"The #January8statement at @MYANC's 110th anniversary by @CyrilRamaphosa called for the unconditional lifting of sanctions against Cuba, solidarity with Palestine and Western Sahara, but was silent on #ZimSanctions: @MYANC/@ZANUPF_Official relations are now in smoke," revealed Professor Jonathan Moyo, the self-exiled former Zanu PF Cabinet Minister, on twitter.
If SA is finally waking up to the reality
that Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown is not cause by sanctions, as Zanu PF would
have everyone believe, but decades of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption
and rank lawlessness that has the country labelled a pariah state. One hopes
that SA is also waking up to the reality that Zanu PF has been rigging
elections to stay in power.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said Zimbabwe’s
2018 elections “went well”. He was lying, of course. How can an election
process that failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll be
anything but a farce!
If SA was to refuse to endorse Zimbabwe’s
2023 elections, which Zanu PF is rigging already by denying 3 million
Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote “until the West imposed sanctions are
lifted”, for example. It is a feeble excuse; why should Zimbabweans in the
diaspora be denied their fundamental right to a meaningful say in the
governance of the country over a matter in which they had no say. Worse still,
why deny the vote to Zimbabweans in SA and other nation that have not imposed
sanctions on Zimbabwe.
Considering Mnangagwa “won the 2018
elections with 2.4 million vote or 50.8% of the cast votes. The 3 million diaspora
vote is very significant: 3 out of a possible 8 million registered voters or
37% of the electorate. How can the elections be anything else but a farce if
one of the contestants is allowed to cherry pick and deny 37% of the electorate
the vote!
If SA and one or two other SADC countries
were to refuse to endorse Zimbabwe’s 2023 elections as a free and fair process and
thus endorse Zanu PF’s legitimacy this will put Zimbabwe back in the situation
it was in after the 2008 rigged elections. Zanu PF was forced then to sign the
2008 Global Political Agreement, agreeing to the implementation of a raft of
democratic reforms designed to restore the individual freedoms and rights of
all Zimbabweans including the right to free, fair and credible elections.
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The relieved State Security Minister, Owen Ncube last Saturday drove 2 kombis full a group of machete wielding men to a Zanu PF winery in Shurugwi to violently threaten everyone against him following the just ended party primary polls.
Another reason why he was removed is that he was also implicated in the sudden death of the ZIDA Director Douglas Munetsi.
Mudha and Local Govt minister, July Moyo are on record approaching Munatsi 2 days before his sudden death. An impeccable source tells ZimEye: Munatsi told me 2 days before his death that he was approached by Ncube and July Moyo saying the gold deal he was about to conclude, he must pause it and buy gold from Dubai belonging to Mudha and Tagwirei.
Without reforms Zanu PF will use subtle means to rig elections and if push comes to shove Zanu PF will use violence to win these elections. The irony is MDC A is the one insisting on participating in these election for no better reason than greed.
The gentleman raised some really interesting points. It is easy to see why Join Operation Command (JOC) is the real power behind the throne; ever since 2008 when JOC stage the coup to stop MDC getting into power the junta has had no choice but to ensure Zanu PF remained in power at all costs. In return the Junta has demanded a lot of power and influence as pay back.
It was well worth listening to the whole video.
If Zanu PF thugs are doing this to each other, what more to the opposition!
Without reforms Zanu PF will use subtle means to rig elections and if push comes to shove Zanu PF will use violence to win these elections. The irony is MDC A is the one insisting on participating in these election for no better reason than greed.
Mdc Alliance Namibia comprehends that the constitutional functions of the purported independent body ZEC are as follows: 1) Preparing for conducting and supervising all Elections in Zimbabwe and referendums.2) Ensuring that elections are free, fair, transparent, credible and perfect in accordance with the law. This is however, in antithesis, that has not transpired as Mdc Alliance and other stakeholders claim that the institution is biased in favour of Zanupf serial elections fraudsters. Our message is very clear, ZEC should religiously follow the supreme law of the country by ensuring that elections are free, fair and credible.
The sheer naivety of some of our people is really disappointing! We have all known that ZEC has failed to deliver free, fair and credible elections and we have also known that without implementing the democratic reforms to free ZEC to perform its duties nothing will change. It therefore beggars belief that anyone would foolishly call ZEC “to religiously follow the supreme law of the land” when nothing has been done to free ZEC.
Zanu PF is not going to implement any reforms and risk losing the elections when the party knows that the opposition will participate in the elections give Zanu PF legitimacy even if not even a token reform is implemented. Sad, that this is obvious to everyone except the MDC wildebeest herd who have never asked the party leaders why they are insisting in participating in flawed elections!
We are in this economic and political mess primarily because we have a very naive and gullible electorate who have failed to hold those in public office to account. Both Zanu Pf and MDC leaders have done as they damn well pleased and got away with murder, literally too!
