MDC Alliance leader Morgan Tsvangirai is asking US President Donald Trump for assistance in dealing with President Emmerson Mnangagwa whose government has kept a tight lid on democratic reforms in the run up to next year’s elections.
Tsvangirai has sent off a three member delegation to Trump in Washington DC – part of a global campaign to exert international pressure on President Mnangagwa.
The development comes as the nation readies for the upcoming polls where Tsvangirai will face a military run party whose generals have before sworn that they will never salute him.
Tsvangirai’s three member delegation consists of MDC-T Vice President Nelson Chamisa, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Tendai Biti and MDC president Welshman Ncube, who doubles as MDC Alliance spokesperson.
The three left Harare yesterday for Ethiopia where they will go to the Africa Union Headquarters before proceeding to the US and Europe. MDC Alliance executive member Jameson Timba revealed the trip to local paper NewsDay.
“Those three leaders are on a diplomatic mission to apprise to the international community on developments in Zimbabwe, but most importantly to alert the international community of the need for free, credible and fair elections in Zimbabwe when it is time,” said Timba.
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They will not get any. The western nations already have a report on how MDC abused the funds they were given in 1999 and 2007. No deal.
Brother Zwan. Free and fair elections do not exist anywhere in the world. Democracy is an illusion created for dreamers who want to live well but cannot. It is NOT the voting that counts. IT IS THE MAN WHO COUNTS THE VOTES WHO WINS !! Think about it. The more things change, the more things remain the same, man.
Sure Makuruwani, but Trump is as unstable as he is unpredictable. His fellow members of the alliance shun him or view him as a quirk. By now he has already heard of reasons why main donors have withdrawn their funding of the MDC and wait and see what he is going to do or say. It may prove more interesting. These guys should have gone to the august bodies you suggest, not another head of state.
Trump is the President of probably the most powerful country in the world.As a member of the security council Trump has great influence on the United Nations.The idea is to use UN,AU,SADC and any other international organizations to convince the Zimbabwean government to hold free and fair elections.Taking into account what happened in 2008 these guys have got every right to fight for an election whose results should be respected by everyone involved.
Asking for free and fair elections from who? Trump…Who is he in Zimbabwe politics
Well said my friend, who is Trump? It looks like they have aready lost the elections and as long as MDC loses, elections aren’t free & fair. Funny people
Who is Trump? He has no jurisdiction over Zimbabwe. What can he do? Admonish ED, as who? Don’t really get what MDC is trying to do. Wasting campaigning time, Miriam hanzi takabirirwa….get real MDC.
These guys are on travel allowances, good for me. What will make Trump listen to the trio when he has an ambassador here. The problem with Zimbabwe opposition parties is that they seem to be clueless. Whilst ZANU(PF) is shaping itself for elections you a lose alliance that will disintegrate before elections. To say Mnangagwa is like Mugabe is like saying Morgan is like Biti or Joyce Mujuru just they belong to the opposition. I wonder when Zimbabweans will wake. With number of SADC heads of state who graced the inauguration service, I wish the trio safe travel. Why didn’t Morgan go himself. You do not send boys to do men’s jobs.
Zanu pf have a tendency of inciting violence and killings, this is with evidence of what has happened before. Any democratic government needs the international community, MT did what he sees right and i see it as a wise thing especially in knowledge of what zanu is capable of doing. Wisdom say prevent a problem but foolishness says wait for the problem, Its so shocking seeing some people after all what they went through seeing and expecting good from zanu. The zanu party is good and policies are good but the leaders are heartless, power hungry and murderers.
Tsvangirai called and supported the imposition of wicked, deleterious, satanic, racist economic sanctions against our Motherland Zimbabwe.These economic sanctions, or embargoes or targeted as Tsvangirai would prefer to describe them are ruinous and affect everyone across the political divide.
The issue of Gukurahundi, 2008 elections violence is water under the bridge since the parties involved reconciled, i.e, the late Dr Joshua Nkomo and the former President Mr Mugabe whether by their wisdom or lack of it negotiated and reconciled; and underlined by the Unity Accord.
In the same vein, after the 2008 elections violence perpetrated by the Mdc and Zanu P.f goons ; Tsvangirai and Mugabe reconciled and underlined by the creation of a Peace and Reconciliation Ministry.
Bond notes were introduced as a stop gap measure with the looming cash shortages caused by poor export receipts, unpatriotic citizens externalizing financial resources, lack of balance of payment support due to economic sanctions.
Therefore, for Tsvangirai and his cohorts to visit the USA’s Donald Trump with ulterior motives to destabilize our economy is treacherous and unpatriotic.
His party is in Parliament which is the right fora to put through whatever laws and bills and reforms.
In any case, the electoral reforms were done over the years.
Please Tsvangirai give us a break. Campaign locally and win an election. Trump is also accused of vote rigging with the assistance of Putin’s Russia.
Please Tsvangirai and your goons never trust a man, except our Good Lord, the father and the Living God.
