“And we are failing to cross the street!” remarked President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania was told about the Americans landing on the Moon in 1969.
I have always admired President Nyerere for that quotation. It represents an honest admission of Africa’s shortcomings and, more significantly, a concerted effort to answer why Africa has lagged behind.
Zimbabwe is a failed state. The evidence we are a failed state is there for all to see. I will go straight to the why we are a failed state, and not what time restating the evidence or rebutting the denials.
One of the reasons why Zimbabwe is a failed state is our failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. The nation has been stuck with this corrupt, incompetent and murderous Zanu PF dictatorship for 45 years and counting. The party has rigged elections to stay in power and, up to now at least, the nation has all but failed to stop Zanu PF rigging elections.
It is no secret that Zanu PF has an inbuilt electoral majority from the rural vote. Zanu PF withdraw many of its freedom fighters to Assembly Points as agreed in the Lancaster House Agreement during the 1980 elections. The operatives remained in the field and their election campaign message was that if Zanu PF did not win the elections, the bush war would continue. Many of the rural areas with these Zanu PF operatives were “no go areas” for other contesting parties.
The rural voters, at least, voted to end the bush. One does not argue looking up the business end of an AK47 rifle!
Rural areas have remained, to this day, Zanu PF strongholds and no go areas for all the other parties. Zanu PF kept the rural folk poor by deliberately denying title deeds to even a few square metres of land on which their mud huts stand. This is the one right that would mean everything to these people and would set them for meaningful economic and political empowerment.
It is no surprise that Ian Smith’s white colonial regime realised this and it too denied rural blacks title deeds for the same selfish political reasons.
Indeed, when blacks was the war of independence was fought over the land issue, that is exactly what they are talking about. Why were the whites allowed to own vast tracks of land and yet the blacks were denied the right to own even a postage stamp size yard!
The seizure of white owned farms, often accompanied by the gratuitous violence, was supposedly to give the land back to the landless peasants. In practice, the seized farms were given to the Zanu PF ruling elite and their cronies.
Mnangagwa has announced the recipients of the former white owned farms will now get title deeds to the farms and with it the full legal ownership rights. The Regime continues to demolish houses in Ruwa and other rural areas where Land Barons had given away land underlining the regime’s policy that rural folk must not be given title deeds to any land.
The bottomline is Zimbabwe’s rural folk, constituting 60% of the electorate, are nothing more than medieval serfs beholden to the Zanu PF ruling elite and the proxies, the village heads, chiefs, war veterans, Zanu PF militia, etc. It is no secret that party operatives have repeatedly frog-marched rural folk to attend party rallies and to vote for the party. How could Zanu PF lose an election with such a built-in majority?
The one occasion in the March 2008 election when Zanu PF, under pressure from SADC, was forced to loosen its electoral control, the nearest the country ever got to holding free and fair elections; the party lost the vote. The party intervened to stop the results being announced. The party ordered a recount of 5 million votes which was to last six weeks. The presidential vote count was last to be announced; Tsvangirai’s 73%, according to Mugabe’s own Freudian slip, had been whittled down to 47%. Enough to force a run-off.
During the run-off Zanu PF launched Operation Mavhotera Papi (Whom did you vote for) desired to punish the voters for having dared to reject the party in the early vote. If anyone had thought Zanu PF’s threat to use violence to win elections was a bluff, Operation Mavhotera Papi left no one in any doubt this is not an empty threat.
Both SADC and AU refused to accept Zanu PF’s political legitimacy and forced the party to agree to the formation of GNU. The primary purpose of the GNU was to implement the democratic reforms to end Zanu PF’s political struggle hold especially on the rural voters to ensure free, fair and credible elections.
Alas! Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends who were entrusted the task of implementing the democratic reforms during the GNU, failed to implement even one token reform in 5 years. Mugabe bribed them with the trappings of high office, the E-Class Mercedes Benz, the generous salaries and allowances, a US$4 million mansion for Save himself, etc., etc. And in return MDC leaders kick the reforms into the Cactus thicket!
Zanu PF emerged out of the GNU with all its carte blanche dictatorial powers including its heavy boot on the throat of the rural voters.
Even now, with the benefit of hindsight, many Zimbabweans have no clue the primary purpose of the GNU was to implement the democratic reforms much less that MDC leaders sold out.
Last month, Zimbabweans observed the country’s 45th year of independence, 45 years of rigged elections and there is nothing to suggest the penny has finally dropped. The nation will be going into its next elections with the same skewed electoral system in which Zanu PF thugs retain their heavy boot on the throat of the rural voters to guarantee the party’s in-built majority.
45 years after independence and we are still failing to cure ourselves of the curse of rigged elections and bad governance. We are failing to cross the street when others are landing on the Moon.
“And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.” Genesis 4: 9 - 11.
Forget being our brother’s keep; by turning a blind eye to Zanu PF thugs keeping their heavy boots on the neck of the rural people we denied ourselves the blessing of good governance. 45 years after independence in this day and age and we still failing to cross the street of free and fair elections.Of course we deserve to suffer the curse of rigged elections.
59 comments:
https://www.zimeye.net/2025/05/08/45-years-after-independence-we-still-failing/
Zimbabwe is a failed state and one of the main reason why we are a failed state is the failure to implement any democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections. After 45 years of rigged elections we have not learned why Zanu PF rigs elections much less how to stop it.
