Opinion / Columnist
What now Comrades?
13 Jul 2018 at 10:31hrs | Views
After having watched the demo as it beamed live on the MDC Facebook handle l could feel the pain and disappointment of the marchers of Wednesday. Dear reader away from the meddling crowd of Zimpapers and Charamba's tomfoolery this election is set for astronomical levels of rigging. I wish to just dust off the hurtful propaganda you have involuntary ingested which has bloated your mind so much that you can't tell what's really going on.
ZEC the bastards….
ZEC is the single most important player in this circus called the 2018 election. ZEC is that clown who keeps jumping on the stage in the middle of other acts. A player whose sole act is to distract you from the fine assistant to the magician slipping out as the wooden encasement you think she is in is sawn asunder. I assure you at the end of the circus the crazy clown will come and do a head bow to thank you for being spectators to his distractions albeit well calculated. ZEC will come with rigged results on the 4th of August and expect your applause.
Where can I begin… to start with there is no law against anything ZEC has made you believe is illegal. There is no law against releasing the voters' roll with pictures, no law against observing and forensically testing the ballots, nothing outlaws an external audit of the voters roll. ZEC has no law except instructions from Zanu PF. Chigumba is the most illiterate judge there is. Not because she is uneducated or a dimwit, far from it. Remember the clown juggling the eggs and dropping them clumsily as the magician helps the sweet assistant out of the wooden case and out of your sight. As Chamisa rightly said, not having a word for word pronunciation by the law on these issues does not mean they are illegal. Law as one taught man once said is a conclusion reached by an unbiased mind to a question seeking right from wrong. Law as a study is simply an art of removing prejudices and bias. Whatsoever the law leaves out it assumes a competent judge without this bias can fill in through interpretation of the law brought before him.
Question is therefore that when our electoral law speaks to transparency what does it speak to. Definitely it speaks to allaying any suspicion on quality and source of the ballot paper and other pertinent issues which are being raised. Chigumba being the clown is feigning failure to read the law as the irritating clown feigns missing the egg in his well-rehearsed act of distracting the crowd from the ivory skinned assistant slipping into the shadows. All eyes fixated on the egg as it thuds on the floor the clown gleefully celebrates his accomplishment of deception because whilst you worry about the shameless Chigumba the 30th is swiftly approaching.
I know you have heard experts talk of how the MDC failed to push through even one reform during the GNU. This is a lie brother, there is no reform that surpasses the constitution we now have. What is lacking is an earnest application of the tenets of the constitution. Zec is confusing us by the verbatim of the Law knowing fully well that those paragraphs of wording are merely a paraphrasing of what the authors envisaged the constitution would stand for. The authors envisaged a situation where a taught judge would fill in what they left out, so the law could deal with every situation posed before it. No way were we going to write that if a party contests the quality of ballot paper then such and such should be done. No, we made it a requirement for the chairperson of ZEC to be a judge because we knew the role was not about reading a passage and implementing it word for word. We knew a judge would be able to use the letter and SPIRIT of the electoral act to even out the playing field. We thought the Chigumbas of these world would know what transparent meant and interpret our law. The Chigumbas of this world have to know its there in the electoral act that contestants must be satisfied with material to be used in an election. How does she read the law. a class action lawsuit by all convicts who were convicted through Chigumba's interpretation of the law would give us the much needed break from this madness. Her ineptitude is an embarrassment to the law fraternity of Zimbabwe.
ZEC has also made a deliberate attempt to annoy us. By us I mean all right thinking Zimbabweans. N Mushonga and Q Moyo have been deployed on a mission of annoyance. Remember how N Mushonga unashamedly accused supermarkets of giving Zanu PF voters' contact details and how those Bindurands caught on camera fleeing from a Zanu PF rally were to her running to welcome Mnangagwa.
All this she said at the ZEC press briefing on Monday. Q Moyo also has taken this task head on. He is the fool who said mobile phone operators released people's phone numbers and it just is ludicrous to think a whole commissioner would make such an allegation. I know of people with lines not registered in their names receiving text and whatsapp messages from Zanu PF. I don't want to belabor the point that ZEC gave Zanu access to the database. Its as clear as crystal. What got to me was his tweet on Wednesday in reply to Hwende who had talked of how they were eager to meet the commissioners on Thursday as per their request and this Moyo fella quipped back that they would not 'batika zvekumhanya'. Commissioner my foot! A clear Zanu operative holding himself about as a commissioner.
They put Mnangagwa first on the second column to aid his visibility since they know the hoodlums who vote for them would not find him on a list of twenty three candidates arranged alphabetically. I totally understand them! This again is an annoying tactic. The ZEC chair Chigumba sees nothing wrong with this. What a joke. The 'dibblo mumblo' as my brother would call him by the name of Q Moyo says they wanted to save paper! Kikki. Distributing them evenly would have saved paper more. Q Moyo is just a lousy guy and N Mushonga equally nauseating for postulating that its quite easy to have Tatenda Moyos born on the same day and having same ID numbers differing only in the last three digits which are mere district indicators and hence not unique.
To what end....
