Opinion / Columnist
Tsvangirai blames SADC for rigged 2013 in a blame-some-one-else stupid game!
20 Nov 2014 at 06:18hrs | Views
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai uses the final release of the Zimbabwe 2002 election report by the SA government to blame SADC for Zimbabwe's rigged 2013 elections as well; a cowardly move that cannot be allowed to go unchallenged.
For the last six year the Mail and Guardian (M&G) has had to jump through all the legal hoops to force the SA government to release the report by two SA Judges, Dikgang Moseneke and Sisi Khampepe into the contact of Zimbabwe's 2002 presidential elections. The report was clear and unambiguous; the elections were NOT free and fair, it stated. The people of Zimbabwe are grateful to the M&G for their dogged determination is getting this historic document into the public domain.
Mugabe and Zanu PF have maintained that the 2002 elections were free and fair and now we know they were lying! It was after these elections that the West imposed the targeted sanctions against Mugabe and a number of individuals and companies in protest against the regime's bad human rights record and failure to hold free and fair elections. Judge Khampepe's report confirms what we already knew, that Mugabe had indeed rigged the 2002 elections.
It boggles the mind why successive Administrations has failed to make the report public when it first came out twelve years ago, even before M&G asked to see it. It is debatable whether its publication would have change the cause of events in Zimbabwe; Mugabe and Zanu PF are a hardened tyrannical regime with a skin as thick as a hippo's, the published report would have been no more than a mosquito bite to the hippo. The regime has certainly not noticed, now the report is finally out.
Still, is it not the wing beat of a butterfly in Japan that cause a hurricane in America; a single bee sting that triggers a million wildebeests to stampede? Nothing lives forever not even solid rock much less man or this human abomination called Zanu PF, an insult to both man and God in heaven!
Tsvangirai should have confined to the matters relating to the 2002 elections and not stray into other matters with a clear intention to misrepresent the facts.
"Today the Zimbabwean economy is again on a free-fall because of illegitimacy derived from yet another stolen election of 2013 that had the full blessing of SADC, South Africa being the chief sponsor of the "free and fair" verdict," comment Tsvangirai.
"SADC's failure to censure, denounce and punish Mugabe's actions continues to represent a travesty of democracy."
How many times did SADC remind Tsvangirai and MDC to implement the agreed democratic reforms throughout the life of the GNU? Countless times! Samuel Sipepa Nkomo, an MDC MP now with the MDC-Renewal faction, has admitted that SADC, especially SA, warned MDC not to take part in the elections without the reforms but, as we all know, MDC paid no heed. It is therefore nonsensical that Tsvangirai should be blaming SADC for Mugabe's rigging of last year's elections.
For five years of the GNU, all MDC leaders had their snouts in the feeding tough they forgot about implementing the reforms. "MDC vadzidza kudya vanyerere!" (MDC have learnt to enjoy the good life on the gravy train and not rock the boat!) One Mugabe loyalists aptly put it at the time. Ever since Tsvangirai got his $4 million Highlands mansion from Mugabe, he certain did nothing to upset the tyrant. Without doubt, any talk of implementing any reforms would have upset the tyrant.
It is an insult to the intelligence of the people of Zimbabwe that none of the MDC leaders, Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti, Welshman Ncube, David Coltart, etc. have ever owed up to betraying the nation by failing to get even one reform implemented and apologised to them. Here Tsvangirai is even trying to blame SADC for letting Mugabe rig the elections!.
The fact that MDC leaders failed to appreciate that without the reforms Mugabe would rig the elections and then kick them off the gravy train, which is exactly what the tyrant has done, goes to show just how breathtakingly incompetent and naive the MDC leaders really are.
The Zimbabwe economy is in totally meltdown because of the 34 years of mismanagement and corruption. Mugabe has denied these cancerous problems all these years allowing them to grow and spread and today the tumour are the size of tennis balls. He blamed the "illegal sanctions imposed by the British imperialists and their western allies" for all the nation's economic woes. Tsvangirai, it seems has learned the blame-some-one-else game from Mugabe and in blaming SADC for the rigged 2013 elections it seems he has learnt it well.