Zanu PF thugs have their heavy boot on the necks of ordinary Zimbabweans, especially rural folk. Rural areas are Zanu PF strongholds because the party has made them "no go areas" for other parties. How can we have free and fair elections in which one party has exclusive monopoly over 60% of the voters? Why have we tolerated this?
@ Minister Garwe
Mnangagwa has ridden roughshod over the people denying them their basic rights and human dignity. He blatantly rigged the 2023 elections making him illegitimate. How can the people respect someone who is illegitimacy and hold them in contempt?
“Gudo guru peta muswe kuti vadoko vago kuremekedza!” Mnangagwa is a ruthless dictator and any idea that people must respect him regardless is nonsense!
Indeed, the nation is waiting for the day when Mnangagwa and his cronies will be held to account for all the looting and suffering they have caused. The wheels of justice turn very slowly but they turn!
@ Matadi
It is not illegal to amend the constitution nor is it illegal to hold a referendum. If the referendum process is free, fair and credible; then the outcome will be legal.
We know Zimbabwe’s last elections, 2023, were judged by SADC and AU to be flawed and illegal. The regime has done nothing to put this right and so it is foolish to expect the referendum to be anything but flawed and illegal too!
https://www.facebook.com/4415858595176450/videos/3006403969532632
Professor Lumumba is right, the world is full of idiots some with University Degreed no less. In Zimbabwe 2 million idiots participated in flawed elections because they believed Chamisa's idiotic lie of plugging the vote rigging loop holes. They even believe because millions believed Chamisa the superior number alone proves he was not lying!
The same idiots are poised to participate is flawed 2028 elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate their own suffering and the nation. What could be more idiotic than that!
I did say, in the video above, that there are 2 million village idiots who were conned by Chamisa’s idiotic lie to participate in flawed 2023 elections and the are millions more in the diaspora. To them, the very fact that 2 million believed the idiotic lie is proof Chamisa did not lie. Here we are, the idiots are falling over each other to defend Chamisa.
I am public enemy number one because I have dared to say Chamisa is not only a liar but corrupt and utterly useless.
Mambo Svosve, Kadzvutu, etc. I once again challenge all of you to public say that Chamisa did not lie about plugging the vote rigging loop holes. (Even the village idiots know that he lied and so will never comment on the subject. Never!)
@ Appliances
Did Chamisa lie about plugging the vote rigging loop holes and thus stopped Zanu PF rigging the 2023 elections? It is a simple enough question to answer especially for one schooled in “how to present stories”!!!!!
I have never ever claimed that I was schooled in “presenting stories” or anything special. However I do know that Chamisa lied about plugging the vote rigging loop holes to con people to participate in the flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy for his and fellow CCC leaders’ selfish gains - the same reasons MDC leaders failed to implement even one token reform during the GNU.
Even Chamisa has admitted Zanu PF rigged the 2023 elections but will never admit why he lied. Chamisa loves Biblical verses, here is one verse he should quote. “And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper.” It speaks volumes of the man!
@ Manzini
So Zanu PF did not rig the 2023 elections because Chamisa plugged all the vote rigging loop holes. So both SADC and AU election observers were wrong to say the process was flawed and illegal? So Zimbabwe’s 2023 elections were free, fair and credible and Zanu PF won?
@ Chiwenga
Chamisa conned people to participate in 2023 elections knowing fully well that Zanu PF was rigging and that participating would give Zanu PF legitimacy. The big disappointment here is millions of the conned voters have still not opened their eyes to the reality that MDC/CCC leaders are Zanu PF team B in all but name playing for team A to win and have legitimacy.
@ Makoni
The claim that the Second Republic is an improvement on the First Republic is an illusion. Nothing has change. Comparing Mugabe and Mnangagwa is as meaningless a mouse comparing cobra and a black mamba; both are deadly!
@ Chamisa
Being taken to task on BBC HardTalk.
The lie was just part of the idiotic lie that MDC A was going to win the elections because the party “had stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging elections.” He conned millions to participate in the flawed elections knowing fully well that Zanu PF was rigging and that participating would give the regime legitimacy.
MDC/CCC have been Zanu PF team B in all but name, playing for team A to win and have legitimacy. The real surprise here is that millions of Zimbabweans have failed to realise this even after 25 years with Chamisa and company failing to implement even one token reform.
Come 2028, Chamisa will con millions to once again participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy. Ignorance is a curse and when millions of voters are so dumb they are easily conned again and again; the nation is in serious trouble!
@ Earthmanzhou
"Muri kupi zviya? Kungoridza mhere muri mhiri kwamakungwa."
Your foolishness never cease to amaze me! So you think the truth is the exclusive monopoly and only spoken by those who are in Zimbabwe!
Chamisa lied about about plugging all the vote rigging loop holes to stop Zanu PF rigging elections, to con people to participate in the flawed elections. SADC, AU and even Chamisa himself has since admitted Zanu PF rigged the elections. And yet here we are, you are still denying that Chamisa had lied about stopping Zanu PF rigging elections. What a village idiot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z8LfqBQ1XQ
Zanu PF has denied the people a meaningful say in the governance of the country and it is no surprise the regime has denied us everything else!
"Seek you the political kingdom and the rest will be given unto you!" said Dr Kwame Nkrumah. He was right!
