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Original Post Date: 2002-03-14 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 3/14/2002 1:42:34 AM
Major South African Opposition Parties Criticise Elections
Three major opposition party leaders in South Africa on Wednesday condemned the manner in which the Zimbabwean elections were conducted
SAPA-AFP
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon called on the South African government to relinquish its “hear-no-evil-see-no-evil” approach to Zimbabwe. “The recent events in Zimbabwe have broken the contract which Nepad (the New Partnership for Africa’s Development) offered the international community on behalf of Africa. If we again fail to act, Nepad will be stillborn and our region will be written off by the developed world,” he said.
Inkatha Freedom Party leader and Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi said: “I am very saddened to receive reports from independent observers that seem to indicate that things have not gone well enough during an election which can no longer be regarded as free and fair.”
New National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk said President Robert Mugabe’s victory was no surprise.
“The Zimbabwean election was not stolen in two days, but in two years. Only an amateur tries to steal the election on election day. The political playing fields in Zimbabwe have been anything but level since 2000,” he said.
Pan Africanist Congress secretary-general Thami ka Plaatjie, however, congratulated Mugabe on his “deserved victory”.
“Mugabe has shown that determination will win against all colonial odds and artificially created roadblocks and tricks by imperialist tricksters,” he said.
“The colonial garbage and debris of accusation about the freeness or not of the elections is dull noise in the ears of land-hungry Africans…
“Prophets of doom like the European Union observers and their colonial cousins the Norwegian observer mission are running riot like an amputated donkey,” he said.
“The oppressed people of Zimbabwe have unequivocally spoken and they have made a resounding no to imperialists and their running puppies… Today it is Zimbabwe, tomorrow it must be Azania,” he said.
Leon said it was apparent that the election was characterised by fundamental and serious violations of the rule of law and of human rights, particularly by the Zimbabwean government, over an extended period.
“The persecution of opposition voters and leaders; gross polling irregularities and state-sponsored terror were part of a catalogue of horrors that the world observed… We sit with a monstrous crisis on our border, compounded by the fact that the party demonstrably responsible for the situation has been re-elected to government,” he said.
The South African government had to finally indicate to its Zimbabwean counterpart the consequences of any further violations of the rule of law and basic good governance, Leon said.
“We… have been advised that within 60 days there will be a total collapse of all sectors of agriculture in Zimbabwe, leading to mass starvation. We have to ensure that food aid is not again misused as a political weapon by the Zimbabwe government.
“The South African government has to align itself on the side of human rights and democracy and not express solidarity with those who trample these concepts into the dust,” he said.
Leon said South Africa should support the concept of a government of national unity in Zimbabwe.
Van Schalkwyk said the Southern African Development Community (SADC) should facilitate such a government of national unity.
“This is the only way in which the volatile situation in Zimbabwe will be stabilised, and in which the involvement of the developed world in the economic rebuilding of Zimbabwe will be guaranteed,” he said.
Buthelezi said there seemed to be consensus among independent observers on some of the many problems encountered in the election.
“We cannot ignore these reported problems and we cannot isolate them from the many problems which we have seen taking place in the run-up to the elections which have highlighted how democracy and freedom in Zimbabwe have progressively disintegrated.
“The very notion of the rule of law and all the values which our democracy professes to hold dear, have long been in jeopardy in our neighbouring country. We cannot but be extremely concerned, saddened and worried about this further turn of events which seems to plunge Zimbabwe even deeper into a crisis,” Buthelezi said.
— The Mail&Guardian, March 13, 2002.