"I will support Chamisa no matter what!" Only one devoid of common sense who say that especially given his track record. W Mukori

Zimbabwe is a failed state and this has been a 43 year growling descend into this hell-on-earth of our own making. The ruling party, Zanu PF, the numerous opposition parties and the ordinary Zimbabweans have all played their part in landing us in this mess. 

Zanu PF and the country’s main opposition MDC/CCC have reached a political understanding in which the later has actively cooperated with Zanu PF’s vote rigging activities for a share of the spoils of power. And so the task of pushing for meaningful political change to end the failed state has fallen on the ordinary Zimbabweans. The main reason why there has been no meaningful change these last 43 years is because the ordinary Zimbabweans have remained ignorant, naive and gullible to initiate and effect any meaningful change. 

Even now, with the country up to her eye balls in this hell-on-earth mess of our own making, it is shocking just how ignorant and naive many Zimbabweans are out there.

“Why are you not worried about Zanu PF which has failed to deliver change for the past 44 years? You attack the opposition which has no access to your hard earned money (tax) yet those who steal it in broad daylight you choose to close your eyes on them.” came one accusation (the name has been withheld to protect the ignorant.) 

The spirit is willing but the intellect is weak, it is so feeble there is nothing there!

By the late 1990s the people of Zimbabwe realised not only that Zanu PF thugs are corrupt and incompetent but more significantly that as long as the thugs retained their carte blanche dictatorial powers to rig elections the nation is stuck with regime. And it will drag the nation deeper and deeper into the abyss. The solution was self-evident; to end the Zanu PF dictatorship and economic and political ruin, the nation must implementing the democratic reforms designed to take away the party’s vote rigging dictatorial powers. 

The people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb, at the hands of the Zanu PF thugs, to elect MDC/CCC leaders on the understanding that once in power they would implement the necessary democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 2023 elections, just as it has done since 1980, because MDC/CCC leaders not only sold out by failing to implement even one reform but, worse still, they have given up implementing reforms. 

Chamisa and company have participated in these flawed elections knowing fully well the process was flawed and that doing so would give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuating the suffering of the masses. They have soldiered on regardless because they also knew that Zanu PF was giving away a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition to participate.

“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. 

Even after AU, SADC and Zimbabwe’s own ZHRC condemned the 2023 Zimbabwe elections as a farce; this did not stop CCC leaders taking up their share of the gravy train seats and thus undermining SADC and AU’s attempts to pressure Zanu PF to stop rigging elections. 

What is obvious here is:

1. a) Zanu PF continues to rig elections because the party has retained all its dictatorial powers to rig elections

1. b) MDC/CCC leaders have clearly failed to implement even one token democratic reform; after 23 years including 5 in the GNU and nothing to show for it is clear CCC leaders are corrupt and incompetent and utterly useless.

1. c) after 23 years of hoping against hope that MDC/CCC leaders will implement the reforms, the nation must stop dithering and elect competent opposition leaders who will implement the democratic reforms and end the curse of rigged elections and bad governance.

What is shocking here is that there are many Zimbabweans out there who are still dithering and want to retain CCC leaders under the pretext that Zanu PF is to blame for the failure to implement even one token reform these last 23 years. They even want Zanu PF to be given the task to implement the reforms. Of course, this is nonsensical! 

As stated above the people of Zimbabwe have risked all to elect the MDC/CCC leaders these last 23 years on the understanding they would implement the democratic reforms, precisely because the people KNEW they could never trust Zanu PF to implement any of the reforms. The reason for this was obvious - Zanu PF instituted the carte blanche dictatorial powers to rig elections and stay in power. The party benefited from the rigged elections and was not going to reform itself out of power. 

It is idiotic, to say the least, to suggest Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies would implement any meaningful democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections in 2028 and in the future.

However, the prospect of replacing the corrupt and incompetent CCC leaders is unthinkable to many out there and hence the political paralysis.

“As long as Chamisa is living and Zanu PF still existing, people will never follow any other opposing political party without Chamisa as its leader.” argued another individual.

