If one, Right Honourable Temba P Mliswa, MP for Norton, is
to be believed, then the Gold Mafia is certainly bigger then Zanu PF and they
are the ones behind President Mnangagwa’s humiliating defeats in on going Zanu
PF elections. No less than 30 Mnangagwa loyalists including seating MPs and
ministers have lost the Zanu PF parliamentary primary elections.
Zimbabwe has 210 MPs and as a rule of thumb Zanu PF has been
giving away 1/3 of the seats or 70 seats to entice the opposition to
participate and maintain the façade Zimbabwe is a healthy multi-party
democracy. This is important for the party to get political legitimacy.
So, losing 30 seats to a rivalry Zanu PF faction will rob
Mnangagwa of the 2/3 majority and if the 30 joined up with the opposition and
are joined by 11 more, Mnangagwa faction will lose its majority.
Besides the emergence of a strong Zanu PF faction could
divide the presidential vote with faction supporters voting for Zanu PF MP and
opposition presidential candidate. This happened in 2008 with operation “Bhora
musango!” resulting in Mugabe losing heavily to Tsvangirai in the March 2008
vote, as Mnangagwa will know only too well.
“#BREAKING-The current Zanu PF primary elections have been
an utter fiasco of manufactured winners and use of illegal parallel structures.
At the centre of the mess is the Forever Associates of Zimbabwe (FAZ) led by
Deputy Director of CIO Rtd Brigadier Tapfumaneyi.” Announced Mliswa in a string
of tweets.
“FAZ has been pushing for former G40 members to be
organically voted into the ZANU PF system through these elections. The ultimate
output will be a body of MPs and Senators that are anti-ED. There is no
transparency in the elections at all.
“Tapfumaneyi previously approached many G40 members to come
and join FAZ and some, like Kasukuwere, refused. However, the agenda was not
dropped. It has continued and can be seen through the sheer madness that is the
current primaries.”
Most, if not all, losing candidates in Zimbabwe elections
always claim that the elections was rigged and in most cases they will be right
too. They will know of cases ranging from vote buying the more serious cases of
tampering with the voters’ roll, intimidation and violence. Politics in
Zimbabwe has become such a dirty game it is little wonder only season thugs
play it!
Mary Mliswa, Temba’s sister was one of the losers of the
primary elections and it is tempting to dismiss Temba’s renting as soar grapes
but that would be to miss the point. The point being that Zimbabwe politics
have become such a dirty and chaotic game in which outsiders, the gold Mafia,
are the puppeteers and the Zimbabwean politicians, from both sides of the
political divide are the puppets on the string. The puppets limbs and torso are
flying in direction in the most vigorous dirty dance routine to the rancorous
laugher of the Mafia!
No Temba Mliswa did not leave Nelson Chamisa out of this. “The
reason why Chamisa has remained confident about the 2023 elections is that he
is working with FAZ which is run by the CIO. He doesn't need to do much as FAZ
is already strategising from within Zanu PF.”
“The problems have been a long time coming and I have
pointed this out before. FAZ has actually received more money than the actual
CIO. It is being taken care of more than the CIO personnel which should be
worrisome for those in the system,” continued Mliswa.
It really does not matter who is whipping Mnangagwa; is it
G40, VP Chiwenga or CCC. What matters is Zimbabwe’s politicians are fighting
each other like wild cats and it is the Mafia who are bankrolling FAZ, all the Zanu
factions and CCC who are benefiting from the chaos and confusion.
Lest some people should forget; in 2016 the late Robert Mugabe fell out with
the Diamond Mafia and cancelled their carte balance looting licences and kick
the lot out including the Chinese. Before the year was out his wife Grace was
talking of how the dictators was living inconstant fear of a coup.
“Baba vanovata rimwe ziso rakasvinura!” (Mugabe is sleeping
with one eye open!) Well on 15 November 2017 he must have had the lazy eye open
because he, supposedly, filed to see the coup plotters until it was too late to
stop them!
