Opinion / Columnist
'Pray for God to defend our vote!' called Chamisa - what of millions of stolen votes
21 Aug 2018 at 23:09hrs | Views
The picture of Nelson Chamisa up in mountain in Murewa dressed in white, for purity, clatching the Bible and asking us all fast and pray. "I am urging the whole nation to pray. Let us go before God so that he may help us, we don't want the spilling of blood," he said.
No doubt, the whole shebang was meant to evoke the image of Moses coming down Mount Sanai clatching the stone tablets with the Ten Commandments. However instead of evoking the Moses, the picture evoked the memory of this religious fanatic, Innocent Gaka, at my High School.
Religion had always been an important part of my childhood and school life because both my parents are devout Christians and I had always attended Church based School. Innocent took religion to a new level; instead of the usual once a week Sunday Church service, he had four or five Bible discussions, Prayer meetings, etc. Come end of year examinations time, Innocent, went into overdrive, holding pray meeting to pray for examiners to ask clear questions, for students to answer clearly, there was even one prayer meeting to pray for the pens!
To cut a long story short, the High School had its worst ZJC, "O" level and "A" level results ever. The following year Headmaster told Innocent and his disciples that their religion activities will not be allowed to eat into study time.
Nelson Chamisa's religious posturing has the same Innocent Gaka appeal – asking God to do for us what we are too lazy to do for ourselves!
"We have to stand with our God to defend our vote within the confines of peace ... change does not come easy," Chamisa said.
Nelson Chamisa and his MDC Alliance friends agreed to go into these elections with no democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections, against repeated advice not to. They did not even have the common sense to demand that ZEC must produce a clean and verified voters' roll throwing the door wide open for all manner of Zanu PF vote rigging shenanigans.
There was no free public media. 2 to 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora were denied the vote. Zanu PF robbed the nation blind to bankroll its vote rigging schemes. Many voters in the rural areas in particular are beholden to Zanu PF handouts and/or so fearful of reprisals they did not dare to vote for anyone else.
Whatever evidence Chamisa has submitted in his court challenge, it is but a fraction of the blatant vote rigging that has taken place here all because the nation had failed to implemented the raft of democratic reforms required to ensure free, fair and credible elections.
Millions of Zimbabweans LOST their right to a free, fair and credible vote because these election went ahead without first implemented the democratic reforms. So Chamisa is asking God "defend" the lost vote? This is just like Innocent Gaka asking God to help the student "remember" stuff they never learned because they never studies!
No doubt, the whole shebang was meant to evoke the image of Moses coming down Mount Sanai clatching the stone tablets with the Ten Commandments. However instead of evoking the Moses, the picture evoked the memory of this religious fanatic, Innocent Gaka, at my High School.
Religion had always been an important part of my childhood and school life because both my parents are devout Christians and I had always attended Church based School. Innocent took religion to a new level; instead of the usual once a week Sunday Church service, he had four or five Bible discussions, Prayer meetings, etc. Come end of year examinations time, Innocent, went into overdrive, holding pray meeting to pray for examiners to ask clear questions, for students to answer clearly, there was even one prayer meeting to pray for the pens!
To cut a long story short, the High School had its worst ZJC, "O" level and "A" level results ever. The following year Headmaster told Innocent and his disciples that their religion activities will not be allowed to eat into study time.
"We have to stand with our God to defend our vote within the confines of peace ... change does not come easy," Chamisa said.
Nelson Chamisa and his MDC Alliance friends agreed to go into these elections with no democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections, against repeated advice not to. They did not even have the common sense to demand that ZEC must produce a clean and verified voters' roll throwing the door wide open for all manner of Zanu PF vote rigging shenanigans.
There was no free public media. 2 to 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora were denied the vote. Zanu PF robbed the nation blind to bankroll its vote rigging schemes. Many voters in the rural areas in particular are beholden to Zanu PF handouts and/or so fearful of reprisals they did not dare to vote for anyone else.
Whatever evidence Chamisa has submitted in his court challenge, it is but a fraction of the blatant vote rigging that has taken place here all because the nation had failed to implemented the raft of democratic reforms required to ensure free, fair and credible elections.
Millions of Zimbabweans LOST their right to a free, fair and credible vote because these election went ahead without first implemented the democratic reforms. So Chamisa is asking God "defend" the lost vote? This is just like Innocent Gaka asking God to help the student "remember" stuff they never learned because they never studies!
Source - zsdemocrats.blogspot.co.uk
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