MDCA circus goes rural

I wanted the headline of this blogspot to read "MDCA fake attacks and the rural votes" but l said no. Why you may ask? The above headline is the most accurate to describe the drama and excitement that Nelson Chamisa and his MDCA hooligans are generating on social media.

 UN Rapporteur Circus

 The child president and his team has taken their circus to another level.We can say they have upped their childish game, and the result as usually will backfire when elections time come. The circus was for the UN Rapporteur benefit but she never mentioned it in her report. 

 Here is a party , which claims to be popular, but potraying itself unpopular by setting up its own fake roadblocks, fake car chases and fake gun attacks.It is as if the rural people are attacking them but to them it is "Zanupf elements" and "state security agents". 

 Of Herdboys and Cattle Crossing 

 I would like to inform the MDCA drama team that the rural areas are 100% Zanupf and for the record our state security agents do not miss targets. The MDCA team should also take note that herd boys and their cattle crossing a road does not constitute a roadblock. Just wait for the cattle to pass......and the catapult on the herd boy's neck are not guns too!!! The rural voter at all the places where the MDCA drama groups have staged false attacks and fake roadblocks will not vote for a fake party. 

 The Facts and Conclusion 

 There are ten electoral provinces in Zimbabwe and only two are have 80% urban population, that is Harare and Bulawayo. The eight other provinces are 80% rural. The MDCA have a lot of work to do rather than playing games.They have to cover 2000 wards in 200 constituencies and have at least 11000 election agents to cover every polling station.

 Can we have less noise on social media and less drama in the rural areas? If the circus continue ZANUPF will win with a bigger margin than before.

A summary of the UN Special Rapporteur Report on sanctions against Zimbabwe

 

The illegality of Economic sanctions

 The United Nations Special Rapporteur indicated and highlighted that unilateral economic sanctions against Zimbabwe are illegal. The USA and EU sanctions are a violation of international law and they violate the  human rights of all Zimbabweans and hence they must be lifted

Effect on the general population

 She went on further to point out that even the United Nations has stopped imposing legal economic sanctions or targeted sanctions because they affect civilian human rights. The USA and EU sanctions are targeted at all Zimbabweans and as a result, and the economy has not been performing well and the general population were being affected.

Forced Reforms

The Special Rapporteur said in her report that no nation must be forced to undertake any reforms based on sanctions. She indicated in her report that dialogue between international players and internal players must be done with consideration of rule of law, international law, human rights and without the use of sanctions.

Consequences of Economic Sanctions

The Special Rapporteur was of the opinion that sanctions are forcing economic and business players in Zimbabwe to look for opaque methods to bust the sanctions. These methods have led to the formation of cartels and corruption.

Basking in the Social media light

I believe to build a business empire, own an opinion (not a marketing budget)
The internet is home to some of my biggest haters.

Others think I am a genius.

While my cynics and fans aimlessly scroll through Twitter on a typical day, l jump on the cyber stage for fun just  to share yet another strong opinion:

Haters gonna hate. But likes and retweets from raving fans start pouring in almost instantly.

My blog just go show you the Zimbabwean politics: polarised and toxic!!

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Malaba's Saga and functions of a functioning government

 THE SAGA EXPLAINED

 I have been forced as a layman to comment on Justice Malaba's Saga. Yes, it is a saga where half baked lawyers and the perennial paid political activists have head a field day trying to sell a dead horse to the people of Zimbabwe. The High Court has literally told us that CJ Malaba was fired. Where on this round Earth has that ever happened? The High Court can not fire the Chief Justice!!! It has neither the authority nor the right!!

THE ANALOGY TO THE SAGA

My point as a layman and a citizen of this country is explained here figuratively, of course. If an employee of a shop is caught stealing. The police are called in and he is arrested,.The thief is sent to a competent court of law, where he will be tried and sentenced. Now here is the catch, he will be found guilty and sentenced to a suspended sentence (because he only stole a sweet!). Will he go back to work...it is the employer who will decide to fire him or accept him back. Do you see why the court can not fire the person? 

