The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has said it is hoping that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the African Union (AU) will intervene in Zimbabwe following the disputed 23 August 2023 Harmonised Elections.
CCC rejected the election results after President Emmerson Mnangagwa was declared the winner of the presidential election.
The opposition party’s deputy spokesperson Gift Siziba told NewsDay on Sunday that they have turned to SADC and AU after exhausting all domestic remedies to resolve the electoral dispute. Siziba said:
The crisis which Zimbabwe is facing is not a legal one. We have a political crisis and we are very optimistic that SADC and AU will help Zimbabwe resolve it.
We have exhausted all the domestic remedies that could address the challenges.
He said CCC engaged ZEC on several occasions and also wrote to Mnangagwa about various electoral irregularities, but did not get any response. Said Siziba:
We even wrote to Mnangagwa as the Head of State, we wanted to engage him over various electoral irregularities, but we did not get any response.
At the court, we filed several cases, but we lost most of them, we petitioned the courts over various issues around the voters’ roll, distribution and printing of ballot papers, their printing and storage; we petitioned the courts against FAZ (ZANU PF affiliate Forever Associates of Zimbabwe), but we did not get any favourable response.
Siziba said there is nothing else CCC can do except engage SADC and AU to find a permanent solution to Zimbabwe’s cycle of disputed elections. He said:
Zimbabwe is currently battling a vicious cycle of electoral theft and disputes. What we want now is a permanent solution to resolve the crisis.
We do not want a temporary solution because we are going to have a repeat of what we had previously. So the issues here are beyond the courts.
As it is, we have no other solution except the intervention of Sadc and the AU.
All the Chapter 12 institutions, the Human Rights Commission, and the National Peace and Reconciliation are aware of our issues.
We even took our alternative Electoral Amendment Bill to Parliament and we also raised these issues in our pre-electoral pact document.
Reports suggest that the final SADC Election Observer Mission (SEOM) report was handed over to President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia on Saturday evening and is believed to be critical of the manner in which Zimbabwe’s Harmonised Elections were conducted.
President Hichilema is the chairman of the SADC Troika that put together the election observer team.
Hichilema and the other two Heads of State of members of the Troika, Tanzania and Namibia, stayed away from Mnangagwa’s inauguration held on 04 September 2023.
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🧐 🤔 🤨 🙄 · 1 year ago
My understanding and true feelings of the whole volume you wrote is, slave trade was long abolished and it its essence it united slaves to explore discover and be innovative to achieve what should be perceived as freedom,
If you are given a farm piece of land and you follow guidelines and principles of modern farming, with just presidential inputs (free), on a GOOD SEASON, you are out of slavery just like that,
They say kwadzorohwaa madundundu ndokwadzotizirira, that's a very wrong mentasphere,
You want to bow down to laziness
And blame the country leadership.
So I a nutshell, when such exploitation occurs, your defence mechanism doesn't free your mindset, you'd think protestations would move the civilised, fo instance you gather people your people just to preach and watch them starved and claim that your teaching would fill up their empty souls
Biblically it's un heard of as the Lord fed people after realising they were hungry and it was past the time they should have eaten
Kuzoti imwewo zvako, regalia regalia chete to beam your colours a favour a sacrifice your people are giving you, but what is it that you give, rather, promises, Alice and wonderland
Get up from that dream 🏰 movie it can only happen in cartoon and comic serials
WIFI · 1 year ago
Happy Slaves.
It is difficult to control a crowd of slaves in a slave farm but the slave master knows what to do. He targets a few slaves and makes them happy, at least, relatively happier than their counterparts. Make a few slaves happy and they will be loyal to you. They will be happy to defend you with their lives. They will go any length to do so.
Yes! They will defend you at the expense of their own. They will forget that they are slaves too. They will fail to see that they are also having the short end of the stick. They will bring you tales about other slaves. They will snitch on them. They are your loyal foot soldiers and they will help you foil any attempts by other slaves to be free.
Friends, if you are conversant with aspects of the defunct transatlantic and trans-saharan slave trades of yore, you will recall there were such nomenclatures as the "house negro" and the "field negro". The house negro lived in the house, same house with the master, may be in the attic or the basement. Unlike the field negro, he didn't work on the plantation. Neither was he exposed to the full extent of the harsh realities of a slave.
The House negro ate the left over food on his master's table. While his counterpart in the field walked barefoot, the house negro wore his master's used and abandoned clothes and shoes 👟. He became completely assimilated into his master. He saw himself as an extension of him. However, this was only in his head. He was still a slave and had no real path to freedom or an inheritance in the house of his master. His master knew this but the house negro didn't know it.
Whenever the master bought a horse 🐎, the house negro would say "we have a horse". If the master was sick, he'd say "we are sick'. Whenever the master said "it is my turn", the house negro would say "it is our turn'. Hence, he totally forgot his own reality. He worked at cross-purposes with other slaves who were yearning for freedom. He foiled their attempts to be free. Essentially, the house negro forgot he was still a slave simply because of the relative comfort and privileges that could easily be taken away from him.
Friends, from the foregoing, my message ought to be clear. Happy slaves are the greatest enemies of true freedom. They labour to maintain the status quo. As long as they are able to "eat" from it, no matter how bad a system is, they are good. There is nothing as heavenly as having a good system. A bad system beats good people. It makes everyone a victim in the long run.
Interestingly, the happy slaves among us are few but they are sufficiently animated or motivated by the crumbs that fall on their laps from their master's table. Please don't allow any happy slave to gaslight or silence you. Keep making your demands known until we have a better society that works for all and not for a few leaders who have gone rogue.
It is a new day!
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The Great · 1 year ago
You deserve a hand shake
