“We are His creation and His possession. We belong to Him.” stated Nelson Chamisa.
“This assertion encapsulates a fundamental aspect of Chamisa’s identity—a belief that governance and leadership are divinely ordained responsibilities,” responded some one in Zimeye.
“To Chamisa, his political endeavours are not merely about securing power but also about fulfilling a divine purpose.
“Chamisa’s declaration that “Whenever we move our lips, we must testify and confess the power, glory, and greatness of God” underscores his commitment to intertwining religious expression with political discourse.”
This is just hogwash with no intellectual nor theological merit. None!
- i) God does not do for mankind what mankind can easily, easily, do for themselves. The people of Zimbabwe have risked livelihoods, limbs and thousands have lost their lives to elect Nelson Chamisa and his MDC/CCC friends to implement democratic changes, reforms, to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. They have not only failed to implement even one token reform in 23 years but have been participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy. Are we to expect God to implement the reforms and, no doubt, to stop Chamisa and company participating in flawed elections out of greed!
- ii) “CCC would win big the 2023 elections because I have plugged all the Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes. God is in it!” promised Chamisa. The truth is CCC was participating in an election with no verified voters’ roll, voters were being frogmarched to attend Zanu PF rallies (and would likewise be frogmarched to vote), etc., etc. Chamisa did not even have the common sense to deploy election agents at all Polling Stations, for Pete’s sake. Chamisa has repeatedly put God to the test! “You shall not put the LORD your God to the test,” the Bible tells us.
- iii) Chamisa has repeatedly claimed divine inspiration, that something or other would happen, God is in it. And again and again his prophecy has not happened. The truth is Chamisa is NOT divinely inspired, he just claims to be which is a different matter. Alas! We have some of the most ignorant, naive and gullible people on planet earth, they believe anything, and so that they should believe a false prophet is no surprise!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCIWR2Lbs84
Mnangagwa blatantly rigged the 2023, just as Zanu PF has done ever since the country's independence in 1980, once again denying the ordinary Zimbabweans any meaning say in the governance of the country. Mnangagwa is enjoying absolute power, the country has been sinking deeper and deeper into the economic and political abyss these last 44 years and yet it is clear he has no clear what to do.
"Muchadya cheziya! Those who do not work must not eat!" argued Mnangagwa.
How stupefyingly infuriating; the buffoon has seized absolute power, holding the nation at ransom, and has the chutzpah to blame the millions now living in abject poverty victims for not working hard!
What have we done to deserve this and, more significantly, are we a lost cause!
The irony is many people are wring their fingers feeling helpless when they have the power, if only they know it and how to exercise it!
@ M Change
“So you want those who do not work to eat.”
Zanu PF ruling elite have then farms, mansions, fleet of posh cars, etc., etc.; all from looting. So is looting now the new "hard working”?
What is shocking here that even after 44 years of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and tyrannical rule anyone with even half a brain would still pretend Zimbabwe is anything else but a failed state. But then, we have more than our fair share of braindead and they have the voice and the vote as we can see!
@ Benji
Stop talking nonsense! Who elected Mnangagwa? Both SADC and AU said the 2023 elections were flawed and illegal! If Mnangagwa has achieved all these things then why is Zimbabwe a failed state unable to provide even the most basic needs such as education and health care!
@ M Change
“If someone works hard over years nothing can and must stop them from building mansions or doing what they please with their money. Can you kindly share with me empirical evidence on the looting part.”
What did the Mugabes do to pay for the US$ 3-4 billion Blue Roof Mansion, the 12 farms for Bona, mansions in Dubai, etc., etc.?
You must be the only one who has not watched the Al Jazeera Good Mafia documentary. Not that watching it would change anything in your case! For it is not all who see who perceive, who hear and understand. The gift of comprehension has escaped many because their brains have ossified into fat!
@ Mura
This is to be expected after all Zanu PF itself has murdered over 40 000 innocent Zimbabweans since 1980 to establish and retain the de facto one party dictatorship. There is no freedom or rule of law in Zimbabwe. The lawlessness in state house has been copied and replicated in the rest of the nation down to the family home.
@ Tawanda Majni
“Now, there is the case of Nelson Chamisa. He took the opposition MDC-T by storm when Tsvangirai passed on just before the 2018 elections, virtually robbing the party leadership from his seniors, Thokozani Khupe and Elias Mudzuri. Chamisa went on to become the most popular opposition leader after Tsvangirai in post-independence Zimbabwe, putting Zapu’s Joshua Nkomo aside, of course.
He ran against Mnangagwa in 2018 and lost narrowly, officially. He challenged his loss at the courts and lost. But that’s mainly because his house was fatally disorganised, choosing to playing more to the gallery than to do serious legal business. In 2023, he stood again against Mnangagwa. He lost again but still enjoyed multi-million support.
Frustrated after making decisions such as leading a constitution-less and structure-less entity that made his party leak like a sieve, resulting in small names taking over the show, Chamisa—without any warning or consultations—resigned from his own CCC party in January this year.
There is talk about a new movement that he is likely to lead, the so-called Blue Movement—after quitting CCC. Informatively, Chamisa has not made his intentions public. All we are now hearing is this yarn about two of his protégés, Amos Chibaya and Gift Siziba, moving around trying to re-mobilise people around Chamisa as their godfather is busy on X rewriting verses from the King James version of the bible.
There are other shocking cases in which Chamisa has gone to bed with Zanu PF for the money. Numerous years ago, he went into a commercial venture with Gushungo Holdings where he was providing transport to the late Mugabe’s farm.
From dawn to dusk, Chamisa would lambast Mugabe as a cruel dictator that he was. From the fall of darkness, he would then commute to the Blue Roof to collect his dues from the dictator.
If you lack principles to that extent, you can do anything for the sake of silver.
And, hey, my own eyes and ears have picked that, when Chamisa was severely assaulted at the then Harare International Airport in 2007 on his way to Brussels on parliamentary business, that had nothing to do with the politics.
Instead, my sources have insisted all these years, it was because of a gold deal with a prominent Zanu PF stalwart that had gone sour and this politician, now leaving in exile, used the cover of the volatile politics to get his own back.
Point is, if it is true that Chamisa has been bought out by Mnangagwa, we might just as well kiss him goodbye.
He would rather be chowing those rumoured millions. If he returns, that would only be for the optics, otherwise he is as dead as a dodo.”
A very good and juicy read, thank you.
Chamisa did not lose the 2018 Constitutional Court challenge of the election results “mainly because his house was fatally disorganised, choosing to playing more to the gallery than to do serious legal business.” It was all a calculated political move designed to deceive the naive and gullible into believing the challenge was genuine and sincere in seeking political change.