SEPARATION OF FUNCTIONS

 Now let me go back to parliament which the learned people call the Legislature. This is where the law that enabled the Executive to extend the Chief Justice term of office, was passed. It is the parliament right to pass the laws of this country. The High Court which is part of the Judiciary can not sit and vote on any bill in Parliament. The very act of the Judiciary trying to override the Legislature is unethical and unconstitutional.

CONFUSION OF THE FUNCTIONS

The Judiciary has not only tried to upend the Constitution of Zimbabwe but is acting like the Executive. The mechanics of implementing the law lies with the Executive. The Judiciary is responsible for the interpretation of the law. This separation of duties between the three arms of Government is well known even by us laymen. So why do we have lawyers acting like village or township idiots!!

 These crazy lawyers will not want us all to know is that the High Court set as a court of first instance on this constitutional matter. The judgement is not binding and hence the judiciary can not force either Parliament to repeal the amendment or cause the Executive to fire the Chief Justice. The final arbiter in this matter is the Constitutional Court.

IMPLEMENTATION OF  THE LAW

Final I would like all Zimbabweans to accept that we have a functioning and competent institution in the  Executive and Legislature. The separation of functions is important for a government to function. No one arm of government should interfere with the functions of another arm.

 Here is the catch. The High Court can not fire CJ Malaba. The High court can not appoint a new CJ. It is the sole responsibility of the Executive to hire and fire the CJ. The Executive must implement the laws of the country without fear or favour.

Let us go to Concourt!!!!

Of Sellouts , Convergence and Constitutionalism

 

The Sellouts

There are questions that we may ask as Zimbabweans. How is it that about 300 000 White settlers dominated 7 million blacks in Rhodesia? The answer is simple: Black folks helped them to sustain colonialism. These are our own sellouts our very own black kith and kin who can sell our country for a few pieces of silver like the biblical Judas. These are the cashvists , outright sellouts and those USA award-winning journalists. They do not care about our rights as a people, our constitution or our country.

Nelson Chamisa. Tendai Biti and Godwin with the then USA ambassador after the hearing in the USA Senate on the extension of sanctions in February 2018

The Hopeless Political Activists cum Journalists

This month we have had political activist cum journalist Hopewell Chin'ono make a lot of noise on social media. This earned him the attention of the public and he got his fair share of criticism on his Twitter and Facebook walls. Hopewell has gone too far even by his own rabidly misleading standards.  This journalist lies can not go unchallenged even now. Here is a black man and a Zimbabwean who vigorously defend racism and  Western evils like slavery, colonialism and sanctions. 

Convergence in Confusion

In April we have seen Nelson Chamisa apologising to his followers. He has been slapped hard by both common sense and common law. He indicated clearly that the 2018 MDC T primaries were not properly conducted. He stopped short of saying that the primary elections were rigged. I strongly believe that he has seen the 'convergence in his 'confusion', to borrow his words. I think he should go ahead and apologise to real MDCT supporters about how he stole the MDCT presidency. He has not been reading his former party's constitution.

Nelson Chamisa shaking President Mnangagwa hands on his inauguration as the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe

The Real Convergence

The emerging opposition party MDCT led by Douglas Mwonzora has an important role to play. It has to be a patriotic opposition. It has to leave the MDC Alliance positions and attitudes. The party must embrace and accept revolutionary politics. It has to decouple itself from foreign powers and influence. The role of a proper opposition party is to ensure accountability and transparency on governance issues. This is what I call the real convergence.

Constitutionalism and the Second Amendment

In April we saw the Legislature pass the second amendment to the Constitution. The amendment reflects the will of the Zimbabwean people. It also shows our political system is capable of renewal and adapting to gradual changes, as our nationhood matures. It is a fact that the opposition was against the amendment but democracy prevailed.

In conclusion, we are still one nation, we have our own enemies amongst us and the spirit of the Chimurenga lives on. We have a revolution to defend.....iwe neni tine basa!!

Threat of a Nation Address

 Much Ado About Nothing

The state of the nation address by Nelson Chamisa turned up to what we have expected. We have the usual empty but potential dangerous threat of public disorder and a call to his "stupid" followers to break the law. This has been said and been done before., and we expect nothing to come out of the "threat" of the nation address!!

