@SD
“Mugabe's values and ethos rubbed off me and within 30yrs, I managed to sail through O-Levels, A-Levels, 3 University degrees, am a professional Chartered Accountant and as we speak I am finishing off my PhD.” Yes I can see Mugabe’s values and ethos have definitely rubbed of on you. For a start it is said Mugabe has seven University Degrees, and has received countless honorary ones. You two will have plenty to boost about! I am talking about the dehumanising suffering of ordinary Zimbabweans here and see nothing for Mugabe to boost about.
SD did you know that the education system in Zimbabwe has all but collapsed following years of poor funding? Mugabe had no money for the country’s education, health, prisons and all the other essential public services but had money to buy luxuries for the country’s ruling elite. There was a story in the Zimbabwe Times in 2008 announcing the closure of the Medical School at Parerenyatwa Hospital; the next story was of Mercedes Benz, new Villa furnished new Plasma TV, etc the regime had bought/built for Zimbabwe’s Judges.
The same year students in government institutions across the country had spent a total of 23 days in school! No doubt, you, SD, would have “sailed” through O-Levels, etc. regardless; but you should also consider those who are not as clever as you. Taking out a whole academic year has caused serious harm to the education of a whole generation. If it was not for outside donors – mainly from the former colonial countries you hate with such a consuming passion - our school and hospitals will still be closed.
Life expectancy, the universally accepted acid test of how well a nation is doing, in 1980 was 65 years compared to 34 years in 2005. Again, if it was not for the foreign donors looking after AIDS victims, prisoners, etc. things would be even worse in Zimbabwe today.
I am a black Zimbabwean and I felt the white discrimination and oppression just as keenly as every other black person. I was very proud to see Zimbabwe gain its independence and proudly acknowledge the heroic contributions of leaders like Mugabe. What people like you SD, Sullivan, all the other Mugabe cronies and, above all, Mugabe himself want the world to see the struggle against colonialism and NOTHING ELSE. Important as the heroic struggle to end colonial rule was, it was not ALL the people wanted.
The people dreamt of freedom, life with dignity and economic prosperity. Today, millions of our people are living in abject poverty because of the economic melt down following years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. Our people have been denied the same freedoms and rights that the whites denied blacks before independence. These are the issues Africa should be talking about and will!
Mugabe and his cronies are riding rough shod over the people’s dreams, hopes and their very lives; we can not pretend this is not happening. It is not me who is in denial but all those who trying to blame colonialism for Africa’s woes. This is a fight pitting darkness against light, rhetoric against reason; be rest assured the tide has turned light and reason are definitely beginning to prevail!
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@Neville Sullivan
I do not know which village “outside of the Colonial HQ in the capital had nothing, no running water, no electricity, nothing” you are talking about. But I do know that in 1980 almost all the suburbs in all the cities and towns in Zimbabwe had electricity and running water. That is not so today. You must have heard of Zimbabwe’s erratic electricity and water supply. In the last ten years it has become the norm for consumers, domestic as well as industrial, right in the heart of Harare and Bulawayo to have power supply for two hours or less a day!
Two years ago over 4 000 Zimbabweans died of Cholera because there was no clean running water for people. If outside donors had not stepped in the death toll would have been a lot higher.
Monday, 5 July 2010
Saturday, 3 July 2010
GERMAN NATIONAL'S HIS FARM IS LOOTED: MUGABE'S WILL IS LAW!
Mugabe and his cronies must have fallen out of the chairs and cried with laughter when they first heard that Germany will cut humanitarian aid to Zimbabwe in response to the seizure and looting of Heinrich von Pezold’s farm. The move will not hurt the dictator and his cronies in any way; it will make their job of controlling the Zimbabwe voters that much easier!
The key to Mugabe and Zanu PF’s iron grip on power and his total controls every facet of human activity in Zimbabwe is that he be above the law. Mugabe is fetish about upholding the law when it suits him only to contemptuously disregard the same law when it does not. The right to own property, the right to a meaningful free vote and even the right to life itself; they are rights only if Mugabe says so. In other words, they are privileges that he can give and withhold as he sees fit. Mugabe and his cronies are not subject to any national or international laws, they are above the law. Mugabe’s will is THE supreme law in the land.
It was Mugabe’s will to seize and loot all white-owned farms in Zimbabwe – it suited him in that he needed the farms to buy the blind loyalty of his cronies and as a smoke screen to hide his ruthless political repression of the Zimbabweans. Heinrich von Pezold may be a German national and Zimbabwe and Germany may have signed an agreement protecting Pezold’s property rights, etc. All that count for nothing when weighed against Mugabe’s will!
Mugabe has left no stone unturned in his drive to ensure he and Zanu PF has totally control of every facet of Zimbabweans’ lives. Thus it is a well known fact that all NGOs, for example, must handover the aid to Zanu PF leaders or, at the very least, distribute using the party’s structure. In 2008 Mugabe stopped a lot of the humanitarian aid reaching the needy to remind the voters of his overwhelming power over them. By cutting it humanitarian aid to independent NGOs, Germany will only reducing the number of NGOs Zanu PF has to police.
It is Mugabe’s years of mismanagement and corruption that has left 80% of Zimbabweans destitute and dependent on aid. By tightly controlling who gets the aid, it is Mugabe who is “cashing” in on the economic melt down and the nation’s misery. And Germany is helping him in that.
If Germany really wanted to expresses its displeasure with Mugabe’s contempt for the rule of law then there are other more effective ways of doing so. Germany and the West can turn the screw on Mugabe by extending the targeted sanctions beyond Mugabe and the 203 of his cronies to include the next tier of the Zanu PF ruling elite and their families and by policing the sanctions closely. Many of those on the sanctions list have their children studying and living in the Europe and North America after a simple act of changing the name on their passport, for example.
