Bob blames 2008 defeat on Makoni, Rex – NewZimbabwe 07/04/2016
PRESIDENT Mugabe has accused the late Solomon Mujuru, former finance and home affairs ministers, Simba Makoni and Dumiso Dabengwa, of masterminding his defeat by Morgan Tsvangirai in the 2008 elections.
Mugabe said this while addressing war veterans in Harare Thursday.
The 92 year old leader said as result of his defeat he suffered humiliation during the erstwhile Government of National Unity (GNU) with some African leaders constantly reminding him that he was not the legitimate leader.
The GNU, which lasted between 2009 and 2013, came as a result of the 2008 elections during which Mugabe lost to MDC-T’s Morgan Tsvangirai. After the poll, which saw Mugabe getting 43 percent against Tsvangirai’s 47 percent, there was a run-off which was characterised by a wave of violence against members of the opposition.
Tsvangirai pulled out leaving Mugabe to declare himself the winner but the economic crisis was to eventually force Mugabe to share power with his rival until 2013.
Ahead of the 2008 poll, Makoni and Dabengwa had pulled out of Zanu PF to form Mavambo/Kusile and, according to Dabengwa, the initial talks towards the pull out included the late Mujuru who eventually did not join them.
Addressing war veterans in Harare, Thursday, Mugabe accused Makoni, Dabengwa and the late Mujuru of masterminding his defeat.
“When Makoni, Dabengwa and Mujuru left Zanu PF they were working with some members of the party mobilising people to vote against me.
“They did that and I lost. I got 43 percent and Tsvangirai got 47 percent. What saved us as a party was the constitution which says for one to be a winner they have to garner at least 50 plus one percent,” said Mugabe.
He added, “The whole idea was to work with Tsvangirai as president. They didn’t know that our executive system of governance does not work like that. The winner forms his own government.”
Mugabe said he endured insults during the GNU period with his colleagues at the African Union (AU) constantly telling him that he was not the right person to represent Zimbabwe.
“They would make fun of us at AU. They would tell me that seat is not yours. Tsvangirai should be sitting there, but I persevered,” said Mugabe.
During the campaign for the 2008 polls, Mugabe mocked Makoni, Mavambo/Kusile leader, as a “frog”. Makoni is still the leader of his party while Mujuru died in a suspicious inferno in 2011. His wife, since expelled from Zanu PF, recently said she thought her late husband was shot dead before his body was burnt.
COMMENTS
I have never seen a President that takes no blame for anything that goes on in his country as a leader for 36 years. Is it true, the President is really Jesus that has come as a thief in the night? Even his defeat is blamed on someone else. I just look and observe the way my people treat each other. African people. We have no love for each other, no unity for each other, do not care about the next generate we bring to this earth. All my people do is act like animals of prey to each other. It seems the only thing that is important to my people is to acquire that green piece of paper call the dollar. The same dollar that has this pictures of slave owners on them, the same dollar that my people where sold into slavery over. The same piece of paper that your white oppressors have made you to become and worship in their image to mistreat each other and kill each other. We do nothing as African people but hurt each other, just as our former oppressors did. This is what the legacy of racism white supremacy has left us. And my people take that legacy and continue the madness amongst ourselves. My African people have become a willing participant in our own self destruction. It is sad how we have been taught to chase a piece of paper called the dollar. That at any moment the white man could cut it off from Zimbabwe using it. Then what? We have everything that white people came to this continent to take and go build their countries on our resources and the only thing my people learned was the way of their oppressor. We gave up our culture, our ancestors, our way of life, all too just to imitate the madness that white people left us. We have a jealousy to each other that has been embedded in our spirit, as we live the white man’s spirit and nature now. But it has only a black face on it now. All my people do is live in self made chaos now. From the leadership, down to the people. They have been taught to chase the white man’s way of life and disregard our culture and real way of life. And then you pray to the white man God that they forced on our people. His God will not hear you or help you no matter how long you pray on your knees. Only our Ancestors will hear us now. And the longer we ignore our ancestors and pray to our enemies ancestors my people will suffer. We talk about the leadership of this country and Africa which has been taught by our oppressors to keep them engaged and they keep our attention so we cannot do the work we need to rise as a people. The president of Zimbabwe is just a product of colonial teachings and he filters that down to his people not knowing his has been tricked. You see the fact is, a slave and a slave master cannot worship the same God. Because while you are praying to his God for freedom and equality. Your master is praying to the same God to keep you oppressed. And as you see his God has been answering him always. Because those are his ancestors, not yours. As I read all this madness that is going on in the country everyday about politics and who wants to be in charge for mostly their own selfish