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MORGAN Tsvangirai . . . decision to extend Mugabe's tenure will be resisted HARARE - As we draw a close to what has been for many a very miserable year it gives me great pleasure to predict a glimmer of hope in an otherwise even more?murky prediction for 2007.  I am aware that the year 2006, like the previous seven years, was particularly difficult. But you remained resolute in the struggle to express yourselves out of the national crisis.  We endured long queues for basic commodities; suffered the indignity of shortages of transport, electricity and fuel; sacrificed our entire savings to enable children to attend schools and witnessed the loss of a loved one through HIV/Aids.    We all know that since independence in 1980, and in particular the last seven years, we have been subjected to the most trying circumstances. Many are without food.  We can’t afford to send our children to schools. Hospitals have been turned into avenues of death. An HIV/Aids pandemic is causing havoc, making Zimbabwe a nation with the highest number of orphans in the world.      The challenge facing us today is to devise an effective mechanism to save Zimbabwe from further haemorrhage. Wherever we are, let us commit ourselves in earnest to saving our nation.  What can we do individually and collectively to advance the struggle for change, for a new beginning, and for a new Zimbabwe?    As we approach 2007, let us look back and use our experiences to help the people to help themselves and to determine their own destiny, against the numerous odds imposed by Robert Mugabe and the Zanu PF dictatorship.      Safeguarding our freedom depends on what we are prepared to do, at home and in the Diaspora.   It is quite obvious that we are in for a rough ride into 2007, especially when faced with the consequences of a Zanu PF defend-power project, imposed onto the people after the February 2000 referendum and the June 2000 parliamentary election.      The brutal assault onto the people; declaration of war against the people; the flagrant display of dishonesty, the skewed policies and the propaganda we have been subjected to over the last seven years have hit us hard.         Only the dishonest and those politically connected to Zanu PF are surviving the onslaught.?Southern Africa faces a major challenge in 2010. We are hosting the World Cup.    International attention shall thus be focused on all of us as a region as we receive visitors, international business and attend to the needs of millions of soccer followers.    We cannot afford to be enmeshed in the political emotions associated with elections at a time when the entire focus of humanity shall be on the SADC region through sport.   Fellow Zimbabweans, it is clear that Robert Mugabe and the ruling Zanu PF elite have elevated themselves to the position of super-patriots and decided to extend their rule against the national sentiment    Mugabe and Zanu PF rig elections; usurp state institutions for political expediency; beat up Zimbabweans who disagree with the style of governance and destroy a country full of promise.   The decision to extend Mugabe’s term of office, already contested after the 2002 Presidential election, is major slap in the face for all Zimbabweans.    We are in a serious dilemma as we have experienced and continue to live with an unprecedented economic meltdown and political uncertainty, all authored by Mugabe and his cronies.   We desire a normal society where decisions that affect the entire nation cannot be a preserve of a political party.      All Zimbabweans must discuss and agree on the efficacy of any proposal whose political implications affect the nation at large. Zanu PF has no right to impose its will on all of us.   You are aware that I challenged Mugabe’s legitimacy in 2002 following your mandate. Despite his refusal to open up institutions of state to resolve pertinent concerns arising from the challenge, I wish to thank Zimbabweans for remaining steadfast and committed to the resolution of the national crisis.      What Mugabe and ZANU PF have now done is the final straw that breaks the camel’s back. We cannot continue to watch Mugabe and his cronies play dangerous games with our lives.  The decision to extend Mugabe’s already controversial tenure shall be resisted. Together with our civil society partners and all democratic forces, we pledge to provide the necessary leadership to deal with this tyranny.    We are not going to let this affront on the people’s destiny go unchallenged. We shall consult you and follow your guidance in this crucial matter.     As we enter in one of our bleakest festive seasons and into the New Year, may I assure you of my unwavering commitment to continue the fight for a lasting resolution of the national crisis.  What came out of the Zanu PF conference is a major blow to Zimbabwe’s quest for a new beginning and to an end to uncertainty around Zimbabwe’s future.     Morgan Tsvangirai, PRESIDENT

 

Mugabe term extension madness: Tekere

National Report
http://www.fingaz.co.zw/story.aspx?stid=2163   
       
Kumbirai Mafunda Senior Reporter

FIREBRAND ZANU PF founder member and veteran nationalist Edgar Tekere has described as “madness” ZANU PF’s decision to extend President Robert Mugabe’s term to 2010.

Tekere, nicknamed “Twoboy,” said ZANU PF’s resolution at its conference in Goromonzi last weekend to combine the 2008 presidential and the 2010 parliamentary elections was a clear indication of President Mugabe’s insatiable appetite for power.
“Ndokupenga ikoko. Matricks okuda kufira pachigaro. (That’s madness. It’s a trick to stay in power for life.) He has already overstayed and the party and the country has suffered,” said Tekere in a telephone interview from his Mutare home.
Tekere was readmitted into ZANU PF at last weekend’s conference, but was barred from occupying any position in the party for five years.
Tekere, who became the first person within the ZANU PF leadership to publicly oppose President Mugabe’s one party state plan in the late 1980s, said he felt let down by his liberation war colleague. He claims to have struggled in his bid to woo President Mugabe into ZANU PF in the formative years of the party.
In an outburst likely to be seen as a case of sour grapes after being banned from elective office in ZANU PF for the next five years, Tekere said: “I sweated to form that party (ZANU PF) and to persuade him (Mugabe) to join it (ZANU PF) from Nkomo (Joshua).”
The former ZANU PF big-shot also scoffed at claims that the ZANU PF presidency had set strict conditions for him to meet before he could assume any office in the party.
“That party is more of my party than it is for Mugabe. Vamwe vacho ndiwana mafikizolo handimbozivi kuti vakabva nokupi (some of these people are Johnny-come-latelys, I don’t know where they came from),” Tekere said.
Pressed to explain his quest to rejoin ZANU PF considering that the party has not made any reforms since he quit it in 1988 to form his own party, the former Mutare Urban legislator said he will bare his soul on January 11 at the Harare launch of his memoirs, which he has titled A Lifetime of Struggle.
“I would prefer you talk to me on the 11th of January. But you can predict what I am going to say,” Tekere said.
But the political maverick’s dig at President Mugabe will baffle the ruling party’s senior leadership, especially supporters in Manicaland who laboured to back Tekere’s desperate bid to be re-admitted into the ruling party.
Tekere was sacked from ZANU PF in October 1988 because of his strong opposition to President Mugabe’s attempts to establish a one-party state. He formed the Zimbabwe Unity Movement (ZUM), which made an impressive attempt to dislodge ZANU PF during the 1990 general elections.
       

Welcome to the Internet, President Mugabe
By Geoff Nyarota
http://www.thezimbabwetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=208
Three unrelated events over the past two weeks have underscored the disdain and cavalier approach of Zimbabwe’s ruling elite towards press freedom issues.