@ Killion Chiminya
“Iwe wakaitei unechi Chamisa pamuromo everytime you want everyone to believe your narrative wakarambidzwa nani itawo unatsire vanhu vakuteere uchagara uchivhumuka nekumba kwako uchingoti Chamisa Chamisa.”
Chamisa lied to the people, conning them to participate in flawed in flawed elections knowing fully well Zanu PF is rigging the elections and that participating would only give Zanu PF legitimacy.
We cannot even hold Chamisa to account for blatantly lying to the people and for failing to implementing even one reforms in 25 years, including 5 years in the GNU. Because some nincompoops consider Chamisa a demigod who must never be held to account. Never!
The tragedy is, by blindly following Chamisa the nincompoops have landed the nation into this mess. Worst of all, Chamisa is gearing to con the nincompoops to participate in the 2028 elections and future elections to perpetuate the dictatorship.
“Uchagara uchivhumuka nekumba kwako!” You call holding Chamisa to account whatever you infantile minds wish but be rest assured Chamisa will be held to account and the participating in flawed elections to perpetuate the dictatorship stopped!
Chamisa is accountable and will be held to account - that is NOT negotiable.
@ Mura
"Better late than never Witso. Time has the capacity to change people irretrievably- for better or for worse. We should be wise to watch for such changes and adapt. If zanu decided to change their modus operandi today and start working for Zimbabwe, I tell you by 2028 tinenge have numbering. But the simple truth is they don't want to make and implement that change. Let's embrace positive change. Look at chiwenga- you can't paint him with the same brush as geza. For he has remained unrepentant and steadfast zanu."
Sure and he is proposing replacing Mnangagwa with Chiwenga just as the 2017 coup replace Mugabe with Mnangagwa! Only a fool would not see this as a repeat of the same foolishness!
Nearly 50,000 learners from both primary and secondary schools across Zimbabwe dropped out in 2024, with teenage pregnancies and long distances to school cited as the leading causes, a senior government official has confirmed.
Deputy Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Angeline Gata, revealed the alarming statistics in Parliament this week, responding to a question posed by Mashonaland West Proportional Representation MP Mutsa Murombedzi. The figures showed that a total of 49,555 learners abandoned their studies during the year - 15,809 at the primary level and 33,746 at secondary level.
She explained that although government policy dictates that no child should walk more than five kilometres to reach a school, many areas still fall short of this standard. Other contributing factors include lack of parental motivation and financial challenges, although some of the latter are being addressed through the Basic Education Assistance Module (BEAM).
Mnangagwa keeps wittering about vision 2030, the nation attaining upper middle income status by 2030. The reality on the ground tells its own story of a nation that is sinking deeper and deeper into poverty and despair.
It is common knowledge that the quality of education is Zimbabwe has been seriously compromised due to decades of poor funding. Many “O” level students do not know what a verb is, for Pete’s sake! After 11 years of formal education and they do not know what a verb is!
In 1980 Zimbabwe had a large pool of very well educated people but that did not stop the nation’s economic decline from an upper middle income nation, on par with SA, to one of the poorest nation we are today. And now the same corrupt, incompetent and murderous regime is wittering about economic revival with an ill-educated people when it triggered the decline with a well educated population!
Frankly, the 50 000 drop outs are not worse of that those still at school if at the end of 11 years of formal education one can hardly read and write - something many can after three years of quality education.
@ Shelton
Millions were conned to participate in a flawed elections process to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate their own suffering. How anyone can close their eyes and minds and pretend it did not happen beggars belief.
The worst thing is come 2028 they will be conned to participate in the flawed elections and the whole thing repeats itself! We are our own worst enemies!
It is bad enough giving the vote to individuals so ignorant and naive they hardly know their left hand from right much less what is in their own best interest. Zimbabwe has the added misfortune of having politicians on both side of the political divide who are keen as mustard to exploit the ignorant voters, conning them to do all manner of foolish things.
What can be more foolish than participating a flawed elections to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy, give the sell out opposition a few gravy train seats and perpetuate one's own suffering! All those who have dare tell the village idiots of their folly have become public enemies and the politicians exploiting them have become demigods! Fcuk me!
@ Shumba
So in all those areas where ballot papers were delivered on time elections were free, fair and credible because Chamisa plugged all the vote rigging loop holes. So why did CCC fail to win in the rural areas, etc.?
@ @ Shelton Basamupambwa
“Did you and Chamisa know that the electoral materials were being sourced by Chivhayo , if you claim to have plugged all the gaps. Please be honest and be responsible because we want a new type of politics in this country. Idzi dzokunyepa, you will always be second best to Zanupf. Imagine, a democratic leader coming out to say kuti, This time muZEC tave nevanhu vedu vanotiudza zviri kuitika, then Zanupf ikaisa vanhu vayo uchati kudii?”
Exactly!
It is a great pity that some people will never admit they were conned and so they close their eyes to the reality that they were very foolish to have believed the idiotic lies. This does not help anyone since the conman relish the weakness and will be back with the same idiotic lie.
Zimbabwe has failed to hold free and fair elections for 45 years and counting. Zanu PF has rigged elections these last 25 years and got away with it thanks to the millions of village idiots who have been participating because they believed Chamisa & Co.’s idiotic lies of winning RIGED elections.
To the village idiots, Chamisa is a demigod. You tell them the truth that Chamisa is not only a mere mortal but a corrupt, incompetent and a liar and they hate you for it!