If MDC/CCC leaders had ever been sincere in their efforts to implement reforms and end the Zanu PF dictatorship then they would have implemented the democratic reforms during the GNU. The failed to implement even one token reform in five years!
The tragedy for Zimbabwe is that the MDC/CCC leaders have been running with the povo hare and hunting withy the Zanu PF hounds ever since the GNU, at least, and the people have yet to wake up to this reality. Zimbabwe is a failed state and desperately needs competent opposition leaders who will finally implement the reforms if we are ever to get out of this hell-hole.
Of course, you did "escalate the apa ndepangu to the national level" and to be absolutely certain you remained in power, you blatantly rigged the elections!
@ President Netanyahu
“Mr Failed State your regurgitations are nauseous.”
You never cease to amaze and shock me! So you find being reminded that Zimbabwe is a failed state nauseating but you are indifferent to the reality that Zimbabwe is indeed a failed state! But that explains why Zimbabwe is INDEED a fail state; we have some braindead people amongst us! And, to crown it all, they have the voice and the vote!
Still one must do the best one can - try to be heard over all the idiotic noise!
@ Benji
You are entitled to your opinion, if you think ED is a great leader, that is your view. What you must accept is that others too are entitled to their opinion. By rigging last year's elections Mnangagwa denied the people of Zimbabwe a meaningful say on whether they wanted him to lead or not, a meaningful say in the governance of the country. This is the heart of this matter.
Zanu PF has always believed that it has the divine right to govern the country. And Zimbabwe is in this mess precisely because the nation is stuck with this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical; regime for 44 years and counting. This madness must be stopped. No one has the right to deny other a meaningful say in the governance of Zimbabwe. No one!
To rig the elections and then start pointing out what ED has achieved is pointless since we cannot change that even if the so-called achievements are lies. “Kuyeuka bako mvura yapera!” (Remembering the cave after the storm has passed!) After 44 years of rigged elections, we should be smart enough to stop repeating the same idiotic mistake - stop the curse of rigged elections!
FOCUS! Benji, even a dimwit like you should know by now that the number one challenge is restoring the right of every Zimbabwean to a meaningful say in the governance of the country and not to be complaining about misrule when it is too late to do anything about it!
@ Benji
Zimbabwe is a failed state because we have failed to hold free, fair and credible elections and nothing to do with the sanctions! Are you saying Zanu PF has the right to rig elections and deny Zimbabweans their basic right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country because the West imposed sanctions. What has the ordinary people to do with the West?
@ President Netanyahu
"What's your solution? We are tired of your endless regurgitating about Zim's failed state. What's your value proposition? What do you want us to do?"
So you are nauseated by my saying Zimbabwe is a failed state but not by the reality that it is indeed a failed state because I have offered no solution to end the reality! Only an idiot would believe that makes sense.
I am reminding you that Zimbabwe is a failed state because he have corrupt and incompetent leaders. And that we elect competent leaders.
You do not want to even admit Zimbabwe is a failed state because you have your head in the backside of your political party leaders. Admitting Zimbabwe is a failed state is tantamount to admitting your great leaders are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless. Well they are corrupt and useless!
President Netanyahu
“The problems of Zimbabwe are well documented. We need not dwell much on this. We must be solutions oriented. So what's your solution.”
And the solution you are offering is to silence anyone who has dared to say your leaders a corrupt and incompetent just for the purpose of stifling debate and the truth!
One of the problems Zimbabwe is in this mess is because we have village idiots like you who are stifling debate and the truth because they cannot bear face the truth. I have offered solutions here, but you have ignored that because it is not solutions you want. You are just using that as cover for silencing all those who dare speak the truth.
You are no different from the Zanu PF thugs who have stifled debate under the pretext all those critical of Zanu PF are puppets of the West!
Enough of this bullshit! Neither you nor the Zanu PF thugs have the right to stifle debate and the truth. Freedom of expression does not mean you lot dictating to others what they can say. Even those who are offering no solutions have a right to be heard!
@ President Netanyahu
And you think you have the right to stifle and silence all those with "wrong opinions fuelled by bitterness"? How presumptuous.
@ Big Mike
“Urikureva here kuti opposition party ikahwina ndopega paunoti ma elections were free fair and credible. Election ikahwiniwa ne zanu pf inenge yaitwa rigged.”
Elections are judge free, fair and credible on the basis of the process being free, fair and credible and not on who won or lost. The 2023 elections could not be judged free and fair given there was no verified voters’ roll, voters were frogmarched to attend and vote for Zanu PF, etc., etc.
Forget Chamisa’s claim he had plugged all vote rigging loop holes, it was idiotic nonsense to justify why CCC was participating in flawed elections and to hide the real reasons for doping so were greed and incompetence. Chamisa did not even deploy elections agents at all polling stations even though he had received the funds to do so!
MDC/CCC leaders have not only sold out on implementing reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging elections, they have been participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy. MDC/CCC is Zanu PF team B in all but name, playing to ensure Zanu PF team A wins and has legitimacy.
It is a great pity that many Zimbabweans have been slow to realise this political reality of MDC/CCC selling out. But this is hardly surprising given many of them do not even know what constitute free, fair and credible elections!
When Zimbabwe launch its as “structured currency” meaning link to the gold 1.00 ZiG = 1.0 mg Gold = US$ 0.06.
US$ 1.00 = 16.67 ZiG
(at gold price of 1g Gold = US$ 60 or 100 ZiG = US$ 6.00.)
So the ZiG has already started losing its value before it is officially released.
US$1.00 = ZiG 23.00
The ZiG has already lost 41% of it value in two weeks! The nightmare will start in earnest next week when there are more ZiG sloshing around in the system.
RBZ blaming WB for poor ZiG advice!
So the regime is acknowledging the ZiG is doom already and, as usual it is already hunting for scapegoats to blame!
This is a vote of no confidence in the ZiG from none other than RBZ Governor John Mushayavanhu himself.
Come 30 April the new ZiG currency will hit the market and as usual those with the economic muscle to reject the ZiG and at what exchange rate if they accept it will be the big winners. The big losers are those who have no such economic muscle and are forced to accept the ZiG at what ever rate - take it or leave it - who are the losers.
What comfort will it bring to the millions of Zimbabwe so lives will be hell on earth as a result of the ZiG losing its value and making doing business near impossible. We can all join the regime in blaming WB but to what end and purpose!
@ General Evergreen
“Iwe unotaurisa . Idya mari dzevarungu wakanyarara iwe.”
