Why Mugabe will win

Rigging an election is a complicated procedure - but Zanu-PF are the experts

Mugabe's announcement that the joint elections will take place on March 29 may have filled some of us with renewed hope. Innocent souls may have asked themselves: is this a chance to finally rid the country of the crabby old dictator? The answer is, of course, no it isn't.

The truth is, this election is already rigged - and rigged more thoroughly than any of its predecessors. By using its security forces, its money, and its unquenchable desire for power, Zanu-PF will sail to victory in four week's time, and there's nothing we can do to stop it.

Government plans are already in place, which, as well as the usual brutality, threats and punishment, will employ a variety of subtler methods which will ensure nothing goes wrong. These, according to my usually reliable sources, are some of the details:

Already printed and stored are two million extra ballot papers. Each one will be marked for...well, you can guess who for. Exactly. This leaves the problem of how to get them into the ballot boxes in a not-too-obvious manoevre.

To this end, recruitment is taking place, particularly from the National Youth Training Service, to provide an army of ostensibly neutral "observers" for election day. Already more than ten thousand are on the payroll, earning a basic Z$150m a month. Target number is 20,000.

At the same time, opposition parties will be approached by apparent "deserters" from the army, the police and the Central Intelligence Organisation, who will offer their services as election agents, to see fair play on election day. They will, of course, do exactly the opposite.

In this way, Zanu-PF can expect to exert total control of all polling stations, the moving of ballot boxes, and the counting of votes, genuine and fake, on the 29th. And to make doubly sure, more than Z$100 trillion has been set aside for straight-forward bribery of officials where necessary.

One of my sources commented: "Bribery will be the easy part. After all, people are starving. They are desperate to feed their families. They can't turn the money down."

And that, together with a couple of other fiddles, including some hopelessly fraudulent postal voting, will do the trick. The thugs, murderers and crooks who make up our ruling party will settle in for another term, under the benevolent stewardship of one of the world's most appalling dictators.

When the above information reached me, I wasted my time and the cost of a call to telephone Didymus Mutasa, who is the Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration - the man at the heart of this web of corruption and chicanery. I told him what I knew, and asked for a comment.

"We will get you, and you will regret everything," he told me, before switching his phone off.

Perhaps the saddest thing is, he didn't even bother to deny it.

Comments

[Michael Wilton]

As I stated in my comment on the 'Elections just two months away'article, ths is a situation that has been ongoing for the best part of 3 decades.

ZANU-PF cannot now be brought down through democratic channels, and it is only a matter of time before the people of Zimbabwe are pushed beyond their limits ..... and as they have done in the past, they will fight for the good of their country, whether it is against a Mugabe ruled ZANU-PF or after his time. This is something that should be neither welcomed nor glorified, but to my way of seeing it, it is something that is, in the end, inevitable.

[tino kanonga]

mr. wilton, with this kind of reporting, how did you pass journalism school?

[tino kanonga]

mr. wilton, with this kind of reporting, how did you pass journalism school?

[Michael Wilton]

I dislike posting explanations that have no bearing on the actual article, Mr Kanonga, but I feel that I must clear one thing up here.

Although I take it as a compliment that you would mistake my comment for that of a journalist, I am not and have never been one.

I would say that I am more of an amateur historian, and as such I can categorically say that Mr Mugabe and ZANU-PF are following a trail well trodden by dictators and despots the world over for many hundreds of years ..... and in all but a few select cases, these dictatorships have, in their ignorant belief in their own invincibility, pushed their own countries too far, and have been deposed in civil war.

It has happened in Asia, Europe, South America and it has certainly happened in Africa.

If you have a specific question or point to raise on my comment, I will be only too happy to answer, clarify, and debate, but you have to say what that point is for me to do so.

[Izikiel]

Mugabe fell from the grace of God, his cronies live off him thru corruption and wickedness. Mugabe's authority is nolonger authority, but uses evils powers just like King Saul whose disobedience made him to through himself on his own sword and died.

