Archive for March, 2008

52 constituencies now announced by the ZEC

Monday, March 31st, 2008

52 constituencies so far

All the results in so far in one post.

Bulawayo Central
MDC MT 3786 / MDC AM 3553 / ZPF 908 / IND 191 / PUMA 162 / FDU 74 / IND 63 / IND 56 /

Bulawayo East
MDC MT 3587 / MDC AM 2525 / ZPF 1031 / IND 471 / FDU 147 / IND 114 / UPP 80 /

Bulilima East
MDC AM 3180 / ZPF 3104 / MDC MT 1181 /

Chegutu East
ZPF 9222 / MDC MT 2724 / MDC AM 1218 /

Chegutu West
MDC MT 6772 / ZPF 3713 / MDC AM 750 /

Chipinge Central
ZPF 6377 / MDC MT 5862 /

Chipinge East
MDC MT 7038 / ZPF 4131 /

Chitungwiza North
MDC MT 7539 / ZPF 2073 / MDC AM 734 / UPP 47 /

Goromonzi North
ZPF 5626 / MDC MT 4845 /

Goromonzi South
MDC MT 6456 / ZPF 5305 / MDC AM 1341 / IND 395 / IND 149 /

Goromonzi West
ZPF 6193 / MDC MT 5931 /

Gutu West
ZPF 5054 / MDC MT 4082 / ZPF 2384 /

Harare South
ZPF 7111 / MDC MT 4389 / MDC AM 890 /

Hatfield
MDC MT 9575 / ZPF 1450 / IND 589 / ZDP 54 / IND 0 /

Highfield West
MDC MT 7532 / ZPF 1328 / MDC AM 907 / ZPPDP 744 /

Hurungwe East
ZPF 9455 / MDC MT 1573 /

Kadoma Central
MDC MT 8180 / ZPF 2738 /

Kuwadzana
MDC MT 8763 / ZPF 2048 / IND 198 /

Kuwadzana East
MDC MT 8381 / ZPF 1388 / UPP 0 / IND 0 /

Luveve
MDC MT 3325 / MDC AM 3178 / ZPF 940 / IND 697 / FDU 146 /

Mabvuku/Tafara
MDC MT 7677 / ZPF 1901 / MDC AM 968 / IND 543 / IND 261 / UPP 93 /

Makoni Central
MDC MT 7060 / ZPF 4055 / IND 1305 /

Maramba-Pfungwe
ZPF 14916 / MDC MT 1947 / IND 426 /

Marondera East
ZPF 6514 / MDC MT 2268 / MDC AM 788 / IND 321 /

Marondera West
ZPF 4284 / MDC MT 2132 / MDC AM 1580 / IND 753 / IND 360 / MDC MT 0 /

Masvingo Central
MDC MT 4905 / ZPF 4793 / IND 327 / ZDP 293 / UPP 250 / ZPF 0 /

Masvingo North
ZPF 4799 / MDC MT 4450 / IND 760 / UPP 333 /

Masvingo South
ZPF 6365 / MDC MT 3707 / IND 500 /

Mazowe Central
MDC MT 5573 / ZPF 4136 / MDC AM 1094 / UPP 119 / ZPPDP 79 /

Mazowe North
ZPF 5466 / MDC MT 2508 / MDC AM 717 / IND 353 /

Mhangura
ZPF 11042 / MDC MT 1647 / MDC AM 713 /

Mt Darwin South
ZPF 9105 / MDC MT 2698 / IND 380 / UPP 115 / MDC AM 0 /

Mt Darwin West
ZPF 13270 / MDC MT 1792 / MDC AM 887 /

Mt Pleasant
MDC MT 3875 / ZPF 1738 / MDC AM 1426 / CDP 152 /

Mudzi South
ZPF 8202 / MDC MT 2735 / MDC AM 1370 / UPP 182 /

Mufakose
MDC MT 5731 / ZPF 1252 / MDC AM 696 /

Murewa North

ZPF 7104 / MDC MT 6468 /

Murewa South

ZPF 9032 / MDC MT 3410 / UPP 287 /

Murewa West
MDC MT 7334 / ZPF 6313 / IND 0 /

Mutare Central
MDC MT 7284 / ZPF 2322 / MDC AM 639 / IND 117 / ZPPDP 21 /

Mutasa South
MDC MT 8207 / ZPF 3409 / IND 412 /

Mutoko North
ZPF 6922 / MDC MT 3163 / IND 3023 / MDC AM 1065 /

Mutoko South
ZPF 10795 / MDC MT 2897 / MDC AM 762 / MDC AM 0 / UPP 0 /

Shamva North
ZPF 10385 / MDC MT 1354 / IND 526 / MDC MT 173 / UPP 105 / MDC AM 0 /

Southerton

MDC MT 6092 / ZPF 1334 / MDC AM 900 / UPP 99 /

Sunningdale
MDC MT 7071 / ZPF 980 / MDC AM 834 / ZPF 634 / UPP 87 / VP 63 / UPP 0 /

