01/04/2008 / ZIMBABWE
The
government is releasing results gradually to calm emotions. I think they'll
announce the presidential election result on Wednesday- which will declare Mugabe
as winner- because if they do it at the weekend people will have more time to
motivate others and cause a commotion. During the week, they're more likely to
get on with their day to day lives.
"The government's waiting to declare Mugabe as president"
The Zimbabwean capital of Harare is teeming with rumours following Saturday's elections. If you believe everything you hear then Mugabe has fled the country and militants are about to ambush the government. For Bev Clark, our Observer in the city, the government is delaying the results, which have been rigged to favour Mugabe, to avoid riots.
The Independent Results Centre, whose first estimations we published yesterday, has today released figures that show Mugabe in a far more favourable light. The current president's share of the votes has increased from 37% to 42% overnight, while opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's count has dropped from 58% to 51%.
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Bev Clark runs Kubatana.net: an "online community of activists". She lives in Harare.
The
government is releasing results gradually to calm emotions. I think they'll
announce the presidential election result on Wednesday- which will declare Mugabe
as winner- because if they do it at the weekend people will have more time to
motivate others and cause a commotion. During the week, they're more likely to
get on with their day to day lives.
There are all sorts of rumours going round. Some have even said that both Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai have left the country in fear. It's entirely mind blowing that people think you can unseat a dictator through elections only.
Lots of people are emailing in to ask us what's going on, as there are no independent daily newspapers and the weeklies, the Zimbabwe Gazette and the Zimbabwe Independent, come out on Thursday and Friday. People are in a suspended state, just waiting and wondering. They're frustrated and irritated, but they're slipping back into normal life."
The Independent Results Centre's figures today
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Mugabe working out exit
Soumis par Takudzwa Mhlanga (non vérifié) le mer, 02/04/2008 - 09:08.Mugabe working out exit strategy. This is a great day for Zimbabwe and the world at large. If it was not the media's vigilance, there was going to be a coup on Sunday.
We are not quite out of the woods yet, but things are beginning to look bright again.
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Ha,Ha,Ha
Soumis par Linda White (non vérifié) le mar, 01/04/2008 - 17:01.Not that it's funny,but somebody else who knows what it feels like having all these George Bush's for president.There is just no fare in elections. I don't care where you go.Don't worry,come November 2,2008,whether or not it works this time, there will again have been such an attempt to fraud the voting election in this country they may even flee the country and try to declare themselves winners again.I tell you these people are the worst of the worst, right here in America when it comes to voting counts.And yet they never have other nations watching theirs.I have long known America needed election poll guarding more so than any nation they were standing arms too.I feel though Mugabe would have had a greater success if had it not been for America's intteruptions and interfering in this and all nations.It is not as mind boggling as all that the things that you now hold against Mugabe considering what the native people had,have to live witness through.The oppressors only use words like "do unto others as you would have them do unto you"as prevention of any justice from being place on them.To say I told you so would be too....playground,nor a better touche' would be:, you get what you give.
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