Tsvangirai said the Copac constitution was "MDC's brain child"
and that it would deliver free and fair elections. Mugabe assented the new
constitution today 22 May 2013 at 11.34; now we want to see it transform the
Zimbabwe political landscape and ultimately deliver "free and fair
elections and a new Zimbabwe" as Tsvangirai promised.
You asked the people to approve this constitution and they gave you a 95%
thumbs up because they believed you when you told them it would deliver their
basic rights include the right to a free and fair election. Now the Copac
constitution is the supreme law of the land; au revoir to the Lancaster House
Constitution and the GPA. Change is in
the air and I can hardly contain my excitement!
Prime Minister Tsvangirai, sir, the clock is now ticking: we want to see
real democratic changes from now on and we do not want to hear any excuses
there will be no change and no free and fair elections!
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Civic groups in Zimbabwe Tuesday called for a new decentralised voter registration exercise, saying the just ended one was fraught with anomalies.
It is true that the just ended voter registration exercise “was fraught with anomalies” but it was not because the system is centralised. We all know that the Office of the Registrar General has, like so many other organs of state, been so politicized they lost their democratic independence to carry out their statutory duties without fear or favour a long, long time ago. This is why the country needed to carry out the democratic reforms and free these organs.
We can decentralise Registrar General’s Office down to the village level if the Civil Society Organisations (CSO) want but the end result will remain unchanged; we will still have a chaotic voters roll designed to benefit Mugabe and Zanu PF.
Last time the CSO called for the support of the Copac constitution which everyone knows it too weak to get the voters’ roll fiasco or any of the myriad of problems sorted.
The trouble, of course, it that many of these CSO are themselves run by Zanu PF; they are not NGO but Government Organised NGO – GONGO! They are no more interested in see a good voters roll than Mudede, they are throwing in their threepenny bits just to muddy the already mudded waters for the benefit of Mugabe and Zanu PF.
There is no question that they are some CSO that mean well but surely they must admit the solu-tions being put forward in their collective name are not helping the nation move forward. It is clear the CSO really does not know what it is talking about; just shut up!
@ Chimoto
Chimoto you clearly missed the boat. The Copac constitution itself is too weak and feeble to stop Mugabe and his thugs from doing as they please.
You are right Mugabe and his thugs do not "respect the rule of law. Copac is so weak and feeble, it already grants them all the power they could ever wish for to do as they please; they do not need to "fight tooth and nail to interpret it in their favour." It should not be up to Mu-gabe or anyone of his thugs to choose whether or not to respect the rule of law; a strong and robust constitution should compel the king, soldier, freeman and slave alike to respect the law for no one should ever be above the law.
The Copac constitution was “dictated” by Mugabe to suit his selfish purpose; Tsvangirai’s claim that it will deliver free and fair elections is utter nonsense. The nation was foolish to believe Tsvangirai and trust him to bring any meaningful democratic changes. The nation is now paying dearly for its folly!
As for you Chimoto, you have had your head stuck in Tsvangirai's backside for so long, you can not see the woods from the trees. You need to breathe oxygen for a change!
@ Robert
The constitution is not just a piece of paper you piece of s***t. The nation spent $ 200 million dollar, sweat and blood writing this constitution and the people have a right to now expect it deliver their basic rights and freedoms and not excuses!
@ Rude
The GNU has lasted far too long for any good any of these idiots have ever done. They must all go and good riddance too!
@ Tora bora
There will be no free and fair election because the new constitution is too weak and feeble to deliver and rights including free elections. Are you really that naive to think now that the new constitution is the supreme law of the law all these problems of a very partisan Police, chaotic voters roll, etc. with now just disappear like morning mist under the midday African sun.
MDC winning election, Mugabe going to The Hague! These things will not happen, not with a coun-try with such a weak and feeble constitution. Poor Zimbabwe, we really have more than our fair share of simpleton!
@ Wafaz
It was for PM Tsvangirai and MDC to implement the democratic reforms and to write a democratic constitution and thus prevent a repeat of the 2008 violent election and deliver free and fair elec-tions. PM Tsvangirai has claimed this rubbish Copac as "MDC's brain child" and promised that it would deliver "free and fair elections".
He failed to have the reforms implemented and lied again and again on this point say the Copac constitution alone was enough to deliver free and fair elections to get the people to pass it in the referendum.
So for you to now say "Whether this constitution guarantees free and fair elections is not Tsvangi-rai`s baby," is nonsense.
If this Copac constitution fails to deliver free and fair elections that would prove once and once for all that:
1) it is a weak and feeble constitution
2) that PM Tsvangirai is an incompetent, flawed and indecisive leader who had wasted the nation's chance for democratic change by selling the nation to Mugabe in return for the $ 4.5 million house, chance to globetrot and to chase women of ill repute.
There is sufficient evidence already on the ground to show the elections are NOT going to be free and fair but there is a train load of more evidence to come. Even idiots like you, Wafaz, can see the writing on the wall and hence this pathetic attempt to distance Tsvangirai away from the very thing he had claimed "MDC's brain child"!
How can we deal with the cancer of corrupt and incompetent leaders when there are idiots like you who simple refuse to see leaders as nothing but Gods-on-earth when they are really just fallible mortals! Is it any wonder we have a tyrant and now seek to replace him with one of the most incompetent politicians of all time.
@ Tora bora
My point is that the Copac constitution itself is weak; it is not the democratic constitution the nation was promised in the GPA. Tsvangirai should have implemented the democratic re-forms so that together with a democratic constitution the nation would have free and fair elections. Having failed to do both, it is naive to still expect free and fair elections.
"The Guky party will violate this constitution;" well given that it is such weak and feeble constitution the Guky party does not have to do that to deny the people their basic rights. There is simply no denying that Tsvangirai did not do his job of writing a proper democratic constitution and implementing the reforms!
@ Rukudzo
Yes of course you are incapable of thinking for yourself and hence it is always what the "great leader", whatever idiot happened to be in season at the time, says that matters!
The country is going to have yet another violent and blood election and you are not even aware of it.
Go back to sleep. There we are! (Snoring like a pig already!)
@ Yepec
I said Copac is too weak to deliver free and fair elections. You are saying that it "has a way to getting there (strategy for attain a democratic environment)". Tsvangirai said the same thing.
Well if you are right then all those reports of Police harassing and arresting Zanu PF critics, the voters roll being in a mess, etc. will all disappear now Copac is law and the strategy has started working! The proof of the pudding is in the eating; we can now eat and settle the mat-ter. So eat! Or as one would say in Shona; Usa yera nyoka negavi iyo iripo!
We are bang in the middle of the elections already, the sort of challenge a good strategist want to demonstrate just why he is not called “Mr. Strategic thinking Guru!” for nothing. Yes it is show time, time for PM Tsvangirai, you Yepec and the rest of MDC to show the whole world you really knew what you were doing. Drum roll! Curtains! Silence! Impress us!
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