“We Won’t Allow You to Personalise the Citizens Movement: Welshman Ncube Warns Chamisa!” read the headline.
Not again! was my knee jerk reaction.
“Now the riddle has been solved. We have now realised how we lost the 2018 and 2023 elections to Mnangagwa. He (Chamisa) is the problem, how can the whole party’s symbol be someone’s face, we cannot allow that,” Professor Welshman Ncube, one of the three CCC Vice Presidents, explained.
“We were not consulted on this matter, we were not consulted on the selection of candidates and we were not consulted on everything. Nelson Chamisa is doing everything by himself and the result; we lost a free and fair election to Zanu PF.”
To say I did not see this coming will be to lie. I am just surprised that the split has come so soon before the dust of this flawed election process has not even settled.
SADC is yet to meet and decide on what to do about the defiant Zanu PF regime that has gone to form a new government although SADC and AU reports had clearly stated there could be no legitimate government out of the flawed and illegal 23 August election process.
The late Simon Muzenda, Zanu PF Vice President during Mugabe’s days, once boasted that people will vote for the baboon if Zanu PF told them to! What the buffoon did not realise was that if the elections were free, fair and credible; Zimbabwean would happily vote for the troop of baboons if only to get rid of remove Zanu PF from office.
So the number one task for any Zimbabwe opposition party has always been to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections, to ensure the elections are free and fair.
The MDC (now morphed into CCC) was launched in 1999 on the promise to deliver the necessary democratic changes to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. After 23 years, including 5 in the 2008 to 2013 GNU, MDC/CCC leaders have failed to implement even one token reform. Worse still, after the GNU debacle, they gave up on reforms and have been participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed.
Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 23 August 2023 elections, as the regime has done in all the other elections in past, because MDC/CCC had failed to implement the democratic reforms to stop the regime rigging the elections. Ever since the launch of the party in 1999, MDC has been proven utterly useless because the party leaders were corrupt and breath-taking incompetent.
Professor Ncube is right, ever since the launch of the CCC, Nelson Chamisa has turned out to be an autocrat and a control freak. He has resisted calls to have party structures and elected officials. He has controlled everything and made all key decisions.
MDC and now CCC’s enduring popular support has itself become a measure of the people’s desperation for change, the people will support any opposition with a chance to remove Zanu PF from power even if it has a rotten track record.
The lack of democratic values and quality leadership has been the root causes of the MDC/CCC’s endless infighting and more important of all the failure to implement the democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging the election.
Now that Professor Ncube has made public his displeasure with Chamisa the breakup of CCC is a given. Many of those who won seats in the recent elections will, no doubt, swear their loyalty to Chamisa out of fear of being recalled and losing the seat. The CCC supporters are a confused lot at the best of time, this will throw the cat amongst the pigeons. At a time when the nation wanted the wildebeest herd to focus on demanding a new GNU that will implement the democratic reforms the last GNU failed to implement.
The only beneficiary out of this CCC chaos and fallout is Zanu PF. The party will be exploring ways to price CCC wide open and how to profit from it all.
SADC’s efforts to put an end to the curse of rigged elections was not helped by CCC leaders taking their gravy train seats on the illegal government and now a CCC party tearing itself to pieces before their eyes!
Still, SADC must remain focused on task on hand - to a new GNU and to appoint competent staff to implement all the democratic reforms with out failure. SADC leaders must explore the chances of getting help from Commonwealth, UN, etc.; it is no shame to ask for help.
Another GNU failure to implement reforms would be more than cause for shame for Zimbabwe and the whole SADC region - it would be a real tragedy!
32 comments:
@ Tapfumag
There are over 130 political parties n Zimbabwe and yet the country remains a text book case failed state. Having more political parties is clearly not the panacea to our failed state. What we need is an informed and vigilant electorate that will be able to elect competent leaders and not these buffoons!
We should be careful we do not encourage unworkable solutions. The mandate to govern the country must come from the people in a free, fair and credible elections. Period! Forget the good heart bullshit!
