Opinion / Columnist
Grace sees nothing wrong with buying votes - whatever she gives she loots even more!
15 Oct 2015 at 19:00hrs | Views
"Hazvina basa kana ndikakutenga ukandivhotera its okay. It is better to vote for someone who gives you something than someone who does not," Grace Mugabe argued.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Grace is First Lady and yet she is already behaving as if she is president already, the whiff of absolute tyrannical power has her giddy and her knees knocking!
She and her husband are not Bill Gates or Henry Ford so where is she getting the millions of dollars she has spent buying all these goodies she has dished out at her rallies? This is a rhetorical question, the people know the answer already – corruption!
In 2012 alone President Mugabe earned $2 billion from his share of the looting going on in Marange according to an Africa Partnership Canada report. The same year Minister of Finance Tendai Bitit received a mere trifle $400 million in tax revenue from Marange and this has since dried up to nothing since the end of the GNU.
So Madam what you are giving away at your rallies is but a tiny fraction of what you have looted from the nation. The people of Zimbabwe are not stupid, they know they are being short changed and hence the reason why Zanu PF has had to resort to more drastic measures such as intimidation, harassment, beating and even murder and not just vote-buying to stay in power.
If Grace Mugabe is going to rely solely on goodies to buy the people's vote in 2018 then she will need a fleet of 100 lories per province delivering daily for month at least to fool the people of Zimbabwe. With unemployment at 90% and millions now living in abject poverty it will take a lot of goodies to convince them that Grace Mugabe will make a good president in a free, fair and credible election!
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Grace is First Lady and yet she is already behaving as if she is president already, the whiff of absolute tyrannical power has her giddy and her knees knocking!
She and her husband are not Bill Gates or Henry Ford so where is she getting the millions of dollars she has spent buying all these goodies she has dished out at her rallies? This is a rhetorical question, the people know the answer already – corruption!
In 2012 alone President Mugabe earned $2 billion from his share of the looting going on in Marange according to an Africa Partnership Canada report. The same year Minister of Finance Tendai Bitit received a mere trifle $400 million in tax revenue from Marange and this has since dried up to nothing since the end of the GNU.
So Madam what you are giving away at your rallies is but a tiny fraction of what you have looted from the nation. The people of Zimbabwe are not stupid, they know they are being short changed and hence the reason why Zanu PF has had to resort to more drastic measures such as intimidation, harassment, beating and even murder and not just vote-buying to stay in power.
If Grace Mugabe is going to rely solely on goodies to buy the people's vote in 2018 then she will need a fleet of 100 lories per province delivering daily for month at least to fool the people of Zimbabwe. With unemployment at 90% and millions now living in abject poverty it will take a lot of goodies to convince them that Grace Mugabe will make a good president in a free, fair and credible election!
Source - Patrick Guramatunhu
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