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Original Post Date: 2010-09-15 Time: 05:00:06 Posted By: News Poster
By Tichaona Sibanda
The ZANU PF party has kicked into election mode after it recently launched a campaign that many of its opponents view as a coded message to activate its political violence machinery.
The party’s national chairman, Simon Khaya Moyo, launched a new campaign dubbed ‘ZANU PF: The Unstoppable Machine,’ using newspaper advertisements to fire broadsides at political parties such as the MDC formations. Part of the messages contained in the campaign includes statements like; ‘The legacy left by our fallen heroes should never allow any visionary Zimbabwean to live on borrowed oxygen.’
‘Cognisant of the fact that the land reform program is now complete and also irreversible – the thrust being now on economic emancipation of our entire people and unity of purpose. Offshoot political parties will remain offshoot, offside and scoring own goals,’ read some of the statements.
MDC-T deputy organizing secretary Morgan Komichi told us on Tuesday this is the type of intimidatory language ZANU PF always tries to use to intimidate people.
Komichi said he saw this latest ZANU-PF campaign as part of a broad strategy of mobilizing its own ranks, adding that the campaign was started by the party’s political commissar Webster Shamu months ago. Shamu supplied the state broadcaster ZBC with different sets of jingles and videos extolling Mugabe and ZANU PF’s leadership role.
‘I hope the announcement by Tsvangirai (on elections) has put to rest much anticipation and assumptions about the next election. ZANU PF’s concept of using violence towards an election will not stop even in the next 20 years. So let’s not fool ourselves that the country is not yet ready to hold elections because of anticipated violence,’ Komichi said.
‘As long as we have people like Chihuri (Police Commissioner-General) in the system, any attempt to have a violence-free election will be thwarted by him and his partisan force because they fear they have a lot to answer for in a new political dispensation,’ Komichi added.
Chihuri is accused by many of being at the forefront of cleansing the heavily politicized force of both known and suspected MDC sympathizers. He has routinely purged the force of professional officers for refusing or reluctantly failing to follow orders from him and other senior officers, to apply the law selectively.
The senior MDC-T official said there have been fears since 2008 that ZANU PF will re-engage its political violence machinery, even as the party talks about healing and reconciliation.
Two years ago during the run-up to the June 27 2008 presidential election, close to 500 MDC-T supporters were killed and tens of thousands more injured in the violent campaigns orchestrated by ZANU PF activists. They were aided in their brutal orgy of violence by the well oiled state machinery of the Zimbabwe Republic Police, Zimbabwe National Army, Intelligence and youth militia.
In the past three months, during the constitutional outreach program, SW Radio Africa has extensively covered reports of increasing ZANU PF militia and war vets being mobilized and camped in bases and at schools, just as in the previous election campaign.
During the violence that has blighted the outreach program, the police have turned victims of intimidation and violence into the accused, resulting in the arrest of many MDC-T officials and activists.
In Bikita, instead of arresting war vets leader Jabulani Sibanda for inciting violence in the area, MDC-T MP for Bikita South, Jani Vherandeni, was incarcerated by the police in Masvingo for making a report about the war vet leader’s behaviour.
The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) has spoken out against the holding of elections until widespread electoral reforms and the writing of a new constitution are complete. ZESN national director Rindai Chipfunde-Vava said although elections are the only way forward in Zimbabwe, she believed they could only be held after extensive electoral reforms to plug the hole for possible rigging and ensure free and fair poll.
ZESN has already embarked on lobbying for zero tolerance on political violence as well as campaigning for an overhaul of the voters’ roll. But other pro-democracy groups said no credible election could be held until there was a guarantee of civil liberties such as freedoms of the media, expression, assembly and freedom from arbitrary arrest.
Original date published: 14 September 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201009150012.html?viewall=1