LOAD-SHEDDING is expected to increase after ZESA announced Tuesday, some units at the Kariba South power stations would be taken out of service to allow for the completion of critical works on the dam wall.
How many Zimbabweans out there know that the money splashed in building Mugabe's Blue Roof Mansion, US$2 to 4 billion, would have paid for the building and equipping of Batoka Dam Hydro Power Station - that is a second Kariba Dam. Think of all the power contribution to the nation over these years.
It is no wonder the country is in a real mess, the number of opportunities lost through mismanagement and corruption are unbelievable! Zimbabwe must deal with the problem of rigged elections and bad governance now as a matter of national survival!
On my way to meet His Excellency President @cyrilramaphosa in South Africa to discuss possible opportunities for me to engage South African youths for entrepreneurship support. Also in 2022 I will empower and bless Tanzanians and Zimbabweans with money & advice to start business. Africa are you ready?
There is a video of Passion Java throwing a party at a nightclub in SA where he spent nearly R1.4 million mostly on champagne. Not even the Formula One drivers shower in so much champagne!
The irony is that SA has become the home of Zimbabwe’s ruling elite and their cronies where they spend their looted wealth of mansions and extravagant lifestyles. SA must know that Passion Java is loaded, he has just bought a private jet, and yet his tax returns in Zimbabwe says he earns a few thousand dollars per year!
Crony capitalism is what is killing Zimbabwe and SA and Tanzania will go down the same way if they allow the likes of Java to import their corrupt practices into their country.
There is overwhelming evidence to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that Zimbabwe's economic meltdown was caused by decades of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and rank lawlessness that has earned the country the pariah state label. Zanu PF did not want to take the blame and so it has blamed sanctions complete with white farm seizure narrative to make it plausible.
In 2016 Mugabe admitted the country had lost a staggering US$15 billion in diamond revenue alone. How can any nation develop and thrive haemorrhaging like that, especially one with a GDP of US$10 billion like Zimbabwe!
How Zimbabwe harangued the SADC countries to not only believe sanctions were the root cause of Zimbabwe's economic meltdown but to join in the campaign to have the sanctions lifted is a complete mystery.
Still, it is most gratifying to see that SA has finally seen the light: the root cause of Zimbabwe's economic meltdown is not sanctions but corruption and mismanagement.
It should be ease to see that Zimbabwe have been stuck with this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship for 42 years only because the party rigged elections. SA and the rest of the SADC countries should wake up to the role they have played in giving vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy by turning a blind eye to the flawed election process.
If SA and SADC were to refuse to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy in 2023, that would be a game changer and break Zimbabwe needs right now!
ALL odds are stacked against opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and the divided opposition as the country marches towards the 2023 elections, with analysts predicting that Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa will retain the presidency by all means possible.
The chaos, violence and reports of rigging in the ruling Zanu-PF's own internal elections for provincial executives were a precursor of what to expect in the run-up to the 2023 national polls, they say.
They predict a vicious power struggle in Zanu-PF ahead of its elective congress in 2022, but noted that the ruling party will quickly gang up to deny the opposition space at the country's top table.
The only time Zanu PF nearly lost the elections was in the March 2008 elections when SADC leaders forced Zanu PF to switch-off its vote rigging juggernaut. When it became apparent Zanu PF was heading for a landslide defeat, Mnangagwa and the others in the Join Operation Command junta switch the vote rigging juggernaut back on in time to stop ZEC announcing the results.
Zanu PF then spend six weeks whittling down Tsvangirai’s 73% votes, according to Mugabe’s Freudian slip, to 47%, enough to force a runoff. During the runoff, the Zanu PF vote rigging juggernaut went into overdrive as Zanu PF militia, war veterans backed by the state security services under the junta command punished the people for having rejected Zanu PF in the earlier vote.
The 2008 to 2013 GNU was supposed to implement the democratic reforms taking away Zanu PF’s carte blanche dictatorial powers and stop a repeat of the blatant cheating and wanton violence that marred the 2008 elections. Sadly, not even one reform was implemented during the GNU; Mugabe bribed the MDC leaders, and they took their eyes of the reforms!
The real insanity is MDC leaders’ insisting on participating in elections without reforms on the pretext they have “winning in rigged elections strategies!” Strategies to overhaul Zanu PF’s vote rigging juggernaut that overturned Tsvangirai’s 73% to 47% and then into 84% landslide victory for Mugabe in the runoff!
Of course, MDC’s “winning in rigged elections strategies” is an oxymoron. And after 42 years of rigged elections, one would have thought the Zimbabweans themselves would have the common sense to stop participating in these flawed elections whose outcome is giving Zanu PF legitimacy!
