Letters

Mweya unoyera! Kunozove rinhiko? RGM neZANU (PF) vachinwa mafuta ayo nyika isu veruzhinji tichinwa madzihwa nemisodzi pamatama.

Inga taneta wani kupondwa nekuurawa newe pfumodema (ZANU (PF)).

Mweya unoyera! ZANU (PF) Repressive Police(ZRP), ZANU (PF) National Army(ZNA), Central Brutal Organization(CI(B)O), military junta, green bombers, nemagandanga(war vets) erusununguko rwaMugabe, vatipedza kutiuraya takangoshiwa sehwai.

Chihuri naLeo vakadhudhudza maARV edu ose, sare isu tonwa moringa netsangamidzi, tapera nemukondombera.

Upfumi hwedu akagowana nemadzisahwira ake Leo, Chiyangwa, Zhuwawo, Kasukuwere, Mupfumi, Mawere nevamwe. Vanodzivhetemutsa motokari mbishi isu hanzi  fambai netsoka kana kutenga mabhizautare.

Nhasi vanotidadira nemari yedu yavakapamba umwe achiti shangu dzake dzinodhura semotokari, mumwe akatozviti MUPFUMI nemari yedu.

Ko isu rugare ruchatisvikira rinhiko President Tsvangirai?

Kuzvitonga ndokupiko?

Jabulani Sibanda ndizvo zvaakaendera kuhondo here? Zvitoro hazvina chikafu, zvipatara hazvina mishonga vanamukoti nemachiremba, zvikoro hazvina maticha, mabhuku nechoko, vana vechikoro zvinongova zvigamba magadziko ari panze.

Rusununguko Chinotimba ndorupiko?

Magandanga onyeperwa nemukweguru kuti vachena vouya kuzopamba upfumi iye ndiye akaisa upfumi hwose hwenyika muhomwe yake kumabhanga ekuChina neMalaysia.

Vana veZimbabwe takaudza harahwa musi va29 March kuti taneta newe, zvino hanzi dzokorodzai sarudzo makakanganisa nekuti makafurirwa nevachena kusarudza mutungamiri vatinoda President Morgan Richard Tsvangirai.

Mweya unoyera! Ndiko kuzvitonga here?

Vana vedu vawakatipa iwe Samasimba voitwa vakadzi naDidymus Mutasa vaine mukaka pamhuno. Harahwa dzisinganyari kuda bonde zvakadaro vakadzi vashanu vashanu. Chinamasa haanyari kuti MDC iri kubuditsa mazita evanhu vatakaponda muna 2000 na2002. NotSoBright Matonga muromo haumharwi nenhunzi nekurutsa propaganda.

Vanoti vachahwina sarudzo dzepiri pasina kubira, Seiko? Chingwa hatina, inflation 200 000%, mari yakapera simba kare, tafa nenzara iwo vachikora senguruve, hama dzapera kuurawa kumaruva. Kwete ndaramba ruzhinji harusarudze mbimbindoga dzakadaro vapambevhu vasveta simba nharadada mavhiyo, vanoda kubira chete. Harahwa yakasunga matomu mativi mana enyika yose asi takakunda uye tichakunda chete. RGM ndiye anodaidzira zvakabuda musarudzo kubudikidza neZanu PF Electoral Commission(ZEC). Mweya unoyera! Ndiyo democracy yacho here?

VICTORY IS CERTAIN, Nyanga

Let’s fix our vision on Peace

EDITOR – The recent revelations by Kingsley Mamabolo, head of the SADC election observer team for Zimbabwe, that the prevailing violence in the country is not conducive for a presidential run-off only serves to confirm the common assertion that Zimbabwe is currently a country at war with its own people.

As the world tries to come to grips with Zanu (PF) shenanigans, the wise words of black American Baptist minister, campaigner for civil rights and Head of the Southern Conference could not come to mind at a better time.

Martin Luther King said, “We must not wage a war” He further asserts that it is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Further reference is made to a fascinating little story from Greek Literature about Ulysses and the Sirens. According to this story, the Sirens were a people who could sing so sweetly that sailors could not resist steering towards their island. Many ships were lured upon the rocks, and men forgot home, duty and honor as they flung themselves into sea to be embraced by arms that drew them down to death. Determined not to be lured by the Sirens, Ulysses first decided to tie himself tightly to the mast of his boat, and his crew stuffed their ears with wax. But finally he and his crew learned a better way to save themselves: they took on board the beautiful singer Orpheus whose melodies were sweeter than the music of the Sirens. When Orpheus sang, no one bothered listening to the Sirens.

So in the face of all what is happening in Zimbabwe, Zimbabweans should shun state sponsored violence. We will not build a peaceful and prosperous country by following a negative path. In his quest for peace and justice Martin Luther King advocated for the use of non-violent means as he declared: “Non violence seeks to secure moral ends by moral means”.

