Disturbing! Zimbabwe is a country of peace loving people. So why try to provoke people? People already know election results because they have been posted on various polling stations. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission should just announce the results. Now there are reports that the military has stopped all results being announced? Other reports say the military chiefs are preparing to brief Mugabe to accept defeat? They maybe unconfirmed reports, but whose is causing all this speculation and confusion? Lets hope they are not going to cheat!
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Zimbabweans have gone to the polls to elect the next president in one of the countrys most important election since independence. As voting has closed now in Zimbabwe, comes the long wait for results. It's anxious times! There has been allegations of vote rigging by the opposition, however President Mugabe in a video interview disputed this after voting in Highfield. Early indications seems to show a peaceful election and I have also spoke to relatives and friends who have voted today. They didn't have much problems, even though a number of people could not find their names on the voters roll. As for the ...
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The entire world knows the Zimbabwe election was won by the Movement for Democratic Change but President Mugabe simply will not leave the stage of power. Zimbabwe’s ambassador to the UN, Boniface Chidyausiku warned everyone not to “write him off. There is a possibility of a run off if neither of the candidates gets fifty percent plus one of the total vote cast and I’m sure he will take that opportunity, if the opportuity presents itself.” He insisted President Mugabe will remain in his homeland and will never seek refuge elsewhere. Zimbabwe police raided offices of the DMC and arrested two foreign journalists including ...
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Sadly, a proposal for sanctions against Zimbabwe has been voted down . Sanctions can sometimes do more harm than good. Take Iraq, when an embargo on medicine caused great hardship among innocent civilians. But not in the case of Zimbabwe, where an arms embargo, an assets freeze and travel restrictions were proposed to put pressure on the despotic President Robert Mugabe. The idea of anyone selling arms to Zanu-PF fills me with horror. An arms embargo should have already been in place. How Russia and China could disagree with an embargo and a ban on Mugabe and his chums leaving the country baffles me. ...
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As we slowly approach that all important day, March 29. The day when Zimbabweans go to the polls to elect the country's' next President, MPs, Senators and councilors. What exactly is the role or interests of foreign governments in Zimbabwe elections. Are they really interested in the welfare of Zimbabweans or they just want regime change? It is okay for foreign governments to fund opposition parties in Zimbabwe, BUT when the government gives food to starving villagers in Uzumba, Lupane, Kezi or Marange we hear a lot of noise about a desperate party using food to buy votes and stay in power at all ...
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