Opinion / Columnist
'Darkest hour is before dawn!' - after 39 years of sinking into the darkest abyss, what dawn
30 Apr 2019 at 14:49hrs | Views
Obert Gutu is just an empty drum making a lot of noise! He is just one of the MDC leaders who, having tasted the good life of the political gravy train during the 2008 to 2013 GNU, has fought tooth and nail to get back on the gravy train. And when you are an empty drum, fighting tooth and nail means making lots, and lots of noise!
Last week Gutu wrote a long piece arguing for the lifting of all sanctions against Mnangagwa and his fellow Zanu PF cronies. Gutu did not acknowledge the sanctions would have been lifted if Zanu PF had kept its promise to hold free, fair and credible elections, the single most important issue on the matter.
Everyone knows that Zanu PF blatantly rigged last year's elections; the regime failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters' roll, a common sense and legal requirement. Gutu and his former MDC Alliance colleagues Nelson Chamisa, Tendai Biti, David Coltart and all the other opposition candidates and parties participated in the election regardless of all the evidence the process was flawed and illegal.
Gutu and others in the opposition camp all knew Zanu PF would blatantly rig the elections to secure the presidency and 2/3 majority in parliament. They also knew that Zanu PF will also give away a few gravy train seats, to entice the opposition to take part in the elections. This has worked like a charm, there were 23 presidential candidates in last year's elections!
Obert Gutu and his fellow MDC-T members led by Thokosani Khupe and he is her deputy, have already endorse the election process, with all its glaring flaws and illegalities, free, fair and credible and Mnangagwa duly elected and legitimate. MDC-T earned themselves a few brownies points with Mnangagwa for that. The call to have sanctions against Zanu PF lifted is yet another brownie point.
There is talk of another GNU in response to the worsening economic situation; Obert Gutu is to cash-in the brownies points in retain for a seat on the gravy train. Meanwhile Gutu is coming up with all manner of nonsensical suggestions to earn himself and MDC-T a few more brownie points!
"Zimbabweans should think about creating jobs and desist from merely seeking employment!" twittered Gutu.
"Remember every dark cloud has a silver lining!
"Remember, the darkest hour is before dawn!"
In other words, the 90% unemployed Zimbabweans out there have only themselves to blame for their plight; they should have desisted looking for employment years ago and would have been very successful entrepreneurs with thriving business by now.
By destroying the Zimbabwe economy; Zanu PF has done the nation a great favour, it created the dark cloud and the challenge is for us to find the silver lining.
For the last 39 years Zimbabwe has seen nothing but stead economic decline, the country and blundered from pillar to post. The few ruling elite has grown filthy rich but at the expense of the overwhelming majority who now live in heart-breaking abject poverty.
For all his rhetorical claims of "Zimbabwe is open for business!", promise to end corruption, promise to hold free, fair and credible elections, etc.; President Mnangagwa has done nothing address these underlying economic problems. Zimbabwe was a detested pariah state under Mugabe, that has not changed.
For the last 39 years the people have been told "this is the darkest hour before dawn", things have got progressively worse and not better. As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs the country's economic decline will continue.
After 39 years the nation must now wake-up to the reality that the new dawn will only come from us doing something to end the scourge of corruption and the curse of rigged elections. Mnangagwa, his cronies and the sell-out opposition leaders like Gutu would like us to believe we can have our cake and eat it too. Wake-up Zimbabwe!
Zimbabwe's economic environment is so caustic that many, many companies have been forced out of business including well established and well resources companies like Meikles, Kariba Batteries, etc. Only a first class idiot like Obert Gutu would expect the impoverish Zimbabweans, many of whom are earning as little as US$30 per month or less to start their own company and thrive!
What the country needs and has been dying for these last 39 years is an economic environment is which existing and well establish companies can thrive alongside new companies. The caustic economic environment was created by the decades of corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship, a man-made problem.
We have had many opportunities to end the Zanu PF dictatorship with the best chances falling to Obert Gutu and his fellow MDC friends during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. All MDC leaders had to do was implement the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections. They failed to get even one reform implemented. Not one!
Ever since MDC leaders' failure to end the Zanu PF dictatorship they have abandoned all pretence of implementing the reforms and ensuring free, fair and credible elections in favour of the present status quo in which Zanu PF is allowed to blatant rig the elections as long as the opposition get a few gravy train seats. Opposition leaders like Obert Gutu, Nelson Chamisa, etc. have been hunting with the Zanu PF hounds and running with the economically impoverish and politically powerless majority.
For 39 years and counting it has been getting darker and darker because we have sinking deeper and deeper into this hell-on-earth. As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state then the country will continue to sink. Only an idiot would believe Zanu PF would ever get us out of this mess after 39 years of dragging us into the mess.