The West has always had the option of cutting aid to those nations propping up Mugabe. They must do so now.
After the sham elections of 2008 the West had good reasons to view Zimbabwe’s GNU as a white-washed Zanu PF dictatorship. Still, the West did nothing to pressure Mugabe to change giving Tsvangirai the benefit of the doubt that the GNU would bring about democratic change in Zimbabwe. It is clear the dictator had no intention of sharing power with Tsvangirai or bringing about any meaningful change.
The wealth from the Marange diamonds has become the wind under Mugabe’s wings; he is it to buy his cronies’ continued blind loyalty and to build a war-chest in preparations for Zimbabwe’s next elections. The GNU’s failure to bring about any meaningful economic recovery will only mean Zimbabweans will redouble their efforts to end Mugabe’s tyrannical rule. To “win” Mugabe will resort to brutal repression, worse than that used in 2008; he has money to pay for it. The West has always handled Mugabe with kid gloves; it is high time Mugabe is acknowledged as a ruthless dictator he is and treated accordingly. The scene is set for Mugabe be commit one of the worst man-made human tragedy in modern history; the West can stop him if only they had the political will to do so!
The key to Mugabe and Zanu PF’s iron grip on power and his total controls every facet of human activity in Zimbabwe is that he be above the law. Mugabe is fetish about upholding the law when it suits him only to contemptuously disregard the same law when it does not. The right to own property, the right to a meaningful free vote and even the right to life itself; they are rights only if Mugabe says so. In other words, they are privileges that he can give and withhold as he sees fit. Mugabe and his cronies are not subject to any national or international laws, they are above the law. Mugabe’s will is THE supreme law in the land.
It was Mugabe’s will to seize and loot all white-owned farms in Zimbabwe – it suited him in that he needed the farms to buy the blind loyalty of his cronies and as a smoke screen to hide his ruthless political repression of the Zimbabweans. Heinrich von Pezold may be a German national and Zimbabwe and Germany may have signed an agreement protecting Pezold’s property rights, etc. All that count for nothing when weighed against Mugabe’s will!
Mugabe has left no stone unturned in his drive to ensure he and Zanu PF has totally control of every facet of Zimbabweans’ lives. Thus it is a well known fact that all NGOs, for example, must handover the aid to Zanu PF leaders or, at the very least, distribute using the party’s structure. In 2008 Mugabe stopped a lot of the humanitarian aid reaching the needy to remind the voters of his overwhelming power over them. By cutting it humanitarian aid to independent NGOs, Germany will only reducing the number of NGOs Zanu PF has to police.
It is Mugabe’s years of mismanagement and corruption that has left 80% of Zimbabweans destitute and dependent on aid. By tightly controlling who gets the aid, it is Mugabe who is “cashing” in on the economic melt down and the nation’s misery. And Germany is helping him in that.
If Germany really wanted to expresses its displeasure with Mugabe’s contempt for the rule of law then there are other more effective ways of doing so. Germany and the West can turn the screw on Mugabe by extending the targeted sanctions beyond Mugabe and the 203 of his cronies to include the next tier of the Zanu PF ruling elite and their families and by policing the sanctions closely. Many of those on the sanctions list have their children studying and living in the Europe and North America after a simple act of changing the name on their passport, for example.
The West has always had the option of cutting aid to those nations propping up Mugabe. They must do so now.
After the sham elections of 2008 the West had good reasons to view Zimbabwe’s GNU as a white-washed Zanu PF dictatorship. Still, the West did nothing to pressure Mugabe to change giving Tsvangirai the benefit of the doubt that the GNU would bring about democratic change in Zimbabwe. It is clear the dictator had no intention of sharing power with Tsvangirai or bringing about any meaningful change.
The wealth from the Marange diamonds has become the wind under Mugabe’s wings; he is it to buy his cronies’ continued blind loyalty and to build a war-chest in preparations for Zimbabwe’s next elections. The GNU’s failure to bring about any meaningful economic recovery will only mean Zimbabweans will redouble their efforts to end Mugabe’s tyrannical rule. To “win” Mugabe will resort to brutal repression, worse than that used in 2008; he has money to pay for it. The West has always handled Mugabe with kid gloves; it is high time Mugabe is acknowledged as a ruthless dictator he is and treated accordingly. The scene is set for Mugabe be commit one of the worst man-made human tragedy in modern history; the West can stop him if only they had the political will to do so!
Friday, 2 July 2010
MUGABE THUGS INVADE A GERMANY NATIONAL'S FARM: WEST NEED A ROBUST RESPONSE TO END MUGABE'S LAWLESSNESS!
Germany is threatening to cancel all aid to Zimbabwe following the seizure of a white owned farm belonging to a Germany national by Mugabe thugs. Mugabe propagandists were quick to tell Germany, Zimbabwe does not need the aid.
It is all very well for Mugabe and his cronies to say that, they do not depend on aid. It is a different kettle of fish for the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans who are now totally dependent on it.
Only last month UNSEF stepped in to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of Zimbabwean children because the Zimbabwe government did not have the funds to carry out this important duty. Funny enough the same government had just spent US$10 million renovating the National Stadium and a few weeks later paid Brazil US$1.5 million to play football there.
Aid from the West has been used for basic necessities such as food and medicines. It is ironic that as many as 80% of Zimbabweans should be dependent on imported food aid when the country used to be the biggest exporter of food before the land redistribution programme, Mugabe thinks so highly of.
“Which country had its economy built on aid?” asked a Mugabe loyalist. I do know that aid constitute a significant part of many countries, especially in Africa. I also know that after Zimbabwe’s economic melt down; we will need aid to rebuild our economy. But I do not expect you to acknowledge these economic realities; you do not care about the ordinary people to whom aid means life and death.