Ignorance is a curse worse than death! And Zimbabwe has millions of village idiots with an IQ no better than a slug and, to crown it all, they have the vote!
Alas! Nothing will change as long as we have a political system in which those in power are not accountable to the people. We should stop this madness of thinking we can continue to have a corrupt and tyrannical regime of the last 45 years and one day it will be the competent government we have all been dying for. It will never happen. Never!
@ Njabulo
You people are very funny. If a thief breaks into your house are we supposed to blame you for not putting in place all possible security measures in the world to prevent thieves from breaking into your house? Or we are supposed to help you catch the thief and support you and your family to get over the ordeal?
This obsession with Chamisa is mind boggling. He is a victim like all us who do not vote for zanu pf. Zimbabwe is a democracy with a constitution that stipulates how elections aught to be conducted. Even without the reforms that many have called for zanu pf and zec still do not run elections in full compliance with the guidelines in our constitution. Zanu pf and zec blatantly disregard the constitution but yet people like you point fingers at victims.
How naive! So you think Chamisa did not know that Zanu PF was rigging the elections and that participating will give the regime legitimacy. Here is a quotation from David Coltart on the subject.
“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.
MDC/CCC leaders are Zanu PF team B in all but name, playing for team A to win and have legitimacy. The real big disappointment here is that there are millions of Zimbabweans out there who not only continue to support MDC/CCC leaders but even worship them. Chamisa had no problem conning them to believe idiotic lies and participate in flawed elections only to give Zanu PF legitimacy, give MDC/CCC leaders a few gravy train seats and perpetuate their own suffering.
The village idiots’ brains have ossified into fat, their IQ is not much higher than that of a slug. They now believe Chamisa is their demigod and all those speaking of their folly are public enemies!
“Chamisa is a victim of Zanu PF!” Yeah right! Was that why he and his MDC friends failed to implement even one token reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU?
@ Njabulo
Chamisa KNEW with no reforms implemented Zanu PF will rig the elections. He is the one who insisted that Zanu PF will not rig the elections because he plugged all the vote rigging loop holes! Deal with the historic facts and stop defending the indefensible!
@ Chiminya
So those who form their own political party are free to con the voters to participate in flawed elections? The sheer stupidity of that statement speaks volumes of you!
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1mnGegVgyYRxX
Black Americans have Willie Lynch to blame for brainwashing them, "Keep the body, take the mind!"
In Zimbabwe we have been conditioned to blame the white colonialists for all our problems; but for how long? Zimbabwe is a failed state because we have elected buffoons and sellouts as leaders and placed them on pedestals to be worshiped as demigods. What have the white colonialists to do with our foolishness!
@ Israel
And yet the truth remains unchanged: Chamisa lied about plugging the vote rigging loop holes and conned millions to participate in the flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy. Even a village idiot like you will not dare deny that Chamisa lied and so you attack me for daring speak the truth! The truth will be hammered into your empty head!
@ Risktaker
"Ko zvawachiti tonho nhai @Wilbert Mukori ? Huyaka nhai wangu? Vemapepanhau varipo vese pano , Hopewell aripo, Studio 7 iripo Zimeye iripo, Zim morning post iripo baba Mnangagwa varipo president Nero varipo Dhara blessing aripo vose vaunofungira varipo chitauraka nyaya dzako na Mambo Munhumutapa nyaya yako yobva yangobutitswa mumapepa woita mutungamiri wedu isu takapusa."
I have raise pertinent issues here why does he not respond if he is interested in open debate where everyone benefit by learning from it!
@ Mnangagwa
Displaying the fleet of slick all black presidential escort vehicles.
No wonder Mnangagwa is fighting tooth and nail to stay in power no matter what, when you have been living in such unparalleled luxury you sure as hell would not want to give it up. Giving up power is not easy especially in a country where the overwhelming majority are living in abject poverty and you are responsible for it.
Mnangagwa is seeking to extend his stay in power beyond the 2028 maximum two term limit to 2030 under the pretext he is the only man who will deliver vision 2030! All “bullshit!” as Geza called it. He has been in power the last 8 years and still the economy is showing no signs of recovery! Only a fool will believe he will accomplish anything in the next 5 years.
The prospect of the people taking back what you looted from them hangs over the buffoon’s like the sword of Damocles!
https://www.facebook.com/4415858595176450/videos/979890727303960
So Mnangagwa is changing the presidential motorcade fleet as if it was a shirt! When has lived such ostentatious lifestyle, it is little wonder he is fighting tooth and nail to extend his illegitimate rule beyond 2028 maximum two term limit. He is doing it under the pretext he is the only one who will deliver vision 2030!
Zimbabweans were conned to participate in 2023 rigged elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy the call is not to repeat the same mistake and give the referendum on the amended constitution legitimacy! The opposition will assure the people Zanu PF will lose the referendum to con them to participate just as they conned voters to participate in 2023 elections.
The trick is NOT to participate and deny Zanu PF legitimacy! This is where the real fight is going to be!
Smith denied title deeds to even a few square metres of land to rural folk for political reasons and Zanu PF is doping the same for the same reason. Rural areas are Zanu PF political strongholds for no other reason than that rural peasants are but the modern day medieval serfs forever beholden to the Zanu PF ruling elite and their proxies, the village heads, chiefs, war veterans, Zanu PF youth militia, etc.