The truth is there are many Zimbabweans who have no clue what the democratic reforms, we have been talking about these last 23 years are about, much less how they are implemented and that the failed state is the dire consequences of failing to implement the reforms. It is therefore not surprising that these people do not blame MDC/CCC for selling out on reforms and thus perpetuating the Zanu PF dictatorship and their own suffering. In their ignorance and naivety Chamisa and company had done nothing wrong! 

After 23 years, including 5 in the GNU, and yet not even one token democratic reform in place one had hoped that some information will have started to filter through forcing these die-hard opposition supporters to question MDC/CCC leaders’ performance, especially on the critical task of stopping Zanu PF rigging elections. Sadly, the penny has not dropped and, probably, never will! 

Democracy - government of the people, for the people and by the people - will only work if the said people are educated to at least understanding the big issues of the day and are diligent in holding those in positions of power and authority to account. Zimbabwe is a failed state and far from ever becoming a healthy and functioning democracy because most of our electorate are ignorant, naive and gullible.

So ignorant, naive and gullible some Zimbabwe consider Chamisa to be an infallible demigod and hence the reason they will never hold him to account for anything and are hostile to all who have dared to question his performance. It is tragic that anyone, even a half-shilling, should regard a mere mortal to be infallible especially one with a well documented track record of being corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent! 

Zanu PF will never ever reform themselves out of office, it is naive to even suggest it. Chamisa and his CCC cronies will never push Zanu PF to implement any meaningful reforms; they had the golden opportunity to implement the reforms themselves during the GNU and they wasted it. 

This leaves the ordinary Zimbabweans to instigate and drive for the implementation of democratic reforms. But how can they instigate something they do not even know! And so the hope that Zimbabwe will ever pulling itself out of this hell-on-earth we find ourselves in are slim. We are a failed state and a failed state we shall remain until we have an electorate with some common sense, at least!  

"Change is coming! #Godisinit!" - Yeah right! Name one change you brought in 23 years, including 5 in the GNU? W Mukori

 MDC was launched in 1999 on the promise the party will deliver the democratic changes needed to stop Zanu PF rigging elections; as the party name implied, Movement for Democratic change. The party has failed to deliver even one token democratic reform in 23 years, including 5 years in the 2008 to 2013 GNU when they have the golden opportunity to do so. 

Still, that has not stopped the party leaders promise change. 

“THEIR PLOT WILL FAIL…When I say CHANGE is coming I am clear, certain and fortified!” proclaimed Nelson Chamisa in his latest X posting.

“It doesn’t matter what subterfuge, fraud, antics, tactics or tricks are deployed to delay this reality - delay is not denial! Ignore the sideshows. Hold fast, stay focused and keep your eyes on the ball. Join the citizens fight! #OnePeople #Godisinit.”

What is shocking is that many Zimbabweans out are so ignorant and naive they still believe these empty and meaningless promises even after 23 years with not even one token reform implemented.

Here are the historic facts: 

Nelson Chamisa and his MDC/CCC friends have failed to implement any democratic reforms in 23 years, including 5 in the GNU. They have been participating in these flawed elections including the August 2023 election knowing fully well that Zanu PF was denying the ordinary Zimbabweans their fundamental right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country and that participating would only give Zanu PF legitimacy. 

Still they participated because they also knew that Zanu PF gives away a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition to participate. They found the bait irresistible!

Indeed, Chamisa and company were hell bent on participating Chamisa himself claimed that he had “plugged all the Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes!” Punctuated with the usual “#Godisinit!” Of course, he was lying. 

The 2023 elections went ahead without even something as basic as a verified voters’ roll, Zanu PF frog marched the people to its rallies and then to the polling stations, etc. CCC failed to deploy election agents at all polling stations even though the party had received the funds for it. 

All the accredited election observers, including AU, SADC and Zimbabwe’s own ZHRC known for endorsing dodgy elections in the past, condemned the 23 August 2023 election as a farce. Even these damning election reports did not stop CCC leaders taking up their share of the gravy train seats and thus endorsing the flawed elections process and giving SADC the excuse to tacitly grant Zanu PF political legitimacy contrary to the damning report form regional body’s own’s election observers.

