A corrupt voters’ roll and insuperable obstacles to voter registration, together with harassment of voter education, are merely the beginning.
We are now told by Mugabe’s handlers that security sector reforms were never on the agenda despite Article 13 (1) of the Global Political Agreement which reads ‘State organs and institutions do not belong to any political party and should be impartial in the discharge of their duties’.
With the unreformed hate-spewing Zanu (PF) media sinking from propaganda to outright lies, the Vigil this week was asked by a Malawian journalist for a comment on visiting President Joyce Banda’s alleged call for the lifting of ‘illegal’ sanctions on Zimbabwe. We said: ‘The Herald is a propaganda sheet and cannot be relied on to report anything honestly.
But if President Banda did call for the lifting of ‘illegal’ sanctions she was just parroting Mugabe’s electioneering line that seeks to blame the West for Zimbabwe’s catastrophic economic decline. The sanctions are not illegal and were targeted at people involved in human rights abuses and their companies. Trade has continued and, anyway, most sanctions have now been suspended.’ We have since learnt Malawi has denied remarks in the Herald attributed to President Banda.
More serious than the propaganda onslaught, we believe, is Zanu (PF)’s total non-co-operation with the South African mediation effort, and South Africa’s failure to take a strong line with them.
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