Wilbert Mukori | “President Emmerson Mnangagwa has shown a shocking popularity amongst Zimbabweans living in South Africa as almost ten thousands Zimbabweans turned up to meet him in what was meant to be a business briefing of an expected 100 people,” reported Paul Nyathi.
“The Diaspora has traditionally been an opposition stronghold with Morgan Tsvangirai enjoying unfettered support which has now been shaken by Mnangagwa’s visit.”
Why are you shocked?
The same Zimbabweans had remained loyal to Tsvangirai even in the face of the mountain of evidence that MDC had sold-out during the GNU by failing to get even one democratic reform implemented. Tsvangirai & co. had proven beyond all reasonable doubt that they are breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent and many Zimbabweans still remained as loyal to MDC as before. This proved that their loyalty to Tsvangirai was not founded on ideological or admiration of Tsvangirai’s leadership qualities, these were clearly lacking here. This was just blind loyalty a blind man who give to whoever happen to be holding his hand.
Many Zimbabweans, both in Zimbabwe and in the diaspora, have come to the conclusion that the GNU did not deliver the free, fair and credible elections, as MDC leaders had promised; they have never figured out that it was because MDC had failed to implement even one democratic reform. They have never asked Tsvangirai & co. what happened and the MDC leaders were shrewd enough never to offer any explanation.
The only trouble with having blind followers is that it will not take much to persuade them to baby dump you and follow someone else. They are like branches of a willow tree, the whole branch swings one way then the other even in the lightest breeze.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that President Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies have done to deserve their new-found popularity. Zanu PF is a party of ruthless thugs and the events of the last three years have shown just how ruthless these thugs are. Mnangagwa, Chiwenga and the rest staged the coup that forced Mugabe to resign not out of concern of the long suffering masses but as the last throw of the dice to wrestle power from Grace Mugabe and her G40 faction.
Yes, Zimbabweans everywhere were overjoyed to see the back of Robert Mugabe, regardless of the circumstances of his demise. By to herald Mnangagwa and his thugs as heroes for staging the coup is to miss the very important point that they are the ones who had imposed Mugabe on the nation all these years. Worse still, the coup was about removing one dictator but only to replace him with another.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that would lead anyone to belief Zanu PF is no longer a party of thugs just because Mnangagwa and not Mugabe is the new leader. Mnangagwa has moved swiftly to ruthless silenced his G40 faction rivals. He has kept the same oppressive laws and practices he himself had perfected when he was Mugabe’s henchman. He has been quick to promise free, fair and credible elections although he has not implemented even one democratic reforms to make this possible.
The Zimbabweans who thronged to hear President Mnangagwa in SA are no different from the thousands of ordinary Zimbabweans, up and down the country, who marched in support of the coup on 18 November 2017. They are like a slave who mistakes the replacement of one slave-master for another with his freedom! Zimbabweans are equating the departure of Mugabe with the end of corruption, vote rigging and tyranny and arrival of a new Zimbabwe of competent government in which all their individual freedoms and human rights have been restored. The penny will drop when they realise the corruption, vote rigging, etc. of the Mugabe days have not gone away and it is business as usual!
One only hopes that the penny will drop soon enough before the people make the mistake of giving President Mnangagwa and his cronies the mandate to rule in next year’s elections. If next year’s elections are free, fair and credible then the people must vote Zanu PF out of office because that is they one chance to make sure future elections are free, fair and credible.
If Zanu PF are allowed to stay in office and the party’s ambitious economic recovery agenda start to falter as did Mugabe’s “Gutsa ruzhinji!” (Mass prosperity!) the party will resort to the same dirty tricks of intimidation, harassment, vote rigging, etc. to stay in power. No doubt, the Zimbabwe electorate, the willow tree branches, will swing back to the supporting Morgan Tsvangirai, from one slave-master to another, blundering from pillar to post!
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Former US Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Chris Dell, reported back to Washington that Morgan Tsvangirai “was a flawed and indecisive character,” after meeting the guy a few times. And yet here we are, after decades of case after case of MDC corruption, incompetence and selling out many of us still continue to vote for this lot.
We have risked life and limb to get MDC into power so they can implement the democratic changes the nation has been dying for. They have failed to get even one reform implemented after 17 years in politics and many golden opportunities to do so. It has yet to occur to many of us, especially the MDC supporters, that there is something wrong with the opposition, they are simply not up to the task.
