@ Chin’ono
“When the coup happened, my good friend Dr Alex Magaisa called me and said we should stay out of ZANUPF affairs.
I told him that we should support the removal of Mugabe as it was a good thing.
“Mupfuyiwa,” he said, calling me by my totem, “ndedze mudanga, ngatingo tarisa kana kuti kana vanhu vapinda mustreet kudai, ngava demande a transitional government.”
I did not listen. With time, I was proved wrong.
Dr Magaisa’s argument was that the opposition should have realised that Mugabe was old and tired and that the natural end of his tenure due to age could have brought an opportunity for real change.
He argued that the coup was akin to nyoka iri kuvhunura—it is at its most vulnerable, and that is when the opposition should have struck instead of siding with one faction.
“ZANUPF will remain ZANUPF wangu,” he said.
Lacoste (Mnangagwa’s faction) made so many promises to the opposition about being different from Mugabe, but we all know that Mugabe now looks like a saint compared to Mnangagwa and Chiwenga’s team.
My friend Alex is gone, but his wisdom lives with me. As such, I will not get involved in ZANUPF factional politics unless it is to occupy the streets and declare that ZANUPF as a party should go.
“Mupfuyiwa, these people are saying all the right things because they know that our people are gullible,” said Dr Magaisa.
I regret not listening to my good friend then, but having learnt my lesson, I will allow those who want to be used to do so. It is their right!
I cannot imagine a faction with George Charamba suddenly bringing change to Zimbabwe, but as Magaisa said at the time, let those who want to hope do so and learn their lessons.
Mnangagwa will be 90 in 2028. Mugabe was 93 in 2017. Do the math!
Zimbabweans should demand constitutionalism, which includes free and fair elections where the winner assumes office, rather than siding with a ZANUPF faction in the hope of getting crumbs from the floor.
If General Chiwenga is well meaning, and if the army is well meaning too, citizens should be allowed to demonstrate not just against the term limit abuse, but also against the rigging of elections and the neglect of public institutions like hospitals.
As Dr Magaisa said at the time, Mnangagwa is just an extension of the system, not the system itself.
If the system wants constitutionalism today, it will happen, and Mnangagwa cannot stop it.
It is clear that the system doesn’t want constitutionalism, it wants to stop Mnangagwa becoming a liability to its survival with all his well documented corruption and him eat alone not with his system comrades.
As Dr Magaisa also said at the time of the 2017 coup, the system wanted renewal because its group interests were threatened by Mugabe’s stay in power.
That is why the same people who used the opposition and citizens in 2017 went on to kill the same citizens who mistakenly thought Zimbabwe was now free on August 1, 2018.
Zimbabwe was only free of Mugabe, not the system!
The opposition or what is left of it must table its demands, if the army is genuine, it will entertain them, if not, then muri kuitiswa!”
Dr Magaisa was Morgan Tsvangirai’s special adviser during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. It should be noted that if the MDC leaders had implemented the democratic reforms and thus dismantled the Zanu PF dictatorship Zimbabwe will be free of the regime. They failed to implement even one token reform in 5 years. Not even one!
So what the fcuk did Dr Magaisa advise Tsvangirai? Dr Magaisa has pointedly refused to answer but, no doubt, some day the whole truth will come out!
If the opposition supported the November 2017 military coup because they were promised a new GNU, Dr Magaisa advised them to demand a new GNU. They were very foolish to be involved in such an idiotic scheme.
What democratic changes did the opposition expect the coup plotters to agree to, especially once the coup itself has been accepted as justified? The opposition had nothing to do with the coup and should have kept their noses clean out of it. The accepted the GNU offer out of greed and once the coup plotters got what they wanted they refused to honour their promise.
Blessed Geza and his war veteran friends oppose Mnangagwa’s plan to amend the constitution so he can postpone 2028 elections and add another two years to his presidency. So far we agree with Geza and company. They oppose Mnangagwa’s plan because they want Chiwenga to take Mnangagwa’s place.
We, the people of Zimbabwe, oppose Mnangagwa’s plan because he should not even be the president because he rigged the 2023 elections. His plan to postpone the 2028 elections is him being cheeky - he is seeking to extend his illegitimate mandate beyond the limit stipulated in the constitution. Geza and company helped Mnangagwa rig the 2023 elections and will help Chiwenga rig 2028 elections.
Stopping Mnangagwa amending the constitution will be Pyrrhic victory if Chiwenga or whoever are the Zanu PF presidential candidates continue rigging elections.
A Pyrrhic victory (/ˈpɪrɪk/ ⓘ PIRR-ik) is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat.[1] Such a victory negates any true sense of achievement or damages long-term progress.
The armies separated; and, it is said, Pyrrhus replied to one that gave him joy of his victory that one other such victory would utterly undo him.
James G. Blaine finally gained the 1884 Republican nomination for U.S. president on his third attempt: "Another victory like this and our money's gone!”
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If Zimbabweans had been more subtle, especially the opposition leaders, the 2017 military coup could have been used to push for more democratic changes. It turned out to be a Pyrrhic victory - we remove Mugabe but failed to get Zanu PF to stop rigging elections.
