Zanu-PF: “Ref: Letter of Stepping Down as an Aspiring Candidate Kwekwe Central” (30.04.2019)

Zanu-PF Primaries: A sideshow of chaos, most postponed til tomorrow and most likely prepared rigging!

Many reports today has shown that the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) where not apparently ready for their Inner-Party or Primaries, as their logistics and their planning of the affairs didn’t go smooth. This was not as well-planned as the military coup in November, which went like clock-work. This was a farce, which we have seen by other liberation parties. Who thinks everything will work smooth, without any significant organization behind it.

There we’re many places ballot papers didn’t arrive, other candidates pulled out at certain races. There been open bribes at the polling stations and also thuggery as youths are wildly about in the lines of voters waiting to vote for candidates. All pictures, all video-clips released has shown the state of affairs.

This is showing weakness ahead of the general elections, as the ones running as candidates for the ruling party. Cannot even run their show and their own internal elections, how will the national be? Usually, when the ruling regime own election is marred with in-efficiencies. The state resources was at play like the Police to interfere within the elections.

Right now, the central leadership of Zanu-PF should be ashamed, that they had to postponed and we can wonder if they can deliver credible results, in a free and fair elections among themselves. So what can we expect on the upcoming elections, when the stakes are even higher?

Because would President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga accept to be humiliated like this and lack of organization with the whole world to see. Have dozens of losses and also shown that cannot run an election after 38 years since liberation. That would be humiliating, under Mugabe didn’t need to care, he took the blame and carried the load of being the tyrant. But now the Zanu-PF will have to do it without him. He is in the Blue-Roof and scheming with National Patriotic Front (NPF), which is a new toy project.

So I have not focused on the areas of this one or of any of the favorable candidates of G-40 or any of the other fractions within the ruling party. Because, the issue is organizational and also institutional. The Zanu-PF isn’t running as smoothly as the President and the PR Machine want it to seem. Therefore, many areas with dense turnout, violence, intimidation and also bribery. None is sign of strength, commitment or even show any signs of progress. Instead, it is weakness and not what the international community wants to hear. That the Zanu-PF continues with the same old things, just a mere changes of guards and few scarfs.

We sill if tomorrow brings anything fresh, as the postponed elections, the results will trigger in and the reality will hit the ground. If they wanted something shown, then the reports would have been significantly different. However, they are not, they are in contrast of what the state wants to portray since November 2017. This is the mere fact, that the only changes was a few heads and more military involvement into the cabinet. But the Zanu-PF was more of the same.

Mnangagwa haven’t revolutionized or changed Zanu-PF. If the party had been changed, then this would have gone smoothed, the results been verified and the candidates ready. But its not, it’s the same thing again. Where the state resources and other things been put into play, so many questionable reports. Like who delivered the ballots and material, the lack of it and also intimidation. That is just the mere fix of looking bad at electioneering. Not sufficient delivery for a free and fair election.

So should we expect rigging tomorrow for the candidates and for the ones that is the heart of Mnangagwa and Chiwenga. If your thinking otherwise, then your naive. The Zanu-PF also handpicked the candidates, so the ones on the ballot are in favors and previous hot-shots. Therefore, its not young-blood, but also continued cronyism at play.

There will be chaos tomorrow, it will be hectic, but there will be results that favors the President in the end. Not only because its in his party, but that is how these games are rigged. In the favor of closest allies of junta. That is whats happening. Everything else is usually side-shows. Peace.

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Zimbabwe Nurses Association: Update – Time 1900hrs (21.04.2018)

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Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions – Subject: Nurses striking Vice President Constantino Chiwenga Out of Order (19.04.2018)

VP Gen. Chiwenga shown his face and his temper with the firing of the striking nurses!

General Constantino Chiwenga, the Vice-President of Zimbabwe has unleashed a monster. The monster is firing striking employees. Surely, he is used to getting his way and that the brigades in the army or at the barracks are galloping to his every single word. Because that is chain-command and he has been on the top a long while now. However, he has now officially shown that the Zanu-PF of the present day is a military dictatorship, when a general unhappy with civil service personnel and employees in general, directly fires them.

The VP could have thought for a moment, even looked into the Constitution of the Republic. Seen that its legal to hold strikes and be members of Unions. They are by law legal entities fighting for their salaries and the concern of their livelihood. They are not soldiers who follows the words and orders from this man. They are following protocol and procedure through the Ministry of Health and hired by the Health Service Board. Clearly, the grand old general currently forgets that. Therefore, in his powers, he sacked them and wants to appoint others in their stead. This is standoff because of his personal pride and not for the benefit of the citizens.

The last 48 hours has shown the ill-intent of the general, instead of working out. He gone straight to the battlefield and thrown the nurses out. Who by all means just did a strike for their salaries. Is the value of the Republic, that they cannot carry unionised workers and unionised health care professionals? If it is so, I wouldn’t wonder if there would be a brain-drain and fleeing even more to the diaspora with university degrees and professional educated people. Why do they want to work for a state, that fires you if you go on strike?

Has the Grand Old General thought of that? Has he configured in his mind the effect of his sackings? Does he think the nurses grows on trees and are ready educated from birth? Why didn’t the Health Service Board send notices of termination to the employees, as they are bound by law? Is the Grand Old General above the law?

There are many questions remaining, there are even those who wonders why both the Minister of Health, David Parirenyatwa haven’t acted and have let the VP go off the hook. Maybe, he is worried that the general would fire him too if he asked for favours. The President has been busy as a ceremonial king and haven’t cared at all. Therefore, the VP is free to do as he likes, even when counters common practice of termination and also the rule of law. Just like the army did when they toppled Mugabe. However, nobody was sorry about that, but again the General, shows force and no remorse.

That the striking Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZNA) has been strong and resilient has been obvious to everyone, but the General has been all-in for the matter, without considering the implications. If not thinking, that he could get away with it anyway. Though now instead of looking like a breath of fresh air. The Zanu-PF regime, looks more of the same and the bright future becomes gloomy, when Generals are attacking own civil servants, instead of working with them. He went straight shooting and shot himself in the foot.

Therefore, he will not walk straight, he might act brazen and proud, but he should sulk, because he is only hurting himself and his government. With this sort of actions, the ones following knows now, how he operates and he is the kingpin behind the President. The President doesn’t question the VP, because the President is in debt to the VP. That is how it seems to naked eye, the victims now is the people and the nurses. The elite goes hunting for treatment abroad anyway. Peace.

Zimbabwe Nurses Association: Statement Time 13:40 Hours (19.04.2018)

ZADHR and ZLHR Statement on Dismissal of Nurses (19.04.2018)