Dictators live in their own world and they, characteristically, see and hear only what THEY want to see and hear. It is no surprise therefore that Mnangagwa’s Zimbabwe is now at complete variance with the reality, the Zimbabwe you and me know.
”Zimbabwe is largely a Christian and God-fearing nation, with peace and unity being vital pillars of our nation building. Let us take the opportunity of the various activities lined ahead of both Government and the Party to preach and live in unity, peace, love and harmony," Mnangagwa told his fellow Zanu PF leaders.
"We must join communities as they congregate across our Wards, districts and provinces, towards cementing the prevailing peace, unity and social cohesion, which bind us as one people.
"In conclusion, our aim as the Party remains ensuring that we the descendants of Munhumutapa forever remain masters of our destiny. This is in itself one of the cornerstones of the People’s Revolution. We must as the Party, at every level, continue to work towards and facilitate the realisation of this overarching revolutionary mission."
The tyrant’s sheer arrogance, hypocrisy and blasè indifference to the tragic suffering and death of millions of Zimbabweans is insufferable!
Is he and his fellow Zanu PF cronies the only “descendants of Munhumutapa”? If every Zimbabwean is a descendant of Munhumutapa then we must all have a meaningful say in determining the nation’s destiny. Zanu PF has denied the ordinary Zimbabweans a meaningful say in the governance of the country. The regime is yet to hold free, fair and credible elections in 43 year of the country’s independence.
Mnangagwa blatantly rigged the 2023 elections just as the party has rigged elections in the past. In a rare break with the norm, SADC, AU and Zimbabwe’s ZHRC election observers have all condemned the August 2023 elections as flawed and illegal.
This Zanu PF government did not get the people’s mandate to govern the country in a free, fair and credible election. This Zanu PF regime is therefore illegitimate.
Zimbabwe is a failed state and the root cause is the failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. The right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country is not a privilege to be willy-nilly denied at the whim of some buffoon. It is the essence of good governance.
In Zimbabwe the Zanu PF buffoons have denied the people the meaningful vote allowing the regime to impose its corrupt and tyrannical rule for 44 years with the tragic consequences we can see all around us. The country’s economy is in ruins, there is wholesale looting of the nation’s resources, there is rot and decay everywhere, basic services such as health care and education have all but collapsed after decades of being starved of funds, etc., etc.
More than 49% of our people now live in abject poverty. THEY CAN’T BREATHE!
Zimbabwe is a failed state. And as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state governed by illegitimate corrupt and murderous thugs the nation will continue on its relentless slide into the abyss. Our system of government has failed our people and is in desperate and urgent need of a complete overhaul - not cementing. What is there worth cementing, for Pete’s sake!
The Zanu PF regime’s intention is to cement its iron grip on power and will ruthless silence all dissent under the pretext of maintaining peace and unity. Whilst the regime was annoyed by the damning SADC and AU August 2023 election observers’ reports it was relieved neither the regional nor the continental body denied the regime political legitimacy.
It must be said that MDC/CCC leaders have helped Zanu PF stay in power by failing to implement even one reform in 23 years, especially during the 2008 to 2013 when they had the golden opportunity to do so. And ever since the GNU debacle, Chamisa and company have participated in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy for the same reasons they failed to implement the reforms - greed and incompetence.
We are stuck with this Zanu PF dictatorship for the next five years and possibly beyond. There is no chance of Zanu PF implementing any meaningful reforms to ensure 2028 elections are free, fair and credible. And there is no sign to suggest the corrupt and incompetent MDC/CCC leaders will not once again mobilise their ignorant and gullible supporters to participate in the flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy.
It is often said that nations get the government they deserve. We in Zimbabwe certainly deserve this corrupt, tyrannical and vote rigging Zanu PF dictatorship complete with its corrupt and incompetent MDC/CCC side-kick. For it what excuses do we have for participating in last year’s flawed elections only to give Zanu PF legitimacy, for example! We were warned that it was insane to participate but, as usual, ignored the warning!
This Mnangagwa government is illegitimate and it is within our power as the people demand that SADC and AU must deny the regime political legitimacy; it is for us to demand that and not SADC and AU. The regime would not last to 2028, if we did! If we don’t, it is certain to last to 2028 elections and beyond!
12 comments:
@ Lee Roy
“Mnangagwa did not Rig it was Chamisa who failed to implement reforms that's the why he is a weak leader.
Inga mKati udza wani.”
Yes, Chamisa and company should have implemented the democratic reforms, especially during the GNU when they had the golden opportunity to do so. They should never ever participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. They did and not just once but did so repeatedly.
Yes the ordinary Zimbabweans were foolish to be conned into participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy by believing the foolish MDC/CCC claims that they have “winning in rigged election strategies.” How any one would be so gullible to believe Chamisa had plugged all Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes when he could not even sure a verified voters’ roll, beggars belief!
Still, CCC leaders’ greed and incompetence, is no excuse for Zanu PF’s failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. You cannot blame Zanu PF’s wholesale looting of the nation’s resources to bankroll its vote rigging activities on some one else, Mnangagwa and company are responsible.
