Terrence Mawawa, Mwenezi | War veterans here have threatened villagers that they will unleash brutal killings similar to the Gukurahundi terror if Zanu PF loses the coming by-election.
A group of war veterans led by Sylvanos Dube, a self declared former freedom fighter is moving around Mwenezi East Constituency instructing villagers to vote for Zanu PF candidate Omar Joosbi in the coming by-election scheduled for April 8.
Election monitoring groups have described the whole process as chaotic and one sided.
Speaking at a public dialogue facilitated by the Election Resource Centre (ERC) and Community Tolerance Reconciliation and Development Trust (COTRAD) at Neshuro Growth Point last week, villagers from Rusaza Resettlement Area narrated how the war veterans threatened to eliminate perceived Zanu PF opponents in the area.
“We are living in fear because war veterans told us that those who do not vote for Zanu PF would be eliminated. We have also been warned that those who do not attend Zanu PF meetings will be severely punished,”said a local villager at the public dialogue.
The villagers also said Colonel Hungwe and Major Moyo were tormenting perceived members of opposition parties.
Another villager said the war veterans told the villagers to brace for a second Gukurahundi in the area.
“We have been told to brace for another Gukurahundi in the event of an opposition victory,” she said.
The by-election is likely to be embarrassingly one sided,political analysts have said.
Which MDC are you talking of
Is ZEC an independent body? What have MDC done, even during the GNU years when they had the power to do so, to ensure ZEC’s independence?
Zanu PF continues to use fear, vote buying and other dirty tactics to win elections; why the opposition continues to pretend this is the problem is hard to see! The opposition politicians have failed to come up with an coherent answers to this problem and their response is to pretend Zanu PF does not rig elections. They will keep up the pretence right up to elections day and only after the results are known they will moan of Zanu PF stealing elections, just as Tsvangirai did in 2013.
Zimbabwe has suffered greatly because it failed to deliver meaningful political change in 2013. This nation cannot afford to have yet another rigged election.
We know vote rigging is the NUMBER ONE problem in Zimbabwe, we must face it and refuse to let the likes of Tsvangirai lead us by the nose into another meaningless election process!
So Rita Makarawu is there anything you can do or say as Zec ? You need to make a statement and take appropriate action in terms of the law . For Gods sake the people who are breaking the Law have been mentioned and you remain quiet . How can you blame the Nera people who have given you a thumbs down . It’s time for you to do the job which you are paid for. Bear in mind that the majority of the tax payers who pay your salary are not ZANU( PF) leaches and thieves who are busy looting the treasury . These are ordinary citizens who are yearning for democracy in the country of their birth.
What nonsense is this we need to get these Malawians out of our country what is Omar Joosbi. Malawian s are taking over our country killing our people. Even using our own people to do it no wonder our country is going nowhere.