Wilbert Mukori | After 37 years of one of the most corrupt oppressive and murderous regimes in modern human history that has forced ¾ of the country’s population into a life of hopelessness and despair. One would have thought that people of Zimbabwe will clear and united in wanting the dictatorship to end. It is therefore very disappointing that there are people like Victor Gore who believed “a lot has changed” and list them in Zimeye as follows:
1) no interface rallies
2) no abusing politicians by Grace Gucci
3) Road blocks are fewer
4) Bob’s face’s disappeared from the media
5) ministers now understand the word stress &unemployment
6) Grace Gucci has stopped it, hatichamunzwi.
7) Made MDC panic & fly to seek help from racist Donald Trump!
No wonder dictators like Robert Mugabe have thrived in Zimbabwe. When you have a people with such a shockingly low opinion of themselves, who have been crashed and ground into the dust all their lives and yet think nothing of it; it is easy to see why the corrupt, vote rigging and oppression will never stop.
The Zanu PF ruling elite have enjoyed absolute power, amassed wealth and enjoy lifestyles of unparalleled comfort and leisure. Last month’s coup, “Operation Restore Legacy” as the coup plotters called it, was about restoring the absolute power back in the hands of the Joint Operation Command, the Junta that has ruled the country with an iron fist all these last 37 years.
Mugabe, the leader of the Junta, had turned against the other thugs and wanted to hand over power to his wife and her G40 supporters. The rest of the Junta members had no choice but to point a gun at his temple and force the tyrant to resign. Other than that nothing else had changed, the Zanu PF thugs are still in total control and they have been flexing their muscle to punish the losing G40 leaders.
To get the national economy back on track, Zimbabwe needs to do something to end the endemic gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and to scrap all Mugabe’s foolish policies. Mnangagwa has already scrapped some of the more obvious and obnoxious laws such as the indigenisation law and has made a half-hearted go at ending corruption – half-hearted because he has gone after the corrupt G40 members but has allowed his own faction members go free. Worst still he has done absolutely nothing to implement the democratic reforms to end the country’s culture of lawlessness, political violence and vote rigging.
Zimbabwe is still a nation ruled by thugs, the removal of Mugabe alone did not transform Zanu PF from a ruthless dictatorship into a law abiding democratic party. A black mamba does not seize to be a deadly snake just because it has shed-off its old skin.
Whatever President Mnangagwa does on the economic front it will all come to naught as long as he has done nothing to end Zimbabwe’s reputation as a lawless nation ruled by thugs. He could not have had a more ominous start to his presidency – he is the beneficiary of a military coup and his cabinet is stuffed to the rafters with Zanu PF’s most cold-blooded thugs.
Indeed, if Mnangagwa was to make any foolish attempt to implement democratic reforms to ensure free and fair elections then one thing is certain Operation Restore Legacy mark 2 in which he too will be forced to resign. The Zanu PF thugs have just got taken their respective seats in the dictatorship and they are not going to risk being booted out of power in a free election.
It economic changes are the seed, it is great that President Mnangagwa is paying attention to ensure we have good seed to plant. But by failing to restore the rule of law and holding free and fair elections, he is failing to ensure he has good soil to plant the seed. What good is it to have the best seed if you sow it in rocky soil or in among the weeds and thorns?
Yes Zimbabweans had dreamt of freedom, human rights and economic prosperity during the fight to white colonial oppression but deep down in the hearts of hearts they never believed that Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs would make that dream come true. So when the tyrant turned their whole world upside down to deny them their freedoms, rights and very humanity the people were disappointed but not shocked, they half expected it to happen.
After 37 years of Zanu PF corrupt and tyrannical rule the people are very pleased Mugabe has gone. They contend with Mugabe’s departure and do not dare ask who is coming after him because they already know it will be another dictator, they do not expect anyone else would be shocked if he/she was anything other than another corrupt, incompetent and murderous thug.
“No more interface rallies!” said Gore! Such a deplorable lack of ambition is shocking from even one person but when this at national level one is left speechless. Zimbabwe is in this hell-on-earth economic and political mess because we have had the great misfortune of having corrupt and incompetent leaders in both the ruling party and the opposition but all because we have one of the naïve and ignorant electorate with zero ambition for themselves and the nation.
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After Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends sold-out during the GNU, we should have jettisoned the lot. We have not done so because we, the electorate, are weak. We have been schooled to believe that we need political leaders regardless how corrupt and incompetent they are and hence the reason we were stuck with Zanu PF for decades before we switched to MDC and got stuck with them too.
You are asking for a coalition of the opposition we already know has corrupt and incompetent individuals. What good will that coalition be to the nation?
We, the electorate, if only we will have the courage to getout of our shells and think like other human beings, should be demanding democratic reforms and end the stifling dictatorship. The new democratic dispensation will allow debate and democratic competition from which quality leaders will emerge.
There is no quality leaders at present but that is because the dictatorship does not allow quality leaders to emerge. The solution to the country’s teething problems is not with Zanu PF or MDC, we need to look for leaders outside the present political stage. If there was ever a time we need to think outside the box, it is now!