One of the tragedies of having a dictatorship for decades, as we have done in Zimbabwe, is that every village idiot thinks and acts become a dictator is their own way - monkey see, monkey do!
So, dictator General Evergreen, who is allowed to say that Zimbabwe is a failed state and that the corrupt, incompetent and murderous Zanu PF thugs, aided and abetted by the MDC/CCC sell outs, are responsible for the mess?
We desperately need to concentrate of ending the curse of rigged elections and bad governance but are forced to waste time debating who has the right to be heard! Some of the sheer stupidity one has to put up with!
@ Big Mike
"Haiwawo ndeyekwako iyo. Handiti uri britain chitora citizenship yeko wovhotera ikoko."
What about the millions in Zimbabwe, do they too not deserve the right to free, fair and credible election?
@ General Evergreen
"What is your description of a failed state. You are not in Zimbabwe stop talking as if you know all."
Here we go again! So only those who are in Zimbabwe KNOW what is happening in the country and are ALLOWED to talk about it?
If you do not have the common sense to know that knowing what is happening in Zimbabwe is not a prerogative of those living in the country, gender, race, etc. it is no surprise you have no idea what a failed state is.
All you need to know is that I have never allowed village idiots to tell me what I can talk about! I am not going to start doing so now!
This is a stupid argument, she is a European who believes in SA and hence the reason why she is in SA. He is a Zimbabwean who is always praising Zimbabwe to the high heavens and yet, like millions of other Zimbabweans, has left the country to escape the economic hardship and/or political oppression. Of course, he is the snake speaking with a forked tongue to gain favours with the regime by denying the reality on the ground at the expense of the long suffering majority!
@ Fearless
“Dangerous generalization, give concrete examples of this pervasive lawlessness or maybe you are one of them keyboard warriors who have perfected the art of using words like: lawlessness, no rule of law, gold mafia, corruption etc, without a shred of evidence.”
What is the point of providing any evidence when you are preprogrammed to reject and deny it all. If you believe there is no evidence of corruption, lawlessness, etc. in Zimbabwe then you must be one of the few who do so and I have no time to waste engaging such a fool!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujnnthrf3WI
Mnangagwa continues to claim that Zimbabwe is on course to become an upper middle income nation by 2030. All nonsense, of course, the country's economy has been in decline for 44 years and counting with no sign of any economic recovery. He continue to sell this mirage only because he will never ever be held to democratic account - not as long as Zanu PF continues to rig elections.
MDC/CCC sold out on reforms, we need to elect opposition leaders who will implement the reforms. It is shocking that even after 23 years some people still refuse to accept that CCC leaders are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless. What will it take to open their eyes!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7nidwe__zg
The ZiG has already lost 41% of its value on the black market in two weeks before the paper ZiG is release for circulation. Many predicted that the currency was doomed to lose its value but few thought it would happen so quickly.
RBZ Governor, John Mushayavanhu, is blaming the WB for giving him bad advice! How typical, WB is just a scapegoat!
@ Nigel
“[02:32, 23/04/2024] +44 7914 536319: This is not true. 80s and 90s we were practically a 1 party state.
[02:33, 23/04/2024] +44 7914 536319: Zanu PF had competition from MDC and thats was kuma 2000 going forward.”
We have been over this before. I believe Zanu PF rigged 2023 elections and those in the past thus confirming that nothing had changed, Zimbabwe was still a de facto one party state.
You believe Zanu PF did not rig last year’s elections, and thus confirming Zimbabwe is a healthy multi-party democracy. You welcome to your view and I will never waste time arguing on that point!
Zimbabwe’s new currency has wiped out a gain of more than 330% on the stock market this year, leaving investors dealing with the fallout.
The ZiG, short for Zimbabwe Gold, was launched on April 5 and succeeded the Zimbabwean dollar, which had lost 80% of its value this year. The new currency has so far gained more than 2% against the US dollar since its debut.
The volume of trades in stocks and the value of transactions have plunged as the exchange converted share prices to the new unit.
Zimbabwe's New Currency Has Hurt the Stock Market
Source: Zimbabwe Stock Exchange
Prior to the conversion, investors piled into stocks as they sought refuge from the local dollar’s collapse and surging inflation that in March stood at a seven-month high of 55.3%.
Zimbabwe is a pariah state governed by corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs who have remained in power these last 44 years because they rigged elections. There will be no meaningful economic recovery much less prosperity as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state!
If you do not know such simple matter then it is pointless answering you. It is like some one in Secondary School asking what is the alphabet; no teach would want to waste his time and the other students' time going back to grade one stuff!
He is being threatened to be deported from SA and that has nothing to do with Zanu PF. You got the wrong end of the stick. My number one beef with Rutendo and many other Zanu PF buffoons is the rigging of elections and denial of ordinary people's right to free, fair and credible elections. Mnangagwa and this Zanu PF government complete with its CCC sell-outs are illegitimate because 2023 elections were rigged! How an idiot like Rutendo can pretend the regime is legitimate beggars belief!
Rutendo should stop pretending that he has SA children when to justify his stay in that country especially when he has been denying the crippling economic problems in Zimbabwe - the main reason he too left the country.
@ Munya
"Surely by now he is legal in SA. All the UK varakashi on these group are proud British citizens who took an oath to serve the then Queen. Dont be deceived by their words."
The point is no one should deny that many Zimbabweans HAVE left the country for economic and/or political reasons even if that was not the reason why he left the country. Zimbabwe is having very serious economic and political challenges, that is a historic fact that no one should deny especially for selfish reasons! Mnangagwa is a corrupt, incompetent and murderous thug who rigged 2023 elections to stay in power. To deny that fact to carry favours with the dictator is unacceptable Period!
You missed the point! Rutendo has been claiming that Zimbabwe is doing well when the reality is the exact opposite. He is lying for the purpose of carrying favours with Mnangagwa. If he was in Zimbabwe and praising Mnangagwa to the heaven he would still be lying and being in Zimbabwe or not prove or disprove anything!
@ Grace
Millions of Zimbabweans are living in abject poverty because of decades of Zanu PF misrule. Many of them will know Rutendo for his spirited praise of Zanu PF and denial of the regime being the root cause of their suffering. If you are going top defend him then please answer the question. Is he saying he has been defending Zanu PF all these years because he was abused as a child? Of course, it is a feeble excuse for selling out millions of the long suffering masses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E_eGUZbxgg
There are humongous profits to be made from the huge difference between the official and black-market exchange rates. The exchange difference could be ten fold plus; no wonder many Zanu PF chefs are the money changer godfathers and are using state brute force to keep the competition out. V P Chiwenge money changers are risking dying cripples!
