Posted in Zimbabwe, tagged Zimbabwe Election 2008 on May 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Talk about transparent.
He said that instead of 21 days, Zec now had 90 days from the day the results were announced on 2 May to hold the vote.
This means the election should now take place on, or before, 31 July.
The MDC has always demanded that the poll take place within the originally mandated time frame.
But [...]
Posted in Zimbabwe on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »
This is beyond words.
Because he does not hold a Zanu-PF membership card, it was assumed he was an MDC supporter.
And the worst part was that he was given a “certificate” to show he had received his beating.
He was told to produce it whenever someone else wanted to beat him as proof that it had already [...]
Posted in Zimbabwe, tagged Morgan Tsvangirai, Mugabe, Zimbabwe Election 2008 on May 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
BBC has the results of the Zimbabwe Elections - officially.
The long-awaited results of Zimbabwe’s presidential poll have been announced, with the opposition’s Morgan Tsvangirai winning 47.9%, forcing a second round.
Election officials say Mr Tsvangirai beat President Robert Mugabe’s 43.2%, but neither candidate passed the 50% threshold for an outright win.
Now the world gets to witness [...]
Posted in Zimbabwe, tagged BBC, Mugabe, Zimbabwe on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, it looks like the Zimbabwe recount survived attempts to monkey it.
Ms Frazer’s comments came a day after the electoral commission announced Mr Mugabe’s Zanu-PF had failed to regain its parliamentary majority after a partial recount of votes.
The results were unchanged in 18 of 23 seats where recounts had taken place, it said.
Good.
Not so good [...]
Posted in Zimbabwe, tagged Bail, Zimbabwe on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Boy, what a struggle to post bond on this one.
Meanwhile, two foreign nationals accused of working as journalists without accreditation have been freed on bail.
New York Times correspondent Barry Bearak and a British national were released on bail of 300m Zimbabwe dollars (US$10,000 at the official exchange rate, US$6 on the black market).
They were ordered [...]
Posted in Zimbabwe on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
I note that Robert Mugabe has said as openly as these things get that he’s going to rig the presentital result.
I also read earlier that there’s been some election workers arrested.
ZEC officials were arrested after Zanu (PF) complaints that they were involved in vote-rigging and bribery. The party’s secretary for administration, Didymus Mutasa, said at [...]
Posted in Zimbabwe on April 3, 2008 | No Comments »
The opposition has won a majority in the Zimbabwe Parliament.
It remains to be seen if they will be able to take up their seats, or whether they presidential election will be allowed to go the the MDC too. But it was nonetheless a very good thing to wake up to this morning.
Posted in Zimbabwe on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Zimbabwe may be going to a run-off. This is a good sign, that the results of the first round are going to be respected.
Zimbabwe could be heading for a presidential run-off within three weeks, according to the state-owned Herald newspaper.
The first official indication of the result of Saturday’s election says that neither President [...]
Posted in Zimbabwe, tagged Zimbabwe Election 2008 on April 1, 2008 | No Comments »
The BBC has details.
An independent monitoring group says opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai got 49% of the vote - just short of the 50% needed to avoid a run-off.
Official presidential results have not been published, but Mr Tsvangirai’s party says he won and the delay is to allow the outcome to be rigged.
The count so far:
MDC-Tsvangirai: [...]
Posted in Zimbabwe on April 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Via Instapundit, Reuters has the numbers on Zimbabwe’s decline.
INFLATION
In 1987 inflation averaged 11.9 percent. It surged to an official record of 100,586 percent in January 2008, but economic experts say the real rate is much higher.
LIFE EXPECTANCY
Average life expectancy dropped from 63 years in 1990 to 37.3 years in 2005, according to World Bank and [...]
Posted in Despots, tagged Beijing 2008, China, Tiananmen Square on April 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Am I the only person who thinks the Chinese didn’t get the irony of this.
The very first thing they did upon the Olympic torch landing, was to take it to the most well known site of a government crackdown on human rights.
Nice one!
Posted in Zimbabwe, tagged Helen's Mates, MDC, Zanu-PF, Zimbabwe Election 08 on March 31, 2008 | No Comments »
From the BBC, who due to being kicked out first have the best coverage!
Zimbabwe’s election commission has announced the delayed first results of presidential and legislative elections.
The six parliamentary constituencies were split between President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
I guess tomorrow morning would be the best [...]
Posted in Zimbabwe on March 29, 2008 | No Comments »
As elections approach in Zimbabwe, a farmer has been found guilty of staying on his farm after the state declared it stolen (by them).
Deon Theron, 53, has reached the end of an extraordinary trial in which, his lawyers say, he has been denied basic justice by court officials desperate to score political points before the [...]
Posted in Despots on March 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Colombia kicks terrorist butt.
Colombia cross a border, but not the border with Venezuela. Yet Venezuela responds in hostile fashion.
Wonder why?
Wonder no more.
Posted in Despots on February 22, 2008 | No Comments »
But I can, so that means it’s caption time!
Posted in Despots on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Herald reports part of Castro’s letter/vomit.
“To my dear compatriots, who gave me the immense honour in recent days of electing me a member of Parliament … I communicate to you that I will not aspire to or accept - I repeat not aspire to or accept - the positions of President of Council of [...]
Posted in Despots on January 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, you may be right.
Would explain a lot.
Posted in Despots, This is hardly surprising on January 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Liberty Scott has an excellent post on Chavez’s foray into socialism. It’s a crying shame that every few years some idiot comes along and tries the old, failed ideas again, thinking that “this time we’ll do it in a new way that’ll work” - it never does.
And the results are always the same.
Rich becomes poor, [...]
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