Zanu PF is preparing a massive rigging operation on the 30th. We are set for an ambush. Zec is not blundering, its all part of the game plan. Are we done? I believe we have some options. On the second part of this article I will look at what opposition parties can do to avert this staged electoral loss.
ZEC the bastards….
ZEC is the single most important player in this circus called the 2018 election. ZEC is that clown who keeps jumping on the stage in the middle of other acts. A player whose sole act is to distract you from the fine assistant to the magician slipping out as the wooden encasement you think she is in is sawn asunder. I assure you at the end of the circus the crazy clown will come and do a head bow to thank you for being spectators to his distractions albeit well calculated. ZEC will come with rigged results on the 4th of August and expect your applause.
Where can I begin… to start with there is no law against anything ZEC has made you believe is illegal. There is no law against releasing the voters' roll with pictures, no law against observing and forensically testing the ballots, nothing outlaws an external audit of the voters roll. ZEC has no law except instructions from Zanu PF. Chigumba is the most illiterate judge there is. Not because she is uneducated or a dimwit, far from it. Remember the clown juggling the eggs and dropping them clumsily as the magician helps the sweet assistant out of the wooden case and out of your sight. As Chamisa rightly said, not having a word for word pronunciation by the law on these issues does not mean they are illegal. Law as one taught man once said is a conclusion reached by an unbiased mind to a question seeking right from wrong. Law as a study is simply an art of removing prejudices and bias. Whatsoever the law leaves out it assumes a competent judge without this bias can fill in through interpretation of the law brought before him.
Question is therefore that when our electoral law speaks to transparency what does it speak to. Definitely it speaks to allaying any suspicion on quality and source of the ballot paper and other pertinent issues which are being raised. Chigumba being the clown is feigning failure to read the law as the irritating clown feigns missing the egg in his well-rehearsed act of distracting the crowd from the ivory skinned assistant slipping into the shadows. All eyes fixated on the egg as it thuds on the floor the clown gleefully celebrates his accomplishment of deception because whilst you worry about the shameless Chigumba the 30th is swiftly approaching.
I know you have heard experts talk of how the MDC failed to push through even one reform during the GNU. This is a lie brother, there is no reform that surpasses the constitution we now have. What is lacking is an earnest application of the tenets of the constitution. Zec is confusing us by the verbatim of the Law knowing fully well that those paragraphs of wording are merely a paraphrasing of what the authors envisaged the constitution would stand for. The authors envisaged a situation where a taught judge would fill in what they left out, so the law could deal with every situation posed before it. No way were we going to write that if a party contests the quality of ballot paper then such and such should be done. No, we made it a requirement for the chairperson of ZEC to be a judge because we knew the role was not about reading a passage and implementing it word for word. We knew a judge would be able to use the letter and SPIRIT of the electoral act to even out the playing field. We thought the Chigumbas of these world would know what transparent meant and interpret our law. The Chigumbas of this world have to know its there in the electoral act that contestants must be satisfied with material to be used in an election. How does she read the law. a class action lawsuit by all convicts who were convicted through Chigumba's interpretation of the law would give us the much needed break from this madness. Her ineptitude is an embarrassment to the law fraternity of Zimbabwe.
ZEC has also made a deliberate attempt to annoy us. By us I mean all right thinking Zimbabweans. N Mushonga and Q Moyo have been deployed on a mission of annoyance. Remember how N Mushonga unashamedly accused supermarkets of giving Zanu PF voters' contact details and how those Bindurands caught on camera fleeing from a Zanu PF rally were to her running to welcome Mnangagwa.
All this she said at the ZEC press briefing on Monday. Q Moyo also has taken this task head on. He is the fool who said mobile phone operators released people's phone numbers and it just is ludicrous to think a whole commissioner would make such an allegation. I know of people with lines not registered in their names receiving text and whatsapp messages from Zanu PF. I don't want to belabor the point that ZEC gave Zanu access to the database. Its as clear as crystal. What got to me was his tweet on Wednesday in reply to Hwende who had talked of how they were eager to meet the commissioners on Thursday as per their request and this Moyo fella quipped back that they would not 'batika zvekumhanya'. Commissioner my foot! A clear Zanu operative holding himself about as a commissioner.
They put Mnangagwa first on the second column to aid his visibility since they know the hoodlums who vote for them would not find him on a list of twenty three candidates arranged alphabetically. I totally understand them! This again is an annoying tactic. The ZEC chair Chigumba sees nothing wrong with this. What a joke. The 'dibblo mumblo' as my brother would call him by the name of Q Moyo says they wanted to save paper! Kikki. Distributing them evenly would have saved paper more. Q Moyo is just a lousy guy and N Mushonga equally nauseating for postulating that its quite easy to have Tatenda Moyos born on the same day and having same ID numbers differing only in the last three digits which are mere district indicators and hence not unique.
To what end....
Zanu PF is preparing a massive rigging operation on the 30th. We are set for an ambush. Zec is not blundering, its all part of the game plan. Are we done? I believe we have some options. On the second part of this article I will look at what opposition parties can do to avert this staged electoral loss.
Source - Tatenda Magumise
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