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We started with one-man-one-vote but now we have one-man-one veto

29 Oct 2014 at 11:05hrs | Views
We started from one-man-one-vote before independence but soon after independence it was changed to one-man-one-vote if it is a vote for Zanu PF, Zanu PF was so favoured that even the dead where voting for it. Now we have one-man-one veto because it is only what Mugabe wants that count. 



"Akasvitsa party pairi apa ndiani? Kwandakabva nemaBhunu, majeri, masango ndozonzi nekamwana kadikiwozvako kuti ibva? Aiwa! (Who made this party what it is today? After what I went through against the whites, the prisons, the bush only to be told by a young person that I should go? No!)" Mugabe told his guests on Tuesday.



"When time comes (to step down) I shall tell you, but for now hakuna kwandinoenda (I am going nowhere)."

We understand you, Mugabe; you fought to end white oppression but not so that all blacks can be free but so that you can become the new oppressor!

The challenge of our time is how to break this vicious cycle were yesterday's liberator become today's oppressor and today's liberators become tomorrow's oppressor. What triggers this metaphoric transformation is power and Mugabe had absolute power. We should institute a political dispensation with adequate checks and balances and no one individual can dictate to the nation.

The people have had no say in Mugabe's long stay in power because he was able to rig elections. Mugabe has become a tyrant and dictator; that should not have happened and must never be allowed to happen ever again!

Source - Wilbert Mukori
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