Zimbabwe Election: Progress & Results

[Mzee Mwanakijiji]

asiwaambie mtu, kuna deal zinawekwa hapo.. moja ya kumtambua Mugabe kama Baba wa Taifa la Zimbabwe na kuhakikisha kuwa Morgan hatoingia na kufanya aliyoyafanya Mwanawasa Zambia dhidi ya Chiluba.. au yale ya Malawi..

 

[Dua]

asiwaambie mtu, kuna deal zinawekwa hapo.. moja ya kumtambua Mugabe kama Baba wa Taifa la Zimbabwe na kuhakikisha kuwa Morgan hatoingia na kufanya aliyoyafanya Mwanawasa Zambia dhidi ya Chiluba.. au yale ya Malawi..

...............OOOOps baba wa taifa wa Zimbabwe sio Mugabe (Dictator) ni Joshua. Sorry!

 

[Indume Yene]

Negotiations May Lead to Mugabe’s Exit in Zimbabwe


Published: April 2, 2008
HARARE, Zimbabwe — The opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is in talks with advisers to President Robert G. Mugabe of Zimbabwe, amid signs that some of those close to Mr. Mugabe may encourage him to resign, a Western diplomat and a prominent Zimbabwe political analyst said Tuesday. The negotiations about a possible transfer of power away from Mr. Mugabe began after he apparently concluded that a runoff election would be demeaning, a diplomat said.

Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters
President Robert G. Mugabe of Zimbabwe in March.
A resignation by Mr. Mugabe, one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, would be a stunning turnabout in a country where he has been accused of consistently manipulating election results to maintain his lock on power.

There is no guarantee the negotiations will succeed, and the situation could still deteriorate. But a Western diplomat and a political analyst said the opposition was negotiating with Zimbabwe’s military, central intelligence organization and prisons chief.

“The chiefs of staff are talking to Morgan and are trying to put into place transitional structures,” said John Makumbe, a political analyst and insider in local politics who has spoken in the past in favor of the opposition.

“The chiefs of staff are not split; they are loyally at Mugabe’s side,” Mr. Makumbe said. “But they are not negotiating for Mr. Mugabe. They are negotiating for themselves. They are negotiating about reprisals and recriminations and blah blah blah. They are doing it for their own security.”

A spokesman for Mr. Tsvangirai, George Sibotshiwe, said, “I don’t know anything about such meetings.”

The diplomat who spoke anonymously because of the sensitivity of the discussions, said the joint chiefs had entered the negotiations after receiving feelers from Mr. Tsvangirai. The Western diplomat then said the leaders of the armed forces advised Mr. Mugabe on Monday to engineer a second-round runoff in the presidential race after the election Saturday, but Mr. Mugabe responded that a runoff would be a humiliation to him.

Marwick Khumalo, head of the Pan-African Parliament observer mission, indicated in an interview on South African radio that the ruling ZANU-PF party was considering the possibility of defeat, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.

“I was talking to some of the big wigs in the ruling party and they also are concerned about the possibility of a change of guard,” he told South African Broadcasting Corp.’s SAfm radio.

More than three days after the vote, the government had still not released any results of the presidential balloting. Under Zimbabwe’s election rules, a runoff would be required if no candidate got more than 50 percent.

The Electoral Commission has slowly published the first results in the separate parliamentary race, showing a lead for Mr. Tsvangirai’s party, the Movement for Democratic Change.

Out of 132 parliamentary seats so far announced, M.D.C. had won 68, including six for a breakaway faction, according to The Associated Press. Mr. Mugabe’s party had 64.

Mr. Mugabe, 84, has led Zimbabwe since 1980. Crafty and ruthless, he is not a man likely to easily give up his hold on power, analysts, diplomats and Zimbabweans have long contended.

That has left this nation, and a good bit of the world, wondering how he will survive what seems a repudiation by his countrymen, most of whom have become unemployed under his rule. The nation now suffers from an inflation rate of 100,000 perce.

