By Langton Ncube| President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced that the country is going to have early elections, ignoring the mention of the need for electoral reforms.
Mnangagwa made the cryptic announcement in Harare on Thursday when he was addressing his Zanu PF party’s central committee meeting.
“These elections are nearer than what you expect,” said Mnangagwa.
Mnangagwa’s early elections announcement takes away hopes of the implementation of electoral reforms which the opposition has been clamoring for.
The opposition under the banner of the MDC Alliance on Tuesday testified before the United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee where it said government should implement political and electoral reforms before calling for of fresh polls.
The MDC Alliance together with Human Rights Watch director for Southern Africa, Dewa Mavhinga and writer Peter Godwin urged the United States government to push President Mnangagwa’s government for reforms.
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Hama if there was any clamouring it woild be in the papers as this would among others involve govt, . SADC, AU > zvino this govt has only been in power for two weeks so when did they have a meeting? No AU no SADc . kkkkk kumanya kunoreva kkkkkk They need to grow up. ZVino vakareva lets see kuti America yavo inovapei. kkkkk
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I challenge the powers that be ,which is spending resources chasing vendors just to avail some of with three days expenses of doing so we will employ a lot
people for their lifetime in areas that will also benefit a very large community. There are a lot of things which I personally saw being manufactured in China so simply yet we spend thousands of dollars importing these easy to make items
Early elections , tricky, the opposition is not even prepared and are actually not selling anything to us voters. Early elections gives our current President an upper hand as people are still celebrating the departure of the bedroom administration we had in the past few years. But if they can sell something to the unemployed including vendors and small informal business owners ( 80% of working class are either vendors or informal traders) who are now being chased up and down the streets by this government they can take a big chunk of the cake. Promise to chase them out of Streets by giving them jobs unlike what this government is doing chasing them to go home and see their children die of hunger.
Early elections,the better so that people focus on rebuilding rather than these fights.
Sarah, 2017! A name for the 40s
they were in touch with Mnangagwa, how would you know if you were not there, Mutsvanga was saying they approached MDC how would you know the truth if you were not there
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Where has the opposition been clamouring for reforms? In the press? Did they engage govt? Who did they speak to in govt ? Just how have they been clamouring for reforms. Please provide dates of the oppositions clamouring. How often have they done so and what was govt response each time? going on a trip to the USA is hardly communicating with zimbabwe govt is it?