Before the dust of rigged 2023 elections had settled, CCC members started fighting amongst themselves with many of the party members who had taken up the gravy train seats as MPs, senators and councillors being recalled. Now there is talk of CCC breaking up to form separate political parties. 

Ever since its launch in 1999 MDC has split, regrouped only to split again many times; CCC is heading for a new split. So in their foolishness Nelson Chamisa and his CCC friends have helped Zanu PF rig the 2023 elections and get away with it whilst they fight over scraps Zanu PF throw at them! 

The way forward for Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a failed state because for 43 years the nation has been stuck with this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship which rigged elections to stay in power. The nation reached the right conclusion in the late 1990s in demanding democratic changes designed to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. 

Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 2023 elections, as with all others in the past, because MDC/CCC leaders failed to implement the democratic reforms designed to stop the regime rigging elections. After 23 years, including 5 in the GNU, and not even one token reform implemented; it should be clear to the people of Zimbabwe that MDC/CCC leaders are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless. 

Chamisa and company will never ever implement the necessary reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. Never ever! They failed to implement even one reforms during the GNU when they had all the trump cards, it is naive to think they will do so now when Zanu PF hold all the trump cards.

The way forward for Zimbabwe is to accept CCC leaders are corrupt and incompetent, they will never implement the necessary reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging elections and elect competent leaders who will implement the reforms. It is insane for the nation to still believe Chamisa’s lies that CCC will deliver change when he has filed to deliver even one token change in 23 years!

CCC will never deliver reforms and free elections no more than Zanu PF will ever deliver the so-called upper middle income, Vision 2030! 

Zimbabwe is failing to supply safe drinking water; symptomatic of a failed state and 43 years of rigged elections. Wilbert Mukori

Zimbabwe is a failed state and the country’s failure to provide basic services such as clean water, in this day and age, is symptomatic of a failed state.

“Half of the boreholes in Harare's western and northern districts are contaminated with human waste and could be potentially unsafe sources of drinking water,” reported Bulawayo 24 in an article.

“Water samples from boreholes in these areas, heavily relied upon by residents due to erratic municipal water supply, showed traces of sewer and E. coli bacteria, capable of causing water-borne diseases like typhoid and cholera.

“The discovery comes at a time when Harare was grappling with a raging cholera outbreak directly linked to water shortages.

“Harare City Council is presently supplying around 300 megalitres of potable water a day to the city against a demand of 1 200 megalitres.”

By failing to hold free and fair elections in August 2023 Zimbabwe confirmed the country was a pariah state, a failed state incapable of self governing. One of the many signs of a failed state is economic collapse and failure to provide basic needs such as clean water and sewage services. 

Zimbabwe has not become a failed state with collapse basic service overnight, the last five or ten years; we have been down this disastrous path ever since the country gained her independence in 1980. Zimbabwe has failed to hold free and fair elections these last 44 years and thus depriving ourselves the benefit of good governance. 

For free, fair and credible elections are more than just a basic human right, they are are the essence of good governance. Zanu PF has blatantly rigged elections starting with the 1980 elections and 43 years of this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF misrule has left the country in economic ruin and political paralysis. 

The country’s de facto one-party dictatorship has stifled debate and all meaningful democratic discourse driving out all quality men and women out of politics. And hence the reason there are no quality leaders in the ruling party, Zanu PF, nor in the multitude of opposition parties, 130 of them at the last count. 

Zanu PF thugs wanted absolute power and they did not hesitate to betray the “One man, one vote!” promise. It took the nation nearly 20 years for the penny to drop, for the people to realise Zanu PF would never hold free, fair and credible elections and give them a meaningful say in the governance of the country. 

So if the nation was to end Zanu PF misrule, the nation must implement the democratic reforms necessary to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. And so the people have risk all, the anger of Zanu PF determined to retain absolute power at all costs, to elect opposition leaders whose primary task was to implement the democratic reforms. 

Zanu PF rigged the 2023 elections because MDC/CCC leaders have failed to implement even one token democratic reform in 23 years, including 5 in the GNU. The rigging was so blatant that even AU and SADC, the continental and regional elections observers, known for endorsing dodgy elections in the past, were compelled to condemn the 23 August elections as a flawed and illegal. 