For the record, since Zimbabwe is using multi-currency system it is perfectly legal for anyone to trade in currency as well as the usual goods and services. Therefore there is no such thing as illegal money changers! This is just another case of Zanu PF abusing its dictatorial powers!
The ZiG is doomed to fail just as the Z$, Bond Note, etc., etc. before it! It is the poor and those without the economic muscle to refuse the ZiG as the currency who will lose the most from this nightmare!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbqanmiZCVk
It is true that Zanu PF as a party of thugs working with white criminals; we know that already and, most importantly, denouncing the regime from the roof top will not end the dictatorship. Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 2023 elections because MDC/CCC leaders sold out and unless we implement the reforms Zanu PF will rig 2028 elections too.
We must focus on implementing reforms and stop wasting time howling at the moon! FOCUS!
The hyperinflation and the chaos associated with the ZiG are all symptoms of the political reality - Zimbabwe is a pariah state. You cannot end corruption, mismanagement and all the other evil in society without first ending the pariah state and the Zanu PF dictatorship behind it?
@ Nigel
“Lets see kuti ZiG will fail here.
It's the only gold standard we have had. Fastjet is now accepting ZiG, how many more will?”
The economic and political chaos that undermined the Z$, Bond Notes, etc., are still there, it is naive to think that the ZiG will not fail just because some one said it is based on the gold reserves which everyone already knows is not there! The ZiG is doomed to fail and I do not need to wait no more that I need to wait to know vision 2030 is a mirage.
Zimbabwe is a failed state it is shocking that some people are still willing to believe the Zanu PF lie that one of these fine days the nation will wake up an upper middle income nation and all will live happily ever after. The country has been in economic decline for the last 44 years and still they believe the lie! But then, it explains why the country is in such a mess - we have some of the most ignorant, naive and gullible people on earth. They believe absolutely anything and everything!
Go ahead and wait; who knows the ZiG will will start gaining value on the US$ and even on gold itself! And Zanu PF will print one trillion ZiG notes making all Zimbabweans trillionaires!
Zimbabwe is a pariah state common sense much less economic laws do not apply. It is all kiya kiya!
She became a critic of Zanu PF when she was booted out of the party and not whilst she was still a member - if this is not political opportunism, what is!
The governor has been digging inside a hole; he is not stopping.
In a further effort to defend his currency, Mushayavanhu told a Zimbabwe Independent’s post-monetary policy statement review breakfast meeting in Bulawayo that the World Bank provided consultancy on the structured currency, meaning ZiG.
“We didn’t know much about a structured currency. We got a consultant from the World Bank. A lot of the things you’re seeing about the structured currency actually came from the World Bank," he said.
“So, if you’re going to blame me, you’re actually blaming the World Bank. Maybe they didn’t advise us properly. And if they did not advise us properly, it’s fine. Let’s refine it."
Now this is a public relations disaster. He has put himself in a corner and internationalised the problem.
In his mind, this lends credibility to ZiG, but it doesn't.
It just fuels controversy and illegitimacy of the currency.
The other issues which have raised credibility issues about him include his promise there would no printing of money under his governorship.
People and the market know the Zanu PF government's spending patterns better.
This government can't survive without printing money unless it dramatically shifts its wasteful spending approach and love for luxuries.
How, for instance, will it pay for its expensive infrastructure projects without international funding, development finance or lines of credit?
So Mushayavanhu has put his head on the block and it will be chopped because he can't vouch for Zanu PF embracing fiscal discipline or probity.
The new currency has attracted controversy for many reasons: That it is backed by gold and foreign exchange reserves; it's a gold-backed currency; it's widely seen as merely another Zimbabwean dollar version; it's a fake or quasi-currency; and that government just cut off the three zeroes, which is nothing new.
Despite being loquacious and a busybody on it, Mushayavanhu has not been convincing at all - in fact his pronouncements have been underwhelming and making things worse; most importantly eroding confidence in the currency.
To start with, the market knows that the so-called reserves are woefully inadequate - a mere 2.5 tons of gold (for a gold-producing nation at that) or U$285 million (Cristiano Ronaldo's annual salary) is nothing to write home about for a mineral-rich country.
Of course, it's surely better than nothing, but the whole country cannot come to a standstill due to those peanuts in a national economic and currency value proposition context.
Second, it is simply untrue that ZiG is a gold-backed currency. It is also false that Zimbabwe has had a long history of using gold currencies. It has never used gold as a currency at any given time in its history.
Third, it is true this is a fake or quasi-currency, not real; just a stop-gap measure like bond notes.
Fourth, there is no difference between ZiG and bond notes and other quasi-currencies like traveller's cheques, special agro-cheques and those bank notes which ran into trillions.
Fifth, Mushayavanhu should stop digging because he is already stuck in a deep hole. Otherwise, he will sink with his ZiG as it zigzags into oblivion.
Governor Mushayavanhu knows only too well that the ZiG is not backed by gold or foreign currency reserves, it is all a lie. He knows that the ZiG is doomed suffer the same devaluation as the Bond Notes, the only unknown is how quickly and how long it will last before it too is discarded.
When it comes to local currency, Governor Mushayavanhu knows the Zanu PF modus operandi launch new currency with the usual fun fair, ngenje ngenje to US$, the panacea to all the country’s local currency problems. The new currency will lose its value and when the number of accumulated zeros becomes unmanageable relaunch the local currency under a new name!
Zimbabwe has been independent for 44 years and already it has changed the name of its local currency more often than many nations have changed their currency in 3 000 years!
Those working for Zanu PF godfathers are free and the rest are being made to pay for regime's incompetency. One of the advantage of being a dictator is you are not accountable when things go bad and can always find scapegoats to blame (WB) and even to punish (money changer)!
Exactly! The regime has said Zimbabwe will remain a multi-currency nation until 2030 so we can use any currency. The regime accepts that there are some goods and services that MUST be paid in foreign currency only such as fuel and customs duty.
So why is it illegal for people to trade currency especially since the foreign currencies are not readily available at the banks! This is just another example of the regime declaring something is illegal just to create a monopoly for the select few to operate.
The Police crackdown on money changers will not stamp out the blackmarket trade in foreign currency, it is to benefit the criminals. The money changers are criminals only in so far as the criminal regime say they are criminals!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ml4qU7KQQ
There are some people who insist that by calling for the implementation democratic reforms, the prerequisite for free fair and credible elections, I am doing Zanu PF's bidding. Of course, they are stupid; since when has Zanu PF desired reforms and free and fair elections?
