Mugabe accuse the West of "illegal regime change" - impossible since he is himself illegitimate!

“It is abundantly clear that the imperialists will not accept an election in which we emerge victorious. The Anglo-Saxon world has failed to live up to their promise that they would respect the findings of the Sadc and AU election observers,” said Mugabe.

 

The vote rigging was so blatant that no one in the whole wide world could accept Zimbabwe’s 31^st July 2013 elections for anything other than what is was – a blatantly rigged election. The whole world saw the voters being bussed and voting is constituencies where they were clearly total strangers.

 

The whole world read reports of how one million people, that is 25% of the three million who voted, were denied the right to vote because their names were not in the voters roll is the ward they had registered.

 

With so many denied the right to vote, how was it then possible that 27 constituencies still had 70% plus voter turnout with Chipinge East with 141% voter turnout?

 

Even SADC and AU did not give the elections process the endorsement Mugabe is pretending they did. They said the elections were “generally credible” in that there was no repeat of the wanton violence of 2008. They carefully avoided commenting about the vote rigging because they knew the evidence was undeniable.

 

Mugabe had the money to organise and pay for a vote rigging at an industrial scale. He paid the Israeli company Nikuv $10 million, bought his Zanu PF candidates new cars worth another $10 million to ensure they do not de-campaign him as happened in 2008, must have spent hundreds of millions bussing the few supporters from one Zanu PF rally to another and then from one Polling Station to another on polling day, etc., etc.

 

The Zimbabwe economy is in deep trouble and unemployment has been 80% for over a decade now. The wealth from Marange diamonds should be used to get the economy back on track is instead being used to pay for the vote rigging!

 

SADC are focusing on the absence of the wanton violence in 2013 as if the people of Zimbabwe should be grateful for that! Are we to be grateful that the blessing of the Marange diamonds has been turned into a curse?

 

The West had promised to accept whatever judgement SADC and AU observers gave on the elections. In the end, the West made their own judgement and condemned the elections; the vote rigging was so blatant, no one could fail to see that.

 

Mugabe has legitimacy problems following the sham 2008 elections because of the wanton violence. He is back on the hook again, this time because of the blatant vote rigging. SADC got him off the hook last time and he should have learnt his lesson then. He did not and, this time, no one is going to get him off the hook.  No one!

 

“This shows how unprincipled our detractors can be,” complained Mugabe, “when they fail to even abide by the positions they themselves will have publicly promised to take. I am, however, proud that we, as Zimbabweans, know their wayward thinking, which we have learnt to live with for close to a decade-and-a-half now.”

 

Unprincipled?! Coming from the man who has just rigged the elections, who have ridden rough shod over the whole nation denying the people their basic rights and human dignity and even the right to life; that is the height of arrogance and hypocrisy!

 

Mugabe, the hypocrite, is accusing the West of pursuing “illegal regime change”. All the West and the world at large have done is refuse to recognise an illegal regime; Mugabe and his Zanu PF cabal rigged the elections and therefore do not have the people of Zimbabwe’s mandate to rule the country!

The people of Zimbabwe have been denied their say in who rules the country and nothing would please them more than to have this fundamental right finally restored. Mugabe must not be allowed to get away with yet another rigged election!