Somehow we must transform the current struggle into a positive contest, which will harness man’s creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all Zimbabweans.

We must shift the current scenario into a peace race’. Peace is not simply about prevention and absence of conflict. It is also about setting up and maintaining an environment conducive for the development of social, economic and political processes. With enough faith, will and determination, we can mount a peace offensive, which will unlock sealed doors of hope, change, democracy and prosperity.

EDWIN KAMANGA, MDC Secretary: Stoke and Crewe Branch, UK

Panic at Zimpapers

EDITOR – The editors at Zimpapers’ Bulawayo branch are in a state of panic. This became evident at recent meeting held at the branch by the editors of the two newspapers.

Those present were Brezhnev Malaba and his sidekick Thabani Mpofu of The Chronicle, and Paul Mambo of the Sunday News, who is well known for his mediocre and uninspired Rouble Rousing article penned under the pseudo name Linonifulu. Critics say should just drop the Linoni and remain with the Fulu (Fool).

Also in attendance at the meeting were the sub-editors of both publications. The panic was brought about how Morgan Tsvangirai fared in the Presidential election. The meeting agreed that in future all Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) adverts should not be allowed and, if allowed, they must be limited and thoroughly vetted.

They believe that the adverts that had the catch phrase “Morgan is More” had an influence in the voting pattern compared to the dull and tired Zanu (PF) adverts that went on and on about land and sovereignty. At some stage Zanu (PF) adverts resorted to responding to the MDC adverts like using phrases such as “What he means when he says he is more”. There was fear among editors that even school children could be heard chanting, “Morgan is more”.

Reliable sources, who were at the meeting, say the editors are hoping that the run-off will be in July and thus extend their life span because it is apparent that should Zanu (PF) lose they will hold on to the result a while longer. On the side is the fact that both parties are disputing results in 105 constituencies.

SCRIBBLE, Bulawayo.

 

Economic quagmire

EDITOR – After discovering its loss in the presidential race, opposition Zanu (PF) seeks to stage an election run-off because they claim no one got the majority vote needed for a candidate to become the President.

What baffled me is that someone got the majority vote and the person is our dear President Morgan Tsvangirai. Although the Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) rules stipulate a requirement of 50+1% for a candidate to be duly elected, let us just do what we did before and flout the constitution to satisfy our needs. This will surely save our nation from this economic quagmire.

For the good of the nation Zanu (PF) should hand over power to the MDC because they are the leaders with a solution to our economic problems.

Mugabe and Zanu (PF) had nothing to offer. They had failed for the past 28 years, so where do they hope to find the solutions to our problems. Zanu (PF) is notorious for corruption. They don’t even have the will of the people at heart, as they claim.

They want to defend their illegitimate wealth from its rightful owners, the majority of landless Zimbabweans. Gono owns three farms, Mujuru has a minimum of three, but they are doing nothing with them.

What we need is to resuscitate our supply base, not just print money and indulge in quasi-fiscal policies. Now NUST lecturers are even selling examination papers. We need to do something in Zimbabwe not just sit back and allow Mugabe to do whatever he wants with our dear country. ARISE ZIMBABWE.

TAPIWA, NUST by email

 

How much rigging was necessary?

EDITOR – To me R.G is now history because there is no way that he can win a presidential election against Morgan Tsvangirai. My only fear is when Zanu (PF) rigs the run-off just as they rigged the first round through making the CIO and the soldiers vote for them in their depots and private homes, they printed extra votes for this purpose.

However, they didn’t know how much rigging was necessary.

As I write right now I know that the regime is in a dilemma, they don’t know when to set the election date. Setting the date early will mean that they will not have enough time to beat and torture people so that they can “know where to vote”. Setting the date later will mean that the International community will intervene and stamp out the violence and intimidation especially the SADC negotiations.

At the same time I question the sanity of Zanu (PF) of wanting to participate in an election that they are surely going to loose.

CRITIC KARUPA, Bulwayo

Voting for incarceration?

EDITOR – The brutality and wanton murder of defenceless citizens by Mugabe and Zanu (PF) in their horror campaign to stay in power is unacceptable even when it’s now happening in his homeland – Mashonaland.

If, by voting and expressing their choices of party and leadership, the people are applying for incarceration, then the entire region and the world have to ask bloodthirsty dictators like Mugabe not to call for elections at all.

As a party, the Matabeleland Freedon Party (MFP), we condemn to the marrow this cold bloodedness of Mugabe and Zanu (PF) and call for it to stop now. How in Africa, are people expected to have their voices heard? Have elections ceased to be a solution to crises like the Zimbabwe’s?

