Mugabe faces violent removal: Mukori
By Wilbert Mukori
This Zanu PF government has had a year since the rigged July 2013 elections to rig economic recovery and it has clearly failed as exemplified by the empty ZimAsset, its flagship recovery plan, begging bowl.
The regime has failed to put an end to the rampant corruption and failed to win the confidence of donors and foreign investors.
The economic meltdown has continued with more companies closing every month and throwing the workers on the mountain of the unemployed now peaking at 90% plus.
Many companies have not been paying the workers for months and government itself is forcing soldiers to go on two weeks leave every month to save on the food bill. As many as 300 000 or 80% of children have dropped out of school for financial reasons.
Many services have collapsed. Many cities have no running clean water for weeks on end.
This is not a way to run a country. Things cannot go on like this. This country is sitting on ticking social and health time bombs.
Only a government with the people’s electoral mandate can address the core problems of corruption and win back donor and investor confidence. Zimbabwe needs free, fair and credible elections; it is the only way out of this mess.
When the Zanu PF spokesman, Rugare Gumbo, announced that the party was ready to hold talks on finding the way out of this nightmare on 9 July 2014; we in the Zimbabwe Social Democrats applauded it as a wise move. The party has since developed cold feet on the matter.
We would like to warn the regime that time is fast running out for it to peacefully step down. If the health or social bombs explode, then the regime will be violently removed from office and President Mugabe, his cabinet, Zanu PF MPs and all the leading party officials who had anything to do with the rigged July 2013 elections will all be held to account for all the damage, suffering and deaths that will result from such a violent upheaval.
Zanu PF has done some terrible things these last 34 years including denying the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans their basic right to have a meaningful say in the governance of the country and even their right to life itself.
The cup is full to overflow; this corrupt and tyrannical regime must accept change for it is long overdue. To resist is now is as futile as the proverbial frog who would not run away confident it would put out the forest fire with its fart. It was burnt alive! If Zanu PF does not accept change now then it too will be burnt alive!
Wilbert Mukori is the Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Social Democrats and can be reached on email [email protected]
