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The disastrous reign of ZANU PF in Zimbabwe is now a regional crisis affecting the whole of SADC. Fearing peer review and the regional call for accountability, the Rogue Regime in Harare is now fomenting chaos by actively participating in the rigging of elections across the SADC region.
So politically radioactive is ZANU PF that everything it touches turns to chaos.
A short while ago, SADC and the world witnessed ZANU PF members casting ballots for Mozambique's FRELIMO in broad daylight. Such blatant vote rigging and other glaring irregularities have sparked a wave of violent protests by opposition parties and their supporters in Mozambique.
Unsurprisingly, Zimbabwe the current SADC Chair, led by President Mnangagwa, has hurried to prematurely congratulate FRELIMO on its electoral victory while the country burns. Heavily armed soldiers in Mozambique have indiscriminately opened fire on protesters, killing some and wounding many.
The army's response is reminiscent of the August 1, 2018 killing of Zimbabwean civilians during the post-electoral protests that followed the disputed outcome of general elections that gave President Mnangagwa his first illegitimate term in office.
- There is diminishing hope for stability in Mozambique and other SADC member states where ZANU PF contamination has been reported.
- Recent reports of Namibia awarding ballot printing to a ZANU PF apparatchik are worrisome.
- Botswana's former President, Ian Khama has raised alarm, pointing to possible rigging by ZANU PF in favour of incumbent President Mokgweetsi Masisi.
- South Africa's watershed elections in May this year were also reportedly massaged by ZANU PF, the self-made Regional Rigging Consultancy.
For ZANU PF, these regional shenanigans are an existential necessity as SADC standards on free elections are too high for the rogue regime to uphold. The greatest goal for ZANU PF since its formation as a breakaway from ZAPU in 1963, is power retention, preferably in a one-party state. Inspired by the likes of Khmer Rouge and the Taliban, ZANU PF is now a regional cancer that will corrupt the whole SADC region if left unchecked.
Zimbabweans tortured by economic collapse and repressive rule will continue fleeing from Zimbabwe to settle in other parts of the SADC region where conditions are relatively normal. The economic ruin bedevilling Zimbabwe will soon spread to other parts of SADC as economic refugees from Zimbabwe multiply.
As for the populace in Zimbabwe, the greatest impact of ZANU PF misrule will remain in the form of terrifying maternal and infant mortality rates. Independently verified statistics on Zimbabwe's institutional maternity challenges paint a grim picture of a country precariously on the brink.
{This article has been written in support of the two Petitions being presented in London on the 24th October 2024 to the Prime Minister, the FCDO and the UK Government in General. All {opposition parties and Other Human Rights Groups will be delivering these to the door of 10 Downing Street at 13:30 and 14:30. Details and updates of these petitions can be found at this link - including the ability to read and download them after the 24th. https://zexit.org/zexit/24th-october-petitions } All involved are extremely grateful to President Nkomo for taking the time to to write this lucid article.
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The precursor of our economic ruin.
The recent devaluation of our new currency by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe sent shock waves across the country and confirmed our fears that Zimbabwe’s inept government is effectively flying us on auto-pilot.
Under the sleepy eye of President Mnangagwa, RBZ Governor John Mushayavanhu is free to dice with the fate of Zimbabweans, eroding confidence in a new currency that was hardly trusted from the outset.
At a time when global gold prices are firming, the devaluation of the ZiG clearly exposes the lie that the currency is backed by our country’s gold reserves in a vault somewhere.
The truth of the matter is that we have no national gold reserves, as the mineral has been looted into private hands by the Gold Mafia, which we all saw in the exposé aired by Al-Jazeera in June 2023.
For civil servants and other workers earning their wages in the ill-fated ZiG, buying power has been halved in the blink of an eye with no warning or immediate cushioning.
Ironically, some of the workers affected by the kneejerk devaluation are ordinary staff at the RBZ itself, showing that the institution like the rest of the ZANU PF-led government, does not care about anyone, not even the labourers propping up the regime.
Needless to say the devaluation has spawned a succession of calamities.
- Retailers have hiked their prices in local currency to hedge themselves from further uncertainty and possible losses.
- Whatever little trust there was between the citizenry and the monetary authority has evaporated due to the RBZ Governor’s clueless manoeuvre.
- It would have been tragic enough if that was all we had to bemoan today but the madness at Munhumutapa Building knows no bounds.
While the nation was still coming to terms with the impulsive ZiG devaluation, the cabinet was busy brewing another shocker.
The government through utterances made by Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Minister Jenfan Muswere, announced that landholders who benefited from the agrarian reforms that began in 2000, could now transfer or sell their land to indigenous Zimbabweans.
Nothing could be more criminally motivated than that.
Just harboring such thoughts could be considered deviant and criminal in a normal society.
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Independence 2024: Zimbabwe's broken social contract
Fellow Zimbabweans, we once again commemorate the 44th anniversary of our hard-won independence. It has been 44 arduous years since the Union Jack was lowered and handed to the current King of England back in 1980, when he was a young prince.
The flag of Zimbabwe flew on April 18, 1980, marking the end of colonialism and paving the way for black majority rule. That was the plan but as fate would have it, shadowy men harbored different blueprints for a one-party state they would wantonly step on more than 20,000 bodies to establish.
The dust of our first Independence celebrations had hardly settled when the ZANU government led by Robert Gabriel Mugabe embarked on a genocidal, quasi-military operation that became known as Gukurahundi. From 1982 to 1987, hapless citizens were subjected to state sponsored violence that can only be compared to Pol Pot’s Cambodia in the 1970s. Our people suffered instead of enjoying the fruits of independence. Matabeleland and Midlands Provinces were cordoned off and turned into killing fields by the North Korean-trained 5th Brigade.