The condemnation did not stop Zimbabwe’s corrupt and incompetent opposition, who had participated knowing fully well the process was flawed and that participating would give Zanu PF legitimacy, taking up their share of the gravy train seats and thus force SADC and AU to once again allow Zanu PF to get away with rigged elections.

The nation is not only stuck with this Zanu PF dictatorship for another five years; worst of all, struck with the near certainty of Zanu PF rigging the 2028 elections and thus extending the regime’s rule yet another five more years. There is no end to this!

This is a nightmare which we should have been resolved by 2013, at the latest, in MDC leaders heaved implemented the democratic reforms when they had the golden opportunity to so so during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. There is nothing to make me believe Nelson Chamisa and his CCC friends are going to implement any reforms to ensure 2028 elections are finally free and fair; if they failed to do so during the GNU when they had the trump cards, it is naive to believe they will do so now when Zanu PF hold all the trump cards. 

The fight for reforms and stopping Zanu PF rigging the 2028 elections starts with the national realisation that MDC/CCC leaders had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms these last 23 years, especially during the GNU. They have failed to implement even one token reform because they are corrupt and incompetent. 

Like it or not, MDC/CCC leaders will never implement the reforms and deliver free, fair and credible elections. We need competent opposition leaders who will implement the reforms or we are stuck with the Zanu PF dictatorship, the failed state and all that entails! 

Why did it take Zimbabweans 20 years to risk all and demand democratic changes designed to stop Zanu PF thugs rigging elections? Why has it taken 23 years and counting for the people to realise MDC/CCC leaders are corrupt and incompetent, they will never ever implement any reform? 

The ordinary people did not appreciate the importance of “One man, one vote!” in the 1980s no more than they appreciate the importance of democratic reforms now as a basis for good governance. The demand for “Democratic change!” has fallen into everyday usage although many Zimbabweans out there cannot even name one democratic change!

Indeed, the CCC members are now given to calling Nelson Chamisa “Change Champion in Chief!” Change Champion indeed, when MDC/CCC cannot name even one token democratic change they brought in 23 years! 

If the povo do not understand what the reforms are about, it is no surprise they have no clue the primary purpose of the GNU was to implement reforms much less that MDC/CCC sold out by failing to implement even one reform. It is little wonder that even after 23 years, including 5 in the GNU, most Zimbabweans still continue to trust CCC leaders to deliver reforms and end the Zanu PF dictatorship. 

Zimbabwe is a failed state because we are stuck with the vote rigging Zanu PF thugs, in the first instance. However we would have got rid of the Zanu PF thugs by now if MDC/CCC leaders had not sold out and implemented the reforms. We are still stuck with Zanu PF these last 23 years but only because the people themselves have been slow to realise MDC/CCC leaders are  corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless. 

So ultimately, Zimbabwe is a failed state because we have an ignorant and naive electorate, so ignorant they do not realise the critical importance of implementing reforms and holding free, fair and credible elections as the prerequisite to good governance. 

The ancient Greeks were right, all those 2 500 years ago, when they say democracy - government of the people, by the people and for the people - only works if the people are educated and diligent to hold those in public office to account. Zimbabwe is a failed state because we have one of the most ignorant and naive electorate in human history! 

Zanu PF blatantly rigged the August 2023 elections, thanks to CCC leaders selling out on reforms. If we do not do something to get the reforms finally implemented, Zanu PF will blatantly rig the 2028 elections too. And Zimbabwe will remain a failed state unable to provide even the most basic services such as clean water, sewage, education, etc. 

