Some people like to waste time chasing shadows
and fairy tale stories just to escape dealing with reality.
Veritas, in its latest election watch bulletin,
said MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa and any other aggrieved candidates had
up to tomorrow at close of business to lodge their petitions to challenge the
electoral outcome in terms of section 93 of the Constitution.
"The ConCourt's decision on a presidential election challenge can take any form in terms of section 93 (4) of the Constitution like to declare a winner, which means it can confirm the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s declaration or declare another candidate the winner," the legal think-tank said.
"It can invalidate the election, in which case a fresh election must be held within 60 days and note that this probably means a new election rather than a run-off or it can make any other order it considers just and appropriate."
"The ConCourt's decision on a presidential election challenge can take any form in terms of section 93 (4) of the Constitution like to declare a winner, which means it can confirm the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s declaration or declare another candidate the winner," the legal think-tank said.
"It can invalidate the election, in which case a fresh election must be held within 60 days and note that this probably means a new election rather than a run-off or it can make any other order it considers just and appropriate."
Nelson Chamisa’s legal challenge of the
presidential result is a waste of time for three basic reasons:
1) These elections were rigged alright. How can these elections
be free, fair and credible when there was no free public media; millions of
diaspora voters were denied the vote; no clean and verified voters’ roll was
ever produced; Zanu PF was allowed to rob the nation blind to bankroll its
vote-rigging schemes; etc.; etc.? Chamisa’s legal challenge focuses on what
happened in the counting of the votes, the production of the V11 forms and the
addition of the figures there on. By then, the bulk of the vote rigging was
already done and dusted.
Whatever vote-rigging
Chamisa and his team can glean from the V11 will constitute 5%, at most, of the
vote rigging in these elections. To win the case on the basis of just 5% is rich!
2) Eight months ago the
same Court ruled that treasonous act of staging a military coup was “legal” in
Zimbabwe. It will be the height of sheer hypocrisy is the same Court should now
suddenly have a legal conscience stopping it declaring a relatively minor
offence of rigging elections “legal”. It must be remember here that the same
individuals who stage the coup are also behind the rigging of the elections and
have been doing it for the last 38 years!
3) Can anyone even imagine President Nelson Chamisa presiding
over a regime with a more than two third Zanu PF parliamentary majority?
Margaret Dongo, former
Zanu PF MP, once described Zanu PF MPs and cabinet ministers as “vakadzi
vaMugabe!” (Mugabe’s subservient concubines!) She was expressing her anger and
frustration at how Mugabe rod roughshod over his fellow Zanu PF leaders and not
even one of them had the guts to stand up to the bullying and control freak
thug.
If Chamisa was declared
president Zanu PF MPs will be enraged; they toothless dogs will become rabbis
infested mad dogs whose only purpose in life would be to prove that MDC cannot accomplish
even one thing before they impeach and lynch the enfeebled Chamisa at the
earliest opportunity.
These elections should have never gone ahead
without first implementing the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF
rigging these elections. The elections have gone ahead only because MDC and the
other opportunists in the opposition camp would not listen.
Zanu PF has learned that as long as it allows
the opposition to win some of the gravy train seats, the regime will never have
to worry about the opposition boycotting elections regardless how flawed and
illegal the process got. The opposition have abandon the common cause of
fighting for free, fair and credible elections in pursuit of the scraps Zanu PF
is throwing away as bait!
Chamisa’s Court challenge will accomplish
nothing of substance as it will address the vote counting problem only, the
visible ears, and say nothing about all the other serious vote-rigging, the
rest of hippopotamus bulk hidden under the muddy waters.
Can you imagine a government with Chamisa as president and Zanu PF thugs with two thirds majority; nothing will ever be done! The people of Zimbabwe want a way out of this hell and not to be taken even deeper into this hell!
