Is Mugabe going to nick the election?

[Jessiedog]

My concern is that, in delaying the release of the results of the presidential poll, Zanu PF has given itself plenty of time to "canvas" those areas with strong MDC support and "advise" citizens of their civic responsibility to vote "properly" in the inevitable run-off.

I'm not convinced that Mugabe is ready or willing to relax his grip on the country.



Woof

 

[Poi E]

Which bit of his sentence do you object to? I find the latter part dubious, myself, but would have to agree with the first part.

You see, Fire is from Zimbabwe and knows the suffering of his brothers and sisters.

 

[Fire]

SO what is the problem if the MDC do want to liberalise the economy? Where do you think money to turn things around is going to come from if they don't? There is nothing 'shit like' about liberalisation unless you're living in cloud cuckoo land.

 

[Fire]

And talking of sufferring this is from a friend in Zim...

"We heard of a particularly nasty apparently "spontaneous " form of this ; two women from XXX came to an irrigation scheme about 40 km outside XXXX to buy groundnuts ( as they had done before); they were set upon with accusations of having voted MDC and both of them their eyes gouged out and was being treated at XXX Hospital the next day."

 

[Poi E]

Those people, eh Fire?

 

[Idris2002]

That sort of thing is all too plausible, I'm afraid.

E2A:

Violence appears to be increasing:

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2318303,00.html

 

[Idris2002]

In other news:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7387738.stm

Meanwhile, the MDC says that five more of its supporters were beaten to death on Monday night by Zanu-PF supporters, bringing the number of MDC members killed in post-election violence to 25.

"We think the actual death toll is even higher because there are some farming areas that have been cordoned off by militias and vigilante groups," MDC spokesman Nelson Chamisa told AFP.

The BBC's Orla Guerin, reporting undercover in Zimbabwe, says there is a systematic attempt under way to change the political landscape.

She says the aim is electoral cleansing - to drive opposition supporters from their voting areas, or make them too afraid to vote for the MDC again.

 

[johey24]

Oh for god's sake .... what a magician the BBC is with words: "electoral cleansing".

 

[Fire]

GRRRRR Events make me angry.

Its time for Morgan to show some leadership and go back home and start fighting. What good leader has ever gained credence by hiding away while his people suffered.

 

[Red Faction]

GRRRRR Events make me angry.

Its time for Morgan to show some leadership and go back home and start fighting. What good leader has ever gained credence by hiding away while his people suffered.

go back to be assassinated before he can contest the run off?

 

[Belushi]

According to the C4 news Tsvangiri has been arrested.

 

[Jessiedog]

My concern, (still, and inevitably) is that, in delaying the release of the results of the presidential poll, Zanu PF has given itself plenty of time to "canvas" those areas with strong MDC support and "advise" citizens of their civic responsibility to vote "properly" in the inevitable run-off.

I'm not convinced that Mugabe is ready or willing to relax his grip on the country.



Woof

Blessings all on the 4th of June.

Woof

 

[skyscraper101]

According to the BBC Zimbabwean police have stopped several US and UK diplomats trying to investigate political violence now:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7438275.stm

 

[purves grundy]

A calculated action, imo, from a bunch of fucking despicable thugs.