“Last week I wrote 2000 words on why it was not in our national interest to continue with the use of foreign currencies for domestic settlement,” wrote Eddie Cross in his latest rendition of Zimbabwe’s economic situation.
“I thought the case was strong but I was surprised when our President took up the issue at a major meeting and stated quite clearly that we were going back to use of our own currency. I pointed out that when we managed our monetary affairs properly, the US dollar was always worth less than our own currency. I further pointed out that all the countries in our region had done this successfully.
“What the President said was that no country had been able to develop its own economy without using its own currency. I happen to agree. The question is how to affect the transition from what we have now and what has to prevail once the deed is done? That is neither easy nor uncomplicated.
“So here goes. First we have to have an alternative. The Reserve Bank has issued “gold backed tokens” for use as a currency that will retain its value. This is just another form of Bitcoin – a currency without any real support. You buy it on faith and believe me that is no reason to buy anything. We do not have any significant gold reserves, or reserves of anything to back what the Bank is trying to do. My grandson pointed out that the first sale of these tokens was taken up entirely in local RTGS dollars – another currency that has no backing or real value.”
The real surprise here is that Eddie Cross was surprised President Mnangagwa took off at a tangent - demanding the use of local currency when the country is clearly NOT managing its monetary affairs properly!
I have often found Eddie Cross pedantic to the point of utter uselessness. It is no secret that we have NOT been managing our monetary affairs properly for decades and hence the reason we are in this mess.
Indeed, it is naive, to say the least, to expect Zimbabwe to manage her monetary affairs when our political affairs are in a mess!
“Seek you first the political kingdom and the rest will follow,” advised Dr Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of independent Ghana. Zimbabwe has been stuck in this hell-hole for decades because naive people like Mr Cross have been trying to achieve the impossible - retain the Zanu PF dictatorship and still deliver the economic recovery and even economic prosperity.
The man, Eddie Cross has been advising on monetary matters, President Mnangagwa, was in Victoria Fall last week telling a tale!
“I’m frightened that I'm meeting CEOs, people who have succeeded in life and are at the top,” he told his audience at the CEO Conference.
“But, of course, without election, which is good because elections you rig. I doubt whether there's any rigging with the CEOs, it's on merit.”
Talk of sick joke, this was a sick. Zimbabwe is a failed state precisely because we have failed to hold free, fair and credible elections and the man responsible for rigging the elections thinks that is a joke!
Of course, Zimbabwe is a failed state! We have been stuck these last 43 years with a corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless Zanu PF regime. 43 years of voodoo-economics, corruption and murderous tyrannical rule have left the country in economic ruins and a pariah state in which it is near impossible to do business! But not so for Mr Cross, he is hell bent on proving Dr Nkrumah was wrong.
Mr Cross was one of the senior MDC leaders and the late Dr Morgan Tsvangirai’s advisers throughout the 2008 to 2013 GNU. The party failed to implement even one democratic reform to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship presumably because people like Eddie Cross believed Zimbabwe would still prosper without dismantling the dictatorship.
Ever since Mnangagwa took over from Mugabe following the 2017 military coup Eddie Cross led from the front the “Give ED a chance!” brigadeHe has predicted one economic boom after another under this Second Republic or be it on the ground the economy has sunk deeper and deeper into the abyss.
Has the penny finally dropped that Zimbabwe will never ever enjoy any meaningful economic recovery, much less economic boom, as long as the country remains a pariah state that can not hold free, fair and credible elections. To have sound economic policies we must have good governance and we cannot have that whilst we remain stuck with a corrupt and tyrannical regime that is rigging elections to stay in power!
Until we cure ourselves of the curse of rigged elections and bad governance there will be no meaningful economic recovery in Zimbabwe. And no amount of statutory instruments to force people to use the inflation prone local currency will make Z$ strong and stable! This is not rocket science, it is common sense!
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@ Faith
“I have heard people point fingers at Chamisa saying he has no strategy. I agree yes Chamisa has no strategy but I revere him for having the courage to stand up and try to dislodge a dictatorship whose roots run deep to the birth of our country Zimbabwe.”
You should also have the same revere for Zanu PF because they too showed great courage to stand up and dislodge the racist white regime of Ian Smith! The same Zanu PF you are now calling (rightly so too) a dictatorship.
You together with millions of Zimbabweans out there, we all, once upon a time, called Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies heroes and heroines per excellence! It took us 20 years or so to accept the reality on the ground, evidence that Zanu PF leaders were corrupt, incompetent and tyrants.
One of the reasons why we are still stuck with the zanu PF dictatorship 43 years since independence is because we, the people were slow in realising Zanu PF leaders for whom they are - thugs. We gave the thugs 20 years to dig in and entrench themselves. The second reason we are stuck with Zanu PF is we learned nothing from mistaking Zanu PF leaders for heroes!
We have elected MDC/CCC leaders without due care and attention and they have turned out to be corrupt and incompetent. We have since compounded our problem in being slow to see MDC/CCC leaders for the sell-out they are just as we did with Zanu PF.
The people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb to MDC/CCC leaders for one primary purpose - to implement the democratic changes necessary to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. After 23 years, 5 of which in the GNU, they have failed to implement even one token reform. Not one!
You, as with hundreds of thousands of others out there, are not even aware CCC leaders have sold out on reforms and have given up and are participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. You continue to “revere” the sell outs and thus help perpetuating your own suffering. Of course, it is insane! For such is the price the nation is paying for having so many naive and ignorant people like you and, to crown it all, grant them the vote!
“If Chamisa is a coward and a clueless politician then why can't those with the strategy form their own political party and show their strategies, if any and Zimbabweans will follow them then within seconds ZANU will tumble in the dustbin of history.”
Even if the Albert Einstein of political administration was to emerge; he or she will lose to Chamisa in an elections because the wildebeest herd will have no clue what Einstein is talking about and will be mesmerised by the empty rhetoric from Chamisa. “#Godisinit!” and the herd would swoon!
Mass suffrage should have been a blessing but now it is a curse. Giving the naive and ignorant the vote has only encourage the country’s corrupt and incompetent politicians, from both sides of the divide, to connive and keep povo ignorant and naive whilst they share the spoils of power. Of course, povo are helping to keep the buffoons in power!
