'If Mnangagwa rigged elections, leave him why put sanctions' argue Museveni - to stop him rigging again and again, idiot

There are many reasons why Africa is a continent dogged by poverty, war, corruption, disease, bad governance, etc., etc. One of the many reasons this is so is our inability to pay attention to detail. We have debated the issue of economic sanctions, for example, thousands of times and will, no doubt, be spending many, many more man-years of time, space, sweat and blood without ever being any wiser.  How can we ever be any wiser when none of what is said make sense!

"Why do you put sanctions, if someone is wrong leave him and he will fail by his own mistakes? Why do you put sanctions if you know you are right and somebody is wrong?" argued President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda.

"That's means we are not sure if the man is wrong. Otherwise if he is wrong let him fail by his own his mistakes.

"If you put sanctions you are just aiding someone to use them as scapegoat for his own failures. I appeal to those who are imposing sanctions on Zimbabwe to lift those sanctions."

The Americans went to great length to explain that they will lift the sanctions imposed on the Zanu PF leaders and entities with strong links to the party if the 2018 elections were free, fair and credible. The Americans even went on to spell out some of the things they would want to see happen; allow Zimbabweans in the diaspora the right to vote, free public media, a transparent and legal electoral process, etc. None of these things happened. Zanu PF failed to produce something as basic and fundamental for free, fair and credible elections as a verified voters' roll, for Pete's sake.

If President Museveni is "not sure" the July 2018 elections were NOT free, fair and credible, it is so because he is refusing to see what is before his own eyes.

Of course, Zanu PF is using sanctions as scapegoat for the regime's own failures. It is no secret that Zimbabwe adopted the two five-year Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) in 1990 to 95 and 1995 to 2000 because the country's economy was in a real mess already. The regime could not blame the sanctions then because they were imposed in 2001!

"Why do you put sanctions if you know you are right and somebody is wrong?" The sheer stupidity of that question beggars belief! Surely, surely there is nothing wrong with an outsider telling us denying our own people their basic freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of our country and even the right to life! As an ordinary Zimbabwean citizen whose has felt the heavy boot of the Zanu PF dictatorship on one's neck these last 39 years, of course I am grateful to the outsider for his concern for my welfare. I am equally outraged by the breath taking stupidity and indifference of mine fellow African brothers and sisters to what Zanu PF has been doing in Zimbabwe.

Of course, the western nations will ignore President Museveni's call to have the sanctions lifted with the contempt it rightly deserve. Of course the western nation have every right to decide who they will trade with and under what terms.

"I don't agree with those who say Africa is weak. In 1960s, we were weaker than we are today but we were able to work together and support the struggle for freedom in southern Africa and succeeded," continued President Museveni. said the Ugandan leader who took power after a protracted rebellion in 1986.

"We worked for the liberation of Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa and Angola Namibia supported by socialist countries but our great effort was ours."

What he did not say is that all independent African countries then, with the exception of those under tyrannical black rule, supported the imposing of UN sanctions on the colonial regimes in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, etc. The sanctions were considered necessary in ending white colonial oppression but they are now considered unnecessary in ending BLACK oppression!

President Museveni seized power in Uganda in 1986 and he since ruled that country with an iron fist. He has never held free, fair and credible elections and it is little wonder he saw nothing wrong with Mnangagwa doing the same in Zimbabwe. Indeed, he is in Zimbabwe supporting a fellow corrupt and vote rigging tyrant.

Whilst African leaders did unite in the fight to end white colonial oppression, they have not done the same when a fellow African leader has become an oppressor. Suddenly they all had problems defining what an oppressor is!


Mnangagwa said Zimbabwe's last year elections were free, fair and credible. President Cyril Ramaphosa of S A has said the elections "went well!" It is not that these leaders do not know what constitutes free, fair and credible elections. They know. They are being vague, deliberately, so anything goes.

An elephant is an animal with four legs; so a rat, a lizard any animal with four  legs will pass for an elephant. Little wonder the AU, SADC and all the other African organisations have all become popular exclusive clubs of dictators, tyrants and despots!  

President Yoweri Museveni, we in Zimbabwe know that Mnangagwa rigged the elections, he is a corrupt and murderous thug, we know that the country's economic meltdown will only get worse as long as the country remains a pariah state.

We know Mnangagwa is using sanctions as a scapegoat for the regime's failures. We also know that sanctions are just another way of piling the pressure of Zanu PF to step down so we can implement the democratic reforms to stop the vote rigging. Of course, we, the ordinary Zimbabweans, want the sanctions to stay and are very pleased the sanctions are staying!