Zimbabwe Election: Progress & Results

Kitila Mkumbo said:

Kaka, ubaya wa Mugabe sasa hivi huko Zimbabwe hauhitaji kuhubiriwa na US au UK. Kila mzimbabwe anaujua isipokuwa aliye waziri wa serikali ya Mugabe na familia na ndugu zake wa karibu sana. Hebu jaribuni kuongea basi na hata wa Zimbabwe; piga simu kwa mtu yeyote ZImbabwe. Uzuri kupiga simu Zimbabwe ni very cheap.

Jamani, tutaacha lini kuwalaumu wazungu kwa matatizo yetu? Halafu hawa wazungu kwa nini wanakuwa wabaya tu pale wanapotukosoa lakini hatuachi kutega mikono yetu kwao? Haya mashamba aliyoyachukua Mugabe aliyapeleka wapi? Kwa nini uzalishaji ulishuka? Kwani hawa US na UK walienda huko wakawataza wananchi wasilime? Hawa US na UK ndio wamepeleka njaa Zimbabwe? Hivi, ni hawa US na UK wanaomwambia Mugabe awape waduasi wake tu mahindi na awanyime wale ambao wanampinga? Hivi ni US na UK waliowaambia wananchi wamchukie Mugabe? And, kwa nini ni Mugabe, ina maana hakuna mtu mwingine anayekubaliana na sera za chama chake na anayeweza kuzisimia zaidi yake? Kwa nini mtu mmoja aruhusiwe kuiharibu nchi nzima kwa kiasi kile kisa aliwanyang'anya wazungu mashamba? I mean, kwa nini hata sisi ambao tunafikiri ni kizazi kipya katika bara letu tunashindwa kukubali kuwajibika kwa kushindwa kwetu kutekeleza wajibu wetu?

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Kitila,

Kweli kabisa, matatizo ya Afrika ni yetu sisi wenyewe.

I hope Wazimbabwe watamtema huyu Mugabe na kuanza upya kutengeneza maisha yao. Ila baada ya yale yaliyotokea Kenya, itabidi kusubiri mpaka Mugabe anakubali kushindwa maana unaweza kunywa wine, unalala, kuamka unakuta Mugabe anashangilia.

Breaking news kutoka Zim zinasema BOB amepigwa chini ni vigumu hata kuiba kura, hata waziri wa ulinzi naye ameangushwa kwenye ubunge kuna uwezekano kuwa Tsavingirai akachukua ikulu. Kitila kama hii ni kweli naona Mungu atakuwa amesikia maombi!

Bongolander said:

Breaking news kutoka Zim zinasema BOB amepigwa chini ni vigumu hata kuiba kura, hata waziri wa ulinzi naye ameangushwa kwenye ubunge kuna uwezekano kuwa Tsavingirai akachukua ikulu. Kitila kama hii ni kweli naona Mungu atakuwa amesikia maombi!

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Itakuwa ni mabadiliko makubwa sana kwa demokrasia za Afrikan iwapo Morgan Tsvangirai atashinda. Lakini wasiwasi wangu ni kwamba huenda babu (isomeke BOB) anaweza kukataa kuachia madaraka.
Hii imekaaje? Ataikimbia nchi kwa kuogopa kupatilizwa kwa madhambi yake?

Kitila Mkumbo said:

Kaka, ubaya wa Mugabe sasa hivi huko Zimbabwe hauhitaji kuhubiriwa na US au UK. Kila mzimbabwe anaujua isipokuwa aliye waziri wa serikali ya Mugabe na familia na ndugu zake wa karibu sana. Hebu jaribuni kuongea basi na hata wa Zimbabwe; piga simu kwa mtu yeyote ZImbabwe. Uzuri kupiga simu Zimbabwe ni very cheap.

