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Tendai Biti (left) and Morgan Tsvangirai

It is clear to objective observers that the howls of protestation coming from opposition camps and their energetic white backers are born of nothing, but mindless desperation. The AU, Sadc and Comesa are saying free and fair; only the white people are objecting. This is to be expected. Their dishonesty is not difficult to unearth.
Before the election we read reports in the opposition-controlled media urging all opposition forces to unite in a grand coalition. Without this, the papers cried, Zanu-PF would win. The grand coalition did not materialise and, unsurprisingly, Zanu-PF won as predicted by the very same papers that are now crying foul.

It is puzzling how the very same minds that predicted a loss in the absence of a coalition are now alleging their candidate only lost by way of rigging even though the coalition they had prescribed as essential never came to fruition.

We all read the opinion polls by Freedom House and other previously opposition-sympathetic analysts predicting a win for Zanu-PF. One such survey recorded a 9 percent drop in support for the MDC-T while Zanu-PF enjoyed a 12 percent leap. These surveys were not rigged. At the time, the opposition remained in denial and went to the point of dismissing the surveys as a political ruse by their Western allies aimed at putting Zanu-PF to political “sleep.” This is how clueless and idiotic they are.

Against this background, in which a Zanu-PF victory was predicted by Western surveys, it is puzzling how the Western media now wishes to paint a picture of an electorally formidable Tsvangirai being cheated of a victory that was destined to be his. This narrative is divorced from reality and dishonest. I have come to expect no less from the whites. This is how they operate.

What annoys me is that they do a sterling job of their propaganda, colouring it in credible shades, while we are slow to respond, allowing these demons to set the terms of conversation. The talking points have been set. The election was flawed and the demonic Robert Mugabe has cheated the noble Tsvangirai.

Watching this Western dishonesty in action, I am even more convinced of the justice of our cause. When dealing with the whites, one must be ruthless and unsparing because they are. Ask Gaddafi. Robert Mugabe’s treatment of the white farmers was correct and is to be emulated.

Tsvangirai is your Mandela, not ours
The West has over the years created a picture in the minds of its citizens of a noble Tsvangirai, clad in the shining armour of honour and riding on the waves of unadulterated popularity. It is therefore inconceivable in their biased white minds that their Mandela — as Julia Gillard knighted him — could have been defeated by the evil farm-snatching ogre “Mugabi.”

This fiction is absolute nonsense. Morgan Tsvangirai might be a Mandela to desperate whites, but he is certainly not Mandela quality to the generality of Africans.
Which Mandela impregnates a 21-year-old, tries to force her into an abortion and then refuses to take responsibility for his child before being brought to order by lawyers? This is not Mandela behaviour, who do these idiotic Westerners think they are fooling?

Which Mandela goes around bedding single mothers in foreign countries, promising to marry them and then performing an immoral about turn and betraying people who had put their trust in him? Do these desperate Westerners really want to us to believe that this is the behaviour of a Mandela? Would the British elect a Prime Minister who behaved likewise? I think not.

Would Nelson Mandela marry a woman (Locardia Karimatsenga Tembo) for 12 days and then attempt to divorce her via a bizarre Press Statement citing a loss of confidence? Surely we must not muddy the legacy of Mandela by comparing him to a confused dunce like Tsvangirai.

I could carry on pointing out why it is hardly surprising that Zimbabweans have rejected this Western Mandela, but that is unnecessary. The West itself knows that Tsvangirai is an inadequate fool. In public they called him a Mandela, but in private they were less generous. All of us have read the US cables in which the ambassador called him inadequate, describing him as an indecisive man who would be an “albatross” around the neck of Zimbabweans if elected to office.

The reason why they publicly equated him to Mandela while privately estimating him a fool is because they are manipulative by nature. Manipulation and dishonesty are traits that have coloured white history for the past 500 years and this seems unlikely to change. How else can one explain how America wailed itself sore, alleging hacking by China, when the NSA was actually engaged in hacking at a scale that has shocked even the most imaginative software engineers?

They speak lies without conscience; dishonesty seems a constituent part of white DNA. Consider how they terrified the world with cooked-up tales of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq when no such weapons existed.

What is most troubling is not the scale of their transgressions; it is that despite all the wickedness they commit they sincerely consider themselves the salt of the earth.