@ George
“Mukori and many others , especially those who are ZANU Ediots they wish this can happen or could happen so that CCC can split, you people you are so evil 👿, you wish negative things on CCC leadership, Jonathan, Nick, George, Rutendo and you Mukori you are part of these people.”
In his book, Animal Farm, George Orwell describe the horse Boxer who took as long to learn the first 5 letters of the alphabet as others took to learn all the 26 letters. He took just as long to learn the next 5 letters. When he did, it was found he had forgotten the first 5!
Boxer struggled to understand anything going on and so agreed with everything he was told especially with the pig Napoleon. “His (Boxer) answer to every problem, every setback, was ‘I will work harder!’ which he had adopted as his person motto.” wrote Orwell. To which Boxer latter added “Napoleon is always right!”
I thought Orwell was just exaggerating, no human being could be as dum and stupid as Boxer! Now I KNOW Orwell was right, we have Boxers and sheep galore in Zimbabwe!
Just put aside your “Chamisa is always right!” mentality for one second. Do you think Chamisa consulted Professor Ncube and other senior CCC leaders on selection of candidates and most other important stuff?
If he did not consult the others then Chamisa is an autocrat and the protest from the other leaders is true and justified. If the MDC A leaders and supporters alike had handled the palace coup after Tsvangirai’s death more rationally and reined in Chamisa’s dictatorial tendencies this new implosion would have been avoided.
“You people you are so evil 👿, you wish negative things on CCC leadership!” You really have become more and more like Zanu PF thugs. The regime rigs the elections and has been attacking Dr Nevers Mumba for daring to point out the elections were flawed and illegal.
We really need to stamp out this Boxer mentality and foolishness because it is stifling debate, democratic discourse and progress.
@ Manyanya
“straight to the point 👌2 issues : 1) why are we in this pit 2) why cant we climb out?”
Well if you are not all there, you are like a drunkard, blundering from pillar to post and sooner or later blunder into a pit. It is hard enough to clamber out of a pit when you are drunk but it is near impossible when there are many inside the pit and outside pulling you down and shoving you back in.
These Zanu PF thugs are holding the nation captive and for the last 43 years they dragged the nation deeper and deeper into this hell on earth. This is the stuff nightmares are made of! The nation is not getting out of this hell until we implement the democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections.
We had the golden chance to implement the reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU and we wasted it. There is a chance the present political crisis will end up with a new GNU, we must make sure the reforms are implemented without failure.
Zimbabweans have yet to understand what is going on and then demand what they want. The last GNU failed to implement even one reform because most people did not even know what reforms they wanted much less that the primary task of the GNU was to implement reforms.
@ Clint Shamu
“Unomboziva here kuti mareforms aunongoramba uchiwawata aya are not even worth the paper they are written on?Hitler akataura wani akati might is right.VanaED vakangogadzwa wani vakawanda vachingotaura kuti we can go to court and we can do this etc. Agadza vana vake wani.Write a book or do something else to focus your energy on.Preferebly fiction or children's and not politics politics otherwise you would bore some of us to death.”
I have since learned that most of the people who rubbish democratic reforms as a waste of time do not even know what the reforms are much less how they are implemented.
Can you name one democratic reform?
I will not bother ask the follow up question why MDC failed to implement even one reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU.
@ Professor J Moyo
"THE CABINET IS ILLEGITIMATE AS IT IS A PRODUCT OF A DISPUTED ELECTION", CLAIMS CHAMISA'S CCC
This kind of delinquency is an example of what is not only wrong with CCC, but also what is childish about it:
if "the cabinet is illegitimate as it is a product of a disputed election"; then by the same token David Coltart and Ian Makone are illegitimate Mayors of Bulawayo and Harare, respectively, as they're products of a disputed election.
The same goes for all the elected CCC Councillors and MPs who have since been sworn in, they're illegitimate as products of a disputed election.
Actually the whole government is illegitimate, the electoral process was so flawed and illegal it did not even have a verified voters roll. So no one can say who elected any one of them nor verify that those voters are real. The whole thing was a sham election and sham elections cannot produce legal result.