The 2017 coup happen soon after the Zimbabwe Defence Forces
Commander C Chiwenga’s return from China. He was the head of the military coup.
The Chinese company got its diamond looting licence back soon thereafter! Historic
documents will fill in the gaps and cross the ts.
The only time when the Mafia godfathers were truly worried
they might lose their strangle hold on their Zanu PF puppets was during the
2008 to 2013 Government of National Unity (GNU). In his desperate effort to
retain political power Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies had certain over
played their hand with the blatant cheating and, worse still, the wanton
violence that followed.
The Mafiosi heaved a sigh of relief when at the end of the
GNU not even one meaningful democratic reform had been implemented. The five
years of bribing and pampering the MDC leaders had paid off. The pampering has
continued post the GNU to maintain the façade Zimbabwe is a healthy and
functioning multi-party democratic country.
The Al Jazeera documentary has not just exposed the extend
of the gold looting in Zimbabwe but most important of all the sheer naivety and
breath-taking incompetence of the Zanu PF government especially of President
Mnangagwa himself. Only a village idiot, not a statesman much less Head of State,
would appoint third grade conman like Uebert Angel ambassador-at-large!
Has Zimbabwe’s Mafia decided Mnangagwa is damaged goods and
are moving in to remove him? Is the humiliating defeat of the Mnangagwa
loyalists the first telling blows before the Mafia moving in to deliver the
coup de grace?
My primary concern is what we, ordinary Zimbabweans, want? We
need to implement the democratic reforms the 2008 to 2013 GNU was tasked to
implement a.s.a.p. It is the only sure way to end the curse of rigged elections
and bad governance. Make the country’s political leaders democratically
accountable to the people and we will sever the puppet string the Mafia are using
to control our politicians!
“I will be writing a letter to the international community
outlining how FAZ is a CIO organisation playing being an NGO. That's why they
have been against the real NGOs, because they have their own outfits created to
subvert perceived enemies,” continued Temba Mliswa in his twitter monologues.
Yes, do that Temba! He is a Mnangagwa loyalists and must be
worried sick what will happen to him lot if Mnangagwa is to booted out of State
House!
He never imagined that happening until now. He knows the
Mafia are after Mnangagwa and they will dispose of him with the same indifference
as shown Mugabe if not worse!
Meanwhile, it is election time and the Mafia have their Zimbabwe’s
puppet politicians, across the political divide, dirty dancing as if their very
lives depend on it and, in this winner takes all, it does! It is Mnangagwa’s
turn to sleep with one eye open!
11 comments:
Zanu PF primary elections were a body blow to Mnangagwa it is his turn to sleep with one eye open! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCwaP0ZSpgs
The incumbent legislator for Bulawayo South Constituency Rajeshkumar Indukant Modi is uncontested, so is Finance and Economic Development Minster Professor Mthuli Ncube in Cowdray Park Constituency.
In 2018 when Professor Mthuli Ncube was asked by Simba Chikanza if the 2018 elections were free, fair and credible he said they were based on the decision of the Constitutional Court. He was an outsider who pretended not know that Zanu PF rigged the elections.
As a fully fledged Zanu PF member and contesting the elections, he cannot pretend that he does not know what is going on here. Of course, he knows that ZEC has stubbornly refused to produce a verified voters’ roll, for example. And so one has to ask him: can the elections be free and fair without something as basic as a verified voters’ roll?
@ Chris
“THE whole hullabaloo about illicit gold is plain codswallop and balderdash.
The country‘s detractors coalesced around George Soros and his Open Society Institute of Southern Africa are clearly miffed and terribly disappointed that Zimbabwe has reverted to and resurrected gold as the reference anchor of the United States dollar.”
If the documentary was a body blow that has left Zanu PF stunned and coughing blood, would you Comrade Christopher Mutsvangwa admit it? Of course, not! It is second nature to you to deny and falsify the facts. Well the gold looting is too big a story even for you to sweep under the carpet.