The factional war in Zanu PF is hotting up creating a similar political opportunity to deliver change, if we have learned from the past and are more strategic in our thinking!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aXBKgSAz4s
There are many opposition supporters and apologists who have stubbornly refused to accept MDC/CCC leaders are corrupt, incompetent and liars. The ongoing investigations of Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume's illegal activities are an eye opener. The reason why corruption became rampant amongst the opposition leaders is because we the people have failed in our duty to hold leaders to account.
The ancient Greeks were right, democracy - government of the people, for the people and by the people - only works if the said people are educated, knowledgeable, objective and are diligent in their duty of holding leaders to account. We have millions out there who are not only negligent of their duty to hold leaders to account but are so ignorant and naive they are easily conned.
One only hopes that unfolding drama in Harare will force Zimbabweans to finally open their eyes and accept leaders are fallible human being who must be held to account.
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Zimbabweans were warned of the sheer futility of participating in flawed election, "so flawed, so illegal that the only logical step is to withdraw". They were conned to participate by Chamisa's idiotic lie that he plugged all the vote rigging loop holes and gave vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuated their own suffering.
What "Divine intervention" would we be asking for here?
@ Chikanza
“Simbarashe Chikanza, the publisher and founder of ZimEye, has lodged a formal complaint with the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) against Advocate Fadzayi Mahere, accusing her of abusing the legal system and engaging in harassment. In his complaint, Chikanza claims that Mahere has manipulated legal proceedings for personal gain, and he highlights instances where she allegedly used the courts to intimidate and suppress critical evidence.
According to Chikanza, the complaint stems from Mahere's defamation case against writer Dr. Petina Gappah, in which he claims his affidavit providing important contextual evidence was deliberately excluded. Chikanza argues that Mahere's actions amounted to the abuse of the legal process, as she selectively targeted Gappah while ignoring similar allegations made by other individuals, including journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and social media personality Acie Lumumba. Chikanza contends that Mahere's legal action against Gappah was driven not by a genuine concern for defamation, but by a personal vendetta.
Chikanza also recalls an incident from May 2017, when Mahere allegedly verbally abused him following a media report published by ZimEye about her false claims regarding the whereabouts of the late Patson Dzamara. Chikanza claims that instead of engaging in a civil dispute resolution process, Mahere resorted to abusive language, which he views as an intimidation tactic, constituting harassment under Zimbabwean law.”
Zimbabwe's judiciary is rotten to the core. In 2023 judges received US$ 400 000 "housing loan" from Mnangagwa just a few weeks before nomination day, kick starting the election process. Of course, they all knew this was a bribe for them to turn a blind eye to the blatant vote rigging.
The judges knew the law stipulated that ZEC must produce a verified voters' roll at least one calendar month before nomination day. Every knew that the voters' roll was in shambles and yet they ignored it. The ignorant and gullible voters believed Chamisa's idiotic lie that he had "plugged all the vote rigging loop holes!”
Referring one or two individual lawyers to the Law Society will do nothing to end the rot in Zimbabwe’s judiciary; we need to completely overhaul the whole judiciary. We must clear the deck and have a clean start!
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Blessed Geza and company are rejecting Mnangagwa's cheap bribes to buy their support because is just that CHEAP bribes and not because they have had their Saul on the Road to Damascus transformative moment. They are not democrats but the same sell outs who sold out yesterday to help Zanu PF impose the de facto one party dictatorship.
Geza and company are garnering for V P Chiwenga and will rig the 2028 elections to secure victory. In 2017 we swapped one dictator for another and that is exactly what Geza want to do now. It would be madness to let this happen!
https://bulawayo24.com/index-id-opinion-sc-columnist-byo-250320.html
Blessed Geza is fighting to stop Mnangagwa extend his stay in office because he wants V P Chiwenga to take over. This will only replace one corrupt, incompetent and murderous thug with another thug.
Some war veterans will benefit from the switch but the overwhelming majority will remain the poor church mice they are. As for the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans nothing will change. Nothing!
We do not want to swap one dictator for another, as happened in 2017, we want to dismantle the dictatorship!
@ Leonard Koni
“Discarded knowledgeable academic Professor Jonathan Moyo, who is currently eking out a life somewhere in East Africa's dungeons, has confessed that factional fights in his previous party exist and is asking the warring groups to unite and stand together.
Moyo's political career is withering and coming to an end. Nobody trusts him anymore due to his flip-flopping. He changes like the Cape Town weather and is unpredictable.
Prof. Jonathan Moyo, a former media hangman, was the main force behind the draughting of the most notorious and harsh media law, AIPPA, which resulted in the arrest of private-sector journalists. He was also implicated in the bombing of Daily News publications, which occurred while Geoff Nyarota was the main editor.
Former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo promised to silence the Daily News because it constituted a security threat to the country. Then after he gave that statement the following morning, at gunpoint, an armed crowd detained the Daily News' six-man security staff at its printing facility.
Several explosives were scattered across the property and exploded about 15 minutes later, resulting in material damage estimated at $2 million. Fortunately, no one was injured in the blast.
Moyo, who introduced 75% local content at the National Broadcasting ZBC, bombarded the whole country with Rambai Makashinga and Hondo Yeminda jingles from musician Tambaoga. Moyo made sure that no airplay was given to the opposition on both the television and radio.