These people are either diehard MDC/CCC supporters who cannot bear to hear the truth - that Zanu PF has continued to rig elections precisely because MDC/CCC leaders sold out by failing to implement even one token reform these last 23 years! Or they are Zanu PF agents masquerading as MDC supporters for the purpose encouraging the MDC/CCC herd to continue participating in flawed elections and thus perpetuating the Zanu PF dictatorship.
We cannot get Zanu PF to implement any reforms before 2028 elections. We cannot stop Chamisa et al participating out of greed. What we can do educate the gullible supporters of the sheer folly of participating to give Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuate their own suffering!
@ Churchill
"If you destroy a free market you create a black market. If you make 10 000 regulations, you destroy all respect of the law."
The Zanu PF buffoon believe they are smart, so smart, they can break all the rules and get away with it. They have rigged elections and got away with it and have been trying to rig economic prosperity only to drag the nation deeper and deeper into the economic abyss!
@ Undergraduate
So everyone trading in currency is illegitimate and yet it is legal to use all these currencies! Which law have these money changers broken?
@ Chief Svosve
“Go beg for your car Wiribheti - just don’t do it here- of course you want it, of course you deserve it - you have done such great job for Zanu PF. Yes Wilbert we are not such dimwits as you always call us - you do pay lip service to the issue of reforms but as someone on payroll you end up attacking MDC now CCC more than Zanu PF.
Of course you are a well trained ZANU PF operative … you do it very smarty but everyone knows you are a bloody sellout.”
So I have paid lip service to reforms! How exactly was I suppose to implement the reforms and when?
I do not need to remind you that MDC/CCC leaders were in public office and thus had the opportunity to implement the reforms these last 23 years especially during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. They have failed to implement even one reforms.
You are stupid, a dimwit, but clearly smart enough to be the “well trained Zanu PF operate” masquerading as a stupid diehard CCC supporter for the purpose of conning the ignorant and gullible public into participating in flawed elections to perpetuate the Zanu PF dictatorship.
Only a dimwit like you would pretend calling me a sell-out for demanding reforms and free and fair elections whilst letting those who failed to implement even one reform in 23 years off the hook is sustainable! I don’t care whether you are a genuinely foolish CCC supporter or a Zanu PF double agent, you have lost this argument already. People are stupid but not THAT stupid to continue to believe Chamisa that is an infallible demigod.
@ Nicholas Sithole
“The same story, boring as usual.
We are all Zimbabweans from one basket before we start calling ourselves members of certain political entities.
Zimbabwe will never be rescued from sinking in some deep and dirty waters as long as we still have ppl like Wilbert Mukori, Chin'ono and a club of these twisted minded people who see it fit to blame and always blame the opposition for doing what they cannot do in their sorry lives.
They send all their time writing long and meaningless threads.
These individuals are only good at preaching useless bible verses.
They go to bed with only one thing in their minds, what missiles do they have to attack CCC/MDC when they wake up the following morning.
They are cowards whose main objectives are to push the citizens down the cliff. They are like those poor and brainless, if not cowards hunters who always come back home every day barehanded from hunting, expecting to see rabbits sleeping behind the kitchen door.”
Zimbabwe is a failed state and for the 49% plus of our people now living in abject poverty, they are desperate to see the back of this nightmare. I am telling them that the only sure way to end the Zanu PF dictatorship is for the country to cure itself of the curse of rigged elections - a boring subject to you but not to them.
I am here to make sure reforms remain on the national agenda until we have free, fair and credible elections. I am determine to end this 44 years and counting of rigged elections. I am not here to entertain you.
I do not give a damn about your idiotic nonsense that Chamisa is not accountable. He and his MDC friends sold out big time by failing to implement reforms and they must account for it.
@ Chief Svosve
“Wilbert I know you too well. Even when MT launched NERA the strongest vehicle the opposition ever created to spearhead electoral reforms you were on the forefront of attacking NERA. You were even opposed to the NERA mass protests and rallies that made the word Reforms a household word. How then did you ever want those reforms to be achieved.”
MDC leaders had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. The primary purpose of the GNU was to implement the democratic reforms, I have said this a hundred thousand times.
MDC leaders failed to implement even one token reform because Mugabe bribe them with trappings of high office; the ministerial limos, the generous salaries and allowances, the US$ 4 m mansion for Tsvangirai, etc., etc. “Mazivanhu eMDC adzidza kudya anyerere!” boasted Zanu PF cronies when asked why MDC were not implementing reforms.
A few honest MDC leaders in the GNU like Arthur Mutambara have admitted they took their eyes off the reforms.
“As a collective political leadership, we should have taken time to apply our minds to the existential question:
“What next after the GNU?”
We did not address this matter.
This was suicidal.” confessed Professor Arthur Mutambara in his Book In
Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas & Solutions).
I dismissed the launch of NERA post GNU as paying lip service to reforms because Zanu PF was never going to implement an reforms especially when it was clear all those calling for reforms had sold out during the GNU and would do so again by participating in future elections with no reforms implemented.
As you said, you lot did hold your NERA mass demonstrations. Not even one token reform was implemented and, as I had predicted, you all participated in the flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy.
Zimbabwe is a failed state and the golden opportunity to cure ourselves of the double curse of rigged elections and bad governance was wasted by MDC/CCC sellouts. The people of Zimbabwe have risked all to elect MDC/CC leaders to implement the democratic reforms and stop Zanu PF rigging elections not to pay lip service to reforms “to make reforms household word”; you flatulent nincompoop!
@ Benjamin
“Most peoples articles, posts and tweets all talk about reforms in them at some point. It's undeniable that reforms are needed. What people don't want to hear is you hammering at their only hope out of this mess. Which is calling Chamisa and co incompetent and utterly useless. In short you poke the wrong button there.”
I certainly would not want to hammer at the people “only hope out of the mess”! The question you must answer is: What exactly Chamisa and company done these last 23 years, including the 5 years in the GNU, to to the people out of the mess?
I believe MDC/CCC had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms during the GNU and they failed to implement even one token reforms. They have participated in flawed elections knowing fully well Zanu PF was rigging and participating would give Zanu PF legitimacy.
“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.
If the above is not proof that MDC leaders are corrupt and incompetent, then what else do they have to do to prove they are indeed corrupt and incompetent!!!!!
