Comments on: Muchadeyi Masunda and the USD152 000 car

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:25:45 +0000

As long as you sit down with ZANU PF you are going to be corrup. Thats why the bible clearly commands us to weed out any unholly person from our assemblies. As long as Morgan is eating with Mugabe without any clear and specific goals he is going to be enticed and lose focus.
Look here guys, Masunda was enticed by the long serving and corrupt minister of local government, Chombo (Sekuru va Mabamba) to do anything that is deemed fit by the ZANU PF circles. He’s beend told that “mari yeKambani haina basa kana ukaitambisa”, “kunyange vanhu vakakuchemera nenzara, hazvina basa, chero zvoko iwe zvirikukika”. So sad.
One thing the MDC should know is; very soon ZANU PF will expose all your wrong doings and your mistakes in the public. The same with Mutambara, he was their darling, but look what they are doing to him. He is being laoughed at and has nowhere to go, even his own have disowned him.
Lets get rid of this now corrupt mayor of Harare before he is claiming every open space in the city like what Mabamba (Chombo’s nephew) has done in Chitungwiza.

By: Tonderayi

Tonderayi — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:28:56 +0000

It is really sad. Am glad Catherine has raised this issue. I read it on the Zimbabwe News and how left wondering where Tsvangirayi was, surely he has a duty to reign in his officials before it’s too late. Masunda went on to count to us the number of cars his wife and childern have. Utter rubbish and ignorance for someone who is supposed to be enlightened. I suppose the worst is yet to come. Its all very easy to oppose but more difficult to govern. These MDC guys are the new kids on the block. They saw how much wealth their seniors in ZANU PF made and I promise you they are fighting to match or even surpass them. How then do you explain their behaviour when it came to the car loans, the feasting and more recently, the retreat to Nyanga to take ‘stock’ of progress. As Zimbabweans we should keep the pressure on the MDC-the guys are used to being praised as saviours of Zimbabwe and if we are not careful we will soon create another sacred cow (as what happened with ZANU PF after independence). I would also urge donors to be careful when they dish out money to Tsvangirayi during his begging sprees around the globe. That money as we see now is for his MPs and Mayors first and foremost (Its our turn to eat-borrowing a leaf from Kenyans!!!)

By: Edik

Edik — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:46:54 +0000

MDC should be in position to nip in the bud these kind of untoward behaviours. Any failure will not resonate well with the electorate. Once people start saying ZANU iri nani or chasiyana chii? the party might as well forget about winning next elections.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:50:17 +0000

Masunda is a reminder of what is wrong with the MDC, I am glad at this point I will say ” I told you so” I am one of the few people that saw through the MDC and didnt vote for them. I really felt and still feel that it is filled with opportunists. some of them are failures politically and some are rejects from Zanu Pf.

Masunda shows the same mentality shown by the MPs who demand to have 4X4 cars imported from South Africa instead of buying from our own WMI to create Zimbabwean jobs. Why do our MPs need imported cars when they do not have a legislative agenda. there has not been any meaningful parliamentary business in this session and yet they demand cars… the ‘car’ is not the issue here but the opportunity cost of the US$30 000 per MP. How many Doctors and teachers can we pay from just 1 MPs loan. this government is broke and too big. the Harare city council is bloated, ineficient and broke!

I personally do not like the arrogance shown by Mr Masunda and the MDC should know that I am and will not give them my vote come next election!

WE will always get these characters as long as our politics is modelled around the Zanu Pf mentality of entittlement by “virtue” of the liberation struggle or the “struggle for democracy”

By: Edik

Edik — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:52:33 +0000

Maureen, I don’t think it has anything to do with his ethnicity. the guy is just is bereft of any sense of morality. See him for what he is. A corrupt individual!!!!

By: Maureen

Maureen — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:23:29 +0000

Its a pity that we always seem to be decrying our own leadership. I wish our new black leadership would understand the essence of what we seek as a people. That is upright leaders whose actions do not oppose what they espouse. Are we as a people to always cry and wish for white people to rule just because we fail to make the effort to rise to the task set before us. I challenge any black person in a position of leadership to show that they can throw off this mantle of being easily corrupted and instead show us sterner stuff of a people ready to do service for their country.

The mistake must never be made that because people are passive they are stupid. Leaders need to respect their people and as such respond to their cries in ways show this.

By: Mai Shamie

Mai Shamie — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:20:39 +0000

It is true that we don’t have leadership in Zimbabwe. We have mediocre people masquerading as leaders milking us of the little we may be holding on to. Muchadeyi Masunda thinks speaking English unlike the rest of us qualifies him to run the council. We need people of the people who have waded in the sewage of Lusaka lines in Highfield for a week. Then he will feel what it is to live our lives. I feel proud to have bright Zimbabweans such as Catherine spearheading our thoughts and sentiments so ably.

By: Sekai

Sekai — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:38:03 +0000

This is really unfair that the residents of Harare have no essential services and yet the Mayor wants to spend USD152,000. Why should he not buy a modest car like a Toyota 4 x 4 which costs +/-40,000, especially given that he already owns his own mercedes etc

By: Mildred

Mildred — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:19:24 +0000

I agree Cathrine, The guy should be fired/removed before he drowns us in more sewage

By: Steve Ray

Steve Ray — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:03:45 +0000

These are true signs of failure on the part of the Mayor, how can he be removed before it is too late?