When he assumed power following the 2017 military coup Mnangagwa promised “zero tolerance of corruption” and we all know that corruption has gone into overdrive since then. Every so often he has admitted his failure to end corruption.
"Meanwhile, I am deeply concerned by the cases of corruption in the local government space and the entire society. Those perpetrating such acts must face the full wrath of our country's law. Let us root out this menace from our society," Mnangagwa warned.
How nauseating!
Zimbabwe has failed to root out corruption because those responsible for enforcing the law are themselves corrupt, they are the godfathers of the mafia gangs controlling and directing all the wholesale looting activities.
As long as Zanu PF retains the carte blanche powers to rig elections; corruption and all the other iniquitous activities that have left Zimbabwe a failed state with millions of our people living in abject poverty, will continue. Zanu PF will never ever reform itself out of office, especially now the regime has become addicted to absolute power and has too many skeletons to hide.
It is no secret that Mnangagwa and many of his Zanu PF colleagues were involved in the politically motivated murders of the over 40 000 innocent Zimbabwe since 1980 to establish and consolidate the de facto Zanu PF dictatorship that has ruled the nation for 44 years and counting.
“Zanu PF ndeye ropa!” Zanu PF cronies have boasted menacingly. Lately, the menace has been tampered with fear; fear of being held to account for the shedded innocent blood! It has taken decades for the law to catch up. The wheels of justice turn very slowly but they do turn!
In the last 24 years, Zanu PF has rigged elections and get away with the connivence of the MDC/CCC leaders. Morgan Tsvangirai and his friends have failed to implement even one token reforms even when they had the golden opportunity to do so during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. And ever since the GNU they have participated in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy 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.
The people of Zimbabwe have risked all to elect MDC/CCC leaders into power for one primary purpose - to implement the necessary democratic changes to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship, as the party name implied. Mnangagwa blatantly rigged the 2023 elections precisely because MDC/CCC leaders have failed to implement the requisite reforms.
Of course MDC/CCC leaders are corrupt and incompetent. Why the millions of Zimbabweans have failed to realise this even with MDC/CCC failing to implement even one token reform in 24 years beggars belief! The penny has not dropped and so it is almost certain that Chamisa chete chete brigade will participate in flawed 2028 elections in their millions as happened last year to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the nation’s suffering.
Nations gets the government they deserve and we in Zimbabwe deserve this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship complete with its entourage of equally corrupt and useless MDC/CCC side-kicks.
“Let us root out corruption from our society!” We will never ever root out corruption without first implement the democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. No meaningful reforms have been implemented in the last 24 years nor in the future as long as Zanu PF and MDC/CCC remain partners in crime, Mnangagwa knows that!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g96NYAWJ6Xk
Millions of the Chamisa chete chete brigade participated in 2023 elections because the believed Chamisa's idiotic lie that he had plugged the vote rigging loop holes. Idiotic because CCC had not even secured a verified voters' roll or implemented even one token reform!
SADC and AU condemned the elections but could not deny Zanu PF legitimacy because million of Zimbabweans participated!
There is a real possibility that the Chamisa chete chete brigade will participate in flawed 2028 elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy yet again. It is incumbent on us all, all Zimbabweans with common sense to know the sheer futility of participating, to stop these brain-dead supporters participating in their millions again!
@ Godfrey
“SADC’s lack of balls to stand against ED even in the face of overwhelming evidence against.”
Are those the facts on the ground?
SADC did stand up to Zanu PF and forced the party to go into the GNU. Who was to blame that not even one tone reform was implemented?
We have been over this thousands of times, please do not rewrite historic facts to suit your narrative!
@ Godfrey
“We have gone through the flaws of the GNU agreement several times and listed the reforms implemented
SADC left Zanu with an upper hand - they watched Zanu run roughshod over MDC depriving them of control of meaningful ministries
It’s becoming clear today that the liberation parties in power throughout SADC have always protected the interests of each other. There is no way they would have weakened their fellow liberation party in that GNU - that’s the fact that is coming to light now.”
SADC pressured Zanu PF to implement many electoral reform before the 2008 elections which enabled Zimbabwe to have the nearest we ever got to holding free and fair elections.
SADC leaders not protecting Zanu PF by denying the party political legitimacy following the blatant cheating and wanton violence in the 2008 elections.