As Christians we are charged to pray and spiritually demolish this evil stronghold on Zimbabwe by Mugabe and zanupf. The Lord will answer our prayers, we will all see the Lord's might works. We will marvel at the awesome ways of the Lord!!!

Pray for freedom and restoration of authority that fears the Lord. Pray for authority that serves the Lord and His people. The Lord can turn these March elections into a WATERLOO for Mugabe and zanupf!!! For nothing is impossible with the Lord, Almighty!

[Michael Wilton]

Izikiel, your faith is admirable, but it must be remembered that, even in the Bible it has taken the hand of Man to do the work of God.

Rather than his Waterloo, what is needed is a Samson to bring down Mugabe's Temple of Dagon, or for the Children of Zimbabwe to circle Mugabe's own personal Jericho ..... only with a Zimbabwe united will the walls of ZANU-PF be tumbled, one way or the other.

[Peter Nyoni]

Michael, you are absolutely correct. Mugabe and zanupf will never leave office via democratic means. They have done far too much damage and they know that there are dire consequences if they hand over power.

In the meantime, we also know that there is another rigged election around the corner. We know this from past experience and we know this from the playout occurring on the ground.

Given the hostile nature of SADC countries to Zimbabwe as a nation and their unconditional support for mugabe, the opposition and cival society have a dilemma. their dilemma is whether to take part in this election knowing that Zimbabwe will lose again to zanupf.

On the face of it, the obvious answer is a resounding NO. However, whilst all this negativeness is around, surely there must be something positive that people can do to weaken zanupf's structures and hold on power.

It is in this specific area that people should concentrate their thoughts and it is amazing what the masses could do to weaken zanupf overnight. there's a lot more I could discuss but will leave it to another time

[Michael Wilton]

Thank you Peter, the affirmation is much appreciated.

I must admit I can't comment from a working 'on the ground' knowledge any more, but looking at it from afar and knowing the history of the nation from personal experience in both the Rhodesia and Zimbabwe phases, I can still see what is happening ..... and the main parts of the struggle against ZANU-PF's despotic hold are union and spirit.

Union will cement the nation together, and no man or force (not even Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF ..... or as it seems at the moment, the rebranded ZANLA) can stand against fully united opposition of any form.

Zimbabwe's Spirit has triumphed against the odds before and it will again.

When the time comes that you are ready to post further points, I look forward to discussing this with you Peter. :)

[Izikiel]

Thanks Micheal, but there is one important factor about the Lord you overlooked. The Bible says that "it is not by power... but by His Spirit... and that the battles are not yours but mine" The distinct differences between the Lord Jesus and Joshua come into play here. Remember when John the Baptist suffered prison under the cruel king Herod the Great, he sent his disciples to Jesus seeking answers:"are the one to come or shall we expect someone else." But John the Baptist is the one who saw the Holy Spirit coming down on Jesus as has been directed by God that the one the Spirit of God descent upon in a dovelike boldness is the one. Suffering should bring us back to the Lord and chase us away from the Lord.

Have you given up your prayers brothers? Have you not seen how this God of our answer prayers? Have you not heard that when the children of Isreal cried of slavery and oppression by the Egyptians the Lord immediately heard them and sent after Moses after 400years? Have you/we as Zimbabweans not cried to the Lord with the same cry of oppression biblical proportion?

Brothers, the Lord is a living being, He is a living God. He opened the Red Sea and the Egyptians thought they could also walk on dry ground instead the sea swallowed them violently when all Isrealis crossed safely. This Mugabe and zanupf may manipulate and cheat elections but the Lord via our prayers will make them see their WATERLOO! Believe and pray, as these battles are in the spirit and results can manifest in the physical when battles are won!

[Michael Wilton]

Now this is what is needed to bring an end to the reign of Mugabe, what we have here is a meeting of minds ..... the religious (Izikiel), the socio-political (Peter) and the socio-historical (myself).

Unity starts with few people, then few groups, then few towns, and finally many come together under one banner ..... whether that banner be a military standard, a protest placard, or the most subtle of banners ..... the shared experience and suffering of the Nation of Zimbabwe.