Both Zanu PF and MDC/CCC did not want any reforms to ensure freedom of expression and a free media during the GNU. They want povo to remain ignorant at all cost!
You can revere Chamisa for God knows what; what he reveres most about you is your stupidity!
True but was ANC not being hypocritical too when it passed the party resolution not to allow regime change in Zimbabwe and is right now the one SADC country that is pushing hard to water down SADC election observers report condemning the August elections for the sole purpose of keeping Zanu PF in power!!!!!
For the first 20 after independence, Zimbabweans revered Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies. They did not have a clue what was going on and defied to him in the Boxer, Animal Farm horse, "Napoleon is always right!" mentality.
Alas! We have learned nothing because many now revere Chamisa with the same Boxer mentality, regardless of CCC's pathetic track record of corruption and breath-taking incompetence!
Of course, we are doomed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnrR7jrtIbk
Mnangagwa belligerently insist that the 23 August 2023 elections were free, fair and credible ahead of the SADC Extra-ordinary Summit on 31 October 2023 to discuss damning SEOM report. SADC leaders must stand firm and deny Zanu PF and their side-kick CCC political legitimacy and deny the two any role in the interim administration tasked to implement the democratic reforms.
SADC and us, Zimbabweans stand-up to Zanu PF and go the full hog in our demands for meaningful change! Kana wadya gudo chidya gono renemafuta!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs7N0dZWTSI
Komichi says the opposition has knack for authoring its own problems and then blaming Zanu PF for it. It is obvious!
If the truth be told, Zanu PF has the same knack and they blame the West for everything!
The tragedy here is the wildebeest herd supporters are so naive, ignorant and gullible, they believe the lies. We are a failed state because we have buffoons, on both sides of the political divide, in positions of power and authority. And the buffoons are kept in power by the brain-dead herd!
The Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) has warned controversial recalls on 15 CCC MPs would cause a further strain to the country’s economy and further deepen wide beliefs that participation in national elections was a waste of time.
Did ZCC denounce the flawed and illegal 23 August 2023 elections or they did not notice? When Dr Mumba was being viciously attacked by Zanu PF thugs for condemning the rigged elections I do not remember ZCC saying anything!
SADC may well declare the 2023 elections null and void and thus deny the Zanu PF thugs and their CCC side-kicks illegitimate. And so the recall will be immaterial!
The trouble with many of our civic societies is that the are led by individuals who are as blindly loyal to either Zanu PF or CCC they cannot think outside the box. They cannot accept that both Zanu PF and CCC leaders are mortals susceptible to doing wrong much less being corrupt and incompetent and therefore must be held to democratic account. ZCC leaders are just as blind as the wildebeest mob!
@ Brett
Thought provoking.
You go on the street and the peaceful demo will very quickly escalate into a violent protest with running battles with the riot police. The regime will come armed to the teeth and will provoke the confrontation and plant provocateurs if need be.
Ian Smith was remove from power by the armed struggle. Is that what you are calling for?
The armed struggled end white colonial oppression but only to replace it with Zanu PF black oppression; some people would say we jumped from the frying pan into the fire!
The question that we must ask ourselves is: Are we saying for these last 43 years, there has been no opportunity to end the Zanu PF dictatorship? I say there were many and the best by a long country mile was during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. If you can answer why we wasted that golden opportunity you will know what must be done to end this Zanu PF dictatorship - and it will not be another bloody street protest!
Power corrupts and in Zimbabwe, after 43 years of absolute power, Mnangagwa and company are addicted to power giving it up is simply unthinkable - there is no rehab that can take them!
Power corrupts and in Zimbabwe, after 43 years of absolute power, Mnangagwa and company are addicted to power giving it up is simply unthinkable - there is no rehab that can take them!
Still find it shocking that these men and women laughed at Mnangagwa's admission that he rigged elections. After 43 years of rigged elections these people have been desensitised to vote rigging and the tragic consequences it has brought to the whole nation - they now think rigging election is not only normal but a joke!
Most of these men and women are CEO, the top guys, the creme de la creme of Zimbabwe; if anyone in society would know the heavy price the nation has paid because of the 43 years of corruption, incompetence and tyrannical rule under this Zanu PF dictatorship, these are the men and women who should know everything. Sadly, they don’t, because if they did none of them would have laughed at the man who had landed the whole nation into this mess admitting his crime!
The criminal waste of Zimbabwe’s material and human resources by this Zanu PF regime is heart breaking. The nation has failed to do anything to stop the waste because Zanu PF rigged elections. Zimbabwe is a failed state because we have failed to remove Zanu PF from office because the party rigged elections.
Mnangagwa has been behind the rigging all these 43 years and he even boast about his unsavoury exploits and some stupid idiots think it is all a joke! It sickens me just to hear the bragging and the idiotic laughter. No wonder we are a failed state!
SADC Secretariat in Botswana has receive the responses to the damning SEOM report from CCC and ZEC. They are expecting Zanu PF's response by the end of the day, today.
CCC accept the elections were rigged and want fresh elections in 3 to 6 months. They knew the elections were flawed and participated regardless out of greed. Fresh elections without reforms will only kick the can down the road!
Zanu PF maintains the elections were free, fair and credible. So no prizes for guessing what their response will be.
The three Amigos are being given a say before the Judge sentence them. The 23 August 2023 elections were a farce and the Zanu PF government and its CCC side-kick are illegitimate!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERRBzAYVYBk
@ Munetsi
But not tired of rigged elections, even after 43 years of Zanu PF rigging elections and getting away with it thx to the connivance of their side-kick, CCC! To me the number one priority is stopping the insanity of rigged elections and so the reforms narrative will continue!
Well after 23 years, 5 of which in the GNU, name one democratic change MDC/CCC has brought. And yet the party was elected on the ticket to deliver democratic changes as the party name implied - Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). CCC is "a force for change", "#Godisinit!", etc., etc. these are all excellent catch phrases which, without anything to show for them, mean nothing!
@ Developer
“Foolishness is when a voter chooses what to hear instead of choosing what they ought to hear.
The ignorant voter also goes on to defend the unknown, which will never, at any juncture in life, help them.”
