Opinion / Columnist
ZCC launches 'I pray! I vote!' programme - to what purpose if done nothing to stop rigging
05 Jul 2018 at 06:57hrs | Views
"The Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC), an association of Christians from mainline denominations, has urged political parties participating in the July 30 elections to uphold the fundamental values of the country' s Constitution," reported The Zimbabwean.
"ZCC yesterday launched a programme called I Pray I Vote in Masvingo. The programme seeks to promote peace and sanity before, during and after the July 30 elections."
ZCC has failed to pressure President Mnangagwa and his junta regime to implement the democratic reforms which, if implemented, would have guaranteed peaceful, free, fair and credible elections.
With no reforms in place the best we can hope for now is the peace will hold. The elections are NOT going to be free, fair and credible; not when there is no free public media, when ZEC has failed to produce clean and verified voters' roll, when Zanu PF has been robbing the nation blind to bankroll its vote rigging schemes, etc., etc.
When the children of Israel left Egypt to go to the Promised Land flowing with milk and honey, they not only faced the challenge of the physical journey itself they also fought many, many battles along the way. They were being led by one of the holiest man to ever walk this earth, Moses.
They must have been tempted to say; "Why are we bothering ourselves with all the physical challenges of tracking across the desert and risking serious injuries and our very lives fighting? We must ask Moses to pray for us; so, God removes all these challenges. After all we are the chosen people!"
We know the journey from Egypt to the Promised Land was full of trials and tribulations and even after getting they have to this day faced many problems because such is life. The moral of the story of Exodus is "God will not do for mankind what mankind can do for himself!"
"I pray!" Pray for God to demanding of President Mnangagwa, Mugabe before him, to implement the democratic reforms because ZCC will not dare or are too lazy to demand the reforms themselves? Sadly not even one democratic reforms has ever been implemented and so Zanu PF has blatantly rigged elections in the past and is rigging these elections too.
"I vote!" To what end and purpose, if the elections are rigged?
If we are serious about ending the criminal waste of the nation's human and material resources behind the economic meltdown and tragic human suffering and deaths; then we must take our duties and responsibilities to build a justice and prosperous Zimbabwe with the seriousness the task demands.
Praying to God to do for us what we are too lazy to do for ourselves is what landed us into this hell-on-earth and there we will remain until we learn to do our homework!
"ZCC yesterday launched a programme called I Pray I Vote in Masvingo. The programme seeks to promote peace and sanity before, during and after the July 30 elections."
ZCC has failed to pressure President Mnangagwa and his junta regime to implement the democratic reforms which, if implemented, would have guaranteed peaceful, free, fair and credible elections.
With no reforms in place the best we can hope for now is the peace will hold. The elections are NOT going to be free, fair and credible; not when there is no free public media, when ZEC has failed to produce clean and verified voters' roll, when Zanu PF has been robbing the nation blind to bankroll its vote rigging schemes, etc., etc.
When the children of Israel left Egypt to go to the Promised Land flowing with milk and honey, they not only faced the challenge of the physical journey itself they also fought many, many battles along the way. They were being led by one of the holiest man to ever walk this earth, Moses.
They must have been tempted to say; "Why are we bothering ourselves with all the physical challenges of tracking across the desert and risking serious injuries and our very lives fighting? We must ask Moses to pray for us; so, God removes all these challenges. After all we are the chosen people!"
We know the journey from Egypt to the Promised Land was full of trials and tribulations and even after getting they have to this day faced many problems because such is life. The moral of the story of Exodus is "God will not do for mankind what mankind can do for himself!"
"I pray!" Pray for God to demanding of President Mnangagwa, Mugabe before him, to implement the democratic reforms because ZCC will not dare or are too lazy to demand the reforms themselves? Sadly not even one democratic reforms has ever been implemented and so Zanu PF has blatantly rigged elections in the past and is rigging these elections too.
"I vote!" To what end and purpose, if the elections are rigged?
If we are serious about ending the criminal waste of the nation's human and material resources behind the economic meltdown and tragic human suffering and deaths; then we must take our duties and responsibilities to build a justice and prosperous Zimbabwe with the seriousness the task demands.
Praying to God to do for us what we are too lazy to do for ourselves is what landed us into this hell-on-earth and there we will remain until we learn to do our homework!
Source - zsdemocrats.blogspot.co.uk
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