A
Chiredzi group of war vets told The Zimbabwean that they were ordered to campaign
vigorously for Zanu (PF) and Mugabe in return for sugar cane plots. After the
Mugabe election victory they invaded sugar estate belonging to Tongaat
Huletta and allocated themselves plots – the njambanja modus operandi of
the white farm invasion that has been going on since 2000. The war vets were
therefore shocked, naturally, when they were arrested, jailed and kicked of the
estate!
"We
were told by the party, including even our seniors in the army, that we were
going to be empowered through the issuance of sugar plots if we campaigned for
the party and President Mugabe," said their spokesperson Ezra Muronda.
These
war vets say they were ordered to campaign “vigorously” for Mugabe; what the nation
would want to know is just how vigorous” their campaigns were?
Two
days before the 31st July 2013 elections the number of Polling Stations was
increased from 2 000 to 9 000; four and half times! Were these war vets
involved in manning those ghost Polling Stations?
Then
there is the issue of voters who were bussed from one Polling Station to the
next (or should I say from one ghost Polling Station to the next), with each voter
casting as many as 10 votes. Did their vigorous campaigning, by chance, include
casting multi-votes?
We
in the Zimbabwe Social Democrats (ZSD) are committed to ensure all the
democratic reforms are fully implemented in word and spirit before the next
elections to ensure the blatant vote rigging that took place in the 2013 elections
is never repeated.
As
a further measure to restore public confidence in the electoral process; the
ZSD will institute a thorough independent judiciary investigation to establish
the full facts of the vote rigging in the 2013 elections. Those found guilty of
multiple voting for example will be rewarded with the prison sugar plot and
those who benefited from the vote rigging will have all their looted wealth taken
away from them and serve a stiff mandatory custodial jail term.
Conclusion
Free,
fair and credible elections are the foundation on which free, justice
prosperous nations are built; Zimbabwe is in this chaotic mess today precisely
because the nation has failed to hold free and fair elections. It is those who
have rigged elections who have dragged this nation into this mess and they are
therefore responsible for all the tragic human suffering, unnecessary loss of
lives and the political murders that have happened these last 34 years. They
must face justice.
Let
it be known that rigging elections poses a serious threat to the stability and wellbeing
of the whole nation and it is therefore treason against the nation. Those rig
elections are committing treason and they will be punished accordingly!
Signed.
Wilbert Mukori
Secretary
General
Zimbabwe
Social Democrats
Source:
http://www.thezimbabwean.co/news/zimbabwe/72452/war-vets-threaten-to-dump.html
10 comments:
@ patel
Africans have become the lazy man who prays for a good harvest and curses God for turning His back on him. The hardworking man prays for good rains; he will do the rest to ensure a good harvest.
African has the goods rains, rich soils, a great abundance of mineral wealth, everything one can wish for except the people with mental attitude to harness these resources for their own good! If that is not proof that we in Africa are incapable of self-government then I do not what is!
Until 50 years ago Africans made a big song and dance about white colonial exploitation and oppres-sion. Now with all African countries independent Africans are flocking in droves to the countries of the white colonial oppressors to escape the chaos and death from their country.
How ironic that tyrants like Mugabe who has completely destroyed Zimbabwe's economy in record time forcing millions of Zimbabweans to seek economic and political refuge in Britain and other Western country should be known for his anti-British rhetoric and his tyrannical rule!
“Mnangagwa was shocked to learn that Edmund was working with military intelligence without his knowledge as the responsible minister. He suspects that Moyo was endearing himself to the army as part of his strategy to take over the presidency from Mugabe,” said another source. That is not surprising to hear.
The truth is Mnangagwa, much less Mai Mujuru, are smart and certainly not presidential material. The country is in a real mess and the two are to blame for this as much as Mugabe himself. Whilst Mugabe is smart enough to realise the system is unsustainable the two are fighting to take over unaware the house of cards in collapsing. They really do not have clue that the economic meltdown means Zanu PF's rule is finished!
@ Grace Pamire
Mugabe loves using others to do his dirty work and then will discard them like used toilet paper when he has no use for them. Look what he did with the likes of the late Shamuyarira. He has done the same with these war vets repeatedly and they keep coming back for more! Some people never seem to learn.
@ Chimbwido
Why would we bother about a political manifesto in a country where elections are NOT free, fair and credible? Only the shallow minded ones like you, would want to see a party manifesto. The real smart ones would want everything done to ensure elections are free, fair and credible first because only then would manifestos mean something. ZSD are totally focused on ensuring all the democratic reforms are implemented in word and spirit first and only when this has been done will we produce a party manifesto!
I told you, you are not used to things done in an orderly fashion that is why you are totally con-fused! Why do you get MDC to work on a manifesto or better still Zanu PF they are a confused lot!
Bulawayo 24 reports that Zanu PF has not paid party workers for the last two months and there is growing doubt the party can finance its elective congress set for December!
There so thick headed individuals in Zanu PF who still think the regime can rule for ever and they can continue to loot and pass those looting rights to their own children and grandchildren. They have struggle to realise that the economy has suffered greatly because of the looting.
Corruption and looting are economically unsustainable!
When party grandees like Shamuyarira are living in abject poverty and die a pauper that should have set alarm bells ringing in the idiots in Chibuku House!
The economic meltdown affects everybody, big chefs like Shamuyarira, rank and file soldiers who are now being force to go on leave two weeks in every month because the army cannot afford to feed them and now party workers are not being paid! Zanu PF leaders and the idiots who have prop them up all these years are thick but poverty is a diamond tipped drill it was bound to get through to them and has!
