POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: GRUESOME MURDER BY ZANU-PF: Shocks Murewa Communit... : ZANU PF MURDERS AN OLD WOMAN Villagers in Chidhakwa Village, Ward 10 Murewa North, were left shocked following the gruesome murder of Amb...

SCANDINAVIA CORNER: AS THE BUBBLE BURSTS IN THE PEOPLE`S REPUBLIC!!! : History has an uncanny tendency of repeating itself and each time it replicates, its lessons are ruthlessly unforgiving. International eco...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: MUGABE`S RIGGING MACHINERY EXPOSED!! : Fundamentals of Mugabe’s rigging machinery TRADITIONALLY, President Robert Mugabe’s electoral strengths boil down to violence, riggin...

Fundamentals of Mugabe’s rigging machinery TRADITIONALLY, President Robert Mugabe’s electoral strengths boil down to violence, rigging, fraud, charm and state media bias. His weaknesses: old age, bad image, corruption and Zanu PF’s internal divisions. For decades now, this has been standard and universally accepted reportage. At face value these verdicts make sense for they could indeed be true if they were not already so. Mugabe is indeed indisputably and proudly violent; he enjoys an arthritic grip on the state media and to the extent he has never been criticised, not even once for a straight 33 years. At 89, his candidature in today’s election comes across as some detail to a folk tale. More so when considering both his ogre image and the fact that many within his party privately wish he was long gone. And yet the sense and depth of these explanations get easily lost when strengths mutate into weaknesses and vice versa. Corruption and violence, for example, can pass as both s...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: MUGABE`S LARGESSE AND DOWNFALL : In the 80`s Harare played host to Western leaders who all stampeded to confer Mugabe honorary doctorates in humanities even though the 19...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: If all Zimbabweans had this view of Tsvangirai, ZA... : If all Zimbabweans had this view of Tsvangirai, ZANU PF should be ashamed to wish destruction to such an individual! If as a counry are ...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: IT PAINS TO HEAR OF THE IGNOBLE CHIYANGWA`S HIV PO... : AIDS CLAIMS YET ANOTHER VICTIM!! I would like to express my sadness on Phillip Chiyangwa`s HIV POSITIVE status. My heart bleeds f...

SCANDINAVIA CORNER: THERE IS GROWING DANGER THAT SOUTH AFRICA ENDS LIK... : South Africa`s economy is firing from all cylinders, I could also not help but wonder at the disparities between South Africa’s richest a...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: ZIM ELECTION BREAKING NEWS! MDC-T LEADING WITH 29%... : Ladies and Gentlemen! Just in, the results so far show that MDC-T is leading ZANU-PF with 29% of the entire vote counted so far. MDC-T did...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: ZIM ELECTION BREAKING NEWS! MDC-T LEADING WITH 29%... : Ladies and Gentlemen! Just in, the results so far show that MDC-T is leading ZANU-PF with 29% of the entire vote counted so far. MDC-T did...

Ladies and Gentlemen! Just in, the results so far show that MDC-T is leading ZANU-PF with 29% of the entire vote counted so far. MDC-T did better than all the participating Parties in most of the URBAN areas and even the RURAL Areas that were previously ZANU PF`s strong-hold. Interesting, even those people who were supposed to rig the election find it almost impossible to do anything in the few days the results have to be released. Even Ncube`s MDC is doing better than ZANU PF, with 9%, one cannot help but wonder how Mugabe is going to take the outcome of these results! Lets pray the country does not implode!

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: IT PAINS TO HEAR OF CHIYANGWA`S HIV POSITIVE STATU... : I would like to express my sadness on Phillip Chiyangwa`s HIV POSITIVE status. My heart bleeds for his family. I hope this a gift fro...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: Dear Mr Mugabe : I DO not know how to put this, Sir. I have wrestled with my conscience and come to a rationally logical conclusion that after what transpi...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: MUGABE`S LARGESSE AND DOWNFALL : In the 80`s Harare played host to Western leaders who all stampeded to confer Mugabe honorary doctorates in humanities even though the 19...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: TALE OF A DICTATOR : Once upon a time! A brave Catholic archbishop Pius Ncube promised to put on his “best robe” and “march with Zimbabweans against Mugabe’s...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: HIS EMINENCE POPE FRANCIS I & THE DEVIL :   I would like to extend my congratulations to His Eminence Pope Francis 1, for his inauguration and I hope and trust that he will be a...

