President Ian Khama has increased the
pressure on SADC to carry out an audit of Zimbabwe’s July 2013 elections by
threatening to stop sending election observers to future elections in the
region.
“If we say this year, there are going to
be elections in South Africa and Botswana . . . there are one or two other Sadc
countries that are going to be holding elections this year . . . if we breach
the Sadc guidelines and they then try and point a finger . . . we will say to
them, ‘So what? You let Zimbabwe off the hook, you have to let us off the
hook.’ Then where does it end?” President Khama argued on Botswana TV.
Mugabe failed to produce the voters roll
before the elections and the country’s Supreme Court has just upheld a lower
court’s ruling that there was no urgency in hearing the MDC appeal asking the
Zimbabwe Election Commission to release the voters roll. The voters roll has
become the smoking gun to the vote rigging by Mugabe. The roll will prove or
otherwise the vote rigging allegation and thus clear the illegitimacy label
that Mugabe has had to wear since July 2013. If clearing this vey important
point is not urgent then what is!
Of course, if releasing the voters roll
will prove, as the other evidence already show, massive vote rigging Mugabe
would much rather not release the roll and wear the illegitimacy label that
release the roll and confirm the vote rigging beyond all doubt. Mugabe has
clearly decided to seat on the voters roll and never allow its publication. He
is increasingly looking sheepish, like a chicken that has just laid a square
egg!
Mugabe must not be allowed to get away
with vote rigging, not this time or ever again!
deserves to be called a great statesman
for his willingness to tackle the difficult issue, for trading where other shy
away.
The issue of free and fair elections lies
at the very heart of our entire search for peace, justice, freedom, human
dignity, economic stability and prosperity; everything. Leaders like President
Zuma of SA have paid lip-service democratic reforms in Zimbabwe for years and
so nothing was achieve. Zimbabwe did not have even one reform implemented in
the five years of the GNU.
It was not for President Zuma or any of
the SADC Heads of State to implement the reforms; that is true. This was a task
for Zimbabwe's partners in the GNU, especially MDC and its leader Tsvangirai,
to do. But having noticed that none of the reforms were being implemented there
was nothing to stop President Zuma cracking the whip.
The SADC and AU election observers
reported that they had been numerous irregularities in the Zimbabwe elections
it was the responsibility of SADC and AU Head of State to reject the election
result instead of sweeping the finding under the carpet.
All SADC and AU leaders
must now hang their collective head in shame; all that is expect President Khama
of Botswana. All freedom loving people of SADC and beyond salute you sir. You
are a beacon of hope at a time when our region and continent need someone they
can look up to.
8 comments:
People like Mai Mujuru, the woman aspiring to be the next State President, has a fortune of $ 3 billion in her own right, discounting the $ 9 billion her late husband had accumulated. What exactly has she invented, traded in or done to earn all this money? I will tell you; she robbed the millions of ordinary Zimbabwe now living in total abject poverty and despair. For that is what greed and corruption does - it creates a filthy rich few at the expense of the millions they robbed!
People like Mai Mujuru are as rich as the Bill Gates and Henry Fords of this world with the subtle difference that whilst the latter can point to the billions of computers or cars they designed, built and sold over the years Mai Mujuru created nothing. All she did is loot what others had made or rob the poor of their fair share of the nation's wealth!
If we are serious about removing this cancer of corruption and greed that has destroyed the nation and cause so much suffering and despair then we must fire the likes of Dube, yes, but also fire the likes of Mai Mujuru, the real mothers of selfish greed!
@ Djoser
The CIO numbers were boosted by a staggering 10 000 last year alone and they help implement the vote rigging and their presence of web sites like this one could not have been missed. And yet all the vote rigging and propaganda offensive have not stop the economic melt-down, the prelude to the implosion of the Zanu PF dictatorship.
Mugabe's project to create theNorth Korea style Police State is not going to happen.
We all know Mugabe and his cronies are going to have a tough time holding on to their loot since none of them can explain how they came to own. It is worse for those with the blood of the over 30 000 murdered by the regime on their hands.
The blatant vote rigging was the regime's last ditch effort to stop the dreaded regime change and the certainty of losing the loot and justice. The reckless spending to finance the vote rigging has backfired; it has precipitated the economic melt-down and the dreaded regime change is now unavoidable!