Mugabe signed the bill establishing the National Prosecutor Authority. Former Attorney General, Mr Johannes Tomana has since been appointed the Prosecutor-General.
The Copac constitution was weak and feeble, it failed it biggest and most important test - to delivery free, fair and credible elections. Now that Mugabe rigged the elections and has a Zanu PF majority in parliament now he is free to cherry pick the bits he like in the weak constitution and implement them exactly as he pleases.
It is naive for anyone to ever think that the implemented Copac constitution will do any better at deliv-ering the people's rights and freedom than the weak document the people approved in the March 2013 referendum. If this nation is serious about having a democratic Zimbabwe then then will have to accept that the Copac constitution was rubbish!
Mugabe can sign whatever bills he pleases, he must know that all these bills will be thrown away!
@ Tapiwa Shumba
What are you, a student of confusion, or something?
You say “Zimbabwe suffers from a chronic disease called leadership paralysis,” which is obvious otherwise we would not be in this mess.
You then suggest that there should be dialogue. “It is conventional wisdom that a successful political dialogue has to be initiated by the ruling ZANU-PF with other opposition political parties and all other stakeholders.” You have already said those who have been ruling the nation have no clue then why do you want them to still continue to lead?
One of the sad consequences of having a tyrannical regime that has stifled all meaningful debt right across the board be it in politics, business and even in the home as Mugabe and Zanu PF has done; is that when the opportunity finally arises for the nation to think, no one can. The years of oppression and brainwashing has robbed the nation its ability to think. And so people revert to the conditioned default let Mugabe and Zanu PF do the thinking for us. Indeed they have been so conditioned some people even accept it as “conventional wisdom”!
Mugabe and Zanu PF have completely failed to rule because all they cared about was power and wealth and to retain it at all cost. They gave up on bring masses prosperity years ago and the only thing they have cared about for decades now is how to increase their loot and to hold-on to it. They will never get the country out of this mess.
As for Tsvangirai and his MDC friends they had the best chance ever to implement the reforms and dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship. They failed to do this because they got distracted by the trappings of power and because they are breathtakingly incompetent.
What Zimbabwe needs is an interim administration to implement the democratic reforms so that there can be free and fair elections. With the political will, the interim administration will complete its task in six months or so. The regime that emerges will have the mandate of the people to govern and the support of the international community ready to start the task of rebuilding the nation’s shatter economy and state institutions.
The UN or countries like Norway and Netherlands can be asked to assist in hosting the talks and appointment of the interim administration. Allow Mugabe and Tsvangirai into this and it will take six months to appoint a completely useless administration.
@ Mukachana Hanyani
“In Zimbabwe, sanctions had only managed to make ordinary people suffer economically, resulting in sanctions talk being on every person's lips,” you say. What are you wittering about?
Millions of Zimbabweans are living in abject poverty and hopeless despair because of the 34 years of Zanu PF mismanagement and corruption. Over the years, Mugabe has denied there was corruption allowing this cancer to grown to the size of tennis balls. The national economy is in ICU right now and unless this tumour is finally removed there is absolutely no chance of an economic recovery. And you still wittering about the stupid and totally discredited Zanu PF propaganda of the sanctions being the cause of the economic meltdown!
The sanctions will remain until the country hold free, fair and credible elections because only a competent government can finally remove the cancerous tumours of corruption, mismanagement and incompetence!
@ Bobsled
You right there, the centre is rotten to the core. Mugabe says one thing hoping that would bolster his image and standing only to discover it did the exact opposite.
Mnangagwa, the simpleton that he is, thinks he can rescue the situation by claiming Mugabe was "misunderstood". The only thing the whole world understood from that is that Mnangagwa is in-deed a simpleton who has no clue of what is going on here.
"They (whites) can own companies and apartments ... but not the soil. It is ours and that mes-sage should ring loud and clear in Britain and the United States." It is almost certain that Mugabe never discussed this jibe with anyone or cabinet. Everyone knows that Mugabe is a tyrant given to dictating not just to the ordinary people but to his cabinet too! For 34 years the tyrant has done as he pleased. So for Mnangagwa to defend the tyrant saying he was misunderstood as if he understands him is laughable, to say the least!
After 34 years of this Mugabe and his Zanu PF clowns; what the nation needs is to see the lot walk into the political sunset! They must all go; Mugabe, Mnangagwa, Mujuru, the lot!!
@ Professor Chimbganda
"Among other things, the National Redemption Council should (1) establish broad con-sensus on the future of our country, (2) prepare our country for a free and fair election," you sad.
I would agree with the two points; forget the rest. If the Council has prepared the nation for free and fair elections and a democratic government emerges the Council's work is done. It is not for an unelected and unaccountable Council to formulate and implement policies. It has no more legitimacy than this vote rigging Zanu PF dictatorship in power today!
Zimbabwe is in this political and economic mess because for 34 years the people were denied a meaningful say in the governance of the country; implement all the democratic reforms and you will be pleasantly surprise how quickly the nation will recover.
The possibility of the country sliding into chaotic rioting or worse has been hanging over the nation like a storm; there is a limit to how much suffering the people can be expected to endure without lashing out. That limit has been exceeded a long time ago and we are now living on borrowed time.
When Mugabe rigged the elections last year he was only thinking of retaining power at all cost. After a year in power and with the economic meltdown getting worse one can only hope that he has now come to his senses and realised that the continued economic meltdown and the dire social consequence it entails are too high a price to pay for his continued rule. He should resign now before the black-as-hell storm breaks and sweep him aside! Time is fast running out for Mugabe and this nation!
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