In a truly democratic environment freedom of the press entails the guarantee by a government to news-gathering organizations of free access to information and the freedom to publish such information without let or hindrance. The same freedom is also extended to members of the public to access that disseminated information. With such access to information from various sources the public is better equipped to make decisions on matters that affect their lives.

For any situation approximating the above to be achieved in Zimbabwe the media landscape requires a complete overhaul, especially in the government’s media empire which has long ceased to inform in the public interest. The cause of the poor performance and the attendant decline in public appeal are no mystery to those charged with running government’s newspapers and electronic media. But many of them are appointed, not on the basis of their recognized talent or experience, but on their assumed propensity and obsession with presenting to the world a positive image of government at all costs

Leo Mugabe, the honourable Member of Parliament for Makonde, is an extraordinary business entrepreneur. He tries to make a success of the most unlikely ventures, including where he has no known skills. His term of office as ZIFA chairman was controversy-ridden. He is the chairman of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Communications. Above all he is a devoted nephew of President Robert. His mother, Sabina, the President’s only sister, is also a Member of Parliament, while his brother Patrick Zhuwawo, serves in the capacity of Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Development

In his capacity as chairman of the parliamentary committee Leo Mugabe had occasion recently to present before the august House his committee’s report on the 2007 budget allocations to the Ministry of Information and Publicity.

There has been much turbulence in this ministry during the course of 2006. No sooner had the ministry lost its minister, Tichaona Jokonya, in rather tragically peculiar circumstances, than the deputy minister Bright Matonga was embroiled in serious allegations of grand-scale sleaze when he was chief executive of the Zimbabwe Omnibus Company, Zupco. The case which has already claimed the scalp of the bus company’s former chairman, Charles Nherera, appears set to bag another scalp that of controversial Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo.

Notwithstanding his current ignominious circumstances, Chombo was appointed to the Zanu-PF politburo over the weekend. President Mugabe has an uncanny predilection with appointment to the upper echelons of the government machinery officials who sooner or later tarnish the image of our country through their involvement in allegations of corruption.

To ensure that such acts of corruption are kept under wraps, government has gone out of its way to render Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Ltd, the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) and New Ziana through gross interference in their editorial operations. Government media outlets have become discredited, unpopular and, therefore, totally unprofitable. Successive ministers of information have, each in their own unique style, attempted to turn these once profitable organisations, which government owns and controls, into commercially viable operations. Successive CEOs at ZBC, in particular, have discovered to their chagrin that one cannot turn around the fortunes of a media organisation, unless there is minimum government interference.

Leo Mugabe told Parliament that New Ziana, Transmedia Corporation (whatever that is) and the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation should join hands to start a "visual raw footage distribution service" to international broadcasters. This initiative would maximise their revenue earnings, he said.

I suppose Mugabe realizes that the said visual raw footage must be of a quality that is appealing to the said international broadcasters. Considering that the appalling output of ZTV has driven thousands of foreign currency-strapped Zimbabweans to import expensive satellite dishes, the issue of content rather than any proposed merger, becomes the major challenge faced by those trying to turn around the fortunes of the state broadcaster.

Mugabe told the House that such merger would enhance Ziana’s news-selling status, while earning foreign currency for its own recapitalization.

Obviously driven by what I can only perceive as a burning desire to countermand Leo Mugabe’s apparent concern for success in the operations of state-run media, the acting Minister of Information, Paul Mangwana, addressed a meeting of his own a few days after Mugabe tabled his proposal. Mangwana summoned state media editors to his office. He instructed them to ensure positive reporting on the major political issue of the day, Zanu-PF’s controversial and acrimonious project to dovetail the presidential and parliamentary elections in 2010, as well as on the just passed Zanu-PF congress.

Those who attended Mangwana’s meeting, along with permanent secretary, George Charamba, say Mangwana expressed grievous concern that the said harmonisation of presidential and parliamentary elections was not receiving positive coverage in the state media.

The Herald, which is arguably the most sycophantic of the state-owned newspapers, and its editor Pikirayi Deketeke, equally arguably the most loyal and "patriotic" of the editors, are said to have been singled out for heavy censure. They had become overly-critical of the government and engaged in what the minister described as unnecessary controversies.

By way of example the acting minister is said to have suggested that the harmonization story could definitely benefit from flavouring with ingredients such as examples from Zambia and other African countries which hold presidential, parliamentary, mayoral and council elections concurrently.

In simple terms, what Mangwana was telling the assembled editors is that the dirty linen of government or Zanu-PF should never be laundered in public. Like his predecessors, he obviously does not subscribe to any theory of transparency or accountability in governance. But it is such issues as the acting minister’s high-handed approach to press freedom issues and the content of discredited media outlets, and not necessarily packaging and marketing strategies, as proposed by Leo Mugabe, that should be the focus of any ministry official with a genuine interest in the welfare and viability of the state’s media empire.

Given the lackadaisical state of Zimbabwe’s media affairs, any heavy criticism of editors or their papers has a bearing on the performance of the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Information, who has an inordinate amount of influence over who is appointed to edit a newspaper. Therefore, stung by Mangwana’s denigration, Charamba is reported to have rushed to the rescue of The Herald and Deketeke.

He apparently pointed out to Mangwana that too much state interference had led many Zimbabweans to seek alternative sources of information, "particularly hostile online newspapers". So Charamba knows the truth after all.

The government has effectively transformed Zimpapers, ZBC and New Ziana into a well-oiled machinery for the dissemination of its own and Zanu-PF’s propaganda. Government controlled newspapers as well as radio and television are skillfully employed to attack perceived opponents of government, the so-called enemies of the state, both domestic and foreign. Government’s foes are rarely featured in the state-controlled media, except in a negative manner.

What Mangwana clearly has in mind is a return to the situation aptly captured back in 2002 by the Media Monitoring Project of Zimbabwe (ZMMP). The ZMMP declared that ZBC was guilty of bias and distortion "like never before" in the run-up to the presidential polls.

A ZMMP report pointed out that between December 1, 2001 and March 7, 2002, in the run-up to the presidential election, ZTV carried a total of 402 election campaign stories in news bulletins monitored by the organisation.

Of these, an astounding 339 (84 percent) had favoured Mugabe, the ruling Zanu-PF candidate. Only 38 stories (or a paltry nine percent) had covered the activities of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), but "virtually all of them" were used to discredit the party and its candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai.

What Charamba would do well to explain is why Zimbabweans in large numbers are attracted to what he calls hostile online newspapers. He could launch this exercise by asking President Mugabe why he seems to have now joined the migration of readers away from the state-owned media to the allegedly hostile online and regular independent newspapers published in Harare.

Mugabe revealed to bemused members of his central committee last Thursday what, to all intents and purposes, had been a closely guarded secret about his preferred and regular sources of news and information about Zimbabwe. He did this while lambasting Zanu-PF officials for feeding online and other publications with information.

"There is information, sorry, misinformation….daily on the Internet, or in The Financial Gazette and The Independent and so on," he said. "We try to put it in a way that disguises it a bit, but it’s obvious that it’s a colleague of ours who has written it or sent the information to the Independent or the Standard."

