The EU under pressure from the Belgians is turning a
blind eye to Mugabe’s blatant vote rigging setting a very dangerous precedence
for Africa.
When
one million people are refused the right to vote because Nikuv tempered with
the voters roll; when thousands of voters are bussed to vote from one polling
station to the next who were complete strangers in the area; when ten
constituencies had more than 100% voter turnout with Chipinge East having 141%;
etc. And none of these serious irregularities were even investigated showing
that the regime had planned and directed them.
This
was a well-orchestrated and funded operation.
Mugabe rigged the elections; everyone, the whole world knows that. The EU can embrace Mugabe and welcome him, which will not change the reality on the ground – he is illegitimate because .the people of Zimbabwe did not elected him!
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Some people have argued that if the millions of Zimbabweans, most of the highly skilled, had not left the country then the country would not have gone to the dogs. This is a fallacious argument because these people will agree that the Zimbabweans left in droves when it was clear the country was sinking and sinking fast. If the people now the diaspora could have drag the country out of the gutter if they all went back now or would have saved the country from sinking this far the fact still remains that they were there but failed to stop the country from sinking in the first place!
Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies thought they knew best what the nation needed and the ruled with an iron fist; as dictators always do. Even now with the country in a total mess; Mugabe still believes he alone knows what needs to be done and it would “kill” him to see the nation prosper and thus prove that he was just a corrupt and incompetent tyrant after all!
Zimbabwe will never ever recover economically and politically as long as Mugabe and Zanu PF remain in power. Any Zimbabweans who go back now will not make any difference, the same mismanagement, corruption, looting and political harassment that forced them to leave the country is still there!
@ Reason
For the last ten years we have seen Tsvangirai make one blunder after another and still the penny has not dropped. And you think you are still chewing on the bone.
You can call it whatever you wish, the truth is, you have your head stuck in Tsvangirai's backside! And, worse still, it is nincompoops like you who have help tyrants like Mugabe and idiots like Tsvangirai drag the nation into the gutter and keep it there.
Mugabe tells European diplomats that the EU should lift the sanctions. "We must now look at the future and the need for sanctions to go," Mugabe said.
We! Who is we? Is Mugabe counting the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans in that? He cannot be counting them in that because what future will they have other than more of the same miserable life Mugabe has decreed for them these last 33 years.
Zimbabweans have seen their standard of living fall like a stone with life expectancy, the ultimate qualitative and quantitative measure of life, has fallen from 68 years in 1980 to a mere 34 years in 2004, the last time it was measured. And the root cause of this is 33 years of mismanagement, corruption, looting and political repression by Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs.
The targeted sanctions were imposed on Mugabe and his cronies to force them to accept meaningful democratic reforms and end the political repression; this is a pre-requisition for good governance and economic recovery.
Mugabe has stubbornly resisted implementing the reforms; not even one reform was implemented before this year’s elections. On election-day itself Mugabe blatantly rigged the elections by bussing in his party youths from one polling station to another to vote, squandering billions of dollars looted from the sale of Marange diamonds to bankroll’s vote rigging operation, etc.
Mugabe imposed himself on the people of Zimbabwe these last 33 years and did so again in July 2013 by rigging the election denying them hope and a future. The targeted sanctions must be extended and force Mugabe to give up power now. Not in five years, now!
@ Lizard
Ordinary Zimbabweans are not being allowed to move on. Mugabe is not going to get away with vote rigging, not this time!
What has opposing vote rigging to do with whites? Your inferiority complex is blinding you to what is happening and is important and naturally tyrants like Mugabe have taken full advantage of you stupid. Mugabe was talking of the vote rigging as "a blow against the British" and morons like you swallowed that nonsense.
The Mugabe government, the cash-strapped government, “splashed close to US$20 million on luxury cars including Mercedes-Benz and SUVs for 26 cabinet ministers, 13 ministers of state and 24 deputies” reported Radio Nehanda.
“Senior officers of the Zimbabwe Republic Police, Zimbabwe National Army and top officials from other security organisations also got top-of-the-range vehicles soon after the elections. Officers from the rank of Senior Assistant Commissioner were allocated double cab Ford Rangers,” said the report.
This is not surprising, now that Mugabe has successfully rigged the elections; he has a lot of people to thank and bribe. The corruption and looting will continue and get worse!
