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Chamisa names 15-member cabinet - foolishness of the insane, 'kugezera sadza ramahumbwe!'
02 Jun 2018 at 17:04hrs | Views
MDC Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa, has already reportedly pick his 15-member cabinet! "Mr Chamisa, concentrate on winning the elections. Unless you stop Zanu PF rigging the elections, you will never ever win!" If he has been told this once, he has been told the same thing a thousand times and a thousand times again.
Chamisa's behaviour is comparable to the half-shilling hunter who, instead of carefully stalking the game, he starts making the fire to roast the meat. By the time he has the fire going he then discovers the game has vanished!
In terms of numbers MDC has enjoyed popular support that Zanu PF ever since the party was formed in 1999, the only reason the party has failed to transition from popular support to electoral victory is that Zanu PF rigs elections. The 2008 elections settled the question of whether it is possible for Zanu PF to rig the vote and lose the elections. It is impossible!
In the March 2008 vote Zanu PF ordered ZEC to recount the vote and after six weeks of cooking up the figures Tsvangirai's 73%, by Mugabe's own admission, was whittled down to 47% to force the run-off. During the run-off Zanu PF unleashed its party thugs, rogue war veterans backed by the Army, Police and CIO to punish the electorate for having rejected Mugabe in the March vote!
"What was accomplished by the bullet cannot be undone by the ballot!" thundered Robert Mugabe. His thugs responded with the zeal of a mad wolf let lose in a penned flock of sheep!
"Zanu PF has declared war on the people!" complained Morgan Tsvangirai as he announced his withdrawal from the race.
Mugabe overturned the March defeat to win with a landslide 84%. The result was announced within hours of the polling stations closing and not six weeks!
No one, not even SADC or AU would had until then always turned a blind eye to Zanu PF rigged elections, accepted the 2008 elections as free and fair. SADC leaders forced Zanu PF to agree to the need for the country to implement a raft of democratic reforms designed to stop a repeat of the blatant cheating and wanton violence of 2008. A Government of National Unity (GNU) was formed and tasked to implement the reforms.
In the GNU, the task of implementing the reforms fell on the two MDC factions. Nelson Chamisa and most of the MDC leaders named in his proposed cabinet were cabinet members in the GNU. MDC failed to get even one reform implemented in five years of the GNU. Not even one!
SADC leaders wanted the 2013 Zimbabwe elections postponed so the reforms can be implemented. "If you go into next month's election, you will lose; the elections are done!" they warned MDC leaders. They might as well have been talking to a brick wall!
MDC took part in the 2013 elections and Zanu PF rigged the elections, as SADC had predicted. MDC are take part in this year's elections although not even one reform has been implemented. Chamisa has been wittering about MDC having "stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections" although the party has failed to produce even one such measure and the voting day is two months away!
Ever since the MDC leaders sold-out and failed to implement reforms during the GNU, they have played this foolish cat-and-mouse game with the Zimbabwe electorate in which MDC leaders have justified their continued participation in these flawed elections against sound advice not to by pretending they have the power to force Zanu PF to implement the reforms. They have no such power and they continue contesting these flawed elections for the sake of the few gravy train seats Zanu PF gives away as bait to entice the opposition to take part.
To give the flawed election process some political credibility and earn their own keep, MDC leaders need to keep the naive and gullible electorate believing the opposition can win rigged elections; an oxymoron but there it is. Thank God SADC and the international community are not naïve and they have lost confidence in MDC leaders and their foolish games. SADC leaders and donors deserted MDC in droves at the end of the GNU, when it was clear they had sold-out on reforms.
The single most important decision for SADC and the international community regarding these flawed elections is to rule them null and void and finally put an end to this cruel political circus that has caused so much human suffering and deaths. Zimbabwe needs to go back and implemented the reforms agreed at the onset of the 2008 GNU
To take Chamisa and his 15 ministers cabinet sick joke seriously is the foolishness of the insane. "Kupenga kugezera sadza ramahumbe rabikwa nemavhu!" as one would say in Shona!
Chamisa's behaviour is comparable to the half-shilling hunter who, instead of carefully stalking the game, he starts making the fire to roast the meat. By the time he has the fire going he then discovers the game has vanished!
In terms of numbers MDC has enjoyed popular support that Zanu PF ever since the party was formed in 1999, the only reason the party has failed to transition from popular support to electoral victory is that Zanu PF rigs elections. The 2008 elections settled the question of whether it is possible for Zanu PF to rig the vote and lose the elections. It is impossible!
In the March 2008 vote Zanu PF ordered ZEC to recount the vote and after six weeks of cooking up the figures Tsvangirai's 73%, by Mugabe's own admission, was whittled down to 47% to force the run-off. During the run-off Zanu PF unleashed its party thugs, rogue war veterans backed by the Army, Police and CIO to punish the electorate for having rejected Mugabe in the March vote!
"What was accomplished by the bullet cannot be undone by the ballot!" thundered Robert Mugabe. His thugs responded with the zeal of a mad wolf let lose in a penned flock of sheep!
"Zanu PF has declared war on the people!" complained Morgan Tsvangirai as he announced his withdrawal from the race.
Mugabe overturned the March defeat to win with a landslide 84%. The result was announced within hours of the polling stations closing and not six weeks!
No one, not even SADC or AU would had until then always turned a blind eye to Zanu PF rigged elections, accepted the 2008 elections as free and fair. SADC leaders forced Zanu PF to agree to the need for the country to implement a raft of democratic reforms designed to stop a repeat of the blatant cheating and wanton violence of 2008. A Government of National Unity (GNU) was formed and tasked to implement the reforms.
In the GNU, the task of implementing the reforms fell on the two MDC factions. Nelson Chamisa and most of the MDC leaders named in his proposed cabinet were cabinet members in the GNU. MDC failed to get even one reform implemented in five years of the GNU. Not even one!
SADC leaders wanted the 2013 Zimbabwe elections postponed so the reforms can be implemented. "If you go into next month's election, you will lose; the elections are done!" they warned MDC leaders. They might as well have been talking to a brick wall!
MDC took part in the 2013 elections and Zanu PF rigged the elections, as SADC had predicted. MDC are take part in this year's elections although not even one reform has been implemented. Chamisa has been wittering about MDC having "stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections" although the party has failed to produce even one such measure and the voting day is two months away!
Ever since the MDC leaders sold-out and failed to implement reforms during the GNU, they have played this foolish cat-and-mouse game with the Zimbabwe electorate in which MDC leaders have justified their continued participation in these flawed elections against sound advice not to by pretending they have the power to force Zanu PF to implement the reforms. They have no such power and they continue contesting these flawed elections for the sake of the few gravy train seats Zanu PF gives away as bait to entice the opposition to take part.
To give the flawed election process some political credibility and earn their own keep, MDC leaders need to keep the naive and gullible electorate believing the opposition can win rigged elections; an oxymoron but there it is. Thank God SADC and the international community are not naïve and they have lost confidence in MDC leaders and their foolish games. SADC leaders and donors deserted MDC in droves at the end of the GNU, when it was clear they had sold-out on reforms.
The single most important decision for SADC and the international community regarding these flawed elections is to rule them null and void and finally put an end to this cruel political circus that has caused so much human suffering and deaths. Zimbabwe needs to go back and implemented the reforms agreed at the onset of the 2008 GNU
To take Chamisa and his 15 ministers cabinet sick joke seriously is the foolishness of the insane. "Kupenga kugezera sadza ramahumbe rabikwa nemavhu!" as one would say in Shona!
Source - zsdemocrats.blogspot.co.uk