If it had been up to Ambassador Dell, the minute he had concluded that Tsvangirai was not up to the task, there is no doubt the nation needed competent and decisive leaders, his next course of action would have been go get a competent leader. The few Zimbabweans who have come to the conclusion that MDC leaders are corrupt and incompetent, after decades of agonising over this, have failed to connect the final dots necessary to conclude we need competent leaders. For the Ambassador making that decision was logical and natural for him but for these Zimbabweans that is a bridge too far.
Man is a creature of reason we are told but clearly not all man. Those nation that have showed that man is indeed a creature of reason have prospered and those whose minds have remained impermeable to reason as rock to water have languished in poverty and despair.
The decision to dump Tsvangirai and follow Mnangagwa comes naturally with some of these MDC supporters. Where one would expect even a capuchin monkey to make the right decision, you can be certain that these MDC empty heads will agoinise over it for years and even then still get it wrong!
Zanu PF is a party of thugs only the naive and gullible are being fooled into believing that a Zanu PF has changed into a law abiding party by staging a coup. Since the coup Mnangagwa, just to confirm, we have thugs running the country has been hunting down G40 members as if they are the only ones who are corrupt. People like Chiwenga has his C&M mansion which not even generals in the US Army can afford!
Mnangagwa has promised free and fair elections and people can see that he has not implemented even one democratic reform. Anyone with eyes can see that the regime is going through its usual vote rigging gears already.
The world does not want to do business in a country ruled by lawless thugs; Mnangagwa and his cronies are lawless thugs.
you are stuck on the opposition strategy of free and fair. unfortunately that no longer delivers for the opposition. you will still lose because Mnagagwa has the momentum whether its by trickery like you say or genuine support. it does not matter people will vote him in. You are stuck on coup coup when African union said it was dialogue not a coup. Sadc also . The UN itself said it will support Mnangagwa govt. Hamuna nyaya imi. Now with the opposition call for sanction ma zimbabwe havachada zve chi MDc chenyu. I told you before machinja acho tisu tirikusupporter Munangagwa on the forum. heyo evidence in south africa wave kuti aaa people have been hood winked. Iwe ndiwe unoziva wega isu tose we are hoodwinked? I think it is you who is blind not us. Tsvangirai is past his sell by date
President Mnangagwa has clearly fooled the ordinary Zimbabweans with all these promises of jobs, jobs and jobs. He was in SA telling the world “Zimbabwe is open for business!” Sadly, very few, if any at all, will be taking him on that offer because business people are a lot more shrewd that the naive and gullible Zimbabweans who march on 18 November or who thronged to meet him in SA.
The reason why business people have shied away from Zimbabwe for decades is because Zimbabwe has become a lawless nation ruled by thugs. Only a first class idiot like Mnangagwa and his cronies would believe Zimbabwe is now a law abiding nation just because the regime has replace one dictator with another. The change came about as a result of a coup – what an ominous start!
The price of bread and batteries has gone up, the business people are voting with their feet! The penny will drop in the empty heads of all foolish enough to believe Zanu PF has change and that it will bring about meaningful economic recovery. As the doubt sets in Zanu PF will react by rigging the elections. There will be no free, fair and credible elections next year. At that point the people will finally realise that Zanu PF dictatorship led by Mugabe is just as corrupt, incompetent and oppressive as that led by Mnangagwa.
“Why must people vote Zanu PF out?” you asked.
They will be voting Zanu PF out, if they have a free vote, because they will be desperate to end the economic meltdown the nation is facing and the only way to achieve this is by removing the regime from office. If the elections are not free and fair, which is a certainty, the people themselves or SADC will have to pressure the regime to accept the implementation of the democratic reforms. The bottom line is Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown with the 90% unemployment level, etc. is socially and politically unsustainable!
It is not enough that Mugabe has gone, the Zanu PF dictatorship itself is doom!
Mukori people will not vote zanupf out merely because Mukori says so.Why must people vote zanupf out? people will vote it in because they want what zanupgf is selling. Mukori your problem is assuming the opposition has a strategy to beat Mnangagwa. Free and fair is not enough for success. Mnangagwa is now more popular. MDC will lose free and fair or not.