Actually Mnangagwa mutengesi mukuru akatengesera nyika yese nehufumi hwayo kuChina. If you do not appreciate this undisputed fact then you really should not start to analyse MT, who is less a Mutengesi than Mnangagwa and Mugabe, but Mutengesi all the same, just that chance has not presented itself to him yet.So you have a good point but you should have finished the sentence.
No engagement of ED or even electorate. Nothing. MDC alliance fast asleep while ZANU PF is putting its house in order. Then get up and run to daddy Trump for help.
“Daddy, its raining here. . What shall I do?, What? Raincoat? what does it look like? “
MT is wrong to ask Trump without campaigning. But it is correct to assert that Mnangagwa will behave like Mugabe for all intents and purposes in politics. The only difference is that Mnangagwa’s government will use infinitely more violence on the public. That is without question.
Idiot Mugabe achiripo, but only in different clothes and more vigor to exterminate the idiotic population..
Why run to another head of state for help in elections that could make you a head of state yourself? It would have been credible if the team were going to AU, EU and the UN with what plans they have for the next elections or what challenges they face; not to Trump. As it is, it gives the impression that they are already getting ready to denounce any future elections as free or fair which may not be the case. Donald Trump is NOT THE PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD. The sooner some of our our fellow Africans realize that the better it will be for our democracies or our pursuits to realize them. Trump will not “help” for free. What will they give America in return?
Stop the insults and let’s encourage the President to level the playing field.This language yehwu “tengesei” does not work in this time and age.
siyana na Zwangendaba. i duziman. Ane Waya we want food on the table. whether it is fom zanu or mdc we dont care. food and jobs. zvenyu zvekutsvaka basa kwana Tsvangison hatinei nazvo izvo. we can not continue suffering because mdc maroons are joblesss.
What’s wrong with asking for free and fair elections?The opposition are free to use all the available platforms in their quest to have a level electoral field.It is incumbent upon President Mnangagwa to deliver a free election whose results are internationally endorsed.This is the only way can move forward as a country as issues to do with legitimacy would have been solved.I hope President Mnangagwa is going to do the right thing and deliver credible elections.
High five. I agree thanks
You are right Hure and I agree with you. For people who are physically living in Zimbabwe right now this political set up brought hope to the people of Zimbabwe. Why would Tsvangison try to scuttle this before it gets off the ground?
You are very right Cde Madhuphuthu but do you think we should remove our new President barely weeks after assuming office in order to avoid replication of the previous political fiasco? Even in the USA which is considered a paragon of democracy they don’t change them so fast. Right now they are stuck with the wrong choice till next election. Let’s give this set up a chance and enjoy the democracy brought about by operation restore legitimacy
Tsangirayi iduzvi iro. Mutengesi
Thanks for saying that
He just went for more sanctions. That’s want he is after dvizvi remunhu. MDC you want people of Zimbabwe to suffer under these sanctions.Now they know things are going to be better. Idiots. I hate you MDC. Hope you don’t win the next elections
The engineer of that denocide and many others is comfortably resting at the blue roof. No sane person would consider that in an authoritarian state where an MP can not hold a pre school prize giving ceremony or a person can by a mug. …a line minister can organise an ethnic cleansing of such a magnitude.
We are in the right direction of emancipation
And where in my post did I indicate my party affiliation? Unenge une dzungu seblambi yebenzi.
You seem to think those guns and weaponry belongs to Zanupf yet those are National assets now being abused by this evil party for their selfish ends, wake up stupid bootlicker.
I dont see where Trump is coming in . Looks like another shit story from zim eye
The economy is also your internal problem why then are you engaging the international community for assistance to rescucitate it?
Mr Zwangendaba I’m not sure where I offended you but a basic analysis of the problems we are facing as a nation right now shows they are more economic than political unless of course you one of the lucky ones love living outside the country. It doesn’t matter who beings the economic solutions to our country. I pesonally don’t care who is ruling as long as we have unhindered access to the mainstream economy
Voters are at home in Zimbabwe foolish idiots! Bunch of pepertual losers!
Takabvisa Mugabe tega without any external help. That is what i meant if you are too stupid to understand such a simple statement. Problem with idiots like you is that your head is way up your ass you don’t even realize that we don’t need your so called masters to solve our internal problems. If what happened in Zim was wrong the West would have intervened. They did not condemn the putsch because it served their interests of removing a dictator. get that into your pipe and smoke it. Biatch.
Apprise the international community in what capacity? Do you even listen to yourself? Morgan and his poodles are offside on this one. He has made no effort to engage ED and he thinks Trump will move things for him. Slave/Teaboy mentality at its worst.
This is nothing but funds begging trip. To make it worse USA under trump is losing its global power grip at a very fast rate. Trump doesn’t have answers to his own loads of problems
You do not achieve that by sending emissarys to go and pressure Western governments to make life difficult for us the ordinary citizens in your bid to settle personal scores, let alone for failing to land a PM post which you so cherished ,under the guise of free and fair elections and electoral reforms, we say No No to this grandstanding and i hope the team will be spurned by the wise governments on their itinerary schedule.
