Zimbabwe: Press Statement by the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Honourable Kazembe Kazembe on the current Passport Situation (09.12.2019)

Zimbabwe: ZANU-PF – Press Statement (06.12.2019)

Zimbabwe: Press Statement on targeted subsidies on roller meal (05.12.2019)

Zimbabwe: SHDA – The State of Incapacitation of the Public Healthcare System (04.12.2019)

 

 

Opinion: Mnangagwa is crying crocodile tears now

For structures to work, those of us who put them should respect them, especially when they pass a ruling. I am now going to politics: We had our elections, after those elections, you don’t tell yourself that you have won. Other people are the ones who name the winner. If you enter a race … and you run the race and you get to the finish line, you don’t go there and say it’s me who won, there are other people who announce the winner … these are the institutions that regulate how people live in the country. Now when you can’t listen to the institutions, you will have disobeyed God, because he is a God of order” – President Emmerson D. Mnangagwa on the 2nd December 2019

This President and Head of State is something else, instead of actually acting supreme and delivering to the public. His bitching because the Movement of Democratic Change – Alliance (MDC-A) Nelson Chamisa and his opposition party haven’t legitimized President Mnangagwa and Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF). Seriously after the election in 2018 and the November Coup d’etat in 2017.

Still, the former Lacoste and handler of Mugabe needs the blessing of Chamisa. Who would know the ego of this man is like this. Surely, its not enough that his forces sends soldiers and police officers to the venues of the MDC. That they block, arrests and silence the opposition. Hurt civilians and oppress the opposition.

Mnangagwa should know this, his continuing the ZANU-PF ways of going after activists and opposition leaders. It fires doctors doing industrial action against the incapacitation of the health workers in the Republic. Over 90 days without a decent salary, as the economy is tanking and the financial policies not working. The raising inflations, the lack of stable currency and lack of foreign exchange.

Still, all Mnangagwa does is complain that Chamisa doesn’t love him. Chamisa is supposed to have a man-crush on Emmerson. I’m just kidding, but that is how it seems to be. This coming from the same head of state, that sent soldiers to the streets and killed civilians for supporting Chamisa in the Post-Election timeline. After that put the blame on Chamisa and even made the MOPO Act to control the opposition ways of demonstrating and easier to block these. In effect, being worse than his predecessor.

Still, Mnangagwa is saying Chamisa should say: “Mnangagwa is ruling by the honour of the Gods, the grandest and highest servant of the angels from Heaven. The man whose ruling the Republic with the mercy and the salvation of Christ. The man whose reign I shall bless, because Gods says so”.

Well, that will not happen. Neither, is the President acting Godly, worried about the subjects of the state, the citizens nor their well-being, as the state is depleted, the state is broken and the lack of due diligence is everywhere. Instead of securing the basics, like food, shelter and goods, the state is hiring private planes and spending fortunes on “Command Agriculture”. That is just the merciful acts of Mnangagwa.

A man who came by the gun, who will die by the gun and who will automatically expect people’s loyalty. Even when its not deserved or something earned. His only fortune, expect for money is fear. The levels of fear and intimidation is at another level. The President who uses the military and police to monitor and control its enemies, will default at one point or another. The police state and the lack of rule law, will sooner or later haunt this administration.

Mnangagwa might claim its his “God-Given” right to rule, however, that was given to him by the army and loyal allies within the Lacoste. It wasn’t given to him by the Saints nor any of the Angels of the Heavens. No, it was the guns and the will of the army. That shall not be forgotten.

Mnangagwa better cry his crocodile tears. He will not get the stamp of approval from Chamisa. His party headquarters are raided, his fellow allies arrested and so-on. There is nothing the state doesn’t do. Therefore, to ask Chamisa is insane and foolish. It is weak tea and shows that Emmerson needs a ego boost. Because, he knows his fate to rule isn’t forever. That’s why his renaming himself and getting his name on streets. Something he can leave behind, because he cannot leave a legacy of greatness. Since the is none.

The tears might hit his chin, but don’t feel sorry for the man. Feel sorry for all the people struggling to get health care, all the citizens who lacks water, all the citizens who cannot afford basic commodities and who also suffering with their food security. It all because of this man, a man who thinks he should get all glory, but that will not be his story. His acts and together with ZANU-PF will be remembered for everything else. No propaganda can overshadow the grim and dark situation the Republic is in. It is just a matter of time, before he reality hits the upper-echelon and the tragedies get viral. Than, the President cannot beg anyone in his Republic, but he has to go begging abroad to save his ass. Peace.

World Food Programme expands emergency operation in Zimbabwe as drought and economic hardship plunge millions into hunger (03.12.2019)

Funds are required immediately if WFP is to meet the growing needs of the hardest-hit Zimbabweans.

