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Written by Editors
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Wednesday, 19 June 2013 20:37 |
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 Latest reports are that Zanu (PF) negotiator Patrick Chinamasa has been ordered by the Principals work with MDC-T negotiator Tendai Biti and MDC President Welshman Ncube to craft a consensus document to be filed before the Constitutional Court requesting a reasonable date for elections.
But the Herald had reported today that Chinamasa had already unilaterally filed the court application without consulting the other parties, with analysts saying that he would have filed an incompetent application in order for it to fail so that Zanu (PF) can have its way.
It might therefore be instructive to see what SADC aqctually resolved on Zimbabwe, which was as reported here that Summit had endorsed the Facilitator's report and its recommendations, including media reforms, upholding the rule of law; the role of the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee (that SADC would sit in JOMIC), election date, validity of (Mugabe's Presidential Powers) regulations; and deployment of SADC observers (as reported by Newsday here
After four different SADC chairmen Armando Guebuza's chairmanship has delivered on Zimbabwe.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 June 2013 21:34 |
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Written by Alex Magaisa
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Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:42 |
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 The Herald today buried towards the end of this article a significant order by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission that state media must from now on accord equal space to all parties - maybe signaling its intention to ignore this very legal order. Alex Magaisa, a lawyer, analyses how destructive continued partisan reporting is to the nation's judiciary. He writes:
The state media’s use of politically inflammatory language ahead of the anticipated application for extension of time by Government to the Constitutional Court as recommended by SADC is a cause for concern because it undermines the judicial process by creating an impression that the matter has been pre-judged and will not be given fair consideration by the court.
It is clear that the state media has chosen a side and there appears to be a concerted effort designed to sway the court in that particular direction. This comes in a context where there has been a deliberate and concerted effort by the state media in the last fortnight to set up the MDC against the judiciary.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 June 2013 21:23 |
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Written by BDLive
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Tuesday, 18 June 2013 10:20 |
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 "Regrettably, most of the items that were agreed upon by the parties which affected the levelling of the playing field and ensuring that these agreements, including the proper functioning of Jomic as required by the GPA in Article XXII, have not been adequately implemented." - Jacob Zuma See Newsday
 So it begins. The build-up to Zimbabwe elections has many worrying hallmarks of previous flawed elections; President Robert Mugabe is still ruling by decree when it suits him, as the unilateral declaration of the July 31 election date shows; Zanu (PF) is still using its state-owned propaganda machine to distort information and undermine its partners in the unity government; it is still using the courts to support favoured outcomes; election registration is encountering delays in urban areas, traditionally a stronghold for the opposition parties; and non-African countries offering observer missions are being told to "go to hell". See BDLive
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:23 |
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Written by CZ Correspondent
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Monday, 17 June 2013 19:11 |
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 'We've never believed that we have an honest and genuine partner in Zanu (PF). This has now sadly been vindicated by President Mugabe’s unilateral and unconstitutional proclamation of the election date.." - Tsvangirai to SADC.
With SADC still yet to produce the Communique of the Maputo extra-ordinary Summit, the MDC-T has distributed its President's speech to the Summit in which he told the SADC heads that the MDC-T's insistence that it did not have an honest and genuine partner in Zanu (PF) had been vindicated by President Mugabe’s unilateral and unconstitutional proclamation of the election date on 31 July 2013.
Tsvangirai told the leaders that that since their historic summit in Dar Es Salam, they had travelled to Pretoria, Sandton, Mulungushi, Cape Town, Kinshasa, Windhoek, Livingstone, Luanda, and Maputo, and in all these meetings they had been very clear on the following issues:
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 18 June 2013 10:20 |
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Written by Change Observer, UK
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Sunday, 16 June 2013 18:06 |
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 Alex Magaisa: Cdes, the front page story in The Sunday Mail alleging there was a fight over a hotel suite between the MDC PresIdent Morgan TsvangIraI and his Secretary General Tendai Biti is a complete fabrication from the first letter to the last full stop. It is a cheap and poor attempt to bury bad news; to create a fictional sideshow and distract attention from the Maputo outcome. None of the two stayed in a Presidential Suite. The writer of the story is not brave enough to say who he or she is, preferring to hide under the tag of "Sunday Mail Reporter". It's a complete lie a and shows once again why there have been talks for media reforms. This is not journalism but creative writing ...
Tendai Biti: Good people ,good good people, those in the know say that truth is the first casualty of tyranny.In times of conflict the dictator resorts to lies distortions spin fabrications evasions and malice.It is true of all failed and failing regimes.The vitriol of that Sunday sobriquet that greeted us as as soon as we landed had us laughing out of pity.God God save us from this evil...." |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 June 2013 20:18 |
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Written by Makusha Mugabe
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Thursday, 13 June 2013 02:59 |
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 Journalists quoted Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) chairperson Rita Makarau defining a fair (electoral) process as "one that allows each candidate or political party equal access to the electorate to sell himself /herself, to information about the process and a process that allows the choices made by the people to be reflected as is without any attempt by ZEC to manipulate the results or favour one or more of the contestants."
This is a situation that is clearly not existing in Zimbabwe.
Rita Makarau has clealy failed to rise to the occassion
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Last Updated on Monday, 17 June 2013 22:04 |
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