To be conned into believing corrupt and incompetent Chamisa is Moses is tantamount to believing a dog has 5 legs. W Mukori

 Let us be very clear here: a dog has four legs and a tail. Not five legs just because some clever Alec insists, “God is in it!”, on calling the tail a leg!

Zimbabwe in a failed state because the country has had the great misfortune to be ruled by a corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship these last 44 years and counting. The nation has been stuck with the Zanu PF dictatorship all these years because the regime rigged the elections and thus denying the people a meaningful say in the governance of the country.

As long as Zanu PF retains its dictatorial powers including the carte blanche powers to rig elections, Zimbabwe will remain a failed state, a pariah state. The cure to end the dictatorship is to implement democratic reforms to take away the dictatorial powers and stop Zanu PF rigging the elections. 

Zanu PF blatantly rigged last year’s 23 August 2023 elections, just as it has rigged other elections in the past, to extend its tyrannical rule stay because the nation has failed to implement the democratic reforms.

Nelson Chamisa and his MDC/CCC friends had failed to implement even one token reform, the A1 task the nation has risked all to elect them into office to do, in 23 years, including 5 in the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Worse still they have given up on implementing reforms to participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy for the sake of a few gravy train seats.

Like it or not Chamisa et al are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless; they will never implement the necessary reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections. Never! They failed to implement even one token reform when they had the golden opportunity to do so during the GNU, because they were and still are corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent - they have not been cured of that!

What Zimbabwe needs desperately is to elect men and women who will implement those bloody democratic and finally end the dictatorship, end the curse of rigged elections and bad governance.

Chamisa is conning his ignorant and gullible supporters into believing he is the infallible saviour, the modern day Moses who will deliver the nation into the Promised Land. “God is in it!” He wants to sweep away the reality and proven historic fact that he is not just a fallible mortal but a corrupt and incompetent one. 

The real tragedy here is that there were, even as recent as last August, many Zimbabweans who believed Chamisa’s oxymoronic claim that he had plugged all the Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes when the nation was being dragged into an election without something as basic as a verified voters’ roll. Chamisa failed to deploy election agents at all the polling stations even though the party had received the necessary funds, for Pete’s sake! 

It is unforgivable that there should be any Zimbabwean out there who still subscribe to the foolish notion that Nelson Chamisa is “the best foot forward for Zimbabwe!” And yet, alas, there are some Zimbabweans who do and, to crown it all, they have the vote! 

Zimbabwe’s greatest curse is that we have many voters who are so ignorant and gullible they will believe a dog has five legs. Their brains have ossified into fat, you cannot reason with them. No wonder Zimbabwe is a failed state, giving some one who cannot think nor listen to reason is like giving a monkey a loaded gun; no good will ever come of it. 

Zanu PF is evicting resettled blacks, payback for rejecting the regime in 2023 vote! W Mukori

 “HUNDREDS of farmers and villagers in Mashonaland West province are facing eviction from the land they occupied on the strength of offer letters issued by politicians and lands officers during the chaotic land reform programme,” stated one report.

“The situation is reportedly being replicated in all the country’s provinces amid reports that government officials and politicians had parcelled out the land for cash.

“Government officials, who occupied lands offices then, and beneficiaries of the 99-year land leases, sold farmland to unsuspecting villagers, mostly former farm workers who found themselves homeless after their employers lost farms through the resettlement programme at the turn of the century.”

Why am I not surprise! This is a Zanu PF political script we should all be familiar with by now.

Some of the people are being evicted today have lived on the same area for 20 years. This is a regime that has thrived on ignorance and fear backed up by brute force. 

Zanu PF rigged the 2023 elections as SADC, AU and Zimbabwe’s own ZHRC election observers readily stated in their reports. The regime has always conducted a post-election analysis of the voting trends to identify those sections of the Zimbabwe electorate who dare reject the regime. The resettled farmers were picked up as one such group who did not vote for Zanu PF last August and it is pay back time! 

All those who were resettled by the regime are expected to vote for Zanu PF or they will be punished. Period! 

The resettled families were given a piece of paper allowing them stay, a piece of paper that can be revoked by the regime at the drop of a hat. The regime was very careful never to grant these settler anything legally binding like a Title Deed! The resettled families were denied ownership of the land for the same reason the rural peasants were denied ownership - to deny them economic power keeping them poor and easy to control. 

Zanu PF has stubbornly refused to grant rural area folks title deeds to even 1/2 sq km of land on which the peasants' homestead is built!