You days of beating, raping and murdering innocent Zimbabweans to retain political power are over. You can tell the judge the over 30 000 you lot have murdered were all "African/black sell-outs" but I do not think that will save you from the sudden drop followed by the equal sudden neck-breaking stop!
I personally detest capital punishment but has to admit that faced with harden thugs like you; it is the only way the nation can send a clear message that your contemptuous disregard for the suffering and mindless murder of so many innocent Zimbabweans is totally unacceptable. To left you lot off lightly will send the wrong message to would be thugs.
@ Chimbwido
The CIO numbers were boosted by a staggering 10 000 last year alone and they help implement the vote rigging and their presence of web sites like this one could not have been missed. And yet all the vote rigging and propaganda offensive have not stopped the economic melt-down, the prelude to the implosion of the Zanu PF dictatorship.
Mugabe's project to create the North Korea style Police State is not going to happen.
We all know Mugabe and his cronies are going to have a tough time holding on to their loot since none of them can explain how they came to own. It is worse for those with the blood of the over 30 000 murdered by the regime on their hands.
The blatant vote rigging was the regime's last ditch effort to stop the dreaded regime change and the certainty of losing the loot and justice. The reckless spending to finance the vote rigging has backfired; it has precipitated the economic melt-down and the dreaded regime change is now unavoidable!
There is one dream I have worked hard and will see come and that is to see and end to this corrupt and oppressive Zanu PF dictatorship. It has not happened, I agree but even you will have to admit that it nearly happened in 2008 if only that blundering idiot Tsvangirai has not left Mugabe off the hook.
Of course I am furious at Tsvangirai and that is why would I call him a blundering idiot who should be kicked out of the $4 million mansion and send back to Buhera to herd goats.
The blatant vote rigging by Mugabe was an act of desperation on his party but his reckless spending to finance it has been a double edged sword. It helped him pull-off the vote rigging but left the nation bankrupt. Mugabe needs financial help but there is no one willing to give him a penny - not even the Chinese! Even they are sensing that the tyrant and his party are on their death bed.
Yes Mugabe and Zanu PF's grip on power is slipping. It has been long in coming but what of it; what matters now is that it is here and the nation's hopes and self-confidence in a better tomorrow will spring back to life like the green of spring after the first rains!
Mugabe and a few others can see the writing on the wall but idiots like you are refusing to see it. In your futile effort to hold back the tide of change let us hope you will not be tempted to commit or incite the commitment of more human rights violations.
Mugabe will abandon you and you will be left holding the murder weapon.
Frankly I do not care whether Mugabe releases the voters roll or not at present. What matters is that he is forced out of office. There are hundreds of thousands Zimbabweans out there how will tell all the dirty details if offered a reduction of their jail term for their part in the whole sorry affair. The truth is just too big for Mugabe to take to his grave!
@nofool
The label "Puppet of the West" on Tsvangirai did strike an accord, it stuck on him like a stamp to a letter because Tsvangiai shoed again and again that he was incompetent and incapable of independent and originality. That label will never ever stick on me because I am and will always be my own man. I have criticized the British, the Americans and even the foul mouthed Jews who most people fear so much when I believed they had done something wrong.
By helping Mugabe to rig the elections, Nikuv and the government Israel (they were warned at government level of what Nikuv was doing so they can never pretend they did not know) the Israel may just as well spat the people of Zimbabwe right in the face. Of course do not expect a moron like Mugabe to understand the full international ramifications of another nation playing such a prominent role in planning and execution of high treason with potentially devastating con-sequences. All the tyrant wanted was to "win" the elections the fact that he was himself conned by Nikuv into paying $ 13 million for something shoddy work that high school dropouts could have done in one weekend is immaterial.
Mugabe is refusing to release the voters roll, the smoking gun in the vote rigging, because contrary to what Nikuv told him when they he idea; anyone can see the really childish dirty tricks played here.
How can I be parrot, much less a puppet, of the West when none of them have ever said any of these things so I can repeat them. You are so used to dismissing every black African who dares challenge Mugabe and his myopic ideas a puppet and so you think of doing that to me.
No my friend it is you who is nothing more that a ventriloquist's dummy mouthing the same nonsensical propaganda unaware Mugabe, you master has already been exposed for a fraudster, What you believed was him speaking was a pre-recorded tape and it was a monkey's hand up your dummy's a***!