[Izikiel]

Micheal and Peter, let me state this again. We cannot seperate politics/economics from Christianity. It is the Lord that gives space for every authority. It is the Lord that ascends and demolishes any authority. Saul was annointed King by the Lord at the request of the Isrealis. It is the Lord that made Nebochadneza of Babylon to execute punishment on Isrealis because of their rebelliousness.

This Mugabe was put their by God through our votes in 1980. Mugabe like Saul has fallen away from the grace of the Lord. Remember Nebochadnezar mouled grass like an animal because of pride as he thought it was his power and authority to have an empire as large as Babylon, yet in reality it was the Lord's authority. As a result of pride and cruelity the Lord drove him out of the golden palace into a wild animal and grazed grass for his food for some time.

The point I want to make is, you might be a rocket scientist like Arthur Mutambara but pride drives you away from the Lord and suffer the consequences. So whether you are a politician or a scientist or economist or a peasant or a Church Bishop but the Lord expects all of us to cry to Him. When we cry He will execute judgement to Robert Mugabe and cronies.

We will not get anywhere with our earthly or worldly wisdom! We need to seek the face of God for our freedom and restoration. The Bible says the Isrealis cried to the Lord their God. It does not say "some" Isrealis cried or religious or priests cried, but the Isrealis cried and the Lord heard them!!! Lets all pray and cry to the Lord!!! we will get answers from the Lord.

[Peter nyoni]

Izikiel, whilst I agree with your sentiments, I know that God helps those who helps themselves. It is Jesus christ who threw the skelms out of the synagogue. Mugabe has the blood of thousands on his hands and meanwhile receives the sacraments from the catholic church. As he is the devil's ally, the catholic church must excommunicate this devil. As for the people of Zimbabwe, i hope that their faith in God will one day over-ride their fear of Mugabe and his thugs. When that happens, their shackles of fear will dissipate and mugabe will be swept aside like the dust and chaff after the spring rains have arrived

[Coronella Keiper]

Nowhere in the Bible does it state that "God helps those who help themselves", but rather that was a Hindu saying which applied in the Hindu thought concerning what the Bible calls "demons." Truly, God helps those whose hearts are completely His. Again, ""..And they overcame by the blood of The Lamb and by the power of their testimony and they valued not there lives even unto death."" They didn't have to "value" their lives, for God values our lives very very highly; so their idea was to seek God and to obey Him, and He was the one who gave them to continue in life and health. Again, the three friends of Daniel whose speach to the king is reported, they did not say that they would die. They did not speak evil into their own lives. But they did state that God is able to deliver and that HE SHALL DELIVER US; and then they went on to give their testimony to the king, who needed it, and to state that "even if" God didn't deliver them, they would not do evil. In making their decisions, they totally chose to seek God. God does not help those who help themselves. That is what poor Mugabe has been trying to do, and it is obviously wrong -- if God actively exsists. God does help those who seek to obey Him, ask Him to change them every way He sees the need, and pray, joyeously plead for good from Him, in sureness that HE SHALL DELIVER. I have experienced miracles of deliverance, and of healing to the body, but through the already shed blood of The Lord Jesus Christ and the word of my testimony and asking God for the deliverance and for the spiritual strength and joy needed to see the miracles happen.
Mugabe has, in the past, been used by God for some -- some -- good things; but I am sure that he would already be out for a long time if the whole nation prayed and obeyed like Daniel's three friends. Now, Mugabe's time has come: Either he "dies to himself and lives towards God" or .. God is as close to each of us as our own breath, but even the breath is from God. I pity Mugabe, but it is his choice before God's wrath now.

[Michael]

If what is said by the religious people about the troubles is correct, and God will indeed sort them out then that is all well and good, but it should be known that people are dying while He delays, and regardless of His reasons for not removing Mugabe, that blood is on His hands.

The other alternative is that the religious communities are wrong, and He has given the people jurisdiction in this matter, the opportunity to exersize the free will He gave us to sort out the problems ourselves in a corporeal manner.

Regardless of which one it is, we don't need to know what Mugabes fate will be after death, all we need is Mugabe and ZANU-PF gone.

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