Title deed to the land is the one right that means everything to the rural people. Give them title deeds to the land and they will have the confidence to invest time and money to build decent homestead, dig wells, plant trees, etc. and thus economically empower themselves. And it is this economic empowerment that Smith and now Mnangagwa fears!
It is infuriating that millions of Zimbabweans are being held in abject poverty, deliberately, for selfish political gain by a regime that only cares about retaining political power at all costs!
@ Earthmanzhou
You and 2 million others were conned to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate your own suffering because you believed an idiotic lie. The very fact that you still believe you are “not a coward and were putting an effort” only shows you still have no clue of the sheer folly of your stupidity. The tragedy for Zimbabwe is that village idiots like you have the vote!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVdRv8gPlbk
Zanu PF is the Genesis of corruption and they are the godfathers benefiting from it. It is naive to believe that Zanu PF will ever dismantle corruption when they are the chief beneficiaries especially when they also rig elections and thus enjoy absolute power. Zanu PF controls everyone, Police, Army, judiciary and even the opposition.
WE CAN END CORRUPTION WITHOUT ENDING THE CURSE OF RIGGED ELECTIONS.
@ Kraidos
You always wittering about solutions! You have supported Chamisa these 25 years, what solutions has he offered you?
@ Benjamin
Has supported Chamisa blindly for 25 years and he froths and fumes just to hear his demigod questioned! Kraidos hardly knows the left hand from the right much less know anything about solutions!
@ Svosve
“Hakuna munhu ari normal anotaura zvakadayi..😂Ndangozunza musoro- What an Ed iot.Pfungwa dzacho hadzina kusiyana Nedza Dr Wiribheti Mukori kkkkk.”
Oh dear! I have asked you to deny that Nelson Chamisa did not lie when he claimed to have plugged all the vote rigging loop holes. You have often called Chamisa, “Change Champion in Chief” and yet have failed to name even one democratic change he and his MDC/CCC brought during the 2008 to 2013 GNU when they had the golden opportunity to do so. You have never ever addressed any of these matters but have instead taken to insulting me just to avoid the issues.
Chamisa & Co. sold out on reforms and lied about plugging the vote rigging loop holes to con people to participate in flawed elections. Of course, Chamisa and company are sell out and they are democratically accountable for it. This is not negotiable and no amount of insults from you will change that!
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The tragedy is that those who would benefit from this video will either never even see it and those who do see it will never comprehend any of it! And so failed states will remain failed states! Ignorance is a curse worse than death because the ignorant are they own worst enemy and what could be worse in this world than habitually digging one's own grave and burying oneself alive!
@ Ibbo Mandaza
The primary purpose of NTA is to implement democratic reforms to ensure free and fair elections. Leave the economic challenges to elected leaders. The NTA must do the basics to keep the economy going and to stop the looting of the resources but leave all economic issues that require long term solutions. 2008 to 2013 GNU failed to implement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1YV2sztv2k
The people of Zimbabwe were warned of the folly of participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy countless time and we paid no heed. It is wishful thinking that the Zanu PF regime complete with the entourage of CCC MPS and senators will give up power to allow the creation of the Dr Ibbo Mandaza proposed NTA. Mnangagwa and this regime would rather hold the referendum to postpone 2028 elections that have one to create the NTA!
A NTA is possible if Zimbabweans do not repeat the foolishness of participating in flawed 2028 elections especially now that both SADC and AU condemned 2023 elections and with no reforms implemented the 2028 elections too will be flawed and illegal.
We must submit a realistic mechanism for a NTA if we want international community to take us serious! The proposed NTA is NOT tenable!
@ chief Elias
“The tragedy is you are not rising to be a leader.”
How many men and women have warned Zimbabweans not to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu Pf legitimacy, for example. Why did they pay no heed? What makes you think they would listen to me? If you know better, then why do you rise and be the leader you asking me to be?
The challenge is how to stop the 2 million who participated in the 2023 elections on the basis of an idiotic lie doing it again in 2028. It will take Chamisa a day to con them to participate in 2028 elections.
@ Earthman Zhou
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“Yours is just to blame without you showing your effort . Why are you in +44 . Come and show us the way than blaming other people s effort.”
Address the issues raised and stop wittering nonsense. So you still think just because you are still in Zimbabwe you know best? So why have you failed to stop Zanu PF rigging elections these last 45 years?
You must stop stifling debate, you flatulent nincompoop. Stop this Zanu PF mentality that you mare special!
The 2008 to 2013 GNU failed to implement even one token reform and we must answer why and make sure we do not repeat the same foolish mistakes. And we are not going to be silenced by nincompoops!
@ Rev Ruzvizo
“If you don't participate in those elections what will stop them from recording resounding victory of 6M votes ivo vagara vachirigger it will be easy.”
Ignorance is a curse worse than death for ignorant are their own worst enemy!
So you do not know that the primary task of the 2008 to 2013 GNU was to implement the democratic reforms necessary to stop Zanu PF rigging elections? You also do not know that MDC leaders failed to implement even one token reform in 5 years of the GNU because Mugabe bribed them with the trappings of high office and they forgot about the reforms.
The MDC/CCC leaders have been participating in flawed elections knowing fully well that doing so would give Zanu PF legitimacy. Still they participate for the same reason they did not implement even one reform - greed.