@ Godfrey
“It’s not about poking the wrong person
It’s about making the wrong conclusions and being blind to the real problem which is
Zanu is not willing to abide by the laws
Zanu is not willing to provide free and fair platform
Zanu is already breaking the laws that promote free and fair elections
Zanu is abusing power
The laws aimed at providing conditions for a free and fair election already exist but are being broken by Zanu
Yes it is true Zimbabweans have failed to get Zanu to get off its high horse and only NC has been BOLD and COMPETENT enough to compete and get some meaningful results under the circumstances
SADC has failed to get Zanu comply with their demands too
SADC ‘s demands are aimed at protecting the rights of all citizens whether they participate in elections or not including those who do not rally behind NC
So for example Zapu and Diaspora cannot accuse and blame NC of incompetence - why are we
Similarly SADC cannot turn around to Diaspora and say NC is to blame for denial of diaspora voting rights.”
I totally agree with you Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 2023 elections as all the election observer of note have rightly condemned the process as flawed and illegal. That is proof, is it not, that what ever reforms and laws were passed during the 2008 to 2013 GNU were not adequate to ensure free, fair and credible elections.
Indeed this was the view of the SADC leaders hence the reason they wanted the 2013 elections postponed until electoral reforms, at least, could be implemented.
In short the GNU did not do enough to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections. So you are wrong to expect Zanu PF to hold free and fair elections post GNU, that is the point.
MDC/CCC leaders did not implement the democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections and they have been participating in flawed elections knowing fully well that doing so would give Zanu PF legitimacy. They have participated regardless out of greed. It is not only me saying that!
“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.
Let us deal with the facts, truths and reality or we will be going round and round in circles!
@ Godfrey
“To avoid biased and prejudice in our comments and to reach a common understanding
Let’s ask
What CCC of North Korea and Russia should have done or should do to get into power. Their circumstances are similar to Zimbabwe’s.”
The people of Zimbabwe have risked all to elect opposition leaders in Zimbabwe for one primary purpose: to implement the necessary democratic changes to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. MDC/CCC have sold out and, after 23 years with not even a token reform implemented, the people must be smart enough to realise that MDC/CCC leaders are not to the task and so elect new opposition leaders! This is not rocket science for Pete’s sake!
It is a historic fact that blacks hunted down the fellow blacks and sold them to the white slave traders. I am sure that there were many who had sold other blacks, found themselves being sold as slaves in turn and, no doubt, they cried like babies!
The tragedy is the foolishness of selling fellow blacks to outsiders has continued to this day or be it in another form. Mnangagwa is selling off the nation’s diamonds, gold, lithium, etc., to the Chinese and other foreigners for a song. This is the wealth that should benefit all Zimbabweans and not the few ruling elite. And Mnangagwa is using some of the looted wealth to bolster the corrupt and tyrannical regime keeping him in power and the masses in poverty!
@ Frank
“How should we start the process of implementing the reforms Sir? We acknowledge our opposition parties failed in the past, give us a way forward lead us in implementing the reforms.”
Ask yourself: Did participating in 2023 elections make any sense?
@ Eccentric Pictures
"Instead of giving you an answer, he's questioning you and expecting an answer
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Bantuuu."
Well sometime people ask questions not knowing they know the answer themselves. Asking them a different question will help bring out the answer.
In this case, the solution is clear, you should not participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the dictatorship.
MDC/CCC leaders have been participating out of greed and conned the public to do the same. you should not be so easily conned!
@ Godfrey
"SADC has provided a clean start by declaring all that happened and results as null and void
But Zanu is continuing to hold on and benefiting from illegal and ill gotten results
There is no need to refer to GNU and there is no legitimacy right now."
It would help if you answered the question: Did CCC and the 2 million who voted for the party's participation in the 2023 elections make any sense?
@ Ngugs
Zanu PF has been rigging elections these last 44 years because of the same nonsense - no reforms to stop them rigging the elections. And unless we implement the reforms the regime will continue to rig elections. It is shocking that some people think ignoring the reforms, by burying their heads in the backsides of leaders, will make the problem go away.
Reforms will remain on the national agenda until they are implemented.
No wonder we are a failed state, we really have some of the most idiotic people in the world and, to crown it all, they have the voice and vote! One has to justify why we need to end the curse of rigged elections and bad governance. Cry the beloved country!
How is it possible that the new currency was launched without first sorting out such basic issues as these. How can the Banks withdraw the use of the old currency before the new currency is in circulation? What were people expected to use? The sheer incompetence being shown here beggars belief!
The Z$, Bond Note, etc. all failed because of the inherent political and economic weakness and not the bad/good will of private individuals. Stop this foolishness of always finding a scapegoat to every problem, address the root causes of the problem!
Qatar has painted its road blue reducing surface temperature by 15 to 20 degrees increasing tyre life and improving visibility at night.
Great idea! Zimbabwe should do the same, it would be easier to see all them swimming pool size potholes.
@ Sir Kabila
Whilst I will readily agree with you that nothing will change as long as Zanu PF remains in power. This beggars the question: Why has Zanu PF remained in power all these last 44 years? Surely there were many opportunities to end the Zanu PF dictatorship especially in the last 23 years including the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Why have we failed to implement even one reform to stop Zanu PF rigging elections?
@ Mavhunga
"Tell me about the looting done by the British people in Rhodesia, so that I will have time to listen to you. Do you have that background."
So I should not talk about the looting now because you want me only to talk about the looting "by the British people in Rhodesia"? The sheer stupidity of your demands speaks volumes of about you and why Zimbabwe is a failed state! We have some of the most idiotic people on earth!
Once the regime has rigged the elections it can impose any economic policies it wants under the pretext it has the mandate to govern. The number one challenge is to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections. If that is not possible, then one must not participate in the flawed elections when doing so will only give Zanu PF legitimacy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZqomdLIY
Did you know that Zanu PF started withdrawing the local currency soon after the launch of the ZiG on 5 April 2024 and yet did not have the ZiG paper money to fill the gap. As we speak, the nation is facing the hardship of shortage of local currency for normal day to day use. This crisis is set to last another five more days to 30 April 2024 when the ZiG paper money will finally be released.
Why RBZ and the regime failed to get something as simple as making sure old currency is not withdrawn until the new was readily available, speaks volumes about the sheer incompetence of the regime. This is kiya kiya management at a national level and we are all paying dearly for it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG0ciwiJJ0I
Zimbabwe's self anointed David, Nelson Chamisa, has thrown many a Biblical verse at his Goliath mimesis, Mnangagwa but not one stone! MDC/CCC have failed to implement even one token democratic reform i8n 23 years, including 5 in the GNU.
Indeed, MDC/CCC have given up implementing reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections. The party now claims it has Winning In Rigged Election Strategies (WIRES). Plugging all Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes was one such WIRES!
