Zimbabwe Light

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party has said when it gets into power it will overhaul the registrar-general’s office, a key government department long blighted by accusations of inefficiency and corruption.

Yes Mr Prime Minister, you will not doubt overhaul everything “when it (MDC) gets into power”.  When exactly is MDC going to get into power! Or is it that you think Mudede, Chihuri, Chiwenga, Mugabe, Jabulani Sibanda, everyone in the Zanu PF dictatorship are all working their tails off for an MDC victory!

Mr Prime Minister, if you had implemented the democratic reforms when you were supposed to – you had five years to do so for Christ sake – then all this mess and chaos would be behind us! We had a unique opportunity to change the system of government for all time and you, Prime Minister Morgan Richard Tsvangirai wasted that historic opportunity chasing women of ill repute!

“We will reverse indigenisation laws and create empowerment laws for the majority of the people of Zimbabwe,” said Tsvangirai.

I thought MDC had spent the last three days deciding on the party’s policies to put to the electorate in the coming elections. Instead of clear policies we are back to semantics instead of Zanu PF’s “indigenisation” laws the nation will have “empowerment” laws; the nation knows the former laws and but do not have the foggiest idea what the latter laws say.

Last week MDC was talking of democratic “alignments” as contrast to democratic reforms called for in the GPA. The party has yet to explain what the difference is although they insist there is a difference.

Tsvangirai bemoaned “lack of transparency in the distribution of wealth in Zimbabwe”.

And yet he is the one who gave the Zanu PF Chiadzwa diamond operations a clean bill of health and campaigned to have the ban to sell the diamond lifted. The ban was imposed for human rights violations and for lack of transparency in the mining operations.

Minister Biti is on record saying government is not getting any revenue from the sale of Chiadzwa diamonds. And yet Mugabe and his cronies reported earned $ 2 billion in 2012 alone. Worse still, the diamond wealth is certainly going to be used to finance Zanu PF terror machine in the coming election!

Tsvangirai’s breath taking incompetence is the one thing that has saved the Zanu PF dictatorship from being dismantled and now it is now flexing its dictatorial muscles – harassing, arresting people right, left and centre. The beatings, rapes and, God forbid, murders and yet to come!

“The prime minister (Tsvangirai) raised the issue at the Monday meeting with Mugabe. The president conceded the utterances by some of the commanders undermine the prospects of free and fair elections,” an official told the Zimbabwe Independent. “Mugabe also expressed concern over the service chiefs’ conduct and said he would soon summon them to discuss the issue.”

The country is in this political mess because Tsvangirai was naive enough to think the nation could still have free and fair elections without implementing any of the democratic reforms. Well it is now clear that he was hopelessly mistaken and now what he is proposing will not change anything.

It was Mugabe who has politicized the security services for the sole purpose of keeping him in power. What does Tsvangirai expect Mugabe to tell the security chiefs; “I do not want to remain in power anymore!”? How naive!

Zimbabweans need to have a serious debate on how what we need to do to get the country out of this political and economic mess. Anyone who continue to following all this nonsense from Tsvangirai and MDC only serve to show the nation is not yet serious about finding a way out!

Prime Minister Tsvangirai’s answer to the security chiefs who have called him a sell-out and worse is “let’s agree to disagree respectfully”.

“There are those who are pursuing chaos scenario, those who are shouting on top of their voices that ‘never should we allow this and that’ – let them. But that will not be the will of the people,” the PM argued.

The chaos scenario is upon us because the Zanu PF dictatorship is alive and well and it is the one ruling the land!

PM Tsvangirai has had the chance to implement the democratic reforms; SADC was on standby to pressure Mugabe to ensure the reforms are implemented. The PM did not even get one reform implemented. If he had done so all this charade with security chiefs and reporters at Herald House would not be taking place.

Instead of implementing the reforms, PM Tsvangirai chose to negotiate with Mugabe and Zanu PF; MDC would allow the Zanu PF dictatorship to continue to exist unchanged in return MDC leaders would be granted seats on the gravy train.