ReplyDeleteThese elections were flawed and illegal and should be declared null and void, an interim administration must now the appointed that will be tasked to implement the reforms and then hold free and fair elections! Why are we wasting time messaging Chamisa's hot air balloon size ego with all these fairy tale stories of him becoming president, people zipping around in bullet trains and we all lived happily ever after!
The secretary-general also encouraged the opposition to pursue their electoral grievances through legal channels.
ReplyDeleteThis is the kind of stupidity that is only helping to keep tyrants in power. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is ignoring the reality on the ground that Zanu PF rigged the elections and assumes instead that elections were free, fair and credible. He knows that Zimbabwe's Courts ruled that military coups are perfectly legal only 8 months ago but still he assumes the country's judiciary can still be trusted to be impartial.
With all due respect Mr Secretary General, if you are not going to deal with the real Zimbabwe and all her problems then do us a big favour and shut up!
Biti, a veteran figure in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), fled to Zambia on Wednesday claiming asylum, reportedly facing charges at home of inciting post-election violence.
ReplyDeleteZambian authorities swiftly refused him asylum, but Phiri said Biti's legal team had managed to challenge the decision, keeping Biti in Zambia.
But authorities have ignored the ruling and deported him, Phiri said.
Tendai Biti and his fellow MDC friends had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections and brutalising the people. They failed to get even one reform implemented in five years of the GNU.
They have been advised 100 000 times and 100 000 times again not to take part in the elections without first implementing the reforms but they refused to listen. They have recklessly dragged the nation into this political mess and it is selfish and heartless of the MDC leaders that they should now disappear and leave povo to face the Zanu PF thugs alone!
ZEC has failed to produce a verified voters' roll, a deliberate and calculated move to many sure the public do not know exactly how many fictitious people voted in these elections. After 38years of rigged elections, the nation deserves better and must do something decisive to end this scourge!
ReplyDeleteHouses Of Chamisa Supporters Destroyed In Mutoko
ReplyDeleteThe real tragedy here is that this could and should have been all avoided if only MDC leaders had implemented the reforms or listened to the warning against participating with no reforms in place! MDC leaders would not listen to the warnings because they are after the few gravy train seats Zanu PF gives away as bait to entice the opposition not to boycott elections regardless how flawed and illegal the process gets!
Even if one of the ConCourt judges was to warn MDC leaders that they will not get justice from that Court, MDC will still file the case. By agreeing to take part in the elections with no reforms in place MDC leaders agreed to having a corrupt ZEC, Army, Police and, of course, Judiciary. They could not agree to work with ZEC and then next day refuse to work with the ConCourt.
ReplyDeleteMDC leaders knew Zanu PF would rig the elections, they were warned Zanu PF would rig the elections and still they went ahead and participate in the flawed and illegal elections. MDC leaders were being reckless in gambling with the future of the nation even when they knew they did not need to do this.
These elections should have never gone ahead without first implementing the reforms and there is nothing of any value to be salvaged from the flawed process. The ConCourt challenge of the result is just a waste of time.
Now that we have seen happen what we feared would happen, i.e. Zanu PF blatantly rigging the elections, what should happen next is for the elections to be declared null and void and concrete steps taken to end this nightmare of rigged elections.
It was reported that the Army had deployed 5 000 soldiers to campaign for Zanu PF. Is it possible that we now have an Army within an Army. The 5 000 are the ragtag ruffians that General V Sibanda said he did not know who they are and are not part of the regular Army he commands.
ReplyDeleteSoon after independence Robert Mugabe created the Fifth Brigade of carefully selected ruffians with their own separate line of command and, unlike every other soldiers, they had the James Bond type carte blanche licence to kill. We all know the brutality, mayhem and blood shed the Fifth Brigade inflicted once they were unleashed. Gukurahundi, as Mugabe called the Fifth Brigade's operation, was a massacre of the innocent.
