Chamisa's repeated participation in flawed election "is his undoing". He is backed by 2 million voters who believe blue sky is green! W Mukori

 “Has it ver dawned on him (Chamisa) that what he is doing: repeating the same mistakes of taking part in flawed elections without reforms is his undoing?” asked Nomazulu Thata in he latest article in Bulawayo 24. 

My dear sister, you have hit the nail on the head there. If we assume that his primary intention in participating in the flawed elections, let us assume for a moment that the much touted “plugged all Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes #Godisinit” were not lies, was to win and be president. Chamisa has failed to win the rigged elections. 

If the truth be said, and it must be said now, Chamisa and his MDC/CCC friends had no choice but to keep participating in flawed elections knowing fully well that with no reforms implemented the process was “so flawed, so illegal, the only logical step was to withdraw” as David Coltart confessed in his book. In the book Coltart says they did not withdraw out of greed. 

“The (2013) electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility,” confessed David Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe. 

Greed was not even the half of it! 

When SADC leaders realised that no meaningful democratic reform were implemented during the 2008 to 2013 GNU and without the reforms the upcoming Zimbabwe elections would be a repeat of the 2008 marred elections. They called a special SADC Summit in June 2013, in Maputo Mozambique; they wanted the elections postponed until reforms were implemented. 

“If you participate in the elections, you will lose. The elections are done!” SADC leaders warned Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC fiends to their faces at the Summit! 

Zanu PF did not want the elections postponed, naturally. The party argued there were no outstanding reforms to be implemented. 

It turned out, MDC leaders had not submitted even one reform proposal in 5 years of the GNU.Not even one! 

SADC leaders could not demand the elections to be postponed when there were no reforms to implement. 

MDC leaders could boycott the elections demanding reforms before elections when they are the one who had failed to submit even one reform proposal in 5 years of the GNU. And so they adopted the new line - that the opposition has strategies to win in rigged elections. All lies, as we have seen!

It is a crying shame that the Chamisa chete chete supporters have continued to believe in these idiotic winning rigged elections lies and participated in the flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the nation’s suffering. Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown and political oppression have cause heart breaking human suffering. 

The prospect of Chamisa conning his followers to participate in flawed 2028 elections to perpetuate the dictatorship and the tragic human suffering and deaths is real. The followers are refusing to see Chamisa for whom he is - corrupt, incompetent and a liar and not the infallible demigod they want him to be. 

What can one do when some one insists the blue sky is green! What is more, they have the vote and there are 2 million of them out there!

Is Zimbabwe going to have rigged elections in 2028? Alas! Yes! W Mukori

 “Is Zimbabwe heading for yet another rigged elections in 2028?”

That is a very good and relevant question.

“Yes!” Is the simple and honest answer. 

Mnangagwa and Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 2023 elections. All the election observers including SADC and AU have condemned Zimbabwe’s 2023 election process as “flawed and illegal”. 

“The SEOM (SADC Election Observer Mission) noted that, as detailed in sections 6 and 7 of this report, some aspects of the Harmonised Elections fell short of the requirements of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, the Electoral Act, and the SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections (2021),” stated the SEOM 2023 report.

Alas! Zimbabwe has not implemented even one token democratic reform since the 2023 elections and there is very little hope of any reforms being implemented before the 2028 elections. The election ground rules have not change and there is nothing to suggest three main protagonists in this national political drama will behave any differently than they did in 2023 elections.

Mnangagwa and Zanu PF

Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies’s hunger for absolute political power and the looted wealth it has brought them these last 45 years, is insatiable. Zimbabwe is a failed state, 45 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption have left the country in economic ruins. All talk of economic revival, much less the Vision 2030, is just that - talk, hot air. Everyone in Zanu PF knows free, fair and credible elections is a luxury they cannot afford.

Zanu PF will never implement any democratic reforms to ensure 2028 elections are free, fair and credible. Never!

Nelson Chamisa and his fellow opposition sellouts

Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC colleagues had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms and thus end the Zanu PF dictatorship during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Mugabe bribed them with the trappings of high office and in return they forgot about the reforms. And ever since the GNU debacle the MDC/CCC sell outs have participated in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. And they have know this to be so all along!