SCANDINAVIA CORNER: AS THE BUBBLE BURSTS IN THE PEOPLE`S REPUBLIC!!! : History has an uncanny tendency of repeating itself and each time it replicates, its lessons are ruthlessly unforgiving. International eco...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: USA CONCERNED ABOUT ZIM ELECTIONS!! : CRISIS-WEARY Zimbabweans flocked to cast their ballots Wednesday in a fiercely contested election overshadowed by accusations of vote-rigg...

CRISIS-WEARY Zimbabweans flocked to cast their ballots Wednesday in a fiercely contested election overshadowed by accusations of vote-rigging as President Robert Mugabe bids to extend his 33-year rule. The 89-year-old firebrand, Africa's oldest leader, is running for office for the seventh and perhaps final time, after a series of violent crackdowns, economic crises and suspect elections. "I am sure people will vote freely and fairly, there is no pressure being exerted on anyone," he said as he cast his vote in a Harare suburb. "So far so good." The veteran leader, a hero of Africa's liberation movement for his fight against white minority rule who then became an international pariah, had vowed on Tuesday that he would step down if he loses. "If you lose you must surrender," he said, insisting: "We have done no cheating." Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has voiced concerns that the electoral roll has been rigged. The 61-ye...

ZIMBABWEAN ISSUES: MUGABE MUST RESPECT THE RULE OF LAW : ZANU PF militants stormed a parliamentary committee meeting on a proposed human rights bill in Harare on Saturday (23rd July 2011 ), forc...

KLEPTOCRATIC ZIMBABWE: Kleptocracies are generally associated with corrup... : Kleptocracies are generally associated with corrupt forms of authoritarian governments, particularly dictatorships, oligarchies, military ju...

THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE 1980s GUKURAHUNDI FOR ITS: 1.) Physical torture 2.) Deprivation 3.) Sensory o... : 1.) Physical torture 2.) Deprivation 3.) Sensory overstimulation 4.) Psychological torture - general 5.) Psychological torture - witness...

ZIMBABWE AFTER MUGABE: The man who is to be in command of Zimbabwe must b... : The man who is to be in command of Zimbabwe must be able to reason logically, to understand human character and goodness in their various fo...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: Gruesome murder by ZANU PF shocks Murewa communit... : ZANU PF MURDERS AN OLD WOMAN Villagers in Chidhakwa Village, Ward 10 Murewa North, were left shocked following the gruesome murder of ...

ZANU PF MURDERS AN OLD WOMAN Villagers in Chidhakwa Village, Ward 10 Murewa North, were left shocked following the gruesome murder of Ambuya Theresa Nkosa Jackson (65) and her granddaughter Jane (14) in what is suspected to be a case of political violence. The two, who lived at an isolated homestead, were found dead by neighbours outside their family hut on Friday morning. According to eye witnesses and police sources Jackson’s forehead, eyes, nose and mouth were chopped off, while her the back of her neck had a deep cut typical of that inflicted with a machete. Jane’s body was discovered in the family field a few meters from that of her dead grandmother in a kneeling position. Her eyes had been pierced with a sharp object. Some police officers who declined to be identified told The Zimbabwean that it would appear Jane was murdered while fleeing the scene to alert neighbours. “The way the murder was carried out suggested that it was done by expert serial killers. Unfortunately, n...

MUGABE CONFIDENT THE RIGGING MACHINE WILL DELIVER VICTORY!!

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: BABA JUKWA: Obituary for my party : BABA JUKWA: Obituary for my party Zimbabwe, when I look back along the path we walked from Independence Day 1980 to today, I can’t ho...