In Zimbabwe the rural people are the poorest of the poor. The white colonial regime did not allow blacks to own land even the land on which their mud hut was built. All the land in the rural areas was owned by the tribe in trust hence the name Tribal Trust Lands (TTL). 

Blacks were never allowed to have the confidence that they are settled and can invest in a better future. They always lived in fear of being asked to move and they were moved many times by the village head, chief and by the regime. 

If you are a white person, you owned the land on which your house or business activities depended on. Whites could borrow money to develop using the Title Deed of the land as collateral security.

After independence Zanu PF kept the TTL policy because it too wanted to keep the masses poor for selfish political reasons. The rural area are Zanu PF’s strongholds because the party's operative are the lords and the rural folk are nothing more than medieval serfs! 

After 43 years of waiting to be granted title deed to the 1/2 sq. km of land on which their homestead is built, the rural peasants must claim it as their birth right. They must stake their claim by building a decent homestead fit for human habitation in the 21st century complete with clean water, toilets, 100 fruit trees, 1 000 indigenous trees, etc.

If Bona Mugabe is allowed own 12 farms over 30 000 sq. km of land, enough to fit Lesotho; a peasant is only asking for title deeds to 1/2 sq. km, that is not asking for too much!

As a people, we blacks have been slow in realising and asserting our basic freedoms and rights. We have allowed others to ride roughshod over us, we are the downtrodden. We and we alone can end this curse of being the downtrodden by reclaiming our freedoms and rights as a birth right and not a privilege to be given today and taken away tomorrow at the whim of some tyrant!

All CCC independent lost by-election, getting 13% 2023 votes as CCC Chamisa - proof personality cult curse. W Mukori

 It has taken a long time for the penny to drop. Thank God it has finally dropped!

“The just-ended by-elections revealed the personification of allegiance to individuals by the electorate," reads the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) report read.

"The electorate in most of the six (6) constituencies uncovered that people do not cast votes along political party lines per se, neither do their preferences reflect on the calibre of the contesting candidate.

"This accounts for the reason why, when former CCC candidates opted to contest as independents, they lost seats they once won in the August harmonised elections and for those who filed as CCC- Tshabangu, they too lost the by-elections.

"In August 2023 harmonised elections, the Chegutu West CCC candidate polled 13 942 but when he decided to stand as an Independent, he got 2 626 votes. Seke constituency's August winner, Williard Madzimbamuto garnered 13 277 but as an Independent, he got 2 401.

"A similar trend happened for the Zvimba East February 3 by-election Independent candidate who got 1 993, which is way below the August winning mark of 15 435.”

This is to be expected given the Zimbabwe electorate have no clue what is going on. If one does not understand the issues at stake, the substantive ideas of the time, the individual settles for the lowest common denominator of the personality cult, even when the individual is but an empty vessel. This is a well known and documented fragility of the ignorant and gullible in any society. 

In his book Animal Farm, George Orwell, described Boxer, the horse, who took just as long to learn the first 4 letters of the alphabet as others took to learn all 26 letters. He too just as long again to learn the next 4 letters and but then he had forgotten the first 4. It is no surprise that Boxer could not follow what was being discussed and could not formulate and response. 

Boxer gave up learning and, most important of all, gave up thinking for himself and accepted that Napoleon, the authority figure head, would do all the thinking for him and he will follow him, no questions asked. “Comrade Napoleon is always right!” was his motto.

It is no secret that most Zimbabweans have been clamouring for democratic changes and yet they have no clue these changes, reforms, are to end the Zanu PF dictatorship including stopping the regime rigging the elections. They have no clue how any of the reforms were to be implemented, even with the benefit of hindsight of the GNU, they still have no clue. 

The ordinary Zimbabwean has no clue Nelson Chamisa and his MDC/CCC have failed to implement even one token reform in 23 years, including 5 in the GNU. Worse still, Chamisa and company have given up implementing reforms and have been participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuating the dictatorship out of greed. 

The Zimbabwe electorate’s “Chamisa Chete, Chete!” personality cult knee jerk reaction out of ignorance and foolishness just as Boxer’s “Comrade Napoleon is always right!” The recent by elections results confirmed the ordinary voter has blind allegiance to Chamisa regardless of his well documented track record as corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent. The mountain of evidence proving Chamisa is not the infallible demigod povo believe might as well be in Chinese because povo have no clue what it mean.

The Zimbabwe electorate are one of the most ignorant and naive people on earth and it is no surprise that personality cult; “the personification of allegiance to individuals”, as ZESN called; it comes naturally to them. 