Zanu PF’s rigging strategy
A few days before the election, Morgan Tsvangirai was so confident of victory that he vowed to announce the results, even if that meant risking arrest. By Saturday evening he had not announced anything. Instead, a defeated-looking Tsvangirai held a series of pathetic Press conferences with sympathetic white journalists, telling the world that Zanu-PF had rigged. Tendai Biti, always one for colourful vocabulary, damned the election result, calling Zanu-PF the “most sophisticated dictatorship in the world.” In one Press conference he is said to have broken down into fitful sobs.

Asked to substantiate his nebulous rigging claims with evidence, Tsvangirai argued that it was simply “unbelievable” that his party had lost so much support. His reasoning is ridiculous, his thinking is mad and it is for that reason that he is not qualified to be president. One cannot allege rigging simply because they felt they would fare better than they did.

Tendai Biti was a bit more forthcoming. In a rambling opinion piece published over the weekend, Biti railed against a catalogue of rigging tactics employed by Zanu-PF. I quote him verbatim: “No, no Nikuv never helped you, never supplied with those fantastic pens with mutating cast ballots. No, Nikuv never helped you with doctoring the voters’ roll. What cheap lies!”

Let’s dissect these allegations. The first is that Nikuv supplied magical pens of some manner that mutated cast ballots. This kind of adolescent argument would be amusing if the matters at hand were not so serious. Tendai Biti has gained a reputation for immaturity but these claims are outrageous even by his standards. Does Tendai Biti have one of these magical pens to hand?

The second excuse for their electoral spanking at the hands of Zanu-PF is not equally outrageous. In fact, at the surface one could see a semblance of credibility. The allegation is that Nikuv manipulated the voters’ roll in Zanu-PF’s favour.

If Zimbabwe was the United States and the CIO was the NSA then this could make sense. It is certainly possible (and easy) to iterate through the voters roll and remove individuals you know will vote for an opponent. While Nikuv and the CIO could easily achieve the first part (i.e. iterating through the list of voters) there is an obvious problem when it comes to the second point (i.e. ascertaining who would vote for who).

How would Nikuv know which names to remove from the list of voters? Let us take the example of Harare and the 18-35 group of voters. How would Nikuv ascertain which names to remove? In a place like the United States one could mine data from opposition websites, databases of left or right leaning groups, databases of members, particular unions and so on, to devastating effect. The information exists in developed world countries. It does not in Zimbabwe. What assurance would Zanu-PF have that the algorithms being run by Nikuv would not delete Zanu-PF supporters in the process?

Tendai Biti carries on, “No, you did not throw away at the Sheraton unpalatable special votes against yourselves. No, no you did not cause the arrest of Morgan Komichi.” The suggestion here is quite silly, that Zanu-PF threw away special votes. How is it the case that Zanu-PF knew that these votes were against it when they were sealed (only to be opened by the now incarcerated Komichi) is not stated.

Not only so, Tendai Biti wants us to believe that Zanu-PF would be so clumsy as to rig an election by throwing away opposing votes in a public place. No judge would believe such nonsense and if this is what will constitute the legal challenge by the MDC-T then they will most certainly fail.

We have heard Zesn (an American funded NGO) and other Western news outlets throwing about extraordinary figures. They allege one million voters were disenfranchised. That means 1 in 4 voters was turned away. Who counted these people? What methodology was used? How was it ascertained that these individuals would have voted for the MDC? You will not get answers to these questions because Western journalists cast away all journalistic principles when writing on Zimbabwe. If it sounds good, write it and let the truth be damned.

There is talk of dead people appearing on the voters roll. This is certainly true. Dead people appear on the voters roll in every country on earth. The question is how does a dead person vote. Let us assume that an Emmanuel Chipunza who died in 1983 appears on the voters roll. How does this individual end up casting a vote for Robert Mugabe?

These are the simple questions idiotic Western journalists choose not to ask. How does a dead voter cast a vote for any candidate? The voting process is clear. Polling agents from the MDC-T and Zanu-PF are all present when voting starts and empty ballot boxes are inspected. The voting then proceeds in the presence of these agents.

The votes are counted in the presence of these agents. The votes are then posted outside the polling station. So how on earth does a dead individual cast a vote? The only way this could happen is if Zanu-PF bussed in hundreds of thousands of immigrants and gave them fake IDs with the names of dead voters. Against this background, it is puzzling how idiots in Western news agencies continue to speak about dead people appearing on the voters roll. Dead people cannot vote, if anyone thinks they can they should explain how in the voting process this happens.

