via Mnangagwa admits Zanu (PF)’s cruelty – The Zimbabwean 10 June 2015
Vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa told a campaign rally at the weekend that if the people of Matabeleland don’t vote for Zanu (PF ) they would continue to be punished. He also said Bulawayo industries had collapsed and government could only rescue them if the people voted for Zanu (PF).
Even the water supply situation that has dogged Matabeleland since before independence would now be solved if people vote for Zanu (PF) he told the small gathering.
This is pathetic. Surely Zanu (PF) can do better than this? The electorate in Matabeleland, indeed throughout the country, is not stupid. They know full well that, come election time, Zanu (PF) makes the most grandiose election promises – which it has no intention of keeping.
The party is responsible for the mess we are in and have no idea how to get us out of it. The project to bring water from the Zambezi River to Matabeleland has failed on numerous occasions because it requires massive foreign investment and Zanu (PF) has driven investors away through incompetence, corruption and legislative blundering over the years. There is no way it is going to succeed if Zanu (PF) wins a few by-elections now.
As for the resuscitation of Bulawayo’s industries – Mnangagwa’s promise is ridiculous, particularly given the fact that industries all over the country have been closing down at an alarming rate since the 2013 elections. The economy has collapsed because of Zanu (PF)’s greed and President Robert Mugabe’s patronage system. It is that simple.
Mnangagwa’s admission that the people of Matabeleland have been punished over the years for not voting for Zanu (PF) is not news. But it is an interesting confirmation of the ruling party’s unspoken policy and betrays its cruelty.
Zanu (PF) is all talk. Before the 2013 elections they said they would create 2 million jobs. In the intervening 2 years since then the exact opposite has happened. Thousands of people have lost their jobs since then. Then there are the much-talked about so-called mega deals with China. All we see are a few bags of rice and a few more Chinese faces and low-quality trinkets on our streets.
COMMENTS
Can someone explain how coakroaches suddenly change in the minds of these people? DDT failed to wipe them out and now they are invited into the kitchen.Simple minds will trust these ZANU promises to the people they have for a long time looked at with scorn and tried to wipe out using all manner of evil: gukurahundi, deprivation of water (google punishing the dissident city), relocation of industries to Harare and the grand plan of 1979, murambatsvina etc. Open your eyes and ears and you will know that people of Bulawayo, Matabeleland and parts of the Midlands will always be taken for a ride for as long as ZANU is in power. ZIPA was destroyed by ZANU. The Patriotic Front was divided by ZANU after the Lancaster talks in 1979. When the true history of this country is written some people will be shocked that ZANU has frustrated creation of a unitary state throughout. That was the major cause of the split from ZAPU in 1963. Father Zimbabwe lost confidence in the eyes of the splinter group merely because he was a “zimuNdevere”. They may sweep these historical realities under the carpet as much as they may but one day the carpet will tear off.Rinemanyanga hariputirwe musaga vanhuwe! Nyanga dzichabvoora dzikabuda pachena vamwe vakatiza.