
Yet again, the script of a rigged election is in fashion. As the Operation Restore Legacy is all out in the streets, the military have sent people away and said people to close shops today in Harare. This a day after the fatal demonstrations, where the soldiers killed civilians in the streets.
The day after both President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, are blaming the opposition and not taking credit for ordering the soldiers to the streets. Harare is quiet and so in Bulawayo, where the army has taken over the streets. This is clearly to send the message.
As well as all of that, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) web-site have been since yesterday, therefore, nothing substantial of information about the release of results coming this evening. As the army is preparing to silence and secure the verdict. If it feels like sham and smells like a sham, it is because it is a sham. Nothing more nor less.
The deaths yesterday are pointless, as the lives taken are just showing the powerful force of the military, the same military that toppled Mugabe, but now silencing the streets. This is not policing, but ensuring silence. Intimidating the public. That is not good news, but securing the fate of the results.
There is no signs of redeeming factors from the regime, they are clearly awaiting securing their mandate, as they have already done in the Parliament, and they are just awaiting the Presidential Verdict. If that comes tonight, it is two days earlier, than what they planned too do. It was awaited on the 4th August and not tonight on the 2nd August 2018. Which is significantly quicker, certainly, yesterday’s activity was the reason for that.
What is striking to me, as when they speak of peace, it is after they ordered the soldiers and now tanks into the streets? The President himself wrote of patience and concern, but he blamed quickly the MDC Alliance for yesterday, just as if Chiwenga did today. Nevertheless, the MDC didn’t order the soldiers or send the army, that is what you did!
This is not fun and games, this is lives and livelihoods; this is about respecting the ballot, the will of the people and also make sure the elections goes smooth. No one makes smooth decisions with bullets and guns, no one makes sound judgements shooting bullets at civilians. That is just a mere slaughter of the innocent demonstrating public. Tendai Biti ordered to post himself at the Harare Central Police Station, too.
There is no way in my mind you can finesse that and make it feasible. None, no matter where you stand politically, when your armed to your teeth and shooting at civilians, your automatically on the wrong side of the barrel. There isn’t anything profound you can deliver, that change or makes a difference. There is only loss of lives and surge of reckless power in the air.
If Mnangagwa and Chiwenga, thinks it is wise to do this, then they know exactly what sort of play they are pulling. They have the army and government at their disposal. That is something people don’t have and not used to have. They are clearly under the same regime as before November 2017, just with some new faces. However, the same end of the stick, if they don’t follow the program. Peace.

















