Mugabe received over 2 million votes – that’s
61.09 per cent while Morgan Tsvangirai got just over one million votes 33.94
per cent. MDC leader Welshman Ncube came a distance third with just over 90,000
votes – 2.6 per cent of the vote.
We have here a
truly odd situation:
1) We have
a population of 12 million in the country and say 6.2 million are over 18 years
and are registered to vote.
2) Over a
million voters failed to vote on the day because their names were not on the voters
roll, at least not in the constituency they expected it to be and so where
denied the right to vote. The 6.2 million would suggest many people must appear
on the roll more than once and yet so many have been left out.
3) At
least a million, judging on how widespread this was, voter were not on the
voters roll and they were issued voter registration slips “proving” they had
registered but were not on the roll and were allowed to vote. These people too
were left out of the 6.2 million on the voters roll.
There 4 million Zimbabweans in SA, USA, UK, etc., the majority are
adults, and so there are 5 million, at most, Zimbabweans in the country and old
enough to vote. And yet the Wednesday July 31 election shows that 8.2 million Zimbabweans
out of 12 million are over the age of 18 years!
No wonder the Registrar General stubbornly refused to issue the
voters rolls to anyone including the contesting candidates. If you are going to
rig elections at a grand scale you keep all the cards close to your chest. No
doubt, all the key players and the supporting evidence in this whole election
saga have all disappeared now like the morning mist under the African sun!
So if Mugabe cannot use wanton violence to “win” any election he
has shown that he can deny millions of voter the vote whilst generating
millions of ghost voters.
7 comments:
MDC "totally rejects the 31st July election on the basis of process and absence of reforms"! What is this; a sick joke? Has Tsvangirai already forgotten that he had five years to implement the reforms and failed to get even one reform implemented! Well if he has forgotten, the world has not forgotten and therefore no one is listening to him!
Tsvangirai has been shown to be breathtakingly incompetent; he really should do the honourable thing and resign. He should go back to herding goats in Bohera!
The cold reality is that it was MDC who failed to implement the necessary for free and fair elections and until the day after the elections they still maintained they would win the elections regardless what Mugabe throws at them. Whilst MDC was posturing around there was nothing that SADC, AU or the world at large could do. Zimbabweans have to accept that we shot ourselves in the foot on this one and firing Tsvangirai would show the world that we acknowledge the problem, at least!
President Zuma accepts Mugabe election victory and encourage everyone in Zimbabwe to do the same.
South Africans should sit up and pay even closer attention to what President Zuma is doing from now on. If he does not see vote rigging in Zimbabwe, it could be because he will want to use the same or similar dirty tricks himself!
@ Chimbwido
You are really naïve if you think Mugabe can ever be embraced as anything other than a ruthless murderer and tyrant he is. This year he has managed to stay in power by rigging the elections without having anyone beaten or killed and you think that makes him a democrat!
This fight is about free, fair and credible elections and good governance. That is not negotiable and the fight will continue until that right is secured for every man, woman and child in Zimbabwe.
There is the promise I made to nincompoops like you Chimbwido of seeing justice done for the innocent blood on your hands. I always keep my promise, you will know that for sure one of these fine days! You have earned the hangman's rope, I will see to it that you wear it!
Nehanda radio report says Tsvangirai was asked by SADC in June not to take part in the elec-tions until reforms are implemented. Tsvangirai did not listen because he was confident he would win. As recent as Tuesday night, he was saying he would win 70% of the vote. Now he wants SADC to back his demands for a rerun!
Tsvangirai has remained confident of winning the elections without meaningful reforms all along, this is what makes it so difficult to support him now that he has lost. Indeed the call for a proper investigation into these vote rigging changes would get more mileage if Tsvangirai was off the scene. The idiot should just resign and go back to herding goats!
What the lady who declined give her name meant was "Politics is important, but 'I wish' it's not everything." Zimbabwe is in the gutter politically and economically because politics has been allowed to tramp everything including reason and common sense! For years the people have tried to pretend they could still get on with their business of living and ignore this elephant in the room - politics. The nation has paid dearly for this and will continue to pay the heavy price until people like the lady stop this foolishness!
"It will be a travesty of democracy to legitimise a monumental electoral fraud," says Obert Gutu.
The real travesty of democracy, human decency and common sense was that MDC failed to implement even one democratic reform and had five years to do it. If the reforms had been implemented there is no way Mugabe would have rigged these elections.
Gutu, Mwonzora, Tsvangirai and Biti were some of the MDC big mouth who kept wittering about Copac delivering "free and fair elections and a new Zimbabwe" and would not listen to reason.
The suggestion that by boycotting parliament, in which MDC's voice has been reduced to that of a mouse, the party will accomplish anything is laughable. Still, it is what the nation has come to expect from these incompetent MDC leaders!
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