BABA JUKWA: Obituary for my party Zimbabwe, when I look back along the path we walked from Independence Day 1980 to today, I can’t hold back the flowing tears. It is hard to write an obituary for a party that I have been part of for my entire life - and now I am helping to dismantle. It is like a jersey infested with lice. The only solution is to burn it. Haudzipedzi kutswanya inda dzacho! Who would have thought at 1980 that Zimbabwe would be like this? Two things describe why my party is in this situation: Chi-shefu, which is the appetite to want to be hero worshiped and averse to criticism; and Cronyism, which is rewarding those who turn a blind eye to evil but are quick to hero worship the leader. The effect of these was felt throughout the country and I will observe it in stages, tears running down my cheeks. Agriculture Our economy was mainly Agro-based and so I don’t dispute that we needed to address the land issue. Although it pains me to say so, Ian Smith’s agricu...

SCANDINAVIA CORNER: MALEMA URGES ZIMBABWEANS TO VOTE FOR MUGABE, SAD I... : THE newly-formed South African political party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), on Tuesday called on Zimbabweans to vote for Zanu PF i...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: SO IT BEGINS: MALEMA SETS THE WHEELS OF CHANGE IN ... : AFRICAN National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Gwede Mantashe says Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu PF is influencing former ANC youth chief, Jul...

AFRICAN National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Gwede Mantashe says Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu PF is influencing former ANC youth chief, Julius Malema. On the eve of Zimbabwe’s polls on Wednesday, Mantashe said while he loved Zanu PF, "we have to accept the fact the party had destroyed the economy".   Malema’s newly launched "protest movement", the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), recently released its manifesto, which it says is based on the Freedom Charter. The manifesto calls for the nationalisation of the mines and banks, and land expropriation without compensation. On Monday, however, Mantashe said the EFF’s policies owed more to President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF than to the Freedom Charter. "To me EFF has nothing to do with the Freedom Charter; it has everything to do with the influence of Zanu PF, that’s what it’s all about."   He said the ANC was aware that there had been "active engagement" between Zanu PF and the former youth le...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: ZIM IGNORE: David Smith and Miles Tendi : As the country finds itself forced into elections without reforms by a tyrant who is desperate for legitimacy to visit London, Zimbabweans...

As the country finds itself forced into elections without reforms by a tyrant who is desperate for legitimacy to visit London, Zimbabweans should vote for change today and ignore David Smith’s sanitisation of Mugabe’s dictatorship. In an opinion piece regurgitated by state-owned The Herald newspaper today from the Guardian , David Smith draws on Miles Tendi to project a false picture of a Mugabe who is rebounding despite him relying on SUV trucks where he used to walk at rallies greeting his supporters. It is sad that some western journalists sink risk their credibility like some election observers already who have chosen to become praise singers of a human rights abuser who only won one election in 33 years. It is unfortunate that despite being on the spot in Harare, David Smith still cannot see what independent bodies like International Crisis Group are seeing as lack of credibility of the poll with a voters roll in a shambles; with an unreformed security sector; and an unreforme...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: HIS EMINENCE POPE FRANCIS I & THE DEVIL :   I would like to extend my congratulations to His Eminence Pope Francis 1, for his inauguration and I hope and trust that he will be a...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: IT PAINS TO HEAR OF CHIYANGWA`S HIV POSITIVE STATU... : I would like to express my sadness on Phillip Chiyangwa`s HIV POSITIVE status. My heart bleeds for his family. I hope this a gift from ...

AIDS CLAIMS YET ANOTHER VICTIM!! I would like to express my sadness on Phillip Chiyangwa`s HIV POSITIVE status. My heart bleeds for his family. I hope this a gift from GOD as much as the many cars he owns, as his NAIVE wife would so eloquently put it. It is a sad moment indeed; which can even make a man scratch his head! I would advise him to live a life of prayers; like Pius Ncube; in his last days on this earth. I guess bad things happen to bad people!

