Opinion / Columnist
'Right jacket' won over the 'right candidate' in Cowdray Park
24 Aug 2023 at 20:54hrs | Views
COWDRAY PARK...I STANDBY THE DEVELOPMENTAL AND RATIONAL CHOICE FOR THE CONSTITUENCY, CITY AND REGION: IT'S THE CANDIDATE, NOT THE JACKET THAT MATTERS
It's a pity that like many others elsewhere a number of polling stations in Cowdray Park opened very late on polling day, with some as late as 2:30 pm yesterday, and closed in the wee hours this morning, some of them at 2:30 am with some 13,388 or so voting, in what was unprecedented, unfortunate and possibly illegal "night voting", whose effect was voter suppression.
It's also disappointing that the badly affected polling stations in Cowdray Park and generally in Bulawayo were not included in the schedule to last night's election proclamation that extended voting to today.
Meanwhile the usual quarters are celebrating that, as has been the case in Bulawayo since 2000, their "right jacket" has won over the "right candidate" in Cowdray.
I hope they're wrong. but if they're, let it be. But make no mistake about it, if that's what it is, then it would be another lost five years, and another lost opportunity for real development.
Truth be told, no "right jacket" has developed Bulawayo or Matabeleland or any other place in Zimbabwe over the last 23 years in particular and in general over the last 43 years since since independence.
It's the candidate, not the jacket that matters!
It's a pity that like many others elsewhere a number of polling stations in Cowdray Park opened very late on polling day, with some as late as 2:30 pm yesterday, and closed in the wee hours this morning, some of them at 2:30 am with some 13,388 or so voting, in what was unprecedented, unfortunate and possibly illegal "night voting", whose effect was voter suppression.
It's also disappointing that the badly affected polling stations in Cowdray Park and generally in Bulawayo were not included in the schedule to last night's election proclamation that extended voting to today.
I hope they're wrong. but if they're, let it be. But make no mistake about it, if that's what it is, then it would be another lost five years, and another lost opportunity for real development.
Truth be told, no "right jacket" has developed Bulawayo or Matabeleland or any other place in Zimbabwe over the last 23 years in particular and in general over the last 43 years since since independence.
It's the candidate, not the jacket that matters!
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