Uzumba
ZPF 13396 / MDC MT 2156 / MDC AM 814 /

Wedza North

ZPF 6267 / MDC MT 3586 /

Zaka Central
MDC MT 5972 / ZPF 4974 / MDC AM 1255 / IND 289 / ZPF 0 /

Zaka West

MDC MT 4734 / ZPF 4030 / PAFA 347 / IND 317 /

Zvimba East

ZPF 5197 / MDC MT 3554 /

Zvimba West
ZPF 7281 / MDC MT 3801 /

38 seats now announced by the ZEC (and it’s still neck and neck)

Monday, March 31st, 2008

38 seats declared

Chitungwiza North
MDC MT 7539 / ZPF 2073 / MDC AM 734 / UPP 47 /

Goromonzi North
ZPF 5626 / MDC MT 4845 /

Gutu West
ZPF 5054 / MDC MT 4082 / ZPF 2384 /

Kadoma Central
MDC MT 8180 / ZPF 2738 /

Kuwadzana
MDC MT 8763 / ZPF 2048 / IND 198 /

Maramba-Pfungwe
ZPF 14916 / MDC MT 1947 / IND 426 /

Masvingo Central
MDC MT 4905 / ZPF 4793 / IND 327 / ZDP 293 / UPP 250 / ZPF 0 /

Mazowe Central
MDC MT 5573 / ZPF 4136 / MDC AM 1094 / UPP 119 / ZPPDP 79 /

Mhangura
ZPF 11042 / MDC MT 1647 / MDC AM 713 /

Mudzi South
ZPF 8202 / MDC MT 2735 / MDC AM 1370 / UPP 182 /

Zaka Central
MDC MT 5972 / ZPF 4974 / MDC AM 1255 / IND 289 / ZPF 0 /

Zaka West
MDC MT 4734 / ZPF 4030 / PAFA 347 / IND 317 /

Zvimba East
ZPF 5197 / MDC MT 3554 /

Zvimba West
ZPF 7281 / MDC MT 3801 /

Marondera West, Southerton, Mabvuku/Tafara and Mutoko South

Monday, March 31st, 2008

24 constituencies counted

Twenty four counted; here are the next four:

Mabvuku/Tafara
MDC MT 7677 / ZPF 1901 / MDC AM 968 / IND 543 / IND 261 / UPP 93 /

Marondera West

ZPF 4284 / MDC MT 2132 / MDC AM 1580 / IND 753 / IND 360 / MDC MT 0 /

Mutoko South
ZPF 10795 / MDC MT 2897 / MDC AM 762 / MDC AM 0 / UPP 0 /

Southerton
MDC MT 6092 / ZPF 1334 / MDC AM 900 / UPP 99 /

First 20 results announced by the ZEC

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Graph of first 20 seats

(The results below include the first 6 posted earlier)

Chegutu West
MDC MT 6772 / ZPF 3713 / MDC AM 750 /

Chipinge Central
ZPF 6377 / MDC MT 5862 /

Chipinge East
MDC MT 7038 / ZPF 4131 /

Goromonzi West
ZPF 6193 / MDC MT 5931 /

Harare South
ZPF 7111 / MDC MT 4389 / MDC AM 890 /

Hatfield
MDC MT 9575 / ZPF 1450 / IND 589 / ZDP 54 / IND 0 /

Highfield West
MDC MT 7532 / ZPF 1328 / MDC AM 907 / ZPPDP 744 /

Kuwadzana East

MDC MT 8381 / ZPF 1388 / UPP 0 / IND 0 /

Makoni Central
MDC MT 7060 / ZPF 4055 / IND 1305 /

Marondera East
ZPF 6514 / MDC MT 2268 / MDC AM 788 / IND 321 /

Masvingo South

ZPF 6365 / MDC MT 3707 / IND 500 /

Mt Pleasant
MDC MT 3875 / ZPF 1738 / MDC AM 1426 / CDP 152 /

Murewa North
ZPF 7104 / MDC MT 6468 / MDC MT 0 /

Murewa South
ZPF 9032 / MDC MT 3410 / UPP 287 /

Mutare Central

MDC MT 7284 / ZPF 2322 / MDC AM 639 / IND 117 / ZPPDP 21 /

Mutasa South
MDC MT 8207 / ZPF 3409 / IND 412 /

Mutoko North
ZPF 6922 / MDC MT 3163 / IND 3023 / MDC AM 1065 /

Sunningdale
MDC MT 7071 / ZPF 980 / MDC AM 834 / ZPF 634 / UPP 87 / VP 63 / UPP 0 /

Uzumba
ZPF 13396 / MDC MT 2156 / MDC AM 814 /

Wedza North
ZPF 6267 / MDC MT 3586 /

ZEC : first six seats announced

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Chegutu West
MDC MT 6772 / ZPF 3713 / MDC AM 750 /

Chipinge Central
ZPF 6377 / MDC MT 5862 /

Goromonzi West
ZPF 6193 / MDC MT 5931 /

Mutare Central
MDC MT 7284 / ZPF 2322 / MDC AM 639 / IND 117 / ZPPDP 21 /

Mutasa South
MDC MT 8207 / ZPF 3409 / IND 412 /

Mutoko North
ZPF 6922 / MDC MT 3163 / IND 3023 / MDC AM 1065 /

What is taking so long…?!