You do not believe me? Well here is David Coltart saying the same thing.
“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.
Chamisa conned 2 million of his brain dead followers to participate in the flawed 2023 elections, they believed his idiotic lie that he plugged all the vote rigging loop holes, only to give Zanu PF legitimacy, give a few CCC leaders gravy train seats, Chamisa got his US$20 million according to Jealous Mawarire and the nation’s reward was to perpetuate our own suffering.
What can be worse that to be conned to perpetuate one’s own suffering and for 45 years and counting!
So you think stopping vote rigging Zanu PF getting 100% of the gravy train seats is a price worth paying for participating and giving the regime legitimacy?
Has is ever occurred to you that Zanu PF is giving away a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition to participate to maintain the facade that Zimbabwe is a healthy multi-party democracy?
In 2018 Mnangagwa created the super-numeral POLAD just to reward all the losing presidential candidates and entice them to participate in future elections. The bait was so irresistible he had to introduce a stiff US$20 000 nomination fee just to stop the flood of presidential candidate in the 2023 election!
All these things have been explained to you a thousand times, they did not make sense then and never will. How is it possible that anyone can be so shallow, thick and slow! You are not alone, there are millions of fellow Zimbabweans out there just as ignorant and stupid. And to crown it all, you lot have the vote and have use it to perpetuate the nation’s suffering.
@ Earthmanzhou
You still have not addressed the issues raised.
Chamisa lied about plugging vote rigging loop holes to com millions to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the nation’s suffering. You do not want it said. To you, Chamisa is a demigod and your instinct is to defend him.
Chamisa is a mere mortal, a corrupt one and a liar. This reality must be hammered into your empty head and millions of others out there if we are to put and end to the curse of participating in flawed elections to perpetuate our own suffering. We MUST AND WILL put an end to the madness of 45 years of rigged elections!
@ Earthman Zhou
Those in public office are accountable for what they do and fail to do. Chamisa lied to the people to con them to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed.
Only a nincompoop would argue that Chamisa should not be held to account until we all account for what we have done in our private lives. The nincompoop accepts that Mnangagwa and the rest of the Zanu PF leaders are accountable for the wholesale looting of the nation’s wealth, for example. The idiot draws the line when it comes to Chamisa because he is a demigod! The tribal mentality is very strong.
Of course we are not going to let village idiots hold the nation to ransom. Chamisa is accountable - that is not negotiable! It is a pity that nincompoops like you Zhou have a vote!
It is not only Chris Mutsvangwa and his fellow Zanu PF apologists who have the dictatorial mentality MDC/CCC leaders and supporters have the same mentality. If we are not careful we will replace Zanu PF with yet another dictatorship, different name but same shit!
@ Koja
"Chokwadi munacho the only flaw mukoma kutuka over 2 million zimbos to term them stupid and ignorant semi munoziva chaizvo. I once admired your witticism but apa wataridza kusafunga . Words can make u or destroy u . Vamaziva zvose."
Albert Einstein said insanity is repeating the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.
Zimbabweans have been participating in flawed elections expecting the opposition to win RIGGED elections only to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuating their own suffering for 45 years. Einstein would call the 2 million voters insane, I call them stupid and you are free to call the the brain dead what you please!
Zanu PF is denying millions of ordinary Zimbabweans title deeds to even a few square metres of land on which to build their own home because the party fears that once they have a foot on the economic ladder they will be demanding political empowerment. Ian Smith denied rural peasant title deeds for the same selfish political reason.
Smith allowed blacks in urban centres to have title deeds and Zanu PF is fighting to stop the urbanisation of places like Ruva. Zanu PF is fearful of giving these people title deeds and losing political control!
Giving the rural folk title deeds is the one act that will unleash Zimbabwe's rapid and irreversible economic development. It is ironic and frustrating that the nation is been kept in abject poverty by the corrupt buffoons in power!
@ Shumba
A nincompoop is some one who will be conned by an idiotic lie to participate in flawed elections to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate his/her own suffering. I know you are wiser that King Solomon himself! What would you call such a person, wise one?
@ Koja
“Yes it's insanity over his thesis asi iwe kudzokorora kutuka vanhu hausi hubenzi here . Reality yakaonekwa reality munhu zvaazvisarudzira hauna kodzero yokumutukira choice yake . Zvinyorwa zvako zvinoshaya mutsindo nemashoko eruvengo nokutuka . Handingakuudziri zvokutaura asi kutuka vanhu kunyangwe uine point it ends up being pointless.”
After 45 years of rigged elections and the nation sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss my purpose in to force these nincompoops to open their eyes and stop being conned into participating in flawed elections and perpetuate the nation’s suffering.
You clearly do not care about stopping the suffering only you want is Chamisa must not be called a liar and the voters’ eyes opened! You are just a village idiot with a voice and all you want is people like me to be silenced. Mutsvangwa and the other Zanu PF idiots with an even louder voice that you have tried to silence people like me and they have failed. You too will fail!
@ Moyo
It should be remember that the people were protesting Zanu PF rigging the elections which none other than Chamisa himself had assured the voters “MDC A has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections!” Chamisa was calling the people he had conned “stupid!”
Of course, Chamisa was lying about stopping Zanu Pf rigging the 2018 elections and the millions who believed him were stupid. The village idiots do not mind Chamisa calling them stupid but they will start frothing and fuming if anyone else remind them of who they really are - village idiots!