I had no idea that the quest for the truth and a realistic appraisal of Zimbabwe’s current situation has now driven Mugabe to frequent the Internet. I felt a sense of conquest, as managing editor of The Zimbabwe Times.com, at this realization. The editors of New Zimbabwe.com, Zimonline.com, Zimdaily.com, The Zimbabwean.com, Zimobserver.com, Zimbabwejournalists.com, Changezimbabwe.com, Zimnews.com and other Zimbabwe-linked online services, too numerous to list but all spawned by Zimbabwe’s harsh media environment, must have felt the same.

The government has effectively driven scores of journalists, both Zimbabwean and foreign out of the country. Government spin doctors have tried in vain over the past few years to convince citizens that independent and foreign journalists are motivated by a malicious and unpatriotic craving to paint a negative picture of or to discredit our still beautiful but once prosperous country.

The foreign journalists have since returned to their own countries - the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and various other countries that had correspondents based in Harare. Likewise, many Zimbabwean journalists were forced to leave the country of their birth. They found refuge in South Africa, the UK, the United States and Canada.

One would expect that, with the departure of these two groups of objectionable or veritable enemies of the state, there would be celebration in official circles and that Zanu-PF would live happily ever after. But, as events over the past two weeks have illustrated, this was clearly not the case.

First, Mugabe grants an exclusive interview to a Canadian television station. While the "patriotic" reporters at ZBC look on in mortification as their beloved President shares with the Canadians his innermost thoughts about his retirement. The Canadians then make a copy of their exclusive interview with the President of Zimbabwe available to the local hacks.

"You are not good enough to interview me," seems to be Mugabe’s underlying message.
As if that were not perplexing enough, it also transpires that Mugabe has virtually followed the now exiled Zimbabwean journalists all the way to the Internet where they have set up online publications.

One would expect the President to be content with reading The Herald and watching ZTV, like other patriotic Zimbabweans. But apparently he surfs the net in search of online newspapers.

Then he flips through the pages of The Financial Gazette, The Zimbabwe Independent and The Zimbabwe Standard.
Curiously, he does not mention The Daily Mirror or The Sunday Mirror.
It is not the attractive packaging or effective distribution stratagems proposed by Leo Mugabe that will achieve self-sustainability in the government’s media empire. It is the accuracy of fact, the news value and the credibility of content that draws the likes of President Mugabe to the Internet, where news articles are crafted away from the self-serving fulminations of Mangwana.

Welcome to the internet, President Mugabe!             

ZIMBABWEAN PETITIONS US PRESIDENT!

Here is the petition link
 
http://www.gopetition.com/online/10585.html

Here is the story that started it.
 
http://www.zimdaily.com/news/126/ARTICLE/1160/2006-12-11.html
 
Since then, I have spoken to two Congressmen who are willing to help us. But that is as far as my little mind has gone. I could use help.

 
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Vote of thanks from a Brother!

Dear Rve Hove,

Thanks for all the communications.

Your efforts and contribution as a patriotic Zimbabwean are an example to our generation. When things can where we are in Zimbabwe most people will simply throw in the towel. Thats when we need the most strong willed and inventive people of our nation, and I find you in that rare category.

Keep on inspiring our desperate nation. By the way I have a new weeky column on Zimdaily.com, the "Candid Politics" column. Kindly link any of my articles to your blog.

Keep well and keep contact.

Many thanks.

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URGENT CALL FOR DIALOGUE!

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We dont have to agree or come from same political pursuasion!!,...but our fundamental mutual interest can only be solved through dialogue!!! please the petition and put the national agenda on the world stage. Dialogue is the right way to go whether you belong to mdc , zpf, and all the pretenders who run their parties like privated limited companies and form them only when fired by zpf!! meaning they realy zpf in disgruntled politicians skin!!

The west and its intelligencia are advocating for talks with Syria and Iran and have normalised and indeed expanded relations with Libya and enjoy cordial ones with rich Russia who like Zimbabwe have phenomenal natural resources!

IT IS IN OUR FUNDAMENTAL MUTUAL INTEREST FOR DIALOGUE NOT BLACKMAIL SANCTIONS TO TRIUMPH, THE TRIUMPH OF DIPLOMACY LEAVES EVERYBODY HAPPY AND HUMAN!!!

