Let us be very clear, Zanu PF Yours have the right to protest but not to deny others same right.

“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem,” advised President Abraham Lincoln.

“It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the times; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”

President Lincoln “akataura seane muti mudama!” (spoken as if he has magic in his cheek!) as one would say in Shona to underline the wisdom behind each word. Sadly Mugabe is not the type to listen to any words of wisdom, because I am sure someone must have warned him of the futility of trying to fool everyone all the time.

Ever since Mugabe got into power back in 1980 he has promised the people mass prosperity, “gutsa ruzhinji”. Yet, other than for the first two years and two or three years later, the Zimbabwe economy has been on steady downward decline; Mugabe has always had a ready excuse for why it is so with half a dozen other excuses to spare. He has definitely fooled many of the people many of the times but as the economy continued to sink and the people got poorer and poorer his score on the number of people fooled and the frequency he fooled them started feeling the ill effects of the law of diminishing return.

In economic terms, the law of diminishing returns states that in all productive processes, adding more of one factor of production, while holding all others constant (ceteris paribus) will at some point yield lower incremental per-unit returns.

Since the rigged elections of July 2013 Mugabe has suffered from the ill effects of the law of negative returns; the more he has tried win back the confidence of the voters by lying to them the lesser the number of people who believed him. There is just a limit to how often one can recycle a lie and expect people to still believe it.

Mugabe promised the people 2.2 million new jobs to be delivered by 2018 in Zanu PF’s election manifesto, for example, and yet three years into that five year window the regime has failed to create any jobs. Instead the country has continued to lose existing jobs as the current economic meltdown got worse and worse send the unemployment rate soaring into the stratosphere of 90% plus.

The regime has mounted a concerted rear-guard defence and blamed “the sanctions imposed by the West on the country”. If the excuse had worked in the past it certain was not working now; if for those who have never understood what these fabled sanctions were about, they did not fail to notice that the regime had promised the 2.2 million new jobs know of the existence of these sanction. The sanctions were imposed in 2002 for Pete’s sake and regime had referred to them often enough to know about them and factored they effect in crafting its manifesto.

The most significant chunk of the population Mugabe has fooled in the past but could not fool no more was the war veterans. It is no exaggeration to say the war veterans’ willingness to be used as Mugabe’s storm troopers harassing, beating, raping and even murdering ordinary people to force them to vote for the tyrant since 2 000 is what has kept Mugabe in power.

Mugabe and the war veterans fell out big time when the tyrant failed to keep his promise of a better life for all the veterans. It was the war veterans who spearheaded the seizures of the white owned farms only for them to driven off the farms with not even a thank you. The pension and school fees for their children the regime had promised not paid for months or even years on end, especial in between election cycles.

Of course it was plain for all to see Mugabe only cared about war veterans during elections when he needed their help; after elections he could not care less.

In February 2016 the war veterans planned to hold a meeting to press their demands for a fair share of the looted national wealth which Mugabe and his cronies were keeping to themselves. Mugabe is a dictator and like many other dictator he does not like anyone dictating anything to him. His response to the war veterans was swift, ruthless and decisive; he the lot tear-gassed and shot with water cannon.

Considering these were the men and women who had terrorized innocent people to keep the tyrant in power whom he was now kicking in the teeth; it was impossible not to laugh. Of course it served them right!

Mugabe lost the confidence and political support of millions of ordinary Zimbabweans and the worsening economic situation has forced them to go out on the street to demand any end to their economic hardships. The public support for the #ThisFlag and Tajamuka/Sesjikile has forced the regime to come up with its own response.

On Wednesday 20 July 2016 up to 10 000 Zanu PF Youths marched through Harare. Whereas the #ThisFlag people were demanding that the government must address the problem of serious unemployment, corruption, etc. the Zanu PF Youths’ demand was a simple one – that all protests critical of Mugabe and Zanu PF must stop.

“They (pro-democracy protesters) can ignore our warning at their own peril,” a top Zanu PF youth league official said.