After 23 years with not one reform implement and thus 44 years of Zanu PF rigging the elections we really cannot afford to let this idiotic pantomime carryon continue.
@ Carlo M Capola
Five reasons why stupid people are the most dangerous individuals.
Must forward this to both Mnangagwa and Chamisa, the two are smart enough to have gained over the years from exploiting stupid people. But that is not the reason why the video must be send. It is being send with the note: You are a stupid buffoon and now we know, your days of exploiting the fools are numbered!
Bhudhi Ghivhi
@BhudhiGhivhi
➡️ Chiwenga addressed the BUSINESS community at ZITF yesterday. 😂😂🙈
He fed them bigheartedly from the generous bosom of his VAST knowledge on the subject… 🙂
But haaaa... ZANU shouldn’t do this to Chiwenga. Kkkk!! 😆
The man sacrificed a LOT to make ED the replacement dictator. His entire reputation... 🤷🏾♂️
The most dishonourable ACT imaginable for a general, is to STAB his commander-in-chief in the back - as Chiwenga did to Mugabe. 😬
How such a buffoon has become a VP goes to show why we are a failed state!
GOVERNMENT has blamed climate change for depressed power generation at Lake Kariba as blackouts spoiled the first day of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF).
In March, the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) set the average electricity generation for Kariba Power Station at 214 megawatts (MW) against its installed capacity of 960MW due to dwindling water levels.
Zimbabwe and Zambia share equally water to generate power at their separate power plants at Lake Kariba.
As of yesterday, the country was generating 1 074MW broken down as 300MW from Kariba and 774MW from Hwange.
Bulawayo, Munyati and Harare power stations are currently incapacitated.
Zimbabwe has only added Hwange unit 7 and 8 generating capacity since independence in 1980. These should have been added in the 1980s plus Batoka Gorge (Kariba mark 2). The nation has paid dearly for this failure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCAckLnFsn0
This time a year ago, Al Jazeera screened the Zimbabwe Gold Mafia documentary giving details of how 80% of the country's US$2 billion per year gold production was being smuggled out of the country. The documentary named many Zimbabweans involved in the smuggling including Mnangagwa himself. No one was ever arrested, as far as I know.
Zambian authorities have just found three suitcases with gold and others with US$ on a private jet that flew from Zimbabwe. The looting of gold, money, diamonds, etc. out of the country is still going on.
It is sad to note the wealth looted is being used to keep Zanu PF in power and as long as the country remains a pariah state it will be near impossible to get meaningful political change. We are is serious trouble alright!
This is just nonsense and repeating it does not make it less so! The opposition has imploded and so it will only be Zanu PF running in this race!
What has changed? Just because you do not want Mnangagwa to last the distance is not enough to bring about change! This was the same nonsensical logic that led people to participate in the 2023 elections believing Chamisa had plugged all the Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgqmMpmbENw
Participating in the 2023 elections DID NOT make any sense back then and does not make sense today. How anyone with even half a brain can still claim that it makes sense beggars belief. But then it explains why Zimbabwe is a fail state - we do have many Zimbabweans out there with whose IQ on a scale of 0 to 10 reads - (minus, negative) 10!
If these people believe participating in the 2023 flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuating the dictatorship made sense, they will, no doubt, be conned into participating in 2028 too. We must stop this insanity!
Chamisa and company were hell bent on participating in the elections because they were after the few gravy train seats on offer as bait. Why do you think they failed to implement even one token reform during the GNU? So that they expose Zanu PF's vote rigging? Fcuk me! We really have some of the most ignorant, naive and gullible people of earth.
The tragedy here is that Zimbabweans are so ignorant, naive and gullible - they believe anything. The economy has been in decline for the last 44 years and yet many believe in this Vision 2030. 44 years of chasing one mirage after another!
@ Ngwenya
Chamisa and company participated out of greed and to ask what difference that would have made is to ask what difference that would have made if MDC had implemented the democratic reforms during the GNU! 2013 and thereafter Zimbabwe elections would have been free, fair and credible and we would have had a competent and accountable government from there on!
If the two million Zimbabweans had had the common sense to refuse participating in the flawed elections and were not so easily conned by Chamisa’s idiotic lies; elections which SADC and AU election observers themselves condemned. It is obvious SADC and the AU would have come under pressure to deny Zanu PF political legitimacy.
Unlike Chamisa and company would got the reward of the few gravy train seats, the ordinary Zimbabwean has gained absolutely nothing from participating in these flawed elections and lost everything by perpetuated their own suffering. This is why only some one with an IQ of minus 10 or scale of 0 to 10 would still argue that participating makes sense even now with the benefit of hindsight!
Jack Ma the richest man in China said, "If you put the Banana and Money in front of a monkey. The monkey will choose Banana because the monkey don't know that money can buy a lot of Bananas.
Well we know this is happening everyday in Zimbabwe!
Last year, many aided and abetted Zanu PF in it devilish vote rigging scheme for US$ 400 000 housing loan for judges, twin cab trucks for chiefs down to chicken and chips for povo. Chamisa and company were hell bent on participating in the flawed elections for a seat on the gravy train; he even lied that he had plugged all the vote rigging loop holes. His followers were stupid enough to believe the idiotic lies and participated to give the regime legitimacy.
The moral of the story is the whole country is paying dearly for the stupidity of the monkeys who aided and abetted these Zanu PF thugs all these years!
@ Fearless
"True, the EFF is a Patriotic,Pan Africanist opposition, with a clear ideology and alternative policies and plans.Not this ideology called (un)strategic ambiguity."
Let's just say Chamisa's CCC "strategic ambiguity" was ambiguous to Chamisa but not Sengezo Tshabangu! It did not take the latter long to recall elected CCC leaders, secure himself a senatorial seat and take over the party! Tshabangu may well go after the money and other assets Chamisa has and deliver the coup de grace!
@ Mr C
“African Proverb: "Boycotting flying does not stop the eagles from blowing.”
If you are going to participate in the elections no matter how flawed, how illegal and illogical then what is the point of drawing an of the rules and laws to govern the conduct of elections?
On what basis are we ever going to judge the results of the elections are a true reflection of democratic will of the people?
You don’t even know what constitute free, fair and credible elections!