HARARE, Zimbabwe, December 3, 2019 – The World Food Programme (WFP) is rapidly expanding an already sizeable emergency operation in Zimbabwe where drought, flooding and macro-economic meltdown have plunged 7.7 million people – half the population – into severe hunger.Funds are required immediately if WFP is to meet the growing needs of the hardest-hit Zimbabweans.  It plans to more than double the number of people it is helping by January to 4.1 million, providing life-saving rations of cereal, pulses and vegetable oil and a protective nutrition ration for children under 5 years of age.

“We’re deep into a vicious cycle of sky-rocketing malnutrition that’s hitting women and children hardest and will be tough to break,” said WFP Executive Director David Beasley. “With poor rains forecast yet again in the run-up to the main harvest in April, the scale of hunger in the country is going to get worse before it gets better.”

Zimbabwe’s hunger crisis – the worst for more than a decade – is part of an unprecedented climate-driven disaster gripping southern Africa. Temperatures in the region are rising at more than twice the average global rate and ever more erratic rainy seasons are hitting the country’s subsistence farmers hard.

The crisis is being exacerbated by a dire shortage of foreign currency, runaway inflation, mounting unemployment, lack of fuel, prolonged power outages and large-scale livestock losses, afflicting urban residents and rural villagers alike.

WFP’s planned scale-up is a huge logistical undertaking, with the limited availability of Zimbabwean dollars and surging prices for basics presaging a near wholesale switch from cash assistance to food distributions.

It envisages the sourcing, purchase and delivery to the land-locked country of more than 240,000 metric tons of commodities through June, a challenge all the more daunting because drought and flooding have eroded food supplies across much of Africa.

An estimated US$293 million is required for WFP’s emergency response with less than 30 percent of that sum secured.

“We must not let our immediate focus on emergency aid distract us from investing in the resilience programs that will help chronically hungry people cope with the ever-more severe impacts of erratic weather,” Beasley said. “We urge the international community to step up funding to address the root causes of long-term hunger in Zimbabwe.” 

Zimbabwe: Press Statement on Fake News Article Circulating on Social Media (02.12.2019)

Zimbabwe: SHDA Press Statement (01.12.2019)

Namibia: Official Announcement of the Final Election Results for the 2019 Presidential and National Assembly Elections by ECN Chairperson, Adv. Notemba Tjipueja (30.11.2019)

Namibia: Awaiting cooked results from the ECN on the 27th November 2019 Elections

The 27th November 2019 Presidential Elections of Namibia is already contested, because the counting is going on as we speak. The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) have been doing the tally ever since the polls was done and three days later the official announced results aren’t out. Just the preliminary results.

That means the main contender, dr. Panduleni Filemon Bango Itula, the Independent candidate lost to incumbent Presidential Candidate Hage G. Geingob from the South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO. The independence movement and liberation party of Namibia. His the third President since the liberation and this would be his second term. As his been in office since 21st March 2015.

What is really rich, as there been hours since the ECN released a preliminary results, where the incumbent was ahead, but his already on Twitter announcing his victory, as the ECN haven’t delivered its final verdict. The announced final results aren’t out after three days and seems like the Election Officials will work until 1st December and start of Advent before the proclaimed numbers are out. That shows the reality of it all.

That the Namibian authorities are cooking the numbers, when the ECN needs this long time to deliver a verified result. When they need the data-set, the sudden changes and fix the numbers to make sense. This because they are cooking the books, to ensure the incumbent and SWAPO dominance in the Parliament.

For counting the possible 1,3 million voters, this is outrageous long time. Even if some rural areas lack the good internet connection and whatnot, that the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) crashes or something. That is the sort of things, that just happens and the handwritten forms should justify and verify, if the technical devices doesn’t work as its supposed to do. Therefore, that is an excuse and where the algorithms comes in and crushes the numbers, which usually hits the needs of the incumbent.

What is ironic about the EVM is this: “Direct recording electronic (DRE) voting machines with and without voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT)” (…) “The EVM is meant to enhance the conduct of fast, reliable, free, and fair elections in Namibia. In this regard, the EVM retains all the characteristics of voting by ballot papers, while making polling efficient and expedient. It is fast, reliable, saves considerable time, money and personnel power. It also maintains voting secrecy and is tamper proof. At the end of polling the results are automatically available through the press of a button” (IDEA, 2019).

This here says what the EVM is supposed to do, which it doesn’t do. For the 1,3m voters, it takes 500,000 each day or so. The technology of EVM and the VVPAT is clearly not fast and reliable. The ECN just using the EVM to mask what its doing. If not, then they could have released the results before 48 hours. But the longer it takes, the more chefs are making the dish ready for the Head of State, nothing else.

These results and the pronounced results when they come for these elections will be challenged in the Courts. As this sort of questionable work will be tested, hopefully all parties work together to have liable proof and evidence of the rigging. The rigging doesn’t seem unreasonable, since the ECN and the SWAPO needs positive and winning results to continue to prosper and rule.

Let’s see how this goes. Peace.