Opinion / Columnist
'Mugabe is our asset for 2018,' says Zanu PF Minister - counting on brute to rig the vote
24 Oct 2017 at 21:22hrs | Views
"The long (bank) queues (for cash) are very worrisome. These may lead to voter apathy and we need to seriously look into this issue and find a lasting solution. We cannot afford to have voter apathy because our aim is to consolidate on the votes we gained in 2013. We should surpass those numbers because 2018 is a watershed election," admitted Zanu PF's Secretary for transport and welfare, Oppah Muchinguri - Kashiri.
In the next breath, she was off at a tangent!
"As Manicaland, we are rallying behind President Mugabe. We know his well documented history. He is our candidate for 2018 and anyone thinking otherwise is lost. He is a giant among giants as he is the only president who challenged USA President Donald Trump at the just-ended United Nations Summit. President Mugabe is our jewel and asset."
Zimbabwe has gone from being one of the most prosperous nations in Africa in 1980 when Mugabe took over from the white colonial regime to become the poorest nation in Africa.
Once upon a time Zimbabwe was rightly proud to not only produce enough to feed its own people but had enough surplus to be the bread basket of the region. That was so until Mugabe seized the farms to feed his and his cronies' insatiable greed for looted wealth. Today, except for the odd good year, Zimbabwe is relying on imported food aid – aid because it is too poor to pay for it.
In this day and age when human ingenuity has turned deserts into blooming orchards; we are starving in the land which for all intent and purpose is the Garden of Eden. Such is the damning testimonial of Mugabe's incompetence as a leader!
On the political front, Mugabe has had to murder a staggering 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans; to say nothing of the millions harassed, beaten and raped; to establish and retain his 37 years old de facto one-party cum one-man dictatorship.
"President Mugabe is our jewel and asset!" Only a real sick sycophant would still say that!
Oppah Muchinguri and her equally brainwashed Zanu PF sycophants are stuck in a rut. They can all see that the country is in a mess because of the decades of misrule by this corrupt, vote rigging and murderous tyrant, Robert Mugabe. His poor health and advance age makes him even less appealing as presidential candidate. The only reason they all want him to be Zanu PF's presidential candidate for next year is because they are stuck.
Zanu PF needs a candidate who is ruthless enough to blatantly rig the elections, even shed innocent blood if necessary; in Robert Mugabe the party members know they have one such brute.
The country's only hope of stopping yet another Zanu PF landslide victory next year is for the people to demand the implementation of all the democratic reforms BEFORE elections are held. Morgan Tsvangirai is encouraging the people to take part in these flawed and illegal elections on the basis that MDC has devised Winning In Rigged Elections (WIRE) strategies. This is utter nonsense!
In the next breath, she was off at a tangent!
"As Manicaland, we are rallying behind President Mugabe. We know his well documented history. He is our candidate for 2018 and anyone thinking otherwise is lost. He is a giant among giants as he is the only president who challenged USA President Donald Trump at the just-ended United Nations Summit. President Mugabe is our jewel and asset."
Zimbabwe has gone from being one of the most prosperous nations in Africa in 1980 when Mugabe took over from the white colonial regime to become the poorest nation in Africa.
Once upon a time Zimbabwe was rightly proud to not only produce enough to feed its own people but had enough surplus to be the bread basket of the region. That was so until Mugabe seized the farms to feed his and his cronies' insatiable greed for looted wealth. Today, except for the odd good year, Zimbabwe is relying on imported food aid – aid because it is too poor to pay for it.
In this day and age when human ingenuity has turned deserts into blooming orchards; we are starving in the land which for all intent and purpose is the Garden of Eden. Such is the damning testimonial of Mugabe's incompetence as a leader!
On the political front, Mugabe has had to murder a staggering 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans; to say nothing of the millions harassed, beaten and raped; to establish and retain his 37 years old de facto one-party cum one-man dictatorship.
"President Mugabe is our jewel and asset!" Only a real sick sycophant would still say that!
Oppah Muchinguri and her equally brainwashed Zanu PF sycophants are stuck in a rut. They can all see that the country is in a mess because of the decades of misrule by this corrupt, vote rigging and murderous tyrant, Robert Mugabe. His poor health and advance age makes him even less appealing as presidential candidate. The only reason they all want him to be Zanu PF's presidential candidate for next year is because they are stuck.
Zanu PF needs a candidate who is ruthless enough to blatantly rig the elections, even shed innocent blood if necessary; in Robert Mugabe the party members know they have one such brute.
The country's only hope of stopping yet another Zanu PF landslide victory next year is for the people to demand the implementation of all the democratic reforms BEFORE elections are held. Morgan Tsvangirai is encouraging the people to take part in these flawed and illegal elections on the basis that MDC has devised Winning In Rigged Elections (WIRE) strategies. This is utter nonsense!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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