However, you are right in dismissing CCC’s childish cherry picking; they dismiss Zanu PF officials as illegal but CCC ones as legal when they were all elected through the same flawed process.
Prominent Zimbabwe academic and SAPES Trust boss, Ibbo Mandaza says he is privy to plans by SADC leaders to overturn President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s controversial victory and press the Zimbabwean leader into a negotiated settlement with opponents over the country’s future.
Zimbabwe’s 23 August poll was declared by SADC and other observer missions as flawed in what elicited an angry reaction from the Zimbabwean government.
Mandaza, also a political analyst, said in a recent interview with media mogul Trevor Ncube that Mnangagwa’s re-election was beset by illegitimacy concerns.
After SADC declared the elections flawed there was no going back on it. Of course, this Mnangagwa government s illegitimate. Any more thinking otherwise is being naive.
What SADC must remember is that the new GNU cannot be composed of the same individuals who failed to implement even one token reform last time. Zimbabwe must be given a chance to move on, no one should be allowed to hold the nation to ransom. No one!
@ Mugombi
“If u make noise about SADC reforms bla bla you will surely get an audience. That template of the EU is not applicable in Africa because of not only cultural and religious beliefs but the mere fact that the template is being provided for by a former coloniser is a scam in itself. U fight someone to get freedom and then the same oppressor that you defeat for democracy becomes the Champion of the same fight🤷🏻♂️”
Democracy, good governance, etc. are like the wheel; you don’t need to reinvent it just need to adapt it to suit your needs. You do not use a bicycle wheel on a car, a wide typed wheel will be better of gravel road and a thin one or tarred road, etc.
If you are going to reject something just because the West recommended it then you will never get anywhere, 43 years after independence and you cannot even hold free, fair and credible elections!
The people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb to elected MDC/CCC leaders to deliver democratic changes and after 23 years, 5 of which in the GNU, it is right and proper that every thinking Zimbabweans should hold these leaders to account. What is wrong with me or anyone else out there asking Chamisa and company why they have failed to deliver even one democratic reform in 23 years? What is wrong with that?
Why have you and a few others out there taken it upon themselves to silence any one who has dared to hold MDC/CCC leaders to account?
Why are you insisting that anyone who dares to hold Chamisa to account must themselves “do something for Zimbabwe” which, in your books means forming a political party? What is the difference with the Chris Mutsvangwa doctrine of “We fought in the war. Where were you?”
Just because Zanu PF fought in the war of independence that does not give the regime the licence to loot and destroy the country. I am not sure what it is exactly Chamisa and company has done for them to now claim they too are now demigods no mere mortal can question.
Zimbabwe is a failed state because ordinary Zimbabweans were denied a meaningful say in the governance of the country by buffoons who think they have the right to govern the country and nincompoops who are always coming up with all manner of excuses why the buffoons should not be accountable to the people.
I will say this once again. Those who hold or aspire to hold public office must be democratically accountable to the public for what they do or plan to do in that office. All these arguments that only those who are on the ground or fought in the liberation war have the right to hold public officials to account is bulls***t!
Zanu PF, MDC/CCC and all who aspire to or hold public office must be accountable to the public that is a maxim you will do better to remember. I don’t need to form a political party or whatever to hold any public official to account. That is not negotiable!
@ Shock
“So GNU yacho inoitwa nani? Pane aisada kureforma chete.”
Last time, 2008, SADC presided over the 2008 Global Political Agreement negotiations which gave to the 2008 to 2013 GNU in which Zanu PF, MDC-T and MDC-M were the partners and SADC was the guarantor. This crisis will follow a similar path.
The most important thing is that this time we MUST make sure all the reforms are implemented without failure. This will NOT happen if the new GNU allowed Zanu PF and CCC play any role in the new GNU. These two failed to implement even one reform last time it will be naive to think they will do any better this time.
It was bad enough CCC sold out by taking up their gravy train seats in the illegitimate Zanu PF government in defiance of SADC and AU the flawed elections could not produce legitimate government. And now CCC is set to implode to protest Chamisa's autocratic rule.