Jonathan Moyo was also part and parcel of the Tsholotsho Declaration, where he supported a factional group, Lacoste, led by Mnangagwa.
The mission was scuppered by Solomon Mujuru, and Moyo vented his anger against Mugabe.
He wrote a deadly sting in the tail and concluded that "the current political and economic problems facing Zimbabwe (were) due to the fact that the country (was) being ruled by a hopelessly clueless, tired, and terrified undemocratic clique that desperately (wanted) to cling to power by fair means or foul at the clear expense of national interest.”.
Jonathan Moyo was more than a flip-flopper. Here is an individual who would sell his own mother for a price and be proud he had a mother to sell! Alas! Many Zimbabweans have learned from him and now Zimbabwe has become a nation of sell-outs.
ZANU-PF Mashonaland West Provincial Chairperson, Mary Mliswa Chikoka also disclosed that they agreed to expel Geza from the party while national Deputy Political Commissar, Webster Shamu implored party members to abide by the constitution.
"Our constitution is very clear when it comes to issues of indiscipline and loyalty to the party. Geza went against our constitution and today the meeting has resolved to expel him from the party. We are also calling for the stripping of his Central Committee position because his actions are against the party and its expectations from leaders," Mliswa Chikoka said.
"We are a party of principle and ideology as such we ought to follow our constitution and do exactly what is expected of us. It is never the party's intention to expel its members but when there is gross violation then action has to be taken," Shamu added.
One would have thought that the penny had dropped by now in the empty heads of Zanu PF die-hards like Blessed Geza that the Zanu PF dictatorship has failed. Geza is garnering to replace one dictator for another.
“Bombshell” Geza! Yeah right! Only a bombshell idiot would want the Zanu PF dictatorship to survive for even one day more!
@ Mbofana
The "schemes" keep coming!
Yesterday, the Zimbabwean government unveiled yet another scheme ostensibly aimed at improving the livelihoods of veterans of the country's liberation struggle.
This time, small pieces of land - referred to as "stands" - are to be allocated to these men and women who bravely fought against colonial rule.
However, there is a catch.
According to Information Minister Jenfan Muswere, these stands will not be freely given as a form of genuine empowerment but will instead serve as collateral for securing loans.
If this interpretation is correct, then what is being presented as a benevolent initiative is, in reality, nothing more than a carefully disguised strategy to push war veterans into deeper financial distress.
Rather than empowering them, the government is setting them up for economic ruin, offering them land with one hand only to use it as leverage to trap them in debt with the other.
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This move comes barely a week after the same government launched the so-called "Presidential War Veterans Fund," a revolving loan facility allegedly meant to support these veterans.
With a total of only $1.5 million set aside for approximately 200,000 surviving war veterans, theoretically translates into an average of a paltry $7.50 per individual.
This fund, laughable in its inadequacy, stands in stark contrast to the staggering sums of money squandered by the ruling elite on luxuries and vanity projects.
To put this into perspective, the $1.5 million earmarked for war veterans is not even enough to construct a small section of the precast wall (durawall) being built around State House by Paulos Construction, a project initially estimated at an astonishing $15 million.
Ironically, the same Dr. Paul Tungwarara, whose company is behind this extravagant wall, is one of the key figures spearheading these so-called war veterans' empowerment schemes.
It is a cruel paradox that while those who actually fought for Zimbabwe's independence are being handed crumbs under the guise of empowerment, individuals whom Vice President Constantino Chiwenga once dismissed as "zvigananda", are amassing vast wealth through questionable state contracts and corrupt deals.”
The truth is all these Mnangagwa bribes are not worth the spit and even the half-wit war veterans know they are being bribed and taken for fools!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkK-IdVPEzs
The most foolish thing Zimbabweans have done is to give up their right to free, fair and credible elections on the belief they can win RIGGED elections. How any one with half a brain can continue to justify this foolishness even now with the benefit of 45 years of rigged elections beggars belief!
What Geza and company have failed to comprehend is that swapping one dictator for another will change nothing. They swapped Mugabe for Mnangagwa in 2017 and, as we can see, nothing changed. And now they want to swapped Mnangagwa for Chiwenga! It is the dictatorship itself that must go and not just the dictator.
Geza and his war veteran friends imposed the Zanu PF dictatorship on the nation and we are a failed state precisely because we have been stuck with a corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship complete with its equally corrupt and useless MDC/CCC opposition. We must restore the freedoms and rights of all Zimbabweans including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country. Geza and company believe they alone have the right to impose Zanu PF because they fought in the liberation war; this must end here and now!
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It is heartening to hear that many war veterans are agreeing with the political reality that Zimbabwe is a fail state because we have lacked "good governance". It is most disheartening that same war veterans have yet to realised that they are the root cause the nation has been stuck with this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship these last 45 years. The war veterans in the Army, Police, CIO, Prison Services, government, in retirement and all the other walks of life have all played a major role in the imposing of the Zanu PF dictatorship.
Worst of all many of the war veterans are rallying together to remove Mnangagwa but only to replace him with Chiwenga. This will do nothing to end the curse of rigged elections and bad governance! We do not want a repeat of the musical chairs of 2017!
https://www.facebook.com/4415858595176450/videos/1160003529065663
Only Zanu PF will have the arrogance to blame to blame others for the many business closures but as long as the regime remains in power we have to take the closures and insolence in the chine. We cannot address the economic challenges as long as Zanu PF continue to enjoy absolute political power!
