Madhuku reject Tsvangirai's calls for a united opposition: united for what end and behind whom!?

Lovemore Madhuku tells Tsvangirai he will not rejoin the MDC as other small political parties have done in response to the latter’s call for a united front. Madhuku is right in doing that.

 

Madhuku has been right on a number of issues in the past notable his dismissing of the Copac Constitution as a weak and feeble one that would not deliver free and fair elections. And in a rare show of unity MDC and Zanu PF supporters and leaders alike closed ranks in shouting down Madhuku and all those agreed with him on this. Full credit to Madhuku, he stuck to his guns.


As predicted the 31 July 2013 elections were a farce as Mugabe went on to blatantly rig the vote. And so Madhuku and all those who had dismissed the Copac constitution as rubbish were vindicated.


If Madhuku had formed a united front with MDC at the time of the Copac constitution then he would have been silenced by the zealous but brainless Tsvangirai and his mob.


Tsvangirai and MDC have been a total failure because it is a party of deadwood led by one of the most incompetent leaders of our time. Mugabe and his Zanu PF dictatorship have too been a total disaster; their insatiable greed for power and wealth has been their greatest forte!


The core problem found in all our political parties past and present is the lack of quality leaders. A united front of all mediocre parties out there will accomplish nothing as long as the core problem remains untouched.


Just before independence, Zanu and Zapu were argued to unite and form the Patriotic Front (PF). The only thing the two parties had in common was that both were committed to establishing a one-party dictatorship and the total annihilation of all the other parties. Neither party wanted to be seen as the spoiler so they agreed to the unification of the two parties but each carried the assassin's dagger in their coat.

 

They accepted a change in their party names. Zanu added the PF in front must like the offensive horns of a bull on musk whilst Zapu added the PF much like the defensive tail armour of the armadillo or pangolin. It was not long after independence before the two parties were on each other's throat in a power struggle that costed over 20 000 innocent lives.

 

The nation would have been better off if emphasis had been placed on getting the two parties to accept multi-party democracy and that it was the people in free, fair, credible and periodic elections who would decide which party was to rule and which would the opposition party.

Madhuku is right to rebuff Tsvangirai's overture to unite all the country's opposition parties. Unite for what end and purpose? And unite behind a failed and incompetent leader like Tsvangirai? S*****t!

Greedy amass more than they need because they have no sense of "sharing or fairness" says Joseph Hwande.

"Greedy people grab and amass more than what they need because they are not conditioned with a sense of sharing or fairness," said Joseph Hwande in his weekly “Heart of the Matter” weekly program on S W Radio Africa. That is the most profound statement of fact that I have ever heard.

 

The fact that Mugabe and his cronies have been allowed to grab and amass so much wealth and waste even more over the last 34 years and dragging the nation into this hell-hole unchallenged is something every thinking Zimbabwean out there should hang their head in shame for. What kind of people are we who can be so indifferent as top allow a gang of village bullies takeover the whole country and thrash everything causing so much suffering, death and despair to the people themselves to their own children and to posterity? Shame on us!

After lifting sanctions against Mugabe regime will the EU pay the $27 billion ZimAsset bailout?

In an interview with the New Zimbabwe the EU made another effort to give a rational reason to its irrational decision to lift the sanctions and re-engage the Mugabe regime.

Mugabe still maintains it was the sanctions that caused Zimbabwe’s economic melt-down and not mismanagement and corruption. Indeed Mugabe has continued to vehemently deny there was corruption in Zimbabwe.

Even if one was to accept Mugabe’s position that the country’s economic melt-down was cause by the sanctions, this will only point to a fundamental but serious weakness in the Zimbabwe economy. If sanctions imposed on a hundred individuals by a handful of nations can result in the total collapse of the nation’s economy then those hundred individuals must be therefore have a totally disproportionate economic clout!  

 

A nation of over 12 million people and all economic power is concentrated in the hands of Mugabe and his cronies! Mugabe has to explain how this had happen, if this is not proof of rampant corruption and looting by the ruling elite? The very evils that are in fact responsible for the economic melt-down and which Mugabe has for years vehemently denied!