Even Zimbabwe’s traditional partners, China and Russia, are not amused to know Zimbabwe has been running a money laundering service to the nation’s criminal gangs. Even gangsters like Putin will not want to be seen cosying up to dunderhead so dumb he appointed a third grade conman like Uebert Angel ambassador-at-large!
You can blame the usual suspects, the West, for the Al Jazeera documentary the truth is Zanu PF shot itself in the foot on this one and is not getting away with it! Indeed, Zanu PF may will have shot itself in the head this time!
INFORMATION and Broadcasting Services secretary Ndavaningi ‘Nick' Mangwana has attracted brickbats after indirectly defending alleged gold smuggling exposed in Al Jeezera's documentary Gold Mafia: The Laundry Service.
In response to the documentary in a Twitter post yesterday, Mangwana said: "Countries under sanctions have to find ways of circumventing the sanctions. This may mean having to procure supplies through third parties or sell in grey market. They pay a premium for this. This is exactly what the UN Rapporteur Alena Douhan was talking about."
The first of a four-part documentary was aired last week in which President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ambassador-at-large, Uebert Mudzanire, alias prophet Uebert Angel and the President's niece Henrietta Rushwaya were implicated in the alleged gold smuggling activities.
Before the first episode of the documentary was screened, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, John Mangudya dismissed the exposé saying Zimbabwean exports and imports were not under sanctions, including trade in gold to warrant the country to "circumvent international sanctions" through illicit trade in gold, leading many to throw brickbats at Mangwana for preaching a contradicting narrative to the central bank boss.
Chris Mutsvangwa, Nick Mangwana and the rest of the Zanu PF propagandists have an impossible task of not just defending the indefensible but in this case of sweeping a mountain under the carpet! Whatever they say and do sounds stupid and looks foolish because it is stupid!
A UNITED States government official says election management authorities should "polish" the voters roll and avail it to the public to guarantee credible polls.
Robert Scott, who is the deputy assistant in the Bureau of African Affairs, said this during a round-up Press roundtable meeting held virtually on Thursday following a two-day stakeholder engagement visit to Zimbabwe to ensure the country holds free and fair elections later this year.
Zimbabwe is heading for general elections most likely in August.
However, electoral watchdogs have raised concerns over the failure by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to avail an auditable electronic voters roll for scrutiny.
"The consistent message that we provided to the government was that we are calling for peaceful elections. That was the issue that we raised with both the government and the opposition leaders. We call for political leaders to come out and call for peace during and after the elections," Scott said.
"They should disavow any of their members who resort to violence instead of a peaceful exchange of ideas, transparent elections which include polishing the voters roll, accrediting long-term international and local observers and inclusive elections that include allowing the media to report freely, and the civil society organisations."
The idea the elections could be free, fair and credible when there is not even something as basic as a verified voters roll is laughable, The reason why the opposition has participated in these flawed elections is because they really do not care that the elections are rigged as long as they get a share of the spoils of power.
It is not as if the opposition do not know the elections are flawed and that by participating in the flawed elections they are giving Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuating the dictatorship and the tragic human suffering. They know all these things and they don’t care!
“Look, you can't keep on participating in flawed electoral processes that serve to give big benefits to dictators such as Robert Mugabe. Mugabe has perfected the art of winning elections. So, it will be very foolish for the opposition to continue legitimizing these sham elections which don't deliver. This country will go through a serious economic crisis in 2020 caused by Zanu PF. And yet, this is the only country where a government doesn't perform, it is encouraged by a super majority in parliament,” said Tendai Biti in a 2015 interview with Isaac Mugabi.
“So, you can't continue subjecting Zimbabweans to processes where their hopes just get crushed.”
The 2023 election must be declared null and void and Zanu PF denied political legitimacy if there is no verified voters’ roll. We cannot continue sacrificing the whole nation to gratify the insatiable greed for power of the ruling elite.