Jamani, tutaacha lini kuwalaumu wazungu kwa matatizo yetu? Halafu hawa wazungu kwa nini wanakuwa wabaya tu pale wanapotukosoa lakini hatuachi kutega mikono yetu kwao? Haya mashamba aliyoyachukua Mugabe aliyapeleka wapi? Kwa nini uzalishaji ulishuka? Kwani hawa US na UK walienda huko wakawataza wananchi wasilime? Hawa US na UK ndio wamepeleka njaa Zimbabwe? Hivi, ni hawa US na UK wanaomwambia Mugabe awape waduasi wake tu mahindi na awanyime wale ambao wanampinga? Hivi ni US na UK waliowaambia wananchi wamchukie Mugabe? And, kwa nini ni Mugabe, ina maana hakuna mtu mwingine anayekubaliana na sera za chama chake na anayeweza kuzisimia zaidi yake? Kwa nini mtu mmoja aruhusiwe kuiharibu nchi nzima kwa kiasi kile kisa aliwanyang'anya wazungu mashamba? I mean, kwa nini hata sisi ambao tunafikiri ni kizazi kipya katika bara letu tunashindwa kukubali kuwajibika kwa kushindwa kwetu kutekeleza wajibu wetu?

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Mawazo finyu ya kufikiria uporaji wa pesa ya walipa kodi na kujitajirisha binafsi ndiko kumemponza Robert Mugabe kuwa laughing stock na kuwatia aibu waafrika.

Kosa la UK na USA ni kumnyima VISA ya kwenda kutumia pesa ya walipa kodi kufanya shopping trips.

Je ni kwa nini mashamba aliyochukua hayazalishi - Ananyimwa pembejeo na UK, USA etc. Kwani hawa ni baba ama mama zake? I wonder? Mugabe amechemsha big time na ashukuru udikteta wake unaendelea kulindwa na wale wanaofikiri ataendelea kufanya atakalo. Mifano ya Mobutu, Bokasa na wengineo ipo hai na ndiko anaelekea.

Unaweza kuamini kwamba kura zinahesabiwa kwa kutumia mishumaa? Unapokwenda bank ni lazima uchukue carrier bag

Tsvangirai candidates sweep Bulawayo

Lindie Whiz - New Zimbabwe said:

Last updated: 03/30/2008 13:05:37
A FACTION of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) led by Arthur Mutambara appeared on the verge of ceding control of the second largest city of Bulawayo to a rival faction led by Morgan Tsvangirai, according to a New Zimbabwe.com projection from early election returns Sunday.

Only David Coltart (former Bulawayo South MP) appeared set to be returned to parliament as a senator for Khumalo, with most heavyweights such as Professor Welshman Ncube and Gibson Sibanda down. Counting in the 12 Bulawayo parliamentary constituencies and six senate seats was expected to be concluded by breakfast Sunday.

The MDC-Mutambara’s losses, however, appeared to be mitigated by projected wins in rural Matabeleland North and Matabeleland South – notably Tsholotsho North, Bulima, Gwanda North, Gwanda Central and Binga. But Ncube and Sibanda’s loss will devastate the camp in a shock turn-around from what was generally predicted before voting began Saturday. Tendai Biti, secretary general of the Tsvangirai faction of the MDC declared victory in the early hours of Sunday in a national ballot which saw Zimbabweans queue to cast their ballots in local government, senatorial, parliamentary and presidential elections.Officials results are expected through-out the day Sunday.

A senior official in the Mutambara faction, conceding defeat, said: “We have been wiped out. We are all speechless, stunned.”

The MDC split into two factions in October 2005, with Ncube and Sibanda leading a break-away which took half the MDC’s parliamentary party. Efforts to unite the two factions have failed. Ncube, in particular, staked his political career on this election by moving from his previous constituency, Bulawayo North, to challenge Khupe in Makokoba. Khupe is Tsvangirai's deputy.

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Huyo Mzee kuondoka Ikulu itakuwa tabu ngoja tusubiri!

Dua said:

Huyo Mzee kuondoka Ikulu itakuwa tabu ngoja tusubiri!

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..na akiondoka atapata tabu!

Anachokiogopa BOB labda sio aibu, kwa sababu mishipa yake ya aibu imekatika, sasa hivi anachoogopa kufanyiwa ni kile alichowafanyia wengine, maana akiimagine naamini hawezi hata kulala. Alipotuma watu wakampige Tsvangrai alisema Morgan asked for it, sasa what will happen when Morgan will say "BOB has been looking for it and has seen it coming for years" Babu anaweza kufa kwa ugonjwa wa moyo!
I wonder kama Debengwa yuko hai!