With all due respect to EU’s ambassador to Zimbabwe, Aldo Dell'Ariccia, but he is not being honest here.

“As a matter of fact, there is an evolution of the situation in the country, a positive evolution,” said the envoy. What evolution is he talking about?

MDC failed to get any meaningful reforms implemented much to the disappointment of all these including the EU, USA and SADC who had pushed Tsvangirai hard to implement the reforms but to no avail. It was the failure to get any meaningful reforms in the country’s key institutions like the Police, media, ZES, etc. that allowed Mugabe to blatantly rig the July 2013 elections.

The EU had a simple choice here, to abandon Zimbabwe’s search for democratic change as SADC has done and accept Mugabe’s vote rigging. Or simply refuse to give legitimacy to an illegitimate regime as the Americans, Canadians and Australians have done.

Initially the EU’s position was the same as that of the Americans, Mugabe rigged the elections and therefore he is illegitimate. In the last eight months the EU has been softening its position, pushed hard notably by the Belgians who are keen to get Zimbabwe’s diamonds regardless of the true stories of looting and brutal oppression going on in Marange.

I would accept if the EU was to come out and say MDC should have implemented the reforms, they did not and now the rest of the people have to suffer and the EU has to lift the sanctions and move on. Instead the EU is now coming up with a feeble excuse for lifting sanctions and talk of “a positive evolution” when the nation has in fact regressed.

For anyone to say the new Constitution was anything other than just another MDC blunder is an insult to the people of Zimbabwe. MDC assured the nation that the new constitution would deliver free and fair elections and, of course, it did no such thing. It was Mugabe “who wrote the constitution,” as MP Paul Mangwana, Mugabe’s own Zanu PF crony of the body set to write the new Constitution later admitted. The new constitution turned out to be a dictator’s creed and not the democratic constitution the nation wanted.

The economic melt-down crystalized by the reckless spend before the 2013 elections and after by Mugabe plus the ill effects of the three decades of rampant corruption has pushed the Zimbabwe economy into a dangerous nose-dive. Having agreed to re-engage the regime the EU now faces the tough decision of being on the sinking Titanic but helpless to influence the way forward because having tacitly accepted Mugabe’s legitimacy they have to accept his determination to remain at the helm!

Ambassador Aldo Dell'Ariccia, is the EU going to bankroll the $27 billion ZimAsset bailout? Whatever the EU pays to appease Mugabe it will be wasted because he is not going to deal with the root cause of the problem which is corruption. The only sure thing is he will continue to denounce the West and demand they pay him more!

This is one mess the greed of one country has ended up dragging all the other EU countries into and now all them are going to end up with egg on their faces!  

Mugabe renew the promise to pay civil servant pay rise - how when the economy is the sinking Titanic!

Mugabe says the promise to pay the civil servants a pay rise will be honoured.

"We are currently going through a difficult patch as a result of the sanctions that were imposed on us," he said.

"This has resulted in a delay in the fulfilment of the promises of a salary increment that we made last year.

"It is, however, just a technical delay in the mobilisation of the monies, but the promise will be honoured. It is our wish, as Government, to have all our workers adequately compensated for their hard work."

Yes we have heard that one before! The important question is why is that there were no “technical delay in the mobilisation of the monies” to pay for his $ 1 million birth day bash, for his daughter’s $5 million wedding, for his two $ 5 million statues from North Korea, for $ 20 million for new cars for his ministers, for the billions dollars pay to top Zanu PF loyalists running government owned/controlled institutions like PSMAS, ZESA, etc.

Mugabe’s reckless spending to finance the vote rigging operation of the July 2013 elections has left the Zimbabwe government broke. All these extravagant spending on the wedding etc. have only made things worse but it is the rampant corruption that has been going on for the last 34 years that has delivered the coup de grace on the economy and ultimately on the Zanu PF dictatorship and the tyrant himself.

The Zimbabwe economy is like the Titanic taking in water after striking the iceberg. It is a mathematical certainty the economy will sink and the clock is ticking. Unlike the Titanic, the Zimbabwe economy can be saved but the window of opportunity to do so is closing. The only to save the Zimbabwe economy is by removing this egotistic, corrupt and murderous tyrant from State House because nothing will ever be achieved whilst he remains in control.

