Zanu PF blest with fools rigged the vote but cannot do the same with the economy

In a court of law, everything that Nathaniel Manheru (the Herald columnist, many believe is Mugabe's spokesman George Charamba) says would be struck off the record because everyone knows he is one of Mugabe's well paid propagandist s and pathological liars. He is guilty of everything under the sun to qualify him as untrustworthy. It would, therefore, be a great miscarriage of justice to condemn anyone on the strength of Manheru's testimony.
 
He is the type who will swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth and proceed to lie through and through!

"Thank God, Zanu-PF is always blest with fools for opposition. Even after exposing itself so disastrously, Zanu-PF gets by way of oppositional response a Morgan Tsvangirai who asks from a British Africa Minister for intervention in Zimbabwe," wrote Manheru in his latest Herald column.


He did not swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me God before he wrote that. And yet there it is; the truth from the pathological liar! He has just proven the old adage that even the devil will tell the truth. In this case Manheru is saying the obvious truth that only the blind MDC loyalists have been denying even with the benefit of hindsight! 

In blatantly rigging the July 2013 elections Zanu PF did indeed "expose itself so disastrously".  Even someone who had never followed Zimbabwe politics was surprised to see all those bussed voters on TV. Why would so many young men and women be bussed in to vote when none of the old voters needed such assistance? And why was it that only the opposition were concerned about this and not the Police or other elections officials?

Our casual observer was surprised to hear that one million voters had failed to vote because their names, although on the national voters roll, had been posted in another constituency roll and not where they expected. The casual observer's suspicions was roused when he/she learnt that Zanu PF "won" by a margin of one million! Suspicion turned into outrage when they learnt that Zanu PF had failed to produce the voters roll although they were legally obliged to do so at least a month before the elections.

 It is now a year since the elections and still the regime has failed to release the voters roll.
The voters roll is the smoking gun in Zimbabwe's July 2013 rigged elections.

Yes, it is possible for the names of few hundred voters to be posted in the wrong constituencies but not one million or 30% of the cast votes! A close scrutiny of the voters roll would high light other mysteries like how a country of 12 million ended up with 6 million registered voters. The only logical explanation for all the irregularities and mysteries is that there was systematic and blatant vote rigging!

Yes, in rigging the 2013 elections, Mugabe and Zanu PF left themselves seriously compromised and exposed.  The only reason they have got away with all this electoral fraud is the breath-taking incompetence of the opposition.
Our casual election observer would have been disgusted to know that the MDC led by Dr Morgan Tsvangirai had agreed to take part in the elections without implementing even one of the reforms that would have stopped Mugabe rigging the elections. MDC had been warned about the need to implement the reforms repeatedly throughout the five year life of the GNU but paid no heed.

Yes, MDC, agreed for the elections to go ahead without a voters roll!
"Thank God, Zanu-PF is always blest with fools for opposition," sighed our devilish propagandist Manheru.  One can only imagine how many, many times Mugabe and his cronies have said the same over the years.

It is one thing acknowledging the incompetence of the opposition amongst themselves but quite another to do so publicly. The thrust of Manheru's article was in fact to castigate Deputy Justice Minister, Fortune Chasi, who last week broke the party's cardinal rule by admitting the party rigged last year's elections. Manheru accused the deputy minister of astonishingly deciding "to acknowledge and validate" the vote rigging.
 
"We have overwhelming numbers of opposition figures who have acknowledged defeat which we seem now keen to deny them ourselves," argued Manheru. In other words Zanu PF has the great fortune of having opposition fools who have foolishly given credibility to an otherwise discredited electoral process the party should cash in on their foolishness.

The basic reality that our devilish propagandist is overlooking is that Zimbabwe is not an island; the rest of the world too saw the blatant vote rigging and they are not as easily bamboozled into accepting such fraudulent acts as the MDC fools. The single message that has come through ever since Zanu PF won the elections a year ago is that the donors and investors have all lost confidence in a Zanu PF ruled Zimbabwe as a country they can do business with.

The world's vote of no confidence in Zanu PF is exemplified by the mockingly empty ZimAsset begging bowl in spite of a whole year of frantic begging by Mugabe and everyone in Zanu PF. Not even Manheru, the chief spin-doctor, has spun a plausible explanation why even the Chinese have flatly refused to contribute even one Yuan with which to rattle the bowl!

If Zanu PF cannot rig economic recovery the same way it rigged electoral victory then the party's continued hold on power will be shaky. A year after the rigged elections and the economy got progressively worse, not better, and the prognosis is that it will get even worse. It seems that it will be easier to keep an ice cube in one's hand from melting than for Mugabe and Zanu PF to hang on to power in the face of the economic meltdown Zimbabwe is going through! Being "blest with fools for opposition" will not save Mugabe and Zanu PF; not this time!