DEPUTY Justice Minister
Fortune Chasi on Wednesday admitted that the last general election
controversially won by his Zanu PF party last July had some serious
discrepancies, according to a New Zimbabwe report. The whole world knew
that already, all the nation has been waiting for is a chance to establish the
full facts of the vote rigging.
Everyone in Zanu PF must
know that there will be a thorough investigation in which not stone will be
left unturned to establish the full details of how the 31st July
2013 elections were rigged.
The nation will establish
why MDC leaders failed to get even one reform implemented in their five years
in the GNU. The spotlight will then turn on Mugabe and Zanu PF. The
investigation will have the name, the age, what they did, how much they were
paid and by who, where did the money come from, etc. of everyone involved in
the vote rigging from those who masterminded the plan right down to the Border
Gazi trained operative who implemented the plan at village level.
Those involved in vote
rigging threaten the very stability and survival of the nation and they are therefore
committing high treason. It is high time this nation treated this crime with
the seriousness it deserves. All those found guilty vote rigging will be dually
punished.
We already know that there
were foreigners involved like Nikuv and that the Israeli Government was warned
of this devious company’s activities but chose to ignore the warning. The
investigation will dig deep, real deep, into this area. Zimbabwe will demand to
know who gave Israel the right to aid and abet the commitment of treason in our
country?
Israel’s indifference to
the suffering of black Africans is well documented. The Israelis was the only
democratic nation to continue working hand in glove with the apartheid regime
in South Africa right up to the day Nelson Mandela was freed, for example. It
is a matter of national pride that Nikuv’s role in rigging of 2013 elections is
exposed and the princely $ 13 million the company received is recovered!
In typical school bully
style Minister Chasi urged Zimbabweans to accept the status quo and move on.
How can the nation move on?
The country is suffering from
the ill-effects of three decades of misrule by the Zanu PF regime and last year
the national economic has taken a dangerous nose dive. The regime thought it
could rig economic recovery but has clearly failed to do so as exemplified by the
mockingly empty ZimAsset begging bowl after a year of frantic begging.
Accepting the status quo
is to ask the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans now living in abject poverty
without work and even something as basic as clean running water to accept that
as their lot. The Zimbabwe people have been very slow to react to situations,
painfully slow, but Zanu PF will be making a terrible mistake to mistake
slowness for inactivity. Zimbabweans are not going to accept a political system
that has stripped them of hope and human dignity forever; that much of I am
certain.
It is naïve on the part of
the Zanu PF ruling elite to think the rank and file riot Police Officers, for
example, will continue to brutally repress those protesting against the lack of
basic services by day and go home to face the same problems themselves and
never see the absurd futility of it all! The Officers may be stupid but not
that hopelessly stupid!
Zanu PF has resisted
change for over three decades now but, like it or not, change will happen. This
nation will only move on, as contrast to be stuck in this hell-hole Mugabe and
Zanu PF landed us, when the rights and freedoms of all Zimbabweans are honoured
and guaranteed. And to make sure that is so, we must start by punishing those
guilty of vote rigging in last year’s elections; that is the surest way of
insuring these will be the last rigged elections in Zimbabwe!
5 comments:
@ Larry King
After a year of begging they got nothing and the bowl is mocking Mugabe. The regime is on its last legs because the economic suffering the nation is going through now will only get worse and worse. Something is bound to give, that much is obvious!
In his speech celebrating the rigged 2013 elections, Mugabe challenged people who were alleging poll fraud to provide evidence to prove their claim.
We have heard the same dirty trick before during the days of colonial rule when the Police would beat up a victim to death and bury him and then claim he died of heart-attack or something stupid. They will challenge those saying otherwise to produce the evidence! Now we are seeing Mugabe using the same dirty trick.
Mugabe has refused to release the voters roll because he knows it is the smoking gun in the rigged elections.
Fortunately for the country there were just too many people involved in the vote rigging; the full details are there to be uncovered. Even the corrupted voters roll is there; people like Jonathan Moyo and Nikuv operatives will have a copy and will even explain who did what if put under pressure. Mugabe can be sure that the right pressure will be applied.
Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies should know that the evidence of the rigged elections will be amassed and they will be held to account!
@ Nicholas Ncube
“The vote rigging to me has of late become a melodious tune whose real meaning has been lost. How on earth can we continue to sing this chorus and fail to come up with an iota of evidence?” You asked.