Mugabe’s hope is to die on the helm and the sinking ship to be his coffin! He is 90 years old and he has already started spending his ill got wealth as if he does not expect to see the next day. And each day he finds he is still alive, he throws another party to celebrate. All paid for by the impoverished Zimbabweans, who else!

Why the nation should be denied hope and a future just because he evil past has finally caught up with him. He has denied corruption for 34 years and now the monster has grown and so too has its insatiable appetite. Corruption has consumed everything of value in Zimbabwe; Mugabe has no money to pay ordinary workers or loot to feed his corrupt party loyalists. He is being squashed from both side, there is no escape for him.

Tsvangirai is an indecisive leader, a glass full of milk with a spoo of sewage uniting with Sikhala will make it two glasses of sewage!

“You can tell where the lion has been from those huge paw-prints!” Someone once said after reading Sir Isaac Newton’s paper of the puzzling question of the day.

 

The question of how to end the Zanu PF dictatorship has certainly engaged the minds of the people of Zimbabwe for the last fifteen years. The nation was left in a state of shock after Mugabe blatantly rigged the July 2013 elections. The shock quickly turned into panic when it became clear that to finance the vote rigging exercise the tyrant had literally bankrupted the nation.

 

In the months since the stolen elections there has been one story after another of rampant corruption in government own/controlled institutions like ZBC, PSMAS, ZESA, Air Zimbabwe, City Councils, etc. Apparently high ranking managers in these institution have been paying themselves scandalous salaries and allowances with Cuthbert Dube the CEO of PSMAS for example reportedly earning as much as $ 500 000 a month. The corruption has been so bad that the institution were so cash strapped they could not pay for the day-to-day running of these institutions including paying the wages of the lowly paid staff.

 

The reckless spending to finance the vote rigging exercise placed a huge strain of Zimbabwe’s already weakened financial position the rampant corruption turned a bad situation into an impossible one.

 

Since the elections even more companies have closed down sending unemployment which has been seating at 80% plus for the last five years into stratosphere. Not even the Chinese whom Mugabe had hoped would have offered a penny to fund the regime’s $27 billion ZimAsset recovery plan. So on the economic front the national economy is facing economic collapse and crash as Mugabe has clearly run of ideas on how to stop the corruption which he himself and all his fellow Zanu PF leaders have been the chief beneficiaries.

 

The only way to stop the economic crash is by removing the illegitimate Mugabe regime and to replace it with one that has electoral mandate from the people and commands international respect. The nation has been casting its eyes to look for an alternative political leadership to take over from Mugabe and Zanu PF. Tsvangirai and MDC would have been the national alternative but not this time.

 

After the debacle of the July 2013 elections Tsvangirai and MDC have been toxic! It was Tsvangirai’s failure to get even one democratic reform implemented that made it so easy for Mugabe to blatantly rig the elections. His shameless effort to hang on to the leadership of MDC after such breath-taking incompetence on his part has only served to underline just how clueless he is.

 

Tsvangirai has certainly not left Sir Isaac Newton’s huge paw prints on the Zimbabwe political landscape but more like the urine stained scampering of a rat.

 

Apparently mice and rats have no control of their bladder and leak urine all the time. Shine ultraviolet light and their tracks glow like fluorescent road markings. A hovering harrier, able to see the ultraviolet light, can see the trail of the mouse or rat; the fresh the urine stains the brighter the glow!

 

Tsvangirai is incompetent he, sadly he does not know that and worse still cannot do anything about it; it is the people who should know better that I am very disappointed with.

 

“All this talk of former MDC founding members like Job Sikhala and other coming be to form a united opposition is good for Zimbabwe’s political future,” remarked a friend of mine the other day.

 

One can always tell from the remark people make or question they ask whether they have been following what has been happening. Sadly my friend clearly showed that he did not have the foggiest idea what has been happening.

 

As far back as 2004/5 former USA Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Christopher W Dell, said in a cable back to Washington that Tsvangirai was “a weak and indecisive character”. The cable was not meant for public consumption but only became so after it was leaked and published in WikiLeak.

