2023 Election Rigging
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-minister-for-africa-statement-on-the-zimbabwe-election
"We share the view of the Election Observation Missions’ preliminary statements that the pre-election environment and election day fell short of regional and international standards. Issues included limited transparency from the electoral commission, the lack of level playing field, the passing of repressive legislation, long delays in the opening of some polling stations, and reports of intimidation of voters. The UK takes note of the announcement by the Chair of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission of results on 26 August. However, we are concerned by a lack of transparency in the tallying of results, as well as the arrests of domestic observers."
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GARIKAI MAFIRAKUREVA, SOUTH AFRICA – The Southern Africa Human Rights Lawyers (SAHRL) has claimed that there are 296,519 Zimbabweans who illegally voted in the Mozambican national elections held last month and therefore called for a rerun of the plebiscite.
Other reports on this subject - 12th November 2024 {CLICK HERE}
The figure which forms a significant percentage of the total number of voters in the election is contained in the organisation’s executive report released this week, titled Zimbabwe’s Interference With the 2024 Mozambique Harmonised Elections. A significant number of votes were cast in the Mozambique elections. The country has a population of over 34 million people.
It says that the voters were mobilised by President Mnangagwa and Zanu PF to give an upper hand to the ruling Frelimo which faced tough competition from the opposition PODEMOS Party. This was one form of rigging elections in Mozambique and there were several other strategies by Frelimo including depriving ballot papers in areas where the opposition had an upper hand, stuffing ballots in certain areas and barring observers from carrying out their duties. The report which was confirmed by Southern Africa Human Rights Lawyers High Commissioner, Professor Talent Rusere accused Zanu PF of carefully co-ordinating a process of rigging the Mozambique elections and named at least nine senior party officials including Cabinet Ministers tasked to run the process in each province.
Comment: ""Considering that Mnangagwa is the {nominal} Chair of the regional SADC - this interference has directly attributed to the riots in Mozambique and the deaths of those suffering from this Election Manipulation. The Coruption of the SADC region under Mnangagwa has not gone unoticed by the International Community - perhaps that is why he and 281 acolytes are at the COP29 in Azerbaijan {see link}""
SAHRL carried out investigations and allegedly established that there were - as table below
| Mozambican Province | Zanu PF Vote Rigging Numbers |
| Duma in Bikita | 53,122 |
| Murehwa | 36,872 |
| Maud Muzenda Training Center in Masvingo | 41,213 |
| Mutare/Rusape | 76,519 |
| Harare | 69,019 |
| Chegutu | 19,774 |
| TOTALS | 296,519 |
Asked for comment, Zanu PF spokesperson, Chris Mutsvangwa said all the people who voted in Zimbabwe were Mozambicans {!!} who acquired dual citizenship at independence and were being given an opportunity to exercise their political rights. He accused The Mirror of building mountains out of molehills.
However, an investigation by The Mirror showed that people who voted were non-Mozambicans and this included a number of undercover Zimbabwean journalists. Mutsvangwa said the Zanu PF Ministers and Parliamentarians mentioned as co-ordinators of the voting process are all dual citizens of Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Zanu PF secretary for National Administration Dr Obert Mpofu said that the accusations that President Mnangagwa was interfering in the elections of countries in the region was a ploy meant to tarnish his name and that of Zanu PF.{!! See previous comentary about destabilising the region under SADC}
He denied that his party interfered with elections of other countries although there have been complaints from Botswana, South Africa and Namibia.
In Botswana, senior Zanu PF official, Patrick Chinamasa openly declared at a rally in Botswana that his party supported the then ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) that went on to lose the elections.
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Extract from Pages 23-24 of; Commonwealth Final Report on 23rd Aug 2023 Elections
Zimbabwe Harmonised Elections 23 August 2023 FINAL REPORT {CLICK HERE FOR A COPY}
Published https://www.zec.org.zw/download/2023-harmonised-elections-report/ NOTE: the ZEC website has an expired security certificate {not renewed or paid for??}
Diaspora voting
Section 35(1) of the Constitution provides that persons are Zimbabwean citizens by birth, descent or registration. By Section 35(2), all Zimbabwean citizens are equally entitled to the rights, privileges and benefits of citizenship. By Section 67, every Zimbabwean citizen has the right to make political choices freely; by Section 67(3), every Zimbabwean citizen over the age of 18 years has the right to vote in all elections and to stand for election for public office and, if elected, to hold that office. By Section 86(2), those fundamental rights conferred by Section 67 may be limited only in terms of a law of general application and to the extent that the limitation is fair, reasonable, necessary and justifiable in a democratic society, and by a consideration of whether there are less restrictive means of achieving the purposes of that limitation.
By Section 155 of the Constitution, elections must be held regularly; be peaceful, free and fair; be conducted by secret ballot; be based on universal adult suffrage and equality of votes; and be free from violence and other electoral malpractices. By Section 155(2), the state must take all appropriate measures, including legislative measures, to ensure that effect is given to the principles set out in Subsection 1 and in particular must ‘ensure that all eligible citizens, that is to say the citizens qualified under the Fourth Schedule, are registered as voters’ and to ‘that every citizen who is eligible to vote in an election has an opportunity to cast a vote’.