@ Lynnet
“Why did it take so long for them to see it?
Is it because they are not getting their own share of the cake?”
War veterans were brainwashed to believe that those who fought in the war of liberation are special, they are the first class citizens who alone a fit to govern the country. As much as they accept that Mnangagwa has failed to deliver economic prosperity, they nonetheless believe he must be replaced by another first class citizens chosen by his/her peers - war veterans.
The idea of all Zimbabweans have a meaningful vote is as alien as the whites giving blacks the vote and for the same reason - war veterans do not trust ordinary Zimbabweans to vote for Zanu PF leaders in a free, fair and credible elections.
In 2017 war veterans assured Mnangagwa victory and they help Zanu PF rig the 2018 and 2023 elections. Whoever is the Zanu PF candidate in 2028, war veterans will help the party rig the elections.
We cannot stop Zanu PF holding elections nor MDC/CCC leaders participating what we can do is stop opposition supporters being conned to participate by believing idiotic lies. There lays the challenge - how do you stop a village idiot being an idiot! How many times has Chamisa conned millions of people to participate in the flawed elections but these idiots still refuse to admit he lied to them! They consider Chamisa to be a demigod and are very angry with all those who dare say otherwise!
The Veterans Fund, along with the Matebeleland North, Bulawayo, and Matebeleland South Presidential War Veterans Fund, has officially been launched, providing significant financial and material support to war veterans in the region.
During the launch, each of the three provinces received $150,000 in cash to support veterans' programs and welfare. In addition to this funding, war veterans in Matebeleland North and Bulawayo received $20,000 each as take-home allowances, while Matebeleland South veterans received $14,000 for the same purpose.
As part of the event, 2,000 food hampers were distributed to all war veterans who attended the program. The hampers, along with the cash disbursements, aim to recognize and address the needs of war veterans who played a crucial role in the country's liberation struggle.
The initiative highlights the government's ongoing commitment to improving the welfare of war veterans, especially in regions that have historically faced challenges in accessing support. Officials present at the event expressed gratitude to the veterans for their sacrifices and reaffirmed the importance of ensuring their well-being and recognition.
The sheer hypocrisy of those war veterans who repeatedly said they were concerned about povo is once again exposed. Whilst the war veterans are receiving something to alleviate their economic suffering - what are povo receiving? Nothing! So the war veterans were using povo just as a smoke screen to push their demands!
The truth is, war veterans were brainwashed to believe that those who fought in the war of liberation are special, they are the first class citizens who alone a fit to govern the country. As much as they accept that Mnangagwa has failed to deliver economic prosperity, they nonetheless believe he must be replaced by another first class citizens chosen by his/her peers - war veterans.
The idea of all Zimbabweans have a meaningful vote is as alien as the whites giving blacks the vote and for the same reason - war veterans do not trust ordinary Zimbabweans to vote for Zanu PF leaders in a free, fair and credible elections.
In 2017 war veterans assured Mnangagwa victory and they help Zanu PF rig the 2018 and 2023 elections. Whoever is the Zanu PF candidate in 2028, war veterans will help the party rig the elections. Now that they have received their bribe - the war veterans will do Zanu PF's dirty work of making sure povo vote for the party! Nothing has changed here. Nothing!
@ Nomazulu
“Che will collapse, but before he dies again, he will wish never to wake up again. The caliber of our revolutionaries falls far short of what a revolution is and about. The combination of bible verses and "change champions" mantras is interesting to listen to. However, very soon it will not be interesting anymore. The political trajectory in Zimbabwe is heading for a total disaster that will take years for Zimbabwe to become a functional government. We need to look at countries north of us: Sudan is fragile to put it mildly. DRC will affect geo-politics in the SADC region for worse. Serious precedences across Africa inform us that when there is a coup, or a change of government, it reproduces pain and destruction for decades. These young GenZs are cheering and referring life and death fighting's between Mnangagwa and Chiwenga. They have already taken a Chiwenga side: The irony escapes us, says Kwesi Pratt: how the moulds of Chamisa and Chatufa could cheer, sing halleluiah on the side of a political party they don't belong to, Zanu PF: removed themselves from opposition position to a full-blown ally of Zanu PF-Chiwenga.
The past seven years, General Chiwenga has been fighting Mnangagwa to take overpower from him. He has now come close to realize his dream to become the President of the third Republic. Do these GenZs believe that Chiwenga will hand over power to Chamisa? Or will there be another gentlemen agreement to give Chiwenga a term to rule and then handover to Chamisa. What if Chiwenga refused to hand over power to Chamisa as per agreement after the first 5-year term has expired? Is Chamisa sure that he will take over without a fight? He is not even taking advantage of a political dire situation on the ground. He is hiding behind the army to do the work for him. The display of revolutionary sub standards by the moulds of Chatufa are light years apart from what Comrade Che Guevara stood for.
