Zimbabweans gathered on Sunday to pray for peace ahead of general elections scheduled to take place on 23 August 2023 amid fears of vote rigging and violence.
Dozens of worshippers gathered for a service at a church facing a dusty street lined with market stalls in Harare’s oldest township of Mbare.
One of the worshippers, Apostolic Faith Mission pastor Edson Mukaro, said:
We are praying for a peaceful environment. We are just encouraging our people to be objective, peaceful, and to do everything in order.
Zimbabwe has a long history of disputed elections, marred by violence and allegations of vote rigging.
In 2018, the main opposition presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa, rejected the poll outcome after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) declared the incumbent, Emmerson Mnangagwa the winner with just over 50% of the vote.
Chamisa claimed the results were rigged and took up the matter to the Constitutional Court but the judges ruled that he had failed to provide evidence to back the allegations.
Violence erupted a day after the elections and the army opened fire on opposition protesters, killing six people.
Chamisa, a pastor who is in his mid-forties, is the main challenger to Mnangagwa.
Politics and religion are often intertwined in Zimbabwe where Pentecostal/evangelical and indigenous churches have openly sided with Mnangagwa’s ZANU PF.
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.... · 1 year ago
Wavharwa ne chindedza ka, ndihwo hu triple C uhwo, Kuzanu hakuna **** kana mushona, kana muvhenda ndiyo level ye Zanu Pf, ku varungu tinokwatura zvokuti anaColtard venyu avo havatosviki po
ku chiputukezi mai Valerio vanoti ziva chibhunu chaicho kuna Josh sacco anoturira asi nyaya iripano imwe chete Tsepete Tsepete Tsepete Pamasvingo ipapo haumborasiki
Ed haungamgone kundimi chi**** anokhuluma Chitonga Well he speaks, English that's where he belongs advocates ka,
Right kuma sanctions uko sei ngeni ko Nero asingahwikwi nema sanctions
these have reduced us not because we have resources but we can't normalise the trade sequences adopted in global ethics chete, getting loans trade dealings but hey , forget the golf pga was swallowed by the once condemned LIV 54, so it's a shift too, we have players in soccer jostling for Saudis that's just that the paradymn shift, it's the new world order which is pure order, Kwete zwekuzo fonera Joe Biden with a begging bowl apa unotya kutaura your stance nezvema SANCTIONS
#TSEPETE TSEPETE TSEPETE Pamasvingo ipapo
🤔🤨 · 1 year ago
Salibonani, Kwaziwayi,
Umhlaka 23 August lusuku lokulondoloza esakulwelayo,lomhlabathi lokwenjiwayo ukuthi kungathathwa ngamabhunu besebenzisa iCCC.
ICCC ithi ukunqoba kwayo kuza yandisa amabhunu elizweni.Bazodingani njalo bebathembiseni?
IZANU PF ngeyezifiso zabansundu.Imfundo yethu iphezulu kuzwekazi leAfrica.Sesi lungisa imigwaqo,izikolo izibholani,amadamu,izibhedlela lamagetsi noma kulezijeziso zenotho ezafakwa ngamabhunu leCCC
Emadolobheni yingcekeza yodwa,imigwaqo ngamagodi ,amanzi akahlanzekanga,konke yikwehluleka kweCCC
Ilizwe liphazamiswa ngezijeziso zemnotho ezafakwa ngamabhunu leCCC yabo
Kanti sonani size sihlukumezwe kangaka
Icala lethu yikudinga uzibuse ogcweleyo
Ukuvotela iZANU PF yikutshengisa iCCC ukuthi iZimbabwe lomnotho wayo ngokwabanini bayo hatshi bokuza
Ngakhoke,votelani uMongameli wenu mina uED Mnangagwa,uMp kanye loCouncillor weZANU PF sivikele inotho yethu.
Ngiyabonga.Umlimi makalondoloze iZimbabwe
.... 🤷♂️ · 1 year ago
@zan
Mama gogo ntombi angikwazi ukuti ungubani
But mana ngikuhluzele ngala ma Sanctions, it ripple C ithi iza, yi promise leyo isiqumo ezakwenza kambe lapho uyabe unyathele ngaphi
What happens kunga failure, mhlawumbe uJoe Biden athi ka kwazi lokho kumbe Amakhiwa seliwabisele amapulazi awo yini, yiwo ama conditions enza kwangenwa emapulazini Ngoba U Tony Blair wathi kazazi izinqumo zama conservatives
so umfanyana lo ucimezile kaboni nix,
ulobu student activism hatshi ukupikisa kwe opposition
Katsho ukuthi umingaphi ngama sanctions
Phela u Biden uthwele nzi a nge Russia okwamanje
Ngikholwa azaKhangela I Zimbabwe na?
U Ed ubesev**** owakhe umkoto nanko le USA siyalithola but kumfanyana lo, hayi bo
Ongela lapho aduduza khona inguquko, I Beitbridge iRGM etc
Bantu
Kulobuqholo obusemfaneni
kube lama helicopter uyasola
Uga tshompo kumbe intwasa uyasola
ama judges uyasola kakakhuli engqondweni zokubusa lowo
Into enhle iyabukwa bantu
#EDHuchi
Tsepete Tsepete Tsepete Pamasvingo ipapo
Emasvingo khonaphana mama u Xa
Zan · 1 year ago
You are just being stubborn. The hellicopters were purchased at inflated prices surpassing their real value by 150%what does ga tshompo accomplish . The Judges were given excessive ammounts of money that was not budgeted for, which is in reality ED buying thier allegiance. Your talk of Biden being kept busy by Russia is irrelevant . so you think Chamisa would call or text biden begging for the removal of sanctions? There are oficial channels thru which all the signatories on yhe imposition of sanctions on Zimbabwe can be reached . Is Biden the sole arbiter in this case ?
@Zan · 1 year ago
But I'm so worried about the youthful take over
The opposition is inspired by a mere belly, toilet 🚽 to say the least, but him he had said that its not easy rise from ashes (economy) its was gonna take some strides a likened to a seed sown, the amount of energy required to push up as a shoot what it encounters on both environmental, and caring the same with ditractors, and so now that there is a shoot that needs culturing to a plant then comes someone who does care for it, truly the plant dies down prematurely, but if the sower is kept to tend the plant it grows healthy and would be fruitful