“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.

Millions of brain-dead opposition supporters

MDC/CCCC leaders have sold out on implementing reforms and got away with it because the party had the great fortune in having millions of party supporters who have no clue what the opposition leaders were elected to do. They did not know what the democratic changes, reforms, the nation was dying for were much less that the 2008 to 2013 GNU offered the best opportune to get the reform implemented. And so they have never understood that MDC/CCC leaders sold out in failing to implement even one token reform during the GNU. 

Chamisa & co. have likewise taken advantage of their supporters’ ignorance and naivety to con them to participate in flawed and illegal elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy, opposition leaders a few gravy train seats whilst perpetuating the dictatorship and the nation’s suffering. 

Chamisa & co. have conned the supporters with idiotic lies of having winning in rigged elections strategies (wires). These supporters have believed this lies even after 45 years of Zanu PF rigging elections; they are more than insane, they are brain-dead. 

Chamisa took a sabbatical leave from politics last January and has just returned to active politics. It is as clear as day that millions of his Chamisa chete chete brigade members will believe his next idiotic wires lies and participate in the flawed 2028 elections. 

Conclusion

Zimbabwe is a failed state, stuck with this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF regime and its equally corrupt and useless MDC/CCC opposition side-kick for 45 years and counting. And all because we have failed to define what constitute free and fair elections in this day and age. Of course, we deserve to suffer and, until we learn, we will suffer.

Mankind has the intellectual potential to move from primeval level of "Dominate or be dominated" not all will make it! W Mukori

 

Rule of law, Civilisation

Supreme law: Do unto others as have them do unto you

Level 2: (Democracy)

Regression

Lost wisdom, laziness, fear, tyranny, etc.

Acquired knowledge, courage, etc.

Ignorance and chaos, Primeval    Only law: Dominate or be dominated

Level 1: (Dictatorship)

Mankind operate at either level 1 Primeval, the default                              level, others have progressed to level 2, civilisation.

 

  

  

Our No. 1 task is ending curse of rigged elections. "Love is the missing essential," said Chamisa. How so? W Mukori

 Zimbabwe is a failed state blundering from pillar to post. Why? Well, one of the reasons for the blundering from pillar to post is our failure to pay attention to detail. We blunder from pillar to post very often repeating the same mistakes over and over again because we did not learn from the past. 

Detail matters! Detail is everything!

The people of Zimbabwe have risked livelihoods, limbs and even lives to elect MDC/CCC leaders into power these last 25 years on the understanding these leaders would implement the required democratic changes, reforms, to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. The MDC leaders had the best chance to do this during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. 

Anyone paying attention to detail KNEW then that the 2008 to 2013 GNU offered the best opportunity ever for Zimbabwe to implement the democratic reforms the nation had been dying for. Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends, the banded mongooses, failed to implement even one token reform in five years of the GNU. Not even one!

Robert Mugabe bribed the mongooses with the trapping of high office; E-Class Mercedes Benz for all the deputy Ministers, Ministers, deputy Prime Ministers and Prime Minister Tsvangirai, generous salaries and allowances all round, a mUS$4 m mansion for Tsvangirai himself, etc., etc. In return the MDC leaders throw the reforms out of the window. 

“Mazivanhu eMDC adzidza kudya anyerere!” (MDC leaders have learned to enjoy the gravy train good life, [they will not rock the boat])! boasted Zanu PF cronies when asked why MDC leaders were not implementing the reforms during the GNU.

It is disappointing to note that many Zimbabweans out there had no clue what the democratic reforms were about much less that the primary purpose of the GNU was to implement the reforms. Even now, with the benefit of hindsight many still have no clue MDC leaders sold out big time by failing to implement even one toke reform during the GNU.

Ever since the GNU debacle MDC/CCC leaders have abandoned implementing reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections arguing they have devised Winning In Rigged Elections Strategies (WIRES). They have stubbornly refused to give details of what these strategies, arguing doing so would forewarn the vote rigging Zanu PF. 