@ Superb
“Let the rotational leaders ( biti/ Kore and Ncube) do what this useless leader called Chamisa failed to do.”
It is not me who is saying MDC/CCC leaders failed to implement reforms and they have been participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy. History says so; these are historic facts!
Biti, Ncube, Kore and many other MDC/CCC leaders have all played their part in the failure to implement the reforms and or participating in flawed elections out of greed. It is not only Chamisa who is corrupt and incompetent, they are all corrupt and incompetent!
@ Clint Shamu
“U have lots of energy to keep writing these things but if u have a real message u want to hammer find a way to sex it up. Mnangagwa does it it a raw way nezvimbuya zvine magaro makuru and crowd pleasers. Iwe you want to do that seriously like a heart surgeon about to operate someone. U will have no chance. Repeating same things again and again makes them boring. How many people actually believe fiction that elections were rigged?There is a lot of bribing yes and maybe uneven playing field but there is no critical mass to change system.”
Mnangagwa does a lot more than sex up his message, he rigs elections and even uses violence to get what he wants.
I am here to say what people should hear and not what they want to hear - the truth. Their continued participation in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy is folly personified and they are the ones paying dearly for it. If they continue to pay no heed and continue shooting themselves in the foot then they will continue to suffer.
It is interesting to note that you are bored to hear the repeated demand for reform as the only sure way to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. And yet you are indifferent to the reality of 43 years of Zanu PF rigging elections and the tragic consequences thereof. There is the saying of penny wise pound foolish but your stupidity takes the biscuit!
No wonder Zimbabwe is a failed state, we have some shockingly stupid people and, to crown it, they have the vote!
@ President Netanyahu
“Politics is about power and not so called love one another or pleasing your enemy. What Zanu PF is doing right now is brilliant on the verge of genius. Why should they please the west and it’s puppet opposition.”
How is denying ordinary Zimbabweans their basic freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful vote and even the right to life punishing the West? Zimbabwe is a failed state, the country’s economy is in ruins and millions of our own people are living in abject poverty.
One of the tragic consequences of giving the vote to ignorant, naive and gullible people is that they are very easily conned into doing foolish things. Zanu PF has exploited this weakness by labelling all those who have dared to demand the freedoms and rights of all Zimbabweans as puppets of the West seeking regime change. The foolish voters have swallowed the hook, line and sinker and have been supporting the regime’s tyrannical oppression “to keep Zimbabwe safe from the West!”
MDC/CCC leaders too have conned the gullible electorate into participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy by lying that they would win big because they have plugged Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes. The lies were to hide the real reason why Chamisa and company were hell bent on participating was greed.
Yes MDC/CCC leaders are puppets but not puppets of the West; they are Zanu PF’s puppets! Chamisa was right to say the CCC is heavily infiltrated by Zanu PF; it is. CCC is Zanu PF team B in all but name and they have been participating in these flawed elections to make sure Zanu PF team A wins and get away with the rigging!
@ President Netanyahu
“Your arguments are idealistic and academic radicalism. They're not gonna see you make any effective changes. You will just inevitably retire in political bitterness and disgruntlement.”
Whatever else you may say about what I have said, you cannot deny these are true and historic facts. Let those with eyes to see, see; and those with ears to hear, hear. I know that not all who see perceive and not all who hear understand.
Zimbabwe is a failed state because as nation we have more than our fair share of people whose brains have ossified into fat; they are incapable of comprehending reason, truth and reality. And, to crown it all, they have the vote. We have given the loaded gun to a monkey and we have paid dearly for our folly.
Both Zanu PF and the opposition know the voters are ignorant, naive and gullible that have not only taken full advantage of the weakness but, worst of all, they are fighting tooth and nail to make sure the voters remain ignorant, stupid and gullible! Any attempts to educate the voters is going to be resisted by both Zanu PF and CCC; I know that!
Still we must try to educate the voters regardless of the selfish agenda of our corrupt and incompetent political leaders. It is a up hill task but not mission impossible as you suggest!
@ Xavi Chidawenyika
“So you’re saying Zimbabweans must not participate in elections? Zanu has Madhuku and Mwonzora to run against them any day.”
Muzorewa and Sithole participated in Ian Smith’s 1978 Zimbabwe - Rhodesia Internal Settlement and it failed to garner international recognition because Zanu and Zapu, who commanded a greater popular support did not take part. In last year’s result Mnangagwa and Chamisa, according to ZEC, got 52% and 44% of the popular vote respectively. It is nonsense to argue that CCC’s boycotting of the elections would not have been noticed.
Indeed, if CCC had boycotted or, at the very least, refused to take up the few gravy train seats they won, it would have increased the pressure on SADC leaders to deny Zanu PF legitimacy after SADC election observers’ damning report of the election.
It is shocking that those who were conned by Chamisa to participate in flawed elections are, even with the benefit of hindsight, still wittering feeble excuses to justify participating. Some people are really shallow, thick and slow and no wonder we are a failed state!
@ Clint Shamu
“What’s your qualification to tell us that your opinion is the truth. There are so many truths flying around. Wicknell Chivharo has his truth, Seal has his truth. U r mainly bitter and sulking from a loser's corner. We can advise you to put some fun into your thoughts and make them more sellable.”