 

Of course Ambassador Dell was right; if Tsvangirai has proven him right once he has done so a thousand times. Indeed the MDC leader’s failure to get even one democratic reform implemented, for example, proved that he was not just weak and indecisive but breathtakingly incompetent. Ever since Mugabe gave Tsvangirai the $4 million to build his Harare mansion the tyrant had Tsvangirai is his back pocket and thus proving that Tsvangirai is also corrupt.

 

The way Tsvangirai has changed the MDC constitution so he can extend his term as MDC leader and has used violence and other dirty tricks to silence and eliminate his critics and challengers alike is reminiscent of the things Mugabe has been doing all these years!

 

"If you are from the opposition and you are portrayed in a positive way in the Herald or ZBC then you know that person is now a Zanu PF supporter,“ Tsvangirai reportedly told his supporters at a recent rally. He was accusing MDC Secretary General Tendai Biti after the latter had made the gaff about Zanu PF winning the July 2013 because they had a simpler message which the electorate understood.

 

Of course Mugabe rigged the July 2013 elections and of course they denied rigging and were only too pleased to give Biti top-billing coverage because helped their narrative.

 

Tsvangirai’s hostility with Biti, Mangoma and others stem from their demand for him to step down as president of MDC. His respond is the equivalent of Mugabe calling all his challengers to his autocratic rule “counter revolutionaries”. It shows that Tsvangirai is just as egotistic as Mugabe.

 

“Therefore there is overwhelming evidence,” I concluded my argument with my friend, “to prove that Tsvangirai is ‘a weak and indecisive character’ to use Ambassador Dell’s diplomatic language. There is a mountain of evidence proving that the other leaders in the MDC-T are just as incompetent and corrupt as Tsvangirai; the failure to get even one reform implemented, for example.

 

“The leaders in the other MDC factions and other opposition parties have too proved that they too are incompetent and corrupt.” My friend agreed; grudgingly but still agreed.

 

“MDC lacked quality leaders when it was launched in 1999. The breaking of the party into various factions did not change core issue and the now the factions are coming back together will still not change the core issue – the lack of quality leaders

 

“Consider Tsvangirai as a glass full of milk with a tablespoon of sewage, the rest of his MDC leaders as another glass full of milk with varying measure of sewage contaminant and so with the other factions. Putting them all together will give you a gallon full, yes. I would rather have half a glass of wholesale milk than a gallon full of sewage; for a gallon of milk plus a teaspoon of sewage is a gallon of sewage!”

"Corruption is hurting us" admits Mugabe. It is time for decisive action and not grand standing posturing!

For 34 years Mugabe has denied there was any such thing as corruption in Zimbabwe. He had allowed corruption to grow and thrive because he needed to bribe members of his own Zanu PF to be sure of their continued blind loyalty to him. Corruption was the glue that held his party of odd balls together. These were men and women of no talent and with only one thing in common - their insatiable appetite for power and wealth.

Their promise to Mugabe was their resolve to ride rough shod of the ordinary people's basic rights and freedoms including the right to a meaningful vote and even the right to life itself. In return for their blind loyalty to the Zanu PF dictatorship; Mugabe allowed them to be corrupt and loot.

Mugabe got his de facto one party dictatorship that has allowed him and his misfits to enjoy absolute power and to pillage for 34 years.

"Corruption, corruption, corruption! It is hurting us,,” Mugabe has finally admitted.  

 

Corruption, looting and lawlessness are the sworn enemies of economic prosperity, justice and freedom. To say corruption, looting and lawlessness are "hurting" the nation is an understatement. They are killing the nation.

 

Life expectancy, the universally accepted qualitative and quantitative measure of the standard of living, has dropped from 68 years in 1980 when Mugabe took office to 34 years or less today. One out of every two deaths could have been avoided if the country had not had this corrupt and oppressive Mugabe dictatorship.

 

The regime has directly murdered over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans to establish and retain the dictatorship.

 

The millions of Zimbabweans alive are hurting as the result of the plummeted standard of living but are lucky to have survived this far. The over 30 000 murdered and the hundreds of thousands who have died because the country's health service has collapse are not hurting; they are dead!

