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ANC helping Zanu-PF to rig elections, claim
20 Apr 2013 at 09:20hrs | Views
A Zanu-PF "mole" on the social networking site, Facebook, has claimed that South Africa's ruling African National Congress is helping President Robert Mugabe rig the coming elections.
Going by the name Baba Jukwa, the "mole" has won respect from most users of the site, with incisive postings that have exposed some of the party's underhand activities, including providing confidential communication and private phone numbers and email addresses, which have all proven to be real.
Recently, Baba Jukwa claimed that some ANC officials have been sent to help Mugabe rig the polls, so that he retains power in what is viewed to be the second most-decisive poll in the history of the country, after the 1980 elections that brought independence and thrust Mugabe into the power he has refused to let go of for more than three decades.
"The ANC been at our party Headquarters since the beginning of the week, holding a workshop with the members of the party Politburo, Central Committee and Provincial Chairpersons," wrote Baba Jukwa.
"The workshop will continue until Saturday and is covering a wide range of issues, but specifically centering on how they can assist our party to win elections. The ANC has dispatched it's top technical personnel from its elections department to assist the party with tactics and strategies to defeat other political parties."
He said the ANC officials were emphasizing on" exaggerated anticipations".
"This is the concept of building a big lie to its receptions that there would be exaggerated anticipations. People will be promised what they assume can be fulfilled. This is the beginning of the ANC's fulfillment of the promise to help the party win elections. This, if known by other political parties that will contest elections, will create problems because the ANC government should deliver a free and fair election as SADC Facilitators.
"It was not supposed to take sides in this event and it has destroyed its role as a neutral arbitrator in the problems the country is facing. Some of the political parties are not aware of it, as they snore thinking the ANC will play a neutral game in our politics. There must be an outcry over this contact and protests should be sent to the ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe, that Zimbabwe needs neutrality in their conduct in our politics as they are Facilitators to our problems."
The ANC, which has, through its youth league, publicly said that it would make sure that Zanu-PF rules Zimbabwe till "Jesus' second coming", had not responded to the allegations at the time of going to print.
Going by the name Baba Jukwa, the "mole" has won respect from most users of the site, with incisive postings that have exposed some of the party's underhand activities, including providing confidential communication and private phone numbers and email addresses, which have all proven to be real.
Recently, Baba Jukwa claimed that some ANC officials have been sent to help Mugabe rig the polls, so that he retains power in what is viewed to be the second most-decisive poll in the history of the country, after the 1980 elections that brought independence and thrust Mugabe into the power he has refused to let go of for more than three decades.
"The ANC been at our party Headquarters since the beginning of the week, holding a workshop with the members of the party Politburo, Central Committee and Provincial Chairpersons," wrote Baba Jukwa.
He said the ANC officials were emphasizing on" exaggerated anticipations".
"This is the concept of building a big lie to its receptions that there would be exaggerated anticipations. People will be promised what they assume can be fulfilled. This is the beginning of the ANC's fulfillment of the promise to help the party win elections. This, if known by other political parties that will contest elections, will create problems because the ANC government should deliver a free and fair election as SADC Facilitators.
"It was not supposed to take sides in this event and it has destroyed its role as a neutral arbitrator in the problems the country is facing. Some of the political parties are not aware of it, as they snore thinking the ANC will play a neutral game in our politics. There must be an outcry over this contact and protests should be sent to the ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe, that Zimbabwe needs neutrality in their conduct in our politics as they are Facilitators to our problems."
The ANC, which has, through its youth league, publicly said that it would make sure that Zanu-PF rules Zimbabwe till "Jesus' second coming", had not responded to the allegations at the time of going to print.
Source - zimbabwean
