Ibbo Mandaza has said it is impossible for Zanu-PF to win the 2018 elections because the party has disintegrated. He said this at a symposium on peace and the 2018 harmonised elections organised by the Election Resource Centre (ERC) and the University of Zimbabwe on Thursday.
Said Mandaza:
It’s a fair conclusion to make that the party of revolution is broken, tattered, fractured and cannot possibly win elections in 2018. It’s impossible.
Mandaza said the freedoms being experienced by people are a result of this disintegration and not the benevolence of Mnangagwa and company. Said Mandaza:
There is disintegration, therefore, the apparent freedom that you are experiencing in rural areas, the extent to which the opposition has been able to hold rallies in areas they have never been able to have rallies before is not through the benevolence of this new dispensation. It is because the state is disintegrated they are no longer able to control it. The State is divided army versus police, army versus CIO [Central Intelligence Organisation]. It’s a fractured State.
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