@ Frank
And so it was ok for CCC to sell out on reform and to participate in flawed elections to perpetuate the Zanu PF dictatorship because "many other political parties participated in the flawed elections"? Fcuk me!!!!! How is it possible that anyone can be so irrational!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ujq7Iy_Qa8
Zimbabwe is a failed state because many of accepted Zanu PF cheap bribes to help the regime rig elections and impose this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical dictatorship. We have all paid dearly for our folly. When humans behave like monkey, it is most disconcerting!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rPR7UB1Uy8
It is an outrage that Zanu PF has been rigging elections in Zimbabwe and now the regime is exporting its noxious skills to destabilise other nations. This must be condemned in the strongest terms.
There is no excuse for any Zimbabwean to play an part in these Zanu PF dirty political games!
And nothing bespeaks of the stupidity of a nation than even after 44 years of rigged elections the nation still has no clue what is going on, in this day and age. The truth is stupidity is curse worse than death, the dead do not suffer the stupid suffer endlessly for their stupidity!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RNX9E0O_hM
Zimbabwe is a failed state because we have failed to hold free, fair and credible elections. After 44 years of rigged elections we are still failing to define what constitute free and fair elections - if that is not stupid, what is!
And nothing bespeaks of the stupidity of a nation than even after 44 years of rigged elections the nation still has no clue what is going on, in this day and age. The truth is stupidity is curse worse than death, the dead do not suffer the stupid suffer endlessly for their stupidity!
@ SFB
America has 200+ years of rigged elections, and you believe they are successful!
So the people of Zimbabwe must wait another 200 years for them to finally have a meaningful say in the governance of the country! As I said one of the reasons why Zimbabwe is a failed state is because we have some of the most idiotic individuals on earth. We have the proof right here. QED.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkGSpFWUrTI
All attempts to solve Zimbabwe's economic problems have come to naught in the past and will do so now because the A1 cause of our economic problems is gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. We cannot end these without first ending the Zanu PF dictatorship. The only sure way to end the dictatorship is by implemented the democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections.
"Seek you first the political kingdom and the rest will be given unto you" said Dr Kwame Nkrumah. He was spot on and we who have paid no heed have done so at our own peril.
@ Shava
"Vanhu vanoda zvakanaka asi ivo vachiita hutsinye. MDC is a very good example vakada kutonga vakakonzeresa mhirizhonga vakadevedzera ma Stay away from work . Zvikanetsa .vakanga vafunga kupinda ne back door vakakumbira ma sanctions vakamafarira. Vakashaya Door reku back door.. .. unokowazvawakarima .. the new African revolution is not going to support all the opposition parties in Africa for the next 500 years. Or you have be very honest and be party of the new revolutionary.. the new Blood are not going to be puppets like u."
Throughout history dictators have always believed that they are untouchable and it is not surprising this Zanu PF thinks the same. Watch and learn!
@ Lazor
“The term "village idiot" is a somewhat outdated and derogatory expression that refers to a person who is perceived as foolish, dim-witted, or intellectually disabled. Historically, the term was used to describe someone who was considered the least intelligent or most eccentric person in a small community or village.
The term is often associated with stereotypes of someone who is:
- Lacking in common sense or judgment
- Prone to making foolish decisions or mistakes
- Unable to understand complex ideas or concepts
- Often the butt of jokes or ridicule
It's important to note that this term is now widely considered to be offensive and dehumanizing, as it perpetuates harmful stereotypes and stigma against people with intellectual disabilities. It's essential to treat everyone with respect and dignity, regardless of their cognitive abilities or differences.”
Excellent definition! Now let us be very specific.
Would you say some one who has fail to comprehend something as basic as what constitutes free and fair elections and participated in elections “so flaw and so illegal that the logical thing was to withdraw.” He/she did not withdraw because they were conned into believing CCC would win big as Chamisa had plugged all vote rigging loop holes. Would you agree such a person lacked common sense or judgement, etc. and therefore is indeed a village idiot?
There is nothing “dehumanising” about saying someone who lacks common sense, they lack common sense especially if so doing will help the said person and/or society get out of the serious mess we are in.
After 44 years of rigged elections, 49% living in abject poverty, etc. only a village idiot would be obsessed about trivial matters like calling a spade a blood shovel!
@ Felex
“On Point.
It further relegates those staying in villages to the level of second class citizens.”
So if you were one of the millions of Zimbabweans who have never had a formal job, have suffered the challenges of no electricity and water, etc. You would be angry at the person angry at those village idiots responsible for economic and political mess and is demanding an end to the suffering. I do not need to be one of the suffering millions to know they are angry at those behind the mess.
This is not about village idiots per se but just another desperate attempt to silence all criticism of MDC/CCC leaders, the untouchables. The village idiots sold out and, per se, are accountable. Period!
The real surprise here is the sheer foolishness of those dwelling on trivial matter which, itself, explains why Zimbabwe is a failed. We have too many village idiots and they have the voice and the vote!
@ Joel Mukusha
“Political reforms will not remove ZANU PF but strengthen it more than ever. The imposition of economic sanctions was a forced reform to cause regime change in Zimbabwe by the USA in support of the opposition but they bit the dust. John Rawls avers that justice as fairness hence the veil of ignorance should be respected in whatever people call reforms. In short, Zimbabwe will not engage in borrowed reforms in order to prop up the opposition. Thank you.”
This is the kind of irrational nonsense that one can expect from a party and its fanatical supporters that has never ever cared about freedom, justice and the rights and dignity of all. Zanu PF denied the people a meaning vote in 1980 and has done than ever since. The sanctions were imposed in 2001!
In any case, only an idiot can ever argue that Zanu PF has the right to rig elections and deny its own people their fundamental right to free, fair and credible elections because the West imposed sanctions of the regime. What have the ordinary Zimbabweans to do with it! Only an idiot would beat up his wife and children because he quarrelled with the neighbour!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPbkhUbI2I0
No revolution in human history has been successful in which the masses were ignorant, naive and gullible. In Zimbabwe the masses have remained ignorant and naive even to this day with the benefit of hindsight and both Zanu PF and MDC/CCC have taken full advantage of this making meaningful political change and progress impossible!
We need voters with the common sense to realise the present political system has failed and to do something about it!
Mandela's greatest legacy to SA is that he left the country with healthy and functioning democratic institution that has enabled South Africans to hold the leaders to account. Mugabe did the exact opposite, he left the country with corrupt and dysfunctional institutions where everyone from the judges, Police, Chiefs and even povo are in Zanu PF's deep pockets. The judges get US$400 000 housing loan bribe and povo are bribed with chicken and chips.
Even the opposition are in Zanu PF's deep pockets. They were bribed during the GNU to forget implementing reforms and thereafter to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy!
South Africans have been slow in flexing their democratic muscle but after 30 years of ANC misrule that party is going to get a bloody nose on 30 May 2024.
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