I think you have hit the proverbial nail on the head! What I have found particularly annoying is how some unscrupulous politicians have deliberately brainwashed the people for the sole purpose of exploiting them.
I have learned nothing from that comment; next time please say why you think it is a silly assertion!
I totally agree, the Americans and the West are letting the people of Ukraine down.
Frankly I do not consider the war raging on in Gaza are a rational excuse for rolling back the support to Ukraine because the cost, to the West, of fighting Hama cannot be compared to that of fighting Russia. Israel is carpet bombing Gaza at great expense in terms of arms only because the country knows it was a blank cheque from America.
Handing victory to the Russians in the silver platter will cost the world an arm and a leg because both China and Russia will be emboldened by it and there is simply no limit to what these two Amigos will do next!
One area the two Amigos would be keen to flex their muscle is Africa. They have a foot hold in Africa and each know they will stand to profit even more by destabilising the continent. even more than the chaos and madness we see already.
When the elephants fight it is the ants and other weak and helpless creatures that will suffer the most, especially when are then free to vent their anger and frustration on the weak and helpless!
One minute Mnangagwa is boasting of rigging the elections! The next Mafukidze is praising as "normal and human"! After 43 years of the Zanu PF mafiosi rigging elections to gratify the thugs' insatiable greed for power and wealth that has left the economy in ruins and over 40 000 murdered in cold blood. What is normal or human about that!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeLQw9yyvaM
Once upon a time, when SA spoke, the world listened. Not any more. After 30 years of mismanagement and corruption under this ANC rule, SA is fast becoming yet another failed African country.
As a Zimbabwean I am pissed-off by the role ANC has played in propping up the corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF regime, helping Zimbabwe become a failed state.
Last November ANC made a party resolution not to allow regime change in Zimbabwe. SADC’s own election observer team condemned the recent Zimbabwe elections as a farce and if there was any SADC country that has fought hard to have the damning report swept under the carpet just to keep Zanu PF in office, it is SA!
SADC are set to meet on 31 October to decide what is to be done the rigged elections in Zimbabwe; ANC may yet get its wish to stop regime change in Zimbabwe knowing fully well this will be blatantly against the democratic wishes of the people of Zimbabwe.
The late Iconic leader, Nelson Mandela openly expressed his disappointment with Mugabe’s autocratic rule. He commanded the moral high ground. Mandela’s successors embraced Mugabe and lost the moral high ground and with it world’s respect and attention.
Minister Nalendi Pandor can scream all she wants, no one is paying attention. And for good reason too; ANC has proven that they cannot run SA and the region’s affairs, it would be very foolish to let them UN and other world affairs!
@ Monkey
“ANC is doing a great job for their country in Making sure Zimbabwe Economy remains in intensive care unit.They are enjoying being the best Economy in SADC, also Zimbabwe will remain a Tuckshop of SA, imagine in the morning you used bath soap from SA,Toothpaste from SA,Cooking oil from SA, gas Stove from SA, Matches from SA and if the let Zimbabwe stabilise all this market will disappear.”
The same argument was used by those European nations which had industrialised before the neighbour; if these idiots had prevailed then Europe would not be where she is today. The idiots have prevailed in SA and this is one of the reasons the country is fast becoming just another failed African country.
I agree, Zimbabwe has become a nation of vendors, there are Tuckshops everywhere! But here is one universal truth, vendors detest other vendors because they not only bad customers - they are poor - but worst of all they represent serious competition for the ever shrinking pool of customers!
SA would be better off economically, supply cars and other industrialised products to Zimbabwe and beyond instead of toothpaste and soap!
Democracy: government of the people, by the people and for the people: does not work unless the people are informed and diligently hold the leaders to account! We in Zimbabwe are far from having a healthy and functioning democracy because the people are ignorant and naive!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ideinJ8DgwA
@ Unknown
"One advise go to Zim and form your own political party and remove Zanupf it's seems you good at criticism CCC and Chamisa pls come back home be the alternative wc can remove Zanupf to power we are tired of your criticisms."
The task of educating the electorate so that they are not exploited by the corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical political leaders is a very important task.
Indeed as long as our people are nothing more than the mesmerised wildebeest herd there will be no meaningful change in Zimbabwe. Even if there was SADC summit was to deny this Zanu PF regime and its CCC side-kick political legitimacy on 31 October 2023 giving the country a second chance to get the democratic reforms implemented; given the level of ignorance in Zimbabwe, this chance too will be wasted.
You, like the rest of the herd have no clue what the last GNU was about otherwise you would not be wittering all this nonsense defending Chamisa. Chamisa and company sold out and you are defending the indefensible!
There is no arguing with the herd whose brain has ossified into fat rendering it impermeable to reason and facts! You are programmed to defend Chamisa because of your Chamisa Chete Chete mentality George Orwell depicted with Boxer’s “Napoleon is always right!” mantra. You are who you are!
I never believe that human beings could be so shallow thick and slow, and yet here you are and you are not alone! I can see your rallying call has been answered and the howling monkeys are out in full voice! Nothing they say makes any sense but they will say it loud!
Dombo
Chamisa did say that he had plugged all the vote rigging holes #Godisinit! And he lied and God was not in any of his foolish schemes. You believed him and have never held him to account. Indeed you are frothing right now because I have dared to hold him to account! He is accountable and that is not negotiable and no amount of blackmail with your falsehoods will change that!
What could be more sustainable than educating the people so that they are not conned by corrupt, incompetent and murderous buffoons and their equally corrupt incompetent and utterly useless side-kicks who have failed to implement even one reform in 23 years and hide behind a pastoral #Godisinit cloak!
@ John Munetsi
“You could as well applied to block 2013 elections. What did you do as a Zimbabwean to block the 2013 elections. Please, if you did nothing, stop blaming others on the ground.”
This is the same stupidity that we have heard from the like of Chris Mutsvangwa for the last 43 years: “Zanu PF fought in the liberation war! Where were you? Shut up!”
What the nincompoop has failed to grasp was that it was not only Zanu PF ruling elite who contributed in the liberation war, many more contributed. And, most important of all, what is the point of calling it a liberation war when all we did was remove the white oppressors to replace them with the black, Zanu PF, oppressors!