The reality of the ecosystems in Zimbabwe would have informed Chamisa and the CCC lot to regroup and stand ready for all eventualities. Chamisa is playing his cards safely. He does not want to land in Chikurubi like Job Sikhala. He won't mobilize or he fears to mobilize the critical mass that already exists for demonstrations. About 10 days ago, young army officers announced a pending coup to remove Mnangagwa from power: what is interesting is that nothing has happened. Organizing the critical mass is not visible on the ground. This whole "change champions" project has serious disparities. It is not clear who is who in the larger scheme of things. Forget about democracy for once; there is an alliance between Chamisa and Chiwenga.”
The tragedy with our revolutions is that there are closed loop with no discernible start point nor end. We fought the biter armed struggle to end white colonial rule only to get new oppressors, our black liberators. When Mugabe was booted out in 2017, the people thought the freedom and human dignity denied them until then was finally theirs. How wrong they were!
@ Chamisa
“A GENTLE REMINDER …May us all know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, are Most High over all the earth. Psalm 83:18 Blessed Sabbath!”
You lied about plugging all the vote rigging loop holes con millions to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. It is sickening how you keep quoting verses from the Bible without a care in the world. This is what comes of leaders who are the law unto themselves and are democratically unaccountable to no one.
Chamisa is a corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless leader, why millions continue to follow him blindly beggars belief. No wonder we are a failed state.
https://x.com/nelsonchamisa/status/1888148878001689045
You lied about plugging all the vote rigging loop holes con millions to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. It is sickening how you keep quoting verses from the Bible without a care in the world. This is what comes of leaders who are the law unto themselves and are democratically unaccountable to no one.
Chamisa is a corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless leader, why millions continue to follow him blindly beggars belief. The country is sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss and all we get from Chamisa are verses from the Bible. No wonder we are a failed state.
@ Mr C
The people of Zimbabwe (at least those with half a working brain) elected Chamisa & Co. to implement democratic changes to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. Mnangagwa rigged 2023 elections because MDC/CCC have failed to implement even one token reform. All the nation has ever got from Chamisa is lies and verses from the Bible!
@ Mukanya
In 2018 Zimbabwe had 130 political parties and yet the nation is still in a mess. Having more political parties will not solve anything as long as we have millions of brain-dead individuals who can be conned to participate in flawed elections on the basis of an idiotic lie!
How anyone failed to realise that 2017 was about swapping one dictator for another is unforgivable but to repeat the same foolishness again in 2025 is high treason - and stupidity is no defence!
https://www.facebook.com/4415858595176450/videos/1201986011259288
It is great to be a simpleton; war veterans impressed with the size (1x3 metre) cheque worth $1.5 m (or $7.50 @) compared to the $1/2 m housing loan bribe paid to @ minister (4X10 cm) cheque. It is not the size of the cheque but the amount that matters!
The war veterans received the bribe and forgot about povo! They will be out terrorising povo denying them their freedoms and rights to keep Zanu PF in power.
Povo do not want handouts, they want is title deeds to the few acres of land on which their mud hut stand. A basic right denied them by the whites and now by Zanu PF!
Minister of Local Government and Public Works Daniel Garwe has intensified his calls for unwavering support of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Vision 2030 agenda, urging civil servants across the country to align themselves with the ruling party's goals. Garwe's recent remarks, made during the launch of the Government Commonage Stands project at Masvingo Polytechnic on January 30, have been widely interpreted as an ambitious bid to secure the influential Zanu-PF National Commissar post.
Addressing civil servants, Garwe declared that Vision 2030 - Mnangagwa's blueprint for achieving an upper-middle-income economy - was unstoppable, emphasizing that aligning with the agenda was not a choice but a national obligation.
"I know we have Teachers ForED, Nurses ForED, and other such outfits, but it's now time for every civil servant to rise and endorse the President's agenda openly," Garwe said. "Vision 2030 is a reality, and it's better for everyone to join the bandwagon because President Mnangagwa was anointed by God to lead this nation."
Mocking critics of the Vision 2030 agenda, Garwe warned that opposing the initiative would lead to hypertension, joking that the government would not hire more healthcare workers to manage stress-related ailments among dissenters.
Garwe likened Mnangagwa to the biblical Moses, claiming he was divinely chosen to lead Zimbabwe's transformation using its natural resources. He credited the President for uncovering previously "unknown" mineral wealth, such as lithium, platinum, gas, and oil, and for steering the country through the El Niño-induced drought of 2024 without food shortages.
It is laughable that Mnangagwa blatantly rigged the 2023 elections and therefore does not have the people’s mandate to rule the country. And now he is claiming to have divine mandate.
Zimbabwe’s economy has been in decline ever since the country’s independence in 1980. Vision 2030 is a mirage! Mnangagwa is hell bent on staying on so that he can continue to loot.
He will rig the referendum to get the constitutional amendment through just as he has rigged elections since independence.
“President Mnangagwa was anointed by God to lead this nation!” Yeah right! Was it God who instructed him to rig the elections too?
@ Chamisa
“WHY THEY FIGHT YOU…When they fight or hate you, they are fighting the light and hope you carry. Keep the fight. Keep the light. Blessed Sunday.”
Both Zanu PF and yourself are taking advantage of the fact that Zimbabweans are ignorant, naive and gullible and therefore are easily conned. Zanu PF is pushing its EDfor2030 agenda under the pretext Mnangagwa will deliver vision 2030. Only a naive electorate would believe this nonsense because evidence on the ground shows the nation’s economy is in total meltdown as mismanagement and corruption have got even worse now than during Mugabe days.