“Those that may choose to go ahead with their protests will have themselves to blame. Zanu PF is the only party that has a history of defending the country and, as youths, we don’t hesitate to defend our President.”

It was not surprising to hear them threatening everybody because they are Zanu PF’s new thugs for hire! The party has promised to pay them by giving them stands to build their own houses. In the past the party promised the youths jobs but has failed to deliver and so now it is giving them land. Only a select few will get the land but where will they get the money to service the stands, build the houses, furnish them, etc. since most of these youths are unemployed. It is almost certain the party will not give them any further help.

As soon as the elections are over, Mugabe and Zanu PF will forget these youths just as it has forgotten the war veterans and many others before them. There is no doubt that the Zanu PF Youth members know they have been recruited to harass, beat, rape and even murder all Mugabe’s political critics as for their reward for doing all this dirty work; the tyrant will promise them the moon on a silver platter but they too will face the economic hell the rest of the population are facing.

Even if Mugabe gives them a beautiful house with everything they ever dreamt of, they have to know that this was a reward for harassing, beating, etc. the fellow country men and women whose only crime was to ask for freedom, liberty and justice for all Zimbabweans!

As a nation we have had far too many individuals who have sold-out their body and soul to the devil for selfish personal gain; it is high time we held these modern day Judas Iscariot to account. All those Zanu PF Youth who take the law into their own hands and take it upon themselves to deny anyone their democratic right to protest peaceful will be held to account. In this day and age of mobile phone and nothing that takes place in public can ever be hidden it should be easy to find out who did what and when.

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God cannot retain it,” said President Lincoln. Some more “magic in the cheek” wisdom.

The best that these Zanu PF Youths will ever do is delay regime change but not stop it. Regime change is upon us and woe to all those who will be caught on the wrong side of history, when it happens! 

Musewe advises "failed" Zanu PF, PDP, MDC-T, ZimPF, etc. "to step aside" - pity does not heed his own words!

The admission by Vince Musewe that both Zanu PF and the country’s opposition must be excluded from playing any role in our search for the way out of this political and economic hell these corrupt and incompetent politicians have landed us in was the best piece of good news I have heard in years!  

"The PDP's justification for calling for such a Transitional body as the NTA (National Transition Authority) is that Zimbabwe's woes cannot be fixed by the same crop of failed leaders who created it. The PDP firmly believes that it is time that both ZANU PF and the disjointed opposition movements stepped aside and gave Zimbabwe a genuine chance at economic and social recovery," he said (Bulawayo 24 Opinion).

Sadly I have known Mr Musewe long enough to know that when it comes himself and his friends in the opposition camp being excluded from taking part in politics, he did not meaning a single word he said. For any of the readers who have not read his original article the above quotation was his concluding paragraph, in the rest of the article he went into a great deal of detail on the structure and tasks of the NTA.

If he really believed (or be it belatedly) that our current political leaders from both sides of the political divide must “step aside” because they “the same crop of failed (my emphasis) leaders” who landed us in the hell-hole in the first place; then why is he spending all this time telling us what to do? He should listen to his own advice and step aside!

Mr Musewe has been so desperate to be elected into political office these last two years he has praised to the heaven the same politicians he now dismiss as “failed leaders” and even argued that the nation must grant then key roles just to increase his chance of being elected and get on Zimbabwe’s political the gravy train. He has argued that we must embrace Tsvangirai, Biti, Mujuru, etc. as the leaders to get us out of the hell-hole and refused to even acknowledge their historic record of corruption, incompetent and out and out selling-out.

At one point Musewe wanted his NTA headed by President Mugabe and to agree upfront there will be no meaningful reforms and free and fair elections at the end of the day, just to appease the tyrant. All he was after was a chance to get into power even if new arrangement delivered no meaningful change just as the last GNU had done. Mr Musewe and those behind him had to be told in no uncertain terms that any arrangement that does not guarantee free and fair elections at the end of the day was a complete waste of time.

