President Emmerson Mnangagwa
“When we go to the elections you should not fight,” he wrote on his Twitter handle.
He continued stating, ” when people support their parties it’s their choice.We should work for the people and not be selfish.
“There should be justice and national reconciliation because we cannot progress when communities are in conflict. God bless Zimbabwe”
“When we go to the elections you should not fight,” he wrote on his Twitter handle.
He continued stating,” when people support their parties it’s their choice. We should work for the people and not be selfish.
“There should be justice and national reconciliation because we cannot progress when communities are in conflict. God bless Zimbabwe”
This is an insult to those of us who have been calling for the implementation of all the democratic reforms because all we keep hearing from President Mnangagwa is talk and twitter and no action. He has not implemented even one reform. NOT ONE!
We know that Zanu PF has always used other more subtle ways to rig the vote such as denying opposition supporters the vote by making sure their details are posted in wrong constituencies whilst allowing its own supporters to cast multiple votes. The party has co-opted others such as the village heads and Chiefs to do the harassing and intimidating of voters on its behalf, etc. The party has been able to scale down the violence whenever it felt these more subtle methods are working.
Zanu PF has resisted implementing the democratic reforms because it has always wanted to have the option to scale up the violence and other more blatant vote rigging means as the need arise.
Zanu PF’s commitment to democratic reform and free and fair elections is not going to be judged on how much Zanu PF thugs have heeded your call and twitters to have peaceful elections but on whether you have implemented all the democratic reforms. ALL means ALL! We want to deal with this matter and settle it once and once for all and not have to revisit it ever again.