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Tsvangirai urges povo 'to vote wisely next year' - They did better than that in 2008, you twat!
17 Sep 2017 at 19:58hrs | Views
Tsvangirai is just an example of a failed leader who cannot think and, like a car locked in one gear with a broken stirring shaft and no breaks, he can only go in one direction regardless how stupid and dangerous that may be.
"This morning, he (Tsvangirai) was assuring Zimbabweans he will be home soon; urging the nation to cooperate with the ongoing nationwide exercise to acquire birth certificates and national registration documents that will enable them to exercise their right to vote," Luke Tamborinyoka, Tsvangirai's spokesman, said.
"We urged Zimbabweans to turn out for voter registration in their multitudes so as to deal with the multiple cancers afflicting the nation that include corruption and clueless leadership that is concentrating on succession battles at the expense of the plight of the ordinary people.
"In his usual light-hearted manner, President Tsvangirai said he was more worried about the country's health, urging Zimbabweans to vote wisely next year so as to deal with the multi-layered afflictions of the country's political economy."
President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs landing the nation in this economic mess and political paralysis but, if the truth must be said, it is the corrupt and incompetent opposition that has kept us stuck in the mess these last two decades. MDC have had many opportunities to end the Zanu PF dictatorship but have wasted them all.
Even now, with the benefit of hindsight, Tsvangirai cannot get it in his head that Zanu PF has been rigging elections to stay in power and hence the reason why the country needs to implement the democratic reforms before holding another election. It is futile to keep contesting flawed elections whose results are pre-determined.
Although, Tsvangirai has complained of Zanu PF rigging the elections every time he has, nonetheless, consistent refused to do anything to address the problem of vote rigging head-on by implementing the democratic reforms convince he can win still win the elections regardless. In the March 2008 elections, for example, Zimbabweans voted for Tsvangirai in droves to give him a 73% victory, according to President Mugabe's own inadvertent admission. Mugabe ordered the Zanu PF controlled ZEC to recount the votes and after six weeks of "cooking up" the figures Tsvangirai's votes were whittled down to 47% - enough to force the run-off.
In the run-off, Zanu PF "declared war on the people", to use Tsvangirai's own words; to force them to vote for Mugabe. President Mugabe turned his earlier 27% defeat into a landslide, 84%, victory.
SADC leaders refused to accept President Mugabe's victory as a true reflection of the free and democratic wishes of the people of Zimbabwe; not after such blatant vote rigging and wanton violence. They proposed the formation of the GNU which was then tasked to implemented a raft of democratic reforms; along the same lines as had been proposed for Kenya the year before, 2007.
Whilst Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga understood the importance of implementing the democratic reforms and got on with it, PM Morgan Tsvangirai did not implement even one reform during the GNU, not one. How he still expected to win elections in which Zanu PF can cook up a 73% victory to 47% to force a run-off or use wanton violence to overhaul a 27% into a 84% is a complete mystery.
SADC leaders advised Tsvangirai and his MDC friends not to contest the 2013 elections with no reforms in place; it was obvious Zanu PF would rig the vote.
"If you go into elections next month, you are going to lose; the elections are done," SADC leaders warned Morgan Tsvangirai & co. in June 2013, according to Dr Ibbo Mandaza who attended the Maputo summit.
There is only one rational explanation why MDC did not implement any reforms and continue to contest flawed elections - greed.
"The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn't now do the obvious - withdraw from the (2013) elections," explained Senator Coltart in his recent book.
"The electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility."
MDC factions have since found each other and formed the MDC Alliance but there will be no talk of boycotting next year's elections, as Senator Coltart had suggested. MDC are going to contest elections regardless how flawed and illegal the process happens to be as long as there is a chance to win the few seat Zanu PF throws away, bait, to entice the opposition to contest.
Tsvangirai was right on one point; Zimbabwe is dying from many cancers and the mother of these cancers being "clueless leadership" and when it comes to democratic change he is totally clueless.
After all the huffing and puffing about MDC being the party for democratic change, as the party name implies, all the "Chinja maitiro! Gukula izenzo! Change your ways!" sloganiaring; "No reform, no election!" party congress resolution, etc., etc.; MDC has not brought about even one democratic change. Indeed, MDC has been the biggest obstacle to meaningful democratic change in Zimbabwe because of MDC leaders are breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent.
President Tsvangirai urged "Zimbabweans to vote wisely next year." Yeah, right! The nation did much more than vote wisely in March 2008; they risked life and limb to give you staggering 73% victory in March 2008, you twat! You have never become president because Robert Mugabe has blatantly cooked up vote and used brutal violence to deny ordinary Zimbabweans their most basic human right; the right to free, fair and credible elections.
For Pete's sake, what is it going to take you, Tsvangirai and your equally corrupt and incompetent MDC friends to accept that Zanu PF's vote rigging exploits are way off the scale to be defeated by simple acts like voter mobilization. We need to implement the democratic reforms. We need free, fair and credible elections if we are ever going to get out of this political and economic mess we are stuck in today.
