Thursday 18 January 2018

First Lady joins philanthropist bandwagon - her river of crocodile tears had me fooled, I tell you N Garikai

It is one thing when people like Bill Gates of Microsoft or Richard Branson of Virgin Planes and Trains, whose source of wealth has a traceable paper trail, become generous philanthropists. It is quite another when an impoverished nation’s Zimbabwe’s filth rich ruling elite join the bandwagon dishing out all manner of freebees from food stuff to brand new vehicles!

 FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa yesterday donated 100 tonnes of an assortment of goods to two orphanages and hospitals around the country. The goods were supplied by the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ). Handing over the goods to representatives of Manhinga Orphanage and Mutoko Leprosy Centre in Harare yesterday, the First Lady applauded GMAZ for answering her calls to help the less privileged in society.

As the nation going into the election period we are going to see a hell lot more freebees being dished out at every political meeting and rally accompanied by the usual promises to do even more, create 2.2 million new jobs, etc. if the party wins the elections. There three aspects to this freebee culture Zanu PF has cultivated in its 38 years in power:

1)     With 72.3% of the population living on US$1.00 or less a day the First Lady and her fellow Zanu PF members sure have their work cut out for them; there are millions of hungry mouths to feed out there. It should be noted that GNAZ donated the goods here and the First Lady is claiming all the credit; that is normal in Zimbabwe. The regime does not tolerate anyone being seen as making a difference to the long-suffering people’s lives, the regime has created the economic meltdown and the millions of destitute and Zanu PF believes it has the exclusive right to exploit the poor for its own selfish political gain. All help to the poor must be channelled through the regime or nothing.

2)     Zanu PF’s freebees have strings attached, are blatant vote buying schemes. President Mnangagwa gave the Chiefs the first batch of new trucks everyone knows is to bribe them to ensure rural people in their areas vote for Zanu PF. The billions of dollars in freebees to be dished out to people during the rallies will be given to those certain to vote for Zanu PF although the regime used taxpayer’s dollars or else cash looted from the rampant corruption that has being going on for decades to buy the goods.

3)     The most sickening aspect of this politicized freebee culture Zanu PF has fostered on the nation is that with each free handout the regime makes a big song and dance about it to underline the total dependence of the poor on the regime’s rich and powerful who then demand blind political loyalty in return. Zanu PF’s political strangle hold on the rural voters is an enigma to those who fail to understand the rural people are nothing more than the regime’s captive slaves who debt to the party starting with liberation war and every little favour from Zanu PF adds to the mountain of debt a lifetime servitude will never repay.

"I feel very humbled when organisations like GMAZ and others step up to support me in fulfilling my passion of extending a hand to the less privileged in our society and the foodstuffs which you handed to me today are my answered prayers. I know this truck will not be enough to cover all the provinces as I had envisioned, but it will make a difference and I am truly grateful for that.

"I accept these foodstuffs with much gratitude and appreciation. This truck will not even stop at my offices or my house. From here it is on transition straight to the beneficiaries, to the hospital kitchens because patients deserve to eat quality food for them to recover quickly," said the First Lady.

Yes, Mama, in a nation of 14 million in which 72.3% now live on US$1.00 or less a day one truck load of free food is but a drop in the ocean. It is the 38 years of Zanu PF inapt, corrupt and tyrannical rule that has force millions of our people into abject poverty and utter hopelessness and despair. We all know you are using the food donation and your fained concern for the poor to campaign for votes and so extend Zanu PF’s rule. If you truly cared then why have you done nothing to stop your husband rigging elections, using violence and even stage military coups to impose this corrupt and tyrannical regime on the nation whose rule is the root cause of the economic meltdown and the mass poverty.

The suffering of the 72.3% living on US$1.00 or less a day will not end because of one truck load of donated food stuff. Their suffering will end if we have a competent government that will address the root causes of the economic meltdown - gross mismanagement and rampant corruptions. We need to implement the democratic reforms and allow free, fair and credible elections, the only sure way to elect a competent government.


First Lady, Auxillia Mnangagwa’s attention seeking and token philanthropic zeal is a self-promoting gimmick for selfish political gain. Her river of crocodile tears is fooling no one!

5 comments:

  1. "We must have reforms in order for those elections to be free, fair and credible in line with the constitution. Reforms are fundamental otherwise that election can't be possible and we can't have that," Chamisa added.

    This is the kind nonsense we hear from these MDC idiots for a number of reason:

    1) MDC had the golden opportunities to implement the reforms they failed to get even one reform implemented in five years of the GNU

    2) They have never said what these reforms they now talk about are

    3) They have refuse to contest any by-elections since the July 2013 rigged elections after passing a “No reform, no election!” resolution. They have since said they will contest the elections regardless.

    4) By participating in flawed election, the MDC have given the process credibility

    The MDC and all the other opportunistic opposition politicians who continue to participate in flawed Zanu PF election do so out of greed. They have lost all political credibility and the international community must ignore them. The international community must declare this year’s elections null and void and help force the implementation of reforms the country needs desperately as its first step to meaningful economic recovery.

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  2. President Mnangagwa urged Zimbabweans to not just offer criticism to government, but also offer solutions for the good of our national anthem.

    "Let us move away from the "them and us mentality" but work together for the development of the country, after all, we are all Zimbabweans and together we can," he said.

