SADC CALLS THE TANZANIAN ELECTION A SHAM!
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has issued its preliminary Electoral Observation Mission report on Tanzania’s sham and violent election, and it is scathing.
The Preliminary Statement on the 2025 Tanzanian General Election include the following key issues:
1. Intimidation and Uneven Political Environment.
Reports of abductions and arrests of opposition activists and leaders, including Tundu Lissu of CHADEMA and Luhaga Mpina of ACT-Wazalendo.
Opposition members’ disqualifications created an uneven playing field and discouraged participation.
Some stakeholders said the “calm” environment was a result of covert intimidation and fear, not peace.
2. Restrictions on Electoral Justice.
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Article 41(7) of the Constitution bars courts from challenging presidential election results.
Article 74(12) prevents courts from reviewing the Electoral Commission’s actions.
Both provisions block transparency, accountability, and judicial recourse, which contradict SADC democratic principles.
3. Compromised Independence of the Electoral Commission.
The President, who is also the ruling party chairperson and a presidential candidate, appoints the election commissioners, raising doubts about their independence.
4. Internet Shutdown and Information Blackout.
The internet was cut off on election day, halting communication and preventing SEOM from gathering or transmitting data on polling, counting, and closing processes.
5. Harassment of Observers.
SEOM observers were interrogated by security forces, had passports temporarily seized, and were forced to delete photographs in Tanga.
Accreditation delays and missing introduction letters hindered their work.
6. Media Censorship and Lack of Freedom of Expression.
Censorship of online platforms and restrictions on media freedom were reported.
State-owned media overwhelmingly favoured the ruling party, while private media self-censored out of fear of losing licences.
7. Low Voter Turnout and Suspicious Voting Practices.
The mission recorded very low turnout across polling stations.
Some ballot boxes showed multiple stacked ballots, suggesting possible ballot stuffing.
8. Gender and Youth Marginalisation.
Only 3 of 17 presidential candidates were women.
Women and youth faced cultural, financial, and institutional barriers to meaningful participation.
9. Exclusion of Civil Society and Voter Education Groups.
Some established NGOs were denied accreditation for voter education.
Funding reductions and late accreditation announcements hurt civic education quality.
10. Security Overreach.
Heavy police presence, particularly in Dar es Salaam, sometimes outnumbered voters.
Reports of police firing guns in several regions (Mbeya, Dodoma, Arusha, Dar es Salaam).
11. Constitutional Limitations on Independent Candidates.
Laws prevent citizens who are not affiliated with political parties from running for office, restricting political choice and freedom of association.
12. Domestic Observers Largely Absent.
SEOM noted a lack of local election observers in most polling stations.
13. Delayed Report Publication.
The SEOM could not issue its statement within the usual two days due to security and communication challenges, underscoring the tense and repressive environment.
In conclusion, the SEOM determined that voters could not freely express their democratic will and that the 2025 Tanzanian elections fell short of SADC’s Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections.
The observation team was led by the Right Honourable Richard Msowoya, former Speaker of Parliament of the Republic of Malawi."
SADC must act and end this madness once and once for all!
22 comments:
@ Chamisa
The one thing Tanzania did not have is a sell out opposition who not only failed to implement even one reform when they had the chance to do so but opposition leaders who conned the nation to participate in flawed elections out of greed.
Chamisa, are you ever going to admit that you are a liar and conman? You lied about plugging all the vote rigging loop holes to con the nation to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy. There is no denying that MDC/CCC are Zanu PF team B in all but name.
The only reason you will refuse to admit you are a liar and conman is because you want to lie and con the nation once again! Enough is enough!
@ Martin
"Chimbotungamirai imi vakuru tione. You got my 100 percent support. Blaming vamwe varume for a lifetime inondinyon’onya so."
All those in public office are accountable to the people and "the people" includes any one and everybody. Indeed, it is the sacred duty of every one to hold leaders to account. So why is that when Chamisa is held to account for lying about plugging vote rigging loop holes to con the people to participate in flawed elections you call that "blaming" him?
Is it because you cannot stomach the truth that Chamisa is a liar and conman? He is a demigod who can do no wrong much less lie. And so we must all falsify the record and pretend Chamisa did not lie and all those who dare say otherwise are "blaming" him for something is is totally incapable of doing.
This is the foolish that has allowed leaders like Chamisa to lie and con millions to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the nation's suffering again and again and again. After 45 years of rigged elections the nincompoop keep believing in these idiotic lies. Why not; Chamisa is incapable of lying!
Fcuk me! Chamisa is not a demigod. He is not a mere mortal but a corrupt, incompetent. a liar and a conman. Get that into your nincompoop head!