So now it is “MDC/CCC leaders were on the ground. Stop blaming them!”
The people of Zimbabwe have risk life, limb, livelihoods; everything to elect MDC/CCC leaders into power on the understanding the twats would bring about the democratic changes to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. After 23 years, 5 of which in the GNU they have not implemented even one token reform. Not one!
Only a first grade village idiot, of the Chris Mutsvangwa cut, would argue that Chamisa et al must not be held to democratic account! We still need the reforms as much as we need the freedoms and liberty!
If you think forming a political party is the solution then form one yourself. Are you saying I should not educate the voters because I do not have a political party? I don't need a political party and I will continue to educate the voters and hold those in public office to account!
@ Changamire Dombo
“Stupidity it what you think, I don't see why you spend most of your time talking politics whilst you don't have any influence or solution except criticising those who are on the ground practising what they talk. You are busy following other people's inboxes doing copy and paste massages then forwarding them here, Don't show us your highest level of stupidity and being just bootlicker.”
I have also said that MDC/CCC failed to implement even one reform in 23 years and you defended the party although you have failed to name even one reform they have implemented. Worse still you have cooked up all manner of malicious lies to blackmail me into silence!
Which one of the two of us is the scum of the earth?
No amount of malicious blackmail will silence me! A healthy and functioning democratic Zimbabwe will be good for women and all Zimbabweans . That is what I am fighting for and that is what you are fighting against. You don't want Chamisa held to account for failing to implement the democratic reforms and ending the zanu PF dictatorship!
@ Changamire Dombo
You have failed to find any such disorders and so you manufactured them for the sole purpose of blackmail - a well known Zanu PF tactic, nothing original! You are just taking advantage of the fact that the gatekeepers here are asleep - calling someone stupid is one thing blackmail is another!
Blackmail for the purpose of stifling debate is totally unacceptable!
I challenged you to produce the evidence of all these malicious allegations, I served a 25 year jail term, I am a criminal on the run from justice, etc. and you have failed to do so.
I think the gate keeps should have booted you off the group. Those tasked to enforce the rule of law must never be found wanting or there will be no rule of law! Indeed those who up hold rule of law will become prey to the scum who have no regard for the law!
Again I ask you: Are you saying only those on the ground have the freedom and rights just as Zanu PF has said only those who fought in the liberation war have the divine right to rule Zimbabwe? I have given my middle finger salute to Zanu PF and will do the same to you!
You are one day older than you were yesterday, for that is a decree of the Lord. I don't care how old you are and if I am 80 years older than you - so be it. If I was born 80 years before you then, of course, I am 80 years older than you. I do not consider youth a virtue nor old age and death a curse.
You clearly think youth is a virtue and in your stupidity even go so far as to attribute other qualities to yourself such as wisdom and eternal youth. I can say with certain that you too will grow old and die! As for wisdom, whom am I to judge you!
I would remind you of just one thing, don’t be so arrogant and pompous as to dictate that only those “on the ground” have the freedoms and rights. These are inalienable rights and I, for one, will be damned to allow so upstart tell me otherwise!
It is very sad that Zimbabwe has now become the butt of sick joke on failure and bad leadership. After 43 years, in this day and age, and we cannot even hold free, fair and credible elections. Indeed, we cannot even define what constitute free, fair and credible elections.
Mnangagwa admitted to rigging elections and the village idiots he was addressing cheered him as if this was the joke of the year. For his part Chamisa assured the nation he had plugged all the vote rigging loop-holes and added”#Godisinit!” and the people believed him! Of course, we deserve to be a failed state and have the world laughing at us!
Yeap! At the height of Zimbabwe’s hyper inflation, in 2008, 100% of Zimbabweans were trillionaires, easy! (US$ 1.00 = Z$ trillion the morning the note was first released by the evening US$1.00 = 1000 Z$ trillion that is what 500 billion per cent hyper inflation does!)
I think this year Zimbabwe will be remembering Anti-Sanctions Day alone. The SADC heads will be meeting on 31 October 2023 to decide what to do about Zimbabwe's blatantly rigged 23 August 2023 elections. Since Zanu PF is insisting the elections were free, fair and credible, SADC leaders may well deny Zanu PF political legitimacy and impose sanctions on the regime!
"Sanctions were designed to subjugate the sovereign will of the people of Zimbabwe!" proclaimed the Zanu PF poster.
SADC leaders will know that by rigging the elections and thus denying the people of Zimbabwe a meaningful say in in the governance of the country Zanu PF and not the West has subjugated the people of Zimbabwe and held them hostage to fortune! By denying Zanu PF and its CCC side-kick political legitimacy SADC leaders will have taken the first decisive steps to end the Zanu PF subjugation!
Watch this space!
25 October is SADC Anti-Sanctions (imposed by the West on Zimbabwe) day! Zanu PF will be commemorating the day alone this yet as other SADC leaders now contemplate imposing sanctions of their own for the same thing - failure to hold free, fair and credible elections.
"Sanctions were designed to subjugate the sovereign will of the people of Zimbabwe!" proclaimed the Zanu PF poster.
The truth is coming out: it is Zanu PF rigging elections that has subjugated the people of Zimbabwe for 43 years and counting!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzAVSyRR2m8
Stop prevaricating! The people of Zimbabwe have risk all to elect MDC/CCC leaders to deliver democratic changes to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. Name one democratic change they have brought in 23 years, including 5 years in the GNU?
@ Zisomedia
"Sometimes it is not about what you want to hear, but the truth you must hear. Such is one of the big lessons we need to share.
Our high expectations are not necessarily in tandem with the reality in the political realm.
We shall agree and disagree in opinion and view; it is common and each one of us's right of expression."
As a creature of reason mankind’s default setting is to seek the truth a rational explanation of the world around us. “Insanity,” said Albert Einstein, one of the world best intellectual minds, “is repeating the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.
Given we, in Zimbabwe have blundered from pillar to post and have participated in flawed and illegal; “so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw,” as David Coltart aptly put; expecting a different result even after 43 years of rigged elections. Of course, it is insane.
As a people, one has to admit that the default setting of Zimbabweans go out of our way to deny the truth. Indeed, it is a favourite knee jerk reactions to attack the messenger who brings the truth just to underline we did not want to hear it and send out a clear message that all those who dare speak the truth will be face the same fate!