The main criticism of his present NTA proposal is in fact just that – it does not offer free and fair elections at the end of the day. Both PDP and MDC-T are calling for the realignment of existing laws to the 2013 constitution although they have been told a thousand times that will not be enough to guarantee free and fair elections because the new constitution is weak.

“Zimbabwe also needs a new constitution. It must be the genuine product of a national dialogue that embodies our hopes and aspirations, unconstrained by our fears; it must be founded on a strong Bill of Rights, and elicit the best in us,” wrote Trevor Ncube in a recent article.

“The current document is the outcome of horse-trading between Zanu-PF and the two MDC factions. It fails to lay a strong foundation of the rule of law, strong national institutions, transparency and accountability. And, of course, the sanctity of life and respect for private property must find full expression.”

The one useful thing to come out of the GPA was that SADC helped set the benchmark we require to have free, fair and credible elections – implement a raft of democratic reforms and draft a new democratic constitution. MDC failed to get even one reform implemented and made a dog’s breakfast on the new constitution.

The country’s worsening economic meltdown has been a very dark storm cloud with the one silver lining; it has put President Mugabe and Zanu PF under great pressure to accept meaningful political change as the only way to achieve meaningful economic recovery. We already know what that meaningful political change is – implement the raft of democratic reforms agreed in the 2008 GPA and to replace the current “horse-trading” constitution with a new truly democratic one. The last thing we need is the like of Vince Musewe throwing the spanner in the works with his time wasting advice to realign existing laws to a weak constitution.

No Mr Musewe please take your own wonderful advice to “failed leaders” in Zanu PF, PDP, MDC-T, ZimPF, etc. to “step aside” and step aside yourself. You are one of the people whose desire to hold public office and get on this notorious Zanu PF inspired gravy train has become a dangerous obsession clouding your thinking and judgement. For the good of the long suffering people of Zimbabwe you must just resign from all political activities because you are only clouding the issues and confusing the electorate. Please step aside yourself, Vince. Thank you, in advance!  

I am "an angel" said VP Mphoko - Africa's curse of "unscrupulous" mortal turning self into a demigod

In the epic 1986 TV mini-series Shaka Zulu Doctor Henry Fynn (Robert Powell) treats a young woman whom the village medicine man had pronounced dead back to health. The black natives were dually impressed by what they saw as the white man’s magical powers. A myth Lt. Francis Farewell (Edward Fox), leading the expedition, was quick to encourage and to exploit for selfish gain. It was easy for an “unscrupulous” man to turn himself into a God in Africa, remarked Dr. Fynn.

The movie was talking of the Africa of Shaka kaSenzangakhona of the early 1800s, over 200 years ago now, and yet Dr. Fynn’s warning of unscrupulous mortals who would want to proclaim themselves Gods is still ringing true to this day.

Indeed many of our corrupt and incompetent leaders are the hand of the Almighty in their birth and appointment to high office to justify why they must remain in their high office. After all if the Almighty did indeed anoint and appointed them leader, it is not for mere mortals to remove them from office. What God has anointed is no for mortals to bring down in the name of democratic accountability.

Some of the claims to divine interventions to escape the rigorous consequences of free, fair and credible democratic votes span the whole spectrum ranging from being hilariously pathetic to blasphemy.

"We're donating these chicks because we want to economically empower our communities through this income-generating project. I'm not expecting to get a commission or tithe from you because I'm not God, but an angel who was just sent to deliver the goods," VP Mhpoko told his listeners recently.

Ever since his appointment as VP in December 2014, here is a man who clearly believed that he had been transformed from an ordinary mortal to someone truly special;  an angel. One of the burning issues with him has been his stubborn refusal to move out of the five-star hotel where he has remained holed up ever since at great expense to the nation who pays the bill. He has reportedly refused several houses offered to him because they were not good enough for someone of his position and standing!  

VP Mhpoko cannot be an angel of the same God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob most of us know of because He has never ever approved the abuse of power by all those he chose to be His messengers. Never ever! And I am cock sure He would never approve the squandering of over $600 a day for over a year and half now in country were hundreds of new born babies across the country are dying every week for lack of something as basic as an incubator. What man of God would allow that to happen in his name!?