The trouble with these thugs the corruption, harassment, beating, rape, murder, vote rigging, etc.; these are perfectly normal things. These people are like pigs that will take out their food from the trough and eat it off the muddy floor – the mud is excellent seasoning! Whilst they are the ones holding the thick end of the whip there is nothing wrong with whipping. But what goes round comes round, they will find themselves on the business end of the whip and then they howl.
Our curse as nation is to have these thugs in power, they are dragging us all into their chaotic world and because they rig elections, we are stuck with them!
Given the sorry state the people of Zimbabwe are in today it is sicken that anyone who still believe that Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs “liberated” the nation! The nation has been crying to be liberated from these corrupt and murderous thugs!
What we have here is lack of ambition and self pride. Freedom and liberty does not mean the same things to some people as it does to the rest of mankind. People like Gore are like a wild animal that has lived in a cage for far too long you can open the cage it will never come out because the cage is the only world it knows. He is glorious happy that there will be no more interface rallies although he is not sure how long this will last before he is frog marched to some other rally! He will never think of demanding change to end the culture of political harassment, vote rigging, etc.
Are you suggesting anyone who took part in the struggle can not be a thug? Who is naive here!
Very true. The opposition is supposed to take advantage of this weakness in ZANU PF by strengthening the coalition and making sure the electoral reforms are implemented. ZANU PF and its military junta are desperate for legitimacy (a prerequisite for economic recovery), let it be made clear, it won’t come without free and fair elections. That’s the noise we expect to hear from the opposition campaign trail. Its time for majority rule.
That’s the trueth. MDC matakadya kare
What are you not sure about the “thugs” tag. The murder of Chitepo, Tongogara, Chris Ushewekunze, Border Gezi, Moven Mahachi, Zororo Duri, Paul Gunda, Elliot Manyika, Sydney Malunga, Lookout Masuku, Chindori Chiniga, Rashiwe Guzha, Solomon Mujuru, Chiadzwa villagers, the 2002 election & 2008 rerun opposition supporters, Gukurahundi and many more I cannot remember by name . We are not fools. We also know that the same army has been assisting Mugabe in elections. We don’t need the army to clear the way for Tsvangirayi, all we need is free and fair elections. Even the murderous NAZI thought they were going to rule forever.
A lot of sense.
The only thing that I am not sure of, is the thugs tag, which you are associating with members of the revolutionary parties. I say parties as Zanupf is a combination of Zanla and Zipra forces, who both fought in the struggle for the liberation of the country.
It is a known fact that the economy has been mismanaged and several reasons have been attributed to that, you have included most in your article.
However there is some inconsistencies in your facts, the army this time around, did not carry out any struggle, they just stopped the possible creation of a dynasty in the party and government by the Mugabe family.
As much as the people also participated in the removal of Mugabe, it is the army that removed him and put Munangagwa in his place. Please take note, it was also the army that removed Ndabaningi Sithole, from the leadership of Zanu and put Mugabe in his place. The same army formed the first government, as quiet a number of members of that cabinet were trained soldiers from the liberation movement. Nobody cared at the time, obviously time as moved on but the people that you are referring to are not that stupid. I will call you and the opposition naive to think that the army removed Mugabe to clear the way for Tswangirai, to get miraculously well and come and take over the government.
That is not good to happen in your life time, the people will vote Zanupf in the next few elections of which time you and me will be gone.
However the people are very clever and know exactly what they are doing, wake up and smell the coffee. You may be left behind.
For the last 20 years Zimbabweans has been calling for democratic change. We have even named the main opposition party Movement for Democratic Change, MDC, and the party had “Chinja”(Change!) as its rallying call and slogan. It is now clear that most people had no clue what it is exactly they wanted changed!
When Mugabe was forced to resign following the November 2017 coup, many people were beside themselves with joy. Some people heralded the day Mugabe resigned “Real Independence Day!” and they praised the coup plotters to the high heavens. And yet the coup had brought not even one democratic change because the Zanu PF dictatorship was still firmly in control.
The naive and gullible mob had already forgotten that it was none other than the coup plotters themselves who had imposed Mugabe and kept him in power against the democratic wishes of the same mob. All the Zanu PF thugs had done was replace the old tyrant with another one f their own liking, the ordinary Zimbabweans had no say in the matter.
The factional war in Zanu PF has torn the dictatorship apart, Zanu PF has never been weaker than it is today. This has created a golden opportunity for the ordinary people to demand the democratic changes the nation has been clamouring for these last 20 years. It is very sad and tragic that instead of pushing the reform agenda the people have been side tracked by the removal of Mugabe, mistaking it for democratic change!
“No more interface rallies!” celebrated Gore! No doubt President Mnangagwa will soon institute his own rallies just as he has introduced new Zanu PF regalia will his own face on it.
Instead of grabbing the opportunity to effect change we have wasted it on trivial matters! It is sad that we are a nation of the shallow, thick and slow!
Very good points there Wilbert.
WHAT STRUGGLE!