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The West and the world at large have treated Mugabe with kid gloves for far too long. It is about time that the world put its foot down. What is happening in Zimbabwe is the machinations of the dictator riding rough shod over the white farmers, his political opponents and defenceless civilians for one purpose and one purpose only – to retain political power at all cost.
Mugabe has used the white farmers as a cover to hide his forced acquisition of their land and to give his cronies as a reward for their blind loyalty and support. Zimbabwe’s economic melt down was triggered by this reckless and selfish behaviour by Mugabe. Not even his cronies have benefited from this since they did not have the commitment or ability to make productive use of the farms. It is the ordinary people who have paid the highest price for this failed land redistribution programme.
There are but a few white farms left now, Mugabe is keeping up the pressure on this because it suits his anti-white rhetoric itself an important smokescreen for political repression. Mugabe has his beady eyes on the Marange diamonds as the source of money to bride his ever demanding cronies and to bankroll the coming elections. In 2008 elections Gideon Gono had bankrolled that election from money looted from other people’s bank accounts held by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.
Mugabe does not care about the property rights of the white farmers, international law and norms; the basic rights of ordinary Zimbabweans and their right to life itself. He stopped caring about all that a long time ago; he crossed the Rubicon a long, long time ago. It is high time countries like Germany, the West realised that and treat Mugabe accordingly!
It is all very well for Mugabe and his cronies to say that, they do not depend on aid. It is a different kettle of fish for the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans who are now totally dependent on it.
Only last month UNSEF stepped in to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of Zimbabwean children because the Zimbabwe government did not have the funds to carry out this important duty. Funny enough the same government had just spent US$10 million renovating the National Stadium and a few weeks later paid Brazil US$1.5 million to play football there.
Aid from the West has been used for basic necessities such as food and medicines. It is ironic that as many as 80% of Zimbabweans should be dependent on imported food aid when the country used to be the biggest exporter of food before the land redistribution programme, Mugabe thinks so highly of.
“Which country had its economy built on aid?” asked a Mugabe loyalist. I do know that aid constitute a significant part of many countries, especially in Africa. I also know that after Zimbabwe’s economic melt down; we will need aid to rebuild our economy. But I do not expect you to acknowledge these economic realities; you do not care about the ordinary people to whom aid means life and death.
6666
The West and the world at large have treated Mugabe with kid gloves for far too long. It is about time that the world put its foot down. What is happening in Zimbabwe is the machinations of the dictator riding rough shod over the white farmers, his political opponents and defenceless civilians for one purpose and one purpose only – to retain political power at all cost.
Mugabe has used the white farmers as a cover to hide his forced acquisition of their land and to give his cronies as a reward for their blind loyalty and support. Zimbabwe’s economic melt down was triggered by this reckless and selfish behaviour by Mugabe. Not even his cronies have benefited from this since they did not have the commitment or ability to make productive use of the farms. It is the ordinary people who have paid the highest price for this failed land redistribution programme.
There are but a few white farms left now, Mugabe is keeping up the pressure on this because it suits his anti-white rhetoric itself an important smokescreen for political repression. Mugabe has his beady eyes on the Marange diamonds as the source of money to bride his ever demanding cronies and to bankroll the coming elections. In 2008 elections Gideon Gono had bankrolled that election from money looted from other people’s bank accounts held by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.
Mugabe does not care about the property rights of the white farmers, international law and norms; the basic rights of ordinary Zimbabweans and their right to life itself. He stopped caring about all that a long time ago; he crossed the Rubicon a long, long time ago. It is high time countries like Germany, the West realised that and treat Mugabe accordingly!
Thursday, 1 July 2010
WE NEED A DISCERNING ELECTORATE: NOTHING CAN EVER BE ACHIEVED IN ZIMBABWE UNTIL THEN!
@Fungayi
Starting another political party is clearly not the panacea to Zimbabwe’s political and economic problems. You have just listed 12 parties that have been formed in Zimbabwe in the last 30 years alone, just short on a new political party every two years. And yet Zimbabwe’s problems very got worse not better.
By the way, the same problem can be seen in other areas too. Take education for example; I have lost count of how many universities we now have in Zimbabwe chaining out thousands of new graduates but, sadly, most of them ill educated. This is not the students, they are as keen as mustard to learn. But how can they do so when the institution is so poorly funded that it has neither the equipment nor the staff.
Thirty years of totalitarian rule has had an adverse effect on the nation’s psycho, we have become obsessed about quantity and forgot quality. The political parties have all failed because the few competent individuals have welcomed all deadwood and rubbish in their midst just to make up the quantity. “Kukuvarira zvose mavhu namarara!” as one would say in Shona.
And we, the electorate have done no better ourselves because we have welcome each one of the twelve political parties with open arms.
What Zimbabwe needs above all else is a discerning electorate one that can distinguish quality leaders from the rubbish that now in power. That is where I come in, to encourage Zimbabweans to open their minds, to ask the difficult questions of themselves and those aspiring to be leaders and to think for themselves! I have also taken it upon myself to ensure the all them rats who have made our lives a misery for the last thirty years are hunted down and hanged. You have to admit it Fungayi; that is definitely a lot more challenging and fulfilling than being an acolyte of a demented dictator!
@ Alex Nhando
I agree with you that Tsvangirai is “brave”. Yes he stood up to confront the ruthless and brutal dictator, Mugabe, when no one else would.
Alex, the exact same sentiment were said about Mugabe soon after independence. He was a national hero per excellence, alright for he too confronted an equally ruthless and brutal white colonial regime. What did we do? We went and placed Mugabe on a pedestal and worshiped him like a God who could do no wrong. Naturally Mugabe took full advantage of that and undermined the judiciary system, the Police, media and all the country’s democratic institutions so he could have absolute power. He systematically eroded our individual basic human rights, the right to have a meaningful say in the governance of the country and ultimately the right to life. Anyone who dared complain about the mismanagement of the nation, the corruption or the growing repression was labelled a counter revolutionary or a puppet.