Sections 92(4) and 125 of the Constitution provide that the qualifications for registration as a voter for the office of President or for the National Assembly (as the case may be) are those set out in the Fourth Schedule. The Fourth Schedule provides that, subject to disqualifications that may be prescribed by the Electoral Act, a person is qualified to be registered as a voter on the voters’ roll of a constituency if he or she is of or over the age of 18 years and is a Zimbabwean citizen. It further provides that the Electoral Act may prescribe additional residential requirements ‘to ensure that voters are registered on the most appropriate voters’ roll’ but that any such requirements must be consistent with the Constitution, particularly Section 67. By Clause 2 of the Fourth Schedule, certain categories of persons are disqualified to be registered as voters, being the mentally disordered or intellectually handicapped, persons incapable of managing their affairs as declared by an order of a Court or persons convicted of an offence under the Electoral Act and declared by the High Court to be disqualified for registration as a voter.
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22 November 2021 Article as taken from a ZHRO, MyRight2Vote and ROHR Petition (2nd December 2021 petition to Boris Johnson)
We now see the governments true intentions, about elections in Zimbabwe. The memorandum of the 17th November 2021 within the Zimbabwe Election Commission, ZEC, regarding the matter of voter registration titled ;-
Subject; POSTPONEMENT OF THE DECEMBER 2021 MOBILE BIOMETRIC VOTER REGISTRATION (BVR EXERCISE) BLITZ.
This is the “smoking gun “, we have been looking for and now we have found it. This means that the 2023 elections will be contested without doubt and so we are now preparing for that. We have caught ZEC red handed rigging and fixing the 2023 elections.
Elections are fixed and rigged well, well before the election date. They are fixed and rigged by the systems that are adopted by the government of the day. It is like a football match. The government of the day is like a player of one of those teams.
But then he is also the referee for that coming football match. That referee then goes a step further and says that the opposing team is not allowed a goalkeeper, a centre forward, a centre half and a left back. But the referee's teams have a full complement of players. It is clear that the referee’s team will win the match, well before it has started. This is what the government and ZEC are doing here.
Voter Registration Problems - ZEC
We already know that there are millions and millions of people not registered on the voters-role in Zimbabwe, because they do not have Identity papers and/or birth certificates. Roughly 400 000 who are the descendants of the labour force that came from Malawi and Zambia between 1955 -1985. We then have the victims and survivors of the Ndebele genocide that run into the high hundreds of thousands who also could not get identity documents because the state refused to give their dead relatives death certificates, that were stamped, cause of death “ Genocide by government of the day“.
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TO THE NEWLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT, fao Sir Keir Starmer; PRIME MINISTER OF THE UK
THE ONGOING CONSTITUTIONAL INJUSTICE, INCACERATION OF THE OPPOSITION MEMBERS ALIGNED TO ADVOCATE NELSON CHAMISA, AND ABUSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
We, as the Zimbabwean diaspora, have written several petitions to the UK government {including the FCDO} and carried out various protests in the UK against the Zanu-PF regime in Zimbabwe. Which we feel have illegally and unconstitutionally declared itself as the elected government of Zimbabwe. With ED Mnangagwa as their {illegal} President!
Emmerson Mnangagwa, the current President of Zimbabwe, has been accused of using various tactics to maintain power and suppress opposition, including:
- Coercion and intimidation: Using security forces to silence political opponents and critics.
- Propaganda and disinformation: Controlling state media to spread false information and propaganda.
- Repression of dissent: Cracking down on protests and demonstrations, often with violence.
- Patronage and clientelism: Rewarding loyalists with government positions and resources.
- Electoral manipulation: Allegedly rigging elections to maintain power.
- Divisive politics: Using ethnic and regional divisions to consolidate power.
- Corruption and cronyism: Accused of enriching himself and allies through corrupt means.
- Surveillance and infiltration: Infiltrating opposition parties and civil society organizations.
- Lawfare: Using the legal system to silence opponents and critics.
- Charm offensive: Presenting himself as a reformer and democrat to international audiences.
These tactics have been criticized by opposition parties, civil society, and international observers, who accuse Mnangagwa of undermining democracy and human rights in Zimbabwe.
Indeed, the failure to respect the voting intentions of the Zimbabwean people, in the {highly disputed} elections carried out over 23-24th August 2023 – but the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission {ZEC} have never declared the voting numbers to this date, they simply claimed that Mnangagwa had “won” with 54% of the total vote.
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Matters are now coming to a crisis point. The SADC Mission Final Report is out, with many "recommendations" - but Zanu PF are deaf, dumb and blind to such matters. One only has to endure the crass toadying of the {ex- mental health nurse} - Nasty {mouth} Nick - to see how the faithful acolytes {and paid apologists} of the party propaganda machine behave in the face of blatant illegalities.