The Greeks, all those 2 500 years ago, were right that democracy - government of the people, for the people and by the people - only works if the said people are educated, knowledgeable and diligent in holding those elected into public office top account. Shame that 43 years after independence, in this day and age, we are still failing to hold free, fair and credible elections. 

We have yet to learn the importance of knowledge, truth and facts not only in politics but in all our daily lives. Man is a creature of reason and woo to those who have given up their right to think freely for themselves!

Zimbabwe is a failed state and all because the nation has been stuck with a corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship these last 43 years. Implementing the democratic reforms is one sure way to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections and ending the dictatorship. The nation needs competent opposition leaders who will implement the reforms, something Nelson Chamisa et al have failed to do these last 23 years. 

The one thing holding back the nation form electing the competent opposition is povo’s failure to rise above the personality cult trap born of their ignorance and naivety. The ordinary Zimbabweans must learn to thing for themselves and embrace knowledge or Zimbabwe will remain a failed state forever blundering from pillar to post. 

We have neglected the need to educate Zimbabweans on even the most basic issues like the basic requirements for free, fair and credible elections and the nation has paid dearly for it. The nation must now double its efforts to end ignorance and the foolishness of personality cult, all this grovelling to the corrupt and incompetent tyrants and upstarts!  

Answering rhetorical question: Who rigged elections? will not stop Zanu PF rigging elections. Think! W Mukori.

 “Excellent essay but you get no marks because you did not answer what you were asked. You should read the question carefully and answer what you are asked and not what you wanted to be asked!” 

I remember this comment from my Bible Knowledge teacher, a soft spoken Swiss Priest. I failed my end of team examination but that comment, more than anything else since, has helped me do better than ever in school examinations and the trial and tribulations of life. 

Last August 2023, Zimbabwe had its five-yearly national elections and is was yet another disaster. SADC, AU and even Zimbabwe’s own ZHRC election observers condemned the election process as a farce. Zanu PF blatantly rigged the elections. We did not even have something as basis as a verified voters’ roll, for Pete’s sake!

So 43 years after independence, 2 500 years after the Greeks gave humanity the gift of democracy - government of the people, for the people and by the people; we, in Zimbabwe, cannot get past first base - hold free, fair and credible elections! Why? Oh why?

“You keep answering the question you wanted to be asked and not  answering the question you were asked!” my Bible Knowledge teacher would say, if he was here! 

Each time Zanu PF has rigged elections these 43 years Zimbabweans have gone to town about how evil and tyrannical the regime is. We have all been quick and passionate in asking the question; Who rigged the elections? This is the question we WANTED to be asked. 

As far back as the late 1990s, many Zimbabweans realised that as long as Zanu PF retained the dictatorial powers to rig elections, the regime will rig elections and nothing will ever change. Therefore asking and answering: Who rigged the elections? was clearly a rhetorical and a futile exercise. 

The nation would benefit from stopping Zanu PF rigging the elections and not knowing who rigged the elections. The nation would be better off answering: How can we stop Zanu PF rigging the elections? 

The nation came to a consensus to risk all to elect opposition members whose number one task would be to implement the necessary democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. Morgan Tsvangirai and friends launched their party in 1999 on the promise to deliver the democratic changes, as the party name implied - Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).

As noted above, Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 23 August 2023 just as the party has rigged elections in the past, precisely because the opposition has failed to implement even one token reform in 23 years, including 5 in the 2008 to 2013 GNU. And so the follow up question to ask is: Why has MDC/CCC failed to implement the reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging elections?

We all know why MDC/CCC leaders have not only failed to implement even one token reform in 23 years but, worse still, have been participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuating the dictatorship and the people’s suffering. Tsvangirai and company have proven to be corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent. Mugabe bribed them with the trappings of high office and they forgot all about implementing the reforms. 

There are some hardcore MDC/CCC supporters who consider Chamisa and company to be infallible demigods who can do no wrong. These are simpletons who have failed to understand what the democratic reforms are about, how they are implemented and that the GNU was the golden opportunity to implement the reforms. They do not blame MDC leaders for failing to implement any reforms; how can they blame anyone for not doing something they do not know what it is. 

So instead of answering: Why did MDC/CCC sell out on stoping Zanu PF rigging elections? The hardcore MDC/CCC has reverted to the question the WANT to be asked: Who rigged the elections?

After 43 years of rigged elections and with the nation in deep, deep economic and political trouble the people of Zimbabwe are at a cross-road: answer the rhetorical question the hardcore opposition WANT asked. Or answer the relevant questions whose answer will point the way out of this hell! 

Zimbabwe will never had free, fair and credible elections without electing the competent opposition leaders who will implement the democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections. 