MDC leaders were allowed to enjoy the spoils of power; the PM himself was given a $ 4.5 million house for starters. Of course, the PM was naïve to believe for a minute that Mugabe and the Zanu PF dictatorship would ever consider MDC leaders as their equal much less ever allow any upstart like him, as far as they were concerned, take the throne!

Those who choose to dine and wine with the devil need a long spoon! In this case the PM has just discovered that his meal had been seasoned with a lot more than the usual salt and pepper. The Chardonnay has not been totally agreeable to our goat-herder cum Prime Minister!

Since the PM sold his very soul and the nation’s future and hope to the devil; it is impossible to feel sorry for the treacherous idiot!

Tsvangirai is quoted as saying he would “be willing to run a coalition government, giving Cabinet places to Zanu-PF politicians”.

Tsvangirai dismissed the possibility of yet another “disputed election (that) would lead to violence and instability on the grounds that such an outcome would lead government losing international finance.

“First, such an alternative would foster an immediate government financing crisis. Second, there was broad cross-party and wider popular support for the idea of moving the country forward and away from the political paralysis that has fostered so much economic hardship in recent years,” he said.

This is typical of Tsvangirai, he does not know what he is talking about. If there is going to be violence, it will be before the voting and not after.

The international community has now accepted that the coming elections are not going to be free and fair. It is Zimbabweans themselves who have elected to accept and constitution and electoral process where it is impossible to expect anything else but an undemocratic process. Mugabe and Zanu PF will have to be outrageously violent for the international community to step in again.

Most Western countries have given up on democratic changes in Zimbabwe and have already started removing the sanctions against Mugabe. Beside Mugabe can still count on Russia and China for support. There will be no financial crisis in Zimbabwe.

What “broad cross-party” consensus has Tsvangirai and MDC ever obtain from Mugabe and Zanu PF? The latter have always dictated everything they wanted and the former have always conceded to the demands. Mugabe dictated the Copac constitution and Tsvangirai has accepted it and even had the audacity to claim it was an MDC’s child.

Even if Tsvangirai had not admitted that he would want to share power with Zanu PF even if he won an outright majority only the very naïve thought he would do anything else. MDC has already conceded a lot of economic and political muscle to Zanu PF by accepting the undemocratic and weak Copac constitution. And now the dictatorship is assured on ministerial positions whatever happens.

Of course if Mugabe’s terror and vote rigging machine was to achieve an Zanu PF majority; no one in MDC will get a seat in Mugabe’s cabinet! Not that any of them would have any no say than they do now anywhere!

PM Tsvangirai still maintains the Copac constitution is a democratic constitution.

“I say this because having a new, democratic Constitution was at the centre of our founding aspirations,” he told his party members when he opened the MDC’s policy conference in Harare.

No amount of evidence will ever make he accept that Copac is but a weak and feeble constitution that will never deliver free and fair election and a new Zimbabwe. Nothing!

It is interesting that this article was on the same page of New Zimbabwe as the one “Harare Police ban door to door campaign”. Sadly, the significance of the two articles was completely lost to PM Tsvangirai because if he was not so incompetent he would have realized long before now that one of his greatest blunders the Copac constitution has come back to haunt us all. How can anyone still talk of a “democratic constitution” when the Police has just banned campaigning?

He really does have the foggiest idea what he should have been looking for in writing the democratic constitution asked for in the GPA. None! He will go to his grave blissfully unaware that the Copac rubbish he sold to the nation gave the Zanu PF dictatorship the license to continue with the political repression as before!

After 33 years with a murderous tyrant in State House the last thing the nation wants is to replace him with one of the most incompetent politicians in the nation’s history!

A highly places source told S W Radio Africa that Cabinet wants the voter registration exercise, blighted by numerous problems, to be started afresh!

This is but just another attempt by this useless parliament to extend, by hook and by crook, its utterly useless life beyond the legally permissible five years.