Of course, everyone knows that Zanu PF rigged the 23 August elections, they also know the nation has paid dearly for after 43 years of being stuck with the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. When Mnangagwa himself admitted before a conference of CEO in Victoria Fall, they bust out laughing as if this is the biggest joke of the generations.
Admitting that this was a serious matter meant having to answer: “what are you going to do about it?” After a life time of doing nothing about it, they laughed to justify remaining snug as a bug in the comfort zone!
As much as many Zimbabweans keep clamouring for change, the truth is we, as a nation, are not ready for a healthy and functioning democracy and good governance. We have not earned. Until we snap out of our false comfort zone of seeking only what we want to hear instead of nothing but the truth and facts without which we cannot make rational decision! False comfort because bad and irrational decision are the root cause we are a failed state and stuck in this mess!
“I’m frightened that I'm meeting CEOs, people who have succeeded in life and are at the top,” Mnangagwa told his audience at the CEO Conference, Victoria Falls.
“But, of course, without election, which is good because elections you rig. I doubt whether there's any rigging with the CEOs, it's on merit.”
SADSC and AU amongst many other election observers condemned the Zimbabwe elections as flawed and illegal. When Mnangagwa spoke at the UN GA he said the elections were free, fair and credible. He was lying and when he said he rigged the elections he was telling the truth.
Mnangagwa has often boasted of how Zanu PF will "rule until donkeys have horns!" When you know you do not have to will rig you know you are guaranteed to win!
"President Mnangagwa’s recent jest about election rigging during a gathering with business executives in Victoria Falls has stirred a mixed response. While some quarters have criticised it as an inappropriate admission, it’s crucial to view it in the context of humour and the President’s jovial demeanour," argue Mavaza.
The fact remains that Mnangagwa was speaking the truth, he rigged elections just as Zanu PF has rigged elections in the past.
The very fact that he spoke the truth and laughed about it only goes to show his complete indifference to the those calling for free, fair and credible elections and the millions suffering and dying because Zimbabwe is a failed state - a consequence of our failure to hold free, fair and credible elections all these last 43 years.
"ZANU PF is primarily known for winning elections, not rigging them," continued Mavaza. This comes as no surprise from someone he has made a career of denying facts and reality.
SADC leaders have upheld the SEOM report condemning the 23 August elections as a farce. They are now going to meet o 31 October 2023 to decide what next. Up hold the the SEOM report and deny Zanu PF legitimacy for rigging the elections or water down the report and give Zanu PF a slap on the wrist. Watch this space!
@ Zemian
“Dear Wilbert,
I trust this letter finds you in good health. I have been closely following your recent writings, and your dedication to seeking truth and rational explanations is commendable. As Albert Einstein wisely said, "Insanity is repeating the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result."
Your poignant observation about Zimbabwe's history of flawed and illegal elections, spanning 43 years, resonates strongly. David Coltart's description of these processes as "so flawed, so illegal" aptly captures the gravity of the situation. It is indeed disheartening that we, as a nation, have endured this cycle for so long, hoping for change while seemingly unable to break free from it.
Your insight into our default tendency to deny the truth and even attack those who bring it is a sobering reflection of the challenges we face. The acknowledgement of Zanu PF's rigging in the 23 August elections, coupled with the nation's laughter at Mnangagwa's admission, highlights the paradoxical response to serious issues that demand action.
Your call for Zimbabweans to embrace the truth, irrespective of its discomfort, is essential. It's evident that we need to transcend our false comfort zones, where we only seek what we want to hear, and confront the harsh realities. As you rightly point out, this false comfort has contributed to our failure as a state and perpetuated the existing challenges.
I share your concern about the nation's readiness for a healthy democracy and good governance. The question of whether we have earned the right to demand change is pivotal. I appreciate your courage in addressing these issues and your dedication to prompting a national awakening.
Looking forward to further discussions and actions that move us towards a more prosperous Zimbabwe.
Best regards,
WaMwari
10/18/23”
Dear WaMwari,
Thank you after the normal of being bombarded by both Zanu PF and CCC zealots day and night, this is manna from Heaven!
I do believe that Zimbabwe has the potential to be the South Korea of Africa - free and prosperous nation at peace with itself and the rest of the world. We just need leaders with the common sense too accept we are all fallible human beings who must accept democratic accountability, especially for those in public office. Leader with the vision to realise that the right of every citizen to a meaningful say in the governance of the country is more than just a right, it is the very essence of good governance!
We need to implement ALL the democratic reforms to restore rule of law and good governance. SADC leader may give us the opportunity following their 31 October 2023 summit. We must not waste that opportunity as we did during the 2008 to 2013 GNU!
Best regards
Wilbert.
Mnangagwa rigged the 23 August 2023 and publicly admitted it because he does not care that we know he rigged the elections. He is totally indifferent to what those calling for free and fair elections say nor those on the coal face of the failed state.
"Zanu PF ichatonga ichingotonga! Imi muchingohukura nokuhukura!"
People like Dr Mavaza have no regard of the truth, in this case, that Mnangagwa rigged the election and is insulting those calling for free and fair elections.
We must now await SADC leaders summit set for 31 October 2023 to decide on what to do with this vote rigging and arrogant Zanu PF regime. We hope they will dismiss the recent elections as a farce and deny the regime and its political side-kick CCC political legitimacy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR2Pa81mzOY
@ ZEMIAN
“Hi Albert,
I appreciate your insights on the current situation, but I'd like to delve deeper into understanding your perspective. Specifically, could you provide more details on your criticisms of Chamisa and, perhaps, outline the solutions or steps you believe are necessary for addressing the challenges? I respect your viewpoint and would value a more in-depth understanding.
Thank you again.”
I have been a regular contribution to Zimeye and Bulawayo 24 and have posted all my articles and comments to zimbabwelight.blogspot.com and zsdemocrats.blogspot.com. dating back to 2008.
To characterise any of my comments as criticism of Chamisa or Mnangagwa is to completely miss the point. The individual’s name is only mentioned as a case in point. What he did is more important than the individual himself. It was not only Chamisa who failed to implement even one democratic reform during the GNU, all those in a position to do so including MDC and Zanu PF MPs, senators, etc. are to blame. It is unnecessary to state this fact every time one writes about reform.
