Zimbabwe Election: Progress & Results

Mbeki urges patience on Zimbabwe



The two leaders appeared cordial as they met in Harare today

South African President Thabo Mbeki has called for patience over unreleased poll results in Zimbabwe, after talks with its president, Robert Mugabe.

The two men met after Mr Mugabe said he would not attend a regional summit in Zambia aimed at ending deadlock over presidential elections two weeks ago. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says he won the vote, and hopes leaders will pressure Mr Mugabe to step down. Despite growing tensions, Mr Mbeki said there was "no crisis" in Zimbabwe. ..........................

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Spiraling inflation has seen the introduction of a Z$50m note







Zimbabwe - where a drink costs Z$200m





A boy passes a campaign poster of Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in Chitungwiza on Saturday.


Mbeki anasema hakuna crisis zimbabwe sasa nini kimempeleka, rais mzima unakuwa mjinga.

Yaani bado tu......
Nataka kusema kitu lakini nasita.....

Pundit said:

Kitila,

Jeshi limeshasema haliwezi kukubali matokeo yoyote ambayo Mugabe hatashinda. Mugabe atashinda kihalali au kwa kuiba.

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Kama sijakosea ni kwamba Jeshi la Serikali lilitamka kwamba endapo Mugabe atapata ushindi litampindua, lakini Jeshi la Polisi likaja na tamko mbadala kwamba litahakikisha linamlinda Mugabe.

Bubu Msemaovyo said:

Kama sijakosea ni kwamba Jeshi la Serikali lilitamka kwamba endapo Mugabe atapata ushindi litampindua, lakini Jeshi la Polisi likaja na tamko mbadala kwamba litahakikisha linamlinda Mugabe.

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Jamani tusipindishe kilichosemwa, aliyesema ni mkuu wa majeshi tena on his own kwamba hatakuwa tayari kumpigia salute mtu yeyote tofauti na Mugabe. Hivyo siyo jeshi lililosema maana jeshi lina msemaji wake na ndio yuko authorised kutoa tamko rasmi litakaloheshimika kwamba jeshi limesema. Mkuu wa polisi na Magereza wao walikuw wanawashinikiza polisi na askari magereza kuvote for Mugabe na kwamba mtu mwingine yeyote ni sell out na kibaraka.

"at least to set the record straight"

Nyani Ngabu said:

Yaani bado tu......
Nataka kusema kitu lakini nasita.....

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sema tu Mkuu Ngabu, usisite. Mzee Mbeki anasema no crisis in Zimbabwe sijui anataka wapigane?

Nyani Ngabu said:

Yaani bado tu......
Nataka kusema kitu lakini nasita.....

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Sio kalekale kasentensi ketu au umeibuka na kengine tena?

Kitila Fratelin anajua propaganda nyeusi ndo maana haoni ubaya wa Mugabe....

SADC nao wameogopa kumwambia ukweli matokeo yake wanambembeleza Morgan matokeo yakitangazwa akubaliane nayo.

Sadc nao wameogopa kumwambia ukweli, bado wanambembeleza kutangaza matokeo

Huu ni unafiki uliopitiliza kwa nini wasimwambie mugabe kuwa ameshindwa? na anatakiwa ajitoe kwa heshima asisubiri atolewe kama Knal Barcar kule commoro, ama hajui kuwa Bush bado anatawala marekani na Brown yupo UK?

Kitila Mkumbo said:

Sio kalekale kasentensi ketu au umeibuka na kengine tena?

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Just stay tuned....and don't change that dial....

Hivi nini kinaendelea huko Zimbabwe....wameshapata mshindi?

Nyani Ngabu said:

Hivi nini kinaendelea huko Zimbabwe....wameshapata mshindi?

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Huko mambo bado magumu sana. Mshindi hajapatikana. Mahakama ilitupilia mbali madai ya wapinzani, na hivyo kura zinahesabiwa upya kwenye baadhi ya majimbo, baada ya serikali kushikilia masanduku ya kura hizo kwa takriban wiki tatu. Wapinzani wameitisha mgomo wa nchi nzima, lakini wananchi wameugomea mgomo huo, hawakujitokeza! Inadaiwa ni kutokana na hali mbaya ya uchumi, watu hawana hela ya kula leo, kwa hiyo wakigoma ndio kufa njaa hivyo! Wafanyakazi hawako tayari kupoteza kidogo wakipatacho makazini, na wananchi waliobaki hawana uhakika wa mlo wa siku, kwa hiyo wameona mgomo ni hatari kwao, wameugomea japo labda kweli wangependa kushiriki. Niliposikiliza habari hii kwenye BBC, nimekumbuka kitabu kiitwacho "KULI" kilichoandikwa na Shafi Adam Shafi, ambacho nilikisoma zaidi ya miaka 25 iliyopita. Katika "KULI", vibarua waliokuwa wanaonewa waliitisha mgomo, lakini baada ya siku 3 mfululizo bila malipo, njaa ilizidi wakarudi makazini kwa majuto, na viongozi wao kina Rashidi wakasalitiwa! Inauma sana kwa kweli. Katika kitabu hicho cha "KULI" Rashidi alijifariji kwa maneno "....yana mwisho haya." Naamini hata ya huko Zimbabwe yana mwisho, lakini mwisho wake lini?

Hadi sasa hivi hakuna mshindi hilo ndio agizo la kamati ya uchaguzi, sasa kama nyie mna matokeo zaidi ya hayo tupeni...Na kama nilivyosema toka mwanzo mahakama kuu pia amekatupilia mbali madai ya MDC kwa sababu hawa wote ni matunda ya ZANU - PF...

