'Let us move forward!' called ED - doesn't know, by rigging election confirmed we are stuck

"It is now time to put behind the elections and be united in working to achieve the Zimbabwe we all want. We are indeed building the Zimbabwe we want, growing the economy together, and creating employment and improving the standards of living for everyone, where everyone is involved, irrespective of tribe, creed, gender, religion and party affiliation," President Mnangagwa told the Hero's Day celebration crowd.

Mr Mnangagwa you promised to hold free, fair and credible elections, that is the one vision we shared. You stubbornly refused to implement even one democratic reform to make this possible and even went so far as to dismiss those calling for reforms as barking.

"Zanu PF ichatonga! Igotonga! Imi muchingo hukura! Nokuhukura!" (Zanu PF will rule! And rule! Whilst you (calling for reforms) bark! And bark!) said President Mnangagwa.

President Mnangagwa, you failed to keep your promise, Sir; you rigged these elections.

By failing to hold free and fair elections you have just confirmed that Zimbabwe is a pariah state ruled by vote-rigging thugs! All your "Zimbabwe is open for business!" PR work of the last eight months will come to naught. The flood of foreign investors you have been trying to lure to come to Zimbabwe will never happen because investors, Sir, do not do business in pariah states ruled by thugs.

President Mnangagwa, if you thought you could rig these elections and get away with it, just as Zanu PF has done countless times these last 38 years; the rigging was easy but getting away with it is proving impossible, especially on the economic front. Without the desperately needed foreign direct investment to kick start the country's comatose economy there will be no meaning economic recovery.

"Let us move forward with the same determination and a single mind, after all we share the same vision and dream for the country," the President added.

That is just the thing Mr President we do not share the same vision and dream for Zimbabwe. You and your Zanu PF junta friends dream of Zanu PF ruling "until the donkeys sprout horns," as Zanu PF Minister Simon Khaya Moyo would put it, hence the need to rig the elections to ensure party victory. Everything else; individual freedoms and rights, national economic prosperity, etc. only matter once Zanu PF claim to absolute power is secured.

The vision and dream of every thinking Zimbabwean out there is and has always been of a country in which the individual freedoms and rights including the right to free and fair elections and the right to life of all its citizens are the nation's number priority. This is the solid rock foundation on which we should have built the country and not the quicksand of selfish greed foundation Zanu PF fostered on the nation.

Zimbabwe is in this economic and political hell-hole because of 38 years of Zanu PF corrupt and tyrannical rule. "Let us move forward!" you say, after you have just rigged the elections. How naïve! President Mnangagwa, as long as Zanu PF continues to rig elections Zimbabwe will remain stuck in this hell-hole!