@ Seal4
The SADC election observer mission's damning report of the 23 August 2023 will go down in history as marking the end of the Zanu PF dictatorship. SADC leader have upheld the report and in calling the Extra ordinary summit they have send a clear message, they mean business. Now let wait to hear what they will decide!
@ ZEMIAN
“Thank you for clarifying, Wilbert. Your perspective on the importance of actions over individuals is noted. It's valuable to emphasize systemic issues rather than solely focusing on specific figures. I appreciate your dedication to contributing on platforms like Zimeye and Bulawayo 24. Your commitment to highlighting broader issues is evident in your extensive history dating back to 2008.”
"Given your perspective, Wilbert, what do you foresee as the way forward? Do you have any specific recommendations or actions in mind to address the systemic issues you've highlighted? I'm keen to understand your thoughts on the next steps.”
I believe the damning SADC election observer team’s report of the 23 August 2023 elections was the game-changer. Zanu PF was taken by surprise and so was CCC and many SADC leaders including ANC in SA. The norm was to accept CCC’s participation as the excuse for SADC and AU to turn a blind eye to the blatant vote rigging taking place.
Now that SADC leaders have decided to up hold the SEOM report and call the Extra-Ordinary Summit it shows they mean business. Will SADC leaders go the full hog and deny Zanu PF and their side-kick, CCC, political legitimacy and appoint an interim admin that excludes the two Amigos? I hope so!
SADC knows that many Zimbabweans had no clue what the 2008 GNU was about and appoint anyone who has no clue what the last GNU was about is tantamount to wasting time. Unless the new appointment is going to deliver all the reforms, it is a waste of time.
Zanu PF will make the country ungovernable and unless there is cast iron guarantee the interim will deliver reforms it is not worth the candle!
If SADC leaders should decide to let Zanu PF off the hook, I for one would lament the lost opportunity to implement reforms but would also accept the reality that SADC leaders did not find any Zimbabweans they could work with!
This is just nonsense coming from the brain-dead. Which hasdone more economic harm: corruption and mismanagement or sanctions? So if those responsible for merely supporting the sanctions are terrorist what more of those responsible for mismanagement and wholesale looting?
Here we go, back to blaming Zanu PF for all that goes wrong in CCC just as Zanu PF itself would blame the West. These buffoons will never ever accept that they are fallible. Never! How many time have we heard CCC leaders say the party did not need a constitution and structures. Now they claim the party has all those thing. So why were you denying their existence and more precvisely make them public so everyone including your members know what governs them!
@ Transport
You revere Chamisa for "having the courage to stand up and try to dislodge a dictatorship." But after 23 years MDC/CCC has accomplish nothing, they have failed to implement even one token reform. And you still revere his "having the courage to stand up and try to dislodge a dictatorship"? Is it because you have failed to understand what has been happening these last 23 years.
You have the mentality of Boxer the horse in Animal Farm, he could not formulate even one simple idea and had no clue what was going on. His solution was to place his trust in whatever the leader said and so adopted “Napoleon is always right!” motto. The pig rewarded Boxer by selling him to glue factory and using the money to buy whisky!
Zimbabwe is a failed state because the country is being ruled by buffoons on both sides of the political divide and they are been kept in power by village idiots who revere them "having the courage to stand up and try to dislodge the white racists and Zanu PF dictatorship, respectively”
What we need is informed citizen who understand what is going on and can think for themselves and not village idiots who take pride in their myopia and parade it as a badge of honour!! The nation risked everything for freedom and human dignity and these promises are yet to be fulfilled.
43 years after independence and we still cannot hold free and fair elections and you are conned again and again into believe CCC will win big because Chamisa plugged all the vote rigging holes. And when the election are rigged you don’t even have the common sense to ask what happened!!! You are too busy revering the demigod, Nelson Chamisa! Fcuk me!
According to the report, President Mnangagwa claimed that he did not rig the August harmonized elections, asserting that his victory was the result of years of hard work and merit.
Mnangagwa, of all people, believes that Zanu PF has the divine right to rule Zimbabwe and to make sure that happens he has never shied away from denying the citizens their fundamental right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country.
In 2008 when it was clear Zanu PF had lost the March vote to Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC.Many Zanu PF leaders had conceded defeat including Didymus Mutasa and Robert Mugabe. It was Mnangagwa and Chiwenga who told Mugabe, according to Dr Ibbo Mandaza, that he going nowhere and should start preparing a new cabinet.
Mnangagwa ordered ZEC not to declare the results and ordered a fresh count. At the end of the six weeks MDC's parliamentary victory was wafer thin but, most important of all, Tsvangirai’s 73% had been whittled down to 47% - enough to force a run off. During the run off Zanu PF deployed the party’s youth militia, war veterans backed by operatives from the Police, Army, CIO and Prison Services in a military style Operation mavhotera papi. The deployment was to punish the people of Zimbabwe for daring to reject Zanu PF in the March vote.
The violence was so intense millions were internally displaced, hundreds of thousands were beaten and/or raped and over 500 were killed in cold blood. Tsvangirai was forced to withdraw leaving Mugabe to win the one-horse race with 84% of the votes (the regime was embarrass to say 100% because it is inconceivable many dared to vote for Tsvangirai after the punishment.)
When Mugabe dare to boot mnangagwa out of power in 2017 just weeks later it was Mugabe himself who woke up with a gun up his backside!
Mnangagwa not only believes in rigging elections to secure power but has boldly rigged elections and given the middle finger salute to all those who have dared to criticise him for it!
“Zanu PF ichatonga, ichingotonga! Imi muchingo hukura, nokuhukura!” Mnangagwa assured his Zanu PF cronies soon after seizing power in November 2017. He has occasional repeated this and what he said in Victoria Falls was one of the public occasions. He has said it in private circles thousands of times and more important of all will continue rigging elections to stay in power!
Will the SADC Extra-Ordinary Summit on 31 October 2023 up hold SADC election report that condemned the 23 August 2023 Zimbabwe elections and deny Zanu PF and their political side-kick CCC legitimacy? I hope so but we will have to wait and see.