Zimbabwe is not going to get out of this political and economic hell-hole unless the electorate learn to see through leaders like Mugabe and Tsvangirai's blame-some-one-else games and hold them to account for their failures, lies and downright betrayals!
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Wilbert Mukori can be contacted at zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com
For the last six year the Mail and Guardian (M&G) has had to jump through all the legal hoops to force the SA government to release the report by two SA Judges, Dikgang Moseneke and Sisi Khampepe into the contact of Zimbabwe's 2002 presidential elections. The report was clear and unambiguous; the elections were NOT free and fair, it stated. The people of Zimbabwe are grateful to the M&G for their dogged determination is getting this historic document into the public domain.
Mugabe and Zanu PF have maintained that the 2002 elections were free and fair and now we know they were lying! It was after these elections that the West imposed the targeted sanctions against Mugabe and a number of individuals and companies in protest against the regime's bad human rights record and failure to hold free and fair elections. Judge Khampepe's report confirms what we already knew, that Mugabe had indeed rigged the 2002 elections.
It boggles the mind why successive Administrations has failed to make the report public when it first came out twelve years ago, even before M&G asked to see it. It is debatable whether its publication would have change the cause of events in Zimbabwe; Mugabe and Zanu PF are a hardened tyrannical regime with a skin as thick as a hippo's, the published report would have been no more than a mosquito bite to the hippo. The regime has certainly not noticed, now the report is finally out.
Still, is it not the wing beat of a butterfly in Japan that cause a hurricane in America; a single bee sting that triggers a million wildebeests to stampede? Nothing lives forever not even solid rock much less man or this human abomination called Zanu PF, an insult to both man and God in heaven!
Tsvangirai should have confined to the matters relating to the 2002 elections and not stray into other matters with a clear intention to misrepresent the facts.
"Today the Zimbabwean economy is again on a free-fall because of illegitimacy derived from yet another stolen election of 2013 that had the full blessing of SADC, South Africa being the chief sponsor of the "free and fair" verdict," comment Tsvangirai.
How many times did SADC remind Tsvangirai and MDC to implement the agreed democratic reforms throughout the life of the GNU? Countless times! Samuel Sipepa Nkomo, an MDC MP now with the MDC-Renewal faction, has admitted that SADC, especially SA, warned MDC not to take part in the elections without the reforms but, as we all know, MDC paid no heed. It is therefore nonsensical that Tsvangirai should be blaming SADC for Mugabe's rigging of last year's elections.
For five years of the GNU, all MDC leaders had their snouts in the feeding tough they forgot about implementing the reforms. "MDC vadzidza kudya vanyerere!" (MDC have learnt to enjoy the good life on the gravy train and not rock the boat!) One Mugabe loyalists aptly put it at the time. Ever since Tsvangirai got his $4 million Highlands mansion from Mugabe, he certain did nothing to upset the tyrant. Without doubt, any talk of implementing any reforms would have upset the tyrant.
It is an insult to the intelligence of the people of Zimbabwe that none of the MDC leaders, Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti, Welshman Ncube, David Coltart, etc. have ever owed up to betraying the nation by failing to get even one reform implemented and apologised to them. Here Tsvangirai is even trying to blame SADC for letting Mugabe rig the elections!.
The fact that MDC leaders failed to appreciate that without the reforms Mugabe would rig the elections and then kick them off the gravy train, which is exactly what the tyrant has done, goes to show just how breathtakingly incompetent and naive the MDC leaders really are.
The Zimbabwe economy is in totally meltdown because of the 34 years of mismanagement and corruption. Mugabe has denied these cancerous problems all these years allowing them to grow and spread and today the tumour are the size of tennis balls. He blamed the "illegal sanctions imposed by the British imperialists and their western allies" for all the nation's economic woes. Tsvangirai, it seems has learned the blame-some-one-else game from Mugabe and in blaming SADC for the rigged 2013 elections it seems he has learnt it well.
Zimbabwe is not going to get out of this political and economic hell-hole unless the electorate learn to see through leaders like Mugabe and Tsvangirai's blame-some-one-else games and hold them to account for their failures, lies and downright betrayals!
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Wilbert Mukori can be contacted at zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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