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Poor voter turn out mared Nkulumane
31 Jan 2016 at 12:04hrs | Views
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported that on December 19 2015 the Nkulumane by-election was marred by poor voter turn out an indication that the majority of people did not vote and has no confidence in the holding of by elections.
"Political activities were mostly in Nkulumane, where a by-election was held in the constituency on 19 December 2015 following the death of former Member of Parliament (MP) Thamsanqa Mahlangu of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T)," reported ZPP. "The by-election which was boycotted by the major opposition parties, was won by Zanu-PF against Progressive Democrats of Zimbabwe and Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe. Only about 3000 people voted out of 32000 registered voters."
Zanu PF's candidate Killian Sibanda defeated the Progressive Democrats Zimbabwe (PDZ) candidate and the Renewal Democratic Zimbabwe (RDZ) canmdidates.
ZPP said intra-party conflict within Zanu-PF markedly increased as party members jostled for places to represent the party at the Victoria Falls Conference which was held first week of December.
"Tensions were reported within the MDC-T over differences on whether to join forces with People First," reported ZPP. "On 13 December 2015, in Luveve, at the war veterans offices situated at 8742 Old Luveve, John Langa (not real name) was verbally insulted by fellow war veterans who accused him of having campaigned for opposition party, ZAPU, during the June by-elections. He was then barred from participating or vying for office in the organization' s structures or in Zanu-PF ."
"Political activities were mostly in Nkulumane, where a by-election was held in the constituency on 19 December 2015 following the death of former Member of Parliament (MP) Thamsanqa Mahlangu of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T)," reported ZPP. "The by-election which was boycotted by the major opposition parties, was won by Zanu-PF against Progressive Democrats of Zimbabwe and Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe. Only about 3000 people voted out of 32000 registered voters."
ZPP said intra-party conflict within Zanu-PF markedly increased as party members jostled for places to represent the party at the Victoria Falls Conference which was held first week of December.
"Tensions were reported within the MDC-T over differences on whether to join forces with People First," reported ZPP. "On 13 December 2015, in Luveve, at the war veterans offices situated at 8742 Old Luveve, John Langa (not real name) was verbally insulted by fellow war veterans who accused him of having campaigned for opposition party, ZAPU, during the June by-elections. He was then barred from participating or vying for office in the organization' s structures or in Zanu-PF ."
Source - Byo24News