@ Beauty
Chamisa did lie about plugging all vote rigging loop holes; even a nincompoop like you cannot deny that historic fact. But being a nincompoop you think anyone who dares speak the truth about Chamisa being a liar “hates Chamisa and is dragging him down”.
If speaking the truth, calling a liar a liar, is dragging Chamisa down then so be it. We need the 2 million nincompoops out there who were conned to participate in flawed 2023 elections educate that Chamisa is a liar. This must be done even at the expense of being accused of “hating Chamisa” by some of the nincompoops!
@ Martin M N
"What good are we if we are brilliant at eloquently blaming other people, offering no leadership, no creativity, no problem resolution but calling other people names.
My friend, life is too short to be insulting everyone. Pray for inner peace and clear direction so you experience joy and direct your thoughts to something positive you enjoy doing."
Well, well! This is rich. You are just a nincompoop who does not have the common sense to admit that Chamisa lied and conned the nation into participating in flawed elections to perpetuate the nation's suffering, even when this has been explained to you countless times.
In your infantile stupidity you consider Chamisa to be a demigod and you are out to defend him by accusing me of "blaming Chamisa" for lying!
You do not have the intellect to carry out the sacred duty of holding leaders to account and, being the village idiot that you are, attack all those who do hold leaders to account.
Nincompoops like you are a curse to any nation, more in Zimbabwe's case since you number in your millions and you have the vote! Zimbabwe is stuck in this hell-hole and nincompoops like you landed us here!
"My friend, life is too short to be insulting everyone!" Calling you a nincompoop is not insulting you. You have no clue what is in your own person interest. Participating in flawed elections to perpetuate your own suffering is not in your own personal interest and nincompoop have the knack for shooting themselves in the foot.
So calling a nincompoop is not insulting you; it is telling you the truth! You are a nincompoop!
Chamisa will have no problem lying to you and conning into participating in flawed 2028 elections. I just want to make sure you know that you are not doing yourself much less the nation a favour in doing so. Nincompoops like you should not have the vote; it is tantamount to giving a monkey a loaded gun!
@ Lionel
"You started your instalment very well but somehow you always find a way of twisting your presentation to "a single token of reform"
You are more like Trump who in every speech blames Joe Biden. Apa Trump akarakashwa nezuro.
If MDC/CCC didn't implement reforms then it's every citizen's right to demand those reforms. If you fail O levels then you rewrite them until you get 5 passes.
You will soon blame Chamisa for the pending molestation of our constitution yet you have an equal right as an armchair politician to say no to 2030."
It is a historic fact that MDC/CCC leaders have failed to implement any democratic reforms even when they had the golden opportunity to do so. It is also a historic fact that the nation is in this mess because of that historic betrayal. And, most important, it is a historic fact that the nation will never get out of this mess until we implement the reforms. Chamisa and his MDC/CCC fiends have been lying to the nation that they have devised strategies of winning rigged elections.
You never address the issues raised. You always fume and froth that MDC/CCC leaders are responsible for selling out on implementing reforms, etc. You have a personality cult mentality and Chamisa is a demigod who must not be questioned much less held to account for selling out, lying and conning people.
I do not have your personality cult mentality. Chamisa is NOT a demigod. He is a mere mortal and a corrupt and incompetent one to boot! I am here to educate as many of the 2m brain dead who believed his idiotic lies and were conned to participate in flawed elections to make sure they too KNOW that Chamisa is not a demigod but a liar and conman.
You just cannot bear to hear the truth said about Chamisa. You can fume anded froth all you want. Chamisa is not a demigod. He is a liar and conman!
@ Tich
"To you Mnangagwa id a Demigod you are compaigning for 2030 to dismiss elections in Zimbabwe ans to create a Dynasy through Mutapa Funding.
If Chamisa is a conman, the only nice residence for cruminals is the jail. Why don't you arrest him foe conning the people of Zimbabwe.
Your day. Is coming very soon watch space."
So you still believe Chamisa was fighting Mnangagwa by failing to implement even one token reform during the GNU and by conning millions to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy. Your stupidity never seize to amaze me.
But then it is possible that you are NOT that dumb and stupid. You know that Chamisa and company are Zanu PF team B in all but name just as you are not a brain dead Chamisa supporter. You Zanu PF agent pretending to be brain dead.
"Your day. Is coming very soon watch space!" Of course, my day is coming as does to all mortals! Your telling me my day is coming does not add nor subtract a micro second to that day. And, what is more, I will not stop saying Chamisa is a liar and conman because this is the truth that must be said from the roof top!