Mnangagwa rigged the 2023 elections and made a joke of it in his usual middle finger salute to those calling for free, fair and credible elections.
“I’m frightened that I'm meeting CEOs, people who have succeeded in life and are at the top,” Mnangagwa told his audience at the CEO Conference, Victoria Falls.
“But, of course, without election, which is good because elections you rig. I doubt whether there's any rigging with the CEOs, it's on merit.”
He is now trying to deny he rigged the elections and was boasting about it! He is trying to square the circle!
https://www.zimeye.net/2023/10/19/mnangagwa-i-never-said-i-rigged-elections/
Zanu PF MPs are turning up in parliament to have the attendance register marked and then leave. The register is used for the fuel coupons and sitting allowance payment.
The looting continues, they are there to loot and that is exactly what they are doing.
The sooner this illegitimate Zanu PF regime and their CCC side-kick are declared illegal and the interim admin appointed the better for Zimbabwe!
Bill Gates reads around 50 books a year.
Elon Musk read two books a day according to his brother. Whenever anyone asks him how he learned to build rockets, he says, 'I read books.
Warren Buffett spends five to six hours a day reading.
Mark Cuban reads for three hours every day.
If people who have so much to do in a day find the time to read, I’m sure we can too.
You don’t lose anything by picking up the habit of reading.
Good advice!
If some of us read eve two book in a whole year they would not be so easily conned into believing such nonsense as “I have plugged all Zanu PF vote rigging loop-holes! #Godisinit!” when we can see with our own eyes that the voters’ roll is in shambles!
God! We really have some dum people in Zimbabwe. No wonder we have become the world’s text book example of a failed state!
SA's Minister Nalendi Pandor "spoke without fear" but no one listened!
SA is hankering for Nelson Mandela world influence, they squandering and now do not deserve the moral high ground. This ANC regime resolved "not to allow regime change in Zimbabwe." Will ANC defy the SADC election report that condemned the 23 August 2023 elections as a farce just to grant Zanu PF legitimacy? If they do SADC will lose all credibility and so too will SA!
ANC has made too many blunders in SA and the region; it does not deserve to be respected or listened to!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzCRH88JjdA
@ Nigel
At least ANC has held free and fair elections in SA and the same cannot be said of Zanu PF and therefore for ANC to be propping Zanu PF is truly preposterous!
@ ZEMIAN
“True! Thank you for sharing your insights, Wilbert. Given this situation, what actions do you envision taking if SADC doesn't go beyond advising the vene? Are you considering any specific steps, like joining or creating initiatives to ensure meaningful progress in addressing the issues you've highlighted?”
I will be gutted if SADC grant Zanu PF legitimacy and I have not yet dared to think beyond that.
@ Hon Madondo
It is interesting that On the eve of the Zimbabwean elections, I conversed with sister Fadzie, and Advocate Mpofu and they guaranteed us victory. It is very lucid that they were basing their dream on, "I have plugged all ZANU PF vote rigging loopholes! #Godisinit!" The must at least appreciate the Art of War by Sun Tzu and "The Prince" a global copy by Nocolo Machiavelli or listen EFF speeches by Shivambu and Malema.”
I totally agree. What makes our situation particularly disappointing is the number of intellectuals have have been at the front cheering, applauding and even bankrolling this CCC bandwagon as it kept blundering from pillar to post! How anyone much less millions can be fooled again and again by such childish winning in rigged elections strategies proposed by Chamisa and company beggars belief!
the number of university graduate and professional who have been defending Chamisa’s stupidity over the years underlines why Zimbabwe is a failed state. And at this rate we have no chance of ever getting out of the mess. None!
@ ZEMIAN
“It’s evident that concerns about mismanagement and corruption, drawing parallels with Zimbabwe, are contributing to a critical view of South Africa's current situation. The mention of blaming scapegoats, like economic sanctions, adds to the frustration expressed towards the ANC government. The comparison with Zimbabwe's regime and the hope for SADC leaders to address electoral issues are notable points in your analysis.”
It is true that that ANC will want to win back votes next year by blaming foreigner for the country’s problems. The irony is that ANC has been propping up the Zanu PF dictatorship and thus keeping Zimbabwe as a failed state and now it is turning on the Zimbabweans running away from the poverty and throwing them to the wolves!
I know of Zimbabwean doctors and engineers who are being ill treated in SA for no other reason than that they are from Zimbabwe!
Admitted we Zimbabweans have been super slow in sorting out the country’s curse of rigged elections and now we are paying dearly for it. Some of these professionals have supported MDC/CCC as the party blundered from pillar to post. There is nothing wrong with supporting the opposition but supporting it blindly is sickening!
ANC SG Fikile Mbalula has called Dr Ibbo Mandaza "a dissident" in what call only be seen as ANC's fight back to water down the SADC and AU damning reports on Zimbabwe's 23 August 2023 election to justify granting Zanu PF political legitimacy. ANC resolved "not to allow regime change in Zimbabwe"! This is ANC making sure that happens.
Who gives ANC the right to impose a vote rigging Zanu PF on the people of Zimbabwe?
Is Zimbabwe a sovereign nation or a province of SA?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh3iHhsz5KA
"One man, one vote!" promised before independence has been turned into "Only a vote for Zanu PF counts!"
Ian Smith racist regime greatest backer was Apartheid SA and today vote rigging and tyrannical Zanu PF's greatest backer is ANC in SA. Nothing has changed for the long suffering blacks. Nothing!
https://www.facebook.com/4415858595176450/videos/1480597612726685
@ Olivia
“The stark reality of all this politicking, is that SA has a youth unemployment rate of circa 60% (it's actually closer to 80% but official numbers do not take into account those who are no longer looking for jobs or who have been absorbed into the informal economy like waste pickers and street traders). The economy simply cannot support the influx of migrants from surrounding countries. These migrants are often vulnerable and are exploited into crime, drugs, human trafficking and other horrendous things. It is not a good situation.
Governments should start realizing that they are administrative servants of public funds and start acting accordingly. People will create their own prosperity when basic services, safety and security and infrastructure is in place to do so.
Like SA, Zimbabwe is a beautiful country, filled with riches, opportunity and sunshine! We should be collaborating on how to unlock such. Because I can't see how these two governments are going to fix the very same problems they created in the first place!”