Mugabe will never tie of reminding us of his heroic contribution in our war of independence and of his continued heroic stand against those threatening our freedom and sovereignty. The tragic truth we are not free and all our pre-independence dream of freedom, peace, liberty and economic prosperity have all been shattered.
Whilst it is true that Mugabe has always wanted absolute power, it must also be said that by placing him on the pedestal and treat him as someone who can do no wrong we made it ease for him to be a dictator. Sadly we seem to have learnt nothing from that because we are again doing the same thing with Tsvangirai.
Let talk about how Tsvangirai got Mugabe off the hook by signing the GPA after the sham elections of 2008; just one of Tsvangirai’s many blunders. The worst person like you Alex have said about it is that he “is not perfect”. Is that all? Here is a monumental blunder that has set us back ten years in our fight for democratic change, will post pone the much hope for economic recovery, will cost hundreds more of innocent lives because Mugabe has another chance to use violence to win another election, etc.
Why are you reminding me that Tsvangirai was brave to confront Mugabe in the first place? Because you can not talk of the present without talking of the past; and thus tying yourself up in knots.
Tsvangirai was the brave leader MDC needed from 1999 to 2005 or 2008 at the latest. After that he was making too many blunders, it was time for him to go and let someone else take over. By the same token Mugabe was the courageous leader the nation needed during the war of independence and five years after independence. After that Mugabe had ran out of ideas and thus resorted to force to retain power.
The British regard Winston Churchill as a great Second World War hero and yet they voted him out at the very first post war election because the people believed the great man’s idea of where to go next did not appeal to them. You elect someone on the basis of what they will do today and tomorrow not on what they did in the past! In a free and fair election the electorate have the chance to access all the contesting candidates and then cast their vote without fear of what the losing candidate might do next.
Alex there is a lot more to democracy than blind allegiance to a past hero! Think about it.
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@Fungayi
“Wilbert Mukori you asked what will happen to me? The answer is simple, I will remain a Zimbabwean expressing my views as I see fit. As for Zanu PF crumbling, dream on!” You say. No Fungayi it is you who is dreaming.
After the sham presidential run-off in June 2008 the international community refused to recognise Mugabe as the Zimbabwe’s “legitimate” head of state. Even the Hear-Nothing, See-Nothing and Say-Nothing AU Election Observer Team condemned the run-off as a farce for its sheer brutality. What made it worse is that the Police, Army, CIO and other Security Agencies were not only doing nothing to stop the violence but were actually spear heading it!
I know you and Mugabe keep harping on about the sanction being responsible for Zimbabwe’s economic collapse. The true cause of Zimbabwe’s economic melt down is mismanagement and rampant corruption. Mugabe has “privatised” Zimbabwe in that he commandeered the nation’s wealth and resources for the exclusive of himself and his cronies (bride for their blind loyalty to him) at the expense of public good. Whilst schools and hospitals were closing for lack of funds Mugabe and his cronies driving around in the latest models of Hammer and Mercedes Benz. Was it the sanctions that stopped government buying medicines and paying teachers whilst spending billions on the latest models of Hammers and Mercedes Benz? The people are not that stupid.
The over zealous Zanu PF Youth and Women League members were among the last to see Zanu PF for the what it is a corrupt and repressive regime. And when the penny finally dropped they deserted the party in droves. In the past Mugabe had depended on them to do the dirty work of intimidating and terrorising the electorate. In 2008 Mugabe had to dig deep and use the Police, Army, etc.
It was ease to see why the top brass in the State Security Organs have aligned themselves with Zanu PF; they have all had a share of the loot and, worse still, many of them have the innocent blood of the hundreds of thousands murdered by the regime to establish this de facto one-party state.
One of 2009 Zanu PF Congress resolution was to force all State Security Organs to align themselves to Zanu PF and put the party’s selfish interest above public good and the nation. No nation worth its salt can ever accept that and so every Police Commanding Officer and Army General have to square this circle for themselves. The rank and file know this is not right; it was them who reported how they were forced to vote for Mugabe in June 2008.
Fungayi Mugabe will never win a free and fair election in Zimbabwe; that is a fact. So his only way out is to use violence again, probably worse than that used in 2008 to be sure. Even if he can talk Tsvangirai or whoever to form another GNU, I do not think even SADC will stomach that!
No Fungayi, Mugabe’s days in State House are numbered alright, Zanu PF is crumbling. Take it from me, that is a given. So ask you once again, what will happen to you?
Starting another political party is clearly not the panacea to Zimbabwe’s political and economic problems. You have just listed 12 parties that have been formed in Zimbabwe in the last 30 years alone, just short on a new political party every two years. And yet Zimbabwe’s problems very got worse not better.
By the way, the same problem can be seen in other areas too. Take education for example; I have lost count of how many universities we now have in Zimbabwe chaining out thousands of new graduates but, sadly, most of them ill educated. This is not the students, they are as keen as mustard to learn. But how can they do so when the institution is so poorly funded that it has neither the equipment nor the staff.
Thirty years of totalitarian rule has had an adverse effect on the nation’s psycho, we have become obsessed about quantity and forgot quality. The political parties have all failed because the few competent individuals have welcomed all deadwood and rubbish in their midst just to make up the quantity. “Kukuvarira zvose mavhu namarara!” as one would say in Shona.
And we, the electorate have done no better ourselves because we have welcome each one of the twelve political parties with open arms.
What Zimbabwe needs above all else is a discerning electorate one that can distinguish quality leaders from the rubbish that now in power. That is where I come in, to encourage Zimbabweans to open their minds, to ask the difficult questions of themselves and those aspiring to be leaders and to think for themselves! I have also taken it upon myself to ensure the all them rats who have made our lives a misery for the last thirty years are hunted down and hanged. You have to admit it Fungayi; that is definitely a lot more challenging and fulfilling than being an acolyte of a demented dictator!
