Opinion / Columnist
Zanu Mugabe distortions, half-truths and misrepresentations must be stopped
27 Apr 2016 at 00:11hrs | Views
The hope that a sector of the population can rise over and above people voice and representation, irrespective of sacrifices and contributions, runs contrary to values of democratic norms and must be reviewed and crushed since it constitutes major assumptions on which Zanu Mugabe distortions, half-truths and misrepresentations were born as foundation to where we are today. These insincere statements have replicated and duplicated themselves overtime consolidating the Zanu ideology boosting. The culmination is the false premised socio- veteranism-culture helping to drawn the country economy through increased corruption for the last thirty-six years.
The denial of free press to the country, individual groupings and independent associations in the country by Zanu has been the water shade of the politics of decay, corruption and poor governance in Zimbabwe. Were it not for the African Union defending these Zanu political corrupt practices in both governance and political processes, Zimbabwe removal of the dictatorship style of governance would have long been done. The roles though, of Thabo Mbeki and that of Jacob Zuma for influencing a hold on the negative political stalemate in Zimbabwe are disturbing and cannot be ignored.
No longer than when Thabo Mbeki's hidden report results on South African Military Generals' inquest in 2008 on Zanu electoral rigging processes were announced, had he been removed out of power by none other than Jacob Zuma, then perceived as more radical, reliable and people driven. With corruption more rampant today in both Zimbabwe and South Africa, Mr. Jacob Zuma's tenure of office is more questionable now than he begun. Particularly when the then Zanu Mugabe favorite Mr. Malema, who has since swiftly changed sides, and rightly so, to support move against Zuma's corruption practices and Zanu Mugabe land distribution corruption saga; Mr. Jacob Zuma will have to work hard for his money to retain power in the ANC and rule South Africa beyond the current term.
The get-rich-quick mentality that consume leadership in Africa is a sign of insufficiencies in administering responsibly the TRUST by the electorate to look after others well; namely the masses regardless of ranks. To stop building walls and cages that help individual leadership styles often based on buying favor than growing accountability and responsibility based on rule of law. Because rule of law in practice is absent on the continent and if it does exist it does on paper which makes it more ridiculous for the young to comprehend. When a president intervenes while processes of judiciary are going on to short-circuit judgement simply because one is a good Zanu member who has done numerous favour for the president it does not resonate with the spirit and mind of rule of law. This simply is the basis on which corruption grows if it is not strongly resisted.
In the case of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe has built too many mansions using the country's resources while overlooking a system of rewarding veterans consistently so they are kept focused on him as the only God father. The Zanu Mugabe system, for absolutely selfish and personal reasons of him keeping control over the party and people, distorts, misrepresents and gives half-truths on how balanced are checks and balances in the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary functions of government under the rule of law framework.
Zanu Mugabe system never established an enabling constitutional instrument for congress to talk and feel the way forward on a successor for the reasons proffered, in part, on the above paragraph. No enabling power building strategy was ever forthcoming from Zanu since they came into power in 1980. There is no single evidence of self-help projects where Zanu has support to give empowerment to the entrepreneur and common person, except snatching from developed and prestigious well run projects only to reduce them to loss making projects. The country need no debate on Zanu as a failure. We are held back by numerous misrepresentations and half-truths Zanu leadership monopolize the home media to use as their sole propaganda machinery.
To therefore emerge with long existing political failure conditions and appear serious to be rennovative and come with solutions by increasing expenditure on a system already unable to sustain itself is irresponsible. For president Mugabe to emerge championing the Veterans cause as though new when he could not put together anything sustainable since 1980 and subsequent years, is the highest show of dishonesty coupled with incompetency grossly abused. The nation cannot receive an impression painted year after year on crisis management by Zanu Mugabe crowd compounded by lack of foresight, planning-sheer incompetence, as though veterans issue is only surfacing in 2016.
These are the distortions and half-truths Zanu Mugabe has used to emotionally drive support among the veterans at the expense of the nation. Crudely put, this is divide-and-rule game at its worst, and Zanu Mugabe has resorted to this empty strategy for as long as he has remained in power. Therefore, for any government to put up millions and millions of dollars nursing failure is a sick sign that all is not well, hence the country's constant jobless creation sinking economy.
No doubt Mr. Mugabe forgets many things about what needs to be done at home for the country than specializing, as he does, at making missions abroad at heavy costs to the fiscus without tangible benefits and retains to the country. While he specializes in condemning outside nations, home inefficiencies administratively grow endlessly worse consistently. Every so often, and normally with urgency, the issue of war veterans has been undersold from the desk of the head of state who concerned himself with the plans of rigging election votes year after year. Truth be told Zanu fail in the laying down of a plan for an overall good governance based on best practices of delivery for services throughout the country. It's not about appeasing these veterans, it's about meeting a balanced approach to solving economic needs of the people in every stratum, level and social class of the nation.