@ Beauty
Stop talking nonsense! Of course Chamisa lied and he knew he was lying about plugging all vote rigging loop holes. You are just a nincompoop who will never accept that Chamisa lied because in your infantile stupidity you believe him a demigod!
How is it possible in this day and age that anyone can be so shallow, thick and slow to believe a mere mortal a demigod beggars belief!
When you know you are a corrupt, incompetent and failed leader you use violence to silence all your critics and thus hang on to power. That the mandate to govern must be derived from the people by winning majority of the votes in a free, fair and credible election is a luxury a buffoon with no brain to articulate even one sound and coherent policy cannot afford. Zimbabwe has been ruled by buffoons since the country’s independence in 1980.
Mnangagwa is boasting about his vaRakashi4ED gangs and how they are terrorising the nation as if this is a great achievement! Fear and not law, reason and justice rules the roost!
We have many opportunities to end the dictatorship especially during the 2008 to 2013 GNU, and we wasted them all. Now with the nation up to her eyes in the economic and political hell-on-earth Zanu PF landed us in; the big question is how much longer are we going to allow the buffoons ride rough shod over us all?
@ George
“It’s clear you don't understand SADC. This is a gentlemen's club. SADC will never do anything beyond that observer mission report. Sadly Tanzanians like Zimbabweans are on their own. That's why the west ends up taking action and you call it neocolonialism.”
SADC and AU denied Zanu PF legitimacy following the blatant cheating and wanton violence of Zimbabwe’s 2008 elections and forced Mugabe and Zanu PF to accept the 2008 to 2013 GNU. The primary purpose of the GNU was to implement the democratic reforms to restore the people’s freedoms and rights including the right to free and fair elections. The fact that not even one token reform was implemented in the 5 GNU years was because MDC leaders sold out!
SADC and AU did not deny Zanu PF legitimacy in 2023 because Chamisa conned 2 m of his brain dead followers to participate in the flawed elections giving the process legitimacy. Of course, the 2m are brain dead - only idiots would believe Chamisa’s idiotic lie of plugging vote rigging loop hole.
The tragedy for Zimbabwe is that many of the idiots are refusing to accept that Chamisa is a liar. The danger of Chamisa conning them yet again to participate in flawed 2028 elections in their millions is real!
Zimbabwe is getting US$400 m or 20% of her US$2b gold revenue per year, the rest is smuggled and looted according to Al Jazeera Gold Mafia documentary. So only 20% of the “Before ED” schools in Zimbabwe have been transformed the rest are still grass thatched mud hovels!
The looting in other areas such as diamonds and lithium is much worse than 80%. There really is nothing to be proud of here. NOTHING!
This is just s gimmick! What does the ordinary person know about how much government is collecting as tax. This is a regime that has consistently denied the people a meaningful say in the governance of the country but giving them a meaningful say in how the nation’s wealth is spend!
https://x.com/WMukori/status/1986495266514739431
The government of President Samia Hassan of Tanzania down played the number of people killed during the recent street protests over the rigged elections. 500 to 700 people were killed.
When the Tanzanian soldiers refused to order the shoot to kill order, the regime got mercenaries from Uganda. It turns out that Uganda mercenaries have been used in many other African countries and beyond. A very worrying development.
Both SADC and AU election observers have condemned Tanzania's elections as flawed and illegal. A good start but one that must be followed with denying Tanzania political legitimacy. Both the regional and continental body must act decisively and deny President Hassan's government legitimacy.
It is laughable that Zimbabwe's VP Chiwenga condemned the failure to hold free and fair elections and the use of wanton violence in Tanzania. What a hypocrite! He is condemning the vote rigging and the wanton violence - the very thing he and his Zanu PF colleagues have subjected the people of Zimbabwe to for the last 45 years!
SADC and AU must deny Tanzania political legitimacy and force that nation into a GNU whose primary purpose will be to implement democratic reforms to guarantee free, fair and credible elections in future.
With no reforms implemented since the rigged 2023 elections, the challenge for Zimbabweans is to make sure Chamisa & co. do not con their brain dead followers to participate in flawed 2028 elections and give SADC and AU the excuse for failing to punish Zanu PF for yet another rigged elections! A tough call given one cannot reason with these Chamisa chete chete sheep!
@ Jaguar
Bata Zanu pf not chamisa he is not leading Zimbabwe to the waste. Why hating someone trying to rescue citizens, you very stupid rume risinganyepi rinoroora here. At list he tried the best but kusabatana ikoku munotumwa nema zani here hamushaye the negative thing towards munhu arikuzama kukusunungurai. BATANAI DOlolo munosvika kupi kuna geza ndiye so aa ndewe zanu chinhu chinonzi kubatana kubvisa chakaipa chine kuti zanu here or citizens nxaa.”