Richard Morgan Tsvangirai had his transformative day on 11 February 2009 when he took his oath of office to be Prime Minister of the Republic of Zimbabwe; he seized to be a mere mortal like you and me to join the select few touched by the finger of God!  

“God has created me for a purpose and if that purpose is not to be president of the country, that’s fine,” Tsvangirai told his supporters recently.

“I have fulfilled what I think I was created to do and I am doing it to the best of my ability.”

The single most important task he and his fellow MDC friends were set to do during their days in the GNU was to implement a raft of democratic reforms to ensure Zimbabwe’s next elections are free, fair and credible. SADC leaders did their best to remind Tsvangirai of this key task but he completely ignored them. No doubt he considered himself so special he could not demean himself by listening to mere mortals even those holding comparable high office in their own right.

SADC leaders abandoned the arrogant Tsvangirai and his corrupt and incompetent MDC friends soon after Mugabe blatantly rigged the country’s July 2013 elections. MDC leaders “were too busy enjoying themselves being in the GNU they forgot why they were there!” charged the irate SADC Leaders.

Tsvangirai has changed the MDC’s constitution to extend his stay as leader of the party – in line with his thinking as the one chosen by God to lead. Democratic constitution and free vote cannot be allowed to interfere in with God’s master plan!

The waste case of unscrupulous human arrogance shamelessly and shamefully pedaled as the decree from the heavens is that of Mugabe. Whilst the tyrant has confined himself to the declaration that he would rule Zimbabwe until the Lord says “Come!” The tyrant has rigged elections using all manner of dirty tricks from vote buying to using brute force including cold blooded murdered to ensure he remained in power for life.

Mugabe has sworn time and time again that he has always held free and fair elections and yet has shameless promoted his no-regime-change mantra oblivious that this is an oxymoron. No doubt, as the one chosen by God to do His will, the tyrant must feel he must have special dispensation to be totally irrational and yet still be judged not just rational and but even godly.

Mugabe’s Zanu PF cronies and minions have showered the tyrant with praise with the late Mbare Zanu PF MP calling Mugabe “the second son of God!” His wife Grace, fearful of losing her First Lady privileged extravagant lifestyle if he should stop being State President has postulated that he will rule “from behind the grave”. Whether she meant by this that he will perform the miracle of the prophet Jonah or Jesus Christ Himself and rise from the dead, she did not say.

Power is the most potent hallucinogen there is, get a whiff of it and you immediately start to believe that there is absolutely nothing you cannot do. Nothing! Secure absolute power and you really see you see as an infallible demigod whose very mortality is causing consternation and regret on earth and high heavens alike.

The central tenet of a healthy, functional and successful democratic government – the only system of government that has delivered freedom, justice, peace and prosperity to the greatest number of people in a society or nation consistently for the longest period in human history – is that no one, absolutely no one, must ever be allowed to exercise power without constrains. Power must be shared so there are always checks and balance to prevent power being abused.

It is now over 2 500 years since the Greeks adopted democracy as a system of stable and just government other nations, the world over, have adopted the same system of government ,fine tuning it to meet their needs, and prospered. We in Africa and in Zimbabwe in particular have failed to come to embrace democracy or come up with a system that works and hence have remained bogged down in the world unscrupulous heretics who abuse high office to make the demigod whom no mortal can hold to account.

VP Mphoko, Morgan Tsvangirai, Robert Mugabe and all the other leaders who have behaved and/or continue behave as if they are God’s anointed whom we mere mortals cannot hold to account, have done so only because our democratic institutions have been to weak and feeble to stop them abusing their position and power. We need to overhaul our system of governance to ensure power is never again exercised by anyone without proper checks and balance. 

Delaying change even by a day suits Mugabe, it his sunset life, but not Chipanga left holding the bag.

Some things never change; before independence whites who demonstrated in support of the white racist oppression were escorted by the Police whilst blacks who protested the injustice of the regime were tear-gassed and jailed. Today Zanu PF Youths have the freedom of the city and yet yesterday those who wanted to protest the worsening economic meltdown were tear-gassed and beaten into silence.