Source: New York Times

Yaani namhurumia Mugabe maana sidhani kama atabaki na mtu yeyote wa kumpa support maana naamini hata Mkewe atamkimbia. Ni mwanamke anayependa kula raha na bado ni kijana ambaye bado anatamani kula maisha kwa starehe na Mudhee Mugabe anaachia kitumbua kidondoke toka mdomoni. Huyo mwanamke alitaka tu awe First Lady, sasa utamu unachukuliwa na Mrs. Tsvangirai (Kama jamaa ana mke). Tulisikia kuwa Expected Former Zimbabwean First Lady analiwa uroda na bizinesimani fulani, kwi kwi kwi that means Mudhee Mugabe wanamsaidia kumfanyisha mkewe mazoezi (Sijui push ups au... anajua mwenyewe)

 

[Jamco_Za]

'No deal' for Mugabe to step down

Zimbabwe's opposition leader and a government minister have denied reports that a deal has been reached for President Robert Mugabe to step down.

Morgan Tsvangirai said he believed his Movement for Democratic Change had won Saturday's election but declined to go as far as declaring himself the winner.

He said his party would reveal their tally of results on Wednesday.

MDC opposition sources had earlier told the BBC the outline of a deal had nearly been reached for Mr Mugabe to step down.

They said representatives of Mr Mugabe, military chiefs and the opposition had held meetings chaired by South Africa, but Johannesburg had also denied any involvement.

The ZEC has not yet given any results in the presidential race, sparking MDC claims that the outcome was being fixed.

Asked at the news conference if he believed the MDC had won the elections, Mr Tsvangirai said: "Oh yes, oh yes. We have no doubt about that. Certainly but we have to wait as we are all waiting."

President Mugabe, 84, came to power 28 years ago at independence, but the economy has been in freefall in recent years.

Mr Mugabe has not been seen in public since the election.

Bright Matonga, Zanu-PF's Deputy Information Minister, also rejected

reports of talks with the opposition.

In his first public appearance since the election, Mr Tsvangirai told a news conference on Tuesday evening: "Let's not be influenced by speculation. There is no discussion, and therefore this is just a speculative story.

"Let's wait for ZEC [Zimbabwe Electoral Commission] to complete its work and then we can discuss the circumstances that will affect the people."


Watu kama Mugabe kustep down bila vurungu, sio utamaduni wa Africa. That man will not step down until damu imemwagika. subirini muone. This is Africa

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Afrika bana....sasa negotiation (kama ni kweli) za nini kama mtu umeshindwa? Tunachekesha kweli kweli...

 

[William J. Malecela]

Dalili zote zinaonyesha kuwa Mugabe, ameshindwa this one na ni so bad kwamba anatafuta a compromise political situation, yaaani ka mlango ka kutokea, upinzani wanapaswa kuwa makini sana, maana huyu Mugabe, anaweza akawaachia jeshi waingie,

The situation sasa hivi ni aibu tupu, lakini ndio demokrasia ya viongozi wetu wa Afrika, ujanja ujanja tu. Heshima mbele kwa wananchi wa huko Zimbabwe, tuombee Mungu tu na sisi bongo siku moja wananchi waamuke!

 

[Dua]

Dictator mwingine anaondoka na tutaanza kuwakomalia MAFISADI turudishe heshima za nchi zetu wao kila siku ni kukata mitaa na viguu na njia kwenda kuhonga pesa ya walipa kodi kwa wazungu kwa kupewa peremende.

BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO Zimbabweans BRAVO MDC BRAVO Morgan Tsvangirai BRAVO for CHANGE BRAVO.

 

[Lunyungu]

Dalili zote zinaonyesha kuwa Mugabe, ameshindwa this one na ni so bad kwamba anatafuta a compromise political situation, yaaani ka mlango ka kutokea, upinzani wanapaswa kuwa makini sana, maana huyu Mugabe, anaweza akawaachia jeshi waingie,

The situation sasa hivi ni aibu tupu, lakini ndio demokrasia ya viongozi wetu wa Afrika, ujanja ujanja tu. Heshima mbele kwa wananchi wa huko Zimbabwe, tuombee Mungu tu na sisi bongo siku moja wananchi waamuke!