The historic record is there for you, me or anyone to read for themselves. If I am lying that MDC/CCC leaders were bribed by Mugabe and the failed to implement even one reform during the GNU. All you need to do is name one reform they implemented!
You accent name one reform because they did not implement even one!
I know you for just one of those nincompoops on this site wittering nonsense. Of course, even a nincompoop can proffer “advice” but you should know that I am the last person to follow stupid advice!
@ Gift July 2011
“Kutaura chokwadi ZANU mauraya nyika. Hapana kana arikufara mungazvimanikidzire kutonga but haaa makundika. Uyo Dereck Goto anongorotomokawo paiursiwa vanhu nezanu Muna 2008 where were you. Mwana wasatan."
Totally agree with you, Zanu PF has proven beyond all doubt that it is corrupt, incompetent and oppressive and should not be ruling the country. But until we figure a way to stop the regime rigging the elections it will remain in power.
MDC/CCC leaders had the golden opportunity to implement the reforms they sold out and the opportunity was wasted. What we need right now is the common sense to accept that Chamisa and company are not up to the job to implement reforms and elect others who will.
After 23 years including 5 in the GNU and not even a token reform implemented one would think the penny has dropped even in slow thinkers that MDC/CC leaders are useless. Wrong! There are many whose brains have ossified into fat and thus are impermeable to reason and logic, the penny will never ever drop.
We are stuck with Zanu PF because we are stuck with MDC/CCC. In the late 1990s, it was hard enough to get ordinary Zimbabweans to comprehend the need implement the democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. Get many of these people to understand the opposition leaders the nation had entrusted the task to implement the reforms are not up to the mark is proving to be mission impossible because many of these people have never understood what the reforms are much less how they are to be implemented.
To judge MDC/CCC leaders as sellouts one must understand the dire consequences of Chamisa and company’s failure to implement the reforms. The truth is they have no clue what the reforms are much less the consequences of failing to implement any. It is not rocket science, it is largely common sense. But then common sense is not so common!
@ Tavstan it
“Do you think that Zanu PF will not buy our poor fellow citizens to participate in those flawed elections and endorse him 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️look outside the box pal.”
Zanu PF buying officials and povo is well known. Let’s talking about Zanu PF leaders buying MDC/CCC leaders to participate.
I have said on countless occasions that CCC is Zanu PF team B in all but name. Chamisa and company were hell bent on participating in these flawed elections knowing fully well that Zanu PF was rigging that participating would give Zanu PF legitimacy but still they participated because they also knew that Zanu PF was offering a few gravy train seats.
Indeed, MDC/CCC leaders like David Coltart have acknowledge that the opposition has been participating out of greed.
“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.
It is only you who seem to think that one has to think outside the box to believe Zanu PF would bribe MDC/CCC leaders. But then, those not us who know you are not surprised, you have the IQ of a slug!
@ Tavstan it
“Do you think that Zanu PF will not buy our poor fellow citizens to participate in those flawed elections and endorse him 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️look outside the box pal.
Funga nedehenya kwete nema kumbo.”
Zanu PF buying officials and povo is well known. Let’s talking about Zanu PF leaders buying MDC/CCC leaders to participate.
I have said on countless occasions that CCC is Zanu PF team B in all but name. Chamisa and company were hell bent on participating in these flawed elections knowing fully well that Zanu PF was rigging that participating would give Zanu PF legitimacy but still they participated because they also knew that Zanu PF was offering a few gravy train seats.
Indeed, MDC/CCC leaders like David Coltart have acknowledge that the opposition has been participating out of greed.
“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.
It is only you who seem to think that one has to think outside the box to believe Zanu PF would bribe MDC/CCC leaders. But then, those not us who know you are not surprised, you have the IQ of a slug!
https://bulawayo24.com/index-id-opinion-sc-columnist-byo-241400.html
Those ancient Greeks, who bequeathed democracy to mankind those 2 500 years ago, were right in saying the system only works when the people are educated, knowledgeable and are diligent in holding those in public office to account.
In Zimbabwe most of the voters are ignorant, naive and gullible and so both Zanu PF and MDC/CCC have taken full advantage of this to frighten and/or con the voters into doing the politician’s bidding even when it is not in the voters’ interest. It is no exaggeration to it is the politicians who hold the voters to account - the tail is savagely - in the case of Zanu PF thugs - wagging the dog!
https://bulawayo24.com/index-id-opinion-sc-columnist-byo-241398.html
Mnangagwa rigged the 2023 elections and both SADC and AU election observers condemned the elections as flawed and illegal making this Zanu PF government illegitimate. He has managed to get away without any political legitimacy censure for SADC thanks to CCC's participation in the flawed elections. SADC was powerless to deny Zanu PF legitimacy after CCC leaders took up their gravy train seats even after SADC and AU had condemned the elections.
Mnangagwa is taking full advantage of the implosion in CCC to consolidate Zanu PF's iron grip on power. It is incumbent on the ordinary Zimbabwean, now more than ever, to stop this illegitimate regime "cementing" the Zanu PF dictatorship.
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