I have no pride in seeing war veterans running naked than I would like to see a school-less Mujiba child whose father passed away during engagement between liberation soldiers and the regime army. The nation need take issue with those responsible for resource distribution and allocation done haphazardly an indication of lack of planning and coherence in implementational stages without an evaluation of project success.
Frankly the system run on distortions, half-truths and misrepresentations can only cause the nation hardship as the nation is currently experiencing to day (April 2016) in Zimbabwe. It highlights lack of coherence in thinking on consensus on significance and values of telling the truth to what needs be done to change the running of government in Zimbabwe. Politics of appeasement is a diabolical attack on our national goals and accountability which by its very nature should give green light to needs for transparency from the lacking in accountability so far openly demonstrated in Zanu's failure to management the country and her economy.
Somehow political cult-veneration of those failing to administer through a deliberate count on personal blackmail of similar minds therefore forming an administrative resistance group to connive against national interest is criminal, unjust and destructive for any country. Is it the weakness of wanting to get rich quickly or a culture of reckless behavior built on personal survival in collusion with those with monetary influence? When governments get away with a lot of robbery from national fiscus without much accountability, does it not further create an accountable efficiency vacuum with deficiency that deliberately survives on the corruption of systems? This type of political behavior driven by decayed values on corruption has saturated the concept and mind in party politics formation leading us into a deeper leadership and political impasse.
Zimbabwe might run the risk of growing a "my Mercedez Benz is bigger than yours" mentality crop of children who may not see what is wrong in Mugabe family's aggrandizements, nepotism and favoritism. Questions of national interest need be asked. If all went well in Zimbabwe is the caliber of Grace Mugabe the best to head women ministry in the country really? Is it out of competence, qualifications or fear of reprisals and reward by association that Grace Mugabe qualifies to be who she is in the nation today? Obviously much blood has been shade hiding strong views on principles and fundamentals of good governance and against corruption.
If any value can come out of any political union of parties will yield substantive achievement towards removinf Zanu Mugabe anytime between now and 2018 legally, it is when leaders consent to lie low and let within union a hunt merge for leadership. It is sad if the conservative opinions of 'we were beaten by mosquitoes while fighting for the country's liberation' from the 1960s and 70s wreck too the minds of the supposedly new thinking away from the Zanu Mugabe era.
The need of a people thinking outside the box which forces us to accept failures and focus on consensus than uplifting individuals above the national constitution and therefore none removable from presidential candidacy once elected, ought to guide the future way-forward. Eminence of the army veterans now needs be shielded in the national flag where heroes and heroines will have to be an issue of a national committee comprising Zimbabweans of merit and achievement than political parties.
The move away from Zanu Mugabe euphoria committed to communist values of politicizing civil service without openly admitting it has to fall away, since civil servants are citizens with high values of commitment and achievement. Zanu does not admit to politicizing civil service or army a factor that works to support their stance on half-truths, misrepresentation and distortions in order to appear democratic.
The denial of free press to the country, individual groupings and independent associations in the country by Zanu has been the water shade of the politics of decay, corruption and poor governance in Zimbabwe. Were it not for the African Union defending these Zanu political corrupt practices in both governance and political processes, Zimbabwe removal of the dictatorship style of governance would have long been done. The roles though, of Thabo Mbeki and that of Jacob Zuma for influencing a hold on the negative political stalemate in Zimbabwe are disturbing and cannot be ignored.
No longer than when Thabo Mbeki's hidden report results on South African Military Generals' inquest in 2008 on Zanu electoral rigging processes were announced, had he been removed out of power by none other than Jacob Zuma, then perceived as more radical, reliable and people driven. With corruption more rampant today in both Zimbabwe and South Africa, Mr. Jacob Zuma's tenure of office is more questionable now than he begun. Particularly when the then Zanu Mugabe favorite Mr. Malema, who has since swiftly changed sides, and rightly so, to support move against Zuma's corruption practices and Zanu Mugabe land distribution corruption saga; Mr. Jacob Zuma will have to work hard for his money to retain power in the ANC and rule South Africa beyond the current term.
The get-rich-quick mentality that consume leadership in Africa is a sign of insufficiencies in administering responsibly the TRUST by the electorate to look after others well; namely the masses regardless of ranks. To stop building walls and cages that help individual leadership styles often based on buying favor than growing accountability and responsibility based on rule of law. Because rule of law in practice is absent on the continent and if it does exist it does on paper which makes it more ridiculous for the young to comprehend. When a president intervenes while processes of judiciary are going on to short-circuit judgement simply because one is a good Zanu member who has done numerous favour for the president it does not resonate with the spirit and mind of rule of law. This simply is the basis on which corruption grows if it is not strongly resisted.
In the case of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe has built too many mansions using the country's resources while overlooking a system of rewarding veterans consistently so they are kept focused on him as the only God father. The Zanu Mugabe system, for absolutely selfish and personal reasons of him keeping control over the party and people, distorts, misrepresents and gives half-truths on how balanced are checks and balances in the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary functions of government under the rule of law framework.
