Zanu-PF Minister admit to rigging 2013 elections to move on punish those responsible first

DEPUTY Justice Minister Fortune Chasi on Wednesday admitted that the last general election controversially won by his Zanu-PF party last July had some serious discrepancies, according to a New Zimbabwe report. The whole world knew that already, all the nation has been waiting for is a chance to establish the full facts of the vote rigging.

Everyone in Zanu-PF must know that there will be a thorough investigation in which not stone will be left unturned to establish the full details of how the 31st July 2013 elections were rigged.

The nation will establish why MDC leaders failed to get even one reform implemented in their five years in the GNU. The spotlight will then turn on Mugabe and Zanu-PF. The investigation will have the name, the age, what they did, how much they were paid and by who, where did the money come from, etc. of everyone involved in the vote rigging from those who masterminded the plan right down to the Border Gazi trained operative who implemented the plan at village level.  

Those involved in vote rigging threaten the very stability and survival of the nation and they are therefore committing high treason. It is high time this nation treated this crime with the seriousness it deserves. All those found guilty vote rigging will be dually punished.

We already know that there were foreigners involved like Nikuv and that the Israeli Government was warned of this devious company's activities but chose to ignore the warning. The investigation will dig deep, real deep, into this area. Zimbabwe will demand to know who gave Israel the right to aid and abet the commitment of treason in our country?

Israel's indifference to the suffering of black Africans is well documented. The Israelis was the only democratic nation to continue working hand in glove with the apartheid regime in South Africa right up to the day Nelson Mandela was freed, for example. It is a matter of national pride that Nikuv's role in rigging of 2013 elections is exposed and the princely $ 13 million the company received is recovered!

In typical school bully style Minister Chasi urged Zimbabweans to accept the status quo and move on. How can the nation move on?

The country is suffering from the ill-effects of three decades of misrule by the Zanu-PF regime and last year the national economic has taken a dangerous nose dive. The regime thought it could rig economic recovery but has clearly failed to do so as exemplified by the mockingly empty ZimAsset begging bowl after a year of frantic begging.

Accepting the status quo is to ask the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans now living in abject poverty without work and even something as basic as clean running water to accept that as their lot. The Zimbabwe people have been very slow to react to situations, painfully slow, but Zanu-PF will be making a terrible mistake to mistake slowness for inactivity. Zimbabweans are not going to accept a political system that has stripped them of hope and human dignity forever; that much of I am certain.

It is naïve on the part of the Zanu-PF ruling elite to think the rank and file riot Police Officers, for example, will continue to brutally repress those protesting against the lack of basic services by day and go home to face the same problems themselves and never see the absurd futility of it all! The Officers may be stupid but not that hopelessly stupid!

Zanu-PF has resisted change for over three decades now but, like it or not, change will happen. This nation will only move on, as contrast to be stuck in this hell-hole Mugabe and Zanu-PF landed us, when the rights and freedoms of all Zimbabweans are honoured and guaranteed. And to make sure that is so, we must start by punishing those guilty of vote rigging in last year's elections; that is the surest way of insuring these will be the last rigged elections in Zimbabwe!