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: THANKS FOR NOTHING MUTAMBARA : Mutambara out in the cold HE came with a bang, taking over the leadership of the pro-Senate faction of the MDC in February 2006, but it ...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: MDC-T`S SUNDAY RALLY MADE INTERNATIONAL NEWS!!! : Tens of thousands of people delivered a massive show of opposition to President Robert Mugabe on Monday, in what veteran observers descri...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: ROY BENNETT, SAID ONCE, THE BUFFALO IS WOUNDED, YE... : Zimbabwe’s Elections: Mugabe’s Last Stand 29 Jul 2013 OVERVIEW A return to protracted political crisis, and possibly extensive v...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: ROY BENNETT, SAID ONCE, THE BUFFALO IS WOUNDED, YE... : Zimbabwe’s Elections: Mugabe’s Last Stand 29 Jul 2013 OVERVIEW A return to protracted political crisis, and possibly extensive v...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: MDC-T`S SUNDAY RALLY MADE INTERNATIONAL NEWS!!! : Tens of thousands of people delivered a massive show of opposition to President Robert Mugabe on Monday, in what veteran observers descri...

Tens of thousands of people delivered a massive show of opposition to President Robert Mugabe on Monday, in what veteran observers described as the biggest election rally in Zimbabwe's history, even bigger than Mugabe`s at Independence. Despite years of violence, hardship and bitterly disputed votes, the hopeful mood suggested many feel change is finally within their grasp. "If you have a cellphone, I want to see it!" shouted Nelson Chamisa, a young politician at the rally. Thousands of arms were raised and thousands of mobile phones glinted in the sun. Warned that Mugabe would resort to intimidation against elderly voters in rural areas, Chamisa urged the crowd: "Send a message: 'Parents, don't be scared.'" Chamisa's plea underlined how, even more than in 2008, this contest is also being fought with mobile phones and on the internet, making it harder than ever for abuses to be covered up. The young, urban, tech-savvy generation that flo...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: GUKURAHUNDI FULL REPORT : NYAMANDLOVU, INCLUSIVE OF TSHOLOTSHO: THE VILLAGE BY VILLAGE SUMMARY: INTEGRATION OF NAMED AND UNNAMED VICTIMS CONTENTS: 1. Archival ...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: THANKS FOR NOTHING MUTAMBARA : Mutambara out in the cold HE came with a bang, taking over the leadership of the pro-Senate faction of the MDC in February 2006, but ...

Mutambara out in the cold HE came with a bang, taking over the leadership of the pro-Senate faction of the MDC in February 2006, but it now appears the former University of Zimbabwe student leader will exit the political limelight anonymously. It is said he is now living a life of prayers! Deputy Prime Minister, Arthur Mutambara’s name won’t appear on the Presidential ballot papers when Zimbabweans vote on Wednesday. Neither did his name appear on that ballot paper after he pulled out of the race in support of Simba Makoni in 2008. He tried the Zengeza East parliamentary seat but lost to MDC-T’s Alexio Musundire. He has cut a lone figure in these dying days of the inclusive government despite being one of the principals to the power-sharing government. Instead, it is President Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and MDC leader Welshman Ncube who are on the campaign trail seeking the keys to State House.   Mutambara, who has promised to unite democratic forces...

ZIMBABWE TOWARDS NEW ELECTIONS: ZIMBABWE`S CIO NAMED AND SHAMED, FULL LIST!!! : 30 June 2011 As we reported, starting this Thursday SW Radio Africa will exclusively be publishing a list of Central Intel...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: ROY BENNETT, SAID ONCE, THE BUFFALO IS WOUNDED, YE... : Zimbabwe’s Elections: Mugabe’s Last Stand 29 Jul 2013 OVERVIEW A return to protracted political crisis, and possibly extensive v...

Zimbabwe’s Elections: Mugabe’s Last Stand 29 Jul 2013 OVERVIEW A return to protracted political crisis, and possibly extensive violence, is likely, as Zimbabwe holds inadequately prepared presidential, parliamentary and local elections on 31 July. Conditions for a free and fair vote do not exist. Confidence in the process and institutions is low. The voters roll is a shambles, security forces unreformed and the media grossly imbalanced. The electoral commission is under-funded and lacked time to prepare. Concerns about rigging are pervasive, strongly disputed results highly likely. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the African Union (AU) face severe credibility tests. They must avoid a narrow technical approach. If the vote is deeply flawed, they should declare it illegitimate and press for a re-run after several months of careful preparation or, if that is not possible, facilitate negotiation of a compromise acceptable to the major parties; and strong d...