Opinion / Columnist
'We left all the bad things behind,' says ED - leopard smelling of elephant dung, it is still a killer
30 Jun 2018 at 16:42hrs | Views
Things are bad enough when tyrants bombard the people with their propaganda and brainwash them with falsehoods. Hell breaks loose when the tyrants begin to believe their own propaganda and lies. In Zimbabwe hell has broken loose and the country is sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss!
"I was part of the (old) administration, but the good things we have brought forward and the bad things we have left behind."
There are lies and then there are damned lies; President Mnangagwa and his junta did NOT leave behind the bad things from the old administration, that is a damned lie!
President Mnangagwa has promised to end corruption and it is now eight months since the coup and he has done nothing. Frankly only the naïve and gullible believed he could ever deal with this problem since he himself and many of those in his regime included VP Chiwenga are amassed great fortunes from looting.
President Mnangagwa has also promised to hold free, fair and credible elections; another promise he clearly had no intention of honouring. Zanu PF has never ever held free, fair and credible elections ever since it got into power in 1980 and this was one bad habit Mnangagwa and his coup cabal has no intention of leaving behind after the coup. The regime had promised free elections to take the sting out of the reality that it was illegitimate since it was born out of the coup.
The coup plotters insisted the coup was not a coup but "a military assisted transition". What was shocking is that they actually believed this nonsense themselves because the regime launched its "Zimbabwe is open for business!" on basis the coup was legal.
The last two decades, investors had shied away from Zimbabwe because the country was a pariah state ruled by thugs. Zanu PF thugs have been fighting amongst themselves like hyenas fighting over scraps and last November's coup was just one event in that saga. To see the coup as a Damascene transformative event, transforming seasoned thugs into democrats, was wishful thinking, to say the least.
Indeed, by stubbornly refusing to implement even one democratic reform to unsure free and fair elections, President Mnangagwa could not have made it any clearer that Zimbabwe is still a pariah state ruled by thugs!
"I am finishing the term of our former President (Cde) Mugabe) up to July. But of course, on the 30th of July, I am going to win the elections and start my own mandate," said President Mnangagwa. "I can start my own mandate from August 1, then I (will) have more power to implement the vision I have for a new Zimbabwe, a prosperous Zimbabwe."
No Mr President; Robert Mugabe has never earned the mandate to rule Zimbabwe because he rigged elections. With not even one democratic reform in place, you are gearing to rig these elections just as you have always done.
Zimbabwe is a pariah state; the coup, last Saturday's bomb, the rigged elections, etc. all these events prove Zimbabwe is an unstable nation ruled by thugs; the economic meltdown will only get worse as investors continue to shy away. "We have everything we need in Zimbabwe in terms of manpower, educated population and we have identified the enablers to reach where we want to go," said President Mnangagwa.
Zanu PF has not changed; it is still a party of ruthless thugs for whom the coup was about consolidating their own strangle hold on power and not transforming the party into a democratic one. Zimbabwe is going to sink deeper and deeper into the political and economic abyss 38 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule has dragged us into.
President Mnangagwa, you are a corrupt, vote-rigging and murderous thug; this nation will never know peace, justice and economic prosperity under Zanu PF autocratic rule. A leopard rolls in elephant dung to mask its scent; it will still have its spots and killer instincts. You are rigging this year's elections; there is no free public media, there is no clean and verified voters' roll, Zanu PF continues to rob the nation blind to bankroll its vote rigging schemes, etc., etc.; prove you still have your seasoned political thug mentality!
"I was part of the (old) administration, but the good things we have brought forward and the bad things we have left behind."
There are lies and then there are damned lies; President Mnangagwa and his junta did NOT leave behind the bad things from the old administration, that is a damned lie!
President Mnangagwa has promised to end corruption and it is now eight months since the coup and he has done nothing. Frankly only the naïve and gullible believed he could ever deal with this problem since he himself and many of those in his regime included VP Chiwenga are amassed great fortunes from looting.
President Mnangagwa has also promised to hold free, fair and credible elections; another promise he clearly had no intention of honouring. Zanu PF has never ever held free, fair and credible elections ever since it got into power in 1980 and this was one bad habit Mnangagwa and his coup cabal has no intention of leaving behind after the coup. The regime had promised free elections to take the sting out of the reality that it was illegitimate since it was born out of the coup.
The coup plotters insisted the coup was not a coup but "a military assisted transition". What was shocking is that they actually believed this nonsense themselves because the regime launched its "Zimbabwe is open for business!" on basis the coup was legal.
The last two decades, investors had shied away from Zimbabwe because the country was a pariah state ruled by thugs. Zanu PF thugs have been fighting amongst themselves like hyenas fighting over scraps and last November's coup was just one event in that saga. To see the coup as a Damascene transformative event, transforming seasoned thugs into democrats, was wishful thinking, to say the least.
Indeed, by stubbornly refusing to implement even one democratic reform to unsure free and fair elections, President Mnangagwa could not have made it any clearer that Zimbabwe is still a pariah state ruled by thugs!
"I am finishing the term of our former President (Cde) Mugabe) up to July. But of course, on the 30th of July, I am going to win the elections and start my own mandate," said President Mnangagwa. "I can start my own mandate from August 1, then I (will) have more power to implement the vision I have for a new Zimbabwe, a prosperous Zimbabwe."
No Mr President; Robert Mugabe has never earned the mandate to rule Zimbabwe because he rigged elections. With not even one democratic reform in place, you are gearing to rig these elections just as you have always done.
Zimbabwe is a pariah state; the coup, last Saturday's bomb, the rigged elections, etc. all these events prove Zimbabwe is an unstable nation ruled by thugs; the economic meltdown will only get worse as investors continue to shy away. "We have everything we need in Zimbabwe in terms of manpower, educated population and we have identified the enablers to reach where we want to go," said President Mnangagwa.
Zanu PF has not changed; it is still a party of ruthless thugs for whom the coup was about consolidating their own strangle hold on power and not transforming the party into a democratic one. Zimbabwe is going to sink deeper and deeper into the political and economic abyss 38 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule has dragged us into.
President Mnangagwa, you are a corrupt, vote-rigging and murderous thug; this nation will never know peace, justice and economic prosperity under Zanu PF autocratic rule. A leopard rolls in elephant dung to mask its scent; it will still have its spots and killer instincts. You are rigging this year's elections; there is no free public media, there is no clean and verified voters' roll, Zanu PF continues to rob the nation blind to bankroll its vote rigging schemes, etc., etc.; prove you still have your seasoned political thug mentality!
Source - zsdemocrats.blogspot.co.uk
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