The 2008 to 2013 GNU failed to deliver even one democratic reform mainly because MDC leaders sold out an imploding CCC will not do any better. The need for Zimbabweans themselves to play a major role in the new GNU has never been more acute than it is today.
https://www.zimeye.net/2023/09/13/we-were-not-consulted-on-everything-ncube-protested-chamisa-autocracy-only-zanu-pf-profits-from-chaos-and-fallout/
Zimbabwe can take good care of our own people and we can be a stable and prosperous nation only if we can put an end to the curse of rigged elections. ANC is hell bent on keeping Zanu PF in power even now that SADC election observers have condemned the 23 August elections as a farce. The support of SA's opposition parties in the call for free and fair elections in Zimbabwe is very important and welcomed.
@ Muza
“Thats the reason why we have so many political parties. You're free to join the perfect one then elect the leader who will implement those do called reforms for you.”
Every citizen has not only a right but a duty to hold all those in public office to account. This right and duty is not negotiable, whether I join CCC or some other party I still have the right to hold all those in public office to account.
The trouble with Zimbabwe is we have too many brainwashed individual who think their leaders are demigods who must never ever be held to account by any one. Getting these idiots to accept this simple reality is proving to be a real challenged. One has to use a sludge hammer to hammer it into their empty heads!
No wonder Zimbabwe is a failed state, we have more than our fair share of village idiots. They still believe is winning rigged elections even after 43 years of Zanu PF mafiosi rigging elections! Fcuk me!
@ Nigel
I do not know where you got the report that AU - COMESA approved Zimbabwe’s the other day. Here is another source saying the opposite.
Renowned political analyst Ibbo Mandaza has disclosed that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan were highly critical of Zimbabwe's recent elections, describing them as the worst they had ever observed. Jonathan led the African Union (AU) and COMESA Election Observer Missions (EOMs) during the elections.
Now that both SADC and AU have condemned the elections, the gene is out of the bottle, they are not going to grant Zanu PF political legitimacy. Zimbabwe is heading for a new GNU.
https://bulawayo24.com/index-id-news-sc-national-byo-235447.html
Public researchers have asserted that so-called independent institutions, including the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and other constitutional Chapter 12 entities, lack genuine independence and often function as proxies of political systems, failing to make autonomous decisions in alignment with constitutional principles.
Dr. Gorden Moyo, the Director of Zimbabwe's Public Policy and Research Institute (PPRIZ), argued that these independent institutions lack the autonomy to make decisions and resist external interference. During a recent discussion on "Zimbabwe's disputed elections – what role can the media play in the post-election era?" he stated, "These Chapter 12 institutions are institutions in name only. They are labeled as independent, but when you examine their structures and operations, it becomes evident that they are not truly independent."
Dr. Moyo's comments come in the wake of accusations leveled against ZEC, which has been alleged to favor the ruling Zanu PF party and has faced criticism for failing to conduct a credible election on August 23, 2023.
As a former Cabinet Minister of State Enterprises and Parastatals, Dr. Moyo contended that these ostensibly independent institutions have fallen short of upholding Zimbabwe's constitutional values because they often align with a specific political stance. He emphasized, "Independent institutions should stand out and speak unequivocally. They should be vocal without fear or favor because they are independent.”
The 2013 Constitution itself is weak and feeble contrary to all the empty praises it received when it was drafted. Professor Welshman Ncube said it was “one of the most democratic constitution” he had ever come across. High praise indeed given he was a law professor. Morgan Tsvangirai said the constitution was an “MDC child”.
It was Paul Mangwana, the Zanu PF co-chair on the parliamentary committee that drafted the constitution, boasted that Mugabe dictated the new constitution. He was telling the truth. Like it or not the new constitution will never deliver a health and function democratic Zimbabwe because it is a dictator’s decree.
@ Kasukuwere
He said nothing when Mugabe was doing it? He is saying it now not out of principle but opportunism! He a ruthless thugs masquerading as a principled democratic to worm his way back into power so he can be himself again - a murderous thug. Watch out!