    It is you and your Zanu PF thugs who are holding the nation to ransom by refusing that the de facto one-party, Zanu PF, dictatorship you fostered on the nation had not worked and will never work. You booted out Robert Mugabe and a few of the G40 faction members, rebranded the dictatorship a “new dispensation” and you think can fool the world into believing things have changed.

    Read my lips: NOTHING HAS CHANGED!

    The same corrupt and incompetent Joint Operation Command Mafia thugs who have ruled and ruined the nation these last 38 years are still in power today. The nation was stuck with Mugabe for 37 years because the Mafia thugs rigged elections, used violence including murder to eliminate his political opponents and even stage military coups. The same Mafia thugs are still in power today and have even better reason to ensure no-regime-change – they have their dirty past to keep secret. The threat by Mugabe to boot them out of power and reveal their dirty past has shaken the scandals like a full-scale political earthquake.

    Only another coup will remove Mnangagwa and his Mafia thugs out of office, no one wants to do business in a country where political change is only possible at gun point!

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  3. @ Neil Ford

    “Zimbabwe’s new President Emmerson Mnangagwa offers a break with the past at least in the economic sphere. In the political realm, it is much more uncertain whether Zimbabwe has simply swapped one autocrat for another, or whether Mnangagwa’s presidency will prove a bridge to democratic government at elections expected to be held in September,” you wrote.

    You are “uncertain whether Zimbabwe has simply swapped one autocrat for another”; there is now, just two months into Mnangagwa’s presidency a mountain of evidence that the country did indeed swap one tyrant for another. To start with Mnangagwa was Mugabe’s chief enforcer of all the regime’s vote rigging, political violence, looting and military coups; he studied under the foot of the tyrant for 37 years and learned all there is to be learned. Mugabe, for his part, kept Mnangagwa as his right hand for all these years because of the later ruthlessness.

    Since his swearing in, President Mnangagwa has stubbornly refused to implement even one democratic reform.

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  4. @ Tinashe

    Mnangagwa knows that no one worth his salt believed any of that bull that the November coup was anything but a coup. SADC leaders' position on coup is very clear - it is an act of treason and therefore his regime is illegal, period.

    President Mnangagwa knows that he can prove he is committed to rule of law by holding free, fair and credible elections. He is visiting SADC countries to assure them that he will and yet he has not implemented even one reform SADC countries themselves wanted Mugabe to postpone the 2013 elections to implement. In other words, he is just wasting time and money trying to sell another bulls***t hen's teeth story everyone can see is nonsense.

    SADC leaders know that if they allow Mnangagwa to get away with holding another meaningless elections in Zimbabwe then they know that the next regime change in Zimbabwe will have to be another coup, mass street protest or both! This time the violent change may be bloody and will suck in many other countries in the region.

    SADC leaders were warned two years ago to about doing something to solve Zimbabwe's crisis by the Kofi Annan group of elders, for example. The November coup would have been avoided if they had acted decisively. The regional leaders have another bite of the cherry, they MUST make this one count, they MUST declare the flawed elections null and void.

    There is nothing strategic about wasting everybody's time selling them bulls**t and dragging the nation deeper and deeper into this hell-hole Zanu PF land us into. And people like you Tinashe must hang your heads in shame for cheering these Zanu PF thugs along in the hope they will give you scraps of the looted wealth! Shame on you! SHAME, SHAME ON YOU!

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  5. SADC leaders wanted the 2013 elections postponed to allow the democratic reforms to be implemented. Of course, they were very disappointed that Tsvangirai and company did not heed their sound advice. In the end, they gave their thumbs up to the rigged elections that followed; they had no choice, in the circumstance. If Zimbabweans wanted the elections to go ahead regardless of all the evidence they flawed and illegal, there was little SADC leaders could do but to go along.

    So Zimbabwe has gone from a blatantly rigged March 2008 election; Zanu PF thugs, led by none other than Mnangagwa himself and his Joint Operation Command Junta, ordered a six week recount of the vote to reduce Tsvangirai’s 73% vote to 47% and force a run-off. The June 2008 run-off saw some of the worst cases of election wanton violence the world has ever seen, again directed by Mnangagwa and his Junta.

    SADC leaders stepped in and demanded the formation of the GNU which they then tasked to implement a raft of democratic reforms to ensure the blatant rigging and wanton violence is never repeated. As we know Tsvangirai and his MDC friends who were tasked to implement the reforms sold-out. Mugabe bribed them and they kicked reforms into the prickly pear thicket. At the end of the five years of the GNU, not even one reform was implemented.

    “Takatuma bete kumukaka!” (In Tsvangirai, we had entrusted the cockroach to fetch milk – it cannot resist the temptation and gorge itself with the milk so much so it drowns in it!)

    SADC leaders stepped in once again and tried to rescue the situation by asking the elections to be postpone to allow the reforms to be implemented but their advice was ignored. Zimbabwe went ahead with the July 2013 elections which Zanu PF blatantly rigged.

    In November 2017 Mugabe, who was an illegitimate president since the July 2013 elections were rigged, was himself booted out of office after a military coup, staged by the usual suspects, Mnangagwa and his Junta. Of course, Mnangagwa is an illegitimate president and so too is his regime.

    SADC leaders must now step in and act decisively and end this political chaos in Zimbabwe. Mnangagwa must implement the democratic reforms the GNU failed to implement BEFORE holding the elections. If he does not do so, he has failed to implement not even one reform so far, then SADC must simply reject the election and force the country to finally implement the reforms!

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