As long as Zanu PF continue to have unfettered access to the billions of dollars of looted wealth with which to bribe the brainwashed party youths; the party will continue to loot and do nothing to address the country's worsening economic meltdown, confident the youths will continue to prop its tyrannical rule. The tough reality of the worsening economic situation will force the brainwashed youths to open their eyes and see the futility of defending this failed political system because the economic hardship are not sparing these youths; many of them are out of work and are hungry just like the rest of us.

The war veterans like Jabulani Sibanda and Chris Mutsvangwa who went out of their war to support Zanu PF tyranny and thought themselves special the regime will protect them from the economic hardship affecting everyone else learnt in February this year that they were not special after all. The regime tear-gassed them and hosed them down with water cannons when they tried press their demands for special treatment. The Zanu PF youths are in for similar treatment from the regime but worse still from the nation, post this Zanu PF reign of terror.

In the end this Zanu PF regime will fall because a political system that creates 90% unemployment rate, force 76% of the population to live in abject poverty, etc. is socially, morally and politically unsustainable! 

It is all very well for tyrants like Mugabe who, at 92 years of age, are in the twilight sunset of their life, to dig in and resist change by all means for as long as possible even if that be a few more days. It is the young party leaders like Minister Kasukuwere and Zanu PF youth leaders like Kudzai Chipanga whose lives are at the other end of the spectrum who will be very foolish tarnish their names propping up the tyrannical regime for a few more months and then spend decades paying dearly for their folly.

Zanu PF has committed many serious crimes against this nation and all these brutal treatments of street protestors is only adding more evil to a bag already full. Mugabe,  Mnangagwa and the rest of the Zanu PF grandees are all going and it is these young Turks like Kasukuwere, Chipanga, Psychology Maziwisa, etc. who have been defending the regime daily and threatening protestors who will in the end be left holding the bag. Whoever is holding the bag when the music stops will have to account for everything in it!

Street protest are important first step but must be first of many to follow.

Zimbabweans must not allowed themselves to be misled by those who see the street protests as all the nation needed to do to end Mugabe’s reign of terror and have, in its place, economic prosperity and political stability. Patrick Kuwana wrote one such misleading article “Zimbabwe’s tipping point – Here’s why it can turn around quickly” in the Zimbabwe Independent and in Zimbabwe Situation. His was an academic case study that was so far divorced from the reality of the Zimbabwe situation it was supposed to fit one can only compare it expecting a doll’s dress to fit an adult.

“‘Change seldom occurs until the pain of staying the same exceeds the pain of change.’ There is a point where this statement proves to be true especially when a nation drops from being the ‘breadbasket to the begging bowl of Africa’ within a single generation,” he started off.

Started off on the wrong foot, for a start! The on-going street protests are not the first time the people of Zimbabwe have staged a revolt; the war of independence was a revolution in its own right. The people’s economic situation then was definitely better than it has ever been since 1980; from the day we attained our independence our national economy has been on stead path of decline. We certainly had our breadbasket status throughout the nation’s fight for independence.

If it was a simple matter of the pain cause by economic meltdown finally becoming unbearable then one has to ask whether Zimbabweans have an unusually high tolerance for pain, way above most other human beings. As Patrick readily admitted Zimbabweans have endured “hyperinflation, lack of access to cash and +80% unemployment”. Most other nationals would have been out on the street demanding regime change long before unemployment reach 10% especially when they knew, as Zimbabwe have known for decades, that the root causes of the country’s economic problems were gross mismanagement and rampant corruption.

Mugabe told the nation on prime time TV that $15 billion was looted (nearly four times the $4 billion government’s annual revenue and happening at a time when the regime was failing to pay civil servant wages much less anything else). The revelation did not even cause a ripple of public disquiet.

