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Visit by my nemesis ED and Chiwenga will be story of my life!" boasted Chamisa. But why nemesis!
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This visit by my nemesis ED and General Chiwenga and the dynamics around it will feature prominently in the story of my life." Posted Chamisa on X accompanied by a video of motorcade of the two arriving for the visit.
This is rich! Why is Chamisa calling Mnangagwa and Chiwenga his nemesis! Nemesis means "formidable and usually victorious rival or opponent". Yes Zanu PF has been victorious in all elections ever since MDC's launch in 1999 but not because the party was "formidable". Far from it!
In 2008 Professor Jonathan Moyo said "Mugabe would lose the presidential race to a donkey if (big IF) the elections were free, fair and credible!" underlining just how weak and feeble Zanu PF was. The people of Zimbabwe were so desperate to remove Zanu PF from office they did not care whom the voted for as long as the vote will remove Zanu PF from power.
It so happened that SADC leaders had piled a lot of, behind the scene, pressure on Zanu PF to accept a number of electoral reforms for the 2008 elections. For example, all vote counting was to be carried out at the Polling Station and a copy of the results, the V11 form, giving to each election agent and posted for the public to see.
In the past, ballots were collected to designated locations were the counting was carried out. There were reports of ballot boxes disappearing, unknown boxes being added, etc., etc.
The March 2008 vote was the nearest Zimbabwe got to holding free, fair and credible elections!
When it became increasingly clear that Zanu PF was heading for a resounding electoral defeat. Mnangagwa stepped in to stop ZEC announcing the results. What followed was a six weeks long recounting and drip, drip announcing of the results. In parliament, the opposition won the cooked up vote recount with narrow majority.
In the presidential race, Morgan Tsvangirai's 73% votes, according to Mugabe's own Freudian slip, was whittled down to 47%; enough to force run-off.
Mnangagwa and his Joint Operation Command (JOC) cronies, a junta comprising the top brass in the Army, Police, CIO and Prison Services headed by Mugabe and Mnangagwa, launched a military style Operation Mavhotera Papi during the run-off. The primary purpose of the operation was to punish the people for having rejected Zanu PF in the March 2008 vote and make sure they do not do it again in the run-off and in future. The nation witnessed the worst ever elections related violence.
Millions of Zimbabweans went into hiding or were internally displaced, hundreds of thousands were beaten and/or raped and over 500 were murdered by the Zanu PF Youth militia and war veterans, who were Operation Mavhotera Papi's foot soldiers. The heavy duty work of abducting and killing was carried by the four security services branches personal deployed by JOC.
"What was achieved by the bullet cannot be change by ballots!" thundered Robert Mugabe at one of the Zanu PF rallies during the run-off. The party's operatives heard him and were merciless.
There is a video evidence of Mnangagwa boasting of his role in the 2008 electoral coup to deny Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends electoral victory. "Baba gatsirai cabinet, musafunga zvimwe!" he told Mugabe. He was cocksure he would overturn Zanu PF and Mugabe's resounding defeat in the March 2008 vote!
Tsvangirai withdraw from the run-off. "Zanu PF has declared war on the people!" he explained.
Mugabe went on to win the one-horse race with 84% of the votes. Up from 23% in the March 2008 vote.
Both SADC and AU refused to recognise Mugabe's victory given the blatant cheating in the March vote count and the wanton violence in the run-off. SADC forced Mugabe to accept the formation of the 2008 to 2013 Government of National Unity (GNU). The primary purpose of the GNU was to implement the democratic reforms to ensure the blatant cheating and/or wanton violence of 2008 are never ever repeated ever again.
Mugabe bribed Tsvangirai and company with the trappings of high office; the E-Class Mercedes Benz limos, the generous salaries and allowances, a US$4 million mansion for Save himself, etc. In return, the MDC leaders forgot about implementing reforms. Not even one token reform was implemented in the 5 years of the GNU when MDC leaders had the golden opportunity to do so.
"Mazivanhu eMDC dzidza kudya anyerere!" boasted Zanu PF cronies during the GNU years when asked why MDC leaders were not implementing any reforms.
Ever since the GNU debacle, MDC/CCC leaders have participated in flawed elections knowing fully well that Zanu PF was rigging the elections and that participating would only give Zanu PF legitimacy.
"I have plugged all the vote rigging loop holes. #Godisinit!" Chamisa lied to his followers in the 2023 elections to con them to participate in their millions to give Zanu PF legitimacy.
Of course, Chamisa lied! He known the voters' roll was in shambles and ZEC had not produced even something as basic as a verified voters roll. He did not deploy election agents at many of the Polling Stations even though he had the funds to pay them.
Chamisa not only KNEW that Zanu PF was rigging the elections, LIED that he "plugged the vote rigging loop holes", he even evoke the name of God is his blatant lies, he even ASSISTED Zanu PF rig the elections by making sure there were no CCC agents to witness the counting of the votes!
Team Pachedu, a group of voters' roll specialists who embedded themselves in the 2023 elections, reported that there were as many as 1 000 Polling Stations, or 10% of the total, for which they had failed to get corresponding voters' rolls. They had a V11 from one of these ghost Polling Stations, with 999 votes cast for Mnangagwa and 0 for Chamisa. It should be noted that none of the Polling Stations for which there were voters' rolls had more than 500 registered voters - the ghost Station had double the number of registered voters and 100% voter turnout!
Some people have said MDC/CCC is Zanu PF team B in all but name - playing to secure team A electoral victory and political legitimacy. They are right!
Without Chamisa Mnangagwa and Zanu PF would have lost the elections and/or political legitimacy in 2013, at the latest!
Mnangagwa Chamisa's nemesis! Yeah right! This is all a class act!