In this life, you are rewarded for answering the question life throws at you and punished for answering the questions you wanted to be asked but were never asked. That is LIFE!

Chibaya and Siziba addressed Mutare meeting and yet even they disagree what it was about. Strategic ambiguity backfiring again! W Mukori

 ”Amos Chibaya yesterday told NewsDay that a meeting held in Mutare over the weekend was not an inaugural mobilisation programme amid claims by some Chamisa loyalists that they were excluded from the meeting,” reported Bulawayo 24.

“Chibaya said he organised the Mutare caucus on behalf of CCC despite former party deputy national spokesperson and legislator Gift Siziba telling NewsDay that the meeting was a move towards the establishment of a new party.

“The meeting, however, attracted the wrath of some Chamisa's loyalists who alleged that they were not informed of the meeting.

“Chibaya and Siziba addressed party supporters in Mutare during the weekend.”

Here we go, there is not only CCC factional fighting but even within the same faction there is fighting. How can Chibaya and Siziba have contradicting version of purpose of the meeting they both address!

MDC/CCC leaders proved they were corrupt and incompetent when the failed to implement even one token reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. The only reason why they have remained in public office is because we have an electorate who are dumb, thick and slow; they have no clue what the GNU was about and so all the evidence of corruption and incompetence was water off a duck’s back. 

Now that the CCC factional war has been declared, there is no going back and they idiots will be at each other’s throat for months if not years to come. They don’t even know that in the confusion of the recalls Zanu PF is taking away the few gravy train seats they are fighting over! Zanu PF has 2/3 majority thanks to the recalls and soon will have an unassailable super majority! 

God only knows what the regime will do with its super majority and all because Zimbabweans did not have the common sense to elect competent opposition who would implement the reforms even after MDC/CCC failed to implement even one token reform in 23 years! 

Worse still, there is no sign that the penny has finally dropped in the wildebeest herd’s head. There is no sign the euphoric of Chamisa Chete Chete dying down!

What matters for the ordinary Zimbabwean out there is that there will be no meaningful democratic reforms implemented in the coming five years and so Zanu PF is going to blatantly rig the 2028 elections to perpetuate the dictatorship, the failed state, and the suffering and death of the masses.

It pays in the end to get the best in the beginning, so goes the old adage. How prophetic!

We were not diligent in selecting Zanu PF as the nation’s liberation heroes because Mugabe and his cronies saw this as an opportunity to remove the white colonial oppressors only to take over and become the new oppressors. 

The Zanu PF thugs did not honour the “One man, one vote!” rallying call of the liberation days in 1980 under the pretext they did not trust the British to hold free, fair and credible elections. The people were told if Zanu PF did not win the election the bush war would continue. Of course, the people voted to end the war. And the number one task Mugabe did as soon as he got into power was to consolidate Zanu PF’s iron grip on power by imposing a de facto one-party, Zanu PF, dictatorship. 

The nation’s plan B was to elect opposition leaders who would implement the necessary democratic changes to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections. The people of Zimbabwe have risked livelihoods, limbs and even their very lives, from the wrath of the tyrannical Zanu PF thugs, to elect the late Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC/CCC friends on the understanding they would implement the required reforms. 

MDC/CCC leaders have not only failed to implement even one reform in 23 years but, worst of all, they have been participating in flawed election to give Zanu PF legitimacy and thus perpetuate the dictatorship. 

After the treasonous betrayal by Zanu PF, the people should have been more careful in their selection of the opposition for plane B. Alas! They were not careful and now the nation is stuck with a tyrannical and belligerent Zanu PF kept in power by the corrupt and utterly useless CCC opposition. The people themselves are confused and in their desperation they continue to put their trust in the corrupt and useless opposition. This is the stuff nightmares are mad of! 

Chamisa to launch new party, after abandoned "infiltrated" CCC. Who's stopping new infiltration, especially from recycled deadwood. W Mukori

 On 24 January 2024, Nelson Chamisa announced that he was resigning as president of CCC because the party has been infiltrated and contaminated. Today, hardly two weeks since his resignation, we hear he is out mobilising for the launch of a new political party.

“Chamisa loyalists led by former legislators Amos Chibaya and Gift Ostallos Siziba yesterday addressed supporters in Mutare during the inaugural mobilisation programme for the new political movement,” reported Bulawayo 24.

“Other senior opposition figures who attended the meeting include former lawmakers Regai Tsunga and David Chimhini.”

The obvious question is: If Chamisa is abandoning CCC in a huff because it was infiltrated what has he done to ensure the new party is NOT infiltrated too, especially if the new party will be led by the same recycled deadwood?