Kuna mamnbo mimi huwa nakubaliana na ES kwa uchache wake pale anapo acha unazi na kutetea washikaji akasema ukweli .Kwa hili ES nakubali kwamba umesema kweli tupu.Tulianza kuwasaga wazimb sasa wamekuwa heroes na sisi tunalia lia na CCM .Time to chuck them out with no mercy .

 

[William J. Malecela]

BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO Zimbabweans BRAVO MDC BRAVO Morgan Tsvangirai BRAVO for CHANGE BRAVO.

Ninasema siku zote, viongozi great huonyesha njia, na wananchi huifuatia, hivi kweli noma zote alizozipitia huyu mkuu, ni mwananchi gani anayeweza kutompigia kura? Huyu sio kina Mtikila, Mrema, na Lipumba ubabaishaji tuu,

Huyu ni mtu mzima na very serious, tumemuona akipigwa, amelowa damu kila mahali, hana majumba makubwa wala biashara, hana urafiki wowote na Mugabe zaidi ya siasa yake ya upinzani tu, sasa ungetegemea nini kutoka kwa wananchi ambao wamemuona akiwapigania? Ni kumpa kura tu and that is what we need in Tanzania, watokee viongozi wa kweli wenye uchungu na taifa, wananchi watafuatia I mean in the wake of this ya Zimbabwe, haitakuwa mbaya kama baadhi ya viongozi wetu kama sio wote kuanzia CCM mpaka upinzani, wakajitoa na kuwaachia wengine, maana tutaendelea tuu na huu unafiki mpaka lini wakati huko wenzetu wanafanya kweli?

Viongozi wasoweza kuongoza kuanzia CCM mpaka upinzani bongo, muanze kujitoa tena now please! Maana mtaenda huko kukutana na hawa kina Morgan, viongozi wa kweli mtaishia kutuaibisha tuu!

 

[Ogah]

Dah hali ilikuwa mbaya mpaka dada yake Bob kaaga dunia kwa stroke!!....Mungu ailaze pema roho ya marehemu...........pengine hili ndilo linalomfanya Bob asionekane....kwani ana msiba.

This time walimkamata pabaya Bob........kwani ule mchezo wake wa kura kuwa transfered na kuhesabiwa sehemu nyingine ulidhibitiwa.....kila kituo kina wasimamizi wa AU+SADC na wawakilishi wa vyama

Kinachoni-shangaza ni results zinavyokuja yaani MDC na ZANUPF kura hazitofautiani sana....hapa kuna kasaikolojia fulani kanataka kutengenezwa....im afraid

....Kuhusu Jeshi kuchukua nchi......mmmmhhh AU + SADC walisha-warn mapema sana kuhusu hili..........so its unlikely kutokea.......anyhow tusibiri tuone

 

[Pundit]

Morgan Tsvangirai: an opposite who now has to prove he can do more than just oppose

London Times Online

Jan Raath in Harare
Morgan Tsvangirai owes the wave of national adoration and the votes he won at the polls in part, at least, to the cruelty of President Mugabe’s regime.

People cite the “ABM factor” – Anybody but Mugabe could stand against the President in a free and fair election and win. But Mr Tsvangirai has established redeeming credentials. Even before the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was founded in 1999, the executive leader of the national labour movement had begun to be seen as the one to break Mr Mugabe’s hold on Zimbabwe.

He was a Lech Walesa and a Frederick Chiluba – who brought the end of Zambia’s one-party state rule in 1991 – combined. He was lively, assertive and with a knack of leadership from more than a decade as the secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions. More than that, he was the polar opposite of Mr Mugabe – amiable, approachable, brave, gregarious, quick to laugh and with an irreverently witty streak.

Mr Tsvangirai was the natural choice for the inaugural leadership of the MDC. In 2000 he mobilised a movement against a draft constitution contrived by Mr Mugabe, posing the first credible threat to the Mugabe Government for 20 years. He went on to propel the MDC in the next three elections to the point where Mr Mugabe could beat him only by murdering and maiming the movement’s supporters and by cheating.

