Opinion / Columnist
Zimbabweans have penchant for sugar-rush solution of Mnangagwa must go even at the cost of retaining the dictatorship yet again
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"Zimbabwe is in desperate need of transformative leadership, not the routine recycling of failed politicians," argued Trevor Ncube. "A change in leadership might offer temporary relief, Zimbabwe's issues run deeper, demanding a systemic overhaul."
Could not agree with you more!
God only knows how many golden opportunities to completely overhaul our failed political system, notably the 2008 to 2013 GNU and the 2017 military coup, and we have wasted them all. All because of greed, breathtaking incompetence and, yes, our penchant for temporary relief. We would happily give up our freedoms, rights and human dignity to appease the dictator on the off chance he will have mercy on us even when history tells us he will only demand more and double the abuse again and again.
Zimbabwe is a failed state because the nation been stuck with this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship for 45 years and counting. The party has enjoyed absolute power including the power to rig elections, to stay in power, and to loot the nation's wealth.
Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies have bribed, cajoled and even killed fellow Zanu PF nationalists, war veterans and the nation at large to accept the de facto Zanu PF one-party dictatorship. War veterans in the army, Police, etc.; still in active service, retired or demobilised in 1980; have been brainwashed to believe that only Zanu PF leaders are fit to rule Zimbabwe and can be trusted to safeguard the nation's independence and sovereignty. And so it the Army, Police, etc. have become department of the party in all but name, there to promote Zanu PF's singular agenda of retaining absolute power at all costs.
As much as Blessed Geza and his faction of war veterans are right in condemning Mnangagwa as a corrupt and murderous dictator; they cannot that they have played their part in imposing him in the 2017 military coup and the rigged elections which have followed. They have toned down their zeal to see VP Chiwenga succeed Mnangagwa and will never accept that he must face the acid test of free, fair and credible elections. Never!
How anyone can fail to see that swapping one dictator for another will solve nothing, especially after 45 years of rigged elections and bad governance, beggars believe!
Zanu PF will never reform itself out of office by accepting free and fair elections. The opposition MDC/CCC failed to implement even one token reform during the GNU when they had the golden opportunity to do so. Mugabe bribed Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends with the trappings of high office and, in return, they forgot about the reforms.
Ever since the GNU debacle, MDC/CCC leaders have participated in flawed elections to give Zanu PF victory and legitimacy for the sake of few gravy train seats. They have conned their brain-dead followers to participate on the basis of idiotic claims of opposition winning RIGGED elections. The very fact that millions Zimbabweans have believed these lies time and time again, even after 45 years of rigged elections, explains why we are a failed state.
Yes, we need a complete system overhaul of our failed political system.
"The only way forward, according to Ncube, is through a national, inclusive process that involves all stakeholders, including business leaders, civil society, the Church, labor, women, and youth. These groups must work together to rebuild the country," reported Bulawayo24.
Some people would say the writing of the 2013 Constitution was an inclusive process and yet no one will deny it was another wasted opportunity to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship and replace it with a healthy and functional democracy. A body of 50 or so technocrats can be task to write the nation's new democratic constitution. They only have to use the constitutions of other nations that have tried and tested as the starting point; no need to reinvent the wheel.
It will be very disappointing indeed if the head of steam built since Mnangagwa took over from Mugabe should result in merely the replacement of one dictator with another. What we want is the end of the dictatorship and not another few days of sugar-rush at seeing Mnangagwa go followed by years more of this "soul-crushing poverty", as Trevor aptly put it!
Could not agree with you more!
God only knows how many golden opportunities to completely overhaul our failed political system, notably the 2008 to 2013 GNU and the 2017 military coup, and we have wasted them all. All because of greed, breathtaking incompetence and, yes, our penchant for temporary relief. We would happily give up our freedoms, rights and human dignity to appease the dictator on the off chance he will have mercy on us even when history tells us he will only demand more and double the abuse again and again.
Zimbabwe is a failed state because the nation been stuck with this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship for 45 years and counting. The party has enjoyed absolute power including the power to rig elections, to stay in power, and to loot the nation's wealth.
Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies have bribed, cajoled and even killed fellow Zanu PF nationalists, war veterans and the nation at large to accept the de facto Zanu PF one-party dictatorship. War veterans in the army, Police, etc.; still in active service, retired or demobilised in 1980; have been brainwashed to believe that only Zanu PF leaders are fit to rule Zimbabwe and can be trusted to safeguard the nation's independence and sovereignty. And so it the Army, Police, etc. have become department of the party in all but name, there to promote Zanu PF's singular agenda of retaining absolute power at all costs.
As much as Blessed Geza and his faction of war veterans are right in condemning Mnangagwa as a corrupt and murderous dictator; they cannot that they have played their part in imposing him in the 2017 military coup and the rigged elections which have followed. They have toned down their zeal to see VP Chiwenga succeed Mnangagwa and will never accept that he must face the acid test of free, fair and credible elections. Never!
Zanu PF will never reform itself out of office by accepting free and fair elections. The opposition MDC/CCC failed to implement even one token reform during the GNU when they had the golden opportunity to do so. Mugabe bribed Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends with the trappings of high office and, in return, they forgot about the reforms.
Ever since the GNU debacle, MDC/CCC leaders have participated in flawed elections to give Zanu PF victory and legitimacy for the sake of few gravy train seats. They have conned their brain-dead followers to participate on the basis of idiotic claims of opposition winning RIGGED elections. The very fact that millions Zimbabweans have believed these lies time and time again, even after 45 years of rigged elections, explains why we are a failed state.
Yes, we need a complete system overhaul of our failed political system.
"The only way forward, according to Ncube, is through a national, inclusive process that involves all stakeholders, including business leaders, civil society, the Church, labor, women, and youth. These groups must work together to rebuild the country," reported Bulawayo24.
Some people would say the writing of the 2013 Constitution was an inclusive process and yet no one will deny it was another wasted opportunity to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship and replace it with a healthy and functional democracy. A body of 50 or so technocrats can be task to write the nation's new democratic constitution. They only have to use the constitutions of other nations that have tried and tested as the starting point; no need to reinvent the wheel.
It will be very disappointing indeed if the head of steam built since Mnangagwa took over from Mugabe should result in merely the replacement of one dictator with another. What we want is the end of the dictatorship and not another few days of sugar-rush at seeing Mnangagwa go followed by years more of this "soul-crushing poverty", as Trevor aptly put it!
Source - zimbambelight.blogspot.com
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