@ Hungwe
You are just one of the wildebeest herd, programmed to follow blindly where Chamisa leads you and, worse still, demand everyone else to be as blind and foolish as you.
Man is a creature of reason and when a whole nation starts to behave like a wildebeest, one of the mentally challenged animals on earth, it is trouble. No wonder Zimbabwe is not only a failed state and, worse still, seeming incapable of digging ourselves out of the hell-hole.
“So you were a CCC election agent, that is interesting,” I replied to you yesterday. “Chamisa said he plugged all the vote rigging loop holes. Well, you were on the ground; did he? If he did, then SADC is wrong to say the process was flawed and illegal.”
Answer me!
What is going to get Zimbabwe out of this hell-hole is people willing to think for themselves because anyone who can think for himself or herself will never follow blindly. Never!
@ Hungwe
Telling you, brain dead followers, that you are being take for fools asked to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy, CCC the few gravy train seats whilst all you get is the bitter herbs of perpetuating the failed state. Of course you are insane to believe in CCC winning rigged elections after 43 years of Zanu PF mafiosi rigging elections!
Chief Svosve was praising me for supporting CCC, which I have never done. I have condemned MDC/CCC for failing to implement reforms and paying lip-service to reforms. By taking up the gravy train seats even after SADC and AU had condemned the 23 August elections CCC have shown they really are hypocrites.
Do not make the mistake of attributing qualities to both Zanu PF and army that they do not have. They are all buffoons , Zimbabwe will not be in such a mess if any of them had common sense. The Zanu PF dictatorship should have ended in 2013 at the latest if it was not for the mistake of having corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent MDC to implement reforms.
"There are African politicians who fear leaving office because they know if they do then they aught to be arrested!" Well Professor Lumumba is right there.
I know a big number, after 43 years of absolute power the family of rats has grown, who are so frightened of losing power the country’s A1 booming business activity is rigging elections. There are miners4ED, Prostitutes4ED, Mbavha4ED, Gold Mafia4ED, everything goes as long as it helps to rig the elections or raise the money to buy the chicken and chips for povo and US$ 400 000 bribe for judges, etc.
You cannot imagine the consternation and panic Dr Nevers Mumba's SADC report has caused in Shake-Shake Building. By denouncing the elections as flawed and thus illegal Dr Mumba has brought down the house of cards, the prospect of losing power is suddenly real!
No wonder all the regime’s apologists and acolytes in the country and beyond were all mobilised to attack and discredit Dr Mumba. The attack did not change the truth - 23 August elections were a farce.
Indeed, the attack on Dr Mumba has bolstered the truth and harden SADC and AU’s resolve to deny Zanu PF political legitimacy. Only three African Heads of State attended Mnangagwa’s inauguration!
Tyrants like Mnangagwa do not know when the game is up. It is up for him! The 23 August elections were rigged and Zanu PF is illegitimate.
@ Denny
“To me this is a high sounding nothing. How can you accuse the ref of bias without playing the match. They highlighted the same discrepancies like no voters roll, voter intimidation, media bias , et al . Now participating in that election was allowing the international community to see the flaws and indeed they saw it. As a result even SADC does not co-sign is. All along there were claims of rigging but with not enough evidence even in 2018.”
SADC and AU witnessed the Zanu PF vote rigging shenanigans and wanton violence for themselves in 2008. They both denied Zanu PF political legitimacy and thus forced the regime to agree to the formation of the 2008 to 2013 GNU whose primary task was to implement the democratic reforms to stop a repeat of the 2008 rigging and violence. Not even one token reform was implemented. Not even one!
Are you telling me, Tsvangirai and company did not implement even one token reform in 5 years to “highlighted the same (electoral) discrepancies” so SADC and AU can see them again and again.
Remember when SADC realised no meaningful reforms were implemented during the GNU, they are the ones who wanted the 2013 elections postponed to allow reform. MDC leaders ignored SADC leaders’ advice. Are we to assume MDC leaders insisted on participating in the flawed elections to “highlighted the same (electoral) discrepancies”.