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DANIEL FORTUNE MOLOKELE: THE VIRTUAL NATION

Zanu PF's worst Christmas present ever • Ian Douglas Smith: the interview • A tale of two great men • Zinasu must celebrate 10 years in style • ODE to a liberator turned dictator • Zim trade unions: we shall overcome someday • The shameless hypocrisy of NAM • A tribute to Fidhas Muchemwa • I, too, have a dream • Zimbabwe needs a new breed of heroes and sheroes • Moment Mutambara shook Tsvangirai's hand • First hurdle cleared towards Diaspora conference • Living a dream • Madhuku third term tragic, disturbing • Working towards a Zimbabwe diaspora conference • Thierry Henry, Zimbabwe and Freedom • Happy birthday Zimbabwe • The birth of a Diaspora baby By Daniel Fortune Molokele Last updated: 12/18/2006 14:19:24 AS THE dust begins to settle in the aftermath of yet another annual Zanu-PF conference, it is trite to note that the most poignant outcome of the event is the fact that it was a huge non-event for the Zimbabwean majorities. Indeed, the conference was at the very least a missed opportunity for the party to come up with a strong consensus in terms of the way forward on the political and socio-economic crisis affecting the country. Instead, as the weekend event unraveled, it became increasingly clear that the party gathering had no serious intent at all to address the real issues affecting the nation. It is therefore most unfortunate that the party chose to invest their meager intellectual and strategic planning resources on a rigorous exercise of self-preservation. What is even more tragic is the fact that contrary to some media reports, there was not even a direct focus at all on the so-called 'succession' debate. If anything, the issue was effectively eliminated from the agenda as soon as Mugabe announced nonchalantly in his speech that there was still no job vacancy at the country's highest office. His speech had the net effect of setting the tone for the actual intended major outcome of the conference, that is, the endorsement of Mugabe's selfish plans to extend his tenure in office. The glass ceiling of the so-called debate was effectively reached when the party's Chairperson, John Nkomo announced at the end of the weekend non-event that the conference had resolved that there should be no debate at all on succession because there are still no vacancies at the top. The mere fact that his remarks were greeted with wild applause by the thousands of the cheering delegates also underlined the party's determination to invest its energies in this lucid exercise in self-preservation. It is clear from the facts that emerged during the run-up to the conference that most provinces had already decided that the purpose of the 2006 conference was to legitimize the long rumoured plans to defer the presidential elections to 2010. The weekend event was thus to all purposes and intents a rubberstamping process for Mugabe's insatiable thirst for political power. In the final analysis, it was thus not such a big surprise that the most crucial resolution of the 2006 conference was the approval of a motion to move the presidential polls from 2008 to 2010 so that they could be 'harmonised' and held at the same time with the Parliamentary elections. The postponement of the presidential elections aside, the other defining moment of the conference was what Mugabe said in his closing remarks. The leader of the party expressed his pride at the full support he had received from his cohorts. He is reported to have said thus, "I go out of here proud that I have the people behind me. I am what I am because of you". Surely it is clear that Mugabe has long lost touch with the masses of the country! One does not need to be rocket scientist or robotics professor to clearly note that the long suffering people have been pummeled into reluctant submission by Mugabe and his party. It is sad that the party is no longer able to differentiate the aspect of fear and popularity in terms of the opinions of the country's majorities. The truth is that even scientific research from such surveys as the African Barometer report have already confirmed what was always an assumed reality. The fact is that Zimbabweans are a nation that lives in perpetual fear of State terror. Whichever way one looks at it, the point of the matter is that Mugabe and his Zanu-PF have already overstayed their welcome in power. It is common cause that the people of Zimbabwe have for long tried to boot them out of power. The fact that they still remain in office has nothing to do with their popularity. No, not at all! In fact it has everything to do with their suppressive political trickery and chicanery. Everyone now knows that dissent is a byword and taboo in the Zimbabwean political landscape. Diversity and pluralism have long been banished out of the country and monopolism now reigns supreme across the land. No one has the right to freely express a different opinion from Mugabe from Zambezi to Limpopo! What is even more sad for me is that Mugabe and his party also chose to ignore the fact that a sizable number of the Zimbabwean people have already decided to voice their disapproval of their political leadership by leaving the country altogether. The facts and stats are there for all to see! It is now estimated that at least three million Zimbabweans now live outside the country. In fact a simple glance across the country would have easily revealed the long queues spiraling out of the South African boarders. Thousands of Zimbabweans are on their way home at this moment and time in what may be the biggest annual human trans-migration in the African continent. The process of the many Zimbabweans returning home for Christmas is only comparable to the world famous game migrations of the Serengeti in East Africa! As the conference was busy adopting its resolutions, the rest of the country's majorities were busy bracing themselves for yet another Christmas separated from their loved ones. It is often said that Christmas is a time for the families to gather together and enjoy the final moments of the year that was. But no so in Zimbabwe! The fact that at least one third of the country's population is now living in the Diaspora simply means that many families will once again be forced to have yet another Christmas without their beloved ones. But as if struggling to have the basic food commodities on the Christmas menu was not enough for the Zimbabwean population, the resolutions of the weekend conference must surely have added salt to injury! Indeed the last thing any average Zimbabwean would have wanted to listen to as the Christmas hit song was "Handiende' from Bob and his Wailers! The sad music emanating from the Zanu-PF conference is surely the worst Christmas gift ever to come from Mugabe since 1980. Daniel Molokele is a Zimbabwean Human Rights Lawyer who is based in Johannesburg. He can be contacted at zimvirtualnation@yahoo.com JOIN THE DEBATE ON THIS ARTICLE ON THE NEWZIMBABWE.COM FORUMS

 

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MUGABE MUST GO NOW!

Press release

Zimbabwe is faced with yet another crisis.

 

 This time, we cannot let it go unchallenged.

 

 MUGABE IS SEEKING POWER TO THE YEAR 2010 AND BEYOND! 

 

We must all know that by now, he intends to stay in power till he sees the grave. Zimbabwe cannot afford this luxury, not for another Day !!

 

Mugabe must go now!

 

What boggles the mind is the support he is getting from the provinces. Obviously those ZANU-PF stooge delegetes voted to have their graves dug deeper. Are they blind, are they stupid, are they so brainwashed not to see the writing on the wall that Mugabe has destroyed their own livelihoods and reduced them to the poorest peasants of the region. Perhaps they are scared of the ever building wrath of the grass roots of Zimbabwe. They know that they have destroyed everything decent in Zimbabwe. Their fear is so great that they have nowhere to turn.

 

We, the people of Zimbabwe, are sick and tired of ZANU-PF. They have completely lost direction .We are tired of a government that has nothing in mind except to remain in power forever regardless of the cost and demise of Zimbabwe. An extension of Mugabe's rule is basically an extension of more poverty and more suffering of the Zimbabweans.

In the first place there was no reason to seperate Parliamentary electons from the Presidential elections.Suddenly, the elctions are to be combined. they are full of lies and excuses.

 

ZANU-PF has played tricks on the people of Zimbabwe for a very long time. Now therefore we urge all Zimbabweans to resist the extension of our suffering at the hands of this barbaric leader. We urge the army, members of the CIOs and the police to rally behind the majority of Zimbabweans and resist this ill-timed extention for Mugabe to rule Zimbabwe forever

We are also requesting the leadership of our neighbouring countries and the rest of SADC, to condemn this terroristic move by Mugabe. SADC countries are definitely affected, directly or indirectly, by the Zimbabwean crisis. Mugabe cannot be allowed to terrorise the whole region. Mugabe is a threat to peace in Southern Africa and SADC must realise that soon the people of Zimbabwe will say "enough is enough". Mugabe's decision to extend his tyranny is just the litmus to ignite the fires of freedom and defiance. That fire, once lit, will be unstoppable as it spreads across the savannahs of central and southern africa. Zimbabwe's neighbours will not be left unscathed.

 

 

It is high time we accept to the international community that we have failed to remove the tyrant using democratic means. We now need to adopt better methods to counter his barbaric methods to ramain in power. A barbarian is wild and you may never make any meaningful negotiations with one. There is no way Mugabe will accept any peaceful negotiations as any would pose a threat to his grip on power. Those in the diaspora must also get fully involved in resisting the extension of Mugabe's rule to 2010. That will be Thirty years in power.

 

However, he seems afraid of his neighbouring states. His speech at the conference clearly showed that he is afraid of his so called friends. He seems not sure whom to trust anymore. We need to pressurise SADC to act on such a move and this is where those in the dispora come into action.

 

 

People of Zimbabwe must brace for great resistance to further suffering. Mugabe must go now and it must be now.

 

Jay Jay Sibanda

 

cza_secretariat@yahoo.com  

 

CONCERNED ZIMBABWEANS ABROAD ( 076 976 0952 ) Johannesburg

 

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CIO warns of civil war!

http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/viewinfo.cfm?linkcategoryid=27&linkid=35&id=2859
HARARE - Middle and junior-ranking officers of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) have recommended that President Robert Mugabe abandon the idea of postponing presidential elections from 2008 to 2010 saying these plans risk igniting civil war.

The details emerged as the feuding opposition MDC factions vowed to close ranks and fight Mugabe as a united front in a double effort to force him to abandon the “politically contentious plan.”

Intelligence officials interviewed this week said the CIO’s top directors who report directly to the President were buffering this message from reaching “Number 1”.

The CIO officers said several of their colleagues working on the “PP (presidential poll) assignment” had emphasised the need to rejuvenate the ruling party but still maintain the presidential election timetable, which must be held by March 2008.

