Tendai Biti has acknowledged that Mnangagwa has corrupted the opposition to make sure he will have no problem getting the 2/3 majority approval in House of Assembly and in Senate for the proposed constitutional amendment to enable Mnangagwa to stay in power beyond 2028. The only remaining hope of stopping the amendment going through now is making sure the people vote no in the two referendums that must follow.
“Ipapo ndopatchapedzerana! We are going to move mountains to make sure we get a no vote!” boasted Biti.
This is the usual irrational and idiotic nonsense we have come to expect from Tendai Biti and his sell-out MDC/CCC fiends. We are being asked to participate in a flawed and illegal process, a significant part of which has already been corrupted and is therefore done and dusted, knowing fully well that our participating WILL give the process legitimacy.
This is not the first time we have MDC/CCC leaders have asked the nation to participate in a flawed and illegal process; knowing fully well that Zanu PF was rigging and that participating will give Zanu PF legitimacy. They have lied that the opposition has devised strategies to win RIGGED elections to con the people to participate.
Chamisa assured the nation CCC would win 2023 elections because he “plugged all the Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes. #Godisinit!” He even had the chutzpah to evoke the name of God. Of course, he was lying and Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies went on to blatantly rig those elections.
SADC and AU election observers condemned the 2023 Zimbabwe elections as flawed and illegal!
“The SEOM (SADC Election Observer Mission) noted that, as detailed in sections 6 and 7 of this report, some aspects of the Harmonised Elections fell short of the requirements of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, the Electoral Act, and the SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections (2021),” stated the SEOM report.
What is really infuriating is that Tendai Biti and his opposition fiends KNOW the sheer futility of participating in these flawed election and yet they continue participating out of greed. David Coltart admitted this as far bak as 2016!
“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.
Tendai Biti should open his eyes, his no vote is not guaranteed since some of his won opposition fiends are already campaigning for a yes vote for Mnangagwa. Coltart was praising Mnangagwa in a recent x-post for approving, “Glassblock Dam project #vision 2030!”
It is beggars belief that anyone would believe one long over due project for Bulawayo would make all the other teething problems like the collapsed industries and mass unemployment disappear and uplift the city residence into upper middle income in five years! He is praising Mnangagwa out of selfish greed - as usual.
If the constitutional amendments sailing through parliament will have the power to postpone election willy-nilly which is tantamount to denying the people the right to elect public officials to office for a fixed mandate. This is even more serious than the current sorry state of rigged elections since the amendments will give the illegitimate regime the power to extend its illegitimate mandate.
The right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country is more than just a right, it is the essence of good governance. Zimbabwe is a failed state because we have been stuck with this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship and its equally corrupt and useless MDC/CCC side-kick. At least we have always held on to the hope that next elections, God willing, we will finally have free, fair and credible elections and the regime change we have been dying for.
However if the proposed constitutional amendments sail through the vote rigging regime will have the power to willy-nilly postpone elections and thus extend its mandate beyond the regular every five years for all public officials and for the president beyond the fixed two five-year term.
Given the seriousness of these referendums on the good governance and political stability of Zimbabwe it would be irresponsible that referendum should take place when nothing has been done to ensure the political process is squeaky clean and the result is truly the democratic wish of the people of Zimbabwe.
It is very tragic that Zimbabweans have been easily conned to participate in flawed elections again and again only to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy. Not even one token reform was implemented by the regime since the rigged 2023 elections, Zanu PF is going to rig the proposed constitution amendment process, no one should participate in the reforms. No one!