The question even you should have asked yourself by now, if you had even half a working brain, is “Was MDC leaders elected to implement the democratic reforms and thus end the Zanu PF dictatorship?
There is no denying that all MDC/CCC have done these last 23 years is perpetuate the dictatorship. They are certainly content with the inefficacious role of “highlighting the same (electoral) discrepancies” to please the party’s mentally retarded supporters.
Forget what Ibbo or anyone else said; are you telling me that 23 August 2023 Zimbabwe elections were free, fair and credible?
@ Hopewell Chin'ono✍️
As I said last week, stealing elections through all manner of rigging before and after the polling day itself would have been ignored by the business and investor communities if Mnangagwa had appointed a craft competent cabinet.
That opportunity of salvaging any form of credibility is now gone through the window after Mnangagwa appointed the worst ever cabinet in Zimbabwe’s living memory.
There are two types of legitimacy in global politics and business, there is Political and Performance legitimacy.
Political legitimacy is derived from elections and Performance legitimacy is derived from a craft competent cabinet and administration.
Countries like China and Qatar don’t even hold elections, but they cover up with Performance legitimacy.
When nation a has the double whammy of a non perform regime and cannot remove it from office, the nation is in serious trouble. In Zimbabwe we have been stuck with this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship complete with the entourage of corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless opposition parties for 43 years.
To crown it all, we have more than our fair share of some of the naive and gullible electorate in the world. They are so naive they have given up their right to free, fair and credible elections conned by CCC upstarts into believing the party has strategies to win rigged elections. It is insane, especially after 43 years of Zanu PF mafiosi rigging elections.
With buffoons for leaders and village idiots to keep them in power, it is little wonder Zimbabwe has become the textbook failed state. Boy oh boy! Are we in trouble!
That’s part is a done deal .. let’s fight with a very strong petition to UN , we don’t want mukoma Ed to participate on the September yearly forum ; all Leaders coming all over from different countries
Reason :
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Unfairness on Sinkals
Appointed Mayor being harassed .
Unfit to be in office, force him to have an examination test done by an i nternstjon docket
We can’t wait for 5 years."
Agreed with you until you started wittering about the CCC leaders! CCC leaders are sell outs. They have sold out by failing to implement even one reforms in 23 years and hence the reason why we continue to have rigged elections to this day.
They have been participating in these flawed elections even when they knew it was futile and that doing so would give Zanu PF legitimacy. They still persisted out of greed
Even when SADC and AU condemned these 23 August 2023 elections as a farce, they still insisted on taking up their gravy train seats. They knew doing so would give this illegitimate regime some modicum of legitimacy and thus undermining SADC's push to end this curse of rigged elections.
MDC/CCC leaders have failed to deliver even one democratic change in 23 years because they are corrupt and incompetent. They have been running with povo hare by day and hunting with the Zanu PF hounds by night. But after siding with Zanu PF to undermine SADC they are clearing hunting with Zanu PF day and night. How anyone can still pretend CCC is still fighting in the people's corner beggars belief!
@Sfb
“Zimbabwe was never going to have free fair elections, and we don't need them!
If some of the candidates rely on meddling from abroad, how would you skip over that to jump to the conclusion that only ZANU-PF rigged elections? Western countries have been rigging their elections for at least a century. What makes you think they're interested in free and fair elections in Zimbabwe?
We really need a dramatic shift in thinking on this.
People all over the world had governing systems, most more or less democratic and responsive to their local needs. Imperialists created the electoral system to give the illusion of democratic input into governance, as a way to maintain undemocratic rule. It works most of the time, but it was never meant to be “democratic”."
Let us be very explicit on this Zimbabwe has NEVER had free, fair and credible elections. Zanu PF made it clear that if the party was to lose the 1980 elections the buh war would continue.
All this talk of Zanu PF rigging elections because “some of the candidates rely on meddling from abroad” is just bulls****t. Which candidates were relying on foreign funding in 1985, 1990, etc.?
Zanu PF imposed the de facto one party dictatorship because the party leaders have always believed they and they alone had the divine right to rule. They have ridden roughshod over the nation denying the people their freedoms, rights and human dignity to gratify their insatiable greed for power and wealth.