No doubt the ordinary party supporters, the wildebeest herd, will be thrilled to bits. It does not take much to impress the herd; a new political party name, new slogans and new regalia and the herd is ready to follow no questions asked!

Of course, the people are setting themselves to participate in another flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy, to perpetuate the dictatorship and their own suffering. Even now after 43 years of Zanu PF rigging elections, they still do not have the common sense to realise it will take more than a change of the political party’s name, etc. to deliver democratic change and end the zanu PF dictatorship. 

Nelson Chamisa and his fellow recycled deadwood leaders have not only failed to implement even one token democratic change these last 23 years, including the 5 years in the 2008 to 2013 GNU when they had the golden opportunity to do so. Worse still, since the GNU they have given up on implementing reforms and have participated in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy for a few gravy train seats reward. 

Nelson Chamisa and company have been running with the povo hare by day, making a big song and dance about it, and hunted with the Zanu PF dogs by night. Zanu PF and MDC/CCC have a cosy relationship keeping each other in power. The inter-party growling and scratching swipes are just as common within the party; politicians are like cats when you think they are fighting, they are making love and will have the kittens to prove it too!

It is all very well to say insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. When you can hardly differentiate your left hand from the right, you will not notice you are repeating the same thing! The herd cannot see the emptiness of changing of party’s name and regalia for the umpteenth time especially in the light of the stagnation the party doing the same things as before because the leaders have not changed.

The people of Zimbabwe must wake up to the reality that Chamisa and his recycled deadwood colleagues will never ever implement any democratic reforms. Never ever! If they failed to implement any reforms during the GNU, when they had the trump cards, it is naive to think they will do so now when Zanu PF has all the trump cards. It is idiotic, to say the least, to believe Chamisa will implement the reforms now because he has changed the party’s name, etc. 

Chamisa and his CCC friends have proven beyond all reasonable doubt that they are breathtakingly corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless. A change of party regalia will not change them. A cobra does not cease to be a deadly snake just because it has shed off its old coat!

Zimbabwe is a failed state. And as long as Zanu PF retains its dictatorial powers to rig elections nothing will change. Zanu PF will never reform itself out of office. Nelson Chamisa and his MDC/CCC have failed to implement even one reform these last 23 years. 

What Zimbabwe needs is a quality electorate, with the common sense to admit Chamisa et al have failed to implement the reforms and elect quality opposition leaders who will implement the reforms. This should be self-evident but when so many are easily fooled and repeatedly, everything is an up hill struggle. 

"Stopped Zanu PF have 2/3 majority" was CCC's excuse for participating in flawed 2023 elections. What's excuse now it has 2/3? W Mukori

 “Zanu PF now has the two thirds majority it craved in parliament after the party won all six by-elections held Saturday, triggered by the recalls on CCC MPs by Sengezo Tshabangu. Zanu PF needed to win just 3. It now has 190 seats in 280-member National Assembly,” is the news the nation had dreaded to hear but knew was coming.

Chamisa and company participated in the 2023 elections knowing fully well that Zanu PF was rigging the process and that participating would give the regime legitimacy. They participated regardless because they also knew that regime would give away a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition to participate and thus maintain the facade Zimbabwe is a healthy multi-party democracy. Chamisa and company went to town to deny they were participating out of greed.

Chamisa claimed CCC would win big because he had “plugged all the Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes!” 

Zanu PF won the majority of the seats in parliament and the presidency. All the election observers including SADC, AU and even Zimbabwe’s own ZHRC condemned the 23 August 2023 elections as flawed and illegal. This did not stop CCC members claiming their seats and thus defying SADC and AU to give the process legitimacy.

“CCC has stopped Zanu PF getting 2/3 majority!” was the party’s excuse for participating in the flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy.

Now Zanu PF has achieved the 2/3 majority thanks to the dog-eat-dog factional fighting in CCC. What will be the party’s excuse for participating in these flawed and illegal elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy?

The dog-eat-dog CCC factional war has now gone into overdrive following Nelson Chamisa’s resignation as party president on 24 January; there will be CCC MPs, senators and councillors will resign/recalled. Zanu PF will end up with a super majority in parliament and senate. God only knows what mischief the regime will do with the super majority! What feeble excuses will the opposition offer for getting the nation into this mess!

One thing is now certain, there will be no meaningful democratic reforms implemented in the coming four years and so the 2028 elections will be a repeat of the 2023 elections. Zanu PF will blatantly rig the elections and the CCC faction(s) will participate to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed. What a nightmare!