 GUMBO MADYIRA PAZHE

Taswera maswerawo Gumbo, Madyirapazhe ,

Shava huruyakapamba Gona Gararamasango,

Chipauro chamafuta Chikodza mhandara,

Godza muto mhuru inobva Gona,

Vezheve tsuku,

VeRufura Mushukuru we Gona,

Vane chitangachisisazari ngombe,

Chinotozozara musuwezvita

Vari Masakadya

Vari Njaidza

Vari mhiri kwaNyazvidzi

Vari Hwiri

Vari Zvomutumbwe

Vari Raubwi

Vari Muharu huru

Varichikomo chaMabwazhe, Chisema, Sambiri

Chikara chapazhemwongo

Chifambanamana

Chifuramakuru Mazondo tinodya

Vari Svikire

Vari Maturi

Vari Chivende

Vari Hubvumwe

Chipatsamakuru Godzamuto

Chakada mutema muzvare Mataruse,

Hekanhi vari Raubwi,

Vari muhari huru,

Vari chikomo chaMabwazhe,

Mhare yokurwa yaiganza kunge handira,

Chisema, Sambiri,

Chikara chapanze,

Chifamba namana,

Chifuramakuru, mazondo tinodya

Vari Svikire,

Vari Maturi, Vari Chivende ,

Vari Hubvumwe, Chiputsamakuru; Godzamuto,

Vari Hwiru ya Mazonde vokuda nyama,

Vanoera gumbo remombe asi mutumbi wayo vachidya,

Shava yangu yiyi, Chitanga, Chikanyamatope,

Vari Mapfukudza kunodyiwa boora nechirimo,

Naka muchadya makunguwo huku dzarova,

Hekanhi Madyirapazhe, Ganyamatope,

Kuti vane nzara vaponewo,

Hekanhi Musipa,

Marera Nherera Matsikapasikuzororahuvata,

Hekanhi Gutu, Hekanhi weGona, ndisingei,

Senga nhundwa, senga musoro pane romo neziso,

Hekanhi Mhandamakan?a, Matakuradumbu,

Matangakunwa muviri une nyota,

Vatambi vemuGanyiro,

Matsika pachena napanerima,

Hekanhi Masangedzwa,

Bvumazvirema,

Teveratsimba mutsvairo wenzira,

Hekanhi Murendo, Mushaya chirashwa,

Mafuta tinozora,

Runyanga iginamombe,

Gumbo mubhadha, dovo tinowadza,

Nyama tinodya, mukaka tinomwamwa,

Muswe inhawo, ndove indozura mumba ,

Chitova, mushukuro wegonamombe,

Aiwa taswera Gumbo,

Chinemukutu, maKorekore.

"Zimbabwe must function on basis of TRUTH!" CCC will never ever deliver change, is the only truth that matters. W Mukori

 “Charovedzera charovedzera, gudo rakakwira mawere kwezviba!” so goes the Shona adage. Whose English equivalent would be some dirty habits never die!

Zimbabwe is a failed state partly because the country’s main opposition has wasted one golden opportunity to end the Zanu PF dictatorship after another. Nelson Chamisa has kicked off the New Year, 2024, with another one of his meaningless prattles! 

“TRUTH IN GOVERNMENT...Where we are going, Zimbabwe shall work and function on the basis of TRUTH and nothing else. The entire government, the President’s office, our public officials and public institutions like ZBC shall work on TRUTH alone and nothing else. No lies. No propaganda or falsehoods. Zero hate. Nil malice. Behold the government of truth. #ForEveryone.” wrote Chamisa on his X page.

Since when have you, Nelson Chamisa, ever been truthful? The people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb to elect yo and your follow MDC/CCC leaders into power on the understanding you lot would implement the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections. After 23 years, including 5 in the GNU, you lot have failed to implement even one token reform. Not even one!

You have participated in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. You were so hell bent on participating in the 2023 elections you even lied about “plugging all the vote rigging loop holes!” Even when AU and SADC dismissed the last elections as a farce CCC leaders still took up their gravy train seats making it impossible for SADC to deny Zanu PF political legitimacy. 

The truth is the August 2023 elections were so flawed and illegal, they failed to produce a legitimacy government. Zimbabwe does not have a legitimate government and this has only served to reaffirm Zimbabwe position as a pariah state. No one wants to do business in a pariah state and so there will be no meaningful economic recovery. None!

Worse still, there is no prospect of any meaningful democratic reforms being implemented in the coming five years. And with no reforms it goes without saying that Zanu PF will rig the 2028 elections and CCC will participate out of greed. And so the nightmare of rigged elections and bad governance is set to continue! 