Robert Mugabe is greater than Tsvangirai
What many observers fail to appreciate is Robert Mugabe is a dozen times greater than Morgan Tsvangirai. There is nothing shocking in Mugabe defeating an inadequate opponent like Tsvangirai. He is far more charming; I am sure we all enjoyed that election eve Press conference. He has a clear ideological position whereas Tsvangirai lacks even the semblance of mental order. He (Tsvangirai) began by embracing indigenisation before damning it only to embrace it and then damn it again.

This election pitted JUICE (few people know what it is) against Indigenisation. The problem is many analysts think Harare is Zimbabwe. It is not. Over 59 Community Share Ownership Trusts have been established across the country. More are to come. This is real infrastructure affecting the lives of real people. When the MDC-T vowed to reverse indigenisation they set themselves on a collision course with the beneficiaries of these policies. Whilst JUICE remained (and will now forever remain) a theory, indigenisation was tangible — it was and is real.

When Robert Mugabe began forcibly acquiring white owned farms and resettling the over 245 000 households that now occupy that land many naysayers condemned the exercise. It will never work they cried. Property rights! they squealed. Today our tobacco harvests speak as a testament to the vision of Robert Mugabe.

These 245 000 households have one man to thank for the good fortunes that have visited them — Robert Mugabe. In the past, only 4 000 pink farmers benefited from the sale of tobacco. This year the over half a billion dollars in sales will be shared out to 70 000 small scales farmers. It is an impressive redistribution of wealth. This redistribution of wealth is based not on begging for foreign aid but leveraging the natural resources that we have.

It is this background that makes the Indigenisation policy all the more promising. Robert Mugabe’s last policy punch is the future and in 10 years he will be a legend and Zimbabwe a model for other African countries. It can no longer be the case that foreign investors come and bleed our labour force for a mere minimum wage whilst pumping the profits abroad. We say not to that. 10 percent must be shared among the workers.

This is the only way that real wealth can be transferred to the poor. Those who are unhappy with this state of affairs can go hang, their investment is not sought nor is it welcome here. We are not interested in slave labour jobs.

Western observers are naïve. They expect us to hate Robert Mugabe as they do. This will not happen. His policies disenfranchise capitalist thieves and robbers, but are a blessing to the poor man. Why would we hate Mugabe for taking land from pinks that stole it from us in the first place? It is understandable that the pinks hate Mugabe; he took the butter they had grown accustomed to spreading on stolen bread and gave it to the rightful owners. He is now going for the bread with his Indigenisation drive and there is no way to stop him.

The Western media continues to refer to Mugabe policies as controversial. Controversial to whom exactly? Land reform is not controversial to Africans. It is pretty straightforward; whites stole land and gave themselves title deeds. The natural course of action is to dispossess the thief. There is nothing remotely controversial about these policies. The concept of indigenisation is not controversial to the beneficiaries of Community Share Trusts.

What is controversial is the status quo in which white investors come masquerading as charitable friends and plundered our resources without a drop of benefit flowing to the locals. They did it with US$6 billion of copper in Zambia.

The Western media reduces these complex matters to one negative word — controversial. Controversial to you perhaps.
Who do we listen to?

Sadc, AU and Comesa have given the election an all clear. It is amusing to behold how desperate the white man is. Every Western media house is quoting an NGO funded by the Americans (Zesn) as a legitimate voice on the Zimbabwean election. This is absolute nonsense.

Consider a case in which the European Union gives an election in Britain the all clear and media houses in Iran instead choose to quote the position of an NGO funded by Saudi Arabia. This is precisely what is happening.

It is outrageous that Western media houses choose to deceptively place weight on the opinions of a Western aligned NGO when state actors such as the AU and Sadc are giving a contrary view. This should not surprise anyone. The white world has been discredited and their hypocrisy is now clear for all to see.

The white world can continue to claim that it is impartial, but we all know that they had a horse in this race. Unfortunately the horse they bet on was pregnant. On Thursday, David Smith, the British journalist, tweeted that Tsvangirai was meeting with Western ambassadors. He was not in a meeting with Sadc, not in a meeting with the AU, but with his white handlers.

Tsvangirai will go down in history as the fool that tried to fight the land reform on behalf of white farmers, the witless puppet that tried to fight indigenisation. Robert Mugabe will be remembered as the man who, in the face of great odds, resisted powerful Western forces and implemented visionary policies.

We love you Comrade RG, go get them!

Ndatenda, ndini muchembere wenyu Amai Jukwa