"This morning, he (Tsvangirai) was assuring Zimbabweans he will be home soon; urging the nation to cooperate with the ongoing nationwide exercise to acquire birth certificates and national registration documents that will enable them to exercise their right to vote," Luke Tamborinyoka, Tsvangirai's spokesman, said.
"We urged Zimbabweans to turn out for voter registration in their multitudes so as to deal with the multiple cancers afflicting the nation that include corruption and clueless leadership that is concentrating on succession battles at the expense of the plight of the ordinary people.
"In his usual light-hearted manner, President Tsvangirai said he was more worried about the country's health, urging Zimbabweans to vote wisely next year so as to deal with the multi-layered afflictions of the country's political economy."
President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs landing the nation in this economic mess and political paralysis but, if the truth must be said, it is the corrupt and incompetent opposition that has kept us stuck in the mess these last two decades. MDC have had many opportunities to end the Zanu PF dictatorship but have wasted them all.
Even now, with the benefit of hindsight, Tsvangirai cannot get it in his head that Zanu PF has been rigging elections to stay in power and hence the reason why the country needs to implement the democratic reforms before holding another election. It is futile to keep contesting flawed elections whose results are pre-determined.
Although, Tsvangirai has complained of Zanu PF rigging the elections every time he has, nonetheless, consistent refused to do anything to address the problem of vote rigging head-on by implementing the democratic reforms convince he can win still win the elections regardless. In the March 2008 elections, for example, Zimbabweans voted for Tsvangirai in droves to give him a 73% victory, according to President Mugabe's own inadvertent admission. Mugabe ordered the Zanu PF controlled ZEC to recount the votes and after six weeks of "cooking up" the figures Tsvangirai's votes were whittled down to 47% - enough to force the run-off.
In the run-off, Zanu PF "declared war on the people", to use Tsvangirai's own words; to force them to vote for Mugabe. President Mugabe turned his earlier 27% defeat into a landslide, 84%, victory.
SADC leaders refused to accept President Mugabe's victory as a true reflection of the free and democratic wishes of the people of Zimbabwe; not after such blatant vote rigging and wanton violence. They proposed the formation of the GNU which was then tasked to implemented a raft of democratic reforms; along the same lines as had been proposed for Kenya the year before, 2007.
Whilst Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga understood the importance of implementing the democratic reforms and got on with it, PM Morgan Tsvangirai did not implement even one reform during the GNU, not one. How he still expected to win elections in which Zanu PF can cook up a 73% victory to 47% to force a run-off or use wanton violence to overhaul a 27% into a 84% is a complete mystery.
SADC leaders advised Tsvangirai and his MDC friends not to contest the 2013 elections with no reforms in place; it was obvious Zanu PF would rig the vote.
"If you go into elections next month, you are going to lose; the elections are done," SADC leaders warned Morgan Tsvangirai & co. in June 2013, according to Dr Ibbo Mandaza who attended the Maputo summit.
There is only one rational explanation why MDC did not implement any reforms and continue to contest flawed elections - greed.
"The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn't now do the obvious - withdraw from the (2013) elections," explained Senator Coltart in his recent book.
"The electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility."
MDC factions have since found each other and formed the MDC Alliance but there will be no talk of boycotting next year's elections, as Senator Coltart had suggested. MDC are going to contest elections regardless how flawed and illegal the process happens to be as long as there is a chance to win the few seat Zanu PF throws away, bait, to entice the opposition to contest.
Tsvangirai was right on one point; Zimbabwe is dying from many cancers and the mother of these cancers being "clueless leadership" and when it comes to democratic change he is totally clueless.
After all the huffing and puffing about MDC being the party for democratic change, as the party name implies, all the "Chinja maitiro! Gukula izenzo! Change your ways!" sloganiaring; "No reform, no election!" party congress resolution, etc., etc.; MDC has not brought about even one democratic change. Indeed, MDC has been the biggest obstacle to meaningful democratic change in Zimbabwe because of MDC leaders are breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent.
President Tsvangirai urged "Zimbabweans to vote wisely next year." Yeah, right! The nation did much more than vote wisely in March 2008; they risked life and limb to give you staggering 73% victory in March 2008, you twat! You have never become president because Robert Mugabe has blatantly cooked up vote and used brutal violence to deny ordinary Zimbabweans their most basic human right; the right to free, fair and credible elections.
For Pete's sake, what is it going to take you, Tsvangirai and your equally corrupt and incompetent MDC friends to accept that Zanu PF's vote rigging exploits are way off the scale to be defeated by simple acts like voter mobilization. We need to implement the democratic reforms. We need free, fair and credible elections if we are ever going to get out of this political and economic mess we are stuck in today.
Source - Nomusa Garikai
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