Bongolander said:

Anachokiogopa BOB labda sio aibu, kwa sababu mishipa yake ya aibu imekatika, sasa hivi anachoogopa kufanyiwa ni kile alichowafanyia wengine, maana akiimagine naamini hawezi hata kulala. Alipotuma watu wakampige Tsvangrai alisema Morgan asked for it, sasa what will happen when Morgan will say "BOB has been looking for it and has seen it coming for years" Babu anaweza kufa kwa ugonjwa wa moyo!
I wonder kama Debengwa yuko hai!

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Uzuri Morgan amesema hakutakuwa na ulipaji kisasai na hakuna kuangalia nyuma. Amekaririwa akisema Zimbabwe haina nafasi ya kupoteza kwa ku-deal na akina Mugabe bali kurudisha heshima ya nchi. Hope he walks in his words.

Kitila Mkumbo said:

Uzuri Morgan amesema hakutakuwa na ulipaji kisasai na hakuna kuangalia nyuma. Amekaririwa akisema Zimbabwe haina nafasi ya kupoteza kwa ku-deal na akina Mugabe bali kurudisha heshima ya nchi. Hope he walks in his words.

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Wasi wasi wangu ni Majeshi na jeshi je watakubali kweli maana wamesha sema haya .So mie hata kusikia habari za Muganbe sitaki bwana .

Dua said:

Tsvangirai candidates sweep Bulawayo


Huyo Mzee kuondoka Ikulu itakuwa tabu ngoja tusubiri!

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...mkuu wa majeshi ya ulinzi wa zimbabwe alishasema kuwa hawako tayari kukubali matokeo kama bob atashindwa,itawalazimu kuingilia..na hawako tayari kumpigia saluti yeyote zaidi ya bob....tunasubiri..

ila taarifa zinasema morgan ameshinda mjini kama kawaida yake..na kura za vijijini ambako ZANU Wana mashabkiki wengi kama ccm hapa kwetu hazijawasilishwa tallying center,,..na huko hakuna umeme ..uwezekano mkubwa akatumia fursa hiyo kuiba....alafu mjue ameshapisha zaidi ya kura milioni moja na nusu juzi ..akidai ni kwa ajili ya kuwawezesha askari walio kwenye operesheni ya kulinda uchaguzi kupiga kura..

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shy said:

Following the presidential and parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe yesterday, bloggers are reporting that the situation in Harare is tense, in Bulawayo MDC supporters are celebrating (MDC candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai, has claimed victory) and all over the country there are rumours that Robert Mugabe has left the country for Mozambique

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kama kawaida hamna cha 'source' wala nini!! shy bana..........

Zimbabweans have been studying the first
results of their elections on Saturday.






As the count got under way, electoral officials warned the
full results night not be known for several days.






Voters were still passing through polling stations on Saturday evening as Robert Mugabe,
in power since 1980, faced his most serious electoral challenge in years.

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Vote Count Tests Zimbabwean Patience
By Howard Lesser
Washington, DC
31 March 2008

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In what is being described as an excruciatingly slow vote counting process, Zimbabwe voters expectantly awaited the results of Saturday’s presidential and parliamentary elections. Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has been citing interpretations of early unofficial results as indicating victory for opponents of President Robert Mugabe, who are trying to oust him from 28 years of ruling the country. But the executive director of the US-based Zimbabwe Trust, Annabel Hughes, says such a mood of anticipation has the potential of turning violent if expectations are not met.

I think there’s an enormous amount of tension – excitement and tension – on the ground. I think that there is a very big chance of violence, especially if the election is stolen by the Robert Mugabe party,” she cautioned.

Based on its interpretation of unofficial returns, the MDC claimed victory from early precinct returns in the capital Harare, where it professed to have received 66 percent of the vote. Other early successes pointed out by the MDC focused on previously recognized Mugabe strongholds of Mashonaland West and Masvingo, in which opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s party claimed to hold early leads. Annabel Hughes recognizes the parallel of Kenya’s opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) asserting an early lead after last December 27’s presidential vote, only to see it vanish with an incumbent president’s declaration of victory. But she notes that conditions for the way that violence might manifest itself could differ significantly in Kenya and Zimbabwe.

