“It is therefore difficult to be in ED's shoes this time of
Zimbabwe. Every gesture he takes is compared to the former (Robert Mugabe). So
his first year in office has been a year of serious comparisons. Nothing he did
or not do would not be compared to the former. Without respecting the political
correctness ED is not an orator as Mugabe was, but ED is a doer and he means
his words. His actions speaks eloquently than the spoken words. In that
comparison mood I should say I was very lucky to have met the two presidents
one on one. In that respect my comments on both based on my personal
interactions with both,” wrote Dr Masimba Mavaza.
“The three years in office were in any language on earth a successful and
eventful years. It has put the nation on a progressive path.”
The article had a misleading title “Mnangagwa's Secrets to
win In 2023 Revealed” when all that followed was the usual diatribe of lies and
more lies. Zimbabwe has been in economic decline ever since the country’s
independence in 1980. The November 2017 military coup has not brought any
change because it was a none-event.
The coup resulted in the musical change of the leaders but
the Zanu PF dictatorship itself remained untouched. Zimbabwe a pariah state
before the coup and that did not change. And as long as Zimbabwe remains a
pariah state there will be no meaningful economic recovery. Dr Mavaza’s “progressive
path” is a lie.
Mnangagwa is not going to win the 2023 elections because he
has brought about any meaningful economic recovery; the economy is in a worse
state than ever. He is gearing to rig the 2023 elections but that is hardly a
secret given Zanu PF has always rigged elections.
One of the tragic stories to emerge from the slave trade is
that it was not the white man who hunted down the blacks and sold them as
slaves to the slave traders. It was black Africans who hunted their own fellow
blacks and sold them into slavery for a fistful of beads and a piece of calico
cloth! It is this cold indifference to the suffering of other living things,
humans and, closer still, one’s own kith and kin that made black Africans vulnerable
to divide and rule and exploitation.
Before the whites set foot on African soil, the natives were
fighting each other; then came the slave trade; after it came colonial
oppression and exploitation and now, we have black on black oppression!
Mnangagwa is selling the nation’s diamonds, gold and other resources for a song,
fistful of beads and a piece of calico cloth, to the Chinese, Russians and
other foreigners whilst millions of our people are forced to live in heart
breaking abject poverty. All he cares about is that he and his Zanu PF cronies
must remain in power no matter what.
“Ed managed to hold free and fair (July 2018) elections. It
was the first of its kind where people chose and campaigned for the parties
they wanted without fear. This means the nation must give him another chance in
2023 to finish what he has started,” argued Dr Mavaza.
How can 2018 elections have been free and fair when 3
million Zimbabweans in the diaspora were denied the vote? Mnangagwa reported
won the presidency with 2.4 million votes, or 50.8% of the cast votes.
In September 2018 Mnangagwa promised the Zimbabweans in the
diaspora will vote in the 2023 elections and yet has done nothing to make this
possible. The Zanu PF regime has amended over 30 sections of the new
constitution for the sole purpose of consolidating the State President’s
dictatorial powers but has failed to extend the postal vote to 3 millions in
the diaspora.
By blatantly denying 3 million in the diaspora the vote out
of the potential 8 million voters, 38%, Zanu PF has once again shown its
contempt for the rule of law and commitment to holding free, fair and credible
elections.
The only reason the MDC A and the rest in the opposition
camp continue to participate in these flawed and illegal elections is greed.
Zanu PF is offering a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition to
participate to give the flawed process some modicum of credibility and,
extension, give the vote rigging Zanu PF regime legitimacy.
People like Dr Mavaza are making a good living out of singing
the praises of the corrupt and tyrannical regimes like Zanu PF. Whilst he
pretends to see nothing wrong with Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown and political
turmoil; he could not bear the hardships himself and now lives in the UK. What
a hypocrite! If Zimbabwe was such a peaceful and prosperous nation, then why
did you leave Zimbabwe.
Both Mugabe and Mnangagwa have never had any problems recruiting
Zimbabwean intellectuals to prop up the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship.
Dr Mavaza is a University Graduate, in Law no less, and yet has no clue what
constitute free, fair and credible elections. Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 2018
elections and yet he has repeatedly claimed the elections were free, fair and
credible.
Whilst the blacks Africans did not have the weapons to sink
the slave ships; they nonetheless had the weapons to hunt down and punish all
the blacks who hunted down other blacks and sold them as slaves. As a people,
black Africans failed to stamp out the heartless indifference of the blacks who
sold their own fellow blacks for a fist full of beads and a piece of calico clothe
and that heartlessness has survived and passed from one generation to the next
to this day.
