Well done UK!!!

Zimbabwe has had the great misfortune of having leaders with very little or no common sense much less with qualities worthy of Nobel Prize!

When UK’s outgoing Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Ms. Catriona Laing, told the Zanu PF regime that “the playing field for the recent elections were not level” both sides knew the full import of that statement. The British were the last nation to hold out on condemning the elections giving the Zanu PF regime hope it will get away with yet another rigged elections. 

Zanu PF regime hopes it will get away with yet another rigged elections. The British had even started negotiation with IMF, WORLD BANK, Paris Club and all the other major financial institution to enable Zimbabwe to access the much need funding to kick-start Zimbabwe’s economic recovery. By acknowledging that Zanu PF had rigged the elections the British were telling the regime they would not be helping the regime with the cover-up and, worse still, access the much needed financial assistance.

What the British have just done on Mnangagwa is no different from what the South Africans did on Ian Smith in 1979. Zimbabwe’s economic situation is bad enough already with unemployment already 90% and most basic services such as clean running water and health all but collapses it will only get worse without the much needed financial assistance. This is economical, socially, politically and morally unsustainable!

Tomorrow, 2^nd October 2018, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa will chair his government’s first cabinet meeting post the British pulling out the plug on the regime. Will Mnangagwa have the common sense to admit the game is up as Ian Smith did when he faced a similar situation? Or will Mnangagwa ignore the political and economic reality and damn the consequences and dig in, as other tyrants and dictators like Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, etc. have done?

My guess is Mnangagwa; being the ruthless, corrupt, vote rigging and murderous tyrant he is with very little if any at all, common sense; will ignore the British bombshell and sail on to the bitter end, “until death do us part!”

Mnangagwa and many of his fellow Zanu PF thugs’ position is very simple: it is either they are allowed to rule Zimbabwe or the country will go to the dogs!

Zanu PF has ruled the country for the last 38 years already and the country is in a severe political and economic mess. The idea that the party must still be allowed to drag the whole nation even deeper into this hell-on-earth is an outrage. But unless the people of Zimbabwe demand an end to this political outrage then Zanu PF will turn this country into another Germany or Iraq as Adolf Hitler or Saddam Hussein respectively did.

Zanu PF rigged the July 2018 elections thus confirming Zimbabwe is still a pariah state ruled by corrupt vote rigging thugs. The country will not have the desperately needed economic recovery because investors and lenders alike do not like to do business with thugs.

Zanu PF rigged the elections and is, per se, illegitimate. The regime must step down now and allow the appointment of an interim administration to organise the nation’s transition back to legitimacy.

Mnangagwa’s gangster mentality will be to hold on to power to the bitter end; it is incumbent on every Zimbabwean to make sure he is not allowed to do this! Mnangagwa will never win Nobel Prize for anything, still, it is not too much to ask him to have the common sense to finally admit Zanu PF’s reign of terror is over.

By Jeff Kurai Chakanyuka