The people of Zimbabwe must wake up to the political reality that as long as Zanu PF continue to enjoy the carte blanche powers to rig elections there will be no meaningful economic or political change in Zimbabwe. To get change the nation must first implement the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. MDC/CCC leaders will never implement any reforms, after 23 years and nothing to show for it the penny should have dropped by now.

Just because MDC/CCC have failed to implement reforms does not mean the nation does not need reforms, we need them more than ever. Just because Chamisa and company failed to implement even one reform does not mean no one else can - the reforms are common sense and not rocket science - all we need are competent opposition leaders. 

Truth! The number one truth the nation must deal with is that Chamisa and company will never implement the democratic reforms and stop Zanu PF rigging elections. Never ever! If we are ever going to implement the reforms and get out of this hell of rigged elections and bad governance then we must reject Chamisa and his idiotic prattles and think outside the box!

SADC's excuse for entrusted MDC to implement reforms - did not knowing MDC were corrupt. All know CCC are corrupt in advance! W Mukori.

 Both AU and SADC election observers have dismissed the 23 August Zimbabwe elections as a farce. The regional body has since met and endorsed the SADC Election Observer Mission (SEOM) damning report. 

“Conclusion 13.3

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

There is no doubt that SADC leaders have been divided as what to do next, regarding the damn election report. There are some SADC leaders, notable SA’s President Cyril Ramaphosa and his ANC government, who wanted Zanu PF granted political legitimacy and the damning report swept under the carpet and forgotten. 

No one could deny the lasting damage sweeping the damning report would do to SADC’s reputation. What is the point of producing the principles and guidelines on elections or any thing else for that matter is there are no consequences for blatantly disregarding the said principles! 

For the people of Zimbabwe the situation is more urgent; the August elections were flawed and illegal and therefore, per se, failed to produce a legitimate government. This Mnangagwa administration complete with its CCC opposition side-kick are illegitimate. 

When the blatant cheating and wanton violence in the 2008 elections had forced both AU and SADC to condemn the elections process and thus deny Zanu PF political legitimacy; SADC had assumed the supervisory role of forming a GNU, an interim governing arrangement to bridge the period whilst allow reforms to be implemented to stop the cheating and wanton violence and holding of fresh elections. Zimbabwe needs a similar arrangement now!

It is therefore not surprising that there are stories of SADC still trying to come up with a way forward for Zimbabwe given the regional body officially accepted the August 2023 Zimbabwe elections failed to produce a legitimate government.   

“MNANGAGWA SENDS ZANU PF DELEGATION TO SADC!

By Our CHIEF ZIMBABWE CORRESPONDENT.” read one report circulating in the social media. 

“A ZANU PF  delegation will leave HARARE for GABORONE this Friday January 5 for a crunch meeting with the SADC Secretariat, our highly placed Sources within both ZANU PF and SADC say.

“Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa is sending the ZANU PF delegation with three sets of points for SADC to Consider which reads as follows:

1): ZANU PF proposes a Power Sharing arrangement with the Zimbabwe main Opposition Citizens Coalition for change led by Nelson Chamisa. 

2): ZANU PF  does acknowledge receipt of  the Communique from SADC with the proposal of the 30 June 2024 as the date fresh elections in Zimbabwe will be held. 

3): That ZANU PF understands why SADC reached the resolution for FRESH ELECTIONS to be held in Zimbabwe...but however...ZANU PF proposes a Power Sharing arrangement instead of FRESH ELECTIONS IN ZIMBABWE.”

There are two reasons why SADC leaders have endorsed SEOM’s damning Zimbabwe election report and yet the leaders have hesitated denying Zanu PF political legitimacy:

1. a) CCC participated in these flawed elections knowing fully well that the process was flawed out of greed. Chamisa even boasted of “plugging all the vote rigging loop holes!” Even after the AU, SADC and even Zimbabwe’s own ZHRC had denounced the election process as a farce, all winning CCC members accepted the result and took up their gravy train seats. When Chamisa tried to talk them out of taking their gravy train seats, they flatly refused to listen. This has confirmed the historic fact that MDC/CCC leaders pay lip service to democratic changes and free elections, when all they care about is getting their share of the spoils of power. 