@ Alex Nhando
I agree with you that Tsvangirai is “brave”. Yes he stood up to confront the ruthless and brutal dictator, Mugabe, when no one else would.
Alex, the exact same sentiment were said about Mugabe soon after independence. He was a national hero per excellence, alright for he too confronted an equally ruthless and brutal white colonial regime. What did we do? We went and placed Mugabe on a pedestal and worshiped him like a God who could do no wrong. Naturally Mugabe took full advantage of that and undermined the judiciary system, the Police, media and all the country’s democratic institutions so he could have absolute power. He systematically eroded our individual basic human rights, the right to have a meaningful say in the governance of the country and ultimately the right to life. Anyone who dared complain about the mismanagement of the nation, the corruption or the growing repression was labelled a counter revolutionary or a puppet.
Mugabe will never tie of reminding us of his heroic contribution in our war of independence and of his continued heroic stand against those threatening our freedom and sovereignty. The tragic truth we are not free and all our pre-independence dream of freedom, peace, liberty and economic prosperity have all been shattered.
Whilst it is true that Mugabe has always wanted absolute power, it must also be said that by placing him on the pedestal and treat him as someone who can do no wrong we made it ease for him to be a dictator. Sadly we seem to have learnt nothing from that because we are again doing the same thing with Tsvangirai.
Let talk about how Tsvangirai got Mugabe off the hook by signing the GPA after the sham elections of 2008; just one of Tsvangirai’s many blunders. The worst person like you Alex have said about it is that he “is not perfect”. Is that all? Here is a monumental blunder that has set us back ten years in our fight for democratic change, will post pone the much hope for economic recovery, will cost hundreds more of innocent lives because Mugabe has another chance to use violence to win another election, etc.
Why are you reminding me that Tsvangirai was brave to confront Mugabe in the first place? Because you can not talk of the present without talking of the past; and thus tying yourself up in knots.
Tsvangirai was the brave leader MDC needed from 1999 to 2005 or 2008 at the latest. After that he was making too many blunders, it was time for him to go and let someone else take over. By the same token Mugabe was the courageous leader the nation needed during the war of independence and five years after independence. After that Mugabe had ran out of ideas and thus resorted to force to retain power.
The British regard Winston Churchill as a great Second World War hero and yet they voted him out at the very first post war election because the people believed the great man’s idea of where to go next did not appeal to them. You elect someone on the basis of what they will do today and tomorrow not on what they did in the past! In a free and fair election the electorate have the chance to access all the contesting candidates and then cast their vote without fear of what the losing candidate might do next.
Alex there is a lot more to democracy than blind allegiance to a past hero! Think about it.
666
@Fungayi
“Wilbert Mukori you asked what will happen to me? The answer is simple, I will remain a Zimbabwean expressing my views as I see fit. As for Zanu PF crumbling, dream on!” You say. No Fungayi it is you who is dreaming.
After the sham presidential run-off in June 2008 the international community refused to recognise Mugabe as the Zimbabwe’s “legitimate” head of state. Even the Hear-Nothing, See-Nothing and Say-Nothing AU Election Observer Team condemned the run-off as a farce for its sheer brutality. What made it worse is that the Police, Army, CIO and other Security Agencies were not only doing nothing to stop the violence but were actually spear heading it!
I know you and Mugabe keep harping on about the sanction being responsible for Zimbabwe’s economic collapse. The true cause of Zimbabwe’s economic melt down is mismanagement and rampant corruption. Mugabe has “privatised” Zimbabwe in that he commandeered the nation’s wealth and resources for the exclusive of himself and his cronies (bride for their blind loyalty to him) at the expense of public good. Whilst schools and hospitals were closing for lack of funds Mugabe and his cronies driving around in the latest models of Hammer and Mercedes Benz. Was it the sanctions that stopped government buying medicines and paying teachers whilst spending billions on the latest models of Hammers and Mercedes Benz? The people are not that stupid.
The over zealous Zanu PF Youth and Women League members were among the last to see Zanu PF for the what it is a corrupt and repressive regime. And when the penny finally dropped they deserted the party in droves. In the past Mugabe had depended on them to do the dirty work of intimidating and terrorising the electorate. In 2008 Mugabe had to dig deep and use the Police, Army, etc.
It was ease to see why the top brass in the State Security Organs have aligned themselves with Zanu PF; they have all had a share of the loot and, worse still, many of them have the innocent blood of the hundreds of thousands murdered by the regime to establish this de facto one-party state.
One of 2009 Zanu PF Congress resolution was to force all State Security Organs to align themselves to Zanu PF and put the party’s selfish interest above public good and the nation. No nation worth its salt can ever accept that and so every Police Commanding Officer and Army General have to square this circle for themselves. The rank and file know this is not right; it was them who reported how they were forced to vote for Mugabe in June 2008.
Fungayi Mugabe will never win a free and fair election in Zimbabwe; that is a fact. So his only way out is to use violence again, probably worse than that used in 2008 to be sure. Even if he can talk Tsvangirai or whoever to form another GNU, I do not think even SADC will stomach that!
No Fungayi, Mugabe’s days in State House are numbered alright, Zanu PF is crumbling. Take it from me, that is a given. So ask you once again, what will happen to you?
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
ONLY 0.001% ZIMBABWEANS ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT ENDING OPPRESSION: NO WONDER MUGABE REMAINS STRONG!