President Mugabe and his Foreign Affairs Minister have both attributed the people of Zimbabwe’s apparent indifference to their on suffering and even deaths to their “resilience”, a variation to Patrick’s theory that the people have not demand reform until now because they had not suffered enough. It is all nonsense, the people of Zimbabwe feel the pain as acutely as anyone else out there; they revolted against white colonial oppression and exploitation because they felt the injustice of being denied freedoms and basic humans regardless of the nation’s breadbasket status.

The people have felt the economic hardship and political suffering brought on by Zanu PF’s misrule and the brutal repression just as cutely. They have been very slow in revolting because each time in the past they have done so, reached “the transformative tipping point” as Patrick called it; nothing has changed.

“For the sake of clarity,” explained Patrick, “ it’s worthwhile to define the word transformation – ‘It is a process of profound and radical change that orients an individual, organisation, community, city or nation in a new direction and takes them/it to an entirely different level of effectiveness.’

“Now that Zimbabwe seems to be drawing closer towards this transformational tipping point, it is a good time to look at some of the elements why this has the potential of being a model case for African national recovery and restoration.”

Zimbabwe had a transformative tipping points in 1980 and in 2008 but both failed to deliver the freedom, justice and human rights for the former and not even one democratic change for the latter. This has happened because the people failed to think though what changes the nation needed to carry out to ensure freedom, justice, etc. for all. So whilst Mugabe and Tsvangirai have failed to deliver on what they promised the nation, the people have never hold the two leaders to account because the people did not have a clue what they wanted.

There is a depressing déjà vu feeling about the current street protests; they too will result in no meaningful change because the people still have no clue what they want beyond the standard call for democratic change.

It is not as if the required democratic reforms are complex and thus beyond the comprehension of most people; on the contrary, the reforms are simple and logical. Police reforms, for example, demand the structural reforms to give parliament the power to ask for detailed accounts of Policing matters from senior Police Officers and to demand of the State President to replace all those Officers parliament is not pleased with their performance. Parliament does not have these powers at present.  

“‘Any organisation (or country) can never move beyond the constraints of its leadership’, concluded Patrick. “With the right leadership in place a strong business case can be put forward that will open up the doors of human and financial capital flow to kick start the recovery process. In fact, with the South Africa’s economic growth projections tending towards 0%, Zimbabwe might just end up being the investors new destination of choice.

“Is what we are seeing the start of the greatest national turnaround in Africa?”

The people have not yet grasped the need for democratic reforms designed to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship. As long as the Zanu PF dictatorship remains, in one form or another, Zimbabwe’s economy will never really recover let alone be “the greatest national (economic) turnaround in Africa”!

A few people accept that the street protests in themselves are not enough to deliver meaningful change hence the reason they have been asking the question “What next?” A lot more people must ask themselves this and find the answers.

“Totenda maruva tadya chakata!” so goes the Shona saying. (We should believe in the blossoms after eating the fruit.) This is particularly important since street protests is the easy bit, thinking through what the democratic reforms are and then making sure they are all implemented properly are the really tough bits.

If we do not implement the reforms properly then the on-going revolution will too accomplish very little has already happened in 1980 and in 2008. 

Bribed and brainwashed Zanu PF Youth (new rogue war vets) to stop #ThisFlag protests. By Patrick Guramatunhu

Zanu PF Youths are threatening to stage street protests to stop recent #ThisFlag and Tajamuka/Sesjikile protest. This is nothing new, the riot Police was overwhelmed and so the regime is turning to its brainwashed thugs to beef up the Police.

Until recently the regime has rely on war veterans to do its dirty work. The rogue war vets (no freedom fighter worth his/her salt would ever turn against the people to deny them their freedoms and human dignity – the very things they had risked their own lives to secure) had a rude awakening when President Mugabe ordered the riot Police to tear-gas and shoot them with water cannons. That has helped open the eyes and ears of the rogue war veterans, many now see President Mugabe and his cronies in power for the corrupt and oppressive tyrants they are.

Indeed some rogue war veterans have since come out and publicly expressed their support of the recent street protests by the ordinary people demanding meaningful political change.