We have a simple choice, call the village idiots stupid and force them to see themselves for whom they real are. Or let the like of Chamisa flatter them and con them to participate in flawed elections to perpetuate the nation's suffering. Any one with half a brain will know what to do!
@ Koja
The 2 million were warned of the folly of participating in flawed elections, they ignored the warning and believed the idiotic lie that Chamisa plugged the vote rigging loop holes.
What would you call some one who believes an idiotic lie?
You problem is lack of common sense! You cannot distinguish insult from truth just as you cannot separate wise from stupid! You are obsessed about the brain dead being called idiots but you are oblivious of the tragic human suffering their participation in flawed elections has brought on themselves and the nation at large.
The tragedy for Zimbabwe is that there are millions of others like you who too lack common sense and, to add insult to injury, you lot have the voice and, worst of all, the vote!
@ Kainos Chikara
“What have you done if you are wise, bring the change yourself then.”
Are you one of the 2 million who voted for Chamisa because you believed the idiotic lie that he had plugged all the vote rigging loop holes? What changes did you bring other than giving Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuating the nation’s suffering.
You just do not want to admit you were foolish to ignore the repeated warning against the folly of participating in flawed elections even after 45 years of rigged elections. Indeed, instead of learning from your mistake you pretend you did nothing wrong.
“What have you done if you are wise, bring the change yourself then!” you argue.
Come 2028 you will be conned to participate in yet another flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the nation’s suffering. Giving village idiots like you the vote has been a curse to the nation especially in a country with political vultures on both sides of the political divide always on the look out to con the brain dead voters like you to do foolish things like voting in flawed elections to perpetuate the nation’s suffering!
@ Kainos Chikara
“Bring solutions not keep blaming some1 who tried, am tired of your hurakashi type of rhetorics.”
If you voted for Chamisa because he brought solutions then why don’t you tell us what those solutions were?
Chamisa is not only failing to offer solutions, he is a serious national problem. Chamisa is conning millions of village idiots like you to participate in flawed elections to perpetuate the dictatorship and the nation’s suffering! Come 2028, Chamisa will con millions of these brain dead nincompoops to participate and thus perpetuating the nightmare.
It is bad enough that nincompoops like you are conned by Chamisa it is an outrage that you do not want the truth spoken. You want this madness to continue! You have your head stuck in Chamisa’s backside and want everyone else to do the same.
Nincompoops like you deserve to have you backsides kicked raw. I am here to kick-ass!
Chamisa is a public figure, he lied to con half wits like you. He must account for it. I will not hold you to account for being easily conned - you do not have the intellect to know your right hand from you left. However, I will put you in your place for trying to silence me!
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NTA born out of a failed electoral process as happened with the 2008 election has a much better chance of thriving than one wished on by Mnangagwa and company giving up power. What is more, such an NTA will stand a better chance of making sure neither Zanu PF nor MDC/CCC are appointing into the new arrangement.
@ Chineunyeexmas
“Come to Zimbabwe and stop zanu PF, those in zim are trying whilst you hiding in foreign country, we can take you seriously if you do something to stop Zanu PF.”
Well if we follow your argument to its logical conclusion: you have ignored all those who have left Zimbabwe and taken seriously those who have remained, like Nelson Chamisa.
In 2018 Chamisa told you that “MDC A had stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging elections.” You and millions of others believed the idiotic lie and participated in the flawed 2018 elections only to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the nation’s suffering. In 2023 he repeated the same idiotic lie and you and millions of others again believed him and were conned to participate with the same tragic result!
If you had any working brain then you should have come to the conclusion that there is nothing special about people like Nelson Chamisa much less about one being in the country or not. But it is to be expected of morons like you; you make a mountain out of a mole hill of trivial matters. Instead of focusing on what Chamisa has done and judge him accordingly you are defending him because “he is in Zimbabwe!” as if that is now the deciding factor.
I have consistently advised on the sheer folly of participating in flawed elections. You are ignoring the advice and casting me as public enemy number one because I am “hiding in foreign land”. Of course, it is totally irrational.
There are many other Zimbabweans in the country who have spoken on the folly of participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy, including David Coltart and Tendai Biti. You have ignored their advice too and pretended they do not even exist because doing otherwise will make a mockery of your “hiding in foreign lands” idiotic nonsense.
The tragedy for Zimbabwe is that there are millions of nincompoops, just like you Chineunyee, who are easily conned with idiotic lies to participate in flawed elections as we have seen happen repeatedly these last 45 years. And, worst of all, the curse of rigged elections is here to stay. The nincompoops have not learnt it is folly to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy even after 45 years of rigged elections, proof you lot are incapable of self-governing and will never learn.
@ Chineunyee
“Mungamushora henyu Chamisa asi murume anobudikira panguva inodiwa varume, ZANU inozoita zvokubvuta, vamwe vashandi vezanu, vokushora nokutsoropodza, nokutsvaga mhosho.”
The “Comrade Napoleon is always right!” mentality that George Orwell wrote about in “Animal Farm” is powerful. Still I never believed it could be this powerful! Fcuk me!
Chamisa & Co. failed to implement even one token reform during the GNU because Mugabe bribe the MDC leaders. Zanu PF has blatantly rigged elections these last 45 years precisely because MDC/CCC leaders sold out on reforms. The Chamisa chete chete morons have swept all that under the carpet.
