Baba Jukwa unmasked

A demanding Mugabe kept all of us at the Vigil hard at it stuffing ballot boxes for the elections on 31st July. Unusually considerate, he saved us a bit of work by marking a cross against his name before handing out the ballot papers from a seemingly inexhaustible supply.

A voting demonstration at the Vigil.
A voting demonstration at the Vigil.

“Don’t tell anyone, but I am Baba Jukwa,” he confided. “I popped over to show you how Zanu (PF) will win the elections. They’re in the bag. In fact, lots of bags.”

Baba Mugabe gave Vigil supporters an authentic taste of the Zimbabwean voting experience. We were joined at the Vigil by MDC members supporting the 19th monthly diaspora protest. After the Vigil we gathered at the India Club for our bi-monthly Zimbabwe Action Forum.

Ephraim Tapa, a Vigil founder member and President of Restoration of Human Rights in Zimbabwe, talked about the rigging of the elections. He said Tsvangirai had taken poisonous issues to SADC many times and had always been told to go back and resolve them with the parties in the GNU. Ephraim said nothing could be expected from SADC, which was just a trade union of presidents.

Ephraim said our delegation was dismayed that concern seems to have shifted from ‘free and fair elections’ to ‘credible elections’.

Our hopes were not raised by a statement from the African Union: “The environment in Zimbabwe so far reassures us that that the conditions are good for the election to be held on July 31,” said Aisha Abdullahi.

FOR THE RECORD: 64 signed the register.

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