Mnangagwa and Chamisa are like cats, many have misread the grovelling and paw swipe for fighting. It is only when they see the kittens that they realise, they were wrong!
This is rich! Why is Chamisa calling Mnangagwa and Chiwenga his nemesis! Nemesis means "formidable and usually victorious rival or opponent". Yes Zanu PF has been victorious in all elections ever since MDC's launch in 1999 but not because the party was "formidable". Far from it!
In 2008 Professor Jonathan Moyo said "Mugabe would lose the presidential race to a donkey if (big IF) the elections were free, fair and credible!" underlining just how weak and feeble Zanu PF was. The people of Zimbabwe were so desperate to remove Zanu PF from office they did not care whom the voted for as long as the vote will remove Zanu PF from power.
It so happened that SADC leaders had piled a lot of, behind the scene, pressure on Zanu PF to accept a number of electoral reforms for the 2008 elections. For example, all vote counting was to be carried out at the Polling Station and a copy of the results, the V11 form, giving to each election agent and posted for the public to see.
In the past, ballots were collected to designated locations were the counting was carried out. There were reports of ballot boxes disappearing, unknown boxes being added, etc., etc.
The March 2008 vote was the nearest Zimbabwe got to holding free, fair and credible elections!
When it became increasingly clear that Zanu PF was heading for a resounding electoral defeat. Mnangagwa stepped in to stop ZEC announcing the results. What followed was a six weeks long recounting and drip, drip announcing of the results. In parliament, the opposition won the cooked up vote recount with narrow majority.
In the presidential race, Morgan Tsvangirai's 73% votes, according to Mugabe's own Freudian slip, was whittled down to 47%; enough to force run-off.
Mnangagwa and his Joint Operation Command (JOC) cronies, a junta comprising the top brass in the Army, Police, CIO and Prison Services headed by Mugabe and Mnangagwa, launched a military style Operation Mavhotera Papi during the run-off. The primary purpose of the operation was to punish the people for having rejected Zanu PF in the March 2008 vote and make sure they do not do it again in the run-off and in future. The nation witnessed the worst ever elections related violence.
Millions of Zimbabweans went into hiding or were internally displaced, hundreds of thousands were beaten and/or raped and over 500 were murdered by the Zanu PF Youth militia and war veterans, who were Operation Mavhotera Papi's foot soldiers. The heavy duty work of abducting and killing was carried by the four security services branches personal deployed by JOC.
"What was achieved by the bullet cannot be change by ballots!" thundered Robert Mugabe at one of the Zanu PF rallies during the run-off. The party's operatives heard him and were merciless.
There is a video evidence of Mnangagwa boasting of his role in the 2008 electoral coup to deny Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends electoral victory. "Baba gatsirai cabinet, musafunga zvimwe!" he told Mugabe. He was cocksure he would overturn Zanu PF and Mugabe's resounding defeat in the March 2008 vote!
Tsvangirai withdraw from the run-off. "Zanu PF has declared war on the people!" he explained.
Both SADC and AU refused to recognise Mugabe's victory given the blatant cheating in the March vote count and the wanton violence in the run-off. SADC forced Mugabe to accept the formation of the 2008 to 2013 Government of National Unity (GNU). The primary purpose of the GNU was to implement the democratic reforms to ensure the blatant cheating and/or wanton violence of 2008 are never ever repeated ever again.
Mugabe bribed Tsvangirai and company with the trappings of high office; the E-Class Mercedes Benz limos, the generous salaries and allowances, a US$4 million mansion for Save himself, etc. In return, the MDC leaders forgot about implementing reforms. Not even one token reform was implemented in the 5 years of the GNU when MDC leaders had the golden opportunity to do so.
"Mazivanhu eMDC dzidza kudya anyerere!" boasted Zanu PF cronies during the GNU years when asked why MDC leaders were not implementing any reforms.
Ever since the GNU debacle, MDC/CCC leaders have participated in flawed elections knowing fully well that Zanu PF was rigging the elections and that participating would only give Zanu PF legitimacy.
"I have plugged all the vote rigging loop holes. #Godisinit!" Chamisa lied to his followers in the 2023 elections to con them to participate in their millions to give Zanu PF legitimacy.
Of course, Chamisa lied! He known the voters' roll was in shambles and ZEC had not produced even something as basic as a verified voters roll. He did not deploy election agents at many of the Polling Stations even though he had the funds to pay them.
Chamisa not only KNEW that Zanu PF was rigging the elections, LIED that he "plugged the vote rigging loop holes", he even evoke the name of God is his blatant lies, he even ASSISTED Zanu PF rig the elections by making sure there were no CCC agents to witness the counting of the votes!
Team Pachedu, a group of voters' roll specialists who embedded themselves in the 2023 elections, reported that there were as many as 1 000 Polling Stations, or 10% of the total, for which they had failed to get corresponding voters' rolls. They had a V11 from one of these ghost Polling Stations, with 999 votes cast for Mnangagwa and 0 for Chamisa. It should be noted that none of the Polling Stations for which there were voters' rolls had more than 500 registered voters - the ghost Station had double the number of registered voters and 100% voter turnout!
Some people have said MDC/CCC is Zanu PF team B in all but name - playing to secure team A electoral victory and political legitimacy. They are right!
Without Chamisa Mnangagwa and Zanu PF would have lost the elections and/or political legitimacy in 2013, at the latest!
Mnangagwa Chamisa's nemesis! Yeah right! This is all a class act!
Mnangagwa and Chamisa are like cats, many have misread the grovelling and paw swipe for fighting. It is only when they see the kittens that they realise, they were wrong!
Source - zimbabwelight.blogspot.com
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