Chamisa conned the morons to participate in flawed 2023 elections on the basis of an idiotic lie that CCC would win big because he “plugged all the vote rigging loop holes.” Everyone, including SADC and AU election observers and Chamisa himself, admits that Zanu PF rigged the elections.
Of course, Chamisa lied about plugging the vote rigging loop holes to con the morons to participate in the flawed elections for the same reason MDC/CCC failed to implement even one token reform in 25 years - greed.
The brain dead morons will not accept that Chamisa lied to them, the “Comrade Napoleon is always right!” mentality burns too fiercely and to permit that! They grovel before him praising him to the high heavens for trying.
“Chamisa asi murume anobudikira panguva inodiwa varume!” The reality is that Chamisa and company are Zanu PF team B in all but name, playing for team A to win and have legitimacy. The brain dead morons see only what Chamisa tell them to see - Change Champion in Chief!
No wonder Zimbabwe is a failed state, we have more than our fair share of morons and, to crown it all, they have a voice and a vote!
@ Chineunyee
You will never know what constitute free and fair elections. Never! Why a nincompoop like you has a vote is the nation’s curse!
@ Chineunyee
So you think only the Prime Minister Tsvangirai was responsible for MDC leaders' failure to implement even one token reform in 25 years, 5 ofd which in the GNU? Zimbabwe's greatest curse is that the vote has been given to nincompoops who have no clue of their responsibility in exercising that vote. Give a nincompoop a vote is like giving a loaded gun to a monkey - in this case millions of nincompoops!
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“The (2013) electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw," confessed David Coltart in his book "The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe." He knew that participating would give the flawed electoral process "credibility" and the vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy. And yet he and his MDC colleagues still went on to participate in the 2013 and subsequent elections out of greed.
“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,” he continued.
It is bad enough that MDC/CCC leaders have turned out to be Zanu PF team B in all but name; playing for team A to win and give it legitimacy for a few gravy train seats reward. What has made this a truly tragic situation is that millions of the Zimbabwe electorate have failed to comprehend this political reality and so have been conned again and again to participate in flawed elections only to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate their own suffering!
Ignorance is a curse worse than death for in the ignorance and stupidity the ignorant are often conned to act to harm their own interests. Universal suffrage, giving the vote to the ignorant, is today Zimbabwe's worst curse; in their stupidity the ignorant are the ones voting to keep Zanu PF in power and perpetuating the nation's suffering!
@ 27 65 399
“Mr Nincompoops fomai renyu bato tikuvhoterei. Mune muono wakanakisa chaizvo.”
You still do not get it! 2 million voters have participated in a flawed elections again and again to give legitimacy to vote rigging Zanu PF on the basis of an idiotic claim of the opposition winning RIGGED elections. As things stand, it is a given Chamisa will con the Chamisa chete chete brigade to participate in yet another flawed 2028 elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuating the dictatorship.
Forming a new political party, forming 100, 1 000 new political parties will not stop the brain dead Chamisa chete chete brigade participating in flawed future elections and perpetuate the dictatorship. What Zimbabwe needs is not new political parties but to leave no stone unturned in education the brain dead brigade and finally put an end to the madness of participating in flawed elections to perpetuate the dictatorship and the nation’s suffering!
The suggestion to form a party for all those who dared to hold Chamisa to account is just another crude way of saying Chamisa is a demigod and must never be held to account. This is idiotic Chamisa chete chete brigade mentality that we must cure! How anyone can consider a mere mortal like Chamisa a demigod; especially given his track record as corrupt, incompetent and a liar; in this day and age beggars belief!
“Fomai renyu bato!” How nauseating! In the 2018 elections there were as many as 130 political parties. What difference did that make?
Get the historic facts right!
Zanu PF rigged the 2008 elections but did not get away with it. Both SADC and AU refused to give the party political legitimacy and forced it to go into the 2008 to 2013 GNU. The fact that the GNU failed to implement any reform was because MDC leaders sold out.
MDC/CCC leaders have been participating in flawed elections and conned their brain dead followers to do the same out of greed.
It is not true to say Zanu PF cannot be removed through elections when MDC/CCC are Zanu PF team B, playing for team A to win and have legitimacy and we, the people, are too stupid to see it! Stop the 2 million brain dead Chamisa chete chete brigade participating in flawed 2028 elections and Zanu PF will NOT get away with that rigged elections.
Zimbabwe is a failed state because it has the triple curse of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF thugs, corrupt and utterly useless MDC/CCC and, worst of all, millions of brain dead MDC/CCC voters who are easily conned! Universal suffrage has been the nation's worst curse given the country's huge flux of predatory political leaders!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZKXYroIm5s
BURKINA FASO IS ONE OF THE POOREST NATION IN THE WORLD AND YET WHEN PRESIDENT IBRAHIM TRAORE SPEAKS THE WORLD PAYS ATTENTION. UNLIKE MANY AFRICAN LEADERS, TRAORE DOES NOT HAVE THE USUAL POLITICAL BAGGAGE OF BEING CORRUPT, INCOMPETENT AND TYRANTS.
PRESIDENT TRAORE SHOULD ADDRESS THE KEY QUESTION BURKINA FASO'S LONG TERM STABILITY BY ESTABLISHING RULE OF LAW ND DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS.
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