I think this is a good start in dealing with this military regime. There is nothing they dont know about the need for democratic reforms. They are after all the same ZANU PF of old, minus Mugabe and some of his minions. The fact that they simply announced that there will be elections next year, but conveniently ignored the issue of reforms speaks volumes of their intentions. So why waste time preaching to the converted? Its clear to me these people are only concerned about the economy they destroyed and nothing else. They dont care about human rights and they dont care about democracy. Already Chinamasa has trashed the Constitution and its Devolution provisions. Nothing has changed!!
You are the imbecile cause you read between the lines, ” Those three leaders are on a diplomatic mission to apprise to the international community on developments in Zimbabwe, but most importantly to alert the international community of the need for free, credible and fair elections in Zimbabwe when it is time”
you have a mental constipation
Its you who will go to hell. In fact you are already in hell. You have been since 1990, and you don’t even notice; that is why you have no currency of your own. You are just mouthing Mugabe’s shit Gukurahundi language about hell this hell that. You are an idiot; a copycate who lacks originality!!
What is wrong with this guy? Seriously someone please help me understand.
The problem with us Zimbos is that we never learn. The very same guys on this platform who are proping up ED are the ones who were also saying RG must rule until he dies. Very soon you will hear them crying however they will still lobby for another thug and the cycle will go on
high 5
Kkkkkkkkkk. These opposition fools do not cease to amaze me. Trump has more than enough problems.
I hope Tsvangirai is the one who killed 20000 civillians in Matebeleland, He si the one who killed more than 200 innocent civillians in Masvingo and other places during 2008 elections. So Tsvangirai is the one who introduced bond notes, bearer’s cheque etc. Open your eyes and stop being funny here
T.Moyo, you put a good question :Did Tsvangirai ever try to approach ED over his concerns?The fact that ED is from Zanu pf does not mean he behaves like Mugabe. If Tsvangirai thinks Trump will solve our problems, then he is an imbecile for sure.Him and Trump can go to hell
What Freedom are u talking about? Replacing thieves with other corrupt individuals and you call that freedom?? Open your eyes ZANU used you to solve its succession problems and you call that freedom? Freedom is when we are free to choose a leader we want without the interference of the army or any security sector. 2018 is crucial for the so called freedom. Reforms must be in place to allow people to choose a party and the President of their choice
Who told you that Zimbabweans dont care who rules as the economy is fine. He has been engaging the government since day one, but its clear that the army is in control and it will be very difficult for the army to allow people’s choice to prevail
Tsvangirai is indeed an imbecile. This is completely uncalled for. His retaliatory politics of ensuring the general Zimbabwean population suffers for him to be relevant is outdated. What is it a white racist like Trump will do for him? Zimbabweans don’t care who is ruling as long as the economy is functional. Indeed he will never rule this country. Did he ever engage the government or the general population before embarking on such a destructive strategy?
Well done Morgan and others. Tell the world the truth. Who is this confused civilian claiming that “takabvisa Mugabe tega” What a fool! Do you have a tank or a machine gun? If you are a soldier it was your war against your rival weakly armed or unarmed G40 cabal. You fought for your loot against each other. We will only get freedom when when we choose our own leaders. Armed members of ZanuPF who have been looting murdering and kidnapping for decades can never free the people never ever. The people belong to God and not guns.
I have said it before and will say it again. Tsvangirai is the cause of our problems in this country.
Tsvangirai has lost the plot altogether. This idea of treating the US as a big brother should stop! Mugabe takabvisa tega without America’s help and why is Morgan rocking the boat? He might as well ask for more sanctions so that Zimbabweans can continue to suffer. Did he engage ED on the said reforms? Now i am convinced MDC is a party of morons and cry babies. I will keep my vote.
Zimbabwe cannot go forward if we have people like Tvangirai who drive their support from the suffering of zimbabeans. Democratic reforms to them is when and if they are in power. how can you send your equally stupid people like mbiti, to stop financial support to zimbabweans unless you are the leader of Zimbabwe. poor politics at play. MDC is relevent when the masses are suffering and they want to make sure that Mnangagwa’s government is not financially supported so that they remain relevent. The whites have been wasting their money on MDC for the past 17 years thinking that the MDC will dislodge Zanupf. You can continue doing that until you notice that you are wasting your resources. Supporting a futile party that remain relevant when the masses are suffering is wasting time and resources. The whites have to know how much they have lost when trying to remove Mugabe but mugabe was simply removed by his party within two weeks when he made a blunder of firing his deputy. To all whites please support the ruling party for good of your investments.
Can we tale to the streets again to demostrate against Tsngison for wanting to disrupt our new found freedom, lets ponder over this, all because he could not lend the PM post, ohh no.
is this true? or this is the usual zimeye lies? This would not do at all