Comments on: Zimbabwe senate elections: “the opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference” http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/285 This is Zimbabwe is Sokwanele's pro-democracy activist blog. It provides grassroots news and views from Zimbabwe. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:43:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Voices from Zimbabwe Plus http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/285/comment-page-1#comment-83 Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Voices from Zimbabwe Plus Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:36:54 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=285#comment-83 [...] The people of Zimbabwe gave the ruling ZANU-PF and indeed all forms of purposeless politics their boldest affront to date as very few Zimbabweans turned up to vote during the senate elections held over the weekend. At some polling stations, only 6% percent of eligible voters showed indicating the undisputable demise of elections on the national agenda. Explaining the disinterest, This is Zimbabwe writes, “Nothing is going to change as a result of having a senate. These elections are not going to improve democracy in Zimbabwe; they won’t fix unemployment; they won’t bring fuel to the country; people won’t suddenly be able to feed their children and afford school fees; the sick are not going to be able to get drugs or treatment in well resourced clinics and employers will still struggle every single day to keep their businesses afloat through hyperinflation and a rapidly collapsing economy.” Echoing the sentiment, Zimpundit writes, “Understand this reader dearest; it is not that we don’t care about democracy or having the right politicians in place or any other high sounding question you may want to throw at us. No, our nonchalence is evidence only that we care about other things more than we care about politics and governance. We care more about living to see tomorrow. It is all about survival now. Such is the result of how simple and unsophisticated a society ZANU-PF has made us.” [...]
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]]> By: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Zimbabwe: election apathy http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/285/comment-page-1#comment-80 Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Zimbabwe: election apathy Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:41:30 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=285#comment-80 [...] This is Zimbabwe writes about the lack of participation in Zimbabwe’s elections….“I can’t help but be reminded today of the words of Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1986: “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference”. Perhaps mugabe should take note of our apathy and our disinterest and realise that Zimbabwean voters are further away from him and his policies than we ever have been before. Our anger and pain hasn’t translated into the support that he craves; instead, we’ve moved even further away towards indifference. He should be worried.” [...]
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]]> By: J.M.P http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/285/comment-page-1#comment-79 J.M.P Sat, 26 Nov 2005 17:40:44 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=285#comment-79 Unfortunately the whole MDC public scrapping and hair-pulling has obscured the fact that Mugabe was up to his old tricks again. Most of the attention overseas has been focussed on that, and not the elections. No thanks to the MDC!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('79','J.M.P'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('79','J.M.P','Unfortunately the whole MDC public scrapping and hair-pulling has obscured the fact that Mugabe was up to his old tricks again. Most of the attention overseas has been focussed on that, and not the elections. No thanks to the MDC!'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> Unfortunately the whole MDC public scrapping and hair-pulling has obscured the fact that Mugabe was up to his old tricks again. Most of the attention overseas has been focussed on that, and not the elections. No thanks to the MDC!
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