Zanu Mugabe system never established an enabling constitutional instrument for congress to talk and feel the way forward on a successor for the reasons proffered, in part, on the above paragraph. No enabling power building strategy was ever forthcoming from Zanu since they came into power in 1980. There is no single evidence of self-help projects where Zanu has support to give empowerment to the entrepreneur and common person, except snatching from developed and prestigious well run projects only to reduce them to loss making projects. The country need no debate on Zanu as a failure. We are held back by numerous misrepresentations and half-truths Zanu leadership monopolize the home media to use as their sole propaganda machinery.
To therefore emerge with long existing political failure conditions and appear serious to be rennovative and come with solutions by increasing expenditure on a system already unable to sustain itself is irresponsible. For president Mugabe to emerge championing the Veterans cause as though new when he could not put together anything sustainable since 1980 and subsequent years, is the highest show of dishonesty coupled with incompetency grossly abused. The nation cannot receive an impression painted year after year on crisis management by Zanu Mugabe crowd compounded by lack of foresight, planning-sheer incompetence, as though veterans issue is only surfacing in 2016.
These are the distortions and half-truths Zanu Mugabe has used to emotionally drive support among the veterans at the expense of the nation. Crudely put, this is divide-and-rule game at its worst, and Zanu Mugabe has resorted to this empty strategy for as long as he has remained in power. Therefore, for any government to put up millions and millions of dollars nursing failure is a sick sign that all is not well, hence the country's constant jobless creation sinking economy.
No doubt Mr. Mugabe forgets many things about what needs to be done at home for the country than specializing, as he does, at making missions abroad at heavy costs to the fiscus without tangible benefits and retains to the country. While he specializes in condemning outside nations, home inefficiencies administratively grow endlessly worse consistently. Every so often, and normally with urgency, the issue of war veterans has been undersold from the desk of the head of state who concerned himself with the plans of rigging election votes year after year. Truth be told Zanu fail in the laying down of a plan for an overall good governance based on best practices of delivery for services throughout the country. It's not about appeasing these veterans, it's about meeting a balanced approach to solving economic needs of the people in every stratum, level and social class of the nation.
I have no pride in seeing war veterans running naked than I would like to see a school-less Mujiba child whose father passed away during engagement between liberation soldiers and the regime army. The nation need take issue with those responsible for resource distribution and allocation done haphazardly an indication of lack of planning and coherence in implementational stages without an evaluation of project success.
Frankly the system run on distortions, half-truths and misrepresentations can only cause the nation hardship as the nation is currently experiencing to day (April 2016) in Zimbabwe. It highlights lack of coherence in thinking on consensus on significance and values of telling the truth to what needs be done to change the running of government in Zimbabwe. Politics of appeasement is a diabolical attack on our national goals and accountability which by its very nature should give green light to needs for transparency from the lacking in accountability so far openly demonstrated in Zanu's failure to management the country and her economy.
Somehow political cult-veneration of those failing to administer through a deliberate count on personal blackmail of similar minds therefore forming an administrative resistance group to connive against national interest is criminal, unjust and destructive for any country. Is it the weakness of wanting to get rich quickly or a culture of reckless behavior built on personal survival in collusion with those with monetary influence? When governments get away with a lot of robbery from national fiscus without much accountability, does it not further create an accountable efficiency vacuum with deficiency that deliberately survives on the corruption of systems? This type of political behavior driven by decayed values on corruption has saturated the concept and mind in party politics formation leading us into a deeper leadership and political impasse.
Zimbabwe might run the risk of growing a "my Mercedez Benz is bigger than yours" mentality crop of children who may not see what is wrong in Mugabe family's aggrandizements, nepotism and favoritism. Questions of national interest need be asked. If all went well in Zimbabwe is the caliber of Grace Mugabe the best to head women ministry in the country really? Is it out of competence, qualifications or fear of reprisals and reward by association that Grace Mugabe qualifies to be who she is in the nation today? Obviously much blood has been shade hiding strong views on principles and fundamentals of good governance and against corruption.
If any value can come out of any political union of parties will yield substantive achievement towards removinf Zanu Mugabe anytime between now and 2018 legally, it is when leaders consent to lie low and let within union a hunt merge for leadership. It is sad if the conservative opinions of 'we were beaten by mosquitoes while fighting for the country's liberation' from the 1960s and 70s wreck too the minds of the supposedly new thinking away from the Zanu Mugabe era.
The need of a people thinking outside the box which forces us to accept failures and focus on consensus than uplifting individuals above the national constitution and therefore none removable from presidential candidacy once elected, ought to guide the future way-forward. Eminence of the army veterans now needs be shielded in the national flag where heroes and heroines will have to be an issue of a national committee comprising Zimbabweans of merit and achievement than political parties.
The move away from Zanu Mugabe euphoria committed to communist values of politicizing civil service without openly admitting it has to fall away, since civil servants are citizens with high values of commitment and achievement. Zanu does not admit to politicizing civil service or army a factor that works to support their stance on half-truths, misrepresentation and distortions in order to appear democratic.
Source - Andrew M Manyevere
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