Zanu PF’s Decade of Decay
Posted by ZDN on September 22, 2009
Ten years ago, the MDC was formed as the answer to bad governance by the ZanuPF regime. Since Independence in 1980, things had gone very wrong: the War Veterans Compensation Fund had been looted, the massacre in Matabeleland had been exposed, and corruption at high levels had become unbearable. The people of Zimbabwe were ready for change, and wanted it to happen peacefully and with dignity.
But their efforts to use democracy were seen as some kind of heresy, even treason.
During its ten years of opposition, MDC has had to deal with a regime that brought Zimbabwe to a failed state situation. Even President Mugabe referred to his hand picked politburo as “The worst cabinet I have ever had.”
ZDN spokeswoman Ethel Moyo heartily agrees with Mugabe on this point.
“It seems that Robert Mugabe’s executive is based only on doglike loyalty,” she said, “No brains or expertise required. During the last ten years their stupidity and unlimited greed have brought us into world disrepute.”
Some of the more outstanding events of ZanuPF’s rule have been – to list just a few:
The Diesel Nganga
The world’s first Trillion Dollar bank note
The five-week vote ‘recount’
The worst cholera epidemic in Africa
The bulldozing of 100 000 homes
The destruction of 6 000 productive farms
The closing of hundreds of factories and businesses
The ZanuPF Leadership Code – a total joke
The phantom Jatropha plantations
The disappearing Aids Fund
The MDC and its members have been cruelly persecuted for opposing these events, and prevented from helping to mend or correct any of the injustices and suffering of Zimbabweans, brought about by fools and bullies. A thriving economy has been ruined.
“No wonder that, after the last ten years, ZanuPF’s support among the population is down to just ten percent,” added Mrs Moyo, “And I think that is a generous estimate.”
The MDC, now in a difficult marriage of convenience, has a treacherous path to find.
May they persevere with the support of the people towards the goal of good governance at last.
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