“We are dyed-in-the-wool intelligence operatives and our mandate is to interact with the lowest members of society and provide feedback as frankly and accurately as possible to our principals,” said one junior officer. “Several of our officers have officially confirmed that there is anger out there over these plans to postpone the elections given the deepening hardships. Generally there is a strong feeling from voters that they will not support Zanu (PF) unless Mugabe retires. The President is however being badly advised by those who report to him directly,” he said, adding that this was the general sentiment among middle and junior ranking CIO officers, who constitute the majority of the 3,000-strong spy agency.

The officials said the “foot soldiers” - or junior and middle rank CIO officers deployed to mingle and interact with the ordinary people - had in the past few months conducted an “intelligence ballot” which supported the theory that “there is an urgent need to reconstitute Zanu (PF) through a new leadership” to enhance its electoral fortunes. They said most of the feedback suggested “Mugabe should be persuaded to go into dignified retirement.”

How much time is left??

 

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Mugabe's Attempt To Die In Office To Be Resisted!

By Mr Nelson Chamisa.
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Robert Mugabe's latest ploy to extend his term of office to 2010 must be rejected by all patriotic Zimbabweans who want a new Zimbabwe charecterised by freedom, prosperity and democracy.

The Zanu PF mouthpieces have now confirmed the people's suspicions that Mugabe's term, which expires in 2008, will be extended to allow him to continue ruining the country until 2010. This is unadulterated constitutional fraud. Presidential terms are six-year terms; even under the current defective Constitution and Zimbabweans demand to know on whose mandate Zanu PF seeks to extend an illegitimacy that will mete out further punishment to the people.

The MDC reiterates its position that only a new people-driven Constitution, and not piecemeal amendments by Zanu PF, is the panacea to the crisis of legitimacy and governance facing this regime. Mugabe should not be allowed to abuse a controversial and technical majority in Parliament to buy himself a safe exit. Mugabe is an illegitimate President whose incumbency is being challenged in court. He now wants to use his Parliamentary technical majority, which is being challenged through several electoral petitions that are yet to be heard, to buy himself a further two years in office. Zimbabwe cannot have an illegitimate President, using an illegitimate technical majority to seek further tenancy at State House. The regime simply wants to buy more time to handle its contentious and divisive succession drama that has turned out to be a real-life soap opera.

The MDC believes that seeking a further extension of his term through Parliament is tantamount to Zanu PF turning an internal succession squabble into a national crisis. Zanu PF is unelectable,leaderless, divided and candidateless. In short, Zanu PF is a party in crisis.

The MDC leadership, supporters and the people of Zimbabwe shall not allow a unilateral declaration of a Zanu PF-imposed coup on the wishes of the majority. The country is bigger than Zanu PF. Zimbabwe belongs to all its people who are the ultimate authority in the governance of the country. Zanu
PF must be stopped now if Zimbabwe is to be saved from the jaws of this tyranny. All democratic forces must demand a new, people-driven Constitution
to form the basis of the legitimacy of those occupying the highest office in the land.

Zanu PF's latest antics only serve to confirm that Zimbabwe has become an absolute monarch ruled by power-hungry geriatrics bent on clinging to power at any cost. Zanu PF must not be allowed to sacrifice Zimbabwe on the altar of political expediency. Mugabe has confirmed that he is afraid of a free and fair electoral process and will take the slightest excuse to seek asylum in a controversial technical majority to run away from an imminent and inevitable people's verdict. In their 70's and 80s, Zanu PF's leaders are overdue candidates for the fireside chair, telling folk stories to bemused children wondering how these people have lived for so long when they are presiding over a serious national crisis which has seen life expectancy tumbling down to a mere 34 years.

The MDC believes that all political parties, the churches, labour unions, students, civic groups and the generality of Zimbabweans must urgently demand that Zimbabwe adopts a people-driven Constitution that should lead to free and fair elections under international supervision. We believe that Mugabe's time is nigh. We believe that all patriotic Zimbabweans must heed the clarion call to save our country. Zimbabweans are now tired of the outrageous antics of this regime. We believe that is why the millions of Zimbabweans across the country and those in the Diaspora have resolved to engage in a mass-driven political process of democratic resistance of resistance to express the nation's aspirations for a new Zimbabwe.

Change demands action. Our country deserves better. A new Zimbabwe is inevitable.
Nelson Chamisa, is a Zimbabwean legislator and MDC Secretary for Information and Publicity

Testimony of Mr Gabriel Shumba (Zimbabwe) at Human Rights hearing in Washington DC

http://www.zimbabwedemocracytrust.org/outcomes/details?contentId=1685
Mr. Gabriel Shumba is currently Director of the Accountability Commission – Zimbabwe, an organization based in South Africa which is accumulating evidence of the gross human rights violations of President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF government. He was brutally tortured by the Mugabe regime in January 2003 when, as a working human rights lawyer in Zimbabwe, he represented an opposition MP who had been arrested under false charges. He fled Zimbabwe shortly afterwards following state-sponsored death threats and harassment. Mr. Shumba currently works with Zimbabwean witnesses and victims of violence in Johannesburg gathering evidence of incidents of politically motivated murder, torture, rape and beatings with a view to opening dockets for prosecution.

United States Congress

House Committee on International Relations

Human Rights Practices Around the World: A Review of the State Department's 2003 Annual Report

Washington, Wednesday March 10, 2004

Testimony of Mr Gabriel Shumba (Zimbabwe)

(Human Rights Lawyer, Doctor of Laws Candidate, Legal Regional Director (Africa) for the Accountability Commission-Zimbabwe)

Mr Chair and Members of the Committee, I request that the entirety of my statement, along with the additional material, be submitted for the record. I thank you for the singular honor that you have accorded to me. To be given the opportunity to address this esteemed body at a time when my country, Zimbabwe, is facing an unprecedented social, economic and political crisis is a manifestation of the Free World’s concern with democracy and human rights the world over. Further testimony of this commitment is evident in the 2003 U.S. State Department Report on Human Rights Practices, which devotes significant space to the human rights issues affecting my country.

Mr Chair, I am a human rights lawyer from Zimbabwe who was last year condemned to live in exile in South Africa because of unrelenting persecution, death threats and torture at the hands of President Robert Mugabe’s regime. Allow me to narrate the ordeal that forced me into exile.

Pursuant to the call of my profession, on the 14^th of January 2003 I consented to represent an opposition Member of Parliament, Mr Job Sikhala. He had engaged me to represent him in a matter in which he alleged political harassment by members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP). At that moment in time, the MP was hiding from the police.

My young brother, Bishop Shumba, accompanied me to take instructions. I found the MP in the company of one Taurai Magaya and Charles Mutama. I proceeded to take instructions and confer with Mr Sikhala. However, at or about 23:00 hrs, riot police accompanied by plain-clothes policemen, the army and personnel, who I later discovered were from the Central Intelligence Organization (CIO), the spy agency of the government, stormed the room. They were armed with AK 47’s, tear gas canisters, grenades and vicious-looking dogs.

