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Zimbabwe: Unite for Victory - President
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The Herald (Harare)
17 May 2008
Posted to the web 17 May 2008
Harare
President Mugabe says Zanu-PF should gear itself for the presidential run-off and work hard for victory to repair the damage it suffered in the March 29 elections while deploring violence that has erupted in some parts of Zimbabwe as unacceptable.
"We have a crucial run-off ahead of us. We must use it to repair the damage and shortcomings which we suffered in the harmonised polls. The bitter rivalry of the party primaries must make way for unity of purpose. No bhora musango this time. All party members, whether defeated or triumphant in the party primaries or national elections, must work for the victory of the President.
"A party that forgives Ian Smith cannot fail to let bygones be bygones within its own house and membership. Whether you won or lost at whichever level of contest, today the hope of your future political career lies in Zanu-PF winning the Presidency. Let us go back to work," he said.
The President was addressing the 73rd Ordinary Session of the Zanu-PF Central Committee at the ruling party's headquarters in Harare yesterday.
The ruling party structures, he said, went to sleep resulting in the dismal performance on March 29 and the leadership should shoulder the blame.
"Let us go back to work fully mindful of the fact that except for one province, most of our provinces failed to mobilise even half of their registered voters to go to vote," he said.
"Most people stayed at home and that sleeping vote is what we must target and arouse. It is our vote. It is loyal to us and, in fact, stands already aroused by the sense of danger, which the party setback has shown. Let us galvanise it for an emphatic victory."
President Mugabe said the party entered the elections with lethargic structures.
"We went to the election completely unprepared, unorganised and this against an election-weary voter. Our structures went to sleep, were deep in slumber in circumstances of an all-out war.
"They (structures) were passive; they were lethargic, ponderous, divided, diverted, disinterested, demobilised or simply non-existent. It was terrible to see the structures of so embattled a ruling party so enervated.
"As leaders, we all share the blame: from the national level to that of the branch chairman. We played truant; we did not lead, we misled; we did not encourage, rather we discouraged; we did not unite, we divided; we did not inspire, we dispirited; we did not mobilise, we demobilised. Hence the dismal result we are landed with," he said.
Zanu-PF lost its House of Assembly majority for the first time since independence in 1980 but retained control of the Senate.
Cde Mugabe said the ruling party did not mobilise adequate resources for the polls.
"What is worse, it was pitted against an opposition backed by a hostile axis of powerful foreign governments with the strongest economies in the world. It was pitted against powerful global corporates who had decided to invest in the opposition in order to install a pliable client state sworn to promoting their commercial interests.
"On the ground, our sparse resources translated into onerous burdens on our candidates who had to finance their own campaigns, they had to find resources for campaign vehicles, campaign materials, campaign staff, food and all," he said.
He, however, paid tribute to the Zanu-PF candidates who are "of very humble means but with a deep love and commitment to their party. They did their utmost against insuperable challenges (but) we let them down".
President Mugabe said Zanu-PF went into the elections a "bickering and divided party" and "dangerously operated at cross-purposes".
"What was amazing was that a party facing such formidable external enemies, a party which had upset such powerful interests, a party, therefore, whose very survival was under threat, could afford to bicker and indulge in internecine squabbles. We were either bravely mocking a horrible destiny or simply foolhardy. Either way, we were courting doom.
"It should have been clear, as it must now, that as Zanu-PF, our fate is one and inextricable, our fortunes, the very fortunes of this collectivity we call Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. Zanu-PF is no Phoenix: that legendary Arabian bird said to set fire to itself before rising anew from its ashes!
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"If we allow ourselves to go, we are gone. We have enough examples all around us to draw useful lessons on the fate and aftermath of strong liberation movements and their anti-imperialist governments once they are ousted."
"The Party failed at the polls"? How about "the Party has miserably failed the people of Zimbabwe in it's governance"?
People vote for you (in free elections, free of fear of retribution) because they support your policies as a government!
Is 355,000% inflation or 80% unemployment a successful policy? It is indeed possible that ZANU-PF/Mugabe may yet steal the run-off election by killing opponents, driving supporters of the MDC off the land (to reduce their ability to vote in their home districts) and blaming the West and the "white man" for the country's troubles; but if the government of... [Read Full Text]
Juhlman, it is always so refreshing to read the true facts about Zimbabwe by people such as yourself. I just cannot comprehend how anyone can make excuses for Mugabe. For all his supporters who contribute to this forum, you are exposing yourselves as to the kind of people you are: hard hearted, ignorant, pro murder, pro theft, anti democracy, anti progression, cowards and plainly stupid. 'Birds of a feather stick together' so whatever horrors Mugabe commits, you are just as guilty because you hail everything he does.
Well lets vote in a failed state because the truth is too hard to see. There is an absoulte failure to understand you cant keep a country running on what hundred thousand percent inflation. but then the people had it too good under racist Smith perhaps they must suffer total collapse of all systems to appreciate what good governments are about even if they are racist. Perhaps when Mugabe has run Zim right into the ground then the population of Zim will understand they had the right to vote the other way in 1980 and many times since. Better still... [Read Full Text]
Let me ask a question.
Is money more important to you than freedom?
I'm a black man.
If the only way you can be prosperous is for me to Lord it over you, do with you whatever I damn well pleased, would you rather have my black self ruling out you like god almighty, or the money?
Some white man said give me liberty or give me death.
Maybe all y'all don't feel like that. I'm just asking because most Zimbabweans has proven that's exactly how they feel.
People, people, why the hell do u lie to each other, MDC or ZANU PF, it makes no difference. We need Jesus.
Instead of praying u are busy blaming each other! busy trying to kick each other out of the rear. Kurai manzwa, dzikamai
Mugabe or Tsvangirayi or even u urikuverenga, things will always be tite, saka pamberi na Jesu
brezhnev,if Jesus were here today he would think it very unfair that a handfull of whites own the majority of the land - and Mugabe's actions would be justified.
Kube.... I didnt realise you were so knowledgable and omnipotent to even know what Jesus would be thinking if he were here. Wow... and here I was thinking you know nothing about anything. Hows things in New Zealand anyways? Hope you are going to survive in that harsh New Zealand winter. Must be really tough for you over there. You poor thing.
Almighty God Mugabe has sent his prophet Kuba out to spread the word of ZANU-PF in New Zealand. I hear the CIO manual is his bible.
You are really childish - grow a brain stupid.
As I've said before Kube, stop showing us the idiot you are. Hows things in New Zealand by the way, are you enjoying living in a civilised society where the government is not murdering members of the opposition party? Where everyone eats 3 meals per day and lives without fear of death if they vote with their hearts?
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