The tragedy for Zimbabwe is that millions of Zimbabweans believed these idiotic WIRES and were conned again and again into participating in these flawed elections only to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the nation’s suffering. It is the failure to pay attention to detail that has made millions of Zimbabweans sitting ducks, conned into one foolish thing after another. 

Zimbabweans should have taken MDC leaders to task for failing to implement even one token reform during the GNU. They did not because they had no clue what the reforms are much less that the primary purpose of the GNU was to implement reforms. 

When MDC/CCC leaders abandoned implementing in favour of WIRES the people should have taken these leaders to task each time Zanu PF blatantly rigged the elections - proof the strategies had not worked. The MDC/CCC admitted Zanu PF rigged the elections but have never ever admitted to having lied about having strategies to stop Zanu PF rigging. 

Zimbabwe is a failed state and all because for 45 years and counting the nation has been stuck with this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. The regime has rigged elections to stay in power. The curse of rigged elections and bad governance is the number one problem on national agenda - nothing can ever be accomplished until we cure ourselves of this curse. 

Will yet another dose of WIRES end the curse of bad governance?

Here is Nelson Chamisa’s latest WIRES offering. "A new nation founded on love - Zimbabwe shall be a new and great nation governed by love, truth and justice, not hate, violence, lies, deceit and corruption," he said. "Love is the missing essential! Love is the foundation.”

The bottom line is Chamisa would want Zimbabweans to participate in the 2028 elections with not even one token democratic reform implemented confident Chamisa and his new political party will win the flawed elections because Chamisa will inject the essential ingredient we have lacked all along - LOVE. 

Detail matters and so one must ask Chamisa: How exactly is love going to stop Zanu PF rigging elections? Surely it is insane to participate in yet another election process, “so flawed, so illegal the only logical step is to withdraw,“ as David Coltart aptly put it. 

So, it has taken Chamisa 25 years before he realised the new Zimbabwe he was promising the nation up to now had no foundation! All these “#Godisinit!” were all lies because God would never ever be in a hare-brain scheme build a house with no foundation! 

Chamisa & Co.’s WIRES are just idiotic excuses to justify participating in flawed elections out of greed. They have got away with these idiotic lies only because the people themselves were not paying attention to detail. WIRES has not worked and will never ever work, we should have the common sense of finally acknowledge that and move on.

Zimbabweans must revert to the original and common sense solution of implementing the democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections. Just because MDC/CCC leaders have sold out on reforms does not mean we do not need reforms and/or that there is no one else competent to implement the reforms. 

The immediate task is to stop participating in flawed elections conned to do so by idiotic WIRES lies. If Zimbabweans do not participate in the flawed 2028 elections in their millions as in the past they will deny Zanu PF legitimacy and thus forcing the nation into a new GNU arrangement. This time an attentive populous will ensure all the democratic reforms are implemented. 

Zimbabwe is a failed state. So, who will care for the carers when they are old? W Mukori

 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? "Who will guard the guards themselves?" or "Who will watch the watchmen?” Asked Roman poet Juvenal.

Zimbabwe is a failed state because we, as a nation have failed to answer the question: Who will guard the leaders (guardians) if they should become corrupt? Zimbabwe is a failed state because our corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical leaders have become the runaway freight train. 

Millions of Zimbabweans have left the country as economic and or political refugees. Many have accepted the low paying wages and are living from hand to mouth. We have become a nation living from hand to mouth. 

By failing to deal with the curse of rigged elections and bad governance we have created an even worse problem for ourselves - we live for the day like a fruit-fly.    

To paraphrase Juvenal; Quis curam habebit curatorum cum senes erunt? “Who will care for the carers when they are old?”

The problem of restoring the people’s power to hold leaders to democratic account is one Zimbabweans must address with the sense of urgency the matter demands. As long as the leaders retain their carte blanche power to rig elections and get away with it, Zimbabwe will remain a failed state sinking deeper and deeper into the economic and political abyss.