One
cannot help be hold the whole judiciary system in Zimbabwe in total
contempt. If vote rigging is not a serious and urgent matter that the Courts
should deal with judicious then what is?
The
voters roll should have been released at least a month before the elections;
that did not happen. On the day of the elections nearly a million voters
according to all the election observers, 300 000 according to ZEC's
own estimate, were denied the vote because their names were not on the voters
roll. It was since been discovered that many voters' names were on the roll but
appeared in another voting ward far away from where they expected.
The
whole world witnessed the case of bussed voters who were not on the voters roll
but were given voter registration slip to allow them to vote. The number of
registered voters had been deliberately inflated to disguise the multiple
voters. How can a nation of 12 million have 6 million registered voters. Still
27 out of the 210 constituencies ended up with voter turnout figures of 100% or
more. Chipinge East had a voter turnout of 141%
Releasing
the voters roll, the smoking gun of the rigged elections, will allow the world
to see for themselves that the voters roll, the key document for free, fair and
credible elections had been corrupted so badly the election result cannot
stand.
The
legitimacy or otherwise of the man holding the highest office in the land and
similarly the legitimacy or otherwise of those in parliament, the highest
decision making body in the land, is to be decided on what an
independent body say on the validity of the voters roll. In fact the
elections should have been postponed until a clean voters roll was in
place. To say the need to release the voters roll six months after the election
is still not an urgent matter beggars belief.
It
is clear, not that it was not clear but that it is further validation that
Zimbabwe's judiciary services are in Mugabe's pockets. Indeed this
was why Judiciary reforms was one on the many reforms that MDC was
supposed to have implemented in the five years life of the GNU but failed
to get even one reform implemented.
The
fact of the matter is Mugabe rigged the 2013 elections, he is therefore
illegitimate. The judiciary is conniving with the tyrant to keep the smoking
gun hidden in the hope that the world will accept the result and accept
Mugabe rule as a matter of fait accompli. They are all wrong; we will not
forget Mugabe rigged the elections and will campaign hard to ensure he does not
get away with it.
Mugabe
must be forced out of office he now occupies illegally and go he
will!
6 comments:
@ Owen
I need to make sure I understand what you are say. We are talking of a real case here, Zimbabwe. Are you saying Zimbabwe's economic and political mess was caused by multi national companies "playing God with people's lives"?
@ Chimbwido
Mugabe rigged the elections and he is therefore illegitimate. If he did not rig the elections he would be keen to release the voters roll so that everyone will see it was clean. He knows the voters roll is the smoking gun of the rigged elections and that is why he will never release it. Never ever!
By refusing to release the voters roll Mugabe has tacitly accepted that he rigged the elections. We are not bother about him releasing the voters roll; that is now academic. What we are demanding now is that he must go, he is illegitimate. Zimbabwe is desperate to end these years of mismanagement, corruption and looting by a group of thugs imposing themselves on the nation.
Enough is enough we want a legitimate government elected by the people of Zimbabwe registered in a voters roll free for all to see.
The Zanu PF dictatorship is imploding; Mugabe's days in power are numbered. Mugabe is going the greatest worry right now is to ensure the tyrant and the dictatorship does not take the nation with them as they tumble over the edge into the abyss.
@ Owen
There are only two categories of Zimbabweans who still blame the West for Zimbabwe's economic and political mess. One those who have completely brainwashed by Zanu PF propaganda they really have no brain left. They are morons totally incapable of seeing reality when now with all the evidence of Zanu PF corruption and looting; they still fail to see it.
The second group is those who have benefited from the corruption and looting whose only concern is to how to hold on to their loot. By blaming the West they are hoping to distract the people's attention from their loot and thus get to keep it.
"Mujuru is corrupt but nothing," you say. Mai Mujuru has a fortune worth $3 billion in her own right putting her in the same league as the Bill Gates and David Beckhams of this world only the latter made computers or is a great football player and she, well you have said it yourself, she is "corrupt". She made all her fortune from being corrupt. Her fortune was made on the misery and despair of millions of ordinary Zimbabweans.