@Alex Nhando
I agree, people like Fungayi, George Charamba, Professor Jonathan Moyo and many others have made a nice living as propagandists of Mugabe's dictatorial regime. Their have belittled the suffering of the masses and have stubbornly refused to even acknowledge the serious human rights violations by the regime thugs. They have twisted the truth of how the ruling elite have looted the nation’s resources to the point where schools and hospitals have had to close insisting this is indigenisation and that the masses will benefit.
They have had unlimited access to The Herald, The Chronicle and all Zimbabwe’s radio and TV stations to spread their lies. I will be damned if I will let them take over the M&G and the few independent media. But if the truth be told, Fungayi, John Berry, Dread Dread6, etc. can rightly claim that they have taken over the M&G. At the very least, they have succeeded in disrupting all meaningful debate.
There must be at least 4 million Zimbabweans in the Diaspora, at least 10% have access to the internet and you hope that at least 1% them, - we are down to 4 000 – would be interested in what is happening back in Zimbabwe. And that they would be outraged to read the nonsense people like Fungayi have been saying. You would be luck if there are 40 Zimbabweans – 0.001% - out there who have shown as little as a passing interest. On this site it has been mainly none Zimbabweans who have taken Fungayi to task.
The internet was a God-sent tool for Zimbabweans to contract Mugabe’s struggle hold on Zimbabwe’s media. But with a take-off of 0.001%, Mugabe has nothing to worry about.
Talk of entertainment; didindi, the WC, etc. and many Zimbabweans will be wide awake with plenty to say. They have endured power cuts for tens years without a memoir but were up in arms when that happened during the WC.
Mugabe’s dictatorship will not last a week if we, Zimbabweans, showed some passion in the way the nation is government and contemptuous way we are treated by those in power. Yes of course, every Zimbabwean out there will say they want to see democratic change in the country but only 0.001% are passionate about bring about that change!
The danger with having such a dorsal majority is that; even if there was change, many of Mugabe’s cronies, thugs and propagandists will not only keep their loot and get away with their the murderous past but will go on to occupy key positions in the new administration. That is exactly what has happened with the GNU.
So Alex, you and me should not be concerned about being shouted down by the likes of Fungayi. We should be concerned that they are so few of us who bother.
“Tsvangirai is our Mandela, and like Mandela he is not perfect, but he offers Zimbabweans hope because we know he at least acts with his country (and not his bank account) in mind.” If you have been following the blunder after blunder Tsvangirai has made, you not say that. The nation is desperate for change still we must have the courage to question and never to follow blindly. It was the same blind loyalty to Mugabe that has landed us in this mess; that is lesson one of the last thirty years. There is evidence that there are a few Zimbabweans who have learnt that lesson and learnt it well other a slow to learn but soon will; so the future is bright!
I agree, people like Fungayi, George Charamba, Professor Jonathan Moyo and many others have made a nice living as propagandists of Mugabe's dictatorial regime. Their have belittled the suffering of the masses and have stubbornly refused to even acknowledge the serious human rights violations by the regime thugs. They have twisted the truth of how the ruling elite have looted the nation’s resources to the point where schools and hospitals have had to close insisting this is indigenisation and that the masses will benefit.
They have had unlimited access to The Herald, The Chronicle and all Zimbabwe’s radio and TV stations to spread their lies. I will be damned if I will let them take over the M&G and the few independent media. But if the truth be told, Fungayi, John Berry, Dread Dread6, etc. can rightly claim that they have taken over the M&G. At the very least, they have succeeded in disrupting all meaningful debate.
There must be at least 4 million Zimbabweans in the Diaspora, at least 10% have access to the internet and you hope that at least 1% them, - we are down to 4 000 – would be interested in what is happening back in Zimbabwe. And that they would be outraged to read the nonsense people like Fungayi have been saying. You would be luck if there are 40 Zimbabweans – 0.001% - out there who have shown as little as a passing interest. On this site it has been mainly none Zimbabweans who have taken Fungayi to task.
The internet was a God-sent tool for Zimbabweans to contract Mugabe’s struggle hold on Zimbabwe’s media. But with a take-off of 0.001%, Mugabe has nothing to worry about.
Talk of entertainment; didindi, the WC, etc. and many Zimbabweans will be wide awake with plenty to say. They have endured power cuts for tens years without a memoir but were up in arms when that happened during the WC.
Mugabe’s dictatorship will not last a week if we, Zimbabweans, showed some passion in the way the nation is government and contemptuous way we are treated by those in power. Yes of course, every Zimbabwean out there will say they want to see democratic change in the country but only 0.001% are passionate about bring about that change!
The danger with having such a dorsal majority is that; even if there was change, many of Mugabe’s cronies, thugs and propagandists will not only keep their loot and get away with their the murderous past but will go on to occupy key positions in the new administration. That is exactly what has happened with the GNU.
So Alex, you and me should not be concerned about being shouted down by the likes of Fungayi. We should be concerned that they are so few of us who bother.
“Tsvangirai is our Mandela, and like Mandela he is not perfect, but he offers Zimbabweans hope because we know he at least acts with his country (and not his bank account) in mind.” If you have been following the blunder after blunder Tsvangirai has made, you not say that. The nation is desperate for change still we must have the courage to question and never to follow blindly. It was the same blind loyalty to Mugabe that has landed us in this mess; that is lesson one of the last thirty years. There is evidence that there are a few Zimbabweans who have learnt that lesson and learnt it well other a slow to learn but soon will; so the future is bright!
Friday, 25 June 2010
REGIME CHANGE - NEVER SAYS MUGABE / NOT IN 1000 YEARS SAID SMITH: HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF!
The Kimberley Process decides not to allow Zimbabwe to trade its diamonds.
Zimbabwe’s diamonds are being a great human cost for the exclusive benefit of the country’s ruling elite. It is right and just that the country should not be allowed to sell its bloody diamonds.