It is however, a combined problem related to the {debased} Constitution {and its ammendments}, The Electoral Acts { as gerrymandered by Zanu PF illegal MP's, Illegal Ministers, and the Illegal 'President' {self} elected Ed Mnangagwa} - Psychopath-in-Chief - there can be no other descriptor! Gukurahundi, the looting of the Congo, and fired {quite correctly} by Mugabe - ""Robert Mugabe has fired his vice president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, for showing traits of "disloyalty, disrespect and deceitfulness".""
So let us focus on the conclusions of SADC and look at the following items for a 'way out' of this Zanu PF {power crazed lunatics} by reviewing the following {thank you to VERITAS ZIM NET}
- The Constitution {or what is left of it}
- The {constantly ammended} Electoral Acts
- The Financial incentives paid to the Judiciary proir to August 2023
- The overtly Partisan ZEC {and their Zanu PF puppet chair}
- and the SADC Final Report itself
Now better scholars than I need to sift through these laws, constitution, etc and to develop a plan - a strategy to remove Zanu PF from its INFESTATION of the 'governmental activities' within Zimbabwe. Zanu PF is a Mafia, a cancer upon the Republic of Zimbabwe. As a Republic they are the main problem. They are a 'Criminal Enterprise' masqurading as a political party. Supported by all the corrupted organs of government - from the bent police, to the Army Generals and the enriched {to the tune of $500,000 "soft loans"} senior Judiciary!
"The authorities have weaponized the criminal justice system against the ruling party’s political opponents. CCC politicians have been held in prolonged pre-trial detention or convicted on baseless, seemingly politically motivated charges." Human Rights Watch August 2023 - "Crush them like Lice" Ed M's rant and psychosis screams out to his minions.
"Crucial for addressing electoral rights is an independent and impartial national election commission. However, there are serious concerns about the independence, composition, and conduct of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC). Past elections were widely perceived as problematic largely because the ZEC has been closely aligned with the interests of the ruling party. The management of the ZEC secretariat remains in the hands of people widely believed to be ZANU-PF sympathizers. These individuals, many of whom have ties to the country’s military, police, and intelligence services, supervised previous deeply flawed electoral processes." From the same report by Human Rights Watch as above.
"Altogether deliberate and targeted Electoral Commission ‘ineptitude’ – illegalities and technicalities, plus briberies and threats of violence – marked the election. These abuses were called out by observers, notably those of the Southern African Development Community led by former Zambian Vice President, Dr Nevers Mumba, who came under sustained abuse for his findings and critical judgement that the election had not been free and fair." One of the excellent concluding paragraphs by Stephen Chan in the African Arguments Organisation.
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Attributed Source: Nehanda Radio
"The decision by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to rename the Zimbabwe Sovereign Wealth Fund into Mutapa Investment Fund has been described as an astonishing creation of a launchpad for large scale looting of Zimbabwe’s natural resources and economic wealth."
"Mnangagwa, on 19 September, through the Statutory Instrument 156 of 2023 (SI 156/2023), invoked his Presidential Powers to temporarily amend the investment laws to rename and upgrade the old Sovereign Wealth Fund and transfer the shares in the 20 State-owned enterprises to the Mutapa Fund."
"The President exempted the Mutapa Investment Fund from the provisions of the Procurement Act. This means that the funds held under the Mutapa Investment Fund can be spent without due procedure and without public scrutiny."
"Human rights lawyer Siphosami Malunga said: “The unconstitutional Mutapa Investment Fund in Zimbabwe, is not a Sovereign Wealth Fund but an un-transparent, unaccountable, personalised funnel for appropriation and privatisation of Zimbabwe’s entire public wealth and resources and the greatest national heist since Cecil John Rhodes.”"
"He literally transferred the government shareholding in a large block of 20 State-owned companies to the Mutapa Investment Fund, the upgraded and renamed Sovereign Wealth Fund."
Other commentaries:
Tendai Biti; describing it as an unconstitutional capture of the country’s funds. Biti made the remarks in an interview with Heart & Soul TV, an Alpha Media Holdings online TV and radio station.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on September 19 gazetted Statutory Instrument (SI) 156 of 2023, which changed the name of the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Zimbabwe to Mutapa Investment Fund. The SI brought 20 State-owned entities under one roof.
“The instrument does not meet the test of the law and must be rejected as it is illegal. This law was unnecessary,” Biti said.
“They are transferring the public shares into a private vehicle. The government already owns the shares, I think the issue is to sell shares as quickly as possible without public scrutiny.”
FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti yesterday tore into the Mutapa Investment Fund, describing it as an unconstitutional capture of the country’s funds. Biti made the remarks in an interview with Heart & Soul TV, an Alpha Media Holdings online TV and radio station.
What Can We Do?
First we can edit the new Wiki Page on the Mutapa Fund at this link EDIT WIKI WEB PAGE WITH THE REALITY
Next; Parliamentary debate. Then protest/petition IMF/World Bank/UN regarding fraud risks.
PLEASE NOTE: This article is repeated on the ZEXIT.ORG website {the planned separation of Zimbabwe from Zanu PF!} CLICK HERE