Commenting on Mugabe’s renewed insistence on elections this year, she made it clear they were out of the question.
The South Africans are clearly not taken in by the politburo’s argument that the so-called ‘timelines’ leading up to elections are too long – given the common knowledge that it is Zanu (PF) itself that has constantly worked to delay them. Well, the Vigil is confident that Zanu (PF)’s fantasy will be punctured by the SADC summit in Angola next month, which is likely to coincide with the launch of a programme to expel many hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans from South Africa.
People at the Vigil wondered whether this is part of a co-ordinated plan to swamp Zimbabwe with returnees. We say this because there are clear indications that the UK is preparing to send back failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers. A number of our supporters say they have recently received letters from the Home Office refusing their asylum claims. One person was given a date by which she had to be out of the country.
Could the aim be to boost the anti-Zanu (PF) forces in the run up to the elections? What a difference a million angry Zimbabweans from South Africa and the UK would make.
We enjoyed reading Vigil supporter Clifford Mashiri’s article demolishing Jonathan Moyo. He lists some of Moyo’s botched projects:
Jingles – which backfired as research later showed they are counterproductive
Anti-sanctions campaign – is terminally ill and abandoned for being too problematic
Indigenisation – backfired when parliament found it to be unconstitutional; even the promise to pay for the shares is unconvincing and too risky when the state is failing to pay 75 000 ghost workers a living wage
Insisting on second opinion on ghost workers – backfired because the Auditor General also confirmed there are over 10,000 ghost workers on the civil service payroll
Using over a thousand Chibondo skeletons – backfired, because of outraging public morals and opening Pandora’s box as some of the dead bodies had fluids suggesting they did not die 30 years ago during Ian Smith’s regime
Hate speech especially against President Zuma and SADC – backfired, as Zanu-pf had to embark on fence-mending diplomacy to nearly all regional leaders
Resisting a diamond audit, backfired as it showed there was something to hide
Threatening the ‘the looming danger” a military coup – backfired when some in Zanu-pf distanced themselves from the cowardly act
Elections now or in 2016 – proving unrealistic without constitution and voters roll
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