PF has the 2/3 majority in parliament and senate and can do as it pleases.
There is no way Zanu PF would have got a 2/3 majority in July 2018 if the elections were free, fair and credible. MDC leaders not only sold out in failing to implement the reforms themselves during the GNU but are now compounding the situation by participating in flawed elections to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy. This is the insanity we in Zimbabwe are facing and must deal with.
@ Mabgenga
Mnangagwa has been in power ever since the country's independence in 1980, as Mugabe's right hand man for 37 years then as the Zanu PF top dog the last 3 years. Please name one thing of note he has ever accomplished, I can think of many things he has messed up big time. Why anyone would still want Mnangagwa in power for even one more day shows just how shallow, naive and devoid of imagination they must be!
To be fair, we have more than our fair share of individuals who are shallow and devoid of imagination and hence the reason the country is in this mess!
MDC A failed to win the majority in parliament in 2018 because the elections are flawed and illegal, Zanu PF was able to blatantly rig the elections. Chamisa boasted that "MDC A had stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections!" It was all hot air, the party had nothing to stop Zanu PF rigging elections.
The suggestion that MDC A lost the parliamentary elections because the party failed to field the right candidate is just another feeble excuse to draw attention away from the folly of participating in flawed elections.
It is high time Zimbabweans open their eyes and saw MDC A's time wasting lies, gimmicks and down right betrayals. The must demand the implementation of the reforms as the only sure way to guarantee free, fair and credible elections and settle this matter of rigged elections once and once for all!
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