I totally agree with you, SA and Zimbabwe, as is indeed is the case with the rest of Africa, we have the resources and opportunity but these all count for nothing without the quality leaders to turn them into food and wealth.
Under white rule, Zimbabwe used to be the breadbasket of the region and earned millions of dollars exporting tobacco and other cash crops. Today under black rule the country is having to rely on food aid every third year or so. We are starving in what is, for all practical purposes, the Garden of Eden. This is the damning testimonial on failed leadership!
What the twat has never said is how much is mismanagement and corruption are costing the nation. For every $1 we lose due to sanction we lose $100 plus to mismanagement and $1 000 plus to corruption. Look what the Gold Mafia documentary uncovered?
What is most obnoxious about this sanctions debate is that Zanu PF has been using it as an excuse for rigging elections.
Why these sanctimonious twats have never ever condemn this linkage and demanded the full restoration of all citizens’ rights beggars belief! What has the ordinary Zimbabwean have to do with sanctions that he/she should be denied their freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country and even the right to life?
Whilst the West has put the lifting of sanctions as the condition for democratic reforms every level headed Zimbabwe will want the sanctions to remain. Paying $1 for a chance to end the dictatorship (priceless), mismanagement ($100 plus) and corruption ($1 000 plus).
It is ironic that the many of those calling for the lifting of the sanctions day were at the forefront calling for the imposition of the more stringent UN sanctions against the Rhodesia regime in the fight to end white racism. Of course, Rhodesia paid dearly for having to devise the sanction busting measures, everyone paid for the increased costs. For the blacks this was a sacrifice well worth paying for the country’s independence.
As we can see, all we did was replace a white oppressor with a black oppressor and those of us on the coal face of the oppression know that nothing has changed! It is insulting that we are being asked to ignore black oppression and pretend there is no such thing.
After 43 years of incompetent, corrupt and tyrannical rule we, the long suffering blacks, want the sanctions to stay until the dictatorship is dismantled. We know oppression knows no race nor does suffering softened because it pitted by a white and not black!
Eddie Cross, Rhodesian white liberal gone rogue, must stop wittering about sanctions whilst ignoring mismanagement, corruption and, worst of all, the vote rigging and tyrannical misrule. If sanctions were a worthwhile sacrifice to end white oppression it so again in the fight to end black tyrannical oppression!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzuo3VPlTZ4
@ Simba
“In 20 years, AI is doing to do most of the jobs humans are doing today. …. We need to transform to a new Africa! We need to transform to a smarter Africa! We need to transform to an intellect Africa!”
What hope do we have of making that transformation when we cannot even hold free, fair and credible elections because we do know what constitute free, fair and credible election!
@ Nomazulu
The main problem in Zimbabwe is that we do not have a quality electorate. Many Zimbabweans, including University graduate and professional were conned by Chamisa, again and again. How can anyone believe in the nonsense of "I have plugged all the vote rigging loop-holes!" when we did not even have a verified voters' roll? And yet many believed it! Even if you had the Albert Einstein of politics he/she would lose the elections to Mnangagwa or Chamisa.
We have an electorate that has Boxer the horse in Animal Farm mentality of “Napoleon is always right!” because they cannot think for themselves. You are in serious trouble.
The best option right now is to get the NTA to implement the reforms. One of the reforms will have to be educating the voters and one hopes that at the end of the NTA there will be a pool of voters’ who can think for themselves. This will be the right time to start a new party, not now!
After 23 years including 5 in the GNU, you have failed to implement even one reforms. You dragged the nation into a meaningless elections claiming you had "closed all the vote rigging loop-holes. #Godisinit!" And it turns out it was all just hot air.
The truth MDC/CCC leaders have long since given up on implementing democratic reforms to ensure free and fair elections. Their eyes are on participating in flawed elections for the sake of the few gravy train seats on offer as bait.
“The (2013) electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility,” confessed David Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe.
MDC/CCC leaders are supposed to implement the democratic reforms to dismantle the dictatorship and not to be wasting time trying to accommodate the dictatorship. But this is not helped by having the voters who too have no clue what is required to get out of the mess.
Zimbabwe’s greatest problem is one of having an extremely ignorant and naive electorate who are easily conned. A healthy and functioning democracy demands an informed and vigilant electorate.
This Zanu PF and CCC government will accomplish nothing of note. The nation must now hope that SADC will do us a big favour by denying the regime political and appoint a National Transition Authority (NTA) whose task will be to implement the democratic reforms following the damning SADC report of the recent elections.
Neither Zanu PF nor CCC should be in the NTA since they were in the 2008 to 2013 GNU that failed to implement even one reform hence the reason we are in this mess.
Amon Murwira, the Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, made this disclosure while responding to questions from members of Parliament on Wednesday. He acknowledged the shortage of qualified teachers, stating, "Our training schedules show that Zimbabwe still faces a deficit of trained teachers. The primary issue pertains to the teaching positions released by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, funded by the Treasury. As it stands, the last update indicates around 15,000 to 20,000 vacant positions, and the number of teachers we've trained falls short of this figure for those who are yet to receive training."
The government recently employed 839 teachers to fill vacant roles nationwide, but teacher unions argued that this number barely made a dent in the extensive shortfall of over 20,000 educators.
This confirms something we already knew - that Zimbabwe’s education has all but collapsed. Earlier this year a senior official in the ministry told parliament that many students in Form 3 cannot read and write. After 10 years of formal eduction!
How many of our people out there have been denied a decent education? How can the nation hope to compete much less thrive with an ill educated population?
@ Transport
You are one of those who believed Chamisa's "I closed all the vote rigging loop hopes. #Godisinit!" bulls***t and hence the reason why you are jumping to defend him. I am here to remind you that it was bulls***t and you were foolish to believe it. And most important of all that idiots like you do not do this again. I will be damned if this insanity of rigged elections is going to happen ever again!
You are frothing about being warned of rigged elections but not about the reality of 43 years of rigged elections. 43 years! Well I am fuming that this insanity has been allowed to happen with the tragic consequence of economic ruins and human suffering. I intend to kick the village idiots responsible for it and the brain dead followers!
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