Comments on: Links ~ 28 June 2008 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/1125 This is Zimbabwe is Sokwanele's pro-democracy activist blog. It provides grassroots news and views from Zimbabwe. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:51:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Ants http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/1125/comment-page-1#comment-250875 Ants Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:53:08 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=1125#comment-250875 @Secretary Bird - what do you mean "...pressure on the AU to not recognise him..."? This is what I expect to see - a whole bunch of the Old Brothers Club (AU), with Mbeki up front patting Mugabe on the back, pumping his hand enthusiastically saying, "Gee Bob, that was a close call. Well don't worry, its over now. Let us eat, drink & relax until next time the colonialist puppets rock the boat". Anyway the tide has turned - I'm hoping the civilised world can see clearly through Africa's B/S now, and will ignore cries of 'foul', and 'reparations', and 'aid', at leats until Responsible Governance is seen to be in place. There is patently no reason to continue to prop up megolmaniac ex-freedon fighters under a guise of civility and diplomacy.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('250875','Ants'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('250875','Ants','@Secretary Bird - what do you mean \"...pressure on the AU to not recognise him...\"?\r\n\r\nThis is what I expect to see - a whole bunch of the Old Brothers Club (AU), with Mbeki up front patting Mugabe on the back, pumping his hand enthusiastically saying, \"Gee Bob, that was a close call. Well don\'t worry, its over now. Let us eat, drink &amp; relax until next time the colonialist puppets rock the boat\".\r\n\r\nAnyway the tide has turned - I\'m hoping the civilised world can see clearly through Africa\'s B\/S now, and will ignore cries of \'foul\', and \'reparations\', and \'aid\', at leats until Responsible Governance is seen to be in place. There is patently no reason to continue to prop up megolmaniac ex-freedon fighters under a guise of civility and diplomacy.'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> @Secretary Bird - what do you mean “…pressure on the AU to not recognise him…”?

This is what I expect to see - a whole bunch of the Old Brothers Club (AU), with Mbeki up front patting Mugabe on the back, pumping his hand enthusiastically saying, “Gee Bob, that was a close call. Well don’t worry, its over now. Let us eat, drink & relax until next time the colonialist puppets rock the boat”.

Anyway the tide has turned - I’m hoping the civilised world can see clearly through Africa’s B/S now, and will ignore cries of ‘foul’, and ‘reparations’, and ‘aid’, at leats until Responsible Governance is seen to be in place. There is patently no reason to continue to prop up megolmaniac ex-freedon fighters under a guise of civility and diplomacy.

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]]> By: BM http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/1125/comment-page-1#comment-250845 BM Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:10:24 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=1125#comment-250845 Tamuka, 24th Ward in Chitungwiza: Opposition WIN 513 voted for Morgan Tsvangirai, 786 spoiled ballots = 1,299 1,212 ballots for Mugabe and "one polling station in the second city Bulawayo, where there were 22 votes for Mugabe, 14 for Tsvangirai and 12 defaced papers" Opposition WIN with 26 votes 48 votes in total at that polling station where over 300 voted in March 2008 - what a clear statement of Zimbabweans view of the whole fraud.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('250845','BM'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('250845','BM','Tamuka, 24th Ward in Chitungwiza: Opposition WIN\r\n \r\n513 voted for Morgan Tsvangirai, 786 spoiled ballots = 1,299 \r\n1,212 ballots for Mugabe\r\n\r\nand\r\n\r\n\"one polling station in the second city Bulawayo, where there were 22 votes for Mugabe, 14 for Tsvangirai and 12 defaced papers\"\r\n\r\nOpposition WIN with 26 votes\r\n\r\n\r\n48 votes in total at that polling station where over 300 voted in March 2008 - what a clear statement of Zimbabweans view of the whole fraud.'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> Tamuka, 24th Ward in Chitungwiza: Opposition WIN

513 voted for Morgan Tsvangirai, 786 spoiled ballots = 1,299
1,212 ballots for Mugabe

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“one polling station in the second city Bulawayo, where there were 22 votes for Mugabe, 14 for Tsvangirai and 12 defaced papers”

Opposition WIN with 26 votes

48 votes in total at that polling station where over 300 voted in March 2008 - what a clear statement of Zimbabweans view of the whole fraud.