Mnangagwa rigged 2023 elections because MDC/CCC leaders have failed to implement even one token reform in the last 25 years including the 5 years in the GNU. You, Chamisa, conned the people to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy by telling them the idiotic lie that you “plugged all the vote rigging loop holes. #Godisinit!” You even had the chutzpah to evoke the name of God in you lies!
What “light and hope were you carrying” is conning the nation to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the people’s suffering??
The prospect of you conning the millions of your brain-dead followers to participate in 2028 elections/referendum to give Zanu PF legitimacy is real. Extending the Zanu PF dictatorship and thus the nation’s suffering by even one more day beyond 2028 is unthinkable much less five more years! And yet, unless we can educate the two million brain-dead Chamisa followers, that is exactly where the nation is heading!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODnmt0vsbGc
Tendai Biti had first hand evidence of Zanu PF blatantly rigging the 2013 elections, bused in voters, voters who did not live in Mount Pleasant and yet had registered to vote there, etc., etc. He decided to drop the whole matter when he won his gravy train seat and did not give a damn the blatant rigging was applicable in the rest of the country, worst of all in rural areas.
We have failed to end the scourge of rigged elections because Zanu PF has played the divide and rule card and the MDC/CCC leaders have connived in return for a few gravy train seats. It is now up to us, the people, to demand free and fair elections, refuse to participate in flawed elections and put an end to the curse of rigged elections.
Man is a creature of reason and that entails rational thinking and questioning. Even in the context of a war human beings are never ever expected to follow orders blindly in the name of discipline. To believe that Mnangagwa will deliver vision 2030 is foolish and now we are being told we must believe the idiotic lie in the name of discipline!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DgGXFbOlEU
It is one thing wishing to stop Zanu PF "mutilating" the Zimbabwe constitution to allow Mnangagwa to stay in office beyond 2030. We know that Zanu PF rigged the 2023 election process and is certain to rig the referendum. History teaches us that participating in the flawed processes has been futile in that we not only changed nothing but worst of all gave the process legitimacy.
SADC and AU condemned Zimbabwe's 2023 elections as flawed and illegal. Not even one token reform was implemented since 2023 and therefore the referendum will be rigged. We should not participate to give the result legitimacy.
Zanu PF has a legal obligation to make sure the referendum are free, fair and credible. We must demand the assurance the process is free and fair!
The nation has teething economic, social and political problems which are all being ignored as the nation is dragged into these idiotic factional wars. What a nightmare!
Zimbabwe should have implemented the democratic reforms during the GNU and now the nation is paying dearly for that failure.
https://www.facebook.com/4415858595176450/videos/1684418582455267
Freedom, liberty and justice have eluded the majority of the blacks in Zimbabwe before and after independence because all the nation did in 1980 was replace the white oppressors with the Zanu PF oppressors. Robert Mugabe brainwashed the war veterans into believing that Zanu PF was the only party fit to rule and the war veterans had a duty to ensure this was so. And so the war veterans have denied the people their freedoms and rights for the purposes of imposing the Zanu PF dictators.
Whilst Mugabe and the other Zanu PF ruling elite have enjoyed absolute power and enriched themselves most of the war veterans have remained as poor as the rest of us, the masses. It is tragic that even now after 45 years of rigged elections and bad governance many of the war veterans are unaware they are being used to sustain a failed political system that have dragged them and millions of fellow Zimbabweans into abject poverty.
So the war veterans are keeping themselves in abject poverty by retaining the Zanu PF dictatorship even one day longer!
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1RDxlzeXvOoGL
Blessed Geza & Co. calls on all Zimbabweans to rally in the fight to end the Mnangagwa dictatorship. As much as every thinking Zimbabwean would like to end the Mnangagwa dictatorship it must not be at the price of swapping one dictator for another, Chiwenga.
As long as Geza & Co. retain their political stance as the ones with the meaningful vote on who governs the country the best we can ever expect is stopping Mnangagwa amending the constitution. We want more, we demand the restoration of all Zimbabweans' freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful vote - that is not negotiable!
Zanu PF rigged the 2023 elections and therefore does not have the people's democratic mandate to govern. So now the regime is seeking a spiritual mandate. Did God help the party rig the elections too!!!!
https://x.com/nelsonchamisa/status/1889264346020053120
There is nothing new here, it is the usual empty slogans and idiotic lies! You did lie about plugging all vote rigging loop holes to con your brain dead followers to participate in flawed 2023 elections!
The people of Zimbabwe have risked all to elect MDC/CCC leaders for one primary purpose - to implement the democratic reforms and end the Zanu PF dictatorship. After 25 years MDC/CCC have failed to implement even one token reform and all the nation ever get from the sell-outs is a never ending diatribe of nonsense and Biblical verses!
Why millions of Zimbabweans are taken in with this nonsense and are easily conned to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and to perpetuate their own suffering speaks volumes of our own intellectual ineptitude. No wonder we are a failed state!
https://www.facebook.com/4415858595176450/videos/1397906461171416
Zimbabwe's opposition parties, CCC, UZA, etc. participated in the 2023 elections knowing fully well that Zanu PF was rigging and participating will give the regime legitimacy and perpetuate the nation's suffering. Zanu PF blatantly rigged 2023 elections and it is per se illegitimate.