reasons, they keep trying to convince the people this is in their best interest. But the facts say different as you look at the suffering of the people and all they do is entrust their life to the same people elite that say they love their people. Which as you can see are all lies from the top down. White people have left African people a culture of madness to live by, while the white people sit back and watch our leaders self destruct, and then our leaders will get on their knees and ask the same white devils to come back in and assist them to survive. Just look at the current facts. White people stole our lands, and have mad untold fortunes over the past 100 years. Native Zimbabweans the government take back the land from the white thieves, and give it back to its people with no plans on how to make it work for the benefit of our people. This leadership then goes back to its own people that it distributed the land too, only to steal it back from its own people. The Elite blacks that is. This is including in high government also. And then continue to do nothing with the land. At the same time the whites that stole the land are now just waiting to see how much more time it will take for government to come back to them begging for help and considering paying them the whites compensation on land that their white forefathers stole in the first place as if they have some type of rights to receive anything for what they have done to the people of this country and in Africa. They steal Zimbabeans land, make the laws to keep it and create title deeds to say the stolen land is theirs, and now say native Zimbabweans took it from its rightful owner. You see the madness in their scheme that my people have fallen for. Now we have Cinamasa considering having conversations with the same thieves to give them monies on land they received from their forefathers that stole it from native Zimbabweans. And the question is why you would have a conversation with thieves unless you are stupid and weak, or both. The IMF comes here to say the only way they will give Zimbabwe more debt they cannot afford to pay, is to pay the IMF $1.8 billion in arrears and then the IMF will give Zimbabwe back $900 million in more debt. Which mean Zimbabwe will never be free of these blood suckers but they have no other alternative as Zimbabwe has a group of worthless people running its finances and do nothing but beg white people and the Asian countries for dollars, while they laugh at this country knowing all the trillions of dollars of resource they have in the ground in this country and are useless to do anything with these resources because you have ignorant and arrogant people that have been put in positions of power that are weak in all that they do. These are the facts. No one in government is willing to say. We need help, but not from our enemies because no deal you cut with your enemies will ever be better for you.
You see Zimbabwe has a government built on greed and corruption that was the same as their oppressor where running before Zimbabwe so called independence. What is Zimbabwe independent from? There is still a corrupt government that has corrupted the people in the same thinking at the private sector as the government rules its own coffers. So it like the father and mother has taught their children to reflect their ways of life. And look at the country now. So thank your father and mother of the country, for the misbehaving children.
My people here always say respect your elders no matter what they teach their children the wrong way to live. And when that father and mother tell their children they are never wrong in their thinking in what they teach their children. But the children are now living in chaos. Who do you blame? The child or the parents. Back to the start with the war vets. They can only ask for things because the father has not treated his children with love and respect. So now they have only become an extension of the father’s actions.
Zimbabeans need to stop and look, listen, and learn. It is not about one person that says all is right as they command. The power is and always has been in the people. Zimbabweans people are humble and mostly have good hearts, and peaceful. In the Bible that my people believe in so much. There is a passage. CHILDREN HONOR YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER, SO THAT YOUR DAYS MAY BE LONG. BUT PARENTS DO NOT PROVOKE YOUR CHILDREN TO ANGER. Question is: Have the children honored the father and mother for the past 36 years? Or have the children been provoke into anger, by the father and mother that have misguided them?
Point is, you can love and respect your parents their entire life. But are the children taught wrong behavior from their parents. What else would you expect from the children of the next generation?
Zimbabwe, wrong is wrong, no matter who teaches you these things. Clear your thoughts of yesterday. And create for new change today. I love my people so dearly around the world. But now it is time over for blaming and bad behavior. Parents hold your children accountable for the bad things they do. But parent teach them better not to have bad behavior. Because at the end. Parents are still responsible for what their children do, by what they have taught them.
Change is the only thing that is constant in our existence a human beings. And if you go against the natural order of change you will suffer. Love and respect each other my African people. We can blame anybody we like for our ills. But look in the mirror and you will see the problem and the solution at the same time. It is never too late to change. Peace