Mnangagwa and his shameless acolytes and apologists like Dr
Mavaza are our modern day black Africans hunting down fellow blacks and selling
them to the slave traders for a fistful of beads and a piece of calico clothe. Whatever
we do, we must hold Mnangagwa, Mavaza, etc. to account for all the suffering, death
and distraction of the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. Whatever we
do, we must stamp out once the notion one can sell their own mother for a price,
boast they had a mother to sell and get away with it!
“Please 2023 your vote must be for progress. 2023 ED must be
given his second term and make Zimbabwe again. So, if you cannot vote for ED
2023 then you have no reason to vote!” pleaded Dr Mavaza.
With not even one democratic reform implemented since the
last elections, it is clear Zanu PF will rig the 2023 elections. Indeed, by once
again denying Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote, 38% of the voters, it is
clear the rigging has already started in earnest. After 41 years and counting of
Zanu PF rigging elections and getting away with it; we must put an end to this.
We cannot stop Zanu PF rigging the 2023 elections but what
we can do is make sure the process is exposed for what it is - a flawed and
illegal process. Zanu PF cannot get legitimacy from a discredited process
regardless of the discredited opposition’s continued participation.
“Mnangagwa's secrets to win in 2023!” He is once again rigging
the elections. What is new is that he not going to get away with it, not this
time!
12 comments:
Mnangagwa is going to rig the 2018 election and as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state there is no hope of a meaning economic recovery. The country is facing a serious existential threat, we are standing on the edge of the precipitous abyss. This is a man-made problem, a problem of bad governance and we know the solution is to end this curse of rigged elections.
It is shocking that people like you, Dr Mavaza, continue to lie about Mnangagwa holding free, fair and credible elections. You are selling out to the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship for selfish gain.
Mnangagwa is going to rig the 2018 election and as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state there is no hope of a meaning economic recovery. The country is facing a serious existential threat, we are standing on the edge of the precipitous abyss. This is a man-made problem, a problem of bad governance and we know the solution is to end this curse of rigged elections.
It is shocking that people like you, Dr Mavaza, continue to lie about Mnangagwa holding free, fair and credible elections. You are selling out to the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship for selfish gain.
White supremacists like Ian Smith dismissed black Africans as inherently incapable of self-governing it is when one looks at the likes of Robert Mugabe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Morgan Tsvangirai, Nelson Chamisa, Tendai Biti, Dr Masimba Mavaza, etc., etc. that one has to agree we really have a problem governing ourselves. We are stuck in this economic and political mess because all these morons have all failed to define what constitutes free, fair and credible elections.
“One man, one vote!” was one of the core tenets of our fight for independence and black nationalism. Everyone recognised the right to have a meaningful say in the governance of the country as essential for freedom and human dignity. Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies were after power and the freedom and dignity of everyone else was thrown out; the party made no secret that if it did not win the 1980 elections to secure political power it would shoot its way into power. Fcuk one man, one vote!
Mnangagwa promised to hold free, fair and credible elections soon after the November 2017 military coup, no doubt conscious of the democratic deficit of the Mugabe years. Sadly, it was easier to make the promise but impossible to keep it. It is most infuriating that even intellectuals like Dr Mavaza should be jumping on the bandwagon in making the outrageous claim that rigged elections were free and fair.
The MDC village idiots sold-out big time by failing to implement even one reform during the GNU when they had the chance to do so. Instead of admitting their failures they are now misleading their naïve and gullible supporters that MDC can win rigged elections!
So we are well and truly stuck with a ruling party that have carte blanche power to rig elections and an opposition that has the public fooled into believing the nation can still end the dictatorship without the need to implement the reforms. By participating in the flawed elections the people are unwittingly giving the vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy.
Zimbabwe has become the classical case of a failed state in which all the three key players; the ruling party, the opposition and the public; are all brain-dead. In this day and age we should know what constitutes free, fair and credible elections but that is clearly not the case in Zimbabwe!
I totally agree, Zimbabwe has more than her fair share of sell-out like Dr Mavaza, if the nation should ever achieve democratic changes and get a competent government then the sell-out activities of people like Dr Mavaza must be thoroughly investigated and appropriate punishment dished out. Tyrannical regime like this Zanu PF would have never survived all these years without the support of these sell-outs! Judas Iscariot hanged himself, Dr Mavaza and his ilk must be given the rope to do the same for their part in keeping Zanu PF in power all these years and the tragic human suffering the regime has caused.
White supremacists like Ian Smith dismissed black Africans as inherently incapable of self-governing it is when one looks at the likes of Robert Mugabe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Morgan Tsvangirai, Nelson Chamisa, Tendai Biti, Dr Masimba Mavaza, etc., etc. that one has to agree we really have a problem governing ourselves. We are stuck in this economic and political mess because all these morons have all failed to define what constitutes free, fair and credible elections.