 I would like to familiarise you with the famous English playwright William Shakespeare play called "Much Ado About Nothing". In this play, a couple is in love and a lot of drama and mischief is done to destroy the relationship. People are arrested, people are confused, some people are lied to in this well-written play. The twist in this play is that the couple will marry at the end despite all the chicanery and noises.

The play is parallel to the life of the MDC Alliance and its leader Nelson Chamisa. He started with nothing in 2018 when he declared himself the de facto leader of a non-existent party. He went on to contest the elections and come out with nothing.  He orchestrated numerous demonstrations and he comes out with nothing all the time!! Nelson Chamisa's political journey has been about nothing!!

Empty Threats

In his address, Nelson Chamisa is threatening a sitting government by telling that he is ready to govern and urge his supporters to follow what he calls a "New Zimbabwe Blueprint." The so-called blueprint is just a list of empty threats of pending and imagined civil disobedience. How can you be ready to govern if your party is haemorrhaging members?

 Nelson Chamisa actual state in his address that his non-existent party will create "pockets of resistance". These are empty but very dangerous threats. It is in Nelson Chamisa best interest to form a party and attract followers so that he can win the 2023 elections and govern.

Fading lies 

In his speech, he calls his former party the MDC-T, a government-controlled opposition and I believe his imagined party, the MDC Alliance, is independent of any form of control. Members are defecting and leaving the party in droves to ZANUpf and to MDC-T. The MDC Alliance is fading into the horizon. Nelson Chamisa permanent campaign of lies about a stolen 2018 election and illegitimacy of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has failed to impress both his handlers and his supporters.

Context and Content

Finally after all is said and done, the speech can be discounted to call for recognition and to attract attention. The content of the speech was to threaten the general populace by calling for civil disobedience. The context, in this case, was to create in our minds a " twin crises' of the COVID19 pandemic and to cover up the exodus of MDC Alliance supporters to MDC-T and Zanu-PF.

Zimbabwe awaits Mr Nelson Chamisa next list of threats!!

The Chimurenga counter-revolutionaries:

 I am just a blogger and I do not want to be confused with those award-winning journalists. I write to free my memory and to express the feelings and opinions of people around me. What l hear or read l always want to debate and interrogate its historical context. I believe nothing can happen for no reason....and reason rests in the past.

To put my idea to test today l want to explain why a USA award-winning journalist like Hopewell Chin'ono is unemployable in the United States as a journalist but can play James Bond against his own home country government. I want to explain why a whole Professor Alex T Magaisa spent his time writing anti-government diatribe packed with half-truths and has the cheeky to call it the Big Saturday Read. 

The reason for both men attitude towards the Government of Zimbabwe is historical. We should understand why Hopewell Chin'ono would like to attack Jah Prayzah on social media. We must understand why Alex T Magaisa would attack Morgan Tsvanirayi's son on social media. The two are not only seeking attention on social media but the attacks the reflects self-hatred seeded in them by white supremacists associations that sponsors them.

Hopewell Chin'ono hatred of the state emanates from his upbringing. He is the proverbial Zimbabwean born person who went to the diaspora after independence. He came back only to find out some of his contemporaries had moved on in life. The contemporaries had more money, political power and had fitted well in the post-independent Zimbabwe. You can feel the bitterness in his writing and documentaries.

Alex T Magaisa is just like Hopewell Chin'ono and more. Here is an academic who has been here and there, and he believes he knows it all. He comes back in 2009 to be a special advisor to the then Prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai of the failed Government of National Unity. Magaisa was a total failure at his task as Morgan Tsvangirai's advisor that the MDC literally broke up during his tenure. Magaisa had no option after MDC lost the 2013 election, but to put his tail between his legs and pack his bags.