Today the monster regime that they, the opposition, helped to give legitimacy is now seeking to usurp the people's power to hold leaders to account even further by giving leaders powers to postpone elections!
It is an outrage that those who helped give legitimacy to this monster regime should now want to throw in the towel. UZA must stop shedding crocodile tears of rigged elections and tell the nation how the party is going to stop Zanu PF rigging the referendum and get the additional powers to postpone elections.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKI3dp7EYz4
"What kind of leaders will an armed struggle throw up?" We in Zimbabwe have provided the whole world with the worst case scenario answer to that question. Our armed struggle has thrown up corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs galore even now after 45 years of tyrannical rule that has left millions of our people living in abject poverty the thugs still believe they have the divine right to rule.
One buffoon is fighting to extend his stay in power on the grounds he alone can deliver vision 2030 - a mirage! The other, equally corrupt and incompetent, believes it is his turn to rule. Meanwhile the brainwashed war veterans who have created and imposed the dictatorship is ready to impose which ever faction prevails.
We, the people, must make it clear that what we want an end to the dictatorship and not just swapping one dictator for another! We have paid dearly for the folly of allowing the liberation war heroes to ride roughshod over us these last 45 years. Enough is enough!
@ Siyabenga
“On behalf of UZA l would like to say that we are not apologetic for participating in 2023 polls for our participation exposed the rigging unlike boycotting. The observer mission reports that condemned the election were a resultant of our participation.
As for stopping the term extension we shall lobby and campaign against the extension in the referendum we will work with other progressive opposition parties and the masses. Thats our primary constitutional solution we are yet to hear your single solution to your everyday crybaby song.”
Here we go! Even now with the benefit of hindsight, the twat still believe the opposition was doing the nation a favour participating in a flawed election only to give Zanu PF legitimacy for the umpteenth’s time!
Are you sure Elizabeth did not have eyes of the POLAD jackpot!
You participating in a flawed process will only give the result legitimacy yet again. After 45 years of rigged elections and you still do not know what constitute free, fair and credible elections and hence the reason why you keep participating in flawed elections.
How many times have you been warned of the sheer folly of participating in flawed elections? Zimbabwe is in this fix because nincompoops like you have the vote!
@ Siyabangena
“Nincompoops is that even necessary
Anyone that resorts to insults is a sheer sign of brain bankruptcy
Lets debate with facts.
It is a fact that UZA condemned polad we never supported or aspired to be part of it. Such information is in the public domain but fools like you dnt bother to research.”
Please educate me! What would you call the fool who keeps participating in flawed elections to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the suffering of millions of other people?
Zimbabwe’s worst curse is giving the vote to nincompoops who are so easily conned to do the same foolish things again and again. The most infuriating things with nincompoops like you is that you never learn!
@ Baba Lee
The problem is Zimbabwe is stuck because we have failed to end the Zanu PF dictatorship these last 45 years. If MDC/CCC had implemented the reform Zanu PF would be history. The solution is therefore to find others who will implement the reforms. To pretend that the nation can move on without reform is the reason why we are stuck.
It is shocking that you are "bored" that some one is talking about reform but you are not bored that the nation has had 45 years of rigged elections much less of the tragic human suffering they have brought. You really have your priorities all wrong and no wonder we re a failed state.
@ Geza
The real bullshit is that Zimbabwe has been a dictatorship for 45 years and you are only now noticing it. And worst of all you are only interested in replacing one dictator with another! It is not just the individual dictator that is the problem but the dictatorship itself.
You have been brainwashed into believing that all those who fought in the liberation war are special, a cut above all others and hence the reason why their needs must be considered before those of others. You and your fellow war veterans are the ones who have imposed the one party state on the nation. You keep wittering about Mnangagwa being a dictator and yet will not acknowledge, you and your fellow war veterans imposed the dictator. All signs are, you lot will impose Chiwenga on the nation given half a chance!
Get this into you thick head - we are done with this failed political system. Replacing one dictator with another is no solution!
https://www.facebook.com/4415858595176450/videos/1861793164589140
Comrade "Bulls****t" Geza Zimbabwe's problem is that we have war veterans who have imposed one dictator after another on the nation these last 45 years because they believe they are the first class citizens with the veto on who governs Zimbabwe.
We know Mnangagwa is a dictator, we have known that all along, you are not telling us anything new. We also know that Chiwenga is just another corrupt and incompetent Zanu PF thug. You want to impose him on the nation will not get the nation out of this mess; you are just kicking the can down the road.
The real solution is that the freedoms and rights of all citizens must be restored including the right to a meaningful vote. Let us end this foolishness of war veterans being first class citizens with veto on who rules Zimbabwe!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gns52oQnOk
"Mnangagwa has been fired. The war veterans are the most powerful organ in Zanu PF" said Kasukuwere. What happens in Zanu PF is the party's own affair. What the war veterans must understand is that they may have the veto on who is First Secretary of Zanu PF, they do not have the same veto on who governs Zimbabwe.