Mugabe is on his death bed and the ruthless Zanu PF dictatorship he moulded in his own image is dying with him. Regime change is as certain as day follows night and that means the day of reckoning is upon us! There is absolutely nothing anyone can do to stop the tide of change and, for the nation, renewal. You are a discredited ventriloquist's dummy for Pete's sake, even the monkey is tired of having his hand up your a***!
@ George
"How could General Mujuru be worth nine billion, from what?" From decades of corruption and looting, of course?
Of course none of the Zanu PF looters are listed in any of the reputable publications but that is because there are no audited records of their wealth. None of them have been filing any tax returns. The lowly paid worker earning $300 a month pays income tax which the ruling elite loot by paying themselves all manner of tax-free allowances and perks.
Zanu PF leaders have been paying themselves, Mai Mujuru included, $1 000 for attending party meetings whilst party workers were not being paid the $300 monthly wage!
It is not how the corruption and looting has been happening or the mouth watering sums that you are failing to comprehend. You do not want to believe these things because they confirm something you have refused to accept - that you are a moron who has spend all those years with your head buried in the sand because you did not want to see the reality and the truth about tyrants like Mugabe and Mujuru whom you worshipped!
Your brain has turned to fat still even with your monkey brain you will soon know what economic melt-down really means because that is one reality that will hit the whole nation.
@ George
"How could General Mujuru be worth nine billion, from what?" From decades of corruption and looting, of course!
Of course none of the Zanu PF looters are listed in any of the reputable publications but that is because there are no audited records of their wealth. None of them have been filing any tax returns. The lowly paid worker earning $300 a month pays income tax which the ruling elite loot by paying themselves all manner of tax-free allowances and perks.
Zanu PF leaders have been paying themselves, Mai Mujuru included, $1 000 for attending party meetings whilst party workers were not being paid the $300 monthly wage!
It is not how the corruption and looting has been happening or the mouth-watering sums that you are failing to comprehend. You do not want to believe these things because they confirm something you have refused to accept - that you are a moron who has spent all those years with your head buried in the sand because you did not want to see the reality and the truth about tyrants like Mugabe and Mujuru whom you worshipped!
Your brain has turned to fat still even with your monkey brain you will soon know what economic melt-down really means because that is one reality that will hit the whole nation. Even the CIO agents have to eat and drink; they too will begin to question the logic of spending billions beefing up security and building a Spy University when the nation is starving and has no water!
@ Makomorero
Are you saying that because you do not believe there has been looting in Zimbabwe or is it that you know there has been wholesale looting but just do not want these things said!
As for me I know there has been rampant corruption and looting in Zimbabwe and I believe the $3 billion and $ 9 billion are nothing compared to the amounts of money these morons have squandered away in shoddy deals, buying expensive cars like Chiyangwa, etc.
Zimbabwe's net worth was in trillion of dollars and most of that wealth is now in the hands of a few individuals - not that they are making productive use of it, they are seating on it and holding the whole nation to ransom.
The trouble with you CIO morons is that you are paid to defend the indefensible and per se end up showing just what simpletons you are, The nation is facing the worst economic and political crisis - man-made of course - ever and millions of our people's very lives are at stake and all you can think of defending the very vote rigging thugs who have cause this crisis! Of course you are a nincompoop!
You are a Zimbabwean there is nothing I can do to change that just as there is nothing I can do to change the fact that you are a nincompoop!
@ Tengenenge
Are you saying that because you do not believe there has been looting in Zimbabwe or is it that you know there has been wholesale looting but just do not want these things said!
As for me I know there has been rampant corruption and looting in Zimbabwe and I believe the $3 billion and $ 9 billion are nothing compared to the amounts of money these morons have squandered away in shoddy deals, buying expensive cars like Chiyangwa, etc.
Zimbabwe's net worth was in trillion of dollars and most of that wealth is now in the hands of a few individuals - not that they are making productive use of it, they are seating on it and holding the whole nation to ransom.
The trouble with you CIO morons is that you are paid to defend the indefensible and per se end up showing just what simpletons you are, The nation is facing the worst economic and political crisis - man-made of course - ever and millions of our people's very lives are at stake and all you can think of defending the very vote rigging thugs who have cause this crisis! Of course you are a nincompoop!
You are a Zimbabwean there is nothing I can do to change that just as there is nothing I can do to change the fact that you are a nincompoop!
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