Opinion / Columnist
'Entire budget is anti-people in the extreme' We know that, tell us why you hell-bent on perpetuating Zanu PF rule!
05 Dec 2023 at 15:38hrs | Views
Zimbabwe's main opposition parties are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless.
Zimbabwe is a failed state, 43 years and counting of Zanu PF corrupt and tyrannical rule has left the country in total economic ruins and 49% of the population are living in abject poverty. And, not surprisingly, the nation are desperate for change.
As far back as the late 1990s, the people of Zimbabwe came to the conclusion that as long as Zanu PF remains in power the economic and political changes the nation was dying for would never happen. Never! and so if the nation was ever to see an end to the corruption and tyranny the nation will need to implement democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections.
These last 23 years the people of Zimbabwe have risked livelihoods, life and limb to elect MDC/CCC leaders into power for the express purpose they would implement the necessary democratic changes, reforms, to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. After 23 years on the political stage, including 5 years in the GNU, they have not implemented even one token reform. Not even one reform!
Worse still, since the GNU debacle MDC/CCC leaders have been participating in flawed elections, knowing fully well they are flawed and that participating will give Zanu PF legitimacy. Still they have been hell bent on participating because they also knew that Zanu PF was giving away a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition to participate no matter how flawed the process got. Chamisa and company found the bait irresistible.
Indeed, it was for the same reasons, greed and breath-taking incompetence, that MDC leaders failed to implement even one reform during the GNU, when the nation had its best chance ever to implement reforms and dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship once and once for all.
Instead of the MDC/CCC leaders apologising to the nation for their treasonous betrayal on reform and walk into the political sunset they have taken it upon themselves to remind us how evil Zanu PF is and, more pointedly how much we, the people are suffering.
"Whether Mr Mutsvangwa likes it or not, Zimbabweans are experts on how Govt's failed economic policies have caused mass poverty, hyperinflation and national suffering," wrote the socialite MP Fadzai Mahere.
"It's not rocket science. People feel the economic destruction in their pockets.
"Everything has been made worse by the recent anti-people Budget announcement by @MthuliNcube. We have a scavenging Treasury that's imposing punitive taxes and usurious basic service fees on a population where one in two people lives in extreme poverty.
"The entire budget is anti-people in the extreme."
The people of Zimbabwe must wake up to the political reality that CCC leaders have long since to be the instruments of change by stopping Zanu PF rigging elections, the primary purpose the nation elected then to do. Since the GNU they are the ones helping Zanu PF stay in power. CCC leaders have proven beyond all out that they are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless. And to add insult to injury they now insist on reminding us, the people, of how miserable we are but will never ever admit their role in keeping Zanu PF in power and thus perpetuating our suffering.
"The entire budget is anti-people in the extreme." Why are you telling us something we already know. Tell us why MDC/CCC have done nothing in 23 years, including 5 in the GNU, to end the Zanu PF dictatorship.
Zimbabwe is a failed state, 43 years and counting of Zanu PF corrupt and tyrannical rule has left the country in total economic ruins and 49% of the population are living in abject poverty. And, not surprisingly, the nation are desperate for change.
As far back as the late 1990s, the people of Zimbabwe came to the conclusion that as long as Zanu PF remains in power the economic and political changes the nation was dying for would never happen. Never! and so if the nation was ever to see an end to the corruption and tyranny the nation will need to implement democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections.
These last 23 years the people of Zimbabwe have risked livelihoods, life and limb to elect MDC/CCC leaders into power for the express purpose they would implement the necessary democratic changes, reforms, to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. After 23 years on the political stage, including 5 years in the GNU, they have not implemented even one token reform. Not even one reform!
Worse still, since the GNU debacle MDC/CCC leaders have been participating in flawed elections, knowing fully well they are flawed and that participating will give Zanu PF legitimacy. Still they have been hell bent on participating because they also knew that Zanu PF was giving away a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition to participate no matter how flawed the process got. Chamisa and company found the bait irresistible.
Indeed, it was for the same reasons, greed and breath-taking incompetence, that MDC leaders failed to implement even one reform during the GNU, when the nation had its best chance ever to implement reforms and dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship once and once for all.
Instead of the MDC/CCC leaders apologising to the nation for their treasonous betrayal on reform and walk into the political sunset they have taken it upon themselves to remind us how evil Zanu PF is and, more pointedly how much we, the people are suffering.
"Whether Mr Mutsvangwa likes it or not, Zimbabweans are experts on how Govt's failed economic policies have caused mass poverty, hyperinflation and national suffering," wrote the socialite MP Fadzai Mahere.
"It's not rocket science. People feel the economic destruction in their pockets.
"Everything has been made worse by the recent anti-people Budget announcement by @MthuliNcube. We have a scavenging Treasury that's imposing punitive taxes and usurious basic service fees on a population where one in two people lives in extreme poverty.
"The entire budget is anti-people in the extreme."
The people of Zimbabwe must wake up to the political reality that CCC leaders have long since to be the instruments of change by stopping Zanu PF rigging elections, the primary purpose the nation elected then to do. Since the GNU they are the ones helping Zanu PF stay in power. CCC leaders have proven beyond all out that they are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless. And to add insult to injury they now insist on reminding us, the people, of how miserable we are but will never ever admit their role in keeping Zanu PF in power and thus perpetuating our suffering.
"The entire budget is anti-people in the extreme." Why are you telling us something we already know. Tell us why MDC/CCC have done nothing in 23 years, including 5 in the GNU, to end the Zanu PF dictatorship.
Source - zimbabwelight.blogspot.com
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