By Simba Chikanza| News readers have begun discussing what would have happened if Emmerson Mnangagwa had handed over power peacefully without killing innocent civilians as he has done to date. The events after the military brutality seen on Harare’s streets on 1 August, and many weeks afterwards in several neighbourhoods, and then a War Veterans conference a day before the verdict announcement, threatening another coup, led to judges being (arguably) intimidated into making a ruling against the winner of the 2018 elections, Nelson Chamisa with Chief Justice Luke Malaba on the 24th August later announcing saying “we believe in facts, not figures.”
He then ruled that Chamisa does not have evidence to support his case against Emmerson Mnangagwa.
This verdict irked Zimbabweans with the exiled Prof Jonathan Moyo exclaiming that it is “breathtakingly scandalous. What are facts without figures? In elections figures represent voters & their votes!” Also speaking afterwards, Chamisa’s lawyer, Thabani Mpofu revealed that a chunk of evidence was ignored by the judges. Watch his briefer below:
Meanwhile, newsreaders yesterday explored what would have happened had Mnangagwa handed over power gracefully. They said he would have been better than Nelson Mandela. FULL TEXT:
If he handed power would have been a hero even more than Mandela but greediness and power hunger forced him to behave like wise
— Glad#man (@Gladmandube) September 30, 2018