“One man, one vote!” was one of the core tenets of our fight for independence and black nationalism. Everyone recognised the right to have a meaningful say in the governance of the country as essential for freedom and human dignity. Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies were after power and the freedom and dignity of everyone else was thrown out; the party made no secret that if it did not win the 1980 elections to secure political power it would shoot its way into power. Fcuk one man, one vote!
Mnangagwa promised to hold free, fair and credible elections soon after the November 2017 military coup, no doubt conscious of the democratic deficit of the Mugabe years. Sadly, it was easier to make the promise but impossible to keep it. It is most infuriating that even intellectuals like Dr Mavaza should be jumping on the bandwagon in making the outrageous claim that rigged elections were free and fair.
The MDC village idiots sold-out big time by failing to implement even one reform during the GNU when they had the chance to do so. Instead of admitting their failures they are now misleading their naïve and gullible supporters that MDC can win rigged elections!
So we are well and truly stuck with a ruling party that have carte blanche power to rig elections and an opposition that has the public fooled into believing the nation can still end the dictatorship without the need to implement the reforms. By participating in the flawed elections the people are unwittingly giving the vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy.
Zimbabwe has become the classical case of a failed state in which all the three key players; the ruling party, the opposition and the public; are all brain-dead. In this day and age we should know what constitutes free, fair and credible elections but that is clearly not the case in Zimbabwe!
I totally agree, Zimbabwe has more than her fair share of sell-out like Dr Mavaza, if the nation should ever achieve democratic changes and get a competent government then the sell-out activities of people like Dr Mavaza must be thoroughly investigated and appropriate punishment dished out. Tyrannical regime like this Zanu PF would have never survived all these years without the support of these sell-outs! Judas Iscariot hanged himself, Dr Mavaza and his ilk must be given the rope to do the same for their part in keeping Zanu PF in power all these years and the tragic human suffering the regime has caused.
“Tell our people who are interested in joining the ZRP to forward their names. Please note that this is a directive from the authorities. We have to make sure that our people join the police force.
Please compile the list of those interest as soon as people.
This should be conveyed to true Zanu PF youths because they have to join the police force,” a Zanu PF councillor identified as Matsaure wrote on WhatsApp.
This is not something new! We all know of the stories of Zanu PF leaders putting Police Officer, Judges and other public officials under pressure to do nothing to punish party thugs for breaking the law and yet do the exact opposite when opposition dare break the same law. Indeed, opposition supporters have often ended up landing in hot soup for reporting abuse by Zanu PF thugs.
Former Police Commissioner, Augustine Chihuri, admitted in his doctorate thesis that the opposition were considered enemies of the state working with foreign powers to achieve regime change and ZRP treated them accordingly!
If we are serious about having free, fair and credible elections then we must implement the democratic reforms first. The MDDC notion of winning rigged elections is just nonsense because Zanu PF will raise the bar higher and higher the harder the people try to defeat the party.
“Tell our people who are interested in joining the ZRP to forward their names. Please note that this is a directive from the authorities. We have to make sure that our people join the police force.
Please compile the list of those interest as soon as people.
This should be conveyed to true Zanu PF youths because they have to join the police force,” a Zanu PF councillor identified as Matsaure wrote on WhatsApp.
This is not something new! We all know of the stories of Zanu PF leaders putting Police Officer, Judges and other public officials under pressure to do nothing to punish party thugs for breaking the law and yet do the exact opposite when opposition dare break the same law. Indeed, opposition supporters have often ended up landing in hot soup for reporting abuse by Zanu PF thugs.
Former Police Commissioner, Augustine Chihuri, admitted in his doctorate thesis that the opposition were considered enemies of the state working with foreign powers to achieve regime change and ZRP treated them accordingly!
If we are serious about having free, fair and credible elections then we must implement the democratic reforms first. The MDDC notion of winning rigged elections is just nonsense because Zanu PF will raise the bar higher and higher the harder the people try to defeat the party.
@ Mbofana
I totally agree with you that both Zanu PF and MDC leaders have nothing to offer the nation.
However, I beg to differ with you as to the youths being shrewd. Both Zanu PF and MDC are counting on the green bomber youths being naïve and gullible to do the former’s dirty work of coercing the people to attend rallies and the to vote. MDC leaders are counting on the party’s equally naïve youth to believe MDC A will win rigged elections.
A healthy and functioning democracy demands an electorate, young and old, that is informed, vigilant and will hold those in leadership position to account. Zimbabweans have not been asking why and hence the reason why only a few know what the 2008 to 2013 GNU was about much less that MDC leaders sold-out, for example. This is what has been lacking in Zimbabwe and hence the reason why the country is in this mess.
“The next question would be, "What's there to choose, when all the choices available are not good enough? In fact, all the choices on the table are equally flawed, dysfunctional, and incompetent, so what's there to choose?"
