The Mujuru faction is finished so what next? That is the billion dollar question that will engage the nation now. Mugabe's political strength up to now was based on his ability to play one faction of Zanu PF against the other(s) in which he, with no faction of his own, was then seen as the compromise candidate capable of uniting the warring factions.
Whilst it is true that the President Mugabe rigged the elections to review what happened during the elections alone would, at best, paint half the picture. To get the full picture, one has to look into why the MDC failed to get even one democratic reform implemented in their five years in the GNU.
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.
When President Robert Mugabe rigged the July 2013 elections he thought it was going to be business as usual for him and his cronies. They would pick up where they left off in 2008 when they were forced to form the “two headed monster called the GNU”, as Mugabe called it.
By the late 1990s “democracy” and “democratic change” were the buzz words everybody was talking about in Zimbabwe. After nearly two decades of a corrupt and oppressive de facto one-party dictatorship, the nation had finally realised that the only way to end the chronic cancers of gross mismanagement and corruption was by replacing the tyrannical autocracy with a healthy democratic rule.
The Ministry of Health says Zimbabwe has not recorded any evidence linking COVID-19 vaccines to developmental or growth disorders in children, following concerns raised by some parents and legislators in Parliament.
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