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But Morgan the Redeemer is unlikely to convert to Morgan the Fixer, able to restore the economy, rebuild infrastructure and take tough decisions on exchange rates and World Trade Organisation protocols.

Mr Tsvangirai’s record inside the party is poor. Party workers who have been with him for years describe him as vacillating, indecisive and, unlike Mr Mugabe, easily persuaded to change his views.

Three years after the party was founded he was reportedly being ruled by “the kitchen cabinet”, an informal clique of aides by whom party policy was decided, while the national executive committee was ignored.

Around 2004 thugs loyal to the “kitchen cabinet” were assaulting their opponents, seizing their party vehicles and, on occasions, forcibly driving people out of the party headquarters and occupying the premises for several weeks. Mr Tsvangirai ignored appeals to stop the violence that was fouling his party’s reputation.

In 2005 the MDC split into two factions. The national executive committee was voting on whether to participate in elections for the new senate. The vote went against Mr Tsvangirai, who walked out in a fit of pique. In an astonishing act of dishonesty he told the waiting press that the committee had supported his position.

In January, during the last of numerous attempts to reunite the two factions, Mr Tsvangirai held out for only one more candidate than he has been offered in the elections; it was part of a pact jointly to field candidates with the other faction led by Arthur Mutambara. The plan was to avoid the obvious trap of splitting the opposition vote. The next morning Mr Tsvangirai, pressed by militants, was demanding 20 more seats. The pact collapsed.

The effect has been painfully apparent in the elections, with Mr Mugabe’s Zanu (PF) party taking about six seats that were needlessly contested by both MDC factions.

Morgan Tsvangirai

Born in Gutu, Central Zimbabwe, the son of a bricklayer and the eldest of nine children

Left school at 16 without qualifications. From 1974 worked in Bindura Nickel Mine, rising up through trade unions

In 1984 he spent nine months in Britain, witnessed the miners strike and met Arthur Scargill

In 1988 elected secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU). He transformed it into a powerful opposition force

In 1997 he organised a series of nationwide strikes against tax increases, provoking an attempt on his life

In 1999 he formed the Movement for Democratic Change party and in 2002 narrowly lost the elections to Mugabe, inflicting an unprecedented blow to the Zanu-PF’s grip on power In the same year, he was secretly filmed allegedly discussing the president's 'elimination', leading to a treason charges of which he was finally acquitted in 2004

The party split in two in 2005, key leaders charging Tsvangirai with poor leadership and inability to plan ahead

He suffered a suspected fractured skull, brain injury and internal bleeding after police arrest last year for taking part in an allegedly illegal prayer meeting

Sources: Times archives

 

[William J. Malecela]

Mr Tsvangirai was the natural choice for the inaugural leadership of the MDC. In 2000 he mobilised a movement against a draft constitution contrived by Mr Mugabe, posing the first credible threat to the Mugabe Government for 20 years. He went on to propel the MDC in the next three elections to the point where Mr Mugabe could beat him only by murdering and maiming the movement’s supporters and by cheating.

Mr Tsvangirai’s record inside the party is poor. Party workers who have been with him for years describe him as vacillating, indecisive and, unlike Mr Mugabe, easily persuaded to change his views.

Duh! Kina Balile, wapo mpaka huko zimbabwe, yaaani mkulu Morgan hata hajaapishwa wameshaanza mawe!

 

[Pundit]

Duh! Kina Balile, wapo mpaka huko zimbabwe, yaaani mkulu Morgan hata hajaapishwa wameshaanza mawe!

Jamaa katoa profile hapo, najua tunaona furaha kwamba Mugabe anaondoka, lakini kusema kweli hatujui mengi kumhusu jamaa na tusije tukawa romanticized kama enzi ya Chiluba inauguration Wazambia walivyofurahi only to be grossly dissapointed.

Kumbuka walioprint hiyo ni London Times, kumbuka Waingereza hawampendi Mugabe kichizi.Si rahisi kumuwekea Morgan uzushi kama vitu si kweli.

 

[mtambo]

Uhuuuu, polepole wewe, hapa watu wanauelewa mkubwa mno; hii kawaambie wananchi kijijini waliozoewa kudanganywa. Au umekosea kui-post ulikusudia kupeleka kwenye gazeti la Uhuru?