The youths are suffering and their future is grime as you said but only a tiny minority, if any at all, are asking all the pertinent questions you are asking much less come up with the same answers you have. The youths will be participating in the flawed and illegal 2023 elections and all to one end – to give Zanu PF legitimacy and earn the few MDC leaders a seat on the gravy train.
Zimbabwe would not be in this mess is we had a rational electorate. We don’t and until we do we are not getting out of this hell-hole!
@ Mbofana
I totally agree with you that both Zanu PF and MDC leaders have nothing to offer the nation.
However, I beg to differ with you as to the youths being shrewd. Both Zanu PF and MDC are counting on the green bomber youths being naïve and gullible to do the former’s dirty work of coercing the people to attend rallies and the to vote. MDC leaders are counting on the party’s equally naïve youth to believe MDC A will win rigged elections.
A healthy and functioning democracy demands an electorate, young and old, that is informed, vigilant and will hold those in leadership position to account. Zimbabweans have not been asking why and hence the reason why only a few know what the 2008 to 2013 GNU was about much less that MDC leaders sold-out, for example. This is what has been lacking in Zimbabwe and hence the reason why the country is in this mess.
“The next question would be, "What's there to choose, when all the choices available are not good enough? In fact, all the choices on the table are equally flawed, dysfunctional, and incompetent, so what's there to choose?"
The youths are suffering and their future is grime as you said but only a tiny minority, if any at all, are asking all the pertinent questions you are asking much less come up with the same answers you have. The youths will be participating in the flawed and illegal 2023 elections and all to one end – to give Zanu PF legitimacy and earn the few MDC leaders a seat on the gravy train.
Zimbabwe would not be in this mess is we had a rational electorate. We don’t and until we do we are not getting out of this hell-hole!
A society that turns a blind eye to some one sells his own mother and boasts that he had a mother to sell, is a dog eat dog society. Such a society is incapable of self government because those in positions of power and authority will forever be preying on everyone else in the same dog eat dog ruthless mentality.
Of course Mnangagwa and his apologists know the 2018 elections were rigged but in a dog eat dog society where one sells his own mother for a price and is proud he had mother to sell rigging elections is nothing; rigging elections is nothing. Dr Mavaza is paid well to sing Mnangagwa praises even to the point of defending a corrupt and tyrannical regime even to the point of millions of ordinary be forced into a life of hopelessness and despair.
Zimbabwe must stamp out the foolishness of selling one's mother, of rigging elections and all manner of selfishness and indifference to others. We must be a society that value the rule of law and no one is above the law.
Mnangagwa rigged the 2018 elections and that must not be permit to happen ever again let alone allow such thugs to benefit from their lawlessness. We cannot stop Zanu PF going ahead with the flawed and illegal elections in 2023 but what we can do make sure the regime does not get away with it!
I read Dr Mavaza's article he did not reveal any secrets on how Mnangagwa was going to win the 2023 elections. The title was totally misleading. All Mavaza was saying is that under Mnangagwa there was democratic space and the economy had improved. All these were just empty lies at odds with the reality on the ground.
What is most infuriating about Dr Mavaza is his claim the July 2018 elections were free, fair and credible when, again, this was all lies. There are some historic facts which to deny makes a mockery of everything. No wonder, 41 years after independence our people are yet to participate in a free, fair and credible election.
Mnangagwa and Dr Mavaza insist the July 2018 elections were free and fair and yet ZEC failed to produce a verified voters' roll and 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora were denied the vote. The situation was only made worse by opposition agreeing to participate in the elections regardless of all the glaring irregularities and illegalities. What is the point of having a law if you are going to ignore it!
There has been no reforms implemented since the July 2018 elections and so all the irregularities and illegalities are going to be repeated in 2023. Indeed, contrary to his own promise to make sure Zimbabweans in the diaspora will have the vote in 2023, nothing has been done to make this possible.
Zanu PF has all but rigged the 2023 elections and ironies of ironies Chamisa et al are hell bend on participating in the plebiscite on the presumption they can undo the rigged elections! The tragedy is there are many Zimbabweans out there who are foolish enough to believe it and will participate in the elections giving Zanu PF legitimacy! It is indeed a mad, mad world we live in!
This is a hopeless cause! In 2008 Zanu PF showed that the party can recount and overturn Tsvangirai's 73% victory into a 47%, just enough to force a run-off. In the run-off the party turned on the after burners of its wanton violence juggernaut and overturned Mugabe's 27% to a whopping 84% landslide victory. This is the same vote rigging juggernaut we are being told be can defeat!!!!!
After 41 years of rigged elections when are we ever going to learn that we need to implement the reforms and stop this madness of trying to win Zanu PF rigged elections!
@ Hugh
Zanu PF has many vote rigging tools in its tool-box it is naive to keep trying to defeat the regime at its own specialty!
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