Mkhululi Nyathi, a seasoned lawyer and a senior partner at Mabhikwa Hikwa and Nyathi Legal Practitioners in Bulawayo tendered his resignation from serving as ZEC commissioner.
ZEC Commissioner Nyathi has first-hand experience just how powerless and feeble ZEC is. ZEC was about as effective as a toddler playing referee to an adult football game - there in name only but otherwise may just as well not be there! It is little wonder many of those appointed in these purely symbolic positions have resigned rather than be used by the Zanu PF dictatorship to give its continued repression a veneer of respectability.
“I do not wish to enumerate the many reasons for my resignation, but they all have to do with the manner the Zimbabwe 2013 Harmonised Elections were proclaimed and conducted,” reads part of Nyathi’s letter.
In December, Professor Reginald Austin also resigned from the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission citing inadequate resources and the commission’s lack of independence to carry out its mandate.
The ease with which Mugabe was able to rig these elections is further proof, not that any such proof was required for some of us, of just how weak, feeble and useless the new Copac constitution really is. The nation wasted over $ 100 million in cash drafting that document and Tsvangirai and his MDC friends edged the people to approve it in the March referendum promising that it would “deliver free, fair and democratic elections”. What a criminal waste of money and now add the rigged election!
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"I'm talking about people completely shutting the country down -- don't pay any bills, don't attend work, just bring the country to a standstill. There needs to be resistance against this theft and the people of Zimbabwe need to speak out strongly,” said Roy Bennett.
Shutting the country down to what end and purpose? So that Tsvangirai, that incompetent goat-herder and all you equally incompetent MDC idiots can get back on the gravy train? Just the thought of you MDC lot getting back into is enough to force people to see the futility of public demonstration at this stage. The nation has no one of substance to replace Mugabe with even if they were to get rid of the tyrant – if Tsvangirai had been competent then we would not be in this mess in the first place!
@ Magora
"These are "his" people that he owns and he cannot see how on earth they could turn on his party and desert him," says Magora. He then goes on to give examples in the UK and USA of how the electorate has deserted other political leaders who took them for granted.
This is assumes that the Zimbabwe election result is a true reflection of the democratic wishes of the people. Wrong, Mugabe rigged the election. Tsvangirai's faulty was in failing to do anything to stop the rigging.
Magora tells us Tsvangirai "turned his attention almost exclusively to chasing "reforms" and fighting Mugabe for more power in the GNU."
What reforms did Tsvangirai implement? Indeed it was the failure to have the reforms imple-mented that allowed Mugabe to rig these elections!
Tsvangirai spent the last five years globe-trotting and chasing women of ill repute; that is not the same thing as chasing reforms!
Brother Magora you got the wrong end of the stick. Yes Tsvangirai was outwitted by Mugabe but not for any of the reasons you are postulating here!
Feeble spine lawyer. The election is all but over and now you find fault with the "manner" while keeping your mouth zipped. Well - lets speak for this man: Nyathi must explain how Komichi found a ballot paper in the bin. He owes us that before he resigns and catches the next plane to Tahir Square.
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