Well Zanu PF’s reign of terror is over. Zanu PF has rigged elections, rubbed the nation blind and has even murdered over 40 000 innocent Zimbabweans over the last 43 years. Many were beginning to think the nightmare would never end, but it is finally over.
“We really need a dramatic shift in thinking on this!” No, it is you, Zanu PF thugs, who need a dramatic rethink, the reign of terror is over and you will never again hold this nation to ransom!
@ Rutendo
Zanu PF blatantly cheated and used wanton violence in the 2008 elections, the 2023 elections are notable for the flawed and illegal process. Rutendo does not even acknowledge these realities dismissing the wanton violence of 2008 as provoked by the opposition.
Whatever dirty Zanu PF thugs and apologists can dig up against Dr Nevers Mumba and President Hichilema of Zambia they have failed to discredit the substantive issues in the SADC Election Observers Mission (SEOM) report - that the process was flawed and illegal. Other election observers noted the same flaws and illegalities. ZEC had failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll for Pete’s sake.
What is very disappointing is that Zimbabwe got the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms during the GNU but, Alas, the opportunity was wasted. MDC leaders who were given the responsibility to implement the reforms failed to get even one token reform implemented. Mugabe bribed the MDC leaders with trappings of high office and the rest is history!
The current political crisis will result in a new GNU and we, the people of Zimbabwe, MUST see to it that all the democratic reforms are implemented. We MUST not fail.
@ Zimbabwe
Zanu PF has learned since the 2008 GNU that it will never get away with a one party state and so has allowed the opposition to win seat just as Ian Smith created the Zimbabwe -Rhodesia internal settlement. Mnangagwa has gone one step further to create POLAD to reward presidential rat race losers!
Zanu PF has counted on opposition greed to guarantee participation no matter how flawed the process got. The party has pointed to the opposition’s participation as proof Zimbabweans were happy the elections were free, fair and credible. In the past SADC and AU have judge the elections on opposition participation.
This year both SADC and AU ignored CCC and the rest of the opposition’s participated, ignored Chamisa’s idiotic claim that he had plugged all the vote rigging loop-holes and considered the evidence on the ground. Both Zanu PF and CCC were surprised by the SADC and AU reports condemning the elections as a farce!
Army have just received their Z$1 405 000 salary or US$ 140.
Zimbabwe is a failed state and the situation is not sustainable because it affects everybody.
We, the people of Zimbabwe, must be clear what we want the new GNU to accomplish: IMPLEMENT ALL THE DEMOCRATIC REFORMS TO ENSURE FREE, FAIR AND CREDIBLE ELECTIONS EVER AFTER!
Zimbabwe is stuck in this mess of rigged elections and bad governance precisely because Zanu PF and MDC/CCC leaders failed to implement the democratic reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. We must not repeat the mistake, the new GNU must be to implement all the democratic reforms.
Chamisa is wittering about being the president, that is all he cares about. No wonder MDC failed to implement even one token reform during the last GNU. He will never implement any reforms this time either!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA0_I6mDmqA
@ Benjamin
Sadly we have some of the most naive and gullible people on earth, there are many Zimbabweans out there who believed the lie Chamisa had plugged all the vote rigging loop-holes and CCC will win big. We know that was just a lie and the SADC and AU reports confirm the elections were flawed and illegal. Indeed Chamisa and company admit the elections were flawed and illegal. The wildebeest herd has either conveniently forgotten Chamisa had promised the elections would be free and fair.
Worse still, some of the herd are even celebrating CCC's failure to implement reforms and participation in flawed elections to “highlighted the same discrepancies like no voters roll, etc.” In other words MDC leaders failed to implement the reforms to stop the rigging because they wanted Zanu PF to continue rigging so the SADC and AU can have something to condemn. Indeed some CCC leaders are boasting that was their master plan!
The greatest danger for Zimbabwe right now is that CCC and Zanu PF should play a major role in the new GNU. The two parties failed to implement even one token reform during the last GNU, they will not do any better this time.
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