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]]> By: Secretary Bird http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/1125/comment-page-1#comment-250820 Secretary Bird Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:20:27 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=1125#comment-250820 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/29/zimbabwe God bless the trade unions! Perhaps we should work on petitioning trade union groups across Africa to take similar measures. The trade unions can be very powerful organs for change, and can put an immense amount of pressure on their respective governments..<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('250820','Secretary Bird'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('250820','Secretary Bird','http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/jun\/29\/zimbabwe\r\n\r\nGod bless the trade unions! Perhaps we should work on petitioning trade union groups across Africa to take similar measures. The trade unions can be very powerful organs for change, and can put an immense amount of pressure on their respective governments..'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/29/zimbabwe

God bless the trade unions! Perhaps we should work on petitioning trade union groups across Africa to take similar measures. The trade unions can be very powerful organs for change, and can put an immense amount of pressure on their respective governments..

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]]> By: Secretary Bird http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/1125/comment-page-1#comment-250805 Secretary Bird Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:54:04 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=1125#comment-250805 Watch the BBC interview with Archbishop Tutu here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7479853.stm I'm very impressed at how strong of a statement he's making, and I hope the world is listening. As for Mugabe, he's apparently going to be inaugurated this afternoon. Let's keep up the pressure on the AU to not recognise him - the world needs to make a strong statement to him that he is *not* in control any more!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('250805','Secretary Bird'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('250805','Secretary Bird','Watch the BBC interview with Archbishop Tutu here: http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7479853.stm\r\n\r\nI\'m very impressed at how strong of a statement he\'s making, and I hope the world is listening.\r\n\r\nAs for Mugabe, he\'s apparently going to be inaugurated this afternoon. Let\'s keep up the pressure on the AU to not recognise him - the world needs to make a strong statement to him that he is *not* in control any more!'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> Watch the BBC interview with Archbishop Tutu here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7479853.stm

I’m very impressed at how strong of a statement he’s making, and I hope the world is listening.

As for Mugabe, he’s apparently going to be inaugurated this afternoon. Let’s keep up the pressure on the AU to not recognise him - the world needs to make a strong statement to him that he is *not* in control any more!

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]]> By: BM http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/1125/comment-page-1#comment-250717 BM Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:36:45 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=1125#comment-250717 Zimbabweans are the bravest! at one voting station in Gwanda, 17 for Tsvangirai, 31 were spoiled, 36 votes for Mugabe, = Opposition win 48 In one Harare voting station, , 76 for Tsvangirai, 30 were spoiled, 107 votes were cast for Mugabe = Opposition 106 Bulawayo reportedly recorded probably only 7 000 people out of an estimated population of 785 000!! most votes were in Mpopoma which had a parliamentary by-election on the same day which was won by MDC. This from: http://zimbabwemetro.com/2008/06/28/huge-number-of-spoilt-ballots/ The report also says ZEC may not give the number of spoilt ballots in their 'results'.... is there any way we can get these numbers? The world must know.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('250717','BM'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('250717','BM','Zimbabweans are the bravest! \r\n\r\n at one voting station in Gwanda, 17 for Tsvangirai, 31 were spoiled, 36 votes for Mugabe, = Opposition win 48 \r\n\r\nIn one Harare voting station, , 76 for Tsvangirai, 30 were spoiled, 107 votes were cast for Mugabe = Opposition 106 \r\n\r\nBulawayo reportedly recorded probably only 7 000 people out of an estimated population of 785 000!! most votes were in Mpopoma which had a parliamentary by-election on the same day which was won by MDC. \r\n\r\nThis from: http:\/\/zimbabwemetro.com\/2008\/06\/28\/huge-number-of-spoilt-ballots\/\r\n\r\nThe report also says ZEC may not give the number of spoilt ballots in their \'results\'.... is there any way we can get these numbers?\r\n\r\nThe world must know.'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> Zimbabweans are the bravest!

at one voting station in Gwanda, 17 for Tsvangirai, 31 were spoiled, 36 votes for Mugabe, = Opposition win 48

In one Harare voting station, , 76 for Tsvangirai, 30 were spoiled, 107 votes were cast for Mugabe = Opposition 106

Bulawayo reportedly recorded probably only 7 000 people out of an estimated population of 785 000!! most votes were in Mpopoma which had a parliamentary by-election on the same day which was won by MDC.

This from: http://zimbabwemetro.com/2008/06/28/huge-number-of-spoilt-ballots/

The report also says ZEC may not give the number of spoilt ballots in their ‘results’…. is there any way we can get these numbers?

The world must know.

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]]> By: Faraway http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/1125/comment-page-1#comment-250606 Faraway Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:23:30 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=1125#comment-250606 You might want to add this report on the barbarians. http://www.newsweek.com/id/143803<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('250606','Faraway'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('250606','Faraway','You might want to add this report on the barbarians.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/143803'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> You might want to add this report on the barbarians.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/143803

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