@ Leonard Koni
“Mr Mwonzora is a political fraud who is always thinking about himself rather than the suffering majority of Zimbabweans,” you said.
You are 100% correct there! The real surprise is that you are singling out Mwonzora are the villain when all the MDC leaders are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless. Chamisa, Biti, Coltart, etc., were all in the 2008 to 2013 GNU that failed to implement even one reform and thus landing us in the mess of rigged elections we are in to this day
There has been overwhelming evidence to prove that corruption and mismanagement are very serious problems in Zimbabwe ranging from the country’s Auditor General’s reports and admission by government officials. Mugabe himself admitted in 2016 that the country was “swindled out of US$15 billion in diamonds alone!”
How can the country survive such serious haemorrhaging of resources, especial a country whose GDP is only US$10 billion?
Zanu PF has complained incessantly that the sanctions imposed of some party leaders were responsible for the country’s economic meltdown and yet has failed to produce the evidence. Many people were surprised that Zanu PF even managed to harangue SADC leaders not only accept the lie that sanctions were responsible for the country’s economic meltdown but get the regional leaders to join in the call for the sanctions to be lifted.
Thank God, SA has since woken up to the reality that sanctions are just a smoke screen behind which to hide the real causes of Zimbabwe’s myriad of economic and political problems. What President Cyril Ramaphosa and his colleagues need to do now is connect the remaining dots and they will have the full picture.
The real reason Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess is because of the country’s failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. SA and SADC have played a key role in this by turning a blind eye to Zanu PF rigging elections.
Zanu PF is rigging the 2023 elections and SA must call a spade a spade and never again turn a blind eye to rigged elections. If SA refuse to give legitimacy to Zanu PF in 2023 that will be a game changer because Zimbabwe will be forced to have another GNU. This time, the democratic reforms will be implemented, of that we can be certain!
SA and the rest of the SADC leaders thought they were demonstrating solidarity and African unity is calling for the lifting of sanctions imposed by the West on Zanu PF even if they were not convinced sanctions were the root cause of Zimbabwe's economic meltdown. Why these SADC leaders have also turned a blind eye to Zanu PF rigging elections cannot be attributed to solidarity too because the same leaders refused to do the same in 2008 - or be it the cheating and wanton violence was out of this world then.
SADC leaders proposed the implementation of the democratic reforms as a way out of the political and economic mess Zimbabwe has been stuck in. When MDC leaders failed to implement even one reform and went on to participate in the flawed 2013 elections against SADC leaders' advice not to; the regional leaders despaired and reverted to ignoring Zanu PF rigged elections.
SADC leaders have endorsed Zanu PF's rigged elections to punish MDC but it is the ordinary Zimbabweans who have suffered. The economic and political mess in Zimbabwe is now spilling into the region and beyond the idea of punishing MDC leaders is now a luxury SADC leaders can ill afford.
If President Cyril Ramaphosa endorse the next rigged Zimbabwe elections as having "gone well" then he can be certain the will be a flood of Zimbabweans crossing over into SA. The ordinary South Africans themselves should know this too!
HUNDREDS of Zimbabwean teachers working in neighbouring South Africa this week applied for the SA Educators Council certificate to avoid deportation as they hold Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEPs) which expired on December 31, 2021.
After the expiry of ZEP permits, the estimated 200 000 immigrants were given a grace period of 12 months to apply for other permits to avoid deportation.
Zimbabwe’s education service has all but collapsed and one cannot blame the teachers for leaving the country in droves!
@ Vince Musewe
“THE Southern African Development Community's (Sadc) regional indicative strategic development plan (RISDP) 2020–30 of October 2020 is a framework for the implementation of Sadc's regional integration agenda for the next 10 years.
The RISDP seeks to promote regional value chains and increase value-addition in select priority sectors. In the long-term, the objective is to increase the region's manufacturing capacity, competitiveness, and capacity to trade and hence, achieve sustainable economic transformation.
It is anchored on three pillars these are: (1) industrial development and market integration, (2) infrastructural development in support of regional integration, and (3) social and human capital development.”
There is no hope of achieving any meaningful development in SADC at present given the political and economic crisis in such countries as Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The challenge is to address the underlying causes of the instability first and only then can we talk of regional integration.
You are clearly not aware of the problems of Zimbabwe’s illegal migrants are causing in SA and Zambia, for example. Mnangagwa has been talking about Zimbabwe being on course to become an upper middle-income nation by 2030, his vision 2030. The reality on the ground tells its own story and the people are voting with their feet; they are leaving the country in droves!
If Zimbabwe’s 2023 elections are rigged again and the regional body in turn repeat the foolish mistake of endorsing the process as legitimate; there will be a new flood of Zimbabweans leaving the country! What Zimbabwe needs is an end to the curse of rigged elections and bad governances, nothing of substance can ever be accomplished as long as the country remains a pariah state!
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