If so, how then should such problems be dealt with? Even denialists like Mbeki, ought to be remorseful and sensitive enough recognise Zimbabweans expressing their will about their country. Their suffering shouldn’t be overshadowed by the hidden lust for looting and illegally owning properties in our country.

The situation in Zimbabwe shouldn’t symbolise a showdown between the West -Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) – and puppets to the East – Zanu (PF) and similar liberation movements – at the expense of ordinary citizens. If the citizens of Zimbabwe, most of who are literate enough choose the West because of certain merits they know and see, who is Mugabe to force them to the East?

Zimbabwe does not belong to Mugabe and Zanu (PF) or the retrogressive liberation movements in Southern African Development Community (SADC), but to progressive citizens who only want to see bread and their freedom on the table and their children eating and going to school.

If SADC continues to be supportive of Mugabe while he continues murdering innocent citizens with impunity, then it has no prognosis for existence. Probably, only the UN and super powers can rescue Zimbabweans who are being denied their rights.

The Zimbabwean situation can be solved by telling only the truth and, of course, punishing constitutionally all the violators of human rights. In view of the coming run-off, let’s all unite and vote Mugabe OUT.

He does not belong with the living, anyway. He will be better off being referred to as the late tyrant president. Mugabe must go. Let’s reiterate our 29 March 2008 call, loudly and clearly this time so that even SADC will sober up, be rational and respect the will of its constituency.

We call upon international observers to come and witness his rejection and defeat by the “landless” people of Zimbabwe. Even those who cheered him in the eighties no longer want him! He is a tyrant and must go.

To his handful sympathisers, there is life after Mugabe. Let him not cling onto you so that you go together. Let’s now focus on transition and a new dispensation soon after the imminent runoff victory of all the people.

ANDREA SIBANDA, Secretary General, MFP

 

We want a live President

EDITOR – I find it extremely hypocritical that Eldred Masunungure blames President elect of Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai, of risk aversion without making a scathing attack on perpetrators of violence against MDC supporters.

Has he forgotten what happened to him on March 11, 2007? I used to hold Masunungure’s political analysis in high esteem, but now I realise that he is an armchair academician, who peddles half-baked political analysis without backing it with reliable empirical evidence.

 Masunungure is advised to emulate Dr. Lovemore Madhuku, who backs his academic acumen with practical action. Can he show us scars of brutality meted out to him by the police or other state agents? We want a live President, not a dead one.  President elect Tsvangirai will come back home when conditions on the ground are suitable. At the moment it’s not worth it.

ROPAFADZO CHASAMHUKA, by email

Tsvangirai is our own Moses

EDITOR – The Pharaoh subjected innocent Israelites to various problems like the plague of locusts, flies and frogs, just to mention a few. God did this expecting the Pharaoh to free the Israelites.

This also can be related to our own Zimbabwean situation. We have been subjected to high inflation, uncontrollable unemployment, rampant corruption, long queues and other cans of worms.

Robert Mugabe and his cronies are the brains behind these problems. Mugabe is our own Pharaoh and the only living ancestor. He is denying Morgan Tsvangirayi the chance to deliver us from him and see our promised land with basic commodities in the shops and a vibrant education system.

I just want to tell our own Moses, Morgan Tsvangirayi, that Zimbabwe is now ready for take off. All Zimbabweans fasten your seat belts because Tsvangirayi is now overtaking Baba Chatunga uye ndiye atova panyanga.

Mugabe is now isolated. In his manifesto he promised to isolate Britain. See where he is now. He is finished.

Zimbabweans lets get ready for a new Zimbabwe.

D PLATO, Bulawayo  

Save us from naked propaganda

EDITOR – What does Munangagwa mean when he appears on ZTV saying that the election outcome was not a true reflection of the will of the people?

Who are the real people in Zimbabwe? We begin to wonder. If this Munangagwa thinks that only those voting and supporting Zanu (PF) and Mugabe are the people, then he is wrong because we have only few such people in the country today.

If the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) were tampering with the electoral process like he was saying, is there any evidence to support this rhetoric from this Zanu (PF) crony? Please save us from this naked propaganda because we have enough problems causing stress.

Which brings us to Bright Matonga. He appears laughing on an SABC interview when asked about the post-election violence in the countryside. Is there anything to laugh about when asked about such issues? He then says that the British are sponsoring the violence through the MDC, Where did this guy get his education?

If it is the MDC, why have the police not arrested anyone from the MDC in connection with that violence? We used to get such propaganda from The Herald and The Chronicle. Now it’s everywhere. Save us from Matonga and Munangagwa. Your time is running out and before Christmas it will be payback time.

Hapana chisingaperi ndiko kuenda kworukuru.

RASARA, Buhera

 

 

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