"The darkest hour comes before dawn!" Yeah right! Some night, lasting 39 years! We have a simple choice, either we end the Zanu PF dictatorship or we retain it and continue to sink into the abyss!
Last week Gutu wrote a long piece arguing for the lifting of all sanctions against Mnangagwa and his fellow Zanu PF cronies. Gutu did not acknowledge the sanctions would have been lifted if Zanu PF had kept its promise to hold free, fair and credible elections, the single most important issue on the matter.
Everyone knows that Zanu PF blatantly rigged last year's elections; the regime failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters' roll, a common sense and legal requirement. Gutu and his former MDC Alliance colleagues Nelson Chamisa, Tendai Biti, David Coltart and all the other opposition candidates and parties participated in the election regardless of all the evidence the process was flawed and illegal.
Gutu and others in the opposition camp all knew Zanu PF would blatantly rig the elections to secure the presidency and 2/3 majority in parliament. They also knew that Zanu PF will also give away a few gravy train seats, to entice the opposition to take part in the elections. This has worked like a charm, there were 23 presidential candidates in last year's elections!
Obert Gutu and his fellow MDC-T members led by Thokosani Khupe and he is her deputy, have already endorse the election process, with all its glaring flaws and illegalities, free, fair and credible and Mnangagwa duly elected and legitimate. MDC-T earned themselves a few brownies points with Mnangagwa for that. The call to have sanctions against Zanu PF lifted is yet another brownie point.
There is talk of another GNU in response to the worsening economic situation; Obert Gutu is to cash-in the brownies points in retain for a seat on the gravy train. Meanwhile Gutu is coming up with all manner of nonsensical suggestions to earn himself and MDC-T a few more brownie points!
"Zimbabweans should think about creating jobs and desist from merely seeking employment!" twittered Gutu.
"Remember every dark cloud has a silver lining!
"Remember, the darkest hour is before dawn!"
In other words, the 90% unemployed Zimbabweans out there have only themselves to blame for their plight; they should have desisted looking for employment years ago and would have been very successful entrepreneurs with thriving business by now.
For the last 39 years Zimbabwe has seen nothing but stead economic decline, the country and blundered from pillar to post. The few ruling elite has grown filthy rich but at the expense of the overwhelming majority who now live in heart-breaking abject poverty.
For all his rhetorical claims of "Zimbabwe is open for business!", promise to end corruption, promise to hold free, fair and credible elections, etc.; President Mnangagwa has done nothing address these underlying economic problems. Zimbabwe was a detested pariah state under Mugabe, that has not changed.
For the last 39 years the people have been told "this is the darkest hour before dawn", things have got progressively worse and not better. As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs the country's economic decline will continue.
After 39 years the nation must now wake-up to the reality that the new dawn will only come from us doing something to end the scourge of corruption and the curse of rigged elections. Mnangagwa, his cronies and the sell-out opposition leaders like Gutu would like us to believe we can have our cake and eat it too. Wake-up Zimbabwe!
Zimbabwe's economic environment is so caustic that many, many companies have been forced out of business including well established and well resources companies like Meikles, Kariba Batteries, etc. Only a first class idiot like Obert Gutu would expect the impoverish Zimbabweans, many of whom are earning as little as US$30 per month or less to start their own company and thrive!
What the country needs and has been dying for these last 39 years is an economic environment is which existing and well establish companies can thrive alongside new companies. The caustic economic environment was created by the decades of corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship, a man-made problem.
We have had many opportunities to end the Zanu PF dictatorship with the best chances falling to Obert Gutu and his fellow MDC friends during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. All MDC leaders had to do was implement the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections. They failed to get even one reform implemented. Not one!
Ever since MDC leaders' failure to end the Zanu PF dictatorship they have abandoned all pretence of implementing the reforms and ensuring free, fair and credible elections in favour of the present status quo in which Zanu PF is allowed to blatant rig the elections as long as the opposition get a few gravy train seats. Opposition leaders like Obert Gutu, Nelson Chamisa, etc. have been hunting with the Zanu PF hounds and running with the economically impoverish and politically powerless majority.
For 39 years and counting it has been getting darker and darker because we have sinking deeper and deeper into this hell-on-earth. As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state then the country will continue to sink. Only an idiot would believe Zanu PF would ever get us out of this mess after 39 years of dragging us into the mess.
"The darkest hour comes before dawn!" Yeah right! Some night, lasting 39 years! We have a simple choice, either we end the Zanu PF dictatorship or we retain it and continue to sink into the abyss!
Source - zimbabwelight.blogspot.com
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