Zimbabwe could be added to UN Security Council's Africa summit
Monsters and Critics

Apr 15, 2008, 18:35 GMT

New York - Zimbabwe's unresolved presidential election outcome is not on the agenda of the UN Security Council's African summit on Wednesday, but could be placed there if the world's powers want to debate the issue, the council president said Tuesday.

The African summit at UN headquarters in New York is to be presided over by South African President Thabo Mbeki, whose mediation in settling the dispute in Zimbabwe's presidential vote count has been criticized for being biased in favour of President Robert Mugabe.

Mbeki's Ambassador to the UN Dumisani Kumalo said Zimbabwe was not on the council's agenda. But he said the United States, Britain and France, three of the five veto-wielding permanent members, could raise the issue during the two-day African debate.

'Those are huge countries,' Kumalo said. 'They can raise whatever they want to raise and all I have said was that we don't expect Zimbabwe to be discussed tomorrow (Wednesday). But they can raise anything.' Zimbabwe's electoral commission has refused to make public results of the first round of presidential elections held last month and has called for a
run-off vote. The opposition said it has won the elections.

Mbeki and the presidents of Ivory Coast, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and a number of deputy ministers and ambassadors will attend the council's African meeting to discuss ways to strengthen the working relationship between the UN and the African Union.

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Mugabe is waiting to take the next move.........

Mkandara said:

Hadi sasa hivi hakuna mshindi hilo ndio agizo la kamati ya uchaguzi, sasa kama nyie mna matokeo zaidi ya hayo tupeni...Na kama nilivyosema toka mwanzo mahakama kuu pia amekatupilia mbali madai ya MDC kwa sababu hawa wote ni matunda ya ZANU - PF...

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Kweli hakuna aliyeshinda lakini hayo matokeo mbona hayatangazwi ili duru la pili lifanyike? Kwa nini iwe siri ya ZANU - PF peke yao?

Mugabe rival sets run-off terms



The MDC says Morgan Tsvangirai won the presidential vote

Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will not contest a run-off election unless certain conditions are met, a spokesman for his party says. Mr Tsvangirai's party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), believes he won last month's election against President Robert Mugabe outright.

MDC spokesman George Sibotshiwe said a secure environment had to exist first, with thorough international monitoring. But current conditions did not allow for a free and fair vote, he said. The party would only take part if the Southern African Development Community could help oversee every stage of the count, he added.
Earlier, a national strike called by the MDC to demand that results from the 29 March election be published immediately received little apparent support.

Dire economy

Reports from the capital, Harare, said most banks, shops and offices opened as usual. The BBC's Peter Biles in Johannesburg says a strike call was never likely to be heeded by many workers, such is the desperate state of Zimbabwe's economy.

Meanwhile in South Africa, the governing African National Congress has made its boldest statement so far on Zimbabwe, saying it regards the situation in the country as "dire". Zimbabwe's election commission says it cannot release the results of the presidential election until a partial recount is completed at the weekend. Independent counts suggested that Mr Tsvangirai won the election but took less than 50% of the vote, meaning he would face a run-off. The MDC had previously said it would not take part in a run-off because it might lead to violence and the intimidation of the party's supporters around the country. MDC Secretary General Tendai Biti told the BBC on Tuesday that two of its activists had been killed and 200 hospitalised after being assaulted by ruling party militias.
The party has said its supporters have been beaten up in rural areas where the MDC won.

On Monday, Zimbabwe's High Court dismissed an opposition petition for the results to be released immediately, saying reported anomalies should first be investigated. In last month's elections Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF lost its parliamentary majority for the first time during his 28-year rule. But the party could recover that majority if it is awarded just nine of the 23 seats subject to a recount.

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Mfano wa uchaguzi umeomekana Italy ambako Silvio amerudi madarakani na uchaguzi umefanyika just over the weekend.

Mugabe amekula nyama ya binadamu ndio sababu hawezi kung'oka maana ni taboo mbaya sana ukishakula tu huwezi kuacha.

Dua,

Kweli hakuna aliyeshinda lakini hayo matokeo mbona hayatangazwi ili duru la pili lifanyike? Kwa nini iwe siri ya ZANU - PF peke yao?

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Mkuu wewe na mimi pamoja na wengine wote tunajua mshindi nani achana na hizo kura lakini kwa sababu ya ujinga wa mtu mweusi kutumia demokrasia ambayo haiwezi fanya kazi kwetu tumejiingiza ktk kiza kingine kikubwa!..
Tatizo kubwa sio Mugabe isipokuwa chama ZANU PF kwani kama wataachia nafasi hii basi ndio imetoka - wanalijua hili kama ilivyotokea Kenya na baadhi ya nchi ambazo vyama vya upinzani wakipata ushindi basi huchukua zaidi ya miaka 30 kwa chama tawala kuweza kurudi tena madarakani na hawa jamaa wote watakuwa marehemu, kisha ZANU PF hawana tofauti na CCM viongozi wote madarakani ni mafisadi ardhi waliyochukua kwa wazungu wamegawana wenyewe sasa kimbunga kitakuwa pale watakapo shindwa.
Siwezi kuamini kabisa kwamba leo hii CUF ama Chjadema wanaweza peleka mashtaka ya uchaguzi mahakama yetu chini ya Chenge tukategemea haki hata iwe siku moja ama mwezi mzima!

Mkandara, maneno mazito. Ila umenikumbusha mfululizo wa vitabu vya "Ujinga wa Mwafrika"..