Of Consensus, Democracy and Confusion

 Where is the democracy in the CCC outfit??

The election is a democratic process of choosing a person to get into public office. The process here in Zimbabwe starts typically at the grassroots level. Nelson Chamisa has come up with a weird and ambiguous way of coming up with candidates. The process which he calls "consensus"   is a way of imposing favoured friends as election candidates. The imposition of candidates is a sure way to lose an election. 

Our questions as Zimbabweans to the CCC are;
 Where is the democracy in this secret process of "consensus"? 

Who is the democratically elected leader of the CCC?

Where are the primary elections of aspiring members of parliament?



Bribing The Leader And Forgetting the Voter

The opposition party or cult,  the CCC, has sitting Members of Parliament paying $1000 to the self-imposed Nelson Chamisa to get their place in the next election. 

The question here is, is this a democratic process? Are the same MPs going to pay the voters in their constituency? The CCC approach to the election process is undemocratic and it will cost them voters and they will definitely lose the elections.

The MPs have bribed their leader and forgotten the people who are going to vote for them.




The Parties and Primaries

The Zanu-PF primaries are the true democracy at play. Let the masses elect their leaders, young, middle-aged or old. The crux of the matter is the ability of the chosen candidate to perform. The general public must question the way the CCC alliance is handling the election process. Those shadowy NGOs and fake civic organisations must comment on the going on in the CCC.

Youth Vote And Generational Renewal

This notion of thinking that youngsters are the alternative leadership is misplaced. The Zanu-PF primaries indicate that a party can undergo generational renewal using the available democratic processes. A good leader will always be identified by the electorate.


The youth vote is not the monopoly of the opposition parties as seen by the youth participating as voters and candidates in the Zanu-Pf primaries. The CCC must look at itself if they need to be relevant and appealing to the youths of Zimbabwe.

We the people of Zimbabwe are all for the youth. The future of the country and the revolution is in their hands. Let the youths play a role in all our democratic processes.

Zimbabwe is forever!!

Notice

The above blog post was previously published on 20 April 2018 on this blog

Zimbabwean Gold Mafia Exposed

The so-called Jeezera series on the so-called Gold Mafia of Zimbabwe has come and gone. The "expose" that Al Jazeera Investigative Unit (I-Unit) copied and pasted from what  I believe is an old CIA plot generated by the US Embassy. It is a tall tale and a web of falsehoods.

The people involved in Zimbabwean Gold Mafia are a group of people employed by the Zimbabwean government to export gold on the government’s behalf. It is a scheme to bust the USA and EU sanctions placed on political leaders and government entities².

 LOOTING OR SANCTION BUSTING

The so-called Gold Mafia have one goal:  Sanction Busting! Here is a government that is under sanctions that have been declared illegal by the United Nations. The government is buying gold from licenced dealers, who in turn have bought it from artisanal miners.

The licenced dealers sell their gold to Fidelity ( a wholly-owned government company run by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe). The Reserve Bank with concurrency of the Zimbabwean Treasury(Ministry of Finance) and the Cabinet ( Office of the President and Cabinet) can sell the gold to anyone. The three institutions have the people of Zimbabwe's mandate to sell gold, without consulting the USA, UK or the Al Jazeera Investigative Unit (I-Unit). 

The process of selling our gold is legal and above board except if you are a USA citizen because the Zimbabwean Government act is at odds with the ZIDERA sanctions bill made in the USA senate in 2000.

TALL TALE or NGANO DZATSURO NAGUDO

The Al Jezeera Investigative Unit has told us a tall tale. The very act of having a phone call without a face at the other end of the line is a sign that they are selling us the people of Zimbabwe a lie. In this age and hour where we can Skype, Google Meet or Zoom the clever guys at Al Jazeera would like us to believe that we are still in the 1970s. In Shona, we say "Ingano dzaTsuro naGudo" .....a  tall fairy tale!!

HOW TO JOIN THE GOLD MAFIA

The Al Jeezera Unit should have had a fifth episode of how a Zimbabwean can be part of the Gold Mafia. It would have been helpful to the doubting Thomases among us. 

It will have gone like this: you can buy a claim or go to the nearest river, I recommend Mutare  River and take your sieve and start work. If you get your gold point, sell it to a licenced buyer. Get your money and be part of the gold Mafia.

For those with money, you can apply for a gold buying licence from Fidelity, buy gold from makorokoza in the above paragraph, process the gold and sell it to Fidelity. Get your money and you are now part of the Gold Mafia.

I am waiting for the Al Jeezera Investigative Unit to come out with Episode 5 of the Gold Mafia. I know they can not investigate with half-telephone conservations on this one.

Source: Conversation with Bing, 14/5/2023(1) BREAKING: Al Jazeera Investigative Unit’s Zimbabwe Gold Mafia .... https://www.zimeye.net/2023/03/02/breaking-al-jazeera-investigative-units-zimbabwe-gold-mafia-documentary-unleashed/ Accessed 14/5/2023.

(2) How a ‘Gold Mafia’ is looting Southern Africa, washing dirty cash. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/23/gold-mafia-looting-southern-africa Accessed 14/5/2023.