I identified myself as a lawyer and enquired as to the nature and purpose of the police actions. Thereupon, one of the officers confiscated my Lawyer’s Practicing Certificate and informed me that there was ‘no place for human rights lawyers in Zimbabwe’. Others grabbed my diary as well as files and documents. All of us were prodded with guns in the back and bundled into a police vehicle. Several acts of assault and violence were perpetrated upon my person. In particular, I was slapped several times and kicked with booted-feet by amongst others, a certain detective inspector Mbedzi, the officer in charge of Saint Mary’s Police Station. They also threatened to let the dogs maul us, and boasted that this had been done before.

Moments later, we were driven to Saint Mary’s Police Station but no charges were preferred. We were denied access to legal representation and were abused and insulted for allegedly working in cahoots with ‘western powers’ in an attempt ‘to reverse the gains of the liberation struggle’. Our mobile phones were also confiscated, and we were denied contact with our lawyers, relatives and friends.

Around 1:00am we were driven to Matapi Police Station some seven kilometers from the initial place of ‘arrest’. Here Mr Sikhala and Bishop were booked into the holding cells. I was taken to Mbare police holding cells, a further three kilometers away from Matapi, whilst, as I subsequently discovered, Mr Magaya and Mr Mutama were taken to Harare Central Police Station, which is about five kilometers away. The tactic of separating arrestees and taking them to locations removed from where they have been arrested is a favorite of the police in Zimbabwe. This is designed to prevent their relatives or lawyers access to them when they are tortured in torture chambers scattered all over the country.

I was only booked into the cells at around 3:00am. I was denied blankets and had to sleep on a concrete floor. The cell that was about 3m x 4m housed over 20 inmates. I had to spend the whole night squatting in a pool of urine and human waste. This revolting mixture had maggots and worms that irritated or bit at me the whole night. As if this was not enough, I had to endure the torment of other denizens of the cell, which included lice and bed bugs.

Around 12:00pm on the next day, personnel from the CID (Criminal Investigations Dept - Law and Order Section) of the Harare Central Police Station booked me out of Mbare holding cells. Even now I have not been told of the nature of the charges preferred against me, nor had any official entry been made to indicate that I was being held at Mbare, another notorious police tactic. The police were under the charge-ship of one Detective Inspector Garnet Sikhova. In spite of my bruises and the pain that I felt, I was dragged to a yellow mini-bus whose registration numbers I was prevented from looking at. My constant pleas for legal representation, food and water were in vain.

Mr Chair, the mini-bus that I was hauled into had no seats inside. Even more sinister was the fact that it had black curtains and a black carpet lining the windows and the floor. In the extreme end of the vehicle was a raised platform whereupon some of the Police Officers sat. I was nonetheless ordered to sit on the floor facing the back of the vehicle. A black hood was then slipped over my head. It was made of nylon and did not have any breathing-holes in it. In a short while I became claustrophobic, sweated heavily and had difficulties breathing. My requests that part of the hood be pulled slightly over my nose to allow me to breathe were rudely denied. Instead, I was asked to use ‘the mouth that you use to defend the MDC to breathe’.

After what appeared like an hour’s drive, the vehicle pulled over and my hands were handcuffed behind my back. I was bundled out of the car to find myself in a tunnel of some sort, judging by the echoes that our footsteps made. I was advised that ‘you are now a blind man and have to act like a blind person’. After several twists and turns, in what appeared a labyrinth of some sort, we descended about three floors of stairs underground.

Off to the right I could hear the sounds of horrible screaming. I was thrown against the wall and the hood was then removed. I was stripped utterly naked, then had my hands and feet handcuffed and bound so that I was in a foetal position. The police then thrust a thick plank between my legs and hands. Other planks lined the room and the light was dim. In a corner to my right side, there was a pool of what my tormentors told me was acid, into which I could be dissolved without a trace. I was also informed that I could be crucified on the planks against the wall, or have needles thrust into my urethra if ‘you are not co-operative’. In the middle of the room were a small table and a chair. About 15 or so interrogators stood over me and some of them began assaulting me with booted-feet and fists all over the body. I was then given the option of either ‘telling the truth or dying a slow and painful death’.

Several questions were asked about my background as a student activist, the political affiliation of judges, my scholarship to pursue a Masters degree in South Africa, my alleged involvement in the burning of a government bus, and my political ambitions. At some point I was hung upside down on the planks and assaulted beneath the feet with wooden and rubber truncheons, as well as some pieces of metal.

Running concurrently with the other assaults and ongoing interrogation, various electrical shocks were introduced to my body. A black contraption resembling a telephone was placed on the small table. It had several electric cables emanating from it. One cable was tied to the middle toe of my right foot, whilst another was tied to the second toe of the left foot. Another copper wire was wrapped tightly around my genitals. Again, another one was put into my mouth. Still in the foetal position, I was ordered to hold a metallic receiver in my bound right hand and I then forced to place this next to my right ear. A blast of electric shocks was then administered to my body for about eight to nine hours.

On several occasions, I lost consciousness only to be revived to face the same ordeal. A chemical substance was applied to my body. I also lost control of my bladder, vomited blood and was forced to drink my urine and lick my vomit. I was also urinated upon by several of my interrogators. Whilst the questioning was in process, several photographs were taken of me cringing and writhing in pain and in nakedness.

At the end of this ordeal, around 7:00 pm, I was unbound and then forced to write several documents under my torturers’ dictation. In the documents, I incriminated myself as well as senior MDC personnel in several subversive activities. Under pain of death, I was also forced to agree to work for the Central Intelligence Organization, the government spy agency. In addition, I was compelled to swear allegiance to President Robert Mugabe, as well as to promise that I would not disclose my ordeal, either to the independent press or the courts. I later did.

Around 19:30 pm, I was blindfolded and taken to Harare Central Police Station, where I was booked into a holding cell even more horrendously inhumane than that at Mbare Police Station. On the third day of my arrest, my lawyers, who had at that point obtained a High Court injunction ordering my release to court, were allowed access to me. I had not had food or water throughout the period of my detention, which was three days. I had also not been formally notified of the nature of the charge against me. Subsequently, however, I was charged under Section 5 of the Public Order and Security Act, which deals with organizing, planning or conspiring to overthrow the government through unconstitutional means. These charges were dismissed in a court of law after medical evidence established that we had been tortured. Subsequently, I was threatened with death and had to flee for my life.

I worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania for two months and was threatened by the High Commissioner of Zimbabwe to Tanzania. I then had to flee to South Africa. In spite of psychiatric and other medical treatment, I continue to experience nightmares, suffer depression as well extreme fatigue.

