By Patrick Guramatunhu | ”It has been a privilege to chair the All Party Zimbabwe Group in Parliament and speak up for that beautiful country now in the grip of @edmnangagwa destroying it just like Mugabe,” twittered retiring Labour MP Kate Hoey.
THANK YOU KATE!
You spoke for the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans who have been systematically denied the freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful vote and even the right to life by this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship.
Zimbabwe is a beautiful country with great economic potential and a hard working people. The reality on ground tells a different and sorry story because the country has had the great misfortune of being ruled by thugs.
Ever since Zimbabwe attained her independence in 1980 the country has been ruled by corrupt, incompetent and murderous Zanu PF thugs who have denies the people their freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country and even the right to life. The people have risked life and limb to elect MDC on the ticket they would implement the democratic reforms to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. They had the golden opportunity to implement the reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU; they failed to get even one reform implemented. Not one! And ever since the MDC leaders have participated in flawed and illegal elections for selfish political gain.
Ms Kate Hoey, the EU, the Americans, the Canadians, the Commonwealth and many, many other observed last year’s Zimbabwe elections and they all condemned the elections as a farce. Ms Hoey argued the British government, the EU and the international community to punish the Mnangagwa regime for rigging the elections. It was none other than Zimbabwe’s own opposition politicians who undermine this call!
There is no doubt that by participating in the elections, the opposition gave the flawed and illegal elections some democratic credibility. And boy oh boy; the opposition politicians were falling over each other in their enthusiasm to contest. There were 23 contestants in the presidential race alone!
The election process was so flawed that 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora were denied the vote (Mnangagwa was declared the winner with 2.4 million votes)! ZEC even failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll. But none of these flaws and illegalities dumped the opposition candidates’ enthusiasm!
MDC leaders and their fellow opposition politicians were after the few gravy train seats Zanu PF gives away as bait and they did not care how flawed and illegal the process happened to be. Having participated in the flawed and illegal elections, knowing all along Zanu PF would rig the elections, Chamisa and company had no choice but to accept the elections as credible.
Yes, E D Mnangagwa is destroying Zimbabwe just as Mugabe before him had done and with the active help of the corrupt and incompetent Nelson Chamisa and his MDC friends! MDC leaders have been running with the hare and hunting with the hounds for over 20 years now and hence the reason Zimbabwe is still stuck with this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship.
People like Kate Hoey have fought hard to stop tyrants like Mugabe and Mnangagwa destroying Zimbabwe. But if the truth be told, this is our fight; we have allowed tyrants to ride roughshod over our hopes and dreams and it is our responsibility to now put an end to this madness!
“I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves,” said Jesus.
Zimbabwe is in a real serious economic mess with unemployment a nauseating 90% and basic services like health care all but completely collapsed because of forty years of corrupt and tyrannical bad governance. To get out of the mess Zimbabweans must be shrewd to see something as obvious as MDC leaders are selling out hence the reason the party has failed to implement even one reform in the last 20 years. And it is naive to expect the party to do so now!