Opinion / Columnist
Let's humiliate Mnangagwa in 2023
29 Sep 2021 at 06:45hrs | Views
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has repeatedly told the nation that the voice of the people is the voice of God.
But events on the ground tell us a different story. We know that anyone who has tried in the past to tell Mnangagwa to listen to the voice of the people has been dealt with harshly or violently.
So, which people is Mnangagwa talking about? Former Chivi South legislator Killer Zivhu was expelled from the ruling Zanu-PF party for suggesting that MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and Mnangagwa should dialogue.
He even suggested that Mnangagwa's wife, Auxillia, and Chamisa's wife, Sithokozile, should meet first and pave way for their husbands' talk.
Mnangagwa must not mislead us. He must tell the nation that we are going nowhere, whether we like him or not.
Those who have tried to oppose his party and government from outside have been dealt with ruthlessly, examples being investigative journalist Hopewell Chin'ono who has been in and out of prison on trumped-up charges for exposing corruption.
Opposition activists such as Harare West MP Joanah Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova were arrested on allegations of violating COVID-19 lockdown measures after staging an alleged illegal demonstration in Harare sometime last year.
They were hunted like animals, beaten up, abused, tortured, prosecuted and continue to be persecuted because his administration was under pressure and feared their influence would grow such that his popularity would wane ahead of the 2023 elections.
Ordinary people in rural and urban areas have suffered the worst as punishment for supporting opposition parties and people demanding that Mnangagwa address to their plight.
In the past, some people have been killed, abducted and tortured, denied food aid and displaced simply because of their support for the MDC Alliance.
But events on the ground tell us a different story. We know that anyone who has tried in the past to tell Mnangagwa to listen to the voice of the people has been dealt with harshly or violently.
So, which people is Mnangagwa talking about? Former Chivi South legislator Killer Zivhu was expelled from the ruling Zanu-PF party for suggesting that MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and Mnangagwa should dialogue.
He even suggested that Mnangagwa's wife, Auxillia, and Chamisa's wife, Sithokozile, should meet first and pave way for their husbands' talk.
Mnangagwa must not mislead us. He must tell the nation that we are going nowhere, whether we like him or not.
Those who have tried to oppose his party and government from outside have been dealt with ruthlessly, examples being investigative journalist Hopewell Chin'ono who has been in and out of prison on trumped-up charges for exposing corruption.
Opposition activists such as Harare West MP Joanah Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova were arrested on allegations of violating COVID-19 lockdown measures after staging an alleged illegal demonstration in Harare sometime last year.
They were hunted like animals, beaten up, abused, tortured, prosecuted and continue to be persecuted because his administration was under pressure and feared their influence would grow such that his popularity would wane ahead of the 2023 elections.
Ordinary people in rural and urban areas have suffered the worst as punishment for supporting opposition parties and people demanding that Mnangagwa address to their plight.
In the past, some people have been killed, abducted and tortured, denied food aid and displaced simply because of their support for the MDC Alliance.
Source - NewsDay Zimbabwe
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