"We will send them (those who are corrupt) to prisons netai dzenyu idzodzo,” said Mugabe one breath. "But we do not want people to undergo such unnecessary suffering,” recanted the dictator in the next breath.

Of course he does not want, never did, his cronies and ultimately himself punished for the corruption, looting and lawlessness. The consequences of his failure to stop corruption is the economic melt-down that is killing hundreds of thousands of ordinary Zimbabweans but he would rather see the masses suffer and die in damn anguish and despair than the corrupt criminals send to jail.

It is not so much that Mugabe is not sincere about punishing the odd official or minister who is corrupt – he will have to do that given the seriousness of the problem. The truth is this will be no more than administering a painkiller to one suffering from cancer. The painkiller will give some relief to the patient so he can have a few hours of peaceful slumber. If nothing is done to remove the cancer the patient will die.

Mismanagement, corruption, looting, brutal political repression these are all the varying manifestation of the malignant and bankrupt ethos of one party dictatorship. The ethos that only Zanu PF has the monopoly of knowledge and wisdom and therefore it alone must rule Zimbabwe and be granted absolute political power.

The party has been allowed to rig elections and even to commit wholesale murders to establish and retain this political ethos. Anything to ensure there is no regime change, the antithesis of one-party autocracy.

So to end corruption we must uproot this cancerous disease and trace it back to its root cause – the dictatorship – and uproot that too! End the political system that has denied the people a meaningful say in the governance of the country and the distribution of its vast wealth and riches and corruption will die.

Zimbabwe’s economic situation demands the decisive action of ending the corrupt regime and not the token empty gesture of arresting the odd minister in the corrupt regime!

"ZimAsset will succeed" and "shun corruption" decrees VP Mujuru: she should look in the mirror to see who is corrupt!

“Zim Asset will succeed when we observe dignity at home and at corporate levels. Hunhu hunokosha. We should all shun corruption in all its forms. Government is unanimous in its resolve to eradicate this scourge, and I wish to urge legislators to support this effort. We may differ in the implementation but the objectives are the same,” decreed VP Mujuru. She was address yet another talk-shop of parliamentarians in Harare.

 

Of course ZimAsset is doomed to fail; the Chinese, the last nation Mugabe had hoped would bankroll the $27 billion program have cut their contribution from $30 b to $10b to $3 b to $400 m and this week it was reported that they will pay nothing!

 

The trouble with tyrants is that they seek and exercise absolute power and after a while they really believe they have the supernatural powers of the Gods to command, dictate whatever and it is so.

 

The Book of Genesis, which Mai Mujuru should be familiar with been a member of the Salvation Army (her commitment is open to conjecture give the disruption she has caused at Harvard Hospital), tells us “the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.

Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.

 

Yes Mai Mujuru ZimAsset will succeed because you, the all power Vice President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, have said so!

 

She has reportedly amassed a fortune of $3 billion and her late husband amassed $9 billion. Mugabe has his Borrowdale “Blue Roof” mansion a select few had the chance to marvel at during the $10 million Bona wedding plus his 13 farms, etc. All the other Zanu PF leaders have too amassed vast fortunes. And it is all from corruption and looting!

 

Zanu PF has denied that there was corruption for the last 34 years allowing this problem to grow into the juggernaut scourge it is today. Corruption has become so rampant that it can no longer be denied or ignored. The country’s economic melt-down is now self-evident and its consequences will be so far reaching it has forced the Zanu PF leaders to speak up but too late.

 

If any of the Zanu PF leaders are serious about fighting corruption then they should know that it is them who are fathers and mothers of all the corrupt.

 

Corruption is like weeds they are a problem the world over, that is true. But every good farmer will tell you the secret of their success is they sow their crops and from there on fight to keep the weeds from choking their crops. In Zimbabwe Zanu PF has been cultivating weeds because that is exactly what absolute power turns humans into wicked and corrupt tyrants.

 

If Mai Mujuru is serious about ending the scourge of corruption and save the country from the economic crash fast approaching then Zanu PF must accept that the party’s dictatorship has failed. We must have meaningful democratic reforms and free and fair elections.

 

The very idea that the nation can have human dignity and prosper and still hang on to the notion of holding elections in regime change is not allowed is ideological nonsense of infantile proportion!