The de facto one-party, Zanu PF, dictatorship was an imposition on the nation. Mugabe bribed key players in the Army, Police, CIO, etc., etc. to subscribe to the abomination that Zimbabwe must be a one-party state and Zanu PF is the only party fit to govern the country. It is tragic that many were sold to this nonsense.
Of course, Saviour Kasukuwere would warm up to the idea of war veterans having veto in Zanu PF and the nation at large, after all he played his part in the creation of the Zanu PF dictatorship and is hoping the demise of Mnangagwa will open the door for his return!
@ Ds Max
The war veterans were brainwashed into believing that Zanu PF was the only party fit to rule Zimbabwe and many of them were involved in the harassing, beating and even murder of povo to deny them a meaningful vote. The war veterans imposed Mugabe and then Mnangagwa, were they barking up the right tree then?
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1RDxlzeoWWMGL
Zanu PF has harassed, beaten and even killed its political opponents in the an effort to stay in power at all costs. Zimbabwe is a failed state and that is cause for change, the regime is doing all to stop change.
By resisting peaceful democratic change the regime is opting for violent and disruptive change. After the 2017 military coup one would have thought the regime learned that it cannot stop change.
The threat to arrest Blessed Geza will be seen as politically motivated to stop the demand for change!
Of course, he just wants to be rewarded - once the belief that the war was about those who risked their lives being rewarded after wards it is now impossible to say or do otherwise.
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1vAxRDndWBjGl
"War veterans who think their past service gives them power to go against the party's resolutions are mistaken. If you oppose the president, your war credentials mean nothing," Douglas Mahiya threaten Blessed Geza.
So the war service credentials have been good enough to allow war veterans to ride roughshod over povo denying them their freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful vote even the right to life. The top brass in the Army, Police, CIO have committed high treason declaring their blind loyalty to Zanu PF and not to the nation. Enough is enough of this madness!
Pitting one dictator against another will solve nothing. The elephant in the room is the dysfunctional Zanu PF dictatorship, restore the right of all citizens to a meaningful say in the governance of the country. Mnangagwa and Chiwenga will be irrelevant without the dictatorship, they are no more than ticks and fleas on the elephant!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPMrdnBjDQM
The primary purpose of the 2008 to 2013 GNU was to implement the democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections. MDC leaders sold out and failed to implement even one token reform - the truth is starting to come out!
@ Mutsvangwa
All he has done is confirm what we already know, that those with the political connections are above the law. The odd occasions they are caught in the net, they are realised a.s.a.p. in the system known as catch and realise.
No wonder corruption is rampant!
We need a complete system overhaul!
@ Ksukuwere
“Former Zanu-PF political commissar and ex-local government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's tenure is nearing its end, citing the loss of support from a key constituency—war veterans.
Speaking in a recent interview with HStv, Kasukuwere, who has been in self-imposed exile in South Africa since the 2017 military coup that ousted Robert Mugabe, said Mnangagwa's fallout with war veterans is politically fatal.
"Once those war veterans say your job is done, that's the end. He's hanging around, but the truth of the matter is he's gone. The most critical branch in Zanu-PF is that thing called the war veterans," Kasukuwere asserted.
Mugabe gave the war veterans the power to ride roughshod over the people denying them their freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful vote and even the right to life in pursuit of the one-party dictatorship. The war veterans have enjoyed the veto on who ruled Zimbabwe, courtesy of the Zanu PF dictatorship.
Mugabe was surprised when the war veterans turned on him and flexed their political muscle in 2017. Why the surprise given millions of Zimbabweans were living in abject poverty and the scraps the regime throw to the war veterans were hopelessly inadequate to protect them from the rising tide of poverty.
Mnangagwa too should not be surprised that the war veterans are turning in him; he took over from Mugabe on the promise to revive the economic fortunes of the war veterans. Many are poorer today than they were in 2017.
Kasukuwere and cheering and applauding the war veterans who have risen against Mnangagwa. He see this as an opportunity for a political come back. He will tell the war veterans the 2017 coup booted out the wrong people!
https://www.facebook.com/4415858595176450/videos/473243802526099
Kasukuwere acknowledges the war veterans have the veto power on who rules Zimbabwe - the power given to them by Zanu PF in the fight to impose the de facto one-party state.
Kasukuwere is cheering and applauding war veterans for now he can say the 2017 coup booted out the wrong people and stage a come back! We are just recycling the same Zanu PF deadwood and all because the war veterans have the veto on who rules Zimbabwe and they have been brainwashed to believe only Zanu PF leaders can be trusted with the destiny of the country.
We must end the madness of war veterans having the veto on who governs the country. The mandate to rule Zimbabwe must come from winning majority vote in a free, fair and credible election. Period!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry9nhOC5W_c
The Zanu PF factional war is hotting up and the rot in the party is coming out. The tragedy for the nation is that as long as we retain the corrupt political system designed to keep the party in power no matter what, we will replace Mnangagwa with yet another dictator. Nothing will change.
The change we want is from ending the war veterans' veto on who governs and restoring the democratic right of all Zimbabweans to have a meaningful say in the governance of the country. We must have free, fair and credible elections.
Geza and company are free to nominate whoever they please in future elections but those elections MUST BE FREE, FAIR AND CREDIBLE!
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