@ Mukundi
Do you know the meaning of the word sane? I do not think you do because by rigging the elections Mugabe has dragged Zimbabwe into the dark age. The sanctions are a protest against vote rigging; how can anyone therefore be against the sanctions and be sane! Only a nincompoop would say such nonsense!
@ Thuglife
For 33 years Zimbabweans have been treated as is they are morons who will be cheated and not know that they are being short changed. Mugabe bussed in his party youths to vote in constituencies they were total strangers, everyone saw that, and yet Mugabe expects Zimbabweans to just accept that as normal in a free, fair and credible election.
Rigging the elections was not just a crime but treason.
Mugabe is a tyrant and a dictator but if he thinks he can sweep treason under the carpet then he has something else coming!
For 33 years Zimbabweans have been treated as is they are morons who will be cheated and not know that they are being short changed. Mugabe bussed in his party youths to vote in constituencies they were total strangers, everyone saw that, and yet Mugabe expects Zimbabweans to just accept that as normal in a free, fair and credible election.
Rigging the elections was not just a crime but treason.
Mugabe is a tyrant and a dictator but if he thinks he can sweep treason under the carpet then he has something else coming!
@ Mutongi
Did you see the bussed youths who voted in Mount Pleasant and yet they clearly did not know where they were showing this was the first time they had been there. Do you really need someone to tell you that there was something fishy going on here?
There are some things we can debate about; Mugabe rigged the July 2013 elections, that is not debatable. There is overwhelming evidence that this election was not free, fair and credible and on voting day there was blatant vote rigging; it is nonsense to even think Mugabe is anything other than illegitimate.
Zimbabwe needs a legitimate government to move out of the hell-hole Mugabe landed it. And that has to start with free, fair and credible elections.
@ Musiyamwa
Forget the UN, the West, etc.; tell me what you yourself concluded when you saw youths bussed in to vote in areas where they were complete strangers? What did you think when no one lifted a finger to find out what was going on?
The trouble with morons like you is that you are incapable of thinking for yourself and you accept nonsense from tyrants like Mugabe without stopping to think for yourself.
Mugabe said rigging the elections was a blow against the West. How does denying millions of Zimbabweans their basic right translate into a blow against the West. Only morons would accept such nonsense.
@ Don
I am a Zimbabwean and I know that Mugabe murdered over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans to establish and return this dictatorship. Mugabe rigged the July elections. I do not need anyone in the West, East, North or South to tell me what is there before my own eyes. I also know that the AU, SADC or any African country or institution will ever lift a finger against African tyrants like Mugabe.
SADC and AU have just endorsed another Mugabe rigged election, for Pete's sake. Only an idiot who believe those AU clowns proposing reducing the ICC's role in Africa are doing so to promote the rights of the ordinary Africans!
@ FAQ
I am a Zimbabwean and I know that Mugabe murdered over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans to establish and return this dictatorship. Mugabe rigged the July elections. I do not need anyone in the West, East, North or South to tell me what is there before my own eyes. I also know that the AU, SADC or any African country or institution will ever lift a finger against African tyrants like Mugabe.
SADC and AU have just endorsed another Mugabe rigged election, for Pete's sake. Only an idiot who believe those AU clowns proposing reducing the ICC's role in Africa are doing so to promote the rights of the ordinary Africans!
@ Murozvi
Mugabe can say what he wants and give an excuses he want; that will not change the facts on the ground, he is a corrupt and ruthless tyrant. The sanctions have been nothing more than an inconvenience to Mugabe and his cronies, they have contributed 1% if anything to Zimbabwe's economic melt down.
What they have done is remind Mugabe and his cronies that their corruption and tyrannical rule will not be swept under the carpet. And that is a damn good reason the sanctions must stay!
The plight of prisoners in Zimbabwe is once again coming to the fore; the prisoners are being systematically starved. The few days the prisoners are fed mouldy bread, they cheer because that is the best meal!
"The bread is in fact condemned (rejected)] by the bakery, but it still brings joy to prisoners because it is some of the best food they ever get behind those walls," said Kerina Dehwa, a former political Chikurumbi prisoner.
The prison system could produce all the food the prisoners needed; they have the farms and free labour of the prisoners themselves. What the system has lacked is the political will to put these farms into productive use. Like all the farms Mugabe and his cronies seized, the farms are all laying idle.
This is the system dishing out extra-judicial punishment to the prisoners; this is totally unacceptable!
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