As the current Al Jazeera documentary series, #GOLDMAFIA continues, the below 2013 video has popped back up, of rapper Mudiwa Hood (Mtandwa) faking a miracle for the humiliated prophet, Uebert Angel.
We are such a naive and gullible lot, ease to trick and ease to cheat. Why? One reason this is so has to be because we do not pay attention to detail. Our decisions are often based on superficial knowledge at best.
When the State President turns out to be just as naive and gullible, how can Mnangagwa have appointed a conman like Uebert Angel ambassador-at-large beggars belief We really have some dunderheads governing us and no wonder the nation is in a real mess!
If we are ever going to get out of this mess, then we really need to start paying attention to details and stop being so naive and gullible!
@ Noble Ngara
“If this Scott idiot was clever enough to advise us, how come back home in the USA they had a Russian puppet president Trump who was "put in" (sic) power by Putin! how well-polished was that US voters roll? vana Mukori ndimi ma white-asslickers maybe you can explain to the rest of us.”
What is wrong with granting the ordinary Zimbabweans their right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country? Are you denying them the right because the Americans are calling for free, fair and credible elections?
Robert Mugabe has systematically denied the people of Zimbabwe their rights and humanity under the pretext the British wanted to recolonise the country. It is sad how many village idiots like you have believed all that even today with the benefit of hindsight!
I don’t care how close Putin came to imposing Trump on the Americans, what I care about is ending this Zanu PF dictatorship and the human suffering it has brought to the nation!
@ Noble Ngara
“Mukori and Mbofana create fiction and believe the same and try to peddle the same to the rest of us ..... pathetic. You idiots, the fact that all you a******s are ALWAYS talking about ED and ZANU-PF means His Excellency Mnangagwa is a rock star!”
Yeah right! Mnangagwa a rock star! Not if you are one of the millions of Zimbabweans, 49% of the population, who are now living in abject poverty. The rock star Mnangagwa and his cronies are the ones looting the country’s gold and diamonds whilst the people starve.
To stay in power your rock star is rigging the coming elections denying the people a meaningful say in the governance of the country. Zanu PF is rigging these elections but what the party cannot do is get political legitimacy – not this time.
The Zanu PF dictatorship is on its last legs!
Last year President Cyril Ramaphosa and his ANC government promised they would not allow regime change in Zimbabwe. They blamed the West for seeking regime change by imposing the sanctions. They blamed the sanctions for Zimbabwe's economic meltdown. Now we know differently; it is corruption, not sanctions, that is destroying Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe is ruled by crooks. Mnangagwa is a criminal who was saved from doing jail time only because he threatened his criminal partner not to mention him. He has rewarded his criminal partner by grant him a gold smuggling licence, one of the gold Mafia responsible for smuggling 80% of Zimbabwe’s US$2 billion per year bonanza. I would like to hear President Ramaphosa explain how sanctions are outstripping US$1.6 billion in looted gold alone!
It is infuriating that ANC booted out former President Jacob Zuma for corruption, his entire loot is but a fraction of what Zimbabwe is losing to gold smugglers in just one month, but will not admit there is corruption in Zimbabwe. ANC’s decision to stop regime change in Zimbabwe regardless that is not sanctions but corruption that is destroying Zimbabwe.
Zanu PF is rigging these 2023 elections and ANC has no right to deny the people of Zimbabwe a chance to end the dictatorship under the false pretence Zanu PF is the victim sanctions inspired regime change! The Al Jazeera documentary has proven beyond all doubt that corruption, not sanctions, are the main cause of Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown. We must not allow ANC to interfere in Zimbabwe politics for the purpose of keeping a corrupt regime in power against our democratic wishes.
If there is no verified voters' roll then there should be no elections yet we know CCC will participate NO MATTER WHAT! WHY? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7sB3PUyWxE
Mugabe and Mnangagwa have made State House a den of thieves and Mafia thugs! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiCg_CwY9O4
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