Monday, March 31st, 2008

ZBC (State television) is constantly reporting that Robert Mugabe and ZEC will not accept pre-emptive announcements from MDC, and any action like this will be considered as an attempt at a coup. The armed forces are on high alert.

Zimbabweans are waiting for Morgan Tsvangirai to claim victory (we have seen the results outside the polling station doors) and do not understand why it is taking so long?

Everyone is now convinced rigging is in place.

The debate raging is whether Morgan Tsvangirai is waiting for the ZEC to finish announcing and if ZEC will hold true to their mandate.

ZEC has not announced anything since 7.30am. What are they up to? What plots are they hatching?

People have gone to work, life is back to “normal” but is it?

Nobody knows what the reaction will be if and when ZEC announces Zanu PF victorious.

Locked up with “howling journalists” (and other ZEC challenges)

Monday, March 31st, 2008

At 11.25 pm Sunday evening, the ZEC finally broke its silence over the election results. Justice George Chiweshe spent nearly 20 minutes trying to maximise the ZEC’s image and belittle that of zim’s electorate and other interested parties – particularly the international press.

Through his arrogant and over-extended explanation, he attempted to defend his commission’s almost total blackout of information for the last 12 hours. He confirmed that the ZEC would only start announcing the official results at 6 am on Monday morning, 31st March – with the qualification – “if they had been received”.

He “expected most results to be received by tonight”.

He went to great lengths to sarcastically indicate that the ZEC – and the ZEC alone – were the sole legal and authentic source of the election results.

He went on to berate “some sources” who had “taken it upon themselves” to announce results.

He was supported by a toadying presenter who prompted him with several questions designed to show him and the commission in a favourable light, and leave the listed wrongdoers standing in the spotlight.

These related to:

  • their legal right to do what they did and how they did it, whether right or wrong.
  • their being up to the task at hand, with the necessary technical ability and resources to deal with 220 parliamentary seats, 60 senate seats, 1000+ council seats, and the presidential election.

    Here he had to stress that “by any standards” it was providing very early results, and that “in other countries” the process takes much longer – “up to a week”.

    He felt that this this was a record time for an “election of this magnitude”.

  • ensuring that the public knew just how big a task he was doing and how import it was to the future of the country – like we don’t know that!

He couldn’t understand the impatience of other stakeholders who had been putting pressure on him. He asked how he could be expected to be independent when “locked up with howling journalists”. He tried to stress that he had been “very accessible” to the media both internal and foreign.

Maybe he should take into account the fact that there were virtually no public announcements for over twelve hours?

Maybe someone should tell him that we all know that they were playing for time while the government decided how to convert a massive defeat into a comfortable win?

It’s late … and we just want to go forward …

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

It’s late and if I watch Tendai Biti making the same comments on the same report they have been running since this morning I am going to do grievous bodily harm on the next person who walks through the door.

Then you switch to dead bc (ZBC) and they have been showing the most inane programmes today; soccer re-runs, how to do your own pedicure, and then a show about tortoises.

The world may be frustrated at the vacuum in the news, but Zimbabweans are simmering – the lid on the pressure cooker about to blow. There is an eerie quiet in the streets, the eye before the storm.

People are desperate to celebrate and find the joy we have so long been robbed of. But, who among us after almost a decade of despair can dare to believe that this is the end of tyranny?

The rumours are exhausting; a few minutes ago I was told that Bob is still here, he was spotted at zpf head quarters. But others insist he has fled to Malaysia, Mozambique, Libya.

One thing is for sure, Grace did not vote. The normal pattern is for her to respectfully stand behind the monster and smile vacantly behind DG sunglasses, bejeweled and designer clad, then limply place her ballot in the box. Yesterday she was nowhere in sight. Either she is under house arrest for dallying with yet another virile, young zpf stud or she has whisked the children off to safety.

The big question is whether or not the nasty, desperate little zpf vermin are trying to cook the books.

This would be the ultimate big lie, but one which would already have the patina of acceptance because of SADC’s announcement that the elections were free and fair. Once again Zimbabwe’s respect for the electoral process would be subverted to maintain his geriatric grip on power.

The world is desperate for Zimbabweans to hit the streets in protest, but I believe this would be just the thing the little maggot wants, for then he could declare martial law and it would be game over for democracy. The most important thing now is to reach deep down and find patience.

Most of us no longer care what happens to him – let him go and live out his days in the harsh desert sun with the memory of children’s cries haunting his nights.

Yes, we all want to see him suffer for his gross crimes against humanity, but more importantly we want to go forward and obliterate the pain with growth, health and prosperity.

Whatever happens, the Zimbabwean political landscape will never be the same.

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