Article: Zim elections a farce: DA

[Albereth]

what proof is there that it is rigged? links please. this year, not previous years.

the majority got what they wanted. sucks for the other 40%, but talk about throwing away the banks long enough and people will take any bull**** they're fed

140% of ZANU PF supporters are happy with the results.

 

[daveza]

where is the proof that it wasn't?

Seriously ?

All the voters in Matabeleland suddenly love Mugabe ?

 

[marine1]

where is the proof that it wasn't?

just because you and i do not like the guy, does not mean that 61% of people did not vote for him. i've lost all hope in humanity as it is, 61% of a country being idiots isn't a surprise to me. there is democracy at work for you, 6 in 10 people believe Mugabe's bull**** and now those 4 have to suffer

And the 2 million dead people who voted? Have you actually been reading what has been going on?

 

[STS]

140% of ZANU PF supporters are happy with the results.

Seriously ?

All the voters in Matabeleland suddenly love Mugabe ?

And the 2 million dead people who voted? Have you actually been reading what has been going on?

I've received updates since then, thank you people. I made sure i read articles as it happened, the articles are only coming out now

 

[Joker]

Most of rural Zimbabwe live in the remote countryside with the only forms of news from government controlled newspapers and TV.

They live simple lives subsistence farming, and one day some guy in a bakkie comes and asks the speak to the village. He explains that the MDC want to take their land and give it back to the white people, and they'll have to work for nothing or live on the street. If they vote for zanu-pf they'll get some free t-shirts and these bags of maize he has in the back. Sounds great right?

They'll even bring a bus to collect them and take them to voting stations. But they must remember they see which parts of the country voted for MDC, and if they find people voted here there will be trouble. They're doing this because Mugabe is their father and he wants all zimbabweans to be free.

Sure there may be no jobs, people are hungry and living pitiful meagre lives but Mugabe has plans to take money from the mines and give it to zimbabweans, so he's fighting for you.

Put yourself in that mindset and you'll realise MDC will never stand a chance. The only hope is after Mugabe dies his successor will be too useless to orchestrate that level of control.

 

[daveza]

If they vote for zanu-pf they'll get some free t-shirts and these bags of maize he has in the back.

I'll bet my **** if they tried this in matabeleland, Guiness would have a new record for the number of t-shirts inserted analy.

 

[Crowley]

 

[Redeemed]

Tsvangirai shows DA why it has no hope of winning

IT WAS hilarious to listen to the cries of foul from Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai, and a few others, after President Robert Mugabe wiped him off the face of the political landscape in Zimbabwe. For instance, if some say 1-million people were disenfranchised in the voting process, are they saying all of these people would have voted for the MDC in Zimbabwe’s election last week? What made people think Tsvangirai was presidential material? I am deliriously happy as this was a vote from the bottom of the heart of a paining Africa. Heavens, electing Tsvangirai would have set the African revolution back several decades.

Here is why.

How could someone who wants to be the next president of Zimbabwe allow himself to be endorsed by Tony Blair, the former UK prime minister, when the UK and Zimbabwe are at each other’s throats? I also cannot imagine how he could bristle with pride as Europe, our former colonisers, rolled out the red carpet for him in preference to Mugabe. Is he not aware that when an African leader becomes popular with the Americans, British, French or Germans, it is a kiss of death?

As if this is not enough, Tsvangirai then agreed to become prime minister in the government of national unity when he could have assigned any of his MDC colleagues to the position. You do not become deputy to your rival as you prepare for a major battle — he will keep you in the shadows, show you up or give you tasks you cannot accomplish. Hence, Tsvangirai was made to call for the abandonment of sanctions, the only weapon he had, to his great humiliation. After a few years of Tsvangirai being prime minister, Zimbabweans started asking themselves: "What does he offer?" The result is last Wednesday’s thrashing.

To get to the main point and the message for South Africa: elections in postcolonial Africa are about more than policy changes or service delivery. They are about the fundamental restructuring and reversal of the past. Mugabe became a hero when he started reclaiming land from whites and redistributing it. After all, Africa argues (even here in South Africa), that land was forcibly taken and must be returned. Thus, Mugabe became such a hero to black South Africans that when he attended state functions, such as the inauguration of our presidents, he was met with thunderous applause.

Hughes Hlatshwayo, a former Pan Africanist Congress leader, used to proclaim that "imperialists usually leave through the front door but jump back in through the side window as they will not abandon our resources". We listened intently as young recruits to the struggle when we sat at his feet, drinking deeply on revolutionary doctrine. What he said at the time continues to plague discussions as the grip the developed world has on our economies hardly loosens.

Mugabe, whether his methods were right or wrong, made the difference Africa wants to see. When the West, or the US, refused to recognise Hamas after a free and fair election in Palestine, it was a case of expecting the Palestinians, and therefore also us, to elect people acceptable to them. This sentiment killed Tsvangirai, as the wily Mugabe successfully portrayed him as the person the former colonialists want to see as Zimbabwe’s president.

This also applies to good old South Africa — the Democratic Alliance (DA) has no hope of becoming our next government, even after the 2019 elections. It lacks the new South Africa appeal. The DA elected Lindiwe Mazibuko and Mmusi Maimane, two political "never-has-beens" and "never-will-bes", to show its leadership is nonracial. As if any black face, whatever the pedigree, is okay as a leader for gullible black South Africans. Mazibuko and Maimane are South Africa’s Tsvangirais. Hence, voting DA is a betrayal of our revolutionary and developmental agenda. The DA does not know, and will never know, what black passions and aspirations are.

True, we as a country have serious developmental problems. However, has a comparison been done on where South American, Asian or other African nations were 20 years after independence? Or, for that matter, the former communist countries 20 years later? Look at Russia, for instance.

http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/col...ngirai-shows-da-why-it-has-no-hope-of-winning