Opinion / Columnist
Magaisa get this in your thick head: President Chamisa + 2/3 Zanu PF MPs = most dysfunctional govt ever
14 Aug 2018 at 12:30hrs | Views
Alex Magaisa was the late Morgan Tsvangirai's chief adviser in the last 11 months of the 2008 to 2013 GNU. History will judge the GNU was a wasted golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms that would have rescued Zimbabwe from the clutches of the Zanu PF dictatorship and set it on the path to economic prosperity and political stability. MDC failed to get even one reform implemented in five years. The spotlight also shines bright on Tsvangirai's over -paid chief adviser, Magaisa, accomplished!
Magaisa has earned a reputation as someone who will talk until the cows come home on trivial matters, which would explain why his stint as Tsvangirai's adviser was a waste of time and money! He is at it again.
"NOW that Nelson Chamisa, the MDC Alliance presidential candidate has filed a petition challenging the validity of the recent election, attention has turned to what happens next. This article outlines the process as provided for under the Constitution and highlights issues that are likely to arise. It goes without saying that this case presents a stern test for the Zimbabwean judiciary, with its decision likely to impact heavily on the future of the nation," he writes, in a piece "Chamisa Election Petition What Happens Next".
This is just nonsense for four reasons:
1) By agreeing to go into these elections without something as basic as a clean and verified voters' roll Chamisa and his MDC friends have made it easy for Zanu PF to rig these elections and get away with it. There are reports that at least 10 polling stations had more than 100% voter turnout, with one or two having over 200%, for example. This is in an elections in which at least 1 million (same as 2013) voters were denied the vote, which is 20% of the 4.8 million cast votes, because they were not in the polling station voters roll. So a voter turnout of more than 80% is highly suspect and yet that was the official national average. Of course, the elections were rigged but with no verified voters' roll, the smoking gun, most of the vote rigging evidence will be impossible to prove in a Court of law.
2) Whatever MDC's lawyers have uncovered as vote rigging evidence will be but the ears of the hippo the rest of the ugly beast will remain hidden under the muddy waters, thanks to the opposition camp's stupidity to agreeing to go into these elections with no democratic reforms in place.
3) Eight months ago this Zanu PF junta staged a military coup to wrestle power from Robert Mugabe and the Zimbabwe Judiciary, in its infinite wisdom, judge that the coup was legal. Today the same junta is before the same judges accuse of less charge of rigging the elections, in which all the state machinery has been mobilised to bury the evidence. If it is legal for the junta to commit high treason it will be an outrage to punish the junta for rigging the elections, especially when rigging elections has been going on for the last 38 years!
4) Last but most important of all, even if the ConCourt judges were to rebel against their Zanu PF junta masters, and declared Nelson Chamisa president; what will that accomplish. Zimbabwe is in this economic mess and political paralysis because the country has been stuck with a corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship for 38 years. Still I cannot see a government with Nelson Chamisa as president with a Zanu PF 2/3 majority parliament doing any better. It will be the most dysfunctional Zimbabwe government ever!
After months of frustrating Chamisa at every turn, just to prove MDC Alliance is incapable of doing anything right the Zanu PF control parliament will impeach Chamisa and force fresh elections. The Zanu PF control parliament would want the elections held in exactly the same conditions as these elections, in which the party has carte blanche powers to rig the process.
In short therefore, declaring Chamisa the winner will not bring about any economic recovery much less political reform. We will still be stuck in the rut we are stuck in right now.
People like Alex Magaisa are time-wasters at best, wasting the nation's time on trivial matters; or are a green-bomber curse to the nation, dragging the nation from disaster to the next, from one BS to the next. Zimbabwe would have held free, fair and credible elections in 2013 if MDC had implemented the democratic reforms. What was the point of giving Tsvangirai a no expense spared adviser if he could not even advise him to do the obvious thing!
The greatest challenge for this nation today is how to get the democratic reforms implemented, this is the holy grail, only then can the country hope to finally hold its first ever free, fair and credible elections, the pre-requisite for competent and accountable government. Only someone with a green-bomb mentality, always wasting time on BS, would be preoccupied with piecing together a total dysfunctional government!
Magaisa has earned a reputation as someone who will talk until the cows come home on trivial matters, which would explain why his stint as Tsvangirai's adviser was a waste of time and money! He is at it again.
"NOW that Nelson Chamisa, the MDC Alliance presidential candidate has filed a petition challenging the validity of the recent election, attention has turned to what happens next. This article outlines the process as provided for under the Constitution and highlights issues that are likely to arise. It goes without saying that this case presents a stern test for the Zimbabwean judiciary, with its decision likely to impact heavily on the future of the nation," he writes, in a piece "Chamisa Election Petition What Happens Next".
This is just nonsense for four reasons:
1) By agreeing to go into these elections without something as basic as a clean and verified voters' roll Chamisa and his MDC friends have made it easy for Zanu PF to rig these elections and get away with it. There are reports that at least 10 polling stations had more than 100% voter turnout, with one or two having over 200%, for example. This is in an elections in which at least 1 million (same as 2013) voters were denied the vote, which is 20% of the 4.8 million cast votes, because they were not in the polling station voters roll. So a voter turnout of more than 80% is highly suspect and yet that was the official national average. Of course, the elections were rigged but with no verified voters' roll, the smoking gun, most of the vote rigging evidence will be impossible to prove in a Court of law.
2) Whatever MDC's lawyers have uncovered as vote rigging evidence will be but the ears of the hippo the rest of the ugly beast will remain hidden under the muddy waters, thanks to the opposition camp's stupidity to agreeing to go into these elections with no democratic reforms in place.
3) Eight months ago this Zanu PF junta staged a military coup to wrestle power from Robert Mugabe and the Zimbabwe Judiciary, in its infinite wisdom, judge that the coup was legal. Today the same junta is before the same judges accuse of less charge of rigging the elections, in which all the state machinery has been mobilised to bury the evidence. If it is legal for the junta to commit high treason it will be an outrage to punish the junta for rigging the elections, especially when rigging elections has been going on for the last 38 years!
4) Last but most important of all, even if the ConCourt judges were to rebel against their Zanu PF junta masters, and declared Nelson Chamisa president; what will that accomplish. Zimbabwe is in this economic mess and political paralysis because the country has been stuck with a corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship for 38 years. Still I cannot see a government with Nelson Chamisa as president with a Zanu PF 2/3 majority parliament doing any better. It will be the most dysfunctional Zimbabwe government ever!
After months of frustrating Chamisa at every turn, just to prove MDC Alliance is incapable of doing anything right the Zanu PF control parliament will impeach Chamisa and force fresh elections. The Zanu PF control parliament would want the elections held in exactly the same conditions as these elections, in which the party has carte blanche powers to rig the process.
In short therefore, declaring Chamisa the winner will not bring about any economic recovery much less political reform. We will still be stuck in the rut we are stuck in right now.
People like Alex Magaisa are time-wasters at best, wasting the nation's time on trivial matters; or are a green-bomber curse to the nation, dragging the nation from disaster to the next, from one BS to the next. Zimbabwe would have held free, fair and credible elections in 2013 if MDC had implemented the democratic reforms. What was the point of giving Tsvangirai a no expense spared adviser if he could not even advise him to do the obvious thing!
The greatest challenge for this nation today is how to get the democratic reforms implemented, this is the holy grail, only then can the country hope to finally hold its first ever free, fair and credible elections, the pre-requisite for competent and accountable government. Only someone with a green-bomb mentality, always wasting time on BS, would be preoccupied with piecing together a total dysfunctional government!
Source - zsdemocrats.blogspot.co.uk
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