It is the corruption that has forced millions of Zimbabweans into abject poverty. And as long as these corrupt individuals are allowed to hold on to the looted wealth millions of Zimbabweans will never ever escape out of this black hole of poverty and despair. Natural justices demands that the loot should be taken away given back to the rightful owners, the people.
Of course people like Mai Mujuru are determined to hold on to power not just to keep their loot but so they can continue to loot. She knows as well as everyone else in Zanu PF that Mugabe rigged the elections, she knows the exact details, the names of the operatives, how much was wasted, etc. She should have done the honorable thing and resigned; she did not because she is party to corruption and vote rigging and would fight to maintain the status quo. She is not a member of the notorious Joint Operations Command; still she is certainly not fit to be president of Zimbabwe!
We are not going to have corrupt thugs ruling and ruining the country!
All those with the blood of innocent Zimbabweans on their hands will lose more than just the loot!
@ Chamhembe
Someone has to say these things and beside I am talking on behalf of millions of ordinary Zim-babweans who have been denied a vote much less a voice! If you have a problem with earing the truth then all I tell you is get used to it because I have no intention of shutting up!
Zanu PF has a clean sweep in the council by-elections.
Douglas Mwonzora, the idiot who this time last year has full of beans boosting that the Copac constitution would deliver free and fair elections. As the MDC co-chairperson on Copac he took personal pride in the document and carrying it around much the same way Leonardo Di Vinci had carried around his master piece the Mona Lisa.
Mwonzoro went on to lead the MDC campaign for the nation to vote yes in the referendum on the Copac constitution. The people believed Mwonzora and the MDC and endorsed the constitution by a staggering 95% Yes vote.
Some of had seen the Copac constitution for the weak and feeble document it was, a dictator's creed. Of course it failed to deliver free and fair elections as Mugabe went on to blatantly rig the elections.
The Copac constitution cost the nation a staggering $ 100 million at least and now it is not even worth the paper it was written on. What a criminal waste! But that will all be nothing compared to the price the nation is pay for this wasted opportunity to produce a democratic constitution capable of delivering free and fair elections.
“As a party we are happy that we still have a presence in the country, we are still alive and not dead as claimed by Zanu PF,” said the blundering Mwonzora.
Many people have sacrificed their livelihoods, suffered the beatings and rape and many lost their very lives in the fight to bring meaningful democratic change. Many people will continue to be victimized by the very vindictive Zanu PF thugs for having dared to demand freedom and human dignity. It is really heart breaking that the chance to end this Zanu PF dictatorship was wasted; all the nation has to show for all the sacrifices is Mwonzora's Copac rubbish and an MDC party contend that the leaders at least are still alive!
Zimbabweans have not wise up to the reality that there are many individuals like Mwonzora and his friends in MDC who will take advantage of their suffering and promise to deliver the democratic changes they are all dying for but would enrich themselves and never deliver any change.
Zimbabwe’s business leaders have started a tour of European capital cities to cam-paigning for the lifting of targeted sanction against Mugabe and his inner circle. Zimvigil is going to demonstrate to protest the visit.
This is a worthwhile protest in that these business leaders are not being honest to the long suffering people of Zimbabwe is that they have said very little against the Zanu PF regime's corruption and looting which are the real causes of the nation's economic melt-down. These business leaders can no longer pretend they are apolitical when they talk of lifting the targeted sanction in the next breath.
Lifting the sanctions is very much a political issue. The targeted sanctions were imposed on Mugabe and his inner circle for failing to hold free and fair elections. Mugabe blatantly rigged the July 2013 elections making lifting of the sanctions a none-starter!
The targeted sanctions must stay and if these business leaders were truly independent minded then they too would be saying the same thing.
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