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MDC-T fumes over Kamphepe report urges Britain to intervene
24 Nov 2014 at 12:01hrs | Views
UNITED KINGDOM - THE Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Tsvangirai based in the Diaspora has blasted the South African government for concealing the Kamphepe poll report detailing Zimbabwe's sham 2002 election saying the national crisis currently bedeviling the country are as a result of the insincerity of the neighbouring country.
MDC-T members based in the United Kingdom and Ireland have urged the South African Presidency to explain to Zimbabwean people why it hid from them for 12 years the findings of the Kamphepe inquiry - that Zimbabwe's 2002 Presidential election was stolen.
"It has therefore taken 12 years for the Mail & Guardian lawyers to win the final battle in the Constitutional Court which has forced the release of the report. Had it been released timeously, it could have avoided the injustice of subsequent elections that have been held since 2002, including the recent June 2013 election," read a press statement released by the MDC-T secretariat in UK.
"The result is now an unstable country in which a regime that is used to lawlessness is now tearing itself apart through abuse of democracy procedures in its own party, abuse of media, abuse of security forces, and abuse of state resources - leading to economic and social instability, factionalism, crippled government operations, and a fragile economy now on the precipice of failed statehood."
The team now wants Great Britain and other World powers that have in the past condemned Robert Mugabe's rule to intervene in a bid to reverse the election outcomes, twelve years on.
"We are therefore asking the international community, including the government of Great Britain, the United States, the European Union and other democracy-supporting countries to support the people of Zimbabwe by making contingency plans in case this very fragile government collapses," the team charged.
MDC T leader Morgan Tsvangirai recently blasted the South African government over the same report. He has never accepted his defeat in that poll, or in subsequent elections.
His MDC party says all elections from 2000 have been stolen by Mugabe and the ruling ZANU-PF.
But Zanu PF pundits have dismissed the matter as a legal nullity.
MDC-T members based in the United Kingdom and Ireland have urged the South African Presidency to explain to Zimbabwean people why it hid from them for 12 years the findings of the Kamphepe inquiry - that Zimbabwe's 2002 Presidential election was stolen.
"It has therefore taken 12 years for the Mail & Guardian lawyers to win the final battle in the Constitutional Court which has forced the release of the report. Had it been released timeously, it could have avoided the injustice of subsequent elections that have been held since 2002, including the recent June 2013 election," read a press statement released by the MDC-T secretariat in UK.
"The result is now an unstable country in which a regime that is used to lawlessness is now tearing itself apart through abuse of democracy procedures in its own party, abuse of media, abuse of security forces, and abuse of state resources - leading to economic and social instability, factionalism, crippled government operations, and a fragile economy now on the precipice of failed statehood."
The team now wants Great Britain and other World powers that have in the past condemned Robert Mugabe's rule to intervene in a bid to reverse the election outcomes, twelve years on.
"We are therefore asking the international community, including the government of Great Britain, the United States, the European Union and other democracy-supporting countries to support the people of Zimbabwe by making contingency plans in case this very fragile government collapses," the team charged.
MDC T leader Morgan Tsvangirai recently blasted the South African government over the same report. He has never accepted his defeat in that poll, or in subsequent elections.
His MDC party says all elections from 2000 have been stolen by Mugabe and the ruling ZANU-PF.
But Zanu PF pundits have dismissed the matter as a legal nullity.
Source - Byo24News