I think you have asked a legitimate question and therefore deserve an answer. There evidences of the vote rigging are there but whether you will accept each piece of evidence as valid is another matter. Here goes:
1) Just two days before the elections the number of Polling Stations were increased from 2 000 to a staggering 9 000; many MDC candidates and independent monitors reported of stumbling on to Polling Stations manned by Zanu PF officials they did not know about. ZEC has failed to explain why there additional Polling Stations were necessary and why even ZEC itself was not represented.
2) There was a staggering 6 million registered voters in a country with 12 million meaning 50% of the people are over 18% which is nonsense but because there regime was careful not to release a definitive voters roll, no one has ever verified who are these voters. There is no question that the voters roll is the smoking gun in these rigged elections which is why Zanu PF has refused to make this document public.
3) Many voters were issued with voter registration slips which did not say what constituency they belonged and on voting day there were reports of voters being bussed in to vote and casting multiple votes. The whole world saw the bussed voters and yet the Police did not question much less arrest anyone.
4) All the independent monitors confirmed that many voters failed to vote on the day because their names were not on the voters roll although they had registered. It has since emerged that many voters had their names in other constituencies and not where they expected. The independent monitors have put the number of these frustrated voters at one million and ZEC put the figure at 300 000. Considering there were a total of just over three million valid cast votes in the elections even accepting ZEC’s figure of 300 000 it was significant to change the outcome.
5) Zimbabwe’s public media was pro Zanu PF; there is no question about that and so were other public institutions like the Police, Judiciary, etc. Why MDC had failed to implement even one reform is a matter to be looked into.
@ Nicholas Ncube
To insist on conclusive evidence of vote rigging in the present circumstance in which Mugabe and Zanu PF control the Police, ZEC, Judiciary, everything is to miss the point. These people are the ones who masterminded the vote rigging and it is naïve to expect them to provide the self-incriminating evidence.
Yes I have been “harping on voter rigging” to no end because I see holding free, fair and credible elections as the only way out of this hell-hole Mugabe has landed us. We cannot talk of free, fair and credible elections if the elections are rigged.
Even if we implemented all the democratic reforms tomorrow many people will not believe that the elections will not be rigged, after what they witnessed last year. We must institute a though investigation of the rigged elections and establish the full story of how Mugabe rigged the vote and then punish those responsible for it. When the people saw those who rigged the elections in jail they will believe that the nation does take vote rigging as a serious crime and that those who dare rig elections will not get away with it.
It is not so much that people do not believe that last year’s elections were rigged, they do. They are willing to accept Mugabe’s word that the elections were not rigged because they know the regime will never release any incriminating evidence; never. To them it is easier to just accept the regime’s position as a matter of cause.
Of course the nation is in this pickle precisely because we have always allowed Mugabe and Zanu PF have their way. Voting rigging is treason and what better time to make a stand than not to allow Mugabe and Zanu PF get away with treason! That is why I will keep harping on and on about vote rigging because Mugabe must not be allowed to get away with treason. Take my word for it; he is NOT getting away with vote rigging, not this time!
@ Steven Motale
"Anyone who is seriously engaged in a struggle to remove a despot as ruthless and seasoned as Mugabe must be an exceptionally shrewd, courageous figure whose integrity is beyond question. Sadly, the MDC leader did not fit this mould. His image was tarnished by a litany of sex scandals, a weakness Mugabe exploited." You are right there.
If the truth be told, it must because there is just too much at stake here – the destiny of a nation, by 2000 Zimbabweans were desperate for political change and desperate people do desperate things. Accepting someone as incompetent as Tsvangirai as the man who would end the Zanu PF dictatorship was itself an act of desperation.
Former USA Ambassador to Zimbabwe 2004 to 2007, Chris Dell, said Tsvangirai was a “flawed and indecisive character”. Over the years, God knows Tsvangirai has done a great job of proving the Ambassador was right and it is hard to see why the Zimbabwean people themselves should have failed to see Tsvangirai for the incompetent leader he is.
So if one worked on the assumption that the people saw Tsvangirai’s serious shortcomings as a leader and still elected him to lead it must only be because they were desperate.
There other explanation is that the people themselves are so incompetent they failed to see Tsvangirai for the incompetent leader he is. Sadly, that is indeed the case; even with the benefit of hindsight of the blunders of failing to get even one reform implemented during the GNU many Zimbabweans still consider Tsvangirai a competent leader.
People get the government they deserve, Zimbabweans deserve both the tyrant Mugabe and the incompetent Tsvangirai!
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