Opinion / Columnist
'What can deadwood cabinet advise dream team?' ask ZCTU - no ask; what will we do if it fails, yet again?
18 Sep 2018 at 14:24hrs | Views
"The reshuffle of cabinet actually promoted all those deemed 'excess baggage' by certain sections of the media. The big boys whom the majority called dead wood were actually reassigned to full time jobs in the party and would pull the strings in the same way the Chinese and ANC modelled its governance system," said Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions secretary general Japhet Moyo.
"So where is the excitement about the so called 'dream team'? People and organisations fell on each other to congratulate the new team not knowing that what actually is billed as the new cabinet would work under direct orders of the same old people who have been in the management of government programmes over the past thirty eight years. In reality we have two layers of cabinet. Put in a different way, we have the biggest cabinet ever in the history of this country."
What makes it worse is that this junta regime is NOT accountable to the people and therefore the junta knows that even if it fails there is absolute nothing the people can do about it. Nothing!
Zimbabwe is in this sorry economic state with 90% out of work, cholera and typhoid killing people because there is no clean running water, 75% living on US$1.00 or less a day, etc. because for the last 38 years the people have failed to remove Zanu PF from power even when it was clear they have failed.
President Mnangagwa and his junta rigged the 30 July 2018 elections just as they have done in the past. If they are still in power come the next elections they will rig those elections too.
"But the question that needs to be answered is what would make the decision of the big boys working behind the scenes turn around our fortunes as a country when all these years they presided over the rot in all sectors of our economy? What different advise or instructions would they give to the dream team that themselves failed to do during their time when presiding over the same ministries" Moyo continued.
The only question worthy asking is: What will the nation do it President Mnangagwa and his junta fail to get us out of the economic mess?
This is a rhetorical question because we all know the answer is NOTHING, we will all be wringing out fingers like helpless children whilst we wallow in poverty and hopelessness, because this is a political emasculated nation.
The challenge before us is how to get the democratic reforms designed to end Zanu PF's carte blanche dictatorial power to rig elections and deny us the people a meaningful say in the governance of the country. We have avoiding dealing with this challenge for the last 38 years and look where it has landed us!
If we are serious about getting out of the hell-on-earth Zanu PF dictatorial rule has landed us in then we must focus on dismantling the dictatorship and not waste another hour on how we can make the dictatorship work. After 38 years of failure and with the country right at the edge of the precipice it is irresponsible to still keep on trying to make the dictatorship work.
By blatantly rigged the July elections President Mnangagwa showed us all that Zanu PF has not changed; it is still the same party of corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging thugs. This Zanu PF regime is illegitimate and if we allow it to remain in power for the next five years we can be certain of one thing – Zanu PF will rig the next elections because it will never ever implement even one reform! NEVER EVER!
If Zanu PF is still in power in 2023 then the party will rig those elections to secure yet another landslide victory regardless of how the party will have performed. If Zanu PF is still in power in 2023 then we, the people of Zimbabwe, would have once again failed in our set task of dismantling the Zanu PF dictatorship and replacing it with a healthy and functional democratic system of government for ourselves, our children and posterity!
Nations get the regime they deserve. After 38 years, we in Zimbabwe certainly deserve this corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging Zanu PF dictatorship complete with its coterie of corrupt and incompetent opposition parties. I still cannot believe that the opposition parties participated in the last elections even when ZEC had failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters' roll. How stupid was that!
"So where is the excitement about the so called 'dream team'? People and organisations fell on each other to congratulate the new team not knowing that what actually is billed as the new cabinet would work under direct orders of the same old people who have been in the management of government programmes over the past thirty eight years. In reality we have two layers of cabinet. Put in a different way, we have the biggest cabinet ever in the history of this country."
What makes it worse is that this junta regime is NOT accountable to the people and therefore the junta knows that even if it fails there is absolute nothing the people can do about it. Nothing!
Zimbabwe is in this sorry economic state with 90% out of work, cholera and typhoid killing people because there is no clean running water, 75% living on US$1.00 or less a day, etc. because for the last 38 years the people have failed to remove Zanu PF from power even when it was clear they have failed.
President Mnangagwa and his junta rigged the 30 July 2018 elections just as they have done in the past. If they are still in power come the next elections they will rig those elections too.
"But the question that needs to be answered is what would make the decision of the big boys working behind the scenes turn around our fortunes as a country when all these years they presided over the rot in all sectors of our economy? What different advise or instructions would they give to the dream team that themselves failed to do during their time when presiding over the same ministries" Moyo continued.
The only question worthy asking is: What will the nation do it President Mnangagwa and his junta fail to get us out of the economic mess?
This is a rhetorical question because we all know the answer is NOTHING, we will all be wringing out fingers like helpless children whilst we wallow in poverty and hopelessness, because this is a political emasculated nation.
The challenge before us is how to get the democratic reforms designed to end Zanu PF's carte blanche dictatorial power to rig elections and deny us the people a meaningful say in the governance of the country. We have avoiding dealing with this challenge for the last 38 years and look where it has landed us!
If we are serious about getting out of the hell-on-earth Zanu PF dictatorial rule has landed us in then we must focus on dismantling the dictatorship and not waste another hour on how we can make the dictatorship work. After 38 years of failure and with the country right at the edge of the precipice it is irresponsible to still keep on trying to make the dictatorship work.
By blatantly rigged the July elections President Mnangagwa showed us all that Zanu PF has not changed; it is still the same party of corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging thugs. This Zanu PF regime is illegitimate and if we allow it to remain in power for the next five years we can be certain of one thing – Zanu PF will rig the next elections because it will never ever implement even one reform! NEVER EVER!
If Zanu PF is still in power in 2023 then the party will rig those elections to secure yet another landslide victory regardless of how the party will have performed. If Zanu PF is still in power in 2023 then we, the people of Zimbabwe, would have once again failed in our set task of dismantling the Zanu PF dictatorship and replacing it with a healthy and functional democratic system of government for ourselves, our children and posterity!
Nations get the regime they deserve. After 38 years, we in Zimbabwe certainly deserve this corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging Zanu PF dictatorship complete with its coterie of corrupt and incompetent opposition parties. I still cannot believe that the opposition parties participated in the last elections even when ZEC had failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters' roll. How stupid was that!
Source - zsdemocrats.blogspot.co.uk
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