No to Mnangagwa and his thugs

Zanu PF rigged the elections, the regime is, per se, illegitimate and the logical course of action is to stop supporting the regime and pressure it to step down.

One of the blatant vote rigging acts by Zanu PF was to deny 2 to 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora a vote. During his recent visit to the USA President Mnangagwa said his government will put the logistics in place to ensure those in the diaspora are allowed to vote next time – proof the denial was a calculated and deliberate act.

If the regime has the resources to buy all the 282 Chiefs, 350 Zanu PF parliamentary and senatorial candidates, party leaders, etc. costing one billion dollars plus; it is an insult for the regime to say it has no resources to allow those in the diaspora to vote. It was suggested that those in the diaspora should be charged $20 or so to cover all the expense, that would have pay for all the cost. Still, Zanu PF refused to take the offer.

The results of the 30 July 2018 elections showed that there was multiple voting, for example. There were 16 polling stations in which two or more station within a driving distance apart had precisely the same total number of ballots cast and Mnangagwa and Chamisa each received exactly the same votes.

No doubt a close examination of the voters’ roll and other supporting documents at these 16 polling stations would have provided the conclusive evidence of multiple voting. The Con-Court failed Chamisa and his legal team’s bid to subpoena the sealed ballot boxes.

Mnangagwa’s claim to have won the elections when there is clear evidence that some of the 2.4 million voters he claims voted for him are apparently fictitious. And, worse still, when the number of those in the diaspora he denied the vote excess those he claims voted for him!

After 38 years of rigged elections followed by five years of corrupt and tyrannical rule, we must pursue a course of action designed to end this insanity once and once for all!

Zanu PF rigged the 30 July 2018 elections, the regime is illegitimate and it must be pressured to step down. Zimbabwe must then appoint an interim administration tasked to implement the democratic reforms designed to dismantle the dictatorial autocracy Zanu PF imposed on the nation and replace it with healthy and functional democratic institutions.

By Jeff Kurai Chakanyuka