I am convinced that my torture and ill treatment was authorized and condoned at the highest level of the Zimbabwe state. It is inconceivable that President Mugabe is unaware that his police, army and intelligence officials are using torture. The President has been aware that torture is being used against human rights activists and those suspected to be linked to the MDC, as is exemplified by the case of journalists Mark Chavunduka and Ray Choto. The two were brutally tortured by the army and Chavunduka died later. Mugabe was however on TV gloating that those who write stories about the army should expect ‘army justice’.

I lodged a report of what transpired to me with the police, but up to now no action has been taken. I have also instructed my lawyer to institute civil proceedings, but am not hopeful, as the Executive has largely subverted the judicial system. Furthermore, the police in Zimbabwe are notorious for defying court orders.

Mr Chair, I should also point out that members of my family who are still in Zimbabwe are in mortal danger as I speak. I cannot afford to lose them as we are a very small family, having been orphaned early in life. I am the first born in a family of four. Both my parents are deceased. My father died of cancer of the liver when I was 10 years old. I became the sole breadwinner of the family after my mother passed away some years later. My mother succumbed to the AIDS virus in 1995, having spent many years trying to raise us.

Eventually, I struggled through education with the help of a kind white couple, Mary Austin and John Ayton. I mention this couple to dispel the myth that the crisis in Zimbabwe is a tug of war between black and white.

At the University of Zimbabwe where I obtained a Bachelor of Laws (Honors) degree I was a student activist. In 1995 I led demonstrations against police brutality. This culminated in my suspension from the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) for a period of two years. Whilst on suspension, I wrote articles on student rights and addressed seminars on academic freedom in Zimbabwe. After readmission to the University in 1997, I mounted a one-person demonstration to protest the heavy handedness of the police in quelling student disturbances. For this I was abducted and tortured at a torture chamber situated in the basement of Harare Central Prison.

Mr Chair, to date I have been arrested and assaulted or tortured 14 times under the regime of President Robert Mugabe. At my graduation on the 18th of August 2000, I was again arrested and taken into police custody for attempting to hand over a petition protesting the breakdown of the rule of law in Zimbabwe, especially on the farms, to President Robert Mugabe. As I approached Mugabe, who is also Chancellor of the University, his bodyguards whisked me away. As a result, I could not graduate with my fellow students as I was in prison, complete in my academic regalia. This incident was reported in the press. Mr Chair, I submit that all that which transpired to me should be seen as a microcosm of the brutality visited upon human rights and opposition activists in Zimbabwe.

I thank you Honorable Members.
United States Congress

"MDC has surely run out of ideas" (M M Betera, UK)

http://www.fingaz.co.zw/story.aspx?stid=2058


EDITOR — The article, MDC in new season of politics of "chibanzi" made very interesting reading. It is intriguing how the MDC has been changing tactics in order to "rid Zimbabweans of the dictator". Well, as far as the tactics of getting rid of him are concerned, one wonders what next for MDC?
Zimbabwe has a very interesting and dynamic political terrain which allows political organisations to spring up rapidly and freely. It cannot happen in a repressive state. The other day I was perusing the background of some of the MDC stalwarts and current MPs. I noticed that one of them, of caucasian origin, states that Henry Kissinger, Lady Thatcher and De Klerk were instrumental, together with Ian Smith, in creating the environment for democratic change — and not Robert Mugabe.
"Ah, well", I said to myself,"this proves that the MDC will never come to power." So it was not Mugabe who brought about our independence?
Nevertheless, the fear of a back-door return of fascism in Zimbabwe is truly borne out in those remarks.The political clout of Arthur Mutambara is a non-issue. Student activism, correctly conceived, is not a futile activity. We left (silently) the University College of Rhodesia in the 1960s and worked at the Liberation Centre in Lusaka, Zambia in collaboration with the national leadership of ZANU far away from the close scrutiny of the regime and saw its downfall in the end. It all depends on what Mutambara stands for. If he comes to the UK and speaks against his own government as would Ian Smith on the same platform in Oxford — the English would never respect him (they do not understand people like that being patriotic themselves).

Mordecai Mutiswa Betera
United Kingdom

The Mayonnaise Jar!

A professor  stood before his philosophy class and had some items in
 front of him. When the  class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very
 large and empty mayonnaise jar and  proceeded to fill it with golf
 balls. He then asked the students if the jar  was full. They agreed
 that it was.

 The professor  then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into
 the jar.
 He shook the jar  lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas
 between the golf balls. He then  asked the students again if the jar
 was full.
 They agreed it was.
 The professor  next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the
 jar. Of course, the sand  filled up everything else. He asked once
 more if the jar was full. The students  responded with an infamous
 "yes." The professor  then produced two cups of coffee from under the
 table and poured the entire  contents into the jar, effectively
 filling the empty space between the sand. The  students laughed.

 "Now," said the  professor, as the laughter subsided, "I want you to
 recognize that this jar  represents your life. The golf balls  are the
 important things. Your family, your children, your faith, your health, 
 your friends, and your favourite passions. Things
 that if everything else was  lost and only they remained, your life would
 still be full. The pebbles are  the other things that matter. Your
 job, your house, and your car. The sand is  everything else. The small
 stuff. "If you put the sand into the jar first," he  continued, "there
 is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes  for life.
 If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will 
 never have room for the things that are
 important to you. Pay attention to the  things that are critical to
 your happiness. Play with your children. Take time  to get medical
 checkups.

 Take your partner out to dinner. Play another 18. There  will always be
 time to clean the house and fix the shed door. Take care of the  golf
 balls first, the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The
 rest  is just sand."

 One of the  students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee
 represented. The professor  smiled. "I'm glad you asked. It just goes
 to show you that no matter how full  your life may seem, there's always room for a couple
 of cups of coffee with a  friend."

 Please share  this with someone nice.

 I Just  did.

Eng S Mangwengwende on Mutambara (MDC)!

From Eng Simbarashe Mangwengwende (mangwe@ecoweb.co.zw ) on "Mutambara -MDC lacks 'Agenda Setting.'

 

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You have hit the nail on the head. Leadership is all about agenda setting. By that definition we  really have no opposition leaders to talk of because all they do is react to the agendas of other people.

 

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What seems to be lost to Mutambara here is the concept of agenda setting. You can't be a leader who has to react to other people's initiatives without you taking the lead to set up an agenda everyone can follow. No matter how flawed these initiatives are, they still remain that! An initiative.

As long as the opposition does not set a tone and hence a national agenda they will keep responding to us via e-mail like this. 

Nyatsimba Mutota [nyatsimba_mutota@yahoo.com]

 

 

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I Mutanhaurwa has asked us to note more of Mugabe's assassinations.

 

The death of Tchiona Chiminya, the death of Morgan Mutanhaurwa, Peter Munyuki

 

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Ngiti, "U Professor Mutambara angabamba yini umsebenzi kaExecutive President?"

 

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ROBERT MUGABE FIRED!

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:44:00


Tambu Kahari


I am opening my new column with an executive action. Robert Gabriel Mugabe, employee no one of the people of Zimbabwe, you are fired! I believe the law is on my side.