The truth of Gukurahundi has never been revealed and those responsible held to account. After last November's military coup, President Mnangagwa, whose hands are bright red with blood of the many killed during Gukurahundi and in other operations, kicked Gukurahundi into the tall grass just as Mugabe had done. ED appointed a commission to investigate; all nonsense because there is the Chihambakwe report and, during the GNU, there was a whole ministry with four or so ministers to deal with the past.
By sweeping the serious human rights violations committed by the Fifth Brigade we have ran the danger of history repeating itself. Is history repeating itself? Are these 5 000 ragtag ruffians the making of Fifth Brigade mark II?
@ Derrick Ndlovu
ReplyDelete"So you are saying if Mdc chose not to participate in the elections, then that would have stopped the country from holding elections? If you think so, don't forget what happened in 2008 in a run off after Mdc pulled off but Zanu ran a lone run and they were declared winners," you argue.
"How do you demand the implementation of reforms besides what Mdc has been doing all along. What other methods can be employed to make the junta listen? Or implying that there should be no elections at all which obviously that please Zanu?"
My brother, you clearly have never grasped what the democratic reforms are about and, typical of those with no clue what they are talking about, are given to blundering and contradicting yourself.
"Don't forget what happened in 2008 in a run off after Mdc pulled off but Zanu ran a lone run and they were declared winners," you said. Zanu PF declared themselves the winner but no one else did, not even SADC and the AU. Without the recognition, Zanu PF lost legitimacy. To regain legitimacy, Mugabe and Zanu PF were forced to sign the Global Political Agreement. The agreement stipulating the need to implement a raft of democratic reforms designed to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship and to form the GNU which was tasked to implement the reforms.
"How do you demand the implementation of reforms besides what Mdc has been doing all along?" you say. To start with MDC leaders had the opportunity to implement the reforms during the GNU but they failed to get even one reform implemented in five years because had their snout in the feeding trough and forgot about the reforms.
"Mazivanhu eMDC adzidza kudya anyerere!" (MDC people have learnt to enjoy the gravy train good-life, they will not rock the boat!) Zanu PF cronies used to boast, when asked why MDC were not implementing the reforms. MDC leaders sold-out big time during the GNU, that is a historic fact.
Zanu PF has since learned that as long as the party allows the opposition to win a few gravy train seats they will never boycott the elections regardless how flawed and illegal the process gets. If you cannot see that is exactly what MDC leaders are doing, even with the benefit of hindsight of the 2013 and now the 2018 elections, then you are mentally challenged by brother.
It is not all who see and perceive, it is not all who hear and understand. Blessed are those who see and perceive, who hear and understand.
Wo to those see but never perceive, who hear but never understand because they are destined to blunder from pillar to post repeating the same mistake over and over again. They destined to take part in rigged elections, it is now 38 years and counting, hoping for a different result!
@ CZ
ReplyDeleteYou should know by now that your ways are not God's ways and your thinking is not God's thinking and therefore you must stop evoking God in your satanic rambling!
"In hindsight, I now realise that I had erred on my first choice of a successor. Come to think of it, that choice was completely off the mark because he was too docile for a leader. He was hardly visible. He was going to be an embarrassment. But this young and energetic Chisa lad is what God and the gods really wanted, and who was I to refuse to anoint him," you rambled.
This Chisa lad is just another MDC idiot. If he was so clever then why did he fail to get even one democratic reform implemented when MDC had the golden opportunity to do so during the GNU?
Chamisa dragged the nation into these elections insisting "MDC has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections!" He now acknowledges that the elections were rigged. What happened to the stringent measures?
"Tsvangirai made the stupid mistake of going into the 2013 elections with no verified voters' roll!" Chamisa said. He went on to make the same stupid mistake himself by going into this year's elections with no verified voters' roll!
@ Max Maphosa
ReplyDeleteDo you serious believe that these were free, fair and credible elections when ZEC failed to produce something as basic as a clean and verified voters' roll, especially when it emerges that more the 10 polling stations had more that 100% voter turnout and some even had more than 200%!