What we have in the two gentlemen of Zimbabwe origin is the deep  Rhodesian narrative in their writings and conduct. How can a journalist like Hopewell Chin'ono specialise in espionage on behalf of people who have sanctions against our country? How have we allowed him to call sanctions-busting corruption? Why have we not questioned his sources of information? Is it not crazy that the USA will award him another prize for excellent journalism for his antics of regular visits to Chikurubi Maximum Prison?

On Alex Magaisa, I have noticed he spent some weeks writing his so-called  Big Saturday Read trying to discredit the land reform in general and the Chimurenga Revolution in particular. He rubbished the whole land reform program and even came up with a list of people he wanted to "expose".

 The likes of the two are what l call intellectual bankrupt academics.  These are people who believe that they have a monopoly of the knowledge of not only our political system but of the destiny of our nation. In reality, these are counter-revolutionaries who have sold their souls to the white supremacists. 

I believe this quote accurately describes the two to the point; "They are harbingers of hate, violence and intolerance. They are just misguided and violent thugs and hooligans who possess neither a solid ideological grounding nor a viable alternative to governance. They belong in jail"  said Obert Gutu on Twitter. I think following the #Demloot video every Zimbabwean knows where Hopewell stands and this dovetails with Obert Gutu's description above!!!

I have to go back to history to conclude this post. Chimurenga is our history. In the history of the Chimurenga revolution,  counter-revolutionaries have come and gone, our revolution has not stopped as the will of the people is supreme. You cannot stop a revolution by writing rubbish or by posting one-liners on social media. The people power lives beyond the pen and keyboard. It is out there with the electorate.

Finally, I would like to quote John Lewis, a disciple of Martin Luther jr and the USA civil rights activist who passed away in 2020 but had recently said, "Ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year. Ours is not the struggle of one judicial appointment or presidential term. Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part.'

Counter -revolutionaries cannot stop the Chimurenga revolution, they can only delay our progress!!!

COVID 19 for The Reckless, The Ignorant and The Innocent

 The Reckless

The Covid19 pandemic is reeking havoc through our communities and some of us has been reckless, deliberately spreading it by action, word and conduct. 

 

I was surprised by the comments of the MDC alliance leader Nelson Chamisa when the lockdown was announced. He made some reckless comments as he described the government call for level four lockdown as aimed against poor people.He goes further to say government should have consulted stakeholders before imposing the lockdown and reading between the lines he see the lockdown as political motivated. The statement reflects not only Nelson Chamisa's naivety but may actual be reflection of the common and uninformed sections of our people. The recklessness is born out of ignorance of the disease which we are dealing with. 

Law enforcement agencies has been reckless in allowing people to pass on roadblocks without letters of authority. They have been reckless to allow illegal passenger vehicles to pass in exchange of bribes. The passengers have been reckless to board unsafe and unsanitary vehicles. We have been a reckless nation and we must pay the price. We will pay the prices for these action by the deaths of our family members and our fellow citizens.

People have ignored government call to stay at home.People are not wearing masks. People are not practising social distance or observing the physical distances in crowds...some people are refusing or avoiding sanitisation.People are just being recklesss and we as Zimbabwe will pay the price of this recklessness.

The Ignorant 

There is a lot of misinformation about Covid19. A quick browse on social media posts and the ignorant content will surprise you. There are wild stories of the origin of  COVID19,  there are thousands of homemade remedies and even fake stories of survivors. It is this ignorance which is helping to spread the virus 

It is true that crowds or any gathering are super spreaders of COVID19.  We have  ignorantly held parties,conducted private lessons, attended funerals and even held music shows , like the Chilspot guys from Mbare. It is this level of ignorance that government must target all its  efforts.

Law enforcement  agencies must intensify their efforts in the best way they can in order to bring this disease under control.

The Innocent 

Lastly we have the innocent children amongst us. We should protect our children from the disease. Schools are super spreaders and teachers who are conducting lessons of any kind must be prosecuted. Parents who send their children should be prosecuted, as they are no different from the Mbare trio.

 

In conclusion we have to change our attitude towards this disease, we have to treat and see the disease as an enemy. We need to hide from it...by staying at home ....masking up ....and let us give it the respect it deserves. Let us fear it and let us fear death. Covid19 is a death sentence! !