1] Someone reading this from mukoma Goerge perhaps will only focus on the "chinhu chine vene vacho" mantra.
These "madhara ehondo nemahovhorisi" have monopolized the country and only wish to take turn to rule it.
Yet this isn't all that Goerge is attempting to do here...
2] What Goerge is actually trying to do, is promote voter apathy.
Don't get it twisted, it's not just the democratic alternative that is "learning" from both the Malawi & Zambia political developments.
ZanuPF is learning also.
They are worried sick and are dreading elections.
3] That tweet from Goerge, equally betrays his and ZanuPF's collective fear of @nelsonchamisa
When you see the spin doctor of a regime that is propagating the narrative that Chamisa is finished, continuously attacking him daily, know that they don't believe their own lies.
4] And by paying no attention to their ZanuPF variant in the Opposition, they are also exposing how they don't take those MDC-T fellows seriously either.
Wouldn't that tweet have made more sense, if Goerge had mentioned the one they have christened the main Opposition player?
5] Best way to respond to GC is doing exactly what he is attempting to discourage.
Let's all register to vote & encourage those we can, to do the same also.
Post that, we all need to vote for change & be ready to ensure that vote counts.
Show GC the political middle finger.
6] One of the biggest lies ZanuPF tells, cryptically or otherwise, is that elections don't matter.
They do.
ED needs electoral legitimacy.
ZanuPF needs councillors, MPs, Senators.
All those can only come through the ballot.
They just want to weaken their electoral threat.
7] And whilst ZanuPF is promoting this narrative that elections dont matter, they are restructuring & registering their own voters.
That narrative is only being pushed in spaces where ZanuPF has no significant support.
Their own supporters are almost always ready for elections.
8] So, fellow members of humanity, the best way to counter Joji's propaganda, is promoting the voter registration drive.
More so amongst youths & first time voters.
At the same time, let's continue having conversations on how to perfect the democratic alternative, @mdczimbabwe
9] Unless we see through these poor spin jobs, our spirits will be dampened.
Unless we breakdown rigging & locate ourselves in the solution to the problems we are faced with, we will never see the Zimbabwe we yearn for.
1. Admittedly, when I first read the "structured currency" headline, I thought the Harare regime was taking its "structures" propaganda too far.
With the benefit of more research on the topic, I'm now totally convinced the Harare regime is indeed taking its propaganda too far.
2. By definition, a structured currency is "structured" in that it's supposedly backed by both mineral reserves (in our case gold) and trust in government's monetory policies & regulations.
Unfortunately, no one believes any of the two are present in our existing circumstances.
3. Part of why all previous gimmicks have failed is a trust deficit.
Even if the government opts to accuse commentators of being alarmists, causing panick and despondency, no one can be faulted for rushing to withdraw their forex savings if we have learned anything from history.
1. Imagine trying to make sense of how some 4 gentlemen in Bulawayo can randomly claim, 'we have recalled Amos Chibaya, he has ceased being a member of CCC'.
Outside the influence of social media, many only know about #CCC because of the efforts of this indefatigable organizer.
2. Propaganda has to make some sort of sense.
Even where some decide to hide behind the claim of "a traceable history in the struggle," Chibaya would make the mark.
A devoted organizer during the times of Tsvangirai & even more so, during the times of Chamisa under the MDC-A.
3. For the successive elections between 2018-2023, it's a mystery how Chibaya found the passion to abandon the comfort of his home and the herculean energy to traverse the country, organizing the Opp for electoral triumph.
Chibaya is very much unheralded & doesn't seem to care.
1. So, a group of at least 25 individuals have decided to join nonexistent forces under the otherwise much heralded #NERA banner to push for electoral reforms.
It's difficult to even identify them as political leaders because they don't represent any political constituency.
2. If you review the outcome of the controversial 2023 election, these people combined had fewer votes than the Councilors who won your ward election.
Many of them have never even bothered to field candidates in successive elections but only pop up whenever they sense a need.
3. If you were to profile them, there is one Lucia Matibenga, masquerading as PDP President.
Her "party" never contests.
She only temporarily enjoyed limelight under PDP when Sen Mwonzora brought her as his MDC-A partner before they connived to recall MPs elected under Chamisa.
1. Interesting comment on this unfolding drama by Prof Ncube.
I, however, can't help recognize the continued conflation of politics & law, which I've previously written about, regarding the formation of CCC party from MDC-A.
It's quite strange that BaNcube does the same here.
2. I take notice of @Welshman_Ncube choice of words here.
He says: MDC-A party's "...National Council resolved to reconstitute itself as CCC..."
By definition, when you "reconstitute," you simply restore or build up again, using remaining parts of whatever has been destroyed.
@Welshman_Ncube 3. However, it was a legal nulity not only for MDC-A to 'reconstitute' itself but to even meet & make legally binding resolutions to begin with.
In 2020, Justice Chitapi ruled that the MDC-A party wasn't a legal persona, effectively meaning it wasn't a legally constituted party.
1. We need to accept that we've seen enough to conclude we've no justice system in Zimbabwe.
Perhaps it's time to totally (temporarily) abandon seeking judicial recourse, particularly around political issues
Why continue subjecting ourselves to the wig wearing ZanuPF activists!
2. Let me rationalize this personal view:
Firstly, we are simply patronizing the generality of the citizens by arguing that going to these "captured courts" is an important academic exercise that exposes judicial capture.
What has been the consequence of exposing this capture?
3. ZanuPF's reaction to the damning SADC Observer Mission report is evidence enough that they don't react to "embarrassment" by showing restraint.
ZanuPF chose rather to burn SADC through an unprecedented propaganda offensive and direct confrontation with the Zambia government.