“Coltart accuses international community of
'white-washing' Zim election!” screamed the headlines in Bulawayo 24!
Yes, it is very true that there are some
sections of the international community who would “white-wash” these flawed and
illegal elections by judging them free, fair and credible for their own selfish
reasons. But if the truth must be said, it MUST be said, it is the corrupt and
incompetent MDC leaders like David Coltart who have provided these foreigners
all the white-wash and free labour!
“It (MDC Alliance) has also raised concerns
over the quality of the voters roll. An opposition-aligned group of analysts,
TeamPachedu, claims that up to 900 000 records on the roll had been
tampered with,” continued the report.
"The international community needs to know that these are not superficial concerns. These are valid concerns based on the breach of the law," Coltart said in comments carried by the private Daily News.
"The international community needs to know that these are not superficial concerns. These are valid concerns based on the breach of the law," Coltart said in comments carried by the private Daily News.
True these are not superficial concerns and
there are a whole host of other concerns equally important such as ZEC’s
failure to release a clean and verified voters’ roll at least one month before
nomination day, as is required by law. It is all very rich for Mr Coltart to
ask the international community not to sweep these very serious issues under
the carpet when that is exactly what he and his MDC friends have done!
MDC Alliance KNEW that ZEC had not
released the voters’ roll even by nomination day, 14 June, but they all
pretended not to notice and they all lodged their nomination papers.
Today, we are just 4 days away to voting day
and still ZEC has not released credible, clean and verified voters’ roll and still
the MDC Alliance members are all as keen as mustard to participate in these
elections regardless!
If Zanu PF knew that MDC leaders will NOT
participate in the elections no verified voters’ roll, for example; they would
have seen to it that it was released. As things are, Zanu PF knew MDC would
participate in the elections regardless of ZEC failing to release the voters’
roll and so, surprise, surprise, there is no voters’ roll. Common sense, really!
MDC leaders had the golden opportunity to
implement the democratic reforms designed to take away Zanu PF’s carte blanche
powers to rig the elections during the GNU. They failed to implement even one
reform in five years.
“MDC believed it had the numbers to overwhelm
all Zanu PF’s vote rigging shenanigans!” the late MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai
confessed soon after Zanu PF blatant rigging to secure another landslide
victory in the 2013 elections.
"If we believe in the rule of law then we
must believe in the rule of law; everyone, including the international
community," Coltart, a lawyer by profession, pontificated!
To these corrupt and incompetent MDC leaders: the
democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections are not necessary as
long as MDC feels confident it will win the elections. However if MDC should lose
the elections then all hell breaks loose. They will complain of “Zanu PF stealing
the elections!” and accuse SADC and the international community of “white-washing”
the flawed process.
For umpteenth time Mr Coltart; these elections not
be taking place, not without first implementing the democratic reforms setting
out the ground rules to ensure free, fair and credible election. Those who agree
to taking part in the elections with no reforms in place are, per se, agreeing
to playing with no rules and therefore must not complain, after they have lost,
that the opponents broke the rules!
Zanu PF is set to rig these elections and, by
agreeing to take part with no reform in place, MDC have provided the smoke
screen the regime need to hide the blatant vote rigging.
One only hopes the international community will
not punish the whole of Zimbabwe because of MDC leaders’ repeated blundering
incompetence in participating in these flawed elections with no reforms. The
international observers cannot, in all honesty, pretend these elections are
free, fair and credible when the regime has failed to provide something as
basic as a credible, clean and verified voters’ roll.
What the long suffering people of Zimbabwe want
from SADC and the international community is for them to declare these
elections null and void. By doing so they will give this nation a chance to
revisit the raft of democratic reforms agreed at the onset of the 2008 GNU and,
this time, make sure all the reforms are implemented.
Please! Please! Give us a chance to get out of
this hell-on-earth that Zanu PF and its acolyte MDC partner have landed us.
Please, we beg of you!
If there is one thing both Zanu PF and MDC have shown again and again it is that they do not have clue what good governance is all about. When the country gained her independence in 1980 Robert Mugabe had everything going for them to build a free, just and prosperous nations. Greed, sheer shortsightedness and a generous dose of stupidity got the better of them and they killed the goose that laid the golden egg. Whilst a few have got filth rich the rest of the population has become filthy poor. The rich have never really enjoyed their wealth as they have always worried about losing power and become poor.
ReplyDeleteMorgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends had the opportunity to end the anarchy ZAnu PF had brought to create a free and just society especially during the GNU. Mugabe offered them the gravy train lifestyle and they forgot all about implementing the democratic changes.
Zimbabwe's economic recovery is now totally dependent on the people see both Zanu PF thugs and the corrupt MDC leaders as irrelevant at best and the nation setting out without them.
@ Mavaza
ReplyDelete"Something is happening in Zimbabwe right now, there is a wind of change. Wind from every corner of Zimbabwe, which will breathe new life into politics. The politics of development and indeed it is the politics we all been yearning for," you said.
"Zimbabweans have said loud and clear. That too many families can't make ends meet. That too many Zimbabweans are living in poverty. That they have had enough of the same old .promises which were never fulfilled.. They deserve better. That is why we should dare to bring about change. ED has been cut out of the golden pot. He alone managed to break with a very long policy. We need the Change that is now necessary because Zimbabwe has been running in circles."
This is all very dramatic but then some people love using very dramatic language they always look very foolish when it turns out they were making a mountain out of mole hill. "Zimbabwe has been running in circles" as if it has now stopped running around in circles and yet that is exactly what we are doing.
By failing to implement the democratic reforms ED is blatantly rigging the elections = proof that for all the empty rhetoric of "new dispensation" and "Zimbabwe is open for business!" Zimbabwe is still a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote-rigging thugs!
There is no chance of meaningful economic recovery because no foreign investors and lenders want to do business with thugs! Investors deal with reality and not your wishful thinks and propaganda!
Zanu PF is rigged these elections proof nothing has changed! By noon on Monday these MDC politicians will be wailing "Zanu PF has stolen the elections!" and confirming that, indeed, nothing has changed!
"The expectations of the 2001 legislation hold true today - Zimbabwe must make credible progress towards holding free and fair elections, restore the rule of law and ensure military subordination to the civilian government, among other desperately needed reforms. These are realistic and universally recognized standards," said Ed Royce, Chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
ReplyDelete"Both the government and the opposition must follow through on their statements to hold a free, fair and credible election on July 30th. This is an opportunity to chart a dramatic new course for Zimbabwe. We urge the next president to take bold and immediate action to address key governance and economic issues. We stand by the people of Zimbabwe in their efforts to see a more democratic, peaceful and prosperous Zimbabwe."
I will say AMEN to that!
If these elections are declared free, fair and credible then they will be the first in human history to be so judged when the authorities have gone to town to make sure there is no credible, clean and verified voters' roll. Zimbabwe's own law clearly states that a verifiable voters' roll must be released a month before nomination day (which was 14 June) at the very latest. We are now 4 days away from voting day and still there is no voters' roll.
It must be noted here that this is not the first time the country has held elections with no verified voters' roll; it happened five years ago in 2013. Zanu PF blatantly rig those elections and with no verified voters' roll, the smoking gun, the regime got away with murder! The same thing is happening this year.
Chairman Ed Royce, these elections are not free, fair and credible and the best course of action is to declare them null and void. With no legal government out of these flawed elections, this will allow the appointment of an interim administration that will be tasked to implement the democratic reform and end this nightmare of rigged elections!