1. b) The chaos and confusion within CCC following the successful recall of elected party official have driven home the reality that CCC is a weak and divided party; it is one thing denying Zanu PF political legitimacy when it is clear the party will remain the dominant political party regardless what alternative arrangement is proposed. Indeed, if SADC insist on a GNU or fresh elections, Zanu PF may make Zimbabwe ungovernable and blame SADC for it! 

SADC must accept the political reality in Zimbabwe that Chamisa and his CCC friends are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless. And Zanu PF is the only game in town. Indeed, Zanu PF managed to emerge out of the 2008 to 2013 GNU with all the party’s dictatorial powers untouched precisely because MDC leaders were corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless, this has not changed.

Unless SADC is prepared to play a more hands-on active role in the new GNU, much more SA Minister Lindiwe Zulu played in the last GNU; then it will be foolish to create a new GNU knowing fully well that nothing of substance will be accomplished. Nothing!  

SADC leaders have the excuse why Zimbabwe’s 2008 to 2013 GNU failed to implement even one token democratic reform - they did not know that Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends were corrupt, incompetent and utterly less. Everyone knows that Chamisa and his CCC friends are corrupt, incompetent and utterly, utterly useless; it will be unforgivable for SADC entrust Zimbabwe’s destiny in such irresponsible hands ever again!

Ultimately it was the responsibility of the people of Zimbabwe to make sure MDC implemented all the democratic reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. We let ourselves down and are paying dearly for it. 

Indeed, it is shocking that even now, with the benefit of hindsight, many Zimbabweans still have no clue the GNU was the nation’s golden opportunity to implement the reforms and end the Zanu PF dictatorship. And so if Zimbabweans have learnt nothing from the last GNU it is clear opportunity to get the reforms implemented during the new GNU will be wasted too.

If SADC want the democratic reforms to be implemented then the regional body will have take on Zanu PF and not entrust this important task to the corrupt and incompetent CCC, especially when every one knows CCC are corrupt and incompetent. It would be irresponsible for SADC to drag the Zimbabwe through yet another GNU knowing fully well that no good will ever come out of it!

2023 ended on low note - Zanu PF rigging elections and 2024 must end on a high note! W Mukori

 A slave who can think might be in chains but rarely for long. 

A free man who cannot think, might as well be in chains. 

Man is a creature of reason. 

A man who cannot think is but as clawless and toothless lion! 

The 23 August 2023 Zimbabwe elections were condemned by AU, SADC and even our own ZHRC as flawed and illegal. So 43 years after independence, in this day and age, we in Zimbabwe are still incapable of holding free, fair and credible elections, incapable of self governing. 

Zimbabwe is a failed state, whose economy is a mess and in political paralysis as no one is offering a way out of the mess, precisely because for 43 years and counting the nation has been stuck with this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. The regime has rigged elections denying the people their basic right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country. 

The irrational buffoons who have ruled the land with an iron fist insist elections are free and fair. The opposition, the ruling party’s side kicks, have conned the people into giving up the birthright to free, fair and credible elections for the oxymoronic promise of winning rigged elections.

So 2023 has left all thinking Zimbabweans hanging their heads in shame  - there is no pride in acknowledging the national failure to hold free, fair and credible elections; especially after 43 years of rigged elections and the heart breaking human suffering the failed state has brought to the nation! Enough is enough. 

My New Year, 2024, wish is for Zimbabweans to having their thinking caps on this year. We need to accept some basic home truths that the nightmare of rigged elections and bad governance is home made in  that we are the ones who have allowed Zanu PF and their CCC side-kick to rigged elections and get away with it. And, more significantly, that by rational thinking we can put an end to this curse of rigged elections. 

2024 has started on a low note - hanging our heads in shame for 43 years of rigged elections - but must end on a high note - by making sure we have laid the solid foundation to end the curse of rigged elections and bad governance. The curse of rigged elections would have never lasted 43 years if we had our thinking caps. Think about!