The president of the Republic of Zimbabwe is an employee of the citizens of Zimbabwe. I am your employer.
You took an oath, in 1980 that you would work for every Zimbabwean citizen and as a citizen of Zimbabwe, I say your time is up and I have prepared your letter of dismissal.

I have a great deal of respect for you Mr. President. I revere you. You are a great man, an amazing man with vision and strength. You are a pride to your people. I will proceed to help you understand who I am.

I am the great, great, granddaughter of Seke himself, who was the younger brother of Harare himself. In other words, Harare is named after my great, great grandfather. Seke is my great, great grandfather. In fact, today we use Seke’s other name, Kahari as a surname.

I am the original Zimbabwean, there is no doubt. But, even if I were not an original Zimbabwean, I am a citizen of the Republic of Zimbabwe by birth; therefore, I am your boss.

I am not firing you for the past events. No sir, that is not it at all. For, as the boss, I take full responsibility for all the decisions that you made in my name.

I am guilty of every single thing that has been perpetrated to the people of Zimbabwe. I am guilty as sin. It is my fault, and every Zimbabwean citizen’s fault. Can you blame the fox if it runs away with the chicken? We should have guarded the coup.

No, I blame myself for being lax, lazy, and frightened. I had no vision and I didn’t forecast and that is why my poor country has come crushing about my ears with a resounding thud! I am homeless.

I am firing you Mr. President, because the requirements for the job of Executive President, Commander of the armed forces and the people’s servant have changed. Circumstances of the last few years have necessitated that the job requirements change to suit the new situation we are in.

The people of Zimbabwe are a dying breed, dear Sir. In another two hundred years, there will be no Zimbabweans, of any tribe, colour or hue. We will all be dead or scattered about the world. Our respective cultures will die with us.


Our lands will go to the Somalis, who have started coming to Zimbabwe, running away from their own chaos. I understand many South Koreans are looking at our country too. In two hundred years, Zimbabwe may be the land of “other people.”

Don’t laugh. This has happened to us before. Thousands of years ago, we lived in what is now called Egypt. We built those pyramids and Cleopatra was black.

We left and slowly disintegrated and now, lo and behold, the survivors of that exodus are now Zimbabweans. Cleopatra became an Arab and then in the movies, she became white. Just as the future Zimbabwean is going to be half Somali and half Korean. More power to her!

It is because of this and nothing else that the job requirements for President have changed. We have been fighting extinction and I am not sure if you have noticed Mr.

President, but we are losing the battle. It is time to change the employee. You just don’t have the necessary qualifications. You are a very educated man, and you are a revolutionary of distinction. But we need a business person. We need someone who looks at the bottom line, which is our very survival.

We need a unifier of those of us who are left. We need someone, white, black, Karanga, Zezuru, Manyika, Kore kore, male or female, it doesn’t matter, as long as that person will be able to whip us into action and drag us off our lazy arses and put us to work! Zimbabweans have become very lazy! To begin with, we were always lazy! We were always starving, until we were colonized.

Then we were whipped into shape and we reaped the benefits of it for years on end. The injustices were a great pity and they were ugly, but in order to move on, we will accept and acknowledge the past with humility and gratitude and move on. Now, once again, we need someone to put us in order and fight for our lives. You are not that person.

There are to many protests, too many angry and hungry people, too many people wasting energy begging the world and running away, like me, and that has to stop. We have to take responsibility for ourselves.

We have to stop squabbling uselessly and get to work. I have stopped running and will start with you Mr. President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, with all due respect Sir!

I agree with you Mr. President. If we are not careful, only donkeys will live in Zimbabwe. You are so right. Changes have to be made and they have to start at the top, with you.

As part of your severance, you can keep the house, the money, the private planes, the cars, the bodyguards and everything else that you have. It’s all yours. We owe you, for services rendered. But, you may not have our country’s future. And that is why you have to go.

I have several complaints, but I will only name what should’ve been solutions: Instead of opening fire on people when they riot, which of course is a waste of time and energy, why don’t you grab those people off the streets and take them to some farm and make them work 16 hours a day for food even at gunpoint! Instead of beating them and crippling them, put their energy to good use! A healthy person works more.

Why didn’t you take the money allocated to the military and diverted it to buying farm implements and supplies and then getting the people, no matter how rich they think they are to put a few hours of national service at a farm growing food?

Why do we have such a heavily equipped army? Who’s our enemy? Who dares to fight with us? We have proven ourselves to our neighbours. They know what we can do. In fact, we don’t need an army. We need food, and money for food.

Instead of wasting money and time indoctrinating the people about ZANU PF and its greatness, which is also a waste of time, why don’t you take all that money, plough it into agriculture? And by the way, Zimbabweans can’t be easily brainwashed.

It took the missionaries 100 years to get one Christian convert. How long do you think it will take to indoctrinate one person on the goodness of the government of the day? NEVER!

Instead of women having, “Dignity. Period,” campaigns and humiliating us all collectively, why don’t you drag those women out of their offices, out of their high heels, dump them on a farm for 16 hours a day and then they can work for their “Dignity. Period.”

There is dignity in working ladies? Go out into the fields and grow some cotton! As a matter of fact, why don’t you just get me and throw me on a farm?

Instead of wasting money and time, “talking, talking” we could all be working to live. The world has no pity for lazy people. And you Mr. President have failed to fire up the people to get back into the fields and work for themselves.

When we are all dead, who will you rule? Hey, you future aspiring leaders, when there are no more Zimbabweans to make you rich and powerful, what will you do? I am talking to you Morgan Tsvangirai, but I will get back to you. You also don’t qualify to be our servant.

The world doesn’t owe us anything. Solutions have to come from us. The work has to come from us. Come back from Iran! What are you doing in Iran? You should be leading by example.

Your hands should be dirty from growing maize. A people who cannot feed themselves have no right to exist. It is the law of the world. Civilizations are built on food and crumble because of food. Zimbabweans are dying because they are lazy and you have allowed it to happen.

Zimbabweans have become tribalists and racists because the resources for survival have shrunk. The people fight for resources. Observe, the future citizens of Zimbabwe, the Somali. They have a reputation of being extremely lazy.

They have never, ever, grown any food with their own hands. Finally, it caught up with them and they turned on one another. It was hunger. And now, the Somalis are almost eradicated. They are becoming citizens of Zimbabwe as we speak.

That is what the future has in store for us, if we don’t change direction.

Your entire executive is also fired! They can keep their money, their properties and they can live in Zimbabwe in peace and harmony, like Ian Smith.

As long as you let us get on with the business of building our country from scratch. It is time for the best person for the job to be chosen, regardless of race, colour or creed. Applications are now open for the position of Executive President of the Republic of Zimbabwe.

Yes, you probably want to shoot me, but it will do you no good! Destiny is holding a gun to my head already. I am dying with my people. I have nothing to lose. And you are still fired. Thank you for your years of service. Moving On!

Next week, the women of “Dignity. Period.” We have to talk.