No one has ever said the 2008 to 2013 GNU was perfect but still there is no denying there was room to implement the democratic reforms. Not even one token reform was implemented in 5 years and it was NOT SADC leaders’ fault.
SADC leaders advised Tsvangirai and company not to participate in the 2013 elections without implementing the democratic reforms. MDC leaders paid no heed and leaders like David Coltart have explained why.
“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.
These are the historic facts which you have repeatedly refused to accept for whatever reasons.
@ Godfrey
The 2008 to 2013 GNU was real and it did give Zimbabwe an opportunity to implement the reforms. Not even one reform was implemented because Mugabe bribed Tsvangirai and co. with the trappings of high office. Not even the regular nagging to implement reforms by SADC could get the MDC leaders to lift a finger. These are the historic facts you are refusing to accept!
@ Andre
You still do not get it do you! If the electorate are still so dumb and stupid that they will believe an idiotic lie like “I have plugged all vote rigging loop holes. #Godisinit!” what makes you think having another political party or leader will turn them into the discerning voters?
If the brain dead voters of yesteryears are not educated and can think for themselves then they will be conned to participate in the 2028 elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy if not conned by Chamisa then by some one else.
Universal suffrage has been a curse especially in a country full of unscrupulous leaders ready to take advantage of voters who will follow anyone blindly like sheep to the slaughter! We can have thousands of political parties but as long as we have brain dead voters, nothing will change. Nothing!
https://bulawayo24.com/index-id-opinion-sc-columnist-byo-248380.html
Mnangagwa will never root out corruption because he in the chief beneficiary of the corruption and the godfather of the looting mafia. The only hope to end corruption is by implementing the democratic reforms to ensure free and fair elections, something that is unlikely to happen. Zanu PF will never reform itself out of office and MDC/CCC are happy to keep Zanu PF regime in power for a share of the spoils of power.
@ Team Pachedu
United States-based veteran opposition activist Freeman Chari has alleged that corruption is deeply entrenched within Zimbabwe's pro-democracy movement, warning that the problem undermines the credibility of opposition parties.
In a recent post on X, Chari criticized some opposition figures for discouraging efforts to expose corruption, arguing that such actions are rationalized as protecting the movement from attacks by the ruling ZANU-PF. He wrote:
"The biggest problem in the pro-democracy movement is that we have so many corrupt people in there. Anyone exposing those people is quickly shut down hanzi you give ZANU-PF ammunition."
Chari further alleged that corruption within the opposition is not a new phenomenon, citing an instance from the early 2000s when a scholarship program for persecuted activists within the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was reportedly turned into a "family affair."
Call for Accountability
The activist warned that ignoring corruption within the opposition emboldens wrongdoers, who may carry the same unethical behavior into public office if elected.
Freeman Chari and his Team Pachedu have been rightly commented for their first class work in uncovering the sorry state of Zimbabwe’s voters’ role before the 2023 elections. The flaws were deliberate and so outrageous it was absolutely shocking that Nelson Chamisa and his CCC friends agree to participate in the flawed elections without insist on having a verified voters’ roll. It would have been within their rights for Chamisa and company to insist on verified voters’ roll because the law explicitly calls for a verified voters’ roll at least one calendar month before nomination day.
Why did Chamisa insist on participating in the flawed elections without even a verified voters’ vote?
Why did Chari and his Team Pachedu friends said nothing on the sheer folly of Chamisa idiotic lie about plugging all vote rigging loop holes knowing, as they did, the sorry condition of the voters’ role?
When ZESA announced that Mnangagwa had won the 2023 elections, Chamisa refuted those results and claimed that he had beaten Mnangagwa and had the V11 forms to prove it. He never produced the the V11 forms.
In August this year, a year since the officially announce results, Freeman Chari and his Team Pachedu announced that they had collected 84% of the V11 forms and Mnangagwa had garnered more votes than Chamisa. More significantly Team Pachedu had failed to get voters’ roles of many Polling Stations but did get the V11 forms such Polling Stations. Some of these V11 forms had outrageous results such as 999 votes for Mnangagwa 0 votes for Chamisa. None of the Polling Stations with known voters’ roll had much more than 500 registered voters. Our ghost Polling Station had twice the number of registered voters, had 100% voter turn out!
What the nation and history would want Free Chari and Team Pachedu to clarify is why they did not announce their election results for a whole year, especially when they knew the people looked up to them as an authority on the matter?
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