Voter registration is not a tasking rocket science activity? If this useless GNU has failed to accomplish this simple task in five years what reason is there to believe they can now do it five more years, much less five months?

The politician’s work is never done; but this is absurd!

These utterly useless buffoons seek only to extend their time in office to increase their fortunes, which is the only thing they have all successful done these past five years. They seek to post pone the day many of them know they will join the multitude of the nation’s 90% unemployed. The coming elections are set to be a dog-eat-dog affair for holding public office is now the confirmed route to unimagined riches with the list effort beyond getting elected.

We must now demand that elections must be held at the earliest day possible if for no other reason than to see many of these idiots join the unemployed, a fate their incompetence and selfish greed has condemned so many others!

I say to this parliament what Oliver Cromwell said to the equally useless “rump” parliament of his day: “You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately …… Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”

After the new constitution is assented and becomes the new supreme law of the law; Mugabe as State President will have the power and authority to name the date for holding fresh elections without having to consult Tsvangirai. The new constitution will supersede the Lancaster House constitution and it is the later that recognizes the GPA.

Zanu PF will be pushing for the acceptance and application of the new Copac constitution in word and in spirit from now on; contrary to MDC and SA’s repeated calls for more reforms to be implemented.

South Africa’s deputy foreign minister Ebrahim Ebrahim described MDC’s calls for more reforms as “legitimate. ZANU PF strategist and politburo member Jonathan Moyo weighed in dismissing the remark as “outrageous and offensive”.

“Ebrahim and his lot should know that it is not Zanu PF that says elections are due in Zimbabwe when the life of Parliament automatically ends on June 29 but the Constitution of the Republic of Zimbabwe,” Jonathan Moyo said. And that is only the warning shots to SA!

MDC should have carefully considered what they were doing before approving the Copac constitution, ask the people to approve it in the referendum and then having it passed “unanimously” in both houses of parliament. They did not because they are an incompetent lot. They are always closing the stable long after the horse has bolted!

The trouble with you MDC supporters is that they have their heads buried in the sand and refuse to see the reality that PM Tsvangirai is incompetent and is leading the nation into a deadly trap. They are no different from the Zanu PF supporters in that regard except for the very subtle difference that Zanu PF supporters have their heads buried in Mugabe’s backside!

The bonds tying Mugabe and the security chiefs go a lot deeper than “choicest farms” and “­diamond concessions” Mugabe gave them. The bonds are made with the blood of the over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans the regime has shed in the last 33 years.

We all know of the age old adage, one must never change his horse in mid-stream; but this is a lot more than that. Mugabe and his fellow murderous chiefs know they will hang for all the innocent blood on their hands. They have avoided the hangman’s rope so far by sticking together and making sure Mugabe and Zanu PF retains political power at all cost.

The biggest price the security chiefs will pay for switching their political allegiance to Tsvangirai is that Mugabe and Zanu PF will lose political power. Tsvangirai has promised the security chiefs that they can keep their present jobs and all the loot they have accrued over the years. The single and most important thing Tsvangirai cannot offer the security chiefs is any guarantee that they will not be prosecuted for their murderous past. If Tsvangirai was to give any such guarantees; everyone knows the guarantees would be worthless!

If the security chiefs desert Mugabe now; then they all know they will hang separately!

ZAPU President Dumiso Dabengwa warned on Friday that the armed forces chiefs remain a potential source of instability, which could still throw Zimbabwe and the region into chaos after the elections.

Dabengwa said reforming a security sector notorious for its human rights abuses and distrust of leaders other than Mugabe, will require significant political will.

The security sector has held the AK4 rifle to the nation’s temple ever since 1980. Dr Dabengwa was Minister of Home Affairs for donkey years and he knew the Police abused the State machinery for the benefit of Zanu PF. Why did he not do something to end this then? He should stop pontificating about something we all know about and in which he, of all people, has played his dirty part!