Undercover filming showing how the vote was rigged
July 5th, 2008
YouTube footage added 7 July 2008.
Via The Guardian:
Robert Mugabe’s henchmen have long been suspected of stealing civil servant postal ballots. This GuardianFilms exclusive provides the first evidence of how they did it
July 5th, 2008 13:55
Morgan needs to step up to the plate and be a firm leader.
His inconsistencies are showing him up.
Mugabe has to negotiate with Morgan and not vice versa.
Like I said last week…Morgan is desperate to be President.
July 5th, 2008 14:10
This video has now been shown around the world on thousands of websites, TV networks, BBC, CNN, Fox, everywhere. Shepherd Yuda is truely an overnight sensation, and a very brave man.
July 5th, 2008 15:02
Congratulations to that brave man, glad we all know the truth. What an evil man,and at the expense of innocent people !!How disgusting.
July 5th, 2008 15:10
For military coups to be successful they have to be rigourously planned. There has been clear evidence last month that a ‘military coup by stealth’ is possibly in the initial stage of being organized.
The effective rulers of the country are the Joint Operations Command (JOC). This is made up of top military and police personnel, senior intelligence officers, prison service officials and leaders of the ruling Zanu-PF.
Under them is a chain of command which comprises of senior officers responsible for individual regions, local politicians and tribal chieftains, so called ‘war veterans’ and Zanu-PF youth militias who carry out much of the violence with complete protection from the law and are used as a proxy military force.
These militias have now been for the first time armed with weapons such as AK47s, rifles and handguns.
There are, however, known to be at least 200 army officers who have been described as ‘disgruntled’ with the status quo. But it will need a certain amount of time and post-
election stability in the country before any military takeover on a region to region basis can be organised and co-ordinated. My belief is that such a movement is possible given time. We must pray that such a takeover has as its ideal the purpose of replacing the dictatorship with a democratic government, and most of all, we must pray that the suffering of the people of Zimbabwe will be kept to a minimum, both in the intervening period, as well as during such an attempt. But nobody can doubt the fact that the existing regime is the worst possible common enemy of the people.
July 5th, 2008 20:13
Read also the story of Alfred, a 24 year-old Zimbabwean soldier who describes how he had to kill MDC supporters, even people of his own village and family and neigbours:-
http://www.zimbabwetoday.co.uk/
July 5th, 2008 20:37
GIVE THE MAN MUGABE’S STRIPPED KNIGHTHOOD!!
It will be interesting to see if Mbeki has any comment about this in the coming week.
July 5th, 2008 22:11
The Washington Post published an insider report detailing a meeting Mugabe had just after the March election. It’s clear from this account just who is running things.
HARARE, Zimbabwe — President Robert Mugabe summoned his top security officials to a government training center near his rural home in central Zimbabwe on the afternoon of March 30. In a voice barely audible at first, he informed the leaders of the state security apparatus that had enforced his rule for 28 years that he had lost the presidential vote held the previous day.
Then Mugabe told the gathering he planned to give up power in a televised speech to the nation the next day, according to the written notes of one participant that were corroborated by two other people with direct knowledge of the meeting.
But Zimbabwe’s military chief, Gen. Constantine Chiwenga, responded that the choice was not Mugabe’s alone to make. According to two firsthand accounts of the meeting, Chiwenga told Mugabe his military would take control of the country to keep him in office or the president could contest a runoff election, directed in the field by senior army officers supervising a military-style campaign against the opposition.
July 5th, 2008 22:11
Shepherd has a history of resistance. In 2001 he was suspended from the prison service for supporting the MDC.
http://www.zimbabwesituation.com/oct7_2001.html#link5
July 6th, 2008 10:35
How great this man is and how brave but the most striking thing for me which hit home was “I Have decided to leave my country” this is the biggest hardship….I hope and pray that he will walk into the arms of great supporters along with his wife and child and child to be (who will never know the place of his making until we stop this madness). We all know the doubts, pain of rejection, learning to socialise into any country which is not our home…Please be kind to them where ever they are…
On a seperate point the movement of a spy in every tenth house is common practice in Tanzania…I guess this is the next step to keep the party in control..The practice requires the appointed person a house with in a ten house radius he is to report any civil unrest amongst his neighbours the idea is sold to them to keep law and order but it is in fact the governments method of spying and should you say or do anything that is not pro government you will be targeted…it cheaper than using technology…..
July 6th, 2008 12:11
A small comment on media responsibility:
I have to put in some criticism of the Guardian’s treatment of this footage. What is the thriller-type music doing tinkling in the background? Why trivialise the reality like this? Zimbabwe is not a Hollywood thriller. This is hard footage that can be used as legal & moral evidence of a situation that is extremely dramatic in itself.
Thank you to Shepherd for your bravery and I wish you and your family luck, wherever you are.
July 6th, 2008 14:57
It’s time for businesses supporting the Mugabe regime to be pressed upon to stop their financial support. Companies doing business with Mugabe and his supporters need to be identified and international pressure must be brought to bear.
July 7th, 2008 00:28
A visibly Rattled Mugabe.
The video showing the pugilistic Robert at it in Egypt struck me as something showing an old man behaving like a boarding school form one kid.
Please note the background voice of a west indian ACCENT saying ‘TELL ‘IM AGAIN! TELL ‘IM AGAIN’ To which the president shouts louder in the obscene language typical of his type of statesman.
Even OMAR BONGO must have been fascinated by this. Mugabe is a stooge even of his bodyguards!! An actor who enacts what he’s instructed to do. This is a coward very much afraid of some big military boy(s) who is pulling the strings back home.
What a shame. Posturing himself as some assertive revolutionary yet behind it all is fear of retribution.
Murder loud and clear; Chimurenga gone rabbid!!
July 7th, 2008 20:01
So now that there is a video… they now are going to say the West hired actors to be imposters or they are going to deny or cook up some story to dismiss the videao as yet another Western plot to meddle in Zim affairs.mmmmhhh lets see how this plays out
December 13th, 2008 15:46
I am so greatful to the world for accepting the truth i revealed. Any Mugabe cronies can not challenge this evidence. Probably they will do that if i die. I am very much willing to tastify at any platform the Brutality of this man.
I would like to thank all those who wished me well in the hands of the people who finally accepted to protect me. Some thought the video was fake but good lucky i fled Zimbabwe in my Service Uniform which i still keep and would show it to doubtful Thomases, who need to see the actual wounds to believe. It ie the one i used during filming and all camera holes and tape marks still showing.
I am very safe and Mugabe has sent his Security agencies world wide to hunt me down and i am fully aware of that. He declared me the most wanted dissident who should be charged for treason and be hanged.