Some things never change. As a child the white colonialists oppressed and exploited blacks and, to add insult to injury, the whites never tired of telling us and the whole world of just how happy we blacks were. The denied us a voice to speak for ourselves. If anyone pointed out at the glaring injustices visited on blacks; the white supremacists and their black apologies had a quick answer to that – these were unfounded allegations propagated by ungrateful agitators.
Every black Zimbabweans thought things would be different after independence; if anything things are worse.
Mugabe and his cronies treat the black masses no different from the way the white treated them. The black masses are still oppressed and exploited by the country’s new ruling elite. They too insult the masses by denying them a meaningful say and then insist the masses are glorious happy. The people voted to end this dictatorship and the regime turned the lives of at least five million people a living hell and hundreds were murdered in the drive to force the electorate to vote for the dictator.
The Mugabe oppression is worse than that of Ian Smith for three reasons:
1) The masses are worse off economically than they were before 1980; life expectancy, the ultimate acid test of economic well being, then was 65years compared to 34 years now.
2) The masses are worse off politically too. Before independence blacks did not have a vote; afterward, they had the vote but not a free vote and they have paid dearly for it too considering the human upheaval the country has been subjected to.
3) Mugabe and his cronies are black and they were fellow travellers before independence and now they are the ones oppressing and exploiting their fellow blacks. What is happening in Zimbabwe is betrayal of the innocent.
The tragic human suffering in Zimbabwe will only end with regime change. “There will be no regime change” Mugabe, his cronies and the team of apologists have said. “Not in a thousand years,” Ian Smith said when he faced the same call. His reign did not last that long; Mugabe’s time to go is long overdue!
Zimbabwe’s diamonds are being a great human cost for the exclusive benefit of the country’s ruling elite. It is right and just that the country should not be allowed to sell its bloody diamonds.
Some things never change. As a child the white colonialists oppressed and exploited blacks and, to add insult to injury, the whites never tired of telling us and the whole world of just how happy we blacks were. The denied us a voice to speak for ourselves. If anyone pointed out at the glaring injustices visited on blacks; the white supremacists and their black apologies had a quick answer to that – these were unfounded allegations propagated by ungrateful agitators.
Every black Zimbabweans thought things would be different after independence; if anything things are worse.
Mugabe and his cronies treat the black masses no different from the way the white treated them. The black masses are still oppressed and exploited by the country’s new ruling elite. They too insult the masses by denying them a meaningful say and then insist the masses are glorious happy. The people voted to end this dictatorship and the regime turned the lives of at least five million people a living hell and hundreds were murdered in the drive to force the electorate to vote for the dictator.
The Mugabe oppression is worse than that of Ian Smith for three reasons:
1) The masses are worse off economically than they were before 1980; life expectancy, the ultimate acid test of economic well being, then was 65years compared to 34 years now.
2) The masses are worse off politically too. Before independence blacks did not have a vote; afterward, they had the vote but not a free vote and they have paid dearly for it too considering the human upheaval the country has been subjected to.
3) Mugabe and his cronies are black and they were fellow travellers before independence and now they are the ones oppressing and exploiting their fellow blacks. What is happening in Zimbabwe is betrayal of the innocent.
The tragic human suffering in Zimbabwe will only end with regime change. “There will be no regime change” Mugabe, his cronies and the team of apologists have said. “Not in a thousand years,” Ian Smith said when he faced the same call. His reign did not last that long; Mugabe’s time to go is long overdue!
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
MUGABE'S CORRUPT JUDGES MUST HAVE THEIR DAY IN COURT AT THE END OF THE DICTATORSHIP!
@Themba Khumalo
I did say why MDC should fire Tsvangirai, the man is the most incompetent leader of our time. Just because you can not see that does not in any way change that fact! If you are heading in the wrong direction changing the team may help get you there sooner, yes; but the fundamental will not change – you will arrive at point A when you should be at point B. I really do not see MDC ever going in the right direction as long as Tsvangirai remains the leader.
@Mukai
Yes Zanu PF should have removed Mugabe a long, long time ago before the dictator dragged the party and the nation into this mess. People like the late Edson Zvobgo, Bernard Chidzero and a few others were smart enough to know a one-party state was a slippery slope to a dictatorship. They did little to stop Mugabe create a de facto one party state in Zimbabwe because Mugabe promised them that they too would benefit – they would be ministers for life.
Mugabe used Zvobgo to draft and push through parliament the constitutional bill creating the Executive Presidency complete with the sweeping powers Mugabe has today. Zvobgo was equal to the task, confident that Mugabe will step aside one day so he too could be president. Of course that did not happen. Indeed to rub that in Mugabe marginalised Zvobgo making minister-without portfolio sending the later to his early grave!
The late Bernard Chidzero was a competent economist but as Minister of Finance he was pushed by Mugabe to implement some voodoo economic policies that defied common sense. He later tries to apply for the position of UN Secretary General. Of course he did not get the job; Zimbabwe’s economy was in a real mess thanks to his voodoo economic policies!
Mugabe shuffled, shuffled again, over and over again just as Tsvangirai is now doing. That changed nothing because Mugabe set the compass and shuffling those round him did not change the route. Look where Mugabe has landed us!
Zanu PF should have fired Mugabe when he started behaving like a tyrant. He soon surrounded himself with yes-men, thugs, greedy and corrupt people. With his position secure Mugabe became a tyrant per excellence and the nation was ruled by fear from then on.
In 2008 the Zimbabwe electorate made a concerted effort to have Mugabe removed, by using they only tool in their power – the vote. We all know what Mugabe’s response would be – step up the intimidation, terror, rape and murder.
Still so good did come out of the 2008 elections the international community refused to recognise Mugabe as the legitimate head of state, not after the sham June 2008 run-off. Mugabe was on the ropes. Guess who let him off the hook? That is right, Morgan Tsvangirai. Just how incompetent can one be!