Hupenzi inyama yegakava!
So Chamisa is rescuing Zimbabweans Zanu PF dictatorship by failing to implement even one token reform in 25 years of the MDC/CCC including the 5 GNU years. He does not stop there, he and his fiend MDC/CCC banded mongoose have conned the people to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy out of greed.
“The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious - withdraw from the (2023) elections. The electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility,” confessed David Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe.
SADC and many others have warned Zimbabweans of the sheer madness of participating in flawed elections. Even after 45 years of Zanu PF rigging elections and 25 years of MDC/CCC with not even one token reform implemented; the penny has not dropped that Chamisa & co. are Zanu PF team B in all but name.
Indeed, those who are fighting to stop the insanity of participating in flawed 2028 have become public enemy number one! “You are very stupid!” says the village idiot!
No wonder Zimbabwe is a failed state; we not only have village idiots, millions of them, but worst of all we have given them a voice and the vote. Fancy being called very stupid by a village idiot - it like being slapped by a copse! No wonder many have walked away from Zimbabwe; they are let the mentally dead bury the dead!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmVebJ0iZfg
"Zimbabwe is open for business!" was Mnangagwa's rallying call when he took over from Mugabe in 2017. He was cocksure there would be a flood of investors and kick-start the country's comatose economy. The flood of investors never happened because nothing had change.
Investors had shied away from Zimbabwe because the country was a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs who rigged elections to stay in power. The military coup of 2017 had booted out one dictator, Mugabe, and a few of his cronies only to replace him with another dictator, Mnangagwa, and his cronies.
Investors are shrewd lot, they were not fooled into believe the musical chairs change ended the pariah state. And so "Zimbabwe is open for business!" was dead in the water from the word go. What has remained of that mantra is trade-mark ED scarf!
Mnangagwa wears the scarf like a parent of a dead child, who has given up ever having another child and so determined that all remember he did once upon a time had a child. And those around him, wear the scarf to flatter him.
MNANGAGWA HAS GIVEN UP REVIVING THE ZIMBABWE ECONOMY AND WILL NEVER HOLD FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT, WITH NO SOUND ECONOMIC POLICIES TO OFFER, HE WILL NEVER WIN SUCH ELECTIONS. OUR CHALLENGE IS TO MAKE SURE HE DOES NOT GET AWAY WITH RIGGED ELECTIONS!
@ ED
Corruption has gone into overdrive and only a fool will think that is a “solid foundation for economic prosperity”!
@ Tony Bindura
Having a debate with a shallow minded person is very difficult because shallow minded people cannot accept that there a complex issues that cannot be answered with simple 1 + 1 = 2!
For example, if one asked; Who was the British Prime Minister in 1770? And some one answered: "Tony Blare!" I will tell you it was not Tony Blare. Should I say nothing because I do not know the right answer?
I have said pushing for VP Chiwenga to replace Mnangagwa will be just as foolish as replacing Mugabe with Mnangagwa because we already know that Chiwenga is as much a corrupt, incompetent and murderous thug as Mnangagwa and Mugabe.
If we agree that Chiwenga is indeed a corrupt, incompetent and murderous thug; the the more rational next step is to look for someone better.
Yes, a simpleton would urge that we should still go with Chiwenga since you have not named anyone else better! Of course, it will be foolish to go along with that!
The present political system has not allowed quality leaders to emerge but that does not mean there are no quality leaders in Zimbabwe. What we need is to implement the necessary democratic changes to encourage quality leaders to emerge.
Zimbabwe's present political system has turned a dam of clean water into a sewage pond. You will never catch quality fish in a sewage pond. We need to drain the pond and refill it with clean water, this is what implementing the democratic reforms is all about.
You want a quick fix! There is no quick fix!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8y8URoVMAk
Any one who thinks that corrupt, incompetent and murderous VP Chiwenga is presidential material is stupid. Only a fool would accept Chiwenga is not a democrat but we should nonetheless fight for him to replace Mnangagwa because "we have failed to name an alternative"!
True enough, there are very few, if any, quality leaders in the present Zimbabwe body politics the nation can consider presidential material. The problem is the rotten political system which has produced corrupt, incompetent vote rigging thugs by their hundreds of thousands. You will never catch quality fish fishing in a sewage pond. Zimbabwe body-politics is but a sewage pond.
We need to drain the sewage pond and refill it with clean water, this is where implementing the democratic reforms come in. A healthy political system will encourage quality leaders to emerge.