“Zimbabwe is very different from Kenya in that we do not have the diversity of ethnicity. Whereas the Kenyans attacked each other tribe by tribe, in Zimbabwe, we don’t have the same complexity. And therefore the violence, I assume, would have pitted have-nots against the haves, political party against political party,” she noted.

Although expectations of an opposition victory in Kenya that were rudely thwarted prompted sharp ethnic clashes that resulted in about one thousand deaths, Hughes says she can understand why Zimbabwe’s MDC was not willing to show greater restraint before opting to release news of its early election lead before the final tabulations were issued.

“I wouldn’t (hold back the news) if I were them because I’m convinced that they probably are correct because the majority of Zimbabwean people want change. They don’t have any money. They are starving. There’s 80 percent unemployment. There’s 150-thousand percent inflation. It’s a very, very difficult situation for every Zimbabwean there. I just think people want change and therefore, they would support anyone in opposition now too, although I think that Morgan Tsvangirai certainly has the most recognizable brand,” she said.

Hughes said ZANU-PF independent breakaway presidential candidate Simba Makoni “hasn’t really featured. He came in really late in the game” with little opportunity to gain recognition through the media and the internet in a country that is subject to frequent power cuts. The delay in releasing official results has boosted speculation among Zimbabweans about anticipated vote-rigging by incumbent Mugabe’s regime. The Zimbabwe Trust’s Annabel Hughes says that President Mugabe may have to face answering other lingering questions if no presidential candidate exceeds the fifty percent majority needed to win the election outright and a second-round run-off vote is needed.

“All that remains to be seen now is what is going to happen. Are the soldiers going to be with him or against him? Is he going to call them into the streets? At this moment, now, it is anybody’s guess about what is going to emerge. But you can rest assured that Robert Mugabe is a very, very, very ruthless man. He has never been afraid of administering strong-arm tactics when he’s threatened,” she noted.

Mabo bado magumu




HARARE - Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change party (MDC) have shared the opening six seats of the Zimbabwe election.

Each party has won three seats, as the world watches on to see if there will be a regime change in the world's most down-trodden nation.

But the outcomes of only six seats, out of 210 total seats, have been confirmed.

There was early joy for opposition supporters when the Zimbabwean Electoral Commission (ZEC) confirmed the MDC had won the first seat of the election in Chegutu West, a newly-formed constituency around 100km west of the capital Harare.

The ZEC will also announce the winner of a simultaneous presidential election.

The election pits the MDC's Morgan Tsvangirai and the independent Simba Makoni against President Mugabe, Zimbabwe's leader since 1980.

There have been widespread fears Mugabe had rigged the vote following a delay in the release of election results.

With the highest inflation rate in the world and unemployment at 80 percent, Mugabe has overseen Zimbabwe's transformation from one of Africa's most prosperous nations to the world's poorest economy.
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MDC wanamsimamo wa kupata misaada toka west, wakati westerners waliudhiwa sana na swala la Wazungu kuchukuliwa ardhi chini ya ZANU-PF. Lakini waliopata ardhi chini ya ZANU-PF hawatakubali waipoteze tena na hapo ndio ngoma kwa MDC kama watashinda labda wabadili dira yao.
Bora ishinde ZANU-PF kuliko MDC. Ikishinda MDC, ni ushindi kwa westerners maana Zimbabwe itakua imeingia kwenye kundi kama Tanzania, au km nchi nyingi Afrika zilivyo. ZANU-PF na MDC kwa sasa zote hazipo kwa manufaa ya Wazimbabwe, labda viongozi wa baadaye, ama kama MDC watabadilika baada ya kutwaa madaraka.

huyu mzee sasa apumzike..hamna jipya analolileta katika nchi yake na hata nchi za kusini ya jangwa la sahara na africa kwa ujumla.. apishe fikra mmpya sasa

Nadhani wadau mtapenda kusoma hii hapa...

ZIMBABWE'S opposition is offering cash rewards to anyone who comes forward with evidence of vote-rigging in this week's national election in an attempt to thwart plans by the regime of President Robert Mugabe to steal the poll.

Endelea kwa kubofya link hii... http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23419844-32682,00.html

./MwanaWaHaki