Zimbabweans have been fighting to end Mugabe tyrannical rule and for real democratic change. Sadly this is not going to happen, not with incompetent leaders like Tsvangirai leading the charge.
@Fungayi
Mugabe lost the mandate to rule Zimbabwe a long time ago, he has never won a free and fair election. Not even the 1980 elections were free and fair; everyone knew it was a vote to end the war, if Mugabe had lost the war would have continued. Mugabe himself admitted in 2008 that he would not "let the ballot change what was won with the bullet!" So what are you talking about "more people voted for Zanu PF than MDC"? As if Zanu PF or Mugabe cared about the people's right to a free vote.
Yes I would say Maguwu should have his day in court if there was a court of law in Zimbabwe worthy of that name.
Someday a truly independent committee of lawyers will review Zimbabwe’s court proceedings and judgements dished out. Looking at the goings on in Zimbabwe's legal system; we either have some of the most incompetent and/or corrupt judges in the world. Individuals like Chinembiri Bhunu will have THEIR day in Court and if there are found to have been incompetent and/or corrupt then they will punished and will never be allowed to practise law in Zimbabwe ever again.
Mugabe is known for giving Zimbabwe’s judges Mercedes Benz, Plasma TV, building Villas, etc. for Zimbabwe’s judges. The dictator was doing that not because of the judges’ good looks. Many of them are as a matter of fact ugly, I know them!
Many Judges, Journalists, Politicians, etc. in Zimbabwe have “done very well, thank you!” from propping up this Mugabe dictatorship at the expense of the ordinary people, justice and common national interest. The nation has paid dearly for this treacherous behaviour and therefore this will not be swept under the carpet and forgotten the day the dictatorship collapse! So Fungayi, you will not be left out – you too will have YOUR day in court; that is my promise to you!
I did say why MDC should fire Tsvangirai, the man is the most incompetent leader of our time. Just because you can not see that does not in any way change that fact! If you are heading in the wrong direction changing the team may help get you there sooner, yes; but the fundamental will not change – you will arrive at point A when you should be at point B. I really do not see MDC ever going in the right direction as long as Tsvangirai remains the leader.
@Mukai
Yes Zanu PF should have removed Mugabe a long, long time ago before the dictator dragged the party and the nation into this mess. People like the late Edson Zvobgo, Bernard Chidzero and a few others were smart enough to know a one-party state was a slippery slope to a dictatorship. They did little to stop Mugabe create a de facto one party state in Zimbabwe because Mugabe promised them that they too would benefit – they would be ministers for life.
Mugabe used Zvobgo to draft and push through parliament the constitutional bill creating the Executive Presidency complete with the sweeping powers Mugabe has today. Zvobgo was equal to the task, confident that Mugabe will step aside one day so he too could be president. Of course that did not happen. Indeed to rub that in Mugabe marginalised Zvobgo making minister-without portfolio sending the later to his early grave!
The late Bernard Chidzero was a competent economist but as Minister of Finance he was pushed by Mugabe to implement some voodoo economic policies that defied common sense. He later tries to apply for the position of UN Secretary General. Of course he did not get the job; Zimbabwe’s economy was in a real mess thanks to his voodoo economic policies!
Mugabe shuffled, shuffled again, over and over again just as Tsvangirai is now doing. That changed nothing because Mugabe set the compass and shuffling those round him did not change the route. Look where Mugabe has landed us!
Zanu PF should have fired Mugabe when he started behaving like a tyrant. He soon surrounded himself with yes-men, thugs, greedy and corrupt people. With his position secure Mugabe became a tyrant per excellence and the nation was ruled by fear from then on.
In 2008 the Zimbabwe electorate made a concerted effort to have Mugabe removed, by using they only tool in their power – the vote. We all know what Mugabe’s response would be – step up the intimidation, terror, rape and murder.
Still so good did come out of the 2008 elections the international community refused to recognise Mugabe as the legitimate head of state, not after the sham June 2008 run-off. Mugabe was on the ropes. Guess who let him off the hook? That is right, Morgan Tsvangirai. Just how incompetent can one be!
Zimbabweans have been fighting to end Mugabe tyrannical rule and for real democratic change. Sadly this is not going to happen, not with incompetent leaders like Tsvangirai leading the charge.
@Fungayi
Mugabe lost the mandate to rule Zimbabwe a long time ago, he has never won a free and fair election. Not even the 1980 elections were free and fair; everyone knew it was a vote to end the war, if Mugabe had lost the war would have continued. Mugabe himself admitted in 2008 that he would not "let the ballot change what was won with the bullet!" So what are you talking about "more people voted for Zanu PF than MDC"? As if Zanu PF or Mugabe cared about the people's right to a free vote.
Yes I would say Maguwu should have his day in court if there was a court of law in Zimbabwe worthy of that name.
Someday a truly independent committee of lawyers will review Zimbabwe’s court proceedings and judgements dished out. Looking at the goings on in Zimbabwe's legal system; we either have some of the most incompetent and/or corrupt judges in the world. Individuals like Chinembiri Bhunu will have THEIR day in Court and if there are found to have been incompetent and/or corrupt then they will punished and will never be allowed to practise law in Zimbabwe ever again.
Mugabe is known for giving Zimbabwe’s judges Mercedes Benz, Plasma TV, building Villas, etc. for Zimbabwe’s judges. The dictator was doing that not because of the judges’ good looks. Many of them are as a matter of fact ugly, I know them!
Many Judges, Journalists, Politicians, etc. in Zimbabwe have “done very well, thank you!” from propping up this Mugabe dictatorship at the expense of the ordinary people, justice and common national interest. The nation has paid dearly for this treacherous behaviour and therefore this will not be swept under the carpet and forgotten the day the dictatorship collapse! So Fungayi, you will not be left out – you too will have YOUR day in court; that is my promise to you!
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