A healthy and functioning democratic Zimbabwe will not be achieved in a week, a year or even a decade and seeking a quick fix, such as elected a known dictator like Chiwenga, will only make a bad situation worse!
NOT EVERY PROBLEM IS A SIMPLE PROBLEM WITH A SIMPLE QUICK-FIX SOLUTION!
@ Evangelist Faith
“Iwe Mukori Dai Mwari akutora 2026!”
My cardinal sin is that I dared to say Chamisa lied about plugging vote rigging loop holes to con millions to participate in flawed 2023 elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the nation’s suffering.
There is a real danger that Chamisa will con the millions to participate in flawed 2028 to perpetuate the nation’s suffering. It is a sacred duty of all with the intellect to see and comprehend what is going on to sound the warning. If doing so is a cardinal sin then so be it.
As far as I am concerned to let village idiots silence me on this matter will be the cardinal sin I will not forgive myself for.
“Iwe Mukori dai Mwari akutora 2026!” To which God are you praying? Chamisa’s #Godisinit!
Meanwhile, the message CHAMISA IS A LIAR AND CONMAN! will continue be broadcast from the rooftops. Driven into the empty heads with a sludge hammer!
@ Evangelist Faith
“Mnangagwa failed us until now we have a failed state. Better with Chiwenga than to start debating on comparisons. We don't the time for that debate neither are you a King Maker who decides for us. Mnangagwa out Chiwenga in then next Chamisa in that order. Like it or not. Those who are jealousy go and vomit outside.”
After 45 years of rigged elections and bad governance you do not have time to end the madness of rigged elections and bad governance?
You agree Chiwenga is a corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging murderous thug but you will want him as president just because he has fallen out with his fellow Zanu PF thugs. He will never ever implement any democratic reforms and reform him himself out of office. Never! And you still want him as president?
Frankly, I am not surprised to hear you say that! You have again and again shown that you have the IQ of a garden slug and it would be expecting too much to expect you to say anything rational.
“insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result,” said Albert Einstein. Even he would be shock that anyone, much less a whole nation, would participate in flawed elections expecting the opposition to win for 45 years and counting!
The challenge before Zimbabwe is to stop the madness of participating in rigged elections to perpetuate the vote rigging Zanu PF dictatorship. One would have thought that after 45 years of rigged elections even a garden slug understood what must be done. Clearly not yet, the message must be hammered home with a sludge hammer. Fortunately I have the sludge hammer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcIhejIEKGE
Russia has used her own prisoners as cannon fodder in the war against Ukraine and now that nation is turning to Africa. Thousands of Africans are signing up for military training and to fight for Russia.
Besides Ukraine, Russia's Wagner Group is operating in many African countries providing armed security services to some of the continent's corrupt and murderous regimes. Wagner is allowed to loot the nation's resources as payment for its services.
So Russia will soon have a pool of African mercenaries to fight its dirty wars anywhere in Africa.
What will the African nation do with the thousands of battle hardened soldiers discharged from the Russian Army?
Africa has enough teething problems already and this Russian Recruitment is going to compound our problems. The tragedy is we are helpless to stop it. The recruits are so desperate for a way out of their present hopelessness, they will risk all for a paying job at last!
Preliminary statement of the Electoral Commissions Forum of SADC countries (ECF-SADC) on the general election of Tanzania is again scathing and correctly harsh.
The issues identified in the Preliminary Statement include several serious concerns that question the credibility, transparency, and fairness of the polls.
Here are the key negative findings:
1. Incomplete and Superficial Electoral Reforms.
• Opposition parties complained that reforms were only partially implemented, as no constitutional amendments were made to back them up.
• There is no legal avenue to challenge presidential election results, which the report calls a denial of electoral justice .
• The addition of the word Independent to INEC’s name was described as symbolic, with no substantive independence guaranteed, since the appointments of INEC and ZEC members were still made under old laws.
https://www.facebook.com/wilbert.mukori.5/videos/2931182430407189
Some of the filthy rich religious leaders feeding on the poorest of the poor are from Africa. Religion has become the opium of the people. African will believe anything they hear, especially from the leaders, even in the face of a mountain of evidence proving otherwise.
It is not surprising that the continent's corrupt. incompetent and tyrannical politicians have too taken full advantage of this fundamental weakness. They have become demigods who rule and are not accountable to anyone - the very antithesis of what a healthy and functioning democracy should be.
Democracy, government of the people, only works if the said people are educated, knowledgeable, objective and diligent in carrying our their sacred duty of holding leaders to account. Zimbabweans have none of these qualities and hence the reason why they hold leaders in such high regard they are demigods!
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