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Mbuso Ndlovu, Correspondent
President Mnangagwa and Zanu PF will not give away their unassailable electoral victory in the just ended harmonised elections as Zimbabwe’s constitution doesn’t provide for a re-run of elections at the behest of a losing political party, candidate, let alone an international (foreign) organisation.
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, insists the law is clear on the legal remedies available to an aggrieved political party or individual and an opposition political party induced re-run is virtually impossible as it is just not available. In response to the call by the Citizens Coalition for Change to Sadc, the African Union and United Nations after the opposition typically rejected their loss, Samuel Johnson says: “The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
It is time for CCC to look itself in the mirror and face facts. Firstly, X (Twitter) voters and endorsements have no impact on our elections. Secondly, if one hates Zanu PF, it doesn’t mean everyone else does. Thirdly, wishes don’t affect electoral processes and results.
Falsehoods and fake bravado will not repeal or nullify election results. Those calling for street protests are nowhere near the streets and will not take part. Elections are the only way to public office and everything else is impossible. The big fact is that Harare and Bulawayo are not Zimbabwe but coercion is not possible given that Mbare voters frustrated former president Mr Robert Mugabe so much that he called them totemless together with residents of Makokoba, Sakubva, Mutapa, Macheke and Rimuka. The old suburbs have always been the bedrock of revolution.
Visibility was lacking – the assumption that the electorate will “obviously” vote opposition even without campaigning. Up to now, voters can’t recall the names of their MPs or councillors that they supposedly voted for as they never interacted with any opposition candidates.
It needs to be known that SADC election guidelines do not make it mandatory that there must be candidates of various sexual orientations although Mr Nevers Mumba makes it seem so although it doesn’t appear in his homeland. He can’t cast aspersions on our elections based on sexual orientation, according to Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, it is quite revealing.
Even in his Zambian homeland, there’s no gay requirement for election to public office. In fact, there are more people who genuinely need attention but are never represented politically like those with albinism and mental illness for instance.
The youth, in spite of their enthusiasm, are actually not registered voters. What if the gays and disabled are not interested in politics, does it mean there will be a vacuum just because a particular group can hold the nation to ransom?
It is understandable for Mr Chamisa to hanker for favours from the West but for him, a respected pastor, that’s crude. Mr Chamisa must have known that some adults like Job Sikhala, Welshman Ncube and Tendai Biti, jealous that such a young man has the guts to take on a party that was way older than him, having been formed in 1963, while he was born 45 years ago, will try and throw spanners in the works.
Mr Chamisa, had he been smart enough, would have concentrated on the youth. All parties must focus on the youth. Urge them to register and vote. Biometric registration overrides any previous registration as it is polling station-based, your picture must be in the “registration book”.
Some youth even helped Gogo to vote yet they were not voting themselves as they were not registered. Some claimed they could not find their names yet they had not checked for them during the registration verification exercise, so what did they expect?
If a youthful party such as CCC could not get enough youthful voters more than Zanu PF, how did it expect to win? Old people generally vote Zanu PF so it was going to be a difficult call for the opposition.
Online Reporter