Ever since the million-man march President Mugabe has looked to the Zanu PF Youths to take up the duties of the storm troopers to back up the riot Police and other party and State institutions. Last week President Mugabe promised to build over 300 000 housing units country wide “especially for the youths” has, no doubt, galvanized the party’s youths into action.

"They (pro-democracy protesters) can ignore our warning at their own peril," a top Zanu PF youth league official is quoted saying.

"Those that may choose to go ahead with their protests will have themselves to blame. Zanu PF is the only party that has a history of defending the country and, as youths, we don't hesitate to defend our President."

Ever since Zimbabwe attained her independence President Mugabe has corrupted Zanu PF, as he has corrupted everything else, turning the party from one that stood and fought for freedom, justice and liberty to a party has actively disregarded and violated the ordinary people’s freedoms and rights in pursuit of his insatiable hunger for power, influence and wealth. Zanu PF is now a party of corrupt and murderous tyrants propped up rogue war veterans and now brainwashed party thugs.

Given the seriousness of our economic and political situation in Zimbabwe after 36 years of misrule; only a brainwashed moron would still fail to see that the situation is not sustainable and must change. Only a brainwashed moron would still believe the nonsense that denying others their freedoms and human rights constitute “defending the country”!

The on-going street protests have demanded the end to corruption, the return of the looted $15 billion, etc. The protestors must add the implementation of all the democratic reforms agreed in the 2008 GPA designed to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship to allow the light of transparency and accountability to shine on all State affairs including who is funding these 300 000 housing developments and who benefits.

The economic situation of 90% unemployed, 76% living in abject poverty, etc. demands urgent attention because it now possible a serious threat to the stability of the nation and the region. And yet as long as Zanu PF continues to have the unfettered and undemocratic access to the nation’s resources with which to fund its vote rigging schemes, bribe and brainwash whole sections of society, etc. there will be no meaningful change in Zimbabwe! 

Mugabe signed secret deals in Marange, Mujuru reveals - the plot thickens.

In the end, the truth will always come out or as one would say in Shona “rinemanyanga hariputirwi!”

The truth about the wholesale looting that has been going on in Chiadzwa and Marange is coming out! In March President Mugabe admitted the country had lost $15 billion worth of revenue due to the looting of diamonds.

A few weeks later Ministers Kasukuwere and Jonathan Moyo added some meat to the bone when they said “a chunk” of the $15 billion was looted by former VP Mujuru.

Finance Minister, Patrick Chinamasa, told BBC HardTalk there was no looting the $15 billion was all due to “mispricing”! No one believed him because his ministry was still getting no revenue from the mining activity now going on 24/7.

“The Auditor-General’s Office has commissioned a top auditing firm to investigate alleged looting of proceeds from diamond operations in Marange, with the results of the probe expected by September,” reported Zimeye on 16 July, 2013.

“Ms Chiri said her office had notified the Mines and Mining Development Ministry of the “full co-operation” expected from Government departments during the audit.”

What raised eyebrow of anyone with seeing eyes is that the looting according to the President’s admission has gone on for the last six years and the surprise is that the Auditor-General’s Office which is known for its thoroughness had failed to pick up the looting in all these years of such a breathtakingly huge amount. The suspension is that this diamond mining activities were deliberately kept away from the Auditor-General who has the statutory duty to audit all government and government related institutions.

Mai Mujuru has since confirmed that the government has indeed been very secretive about the country diamond mining activities in Marange and Chiadzwa.

"There were companies operating there like Ainjin, who sent them?” Mai Mujuru told a rally in Mutare.

"Only the President knows because there was no body that processed licenses for them.

"It was only between the President and the Minister only," she said.

The nation awaits the audit investigation report in September; if it too does not suffer the fate of many other similar reports such as the Chihambakwe report of the Gikurahundi massacre, it has yet to see the light of day. 

Still the nation knows there has been wholesale looting of Marange diamonds at a scale the world has never seen. Mai Mujuru may try to distant herself from the looting but she knows when the story of Marange comes out as will the Gukurahundi she will be up to her eyes in looted diamonds!