Tusubiri tuone nani mkweli katika hili.

 

[Ogah]

Huo ndio ukweli wenyewe............jamaa sio wazushi...........ndio hovyo tena Wazim hawana option kw ahivi sasa...kama Morgan atashinda, itabidi timu yake nzima ya uongozi iwe makini sana................

Kwa sasa cha muhimu ni kwamba wananchi wawe na imani kuwa wakitaka mabadiliko wanaweza kufanya........na hiyo ndio imani tunayoililia sana hata hapa bongo

 

[Kibunango]

Mwaka jana nilikuwa katika mji wa Luton, kwa bahati nzuri Morgan nae alikuwa anatembelea mji huo kwa lengo la kukutana na Wazimbabwe na hasa wanachama wake.

Nikiwa na rafiki yangu mzimbabwe aliniomba kwenda nae katika mkutano huo, kwani baada ya mkutano kutakuwepo na the laga na nyama choma, bila kusita nilikubali kwenda nae.

Baada ya mkutano kwisha jamaa aliniambia kuwa Wazimbabwe hawakupenda jinsi Mwenyekiti wao alivyofanya. Kwani mkutano huo pamoja na kuandaliwa na uongozi wa Wazimbabwe waishio UK. Morgan akuwathamini wala kuwajali, kwani kwenye meza kuu aliwaweka watoto na wajomba zao, huku uongozi mzima ukiwa umekaa upande wa wasikilizaji. Hata baada ya kumhoji kwa nini imekuwa vile aliwajibu kuwa yeye amekuja kuwaona watoto wake pamoja na ndugu zake...

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Soon Kofi Annan will be deployed to broker some sort of a stupid/ retarded deal...

 

[Lunyungu]

Mwaka jana nilikuwa katika mji wa Luton, kwa bahati nzuri Morgan nae alikuwa anatembelea mji huo kwa lengo la kukutana na Wazimbabwe na hasa wanachama wake.

Nikiwa na rafiki yangu mzimbabwe aliniomba kwenda nae katika mkutano huo, kwani baada ya mkutano kutakuwepo na the laga na nyama choma, bila kusita nilikubali kwenda nae.

Baada ya mkutano kwisha jamaa aliniambia kuwa Wazimbabwe hawakupenda jinsi Mwenyekiti wao alivyofanya. Kwani mkutano huo pamoja na kuandaliwa na uongozi wa Wazimbabwe waishio UK. Morgan akuwathamini wala kuwajali, kwani kwenye meza kuu aliwaweka watoto na wajomba zao, huku uongozi mzima ukiwa umekaa upande wa wasikilizaji. Hata baada ya kumhoji kwa nini imekuwa vile aliwajibu kuwa yeye amekuja kuwaona watoto wake pamoja na ndugu zake...

Kumekuwa na majadiliamo haya karibia wiki sasa na ulikiuwa unasoma mbona usitoe hizi habari mkuuu hadi muda huu ambao kuna mwelekeo wa Morgan umeanza haya ? Na wewe ni CCM wa kuua tunajua na hukuamini haya yanayo weza kutokea Zimb ndiyo hadithi ile ileya ha kusema CUF ni wahuni na wanatumiwa ?

 

[Nemesis]

ELECTION RESULTS SO FAR
Parliamentary constituencies
MDC-Tsvangirai: 77
Zanu-PF: 78
Breakaway MDC faction: 5
Yet to declare: 55
Presidential results
None so far
Winner needs more than 50% to avoid run-off
Source: ZEC

 

[DAR si LAMU]

Kumekuwa na majadiliamo haya karibia wiki sasa na ulikiuwa unasoma mbona usitoe hizi habari mkuuu hadi muda huu ambao kuna mwelekeo wa Morgan umeanza haya ? Na wewe ni CCM wa kuua tunajua na hukuamini haya yanayo weza kutokea Zimb ndiyo hadithi ile ileya ha kusema CUF ni wahuni na wanatumiwa ?

..lunyungu,

..morgan ananikumbusha desiree kabila!